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poison-shark · 5 years

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Noa’s Best Friends

Zarifa Robinson

Sudanese/Jamaican

Is Muslim and wears a hijab

Trans lesbian

Moved to Coast City in 9th Grade

Born to Asim and Chandice Robinson

Was born in the US but moved to Sudan after mom died

Dad’s Sudanese

Mom’s Jamaican

Mom died during childbirth

Dad’s an anesthesiologist

Mom was a surgeon

Her parents met at Uni in America

She and her dad had always been super close

Zarifa came out to her dad after a lot of inner turmoil, but he accepted her

He decided that they should move to the USA bc it’s illegal to be gay in Sudan

Zari is super sweet and outgoing, but has immense social anxiety

She’s also super stubborn and once she sets her mind on something she does it

Her heart is always in the right place and she loves making things for her friends

They all have friendship bracelets courtesy of Zari

She and Noa force Leela to go shopping with them

Loves wearing pastels and florals

Is really into gardening and botany

She and Noa geek out over science

She wants to be a florist

Zari really loves her job at The Blooming Jasmine

Is dating Leela they’re super cute

Zarifa gives Leela a different flower everyday

They started dating sophomore year

Is best friends with her girlfriend’s brother, Inayat and even better friends with Gulzar, Leela’s nibling

They all try to get Leela to at least wear stuff that goes together

Leela gases this girl up so much

So do Noa and Omar, but it’s cuter when Leela does it

Everyone is overprotective of her

U mess with Zari and u dead

Met Noa at cheer tryouts freshman year

Some of the other freshman girls said that she shouldn’t be allowed to cheer bc she’s trans and a lesbian

Noa was about to try something when Zari stopped her

She completely outshined them in that gymnasium

Naturally impressing everyone around her

The senior girls in charge knew she was gonna be on the team already

Noa invited her to sit at their lunch table

And the rest is history

Noa tells Zarifa about being a Star Sapphire a year after they meet when she demands and answer for why all of their friends are ghosting her when Noa does superhero stuff and the others cover for her

Leela Zaman

Is Muslim

Wears a Hijab

Lesbian

Moved to Coast City in 3rd Grade from Pakistan

Manish and Syeda Zaman are her parents

Dad died a year after they moved

Has an older brother, Inayat, who is 35

She’s an aunt

Her brother is supportive of her and has 13 yo nonbinary kid, Gulzar

Her mother is not supportive

Is dating Zarifa

Mom runs a restaurant, Piece of Pakistan

She opened it after Manish died to keep food on the table

Dad was an insurance broker

Brother’s a game developer

She’s super athletic

Plays lacrosse in fall, basketball in the winter, does track in spring, and volleyball in summer

Is super funny and sarcastic

Is not afraid to stick up for herself

Is really passionate about cooking

Has always been more of a tomboy

Has vowed never to wear skirts

Can mostly be seen in workout gear

Doesn’t care about fashion

Literal fashion disaster

Will wear rain boots with sweatpants and a ‘matching’ flannel

She’s not good at math, so Noa tutors her and Omar

Leela’s already been accepted to like 6 colleges for an athletics scholarship for girls basketball

She wants to go pro

Since Noa started making real money with the whole music thing she takes Leela to a Coast City Clippers game every year for her birthday

Works at A Piece of Pakistan to help her mom out

When she was younger she and her mom were so close, but as she got older, they grew apart for a lot of reasons

She’s very devoted to her faith even though she doesn’t talk about it much

Her mom doesn’t approve of her being a lesbian, but has accepted that she is and still loves her

Her mom is grateful that at least it’s Zarifa

Met Noa at basketball practice in 3rd grade when Noa complimented her hijab

She scored a two pointer during an ice breaker and Noa was struggling to get the ball from one of the bigger girls when she straight up pushed Noa down

Leela tripped that girl 12 times during drills

They’ve been buds ever since

Noa tells her about the Star Sapphire thing about six months after they met after Dela Pharon went nuts and kidnapped Noa to get to Carol

Omar Fernando Villaverde De La Fuente

Costa Rican/Venezuelan

Aro/Ace

Autistic

Born n raised in Coast City to Ronaldo Villaverde and Idania De La Fuente

Helicopter mom

Parents are divorced

Mom’s superintendent

Dad’s honorably discharged from the Air Force for losing a leg

His father cheated on his mom overseas

Married the woman he cheated on her with, Rebecca Watson

Her son lives with them at his dad’s

His parents have 50/50 custody but he hates staying with his dad

His step-brother Brandon Austin Braun is awful

Brandon is star football player for their school

Worst Person on the Planet Award goes to Brandon

Tortures Omar at school but not at home

Ronaldo treats Brandon better bc they have more in common/to appeal more to Rebecca who also deserves the aforementioned award

Rebecca doesn’t like or is condescending/rude to Omar and his friends for racist/ xenophobic/ islamophobic/ homophobic/ transphobic/ ableist reasons much like her son

Ronaldo sees none of this

Omar doesn’t tell him because he doesn’t think his dad will believe him

Joins track to make his dad happy

His mom doesn’t want to remarry and is super sweet and helpful

She has OCD retaining mostly to order, everything needs to be just so, will do things over and over till perfect

Her meds help a lot though and so does therapy

In relation to his Autism Omar really likes noise

Background noise, crowds, ocean sounds, anything

Hates silence so he listens to music in his sleep

Is a band kid

Plays snare

Can’t smell anything

Loves spicy or crunchy foods

Can’t stand smooth/creamy solids

Used to chew on his clothes

Now he only does that when stressed

Still chews on his pencils and bites his nails

Has some faint synaesthesia

He can taste certain words like purple tastes sweet

Fears nothing, but has to look both ways before crossing the street and always puts his seatbelt on as soon as he gets to the car

Impulsive

Says things as he thinks them a lot or sometimes will blurt out active thoughts no matter what

Clicks his pens to stim when he can’t have headphones in or when there is no noise

Other stims: drumming, chewing, humming, tongue clicking, snapping his fingers, clapping, collecting

Special interests fish, biology, splatoon, music

Will feed his fish at 5 am everyday

Noa gets him a new fish every year for his birthday

He has panic attacks when they die so he calls Noa and they hold fishy toilet funerals

Works at the Coast City Aquarium

Helps Noa write music

He gets 50%

Does not like being at his dad’s house so every other week he hangs out at Noa’s or Leela’s brother’s

Met Noa her first day of 1st grade at Westport Elementary

Noa was told by Ms. Sault and Mrs. Pecora to sit next to him

The bonded over science, music, and the fact that Noa is technically Atlantean

Noa is one of the only people he is actually comfortable around

She protects him from Brandon and has been suspended multiple times for snapping his wrist and breaking his nose

The two of them had ‘study group’ every other week

It was more of an excuse to get him out of his dad’s house

They did study though Noa tutors him in math bc he really doesn’t get it and he helps her memorize dead white guys for history

They continue this into high school but now with Zari and Leela

Noa tells him about the whole Star Sapphire thing after three months of them being friends because he said kids ‘like them’ were never heroes

She proved him wrong, but she’s been trying to make him see that he’s already proven himself wrong

Zari doesn’t quite get his autism like Noa and eventually Leela, but she tries and defends him against anyone who tries some shit

Even though Leela was originally Noa’s friend, the two bonded over time despite having very little common interest other than track

@gegeru @insideoflit

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lunewell · 4 years

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OC-Tober Day 6

Prompt: Luxuries

Fun fact, this is based on a real situation my mother was in, were she (a native Norwegian) got overwhelmed by the amount of butter in British stores (:

The prompts list I’m using for this comes from @oc-growth-and-development

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Grant was overwhelmed. Absolutely, miserably overwhelmed. He felt like breaking down, impending doom deep in his stomach and fear overtaking his every sense. His lashes were wet, and his hands but a blur of movement as he looked into the drawer.

There was too much tea

So many brands, in rainbow coloured all with different fonts. There were unthinkable amounts of flavour combinations, all turning into a sweet, general tea scent. It was as if his eyes had laid upon the brightest corner of heaven and the darkest corner of hell simultaneously.

Grant promptly shut the drawer, trying to get his breathing under control. He decided that maybe just for today, he would have coffee. With much hesitation, he opened the coffee drawer like the fool he was.

Grant let out a cry, for in the drawer was not even a single drop of bitter coffee, but instead piles and piles of even more tea. He whimpered pathetically, wondering what cruel God could commit such a heinous crime.

His whimpers had alerted his coworkers Bruin and Zarifa, who had come over with worried expressions. “Grant? Are you all right ?”

“There’s so much tea.”

Zarifa and Bruin shared a look. “...I know,” said the latter, “that’s one of the biggest luxuries of this branch.”

“No! No! There’s too much. Nobody needs this many options!” He said hastily, “I can’t choose, I like them all! You can’t choose a favourite child, Bruin! This is a crime against humanity!”

Zarifa and Bruin looked stunned, before the former started chuckling, and the latter cracked a wide smile.

“This isn’t funny!”

“You- you,” Zarifa began, before chuckling madly again, “Grant, you called the tea drawer a crime against humanity.”

“Oh… so I did.”

And then Grant burst out laughing too, though not before vowing to bring his own tea bags to the office next time.

#oc tober #writing #writeblr #this one was quite short #Grant is just a combination of me and my mother #meaning he’s an Overdramatic dumbass #Grant Birch #Zarifa Garden #Bruin Becker

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lunewell · 4 years

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OC-Tober

Day 5: Beloved

This day is just going to be some pure, wholesome fluff. No icky flesh slugs here.

The list of prompts I’m using comes from @oc-growth-and-development

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There were a lot of things that held a close place in Zarifa’s heart. Like the little gold butterfly necklace inherited from her mother that she wore almost every day, or her soft black curls, which though a nightmare to tend, she treasured very much.

But the thing that Zarifa adored more than anything, had just stepped through the door.

Physically, Lottie looked the opposite of Zarifa. Her small body, ivory skin, and feminine clothes stood in stark contrast to Zarifa, who was tall and elegant with dark skin and rather tomboyish clothes.

“You have chocolate around your mouth, sweetheart,” was the first thing Zarifa pointed out, before licking her thumb, gently wiping the dark mess away, and tasting the chocolate.

“Frostings lovely, isn’t it, butterfly?” Lottie said with a smile, before holding up a see through bag, “I managed to steal some for us to share together.”

“You and your massive sweet tooth,” Zarifa sighed fondly, “the cake is good though, I’ll give you that, but couldn’t you just have asked to take some home?”

“I could have, but that would take all the fun out of it.” She threw a little wink in there, before striding off, undoubtedly to throw herself on Zarifa’s sofa.

Her relationship with Lottie was… complicated. There was no doubt they both loved each other, but they didn’t quite know how to define whatever this was.

For one thing, Zarifa was her boss. Granted, the Grimswell Antique branch in Lunewell was so small that normal work hierarchy had to be completely thrown out, but the title and power difference was still there.

Or maybe it was simply the fact that they had done this for so long. They had known each other since the age of 14, and been sneaking out to see each other since 16. At that point, it seemed too late to put a name to it, to dare change what has been the same for over a decade.

They had slept together, of course they had. You don’t love someone for 11 years without it. But, it had always been while drunk, or under pressure, and the days after had always been tense and awkward.

Lottie, just as Zarifa had predicted, had thrown herself comfortably over the couch in front of the TV . She was curled up in a ball, a light grey pillow covering her face in a way that made Zarifa want to hold her, kiss her and stare into those gorgeous emerald eyes forever.

Instead, she simply slid next to her, putting the cake on the coffee table in front of them, and gently laid a hand on her bare thighs. It was a subtle thing, a small action, though it still felt intimate in that way she rarely felt with anyone else.

“Grant told me that you’ve never seen The Lion King,” Lottie began, leaning slightly into her touch, “and if that isn’t the biggest tragedy I’ve ever heard, butterfly, I don’t know what is.”

“This isn’t going to be another Disney movie that makes me cry, is it?”

Lottie giggled, making Zarifa’s heart shoot off like a rocket, “can’t make any promises, you big softie.”

As they sat there, the beautiful sunset and instrumentals begging over the first scene of the movie, Zarifa looked down at an excited Lottie, and gently stroked her hair. Maybe they didn’t have to label it, just yet at least, because Zarifa didn’t even think words could describe how much she loved Lottie.

#oc tober #writeblr #writing #I’m a disaster bi #honestly suprised it took me this long to write LGBT characters (:#Lottie calling Zarifa butterfly was a last minute dedication #but one I’m happy with (:#Lottie Rose #Zarifa Garden

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lunewell · 3 years

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Underwing Challenge - Day 3

Who is your main cast? Describe as many of your OCs as you can cram into one post.

I’ve already posted a full intro of all of my OC’s here, but as time is the most precious red course we have, and not everyone should wish to spend it reading 6 long descriptions, I’ll give a quick bullet point run through of everyone, along with where they are on the illustration, starting with:

Zarifa Birch (bottom left):

Acting boss of the antique shop

The mother of the group

Utter book nerd who uses fiction to escape her past

Very inquisitive, sweet, and cairing

A little bit naive, and often turns a blind eye

Ultimately just wants to be normal

Is a bit of a disaster lesbian

Bruin Becker (bottom middle):

Researches, restores and manages antique stock

Organisation is his passion

Most “normal” out of the cast (but not really)

Outwardly cold but just wants to be loved

Biggest history nerd

Sophisticated gay

Grant Garden (top middle):

Literal definition of disaster bi

A shoulder to cry on

The closest to a comic relief

Loves to bake, and has a weird obsession with antique dolls and music boxes

20 intelligence, 1 Wisdom

Lottie Rose (Top Right):

Really sharp tongue, and a love of rebellion

Could beat you up, and probably will

Has a sweet tooth

Wakes up everyday and chooses chaos

Has a soft spot for her leather jacket, her lighter, and (deep, deep down) Zarifa

Pan and pinning

Valour Thorn (Top Left):

The landlord of the antique shop (but is basically never there)

Lives in a cottage with cats and has almost no human interaction

Leigh is the only one she likes

Cold on the outside, cold on the inside

Thirst for knowledge

Straight Ace

Leigh (Bottom Right):

Precious bean, sweet cinnamon roll who is too good for this world

A bit creepy and mysterious

Probably human (maybe, potentially, hopefully)

Not a lot is known about why their here

Aromantic and genderfluid

Loves to learn, and looks at the world with wide eyed curiosity

#underwing challenge #writeblr #writing #writers on tumblr #character intro #wip intro #the lunewell saga #natura

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lunewell · 3 years

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The Lunewell Saga - Natura

Chazzawrites challenge - day 3 - WIP intro

Genre: Horror Mystery

Premise:

Zarifa Birch, an antique shop worker with an unusual past, has made a home for herself in the sleepy town of Lunewell. Though the shop she works at is not exactly ordinary, with cryptid items and odd occurrences, she has managed to carve the normal life she always desperately wished for out of it.

However, all that comes crumbling down, as a woman from Zarifa’s past throws everything into chaos. Faced with unimaginable horrors, seemingly unsolvable mysteries, and returning repressed feelings and memories, Zarifa along with her coworkers, must find a way to return the balance- and escape the cruel hands of death in this eldritch horror mystery

Natura is the first book in the Lunewell saga, and follows the group of Thorn’s Antique Shop workers connected by their shared trauma as they begin to fully comprehend the universe.

Themes:

Ignorance is bliss

Death

The Afterlife

Corruption

Trauma

Isolation

Existential fear

Lovecraftian horror

LGBTQA+

Found family

Chapters:

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Character Intros:

Zarifa Birch

Bruin Becker

Grant Garden

Lottie Rose

Valour Thorn

Leigh

If you want to be added to or removed from the tag list, just ask (:

#chazzawrites challenge #wip intro #writing wip #writeblr #writing

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lunewell · 3 years

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For the gemstone ask game, Amethyst and Ruby?

Thanks so much for the ask my lovely writeblr friend (:! These are always fun. As always, I’ll be using The Lunewell Saga - Natura for this (:

Amethyst - Who is the Comfort CharacterTM of your WIP?

Oooh, definitely either Grant or Leigh. Grant is literally me with more social skills, ability to bake, a more flamboyant style, and slightly more forgetfulness and anxiety, and is the character I love to write the most when I’m upset. He’s the character I project most of myslef onto.

All my OC’s are equally loved, but Leigh is just a bit more equally loved than the others. I would kill to meet them, and they seem very comforting and lovely. Just want them to hug me under the stars and tell me everything will be alright.

Ruby - Is there any symbolism in your WIP?

Quite a lot, actually (:. Some of it goes into spoiler-territory, but I can talk about some of the more prominent, non-spoilers ones here.

Some of the symbolism is pretty obvious, like, for example, the roses I use. They’re all used to symbolise passion, and show up in areas that have a strong connection to that, most notably in the character Lottie Rose. Along those lines, I have a character which views the world very idealistically, and appropriately always wears rose tinted glasses.

Some of it is slightly more subtle, like the fact that the story takes place in autumn, signifying the slow dying and retreat of a variety of organisms before winter comes, or Zarifa’s favourite book being The Secret Garden, a book all about rejuvenation and healing, which is something Zarifa desperately tries to accomplish throughout (also, the use of the roses in the garden work very well with my story)

#ask game

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