Fun fact I used to consume a lot of Land of the Lustrous stuff.
Anyways this is one of my many Land of the Lustrous OCs, Vivianite. Mohs hardness of 1.5, dark green/blue in colour, and very old. Due to the nature of his weak composition, Vivianite can't actually do much of anything, and has had to live under very specific conditions.
Vivianite wears a tight full body uniform to hold any chipped pieces in place, and is kept in a box stuffed with loose cloth to ensure minimal damage. If he comes into contact with light, he begins to oxidize and darken, so he's kept in a windowless room with curtains over the entrance.
That's all to say he's isolated and bored. He spends much of his time inactive, but he'll jump at the opportunity for conversation if there's someone around. Certain gems visit him to chat, get guidance, or give him the recent news. A task given to some gems is to clear his room of dust, and maybe bring him some books if he's up for it.
Vivian sees himself as an older sibling/friend to many of the other gems, and as such he's very keen on providing a listening ear and giving advice where possible to those who need it. He's essentially emotional support in a can.
Other notes/details:
not all gems know Vivian exists! He's hidden away so most gems wouldn't see him unless they were actively looking for him. A lot of the older ones know about him, but the younger ones don't
Rutile is endlessly tired of having to glue him back together so often due to his softness, which is part of why he has a tighter uniform to keep all his broken pieces in place
Vivian struggles with walking, he tends to be slow and stumbly
the tanks in Vivian's room are for jellyfish. Gems who are sent to clean his room have to switch out the jellyfish too. They're there to provide a faint light source so he doesn't go completely inactive
Vivian, despite living in a box in the dark, has a lot of technical knowledge about things as a result of millennia of going through the library collection. He' a living encyclopedia and can usually offer some answers if a gem has questions on a particular subject
his internal structure is basically a lot of shards stuck together like fibers, so he does minor repairs on himself by affixing strands of his hair into empty spots. He's had his fingers repaired and replaced this way often
In the few instances where Vivian has gone outside, he has an abnormally high amount of energy as a result of his inclusions being able to work at full capacity in the light
If I remember anything else I'll add it, anyways have a good day!
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Oh no, man. I decided to watch the Damien episode of Perfect Person coz I only found out about it from the Angela appearance.
There's a part (around 2:45) where he says he booked the Starfield VA gig right when he first started at Smosh so with it coming out recently, it kinda bookended "this part of his internet life".
And I was like, WHAT DOES HE MEAN? IS HE LEAVING SMOSH??
<darthvader.gif> NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!
I find it interesting that he also says right before at (2:46) that he's trying to "Focus up, here soon" and since this Podcast was only 4months ago... Wonder what that means!
Ok ok joking aside I don't really think that's exactly what he meant by the things he said. I think he was mainly talking about doing more voice over work and "focus" on it more, not that he's going to fully leave Smosh.
He also says that he spent 5-6 yrs recording for that game, so that's why I think him saying "bookended this whole part of my internet life" is ONLY referring to him voicing over that game.
I'm also pretty sure "this whole" is (although it does sound like it could mean what you thought) almost definitely his southerner coming out, and what he meant was "the game coming out has bookended 5-6yrs worth of work for the voice over I did" not that he's quitting anything (I'm becoming the truth speaker of Damien Haas)
Holy shit bro, I'm getting good at this 'decoding whatever people assume Damien meant' stuff! I felt my skin glowing while I was trying to decipher what he meant lmao
I am become Truth, the Breaker of Assumptions
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"really? dating someone you rescued? you know that never ends well"
"this is different. anyway—"
no, no tell me how it's different buck. is it because it's not really about dating her at all? is it because she sees you, or because she doesn't see you? doesn't know you any deeper than you want her to? doesn't expect anything from you because she doesn't have a pre-lightning buck to compare it to? is it because she looks at you and you don't see your own fear reflected back at you the way it is with all the people who loved you and watched you die?
"the truth is, I still don't know how to act. I am different, but I feel like I have to try and be the same old buck, mostly for the sake of everyone else"
for everyone else, you say? everyone who is out here saying thing like:
"buck, you died"
"buck. you died"
"you died, buck"
"three minutes and seventeen seconds"
"whatever it is you're feeling, you don't have to hide it"
while you're over here saying:
"I feel fine"
"you have to stop trying to fix me, maddie"
"please don't ask me how I'm feeling"
"you can't cut me any slack"
idk buck maybe it's just me, but it seems like the only person who is putting pressure on you to be the same old buck is yourself. and maybe that is for the sake of everyone else, maybe you just don't want them to worry. or maybe you're the one who is scared, maybe you're the who doesn't know how to face it, how to process it, how heal and keep moving forward. how to grieve because maybe you aren't dead, but you died, and you're allowed to not be okay about that
"when I woke up in that hospital, I felt like I had gotten away with something"
maybe you don't want to face it and move on? maybe you don't think you're allowed to? maybe you did get away with something, maybe you've been getting away with it your whole life, except this time death had you. you died. all those times you've skated through a near death experience finally caught up to you, but somehow you got away with it this time too and you don't understand why
"my life could have ended, right then and then, but it didn't. that has to mean something"
"It means you're one lucky guy"
"yeah, well, I don't think I'm going to get that lucky again"
"maybe you don't have to"
you've spent your whole life looking for signs from the universe, looking for answers, looking for something to make it all make sense. you think natalia will have those answers, but you're so busy searching that you're not looking right in front of you. you're not listening.
you died, buck, you're gonna feel a lot of different ways about that, sometimes all at the same time. you don't have to be anything for anybody. you think you’re expendable but you’re wrong. I know you did. there’s no one in the world I trust with my son more than you.
you want it to mean something? you want the secret to happiness? you want someone to see you? to see more in you than you see in yourself? well maybe you should stop trying so hard to find it and realise you've already made it. you've already been chosen a hundred times over, now you just to wake up and see it
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