#oc: September

[bellhopping]

okay september's new design is done! they're one of the main heads of the town beat & bon live in, mainly looking after children & planning + overseeing performances

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im doing art fight this year !!

here are my characters >:3 looking forward to it

[mthollowell-writes]

Tag: Character Inspiration

This is the last tag on my to do list. I'll have to recheck the notes but I think this about wraps it up thus far. It’s also the one I took the longest to complete…

Thank you so much @axl-ul for the tag. You can find their wonderful post here!

Gently Tagging: @rmgrey-author, @kaatiba, @girlfromthecrypt, @hyba, @coffeewritesfiction and an open tag for anyone else who would like to participate!

Rules: Pick a character(s) from your wip(s) and tell who they were inspired by or from.

Ok! So I had to go digging through some old files for this tag. All of the main characters in the Festival project started out as voices for news articles to develop the world of Hollow Grove. All of them and the world itself have changed a lot since their initial conception in late 2016. One day I may share those early character sketches.

But now to the tag proper!

Mariela: Visually, I drew a lot of inspiration from Eryn Allen Kane and Jessica Williams. The inspiration for her personality is a lot harder to pin down for me. I drew a lot of her interests and beliefs from my own but she's also fearless, sarcastic, and does not take any shit. I think of Nellie Bly and Ida B. Wells—she looks up to as heroes in her profession. I'm going to get a little deep and say she initially gave voice to some feelings I had about the world circa 2016 but she's not just that anymore.

September: Visually, the actors Gilbert Roland with a sprinkling of Ramon Novarro. Cecil Palmer's character in Welcome to Night Vale is baked somewhere deep in September's DNA. I'll also reveal my inner Whovian and admit that his character was very much inspired by The Doctor (particularly a mix of the Tennant (circa Donna Noble) and Capaldi eras), though replace their energetic eccentricity with that of a mild mannered, dry humored professor and you have September. At least on the surface. He's a mess beneath it all.

Hero: Out of all the characters, Hero is the character I put a lot of myself in personality wise, especially as I was right after college. As an intern at the in-universe newspaper, he gave a lot of voice to the ennui of finding your way in adult life mixed with dry humor and a hint of fatalism. After years of character development, he's not just that anymore but that is still a key component of his character. Visually, the best approximation I could find is Mackenyu as he appears in Chihayafuru.

Emery: Emery is also a response to some feelings I had about the world in 2016. Someone who, on the surface, is very salt of the earth--telling things as they are whether or not you like to hear it--but deep down is frustrated and put upon like everyone else, and has very different conclusions about it. There's definitely an injection of Ron Swanson from Parks & Rec in his character but he also comes off as the straight man in whatever wacky scenario I put him in. Visually, he's a mix of a younger, close shaven Zach Gallifinakis and Jesse Plemons.

Regina: Regina's look is very much inspired by the old vamps of Hollywood like Theda Bara (and some heavy doses of Zoey Deschanel) with some of Morticia Adams macabre sensibilities. She has a touch of quirky eccentricity that I drew from Regina Spektor's music, particularly "Pavlov's Daughter." She's daring and histrionic--a perfect mishmash of qualities. A mystery even to myself until recently.

[chalkrub]

autumnal chill....featuring the girl

[jun-hug]

Yet another season that brings the best light out of you

Soft winds carry whispers of your eyes golden glow in autumns hue

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[mthollowell-writes]

From my Festival WIP:

September tapped a few shoulders to break coworkers out of their drunken malaise before he pushed open the glass door of the conference room, then froze. The sour whiff of booze teased his nose and made his mouth water with want. He could see a version of himself with less control, and far less dignity, digging through the trash to suck down the last drops left in the discarded bottles. It was only hours ago when he felt that blissful buzz, though he hadn’t touched the stuff these last five years. And he had to remind himself why by clinging to the details surrounding the memory: the cold, the pain, the nausea, that he couldn’t stop once he started.

Nothing but alcohol would send him quicker down the toilet drain of his own timeline.

He breathed in deep, let the urge pass, and forced his eyes to focus ahead of him.

Regina ripped the silver “Happy” from the New Years’ sign down with one sharp tug. The whole thing came down with the punctuated pops of tape. With a resigned grimace, she stuffed the whole thing in a trash bag.

September set down his briefcase and rolled up the sleeves of his coat. “I’ll help bag up the food for building management.”

Regina turned to him, then smiled. Her smile was warm, her eyes sleepy and unfocused. “You won’t have to worry about the bottles. As promised, all gone. And I won five bucks and bragging rights.”

“And a correction meeting with HR,” September said lightly. He noticed a piece of paper left on her and Emery’s desks with a date and time of their meetings in thick black lettering. The representative must’ve snuck in before disappearing into the void where all the vermin of HR dwell. “That might be a new office record.”

“It’s a good thing they love me over there.” She held a finger up to her lip and winked. “But don’t tell the boss, kay? He can be a real hard ass about this sort of thing.”

“Your secrets are safe with me.”

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Sanbun~

[secondary-colorentimy]

THIS TOOK FOREVERRRRR 😫

but anyway my twst ocs :3

[luna-azzurra]

Cozy September word prompts

Sweater Weather

Pumpkin Spice

Crunching Leaves

Bonfire Nights

Flannel and Fuzzy Socks

Cider Mornings

Golden Sunsets

Warm Blankets

Candlelit Evenings

Caramel Apples

Chilly Breezes

Cozy Nooks

Apple Picking

Forest Trails

Warm Scarves

Fireplace Glow

Rainy Afternoons

Baking Cookies

Fall Markets

Autumn Skies

[bellhopping]

more toyhouse icons !!! also I touched up some of the previous ones :]

oh yeah, with this every character in the dreamside folder has an icon now. neat, now for cac all I have is 3 characters left

[one-time-i-dreamt]

My OCs were Irish nobility during the Norman Conquest.  

[mthollowell-writes]

Tag: OC in 15

I'm still catching up on tags and two people tagged me for this one too! Thanks so much to @rmgrey-author and @duckingwriting! You can find their posts here and here!

Gently tagging: @pb-dot, @axl-ul, @hyba, @coffeewritesfiction, @wintherlywords, @astras-rambles, @asterhaze, @imbrisvastatio, and an open tag for those who would like to participate!

I'm breaking the rules a little and will provide 8 lines each for 2 of my OCs. An OC(s) in 16, if you will (dang, ruined the flow). I'll choose the two I've written for so that means Mariela and September take center stage again.

Fun Fact: Two of these lines are in conversation with each other. I put them under the same number in the lists below.

Mariela:

“Don’t threaten me with a good time.”

“My reputation speaks for itself.”

“Are they worried you’re giving up a lucrative marketing career to become a hack journalist in a small town newspaper? [...] “Dang. Still just me then.”

“I’m going to assume that was the carbon monoxide talking and let you try again, September.”

“This here is the Sisyphean task you inflicted on our poor intern that drove him to hopelessness and despair."

“I know you did not call me out here to move some twigs around,” Mariela said in disbelief.

“We tell the news, as completely as we can, and let our readers decide for themselves. We shouldn’t pick and choose what we report based on personal feelings.”

“Because the victims’ families deserve to know what happened that night. Because everyone needs to know if it could happen again."

September:

“I’m always needed somewhere." September pinched his nose before dropping his hand again. “This beast never sleeps.”

“Well, you’re laying it on a bit thick, don’t you think,” he said with a chuckle as he perused the messages again in good humor. “Is this what people call ‘trolling’ nowadays.”

“The truth isn’t that simple, Mariela. It just shows you how dirty the water is and the true depth of it may be forever out of reach."

“And why’s that, sweetheart? Should I put up the schnapps so I don’t offend the teetotalers as well?”

“Why don’t you lower the gun, Barney, and we’ll both forget this happened.”

“I don’t need your help,” September broke in acidly. “I did you the favor, remember?

“Your secrets are safe with me.”

“I need a smoke."

For those who read to the end, the number is 4. Just reverse the order presented.

[godbirdart]

「 OC: EUILLCYS 」 🌿

[chalkrub]

art fight is once again drawing near and i will once again be very enthusiastically participating! i love artfight i LOVE ocs and i love drawing other people's ocs - feel free to reblog/reply with your artfights, I always go through and bookmark my followers' characters <:^) above, you can see a small sample of my guys, both old and new, if you wanna draw them! it always makes me more happy than i can say to see my ocs in other peoples styles. tbh. if i'm being honest.

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I’ll be team seafoam, easiest choice of all time even if my idealised version of seafoam does not match up to the reality of the gross beige clumpy froth I see on estuaries sometimes

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“I don’t think sense is really my strong suit.”

I actually did all this a while back but completely forgot to post it! So finally getting around to doing that💕

A full compendium of Miss Evelyn Hawke’s looks throughout the years~💕 Ev’s admittedly my favorite DA oc and is very precious to me so this has been a long time coming😭💕

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