#tubular lore tag

[unikhroma]

some lore for how horse and unicorn furries differ in my headworld

i've actually been meaning to make a comparison thingy like this for years but i never got around to it till now

[electricpentacle]

17 questions, tag 17 people:

Nickname: Lore - I swear it isn't a Trek reference. Well, not just a Trek reference.

Zodiac: Sagittarius

Height: 5' 1"

Hogwarts house: Ravenclaw

Last thing I googled: The Alnwick Poison Garden

Song stuck in my head: 'Sirens and Satellites' by Ego Likeness

Following: 978

Followers: 115

Amount I sleep: Varies wildly, anywhere between 5 and 10 hours in a night. Depends on the state of my circadian rhythm, how bad my restless legs are at the moment, and whether there's any really good fic posted recently.

Lucky numbers: 5 is sacred to both Eris and Mercury, two of the gods I work with.

Dream job: I want to be an independently wealthy natural philosopher who can research whatever topic interests me, and do weird alchemical shit on the side.

Currently wearing: burgundy skinny jeans and a CHVRCHES tour t-shirt.

Favourite authors: Alan Garner, Terry Pratchett, Angela Carter, Mervyn Peake, Frances Hardinge, Tanith Lee.

Favourite instrument: Bass guitar

Favourite songs: 'National Shite Day' by Half Man Half Biscuit, 'Science/Visions' by CHVRCHES, 'Smash It Up' by the Damned. Is it cheating if I pick all of 'Tubular Bells' by Mike Oldfield?

Random fact about me: I was once nearly blown up by a drug-addled fox. Seriously.

Favourite animal noises: the trills and squeaks made by a cat who is Very Excited to see you

Aesthetic: huge piles of books, cats, abandoned places, surrealism, dark comedy, rain, moorland, small creepy towns in Northern England, alchemy and occultism, sinister faeries, folksongs about murder, numbers stations, general Forteana. Bit goth, bit punk, bit silly.

Tagging: @expectedbehavior, @joellovessparkles, @boldlynyooming, @strangestarlightmusic, @sa5nthunderheadrev, @always-a-fairycat, @iwritesometimes

[unikhroma]

updated my oc height chart with new + updated art for some of the characters and i added in my fursonas!

here's their heights in text and in metric (from left to right):

harvey: 5'8" // 173cm ▪ dandera: 7'8" // 233½cm

pummel: 4'4" // 132cm ▪ pierce: 6'8" // 203cm (up to shoulders)

lenny: 3'9" // 114cm ▪ belle: 6'3" // 190½cm ▪ nyaya: 5'10" // 178cm

luvzik: 10' 10" // 330cm ▪ puppet: 5'0" // 152cm

(and here's the blank chart)

[unikhroma]

Question, in a bizarre scenario where spamton, nyaya, and Lenny all existed in the same place, how would nyaya feel about Lenny liking spamton? Would "Lenny has two hands" polyamory be an option, or would this end up being a love triangle?

it's funny that you mention this cause this is the context for several lennton interactions i've drawn where spamton is just inexplicably in tubular (tubular is where all my ocs live) and nyaya is still around

nyaya and lenny are in a somewhat open relationship, so lenny being into spamton isn't a problem for her. nyaya already had full awareness of lenny's promiscuity since it's portrayed in the show he's from. she always imagined a relationship with him still having that aspect present, which ended up being correct. make no mistake though, they're VERY dedicated to each other despite that

nyaya would also be so psyched to see that spamton is also a puppet. girl loves living object people

[unikhroma]

sleep deprived oc lore ramble: the neon district is the zone where most stuff in my headworld happens, and that's where most of the active characters live. it's kinda like if nyc and las vegas were mashed together and existed in a sonic game so it looks a bit cartoony. dandera and harvey have been living there for a while now, but pierce and pummel recently move in at the start of the current storyline. pierce and pummel are their neighbors, and the two couples live on the opposite side of the others' townhouse

nyaya on the other hand has lived in the neon district for longer than the main four, as she kinda just stayed in the same apartment for more than a decade. she's a hermit.. lenny of course lives with nyaya, so he's also a neon district resident

lambent is the most popular club/arcade in the neon district, and an important place in The Lore. mainly because this is where dandy and harv work. dandy's the bouncer and harv is part of the wait staff. neech is the head of the wait staff and harv's manager. i have this crt-headed kobold character who's in development hell who's the head of tech maintenance. there's also levvi, who i haven't drawn in ages but they're the usual dj

nixxo, the character from the piece linked at the start of this post, is the co-owner of the club and a live performer (the other owner has art and a design so outdated that i don't even wanna mention him LOL). cake is another usual performer as well

well that sure was words. if you're ever wondering about my ocs and you happen to have toyhouse, i have a lot of stuff about them on there. it's hard to draw out the lore cause of slow drawing speed so i often write it instead .. i do wanna make more comics. i just need to figure out the layout of lambent..

[unikhroma]

What hobbies does Neech have?

since they work as a waiter, they've become interested in cooking! they usually try to make what's on the menu at the club they work at since that's what they're familiar with. along with that, they also like to sew! they make clothing accessories like scarves but on the occasion, they make little plushies

[unikhroma]

Maybe Lenny, 1. for the ask game?

1. does your oc have any motifs?

if i'm understanding the question right, he definitely does! that specific shade of blue of his horns and tail with the pink glossiness is his main motif. that blue is very representative of him since it's the color of a unique material used for his body. it's unfortunate that pummel also has that same blue..

i guess his horns count too? it's another thing that's characteristic of him in particular, what with him being a demon and all

[unikhroma]

8 and A for Lenny :>

8. What were they told to stop/start doing most often as a child?

wandering away from his parents. his curiosity with the world and the people in it started really early on in his life, so he often got lost looking at everything around him. his parents had to keep telling him to not walk away to weird places

also he definitely ate stuff he wasn't supposed to but demons can't really get sick from things like that so it wouldn't have actually hurt him, his parents just didn't want him to like. eat nail polish lol

A) Why are you excited about this character?

i haven't had this much fun putting a guy into situations ever i think. he's so fucking weird that it's fun to think of how he would deal with things and how others would deal with him (like my main four ocs. he's their villain, particularly more so with pummel)

i do really want to work on other ocs but he's just so much fun that my brain has been defaulting to him constantly. also i think he's h

[unikhroma]

Have you answered how spamton and lenny met? My bad if I forgot 😭

they met online lol

they hit it off poorly at first, but after talking more they ended up liking each other's company and eventually met up in person

[unikhroma]

Do your unicorn/fantasy creature oc’s have any cool magic powers (like illusions, breathing fire, trans beam, etc.?

oh it's a natural thing in tubular for the average person to have some kind of magic so most of them do, fantasy creature or not! for example, dandera's magic is blood-based, i.e. contact with other people's blood gives them insight on them like their thoughts, location, and abilities. pierce uses concentrated energy for ammo in his weapons and pummel has hammerspace and uses it for what god intended (storing a giant hammer)

lenny's main ability is a bit of a secret, but like i've vaguely shown before, he gains a limited ability to shapeshift post-reincarnation. nyaya probably has some kind of illusory ability, but she hasn't really used it much. before lenny her life was a lot more normal than the rest of the main cast

[unikhroma]

i hit such a wall with my oc lore a while back, not knowing how to expand the world and what other stories would happen in it

but somehow this wall was destroyed by the impulse to make a spamton-like jester oc and me trying to figure out what sense it makes for said oc to be half puppet half furry*. and then that led to international organization conspiiracies, tf horror, in-universe media with its own lore, sacrificing an innocent person to bring someone back, Lenny, and most importantly actual world lore development

*i was originally gonna have it be a separate species, but i liked the concept i ended up with a lot more

[unikhroma]

21 hobbies your OC enjoys? for Pummel 💖

21. hobbies your OC enjoys?

pummel does all sorts of different things! it likes to go out to arcades and other hangout spots to meet random people (i wouldn't exactly say they're her friends though, more like acquaintances). in those places it plays video games, tries out new foods and goes to fun places like escape rooms, museums, theme parks.. it'll try anything really!

all of this is largely due to pummel needing to keep itself busy so it doesn't start thinking about The Horrors and eventually getting the urge to kill. it does genuinely enjoy doing these things though

[unikhroma]

For OC Ask game :3

For Lenny, 7 and H)?

7. What triggers nostalgia for them, most often? Do they enjoy that feeling?

i can't say there's much that does other than things that remind him of the time spent with family and sights he saw when he was younger. there aren't much good memories about the other aspects of his past.

he was relentlessly bullied in school as a kid and it didn't get much better up until college. he doesn't exactly feel nostalgic for those times

H) What trait do you admire most?

probably how much he loves himself and that he doesn't care much about how other people see him*. it's something i'm trying to work on for myself. yes lenny's self love is over-obsessive and it results in ??? behavior BUT isolated from that, i find it admirable

*he does want to be loved by others but it's complicated. in regards to any other gripes people have with him he does not care

[unikhroma]

How about Belle 38? and G), i'm curious if she has any notable flaws lol

38. What memory do they revisit the most often?

within more recent events, probably employee's death. employee had been at the office for a while, even before lenny was around. she worked pretty closely with them, so it was particularly shocking. she's glad that they're still around even though they're a ghost now, but the fact that it happened bothers her.

G) What trait of theirs bothers you the most?

how hard it is for me to draw her 😭 her face and puppet proportions are hard to get used to, that's the main reason why i don't draw her as much

if you're talking about personality traits, no not really lol

[unikhroma]

lenny was supposed to have some exclusive lore to why he came to life, but i realized that's a bit silly when i have pool toy ocs that are alive without any wacky stuff involved

because of that, it's probably just a known phenomenon for anthro objects to randomly come to life in my headworld (though it can definitely be done on purpose). so if someone makes something that looks too much like a person, it may just become a person by accident!

[unikhroma]

7 for Lenny and Nyanya, and whoever else you want to answer for!

i see lenny is popular haha

7. what is the thing your oc likes the most about themselves?

if you asked lenny the question directly, i don't think he'd be able to answer! he loves everything about himself. however, i think deep down the thing he likes most of all is his influence. just to be clear this isn't something he uses on nyaya or anyone he cares about nor is it something he uses often. he's just proud that he can do it in the first place

as for nyaya, her self esteem isn't good, but aside from that she's really happy with her appearance and her sense of fashion. her transition went well and she's happy to dress how she wants!