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octoagentmiles · 2 years

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Any headcanons for the octoagents?

This is an old ask, my apologies 😅 I wasn't sure how to start, because there's so many. This is gonna be a long post.

Paani:

Definitely not neurotypical but I can't place how; He seems to have low empathy for people, but hyperempathy for objects (his measuring pole and waterboard) and a rigid moral compass (why he stole the Gup-H and their water without thinking, because he thought it was right).

I can see him as both being gay and aro, so I'm gonna say he is both. yeah.

Multilingual, mostly speaks English and Hindi, but can also speak Spanish, and a lot of Indigenous languages.

Chose his own name.

Tracker:

Autistic, was diagnosed young

Barnacles' first actual friend in the cub scouts

Also friends with Bianca: he visits her and the cubs regularly

Fluent in ASL/BSL; goes nonverbal during meltdowns/shutdowns

The Polar Emergency Post Station also has a Text to Speech messaging option for him to use just in case he's ever nonverbal during a crisis

He's younger than Barnacles (but older than Kwazii, so like 28-ish), and really looks up to him in a "big brother" way

Hits his head (lightly) or pulls his fur as a stim

They/he vibes. I feel like he's nonbinary but doesn't realize it

Natquik:

Grandfather figure to Barnacles; his relationship with him mirrors Kwazii and Calico Jack's

He's an immigrant, that's why he has a Russian accent

Maybe like 40-50-ish years old??

Noticed Barnacles was autistic immediately upon meeting him, and chose to become his personal mentor for that reason. He's autistic himself

^ would've done the same with Tracker had they met earlier

Calico Jack:

Shunned by his family/crew, he left on his journey to the Amazon River because he had to leave them

Would've come back for Kwazii eventually, he wrote letters to him everyday. Most of them got lost, but the ones that didn't contained spooky monstery tales

Pete is almost as old as he is (60-ish)

Guess who else is autistic???? that's right, this guy!!! also has dyscalculia

Left handed/ambidextrous because Pete always sits on his right arm, so he taught himself to use the other

Can speak Japanese

Asexual he/they because I say so

Ranger Marsh:

Let Tweak dye his fur last time she visited before the Great Swamp Search (the dye is like, SUPER permanent. Tweak engineered it herself)

Can't swim, that's why he'd never been under the swamp's waters

Taught Tweak how to grow carrots, and a bunch of recipes

Excellent forager

ADHD and dysgraphia (but never diagnosed)

Pearl:

Dyslexia and dyspraxia. She struggles with coordination and spatial awareness, and she's not very good with her hands.

Nerd™ almost moreso than Shellington

Around the same age as Barnacles, so like 31-35.

Always tired for some reason

Abrosexual. That's all.

Min:

Her colour scheme is literally orange, white, and pink, need I say more?

Hypermobile

10-ish years younger than Inkling, so about 50-60.

English is her second language, Mandarin is her first

Paints as a hobby; she likes to paint rocks and leave them in the places she travels, then mark them on her maps

Totally knows kung fu

Ryla:

Gay gay homosexual gay and they/she

The neurotypical friend 😔 /lh

She and Dashi definitely had a Thing™ together at some point

Can NOT cook. Has really bad taste buds in general.

Probably has a bunch of scars from cave diving

They've been stuck in caves for much longer than "a few days" before; this started happening much more often after Dashi left

Koshi:

Autism. no neurotypical child reads 56 novels in that short of a time because they feel like it.

Instead of not noticing/struggling with social ques, she's hyperaware of them at all times. She heard Barnacles say his catchphrase ("Let's do this!") once in her first appearance, then stole it from him immediately in AnB.

Stims very "loudly" (jumping, screaming, arm flapping)

Calls Dashi "Sis" because that's what Donna Doxie calls her sister. The author of that book is siblingless.

Pinto:

ADHD; coincidentally happened to be having a hyperfixation on pirates when he met Kwazii in his first appearance

Kwazii hooked onto that AND recognized his ADHD right away, which is why he bonded with him so fast (he reminded him of a younger version of himself)

Struggles with executive dysfunction sometimes, and jumps from one interest to another constantly

He started school recently, and it's made him more aware about his "inability to focus" and he's been feeling kinda insecure about it

^ he's gonna have fun being a Junior Agent, because at least half the Octonauts have ADHD too, so he'll feel more understood and accepted with them :)

#octonauts #octonauts above and beyond #octonauts headcanons #ask #'long post'#neurodivergent headcanon #lgbt headcanons #for the record i googled it and yes! Arctic Foxes can/do live in Russia #autistic headcanon #also for anyone who doesn't understand the 'orange white and pink' thing for min: those are the colours of the lesbian flag #i didn't have any headcanons for Ryla at all tbh i had to make those up on the fly lol #i don't think abt them much #same with pearl but I like her. just didn't have much in my brain ¯\_(ツ)_/¯#everyone is neurodivergent and queer #with the exception of ryla whose only one of those things #i have sm calico jack headcanons and theories i rlly could go on and on about him xD #same with tracker i love him #head [mostly] empty on paani #and natquik- is very interesting and i love him- but again. head empty.#.. you ever just spend a lot of time on a post and then when ur done u dont wanna post it #i feel like I'll think of more later and be like *finger snap* 'oh darn'#'gee willikers I shoulda kept it in me drafts just a wee bit longer. gosh golly'#......anyway-#ok here u go #edited min's last hc

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pinkhairedsniper · 3 years

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lol spot on for sniper

ngl he has a hellish planet ? namely, land of countdown & predators. he has to deal with weird evil NPCs that basically are creepy furries, complete with gothic bone themed castles & all. so he has that whole royalty to take down and snipe. he also has countdowns that basically are. do shit on time else really bad shit happens.

it’s *really* rough on him bc the sylph class is namely a class that creates through sheer grind & force of will, and sure yeah sniper is used to it bc he had to grind like hell to get good at headshots & what everyone else had handed to them in australia he had to work for it, BUT

*slaps soldier’s tits* this man can store so much hope in him- but ye he mostly makes it bc solly decides to help him & be hellbent on protecting him, which tbh. is a valid strat lmao. stick ur hope players & their fancy miracles on ur sylph, shit will work out

but YEAH THE CHARACTER DESIGNS R SO FUN

esp since each god tier has their fancy colour scheme, & theyre fun to mess with. it’s not really obvious if you go thru my tag if you look at my scout art bc time is coincidentally bright red so it just looks like his uniform but weirder, & i also have a lot of spy art & that one is incidentally dark blue so Once Again it just looks like his regular colour scheme, but medic for one has a green and magenta colour scheme which looks surprisingly good on him, sniper is dark green & dark purple, solly is pastel yellow, demo is orange... (uhh whod i miss. pyro is black & electric green, heavy is purple, engie is aqua, the admin is sky blue & pauling blood red, saxton hale dark magenta)

also thanks to time travel + TF2 australia, they get lots of modern shit, so yes i’m saying, mercs with modern phones chaos, and yes, engie becomes a total weeaboo

#sburb au #:D #but yeah #it is a lot indeed #hence how it's so big yet... still nowhere near postable lmao #the other reason is just bc time travel is tricky bc i have to write several part of the story at the same time to make sure shit loops

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currywaifu · 4 years

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𝐭𝐢𝐭𝐥𝐞: playing pretend 𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐩: minagi tsuzuru/reader 𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠: sfw 𝐰𝐜: 3.5k words, 1 image

𝐚𝐧: tysm~ Everyday, my love for this boi increases. Also here’s the thing, I’m a hoe for fake dating. Listen, I can and would write so many fake-dating fics. Watch me apply every trope here lol. enoUGH ABOUT THAT, enjoy :>

He watched you stride over to him, quickly setting your bag down the empty space beside him. Before he could greet you, you slapped what looked to be a flyer in front of him. He was no Kazunari, but the tackiness of the hot pink mixed with crimson made his eyes burn.

“Hn? Did you design this or something?” He asked, turning away from the paper to look at you.

“Tsuzuru!” Watching you pout reminded him a little bit of his younger brothers when they wanted something from him, maybe that was why the brunet couldn’t help but tease you a little bit.

He’s known you for almost two years now, so he can already guess what you’re gonna ask of him. Nevertheless, he patiently waits for you to sit down and begin your business pitch.

“So you remember the cute but affordable cafe we went to two weeks ago right?” When Tsuzuru nods you scoff at yourself, “duh, you’re sleep-deprived not suffering from memory loss. Anyway,”

Tsuzuru intercepts you with a quip of his own, “takes one to know one, right? Who’s the one messaged me at 3 am?”

“It was important!”

“You sent me a TikTok asking if I was a toaster,” he watched the corners of your lips stretch upwards, “because you wanted to take a bath with me… you need help.”

You could only nudge him in retaliation. “It was a 3 am mood, okay? I was going to go to sleep already when I realised I forgot the assigned readings and I went all what the fuck.”

“Good grief… Seriously,” Tsuzuru laughed, shaking his head as he read the flyer more carefully this time, “2 for the price of 1 drink of your choice?”

Your eyes sparkled with excitement, “so the fine print does say it has to either be hot chocolate or milk tea, but like, still!”

“I have a shift 6 pm onwards, but,” well, not spending at all would be optimal, but exams finished two days ago and neither of you had the chance to reward yourselves for the hard work, “as long as we don’t stay that long.”

You giggled, trying to suppress your volume as the door burst open with the professor in tow, “you really are the toaster to my bathtub, the left AirPod to my right Air-“

“I’m regretting everything,” he groaned, “not that I mind getting discounts, but will you ever take someone else?”

“Listen, my fellow stingy boi,” with the most serious tone you could muster, you put your hands over his, “for as long as you don’t start dating, I will exploit you in all my schemes.”

As soon as 4 pm rolled in the two of you were out of the campus. It wasn’t the first time you dragged him into similar endeavours, neither did he have the heart to stop going along with you nor stop you.

Every now and then there would be a special offer or discount for couples, and Tsuzuru was your poor victim. It wasn’t bad, though. The two of you valued affordability and formed some kind of partnership in finding and sharing good deals on all sorts of products.

If that included coincidentally wearing the same outfit colour scheme and walking closer to each other, it wasn’t either of your faults if people assumed you were dating. At least, that’s what he’ll tell himself. If somehow his acting skills and your determination don’t win in the end, he’ll just chide you for bringing him into this and run.

“Looks like we’re not the only ones with the same idea,” you said, the both of you looking at the line just starting to form outside the establishment, “should we get the drinks to go? It’ll be less hassle than trying to get a seat inside.”

Tsuzuru nods, letting you hold onto his arm while falling in line for a special booth specifically for take-outs.

An unfamiliar voice, to Tsuzuru that is, calls out your name; the both of you find the couple directly in front you turned around to face you. When you grip his arm a little tighter, he knows something’s up. For a moment, you stiffen slightly at the sight of your high school ex-boyfriend and the girl beside him who was smiling as awkwardly as you felt. Quickly fixing yourself, you set a grin on your face.

“It’s been a while, hasn’t it?” You replied, stepping a little closer to the boy beside you.

Subconsciously you wrap an arm around Tsuzuru’s waist, and if he’s uncomfortable by that he doesn’t show it. As expected of your favourite actor!

“It really has! You getting the promo too?” With a wide grin, he put his arm around who you presumed to be his girlfriend, “she’s been craving milk tea, so we decided to get some ♡~” Oh? He wants to out-sweet you? Doesn’t matter if it’s intentional or not, he’s gonna get it. You can be petty too!

You pressed the side of your face against Tsuzuru’s shoulder, leaving just enough room for you to be able to reply back.

“Same here~ Tsuzu-kun and I really love the stuff here ♡ we can’t get enough of the flavours- oh, looks like it’s your turn to order?” Gesturing at the front of the booth where the cashier stared at the pair, the female proceeded to order while the guy kept talking. Inwardly, you wished you could tell him to shut the hell up. Was he always this talkative in the past?

“Well, it’s been fun catching up!” Catching up, he says? What the fuck did you guys catch up on? The fact that both of you had dates? Well, not exactly on your case, but he didn’t know that, “I hope you guys enjoy your date ♡!”

Before you could think of the most sickeningly sweet way to phrase a you too, Tsuzuru breaks his silence, “we already are enjoying, thank you.”

Your ex looks slightly shocked, before turning around. Holy shit, your brain.exe isn’t responding, do you close the program or wait for it to respond? Totally forgot that not only was Tsuzuru an actor, but a playwright as well. Of course he’d be good with dialogue.

You weren’t really expecting Tsuzuru to respond. Usually it was you who did the talking, you took responsibility for dragging him along all the time so might as well play the role of the sweet s/o, right?

Still, just one line from him was a pleasant surprise. And to your ex nonetheless!

When it’s your turn to order you quickly slam the payment on the counter, startling both the poor cashier and Tsuzuru. Before he could protest, you wink at him, “let me treat you for your hard work today!”

As the two of you left, your hand hung lightly on his arm, you swore you could feel eyes digging into your skull. You spun around, causing the man beside you to stop his tracks as well, but from what you could tell you didn’t recognise anyone.

“You alright?” Tsuzuru asks, sounding slightly concerned at your sudden action. You looked back to face him, before nodding to reassure him.

“Yep! Let’s go find somewhere to sit before you go to work. We still have some time to hang out.”

Neither of you noticed the two people staring at you from inside the cafe.

“Oi oi, ain’t that Tsuzuru?”

“Haa… looks like we’ve seen something we shouldn’t have?”

Finally sat at a park bench, you found yourself a little bit more conscious of how touchy you were being a while ago. Sure, holding onto his arm here and there when people could see was fine, but if he wasn’t okay with it you had to apologise.

“Sorry, was I too much a while ago?” He sipped onto his drink for a moment, before shaking his head. He looked slightly exasperated, but it didn’t seem to be directed at you.

“Was that your ex? He was kind of annoying.” You chuckled.

“Yeah, but like way back in high school so I’m not pressed or anything. Broke up through text, had the audacity to use text abbreviations plus send a heart emote with his message. Character limit, I guess.”

Tsuzuru’s expression twisted, and you couldn’t tell if what he felt was wry amusement or disgust. Both, perhaps? “That ain’t it, chief. He’s either an insensitive jerk or an, uh… insensitive eccentric… you’re really okay?”

Rolling your eyes, you brought back your hand to his arm to squeeze it to put him at ease. “Obviously! Tsuzuru, you and me, we make a great pair! Plus, your ad-lib totally shook him! Simple but effective, it was a nice touch.”

Just as Tsuzuru was getting used to the added weight on his arm, the pressure lightened up once again. You one-sidedly clink your cups together before you resumed drinking the beverage, “we should do this again sometime.”

Which part?

The two of you always went out to redeem promos and discounts anyway, that much was a given, so did you mean something else?

“Yeah, we should.”

He did not expect to be confronted within a minute of coming back to the dorm. Itaru, Kazunari, Banri, Omi, and Tsumugi all simultaneously looked at him upon his entrance in the living room.

“Good evening?” He greeted them, albeit a little awkwardly. Is he missing out on something? Were they playing some kind of mind fuck prank or psychology game?

“We were just talking about you,” Tsumugi started before quickly retracting his statement, “ah, wait, that sounded kind of weird right? What we’re trying to say is-”

“Tsuzuroon, I totes get why you never wanna go to mixers!” Kazunari interrupted, adding onto Tsuzuru’s confusion.

“Didn’t know you had it in ya,” Banri continues, “when we saw ya outside the cafe a while ago-“

Oh, ohhhhh. That’s what they meant?

For a moment, he feels a smidge of relief from figuring out what he was missing out on, until his stomach plummeted once more. Oh, fuck, that meant at least Banri and some other guy saw him, with you. With your hand dangling on his arm, your arm around his waist, your face pressed up against his shoulder-

He can feel his face start to heat up, though he’s not sure if it’s more getting caught or more recollecting what happened a while ago.

“Can’t believe you’re dating someone now, GJ.” Itaru says with his shit-eating grin, before looking back down towards his phone.

He should really be clearing up the misunderstanding. It was simple- the two of you were just friends, you went together to redeem a promo, that was it.

“Hey, that’s not-“

“Is it someone from Yosei?” Omi interjects, looking a little bit thoughtful as he tried guessing who it could be, “Hmm… the one you’re with a lot, right? What was their name again?”

He prays to the first deity he could think of, which was for naught because Tsuzuru’s ears perk up as soon as the photographer says your first name. At a loss for words for how fast your identity was revealed, Omi’s chuckles get echoed by the other boys.

He didn’t get to deny it. He wouldn’t be surprised if by tomorrow morning, everyone thought the two of you were a thing.

Tsuzuru thinks this should be more of a pain to him, but he can’t will it in himself to be bothered by the assumption they have on his relationship. If for a little while he could avoid Kazunari wanting to bring him to mixers, he could consider this an advantage.

…

When your phone alarm rings you jolt up from your bed, panicking slightly until you realise that you didn’t have class today. Lazily stretching to grab your phone, you notice a text from Tsuzuru.

“Pfft, can’t believe I influenced him this much, lol.” You muttered, setting down your phone to make breakfast.

It’s not until you enter the kitchen that you realise you were smiling the whole time.

Other than a few knowing looks from Omi and a curious gaze here and there from the purple-haired one (you’ve come to learn his name was Juza), nothing really changed between the two of you.

Until Tsuzuru gets hit by the familiar sight of you rushing towards the table he was situated at. Your eyes weren’t brimming with excitement, no visible smile, so he braced himself for what you had to tell him.

“I need a favour. You can refuse if you want, but you’d actually be saving my life so hear me out please,” as if to put further emphasis on your current predicament you placed your hands atop of his.

“Go on,” he urged you.

“Not to be a fanfiction trope, but I need you to be my date at my old homeroom teacher’s wedding,” you groaned, “that my ex is also attending.”

Tsuzuru didn’t know if he should comfort you or laugh at the situation, “and you need me to go because-“

“Because,” you interjected, “that dumbass asked the group chat if he could bring a date, then encouraged me to bring my date too. Then my competitive dumbass was all like, yeah we’ll see you there!”

You hid your face with your arms, resting your head on the table. “Tsuzuruuuu, I messed up huhu. I only wanted to go for the reception, what am I doing with my life, I didn’t even like that teacher so why did I accept?” you whined.

Fake dating to redeem promos was one thing, pretending to be a couple in front of your old classmates is another thing, pretending to be a couple while attending a wedding is another spectrum of things.

“When is it?” You raised your head to respond.

“Next Sunday, 10 am. Reception at noon, probably.”

He’s not too sure why he keeps going along with your whims. It could be because you’re a dear friend to him, or he doesn’t mind all that much whenever you’d drag him along to fake-date to get sweet deals hang-out, but he can’t deny that being with you is a nice feeling lowers his stress levels.

“I’ll be your date,” Your eyes immediately snap up to meet his, still traces of hesitance on your face.

“I could totally just make up an excuse on why you or both of us can’t go, are you sure?”

Nodding his head, Tsuzuru was soothed by your usual, bright smile- spectacular to the point that it made him think of the rainbows that came after spring showers. He felt the corners of his lips being tugged upwards; before he could calm himself you wrapped your arms around him, a spontaneous and affectionate embrace.

“Thank you, thank you! Gosh, I love you!” You squealed, and his plan to calm himself down failed ultimately. He was glad your face was buried against his chest right now, at least you wouldn’t be able to see the rising flush on his face; then again, you probably could detect how his heart writhed and thumped.

“What colour are you wearing?” He finally asked, refusing to acknowledge the slight displeasure as you let him escape your caged arms.

“Green or teal, maybe.”

“We’re in your room exactly why again?” You propped your hands on your hips, giving him a look that said really, now.

“We need to practice touching each- okay, wait let me rephrase, ugh…” trailing off, you sat yourself down on your bed as you covering your face with a pillow, your voice coming out muffled, “casual touching.”

“Don’t we already touch each other?” Lowering your pillow to peek at Tsuzuru, he turned away from you in apparent embarrassment, “you know what I mean!”

Tension was building up in the room, much to your chagrin. Tsuzuru had a point. Even though you initiated affection pretty much all the time, the two of you already had a bunch of pre-planned poses to convince people that you were dating.

“I guess I just wanted to do more…” it was hard for you to admit that to yourself, much more out loud, but it was the truth. You didn’t have any grounds to ask more of him, but selfishly you wanted him to reciprocate your affection.

You could swear up and down that it was just you craving affection, but the truth of the matter was that it was his affection you wanted- you craved being physically and emotionally close to him.

The line you drew was getting blurry. You didn’t want to ruin anything.

The weight on the bed shifted.

“Hey,” Tsuzuru looped an arm around your waist, gently petting the top of your head, “don’t overthink this. Just be natural, whatever you do I’ll go along with and vice versa. This is just the same as all the other times.”

It didn’t feel like it.

“Thank you,” you replied, releasing the pillow from your death grip and lightly hugging it instead, “I was overthinking it. Can you stay for a while, or do you have to go? I feel like watching Whisper of the Heart.”

Tsuzuru scoffed lightly, “We watched that last time. Laputa: Castle in the Sky or nothing.”

With a laugh you shoved your pillow at Tsuzuru, standing up from the bed. “I’ll get some snacks, brb.”

As soon as you exited the room Tsuzuru buried his face against the fluffy cushion, letting out a noise between ardour and agony. This was just method acting, they’ve done this before. No need to get all worked up about it.

As luck would have it, you and Tsuzuru immediately ran into a bunch of your old classmates.

“Ne? Is this your boyfriend?” One of the girls asked, giving him a quick glance, “your outfit matches his eyes! Love it~”

Tsuzuru coughed lightly.

“Shh, I was waiting for him to notice!” You giggled, looking into Tsuzuru’s eyes before looking away within a few seconds, “his eyes are really beautiful, I doubt I could ever do them justice.”

“Hey, don’t say that,” Tsuzuru swoops in, curling an arm around your waist, “you look really lovely today.”

“Tsuzuru,” you murmured, heart hammering a little faster, wondering if he was being as truthful as you were.

In the eyes of the girls in front of you, they were looking at two bashful lovers, and they were eating it all up.

“Wah! I wish I could get a boyfriend as sweet as him!” With a pout, you situated yourself to stand a little closer to your date.

“Well don’t get any ideas, he’s mine~” you teased them, laughing along with the rest of the group.

…

When the vows of the couple began, you found yourself sniffling.

“I thought you didn’t like that teacher,” Tsuzuru whispered jokingly, but he reached out to hold your hand for comfort, brushing his thumb against your knuckles.

You ignored him, actively listening to the bride’s speech.

“Falling in love with you was like entering a house and finally realising I'm home. When you smile at me, I feel the glow of the sun against my skin. When your eyes are locked on mine, it's like I can see countless of stars instead of just pupils. Having you in my life makes me feel like everything's possible in this world, we simply work together. With you, I’ve discovered so many things, things I’ve come to treasure, but the best discovery of all was love.”

Eyes stuck on the scene in front of you, you failed to notice the look of longing from the man beside you. It was as if the words uttered all applied to you, and yet somehow the words he could write about you wouldn’t be enough to express what he felt.

He settles on retrieving his handkerchief from his pocket and gently dabbing it around your eyes.

…

The whole reception was a bliss that came and went too fast for your liking. There was the plus that your ex miraculously couldn’t attend the reception, as well as the chef’s kiss worthy buffet, but you owed it all to Tsuzuru.

It was the same feeling for Tsuzuru, who didn’t feel awkward or out of place the whole time with you by his side. He kept looking forward to the next thing you would do, regardless if people were even watching the two of you or not.

When you let him feed you a slice of cake.

When he used his thumb to wipe off the crumbs near your lips.

When you rest your head against his shoulder.

When he cheered for you even with an unsuccessful bouquet toss.

Nothing felt faked today.

After saying your goodbyes to everyone, the two of you headed home hand-in-hand in silence. Every time you took a glance at the man beside you, so much feelings burst from within, but words themselves could not escape.

Stopping outside your apartment, you let go of one hand.

“Thank you for today,” you whisper, cupping his face to kiss him right where the corner of his lips ended, barely missing them. Tuning out every noise but yourselves, you heard his breath hitch.

“Are… are we still pretending?” Tsuzuru waited with bated breath for your response.

Mustering up all your courage, you shake your head. “I’m not. Are you?”

Squeezing your hand, he pressed his forehead against yours, “I’m not either,” he said quietly, before softly pressing his lips against yours.

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saoirseann · 5 years

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Competitor Benchmarks

Goodreads

Goodreads is a website and app which allows users to search through a database of books, annotations and also reviews. Users can create reading lists, their own groups of book suggestions, surveys, blogs and also discussions.

The problem with Goodreads

Since Amazon bought over the company, more and more people are being bombarded to use the app as soon as they register their Kindle device. As they automatically prompted to register and create a Goodreads account.

The colour scheme, design and mostly everything other than the basic functionality of Goodreads is awful. It looks tired and simply outdated and doesn't have any enticing features or animations to help liven up the app/ or website up a little.

It’s the only app most people use

According to their website - Goodreads is the world’s largest community of book lovers.

There are 104,723 total Android users for the Goodreads app & apparently over 35 million members worldwide.

Libbyapp

Libby is another similar app to Goodreads but differs due to the fact that it offers thousands of public library ebooks and audiobooks for free.

The name Libby is obviously a brand name on the play on Library and also in creating a character animation to lead you through the app - ‘Libby.’ However, in order to use the app users must own a library card in order to use that to link up to their account and profile. Once users do this they can access what ebooks are available to download for free from that particular library.

Libby doesn’t offer users the opportunity to leave reviews or participate in reading challenges etc, it’s main aim is to just find and borrow a title from your library. You can then use the app to either read the book or else listen to it as an audiobook.

Bookly

Bookly - Read more

Bookly is a relatively new app (or so it seems) but it was actually created in 2016 with the original name Bookout. It’s an app which helps you track your books, read more and also improve your reading over time. You can scan books (similar to Goodreads) or you can search for them online to add them to the app.

Bookly lets you add goals and in order to get people to read more or to be better focused when reading, they set achievements through which you can then unlock in the future the more you use the app.

I like the name for this app and coincidentally it was a similar name I reached when brainstorming for my brand name through combining reading and endlessly together to make Readsly.

#ixd501 #ixdbelfast #competitors #benchmarks

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acetechne · 7 years

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How do you adapt colour palettes to specific characters? Like drawing a character in a colour pallet other thain their own? Idk how and it makes me angry.

are you talking about colour palette challenges i’ve done? where it’s a random palette? the trick is you gotta stop thinking in terms of ‘his hair is red’ and ‘his eyes are green’, start thinking in terms of ‘his hair is medium’ and ‘his eyes are light’. Colours are a lot more versatile than they seem at first, and that whole debacle about the friggin ‘blue/white or black/gold dress is a great example of that. Things change colours in different lights and when they’re next to other colours, and can even look different from person to person!

It’s not easy to wrap your head around and I still have trouble with it, but that’s why colour palette challenges are a great exercise in combining colours and also training in hue/saturation and why I like doing them so much.

so let’s do an example with ed because i draw him a lot:

This is what I’m gonna call “Accurate Colours”. I tried to keep it simple but this is the sort of colour scheme I use for ed in simple comics where there’s not a ton of dramatic lighting or anything and even then i still kind of use it as a base. His hair is brown, his eyes are hazel, and city hall behind him is painted with roughly “correct” colours- at least for a late morning/early afternoon as it looked when I was there today. So let’s say we want a random colour palette that kind of has a summery mood (i gave him an ice cream because we’re having a heatwave right now rip)

Here’s a random palette off colourlovers that has the sort of mood I might like to convey, you might notice it has a lot of contrasting colours and that’s part of the reason I chose it.

The trick is to stop thinking in terms of “that brown on the left has to be his hair and eyes because it is brown” or “that dark blue has to be the water because water is blue”. Instead of “has to”, think “can”. The trick I use with colour palettes if I’m having a lot of trouble is to desaturate them and order them from light to dark- I can show you this visually although I’m more or less at the point that my brain can do this automatically for me from practice.

Take a look at the greyscale version:

This is a bit tricky because the palette doesn’t have the same range of tones as my drawing- it’s going to change the mood and the contrast but it’s not impossible!

Here’s a version where I basically went from light to dark and tried to replace the lightest colour with the lightest colour on the palette and so on:

these might not have been decisions I would have made if i was colouring it from scratch, but it’s not too terrible. It’s also (coincidentally) got a couple colours (like the blue of the pyramid and of the sky and water) that match the original quite well. However, there are some problems I have: the trees have almost no contrast with the sky and parts of the building, and what was supposed to be fountain spray kind of look like creepy misshapen hands emerging from the void. Sometimes you have to use your own judgement in addition to this simple method- try different colour combos and see what looks good next to each other!

Here’s a new version where I took what I liked from the version above and tried some other things to make it more visually interesting

I usually pick one colour at a time and try to place that colour all over the image to make it visually interesting- I did the hot pink last because it was the most ‘popping’ colour to me so in this atmosphere I didn’t want to overuse it- you can do the same thing with any of the colours you like depending on what mood you are going for! but look closely- isn’t it interesting how this pale red kind of looks brown in this combination and the blue sort of “echoes” the green in the original? No idea why that is- opposites on the colour wheel maybe- but cool.

There’s still something I’m bothered about with colours that are too close together- so in that case in a simple drawing like this, some patterns won’t go amiss! Here’s my final version:

As you can see I ended up changing some things, and colour combinations i was originally unsure of (like the orange in the fountain) look a bit more interesting and textured with different amounts and drawings. You can see I added a couple things and changed some colours around as I was working, and that’s totally ok too. I feel like if I wanted to make this a nightime scene, I could have used either dark blue or pink for the sky and orange for the water, for example, and the mood would have been very different even with the same colours- a bit more romantic or quiet. But you never think “oh man that guy’s hair is blue is he an alien’ because it’s obviously a limited palette and he matches the environment.

(oops i left white on this image i didn’t mean to do that but since the lines are black nothing’s stopping me from adding white either)

You can also try having warm and cool colours split up between different sections, like foreground and background as I did here:

The principle is the same if you’re just doing a colour palette of a character without an environment, but if you pay attention to textures and shading or how flat colours behave next to each other, you can get a lot of different moods and effects without it ever looking like an “accurate” palette. If you mess up the hues too much…

Notice something? this is a fine colour combo- the skin is a great midtone even though no human usually has blue skin- but because his hair is light it’s giving the impression that this is a guy who is either an alien or at least is a different character who has tanned skin and bleached hair- the super sonic recolour of ed but not ed xD (it doesn’t help that I haven’t coloured the background to match him to his environment out of laziness) but we can fix that a little:

You can still use orange in his hair without making him look blonde and a simple colour swap of the eyes to make them darker than his skin makes it work better. As you can see, there are nearly infinite combinations and if something is not working it probably is one or two colours just “out of sync” with the others. This is also why having a simple design with only a few colours is effective- it’s easier to remember how to draw and it’s easier to ‘translate’ into a different palette! (and if you’re working traditionally you can easily blend colours too… just sayin).

If you need a good starting point before diving into crazy colours, try a monochrome palette as a first challenge and only paint in different shades of one colour, or even different saturations could be interesting if they’re not too close together.

So yeah, I hope that answers your question a little and you can sort of start training your brain to think in different ways. Experiment! Make mistakes! Do weird or bad combos on purpose! Have fun!! Paint with the moods and emotions, not with the “correct” colours. :)

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17 January 2019