Damien's A Guy Who Started Pretty "high" In Life : He Comes From A Pretty Rich French Family, Got A Nice
Damien's a guy who started pretty "high" in life : he comes from a pretty rich french family, got a nice education and all, but ended up pretty "low", mainly because of his own stupid decisions. He's waaaaay too confident in his abilities to be successful no matter what, he completely fails his classes (barely managed to pass his high-school exams) and tries to become a novelist.
Turns out he's pretty mediocre at writing, lol.
His parents ends up kicking him out because he doesn't do shit and he has to actually get shit done by himself. (Around 20 y/o) He does get a bit of money from them but that's all, he's pretty much disowned. He tries getting a job (probably in a library) and he meets a guy who's really nice to him (like, suspiciously nice) and he ends up having a crush on him. The guy suggests that Damien could live with him so that he can write his books and repay him later once he's successful. Of course Damien is 100% SURE he'll write something incredible, he accepts and starts writing.
And what a surprise, he's not gaining much money ! He can't repay the guy, no one wants his books... He has a huge crush on the guy and desperately tries to write something good to impress him (it doesn't work)... and finally get published (doesn't work either). He has to use the funds he got from his parents to start paying him back because time passes and it gets worse and worse. He starts paying rent (way too high but he doesn't know it)
The guy (I should really name him bc it's getting annoying to call him like that) starts getting into shady stuff. Damien doesn't know about it for a good while. It's getting worse because Damien has very little success with his books, he clearly can't live from it, but the guy keeps feeding his ego and telling him that, surely, the next one will be a big hit ! all so that he stays here.
By the time he's 30, Damien befriends a starting influencer he meets online, he hopes he can profit from his (future ?) popularity to promote his books. (What an asshole) They're very very different but hey, they get along well, it works.
Damien actually transitions around that time (like coming out at 28 or 29, T at 30 and top surgery at 32). When he tries to come out to his crush it goes... not that well. He's not full on transphobic (or at least doesn't show it) but he's not very enthusiastic about the idea. He starts being more agressive, asking for more money, talking about some shady guys he knows... Damien's not safe anymore and he knows it. The breaking point is when he almost gets drugged by the guy (still have to work on the details for this thing but I had in mind something about his T syringe that was not really empty and had something not very good in it).
He ends up trying to find a job overseas and stumbles upon someone claiming to be a journalist searching for a co-worker in the US. His influencer friend (Stanny) also wants to go there and they end up leaving France together.
So like
Before everything that has happened in the actual roleplay, that's how he is
Overconfident but also chronically unemployed, has ONE friend he tried to use for his benefit, his 10+ years crush probably tried to drug him, he's 33 and did nothing of his life and he's very self conscious about it, he's hypocritical and easily jealous but also a people pleaser, he's well educated and mannered but also naive and silly (when not completely stupid)
So yeah ! He's a mess !
So my big question was like
How the fuck does a guy like this becomes successful, what does it mean for him to become successful even ?
My 3 main OCs (Damien, Alan & Miquel) are OCs I use in rp and everytime I have a Theme or a big question about them, as a thing to focus on when working on their development
Damien : Success & Responsibility
Alan : Family & Growing Up
Miquel : Morality (will probably find another theme once I’ll be done playing him)
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Ok so the polaroids I made and what they're about!! :)
"I think we've got something wrong on our cards..."
The twins ID cards, they're fake and they messed up their birth year so it's 1902 instead of 2002...
"Huh... it went splash :("
They bought a car... not the best idea since they're terrible drivers...
"Trainees !!!!"
They were trainees in the hospital for some time. Wasn't really their thing, they're better at getting hurt than helping others- The one in the middle is Artie, a doctor who looked very similar to Alan so he was kinda like their 3rd twin ?
"VineWood !!! It's us !!"
Their last name is Wood so when there are big letters with their name they just HAD to take a picture in front of them :')
"It's snowing!!!!"
When the snow came it was a lot of fun, they had a lot of snowball fights, including with strangers- Alan's outfit here was probably the worst he ever had ngl
"50 thelmahawaiian pizzas for the city hall"
The twins started working at a pizzeria/restaurant !!! The mayor Olivia (who's also the twins' parent but they didn't know it yet !!) bought 50 hawaiian pizzas... The prosecutor wasn't really happy about it, who's going to eat this ? Certainly not him. Also poor Alan was struggling with the numbers lol
Oh that one is a sad one :( That was not long after the twins learned that Olivia is their parent and that she disappeared (believed dead at the time). They went to the flood barrier to talk with Tanguy who promised that he'd never leave them alone. Not long after that, he adopted them officially as his children. They're a family !
Well. They had to buy a car for the restaurant, something classy and professionnal.... but the Wood's idea of "professionnal" isn't really what Tanguy had in mind. Look, there are dollar signs on the wheel !! It means it's a business car ! Also introducing Nora who quickly joined the team !
"We stole a dog !! (but not on purpose...)"
Nora and the twins (also called "the gremlins") once accidentally stole a dog. The owner just walked away and they decided to take care of the dog for a while... Not long after there was a "Missing : dog" post in the news and it really looked like this dog...
Tanguy's last name is Castagne so when the gremlins & Alice (the twins' adoptive big sister) decided to dress just like him to make him laugh that makes them the Castagnettes !
They also work at a vineyard (Tanguy's also the boss there) and it's funny to see that Nora's hair and the grapes is a bit similar sometimes.
"Commando training !"
The gremlins have two other friends, Emilio & Zacharie who decided to go in the mountains as a "commando training". They learned to avoid pumas and defending themselves, though it ended in a pretty chaotic way since Zacharie accidentally stabbed Emilio... They all had a picnic some time later to learn how to pressure someone...
Noralan date ! They actually met for the first time there, the gremlins immediately got along and became best friends. So when Alan & Nora have their first real date, it had to be somewhere special like this ! That was also their first kiss,,,
"Family"
Tanguy & Alice got the twins a necklace with pictures in the pendant for their birthday, right before they left the city. They'd be away for a while so that was a way to keep them close to their heart ! After they're also part of the twins' family now. It's something very special to them and they keep it on them at all times, especially when Tanguy died a few months later.
Letter from the Wood twins when they left the city with Nora
(it's all in french)
When they left they wrote a letter adressed to everyone they met there. It makes me a little bit sad that a number of the people mentioned died not long after lol
(the polaroids are partly by me, partly by my friend Kerizu)
I'll post my polaroids individually later :)
Looking for warmth
OC I made a little while ago for a One Piece roleplay (that never started lmao... One day it will happen... maybe)
I find him very silly, I still don't have a name for him though so he's just... the shark dude for now-
Miquel scars map
i have 2 very smol Alan, i love the one on my pfp but this one is also great i think
Damien portrait (AU)
I have absolutely no fucking idea what I was trying to do here, I started it a while ago so I completely forgot
As much as I associate Damien (normal) with sunflowers, Damien (AU) is just... the Sun lol And not in a good way ? Like yeah he's bright and looks positive and shit but he's also Way Too Much All The Time, like CALM THE FUCK DOWN
I do like how his outfit and accessories change from the original version tho, the cross earring, the little chain on the glasses, the round lenses... He's pretty !!
Alessandro chibi, trying to learn Procreate...
Is that your phone in your pocket or are yuo penis just square and flat and full of information
"What's your greatest dream ?"
Charlie : I want to finally live with my whole family happily :)
Alan :
(Charlie's Alan twin brother btw)
some concepts for a TTRPG post apocalypse school project
Population is concentrated in quite barricaded cities, the land between being pretty much a wasteland, too dangerous because of the zombies roaming around. However, the recency of the apocalypse means there are plenty of useful things just laying around, perfectly usable.
One of the 4 characters written.
Hunter - Survivalist Man - ~30 years old
Had a complicated life that pushed him to find many different strategies to survive with almost nothing. Pretty cold and serious, quite solitary and wary of others but he feels deeply alone. He was independent, unaffiliated with the revolutionaries, but he does share the drive to help others by looking to synthetize the treatment. He doesn't hesitate to hurt others or even kill to achieve that goal, but it's not a method he enjoys, he's far from being bloodthirsty.
Shark zombie When a person takes a dose of the new drug engineered by the governments, their body goes through micro mutations very fast, giving them strength, endurance... But when the effects wear off, the backlash on the body is extreme and the person ends up very weakened. If they stay too long in that disminished state, their brain dysfunctions and starts producing the drug by itself, to the price of some essential faculties, both mental and physical. The person then starts to mutare, taking animal-ish traits and, while still being perfectly alive, starts to act more like a zombie than a human.
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Artist, mainly OCs || 22y/o || he/him || I speak french & english || No NFTs, I will insult you and your whole family if you ask me to make some
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