I LOVE MY STUPID SPACE BUG
very in progress if youre here i dont know How CRAYON!!! (they/it)
MY LOSER SPACE BUG. its a crewmember of The Wayward Voyager (a spaceship with me and my friends' ocs) and is sort of the mechanic when it feels like it.
CRAYON WAS BORN on a small rainforest-like planet (name still pending). Most of the land is vegetation and small communities where settlements have formed. The planet is also very isolated and cut off from other planets, and isn't involved or aware of politics of the larger galaxy. Its species are all very diverse, but are recognised by their bug-like features and their blood.
Bit of lore about the edge of the universe I promise its relevant
The closer you go to the edge of the universe, the more things start to unwind, break. this is very hard to explain because its unexpalinable. THIS LINKS to a lot of the crewmembers backstories, but relates to Crayon specifically as (erm need to explain this late rbut the way it was made was very funky) which causes some of the weirdness to leak into its home planet. NOT ALOT, just the teeniest bit, but this is enough to make the 'blood' of the planet quite powerful as well as all the species a part of it. Crayon's species for example, has very powerful blood, which is coincidently a really good fuel source.
SO YEAH. because of this. Crayon's life is quickly ruined when the Evil Space Government (we stil haven't named it and i think it may stay this way for ever) make plans to harvest Crayon's planet for resources. Because of this, they take Crayon and some others of its species as they want to do some tests on the planet's natural species beforehand to gather more data on the environment. The ESG also has some very big powerful starships that they need powerful fuel to power. By the Way.
so life sucks being experimented on. It doesn't speak its captors language (although it does pick up some words during its time there) so crayon doesn't really know why or whats happening other than that everything hurts and it wants to go home. SO FUN FACT ABOUT THEIR SPECIES. you can remove their limbs and their body can reattach to other organic matter. In addition. their blood also contains their memories. Their blood which their captors want to burn to fuel their starships. YAY!!(make a drawing explaining all this properly here)
Whilst captured they meet circuit another of their kind who they make plans to escape with. Crayon and Circuit build themselves little communicators from things they'd managed to hide so that they could know if the other was alive.
Eventually, they carry out their escape plan which ends up going quickly wrong when Crayon gets half blown up and seperated from Circuit.
Its here, half-dead and body exploded, where its found by what later becomes its crew. When it wakes up, most of its body is metal, which, it isn't thrilled about. It doesn't know who these outsiders are, and is very scared about the blood it lost. It later remakes the limbs it loses in the explosion with metal. Its metal arm is powered by its blood and its able to switch it out for arms with differnt functions.
When it wakes up, its very distrusting but gradually warms up to them. After learning a bit of common, it convinces them to take them home. At this point crayon doesn't really know how long they've been away, they remember so little but it wants to go home so very badly. However when they get there, the ESG had already gone through with its plan and their planet is practically in ruins, being completely taken over
Nowhere to return to crayon decides to stay with on the Wayard Voyager for a little longer, in the hopes of finding circuit, who they are slowly losing hope is alive.
(MAKE A BETTER THING LATER) SPEAKING OF THEIR CREW!! These link to their Toyhouse profiles!! (minus Berry and Alma who do not have one)
Elysia
- Crayons home planet doesn't have much tech but they do get a lot of space junk land on their planet which crayon liked to make stuff out of. it used to make friends by giving people things.
- It can curl into a ball like a woodlouse and roll around.
- circuit and crayon made communicaters when they were trapped so that they'd know if the other was alive. Without it, i think crayon would have doubted circuit was real. its lost so many memories it doesn't know what's true anymore. When they escaped, circuit's one got damaged, and it hasn't lit up in a long, long time.
- Its tries to draw circuit a lot but it can never get their face quite right, can't remember. It makes them angry
- It likes to hide in the vents (the rest of the crew can't get in there)
- Its very runt just roll with it coded and agent love from hit podcast find us alive coded
FUN CRAYON FACTS!!!!!!!!!!!
big long ramble because I was trying to figure out its personality
On its home planet, crayon was very expressive and loved to talk. It wasnt Super Super social as it would spend much of its time scavenging for scrap bits of metal to make things out of but it was very friendly with a lot of people.
When its taken it doesnt understand why. Their planet wasnt even aware of the wider galaxy, they dont speak the language, they dont know who these people are or why theyre hurting it for seemingly no reason. The people researching it, they were cruel but they werent malicious. They were very cold and clinical and so they wouldnt really react much to anything crayon did or tried to commuicate to them, unless it was obstructing their work (their work was removing its limbs and reattaching them and extracting its blood and seeing whats its made out of. yay) It doenst want to just give up but over time it does starts to withdraw in on itself a lot. One day one of the others in a cell near to it doenst return and realising they need to do something or it will be too late, they make a plan with circuit to escape. This goes very wrong of course (plauged with survivors guilt for that one).
When they're found and saved by elysia the only experince theyve had with Outsiders is the evil space governemnt. even if they had somewhere else to go (they dont) they're incredibly injured. They are once again trapped in a strange environemnt they dont understand and so is very suspious of everyone. it will bite if you get too close.
Over time it slowly warms up to the crew, starts to learn more of their language, convinces elysia to take them home which obviosuly doesn't work out. Its still untrusting, still expecting something bad. but it starts to gain back a lot of its enthusiasm. When its comfortable again it can be quite loud and excitable (especially if you get it started on certain topics) which may or may not be endearing depending on who you ask
Despite this, its also very opinionated and so i think it would also get into Fights a lot. Now it's in a position to be able to defend itself it refuses to let itself be pushed around. It hates being looked down on, being seen as something smaller, lesser (bad memories), which lots of people do because of its appearence. They think its stupid. its not. At first it tries to compensate by making weapons for its cyborg half. people take you a bit more seriosuly if you ahve a chainsaw for a hand!!! (and also its not going to let itself be defenseless ever again). But over time it learns to use this to its advantage. being underestimated is useful.
Despite everything its still painfully expressive. its just not used to people.. reacting to those emotions. (when it first joins the crew anyway).
we're still figuring out crew members but its probably closest to elysia (other than circuit. missing friend) and looks up to her an embarrassing amount. She saved their life and they trust her the most. If there's a fight she could probably instantly stop arguements.
At first its Very Unsure about compost, but then it warms up to him and follows him around a lot (especially in those early days where it could only really understand half of what was being said) Later on it likes to help him with his schemes. his scams.
my conclusion after figuring stuff out about crayon is that despite everything (and despite not even really knowing who they are) it remains very unapologeticlaly itself. (despite everything its still you)