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It a lovely day, and today I've decided to

HOLD THE SCHOOL HOSTAGE

How would each character act and do been held hostage and trying to subdue a hostage situation?

Well, Winston would run out and try and be a hero, like an idiot, and Shimi would gather everyone and be like "So Winston is gunna do something dumb to start, so I'll start our plan there" And then the rest of the crew would just do whatever Shimi and Arturo decide since they are the strategists. That's it I think lol

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Nice to see you back! I was wondering if there’s some other platform you’re on where you talk more about horizon phase? Sometimes a character or something is brought up and I think, “I don’t remember that”

Sometimes I just develop stuff behind the scenes and forget that I haven't told anybody 😂

but sometimes I will post and develop stuff on the Horizon Phase Instagram

https://www.instagram.com/horizon.phase/

I also keep all their images backed up on Toyhouse below:

otherwise I think I put just about everything on here, it's just hard to organize and recall on here like I can on toyhouse, so that's probably just me being forgetful rather than it being posted anywhere else. 😅

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So, most of the students of the classroom have grouped up into team, Miss Diss gang, Arturo squad, and Shimi legion. But Izumi or Fearmonger is the only one without a group so is he a solo hero? Also, I like to entertain the name idea of Perilism like Peril mixed with Heroism.

Shimi Legion I'm dead 😂

Izumi doesn't really have a team at first, but after the whole Fumino and Scab incident Arturo becomes rather distant to the other students, so Izumi more or less takes his place in Winston's little cell.

Shimi also leaves school so Arturo more or less floats between open spots as they are down an offense person~

Also Perilism would be a great term for his power, but I feel like Fearmonger is so funny bc he looks so soft, so anytime he would take off the mask im developing for him, that people would go "...SOOO you're like Fearmongers stand in, right?"

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So, in the new photo of all the students of Bright Star Academy, we see Jin but with his power in a way we haven't seen before. Jin Blue parasite cells usually are silky and are a sheet. But Jin Blue cells match a slimy, goopy, winged now. Is this a new ability to his AMP of matter shifting or just in a different form we just haven't seen yet?

I forgot all about that! When I was changing their ages and designs I forgot I played around with how the matter that forms Jin's power appears. I thought making some more organic shapes would make more sense considering the cell structure and origin of the matter. Still not totally sure if I like it, but It is something I'm considering changing!

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So, Davey got his hero costume that matches his personality as a bright beacon of hope, safety, and comfort. But Connie is only seen in the regular MHVA uniform. So I wonder what hers would look like.

I guess I never drew her in her full suit! I drew her in the top half for an open Collab but never the full thing. It's not very much because she kinda burns through everything...There isn't a lot of materials that withstand the heat. One day I will actually draw it out

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I remember in one of your post on how you made quirks, to never disregard an idea for someone ability, but with how unique the abilities are. Instead of simply making manipulation or project of elements powers. Is there any other tips or ways that help you make your character powers? Love your work and powers!

First of all thank-you so much ;__; I'm glad you get a kick out of my unhinged ramblings! Hmmm I guess my only tip besides what I outlined is just be curious about things even if you think they wont serve you now. I have an unfathomably short attention span so perhaps this is easier said than done for some folk, but I think an example I'll run with is very silly way I came up with a character last night~ I had a part in my story that I needed some sort of underground doctor for, Garrote nearly dies in a fight against Ren and gets a big ol hole in his chest, and its pretty hard to fix a giant hole in the chest, especially for such a big patchwork guy. Every time I have sat down to formally try and figure out what kind of character should be there I have failed. But last night I was running the scene through my head since I thought about making a few panel comic about it and I just saw a girl character eating a burger sitting at the edge of the tub while healing Garrote, and I was like "Well that's weird, but kinda funny, I like that, how can I make that work?"

and so then I was like "well it'd be great if she could create flesh...so her power should be some sort of regeneration power, but how can she just MAKE flesh and vasculature systems? and then my brain went back to the burger and was like "well...burger is technically flesh...wait" and then googled up how the body goes about filling holes when it's healing, i.e reconnecting its vasculature system and creating a matrix of cells for the flesh to basically seal back together, and so I decided that her power would be that when she eats flesh, she's able to create extracellular matrix in others and heal/regenerate their wounds.

I ended up thinking it was really funny and weird, and so then was like "well how do I nerf the fact that she could just buy like 12 McDondalds dollar menu hamburgers and heal a small army, which is when I thought "well, burgers are beef/pork/chicken, that kind of flesh while similar, is probably not good for intensely life threatening injuries like Ivan has, and it feels like it would more or less just be a patch job for things like stabs/bullet wounds. So then I had the horrible idea that she'd have to take in human flesh to resuscitate someone who was that far gone already, to be able to reform all of the complex structure of the actual human body, kind of like how some people can get flesh/organ transplants from animals, but they aren't quite a one-to-one match and can cause issues. (pretty sure I learned that fact from some weird facebook post and googled it after to see if that actually happened)

So I ended up making her villain name Cannibal Matrix (Or Hanibelle Matrix, haven't decided which yet, second one is funnier but time will tell) All of this process happened within about 15 minutes or so I guess the TLDR is, everyone's brains work in a specific way, if I fight the way my brain enjoys expressing itself, it usually just leads to me coming up with nothing and to myself getting frustrated. I think there is merit to sitting down formally and telling yourself that you're gunna come up with something in one sitting, but I think 90% of my ideas come when I am doing other things and my brain is just wandering around thinking about whatever.

I think though if I think about it further, imagining the scene itself helped form the character that needed to be there for me, the rest I sort of just happened to fall into place, so spend some time actually imagining interactions between your characters, your brain might fill in the spaces all on its own~ Expose yourself to lots of art and music, and weird facts about the world, fill the well your brain has to pull from when it comes to drawing inspiration to make something new~

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I think GanGan is the only character that hasn't being given as much information as the other students. Making her the wildflower in the class. Have you ever considered flesh out her personality and backstory? I'm just very curious about her.

She really is just a supporting character so I never gave too much thought to her tbh, but now that I am not under the constraints of another canon I was thinking of doing something with her~ Originally she's Ryoka's bestie because they're seen as demi-humans and not very well treated because of their looks. I plan on adding a LOT more demi humans now as I flesh out their new world though, so she'll probably get some development! The big reason nobody ever sees her is because she's SO HARD TO DRAW Dx I avoid doing it because I managed it one time and that felt like enough lol But as I looked at her tonight I also realized she's been on the back-burner because she also just resembles Diss too much in the face, so I fiddled around with her design a lil tonight and I think it helps a bit to differentiate them~

2019 art:

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In Winston fun facts bio, one of the fact is that Yun-Yeuong quirk (telekinesis rhyme) doesn't work on Winston. And while in canon no one knowns why. I wonder if there is a reason why because that is a major thing considering how powerful Yun-Yeuong control is.

The secret ingredient to Yun-Yeung's control is intimidation, which is why she caries herself like she does. Without some tooth behind it her power loses some of it's potency, which allows people to be able to break out of it if they try hard enough. Winston was there during one of the lowest points of her life where she had to confront a lot of ugly things about herself, and Winston, who's an asshole himself, found himself relating, so he can more or less see break through her control because they're both assholes and him relating to her made it so that he can break her control pretty easily. But on the other hand, Diss also knows that if she can conk Winston out before his brain registers pain, then he's pretty easy to win against in a fight, so they are pretty evenly matched and have definitely bonded over being dumb turbo-assholes with a chip on their shoulder lol

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Shimi Redraw 2019-2024

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Some Miss Diss

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Leave it to Ren to mess with the cat he KNOWS bites.

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as requested on my asks on instagram~

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I cannot stop drawing Nissa, she's so fun~ She is where Garrote's moniker and hair power come from, Melani in the back is where he got his eyes from~ (both donated)

Soon I'll have drawn all the people who Garrote has gotten his powers from~

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We're sooo back~

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I'm baaaaaaaaaAAAAccck~

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So I’m making a OC for a leader of a villain group I’m currently making and his quirk allows for him to transform himself into a living, microscopic organism capable of inflicting widespread destruction without being detected. His body breaks down into trillions of individual cells, each one a tiny, autonomous being with immense power. These cells can infiltrate and infect entire countries, rapidly breaking down infrastructure, machinery, and organic matter on a massive scale. This also allows him to have a telepathic connection to and complete control over every single one of his cells, allowing him to coordinate a devastating, synchronized attack. But there’s one thing I want to add for his quirk with him having current abilities from his host’s quirks and I don’t want it to sound like I’m copying your character’s quirk, graft. What do you think? Should I add different abilities for my oc’s quirk?

Your characters power is already very different from Garrote, the power scales aren't even on the same level, Garrote is far weaker than what you are describing, and Garrote also has about a half dozen weaknesses to his graft ability. Garrote at the end of the day is a body horror graft quirk, and even if they weren't I wouldn't worry about them being too similar at all. Just have fun creating~ : )

Garrote's end form "Amalgam" above~