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Song For The Radio Silence
"Everyone says that one door opens when another closes, but usually it’s not this literal. Steve Carlsburg pushes a radio host through a door, he catches the sleeve of his double who’s not his double."
Or Kevin, Cecil, and a lighthouse in a desert that doesn't exist.
#Kevin|character#mute the sound|out of character#Kevin wtnv#wtnv Kevin#cecilin#ceckev#kevcec#kevin x cecil#cecil x kevin#welcome to night vale#cecil palmer#the desert otherworld
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Musings at 10am with @phoenixsoars
#wtnv#welcome to night vale#carlos the scientist#the desert otherworld#our autism is one and the same
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"Cecil doesn’t know how long that time apart was from my perspective, and he never will."
"...oh, Carlos is gone. But he took the certificate. Did he seem excited? I bet he was. So excited. I’ll listen back later."
yeah okay cool not worrying at all
#wtnv#welcome to night vale#not tma#carlos the scientist#wtnv spoilers#cecil palmer#cecil gershwin palmer#wtnv 210#ten years later#the desert otherworld
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If I was Carlos I simply would have stayed
#I DID THIS AGES AGO#LIKE LAST YEAR AT SOME POINT#AND I JUST. DIDNT POST#I initially was scared <33 but then I forgot I ever drew this#cw blood#cw gore#mouth trauma#eye trauma#kevin desert bluffs#the desert otherworld#god. tagging is an experience#wtnv#wtdb#welcome to night vale#like to slap his bald head#he’s so pretty I’m going insane#my artwork<3!
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Carlos: "Kevin built a radio station! He doesn't seem to be planning anything evil. In fact, he seems pretty relaxed and friendly these days."
...
Cecil: "There is a radio station there, built by Kevin, who.. seems to have himself pretty under control, and his studio only has a little bit of blood,-"
...
Meanwhile, Kevin's over here like:
ah yes, the pinnacle of restraint
#“I just like your story.”#mhmm#dont worry kevin we can tell#wtnv 70#welcome to night vale#kevin wtnv#wtnv kevin#carlos the scientist#carlos wtnv#desert otherworld#desert bluffs too#relistening to older wtnv; I had forgotten how much of a rollercoaster year 3 was holy shit
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Carlos as the long-gone mysterious founder and holy figure to the Desert Bluffs Too Joyous Congregation vs Carlos as the wicked God-slayer who's hubris pulls him to try and grasp heaven to the Night Vale Joyous Congregation
#The trying to create a stable portal to the Desert Otherworld and now theres a little Kevin here must be wild for the nv joycon#joyousposting
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March 15, 2024
Our time: 3,545 days or 9 years, 8 months, 13 days
His time: 35,450 days or 96 years, 12 months, 9 days
#kevin wtdb#wtnv kevin#wtnv#wtdb#desert otherworld#kevin wtnv#desert bluffs#welcome to night vale#welcome to desert bluffs
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Valetober days 5-6: Lighthouse
Finknor please please please give us Doug and Alisha and the other masked army back, i miss them
#wtnv#welcome to night vale#carlos dave robles#carlos the scientist#backleftart#desert otherworld#valetober 2023#valetober
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Ha ha… funny, very funny
#wtnv#welcome to night vale#wtnv spoilers#so funny she would say that huh#kevin wtnv#lauren mallard#wtnv 237#desert bluffs#desert otherworld
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also thinking more ab kevin being autistic+adhd. cecil being kevinphobic again adn carlos is like so what if his station is so hot the metal melts in it??? hes understimulated cecil leave him alone. yes hes holding a real human heart its his stress toy. yes its his own heart stop bothering him
#when the desert otherworld ur both trapped in doesnt have the right accommodations for either of your autistic asses#so you gotta science it up yourself#kevin wtnv#carlos wtnv#cecil wtnv
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Guys, I just realized something!
If one year in our world is the equivalent of ten years in the desert otherworld, then that means that by June 2024, Kevin will have lived there for 100 years!
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Here is part of the Kevin cosplay I'm working on for Comic con! It's cool :)
#welcome to night vale#wtnv#kevin (wtnv)#kevin desert bluffs#cosplay#desert otherworld#desert bluffs
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Guess who started to write a fic during the great AO3 shutdown and finished a month later!!
Ever since I saw that post about Kevin being bird-coded, I've imagined him with wings tattooed on his back. Here is Carlos (and frankly, Kevin) discovering them while stuck in a Desert Otherworld
TW for average Kevin stuff (mentions of blood and injury), 1.2K Words
"Could I study you, Kevin?"
Kevin's third person camera flickers as he spins his chair to face Carlos in the shared office space. "Wha-ha-at?" His nerves bubbling up in laughter in the middle of the question.
Carlos continued, "I've done a study on Cecil before. You know, marking his Night Valean qualities. I wondered last nigh- yesterd- earlier... If you had any similar qualities, since you're doubles and all." He eyed Kevin up and down, searching for a resemblance that didn't quite come up.
"Ohhhh-kay!" His tone lilted up to hide his initial perception of the question. "But I can assure you, Carlos," his voice was tinged with blood oranges, "I am genetically identical to... Him. We are doubles."
"I'm not certain on that," Carlos corrected him, walking to his side of the office and lifting his arm up. Kevin flinches. He does not know if it is from trauma or affection or an odd twilight between the two. "You don't have tattoos like he does. You've seen his, yes?" An 'mhm' is squeaked out through pursed lips as he stares at Carlos' hand turning his arm over. He does not notice his nails digging into his palms. "He has these tattoos of tentacles all over. They move not quite on top of the skin like an animated film. And I know they're not really tattoos because they turn into real tentacles. It's... Fascinating. But you don't have any..." Carlos sounds oddly upset at his final note, dropping Kevin's arm back on the armrest.
Now that he's been freed of the clinical gaze and grasp, Kevin lets out a shaky breath. The desert otherworld may be stuck at 76 degrees Fahrenheit, but his arm and face are reaching the mid 80's, at least. Only now does he process what Carlos said. "I do have a tattoo, actually."
Carlos drops the notes he was returning to and turns on his heel. "You do? What is it? Where is it? Does it materialize like Cecil's? Can I see it?"
The mention of the rival radio host from Carlos' mouth gives him pause, like it has been for the past few months since they built their shared living space, but he regains his composure because, oh my smiling god, he's finally interested in something about him! He does not read into this reaction. "Of course!" He takes the hem of his standard-issue StrexCorp yellow sweater vest, with it's interlocking triangle design across the chest, and starts to pull it over his head.
"Woah, wait, I-I-I didn't mean for you to str-"
"It's on my back, Carlos."
"Oh."
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The sweater vest lays piled on his office chair like the grand mountains of the otherworld. He feels this ethereal weight lift off of him. Must be the heat. Really, who wears a sweater vest in 70 degree weather? He positions his third eye just so to aid the process in unbuttoning his work shirt. No one really gets how hard it is to push little buttons though little holes when your depth perception is every which way. He usually doesn't even entertain the thought. Back in Desert Bluffs he could be summoned to a meeting at any moment. There wasn't time to change into his hot pink satin loungewear.
"Do you...need...help? With that?" Carlos snaps him out of his walk-in closet mind at the same time he snaps a button off of its thread.
"I'm fine," he smiles a panicked smile, a smile he's perfected though it is not perfect, "Why would I need help?"
"I can see you biting through your cheek."
A bloody stream of spit drips onto his lapel. He stops chewing and lessens his smile. The last button comes undone and he moves the third eye to look back at him because he can't believe it. He's wearing a Desert Bluffs town fair volunteer shirt. Originally yellow but stained orange by the blood dunk tank he was running. DBCR was a shining sponsor of the old summer event. He smells traces of cotton candy (and blood) and sighs while his face is hidden from view. He tosses the undershirt on to the chair with the other pieces of his work outfit and turns around. "It's neat, right? I can't exactly remember when I got it, but it moves just like...His."
Carlos's brain starts backlogging information. Kevin's gaunt figure, scent, the many scars and still open wounds, his usage of the word 'neat', and the faint gold depiction of wings that, true to his word, are moving. They seem stiff, individual feathers stretching back to full plumage. And although they are not quite as sentient as Cecil's tentacles, they seem to shiver with fear. Carlos traces the sunset arc across Kevin's shoulder blades, feeling the slightest singe on his finger. Unlike with Cecil's markings, he could not keep his hands on the heated skin, not without lab gloves or giving off wrongful impressions of intimacy. "Can you materialize them?"
"I... don't know?" The wings ache each time he tries to move them. Their unfurling requires the energy of a younger Kevin, one who has not been physically shackled to a desk and forced to read out stock reports.
Carlos scratches his five o'clock shadow (he had just started growing it out before getting stuck in a dimension where nothing changes) and 'hmms' thoughtfully. Kevin's third eye spectates Carlos' scrutinizing, he sees his own body tinge red with increased blood flow, and he sees Carlos stab himself in the hand with a scalpel.
"CARLOS! Are you okay?" He moves his vision to get a better look at the wound. Oh, how the blood oozes and gathers to start building a scab and how expertly trained on the location of certain vital internal parts Carlos must be in order to still be standing right now. He bites his lip and draws blood there too. He tastes it and wonders what Carlos' would taste like.
"Kevin. Your wings- they're- astounding." The third eye whips back around to see its body's wings in all their gold tinged glory for the first time in years. Unlike their inked form, the manifested wings are a stark white that ignore whatever lighting conditions surround them, although the tips of each feather still shine a golden glow.
"They...they are. But, how did you get them out? I was, um, distracted."
"Oh, right! Well, Cecil's tentacles can involuntarily manifest when he's excited, and I know you like blood, so I stabbed myself. I can't actually do any damage, the Otherworld will just heal it. Look-" Carlos raises his hand to where he thinks Kevin's looking, showing the complete lack of a scar or scab on his palm, "I'm not hurt. And-" he squints as he walks closer to his lab partner's wings, "These are just stunning. The way they emit pure light is mind-boggling and makes them really hard to look straight at. Can you fly with them?"
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Kevin freezes while his body feels a rush of heat never before known. He sees the endless sky outside the Otherworld lab, with zero smog clouds and just one ever present lighthouse. He sees himself next to the red light, wishing it a good morning, and diving off the railing. He sees his town, his new town, from a perspective unlike those of his spectral eye. The masked army looks like regularly sized people and Carlos looks like a very scientific ant. He lands next to his radio station and he folds his wings back together before he lets them dissolve back into the golden tattoo under his magenta DBTCR tank top, the same color he used to see the world through. He opens the door and the vision dissolves too.
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"I can try."
#yes this is a weird exploration into Kevin's independence after Strex#I'm not great with deeper meaning writing#explanations of my Kevin:#he only has his third eye which is a third person view so he can move it around#Cecil's tattoos are purple but become void black with purple tips. they're also chilled to the touch#Kevin's regular eyes (the ones Strex scooped) were magenta like Cecil's (a mixture between pink and purple)#the Carlos stabbing himself scene is possibly the funniest thing I've written#i do NOT remember how the ohhhh-kay is supposed to sound. don't ask#i wanted to reference my weather fic where i said DBT is 76 degrees. i am an idiot because body temperature is higher than air temperature#tw injury#tw blood#wtnv#welcome to night vale#wtnv fanfic#wtdb#carlos the scientist#kevin wtdb#kevin wtnv#kevlos but onesided but also Kevin doesn't know he's in love#desert otherworld
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IS THE DESERT OTHERWORLD AN ALTERNATE NIGHT VALE
#i have been listening to A Story About Huntokar on repeat and i keep having new realizations#wtnv#welcome to night vale#the desert otherworld#desert otherworld#caps cw
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Taken by Carlos the Scientist, in the Desert Otherworld
[ID: A digital coloured drawing of Kevin of Desert Bluffs from Welcome to Night Vale. He is depicted as a dark skinned man with gouged out eyes, a Glasgow smile, and short blond hair. He is standing holding a cigarette. He is wearing a bloodstained elaborate dress with lacing around tithe neck, the dress is light yellow. He is in a blood soaked kitchen with organs on the floor. The drawing has the effect of a Polaroid photo, with bloodstains on the image. Underneath the photo the date is ‘2/14/????’ As well as ‘Kevin’ being written underneath with a love heart next to it. Underneath that where a last name would go, it has been scribbled out in yellow pen. /END ID]
#wtnv#wtdb#kevin desert bluffs#the desert otherworld#cw blood#cw smoking#welcome to night vale#welcome to desert bluffs#Kevin scribbled his last name out to keep the mystery#cw gore#my artwork<3!
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wntv hcs meooww
hii wntv hcs im sobored and umm im not sleeping
kevin !!
i hc with black hair and it used to be super long and he was super proud of it b4 strex made him cut it off cus they thought it would get in the way of his work (its ok now kevin grew his hair out again in the dow)
he goes crazyyyy whenever he sees smiley face stickers or whatever he starts going HOORAY! and "oo so joyus.."
he is such a weirdo he prolly sucked on his finger for an hour after he got a cut
kevin either dresses like its winter or like he just got back from a rave and is wearing the last amount of clothing without being naked
he likes fishnets
he has soo many centipede tattoos and after a while they started to move on their own and do centipede things soo silly
he has piercings, like a lottt of them. most of them he let lauren and daniel do at strex when they had their scheduled sleepovers
kevin is also NOT white please...
laurennn
idc what the public says she is bisexual
she prolly kissed kevin or daniel at least once cus she thought it would be kinda funny as a prank but they ended up going "huh?" and werent even mad
she is bffs with daniel they do everything together they have days where they go shopping at the mall
she likes funky patterned shirts and pants and chunky earrings
her lipstick is actually just blood
shes a hair nerd and has a 10 step hair routine
she wakes up like "yawnnn such a lovely day to be alive" and then acts like a mom that was forced to get out of bed cus her kid peed the bed and she needs to change the sheets
lauren has eyes kind of
she gets her lashes done and her nails done sometimes if she feels nice
she is a little bit french
her heels are suppperr pointy so she likes to step on ppls toes with them
daniel hooray!!
he is like those dbh robots so he has like fake skin and hair but u can see a bit of robot on him
he dresses a bit like someone who just found the whole gothic scene going on in the 80s or whatever which goes against strex dress code but they cant do much cus hes a robot
i like to think he used to be human at some point
daniel also had a like new wave goth phase idk what it is called when he was a human and it carried on to his robot self
he lets kevin and lauren dress him up and do his makeup like he is a doll lol
he lays on top of kevin during the scheduled sleepovers
daniel likes cheesy romcoms
he cries a bit during the super sweet romantic scenes
"i wish that was me" "stfu get over it that will never happen oml"
he has blonde curly-ish hair
he meows on occasion, it got programmed into his system after trying to take a pic of khoshekh, no one rlly knows how
he has freckles cus strex wanted to make him more inclusive so their employees didnt get scared off by some picture perfect dude robot guy
he can open up his back and the reason as to why it wasnt his chest is cus it would be inconvenient
charlesss
he is 100 percent a southern goth dont even argue with me
the trad goth look with huge clunky cowboy boots
charles used to work as a grave digger in pine cliff cus it payed well since everyone died and became a ghost
when he wasn't doing that he was working as a bartender near the outer edge of town
he has a bit of a southern accent from cactus park
he had a bunch of old cactus park shirts and saved them all for donny when he found out he was having a kid
charles was the pregnant one he is sooo transgender
he never got any surgeries cus he did not care about having tits
and a vag was more convinent (totallyyy not projecting)
he got his uterus removeda after donny tho so no siblings for donny ig
he was a smoker at some point
he hatess wine so much
charles is hispanic in some way cus yk carlos charles ykkk
he likes to braid kevins hair in fancy ways and then started to give kevin and donovan matching hairstyles every morning
he has a home depot 12ft skeleton in his classroom
and lewis the pumpkin from target
he loves halloween even tho most ppl of the dow have never even heard of it
he eventually moved in with kevin or vice versa and has his own room and office despite also sharing one with kevin
charles just likes to sleep alone some nights or needs a place to chill out by himself
charles is also def somewhat a ghost
vanessa
she loves 80's fashion
the silly earrings and neon colors
she also made kevin do karaoke nights with her
shes kevins niece i think
her parents kicked her out and so kevin let her work at the station to earn money
they aren't biologically related but vanessa sees kevin as the cool uncle
she died and came back as a ghost and kevin isnt hallucinating and some people can see her and she actually still does stuff
she loves depeche mode and got kevin into it (totally not cus i just saw depeche mode live the other day nuh uh uh uh uh) (i did it was fire)
she likes to ride in shopping carts
vanessa also loves skunks even tho she never saw one irl
she sees them online and forces kevin to look at the cute pictures
she has a hugeee cd and vinyl collection its crazy
she has a whole room stacked to the brim with them
kevin regularly goes out to get her more
he also bought her her first record player
it had sunflower patterns
strex destroyed it but she was able to keep the remains and use them to get a new record player with some of the original sunflower pattern
ok thats all i just did desert bluffs ill prolly do night vale tmrrw even tho i like db more..
#wtnv#welcome to night vale#kevin wtnv#charles the theologist#charles wtnv#desert bluffs#desert otherworld#lauren mallard#lauren wtnv#intern daniel#daniel wtnv#vanessa wtnv#ough so silly
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