#🏛️: welcome to sinclair city!

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You're going up there with me, so look forward to it.

Tag list - General

fifi talks - general posts

fifi's ocs - posts about my ocs for my oc x ccs

fifi's answers - my answers for anything related to my inbox

Tag list - F/os

🧡: the emperor's new clothes - Édouard Manet (Palette Parade) [intro post about my ocxcc]

🌙: moon eclipse - Yodaka Natsume (18trip)

🍎: the sun will always rise - Hallritt (Fragaria Memories)

🛹: dream exorcist - Ryui Shiramitsu (18trip)

⚔️: my prince charming - Cain Knightley (Mahoyaku)

🪈: ordinary happiness - Haku Kusanagi (Tokyo Debunker)

🍙: devoted moonflower - Kagetsu (Fire Emblem Engage)

🌹: the one and only in the universe - Argenti (Honkai Star Rail)

🕰️: befitting of all the pearls and sapphires in the world - Heathcliff (Mahoyaku)

🍺: summertime melancholy - Giotto di Bondone (Palette Parade)

🗝️: the key to a broken door - Lennox Lamb (Mahoyaku)

⚡: it's just the weight of the world - Oz (Mahoyaku)

🍰: a secret madeleine for you - Uraragi (Show By Rock!!)

🏯: the caged bird's knight - Heshikiri Hasebe (Touken Ranbu)

Tag list - OC groups

🎨: colorful parade gang - all my Palepare OCs

💠: a safe place one can call home - Tsubaki & Yuzuki

🏛️: welcome to sinclair city! - all my OCs from my personal project "Welcome to Sinclair City!" (intro here)

Other tags will be added in the future (also because I have no fantasy for some f/os tags...)

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Anyways today is a very important day!

Today is Caravaggio's birthday! It's a symbolic date for me because not only it's his birthday (because the actual Caravaggio was born today), but I also finished creating him on this day! And since Caravaggio was my first plpr OC, you could say that if I came this far with my plpr OCs and the whole Sinclair City, it's all thanks to him!

I don't have anything special for this occasion, but since Caravaggio is very dear to me, I'll post him on this blog today! at least when I have some free time

For now, funny memes

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Welcome 2 Sinclair City! character cards

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Notes:

If you didn't read the intro, W2SC happens 8 years later WtSC, so all the WtSC characters are older. Have fun spotting all the differences in their new designs!

Once again, I use "undefined" when I don't have a certain sexuality in mind for my own characters. You know when usually fictional characters don't have a confirmed sexuality, so fans can make shit up? Yes, exactly that. But never catch me confirming my characters as straight /hj

The art is still ugly, please don't mind it /hj

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Welcome 2 Sinclair City! character cards

1 - 2 - ?

Notes:

If you didn't read the intro, W2SC happens 8 years later WtSC, so all the WtSC characters are older. Have fun spotting all the differences in their new designs!

Once again, I use "undefined" when I don't have a certain sexuality in mind for my own characters. You know when usually fictional characters don't have a confirmed sexuality, so fans can make shit up? Yes, exactly that. But never catch me confirming my characters as straight /hj

The art is still ugly, please don't mind it /hj

This note is the same spoiler for that other part with Mantegna so spoiler warning (for sc1) ↓

As I already said, Mantegna drops the "I'll pretend I'm younger to get back the years I lost" coping mechanism after he and Masaccio finish high school, which is why now his age is accurate

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It's kinda easy to attack anybody with almost any SC character but how do you attack people using Antonello. How do. How do I do it. That guy is impossible

"Oh well I mean he's a priest so he's devoted to god" except HE'S NOT. He fucking hates the guy! If you believe in god he'll tell you to get well soon ig

Want to visit him at his church? He'll tell you the church is closed. And when the church opens? He's too busy. He'll probably listen to you if you go to the confessional. Does he like having conversations in the confessional? No, but it's better than listening to people confessing their useless sins, he doesn't give a damn about them.

WHO HIRED HIM

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Welcome to Sinclair City! character cards

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Notes:

These are old, I changed some infos in the meantime, mostly about sexualities. Bosch is achillean

Once again, I use "undefined" when I don't have a certain sexuality in mind for my own characters. You know when usually fictional characters don't have a confirmed sexuality, so fans can make shit up? Yes, exactly that. But never catch me confirming my characters as straight /hj

The art is ugly and it didn't get better with the sequel designs, please don't mind it /hj

Church trio always together! ... For now

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Welcome to Sinclair City! character cards

1 - 2 - 3 - 4

Notes:

Once again, I use "undefined" when I don't have a certain sexuality in mind for my own characters. You know when usually fictional characters don't have a confirmed sexuality, so fans can make shit up? Yes, exactly that. But never catch me confirming my characters as straight /hj

The art is ugly and it didn't get better with the sequel designs, please don't mind it /hj

There are only 8 here because the last ones will be together (it's 31 characters so I couldn't make a separate post just for one + you can't separate the church trio)

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Welcome to Sinclair City! character cards

1 - 2 - 3 - 4

Notes:

These are old, I changed some infos in the meantime, mostly about sexualities. Da Vinci is demisexual homoromantic, Mantegna is aromantic (although it makes more sense that he realises that in sc2, which is why I didn't put it here), Raffaello is bisexual

Once again, I use "undefined" when I don't have a certain sexuality in mind for my own characters. You know when usually fictional characters don't have a confirmed sexuality, so fans can make shit up? Yes, exactly that. But never catch me confirming my characters as straight /hj

The art is ugly and it didn't get better with the sequel designs, please don't mind it /hj

This note is a spoiler so spoiler warning ↓

Mantegna is actually 24, not 11. The reason why he's faking his age and acting younger than his actual age (and also attending high school) is that things have happened in his life so he basically lost all his childhood, so now he's pretending that in order to cope. It's not working (one of the reasons why he drops the act in sc2), but he's very good at lying

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Welcome to Sinclair City! character cards

1 - 2 - 3 - 4

Notes:

These are old, I changed some infos in the meantime, mostly about sexualities. Vasari is pansexual, while Giotto is achillean

Once again, I use "undefined" when I don't have a certain sexuality in mind for my own characters. You know when usually fictional characters don't have a confirmed sexuality, so fans can make shit up? Yes, exactly that. But never catch me confirming my characters as straight /hj

The art is ugly and it didn't get better with the sequel designs, please don't mind it /hj

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The funniest thing is that when I was trying to find out who the new guy for Yolo was, my first question was "is he a freak?" (I already knew where I was going) so Yolo answered "it depends"

Now that I know who the guy is, it's even funnier because (once again, putting things under the cut because it's a spoiler and oomf is reading WtSC) (ALSO GORE WARNING kinda? Sorta? I mean it's just a description)

Utagawa is literally living his best life in Sinclair City, away from the guy he tried to kill at some point out of jealousy (but only managed to gouge one of his eyes AND HE THREW THE EYE AND THE KNIFE IN THE RIVER. WHAT THE FUCK UTAGAWA), being very sane! Then in sc2 said guy is in Sinclair City and Utagawa needs to fight the urge to kill him for good

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imagine i am sliding 20 euros under the desk to you. tell me more about cabanel ( the curse )

The curse, the curse ^_^

(putting things under the cut because oomf is reading WtSC and I don't want to spoil them stuff)

There isn't much more to say from the intro I made about him, but plpr Cabanel is kinda? more chill in his life? I mean yeah he's still interested in getting back to the Académie, but I mean he's part of the Palette Museum so he has that reputation and whatever. SC Cabanel? Oh god he's doomed

He's OBSESSED with the Académie, he needs to get in it to finally be accepted as a person, it's his only purpose, it's what his family and people who know him wanted. He doesn't have a major role in sc1 (in comparison with other characters), but there's this secondary event* where the teachers + Frida and Cimabue try to make him understand that unfortunately his parents never cared, they only cared about his achievements and his fame and not him as a person, so he goes mad because he's sure they're telling him lies and his family only says the truth and knows the best, but it's kinda obvious he's also in doubt so he doesn't trust anyone anymore👍

The situation doesn't get better in sc2 at all! He managed to get into the Académie some times but he was kicked out shortly after. He's so close to go insane, he's so tired, but he doesn't give up on his goal because that's his only purpose. The others try to make him give up so he can finally start living a normal, peaceful life but they fail and I need to write this fuckass scene between Cabanel and Manet, the guy he hates the most, that is so important to me LIVES WILL BE CHANGED WITH THAT SCENE (my life because I'll be the only one to know it) and AAAAAAAAAAAA OH GODDDDDDDD

Spoiler after that he finally gives up, he realises that he's almost at half of his life (he's 42 in sc2) and he didn't live his life at all, he was only interested in pleasing his family and making sure society knew he was something. That made him tired and made him waste so many years, so he gives up on the Académie and whatever, he should live a better life before his last days

Things get better for him! See, I don't give bad endings to my characters! I only make them suffer a lot in the process!

And that's all I think, if you want more just tell me :3

*imagine the choices you make in a game to spend time with only one character. Yeah these are usually romance choices but this is Vasari you're only interested in hearing stuff about people, so these events have additional lore for the people who don't have a focus chapter

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So y'all (y'all = nobody) might be wondering why am I always talking about some guys who share names with artists that existed in real life. Is this girl crazy? Maybe, but she has her reasons

SO LADIES, GENTLEMEN AND NONBINARY FOLKS, LET ME SAY:

A very long ass intro about "Welcome to Sinclair City!", one of my oc projects and the one I love the most because my brain is too crazy about it. It will be VERY long, so buckle up, get on the train and let's go to Sinclair City!

Warning: I suck at explanations and after this you won't get absolutely anything other than very long ass rants and posts from yours truly

(For SC1 characters cards, start here; for SC2 character cards, start here)

So... WHAT is "Welcome to Sinclair City!"?

Have you ever encountered medias where all the characters are inspired by historical figures? Whether they are accurate representations of said historical figures or anime-fied representations, sometimes genderbent ones (eg: B.ungou Stray Dogs, the F.ate s.aga etc). Well, "Welcome to Sinclair City!" is exactly that! Almost all the characters are inspired by real life artists and other important figures in art history, but they're all more anime-ish and they live in a modern setting. I need to get back to this point later.

"Welcome to Sinclair City!" was born as a possible visual novel I dreamt about, I wanted to make it real but 1) I'm not that good at art and literally everything else (apart from drawing very bad sprites with the symmetry tool and writing) 2) I'm lazy 3) I didn't really want to ask anybody's help because I suck at managing stuff, would be worse with a team, I wasn't born a leader after all 4) I'm lazy as fuck, so it became a writing project (I'm only writing it in italian). It's divided into two books, the first one (Welcome to Sinclair City/WtSC/SC1) has been done for a long while but I think I should rewrite it, while the second one (Welcome 2 Sinclair City/W2SC/SC2) is still a wip that gets frequent changes because god knows where I'm going with it. The sequel wasn't planned but I got insane and nobody locked me so here we are. Jokes aside, this project is a huge comfort to me and I'll always treasure it, even after the ending. Everybody is sad and needs to go to therapy INCLUDING the doctor and the psychologist, but it's my comfort project❤️ Also I'm writing some oneshots that are still part of the lore, but like. I only completed one. Yay

What inspired you to make this... thing! ig

Y'all know me (no), I'm obsessed with P.alette Pa.rade, of course my main inspiration was that. Girl it's obvious!

This project started in 2020, so plpr was near its end. Of course I was sad, I also had ocs for that game and I didn't want to let them go SO I had a crazy ass dream where my ocs were there but there were other characters, like there were Michelangelo, Van Gogh and Gauguin but they were different from the plpr ones, like REALLY different. So little Lotte had an idea, got some random names also thanks to her irls aaaaand here we are! And I still don't have a job! Girl you better work on more important stuff!!

Moving on to the characters, I need to say this out loud PLEASE DON'T ASSUME THAT MY ORIGINAL CHARACTERS = THEIR IRL COUNTERPARTS!! Get the good ol' "this is a product of fiction, any reference to real life is casual, a coincidence and not wanted" because THAT'S THE THING!!! If an artist was kinda problematic irl it doesn't necessarily mean they'll be the same in my project (usually I'm not writing racist/homophobic/etc fucks in general, if they end up as bad/problematic people I'm certainly not "romanticizing" them or making them good) and if a character in my project is problematic it doesn't necessarily mean that they were the same irl. I get inspirations from their biographies to get infos for their backstories or other stuff because I've got no creativity, but it's all a coincidence. That said, I wrote Gauguin as a piece of shit nobody cares about and Picasso is only mentioned to be made fun of because I hate those guys and they deserve the treatment, they can rot in hell!

Anyways, most of the characters are based on irl artists, but there are also original characters made by yours truly. Here are the lists for both the books:

Long ass lists! What the sigma

Ok good to know... But once again, what is "Welcome to Sinclair City!" about?

Ok soooo you know the thing about San Marino being a nation inside another nation (Italy)? Ok, now imagine that there is a fictional small nation inside of France, specifically towards the north and near the sea. What's its name? I don't know, ask another Lotte. What you should know, though, is that in this state there are two notable cities. One of them is the capital, Saint-Auburn, which is a pretty big religious city that fucKING SUCKS. Before attacking me, I'm catholic and the real religious evil is in another city, we don't talk about that. Saint-Auburn sucks because it sucks, that's it.

The other one is *drum rolls* Sinclair City! Even if it's much smaller than Saint-Auburn, Sinclair City is known to be a city of art, where lots of artists live, and it's also the city where the Palette Academy is situated. The Palette Academy is a huge school complex (there's elementary school, middle school, high school and the university) and it also has dorms, so a lot of students live in this city and they study to become artists. Some of them are already well-known artists, they're just studying more for the experience and in order to improve themselves. The Palette Academy is for everybody! You can either be a student or teach or just work there. If you're a student you can become a painter, a sculptor, an architect, but also a photographer, a fashion designer and more (in w2sc there are more courses), you can choose whatever you want! Will your school life be easy? Errrrrrrrrrrm it depends, it's for the plot chat

Ok interesting (no), I kinda get it (again, no). Now, what's the plot?

I know this might be shocking, but I think there isn't actually a plot. At least for sc1 there isn't a full plot where all the chapters are connected. Let me explain it.

The main character for sc1 is Giorgio Vasari ofc the main character is the guy who's obsessed with artists and their personal lives and he got invited to attend the Palette Academy, so he's travelling to Sinclair City with his friend, Michelangelo. It should be a really easy uni life for them, but here's the thing: Vasari can't mind his own business AT ALL, so whenever there's something going on in the academy he has to intervene. Who called him? Bitch nobody! So basically all the chapters deal with different characters and their problems, Vasari doesn't always solve their problems because some people are just too far gone, but it's okay we're making friends and we want to know everything about everybody! ... let's ignore the fact that Vasari himself is hiding secrets!!

Now onto sc2. Welcome 2 Sinclair City is a sequel and it's 8 years later the events of sc1. Many new characters, the old cast grew up, some started living/working in the capital for reasons and etc. There are two main characters: Cleope Darwish (and his friendgroup), a guy who has been living in Sinclair City for 2 years and is a uni student. If you got used to Vasari, lower your expectations. Cleope doesn't give a damn about anything nor anybody, he even questions his bond with his friendgroup and how useful it is to him. He hates telling people stuff about himself and finds it useless, after all "he won't stay there for too long". At some point he starts having dreams where he keeps meeting [REDACTED] (censored because I can't really spoil) and [REDACTED] kinda makes him more aware about the fact that the way he's acting and lying, his whole idgaf behaviour is actually hurting people and it will only bring him misfortune. Cleope becomes more self-aware so all the chapters are about him finally discovering the people who lived with him for all these years and yeaaaaaah I wonder how this could end. Spoiler if this was a videogame you'll have to make very specific choices and things to get the true ending, the only happy one, otherwise you'll doom Cleope for life. But I mean, that's what he wanted, right?

On the other hand there's Vasari, who's now a famous museum curator in Saint-Auburn and just opened his own art gallery! Life is always fun in the gallery, the people he works eith are trustworthy and admire him, everything is okay! Until he starts becoming more aware of the fact that he needs to be more professional, he's a serious worker and a member of society now. So he starts changing. and changing. and changing. and changing. changing until the person in front of you might not be recognised as Giorgio Vasari anymore. Is it worth it? Can we go back? Who knows if the people who loved him will still be proud of him

BY THE WAY THEY ALL HAVE HAPPY ENDINGS (even if sc1 has canonically a bad ending and sc2 has two negative endings but I'll never write them) DW!!! I'M JUST A BITCH!!!!

Well damn that's deep. Speaking of deepness, do they have messages, themes or did you just throw random bullshit?

The latter. No actually both have themes, even if all the characters have different backgrounds and situations they live in maybe something makes them all the same.

Sc1 is about identity. It might not be a common theme for everybody, but most of them deal with identity, especially Vasari. Who are you? Are you who you really should be? Are you a façade that hides your true essence? Are you one, three, seventy different people depending on the situation? Are you what your family would like you to be? Are you what the person you love most would hate? Are you satisfied with who you are or are you restraining yourself? Is it right for you to follow your own path and be what you really want to be? Just who are you?

Sc2 is about change. Eight years have passed, new people arrived and the old cast grew up, but have they actually changed? Do you have to change for the better to feel more loved or change for the worse to feel more powerful? Do you want to change? Are you afraid of change? No matter how much effort you make, do you feel that your situation will never be able to change? That you will never be able to change? Have you changed, but do you happen to return to the toxic habits or flaws you once had? Maybe in the end we stayed the same, maybe there was no change. Maybe no change was needed, maybe we were good and valid people all along. Maybe we will never change, maybe we have changed too much and can never go back. Maybe we can go back, maybe we can't. Again, who knows.

Do we talk about art? No, because I'm not an artist and I don't get art at all. Art is relevant, it's vital for some characters, for others you can see that their art ideals are reflected in their usual behaviour (idk how to explain this), but art isn't always mentioned. The uncertainty of future is mentioned, the fact that sometimes you just can't let go of the past is mentioned, all the doubts regarding life, school and anything in general, fatal miscommunications, the ways you process grief, literally anything is mentioned. In fact if you ever kin a character from this project I swear to god I'll pay the therapist for you. Really. Don't do it. Pray god, have fun, DON'T KIN A SINCLAIR CITY CHARACTER OR YOU'LL GET DOOMED (note: I don't mind people kinning my characters, this is a joke because I made all of them mentally ill ↓)

On another note, about them being yumed, I mean yes all of my ocs are yumeable in general, SC ones are on an extreme level because they either don't experience love at all (because of me) or they have a strange/sick/twisted relationship with love (because of me) or maybe they're in a happy relationship (not because of me). Most of the characters are doomed by the narrative sooooo good luck!

Conclusions

So... Now what? Now... That's it. We're done. Bye.

Seriously speaking, I'm writing this project in italian, so if you ever happen to fully understand italian (not with a translator because the translator will never translate you "grazie graziella e grazie al cazzo" in an accurate way) then good luck, otherwise never read it. Which is better! So yeah since I'm not an artist and I don't do anything else that's it. BUT I'm a professional yapper, so if you're interested in these fuckheads then you'll hear me talking about them more and more here. I'll also post their character cards I made, so you can start getting some infos abt them!

If you got this far, congrats! If you have any question regarding the project or the characters, don't hesitate to ask me anything! You can either comment it down here, ask it in the inbox or dm me!

That's all from me, enjoy your stay at Sinclair City!

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"do not let me into sc i am burning this place to the ground"

Saying this after I found out about oomf's new s/o is so funny you know why. You know why. Because (putting it under the cut because this is about w2sc and it's a part I haven't written yet)

Let's just say that uh. Someone does set Antonello on fire. Wanted to kill him but failed! So [redacted] resorts to psychological violence

(fuck Zacharie)

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Speaking of playlistsssssss maybe I could drop this *runs away*

Random disclaimeeeeer

HEY. I'm very bad at making playlists so I just put random shit, but I've got tons of oc playlists. Enjoy