#character creation fun times

[elgaladwen]

I, of course, (because you will get spammed with more pictures of them) have versions of my two main OCs as my main playthroughs in BG3, but I have been having fun creating some other LOTRO characters there just to see them, because who doesn't like playing with dolls, and having 'down by the river' stuck in your head?

Lindandir (pretty darn close to how I picture him!)

Moradan (Not perfect, but the general idea is there)

Caitta (Should have longer hair and gnarlier scar. She definitely uses cosmetics though!)

Kheledis (Her head should be wider, and she should have more braids in her beard in general, but she changes up her beard and hair sometimes anyway)

Not my characters, but Bonus Gallorith and Mingallin <3

[neunhofferart]

Howdy, Heidi! You said that some fans picked up things that were done on accident… Were there more scenes like that? Also, were there scenes that you guys made on purpose but fans didn’t pick up / were aware of them? In shipping terms (hihi) and in general terms. Thanks!

I think in every type of media you will inevitably see versions of 'authorial' intent vs audience interpretation that overlap and differ from each other in many ways. (Authorial intent in quotes because in collaborative mediums like film and animation every single person on the pipeline who touches the work probably has a slightly different personal interpretation they're contributing to the final work, even under someone like a showrunner or a director).

Humans are smart and it's in our nature to look for connections and find explainations to questions, so most of the time if someone is putting something down, someone is going to pick it up, so to speak, and a lot of things ARE on purpose.

But this same phenomenon can also lead to us seeing connections in places that even the 'authors' might not have originally thought of while creating the work, and I think that can be pretty neat actually! I don't necessarily think reading alternate interpretations of works is wrong-- it can be very healthy to explore multiple reads of a narrative or a character/character dynamic. On Chaos Theory there were definitely times when we were like 'fans are probably gonna ship this even if it's not the text' haha. Sometimes fans latch onto headcanons you really have no control over. Sometimes things were animated slightly differently from how they were conceived (which is also a natural part of things).

But yes, sometimes I have seen a few other things that were interpreted in slightly different ways from how they were directed or written verbally, but I'm personally of the opinion that it's more fun to leave some things visual and open to a little interpretation rather than beating the words over the audience's head and having the characters constantly announcing 'I'm feeling this because of this!' And going 'this is the only way to interpret the show and the characters and if you don't you're wrong!'

It's usually not a huge deal. I think even as we were working sometimes I'd make connections to myself that weren't necessarily spelled out to us and go 'oh, this is a throughline for this character actually!'

Like for example- if I remember correctly, the original direction behind how Kenji reacted to Ben's apparent death was that it was supposed to the first time he'd ever seen someone he really KNEW seemingly die right front of him, and being unable to do anything about it deeply affected him. Ben is a very important turning point in his character development regardless of which way you read it.

And I think this is actually something that just continued to stack onto his character throughout both shows whenever any of his friends lives are seriously in danger. In Camp when he's still unable to do anything but comfort Sammy while she's poisoned, to deciding it's too dangerous not to trade Wu's laptop for Brooklynn, to eventually throwing himself between the spinosaurus his dad is about to kill Darius with and choosing his friends over his own father and being willing to die with/for them... and then in Chaos Theory it kind of reboots all over again with Brooklynn dying and then his dad dying right in front of him, and his complex of not wanting to be useless and trying to do whatever he can at the expense of even himself to keep the loved ones he has left safe is kicked into overdrive.

I think there are a lot of things like that where the intent is not always verbally spelled out, but the more important thing is that it's still (hopefully) making you feel something.

[g0nta-g0kuhara]

A gift for @animaniacs16 for sending me Gonta art like a MONTH ago (im so sorry this took so long). Here's the buff trio enjoying some dinner together <3

[fadedrainbowbookshelves]

Feral Enby Bug Enthusiast

[tleeaves]

Damn, I'm looking back at some of my fandom/media discussion posts from 2023 in particular on TSC and The Hunger Games, and wow. Past Me really cooked. Why do I only reblog other people's stuff with minimal tags these days? Where did all that energy and passion to do original character and text analyses go?

[lunarharp]

wip thing...

of my bg3 avatar hellebore. i also did some casual nude studies of my 3 characters which i'll put under a cut... rather unlike me after all. (so WARNING for abrupt non-sexual full Artistic nudity lol...,,,,) (< won't be making a habit of this)

they mean the world to me

[bananasfosterparent]

Making my non-BG3 ocs in BG3 character creation...If they existed in the Faerun universe!

Araduna Adlan, Skyrim There is a dunmer race mod for BG3, but I did not use it to make her.

Spellsword (mostly magic using with some melee focus)

Dunmer

Close to being blind

Princess Carmandi Ezrai, Original world OC

Half human, half forest elf (original race)

Princess who loves adventure

Roland Worthezi, Original world OC

moon elf (original race)

noble who just likes to garden and is obsessed with horticulture

[fiadorable]

Hardspace Shipbreaker hits a spot I didn't even know existed. Hell yeah I want to use my laser gun to cut apart derelict spaceships. Hell yeah I wanna use my grapple gun to launch gigantic pieces of nanocarbon into the processor (and occasionally my face). Hell yeah I wanna fly around in my little spacesuit (and accidentally get sucked into the furnace because physics). I wanna put the dumb little stickers on my dumb little tools. I wanna figure out the best way to take apart each kind of ship for maximum profit and minimum damage to me (fuck you especially, quasar thrusters). I'm loving it.

[loderlied]

i will go to sleep NOW 🫵 (pointing at myself)

[sebille]

I know nothing about how video games are created so as always and forever my words need to be taken with a grain of salt. I'm speaking from my limited and ignorant POV.

It's not the end of the world but I did notice some wonky lighting and especially animation in the gameplay trailer - and I'm wondering if they'll have time to fix that if the plan is to have the game be released this fall.

[impossible-rat-babies]

re: last post about the whole of attachments like. looking back at darva is very….fun and interesting bc he is so much a product of me discovering and playing around with gender. he’s the tip toe that turned into the cannonball into the pool. he’ll always be special for that reason, even if now he feels like he belongs to a different owen.

[bizarrebazaar13]

girl help they put her in a different video game. this is not her natural habitat-

she has 2 braids but they’re short so I don’t know if you can really see them here. I only have like 2 and a half hours in this particular game (started it yesterday) so I haven’t been able to find a place where I can buy round glasses yet. also the reason this picture is so shit is because I just took a photo of my switch screen with my phone.

her starter is a sobble named Alpheratz (after the brightest star in Andromeda)

[desalvar]

citing all my sources of inspiration for Nikodemus would mean unironically putting Misfits 2009-2013 at the top of the list

[thequeenofmyownscreen]

they're so guiddy in the session 0 Daggerheart Characters Creation video. I love them.

[mokeonn]

I'm playing bg3 again and trying out the honor mode (which as it turns out, might be a bad idea if you never beat the game in general, much less beat it in tactician mode) and I have been confronted with the fact that I absolutely have dnd race favoritism and it absolutely is contributing to my need for many many bg3 saves because I constantly think "hmmm I want to try playing as a deep gnome to see if I get special dialog with Barcus Wroot, the Iron hands, and the underdark" before picking Drow for the 4th time.

[magic-farmer]

pov you bump into the farmer on their way home from the mines

if you want, try making your own farmer with this picrew!

tagging a few people, but feel free to jump in! @mahoushaymie ; @staarpiece @moonlight-moondrops ; @coffeeseed ; @raeforest