#seph plays wtnc

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I’m trying to design Shrike’s festival wear ‘cause I got an idea from some steampunk costumes. I’ve become far too exhausted to finish this today though so. Uh. passing out for now g’night

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so like in order to refocus myself on my writing project of “Remake When The Night Comes as a horror mystery with romance rather than a romance with horror mystery” I started trying to redesign my chosen beloved LI Augustus Willenheim. I actually only realized the change in pose made them exactly in Valerius’ sprite pose after I’d done a bunch of work on the hand. but honestly I still don’t like it so I think I am going to have to change a bunch of other stuff too.

I think I’ve decided to treat this as a writing/character design exercise in adapting a pre-existing source material into a different genre and adapting the designs according to my own character interests. (You know my snowy canadian ass is playing up the ‘winter in the north’ aspect to the story baybeee)

If I let myself go all out while still having a source material as reference it’s a little easier to gauge my own influence a little bit. and also practice doing those things with low stakes.

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I am like.... trying to decide Shrike stuff... because that was what I managed to do today. here are some of my ideas for sprites and variants and stuff. I have definitely also like... kind of wanted to play up the like.... fucked up anti-monster military system in WTNC with it playing into the major character arcs with Shrike and August. (and everyone else involved but it’s my August/OC fanfic I can do what I want.

I can also give everyone as thick of thighs as I want and no one can ever stop me the end.

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A slight degree of progress has been made I guess? and I guess it’s just gonna be one of those pictures where hair and clothes is Too Much. But I’ll be honest it’s very soothing.

I am going to take a bath though and try to loosen some of the pain in my back from sitting so much. No I don’t know why I am like this maybe one day I’ll organize myself enough that I can do art pieces regularly enough I can be comfortable giving myself a project...

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I like. want to keep working but my body is too tired. which is quite frustrating. I guess I just need to take a nap maybe...

I finally started hitting the late night creative energies so I feel all frustrated like I didn’t get anything done but I have significantly cleaner bathrooms now and that counts for something. I am just now seeing that August’s eye is far too wide, but I will fix that when my back hurts a little less.

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I set up building layers to figure out the clothing and some armour for Shrike, and it DOES feel actively hilarious that they like double in size with all their clothes on. I am gonna give them a fur lined cape I think and over cloak for travel. “I just wore all my armour when I travelled because otherwise I’d have to carry it.”

not the official colours or even all the outfits, just... armour and tunic and underthings really. plus sword and dagger I guess? I think I’ll end up arranging them better when I don’t need to see the dagger frog for my own reference.  I might change the weapon belt completely because I think it’s been multiple wrong sizes while I tried to figure it out....and honestly thinking about it from a combat sense it’s really a terrible place to have the dagger. I’ll return to the subject in another angle maybe...

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oh I figured out what was itching at my brain about August’s eyes flickering between pale blue and violet and it’s that the colour in between those two is periwinkle and I feel a little bit robbed that I don’t know if the word is actually ever used to describe their eyes.

Or I suppose I just want to see how many stages of grief August goes through as they realise that they are periwinkle.

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small light birb of murder might have a fighting style that accounts for them being grabbed and tossed a bunch. and often it’s better to fall limp than try to absorb a fall or toss from a great distance. August would appreciate it if they would learn to dodge instead.

Seriously I have no idea if I’m ever going to finish anything ever. but here we are...

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ugghhhhh how did I spend so much time on this but accomplish nothing?? I feel so tired now.... I think I need to start the hair over from scratch but I’m so tired right now that it can just wait. maybe one day I will actually fucking finish something. Who knows?

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okay so like When The Night Comes has me feeling all creative and shit, so of course new OC, and of course brand new AU where everything is at least slightly worse for everybody because I am a miserable angst whore.

Anyway, this is Shrike the Butcher Bird, they hunt monsters. And you know what they say about those.

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self indulgent bullshit to function as my own reference more than anything.

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“Listen here kindergoth, if your Daddy ends up hurt it would be his fault for not using his safe word soon enough.”

so somebody Renn got me into a new visual novel and I still am not allowed to be mean enough to people but it’s cool. I can just write fanfic in my brain as I look forward to all the horrible ways everyone might stab me in the back.