My OC Molly is too young to be online unsupervised, especially in a forum as sweary and triggery as this one, but her adoptive parents would be on here asking for advice about both child-rearing as moirails rather than matesprits and how to deal with a kid with RAD.
hmmmm. my OCs: Alania: would have a thread in Braaaaiiiinnnns... where she would mostly post about her brainweird stuff and be like "what's this? what is it? what's going on?" would also probably have a thread in Brainbent where she talks about her past and shit that's happened. it's not really ITA material because it wasn't abuse, but it was still pretty fucked up. would probably also hang out a lot in Fan Town and try to get into every game and show ever mentioned in there. Kadey: a lurker, for the most part. occasionally posts in FID and Alania's Brainbent thread. Alania keeps trying to convince Kadey to make an ITA thread because her family definitely abused her, but Kadey adamantly refuses. might post at times about her brainweird stuff, and occasionally PMs other people asking for advice about her relationship with Alania and Peri. Peri: hangs out in FID, like, all the time. occasionally mentions her fucked up past and her fucked up family, but if anyone suggests she post in ITA about it, she basically screams at them. she also loves Fan Town. she refuses to acknowledge any of her brainweird and adamantly claims it doesn't exist. also, if Kadey or Alania post in a thread, there is a 99% chance she will show up there just to read and like their post, and sometimes respond to them.
yeah but mituna is the kind of person to make VERY INSENSITIVE jokes in peoples ITA/brainbent threads on impulse honestly i hate to say this but most of the dancestors are more kiwifarmers than kintsugijin
The Adventure Zone thoughts with spoilers to the end of the Eleventh Hour: Spoiler: Spoilers Merle posts in the Weaponized Placebo Effect thread, but he has a subaccount he uses for the Growing Up Indoctrinated thread to talk about Pan camp. He also has a venting thread where he kvetches loudly and often about how SOMEONE cut off his damn arm. He and Magnus have several posts on Argument Island. Magnus has a long thread on Witness Me titled simply Julia. He spends a lot of time on the pet pictures thread and in the Make It So subforum talking excitedly about woodworking. Taako is all over the kintsugi kitchen thread with likes and occasional arch commentary on how to improve the flavor, but he never posts about what he cooks himself.
Cord finds Arsibalt trying to search for "what is wrong with all my friends?" on the Ret and gently directs him to seebs. Ala finds out, because, despite not being Warden Regulant, she is still warden regulant. Tulia follows Ala, and then tells the rest of them because she's actually a troublemaker. Leo makes a million sockpuppet accounts and argues with himself in Fan Town threads. The trick to finding out which accounts are his is to mention a war from before 1800. He causes a few server crashes, not all of them accidental. Jesry spends a lot of time being pedantic in the For Science thread. He also has a thread for his various engineering projects, most of which are kind of inscrutable but which he'll happily try and fail to explain. Arsibalt shows up a surprising(?) amount in the meta subforum spewing walls of text. Also lurks the various advice forums, wondering what to do about his parents, but doesn't actually ask because he's going to figure this out himself. Tulia also spends a lot of time in the advice forums, but on the giving advice side. She doesn't always know what she's talking about, but she's generally pretty good at calming people down. Also shitposting in an alt account. Barb doesn't understand why people keep mentioning the braaaaaaiiiiins subforum to him (in an attempt to have some tact, they don't actually suggest that he look at it. This does not work out as well as they hope). seebs has probably received at least three "am-I-autistic" submissions made in his name. Ala spends most of her time trying to keep people on topic, except when she's trying to redirect people to other topics. She's not as subtle as she thinks she is. The rest of her time is spent in FID because she thrives on that stuff. Erasmus has no idea what's going on but gamely tries to keep up with all the shitposting and derails, because that is his lot in life. Has gotten sort-of good at rolling with the punches but is still mostly reactive. Leo is great at memes. Erasmus is pretty good at memes, as is Tulia. Ala and Jesry are terrible. Barb doesn't notice half the time, but when he does he thinks they're hilarious. Don't mention the word "meme" to Arsibalt unless you want a thirty page dissertation on neural contagion and Hylean flow. Spoiler Fraa Jad makes really insightful posts from time to time, but only on the Burgerpants account.
If ocs then abhaya heads around fid getting into fights. She also fights in the general area. She posts occasional explanations of religious shit or updates in the various religion threads. She openly insults people with faiths or practices she dislikes. So atheists are trashtalked brutally and openly. She has issues with splitting ajd causing hellish arguments while splitting. Assuming she isnt fightibg though she is offering very calm and measured commentary. She pribably posts cute photos of foxes being shitlords. Many of these are selfies. She tells people she is literally a fox to fuck with people or be a dork. She is of course literally a fox and that photo labeled metbh.jpg is actually her.
She has an ita thread too i think. Many would have her on ignore. A fact she both cares bothing about and cares everythinf avout.
Hopping in with a bunch of Mother 3 because I've been on a fandom high of that recently. Spoiler: Spoilered because I went on for a long time, and also because there are a few Mother 3 spoilers, although most of them are about the premise of the game and thus are not too bad. Lucas would probably have to have someone else point him at this place, but assuming someone managed to rope him into at least taking a few minutes' look, he'd learn a lot of coping mechanisms by reading things. He reads and witnesses every single thread in Witness Me, because he wants to be there for people like nobody was for him. He will eventually work up the courage to make his own thread for grieving his mother, which would be a breakthrough for him. In between all this, he mostly lurks, although pokes his head out occasionally to offer that "hey, if any of you are traveling near my town, I've got an extra bed you can use". He does not mention that the extra bed is that of his conspicuously absent father, but someone figures it out and pokes him privately about it. Maybe, at that point, he starts an ITA thread... with posts like "no no no this is definitely not abuse I don't have Duster's dad" until people point out that neglect is also a thing that exists. Duster would have an ITA thread that started with a one-sentence OP like "is it wrong to want my dad to like me?", and would get steadily more and more horrible as everyone figured out what was going on, and told him exactly how not-okay it was. He would pingpong in and out of his dad's house, probably staying on Lucas' couch (refusing the offer of the bed), while trying to work up the nerve to leave permanently. Eventually he would get out and discover that hobbies existed, perhaps showing a talent for rhythm/dance games like DDR. This would make him interested in music in general, so he'd start a thread in Fan Town for music that he liked. And another thread for complaining about how fight scenes in movies are unrealistic. Kumatora hangs out in XX/XY telling people that they can be as gender-nonconforming as they goddamn want, peppered with the occasional heartwarming story of being raised by a giant extended family of queer people of ambiguous genders. (Yes, that is canon. Yes, this is a game from 2006. I really need to make a thread about this at some point.) She also occasionally barges into Duster's ITA thread with short takedowns of exactly how stupid Duster's father was being. And then, when the plot of the game starts kicking in, she makes a private forum thread for venting about being in a customer service job, and then a thread in Witness Me that consists entirely of a list of names. Boney is a dog. I think Lucas makes a subaccount in his name, and starts a dogs thread, at first to be M3's version of our bees thread. But then it turns into an actual discussion thread about dogs and their care and keeping. It quickly becomes apparent that Boney is unusually intelligent for a dog, and still in-character, Lucas-as-Boney manages to harvest a number of ideas for weird things to train Boney to do, such as teaching him how to read. (Well. Not to actually read. But to recognize various configurations of squiggles on a card that are associated with "down", or "sit", or "fetch".)
Tales of the Abyss would not happen if the characters were on a support forum because this would mean they talked about their problems.
Aradia: Spends a lot of time reassuring people in WITNESS ME. Or...trying to reassure them, rather. Keeps her trauma bottled up deep inside. Is the only regular poster in the Indiana Jones thread in Fan Town, and sometimes pops into the Fiduspawn thread too. Running at least one RP. Tavros: Here because someone suggested that maybe the Vriska thing was fucked up. Spends a lot of time in ITA, but de-stresses by browsing the pets thread; always likes and leaves cute comments on people's pet pics. Very active in Fan Town's Fiduspawn thread. Involved in several RPs. Sollux: Here because he's fucked up and aware of it. Has a long, long vent thread. Asks for advice about how to deal with guilt over hurting someone; isn't fooling anyone when he says it's not about a certain fellow Kintsugijin. Karkat: Sollux dragged him here, but despite what Sollux says, Karkat definitely does NOT have self-loathing issues, fuck you, and will get pissed off if you say he does. Gets into a lot of arguments. His future self has a subaccount. Both his future and present selves have vent threads. It's kind of a clusterfuck. Nepeta: Here mainly for the roleplaying subforum. Spends a lot of time in the furry and art threads, too. Frequently provides romantic advice. Has liked literally every single cat pic ever posted on Kintsugi. Kanaya: Here entirely to bug and fuss and meddle. Active in the fashion threads; also has a thread for her sewing projects in Make It So. Has a subaccount solely to post about Troll Twilight without anyone knowing it's her, but she doesn't change her quirk so it's not like anyone hasn't figured it out yet. Terezi: Here because of the Gamzee thing and the Vriska thing. Spends a bunch of time in FID, and has a habit of poking at Ray because it's fucking hilarious to her. Active in the RP forums; she and Aradia are definitely co-running an RP. Vriska: Likes to stir up shit. Involved in at least eight Argument Island threads. Has a subaccount where she posts in ITA about her lusus; actually puts effort into hiding her quirk, so people who didn't know her situation super well to begin with genuinely can't tell it's her. Would be in the RP forums, but even she realizes that being involved there could not possibly end well for anyone. Equius: Posts in the furry threads almost exclusively. Likes all of Nepeta's posts. More of a lurker than a poster. Gamzee: Here for ITA, regarding his lusus' neglect. Seeking help for the whole abusing Terezi thing; no one's entirely sure how to respond, but he's been witnessed. Eridan: Came for the drama, stayed for the venting. His vent thread is by far the longest thread in Brainbent. Tried to join an RP, but when Aradia and Terezi pointed out that his character was insanely OP, he dramatically flounced. Feferi: Here to help and support people. Posts lots of pics of her cuttlefish and sea ponies in the pets thread. Wants to see pics of Snitch entirely because tentacle beasts are ADORABUBBL---E!!! 38D
no no you see this is fucking perfect no ones quite sure that the dancestor eridan mentions on occasion isnt ray
Damara joins solely to mock the dancestor in question, is disappointed to learn that he's an actual human and not actually Cronus. THEN SHE GETS ACTUAL GODDAMN HELP FOR HER ISSUES. ;-;
so wait does every doomed alternate have their own account or are they all sharing one a la @Burgerpants
but can we appreciate the sheer amount of subaccounts cronus has to get around manually approved posting and people putting him on ignore he has a unique innuendo for the name of every single one too
Metal Gear Otacon: Joins for autism stuff and posts alot in Fan Town and occasionally in Made It So, eventually ends up in ITA for stuff about his step mother. Posts in WM more than anyone should be, poor guy. Solid Snake: Otacon eventually convinces him to join when they're on the run since he can't go to a therapist. Takes a liking to Bottom Serket, especially since it lets him find out about some of Otacon's fantasies that he was to embarrassed to tell him about. Also really likes seeing the dogs in the thread with pictures of pets. Raiden: SO MUCH BRAINBENT also in fantown for movie stuff. I've read a fanfic where he RPs and I think it fits so he probably does that to. I'll probably put more than 3 characters later, edit: doing that Sunny: considering what she's gone through, losing her foster father to a disease that killed him slowly and painfully, growing up without really any peers, possible effects of being treated as a tool for her first years, I think she'd definitely find the mental health support here useful. She would also help with code if that's a thing some users do. Kaz: this is old survival instructor Kaz since that's more in line timeline wise, he posts a lot in the zombie survival thread. He has a vent thread, but probably hardly uses it since he doesn't actually like to confront what he's been through and is dealing with. He does give other people advice, but it's almost always bad and often a bit nonsensical because he refuses to explain his convoluted metaphors.
