#Auroracomic

[poisondragonart]

osp mummy video made me do it

[tesslinua]

Women kissing other women

[kriquekrack]

I had to

[daylight-anim]

the cool metal lady

[primodialchaoswizard]

Kendal: You’re telling me a shrimp fried this rice?

Aliuna: Based? Based on what?

Erin: Apartment complex? I find it quite simple really.

Falst: The bird flu? Yeah they tend to that.

Tess: Road work ahead? Uh yeah, I sure hope it does!

Dainix: Chef’s kiss? Do they really?

[spacetronomyfan]

AITA for protecting my city?

I'm (750M) a god of a pretty big and important city. I take a lot of pride in maintaining order and keeping crime to a minimum. Unfortunately, a nearby city (300M) has a bit of a reputation for harbouring criminals and ne'er-do-wells of all sorts. I've gone low-contact with him (we are coworkers so I can't cut contact altogether, it's complicated). But recently, his... Child? Byproduct? Thingy came to my city, so naturally I had the thing imprisoned. I just felt like the risk to my people was too great, and this was really a big violation on Rival City's (RC) part for crossing my boundaries anyway. But now people are saying I "unjustly imprisoned him" and "he hasn't done anything wrong". He's a representative of RC and carries all the abilities and memories of their god! I think he's a clear danger to my people and he needed to be locked away. AITA for protecting my city?

Edit: please stop speculating whether RC is Vash. I need to protect my privacy.

Edit edit: you all wouldn't last a day in my arena

[coffeewolfart]

Dear @comicaurora I would humbly request that you consider my proposal of giving your babies a break.

Sincerely, a fan who wants to see them go sleepy go cozy

[aurorian-library-diver]

What does the life think of the collector?

Unclear at the moment!

We can assume somewhat negative given the reaction she had to Jolon, but otherwise we have no confirmation one way or the other.

[dailytarren]

I’m very sad about this blog running out of content, have a counterfeit Tarren

[When It Will Never Feel The Same — digital art]

Yay! Another Tarren!

[poisondragonart]

I’ve been in a void dragon-themed haze the past couple of weeks, so this post heralds the start of a lot of voidy art. Stay tuned?

[tesslinua]

I made a Tesslinua wedding cake!

[kriquekrack]

I should've made this joke sooner

[tungle-scant-sequels]

2024 annual auroracord protagonist message mentions report

yeah hi uh i'm not that active on auroracord but i love to measure data (in discord messages) over regular periods of time. i thought this could be a nice thing to discuss as a fandom

(we're supposedly using mentions within discord messages as our measure of popularity. gonna discuss one potential flaw of this metric in the Factors section)

2023 mentions

this is my second time making one of these graphs. 1st time was on may 22 2023, less than an hour after the page uploaded, purely out of boredom. it also documented a one year span. i'm not going to discuss this one rn but the rest of you can

may 22 2022 - may 22 2023 kendal: 5041 alinua: 2971 erin: 7546 falst: 4788 tess: 3926 dainix: 3385

2024 mentions

kendal: 7065 alinua: 4142 erin: 8662 falst: 9006 tess: 4432 dainix: 6921

factors affecting character mentions

appearance frequency within current arc

i'd say narrative role would be a pretty major one in other cases but like these are all protagonists. they've been here the whole time

fandom popularity (there is a BUNCH of factors within this one haha. individual & societal biases are going to play in here) -- real life fan demographics (age, gender, sexual orientation, various neurodivergences etc. can't break this down by category because discord's very private but this is probably affecting popularity somehow) -- fandom demographics (kendal fans vs alinua fans vs dainix fans present in the server etc) -- character complexity i guess (ex. i'd say tess would get less discussion bc her character's like kind of comfy & resolved already). this factor is also very subjective subjective (refer to point below) -- from the previous 2 points, demographics of the characters themselves (gender, race, sexual orientation? uh. personality if you want to share disorders with them, age if that varied that much for these guys, etc.)

FLAW: controversy! they don't have to be liked to be discussed. worth noting that on discord (conversation platform) majority favorites may trump individual tastes here (ex. a kendal fan may end up mentioning erin more because he comes up in conversation more often)

expected changes:

overall numbers are higher compared to last year due to higher server population

dainix & falst get a huge boost mentions because of dungeon arc & subsequent shipping stuff

alinua remains the lowest 😐

tess gets less discussion due to her character being like. pretty comfortable . what i said

unexpected changes:

alinua's mentions were like half erin's what the hell. still remaining staggeringly low somehow

kendal's position is in a relatively similar place. was expecting him to be lower but that's probably because i personally don't think of him that much

ok i've been not very active here but i don't recall people discussing erin so much that he can compete with the emerging crustables yaoi

to do:

make an average 'character mentions per month' graph for the 6 aurora protags. i want to get a baseline of how many mentions are normal for them

anyway if you liked these graphs i encourage you to make your own for other fan servers you may be a part of. fun activity

[primodialchaoswizard]

When Kendal sleeps he shares the stories of his adventures with the ghost children of Vash. Send post

[dead-account-okay]

"Alinua, similarly, fits very well into the Dark Fairytale angle already. She’d arguably work as both the innocent child and the scary incomprehensible Thing In The Woods."

@comicaurora

[coffeewolfart]

Decided to make this for the aurora discord server, hope you all enjoy it!