#yknow like worldbuilding character design etc etc

[ask-indigo-park-swapped]

hello person behind the curtain!! the curtain master if you will :) i'm not like super cool and all but i just wanted to say ur doing great with this ask blog and i can't wait to see more of it!! this blog has indirectly (or directly?? who knows) made mollie my fav character!! if we're allowed to ask questions, i do have a few..! 1. what are your pronouns

2. do you have another blog or socials just for like. ur art. i like a lot :]

3. who's ur fav indigo park character in the game and in this au!! i hope u have a banger day/night and ur don't forget ur super awesome and touched loads of ppl (me) with ur work!! oh and have this: You've obtained a self-sustaining pocket sized cat! please take good care of it and i hope it helps improve ur mood when u ever feeling blue okay this was long um bye bye!!!! *runs away*

<naw im sure youre cool in your own way!! youre plenty sweet anyway, thank you for being so invested in my silly little au :DD!!>

<pronouns are funny little things :33c i generally do not care and in fact am encouraging yall to go wild with what pronouns you use for me. check out the pronoun closet if you need ideas for neopronouns to go wild with> <thank you for liking my art!!! im @niftukkun both on here (tumblr) and furaffinity!! i generally tag my art as [#my art] but if youre hoping for more indigo park look somewhere else lmao i dont draw it as much outside of this askblog> <salem for both!! very gender i love them lots. also i have a particular fondness for both potionmakers and shopkeepers so like of course shes favourite>

<again youre very sweet thank you!! ill keep my awesomeness in mind, and i will cherish this lil cat friend. thank you for your curiousity and kindness!!>

[cripplecharacters]

hi, me again! the advice from the last ask was super very helpful, and i have that characters mask figured out now ^_^ i have a question tho, about a v different set of characters.

so im planning this comic about a sort of cyberpunkish dystopian world, the precise worldbuilding is still fuzzy. anyway one of the protagonists is a wheelchair user due to a genetic condition. i envision her as crafty and intelligent, but i don't want to have her character fall into the whole 'wheelchair tech nerd/man in the chair' thing.

so i want to give her a lot of upper body strength, where she can do cool and difficult feats- she also carries weapons on her and stuff. yknow, cool character things right, kind of upped for storytelling purposes

and this may be a silly question but i don't know if there's a point where the kind of things she's able to do would have her seem not disabled? like she doesn't use her legs for any of these things, and she can't walk really at all, but i don't want to do the whole 'character has ability that negates the disability'. hm this feels dumber the more i write idk

also if you're going to read all this i might as well give you a drawing of her. her name is Strike thank you for reading i hope you can answer ty

[id: a drawing of a black woman with blue ponytails, a black tank top with green edges, and a utility belt. she is in a wheelchair, and has one arm behind her head. above the drawing are the words, "Moira 'Strike' Lenore". next to the drawing are three doodles: the first one is the same woman in her wheelchair showing the middle finger, the second is the same woman with a happy expression, and the third is a different character in a coat standing dramatically. end id]

^did i do that right. thank you again

Hello lovely asker!

hello again, I'm glad one of our mods was able to help you! Also there are no silly or dumb questions here <3.

So a character's strength—especially if they use mobility aids or a wheelchair in this question—does not negate the fact that they are still disabled. And in reality, a lot people who use walkers, wheelchairs, etc have ridiculous upper body strength. If the character mostly depends on their arms for stability, movement, transferring, then you end up building those muscles because of lifting either heavy mobility aids or having to lift your own weight.

All this is very realistic actually! And the design is really cute too (I love the hair). Happy writing!

~ Mod Virus 🌸

[chthonicgodling]

🏳️‍🌈 PRIDE COLLECTION - ELYSIUM🏳️‍🌈 Part Four!

featuring: Ty [they/them, nb + bi] & Karpos [they/them, nb + bi]

june fun continues with the next round, another extremely random pairing to pose next to each other!! mind daemon Ty who’s  newly formally announced themselves as nonbinary shortly after the birth of theirs & fiancée Libby’s baby Vid;; and Karpos, one of the ghosts of Elysium, honorary Flower Shade as a former nymph-esque-mortal-demigod of springtime fruit or whatever before their untimely death, who has ✨always been✨ nonbinary, though they are among of the ranks of peak obscure background characters hence why prrob none of you know who tf they are- oopssss still cute though both of them!!

 DESIGNATED NOTES;;

🌈aaand once again a conspicuous absence of Ty’s aforementioned fiancée/WIFE TO BE ANY DAY NOW LITERALLY Libby, also of Karpos’ longtime boyfriend & actual Flower Shade Kalamos (ghost, the river reeds) - once againnnnn both of them just default into the bi umbrella so they get left out

🌈with pending marriage in the ol’ rpverse I have been circling through old convos like constantly and only just now realized after like 6 years that Ty’s (AND BEL’S) ears are supposed to be pierced so really most importantly this is an amendment picture to fix that detail forever after thank you

🌈quick worldbuild elaboration for the uninformed; Karpos the ghost was not actually turned into agriculture upon death hence the adjacent status to the Flower Shades, which have now been mentioned THREE times, so: Elysium, land of the blessed dead, chock full of shades (aka ghosts, spirits, etc), employs several specific shades as gardeners, due to their lucky statuses of dying as mortals and then being transformed into various flowers and plants by whichever deities had been in favor-granting mood (usually bfs and gfs). hence the little club called the Flower Shades!

🌈….Which I’m sure technically, due to Chal’s (yknow Libby’s sis, also engaged to Ty’s twinbrother) friendship with Gany, & Gany’s engagement to prominent Flower Shade Cinthy, &&&& the rest of the Flower Shades thus being around; probably at some point Karpos and Ty HAVE interacted but????? not in the sacred texts that I know of lmao sO??? Gosh they sure both are standing next to each other!!

stay tuned tomorrow for the next installment! Pride collection tag can be found here! Ty belongs to @fenixethekid!

[captorcorp]

✨ 💎 for the hyper fixation asks?

✨ what draws you towards your hyperfixation? what is interesting about it?

omg so much... for one i love the general aesthetics of it! kirby is already just cute in general but i love star motifs, clouds, etc stuff they use to make a fun little world... and character designs, enemies like waddle doo or drawcia or galactic nova are the absolute character design of all time (i love it when there's weird little guys with big eyeball/floaty hands/big cloak/etc)

also the characters are all really cool, first of all we've got the iconic main quartet with kirby bringing everyone together with the power of friendship - even a lot of the characters that try to kill him and destroy the world are not immune to his pure :D energy

and then ofc the villains, i have an obvious magolor bias (i mean i love wizards and villains and characters that go 'heeheehee' this was inevitable tbh) but also like taranza and susie and daroach and etc are all really silly little guys with interesting stories and personalities (... actually idk what daroach's story is i'm still mid-squeak squad hjkdf still he's also cool) (marx is also cool but he really just shows up for 5 seconds, dropkicks kirby, and gets blown up hjkdfs i prefer the others a little more ^^;)

the lore in general is also really fun, the contrast between kirby just living his simple little life with friends and food and fun and dealing with intergalactic threats, also all the worldbuilding stuff like the different dimensions, artifacts from the ancients (lor starcutter my beloved 💖), whatever tf is going on with dark matter i haven't gotten to those games yet ^^;;

(also the gameplay is p fun i guess hkjdfs all this rambling and nothing about the actual game itself ^^; i do like it but it's not the main thing drawing me to the series yknow)

the music is also a+++ but i'll wait to talk about that if i get the music question for this ask game :P

it's just a silly little series that appeals to the kinda vibes i like with lots of characters/lore to rotate in your mind ^^

💎 are there any fun facts or trivia that you would like to share?

these are mostly magolor/lor centric bc they're my faves but hjkdf

magolor is canonically referred to as a 'crafty egg', makes the fried egg food item when cooked in star allies, and gets cafe merch related to eggs bc of his egg shape...

in the games, the lor starcutter (magolor's ancient ship) is heavily implied to be sentient and in the light novels, it even talks to bandana waddle dee through sending his brain information about sphere doomers and good vibes ^^

last magolor fact but. in the true arena final boss music you can hear him crying 'kirby... tasukete!' in the bg ;-; (ex: around 1:14 but a bunch of times throughout)

there's a light novel and merchandise line where a bunch of the characters get steampunk designs and it's very cute

in kirby planet robobot you can put stickers on your robot suit!!! my favorites are the stickers kirby hand-draws of his friends

kirby is round and he is my friend

[zoekrystall]

Just ranting abt horror tropes and how I am picky

Love how that layout change kicked me more into spooky mood again but man I fucking hate how much ableism is in horror movies. I forgot why I don't watch horror movies at like all since forever but adore horror in gen until I searched for ones without any ableist shit in them. If it isn't physical seen as creepy it's the narcissist/sociopath/psychopath villain trope and I want to start strangling producers. The last one I watched was skinamarink and that was like my first one in forever next to an old japanese one like two three years ago w a friend. Will prob rewatch otgw and some classic horror movies. Maybe when focus watch some anime w horror elements. Since like. Getting me to be scared is anyways hard nowadays I consume horror games all year round (albeit only through let's plays). Also idk if it just seems like that or if I got bad luck there but a lot I did want to check out bc of people saying how oh so brutal they are always got rape scenes when I checked which is an immediate no and I just I'm tired man. Also yes I like survival horror I like resident evil silent hill ofc I like a lot of horror game classics but like. Those aren't creepy imo. Those don't evoke the same fear. I want psychological fucked up horror cmon. Gore is cool and I do enjoy it but less in a creepy more in a "yay! ♡" way like sometimes murder makes me feral like an animal. Which is anything but being scared. Like I want to be the one murdering them I want to sink my teeth in and violently shake my head! If you can understand german the youtuber corrupted got pretty much the same taste as me. Back to movies and shows I think the problems also is I just prefer games way more. It's so different just watching people being in a situation vs having to control them maybe even having choices to dif endings and all (even just watching a let's player evokes it enough). Fear and hunger is amazing! 1 and 2! I watched the vods by cdawgva and the game has a neat story characters designs etc. But like. In regs to scary is it not what I exactly want. I bet if I would play myself would I dislike it bc I hate fighting and all. I think bc it touches on the psyche n all is it one I def like more but ig it's more the worldbuilding than the game itself? And then it's for me a yknow horror game but not a scary game. Idk how to explain it maybe a scary game is also just not possible for me and if that is the case then I mean? Fear and hunger nailed it a lot I think. I think I start to analyze automatically more than just let myself be spooked without my brain constantly thinking abt the setting. I mean I like a lot of horror rpg maker games bc of the story setting n all. I think I just enjoy what I enjoy but man is it a shame to only be scared once in a full moon nowadays. I think the suspense is v important? Joey said on a trash taste ep I watched yesterday how a lot of japanese movies nail it w you think there will be smth but then there's nothing so you are constantly on your guard. Maybe that's why if I do I usually watch japanese horror movies. Ik I def don't like when the hard stuff like immediately drops. Def hard to pick my horror taste apart oof.

[druggeddraccus]

ssp3 spoilers/review

rambling as i struggle to put my thoughts into words so i will not be a good debate partner on this lol sorry

yumi and the nightmare painter—it was okay not my favorite i can see why people are loving it so much i just had a hard time connecting with the characters and maybe it will change with reread.

anyway i came out with similar feelings/issues towards both frugal wizard and nightmare painter. and it just boils down to not liking the main characters.

it took till the beginnings of the sanderlanche for me to really start to enjoy both books. like as all the loose threads were going together i started to enjoy it more. and most of that is because i struggled to relate and enjoy the main characters.

cause with sanderson the characters are what you fall in love with first and that helps drive you to the sanderlanche. but if i’m struggling to enjoy the characters it’s going to be a subpar book until i get to that point. idk if that makes sense to anyone else but it makes sense in my brain lol

the worldbuilding is fucking cool as shit—neon lights, floating plants etc etc. and the story itself was really cool and the ending really helped solidify the story for me. the ending made the story.

(though i would have preferred yumi not come back—sometimes you need the sad ending) (“my gf turned into the moon” “that’s rough buddy”—im just saying it would’ve been cool—and there’s cosmere/investiture theories that i am not well versed in that could have applied toward her death (like kelsiers situation but again idk enough about it to properly theorize) i just know kelsier is kinda alive and yumi could have been mostly if not all dead yknow—lil sadness if he didn’t want to go the full princess yue)

i really enjoyed design and liyun (hoid was cool too—the heavy narration is starting to bug me a bit but it was good) i just did not enjoy the main characters. they weren’t the ones driving me to the sanderlanche so it made it more difficult to fully enjoy if that makes sense.

[betawooper]

What are your favourite and least favourite kny character designs ?

*puts on my character design analysis hat* as much as i like dissing gotouge's writing, theyre excellent at character design (pretty much all of them are bangers) but lets see, ill do top 3 and bottom 3

top 3

#1 - Shinobu

I love how her whole design basically screams elegance, from the butterfly pin in her hair to even her kyahan replicating the haori pattern, of pale insect wings that would glimmer in the moonlight, the use of purple in her design so she gives off an air of royalty, even kyojuro doesnt quite have that innate royalty-look that she does

#2 - Yoriichi

On the opposite end of the spectrum, there's Yoriichi who for all intents and purposes, has one of the plainest designs of the entire cast. Really the only visual aspects that are purely his own is the color crimson, his hanafuda earrings, and his Marking, his clothes are common, his hairstyle was common, his eyes are surprisingly plain considering that gotouge loves designing strange-looking eyes for characters (ahem, douma), but the plain look really sells the idea that hes Just Some Guy and not a battle-worn savior for the people like the entire narrative had suggested

#3 - Akaza

All the demon designs are really good but i particularly love akaza's bc of how every element references parts of his backstory and the core of his character. The blue tattoos emulating his branded tattoos from his crimes during his human days (now hes got a lot bc hes killed a lot more people yknow?) and the primarily blue and white color scheme hes got going on in general to suggest the coldness of his compass snowflake ability, but the bright pink accents help break it up and references his beloved's kimono, that despite letting go of his humanity, she has touched him with a kindness that has affected him so deeply in his core that his subconscious will never ever forget it, that he was loved and he loved back

bottom 3

#1 - Inosuke

This is more nitpicky than anything but his design doesnt really show the chaotic wildness of his character as much as it should. There really should have been random scars and burns and tans and tangled hair, and etc etc etc, also his swords dont have a practical sheath for him to hold them in, and in the anime character design sheets, they just stuck the blades on his hips with no explanation for how it doesnt just fall off since hes not wearing a belt. I do like what we have right now, just think figuring out the practical applications as well as showing his history as a kid who grew up in a forest would improve it

#2 - Tanjirou (specifically anime)

They cut his hair, need I say more? I'm joking but, it's more along the lines of how underwhelming his color scheme is. I love the deep and intense red gotouge always colored him in as in the manga, but in the anime, his hair is so dull and his eyes are a more pinkish-red, it doesn't quite sell his connection to the sun as much as it should, the green is fine, im just annoyed about the red lol (also his hair, my boy should have kept his long hair)

#3 - Muichirou

There just isn't enough going on, and its very plain when it really shouldn't be. I love the idea of them using more flowy garments as both a way to improve the effectiveness of their techniques and to maybe hint at more of the worldbuilding for Mist Breathing users, but that's basically it, there's nothing to grab your attention with. I think adding a mist-patterned yukata to also hint at his background wearing the same kind of clothes wouldve vastly improved and also pushed the idea that "hey, this is the mist pillar, dont ever forget it"

[somehowmags]

✨🏳‍🌈💎!!

(my current hyperfixation is dsmp sorry i promise i don't watch any racist youtubers) ✨ what draws you towards your hyperfixation? what is interesting about it? i think what draws me towards it is like.....at once it is both hilarious and cursed and genuinely heartfelt. like there's room for both tommy and foolish's sea pickle bit and the conversation about if tommy thinks he's a good person or a bad person and how he doesn't want to give up on the people he loves, in the same stream, yknow? there's room for both c! fundy's mom being a fish and all the cursed implications of that and also for him to be genuinely heartbroken about her disappearance and wilbur's abandonment of him. also there's a lot of worldbuilding that's sort of left empty, which means i get to fill in the cracks! i can build myself my own little world in they leave open. i talk about it a lot in my art streams, but the fact that it's not modern or fantasy, that some characters are maybe robots while others are anthro mobs or animals, all of these things let me go ham on the designs. i love worldbuilding so so much dude. so so much. (im not saying ask me about my designs for characters but i am saying ask me about my designs for characters) 🏳‍🌈 do you have any headcanons (lgbt, race, neuro, etc) that are important to you? hmmmm. im not sure how ok ccs are with hc'ing their characters so ill use cookie run for this one if that's ok! i hc pistachio cookie as desi and muslim, like me :o) aalskjdfhaklssdfh that's bc i love her so much 💎 are there any fun facts or trivia that you would like to share? MMMMMMM......honestly my favorite trivia is weird streamer facts. badboyhalo throws knives. what the fuck dude that's awesome but i did not expect that from him

[tiqerboy-archive-blog]

top 5 things u'd change abt SU/GF :3C

SU: 1. More Garnet and Amethyst. Garnet needs to like, actually be a character. Amethyst arcs that don’t suck or squeeze Steven in last-minute, and actual Garnet arcs. 2. Steven needs to chill in the background a LOT more. He’s become an annoying mouthpiece at this point that it’s grating to hear him talk. Make it stop. 3. Pearl needs to like actually address her shit. Stop guilting others, apologize, actively make up for her actions. I’d rather have that than not have her do the shit at all, actually. 4. No appropriation of other cultures in the fusion’s designs, and no racist caricatures or unfortunate racist implications. Remove the ugly moral from Bismuth, make Sugilite look better, have Opal’s design non-appropriative, and get rid of Andy entirely. No human zoo. 5. Fucking. Way less filler. If there’s filler, it’ll be interesting and actually have relevance to worldbuilding. Focus more on the plot without dragging the buildup. No random happy-go-lucky episodes between intense, plot-related episodes. The show can still have “slice of life” while still being mostly plot-centric. Have there actually be resolution of conflict or plotholes. (Meaning, the rubies are saved/or never were blown into space, no more introducing tons of characters/plots only to never touch on them again, just none of the structural mess)

GF:1. Mabel needs to have way more episodes devoted to her that don’t focus on boys. If I’m being honest, none of that at all. If there’s any romance involving Mabel it’ll be less hectic, and more bi/pan if yknow what I mean. Mabel needs more character besides “quirky boy-cr*zy girl”.2. Don’t rush the finale. The second season suffered because the show wasn’t having a third season, which I think was a mistake. Build it up nicely and let it lie, and leave some questions unanswered or up to interpretation. Actually do something with that damn wheel that was spat in our face every intro. Have Bill’s purpose be a little more meaningful than “I spent all this time making a complicated plot to take over the world….just for shits and giggles”. I’m not talking sad backstory or whatever, just….more substance. 3. Fuck that Wendy/Dipper shit. Just. It doesn’t need to exist. Wendy can be cool and be Dipper’s friend and nothing else. No drama with Robbie, no ridiculous thing with Dipper flirting with girls to get over Wendy, none of that stupid shit all of us fans inevitably ignored because it was aggravating. Gone.4. Get rid of bad elements such as Soos’s grandma being a stereotype, don’t have Soos be obsessed with food, no Toby weird trans analogy that was offensive in the finale, have the kids at least treat Brenda with respect and have her existence not be a joke, etc etc. Also, incorporate gay and trans shit and have it be VISIBLE. No hints. Have that gay couple in “The Love God”, have Mabel actively express love towards boys AND girls, have Brenda be trans, make the characters less white/more diverse. 5. Make Ford’s grudge less stupid. Ford’s not a dumbass, there’s no reason he should be mad about not getting into his dream school right away. If he’s really such a genius, he could have easily just finished school, gotten rid of credits easily in community, and gone to his dream college (and probably get another shot at a scholarship). Like, it’s so dumb and not worth holding a grudge over. Really. Their whole grudge thing was so aggravating it made me wanna tear my hair out, because it was so nonsensical. Just have the twins be bros who’ve been through tough times, Stan helped Ford on the portal, but Ford got sucked in, and they desperately searched for each other and tearfully reunited when the portal finally was turned back on. It’s just plain stupid and annoying having them hate each other over that. Petty fights are fine, but the whole grudge thing was just. Eugh.

So yeah those are the changes I’d make.