#and julius and adam are named after juliusz słowacki and adam mickiewicz; the two most famous writers of polish romanticism

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BASIL!!!! i am now asking you about your ocs!!! <3

assuming tumblr lets the cat through, that is my cat who i turned into an emoji. except on tumblr, she doesn’t quite work as an emoji and instead becomes a big transparent image

AHHH OMG YOUR KITTY <3333 I LUV HER

anyway HELL YEAH BUCKLE IN THIS IS GONNA BE A LONG ONE

so i have several different universes. to start us off, my ttrpg ocs. or specifically one ttrpg oc, because you already heard about the other ones i care most about that arent just rip-offs of fictional characters i like.

this is virginia. she's my character for my best friend's d&d campaign where we play as mobsters doing mobster things and she's my favourite ttrpg character i've made to date. i won't tell you much about her because i've actually written some stuff for her so you can find out about her from that as opposed to me just telling you! read about her here!!!

next up.... uhhh ok before i tell you about my other ocs im just gonna say that a lot of this stuff is gonna be vague as hell because i'm basically in a perpetual state of revamping and revising these stories.

so first off we have my oldest and dearest to my heart universe which um. ironically is the only one that remains untitled. actually you know what this one takes a lot of explaining because it's got a lot of complex worldbuilding so i'll come back and tell you about this one some other time, ok? i dont really have the strength rn to write about it 😭

ok then we have dreambound, which is a fantasy story that i made based on a dream i had once 🔥it's the story of a young princess called yavalina (yava for short) (she/her) getting hit with a sleeping spell right before her coronation, and her consciouscness is transported to a maaagical world borne of her dreams!!! though like i cant stress this enough its an actual real world, she's not just like. hallucinating. the people in there are real.

anyway in order to find out how to break the sleeping spell and get back home she has to travel to the magical wishing tree at the heart of the ever-shifting Circadian Forest, where the fabric of this world's reality is the thinnest and the connections to other dream worlds (there is one for everybody from yava's world!) are the strongest! to assist her on this journey she enlists the help of senfrey (he/him), a mage whose magical heirloom compass shows a way through the forest. they set off, and along their journey meet many waAaAacky characters, grow as people, etc etc, yknow, typical hero's journey stuff.

the crux of this story is anticipatory grief. yava is scared of how much fun she's having and how much she likes spending time with senfrey, because she knows that once their journey comes to an end, they'll part ways forever. her arc revolves around her making peace with this fact.

here's some old-ish drawings of them! yava's the cat, senfrey is the axolotl! also fun fact, this universe pulls from omori a lot aesthetic wise, that's why yava's monochrome.

neeeeext up we have fran finchley, which is the result of me going "man harry potter has such cool aesthetics, too bad its a shit series with a shit author". so this is an extremely self-indulgent magic school story, set in a fictionalized version of great britiain, which focuses on a 13 y/o girl named frances finchley (fran for short) (they/them) who. yknow. starts attending a magic school. but like instead of being awesome and making lots of friends, nobody really likes them cause they're strange (autistic) 👍instead they become friends with this new teacher named crowheart knockwood (they/them)!!! i cant believe we're both goth, trans and autistic!!! they find a kindred soul in one another bc crowheart's not human, they're part of a species known as shadowfolk!! and shadowfolk are generally pretty negatively stereotyped by humans so crowheart doesnt quite fit in among them but they were also raised by humans, so the isolationist shadowfolk community doesnt rly accept them either 👍but yeah uhhhh they are epic friends and do shenanigans

this story is generally super self-indulgent, fran is the most mega turbo self-insert to have ever self-inserted, the whole thing's got a gothic aesthetic cause im goth (including both fran and crowheart being goth in-universe), and they also both have corvids associated with them cause i love corvids (fran is associated with jackdaws and crowheart with. well. crows. hooded crows to be precise)

i only have incredibly shitty drawings of these two and tumblr is freaking out when i try to put them here so i guess its not meant to be. maybe i'll show you when i make some better drawings of them.

and finally, there's one that is also untitled but in my oc discord channel is labeled as "julius & adam romantic buddies". i came up with it when we were learning about character archetypes in romantic (the era not the genre) literature in school and i was like "hey wouldn't it be funny if a wertherian hero and a byronic hero were friends"

basically:

a wertherian hero is a character with an active imagination, usually a poet, who feels misunderstood and like they do not belong in this world and are very sad and depressed about it. usually also suffer from an unrequited love. often also suicidal

a byronic hero is a rebellious individualist, a mysterious, brooding figure at odds with the world. they're haunted by their past, often because they committed some great evil in it. they also typically have strong convictions and ideals which they perceive as superior to others, which makes them come off as arrogant.

so in the context of this story, the byronic hero is adam (he/him), an immortal being haunted by his past misdeeds (and perhaps even a lost love....) who is now a hermit and just wants to live his life undisturbed.

and the wertherian hero is julius (also he/him), a young poet struggling to make ends meet and find love.

through shenanigans which i have not figured out yet, they become roommates. cue dumbass sitcom hijinks

they eventually grow to value each other and become awesome friends (and maybe even... lovers... but idk idk!!!)

this is them... julius is the sheep, adam's the big shadowy thing... i actually got so pissed at how shitty adam looks in the first picture that i went and drew a new thing of him right now, which is the second picture. maybe i'll draw an updated julius sometime too