#And the fact this game allows to make my own main character 👀

[sourrind]

Oooh, I'm very curious about A Choir Of Furies and On Broken Wings if you'd like to talk about them and/or post a snippet of them!👀 And I don't know much about the KPOP groups, but please tell me more about whichever one you are most excited to talk about!

Zoey. Dear. Of course you chose the two that I actually have nothing written for 😭

A Choir of Furies

This was my idea of a Chloe-centric murder mystery fic in the style of Disco Elysium. The title alludes to the original name for game, which was "No Truce with the Furies," but it's also a reference to a line from Spanish Sahara - "A choir of furies in your head." I feel like that just so perfectly encapsulates both games and stories so well - I just had to use it. Honestly, this exists because of how much I love both games and the fact that I think there are some interesting parallels to be made between the two. There's a murder mystery, both Chloe and Harry are haunted by past romances, and I think Max would play the perfect Kim to Chloe's Harry. I think exploring Arcadia Bay and interacting with all the characters we already know through the way Disco's story is told would be just be so neat - the skill checks, the different facets of Chloe's psyche arguing with each other - I get excited just thinking about it. Unfortunately, I feel like this idea will probably only ever exist as a pipe dream because one of the biggest reasons I'd like to work on it is also the main thing holding it back - writing this with the same nuance, style, and depth that the Disco writers had is both such an enticing task but also a monumental one. Out of all the story ideas I have, this is the one that I would most like to just will and wish into existence.

On Broken Wings

I'm not sure, but I think I've brought this up in passing with you before. This would take place in the alt timeline where Max is friends with Victoria and Chloe got into that car accident. It would continue from where our Max dips out from the alt timeline, with alt Max having been affected from ours decisions and continuing to see Chloe for a bit while all the stuff with Jefferson and Nathan continues to go down. Jefferson and Nathan do get caught at the end of the week, but unfortunately, that Max would not survive and the story would focus on Victoria and Chloe. This alt Victoria, maybe having been friends with Max after a chance meeting in Seattle or something, all of a sudden realizing that Chloe was the childhood friend of Max that she had left behind all those years previous and Chloe having to deal with getting her best friend back only to lose her again. The catalyst for this is simple - I love seeing Victoria grow and better herself as a person and I think it's a damn damn shame that there's no happy ending for alt Chloe, so maybe I'll sit myself down one day and bang one out for her. She deserves it. They both do.

hold me (like you held on to life)

How do I even start with this? Do I put a disclaimer that I'm a mostly normal person, but I allow myself to indulge in parasocial behavior when it comes to pretty girls in Kpop groups??? Because Zoey, they are just so cute and so talented and I wish for only the best for them because they deserve the world 😭😭😭 But this idea was procced because I watched Interview with the Vampire for the first time a few months ago, and ever since, I have completely lost myself in vampire fiction. However, it wasn't until I saw the sequel movie, Queen of the Damned, that I wanted to write something with vampires. Queen of the Damned is not a good movie (though it is amazing), but it's also such a time capsule to what "cool" was back then that it made me giddy - leather, nu metal, Hot Topic essentials. So, because of that, I thought I'd make my own spin on it - Interview with the Vampire meets Only Lovers Left Alive meets Under the Silver Lake. Basically, it's Ryujin giving an interview with a local journalist that is both revealing the existence of vampires but also how she's integrated into society via the music industry and basically being responsible for most of the hits in modern music. She's doing this because she's tired of being a vampire and she plans to let it all out into the open before seeing the sun one last time. That's when she runs into Yeji and, through a series of events I will totally have figured out by the time I write this, she decides to keep sticking around for a bit. The rest of the story is her dealing with some other people and vampires not too happy with her letting the undead cat out of the bag and is mostly about rediscovering one's humanity and love in life. This is probably the story I'm closet to writing and putting out, but I'm at the weird stage of research where I feel like I can't write about it until I've absorbed EVERYTHING - vampire fiction, Korean history, the 2000s goth subsculture, etc. - but here's hoping I can get back to writing soon.

But yeah, thanks for the ask! I always love talking to you and I figured it was my turn to show you what I had in the oven for once.

[garrettwrites]

Hi, how's it going? Anything new and exciting in your life?

I see you're obsessed with vampires, who are your favourites? 👀

Sorry for the 3day delay I had to think on this. Picking favourites is hard. Reminder that I welcome all sorts of asks! Especially vampire and Worldbuilding ones!

Life's hard, gotta study the hell out of roman fish productions while simultaneously making art for social media and my portfolio, but what's life without a little stress.

Onto your question (which I ended up rambling on, sorry), lore wise I have two absolute favourite pieces of vampire media:

VtM: Bloodlines (2004 game). My love. I like how they write vampires and set their powers, clan divisions and hierarchies. The aesthetic of the game is also early 2000s late 90s, which is nostalgic. It's more fantastical than straight forward, a vampire DnD in fact, so it offers a lot of liberty and flexibility for whatever story you want to tell. It also works well as inspiration for original works, since the more you look into it the more you can pick what to use for your own vampire stories.

Second one is the netflix series Vampires (2020). It's french. It is an... incredibly fresh take on vampires. The series unfortunately only has one season with six episodes. It follows the life of this poor vampire family, but the twist is that vampirism is biological and vampires are born as such, and can die of old age (they just age much slower). Their weaknesses, their biology, their social structures and the way the series explores them through the eyes of a teenage girl slowly coming into her vampire disease (because it is kind of an illness), the way the series IS NOT AFRAID of pushing forward extremely embarrassing moments (such as the girl, still unable to control herself, biting the boy she loves IN CLASS and being viewed as a weirdo for it - refreshing when many writers are afraid of such realistic moments due to how cringe they may come across as for general audiences.... It's pretty solid. The scenes with the girl's mother walking into the sun covered in scarves and pieces of cloth is also really good, more series should do that - makes sense that a vampire would still go outside during the day, they'd just need to look absolutely out of place while doing it. Which they should. Vampires don't belong in daylight.

Honorable mention: Interview with the Vampire. Of course. Especially the new TV series. I love the psychological exploration of vampirism in there. However, I think the series is good because of the characters themselves rather than the blood sucking of it all. Vampire wise I don't care much for the lore, it is there to solidify the fact they're all monsters.

Extra 2: Unironically? I know this might sound cringe, but if you ignore the main storyline and exclusively look at the lore... Vampire Diaries is kinda good. The writers clearly did their research and included ideas from all over the world in their social structures, vampiric powers, etc. One of my favourite aspects is how they utilise the concept of "vampries can't enter a house without consent" to its absolute fullest. There's even a character who is turned into a vampire, and gets locked out of his own home because he lives alone and no one is in there to allow him in. Hilarious.

CHARACTER WISE...

Lestat is definitely one of my all time favourites. He symbolizes what a vampire should be for me, but is still multi faceted enough to be a person rather than a caricature.

Olrox from Castlevania: Nocturne (animated series). I miss drawing him. I wrote two whole ass fanfics about him, but they were romantic rather than focused exclusively on him.... A shame. I think he's pretty interesting. Depending on where Nocturne goes, he might surpass Lestat in the future. He's charming, but dangerous. Tragic yet with a chance of rising above the rubble. He's also native american, and possibly a god - all really fresh concepts. I really love Olrox. Top tier vampire dude, sorry Alucard but you're just not as cool.

Talking about Castlevania... Carmilla. She's not even that original as a character, but she's what people nowadays call a "Girlboss" except she's actually well written. You feel for her. You love her. You hate her. And she's a vampire that knows she's a monster and wants to keep being one. None of that "oh naur I'm immortal but must... commit the sin of drinking blood" bullshit. She, much like Olrox, steals every scene she's in.

Jonathan Reid from Vampyr (2018 game). A very... text intensive game. But I like reading, so I don't mind. He's a doctor, and was a soldier during WW1. He's the main character of the game and you can take his path in multiple directions. He's a favourite of mine because I like the concept of a doctor vampire, plus I genuinely love Vampyr.

The cast of The Lost Boys. No explanation needed,

Least favourite vampire: Astarion because 1) he took over my dash, can't talk about vampires anymore without that man being there and 2) people can't tag his fucking name properly and I'm over here trying to find minotaur content (AstErion) and I see that kind of muscular kinda lean white haired small fangs elf taking over the tags. Please people. Learn how to tag.

[soggytaxidermy]

General 4 and 5 for the tav ask 👀👀

oh boy it’s been a while since you sent this - oh well, I still appreciate it! I have two main tavs - Damakas, tiefling wild magic bard-barian, adaption of one of my normal dnd characters, and Lharast, seldarine drow devotion paladin/fiend warlock, my durge. 

4. What sort of general actions raise or lower their approval?

Damakas: One would have to try very, very hard to get on this brick wall of a tiefling’s bad side. Damakas likes to believe that everyone’s intentions are as good as his and is an even stronger believer in second chances. After all, he was a cultist. Doing generally positive things like saving people and lending your hand without payment quickly gains you his approval, as does passing persuasion and performance checks. However, he’s also way too curious for his own good, so the player earns approval when they make some not-so-thought-through decisions in exchange for, well, finding out what happens next - for instance, reading the Necromancy of Thay or allowing Auntie Ethel to try to remove the tadpole. Like most companions, he dislikes threats and unnecessary violence. Should the violence be called for though, he will enthusiastically crush a head or otherwise dismember someone for you (this would be an option during certain cutscenes or if you take someone as a prisoner back to your camp). One should avoid asking him to do this too often, however.

Lharast: The player meets him as a masked knight in Underdark during the second act, and at first, his likes and dislikes are very vague. Sometimes he approves of extorting civilians, sometimes he doesn't. Your douche behavior rarely goes far enough to warrant his disapproval as your heroics do his approval. Only after completing the first part of his quest and getting him to unmask do things get clearer. Lharast is generally good aligned but approves of most deception checks, even against allies, and of using detect thoughts and other mind-meddling. As a paladin of Ilmater, Lharast greatly approves when you offer to heal sick or injured nps or take punishments destined for someone else. While he does a lot of things strangely against the values of his oath, the strangest is his complete approval of using the tadpoles to downright dominate others if necessary, and “necessary” appears to have a pretty loose definition according to his book. He disapproves of refusal to help people (asking for money first is ok though), dealing with the Flaming Fist, and summoning hirelings from Withers, for whatever reason. 

5. Are there any instances where your tav can permanently leave the party, depending on player actions?

Damakas: For starters, if the player chooses to attack the grove/kill the tiefling refugees, he immediately turns hostile. If he’s not killed in the battle, he can still be encountered later in the game, but he can never again be added to the party. Another instance is if you have him do his special kill on a truly innocent person and he finds out, he will be appalled and leave out of sheer guilt and grief. But, the circumstances matter - if the player discovers the person’s innocence alongside Damakas, he’ll still be stricken, but can be persuaded not to leave. However, if the player lied to him to get him to do it, there’s no going back.

Lharast: There’s a lot of ways. I’ve yet to fact-check this to see if it works, but in my npc lore for him so far, he was Minthara’s husband a couple hundred years ago, and that divorce - well, it was never really official. Since he’s met in act 2, if the player helps him with Minthara in their party, he will never end up removing his mask, and instead the covert version of his quest begins. He eventually takes you aside and tells you who he is and asks you to help him stab Minthara in the back, when the time is right. From that point, the player could tell Minthara, causing him to leave permanently. Alternatively, if Minthara is already out of the picture, bringing him back to Moonrise undisguised lands him in hot water, and if fumbled, leads to him getting taken back and mindraped beyond repair as punishment for desertion, as he was once high ranking among the Absolutists. Lharast doesn’t die, the player will probably just wish he had. The player could also fail at handling his patron, Malkizid, whereupon Malkizid essentially takes over Lharast’s form and replaces him in the party for a short time- albeit withholding the full strength of his archdevil powers. The other ways to get him gone are probably triggered by events later in the game, but since I haven’t actually gotten to play through those act 3 events yet, I can’t say for certain.

thanks again so much for the ask! and once again sorry it took so long to answer, I guess I just had to leave you in suspense for 10 days lmfao

[meltedhorror]

Let's go! What do you think about Enoch from OFF and Spamton? How you describe them to yourself? 👀 (ps and random fact. Did you know that butterflies can eat meat? Fascinating isn't it?)

Sorry I took so long to answer! I saw this ask and then just kinda,,,, forgot to answer it lmfao- Also that is a really cool fact! I had no idea about that!

This man? I love this man. Big scary director, evil, absolute bastard

Honestly tho I really like Enoch, he's so cool- And has a lot of cool fanon stuff too! I personally prefer the darker hcs, I just think that fits him a lot more AND it's much more closer to canon. I also just really like his design.......... rounde man..................

He's big on the propaganda against his workers; Work hard and you'll get what you're addicted to, don't fight the spectres and let them kill you, do what you're told and you'll hopefully be fine.

Of course he words it differently though, giving his employees a false sense of security. He's corrupt, but he does it because the addiction makes his workers happy, and it gives them something to work for. It wasn't always this way after all.

Honestly the entirety of Zone 3 is just so cool though, I think that's my favourite part of the game. Just a lil fucked up factory, what's not to love about it? And we also get the elsen that works the boiler room

I'm rlly tired so this art fucken SUCKS but oh well

Spamton!!!!! Is he!!!!!! A lil man!!!!

I really like him, he's actually the reason I played Deltarune in the first place because I just really REALLY liked his design; Forget everything else about him, his design is where it is AT

His personality and backstory though????? just aA, so fucking cOOL AND I LOVE IT, I am a fucking sucker for unhinged murderous characters that would probably kill me without hesitation, so sign me the FUCK up

Now, of course everyones allowed to have their own interpretations of things, I just don't really vibe with the "uwu scrungly squeak toy man haha funnee". I really prefer the way darker and edgier takes on his character - As he is in canon.

Yes, he's comedic and shit, but that's not the main thing about him; He's dark and edgy, a broken program still trying to cling to relevancy and of the mindset that no one really cared about him, when that couldn't be further from the truth seeing how the Addisons talk about him in the end. The only one who cared in his mind was Mike, and we saw how that went when Spamton put all his trust on them.

I guess I just really prefer him as a serious character rather than a meme man, that being said of course he's still funny to shitpost about

[leftski-art]

First off- Love your art. Big, hard yet somehow soft and warm. I can't really explain but I feel like all your characters smell great and give serotonine-filled hugs.

I would just love to know your drawing process. All your lines and colors are so clean, so straight, so nice. How do sketches look? Whats the walkthrough. Tell me your secrets. I beg of you.

Thank you! It’s a running joke among my D&D group that my characters give the best hugs, so I’d say your feeling is right ^^

Secrets can be found below 👀

The tools I use are as follows

a small Wacom Intuos tablet

Clip Studio Paint (sketch, lineart, flat colours, shading)

Photoshop (textures, backgrounds and lighting effects, colour correction, abusing the Liquify tool to try to fix anatomy mistakes)

Sketches

My sketches usually look something like this and involve a lot of scribbling and experimentation and use of the Transform tool until I end up with something I like. I kinda just feel out the shapes as I go and am constantly redoing and adjusting things.

The different colours are just so I can differentiate between the different elements and it doesn't all just become a giant scribbly mess when I'm trying to line it after.

Lines

As for my lineart, half of it is just a result of practice. I've been doing lineart + cell shading as my main style for over ten years now so I like to think I've managed to acquire some decent line control in that time.

The other half is a good stabilizer and pen pressure settings on the brushes I use.

Before Clip Studio Paint, I used Paint Tool SAI for my lineart because I could never get line results I was happy with in Photoshop, but not only does CSP have phenomenal stabilizer settings, its vector layers feature (which automatically turns your lines into vector shapes regardless of the brush you use!) has also made the process way easier by allowing me to edit and adjust my lines after the fact.

The one tip I can share when it comes to lineart is to take advantage of momentum. I never draw directly on my lineart layer; I make a new layer above it, draw on that one, and then merge it down every few minutes. This lets me use momentum to carry my brush strokes and then erase the parts that overlap without worrying about messing up the stuff I already have, resulting in smoother lines than if I had tried to precisely draw a straight line the entire time.

In the example above, the green line is on its own layer and can be easily erased without damaging the black lines around it.

I also tend to use a smaller brush for interior/detail lines and thicker ones for the outer edges of a shape just because I think it looks nice.

Process in General

Honestly, my process is just a lot of trial and error. I draw a line, undo it, draw a line, undo it. I sketch several hairstyles or outfits on different layers and then swap between them like some weird dress up game until I decide which to keep. I experiment with adjusting the hue and saturation of flat colours until I find something I like. I’m a very “make it up as I go” kind of artist, and really, creator in general; and rarely is the finished piece the result of any sort of plan.

That being said, I do have a general order in which I do things:

Sketch a bunch of random things until I find something I like

Merge all sketch layers and reduce the layer opacity until it’s very faint

Make a lineart layer above, then a layer to actually draw on above that

Draw the lineart using the techniques mentioned above (I often jump around and line different sections randomly), fixing any wonky parts of the sketch as I go

Make a separate layer below the finished lineart for each differently-coloured element (eg: hair layer, skin layer, pants layer, etc.) and fill with fill bucket*

Tweak each layer’s colour until vaguely happy with it

Make a layer below all other layers, select the entire interior of the lineart, fill it with black to fill any tiny gaps left by the fill bucket

Make a layer above all other layers, set it to multiply, draw shadows with a light grey-blue-purple colour (I shade one element at a time by selecting the area and then drawing within that selection on the shading layer)

Repeat step 7 with a layer set to Overlay and a light-medium grey for highlights

Open the image in Photoshop and apply gradients, patterns, lighting etc.

Notice all the mistakes it’s too late to fix and start second guessing the entire piece, say “screw it”, save it as a .png, and post anyway!

And I think that’s about it.

Sorry if that was confusing, I’m not sure how much previous knowledge of these programs you have or how much detail I should go into, but I hope maybe some of it was interesting and/or educational lol

I also have a short process video here that shows the steps one at a time that might help you visualise it better

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*In case anyone’s brave enough to try using this as a tutorial and isn’t sure what I mean here:

CSP lets you set the lineart layer as a reference layer and still fill the colour on a different layer as though the lines were present on that layer. In other programs you may have to select the area you want to colour on the lineart layer manually with the magic wand tool and then move to the corresponding colour layer before filling it in.

If you use a program where you have to select the area manually, you may want to keep all your tiny detailed lines on a separate lineart layer just so you don’t have to spend time selecting all the small gaps between them. Alternatively, you could just fill it by hand with a brush.

[b1a4seeyou]

Eight people I'd like to know better

Tagged by @masatohijirikawas ! Thankies, boo!! ;w;

Name/Alias: Eunhwa/Eun! I like the meaning behind it uwu

Birthday: 15th May (a day before Toriumi's holy heck)

Zodiac: Taurus!

Height: .....165 cm qkwhwlsjdlkc

Hobbies: My hobbies are pretty much everywhere. XD. But I guess singing, gaming and uh... does... cleaning count??

Favourite colours: RED!!!

Favourite books: *stares at my entire comic collection* Can these count? ;w;

Last song I listened to: Not gonna lie, I replayed a few old Vocaloid songs lately but Vocacircus' The Start is pretty much recent! Plz do give it a listen! It's a masterpiece 👌

Last movie I watched: I'm not even sure myself jwpqjskcn

Inspiration: NNGGGGHHHH. I'm not sure but I can say that my best friends are my inspirations! They achieve a lot of higher rank stuff irl and social media, and I really look up to them! Hearing their stories about what they did gives me the boost to keep going for the things I wanna get through so maybe, we all can be in the same level and achieve things together! (o 0 w0)o

Dream career: Umm... haha, Idk yet. *games all scattered* Oops, sorry, I didnt mean to- *writing drafts flying away* No, wait, this isnt mine haha. This is just work- *short game concept ideas all over the place* Okay, okay, but hear me out. This is just temporarily. *code samples sticks to your face* NNGGGGHHH. Okay, okay, okay!! I did plan to be a game developer one day and currently taking a course based on it. ;; But like I said, it's just a temporary kinda target. If it doesn't work out, I'll probably open my own cat cafe and drag my friends into it wosjdonfkc

Meaning of my URL: Once upon a time during my Kpop obsession phase, I was too obsessed with the group and decided to create an account to meet fellow people. Turned out good but didnt expect to be in this phase now wkdbdofjvk. Also 'seeyou' was actually one of the member's fan name, I just feel like combining them. XP

Oh boy, eight people. Mmmmm... Tagging uh @shinanigansen @mewtwo24 @jessrine @mp100 @multipeaceout14 and uh just anyone who hasnt done this! Just tag me as your tagger uwu