#oc: briar wiseman

[taliaglitch]

a briar i very quickly drew to slap on their artfight profile (i’ll be team wither!)

#i was very lazy with refs this year but last year's are still mostly good #except briar's #i love them. i never finish art of them. when i do i don't like it. nightmare #but anyway i'm excited #my art #oc: briar wiseman #wonky arms. i only bothered to shade the hair . it's fine #i'll put more effort into my attacks i promise HGFDFGH

[sagedumortain]

want / need / dread

thank you so much @masonshine for the tag, that was so interesting to think about for my characters (even though this isn’t all of them) ♡

One thing your OCs want to hear, one thing they need to hear and one they dread to hear.

sage montgomery (the wayhaven chronicles): you are doing a great job / you cannot please everyone and that’s okay / you’re weak

annabelle kingston (the wayhaven chronicles): who you are is enough / you need to let yourself feel your feelings /  you’re impossible to love

theodora foster (the wayhaven chronicles): people will love you for who you are / you need to move on / the people you love will always leave you

penny hawthorne (keeper of the sun and moon): it’s okay not to know the answer to a question / you cannot do this alone / your parents will never love you again

willow schuyler (golden): you don’t owe people your forgiveness / don’t be suspicious of everyone trying to get to know you / you would be nothing without your father’s influence

leonora reyes (golden): everything will be alright / not every issue can be easily fixed / people only get close to you to use you

austen maddox (bodycount game): you will succeed / loving someone doesn’t mean losing yourself / you will always lose

esta koyî (a tale of crowns): you will not lose yourself / kindness is not a weakness despite what some people might say / it was all for nothing

evie callahan (when twilight strikes): you will never forget them / it’s impossible to prepare for every single posibility / you are a failure

aurora wiseman (blindmind): you are not broken / this was not your fault / you’ll only ever bring misery to the people you love

briar kalesko (the exile): i still love you / you cannot avoid your past forever / every path you take will only lead to tragedy

#please ask me questions about my ocs! i'd welcome them truly #the wayhaven chronicles #twc #keeper of the sun and moon #golden #golden if #a tale of crowns #atoc #when twilight strikes #the midnight hours #mindblind #the exile #the exile if #body count game #body count if

[taliaglitch]

unusual muse assocations

@donutperceiveme indi my friend indi you have a tumblr now! thank you for tagging me in this i've been kinda wanting to do it. i am not tagging anyone else because i have no idea who i would, as always

but anyway.. i'll stick this under a cut

name: briar melody wiseman

seasoning: salt

weather: rain suddenly worsening into a full-blown severe thunderstorm

color: black, red, lil bit of dark blue sometimes

sky: night sky, with the stars blocked by clouds

magical power: their whole thing is that they dont have powers, but if i had to pick something-- precognition

house plant: those lil cacti

weapon: knife

subject: psychology

social media: unfortunately, tumblr. not that they're on the fandom side, they're an edgy aesthetic blog that never posts anything personal and barely has a bio, but still

makeup product: terrible eyeliner. is the severe smudging intentional or not? who's to say. (it's intentional)

candy: sour patch kids

fear: in equal measure, getting better & never getting better. also, being confronted with the actual truth of all the lies they've convinced themself of (they they're utterly unloved, etc). also, spiders, loud noises, and crowds

ice cube shape: ..there are multiple shapes of ice cubes???

method of long distance travel: bold of you to assume they would ever willingly long-distance travel . but i think at some point in their life they became enamored with the concept of having a cool motorcycle. just the concept, they'd be too afraid to actually drive one

mythological creature: demon, but one of the sad and misunderstood ones you find in supernatural romance stories, yknow?

piece of stationery: crumbled page ripped from a notebook

three emojis: 🔪❌🎶

celestial body: pluto

#tag meme: prompts nothing but like 1 word answer #me: rambles anyway #oc ramblings #oc: briar wiseman #look at lil chibi briar arent they so cute #thank you pho 🥰

[taliaglitch]

an assortment of buttons

god help me.

#these are all. very quick doodles. but hey!!! i drew everyone like i said i would at the start of the year!!!! #i never intended to have 9 buttons. in fact i used to be confused about how someone could possibly have a fuck ton of mcs for one IF #once i saw someone with something like 10 wayhaven detectives and kind of judged them for it internally #BUT HERE I AM NOW. #mind blind #my art #oh god time to tag everyone #oc: briar wiseman #oc: nova wiseman #oc: angel wiseman #oc: cecil wiseman #oc: kane wiseman #oc: zoey wiseman #oc: sunny wiseman #oc: joyce wiseman #oc: fawn wiseman #these'll go up as their icons on the oc page at some point

[taliaglitch]

happy mother’s day! i think briar and hope deserve a happy ending, and also five years worth of hugs

#of which i have drawn what is probably the first! #mind blind #oc: briar wiseman #my art #i've wanted to draw something like this for ages... very glad i finally did hfghfgh #even if it didn't come out exactly how i wanted it to #but what art ever does really #editing tags right before posting since i drafted this last night: honestly the more i look at this the more i hate it but HGFHFDHFGH #art's just like that #couple random notes: i hate the hand placement lol or at least dont like it. i feel like it's a little awkward #also briar realistically probably doesnt have All Those Piercings because dress code etc etc but listen. its what they deserve. #and finally. i did not figure out my hope design before drawing this i just figured out with it as i went lol #...just figured it out* no idea why i said figured out with it #ok i'll shut up now and just post this.

[taliaglitch]

you stare at the screen. it’s a freeze-frame of you, a black box in your hands, hovering near gray’s desk. gray is nowhere in sight.

“why did you plant a bomb at ucrt headquarters?” kim asks. “why did you try to kill your brother?”

chapter 5, huh

#mind blind #mind blind spoilers #oc: briar wiseman #my art #this is just. fancy overdramatic lighting & effects as an excuse to not draw a background lol #i really like how this turned out though! briar doesn't look as dead inside as i intended but whatever #maybe not dead inside. blank? negative lack of expression probably due to mind control. lol

[taliaglitch]

everything ruined in moments

mind blind | 1.1k words warnings: panic attack, suicidal ideation, briar-typical mental illness

Aeon explodes, and Briar assumes the worst.

Briar can’t breathe.

Panic chokes their lungs, squeezes itself around their throat - fear clouds their mind and blood rushes in their ears. Their heart’s beating too fast, too loud, maddening and out of rhythm against their ribcage.

Nick didn’t answer.

[read the rest on ao3!]

#my writing #mind blind #oc: briar wiseman #ITS DONEEEEE #yes im posting this at midnight let me live. #i'm not 100% happy with this but im posting it anyway!!! #you may perceive me. only a little bit

[taliaglitch]

finished this doodle from last night! i never thought briar was actually all that much of a finger guns person, but apparently they are. theyre also very cute <3

#dont let all my cute art of them fool you though they are fucking miserable #my art #oc: briar wiseman #mind blind #this is messy and im torn between liking the hand and thinking its wonky lookin but hgdfgh it started out as a doodle #i didnt have high expectations #turned out cute in the end

[taliaglitch]

FINISHEDDD

cropped versions of each (with color palettes nope, didnt happen, cant be bothered GHFBGH) are on their artfight profiles! god i am not going to draw for the rest of the month

#my art #oc: briar wiseman #oc: angel wiseman #oc: cecil wiseman #oc: kane wiseman #oc: zoey wiseman #mind blind #zoey is so tiny. briar and angel have essentially the same pose . theres so many little things that are driving me insane #(zoey being tiny isnt one of them she's meant to be but she does look ridiculous next to kane. or any of them) #BUT. its done. a day earlier than i expected. i'm proud of myself !

[taliaglitch]

💣 and 💔 for everyone or just anyone you'd like to answer for!

under the cut - only went with my 4 favorites because i do not love all my children equally, but its still very long ghfbgh

💣 BOMB: What sets them off? Do they have a short temper?

briar: the answers here are very easy: "what doesnt set them off", and "yes absolutely". but seriously: their biggest berserk button is being lied to. or i guess more accurately feeling like they were lied to, lies of omission very much included. they can't lie to 10% of the population even if they wanted to, and even with the other 90% they're just terrible at it - they're unfailingly honest, despite their Everything, and they get very upset if others aren't the same. baby sally not immediately telling baby briar she was a ment made them very mad, and the same thing played out with kenzie (except, yknow, not really). any time their family says they love them? feels like theyre being lied to. and so on and so forth. they have no choice but to tell the truth with everyone, and it feels deeply unfair that others *do*

nova: nova is bitter and resentful about plenty of things, but they dont have much of a temper? they almost never get, like, yelling-in-your-face levels of angry. they really, really hate people giving up, though, themself included. being given up on by someone they love could also work for their broken heart answer. but like - they refuse to ever give up on anything. theyre as much of a stubborn idiot & determinator as any button. they do their damn best to Make An Effort of some kind, no matter how much they dont want to or how little they think it matters, and everyone else should too. they feel like their parents gave up on them, and that's a big source of their resentment

angel: angel has godly amounts of patience - they get annoyed and frustrated as much as anyone, sure, but them actually getting *angry* is a pretty rare occurrence. the biggest thing you could do to make them so is hurt someone they love. they will hunt you down to the ends of the earth and demand an explanation, an apology, *anything, you asshole*, and if its something bad enough (like, say, blowing up nick's office and almost killing him in the process), they won't ever forgive you. they're only slightly more forgiving when they themself are the only one hurt (unless youre hope, but even then forgiveness only came with so much therapy), but either way: doing something that hurts people and never truly making up for it will forever land you in the category of "bad person" in angel's mind, and their endless well of patience does not particularly extend to those people

cecil: cecil's too repressed and emotionally numb at this point to ever get properly Angry, but the closest he gets is if his intelligence + ability is doubted. he's Smart: this is one thing he knows about himself, and also one thing he likes about himself. he places a lot of stock in Being Smart, and he really hates having that denied or doubted because of his youth, inexperience, zero, or whatever else . he'll start arguing with you and he'll be pretentious enough about it that you apologize just to make him shut up

💔 BROKEN HEART: What would break their heart? What’s the worst thing a significant other or a close friend could do to them?

briar: as i said up there: lie to them. its why they were so disproportionately devastated with the kenzie ""reveal"" - they had some tiny sliver of hope with kenzie, and it was immediately crushed because they ""lied"" about ""not being a ment"". one of many reasons their relationship with hope is so bad & they refuse to talk to her is because they no longer trust her to be honest with them about how she feels. etc etc. being lied to makes them angry, but it also just makes them really deeply sad

nova: reject or invalidate them when theyre vulnerable. they go to great pains to Not be vulnerable - their humor and resentment both are shields of a sort. they try to make others (and themself) laugh, and if that doesnt work, at least they can be bitter and... act tough i guess is what im looking for there. be as resilient as everyone says they are - if theyre smiling, or if theyre angry, or failing both of those feeling nothing at all, no one and nothing can really hurt them. if they let themself be vulnerable and sad and weak around you: it's a gift, hope that they can trust you enough to put their armor down. and you have to handle it carefully. if you deny it, or mess up, they might not ever show that side of themself to you again

angel: not believe in them. their relationship with their parents is incredibly good, all sunshine and rainbows compared to the rest, but john & hope not supporting their enrollment at aeon really hurts. they know logically its just because their parents think it wouldnt be safe & want to protect them, same as any parent would - but they feel like they just dont believe in them (because of their zero), and that really, really stings . im not sure they really talk to their parents about it, more likely they just avoid the topic as much as they can

cecil: betraying his trust. like nova, vulnerability and real trust is a rare gift from him - though if he places that gift in the wrong hands, he's more upset with himself than anything. he'll be angry and upset with himself for ever being stupid enough to trust someone in the first place. just... sorrowful and self-flagellating about it until the end of time. decent chance he won't ever actually get over it: at best, he'll numb himself to the hurt, keep people even farther than arms length than he already did before, and keep going with his life

#ty chrissy for always sending these in ur a real one #oc ramblings #oc: briar wiseman #oc: nova wiseman #oc: angel wiseman #oc: cecil wiseman

[taliaglitch]

briar and sally!

oooh! this is one i'd actually considered for a bit and played through a couple times - at some point back in 2020 i'd considered switching briar & zoey's romances around, specifically because i thought briar wouldnt be able to open up & get close to kenzie in the short timeframe of mb's plot, and obviously the pre-established history with sally already covers that process. i thought briar would need more time + a sense of history for them to fall in love with someone, but as it turns out: they do not, and that history is kind of a bad thing

with almost 15 years of history comes a lot of baggage. i dont know sally's character well enough to really examine all the ways a romantic relationship between them would or wouldnt work, but i know that briar's attitude towards her is like.... theyre ride-or-die, they love her a lot, they would kill a man in her honor. but theyre not the greatest friend in the world & there's an aspect of codependence + resentment about that codependence + guilt about that resentment and so on and so forth. adding any aspect of romance onto that would further complicate that mess and turn it into a total disaster. briar needs sort of a fresh start, and their lifelong bestie is decidedly Not That

couple other notes: theyre way too insecure to be able to get over her formerly liking nick. i know exactly how that scene in chapter 5 would go between them, and its really not good. briar also really isnt the type to pine in silence for years on end, so even just the setup for her route wouldnt be very fitting for them lol

all that said, it is cute in theory, if only because i love a goth/prep

#oc: briar wiseman #oc ramblings #is any of this coherent? who knows

[taliaglitch]

briar, oh my god,

#GHFBGHFBGHF I KNOW. for a fact. these stats are not bugged. #i deleted my old saves and replayed from the start #oc ramblings #oc: briar wiseman #yes this is going in their tag. GHCBGH #mind blind #AND the main tag. i think its hilarious

[taliaglitch]

playlist edits - briar wiseman

is it hard understanding i’m incomplete?

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#sorry for the eyestrain! briar is an edgy bastard and graphic design is not my passion. #oc: briar wiseman #my edits #no real order to this but it is specifically a lot of the songs that make me the most emotional about them #mind blind

[taliaglitch]

i should post my art more! unfortunately i also only finish a drawing once in a blue moon. so for now have a cute briar doodle i may or may not ever complete

#..thats meant to be a finger gun idk if its obvious GHFBGH #but anyway #theyre CUTE! #and happy for once in their life. actually smiling . grinning . its a miracle #oc: briar wiseman #the WARNING: I HAVE ISSUES patch is something i saw on pinterest and thought was hilarious ghfbgh #my art #uhhh u can reblog if u want? i guess ? idk idk ghfbgh #im posting this at 10 pm i dont expect or particularly want many people to see it lol

[taliaglitch]

briar's so resentful it makes them look stupid it really is kind of funny

#take for example their inability to hold down a part-time job in high school for long #frankly it was a miracle they were trying to work at all but like they just kept getting fired #and theyre so certain its because of their mind blindness. It Ruins Everything So Clearly It's The Problem Here. #which like it's probably a contributing factor in some cases sure but #mostly it was just because they were a deeply miserable and unpleasant person to be around as a teenager. #'my coworkers hate me because im a zero' your coworkers hate you because you tell them to go to hell when they say good morning to you. #oc ramblings #oc: briar wiseman #for Several Years sally & sometimes nick were the literal only people briar was nice to #they were a mess. it was terrible . #they did volunteer at an animal shelter in the time between graduation & aeon and like #it was entirely the animals that kept them in a decent enough mood while they were there. GHFBGH being in the company of cute animals #and other animal lovers . they stopped insulting their coworkers (co-volunteers?) but still never really talked to them lol #couldn't hold a conversation for long #at least initially . they were there for like 2 years their social skills did improve with time

[taliaglitch]

Briar in 12 or 13 👀

13. Dressed by another OC sally!

this is the most color theyve ever worn in their life. it may be killing them

#these are low effort doodles so maybe . dont reblog them actually HFGDGFH #i just wanted to try & kick myself back into drawing it's been A Bit #oc: briar wiseman #do i actually know what sally's fashion sense is?? not particularly. but i associate her with pink + floral patterns #so. HGFDGFH