Silly Ahh Ancient Oc Idea

silly ahh ancient oc idea

ancient so tied to the carnal plane that not even the void or the echoes could help it tried to ascend but was rejected by the void so badly that they didn't even become an echo, their strong will literally just created them a new body out of void and they crawled out of the void lake like that. now they're just out there??

(screenshoting this so i can post the ramble as a text and not in tags!)

ooooo!!! those are very very interesting questions! 1 - I think the iterators wouldn't be aware of them at first, especially since they do not have a citizen drone (and thus cannot be tracked or contacted), however once an overseer manages to see them perhaps an iterator would try to contact them (unsuccessful attempt tho :( no way to contact some critter that just climbed out of the void sea and is struggling to remember anything from the time they were an ancient due to the long time spent in the void) 2- their citizen drone got dissolved in the void sea! void is a highly corrosive acid, thus anything that follows an ancient to the void sea will not be retrievable or even exist after the swim in the void!!!

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AUGH YES ALRIGHTY!! however i do need a prompt!! none of the current lore is written down somewhere X(

YOU- It's time you spill the beans about your lil guys, Ramble about them! I want to hear EVERYTHING

EVERYTHING?? ...that's a lot of stuff wow okay

I've rambled about Glittering Oceans before... so you get backstory for Ashes from Above and the Mechanic :)

First off: They're both collab ocs!! A friend of mine had an open spot in their oc local group and I had a concept for an iterator and scug, so we put our two braincells together and now Ash has friends!! (Not gonna say who I'm working with by the way. You'll all just have to suffer until whatever grand reveal we end up doing lol)

Ash was very close with their ancients-- and I mean *very* close. The absolute best of friends, cool older sibling figure kind of close. They were especially really good... 'friends' with an ancient named 13 Fireflies Amongst Falling Leaves (whose design is in progress, but she was a graffiti artist!)

The mass ascension broke them-- in a literal sense. When it was first announced Ash tried to convince some of their ancients to stay behind with them-- and a handful of them agreed to try!! (Including Fireflies ;) And then one cycle, about a year after the initial mass ascension, Ash has a severe system failure. They're completely disconnected from their structure, in complete darkness and unbearable pain. Eventually their mentor figure in the local group manages to send a program that resets their structure-- and Ash is fine. They didn't have any severe equipment failure... no glitches in their code......

Their remaining ancients disabled their key systems so they could ascend without having to deal Ashes. And during that dark period while Ash was barely hanging on... their last few ancients, their best friends... left them. Without a word. Without saying goodbye.

Ash copes through anger. Buries their grief in jokes and pranks on their local group.

They get especially close with two iterators in their local group-- one of whom is just as devastated by the mass ascension and the other of whom is just as chaotic as Ash is (in a more wholesome sense, however).

They pick up engineering-- take scrap metal from their own structure to make useless gadgets. It helps pass the time.

At some period they start to think about their purpose. Why they're still here, still functioning and whole.

They have no reason to solve the Great Problem. Why should they want to?? Ascension solves nothing. Ascension only ever causes pain for the ones left behind. And there will always be someone left behind.

The cycle will go on, continuing to trap everything in its grasp. Why should only some get the privilege of escaping their prison?

Ash changes their goals.

They're no longer working to break the cycle.

They're working to shatter it.

More??? You want more??????????

Jeez okay sure-- I'll talk about Mechanic a bit, I guess

The Mechanic was a slugpup, part of a clan of nomadic scugs traveling through AFA's facility. The conditions were harsh, there was next to no food, and the colony was struggling to survive.

The elder scugs eventually made the decision to leave the youngest scugs behind. They were simply slowing the colony down and sacrifices needed to be made for any of them to survive.

Mechanic was the only one of these slugpups to survive. Ash eventually takes notice of the little fuzzball, this abandoned kud with a fierce desperation to live. Ash sees themselves in little Mech, and leads it up through their structure, with the intent of keeping it safe until it can fend for itself.

Mechanic sticks around. Ash begrudgingly lets it.

At some point Ash notices Mech's knack for crafting and understanding technology. Ash is a big tinkerer (their main hobby is making useless gadgets out of scrap metal!), and Mech is picking up engineering really quickly.

Eventually Ash officially adopts Mech, and enlists it to be their official structure technician and mechanic (that's where their name comes from!)

Despite Mechanic's intelligence, it's not actually very.... smart.

You can find it frequently staring at absolutely nothing.

It likes to try and eat things that are obviously not food (Ash has had to do the heimlich on it far too many times (it likes eating rocks))

It takes lots of naps and is a snuggle bug.

It picked up Ash's sense of humor and likes to 'prank' other creatures (such as taunting a lizard by sitting and looking tasty juuuuuuust a little too far away for the lizor to grab it)

It hoards shiny things that it thinks Ash might like (Ash actually does appreciate this a bit-- sometimes it'll bring them a useful part!)

Anyway yeah. Basic ✨️lore✨️ for my two newest silliest.

Expect more soon I can't get them out of my brain help

AH YES THE SISTERS ARE DONE

Stare of Thirteen Stars

Stars is the older sister of Seas and senior of their group. Obsessed with the triple affirmative and ascension in general.

She is very strict and not easy to talk to. They are especially strict with Sea due to thinking she is quite… immature. Stars usually hangs around sliverist groups despite their sister’s constant complaints about them.

She is based of the long eared owl and the night sky cuz, obviously. Also a lil bit of the biblically accurate angel.

so I heard you wanted RW designs go draw,, so here’s these two mayhaps :>

YEEAAHHH I REMEMBER SEEING THESE DESIGNS A WHILE AGO AND THEY'VE BEEN ITCHING MY BRAIN EVER SINCE

The silver on Arti is SO GOD DAMN YUMMY and and UI.. MAN

Thank you for sending em in!! :]