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simplegenius042 · 10 months

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Jurassic World Before The Storm - Meet the OCs

With seven days to go until Jurassic World Before The Storm is released here and on Wattpad and AO3, it's about high time you meet the OCs who drive the story forward.

There two perspectives to the fic; the humans' POV and the raptors' POV. Thankfully I have two human OCs and one hybrid dinosaur OC along with the canon characters to bring a fresh perspective. Technically there are three human POVs, however I will only list two protagonists down here.

First, human OCs below.

Name/s: Lisa and Joaquin Cobalt [all pronounced: Lee-suh + Jack-ah-win + Coh-bolt]

Species: Humans

Gender: Lisa is female while Joaquin is transitioning to male.

Age/s: Lisa is 21 while Joaquin is turning 10.

Skills: Lisa has knowledge on animal anatomy and diseases, most recently those of dinosaur origin. Perceptive to detail and observant. Extremely skilled with her hands, knows how to handle most tools, and knows how to pick locks. Does not know proper ways to defend herself beyond "punch for the face and hope for the best". Joaquin has extensive knowledge on dinosaurs (mostly of they are his current hyper fixation), but his meek and cautious nature stop him from being as open about it.

Description/s: Lisa Cobalt has long auburn hair, kempt and luxurious. Tidy even. Freckles scatter her chubby cheeks and small nose. She had a tall and plump form. With porcelain skin, it is not uncommon to see her without make-up. She has hazel eyes and usually wears professionally feminine attire. Joaquin meanwhile has brown eyes and hair, the latter of which is usually cut short and a mess. Casual and respectful clothing (under his foster sister's insistence), but long-sleeved and much suited for winter rather than the tropical weather of Isla Nublar (not that he does not have attire accustomed for the season). Has a scrawny figure, and dreads growth.

Affiliations: Lisa is a Jurassic World paleo-veterinarian, while Joaquin is loyal and dependent on his sister.

Backstory: Lisa was abandoned at the nearest orphanage at quite a young age and was never able to be adopted due to several problems regarding her temper, mood swings and track record of being a "troublesome child". She was turning 11 years old upon meeting Joaquin at a new orphanage, also abandoned but only an infant at the time. She aided the (rather neglectful) caretakers in taking care of him, and the caretakers thought it best to keep them together once Joaquin was 3 and Lisa was 14. They both developed a sibling bond of sorts. This bond isn't perfect though, as internal and external factors have interfered with their relationship, but Lisa and Joaquin are trying to mend this. When Lisa came of age, a court proceeding came in place, where she won guardianship over Joaquin. Lisa has been in-and-out of homes and jobs, trying to support herself and Joaquin, homeschooling him to the best of her ability. Thankfully, an opportunity from Jurassic World had presented itself, and Lisa found both a suitable living space and a job that put her skills to good use.

Extra: Lisa loves her brother, and Joaquin admires his sister. Neither know how to express it in a normal way though. Both have a deep respect for fauna.

And dino protagonist is below here.

Name: Indo (pronounced: In-doh)

Species: Indo-Rex (dinosaur hybrid, mainly Indominus and Scorpius Rex).

Gender: Male

Age: 5 (early mid-twenties in human years)

Abilities: Camouflage, heat vision (can detect heat), echolocation (with help of his spines/quills rattling together on his back and tapping his claws on the ground), physical strength, durable against bullets (for a little while at least, will be harmed by excessive use of bullets and especially explosives), good climber and stealthy, good sense of smell, and teeth and talons are dangerous. Unlike his Scorpius Rex relatives, his spines cannot act as a projectile and aren't poisonous. However, he is resistant to most poisons (on Earth) but is notably more fatigued as his body slowly flushes it out of his system.

Description: Indo is a hybrid combination between the Indominus Rex and the Scorpios Rex. Around 8 feet tall (when standing on two legs) at the moment (will grow to 13 later in life) but when on all fours is 7 feet tall. Length is around 8 or 9 meters long (I ain't the best at length so this might be inaccurate). Indo is a dark grey while his underbelly is a lighter grey. He has spines/quills that run down from the top of his head down to his tail. Five-fingered talons. Has old small scratches across his body. Can live up to around 70 years old (IDK what age that would be in human years).

Affiliation: The Cargo Sanctuary. Eventually the Raptor Squad.

Backstory: Indo was secretly created on Isla Nublar in 2010 by Henry Wu and a select few, funded by both InGen and the CEO of a military and robotics industry, who he only knows as "Carmine". Indo had siblings, but they either never hatched or were killed during experiments. Indo survived the abuse and experiments, however, did not produce the results Carmine apparently wanted, and ordered for Indo's termination. Indo escaped the private lab, and found freedom, where he was taken in by two defective genetic experiments, a Dilophosaurous named Phone and an orange Scottish LaPerm cat with a cybernetic implant (connected to his spine) named Diego, where they made haven in an old shot down and crashed Boeing C-17 Globemaster III, or the Cargo for short. Few years passed, and Indo, while out hunting, caught InGen's attention, where he has a fateful (and lucky) encounter with Owen Grady and the Raptor Squad.

Extra: Indo can crunch and eat bones. Hoskins is his least favourite human. Owen's somewhere in the middle while Barry is his favourite.

#fic: jurassic world before the storm #jurassic world #oc: lisa cobalt #oc: joaquin cobalt #oc: indo #the perfect storm saga #the untitledverse #oc: edward carmine #as he was a special mention #he will be in the fic don't worry #being a scheming bastard

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rabbitprincessthief · 1 year

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gog i still can't get over minish cap vaati's Everything. He is So Fucking Stupid (affectionate)

Like. This guy's establishing character moment is, in order:

he's introduced as having won an entire tournament to get to touch a magic chest and get a cool sword, which was the prize for said tournament

turns around and does a goddamn evil soliloquy TEN FEET AWAY FROM THE GUARDS who were about to hand him his macguffin on a platter

(like this man fucks up his own horribly planned daylight heist because he cannot keep a lid on the dramatics for FIVE FUCKING MINUTES, IN PUBLIC)

(THE BAR WAS ON THE FLOOR VAATI, FUCKING GANONDORF PLAYS THE PIPE ORGAN FOR HIS OWN BOSS INTRO AND HE STILL KNOWS BETTER THAN THIS SHIT)

proceeds to fight the guards (it is, admittedly, a curbstomp for him, but it still clearly wasn't his plan, because otherwise why bother with the tournament)

gloats evilly

opens chest, unleashing a whole bunch of monsters

exposits out loud about Zelda's powers like a nerd while she is actively charging up her magic powers to kick his ass

RECOGNIZES and IDENTIFIES said magic as the special power carried by the female royal line

completely fails to recognize it as the light force he is currently trying to get his hands on (he spends like 99% of the game not figuring this out.)

petrifies her

(i have no idea if link could have deflected this spell if he had managed to get the right angle with his shield but i like to think somewhere there is a very short and very funny alternate timeline where it happens)

(more importantly: no part of vaati's original presumed plan would have involved doing this. he 100% created this situation for himself by being an dramatic idiot and picking a fight for no good reason.)

looks in the chest

there's no light force

considering his stated goals he might be as confused as you are about the monsters tbh

uhhh

evil laugh

teleports the fuck out

He then proceeds to spend the rest of the game trying to figure out where the light force is and ends up having to wait for Ezlo and Link to figure it out first because he was, as far as I can tell, GENUINELY stuck on this part. He fucking kidnaps and impersonates the King, not for access to Zelda, but to… send guards to go look for the Light Force, presumably because he was either running out of ideas or genuinely thought that would work.

None of the guards even had any idea what he was talking about. He's not even good at impersonating the King. He's already sent like twenty people to the dungeon by the time you get there and it hasn't even been a week. Somehow the game spins this as a cunning plan and clever manipulation or something.

(Meanwhile the guards are just. Poking around in random bushes and shit hoping to find the light force. One of them asks you what you think it might look like.)

Zelda is literally right next to the throne and Vaati does not figure it out until you find an actual honest-to-goodness LORE TABLET spelling out that the Light Force is Stored in the Zelda, at which point he's like "ahahaha you've done my work for me this was definitely my plan all along" and takes over the castle and throws a bunch of monsters at you to stall for time while he figures out how to extract the force from her. Somehow he still doesn't think to actually lock the fucking door.

#vaati #minish cap #loz #mc #he's my stupid little squeak squeak and i love him #meta #op #sorry this got long but i have So Many Words about this little bastard #i think he's a really fun foil to ganondorf tbh -#ganondorf looks like a brute force guy but in practice tends largely toward manipulating and long cons and cunning #the appearance of dumb muscle but is actually refined and clever and skilled while also still being built like a brick wall #vaati looks like a classic scheming squishy wizard guy but actually is just cheating and does almost all his nonsense very directly #and his plans tend to be either Do X / ??? / Profit stuff or barely exist at all #to the point where og four swords is gated primarily by your ability to convince great fairies to help you rather than vaati stopping you #ganondorf is a guy given power who wants a magic wish granting artefact #vaati is a guy given a magic wish-granting artefact who decides he wants more power now actually #vaati has had a significant minion approximately once (shadow link) and that was in shared custody with ganon

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lemoonthetwink · 18 days

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Rime is here!

Might turn this serie into print, idk, I should think of it I guess

#last legacy #last legacy fanart #rime solano varela #rime fanart #illustration #fanart #my art #portrait #the loveable bastard who keeps killing us for who knows what grand scheme #i love my men deranged with a tiny soft spot #i need to see or write his redemption arc at this point #tho he's perfectly fine being a literal living danger but i still need a redemption arc #BUT LOOK AT HIM HE HAS THE PRETTY PRIVILEGE IDC IF HE STABS ME I CAN TAKE HIM BOTH IN A FIGHT AND ON A DATE #ngl he is the manslaught and manipulate embodiment

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victimized-martyr · 1 year

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to what degree do you think Cartman will grow to be a better person?

According to Trey’s commentary in Tsst, it doesn’t take much: Discipline, a firm male figure in his life. And now, implied by the end of Pandemic Special and towards the end of P.C, time away from friends who enable him are the ingredients for a better Cartman.

As little as it takes for him to be grow, it’s also just as easy for him to regress. Liane giving in on one occasion reverted what was months of firm parenting. A stagnant Kyle in P.C spurred Cartman’s paranoia, and reverted him back to his scheming 10 year old ways. He thinks he’s being talked down to and self sabotages out of spite at the end of Future Me. I think also a contributor to his Cartman-ness is how South Park itself doesn’t let him stay good for long, meager as his attempts may be on occasion. He’s the adults’s scapegoat (Bass to Mouth) as well as the Kids’s (Good Times With Weapons). the kids encourage Cartman to retaliate against Pc principal instead of letting him accept detention, and they smash his things while he was sincerely attempting to be PC.

Anyways, Cartman’s demonstrated he can be good in PC— he’s the father he never had, a loving (perhaps overzealous) husband, embracing the religion he’s constantly belittled.

While it was one off gag in Future Me, Cartman was inspired by end of the episode to study and work at his appearance. His future-self was proof that if he really wanted to, he can turn his life around.

He has the capacity to come to to right conclusions, (“should I just apologize to my friends and ask them to take me back, and tell them I was being a selfish jerk? Admit I was wrong and ask for forgiveness?”) He just… doesn’t have the discipline nor the humility to do so. (“Nah, screw that! I’m just gonna keep being a fucking dick!”)

At this point, we’ve experienced both extremes of the spectrum of goodness Cartman lies— his worst as a homeless drunk, the bastard boob-job narcissist he is now, and his best as a self made millionaire, or a family man devoted to his faith, or the obedient little boy who does his homework before school and eats a gay ass grapefruit for breakfast.

It isn’t a question to what degree Cartman can be good, because he’s shown to be good in various ways. The question is whether Mattrey/ the town of South Park will allow him to realize his potential. Given the very recent circumstances of The Hot Dog… well, it remains to be seen.

#south park #why do i keep doubting if I answered the question right hfkfkfj is it just me #is it my wordiness and tendency to go off topic jfkfkf #I had a whole section of how Cartman’s growth is dependent on Kyle’s #and Kyle’s lack thereof in PC was enough to destroy 40 years of Cartman’s growth overnight #well that and… I don’t think PC Cartman ever got closure or ever reflected on his obsession with kyle #but i took it out bc it ended up becoming very Kyman-y hfkfjd #eric cartman #asks #He CAN be a super fit and mentally healthy millionaire and he CAN be a happy family-man rabbi #but I think Mattrey might put him somewhere in the middle #Maybe still a family man bc it’d resolve his whole drama w/ being fatherless and coming from a broken family #and Trey’s a bitch for happy endings #but also fucked up endings too so maybe he’s a loving family man that’s at the same time a scheming bastard jfkfkfj #firmly kept in check by whoever is insane enough to keep him in check #i’m trying. very hard to remain neutral and Trey centric rn

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britneyshakespeare · 5 months

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if i were george duke of clarence and you were my assassin you would really feel something while i'm pleading for my life right? if i were george duke of clarence imprisoned on my brother the king's suspicion and my other brother richard duke of gloucester sent you to murder me for rich reward, you would at least think of not killing me right? you'd hesitate forsooth? which of you if you were a prince's son being pent from liberty as i am now if two such murderers as yourselves came to you would not entreat for life? a begging prince what beggar pities not?

#[you stab me]#text post #shakespeare #richard iii #george duke of clarence #i have to say i find the divergence shakespeare takes w historical accuracy as it pertains to george to be MOST fascinating #in the real history he is SUCH a bastard #i can see why. bc it helps to isolate richard as being especially evil if we make george a good brother and a hapless victim #like on a literary level it makes richard's deeds all the more shocking. when if anything they were very precedented #by some of the schemes/issues of george. in real life.#i also find elizabeth woodville and her family to be rather underexplored in the text in this effect. whereas in real history they were #much more complicated figures.#but still if i were george duke of clarence you would at least hesitate before stabbing me right?#it'd wring your heart a little? to kill me? when i was pleading so persuasively for my life?

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yotd2009 · 4 months

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oh yeah. the reason why i decided to reread tbhk (and thus it was able to hit me like a truck this time around) was actually not bc of mitsukou going canon but actually bc i maybe accidentally started a tbhk book club w my kids at work and wanted to check the contents of it justttt in case before i put the books in their hands

#tl;dr i have this one 4th grade boy who's a total weeb and knows that i'm the only one in this town who's more into japanese media than him #so he pesters me abt it every time he sees me. and the thing abt this kid is that he gets bored easily and if he does he turns into a #complete menace. now a couple weeks ago. he shows up at the program w one piece volume one and spends the entire time he's there peacefully #reading and not causing any problems on purpose. my coworker owen (the one who climbed onto the roof) and i were shocked and in awe of how #peaceful he was being and came to the conclusion that he NEEDS to have a manga volume in his hands at all times. few minutes later.#he finishes reading and isn't bored yet so he decides to go talk to me abt manga. specifically he starts pestering me abt what shonen i've #read despite the fact that i am a shoujo reader and told him that. but he knows i've read kuroshitsuji bc he previously asked me abt what #the worst anime i've ever watched is and i will never not take an excuse to drag the adaptation. and he figures that if i've read kuro i've #probably read more. and so i mention tbhk and he asks more abt it bc of the name involving toilets and him being a 4th grade boy so i give #brief overview and he wants to read it. and i come up with a scheme to make him peaceful AND to give him something to talk to me abt which #isn't 'i know you've read more shonen manga' 'let me gacha on your phone' or 'i saw an ad for rent a gf. thought it was lame. and now want #you to tell me how it sucks bc i assume you know everything abt every animanga ever' (<does unfortunately know too much abt rent a gf bc i'#a bit of a nosy bastard and watched the mother's basement video). so i offered to bring it in bc i own physicals of the whole series and of #as previously mentioned. gave it a quick reread in advance just in case. and got hit by it. hard. i love you tbhk almost as much as i love #when ppl get into things through me. honestly i think getting to live vicariously through him might be one of the main reasons it got me #this time around and not as much the first time (still loved it the first time though). flash forward a little while. one of the 3rd grade #girls is like. really into reading. and also macabre things. like ghosts. and she has two books from the school library. and has had the #same two books from the school library for over a week. she reads quickly and finished them both in under a day and is now bored out of her #mind rereading them. she asks to read the books i've been letting the other kid read. now there are two of them #romeo.txt

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kurara-black-blog · 2 years

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I want to thank Coach Vargas for giving me the chance to see Ruggie and Leona act like an Old Married Couple™, but Vacation With The Kids Edition™ 🙏🙏

#the highlight of any story is seeing these two interact #I absolutely love how Leona just lets Ruggie do pretty much whatever #like‚ to the point I can't even take his threats seriously... and neither can Ruggie tbh #Ruggie just know exactly what to say to annoy Leona into being functional while also getting a good jab at him #also they know each other so well‚ they always know when the other is being a little bastard #Leona seems to be particularly proud of Ruggie and his schemes sometimes #and‚ again‚ they act so much like a mom and dad thay have been together for +30 years #Leona is the lazy dad who teaches them the smart book stuff when he feels like it #Ruggie is the overworked mom who teaches them street smart and takes care of them #they're not the best parents but no child has died under their care so #twisted wonderland #leona kingscholar #ruggie bucchi #leoruggie

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cherry-bomb-ships · 10 months

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I love the fuckin game over screen in the original Crash 2. Like

The fuck you lookin crazy for!!! 😒😒😒

#LIKE DONT LOOK AT ME LIKE THAT BASTARD #just imagine being a ten year old and playing this game late at night in the dark cuz ur supposed to be asleep #and then you lose all your lives in the harder levels and all of the bright colors and ANY music cut out #and you just get greeted by this fuck. truly terryfing 😂💀😂💀#anyways im going to sleep now. hope this haunts ur dreams yall lmao 💝💝💝#ruby rambles #💜: the man of my schemes

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charlesemersonwinchesteriii · 1 year

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Garak in "Second Skin": I will NEVER sacrifice myself for you people I will ALWAYS selfishly save my own life that is a PROMISE

Garak in "The Search, Part II", three episodes earlier: [sacrifices himself for these people even when he could have selfishly saved his own life]

#WHEN GHEMOR OMINOUSLY WARNS KIRA AT THE END THAT GARAK WILL BETRAY THEM LIKE AS IF HE'S BEEN TRYING TO DECEPTIVELY ACT TRUSTWORTHY???#sir please. this man's whole Thing is to go around like ''ohoho I sure hope nobody notices my evil and dastardly deeds!!!#oh my super evil schemes only ended up benefitting the good guys after all? what an astounding turn of events!! oh my!!''#Star Trek: Deep Space 9 #for context I've only seen up to Second Skin so far and I'm sure soon I'll finally get to an episode where Garak does Evil Demon Crimes #and then I'll look like a complete idiot for making this post. but so be it. I asked myself WWJSBD (What Would Julian Subatoi Bashir Do?)#and the answer was love and trust and have hope despite all the odds until absolutely forced to do otherwise <3 #Starky's Original Posts #although you know what maybe he just said that because Julian wasn't along this time lmao #''Is my dear doctor going on this mission perchance? No? Ohhh ok this time's different then. Fuck all the rest of you :)''#''[remembers Julian's strange human trait of being sad when people he knows die] AGHHH FUCK. OK. CHANGED MY MIND STAY ALIVE PLS''#the search part 2 is so fucked. btw. literally he died in Julian's arms. tv show written by SICKOS and PERVERTS and BASTARDS #anyways Garak was never going to kill Natima & Co. in Profit And Loss btw. change my mind.#OK I'M DONE

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trans-corvo · 5 months

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Gotta make myself write more of my thesis tomorrow

#i'm on a new chapter and i. don't know where to start #did so much damn research #but none of the photocopied documents are marked correctly so idk how i'm going to cite them #400+ pages of hungarian counts being scheming little bastards

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navree · 1 year

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Everyone interprets Aemond looking at Alicent during Driftmark like the proof of Alicent spreading rumors, regardless of the fact that a) the boys existing is spreading the rumors in itself, B) it could very well be Aemond looking at his mother for comfort because he is scared(which is the way I interpret it) and c) Alicent herself states that she didn't bring it up again.

Like I don't know, if the Strong boys have brown her and no one in the family does, and the strong boys have dark eyes and no one in the family should have, then no one is going to be blind enough not to think "oh no, this children are not their fathers".

Like, no one spread the rumors. No one needed to. Stop blaming Alicent for people having eyes.

Anybody who wasn't Viserys looking for a scapegoat likely would have assumed the injured ten year old was looking at his mom because he was in pain and the king was pulling rank on him and no one was saying anything or even going to try and say anything except for his mom and later his brother. But noooooo it's sinister now because, idk, Viserys is a giant flaming asshole.

And even if he was looking at Alicent because he originally heard it from Alicent, so what?? People assume Alicent was gathering her kids in a room just to tell them "Rhaenyra's kids are bastards never forget that" once a day, when in all likelihood she made an offhand comment or complaint and kids, who are remarkably perceptive, happened to hear it because they were in earshot. And then they took one look at the incredibly pale, dark haired, dark eyed sons of two platinum blondes, one of whom is a woman who is making no secret of an affair one of whom is a black man as well being notoriously uninterested in women, and realized that two plus two equals four. Likely Alicent did say something, probably in frustration, we see her do it in episode 6, and the kids heard it and saw everything else about the Strongs and were able to piece the rest together themselves because, like Aegon said, everyone knows, all you need to do is see them. But it seems people jump to Alicent deliberately spreading baseless propaganda and telling her children to make sure to repeat it, which makes no sense based on what we saw literally an episode ago.

And also you know, one of Harwin's last moments at court was very publicly wailing on a member of the elite Kingsguard for even hinting that these kids might be his sons, including in front of Aegon and Aemond, it's not that hard to figure out.

#personal #answered #anonymous #like obviously alicent probably complained a bit but not in some deliberate scheme or plot #and since her kids you know live with her and spend time with her they might have overheard smth #hell they might have overheard a discussion between alicent and viserys #and then looked at literally everything else about the strongs and figured the rest out #but viserys wanted someone to say that there was a deliberate rumor being spread #for the sole purpose of discrediting rhaenyra #which just isn't what happened and neither aemond nor aegon were going to give him even an inch #to try and pretend that's what was going on #like you said anon the proof of the strong bastards theory is literally the kids existing

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siixkiing · 9 months

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"The fastest way to shut me up is to kiss me." for mac <3

☯ 𝐅𝐋𝐈𝐑𝐓𝐘 𝐏𝐑𝐎𝐌𝐏𝐓𝐒 ☯

"..."

There is a lengthy debate going on inside the shadow simian's mind right now. Several ways in which he could respond to the sage. Which one was the best? Especially to knock that smug look off his damn face. An easy one would be to react violently and it was tempting BUT he decided against that route. Not with the possibility it would add fuel to the fire in one way or another.

Well, he did say it was the easiest way to shut him up after all. Not wasting another second before grabbing the end of his scarf and yanking him close. His own lips slamming to met the golden king's own a second later. It was a deep one even a little bruising but it was quick. Pulling away now, a smug grin gracing his features when he got an eyeful of Wukong's expression.

Oh, was he not expecting that? It caused a chuckle to rise from his throat in the moment. Good.

"Well well well, what do you know? It was the quickest way to shut you up after all, Peaches~"

#To Do Some Scheming | IC {Macaque}#hismentor #ask #answered #𝐅𝐋𝐈𝐑𝐓𝐘 𝐏𝐑𝐎𝐌𝐏𝐓𝐒 Ask Meme #HOPE YOU LIKE HARI~#HAVE SOME GAY MONKEYS BEING DUMB AND GAY UwU #I still need to make a ship tag for these bastards BD #Anyway; Macaque decided 'Fuck it' XD #Yes; he purposely using that nickname too for him~#Ya know to rub it in more; cause he a bastard like that~

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throwaway-yandere · 2 years

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Why are those 3 sumeru boys so hot??

I cant fucking pick help

*looks at OC!MC!'s list of potential bad endings* Idk, want me to help you decide?–

Suaooa okay but fr you are so right. Sumeru boys hit different– and based on what we know about Kaveh I just know I'd love him too 😭 I can't wait for the next patch just to see him I'm starving for more content. I swear to yall once Kaveh is out, Church Architect Kaveh is in the fricking roster–