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Character Intro: Pheme (Kingdom of Ichor)

Nicknames- Bottom Feeder by Hades

Sweetheart by her parents

My little diamond by Pseudologos

Age- 21 (immortal)

Location- Skyline district, New Olympus

Personality- She can be very vain, narcissistic, and shallow at times. She’s also extremely talkative and nosy, prideful of herself for knowing everybody’s business in Olympius from an A-list deity to the most unassuming mortal. She’s single.

Being the goddess of fame, she has exceptional gossip skills. She can make people famous or in a higher position with her words. If crossed, she can make people unpopular & infamous through rumors. As well as having the power of flight (due to her shimmering silver wings), she can also teleport through cameras, phones, and mirrors, & can sense a person’s reputation.

She's well aware how some of the other gods overlook her & her abilities.

In New Olympus, Pheme lives in an opulent mansion in the Skyline district with over a thousand windows so she can see everything that’s going on. She also owns a fashionable condo in the Queenstown district as well as beach houses in Delos, Shimmering Tail Island, & Lemnos. She does have pets- dogs and all of them are girls. There's a bichon frise named Jewel, a shih tzu named Cashmere, a maltipoo named Dulce, & a chihuahua named Sparkle.

Pheme has her own private plane nicknamed "The Jet-Setter."

She doesn't have that close of a relationship with her parents- Elpis (goddess of hope) and Dolos (god of deception & trickery), but she does love them. Other members of Pheme's immediate family includes grandfather Pseudologos (god of lies), her great-uncle Logos (god of stories), and her first cousin Eikono (goddess of iconography & literature).

Pheme runs a popular morning podcast called Morning Tea as well as a late night talk show called The Godly Hour, watched by millions with the ratings only being rivaled by The Agnostic Network. She also runs a successful tabloid magazine called The Oracle Scoop. Pheme is a frequent writer of Modern Olympus magazine as well as The Acropolis Street Ledger. She's also a co-chair of the Olympus Gala, one of the biggest events in all of Olympius!

Pheme also runs the second biggest production companies- being responsible for some of the TV shows & movies that are being put out, including the critically panned, but incredibly popular The Dynasty of the Vain & Powerful.

Her favorite place in the entire world is her main closet, which is filled with clothes. Pheme also has separate closets for her cosmetics, handbags, shoes, & jewelry. She almost never wears the same outfit twice.

She’s the third most followed goddess on Fatestagram.

Pheme has a personal assistant, Cleta (goddess of whispers), who essentially does all the snooping & dirty work for her. She also has her own crew of paparazzi and photographers.

Her go-to drink is a mimosa. She also likes caramel lattes, cosmopolitans, gin & tonics, champagne, and classic martinis. Her usuals from The Roasted Bean is a cappuccino & a large caramel latte.

A guilty pleasure is yellowtail sashimi, stopping by The Ocean Roll for a go-to order.

Her go-to meal is lobster filled ravioli with shrimp served with a side of foie gras.

She's friends with Narcissus (a mortal & popular model), Móda (goddess of fashion), Chrysos (god of gold & riches), Apate (goddess of fraud & deception), Pandora (the immortal mortal model), Aoide (goddess of voice & song), Calypso, Adephagia (goddess of gluttony), Momus (god of mockery, satire, & ridicule) with her greatest frenemy being Aphrodite (goddess of love & beauty). Pheme's also friends with two of Helios' daughters- Phaethusa and Lampetia.

She’s a former protege of Clymene (Titaness of fame & renown), who was her official mentor.

Her relationship with Hera (goddess of women & marriage) is strained. It started after she walked in on Pheme and Zeus (god of the sky, thunder, & lightning) kissing, under the guise of a business meeting. Pheme blames it on being a bit tipsy after drinking three glasses of champagne.

She once spent over thirty million drachmas in a single shopping spree!

Pheme has her own glamour doll collectibles!

Her favorite treat to indulge in is the opulent sundae, with a 68,000 drachma price tag, this frozen treat is made with vanilla ice cream, saffron, black truffle, champagne rose sorbet, chocolate vodka sauce drizzled on top and sprinkled with edible 24 karat gold flakes. She gets it from The Luxe.

She had a one night stand with Charon (Ferryman of the Underworld), which she thinks about often.

Pheme has the third-most worn fashion line, after Aphrodite and Hera. Her line Diamond Ave. (which includes clothes, shoes, cosmetics, jewelry, accessories, eyewear, & handbags) has gained popularity but has received much criticism due to the outlandish prices of the products (like paying nearly 800 drachmas a pop for a pair of shoes)! There's even custom shoes, where the soles are encrusted in miniature diamonds. There are store locations in the Underworld.

A popular item of her brand is called "The Diamond Dress"- a nude colored mermaid style dress made with organza and chiffon is covered in nearly 1,000 different extravagant diamonds. There's a 130-carat yellow canary diamond in the center of the bosom. The Diamond Dress is an archived piece at the NOMMA.

In her free time Pheme likes shopping, going to the spa, skiing, going to the cinema, swimming, going to the theater, tennis, listening to music, sailing, tanning, clubbing, & dining out.

“If you lose a friend, you can buy 100 more.”

[streetsteel]

“Who are YOU?”

Ghosts of the past showing up on dash — Accepting

Why are you even asking you know Handsome Jack he’s a LEGEND where were you living under a ROCK MAYBE??

People are ALWAYS flocking to him. And there’s a goddamn reason for it. Because he’s Handsome Fucking Jack. He runs the company, he owns the place, and he does it in style. He’s also hotter than whatever kids think is hot shit on whatever social media they’re on, so jot that down. 

And flock they do. Hyperion executives gathering around him, as soon as he walks out of his office. Styluses and holopads held out for him, and he just. Takes it in stride. Like a boss. Signs here, there, calm the fuck down Smitherlick he told you he’s not approving that budget you can jerk yourself right off with it, approves of a new R&D project in the blink of an eye, winks at the camera pointed at him, what did I say about touching me don’t touch me next time you’ll get airlocked off the station. Turns back. Leans against one of the loader bots nearby, arms crossed on his chest. Another handsome smile at the camera. That’ll be good for the tabloids. 

Oh, by the way, Loader? Airlock that dickweed anyway. People always learn by experience. 

There’s screams, kicking, as that one person gets picked up by the large robot and dragged away. Others exchange an uneasy glance, but it’s a split second before the attention focuses back on him. But he waves a dismissive hand at them. Back to work, y’all, he’s got shit to do, and so do you. Don’t waste his time, or you’ll go walk his dog on Elpis without a proper O2-kit. And without the dog. …should probably get a dog for the express purpose of THAT ONE SCENARIO. Oh well.

Back to the desk. Back to the IMPORTANT BUSINESS. 

Where’s that Vault Hunter at? 

Jack sits back, ankles crossed on top of his desk, and clicks the button on his ECHO device. Don’t know the Vault Hunter’s personal ECHO number? Simple, we’ll contact the whole fucking network. Anyway, he can do it. He’s allowed. He’s rich, he can do whatevs. 

“OH HEY. How’s it goin’, cupcake? Not dead yet?” No, of course not. Because there’s no one COMPETENT enough to catch a gotdamn war criminal an’ his tiny ass gun-lickin’ bud. Meanwhile? Eh. Talk about whatever. It’ll piss ‘em off. 

“SO. Because I treasure your oh-so-valuable opinion and all. Ever thought about how STUPID the guy who invented polo shirts was? ‘Like, I really like t-shirts, but I gotta make it classy like a button-down, so hey. THREE WHOLE BUTTONS IS ALL I NEED, WAY TO G O.’ Give that man a prize, someone, we invented the WORST THING EVER. Well, except maybe your mom when she gave birth to you, but really? REALLY, a polo shirt?” 

…Wait. Where was he going with that.

“Anyway. Food for thought, while you’re waiting to die or something. ‘Kay bye.”

There. That was productive. 

[digital-diary-hope]

Week 2: Design from a brief

This week we split off into smaller groups to create a brief for a character. Once this was completed we handed it in and received a brief from another group for us to complete. 

My group got a brief for a character called Elpy. This character was a bubbly cacti/succulent that had a consciousness and lived in a greenhouse with other conscious plants. 

This task was quite tough at first, because the brief was really broad and didn’t really give us too much to go off of and left us with a lot of questions. But as a team we decided on a general direction and went on from there. 

Of the three illustration types we were given, I chose to draw the mobile gaming type to draw, because it’s a style I’ve never looked into before and I want to learn more about other styles outside of my own style. 

This is what I managed to draw in the alloted time. I ried to make it simple so that it could be recognised even when shrunk down. I drew it on a square because it could then be used as the app icon as well. I think it turned out pretty well. I’m not very good at drawing hard lines on my drawings so that was quite tough for me and although the lines aren’t perfect, I think they turned out pretty well. 

I chose a softer colour scheme because I wanted the character to appear soft, like the brief described. I felt if I went much darker with the colours it might come off too hard and rough and a bit more threatening. 

This was the final designs of our group, the two on the end were added in later as they didn’t make the meeting where we were given a brief. Hanna, who created the middle drawing, couldn’t make it to the afternoon meeting where we went over colour schemes and stuff. And I really think you can tell that James and I had that extra bit of communication, because out drawings are quite similar when it comes to style and colour. 

I found working in a group over Microsoft teams really difficult, quite awkward, and felt like i didn’t get everything I wanted to get done completed. It’s quite hard to communicate effectively in a group over the web when you haven’t had that in person chat, because you can’t bounce ideas off each other effectively. I think the others in my team agreed with this because we all really struggled with that aspect. 

It’s also tough because it means I have to be depleting my wifi all day in order to keep that line of communication open, which isn’t always possible because I’m not the only person who needs to be using my network. 

[lyengamuwa]

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