#oliver østergaard

[faedreamy]

Which OC is a chaotic-neutral, if you have one

Oooh, interesting question! :D

The OC that immediately springs to mind is Jois. Probably the best example of all my OCs for chaotic neutrality.

Wallace and Oliver are also two good examples, though Wallace has some true neutral leanings while Oliver can be chaotic evil on his bad days.

Henry and Li Ming are rather chaotic neutral, though I'd argue that their true alignment is lawful good, and are just chaotic neutral due to their unfortunate life circumstances.

Two other OCs that also come to mind are Percy and Serftin, but those two are more chaotic good than neutral.

[phoenix-joy]

Author & Timestamp: Margaret Talbot October 22, 2018 (almost 6 years old as of May 2, 2024)

Polychromy refers to "decoration in many colours, esp in architecture or sculpture". - Collins Dictionary. Extract of a much longer article (please note: I have shortened some sentences where possible and broken up some paragraphs by added spacing. I did this to try to make it a little easier for other neurodivergent people to read):

Researchers demonstrate the process of applying color to the Treu Head, from a Roman sculpture of a goddess, made in the second century A.D. Ancient sculptures were often painted with vibrant hair colors and skin tones. - Photograph by Mark Peckmezian for The New Yorker

For Abbe, [...] a professor of ancient art at the University of Georgia, the idea that the ancients disdained bright color “is the most common misconception about Western aesthetics in the history of Western art.” It is, he said, “a lie we all hold dear.”

[...]

[...] Marco Leona, who runs the scientific-research department at the Metropolitan Museum of Art [...] said, of polychromy, “It’s like the best-kept secret that’s not even a secret.”

Jan Stubbe Østergaard, a former curator at the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek museum, in Copenhagen, and the founder of an international research network on polychromy, told me, “Saying you’ve seen these sculptures when you’ve seen only the white marble is comparable to somebody coming from the beach and saying they’ve seen a whale because there was a skeleton on the beach.”

[...]

[...] debate about ancient sculpture has taken on an unexpected moral and political urgency. [In 2017], a University of Iowa classics professor, Sarah Bond, published two essays [...] arguing that it was time we all accepted that ancient sculpture was not pure white—and neither were the people of the ancient world. One false notion, she said, had reinforced the other.

For classical scholars, it is a given that the Roman Empire—which, at its height, stretched from North Africa to Scotland—was ethnically diverse. In the Forbes essay, Bond notes, “Although Romans generally differentiated people on their cultural and ethnic background rather than the color of their skin, ancient sources do occasionally mention skin tone and artists tried to convey the color of their flesh.”

Depictions of darker skin can be seen on ancient vases, in small terra-cotta figures, and in the Fayum portraits, a remarkable trove of naturalistic paintings from the imperial Roman province of Egypt, which are among the few paintings on wood that survive from that period. These near-life-size portraits, which were painted on funerary objects, present their subjects with an array of skin tones, from olive green to deep brown, testifying to a complex intermingling of Greek, Roman, and local Egyptian populations. (The Fayum portraits have been widely dispersed among museums.)

Bond [had] been moved to write her essays when a racist group, Identity Evropa, started putting up posters on college campuses, including Iowa’s, that presented classical white marble statues as emblems of white nationalism. After the publication of her essays, she received a stream of hate messages online. She is not the only classicist who has been targeted by the so-called alt-right. Some white supremacists have been drawn to classical studies out of a desire to affirm what they imagine to be an unblemished lineage of white Western culture extending back to ancient Greece. When they are told that their understanding of classical history is flawed, they often get testy.

[In early 2018], the BBC and Netflix broadcast “Troy: Fall of a City,” a miniseries in which the Homeric hero Achilles is played by a British actor of Ghanaian descent. The casting decision elicited a backlash in right-wing publications. Online commenters insisted that the “real” Achilles was blond-haired and blue-eyed, and that someone with skin as dark as the actor’s surely would have been a slave.

It’s true that Homer describes the hair of Achilles as xanthos, a word often used to characterize objects that we would call yellow, but Achilles is [mythological], so imaginative license in casting seems perfectly acceptable. Moreover, several scholars explained online that, though ancient Greeks and Romans certainly noticed skin color, they did not practice systematic racism. They owned slaves, but this population was drawn from a wide range of conquered peoples, including Gauls and Germans.

Nor did the Greeks conceive of race the way we do. [...] Rebecca Futo Kennedy, a classicist at Denison University, who writes on race and ethnicity, told me, “Cold weather made you stupid but also courageous, so that was what people from the Far North were supposed to be like. And the people they called Ethiopians were thought of as very smart but cowardly. It comes out of the medical tradition [of the Hippocratic humours]. In the North, you have plenty of thick blood. Whereas, in the South, you’re being desiccated by the sun, and you have to think about how to conserve your blood.”

Pale skin on a woman was considered a sign of beauty and refinement, because it showed that she was privileged enough not to have to work outdoors. But a man with pale skin was considered unmasculine: bronzed skin was associated with the heroes who fought on battlefields and competed as athletes, naked, in amphitheatres.

[...] Tim Whitmarsh, a professor of Greek culture at the University of Cambridge, writes that the Greeks “would have been staggered” by the suggestion that they were “white.” Not only do our modern notions of race clash with the thinking of the ancient past; so do our terms for colors, as is clear to anyone who has tried to conceive what a “wine-dark sea” actually looked like.

[...]

On the website Pharos, which was founded [...] in part to counter white-supremacist interpretations of the ancient world, a recent essay��notes, “Although there is a persistent, racist preference for lighter skin over darker skin in the contemporary world, the ancient Greeks considered darker skin” for men to be “more beautiful and a sign of physical and moral superiority.”

[In 2017], high-school students participating in a summer program at the RISD Museum, in Providence, were so fascinated to learn about polychromy in classical statuary that they made a coloring book allowing gallery visitors to create brightly hued versions of the objects on display.

Christina Alderman, who runs the program, told me, “The moment they found out that the statues were originally painted, I just lost them to that idea. They were, like, ‘Wait, are you serious? I’ve played video games set in ancient times, and all I see are white sculptures. I watch movies and that’s all I see.’ It was a real human response—they kind of felt they’d been lied to.”

A marble head of a deity wearing a Dionysiac fillet, from the first century A.D. Traces of red pigment remain on the lips, eyes, and fillet. Marco Leona, who runs the scientific-research department at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, said the fact that ancient statues were once painted is “like the best-kept secret that’s not even a secret.” - Courtesy Metropolitan Museum of Art

A bust of a young African boy, sculpted in the first century B.C. Ancient sculptures of African people were often made of basalt and painted with reddish-brown layers to create a lifelike effect. Mahogany-colored paint is still visible on the boy’s face. - Courtesy Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg

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[I edited this blog post to provide a definition of polychromy and fix a couple of typos. - May 3, 2024]

[starlight-rabbit]

 - How fast can your OCs type?

From fastest to slowest:

Oliver (zip zip zoom)

Wallace

Roman

Edgar

Henryk

Anna

Sofia

Monty

Royce

Percy (would be higher up but is hampered by dyspraxia)

David

Peter

Rhett

Mythe (slooooow)

[faedreamy]

Which of your ocs are likely to get arrested?

JOIS. Jois. Only reason that motherfucker isn't in jail yet is 'cause of the time loop he's found himself in. Hell, if anything the time loop has emboldened him to commit crimes he otherwise would get caught for.

Other candidates include:

Heidi: Despite being a paragon of love and justice, has broken into private properties more than once.

Henry: Has murdered someone at least once before, maybe more. Has also broken into private properties, as well as stealing a shitton of stuff.

Li Ming: Technically not arrest worthy, but gets into a lot of street fights.

Charan: Ditto, but is better at not getting caught (mostly because he actually wins his street fights fhjsghjksdlgs)

Monty: Was technically responsible for the death of Mr. Wallace.

Oliver: murrrrderrrrrr

Serftin: Actually pretty similar to Jois, though 1. isn't in a time loop (or at least not aware of being in one), so he's cautious of not getting caught, and 2. tends to limit his crimes to property damage, unlike Jois' "murder is okay" mindset.

[faedreamy]

Which OC is the biggest sore loser of all time

i have a couple of OCs that would be the biggest sore losers of all time, but they don't have names yet rip

Among the usual suspects...

Oliver's the first OC that springs to mind, but his is more of a Villainous Breakdown case than anything else.

Surprisingly enough, as they're otherwise quite kind, I think Percy and Vincent would tie for the biggest sore loser! The two just don't like losing games and can get quite petty about it lol

[faedreamy]

Which oc handles spicy food best and worst?

Full ranking, best to worst:

Charan (give him the spice. all of it. also really likes sour food but that's not the focus of this ask)

Theodore (also really likes the spice but can't handle it quite as well)

Oliver (surprisingly good at handling spice for a Scandinavian, but that's not to say he's great at it)

Percy (around the same as Oliver, just slightly worse)

Wallace (while he can handle spicy food about the same as Percy and Oliver, if not slightly better, he's not a big fan of it)

Ed (can handle it alright, but his preference for plain food means that his tolerance for spicy food has gone down)

Jois (theoretically can handle spicy food about the same as the average person, but years of aimless wandering before stopping in the town of Asihel means that his spice tolerance has gone way, way down)

Serftin (same as Jois, except his natural spice tolerance is worse)

Vincent (not that good at handling spice. he prefers sweet food!)

Monty (his idea of spicy food is putting cinnamon on stuff)

Heidi, Henry, Li Ming (no)

[faedreamy]

OHMYGOD tell me about OCs. Anything anything

*kicks down door* WELL

i'm gonna list off basic info about my ocs, since most of them don't have toyhouse profiles yet, and the ones that do are very bare-bones (except percy's 'cause he's my baby boy)

Heidi

Full Name: Adelheid Taylor

Nickname: Heidi

Gender: Non-Binary

Pronouns: he/they/it (he/him preferred, they/them also good, it/its as a reclamation to what the military-industrial complex call him)

Sexuality: Homoromantic Graysexual

Magic Focus: Teleportation

Species: Magical (term used to describe humans whose souls have bits of true demon in them; so named as they can only access they're magic via transformation, like a magical girl).

Henry

Full Name: Henry Hersh

Nickname: N/A

Gender: Trans Male

Pronouns: he/him

Sexuality: Homoromantic Graysexual

Magic Focus: Time

Species: Witch/True Demon Hybrid (was Witch)

Li Ming

Full Name: Ji Li Ming

Nickname: Human (by cultists)

Gender: Non-Binary

Pronouns: he/they (he/him preferred, they/them also good)

Sexuality: Homoromantic Graysexual

Magic Focus: N/A

Species: Human

Ed

Full Name: Edward Loveless

Nickname: Ed

Gender: Cis Male

Pronouns: he/him

Sexuality: Bisexual

Magic Focus: N/A

Species: Human

Theodore

Full Name: Theodore Davis

Nickname: Teddy (dislikes this)

Gender: Cis Male

Pronouns: he/him

Sexuality: Bisexual

Magic Focus: Music

Species: Witch

Charan

Full Name: Mongkut Teppitak

Nickname: Charan (picked as he thought Mongkut would be too hard to pronounce by his mostly Anglo-Canadian classmates fhdsjghlsg)

Gender: Cis Male

Pronouns: he/him

Sexuality: Gay

Magic Focus: N/A

Species: Human

Percy

Full Name: Percy Blaine

Nickname: Perry (dislikes this)

Gender: Cis Male

Pronouns: he/him

Sexuality: Homoromantic Graysexual

Magic Focus: N/A

Species: Human

Wallace

Full Name: Kai Wallace

Nickname: Wally (dislikes this)

Gender: Cis Male

Pronouns: he/him

Sexuality: Bisexual

Magic Focus: N/A

Species: Human

Monty

Full Name: Monty Mayfield

Nickname: N/A

Gender: Cis Male

Pronouns: he/him

Sexuality: Bisexual

Magic Focus: N/A

Species: Human

Oliver

Full Name: Oliver Østergaard

Nickname: Wallace (mocking, dislikes this)

Gender: Cis Male

Pronouns: he/him

Sexuality: Bisexual

Magic Focus: N/A

Species: Human

Serftin

Full Name: Serftin

Nickname: Happy (mocking)

Gender: Trans Male

Pronouns: he/him

Sexuality: Homoromantic Graysexual

Magic Focus: Nature (Spring focus)

Species: Witch

Jois

Full Name: Jois

Nickname: Lazy (mocking but he embraces it hdsjghlsg)

Gender: Cis Male

Pronouns: he/him

Sexuality: Bisexual

Magic Focus: Nature (Winter focus)

Species: Witch

[starlight-rabbit]

- What movie genres do some of your OCs like and dislike?

Percy - His quite fond of animation (both western and anime), although that’s mostly because that’s literally his job (or part of his job, at least). He’s that guy who will constantly point out how nicely drawn the cels are or how something was made.

Other than that he really likes classic films! He also likes action horror films, and he’ll never turn down a good comedy.

He doesn’t like movies featuring dogs, because the dog is likely going to be hurt/die, and that makes him sad :(

Wallace - He really likes westerns. In fact, he has a list of what he calls the “Quintessential Westerns”, most of which feature Clint Eastwood. He also likes action horror films, and perhaps surprisingly, he’s big on documentaries.

There isn’t really any kind of movie he dislikes. He’s not too big on “rich people doing rich things”, though even then he won’t avoid films with this premise on the chance that he might enjoy it.

Monty - Give him the historical films! Doesn’t matter when the film was made, too. He’ll watch both classics like Percy and modern films that are set in the Victorian era. Romances are a plus but not necessary. Also big on action horror films, oddly enough.

He really doesn’t like movies that try to gross out the viewer. Like, sure, he’ll put up with some gross stuff in films, but a movie that’s just like “teehee, look at how disgusting we are!” will quickly make him change the channel. Also, despite his fondness for horror films, he rolls his eyes at those that lean heavily into the supernatural. Monty, you sweet summer child...

Oliver - I...I don’t actually know what to put down for him here. He’ll watch damn near anything you put in front of him. He does gravitate towards action horror films (noticing a trend yet?).

Likewise, there isn’t any kind of film genre he dislikes. If a film is bad then the film is bad; it has nothing to do with it’s genre. I guess he doesn’t like chick flicks? Though that’s more to do with personal experiences than anything else.