Oc: Joyce - Blog Posts

lil artfight ref for joyce

💞 and 🚲 for JOYCE !!

🚲 : Does your OC enjoy playing the field? Or are they more monogamy-minded?

joyce doesn’t necessarily want monogamy, but her ortega derangement syndrome doesn’t leave much room for noticing or returning anyone else’s interest. like i think it’s pretty damning that she’s a dating sim MC and in three playthroughs i’ve never felt compelled to even try another route with her.

her puppet, josie, cursorily flirts with mortum to make their working relationship easier, but it doesn’t excite her. mortum wants to be wanted by josie, so where’s the sport?

i do think she has chemistry with chen, that he has chemistry with ricardo, and that they’d be good for each other in a trio, but i can’t see her wanting someone who’s good for her. she’s busy acting up about ortega !

💞 : Do they treat sex casually or do they view it as something with a lot of emotional weight?

definitely something with like planetary weight, although that might not be true if it wasn’t for the re-gene tattoos, because she’s a sensual person & totally horny enough.

the suit

blackout design notes

What r Joyce’s thoughts on the rangers (also hi love ur poasts and J is sooo fun)

hi ! you’re so kind !! here we go.

herald. dumbass kid. joyce is nice to his face, playing into his dream narrative of a kindly, washed-up-but-still-got-it sidestep who trains him and even teases that she might get back into the hero game … while destroying his self-confidence on purpose. she pities & despises him, seeing him as a poster boy for letting the agencies & corporations that own heroes do whatever they want with you, willingly and happily, til you die or your parts are wearing out too fast to be worth the replacement cost. she’s not interested in seeing more complexity in him.

short term, breaking down herald is just the most efficient way to break down the rangers as a team, embarrass them on tv, make the public question why they’re reliant on such fallible heroes so blackout can give answers. long term, if her “training” takes herald out of the hero game now while he’s young and undamaged, before she unveils the system of abuse & vice behind it, well. she thinks he’ll come to thank her for the favor.

argent. threat, but not too hard to neutralize. joyce successfully plays the harmless therapist to plant false memories & the damocles sword. blackout comes out of their book 1 fights unscathed & not flagged as a telepath, their book 2 fight just dinged up. joyce is curious about argent’s motives, her apparent attraction to blackout, the source of her powers, her dynamic with the other rangers, but not enough to ever chase the rabbit while she’s on a mission, so she knows almost nothing about her.

chen. one of a very few ppl joyce shows some of her real personality to—mainly, the pissy part. they can’t help snipping at each other like a couple of mean old queens whenever they’re in a room. but it leaves them both tired, and sad, because even though they don’t see eye to eye at least they see each other, more than they do with many other people. which is why he’s the only one with any suspicion she might be blackout (25%). he’d be the second person she told about being a re-gene, if she was sure he wouldn’t kill her.

ortega. jesus christ, what doesn’t joyce think about ortega? sidestep loved him. she’s remembered as his sidekick. she resents that, deeply, because it implies that as soon as she got away from her creators she immediately poured herself into someone else’s shape instead of molding her own identity, and she thinks that might be true. joyce still loves him. she hit him with a car. she crashed a car with him in it. she likes how he looks with blood on his face. she hates to see him hurt.

she flirted with him as her puppet, josie, a younger woman who looks like sidestep, or maybe her daughter, while also flirting with him as herself. she turned him down when he asked joyce to the gala, accepted as josie, only to stop in front of the sidestep exhibit and throw a hissy fit about how “she” saw him talking with an older woman, and should she be worried? then as joyce demanded to know if him going out with josie was trading in for the younger model. only when she was confident he liked her real body more did she have josie break things off, pretending to be scared of his powers as a parting kick in the ribs for “making” her doubt. he hadn’t done anything.

she slept with him. she showed him her tattoos. she smacked him. she kissed him again. she cut her hair back to how she wore it when she was sidestep. she misses his mom.

she’s in on his hollow ground investigation, uncertain yet whether to help him or tangle up all his red strings while he’s distracted. she’s testing him, encouraging him to share his conspiracy theories, trying to see if he’s jaded or desperate enough to partner with blackout in exposing the truth. she wants him to be. she wants to be honest with him and she wants his sharp, suspicious mind. but she doesn’t want to see him brought low enough to get on her level, because she fell in love with an idealist. he calls her joy. it’s so. 🤌

well thanks for asking

what is joyce's favorite animal and why?

mice and rats ! mental contact with dogs is nice, but she’s always preferred animals more skittish than herself. it feels good to be what calms & comforts them. part power trip, part compassion. consequently,

Quick! Funniest reason for someone to become a villain

if, like me, you had to manually import your rebirth stats to retribution, you may already be aware that failure to set your curse of choice results in sidestep swearing with “Oh no!” but if, like me, you get swept up in the story and don’t notice any awkwardness of dialogue til far too late, you might get completely blindsided by this and end up pissing your pants

im sure he’s at least close to the truth but the timing of this sent me flying

i finished retribution :-)

“is your sidestep design just s—” just sandra oh? yes. yes it is.