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River's Phighting headcanons

Summary:

Headcanon dump. Should update ***NOT***roughly once a month but whenever I feel like it

Warning in notes.

Notes:

A little warning, some HCs do get a little angsty and there are mentions of suicidal ideation/suicide, self-harm, issues with drinking, smoking, self image, etc. Expect these topics in every update, as I won’t warn beforehand. Warning may get updated further in the future.

Some HCs I "stole" from phighting streams. Note most facts from the streams aren't canon unless blatantly stated otherwise by a phighting dev.
"Chapters" are split into Phighters, SFoTH, NPCs/Misc. chars., regions/the inpherno, and 'others' (mainly abt Inphernals as a species). HCs about the factions as well as animals belonging to specific regions will be listed under regions/the inpherno.
I like sticking pretty close to canon when coming up with my HCs, so don't expect anything too crazy! (I mean to the point half of these might just be canon and simply don't know it)
Also, I likely won't add ships here though some ships may be implied but can be interpreted as platonic.

Enjoy reading!

(See the end of the work for more notes.)

Chapter 1: Phighters 1

Chapter Text

SWORD

  • Gives GREAT hugs
  • Has no devices/tech
  • Would win in a ‘cornball-off’ against Coil
  • Fidgets with his cape when he’s nervous
  • Venomshank taught him how to play the violin
  • Puppy dog eyes. pathetic 
  • Genuinely incompetent in many aspects and very naive because Venom’s so overprotective
  • Lets Sisyphus preen his mohawk thing
  • Hangs out with Rocket and Med twice every week
  • Creeped out by Broker

- Sees him hanging around phights sometimes when med and scythe are there

 

 

 

 

 

SKATEBOARD

  • He and Coil ‘brother-in-arms’
  • Chipped tooth/tooth gap
  • Both helmet + his hair covers his eyes
  • Owns several tech decks for when he's chilling and can’t go out
  • Favourite flavour of slurpee is blue raz

 

 

 

 

 

BIOGRAFT

  • Malfunctions if they aren’t given orders in 48 hours 

- pisses subspace off, he has no idea why this happens

  • Thermal imaging
  • Steam comes out of the hinges when it overheats
  • Their horns can twist at the base 180° so they can gore/impale Inphernals 
  • Runs on oil because Subspace hates the environment and he hates you too
  • Can mimic Inphernals voices/sounds

- Sub took inspo from mimic plants*

- *See Thieves' Den under regions/the inpherno 1.

 

 

 

 

 

KATANA

  • Doesn’t really know what to think of the Thieves’ Den trio
  • Has a hard time accepting failure
  • Oddly touchy with Hyper

- Mainly resting his hand on the other’s shoulders

 

 

 

 

 

BAN HAMMER

  • Lives off of frozen waffles, whatever's in his pantry, and mainly take-out
  • Knows how to cook most meats and toss something ‘pre-made’ into/on the microwave/oven/stove
  • Eats a truckload of food as he hardly ever stops to sleep/rest and has no other way to regain energy
  • Visits Windforce every Sunday
  • Doesn’t really understand Firebrand’s infatuation with mortals, but hangs out with him when he can

- Before Fire went ‘missing’

  • Eerily good at detecting things by scent, hearing and touch especially if he’s blindfolded
  • Developed chronic pain from near-constant work
  • “No pain no gain” mindset
  • Banhammer has a soft spot for kids and refuses to put anyone under 18 in Banland. Despite that Ban Hammer is what parents use as a scary story for misbehaving children
  • #1 rage baiter and rage baited 
  • Eyes light up and the tip of his tail wags whenever he sees someone he likes being around

- E.G.: Windforce 

  • Aggressively affectionate with people he’s close with, like his momma 
  • Knuckles/hands are scarred from old training. Started wearing sports tape so they don’t get so messed up

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ROCKET

  • SEVERE anger issues

- Anger issues got worse after he left playground since he had a rough time adjusting. Has learnt to control his temper better since then

  • Wants desperately to be somewhat like young Zuka because of pressure/expectations from others to be “as good as him”
  • Hangs out with Sword twice a week, and Med once a week

 

 

 

 

 

SLINGSHOT

  • Found shuri’s green horn paint, doesn’t know why he(shuri) has it
  • Sleeper build
  • Holy agile Batman
  • Very quiet walker

 

 

 

 

 

HYPERLASER

  • Blackrock pays for his rent
  • All the money he gets from jobs he uses to get things for Princess
  • Survivors guilt 
  • Owns one of those pet backpacks for Princess. Doesn’t use it very often
  • Generally avoids going out unless its for a job/when Subspace needs him or to go meet up with Katana
  • He can move the little ‘antennae’ on his helmet

 

 

 

 

 

SHURIKEN

  • Wouldn’t really care if he died while doing his vigilante work (passively suicidal)

- “It’s for the greater good.”

  • Falls asleep in the back of the cafe during his lunch breaks
  • Nearly bled out once because of how badly wounded he was and had to go to Vine
  • Stupid protective over his room
  • Hides his vigilante outfit in a little box in his closet
  • Feels guilty for not adjusting to Crossroads as fast as his siblings and missing Darkage despite the fact they left Vine for dead

 

 

 

 

 

SCYTHE

  • A very loud laugher. Tends to snort too
  • Takes good care of her Oziphrage, at least as good as she can with all the stuff she does for the church
  • Insanely superstitious and REFUSES to do any missions around “haunted” areas 
  • Uses her gear like a toothpick

- Once pulled out one of her teeth with her scythe then got it replaced with her golden fang 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

MEDKIT

  • Blackrock forced him to learn how to play the viola, piano, and a few other instruments
  • Can’t look at himself in the mirror because of what he did and what he’s become

- genuinely doesn’t recognize himself or is at least somewhat scared of what he sees. 

(this one can be interpreted as ‘he’ being either medkit himself or subspace.)

  • Has tried ‘medicinal’ weed before
  • Malnourished when he was a newspawn
  • Didn’t have the chance to say goodbye and say where he was going and why to Grav and Warp. After he left he thought they would die/get drastically punished for his actions and he basically left them for dead
  • Hangs out with Sword twice a week, Rocket once a week
  • What he believes is ‘right’ usually ends up being selfish and causes harm to others or even himself
  • 303

- Let go of the past. Embrace change

  • Cried when he saw the sun for the first time

- Nearly blinded himself fully since he was never taught not to look at the sun for too long (since the higher ups never thought he’d escape)

  • Wore glasses while in Blackrock, never got new ones after he left 
  • eyesight’s gotten worse over time
  • Enjoys board games like chess, scrabble, or really anything that includes intelligence/skill
  • Left brain dominant 

 

 

 

 

 

BOOMBOX

  • People pleaser 
  • Biggest fear is not being there for people 
  • On the surface, one of the biggest green flags you could meet 
  • Code switching/self-monitoring behaviour
  • Good at making general connections but not personal ones

 

 

 

 

 

SUBSPACE

  • Used to smoke before the ‘blackrock incident’, continued to smoke afterwards but soon quit once the rot got bad 

- Don’t ask where he got the cigs from when he was younger. Started at around 15

  • Blackrock forced him to learn instruments like Medkit
  • psychosis/psychotic breaks. needs to take meds so he doesn’t lose it anymore then he already has
  • mildly poisonous bite
  • “If I’m not the best, I’m the worst.”
  • Blackrock plays him out to be the ‘victim’ of The Incident. He fully believes he’s the victim mainly because of the way he views himself and how Blackrock skewed the events of what happened

 

 

 

 

 

VINE STAFF

  • Wasn’t branded by Thieves’ Den since she almost immediately got kicked out of Darkage*

- *See The Inpherno section in regions/the inphernp

  • Believes Shuri might be self-harming or something with how many hidden, used bandages she finds in his room when she’s cleaning and he’s either passed out or out of the house

- He came to her once battered-up to a degree he was close to bleeding out and was slurring his words about needing to be healed

  • Owns a ‘mimic plant’*. It freaks out Sling and Shuri

- *See Thieves’ Den section in regions/the inpherno

 

 

 

 

 

COIL

  • He doesn’t kill people, just beats the shit out of them
  • ‘THE parkour champion’
  • He only acts stupid because he thinks it's funny
  • #1 Ban Hammer rage baiter 
  • He hates corn
  • Tried using Skateboard’s skateboard once. fell flat on his face and refuses to believe it ever happened 
  • Constantly tries convincing himself that he’s not "weird"
  • Fake idgaf-er
  • Can’t heal because to do that he’d have to admit he’s hurt 

- “Don’t be weak. You can’t be weak.”