

Paperweight / 镇纸
Grouchy old guy who hates fun.
Gender
Male
Soul
Liquid, looks like mercury
Birthday
1978-11-20
Nationality
Bauhinian
Marital status
Widowed
Occupation
MSS officer
Weapon
Baton
Power
Time precision lv. 350
Artfight
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About
Paperweight is a senior officer at the Ministry of State Security.
He usually maintains a very calm and authoritative composure to others, especially the people he deals with at work — spies, moles, and pesky annoying kids. But under his composure, he is a frothing pit of pure rage. He is constantly angry at everything at once but nothing in particular, saddled by the weight of his own guilt and his colleague's suspicion of treason. To people he knows, like his subordinates, he yells at them all the time. Also he's homophobic as fuck.
He misses the old times when he could actually run without his knees screaming murder and shoot a gun without his hands shaking. This is why he hates young people — because he's kind of jealous.
He wishes someone could believe him. He wanted Whiteout back.
Everyone in this stupid world is an idiot. Including me.
Pumpkin should go fuck his own perverted gay ass! I'd drown him inside a milk tea pool! (Pumpkin: that's a nice way to die actually) Goose can never understand human speech. Oh, have the report on my desk by 3, I'd say. She'd flip through the window at 3 in the fucking morning and make security piss their pants. Halcyon, would you mind your own fucking business? I'm just old; I'm not fucking stupid! You don't have to remind me about that meeting over and over and over — I can keep time better than you could, so shut up!
Sigh. Finally some peace and quiet. Med time. Let me take a blood pressure too… Still a little high. Alright.
Sometimes I wonder if I could just give up and let myself die. What's the point of living like this, isolated by my colleagues, and shunned by my family? Maybe there exists an afterlife, where I could see them again… I could tell her that I'm sorry, and that I tried. I never got to ask him whether he was proud of me.
Ugh, Halcyon again. What does that guy want?? He's acting like a mole there with his nose in everyone's businesses. Idiots. All the best people die early. The idiots survive on, alive but not living.
Stories
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The kids find a nuke in the basement of an abandoned house. The Ministry of State Security gets involved. So begins a tug-of-war over the ownership of the nuke.
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Paperweight's backstory.
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Paperweight retires. His apprentice Goose drives him to the Fantoni border. Paperweight opens his tightly-sealed box of memories. This is an unfinished case that Goose has to complete.
Relationships
Goose (apprentice)
Paperweight is constantly annoyed that Goose didn't live up to his expectations.
Pumpkin
Paperweight hates Pumpkin because he's so annoying. Also because he's jealous at how Pumpkin was smarter and stronger than him. And that he's mad at himself for growing old.
If Pumpkin pulled out a boba tea in front of him, he would take it and dump the entire thing down the drain while forcing Pumpkin to watch.
Also he thinks Pumpkin is a weirdo because Paperweight is homophobic as fuck.
Pumpkin quite reveres Paperweight, and is especially curious about the "legend" he created. At the same time he was also scared of him, because fuck knows how he's going to be tortured if Paperweight finds out about his treason.
Whiteout (shimu)
Paperweight reverred Whiteout. Whiteout cared for Paperweight.
Trivia
- He canonically speaks Cantonese. He's the only character who does, and other characters don't find anything off about it.
- 他说且只会说粤语。反正大家也听得懂。
- He has a little "my goddamn leash of curses" which is a medicine box, the kind that has cells arranged in three rows (for breakfast, lunch, and dinner) and seven columns (from Monday to Sunday). You put the required amount of pills in each box at the start of every week and take the pills as scheduled. He hates it to the guts.
Reference
Gallery
Some art are from other people. If you see your art here and want me to remove it / change the attribution, or if you'd drawn this character before and I didn't put that here and you'd like me to, please tell me!




paperweight profile2025-03-08


paperweight old young2025-03-01
Opposites attract entry for the Paracosmist Collective art club!


paperweight old half2025-03-01


paperweight young half2025-03-01


paperweight bald 12025-02-09


paperweight bald 22025-02-09


paperweight young2024-12-16
Is he not handsome? Does he not look cool as snabbergatt? Answer me!


paperweight sit2024-10-26


paperweight stand2024-08-27


paperweight thumb2024-08-26


hunt finish2025-03-31


mss groupshot2024-08-28


mss ref2025-02-17


kids nuke2024-11-09

Drawing Permissions
(Nearly identical to my Artfight permissions anyways.)
Character Permissions
- You can change the uniform design, but
- Keep it a dark color
- Have the Bauhinian pink somewhere on it
- Make sure they're wearing gloves
- Any interactions with Whiteout should be drawn in his young, yellow-haired design.
- Any interactions with Goose, Pumpkin, and Halcyon should be drawn in his old, bald design.
Global Permissions
- Design clarifications
- The marks on the girls' faces are eyelashes, not face paint! You can draw whatever you want; I'm just making sure you don't think it's face paint.
- None of my characters have real-world skin colors! Their races are just whether they have ears or horns on their heads, so everyone's skin color is the same.
- You can draw whatever color you want as long as it's either normal human color, or grayscale. My default is Asian though for your reference.
- The highlights on their hair are parts of the design, and are optional.
- Their ears are furry but not fluffy. Shorthair, if you may.
- Don't
- NSFW, 18+, whatever
- This involves artistic nudity
- Or anything that sexualizes them
- Change their eye color too much
- Non-canon ships
- Hateful stuff, duh
- NSFW, 18+, whatever
- Go wild
- Everything else should be fine, such as gore, interaction with anyone, outfit / in-universe race / gender / species swap, mass attacks, etc
- If you're not sure, feel free to ask!
hunt finish paperweight2025-03-31