#alastair hayashi

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Inking is still off the table right now but I’m getting on okay with pencil sketching, so here’s the pencils for what will eventually be a new profile image for my Instagram! I’ve been wanting to replace my hat icon with a proper drawing over there (although I’m probably going to keep the hat everywhere else) and my OC Alastair seemed like the natural subject to go for. He’s been on the back of my business cards this whole time, making him the closest thing I’ve got to a mascot-type character, so he gets to wear the space cap. (He’s not usually a hat guy, but gotta stick to The Brand(TM).)

It’s been the best part of a year since I last drew this nerd, I’ve missed him.

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Alastair, 1.9, 2.2, 2.7, 3.8 with this 'what is your daemon' quiz that I'll send you in a sec cause tumblr asks eat links, and 3.8

1.9 Favourite pieces of fiction or genres they enjoy?

Alastair’s an epic fantasy kind of guy. He likes Lord of the Rings and other similar fantasy settings, and his preference skews towards hopeful stories rather than grimdark ones. He’s also a big fan of any sort of story about explorers, so anything Star Trek-y is a favourite.

2.2 If they were in a RPG, what would be their class?

Wizard is probably the closest, since Alastair is first and foremost a nerd who likes learning things, and very much not a warrior.

2.7 If your character exists in another series’ world, what would they be doing/look like?

Well, I think I pretty comprehensively answered the ‘what would they look like’ question in this post, but as for what he’d be doing, if there’s spaceships he’s flying one of them. If there aren’t spaceships, he’s probably some sort of researcher or teacher or both. He’d be a superhero in a comic book world, but that’s the closest thing to warrior he’d ever be. Dude’s a nerd and a pacifist.

3.3 Take a personality test as the character. Post results.

Your daemon would take the form of an owl! Those who have owl daemons are intelligent and precise, though unlike other bird daemons they exude pure logic. They are observant and critical, preferring subtly and independence when it comes to pursuing their goals.

Your daemon would take the form of a snowy owl! You are a powerful and assertive individual who values deep thought and clarity. More so than others with owl daemons, those with snowy owls are independent and confident, able to appear competent even when they don't feel it. Rarely does their resilient and strong-willed exterior waver.

That’s actually remarkably accurate.

3.8 How do they express love/affection for someone?

Words, mostly, and also random acts of niceness. Alastair isn’t a very physically demonstrative person, so when he cares about people he tells them and he’s very free with compliments. He’ll also do small nice things like fixing things or saving some of a person’s favourite food or similar, and he doesn’t draw attention to the fact that he’s doing them. Seeing someone’s day improved in a small way is its own reward. But he is a bit more physically affectionate with the people he’s closest to, and that tends to manifest as friendly shoulder pats or the ruffling of hair or gentle nudging. He’ll happily be hugged, but he doesn’t really initiate those sorts of things.

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Reminder that what Gem/Alastair/Hayashi is doing is very much a crime and he can face legal consequences for this.

im trying my best not to actively send extreme anon hate, but i genuinely dont get how my mutuals can follow you when theyre anti blm, transmed, and right wing. i thought you wanted us dead after i said looting wasnt ok and you borderline harassed me like youre part of the shoplifting community. also, i highly doubt youre actually trans and not a trendbie looking for attention

Ah got it, that's who you are.

I don't know either, but that's really up to them. It may be because I never wish death on... anyone. That and I can admit that transmeds are doing what they think is best for the community, even if I see it as harmful.

For right-wing and anti blm, I don't know. Maybe just don't be a sensitive snowflake about it/s. I don't care if they follow, it'd be a but hypocritical seeing as how I let terfs hate follow me, but I'm not going to say that I align with them in any way.

My dad is a retired cop and got extremely defensive when he learned that I was pro blm, and I'm pro blm because I realized that what he taught me when younger was drenched in hate and racism. That and I uh, don't like my partner living in fear of the police.

I didn't borderline harass you, I responded to a comment you left on my post. I legitimately have a rule for myself to stop if the person asks me to or implies that they want me to fuck off.

At the time of the post I stood by not judging the looting. I stood by that in my own beliefs because I could not have enough information about what was going on (like.. the looters may have not even been there for the blm protest itself and just for the chaos). I stood by my partner talking about people looking past the looting because they're black and I'm not.

That's not the same as trying to shoplift makeup from Sephora and bragging about it, may I add. They are very separate things.

The end is just funny, come on dude. I legit have gender dysphoria and have been on T for more than two years. Trying to claim that I'm a transtrender that wants attention is incredibly sad, by both my standards and the standards of truscum and transmeds.

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I like having my wee hat icon on here, but I’ve been wanting to draw a new profile image for Instagram and Twitter for a while now, and here it is! Feat. the space cap, because of course, and also my OC Alastair. 

There was quite a lot of experimenting with the different effects you can get with markers for this one, and I tried out some shading and colouring tricks that I haven’t really used before. I really like the results!

EDIT: Now available as a tiny print in my online shop! Check out the link on my blog or look up SpaceCap Art on Storenvy.

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I’ve been watching a whole lot of cartoons lately, and I thought it would be fun to draw my OC Alastair in a whole bunch of styles from different shows! I’ve seen a few Youtube videos of folks doing the same, and it turned out to be a really interesting challenge. I learned a lot, both about how different styles actually work and about what are the important elements of my guy’s design. (And about how hard it is to achieve something that looks like black but isn’t when all your darkest markers are running dry, yikes. I had to just make do on the hair colour in most cases, but so it goes with traditional art.)

It’s a toss up between the RWBY and SU ones for my favourite, I think. The expression on the RWBY one turned out so well, and the SU one is just adorable.

(Click through for an image description with a list of the cartoons in question)

[ID: Twelve different headshots of an OC, Alastair Hayashi, each one drawn in the style of a different cartoon. Alastair is a handsome, square-jawed Japanese man with side-parted black hair, and he is smiling slightly in most of the drawings. His clothes vary between drawings but are always grey and white, with occasional red details. The shows the styles are from are labelled in red text, and are (from left to right) as follows: My style (one of them, anyway), Avatar: The Legend of Korra, Voltron: Legendary Defender, RWBY, Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood, She-Ra and the Princesses of Power, Gravity Falls, The Dragon Prince, The Avengers: Earth’s Mightiest Heroes, Young Justice, Steven Universe, and Batman: The Brave and the Bold. end ID.]

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I found this drawing from a few months ago and realised I never posted it, so here’s Anwara and Alastair! I really need to draw them more, especially at this age (approx early 20s) because this is when they met and became friends after a very short period of being flight school rivals. Very short and one-sided, in fact, because it turns out Anwara’s bitter rivalry with the guy who kept beating her simulator scores was mostly in her head, and as soon as she actually met the guy she realised Alastair was a dork that she couldn’t hate if she tried. They’re very much opposites-attract best friends and I love them dearly. 

Also Alastair looks So Goofy with his hair that short and I love it because he absolutely does not notice or care because he’s finally flying spaceships! Which is all he’s ever wanted to do! Why would he waste time on his hair when he could be spending that time with spaceships? He’s such a nerd, it’s so fun.

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Inktober day 12 is quick and off-topic because it’s a con weekend and I’m too tired to do justice to anything else. So here’s my character Alastair, a big gay autistic space nerd who I love dearly and really should draw more often.

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I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night...

It seemed appropriate to kick off the year by drawing my guy Alastair, since I’ve made a sort-of resolution to actually sit down and write his story this year. Which is exciting, because I love this big space nerd a lot and I can’t wait for other people to get to know him (and his friends and his world) too.

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Here’s a fluffy-haired Alastair in pyjamas, because I wanted to draw my guy again. He’s not usually a graphic t-shirts person, but when you’re a gay astronaut and you encounter a shirt with a cartoon rocket shooting rainbows on it, you acquire that shirt. The socks with stars on them were a birthday gift from his little sister, and no, he doesn’t really need to wear a sock on his prosthetic foot but socks come in pairs and he’s particular about that sort of thing.

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I felt like drawing something cute, so here are two of the main characters from my space technically hopefully someday a novel but it still feels weird calling it that story. Alastair (left) is best described as serious but kind, and Charlie (right) is an incurable goofball and I love them both dearly.

One of these days I’ll draw Alastair wearing something other than his Exploration Corps uniform, but tbh being nigh perpetually in uniform is entirely in-character. The big nerd loves his job.

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My guy Alastair, drawn relatively quickly for pose practice and also to test out some different paper I found lying around. It smudged quite a lot so I probably won’t use it again, but I treated the smudges as Bob Ross happy accidents and this turned into an Alastair who’s recently returned from a few weeks in deep space and thus is a bit scruffier than usual. Which isn’t a bad look on him, it turns out, so that’s good to know.

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I’ve finally drawn all four main characters of my space story!

Expect to see more of these guys over the next month or so, because even though I’m not doing NaNoWriMo properly, I am planning on doing a lot of worldbuilding and some proper writing for these guys’ story (which maybe I’ll manage to name one of these days...). I also want to draw them a lot more, because look at them, they’re adorable.

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I'm too tired to ink anything tonight, but I’m really excited about this so here’s a WIP. Alastair’s hair gets fluffier every time I draw him and I think that’s Great

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Remember how I said I have four OCs now? Well, here’s two of them! (I still need to draw the other two, but they’re up next.)

Meet Alastair Hayashi and ‘Charlie’ Charleston, who live on a space station on the edge of an area of space that’s rich in both resources and anomalies and is one of the main frontiers of human exploration. (And also secretly has aliens on the other side of it, but shhhh, humanity doesn’t know they’re not alone out there yet). Alastair is a scout pilot for a Starfleet-type organisation and Charlie flies ships for a civilian exploration group.

Personality-wise, Alastair is kind, a bit reserved but friendly, and takes things quite seriously. He’s a natural mentor and a total dad friend, and has a deeply nerdy love of all things spaceship related. Charlie is cheerful, emotionally perceptive, and has a wisecrack for every situation. Enthusiastic and excitable, he’s the sort of guy that gets along really well with kids and makes friends wherever he goes.

They’re also both Really gay for each other. (Alastair is gay, Charlie is bi.)

I love them dearly.

Oh yeah, and important factoid:

Charlie is about 6′. Alastair is Really Tall.

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🖊!

Thanks!!

I know it said ‘pick one at random’, but I’m going to pick two because I can’t remember if I’ve rambled about the friendship between Flynn and Alastair yet and that’s a travesty because it’s rapidly become my favourite relationship in the whole story.

The short version: tall and small queer autistic solidarity.

The long version: One of the first proper conversations they had was Flynn essentially threatening Alastair because he had started dating Charlie (Flynn’s best and basically only friend). It was a classic ‘hurt my friend and I hurt you’ thing, but Alastair took a chance and, after reassuring Flynn that he had no intention of doing so, also reassured them that he had no intention of getting in the way of Charlie and Flynn’s friendship either. He was exactly right that that was what Flynn was most worried about and, after they got over their surprise, Flynn decided right there and then that Alastair was now An Acceptable Human(TM).

And then suddenly they were friends. Whether it was the listening with sympathy to grumbling about Neurotypical Nonsense(TM) or the shared appreciation of spaceships, or just a general sense of Same Hat despite their seemingly wildly different personalities, something about them clicked pretty much instantly. They spend a lot of time just existing in the same space, enjoying the quiet companionship of someone who expects nothing more or less from them that they be themselves. There’s an understanding and a lack of judgement there, and they’ve also learned a lot from each other. Flynn has picked up some of Alastair’s scripts for dealing with people more diplomatically, and Alastair has learned from Flynn’s example how to pay more attention to his own needs rather than focusing on accommodating everyone else to his own detriment. They’re good for each other.

Also, an important mental image: picture, if you will, tiny, skinny 5′4′’ Flynn, full of Righteous Fury and stepping protectively in front of 6′4′’-and-built-like-Captain-America Alastair in order to stare down some perceived threat. And behind them, Alastair is giving said threat an equally hard stare of ‘hurt my friend and you’ll answer to me’, simultaneously respecting Flynn’s desire to defend him and being fully prepared to defend them in return.

I love these two and their autistic-solidarity-and-mutual-respect-based friendship So Much

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3, 5, 8, 9 for Alastair!

3. Ask them to describe their love interest.

“Charlie?” *very fond smile* “He’s ridiculous. And I mean that in the most positive way - I don’t think I’ve ever met someone who’s so... loudly himself. It’s inspiring, really. He’s inspiring.” *laughs* “But if you tell him I said that out loud, he’ll be insufferable about it for months. You should have seen how pleased he got when I told him I liked his jokes, although part of that was that I don’t think he thought I had a sense of humour at first.

“But I’m getting sidetracked - I’d describe him as funny, unashamedly himself, and the sort of friend anyone would be lucky to have. I’m incredibly glad he’s part of my life.”

5. Speech! Speech! Speech! Speech! Will they give one, and what about?

Alastair is pretty reserved in general, but he’s quite comfortable with public speaking. He’s a natural leader so he’s good at the sorts of speeches that encourage and inspire people, and he also does a fair amount of teaching meaning he’s good at conveying information and generating enthusiasm about specific topics. His favourite topic to speak about is how exciting it is to be on the frontier of human exploration and scientific progress, and all the incredible things we’re still learning about the universe. There’s a reason he’s the go-to guy if the Nimbus Station branch of the Exploration Corp need someone to do outreach work.

8. Do complex puzzles intrigue or frustrate them?

This is a man who has an astrophysics degree and reads spaceship technical manuals for fun, he’s all about complex systems and puzzles. He actually uses complex puzzles as a way to relax when he’s feeling overwhelmed in an ‘I can’t solve this problem, so I’m going to go find a technical/scientific puzzle that I can completely focus on for a couple of hours and feel like I’m accomplishing something’ sort of way. Although that can backfire because not being able to solve whatever it is will just stress him out more.

9. Do they empathise with non-sentient things (dolls, plants, books…)?

Alastair is autistic and has low empathy in general, but he does tend to experience spikes of hyperempathy that are almost always pointed towards objects. He’ll get really stressed out about damage to a book, for instance. But empathy’s always been a weird one for him because he Cares A Lot, but just... doesn’t get all that affected by the emotions of other people. He can stay very calm in the face of anger and stress in others, and his response to someone being upset isn’t to get upset himself but to immediately try and find a way that he can help. And that’s not what this question was asking, but empathy is a big and confusing subject and I wanted to clarify where he stands on it.