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motherstone · 2 months
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On Stone Magic
Hm. Yeah, this was a needed distraction from the atrocity called Waverider. 💀
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Really needed an excuse why I draw the stonekeepers using elements in my art, ended up getting carried away!
[1] The outfits they're wearing is around post book-4 or 5. My rewrite I jumbled things around, so technically in this timeline he should be wearing his armor in the og series. It's intentional he looked uncomfortable in it. It's a revamped design of his fit in book 6.
[2] Magical fire can only be dispersed by magic. It'll burn forever otherwise. Guess what Emily used on Ippo.
[3] We never really see Emily be silly or undignified, and to me, that's what she was lacking on why she didn't leave much of an impression nor appeal to me. this is an attempt to make it seem like she's still just a kid learning and stumbling and getting into embarrassing situations.
Still haven't finalized the design on Max, but I have some idea. If you noticed, he has the same collar as Trellis, meaning Trellis borrowed some Cielan attire before discovering a healer's robe, which is more elf-like attire.
[4] Trellis's magic may seem silly or trivial than say, what Emily developed to give her advantage in combat. It may also give you the impression he just did it to have an easier time for chores. But if you dig a bit deeper, that's extremely useful magic, especially for a society like Alledia.
[5] the Elf King didn't show up on the other scale because we don't know his level of skill. Other than that, he's insanely powerful.
[6] Every other stonekeeper can manifest both if they're skilled enough, but Trellis was the first to perfect a defensive style and do it consistently.
[7] Just a nice lil joke. Also, Max is wielding an ice pickax that can split into two or combine. Very dangerous.
You can tell I've been rereading wha and dungeon meshi for this.
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nondienary · 3 months
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i saw this post sharing designs of the infinights in GL2 and it inspired me to share my own! enjoy (i guess)
and obligatory spoilery rambling warning because character design makes me so happy
starting off strong with kyborg!
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details i enjoy- his blue hairties and gold ear cuff are inspired by the ones he has in the picture on the home page of the stinky dragon wiki. im especially happy with the ear cuff because it turned out way better than i expected.
i also really like the arm (and yes i know he doesnt have the diagem in it anymore but it needed some pizazz! said pizazz made me temporarily hate myself because it used up his 4th face accessory slot but i don't even remember what other face accessory i wanted for him anymore :P)
also his boots. idk why but i like them
his hair!! i went through a bunch of styles and chose this one and i'm glad i did because this is a pretty accurate representation of how i imagine his hair, including the color! his mom was a redhead so ya boi is a strawberry blond (ish)
details i do NOT enjoy- the fact that gl2 doesnt have a hip quiver :( because i had to add the quiver to his back but that took up his second cape slot so he couldnt have his cloak of many fashions. and also even if i could give it to him w the back quiver i would still want a hip quiver because i imagine him with a hip quiver! because you can't do somersaults barrel rolls with a quiver on your back!
anyway
i probably should have made these separate posts but oh well you signed up for rambling and rambling is what you get!
next up: mudd!
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details i enjoy: his cloak, i spent ages on it because i was overthinking what to do with his cloak of billowing vs his cloak of the secret garden (?) but i'm very happy with what i settled on
the detail in the undercut drove me crazy because again, characters are limited to 4 cace accessory and i was using one for the runes in the undercut. which i obviously changed but that brought me so much pain and misery /lh
im so happy with how his face, especially his eyes turned out because again, i struggled with them for some time. but now his face is SO perfect. except the lack of sideburns.. maybe something with the side hairs? i keep forgetting that's an option in this game
the little daisy earring. spur of the moment addition, so glad i did it.
details i do NOT enjoy: his outfit :( for all the others i knew what i was going for but with mudd i had no clue other than the cloak. it's based off his puppet outfit because i legitimately couldn't think of what he'd wear. i like the shoes and choice of belt but between this and the sideburns mudd is definitely next in line for a redesign
ok someone who was just redesigned is gum gum!
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details i enjoy: his face. that is such a gum gum face. wish i couldve added bigger tusks though. and the lil smudge of dirt on his cheek!!!
silly almost easter egg i added is that each of the colors of the rainbow is in his design at least once because dia's whole thing is rainbows and light and stuff. at first i just had it in the accessories and his whole outfit was blue pretty much but i looked at bart after completing all the accessories and i was like GODDAMMIT he has all the colors. and it's actually incorporated into the outfit AND it looks really good.
the fact that vee and i both designed his hat nearly exactly the same completely independently of each other is so epic.
i originally came up with the shoulder flower while working on mudd but i was like "oh wait gum gum's the flowers guy mudd's the animals guy." and gave it to him instead. and i'm very glad i did it fills in that space in the cloak very well.
speaking of the cloak, i very much enjoy it
things i do NOT enjoy:
honest, nothing comes to mind! maybe it's because he was the most recent to get revamped but its so wonderfully gum gum.
and last, and maybe least in stature but not in much else, bart!
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things i enjoy about this design: the little thigh dagger. bart is totally the kind of man to strap a dagger to his thigh instead of just attaching the sheath to the belt like a normal person
i made him VERY visibly part dragonborn because it's honestly hilarious. because gum gum has known bart since he was a baby, he knows bart's just Like that. kyborg hadn't interacted with another person in like 30 years before he met them and mudd had probably never seen a halfling in his life, and even if he had, he wasn't just gonna have his first conversation with the guy be "i don't believe you when you say what race you are." tbh mudd's probably applies to kyborg as well. and bart assumed its just because of the different subraces of halfling. he's a stout halfling, alleve is a lightfoot halfling, no wonder she doesn't look like him!
also the hem of the pants is so fun and piratey and i love it and it's perfect.
i also gave him a crystal resembling his diagem, i haven't decided what's going on with that yet. i didn't give mudd one because no way in hell am i trying to make a ring WITH a diagem in it. how about no :3
things i do NOT enjoy: gl2 doesn't have enough curly hair options, specifically for rear hair. so bart's hair in this is not as accurate in this to my mind's eye as the others. its alright it does look good regardless
and that's all ive got in terms of commentary, please enjoy me talking about my silly little hyperfixation guys. byebye!
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dingdongyouwerewrong · 4 months
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Woah! Art HERE for once?
Okay so yeah, it will be a mixed story from now on. I’ll still be doing Bar and Bob, but roomates story is on pause while I fix it. It’s gonna be a story now! As for a “what about comics :(?”
I’ll be doing a couple fan comics on a spin-off with Adult Lemon bar and his lil adventures to fill the gap of content! Apologies for being gone so long!
(The black haired fellow is “Pie Mealy”)
Also new questions answered-
Q:Can we ship peeps with Bar?
A:Absolutely not. Since bar is a literal toddler, no.
Q: what’s the difference between Bar and “Bartholomew” ?
A: Bartholomew is in a “what if” seperate timeline where bob was arrested a few years after getting bar, so he was in the care of FRANK. Frank was a gud uncle don’t worry, and encouraged bars love of butchery. Also Bartholomew is much more demonic here, and usually holds a human disguise to get people.
Q:Is Bartholomew shippable?
A:Go wild? Pie was created in the alternate timeline for a “accomplice” but he’s grown to be more like a partner. Ships called “LemonPie”. Once again. BARTHOLOMEW. Not BAR.
Q:Is bob in both timelines?
A:sadly no, he’s only a present padre in the MAIN timeline.
Q:ages?
A: (this is for the AU, I dunno how old the actual peeps are-) Bob is 43, Bar is 2-3. As for the alternate universe, Bartholomew is 24.
Q: can we send art?
A:Sure! I will eventually make a Fanart bin.
Q: What’s the inspiration for both timelines?
A: The MAIN one was inspired by stories like Annie and Tokoyo godfathers, with a splash of Lemon demons from FNF and spooky month.
The ALTERNATE one was inspired by things like Hannibal, Sweeney Todd, and Sherlock.
Q:Any MUTUALS?
A: @thebekashow @lunaglitchercc @theogratking
Q: We want more baby bar and dad Bob content :(.
A: I’m getting to it, don’t worry! I’m revamping my art styles!
AND THATS IT! HAVE A GOOD DAY!
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prattlers · 1 year
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small psa : so, there’s a whole lot going on with the stranger things rpc. and unfortunately from all this, i just don’t feel comfortable running a solo blog that’s associated with stranger things. however, lil robin buckley is my pride and joy. i’ve gotten to expand and work on my writing style through her, i got a form of expression through her — a character i heavily admire and relate to. and also through her, i got to meet some of the most talented, amazing and wonderful people who i’m so grateful to know and to scream in their im’s at one in the morning ( georgie, jay & honey i’m respectfully looking your way in particular 👀 ) and i can’t fathom the thought of not writing her, plotting her, etc — so i’ve come to the decision that robin will be moved here, to prattlers, indefinitely. so feel free to continue threads with her, plot & send memes for her on here!!!! perhaps someday i’ll revamp robin’s blog that’s unaffiliated to the general st fandom, but i just don’t have the mental fortitude to do so now. but she lives, and she lives here, so feel free to fling your muse robin’s way here!! love y’all to pieces, i hope both sides of your pillow are always the cool side <3
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weirdlittlegames · 1 year
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Game Journal #1
No screenshots but a lil post about what i’ve been playing since thats what I revamped this sideblog to be!!
Last night I played through Red Trees which is such a charming short little RPG maker game!! Very chill with a side of spooky and helped me feel better after a rough day :)
I also FINALLY got around to finishing the demo for Tynk! And The Final Phonorecord earlier today, which I’ve been following the development of for a while now!! Insanely charming little game with such a good art style and addicting soundtrack. I can already tell it’s going to be among my favourite games when the full release comes!!
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goblinrockcandy · 1 year
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hey guys im BACK baby and i have some words
here are links so you can still find everything, but be wary that these links are probably gonna break any minute when i start moving everything around. lets hope i can remember to fix them and that i dont take a year to get to doing that: ARCHIVE    MY ART    OTHER ORGANIZATION TAGS
IM STILL ALIVE. i like to think that i never rlly left, but I havent posted in a damn while and part of that is because life stuff caught up with me and moreso because uhhhhhh Well im not quite satisfied with the way my blogs formatted right now, it makes posting and organizing and navigating harder than it has to be and it makes it Not Fun to post things.
SO. what we're gonna do is revamp things a lil bit. we're fucking doing this we are Making It Happen. what this'll do is itll make it easier for me to post things without having to remember every silly tag and rule i have set up here, and ill also just have a bit more of a laid-back and fun kinda art blog. i tried to do an elaborate tagging system, but MAN i am too forgetful for that.
so im just gonna keep it simple. character, fandom, content warnings, and maybe some other flavourtags. the sorts of things thatll make it easier for me to just pop up a quick drawing on even a busy day without having to go through a silly step by step process on how to tag things. because i love sharing my art and posting :)) but not so much when it is difficult </3
but hell who knows how thisll go after i reboot my bloggo. i think she was due for some maintenance for a long while. *pats the sidebar like you would soothe an agitated horse* there there girl, its gonna be alright. maybe ill even start making... casual posts? text posts? things like that??? damn Maybe.
im also gonna private some organization posts until i can properly wrangle then and sort out their kinks and oddities, and im gonna disable my blog theme for a bit. when i get a braincell on how to do an html and a css properly, THEN i can have a pretty theme. in the meantime, ill probably just set myself up with one of the tumblr defaults.
anyways. *ahem* for anyone who doesnt know me and this is their first stumble upon my blog while i move things around. feel free to click the read more if you want to subject yourself to the silliest introduction i could make for myself possible.
hi. i like to draw but lately my art skills have been a bit shakey, i think im out of practice so im probably gonna start out doing some studies. my styles and designs for characters are always changing, but lately ive been trying to cement some designs that are in my brain Onto Paper.
im goblinrockcandy but you can call me GRC if that's a mouthful (thats what i call me because i do not have time for 5 syllables). im a Knight of Heart and sometimes that gets shortened to KoH and so sometimes people call me koh. now KOH is also the chemical formula for potassium hydroxide, but no one calls me that (a real shame, it flows right off the tongue and i think its a lovely set of sounds), but potassium hydroxide also goes by another name and that is lye. so sometimes people call me lye. i don't have a name so if you want to refer to me you have to get creative or pick up my blog by the scruff of its handle like a really ugly cat and point at it and say "this motherfucker right here".
same goes for pronouns. my pronouns are none/applicable. you gotta BE CREATIVE if you want to refer to me... pronouns are a crutch. they were your training wheels and now im the final boss. you have to fight me with your other words, this is what you have been training for.......
im trans queer person of colour, painfully unfunny and addicted to bad jokes, and i love homestuck. my faves switch up every once in a blood moon but right now i really fuckin love jake english. you might have discerned that by the very subtle hints of I talk about Him all the time & dirt striber avatar.
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lunarcrystal · 2 years
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Your male oc looks great, but I don't know about the girl. She doesn't look like a good combination of Integra and Alucard.
The hellsing OCs?
I know it's hard to see, but Asha is supposed to resemble alucard more. I guess my artstyle doesn't convey that well. 😅
I know I said these OC's are in the Gonzo world. But I took reference of pictures from both the manga and OVA's.
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Alucard's 'humans are so wonderful' smile and Vlad's 'dead stare' lol Her jaw is a lil wider than her brothers, and they both have Alucard's long nose. Her skintone is ashen, like Alucard's/ Vlad's.
And I know Alucard & Integra both have fine hair, but there's this scene in Gonzo where Integra's hair looks like she just walked out of a salon after a blowout
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So that's the type of hair style I wanted for Asha. A botched version at least. lol
Eye color is the cold Hellsing blue like Integra's/Arthur, and eye shape? I think Alucard's eyes are just slightly wider than Integra's, more cat-like in some scenes. Idk I wanted to look at her and also see SOMEWHAT of Girlycard, and I kind of do. 😂
I can always update her design though. Maybe. I'm on the fence of whether I want to take these OC's, revamp them and use them for an original story or play dollhouse with them in the hellsingverse for awhile lol
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protoformx · 2 years
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3, 8, 21 for the art asks!
3: What ideas come from when you were little?
A large chunk of my current ocs are one's from my middle school oc pile (when I had over 150 ocs....!) that have just been revamped over and over till they've gotten to where they are now! for example: the twins Adelrik and Adelstan of mine were originally two kids in a family of werecats that served some being that forced them to kill demons to survive (edgy middle school story was uhh.. something) Now they're bounty hunters via being shoved into the role because of a long family tradition and they're also adults now and no longer catboys (sad I know). in a more general sense my oldest group of still in use ocs were demons that had no corporeal form but an inanimate object they became tied to. they have to build and create their own bodies and maintain them in order to defend their cores and that's always been one of my fave things I've kept going!
8: What's an old project idea that you've lost interest in?
oh my I gotta bring out the city of Damien again. There was an old project of mine set in a city that was partially underground and it centered around an android named Venus who was partially powered by a kind of nature spirit that had been trapped inside him, and he runs off from his creator and is found by a lil guy named flux who had a "disease" where he was slowly being sucked into a parallel dimension that slightly overlapped theirs so he was constantly hiding the spots of him that were no longer visible. uh it was a like half slice of life thing but there was something about flux's brother being in a gang of cyborgs and Venus's creator wanting him back. I don't fully remember but I have to stress that none of these characters were human and that there was a cyborg medic named "Bloodbank" who was bat themed. so there's more to the vibes.
21: Art styles nothing like your own but you like anyways?
Oughghh m not even sure. I draw super cartoony and heavy lined. but I WISHHH I could draw more abstract? if that makes sense. I want things to be vaguer and textured and patterned but I also wish I could paint towards a semi-realistic style so that clashes and I... Stay super cartoony djfbjsdbfk
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gogomadu · 2 years
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Howdy hey Gogo! I hope you're doing well. Sending you good vibes ~ Also I just wanted to say that I'm so sorry you had to suffer thru my old post. I was reading and looking thru them *Sigh* It's bad and really cringy also so not inconsistent. Anyways I deleted all of my story posts even from the very beginning. I want to start fresh and I do have something in the works. I'm not leaving any of your faves behind Saya, her daughter Kiyoko, Rafael and Harumi will be in the future stories. Thank you so much for following me all this time and enjoying my dumb little sims ❤
Oh my gosh! CJ! Thank you~ I'm so tireddd~ It's funny how I don't even get tired based on the shifts that I have for the month but instead, I get tired in preparation for the shifts I have the next month! I don't know what that's about~ And oml~ None of your posts have EVER been bad or cringey! They have always been good, had immaculate vibes, and fit your mysterious but beautiful style~ Well your story posts may be gone from your simblr but never from my heart. I patiently await their return... and revamp? Super cool~ I wish I had the ability to commit to such a big change! Every so often I have this weird urge to kill everyone off in my legacy save and leave one alive to rebuild everything. But then I drink a Capri-sun and get it together (what pose packs will do to a girl~🙄) ANyWaYs~ in the meantime, your werewolf pack posts look so cool~ I'm looking forward to your next posts~ Thank YOU! You're always checking up on me and being the sweetest lil bean~ *mwah*🥰💛💛💛😭
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giulzart · 5 months
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Lil’ Update!
I wanna try and be more active on here, instead of just post art and skadadle away after 👀
Infamous still occupying 70% of my brain and I def wanna do more art with the cast, cause I love Violet she’s my baby but I love the rest of them as well and wanna show them some love too
I’ve been also playing other ifs I’ve been thinking to do some art for a few of those as well so we’ll see
I’ve been consuming bg3 content like a lot of people ( I don’t play the game cause I don’t have neither a console nor a decent enough computer to run it on 💀) but I’ve been sketching some Halsin cause he’s got my heart
That’s all for the fanart stuff hehe
I’ve been revamping (or thinking) of revamping some ocs cause I miss them so I want to get around to do that too but at the moment I’m working on my children’s book portfolio for work so that’s taking most of my time
I do have a few personal/contest illustrations that I would like to post but I’m scared cause my style does change a bit so idk if I should post or not since they always say you have to be consistent and I evidently don’t know her 🤷‍♀️
I’d love to here from people, send me ask about characters, art or whatever but that it! Thanks for listening to my ramble💕
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girloftheisland · 1 year
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First attempt at a minor restoration project
Adventures in buying used shit from ebay
Episode 1
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Back in the days before the pandemic, I used to give piano lessons to kids. One student liked to call everyone “bro,” including me, so I’d like to pass on that sentiment to my dolls. Everyone’s a bro, bruh, brah. 
This blondie is Ellis, my lil dude. I got her for cheap on ebay, the kind of cheap that makes you think she’ll arrive with a number of flaws and broken parts. Limbs that hang from their sockets and rattle like maracas. Eyes rusted shut. You get the gist. 
Once I received the package and opened her up, it was a de-LIGHT to see that her limbs were still tight, and the only noticeable disaster was that frizzy, dry hair. I’m not against this type of hair — it perfectly describes my own. 
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She came with a side braid, lipstick, and a few smudge marks across the face. This is a Just Like You #56 but obviously received some special treatment. Her hair reeks of product: the detergent smell of shampoo. I washed my dolls’ hair as a kid, so I can’t blame the previous owner. Kids just do kid stuff. She’s meant to have large curls, and luckily, most of them are still there. 
To revamp her with minimal effort, I knew I had two goals:
1.) Tame some of the frizzy hair.
2.) Wash her limbs and get rid of the lipstick (— or chapstick? Who can say.)
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I used a wire brush and warm water to get rid of the tangles. Did it work? Eh, it could have gone better. [PICTURED ABOVE: The point when I thought: “Oh shit, oh damn, maybe this isn’t a good idea.”] She’s lost some hair, and there are a few gaps in the wig. These things can be hidden for now, right? She’s also got blue coloring on some of the ends. I have no idea what would cause this. Is it leftover shampoo? The stain of a blue popsicle that melted and dripped onto the doll’s head? Like I said, kids be kids.
I also used a magic eraser to clean the limbs and wash her face. She seemed relatively clean until I looked down at the eraser to see all the brown gunk that washed away. I’m not afraid of dirt, so I just sorta looked at it, thought huh, and thanked myself for NOT skipping this step. A used doll is never as clean as you think it is. 
I “styled” — a word I use loosely here — her hair and dressed her in a new outfit. Anyways, this how she turned out:
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Is she finished? Nah, that wig will need some touching up, because there are significant gaps in the back. Not pictured: her bald spot. Plus, she has empty holes for earrings, and it’ll be fun to make something from my jewelry supplies. But she’s all set for now.
What’s she wearing? Glad you asked. I was going for an ambiguous 40s/50s vibe. The plaid skirt and sweater come from the World Traveler in Ireland AG outfit. The blouse and saddle shoes came from ebay. She is dressed and blessed and ready to hit the streets. 
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sugrx-draws · 3 years
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emobatsy · 6 years
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since moving ive drastically downsized my wardrobe to less pieces and more quality and my mom bought me 3 sweaters so i wouldn’t freeze down here and tbh? her bringin me stuff from the boy’s section still feels like a win i didn’t have to fight for sometimes
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purple-compromise · 3 years
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Okay, I've been wanting to ask this for a while now, but it was only today that I dug myself out of a non-tf2-induced-creativity rut, so I'm finally returning to my TF2 fanfiction to entirely revamp it. But there is one eeny-teeny lil' thing that has been driving me absolute bananas. THE RESPAWN LORE???? OR LORE IN GENERAL????
How did you decide what to use and what to toss out in 'This is Where We Are Now'??? I'm so confused. How should the respawn even work in my fanfiction? Should there be a respawn at all? Is there any explanation to why the teams are clones?
Please, kindly bestow upon me your creative process and reasoning purplecompromise. 🙏I legit have no clue what to do.
All right--BUCKLE UP, MY FRIEND, WE'RE ABOUT TO WALK THROUGH THE PROCESS, AND IT'S KIND OF A HEFTY ONE.
Number one, I need to remind you and absolutely insist that this is your work of fiction, and it must be whatever you want, first and foremost!
Now, I will tell you how I approached my own fic, and hopefully that will give you some direction to discover just what it is that you want. As a heads-up, I'm going to be skipping the oc development portion since that doesn't sound like something you're looking for, but if you or anybody else is curious, I answered that here for class development and here for characterization a while back.
When I started TiWWaN, I asked myself one big question:
What kind of fic am I trying to write?
While I knew up-front that this was going to be a self-indulgent fic, I knew also that there were some serious themes that interested me which would be integral to the characters and plot. I had read the comics and seen the "Meet the Team" videos long before deciding to write the fic, so I had a good grasp on the available lore and overarching storyline going in. There were many things about the world that I thought were interesting and went either unexplored or simply unexplained, like respawn and the implications of actually dying multiple times a day and coming back to life. All of these things are more suited for a fic with a serious tone.
I decided I wanted a serious story, for sure. Then, I asked:
How would my personal style translate to a canon as zany as TF2?
The answer I came up with was: "uhh not very well." I was afraid I wouldn't be able to imitate the mile-a-minute, fun, humorous, almost nonsensical vibe of the original canon, and, having already decided on a serious story, chose not to try. Instead, I asked another question:
How can I translate TF2 into my own style?
The answer was to contextualize it within its very particular time period--the late 1960s and early 1970s--in a more grounded and realistic fashion than canon tends to provide. I loved that this was the setting for the comics, and it was one of the things I felt was underexplored... that era in USA and World history is WILD, and nearly every character in the main cast, based on their age, was directly affected by WWII only three decades earlier. You can feel that wildness in the general tone of the TF2 world, but the weight of it is only felt in certain scenes (Heavy's backstory with the gulag, for example).
After that, it was all about digging up everything from the canon lore I could alter slightly to fit a style more grounded in actual history and "realism." I put realism in quotes because this is still very much the TF2 universe, and it was important to me to keep that integrity... otherwise, the fic would just be AU, almost unrecognizable from the source material. In TiWWaN, respawn is an integral part of the plot, Australia is still a formidable world power because of Australium, and magic definitely exists a la Merasmus and Demoman. But, at the same time, you'll find serious references to the Vietnam war, Red Scare, and lingering effects of WWII on Medic and Spy. But, ultimately, the bottom line is:
I picked and chose what suited my interests, what fit best with the story I was trying to tell.
I looked at respawn and decided on how it works based on what made sense to me: a little DNA sample, a bit of fudged medicine, some hand-wavy science, a dash of Australium, and probably magic. I put in just enough actual medical/scientific thought while refusing to fully explain the process that it seems passable. And I get away with not fully explaining because the character through whom we're experiencing the story doesn't understand the explanation being given beyond one or two key details.
On the clone front, I did essentially the same thing: for my story, it didn't make sense for the other team to be actual clones. It would just muck up my storytelling, so I did some more handwaving... I decided that the other team is a separate group of individuals with copycat styles and skills who appear to be exactly the same as the home team during matches. And the characters don't know why, so I don't actually have to explain it! I let a couple characters throw out some theories and, more likely than not, readers will latch onto one, or, better yet, have fun coming up with their own!
A nice thing to remember is that your readers are here expecting to suspend disbelief. They'll have fun theorizing with things like respawn or the ubercharge, but at the end of the day:
It doesn't matter how these things work on a "realistic" level aside from how they affect the characters.
Respawn becomes believable because of the way the characters react to it, how they feel, and how they interact where respawn is concerned. The science isn't important. The inner workings aren't important. What's important is your characters and how they are feeling, what they are doing.
So, that means...... it's up to you. It's whatever you want. You don't have to explain the science; you can just have fun. If your style is quick and zany, you can save your focus for the jokes and the chemistry between characters the way canon does. If you're like me and lean toward a more novel-like, serious style, you can focus on how the historical context informs the characters, on the things that might make them complex and varied individuals beyond what we see in canon--and one of those things might be the fact that the other team is comprised of clones, or perhaps the relationship they have to respawn.
Think about the story you want to tell, and then have a nice, long look at canon. Pull the things that will work well for your story. Nudge the ones you think should be changed into a more useable form, or, don't change them at all. It all depends on what you're here to do.
I hope that helps! Please feel free to drop by again if you'd like me to explain something better or if you have other questions.
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marblemaiden · 2 years
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i got my room picked up a little on lunch. I hope i have the energy after work to work on it some more. Also with this second job I'm starting I think I wanna revamp my wardrobe a little but as I always dress a lil frumpy and not like the bisexy bitch I should. I just don't know what my style really is yet
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