#visletown

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looking at u w my big ol eyes hey hey spare visletown context? visletown info for the starving minds (me)? is it the music story

YUP YES IT IS!!!!! ok im basically just copying what i said in discord: it's basically going to be roughly 45 minutes worth of a completely non-verbal like uhh animation to music. the premise is that these 2 characters (will be unnamed in-story but i mentally refer to them as kay (k)(one with long red hair) and em (m)(one with glasses and fuckass bob)) go back to their abandoned hometown which is god. i do NOt have plot details ironed out at all lmao but there are 3 acts and their titles are the only words that will appear in the series. 1st act is they return to their town and k kills m & the town to become god. 2nd act is k having ten billion crises about being immortal and shit. 3rd act is k resurrects m and the town and they Come Back Wrong as reflections of k instead of themselves. the central theme is like.. community and the lack thereof, which is reflected in both k & m's relationship, their history, the town itself, and the wordless format. lowkey theyre house horror different font ranefall which is funny because i came up with it before knowing of eskew or silt, which explains that. k was borne of intense projection so if youre wondering why she sounds so faulknerian thats why. anyway some more words to chuck at you. sun/moon motif. ominous blue fog. town landscaped in the form of a lemniscate for some fucking reason. gay murder and subsequent sacrifice. the experience of not belonging anywhere.

ive also talked abt them previously here and here

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oc doodles

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please tell me about your ocs!!

ok!! so my main ocs are jules and emery! in summary jules is a girl who is trying become god and emery is her devoted friend/sacrificial lamb.

backstory is they grew up together in a cult of an isolated town. when emery was young, the town tried to do a ritual for jules' apotheosis. it didn't work because emery is the town's favorite (i mean the literal town not the people in it). after that, emery moves out of the town and proceeds to move around a lot. emery latches onto jules as the only constant in their life since they move around a lot. after that, the ritual is tried again without emery and then everyone in the town save jules is killed n the town disappears. jules leaves the town, and the town basically goes into hibernation - lights r on, electricity runs, but there isnt any movement or people. the main plot of part 1 of the main story follows emery and jules coming back to wake up the town - jules to redo the ritual and emery because jules asked them to come with her. i wont spoil the rest here bc i do want to make this someday but part 2 and 3 both carry on from the ending of part 1!

emery is intensely in love with jules (not romantic nor platonic but a secret third thing) and as shes their only connection they cling to her and base their self around her. jules loves emery as well but she loves herself more, and she does leverage their devotion to her own advantage. they both feel like the other is the only one who understands them and have a kind of "i dont need anyone else i have you" attitude

bonus feature of the town! it's got enough of a prescence in the story to merit mention even if it isnt really a character. the town is god in the form of houses and streets. sometimes there's fun body horror stuff to do with the town. the streets are structured in 2 concentric circles that converge in the center of the town like an infinity symbol. its origins are unclear. emery and jules lived in the houses in the center of those 2 respective circles. the town loves them because of that.

uhh thats all i can think of rn!

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see the three key themes are loss isolation and belonging like the premise of the series is some lonely people doing their best not to stay that way ems entire character is what if you had a guy with nothing to hold onto in her entire life and you gave him a friend who he had so much in common with and a one way trip to his hometown like she can finally belong somewhere she wont care about the cost and jules' motivation to do everything she does is for that belonging its why he curses his hometown specifically to be like That and that isolation, that disconnect from the rest of the world is what leads to her major conflict in the as yet unnamed act 2 and what makes her instigate the resurrection act. like everything in this story has happened because of that. and like the haunting really comes through in the resurrection act because obviously its the fucking resurrection act but like come on you raise and rebuild a town and your best friend out of your own flesh obviously its going to change to repeat and reflect and keep you there because that is what you want it is you and you have to fucking deal with that. and the thing is it never couldve ended well because the life of one is worth the other and if you keep one of them completely alive you will condemn the other whagever i havent even fleshed out this part in my brain yet i can't keep talking. anyway this is why it is so appropriate that the series be completely nonverbal/wordless and just musical with no code to speak of because these characters are part of something that we dont understan dwe as the audience have to feel that sense of frustration at not being part of something and then maybe then youll understand why they do what they do and i will keep using the medium to take things away from the audience. and i could get into how everything in this relates to me specifically but i wont that is the job of the imaginary students forced to examine my lack of text.

tldr: its about the fucking hauntings bro

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head in my hands every day the houses that arent homes essay expands beyond my control

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ooooh that sounds really cool as well!! the necromancy magic system stuff sounds interesting

ive yet to do proper designs for them that arent old and bad but here are some doodles i did recently!

em ^

jules ^

please tell me about your ocs!!

ok!! so my main ocs are jules and emery! in summary jules is a girl who is trying become god and emery is her devoted friend/sacrificial lamb.

backstory is they grew up together in a cult of an isolated town. when emery was young, the town tried to do a ritual for jules' apotheosis. it didn't work because emery is the town's favorite (i mean the literal town not the people in it). after that, emery moves out of the town and proceeds to move around a lot. emery latches onto jules as the only constant in their life since they move around a lot. after that, the ritual is tried again without emery and then everyone in the town save jules is killed n the town disappears. jules leaves the town, and the town basically goes into hibernation - lights r on, electricity runs, but there isnt any movement or people. the main plot of part 1 of the main story follows emery and jules coming back to wake up the town - jules to redo the ritual and emery because jules asked them to come with her. i wont spoil the rest here bc i do want to make this someday but part 2 and 3 both carry on from the ending of part 1!

emery is intensely in love with jules (not romantic nor platonic but a secret third thing) and as shes their only connection they cling to her and base their self around her. jules loves emery as well but she loves herself more, and she does leverage their devotion to her own advantage. they both feel like the other is the only one who understands them and have a kind of "i dont need anyone else i have you" attitude

bonus feature of the town! it's got enough of a prescence in the story to merit mention even if it isnt really a character. the town is god in the form of houses and streets. sometimes there's fun body horror stuff to do with the town. the streets are structured in 2 concentric circles that converge in the center of the town like an infinity symbol. its origins are unclear. emery and jules lived in the houses in the center of those 2 respective circles. the town loves them because of that.

uhh thats all i can think of rn!