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straykidsupdate · 4 years

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Stray Kids Aim to Reach A Global Audience with Relatable Take on K-pop: 'Stray is Okay'

“Not all those who wander are lost,” is a quote from J.R.R. Tolkien's The Fellowship of the Ring, but it may as well be a slogan for K-pop boy band Stray Kids.

The act has spent the last few years carving out a niche for themselves in the K-pop world, gathering and inspiring their fans, known collectively as Stay. With several producers in the team, Stray Kids have released a multitude of albums since then that feature songs that are both riotous and introspective, energetic and motivational. The eight-member act, which started out in 2018 as a nonet but saw one member depart last year, recently completed their Clé album trilogy, and debuted their first-ever all-English songs earlier this year amid a world tour that will see them hit up dozens of cities across Asia, North America, and Europe.

While in New York City for the first show of their 2020 District 9: Unlock World Tour, the members of Stray Kids sat down with Billboard backstage ahead of their concert at Hulu Theater at Madison Square Garden to discuss their career, the Clé album series, and their artistic vision.

How’s New York treating you guys?

Bang Chan: It’s like our third time in New York, but every time we find something new. Hyunjin and Seungmin went to Times Square and they took a lot of photos and stuff. Every time we come, it’s always great.

How do you feel about 2020 so far?

[Members gasp exaggeratedly.]

Felix: Excited. What else? Not only excited, but we look forward to 2020 because it is our first world tour. Bang Chan: True. Felix: We really want to show our much improved sides. We haven’t really shown much of what we’ve prepared so we’re really looking forward to showing that at the concert.

How do you feel you’ve grown since you performed in the U.S. last year?

Bang Chan: Well, I got a little taller. [Members laugh] I’m joking… Throughout the years, without even us knowing, we’ve improved skill wise and just getting used to the stage. Just the fact that we’re able to do a world tour with our own concert is an improvement itself, so I guess 2020 is another year for a lot of improvement so we’re getting ready for that.

What are you looking forward to the most on this tour?

Felix: Meeting our fans, it’s been such a long time since we met them. We do look forward to meeting them and seeing how cheerful they are. It’s very memorable. Bang Chan: It’s been around seven months since we last came to the U.S. Seven, eight months.

I.N: It’s really exciting because we’re going to a lot of different, new cities.

You just released “Double Knot” and “Levanter” in English. Why did you opt to release these two songs as your first English-language releases?

Bang Chan: I suppose it was an opportunity for us, because we’ve never released a full English track. But to have this opportunity to do that -- especially because there’s a lot of international Stays as well -- getting closer to them through these full English songs was really a great opportunity and chance for us.

Was there a reason you picked these songs in particular?

Bang Chan: Well, they are our most recent releases. But because, especially with “Double Knot,” sound wise it’s really strong and confident, and we wanted to share that with Stay. And “Levanter,” it’s kind of got a different vibe to “Double Knot” so it’s the perfect one-plus-one package.

Was it a different experience for Stray Kids as a team to approach creating songs in English? Some members speak English and there is an ample mount of English in your songs, but linguistic differences always affect things, so was it at all difficult?

Hyunjin: Because my rap was all in English and it had a lot of speed to it, it was a little bit challenging. After recording it and listening to it, it felt really refreshing. It sounded like something new even though it was challenging to get through the recording at first. But after doing that, and doing the whole song in English, it felt like we were taking a step closer to our global fans. Felix: Getting to perform in English [on Kelly & Ryan and Good Day New York] was pretty cool. Very new. Very, “Oh wow, I’m not singing in Korean. Now I’m doing it in English.” It seems pretty cool. It was interesting. Bang Chan: I wrote the lyrics for “Double Knot,” cause the Korean version these two boys [points to Changbin and Han, who are credited with Bang Chan as co-lyricists on that version] wrote such good lyrics and I wanted to keep the meaning. So I was really trying my best to save the meanings they originally had, and try to translate it as close as possible without ruining the rap flow or the melody and stuff. It was a bit hard at first but luckily the song came out well, the boys recorded it really well. I was kind of proud of that. Thanks everyone.

In many of your songs, you sing motivationally about being yourself, expressing yourself, and share the intent to go towards goals and dreams. Why are these themes that you revisit time and time again?

Changbin: We tend to write about songs with that type of theme because a lot of people in the world, just like us, have goals and dreams that they’re running towards. So by writing songs that can relate to these people, we hope to give them strength and support through that, as well as give that to ourselves too.

Are there any lyrics from your songs that you’re thinking about a lot lately?

Changbin: I didn’t write this part in “Miroh,” but I think about it a lot. “It’s not hard, in this rough jungle/ It was me who ran into it, I’m okay.” Han: In “Grow Up,” that hook part where we say “you’re doing fine,” that’s something that I think about a lot because it gives me a lot of strength. I.N: I didn’t write this, but in “My Side” there’s a lyric- Bang Chan: [translating}: “I hope these lyrics touch your ears.” I.N: I think about that a lot.

Based on that lyric... How do you feel about the fact that maybe the lyrics aren’t reaching your listeners ears, since many don’t understand Korean or, with the new songs, English without a translation?

Bang Chan: For me, it’s pretty funny. And they [the members] may not know this as well. But sometimes I listen to Indian music, sometimes I listen to Spanish music as well, usually from Spain. Honestly, I have no idea what they’re saying. But I dunno, just the vibe of the song and how the person actually sings it, I get a lot of different feelings as well. That kind of makes me want to find out what the lyrics actually mean, and what the singer really wants to say through the song. I do understand that there may be Stays that may just listen to our songs but not understand the lyrics, and I completely understand how that feels as well. So just want to put that out there. [Laughs] Han: People may not understand the message completely but, while there’s strength obviously in lyrics there is also strength in the melody and just the song in general as well. We do think about that as we perform and sing these songs because there are different ways you can gain strength through music, the lyrics are just one element.

In the Clé album series, you went kind of grittier, darker, sometimes industrial, and just generally more experimental than some of your prior releases. Where did you draw inspiration from?

Bang Chan: I think you’re probably talking about “Side Effects,” and also “Maze of Memories” which is really gritty as well. For “Maze of Memories,” it was pretty fast. We wrote it pretty fast. The lyrics go really deep. But we wanted to try a really raw -- If you listen to the song, the rhythm changes, the BPM changes, the vibes of the song changes, the instruments change as well. I dunno. We just felt like through this Clé series, especially Clé 1 where “Miroh” talks about just going for a new challenge with a lot of confidence. With that being said, we wanted to make a song like “Maze of Memories” really experimental.

You said it took a short period of time to write the song, but what does that mean exactly? How long is your songwriting process usually like that that was considered fast?

Han: It’s always different, every song. On average maybe 4-5 hours. Bang Chan: If everything flows smoothly. And we have to do the guide as well. With a guide, like six-plus hours.

You talked a bit about what you wanted for Clé 1, but now that you’ve finished the entire series, what do you want listeners to take away from the sonic era as a whole?

Changbin: We told a lot of stories through the Clé series. There were a lot of moments where we had a lot of confidence, and ones where there’s a lot of confusion, a lot of thoughts running through our head. A lot of people are going through that same thing as well, when they’re going through a lot of confusing thoughts in their heads. So we wanted to relate to other people going through that. I was kind of hoping that when people listen to this series, they can overcome those moments together [with us] by relating to each other.

Are these feelings that you’re feeling as well?

Changbin: Of course. I feel like everybody goes through that at some point.

You released a lot of music videos throughout the Clé series. How do you feel the visual elements help relay your lyrical messages, if at all?

Bang Chan: Last year, we had so many music videos. But if I had to pick some, for example “Side Effects” itself has a lot of... Seungmin: ...Easter eggs. Bang Chan: Yea, easter eggs. Especially for “Levanter,” it has a lot of easter eggs. Everything has its own meaning. I guess we know what it’s really about, and it is kind of difficult but it’s always fun to know what Stays think about it as well, because Stays do have a hard time trying to really solve what the music video is actually talking about. Even at a fansign event, they’ll be like, “So what does this video mean?” Like, “No, you gotta find out for yourself.” It’s kind of really fun to just know that Stays are trying to solve what the music videos are actually talking about. Changbin: It’s like, “You should guess.” Felix: It’s a challenge. Bang Chan: It’s like Inception. Cause there may be a meaning that we want to put into the music video as well, but for some people they could take it in a totally different way, but that could be their own answer if you know what I mean.

You shared your “Mixtape: Gone Days” at the end of last year, what did you want people to reflect on when listening to the song?

Bang Chan: It was a word play on “Gone Days,” as in days that have passed by and “kkondae(꼰대).” Seungmin: A little joke in Korean. Bang Chan: Yea, it’s a joke in Korean saying like, “old people.” But what I wanted to say was just, you know, the whole thing, really shortened, is, “The past is the past and, you know don’t really worry on the past too much and just focus on now. The future will come based on what you do now.” I think that’s what I wanted to say.

Was that a message you wanted to give your Stays at the end of 2019?

Bang Chan: I suppose so, because even if a lot of things have happened... Especially in 2019 there were quite a lot of things that happened. But in the end, they will be memories to us and we might learn a lot from them. Those days aren’t going to come back. Because we’ve learned so much from what has happened, we can focus on how to improve a better feature. I think that’s what I wanted to tell Stays.

We’re moving into 2020, and you mentioned that quite a lot happened in 2019, and changes often lead to stress and anxiety so how do you face any hardships that come your way? Any advice for fans?

Felix: I do feel that there will always be hardships, and it’s not always easy at first for everyone to overcome a situation. But, then again, once you have the help and support from someone, or even if you try yourself, eventually there will be a time when you can overcome that loop or that hope, that wall. I always think that there’s positivity, and there’s always a chance to break through. Always have a good ending. I don’t worry too much. I always think that it’s a challenge and I’ll be able to overcome it.

You have released a lot of “Mixtape” tracks, both on and off albums, so is there any difference between “Mixtape” songs versus non-“Mixtape” songs? Is there an obvious thing that I’m just missing?

Bang Chan: Uhhh…. It’s not obvious. I think the slight difference that it is, is that we can be a bit more experimental with mixtapes. More comfortable, freer. I think that’s it.

You don’t think your other music is experimental?

Bang Chan: Oh, no! Like “Side Effects” was crazy experimental. I think, augh. What is the difference?? It’s hard to explain. I guess it depends on how you package it, I think. Give me a moment...

You finished the Clé series, so what are you working on now?

Bang Chan: There’s a lot. Changbin: We are making a lot of new stuff, and we can’t go into too much detail but we will say that it’s going to be another chance for us to show people, Stays, a lot of different sides to us so you can expect a lot from that.

Your name is “Stray Kids,” and in English “stray” means extra, lost, wandering, things like that. So a few years into your career, touring the world, do you feel that you’re still “Stray” Kids?

Hyunjin: Because we’re “Stray” there are so many roads that we can take, there are many options. Because we’re kind of lost. Because of that, we can also create our own paths, making roads that have not been taken yet thing. Being “stray” isn’t a bad thing. Bang Chan: I want to continue off of Hyunjin. People may think that “stray” isn’t a very positive word, but through being Stray Kids we’d like to make that being stray is okay.

To end off on something kind of fun, what is each Stray Kids member’s song pick for a Stray Kids playlist?

I.N: I’m going to say two. “My Side” and “Victory Song.” Bang Chan: Oh no, they’ll take everything away. Ah… [Felix laughs evilly.] Lee Know: “Sunshine” and “19.” Seungmin: For me, I’m going to pick “You Can STAY.” Felix: I’m going to say “Levanter.” Han: “Levanter” and “Stop.” Bang Chan: I got it, I got it! “Miroh!” Felix: I left you that one. Changbin: “Gone Days.” Hyunjin: I like “Voices.”

This interview was conducted in both Korean and English, and edited for clarity.

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tfw-no-tennis · 3 years

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mtmte liveblog issue 9

back at it again, and its time for the shadowplay arc, HELL yeah

oh I'm so excited i love this arc lets DO this

oooh its nightbeat and quark!! way before they become relevant, which is so cool

‘one of those recepticon fanatics’ lmao imagine if they were...the recepticons. just doesn't have the same ring to it

god i fucking love all the politics of mtmte. i love how they’re talking about the senate here before we really get to See how bad they were (we heard a bit about it from whirl a few issues ago, and now here)

love how nightbeat is pretty much agreeing with the decepticon ideology here, even if its clear that he isn't Actually a decepticon - it just drives home the fact that, in this story, The Decepticons Were Right About A Lot Of That Stuff (or at least, they had a reason other than ‘destruction’ for rebelling).

AND THEN THERES RUNG!!!!!!! WITH HIS MODEL OF THE LOST LIGHT....god i fuckgin LOVE the continuity in this story bc the first time reading this ur like oh ok rung is old yea makes sense...but then later all the time travel stuff happens and then its like OHHHHH

damn poor rung nightbeat can rlly tell he's lonely just by looking at him vbhjdkdfhbjsjkdf geez. also nightbeat that's ur mystery stick bf from the future js!!

quarks extreme POV on all of the stuff is so interesting, and makes so much sense bc of Course he would think that as a non-combatant scientist who, due to his functional value in current society, wouldn't really benefit much from a revolution - in fact, he’d probably lose a lot. and that’s the sort of thing where you’re like, ok well think about everyone else dude, have some perspective - but at the same time, quark did suffer a pretty terrible fate, so his fears weren't entirely unfounded...augh, its so fascinating...im sorry I'm not gonna shut up about space robot politics this Entire time

HOW did nobody notice that dead body before now

ratchet spray-painting the hands he stole from pharma to match his own paintjob is like...kinda gruesome if you think about it hvbhsjkdfbkjdf

i love rewind sooo much oh my god

he rlly stashed rung’s comatose body in a wheelchair behind the bar hbkjdhfbshjkdf rewind

rewind and chromedome’s tag-team explanation....ough hhhhh THEM

wait a sec, rewind, you have medical records in your database? that is, at least according to regular medical laws, very illegal lmao. my favorite long-running theme in mtmte: the fact that hipaa and osha laws on cybertron are either basically nonexistent, or just universally disregarded

what the actual fuck is up w/cybertronian time units. that shit is wack as hell

ooh i love how chromedome looks different in the flashback - no shoulder tires! - that's a cool detail

how come prowl just said ‘minute,’ rewind was busting it up w/all the wack ass fantasy time units just a second ago. geez

also goddd i love the scenery of pre-war cybertron, its SUCH a cool setting like, visually and aesthetically and politically

like, i adore details like the sign in the bg that says ‘everyone’s shape serves a purpose.’ really adds to the ‘society on the precipice of civil war currently controlled by an increasingly-desperate faction who are doling out propaganda like crazy in an attempt to maintain their image and control over the populace’ vibe

good ole murder mystery setup. love it!

pre-war prowl is such an interesting character. actually prowl in general is such an interesting character...I kinda wrote him off during my first read of mtmte (and even a little during my second readthru) as just this dude who’s an asshole (espec bc my prev tf experience involved watching tfa as a kid, and this prowl is very different from tfa prowl lol)...but prowl is SUCH a multi-faceted and interesting character, even in the relatively little we see of him in mtmte

plus it was interesting to learn later that prowl was one of the characters that jro wanted for mtmte and didn't get, and MAN i wish he got prowl bc I would've loved to see what jro would've done w/prowl on the lost light, that would've been amazing. like, just imagine the arc he would have...I have no idea what that arc would BE, but I know it would be awesome. plus I’d be really interested to see how prowl would factor in, relationships-wise, amongst the crew of the lost light. so much potential!

anyways. I'm in a very talky mood tonight it seems. its currently 4 am so that kinda explains it. ok, moving on!

chromedome and prowl bantering....in their own morbid forensic-cop way...

skids bvhjdbsfjasf. speaking what we’re all thinking: is prowl gonna keep showing up in mtmte despite not technically being part of the cast??

swerves drawing of prowl lmaoooo

AND THEN REWIND IN SOME OF MY FAVORITE MTMTE PANELS....fuckgin cracks me up every time god. rewind was rlly about to flip their entire ass table just to demonstrate that prowl is a serial table-flipper...and then he cant even make the table budge and he just stares at his hands like ‘how could you betray me like this’ hvbajkhhsfdhksdf PEAK hilarity

drift hvbshfdjbasdfj his forcibly cheery expression even tho he’s being harassed by rodimus, who is a big whiny toddler w/drift lmao

rodimus is the type of guy who, upon drift not replying to one of his texts, would post a whole twitter thread being all like ‘these days u cant trust any1 to hav ur back...u think u kno someone and then they just ghost you...(1/14)’

again, rewind, HOW and WHY do you just Have medical reports, oh my god, somebody please call a hipaa agent I’m scared,

ratchet interrupting the story to give a quick medical PSA....that's Such an on-brand thing for Me to do that I feel like jro is assigning me ratchet kin as I read this

also, hey, its sonic and boom, those two decepticons from delphi! nice little continuity there

AND HERES ORION PAX SUPER COP

can’t believe idw made my dad optimus prime into a cop. smh. shouldn't be that shocked tho, I feel like half the idw characters are cops

orion rlly hit them w/the omae wa mo shinderu arrest strat

orion: I cant believe you're beating this guy up. anyways, now I'm gonna beat YOU up,

when ratchet puts his hand over drifts mouth and then gets spray paint on drifts face bhjdfsvsdjhfgbjdskf

pre-war ratchet and drift ;_; ratchet’s little inspirational speech...the fact that he tells drift that he’s special...the fact that drift remembered all of this even after 4 million+ yrs...it gets me bro it GETS me

ALSO the layers in the fact that drift then goes on to become a well-known murderous decepticon...so this little scene of him and ratchet in the past gives a lot of context to ratchet’s general attitude towards drift - ratchet clearly feels at least somewhat responsible for all the blood on drift’s hands, since he saved drift’s life way back in the day

the whole relinquishment clinic thing is such cool worldbuilding, bc of course that's the kind of thing that would develop in a society of robot aliens who are only allowed to work within the rigid confines of their alt mode

I love the whole matrix thing bc its kinda like being the pope or st but also you have a ton of political sway, so its a super important position, so of Course the corrupt senate would want full control over that power, and would assassinate the current prime to try to get their own guy in

god vhbhjsdkbgshjdf rodimus is such a dick lmao poor drift

HHHHH I love that the cybertronian version of an autopsy is taking the dudes body apart into the smallest components and laying them all out. that's so fucking cool

hmmmm chromedome maybe you should Not be interested in mnemology, how about that,

oh god. time to start being sad about op and senator shockwave. oh god

senator shockwave more like senator sexy

also the first time I read this I thought I had just missed his name and like halfway thru the story I went back and scoured the pages looking for it hbvhsjdfbshgfdsbj then I was like oh ok so we’re maybe supposed to just know who this guy is from another comic? but NOPE it was very deliberate and I only realized very close to the end that they were setting up some sort of reveal

its funny bc normally I'm not a huge fan of stories where politics play a huge role but I fuckgin love it here, the politics and worldbuilding is all so interesting and also balanced out with a healthy dose of cool sci-fi hijinks, so

lmao there's chromedome being obsessed w/people making the ‘pfft’ sound

also wow yet more hindsight, maybe you Shouldn’t be so interested in the Institute, chromedome,

OHHHH shit I forgot abt the red alert stuff happening at the same time as this :( :( :(

AUGHHH what a fucked up situation. god

oooof i gotta continue now!! what a solid issue, I love the shadowplay arc

#lj rereads mtmte

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bugclub-archive-blog · 7 years

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all the questions :)

1. selfieI post enough2. what would you name your future kids?I have a lot of names I love…sophia + Sadie are my favorites 💞 3. do you miss anyone?Yea, one or two people. One is my dad4. what are you looking forward to?My anniversary with my bf :)5. is there anyone who can always make you smile?My dogs 💞 6. is it hard for you to get over someone?No!! Damn near the second I’m away from someone I can’t even comprehend their existence anymore so…no. that’s also why it’s easy for me to not miss people I’ve been away from for a long time 7. what was your life like last year? When it started I was doing an independent sort of thing where I thought I was finding who I was but I was just influenced by things and music and people and I was actually completely wrong about the person I thought I wanted to be. She wasn’t that great. At the very end of the year I was taking a serious stand for myself. I think I grew a lot 8. have you ever cried because you were so annoyed?Yes this is usually why I cry. Probably like 75% of the time it’s cause I’m stressing9. who did you last see in person?I’m with Emilio and Antonio rn!10. are you good at hiding your feelings?So good. Scary good. I don’t do it a lot, almost never anymore, but I know that I can. Its no good in my experience11. are you listening to music right now?No. But we are video chatting anyone and everyone who is active on fb rn. 10/10 12. what is something you want right now?I want a cup noodles but without the wait.13. how do you feel right now?Very happy and very comfy. I just washed alL out sheets and blankets and they’re super soft and smell delicious14. when was the last time someone of the opposite sex hugged you?Earlier when my husband got home from work he gave me and Capone a big hug 💟 15. personality descriptionOf myself? It’s not my place to say 16. have you ever wanted to tell someone something but you didn’t?Yes, a million billion times, even right this second, 17. opinion on insecurities.Eh. They’re never as bad as you think. I guess that’s a given18. do you miss how things were a year ago?Eh, sorta! It was getting warm and I was smoking hella bud with Emilio just like now, and I miss how that felt. I miss how it felt being his friend even though I never wanna be just his friend again. I don’t miss my old job at all. I guess mostly what I miss was how I was on the road a lot last May and doing my own thing usually all by myself. I didn’t even see my friends that much last May, it was a weird month. I wouldn’t wanna go back, but I’d rather be in last May than last winter or fall 2015.19. have you ever been to New York?Yes and I loved every second of it.20. what is your favourite song at the moment?Maybe love by Kendrick Lamar or redbone. Loyalty + pride are also good ass songs. 21. age and birthday?20, born March 2422. description of crush.Handsome as hell, gold in his eyes and his hair when the sun shines on him23. fear(s)Puppets on strings and going insane. I answered this the other day so it’s been on the mind a little bit 24. height5'425. role modelNot sure. My dad’s smart26. idol(s)Helen Stephenson 27. things i hateLies, deceit, racism, sexism, backstabbing, 28. i’ll love you if…You have good intentions and good jokes29. favourite film(s)The boondock saints is one of my favorites. I also love Harold and Maude30. favourite tv show(s)The office, scrubs, unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, 30 rock, Malcolm in the middle, my name is Earl, parks and rec, that 70s show, 31. 3 random facts1.Cabbage is a descendant of the mustard plant.2. Kale is a descendant of the mustard plant.3. Multiple plants are descendants of the mustard plant.32. are your friends mainly girls or guys?I guess guys33. something you want to learnMore about plant identification. I wanna be able to go into the forest and know by name what I’m looking at. I learned a few this spring walking around rum village 🌿34. most embarrassing momentMy dad finding my journals a bunch of years back. Even worse was when my family went through my room while I was locked up in the hospital. My grandma and aunt use to take me to ponderosa for breakfast to give me the sex talk once a year it sucked35. favourite subjectScience!! Earth science in particular. I did good in geometry so I like that by default but I wouldn’t wanna do math rn. I’d totally do some science shit rn though36. 3 dreams you want to fulfill?See America, see the world, and marry my baby daddy37. favourite actor/actressI don’t have any in particular38. favourite comedian(s)Man, me and Emilio watched a bunch of standup this spring. I love john mulaney. I wish I could give you more names but I’m forgetful39. favourite sport(s)I love playing baseball but I like watching hockey and football40. favourite memoryJeez, who knows. Any family vacation I went on was always a high point. On one trip we went to sleeping Bear dunes in Michigan and I climbed up the biggest hill realllllly fast and everyone was impressed. That was cool41. relationship statusMarried and chillin42. favourite book(s)Catcher in the rye, the great Gatsby, hitchhikers guide to the galaxy, journey to the center of the earth, 20000 leagues under the sea!!! I love that last one so much43. favourite song ever100% by sonic youth and a very certain acoustic performance of wasted and ready by Ben kweller 💐44. age you get mistaken forProbably anything younger than 2045. how you found out about your idolGoth girl message boards 46. what my last text message says“Sorry we did this”47. turn onsDon’t wanna make this blog nsfw but I’m bout to get some d later so that’s kind of working for me 48. turn offsPpl being mean to me49. where i want to be right nowHere is fine 50. favourite picture of your idolNow I regret making Helen my idol she probably thinks I’m so lame 51. starsignAries sun that’s all y'all need to know52. something i’m talented atKissing emilio53. 5 things that make me happyCup noodles, stuffed animals, new makeup, making money, being out In nature 54. something thats worrying me at the momentI’m about to start a new job it’s a little nerve-racking you know 55. tumblr friendsI don’t know if we are friends (I want to be) but I have some really cool mutuals whom I love to watch flourish 🌸 like @angel-macabre @corporateaccount @lushdeath @312413 @heartshapedspiderweb @cheapexorcisms @sediao and others I know I am forgetting this doesn’t mean I love and respect you any less it just means I’m turnt up bitch and tired as hell56. favourite food(s)“The soup”. Its Emilio’s dad’s recipe and I’m confident that I’ve mastered it.57. favourite animal(s)Weasels and dogs58. description of my best friendHandsome as hell, gold in his hair and his eyes when the sun shines on him59. why i joined tumblrI can’t even remember!! It was so long ago…this blog isn’t even my first blog. I wish I could remember why I started it and what I first posted. My first blog is long, long gone. Wish I could find it! Fun fact: my first urls were auricy, fiftene, (and then sixtene on my birthday), boysister, zodomy, and a bunch of others, but I’ve been bugclub for like 4 years now

🌻💞🌻💞🌻💞

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4-6]Hey dears Here I finally done a reference of my Tamber I wanted to use colors close to the anime ones. (By ‘Anime ones’, she’s saying she was trying to copy the Sonic X color scheme.)

(Oh yeah, we’re going there today.)

Buenas Tardes, everyone. I’ve been procrastinating on making this review for almost three weeks now. No hedgehogs were hurt in the making of this review.

Her swimsuit can also be different, not only red She can have pastel colored swimsuit. (Pastel is not a color.)

EDIT: Added some informations and NEW re-drawn reference sheet, better designed than before! (Are you sure about that?)

Hope you like and it can be more useful! ouo (Useful for what? Don’t tell me you thought there would be fan works for this monster.)

Tamber Mizuki / 水月・タムベル (Tamuberu Mìzukì) (I don’t understand why you desire so badly to be Japanese. Stop that. It’s not cool.)

The current ''opposing'' (meaning the appearance) reflection of Maria for Shadow. (Nope, no, no no no no no. Stop that, no mirrors allowed. Stop. Stop.)

Complete name: Tamber ''Alexandra-Sophia'' Mizuki. (If your character is so “anime desu-ne”, why can’t you stay consistent with you names? This is just a bunch of your favorite names smashed together with no real meaning.)

Name: Tamber (タムベル) -Tamuberu-

Surname: Mizuki (みずき) -Mìzukì- (Mizuki can be written 水月 too. It means ''water moon'', in fact 水 is the kanji of ''water'' and one of the various meanings of 月 is ''moon''. She controls wind/air and with this power she can control water too creating ''bubbles'' through the atmosphere.) (AUGH NO THAT’S NOT HOW THAT WORKS STOP IT. THIS IS A SONIC OC FUCK OFF WITH YOU MAGICAL POWERS)

Nicknames: Tamby, Tam, Mizuki-san/chan, Tamber-san/chan, Tammi, Tama/Tama-chan/Tenshi, Tamber-sama, Senpai.

Age: 20 (YOU’RE 20 AND PEOPLE STILL CALL YOU SENPAI AND TENSHI??????)

Motherland: Lolimus Island, land of the winds. Lolimus is one of 6 close secret islands, in the Pacific Ocean, near Japan. (obviously, these islands are imaginary). (Why can’t you animu OC creators pick somewhere REAL to live for once?)

Current Residence: Central City in Sonic Universe since she was 6/7 years old (That’s not cliche at all.); Snowdin in Undertale Universe since she was 7 years old. (WAIT JUST A MINUTE)

Eyes: Red (Ha ha, it’d be so edgy if she made her hair bla-)

Hair: Black (Shit.)

Height: 166 cm

Weight: 116 lbs (She’s almost 10 pounds underneath of the minimum average weight of a girl that tall. What the fuck.)

D.O.B: 24 July (National tequila day AND national drive-thru day.)

Zodiacal Sign: Leo

Blood Type: 0+ (I think you mean O+.)

Sizes: 97-65-89 (Christ, she’s a size large [12-14] in the bust, and a size small [4-6] in the waist and hips. I understand that not all proportions will be the same size, but holy hell, that’s a HUGE difference.)

Bust size: around E (I hate that to you, this just means ‘big boobs’. Let’s think about this for a minute. Tamber is 5′4. She’s a size small in the hips and waist, but a size large in the bust. Her cup size is E, making her bra size 38E. Above all of this, she’s AT LEAST 11 lbs. underweight. This body type is extremely improbable, almost completely absurd.)

Favourite Food: Sushi, Udon, litchi fruit, cupcakes, strawberries, lollipops, puddings, Pocky, macarons, donuts. (THIS IS THE MOST ANIMU DIET EVER. MOE MOE DIABETES.)

Bio: Don't be tricked by her usual outfit, she loves black and gothic dresses too. She likes this kind of outfits but she also likes pastel colored clothes with cute kitties or just cute images. <3

She is a quite and beautiful girl, kind and fascinating. (Ma~ry Su~ue *clap clap clapclapclap) She born in a clear night, with a big full moon. (Why does this matter?) Since the death of her family, she didn't and couldn't smile properly and she was a inespressive girl to everyone (Smiling is a natural human reaction. Even when faced with grief, someone who is completely mentally stable should still be able to smile.) (like Yuki Nagato from Suzumiya Haruhi if you know her).

She was traumatized loosing people she loved a lot and being bullied a lot at school because many girls were envious of her.

She is intelligent and crafty.

Caring and kind with everyone, she loves stay with friends, but often she likes stay at home alone. Drawing and cooking are two of her hobbies.

She has always admired very much her sister Hana since she was young: for her, Hana was a point of reference She was legated very much to Discharge too, she always has protected her little sister (You heard that right; someone named their child Discharge.)

Tamber used to have longer hair (like her sister Hana) when she was young (she let it grow since she was 6, when she thought to have lost her family), then when she turned 16 she got the hair that she has now. (She didn’t cut it or anything, it’s just magically like that.) Her body always has been pretty skinny, besides her chest when she grown up. (nnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnngh)

Sometimes she could be very impatient and grumpy: impatient above all when she has to go to save one of her friends in danger or when she wants to do immediatly something (”Aw man, your life is in danger? Look, I don’t have time to be a caring friend here, I have a life to live. God, you just have to be in danger. Now I have to go save you. Ugh.”); grumpy above all when she is irritated by people.

She is also a girl with two personality. She is a Yandere, and she would literally kill for the persons she loves and/or for her own love.

(Let’s clear something up together, shall we? Dissociative Identity Disorder, or DID, doesn’t exactly make someone into a violent, dangerous person. Normally it’s the opposite as a lot of people who have it were abused at some point in their lives in a way that makes most people who have it passive. That’s not to say that there aren’t violent cases of DID, but when there are, it’s likely one of the person’s alters. They don’t see themselves as the same person as their alters. Most of the time, the anger and aggression is targeted towards the inside, and they can be abusive and aggressive towards the alters in the inside world [Matulewicz, Crystalie. “Dissociative Living”]. Dissociative Identity Disorder does not turn you into a possessive “yandere” who would kill someone in cold blood. That is an inaccurate representation often shown through movies and games.)

-Extra curiosities of bio: she is the portrait of her mother about the face, but the black hair are from her father.

Weak points: when somebody tells bad about her, her love, her family and her friends... and maths (I don’t believe someone talking shit about you is a weakness.)

Relationship: It can be variable since I have not a main couple anymore, I have more for other series I love! Lightbulb

-Shadow the Hedgehog Robotnik (boyfriend and future husband)

-Yamaru Midori (boyfriend) (belongs to TheBoss5095)

-Jack Spicer (fallen in love with him) with Xiaolin Tamber in my personal Xiaolin Showdown story-

-Tamber x Phoenix/Ryuuchi (Ace Attorney -not posted in DA, only in my mind)

-Tamber and Sans (Undertale) living along with Papyrus and afterwards Frisk too, as ''family'’.

Alignement: Neutral (since she is a Yandere, she is very sweet, but evil if something to her loved people happens)

Formation: Speed/Agility. (SHE IS WEARING A MINISKIRT AND FLATS.)

Dere character type: Yandere

Power: Psicokinesis and wind control (she can manage the wind, and with this power she can control water too, creating ''bubbles'' through the atmosphere. This reminds also the meaning of her surname. Even some members of her family has this power as well.). (Stop. Stop. You are a Sonic X/Undertale character. That is enough. Say no to drugs.)

But they are a bit additional, she doesn't use them very often besides dangerous moments, she lives her life as a normal person.

Likes: Her family (relatives, parents and her sisters), her love (occasionally. There are other characters I paired with her from other series in my stories), animals (above all cats and birds), the good of the others and japanese food.

Hates: in Sonic story Metarex, Black Arms, Dr. Eggman, Amy Rose (Tamber considers her a bit annoying.) (As do most Mary Sue characters who are married to Shadow.) and in Undertale story Mettaton (she considers him too vain). (Mettaton. That’s it. She loves EVERYTHING ELSE.)

Story:

--I have and I write here the two main stories (I have more couples with my character too!)--

--My Sonic universe story--

Prologue: Tamber born in the island of Lolimus. She has lost her family and her sisters Hana and Discharge when she was 6. At her 6th birthday, a quite day as the others, is happened a cataclysm in her land. In the mess on this cataclysm, she has lost sight of her parents but at least she was taken by hand by her sister Hana (at the time, Hana was 8 and Discharge was 4). When they have taken also the little Discharge, they ran away again. When the sisters were out of the castle, (Why was she in a castle??) Hana has made that she, Tamber and Discharge could escape from it hiding and then going to the Central Island. But something is gone wrong: the cataclysm made a big disaster and the bidge they were crossing broke. Tamber could arrive in the other side, but Hana, before falling totally with Discharge keeping theirselves with an hand to the cliff, has begged her to promise her this: to be a strong girl. (An 8-year-old would not say that before dying. An 8-year-old would say “AAAAAAAAAAAA”) Infact when Tamber was young, she was too shy, defenseless and closed, she never reponsed about anything. Tamber could not help them and she regreted it for her entire life. She thought to have lost her family forever, but she found out they were still alive. (How does an 8-year old and a 4-year-old survive falling off a bridge? That’s a common method of suicide, y’know.)

The meeting with Shadow, her future love, happens to Prison Island. (How did she get to Prison Island?) Tamber and Chris were trying to seach Sonic. (She’s like 20 years old. How did she meet Chris? Why is she hanging out with a little boy on a dangerous prison island?) When Shadow creates the Chaos Control to save Rouge from the explosion of Prison Island, Tamber and Chris were in the same room of Rouge and when Shadow is appeared, he was immediatly ready to teleport him and Rouge. Rouge didn't want to leave the others but Shadow didn't care them. Tamber begs Shadow to bring them too away the Prison (How does she know who Shadow is?). She has finished the sentence with the famous words ''I beg you Shadow'', Maria's same words (EW. EW NO. YOU NEED TO STOP RIGHT NOW.), and Shadow notices that Tamber was too similar to Maria Robotnik. Space Colony ARK, the place where Shadow and Tamber were able to share the love. On the ARK it's happened an incident where Tamber, while she was esaping with Shadow, she got hit/''shooted'' from behind. She sacrificed herself for the others to save them and send them in the safe part of the ARK. Shadow never forgot the expression of Tamber after the sacrifice, and before that she was falling down.

(Hold on a minute. So, Tamber, at the end of everything, is 20 years old. She was born on an imaginary island in Japan, but escaped to Central City at 6 years old. She stays here long enough to meet Chris and Sonic, and goes to Prison Island to live out the events of SA2. How is it, then, that she was at the Space Colony ARK with Maria and Shadow 50 years BEFORE the events of SA2? She wouldn’t even have been alive, and there’s nothing here that states that Tamber ever left Earth. It makes no sense at all.)

After that, Shadow disappeared into the incident on the ARK (Sonic Adventure 2), Tamber, survived, was no longer the same, and enrolled her in an army for the defense of the planet Earth during the battle versus the Metarex. (WHERE DID SHE FIND THE TIME TO ENROLL INTO THE ARMY???)

(infact she has enrolled to it because she wanted, of course, to save the family. When she enrolled, the army discovered that there were various prisoners too into one of the Metarex's spaceships, in fact the Metarex talked to her personally about her family. For them they were ''one of the precious powerful resources'' to use to control the universe -They are an ESP family, so they were pretty powerful-

Behind the scenes hint: Her sisters has been ''rescued'' and then kidnapped along with the parents. Her family has been captured by Metarex during the cataclysm caused by them, triggered by them for the conquest of the Universe. ((Metarex attacked this part of the Earth for a Chaos Emerald there.)). (I’VE NEVER BEEN THIS CONFUSED WHEN READING AN OC PROFILE. EVEN MYSTIC WAS EASIER TO UNDERSTAND THAN THIS.)

She met Molly, another girl enrolled there. That time she has met again Shadow for case <3 Glad to see him, she has tried to talk with him. But she saw Shadow did not remember anything of her. Tamber, upset, has tried to do anything to make him to remember. For a bit of time, she has been at his side. The final battle was there and the main base of Metarex was near. Many soldiers died, Tamber's new friend Molly too. She was even more upset, confused.. she lost another friend, Shadow still didn't remember and the family was still kept on the base. She was in the panic and she wanted to attack the Metarex. When she wanted to attack trying to commit a sacrifice, like she has done on the ARK, while going near Shadow, randomly, did the same expression of that time and Shadow has remembered everything.

Many shots attacked Tamber, but everyone thought that she got hit. In reality, she disappeared in the base and Shadow, being upset, attacked by himself the Metarex. (I’m so fucking done with this OC and we still have another biography to get through.)

Tamber and Shadow met again each other at the end on the Blue Typhoon. It was thought that Tamber was dead (Again), but escaped (Again) with a fake fragment of a Chaos Emerald that Sonic gave her time before, when they were on the ARK. In the end, the family of Tamber was saved, and all thanks to Shadow too <3 After all those sad moments, Tamber passed good times with her sisters Hana and Discharge, finally after many years <3

After some years, Tamber and Shadow married and they had children: Maria ''Noriko'' Mizuki Robotnik, Corinne ''Aya'' Mizuki Robotnik and the littlest Mia ''Kuri'' Mizuki Robotnik (These nicknames make no sense.)

(They had them when Shadow, by mistake, became an human because a strange machinery created by Eggman, and during those years, he and Tamber had their daughters before Eggman would have found an opposite machinery.)

“This explains Diddly Rosquatnik” -Mod Meganekko

And the ''adventures'' are not finished yet (*CRIES IN SPANISH*), they will pass good moments with friends after many time, like the Blackmoon family (belongs to 7marichan7 <3) and the family of Samarah (belongs to BubblyFoxy <3), the families that Tamber knew already (she is best friend with Mari and Samarah since they were more young <3), (I don’t understand why this matters.) where Maria, Corinne and Mia will find their best friends; the meeting with Silver, the future hedgehog, (which is thought he is the possible their fourth son) (NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO NO NO NO NO NO NOOOO), Blaze and many others. <3

(Sorry for this long story, but I'm not good with brief summaries and I have prolonged >n<')

--My Undertale universe story--

Prologue: Tamber is the real third ‘’secret’’ child who fallen down. (So she dies. Excellent.)

When Tamber was a child, at the age of 7, fell down into the UNDERGROUND because she didn't like the surface. (Are you fucking kidding me?) She was bullied at school, which made her a morally weak person and one day she lost her family in a fire of her house set by some people that used to bully her. (Being bullied at school is certainly tragic, but no group of schoolkids will go as far as to kill the victim’s family.) She was desperate so she didn't know what to do with her life. Toriel found her when she fallen down, which was friend with Tamber's family (when MONSTER still lived on the surface) and she recognized her because she looked like to her mother, Toriel and Asgore’s childhood friend. (Toriel and Asgore were both alive during the war, yes, but Boss Monsters live much, much longer than humans. The war took place a looooooooong time before the events of Undertale, so if she was the third soul, then that would mean that the monsters would’ve been locked underground for quite a while. Her parents likely weren’t even born until after the war.) Toriel could not keep her at her house that time so she asked to Gaster if he could keep her and making her maybe ''sister'' for Sans and Papyrus.

MONSTERS would have killed the human, but Toriel and Asgore warned the citizens she was an exception due to the friendship the two goat-guys had with Tamber’s parents years before. Little Tamber joined the ‘’skeleton family’’ (few years later Gaster disappeared, they started to live alone in the house).

When she just arrived in the skeleton family's house, the tv was turned on and was telling about the recent news about the surfare and it shown even the disgrace of Tamber's family (they were the rules of a pretty big country near the Mt. EBOTT): the news told that no bodies of the 5 of the family had been found (Of course not, her family always has to survive to see their little demon-child all grown up) -In fact, many years later, she will meet her sister Hana, which lived her life on the surface (and which Papyrus will fall in love with xD)

and her other sister Discharge, before going to meet Tamber after knowing about her after the barrier broke. Little Tamber fell asleep due to her desperation before she could hear about the news, so she never knew about her sister alive.

Tamber, growing up and during the years, started to be very strong morally and ever managed to use magic (she managed to use gaster blasters above all as final attack, and her main shoots are floating muskets-like, shooting rays); (UGH, UGH, UGH, UUUUUGH)

She made friends with Undyne (helping her with cook), Aphys (having same ''otaku'' interests), and fallen in love with Sans.

She has a double personality (she is very sweet, but she is a yandere), which properly appeared due to her bad experiences and she got it from her mother too: she would litterally kill to protect Sans and the other people she cares about.

She loves bad jokes, cooking and staying along with friends, Papyrus and above all Sansy. (End my life.)

Tamber hates humanity like Chara did, but when Frisk arrived she seen that some humans could be innocent too and not only like the bullies she used to face off. (She was the THIRD SOUL. She would’ve had to see four other humans run through the underground before Frisk. FRISK WAS THE EIGHTH SOUL, TAMBER WOULD’VE BEEN ANCIENT BY THE TIME THEY CAME THROUGH.)

Final Rating:

~Sonico, who spent 6 hours on this review

#Sonic X #Undertale #OC #Mary Sue #Bad Art #stop shipping your character with Sans #stop shipping your character with Shadow #are you a fucking time wizard or something who are you

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