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[dearestcheshire]

I made a pixel sprite of my oc, Rexford!

I’ve always admired pixel artists and always wanted to draw pixel art, but whenever I would try it would never look how I wanted. But I’ve recently been thinking about making an RPG maker game and decided to give it a shot - mainly inspired by the pixel art from Stardew Valley, Pokemon Gen 4 and 5, and a little bit of Final Fantasy. I know I’m probably breaking some pixel art rules but I’m honestly really happy with how he looks.

I used procreate and Ittai Manero’s pixel brush for beginners.

[taski-guru]

Autumn themed adopt from me!

Open for offers above $40

[hobgobbin]

this is what I look like irl, trust me on this one

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LONG POST

So we ended up getting a lot of asks! Which honestly was fun as hell. However, I don’t want to spam our followers with 30+ posts, so, instead I’m making this.

mixolydian98 said:My OC is a misomaniac college professor who was transformed into a grotesque monster by an evil sorceress.

My OC Bor was cursed to live as a beast by a bunch of angry forest spirits -Ven My OC Ursa was cursed to be a werebear-Chris/p>

Anonymous said:My OC is an edgy, beatnik unicorn in a turtleneck sweater.

The closest thing I have is Priscilla, Sunan, and Hala are also very edgy -Ven My OC Cadence wears a sweater his husband made and tells edgy poetry -Chris

djdashieticktock said:My OC (Yesman) is a smelly rotting boi who needs to take a bath and chill on preforming necromancy

1. that’s a mood and 2. Priscilla is the result of necromancy -Ven My OC Beckett is a necromancer who wants to become a lich -Chris

Anonymous said:My OC is a mutated bunny who is a great mother.

My OC Dryn isn’t mutated but he is a great father! -Ven My OC Adrien is a great father and husband!

Anonymous said:I made my OC super trope-y because cringe culture is shit. She’s a witch with dark skin, bright blue eyes, and pink/magenta hair. She’s a bubbly baby who trains dragons for a living and I love her. Fight me Cus I’m having fun with her!

She sounds fun as hell! My OC Nelsis is a beast tamer who loves space and has a dragon (along with a plethora of other beasts that seem very intimidating but actually just act like dogs) -Ven Cringe culture is shit she sounds really cool! My OC Nimbus has naturally pink hair and she designed her hella mechanical wheelchair after a dragin she saw once -Chris

cyrokinetic-iceman said:One of my OCs is named Rory and he’s an Irish maid for Sean Cassidy from the xmen. he had long, frizzy red curls and is more freckles than man. He’s tall and bony with very pale skin. He’s a hemophiliac but also has mutant powers that allow him to take the energy (and in fatal enough cases life force) from organic life forms and he later discovers he can also enhance their energy and life force. He’s very shy but friendly and likes to bake and cook

Priscilla can take people’s life force (well really the demon that’s with her can but whatever) -Ven My OC Orion has a lot of freckles and red hair but he is trash at cooking -Chris

Anonymous said:My gay OC Steven had his arms ripped off by a demon, after breaking up with said demon.

Wow.. hmm.. My OC Tarryn only has two limbs because of an explosion -Ven My OC Nimbus lost use of her legs after being shoved out of a very tall tree by a schoolmate -Chris

PHANTASYMIST SAYS:my oc practices forbidden magic because of hunger for knowledge

my OC EcC0 is a hellish combination of magic and failed technology and he accidentally made himself and his friends immortal through a series of experimental magic and glitches -Chris

ANONYMOUS SAYS:My Oc is possessed by the spirit of a Samurai and is immortal because of this. She also owns her own City Apartment building and lives in one of her apartments, she even rooms with one of her tenants

My OC Shelby lives in the top room(home??) of the Penthouse her family owns and accidentally became a Naiad’s sugar momma -Chris

ANONYMOUS SAYS:My oc Icarus is the child of Aphrodite but gave up on finding love for themself.

My OC Darcy is a demi-god who always forgets that he passed down his powers to his 6 year old until she starts telepathically throwing his circus group around when having a tantrum -Chris

ANONYMOUS SAYS:My Oc Alex attracts portals to a different world and goes through them in order to close them. She knows a bunch of survival skills because of how often she goes and stays there, especially cause there aren’t any civilizations in the other world.

My OC Ken is a dimention hopper who accidentally got stuck in time jail with three alternate universe versions of his friend Angel -Chris

Uuh… my OC Bor knows a bunch of survival skills cause for a while he was a human living in the forest -Ven

ANONYMOUS SAYS:My OC Regalius is an 2000ish year old immortal who manages to screw up every relationship he has.

My OC Felix used to be dating an ex war goddess until she tried to leave him for dead (the other gods called her out on her bullshit) -Chris

I have an immortal OC Bor, he never gets into any relationships he just kind of sits in the forest and makes stew and helps lost travelers and protects the forest -Ven

THAT-AWKWARD-FANGIRL-270 SAYS:One of my OC’s is Ethan, he’s about half French and a gay trans boy and I love him so much and he’s also an adorable book nerd and has like a hundred thousand siblings (jk but there’s Lots and everyone is good at braiding like trust me sleepovers there are The Bomb) I love him

My OC Wesley is a french american who’s half succubus and owns a giant library, he’s also a necromancer -Chris

Uuh… I have a gay Hawaiian war vet named Jeremiah with like 9 siblings -Ven

ANONYMOUS SAYS:My OC Locke is the headmaster of a guild and he’s also dating another guy also named Locke who tried to steal his money once

My OC Cyrus met his first boyfriend while doing a stickup -Chris

Well… my OC Xaro first met Cinder when Cinder tries to steal his stuff? They’re not dating or anything tho Xaro literally ends up adopting him -Ven

BUNNIKKILA SAYS:My OC is a member of the HEMA Alliance! Her dream is to open her own fencing school, as most of the schools in her immediate area focus on Olympic fencing.

My OC Telly fences in his spare time and is teaching his boyfriends daughter how to -Chris

My OC Cinder loves fencing and is very good at it, but didn’t actually get to start until he was 15! -Ven

ANONYMOUS SAYS:My OC took Tae Kwon Do as a tween. She was one belt away from getting the black belt (highest rank), but financial issues made her have to quit.

My OC Poppy knows Capoeria -Chris

I have an OC who gets to the 7th dan of Judo by age 14 -Ven

ANONYMOUS SAYS:I have an OC based off the planet Neptune….her name is Neptune.(I know, real original name :/ )

I named my OC Castor after Pollux and Castor since I wanted a constellation name and I’m a Gemini -Chris

I have an OC named Snow White -Ven

REMEMBER-THERAIN SAYS:my OC Stevie is a 14-year-old aromantic/pansexual bounty hunter who travels the galaxy with her robot Lux :))

Oh cool!! My OC Dryn is also pan and sometimes does bounty hunting, he also travels a lot -Ven

my OC Castor ran away from home at 15 and is now one of the most renowned Space travelers of his species -Chris

DRAGONIANGIRL SAYS:My OC Nimladrie is a cleric of a drunk god that accidentally swore a blood oath but she can’t remember for what or to whom.

My OC Beckett accidently became a cult leader because he thought it was a Bards club -Chris

((Amazing)) Well uh… the closest thing I have is my oc Priscilla has blood contracts with like a shitton demons/daemons/etc

ANONYMOUS SAYS:My oc Yilim is… well. To plainly state it he one ugly ass mofo.

My OC Scrib is just,,,,, literally a poorly drawn doodle, i usually draw him left handed -Chris

My main OC Tarryn is also considered ‘ugly’, another OC I have is unarguably ugly because his face is literally a deer skull -Ven

ATQEVALE SAYS:My OC Matisse wears a really freaking ugly salmon colored hoodie to school every day and my other OC Sparrow has a crush on her in spite of this

My OC The Boy has no fucking clue what fashion is and neither does his mom Ursa (he’d get it from his dad to if he wasn’t a giant Stag) -Chris

Uhhh… my OC Mike is colorblind and until he memorizes his wardrobe he has to ask people he lives with what color the stuff he’s wearing is?? It led to an Outfit Disaster a couple of times -Ven

WEARETHERUSSIANTWINS SAYS:My oc Hayley Williams (aka Sailor Aries) has schizophrenia and ADHD

My OC Finch has ADHD to! -Chris

My OC Mike has ADHD(a few others do as well but I haven’t hashed that out yet) -Ven

ANONYMOUS SAYS:My OC Janice comes from a planet with pink water, and secretly prefers it over earth water.

My OC Scravenlay comes from a world that is mostly covered in turquoise freshwater that is extremely buoyant -Chris

ANONYMOUS SAYS:My oc Vlansen forgot all about his past and is in love with a hallucination!

My OC Cadence woke up in the middle of a battlefield with no memory of what side they were on and they later married the soldier who found them! -Chris

ANONYMOUS SAYS:i have so many OCs. But my mains are a Schizophrenic ex-hitman who runs a daycare and a half alien-human hybrid that has the ability to control plants and crystals ;v;b

My OC Brin is a (retired later in the story) Rebel Leader with a softspot for kids and animals and my oc Scravenlay was supposed to be the king of his species/people but decided he preferred to be an adventurer after an assassination attempt -Chris

Well… the closest I have is an assassin who also has a soft spot for kids? -Ven

THE-TINY-KRAVIST SAYS:My OC, Binary, is an android who is terrified of water!

My OC Rhys is a self made android (makes more sense in context of the story) who runs a roller rink -Chris

My OC Mike is terrified of water. He’s not an android he just can’t swim -Ven

ANONYMOUS SAYS:my oc has a brand on her left side right below her heart from where she forced to fight in an arena

One of my OCs used to have something like that, now the closest I have is Tarryn has a lot of scars from fights! -Ven

My OC Beckett has a lot of scars after the gang who owned him tried to kill him for trying to escape - Chris

ECHOING-NIGHT SAYS:My OC iasi is claustrophobic.

My OC Beckett tries to fit into small spaces when he gets nervous or scared -Chris

My OC Xaro is also claustrophobic! -Ven

ANONYMOUS SAYS:Uh my OC is a detective in the 1940’s

My OC Lost was a private investigator until he got possessed (this is close enough right?) -Chris

[draginhikari]

Dragin Hikari Origins, Design, and Evolution

Dragin Hikari was originally a character I had created for an online role-play chat referred to as ‘The Keep’.   Whether it still exists in some form or another I don’t know as I haven’t looked in years.   As I originally created the concept when I was in my mid-teens he has drastically evolved in appearance and general personality.

The name was an example of my horrible English skills and given it’s my native language, that is pretty sad.   Dragin is obviously a play on the world Dragon as he was originally a ‘pet’ to another one of my characters (though that aspect was quickly dropped from the backstory even before everything else).  I was actually looking to make it something like “Drageen” or something that would empathize a different sound to kind of detract from the fact the name was fairly unoriginal to begin with.  Obviously since I fail at phonetics when I registered the character as 'Dragin', pronounced as Drag-inn, instead of what I intended by the time I realized this error it was already too late to do much about it.   As I moved more and more away from the Dragon-centric story line the less reason I had to change it and have kind of kept to it to this day.   Now it’s not even his original name, it’s just based on something he was carrying on his person when his lost his memory and since his real name has been lost to time, he just continues to call himself that name at this point.

Originally, he was half Human, half Dragkin (which was kind of humanoid Dragon hybrid I had originally come up with) who was sent to the Keep Realm after being turned into a Dragon whelp by his mother to hide Dragin from his crazed father who had been consumed by corrupting power at the time.   He originally was adopted by a friend’s character and her entirely separate entity the ‘Golden Millennium’ (Which was kind of a blend of the Sailor Moon Silver Millennium mixed with a few anime into a weird hybrid, it was a weird time.  Obviously when I remove all elements of this when I recreated the character) family and took the name Hikari.   How he got his last name is probably the only thing I kept from that origin story as Bianca gave Dragin that surname for different reasons based on his ability rather then it being an actual family name (Hikari means Light but it’s not really a surname used in his homeworld). 

Though the result of this original story has some role in some Skype RPs that are still going on to this day most of the backstory has been retconned and reestablished multiple times as one might expect with a story that I had in my head on and off for over a few decades.   The most current version of the character that was designed for Emerald Star Legacy has very little in common with the original.

Throughout the RP certain elements were removed or changed.  Dragin started off with the personality of a typical JRPG goody-good hero character.   Slowly I shifted his personality to somewhat of a more chaotic and something between good and neutral.  Though he never swayed into the evil category he was more shifted into someone who acted on what he felt what was the right action to take.  

Dragin was pushed further into the neutral category as I began to develop the concept of Wavcite and the world of Kamotan that he actually is from.   Wavcite itself is not a power based on good or evil just more on how it is used.   This further pushed into the idea of control Wavcite via elemental breakdown vs using it in purity like Dragin does.  In addition to the idea that the power is provided to Kamotan via a god like being, but not intentionally.  The power exists because the entity exists nothing more or nothing less.  This god like entity isn’t even aware of its action nor cares how it is used.  This was also pushed via Cross-Hikutonar, a construct of this entity that Dragin would become connected to, but much like Wavcite itself is primal and chaotic but is entirely neutral and has no real concept of mortal morality what so ever.

Much of these directed pushed Dragin more and more away from an intentional hero to someone who was more just a victim of circumstances and just does to act upon what he feels is the right thing to do.   Though he’s never outright malicious towards others he is relatively unconcerned with the political and social expectations when looking to address a problem whether for better or for worse.

This change in personality direction also changed how I portrayed Dragin, from the outlandish hero to someone who is very calm and in control but still personable as he never drifts into being entirely emotionless or cold.  I suppose ‘Calm and Cool’ is what I ended up going for in the end.  

To reflect this change I also drastically shifted his appearance to something that more suited his current personality.   So when I had @fyrielle help design his appearance a number of years back I used the base of a design from the game Phantasy Star Universe that I had played for a few years as his default appearance.   Which I also developed the backstory of the uniform as an ancient relic which also ended up shifting the Dragin’s backstory another way.

At this point it is yet to be seen if my story of Dragin, Emerald Star Legacy will ever come to life, but Dragin’s current version for that story has definitely stuck with me and will continue to do so.