Merlot joined the cheer squad, and Amaranth the football team! So they've been working out together

Bonus family time, bc i love them all so much...

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it got kinda long ngl

so there's four of them: Zaira, Tom, Samira and Levi. they're their own characters but kinda lack an universe? so I insert them on already-existing ones and give them lives in them. which is actually pretty fun.

👻→Levi is like, an asshole with a bad past, but not really that much of an asshole? he's all about seeming like he's a dick, and sorta being one, but then being nice for virtually no reason other than that he can. he'll bother people, sure, try to make them angry and hateful, but he actively seeks for everyone to have equal ground and nice things if at all possible. he kinda wants to be hated? but really only because he knows it's the easiest way to make an impression, and he wants to leave one.

he's a musician usually. also a necromancer. he likes these things and is talented at them, so he usually uses this as a medium to make this impression he so badly wants to leave. fun fact: he's always destined to want to die, but be immortal. which is kinda funny till I have to write about it. then it's just sad. he's an alcoholic too. and like. intense. about everything ever. his arcs are always about the self (which he has problems with) and him trying to avoid it.

🐍→Tom is my take on Tom Riddle bc I'm BITTER. he's said to be Harry if he took all the bad decisions but he was never given a CHOICE. I also see no way in which his canon timeline could be feasible + turn him from a child prodigy who was always treated like a monster into. yknow. a nazi who hates people like himself. I try to make it realistic. I sometimes redeem him in the end, I sometimes don't. I just wanna see a realistic take on his rise to being the worst, y'know? one that doesn't center on him "being evil because he's unable to love" and "born a nazi".

anyway, in my version he's got issues with being "lesser" than his peers, which he always is in some way, and eager to become the best to prove everyone wrong and make them pay. he's prone to adhering to the social norm so he can learn and rule it, and it usually ends well for him. he and Levi r always at odds because of this!! bc Levi hates authority and wants it gone, while Tom hates authority because it's not him. he disregards other people a lot, but treats them as lesser rather than paying them no mind. Levi and Zaira resent this.

⛓️→Zaira is a main character with performance issues. she likes helping people and is very much against their suffering. she's awfully shy, though, and her arcs are always partly about her overcoming her inherent lack of capacity to Speak Up. once she gets over her shyness, though, she ends up becoming very martyr-y. which isn't very great either, nor does it bode well with the fact that she CAN fight and so ends up on the front lines of any given conflict. alternatively, in worlds without physical conflicts, she burns out after having no healthy work ethic to speak of. I sometimes let her fix this.

anyway on to traits!!! she's delightful to talk to, if way to hyper. and kinda opinion-less. well, not quite, she has opinions, she just doesn't voice them ever because she's afraid of people getting angry at her over it. not that anyone ever does. she just had one friend, once, who did. she has a chain motif!!! usually manifesting in Actual Chains and also in bonds, which haven't gotten unhealthy yet, despite their manifestation. she's athletic and a night owl with a surprisingly healthy lifestyle. she has a sister who she gets along really well with. she's a Sylph of Blood and a Derse dreamer in the homestuck au she's a part of.

🎧→Last but not least is Samira, who is my tendency to drift away turned character, but like, gone rogue. she does what she wants now. she originated as a space player in the homestuck au, and usually, her arc in regards to her friends, team, whatever, is just. learning to keep in contact with them. she sleeps a lot and is the og escapist. she doesn't really think of problems, doesn't like to, but when she has to solve them she's more of an "end them in one hit" kinda person. if the problem is more profound than that, though, she's at loss and just removes herself from the situation entirely.

she's a Fae. or a Witch. or a Demon. whatever is available, really, she's just not human in any 'verse. she's also royalty or, similarly, high-class, but very much uncaring of it. that's a Thing for her. being uncaring of things. gives zero shits. it can be good, but also terrible if what she wants is to like, make a change or have friends. if she were a colour it'd be dull. which is kinda funny because her magic is bright, invariably. she's always been friends with Levi the longest, which works because they're both always emotionally unavailable and have fun being unhelpful and infuriating. she cares a bit less about people's equality, and a bit more about not hurting them in the process of being annoying. kinda her main problem with Levi and Tom, if a problem at all. she holds them back if possible. Zaira holds her back, even if she insists she doesn't hurt people, just bothers them a bit.

anyway this was kinda a lot but. yeah !! that's them in their base forms. they get more defined arcs and dynamics in specific settings methinks.