[Trigun OC]
Team "would rather die than admit something's bothering them"
So for the first good chunk of their relationship, Bad Luck and Vash were more "fucking" than "dating". Bad Luck was really apprehensive about romantic entanglements, and had been taken advantage of by a friend, in the past. (While not THE reason he was kicked out of his community, it was definitely related.)
However, Vash-- aware of Luck's hesitance but not of the reasons why-- already had a little bit of a crush on him. So when Luck stupidly offered a FWB situation, Vash accepted, thinking he could be chill about it. He quickly realized, no, he could NOT be chill about it, and spent the next few months relentlessly pining and feeling guilty and wanting to broach the subject, but never saying anything.
Eventually, Vash's crush gets revealed, and by that point Bad Luck has kinda fallen in love with him and they get together and Bad Luck insists that it's all fine, water under the bridge. Truthfully, though, he feels a little betrayed, and has this sense of "why the fuck would you think that's a good idea" towards Vash, hanging over his head. But he also thinks he has no place feeling this way because he never told Vash why he was so hesitant (and still hasn't), and also he does love Vash now anyway, so there's really no point bringing this up now and messing with the status quo, right?
And that's just the beginning of their relationship. There's a whole bunch of other plot-related problems they never talk about until after things boil over. Eventually, they'll get their acts together and talk through everything, I promise. Eventually. It just, might take until after the plot's fully resolved for them to get there.
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i've been promising it for ages, so here are finally some notes on the two iterations of black arms/doom i write for. in this house we ignore the "black doom is an evil space tyrant for the sake of being an evil space tyrant" thing and have fun exploring his motives from different angles
(it's because i had no idea that was even a thing until like a week ago. i've always thought the motivator was Just Food, and i like that significantly more.)
i like to think of eclipse's paternal qualities as something telling to black doom/the species as a whole, at least outside of canon instances. so that's an intentional trend across both.
it's also intentionally implied the alt arms are more or less what aruna's hive could/would have turned out like if he were less traditionally stubborn and foolhardy.
as for their plans and how things ended up:
alt doom started out as generally interested in how humanity might progress. once in contact with gerald, his plan was to trade his DNA for the chaos emeralds as a source of energy for the black comet, as its at-the-time power would have been mostly depleted by the time it circled back around in 50 years. this agreement was doomed to fail; both he and gerald almost immediately realized how badly it could backfire, got paranoid, and mutually planned to destroy each other. the fact humans are good sustenance for the black arms was just a convenient bonus at that point.
given shadow didn't make it past SA2 on this timeline, it left sonic to defeat the black arms. and in sonic fashion, this meant putting them in their place and sending them packing without properly destroying them.
alt doom is not so much one to accept he's been beaten, and more one to re-approach something from a different angle once he realizes his methods were flawed. this leads to him picking up and just going Somewhere Else. he's a scientist too, on some level. he can figure it out. and he does. rather than being all traditional and stubborn, he learns to work with other species, which in turn leads to securing better/more diverse materials, more ethical/convenient food sources, etc. the arms' population booms and advances at breakneck pace from then on. they diversify and spread out. without having to fight for survival, things are chill. it's considered the good end.
aruna's is the bad end. shadow is present on this timeline, and summarily wrecks his entire shit (for good reason).
the trouble with aruna's hive is it was in a constant state of nutritional deficit. they were the multiverse's scavengers, tending to pick planets clean whose populations were already critically low. not for any moral or ethical reason, just that the hive itself was so comparatively small in numbers, they didn't much have a choice.
this led to desperation. he got Tired of it. his last ditch effort to secure some means of easier travel/means to acquire food was to obtain the chaos emeralds. so he struck a deal with gerald, as these things always go.
he comes back 50 years later, finds his son has sided with the humans, and just snaps. just goes absolutely nuclear. if the deal isn't going to be upheld, and shadow sees the black arms as The Enemy, then he's just going to take the emeralds (and by extension the whole planet itself) by force. he's done playing nice. he and his people are starving. have been starving for enough years he's lost count.
this ends with the entire comet being blown up, and that's the last thing he sees as he's falling back to earth.
what all goes on after that point is between nobody but him, the multiverse's worst and, somehow, eventually, a familiar fallen god. (it's going in another aruna-centric post, some day, maybe, i hope.)
there's even still more i could say about how their respective hives operated and how they interacted with them personally, but that also needs to go in another post because this one's already long enough. but oh man is there more to say.
(and a shoutout/direct link to @motobug as always for the mobian design)
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Heya, Max! So... how'd you wind up in the Spider-ing business, anyways?
A few years back, Oscorp had an internship program for high schoolers. I was 15? I think? Figured I’d join cause I was going through a nanotech hyper-fixation and their research was groundbreaking.
I’d been there maybe two months before the whole… well. I had been taking a nap in one of the study rooms and was rudely awoken being bit by a spider half the size of my palm. Guess I was moving too much in my sleep. Look, I still have no idea where it came from, and I never wanted to look into what Oscorp was doing with radioactive spiders, but not long after starting my own vigilante thing, I got my first meeting with ‘Spider-Man’. What I understand based on the interactions I’ve had with him in the past 5 years, we were bit by the same - or similar- spiders, around the same time.
-Red
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I wonder, perhaps the reason we haven’t seen the North and South Dragons in game yet is because contrary to what we’ve seen of them, they’ve actually been taking on Cookie form, and perhaps these forms will end up being relevant to the story in some way
Like for example, we meet two twins from the Dark Cacao Kingdom later on in the story, and we think they’re just normal Cookies, until later on we get the twist that they’re the Twin Dragons. So they can’t show them yet so that we aren’t spoiled on that before it happens
Or they could just show up in Dragon Cookie form, and we’re just waiting for later and/or they haven’t been designed yet
I wonder, would they make them playable? Given that there’s two of them, you could release them both in one event. Though, if they’re in Dragon Cookie form and thus Legendaries, I feel like that would be difficult given that that’s two Legendaries being released at the same time. But you can’t really have one without the other, given they’re always seen together and are kind interconnected. Unless of course you decide to release them together as one Cookie just like
Chess Choco Cookie
Who we also know is from Dark Choco’s kingdom, aka in Kingdom the Dark Cacao Kingdom. And have been shown to possess incredible magic abilities, if not physical abilities too
NO. no. Stop it. They’ve been shown to be regular Cookies, and they’re looking for their family. They are not connected, or at least not the same characters, stop trying to make connections that aren’t there
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me and my favourite npcs tide rosemary and uh... [checks writing on hand] very evil conman?
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