#tho i swapped the grey for gold

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First finished art of 2023!

This is Lonely, tiefling shadow sorcerer, and depressed and deeply traumatized fuckboy. He buys all his clothes from fantasy Hot topic, and he needs therapy.

Lonely started as an OC mashup between Luxury and Syril, but I liked the design so I kept going with it! Somewhere along the way, I connected his backstory with Quarantine’s. They were both part of the same cult (for very different reasons), and when Quarantine accidentally got cursed/possessed by Villameth, Lonely ended up almost getting murdered.

the scar on his chest is Villameth’s crest, and Quarantine has the same symbol on zer hand

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CLEARLY these two are my favorite of the ROR line up as I’ve only been able to create redesigns I truly love of them, every body is… kinda goofy looking ngl.

I know there designs are so different that it’s kinda crazy but I literally love them so much!

If you don’t know already Morgies the tall one with a red mullet and Hook is the buffer one with a beard.

I’ve explained my choices in design for Hook but that was literally my first post sooo…

Facial features are based off of the actors face normally. You can see that clearer in my Carlos design, but Hook has Colleys thicker eyebrows and Morgie has Lindell’s faint freckles. However if you look below you’ll see just… how completely changed they are:

The difference is so wild

But my designsfor both are based of of these two preexisting depictions of Morgana and Hook respectively.

Btw something about Live action Hooks is that they just… EAT SO FRICKIN BAD LIKE WTF. This has got to be some universal rule that a live action Hook variant must eat and be so so cool at ALL TIMES. ( for me it’s less about sexy and more about they look so cool)

( Anyway This is Morgana La Fey from Troll Hunters and Mr. Needs no introduction you know who that badass mf is)

More of my changes also come from character design things. Like the exaggerated lashes and visable water lines. I like to differentiate noses, eyes, eyebrows, and chins because I feel that’s something that really helps combat same face syndrome. It also helps when I make related characters, so they don’t look like carbon copies, I’ll trade some features in and out and swap them around. I give most characters baggy eyes, because I like the definition it gives them.

I also like to make color palettes similar and opposing, and add some traits that show small insights to the character. Hook and Morgie have warm color palettes for their clothes, however Hooks skin is warm, while Morgies is cold, a sign to his unnatural human form and his association with necromancy ( tho when he was just learning how to hold this form as a youngling he was much paler, now he has spent so much time with real mortal people he has learned to blend in with more realistic skin tones and knows how to flush his skin as if he has blood under it like them)

As a fun little thing tho they swap this theme with their eyes. Hooks eyes are cold and icy blue, while Morgies are chocolate. Of course even though his natural eyes are more like a yellow snakes eyes they are still warm yellow to Hooks cold blue. And they share the same taste in jewelry to opposite the other couple in their group. Hook and Morgie wear gold as their preferred choice of color for jewelry . Maleficent and Hades wear silver. Uliana wears wtv tf she wants, she doesn’t care. Also Hook and Morgie wear warm colors where as Hades and Mali wear cool colors. (Clothing is different from skin, so even tho Morgies flesh form isn’t natural and can never have the right look of skin fully he can still just wear normal clothes) Again Uli don’t care and wears what she wants to look as cool as she wants.

Here their ages are 19 and 20, with Morgie being older, and Hook is the shorter one during this time because, again, Morgies form is meant to be more unnatural due to his unorthodox creation, and even though my art is a little squished, Hook is the 2nd tallest of their group( making Morgie very abnormally tall) .

However there’s a 15 year gap where Morgie had been terrorizing his cousin Archie of Camelot and his chief warlock Marvin Merlinson and he forgets to age his human form. I’m giving him a cool gold armor set like Morgana from Troll hunters so that’s basically what he wears for like 15 years. So when he reunites with his old friends Hook has grown really tall and got a little grey, so before he gets out of his armor he has to change his form real quick so it doesn’t freak his friends out that he still looks like, mid 20s and theyre all late thirties pushing early forties. But he desires to stay shorter then Hook because that’s new and… intriguing.

Also Morgie is now also British like Hook!! (Arther is literally a BRITISH story! Why isn’t Morgie a CELTIC LAD) like I know the whole thing is that Brit’s suck with their plain ass beans with toast and black fucking pudding ( despicable shit 0/10 would not recommend) but King Arther and half sister are so cool, everyone was stupid for not knowing who Morgana Le Fay is 😤

Hook is from Oxfordshire and Morgie was “born” in Cornwall but raised in the kingdom of Avalon. (Don’t ask about why England exists in the same world as Auradon)

If you have any questions about these twos past life and relationship with each other feel free to ask me anytime!!

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Fact swap (aka tell me more about your angels / demons): In my book, every character has a guardian assigned to them. For the good person it’s a white angel, for the bad it’s a black demon. They keep them away from harm. It’s a flawless concept. Except for Anya. Her “angel” has black feathery wings, grey clothes, white hair but sparkling blue eyes. Only something angels are supposed to possess. She’s not an angel tho. What is she?

it sounds like she’s on the fence between the two !!

return fact !!

my angels and demons are a bit different than that; they’re more like genes someone can have rather than a different species, and the genes originated from one individual who was granted something by the gods (ex. Saskia got the angel gene from the Sun Goddess). i don’t have a ton fleshed out for them, but i do know that those with the angel gene tend to have eyes that flash gold. i need to decide some more for those with the demon gene...

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Random DA:O Thoughts - Pt 11.

I finally did the opinions and I care about you talks with Alistair, and SAVED :O haha I’ve been watching them multiple times then loading so I hadn’t locked it in yet. It’s official; Norua and Alistair are a couple. <3

God I love him. You know how much I love him? Enough to travel to several merchants so he’d have matching silverite armour. I’m sorry but I’m not going to have him in a silverite breast plate with red steel gloves and boots. :P

I gave Al the locket. The only thing that changed with giving him the locket after saving the Arl, was that he said he’d have to talk to him once he saw him again. Instead of saying he’d have to talk to him if he survived.

Haha Leliana complemented Morrigan on her boobs. She wants to go shopping with her. She’s so sweet ^^

Leliana is obsessed with shoes. I love that!

(continued from Part 10 about the Sacred Ashes quest) There was a dragon egg, I got so excited haha. Thought I’d get a dragon. But nope, just a necklace and something else inside it. Can’t even use the necklace cause it’s for a blood mage.

Dragon! arrrggghhh!

Tried to fight the dragon. Got it’s health half down then it ate me. Should have listened to Alistair’s warning lol.

Into the main temple now. :D

The guardian knight is cool! He had comments to say on all of us.

Poor Alistair wishes he could have gone to the battle to protect Duncan, and would have died instead. :( That makes me so sad! I’m hoping at some point I find something to give to him that’d remind him of Duncan. I might need to buy that dlc.

Leliana’s was quite brutal. Wynne’s wasn’t as bad.

This test reminds me heaps of Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade haha.

All the riddles were cool. :) There was a guy named Thane.

Man Jowan is everywhere! Now he’s haunting me as a spirit.

Holy crap I have to fight myself :/ died twice. Fighting myself is hard. Beat her on the 3rd try. I targeted her first since she was blasting us with her spells. Damn you, Norua!

Had to do a cool bridge puzzle, where you had to step on stones to activate the bridge pieces. You would need to leave one character on a stone then swap between characters to move them as well. Cracked me up when I discovered the key to the puzzle with Alistair cause he was super excited!

Omg they made us take all our clothes off! XD ahahaha. We had to walk through the fire.

Found the ashes! Wow I’m so impressed with this quest. It had a lot of depth. The Knight guard said we were worthy, so I took a pinch of the ashes. Apparently you can defile the ashes. I never came across the guy who asks you to do that though. Just made me think of the warden grabbing a handful haha.

Brother Genitivi wants to spread the word of the ashes. I said it probably wasn’t a good idea. All companions agreed with me, especially Alistair who was sarcastic and said “Like the urn has a never ending supply of ashes?”. I decided to kill him which I immediately regretted lol. She threw a freaking dagger straight into his skull :O It was so gross! Al didn’t lose points, but Wynne and Leliana did. I decided to load and picked the “Okay but if it goes wrong it’s your fault” option haha.

Went straight to Redcliffe Castle after to save the Arl. I’m glad we were able to help him. He thought the whole thing was a dream. As a reward he made us champions or something. Then he proposed a land meet (I’ve heard of that before I think). I told him to hand Jowan over to the circle. Not sure what will happen to him. Oh yeah also he wants Alistair to be King. Every single time it is brought up, Al is adament he doesn’t WANT to be king. So I’m not going to push him.

In Denerim again now just doing a bunch of sidequests. Also will take Al to see his sister.

So the drake scales are for a guy named Wade. I went away and did a bunch of back alley side quests then it was done. He is so funny! “Yooou MUST bring me mooore drake scaaales!”

Al said he had a golem doll when he was young from a shop called The Wonders of Thedas. Thought I could get him one but nope. Sucky!

Omg Al’s Sister is such a cow! Poor Alistair. I even said he could give her money. She didn’t say thanks. Just kept going on about how he was a prince and he should give her more money blah blah blah. That he killed her mum. What the fuck! He was a BABY! I’m so mad! I said to her: “That’s hardly his fault!” then she called me a tart or something. Al was like: “Hey don’t speak to her like that!” Can’t believe I wasted 15 gold on her.

Outside now. Poor guy. I saw that hardening option but yeah, I picked to tell him that he doesn’t need her, that people care about him. He said the only one who cared about him was Duncan, to which I said: “I care about you” :)

Bought a new staff. It’s really cool! Literally haha. Has an ice enchantment on it. Love it! Also bought a new robe. I love shopping in games!

Wynne loves doggo :) they have cute convos.

Omg after Al said thanks for helping with his sis (well for being there for him) he told me he loves me. Squuueeeeeee!! <3

Back at camp. A cutscene automatically began. Al awkwardly asking if he can spend the night together in the tent. Yes! I’m so happy. I headcanon Norua as a virgin too cause she spent her life in the tower when she was very young. Plus it wasn’t something she thought of that much, she was too interested in her magic studies. When she did, she’d always dreamed of waiting for the right guy. Anyway I’m glad I waited for Alistair to make the first move. Also I’m soo happy it wasn’t right before some big battle. I kinda get sick of that sometimes. How they only have sex right before the “we might die” mission. It was magical and beautiful <3 I’ve watched it about 20 times now haha. It sucked tho cause the kiss scene before the love scene was glitched. Al was rubbing his hands in front of the fire and Norua was kissing the air lol. I think it’s the digital copy cause I loaded and redid it many times and it still happened. Oh well! Then after the love scene he said what if people talked, to which i replied if they did I’d feed them to the darkspawn myself. He said: “SEE! This is why I love you!” hehehe. Then he told her again he loved her again. He’s such a sweetheart.

Did anyone else keep Alistair’s original shield and sword? They take up room but I can’t bring myself to sell them. I feel like they’d mean something to him. His shield he received when he was training to be a templar, and the sword he received when he became a grey warden. Maybe he wouldn’t use them anymore but they’d have meaning to him.

Now that Al said he loves me, he says: “Something you need, my dear?” when you talk to him. So cute!

Doing the back alleys is good for money.

Spoke to a hooded courier, all he said was: “Our good friendship is guaranteed.” Who the hell is this guy?

Okay haha I worked it out. It’s a quest with the Blackstone Irregulars.

It’s strange but I can go back into Goldanna’s house, she’s cleaning the floor. I wonder if her name has meaning… cause she’s a gold digger.

Lol Sten said Ferelden smelled like a wet dog. So I said: “Don’t forget the garbage” and he said: “Ah don’t remind me” hehe.

Killed Flemeth. Whoa she was hard. I was THIS close to dying. I literally had a slither left of health and so did she. I’m so glad I didn’t die cause that would have been sooo annoying!!

Aww Morrigan is my friend :) It was a nice chat. She said she might not always prove worthy of the friendship but she would always value it.

Doing the wardens keep dlc now. Soldiers peak is creepy! It was a fun and kinda shocking quest. Now I have a party chest! Thank the Maker!

I had a star metal sword made for Al called Starfang. Looks awesome!!

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MORE miscellaneous thoughts and ideas for Changeling Sim!

* If I decide to set the story in the UK, maybe the de-stress holiday options could be different to reflect it? Just having spring/summ/autumn/winter holidays was always a bit confusing for me in Princess Maker, i am really bad at telling the time and i could never remember which time gave which stat boosts no matter how many times I played! So it could be neat maybe if you can just pick between different types of holiday that give different stats. But maybe still have a few random cute splash images for them, which change each season even if the stats don’t. * Anyway i was thinking an option could be ‘farm’? Or like.. ‘country’? Whatever way to phrase it would contain the most types of holiday, lol. i remember I always really adored these as a kid, so maybe they get a bonus depending on how low the kiddo’s age is? Splash images could be her feeding a baby goat, maybe doing some horseriding, maybe doing a pottery course cos they had one of those at my local model village. Speaking of which, maybe have a model village one where you get a lil bonus historical education along with your goat hugs! * And maybe an option could be a theme park or holiday home type place. i cant remember what the official term for those is, I always used to call them all Butlins just cos Butlins was the one we visited most often as a kid. My grandma lived nearby. It was like a sort of thing like disneyland? Like a theme park so big that it has multiple areas and on-site hotels and youre meant to stay there for the weekend and stuff. Except butlins isnt big, its just that its common to have these things even for small ones here. Its like.. the closest thing we have to american ‘summer camp’? Except its a whole family thing. But it has all the activities and sports areas and stuff, and you’d stay for a weekend up to a month. And have lil cabins. Also i laugh at how my perception of the word cabaret was completely backwards thanks to these places! The little kids’s singing and standup comedy thingie at butlins was called the cabaret so I thought thats what it meant. Rather than it being a word for raunchy adult dances that was kinda used ironically here XD * or maybe just have a regular day trip small theme park thing as an option. That’s like the most common family holiday in modern times, right? It could give me a fun chance to draw some references to real life ones I went to as a kid, like Thorpe and Oakwood and Barry Island! And lots of potential for different cute splash images, there could be a family rollercoaster ride pic that fills up more and more as you make more friends throughout the game! See everyone’s comical reactions! And omg, a haunted house and maybe like a log plume or other water ride? And just a pic of everyone eating terrible theme park snack food and being buried in merchandise because wasting all your money is what holidays are really about! * Oh and while I’m thinking about it, maybe make the currency actually be british pounds and follow rational money logics? like £50 for the cheapest farm trip holiday up to £300 or so for the weekend camp one. Not 300 gold for a single book, lol! rpg currency doesnt even match up to yen properly, stuff is just way too cheap instead of way too expensive XD thats like a £5 sword, lol * Also even the holidays that stay the same could be a bit different if I try making them more british! like we could show a big ol grey british pebble beach and have everyone drenched under an umbrella like ‘well this isnt exactly what i imagined’ XD Tho those can be really fun too if the weather is okay, theyre fun all year round instead of just summer! You can find fossils on the shore, and see more crabs and seaweed and stuff! But you dont get to build sandcastles so i’m glad there’s still a few proper beaches around the country lol. * Oh and I probably wont have any sort of beach fanservice cos even if i wanted to throw it in for other people’s enjoyment its not like I’ve had much practise drawing stuff I hate, haha! But I could just double up on the funnycute family antics instead. Having the mother character be an actual presence in the plot makes it a lot easier, cos I could include her in these scenes instead of having to keep her face hidden 24/7. And cos she’s miss buff former hero of the human world, we could have her like... carrying a giant pile of supplies in winter holiday and being all overprotective, running around weilding one of those giant beach umbrellas like a lance in summer, trying to pick a fight with a bull in the farm holiday. generally just being a funny background event! The mum who’s more immature than her kid XD * Maybe take something from other games in the genre like Prince Maker Braveness and Spirited Heart, and add a £0 indoor relaxation option to the holiday menu? Like, not all stress relief HAS to be a holiday. And maybe make the ‘wander around the local shops’ holiday give a small stat boost to outgoingness or charisma or whatever its called, while hanging out indoors raises studying but doesnt decrease stress as much and has a chance of decreasing your social skills if you do it too much. Maybe every holiday could have a chance of not working if you do it too many times in a row? or maybe that’d be too annoying gameplay-wise, even if its more realistic. Sometimes realism needs to be suspended in favour of fun! * Also i liked that in Spirited Heart you could explore in a (non-monster-infested) forest for a holiday! Maybe that could boost magic stats a little? I also remember how the old flash game My Pet Protector had a thing where you actually had to find the different holiday locations while dungeoncrawling before you could use them. Tho i didnt like how it was random whether the flag would activate, so you had to keep going back to the same dungeon. Unnecessary awkwardness! * Maybe a random chance of friend characters appearing in the background of holiday splash screens? It would make it less boring to see the same pic again and again during a long game with lots of replay value, yo. Or other randomized minor features getting swapped out, like kiddo playing with a different animal at the farm, or whatever.

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On the plus side, I actually “got dressed” today and might even do some makeup because I feel like it. Probably just lips and eye shadow tho. Definitely gonna repaint my nails. 

(mini personal Kokie review below lol)

The girls just took an hour to get ready for a picnic (and we also had to do some minor work on some bicycles - mine included because it hasn’t been used in probably 2 years) I foolishly went out there barefoot and in my outfit. Promptly got my pink sweater all covered in dust and dirty bits. Wasn’t too concerned about my muddy feet - those are quite simple to lift into the bathroom sink to wash. 

I hand-rinsed the dirt out of my sweater. It’s still damp, but it’s a very loose fiber so it should dry pretty quick. In the mean time, I swapped into my I Can’t Adult Today shirt. As a result, instead of light pink makeup, I’m going to try really hard to go gold =o

I’m going to be doing my nails later. I’m down to short/normal lengths again since I left them unpainted so long and have had a few break on me (plus that hang nail on my thumb... it still hasn’t grown out completely even, despite being cut practically to the quick T_T) I’m honestly disappointed with the last color I picked up. In the bottle it shows a fantastic, beautiful shift between bright light blue and silver, with some very slight holographic shine. But actually on my nails? It’s just separate blue and silver glitter. And it took somewhere between 4 and 6 coats to get opaque. 

To be fair, I got it mostly for the color name. Intergalactic. But it’s not really space-y to me. It reminds me more of Disney’s Cinderella. 

It’s fairly long-lasting, especially considering I didn’t bother using a base coat on this and it’s been... a week? Maybe even two? Top coat for sure, because glitter. Overall it’s probably my least-favorite Kokie color, though. I only have 5 and I tend to pick up “unique” colors, so there’s always high risk that things won’t pan out how I’d like. 

#1 - Ski Patrol. 100% recommend, it’s a fucking magical one-coat white. No gimmicks, no sparkles - just good solid even full coverage white polish. 

#2 - Euphoria. Mostly appears gold when applied, but does have some chromatic shift. Opaque in 1-3 coats depending on application. Looks like a fucking potion in the bottle I love it. 

#3 - Cosmic Dust. A dark grey with lots of tiny silver glitter. It’s exactly what it looks like and applies opaque in 1-3 coats depending on application. It’s not the usual enchanting color I like to go for, but it is honest. And the name has to do with space. Obviously a weakness of mine. 

#4 - Bewitching. A dark purple polish with fine gold sparkles. This is a very, very dark color and the glitter is almost impossible to see when applied. I actually picked it up thinking it was a glittery black. Opaque in 2-4 coats, depending on application. I do still like this color a lot, but it wasn’t what I thought it was and I’m sad the glitter gets so drowned out. Right next to space-themed stuff in my list-o-weaknesses is witch/Halloween things. So. Yeah.

#5 - Intergalactic. Honestly? It was probably designed as a topper/effect polish. Love the way it looks in the bottle, adore the name - disappointed with how not-dense it actually is versus how dense it appears. Taking 3-6 coats to achieve opacity is ridiculous. 

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galacticgateau replied to your photo “some paint only doodles and the watercolour set im going to bring on...”

the fact that this is a palette you made yourself is honestly so cool I LOVE that

unless I'm misreading but like in general too I love that you pick which colors you want I just have one with a bunch of preset colors

ok long story time i just woke up and its 4:30am and im posessed

my first set of professional watercolours was a 12 set of 5ml tubes from qor! i think i had watched a video on youtube and saw that you could just squeeze tube paints into the wells of a plastic palette and let them dry/set and i was like. intrigued... basically youtube reignited my young teen interest in watercolour lol... before this i had done the same thing with some student grade paints... i also had a little winsor and newton 12 colour cotman travel set! lots of people have this palette! i still have it i just swapped out the paint yet again

ANYWAY my ~professional~ palette had way more than 12 wells and im like a weird magpie when it comes to colours so i started picking out individual tubes! i still have this original palette actually its just my taste in colour changed a bit.... i have like 30 tubes now lmao i dont even want to think about how much money that is

THE PALETTE IN THE PICTURE came with 8 paints! theyre really good but i got really picky about what colours i like to use so i swapped out the olive green and sepia with green gold and graphite grey and squeezed in four extra half pans into the empty middle row

usually if you have a 12 colour set of paints from a company ur good! bc they typically have warm n cool versions of red, yellow, and blue plus like two or three earth tones, a green, and black n white (most wc artists dont use black n white paint but imo they can be nice to have. most wc artists are also huge snobs/are obsessed with the proper way to do things tho like. pls let loose lads).... anyway u can mix a whole ton of colours with six paints its just more fun to have more colours lol