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OC profiles: the Lawson family

From the now-defunct semi-interactive comic/creative writing projects, “Hunger, Nevada”, “Far From Any Road”, and “Saudade”.

The plot of these three stories cover topics and conflicts such as learning to relate to those around you, breaking toxic cycles, smalltown stagnation and the isolation of close-knit communities, and metaphorical (sometimes literal) body horror monsters that slowly poison towns and families. I wrote these stories from the ages of 14 to 21, and they're all very much a reflection of myself and my perspectives/outlook at those times. I still go back and revisit certain areas, but can't see myself rewriting them in full any time soon. I feel like that would be a disservice to my past self - I used these to sort out and explore my own feelings and hangups, and they served their purpose, but I still draw and talk about the boys more often than I expected I would when I drew my first doodle of Ellis and Lawrence in 8th grade detention. This post is just an infodump about the family of the main characters. I'm not getting into plot details just yet. Though it is worth noting, this was at the height of my Silent Hill hyperfixation, and Ellis and Lawrence began life as the protags of my imaginary Silent Hill fangame for which I made an entire gamefaqs walkthrough because I did not know how to write or draw too well. That doesn't really matter too much now, I just think it's fun.

The Lawson family consists of Francis (or Frank) and Amalia Lawson, and their two sons, Ellis and Lawrence.

Frank is a large man, about 6’3 with green eyes, short auburn hair, and a beard. His skin is somewhat pale but has a minor farmer’s tan from working outdoors, and there’s a spatter of freckles across his entire face. He sometimes wears rectangular half-frame glasses and uses a walking stick.

Amalia is about 5’4 and stocky, with dark brown, almost black hair cut in the patented Mom Bob(tm) with bangs and dark eyes. Her face is somewhat oblong with round, soft features and her skin is a warm mid-to-light brown.

Ellis ranges in age from 17 to 26 across plots. His facial structure favors his father. He’s about 5’10, has very light brown skin, freckles on his face, arms, chest and shoulders, dark eyes and auburn hair. As a teenager, his hair reaches to about his jaw with an off-center part, and he keeps it short and parted on the side as he gets older. He usually at least attempts to comb his hair back but half of it just falls back in front of his face anyway. Sometimes sports various non-serious injuries such as scratches and bruises. He’s rough-and-tumble.

As a teen, most of his outfits consist of torn up jeans, skater shoes, and a plethora of graphic or band tees. Sometimes an old flannel stolen from dad, or black canvas jacket. As an adult, he wears mostly intact but faded black work pants, black or brown work boots, a plain T-shirt and often an unbuttoned overshirt with either short sleeves or the sleeves rolled up.

Lawrence also ranges in age across stories, from 9 to 17. His facial structure favors his mother. He has pale skin, freckles across his cheeks and the bridge of his nose, green eyes, and auburn hair in a short, choppy buzzcut that he later grows out to reach past his shoulders as he gets into his teens. As a child, he’s very short and scrappy, and then becomes gangly and awkward as a teenager.

As a child, his wardrobe is typically all childish graphic tees and cargo shorts or jeans, all picked out by his parents. As he gets older, he becomes introverted and shy, always covering himself up in an absurd number of layers – he's often seen wearing a short-sleeved shirt with long sleeves underneath, either a flannel or sweater, and a massively oversized forest green jacket with a red fleece collar. He usually sticks to plain, slightly baggy jeans and sneakers.

Frank and Amalia married in their mid to late 20’s and moved to Frank’s hometown of Ansley, [state redacted].

Frank works in a hardware store and as a repairman. Some years ago, Frank suffered a spinal injury, resulting in chronic pain and his use of a walking stick. He still works at the hardware store and takes repair jobs, though he’s unable to work as often or for as long as he used to.

Ellis drops out of high school in the second quarter of 11th grade to work full-time at the hardware store and begins picking up smaller repair jobs around town. Lawrence, being much younger, is not employed but occasionally does smaller tasks such as sweeping up or organizing shelves after closing hours, or tagging along with his brother or dad on repair jobs to help where he can.

Amalia works at a packing and shipping facility in the city. She works overnight, six days a week with Mondays off. She’s usually home about an hour before her sons have to get up for school. Amalia’s pack a day smoking habit and Frank’s temper are the subjects of most conflicts, but they never progress past passive aggressive remarks or heated discussions. The family occasionally relies on financial help from a man named Mike, whose family has been friends with Frank’s for several years, to make ends meet. He’s often the reason that their heat and water stay on.

The Lawsons are a practicing family of Amicists. They regularly attend service at The First Church of the Shoal United in the next town over. More on Amicism at a later date.

Ellis has a lot of pent up resentment toward authority figures and “grown-ups” in general, even into his own adulthood, due to Backstory Reasons I won’t get into here.

James, Marie, Robin, and Brian are Ellis’ friends from high school. They mostly sit around smoking pot and watching bad movies, sneak out to drink at the park after curfew, and attempt to skate in vacant parking lots.

James was held back in middle school and is one or two years older than the rest of the group. Most parents in town still call him Jimmy and think he’s a very nice boy. If asked to describe him, his long line of ex-girlfriends would say “he’s so nice, but GOD he’s so dumb.” Marie was closer to Robin and James than she was to Ellis, so they didn’t hang out outside of the group at all. She thought Ellis was kinda weird, but not a “bad weird” so she never mentioned it or complained. Robin is that sort of midwestern emo girl in everyone’s math class who’s an artist, but all she draws is semi realistic eyes with elaborate eyeliner in her English notes. She regularly gets into arguments with Ellis and James on what genre different bands count as. Brian is the obvious stoner friend who would be kinda chill to hang out with if he weren’t so loud and annoying about how his parents totally don’t even care and just like, totally let him do whatever he wants.

Dropping out of high school to work a fulltime job, having no interest in college, minimal relationship experience, and staying in such a small and rural town leads to Ellis becoming socially isolated and unable to fully relate with people his own age. He slowly falls out of touch with his friends and people he knew from school, preferring surface level interactions with older coworkers, relatives and friends of the family.

Lawrence, as a result of his older brother’s attempt at parenting while Frank and Amalia are working, learns to be untrusting and uncooperative as well. He picks up a smoking habit by age 14, often stealing them from Ellis or from their mom's purse when she’s home, and sneaks out of his and Ellis’ shared bedroom through the window at night.

Lawrence is a nice kid, but struggles to make friends. Throughout all of middle school and into high school, he only manages to befriend two others named Catherine and Donnie.

Donnie is Brian’s little brother. He and Lawrence aren’t actually friends, but they tend to tag along when Ellis and Brian hang out at each other’s houses. Catherine has known Lawrence since they were in third grade, but they never hung out until they got put in the same advanced math class in middle school.

As he gets older, Lawrence begins to neglect his few friendships and social life in favor of fiction; most notably stories and unfiction focusing on the occult and supernatural, as well as a video game series called Sprout Friends, a puzzle game involving farming and anthropomorphic fruits and vegetables. If he isn’t hiding out on the rooftop of the house at night, he’s locked in the bedroom playing one of multiple Sprout Friends titles, or hunting for strange occurrences around town during the night.

Fun fact: Ellis' middle name is Layne, and Lawrence's middle name is Elijah. I thought it would be cute if their middle names had the same first letters as each other's firsts.

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crystal-zen · 6 years

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Lyra's Wardrobe Part 1 by Crystal-Zen So, I've been working on this design sheet since around late last summer. Didn't have a lot of time to really finish it last year and there were many things to consider with this character. I didn't know the first step I had even wanted to really take with her other than her being a Chimera. What type of personality does she have? Will she forever be shy and withdrawn? Will she ever go on adventures again? Is she a fighter or a healer or maybe both? What would her role be...? Would she choose one class over the other or would she eventually accept herself? Would she choose both? What does her hair look like under that hood? So many questions that needed answering before I decided to fully design any of these other than her first outfit. So this of course prolonged the process, then on top of that all of the things going on in life between getting sick, family things, Doing commission, and my poor animals getting sick too. But hey, now I finally have the outfits completed! So onto the design~

Dofus/First Season - This was my first concept when I made her. Choices of brown became a theme for her here, as like Tot and the designers even stated for Season 3 of Wakfu, I wanted to showcase colors of fall or death, yet, also symbolize down to "earth" colors. This is because Lyra had in fact died or was dying thanks to her ex. Needed to be saved by her mother and was reformed as a Chimera. She felt dirty and depressed afterward for awhile until she slowly started to heal at her heart. Also because she was now a little more 'grounded' from her previous carefree style. The red was to symbolize a bit of anger and the red/orange/yellow scarf the fire/passion still burning in her that she needed to tap into. -- As far as the outfit went, I wanted something that looked sort of reminiscent of fall. Something to cover herself in/hide/shy away/feel closed up and comfortable..and a little tomboyish. This is the outfit she first meets Joris in and sports a red cape too at the time. Dofus/First Season Hood down - Same as above, however, I wanted to show her hair and how I imagined it under the hood. After contemplating I knew I wanted her to have some sort of braided hair to help conceal it better in her hood. Also to make it a little easier for when her hood does fall down/off, so that she could easily continue fighting if needed. (I mean, I don't know about you but my long hair tangled in my hoodie otherwise.) Formal/Fancy - Now this one took a little bit to figure out. I had to first think of what I wanted to represent with her. Was she an Ecaflip or an Eniripsa at heart? Ultimately, I knew I wanted her to use her healing powers, what little she had left to help out. So I went with Eniripsa, the next thought was would I make her hair straight, wavy or curly? As I took a look at my own hair, I knew I wanted and would have to go with the wavy/curly hair. This is because if you leave your hair in a braid too often, this will happen from experience, especially if wet hair! The outfit was easy. I wanted something that still held the cute fluff of her normal outfit, but also kept that signature red color I came to associate with her. I wanted to show her passion and love coming through and her 'opening up'. The outfit colors used from official Eniripsa characters for the dress. The little green jewels were a nod at Joris and how she was trying to show in a little way whom her feelings went to. With this design, I just really wanted her feminine features to come out, her girly side to actually show, that yes, she can be quite elegant when she wishes and the time is appropriate. I Wanted to make it in case I wanted to do any sort of ball pictures or formal things with the Sadida kingdom or otherwise. Sadida Outfit - Oh, I had way too much fun with this one. I just wanted to showcase an outfit from the Sadida Kingdom if she ever visited and went shopping with Amalia. Some sort of a girls night out thing to get her some Sadida fashion! Could be a just cause it's nice. Totally see Amalia doing her hair! Also, I thought it would be appropriate for her to have in case she happened to be there with Joris at any point and needing to be at the council or before the Sadida king. Something that would show her love for the kingdom in general and her friends. - Either way, this one was a lot of fun to design. Again, with the colors I wanted to show a little bit more on the brighter side to indicate that her heart is indeed patching up and she's 'regrowing' as a person. Accepting herself and making lots of friends a long the way. Winter Outfit w/ Shawl - This one was a given for me. I really wanted to do something with a winter outfit for her after watching the Wakfu episodes again with them all in the cold. I figured She's really small and could possibly get cold really easily. So she just gets completely bundled up here. Lots of soft, warm, fuzzy fur, ear warmers, boots, A Shawl and gloves for extra warmth...and then the addition of an Eniripsa belt to hold healing potions and pouches. - Noting she has kamas or ecaflip 'coins' hanging from her belt as a nod to her two precious sons. (Atcham and Kerubim). Browns define the dead of winter and the cream/white to show purity and eniripsa colors. Nothing is holding her back anymore. Sleepwear - I wantd to do something sexy for her here. Something very lady like and to show she is infact a mature woman. She may be playful, but, she's definitely mature at heart and mind. This is only one of her outfits however.. something I see her being able to wear around the other girls form time to time as well as...something special for Joris I would say. She has a couple others that I will draw in the future for when it's just fun time with friends or their young son. Wedding Dress - What wardrobe would be complete without this one? At least mine anyways! For this one I studied Evangelyne's 2 Wedding Dresses, Amalia's wedding dress and the one random lady from season 2. Ultimately I encorporated traits of Evangelyne's dress and Amalia's together. I decided to mix the fur from Amalia's and Evangelyne and then use the mantel from both as well. Though I thought the belt would be a much better area to display this and would distract less from the dress. Placed the Eniripsa heart on it to show her first class. The cape was inspired from Evangelyne and Joris. I wanted to give a huge nod at Joris, the one she would be marrying, including in the Bonta royal fluff on the fur of it...and using the Bonta/Joris colors. Winter Outfit - This is the same as the one above. I just wanted to show the design of the outfit underneath the shawl. This outfit should reminds you of a certain Osamodas of mine, Thalia. That's because I thought it would be cute if Thalia hand made this outfit for "her adoptive mother" and it would end up looking like her own. Save for a few smaller details. Wakfu/Season 2 - I got inspired by the fact that both Amalia and Evangelyne had season 2/ova/season 3 redesigns. So I really wanted to make a Second main outfit for Lyra. By this time she's completely 100% healed and sure of herself, knows who she is and what she believes in. She's very strong now and she's both a fighter and a healer when needed to be. She's accepted herself as being a Chimera. She's fully accepted being both and Ecaflip and an Eniripsa at this point and even if others see her as strange by some chance, she doesn't care anymore. Her hood is almost always down now, proudly wearing her Eniripsa buckle and her belt containing the spades, diamond and club of Ecaflip design...to go with her Eniripsa heart. She has fully blossomed here with a delicate nod to her husband and Bonta via her sash at her belt. She still carries her healing potions on said belt with a smaller haven satchel. In this design she will have a weapon of her own to use given to her by Atcham, Kerubim and Yugo. Artwork, Lyra, Thalia are (c) to me. Wakfu, Dofus, Joris, Yugo, Eniripsa, Ecaflip, Sadida, Osamodas, Atcham, Kerubim, Evangelyne, Amalia all belong to Ankama. Base Used - Stock Images > Model > Female > Full Body">by Nukababe

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