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123penguin64 All of your series sound so interesting! I love reading about the worlds and stories people create for their characters. Your Bridgeport series, in particular, stood out to me, you mentioned that it's your oldest one as well. Has it changed much since you first started and if so in what ways? Another thing that really interested me was how despite it being set in the far future it doesn't seem to be explicitly sci-fi like most stories of that kind, was there a specific reason for the setting? And out of all your series which do you most enjoy developing/writing for currently? 

Both of my stories just started off as single characters or ideas I thought were cool and wanted to put my own spin on.  Harkers started when, despite the fact that I don't have enough friends interested in D&D to actually play, I was bored one day and started to develop a character based on Matthew Mercer's Gunslinger class (as well as the real-life gangs of London during the 1700-1800s), a character that eventually became Lorna. I grew to really love her but given what I had of her story, I really needed to expand upon the world. I've always found fantasy worlds that have firearms and other more modern technology really interesting in the ways that science and magic interact with each other and are treated. I also had a fascination with the Industrial Revolution and the huge effects in had of society and so I made the decision to move away from the traditional fantasy world and work on something more like that. As time went on as I got a better understanding of the story and world and did more research I made more characters to fill new roles. 

I have actually had a few of the characters from Heteka Bay for far longer than any of the ones from Harkers but the story is newer.  I used to just doodle characters like Kelly, Johnathan and Avery in my notebooks and over time I began to attach stories to them (a lot of which started off as jokes). I've always been a sucker for stories set in a 'small weird town filled with weird people' (Twin Peaks, Gravity Falls, Welcome to Night Vale, Wilde Life ect.) because there are so many ways you can take it and you can get some really cool dynamics between characters, so it made sense to just combine them into one story, with different character groups following different plots that end up intersecting. 

FellowPigeon I'm interested in both of your stories, Heteka Bay and Harkers! Where did you get the story and character ideas for Heteka Bay and/or Harkers? If you want, you can choose to answer for only one of them ^^;

It is possible for me to connect with male OCs, in fact I do connect to them just as easily as I do with female OCs haha! But anyways, it's usually really easy for me to design female characters because I seriously love designing dresses and frilly things. Yeah that's literally it lmao, sorry for disappointing you-

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How did your liking for cute male characters come about? What's your favorite type of design and why?

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Most of the time the colors come at random, being completely honest. I just pick the color and go with it.

But otherwise, I adore contrast, I believe they make gorgeous designs. I love pairing light colored eyes and hair with dark skin, vibrant colors with dull nuances and so on. I kinda find a balance between this mish mash of colors.

Another thing I like to do is have a character have a predominant color and add another completely opposite color. Like, they mainly have light blues in their design and their skin is a warm dark color! I believe it makes them stand out and are overall gorgeous to my eyes lmao

PaperTsubaki The Bakuten Shoot Beyblade mention in your interests got me super nostalgic, I used to watch that show as a kid and was super into it!! Did you also watch it as a child or did you discover it later in life? 

Also, your OC Roxie as become a pretty iconic character given how many faves she has + how much she is present on your profile, and I think it's really cool! I know she is a childhood OC and I'm curious to know what kind of thing really sparked her character to come to life! Also, do you have any characters that gained more interest than you thought they would?

Aah gosh thank you so much ;_; < 3 

I honestly blame the fact I feel like my brain is constantly on overdrive haha like everything I see and experience usually gives me ideas and I'm always burning to do more and more, and it makes it easier for me to sort out my thoughts and do my normal daily chores with better focus when I can use the extra energy into thinking about characters and their concepts. I also really enjoy just testing things out and I actually have a lot of monster designs in particular I have never posted, but which I have enjoyed working on a lot! It's relaxing and really pleasing, and I wish I could one day put more variance in my adopts etc without fearing for the market. 

For Waltz, I just really wanted to give him the torso of an instrument! I think it's a pretty common theme in gothic art in particular where a character is usually part violin or something, and the concept stuck to me so hard I really wanted to have my own take on it! Amor in turn is... basically all my favourite vetehi design traits in one, haha! And Morgan combines my love for dark, curly hair, wings, goats/sheep and church themes, and they're actually a hybrid of two of my personal species. 

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I just wanted to start this by saying I really adore both your art and designs asdfghjkl; going through them, I noticed a lot of variety between concepts and composition of both characters and art that I found to be really pleasing and pretty!! My question is, how do you come up with so many ideas? I suppose this is mainly directed towards the characters you've designed, but I was really intrigued by characters such as Waltz, Amor, and Morgan because of little nuances in their designs that make them unique compared to other characters (such as horns, markings, body, etc.)

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I'll be honest, Sun Doodles was a really spur of the moment type of story that didn't really have a lot of time put into thinking about it. It really started with three things. My obsessive love for Fire Emblem, Cyrille, and the obscene amount of free time I had at school. If I were to estimate, it's been about 2-3 months since I started developing this story, but I know there's still a lot of things I have to plan out, which I'll explain later!! To say the least, I've always adored world building, but this is the first time I went about actually writing something. I'm not very confident of my writing skills, so at first I was a bit weary of making the story public at all asdfghjkl; I sort of did it for the purpose of sorting characters, but I figured I wasn't really important enough for people to go through my folders and read any of it OTL

That being said, my main inspiration was Fire Emblem, but I was also just getting done with World History at the time as well. Fire Emblem inspired the aspect of war in my story, while my love and knowledge of History helped me add a lot of details that I would have never thought of. For example, the part in the Valkyrie war where Aida basically destroyed the Middle Realm with fire was inspired when we learned about how the Russians scorched their land as to not leave behind any resources for their enemy. Though the weapons that Valkyrie or able to wield, Ierocis, were based on the Divine weapons in Fire Emblem.

As of what you're seeing right now, what I have written so far is basically the first draft, but there are a lot of things I still need to add. From the mundane things of the daily life or education, to one of the biggest things I'm currently trying to figure out, which is how people are able to travel between realms. As of now it sort of just... happens? From how it's described, it's very much the layout of how heaven-earth-hell is depicted with small gaps in the ground that's large enough for people to go through which is like... really weird, so when I do figure it out, I'll probably have to change a few things.

Otherwise, I'm sort of a glutton for story building and I spent a lot of time in class to write out the premise of the story. I have a tendency to just write, and a lot when given the time and inspiration, which explains why there's so much information.

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Tell me all about Sun Doodles! This has a lot of detailed information on it, it must've taken years to write out, right? What was it like when you first made it, and what made you change parts of it? 

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I wish but I at least always have a jar of pickles in my fridge. Although you just reminded me that I got a bad batch. It's the usual pickles I always get but this time they just... taste like soap??? I need to return it or smth.

Anyways! I try to use all of my characters as often as I can, although the ones I hope to get more attention onto is my only protagonist character, Roy kekekekek, Armageddon Sr., and Ken!
There are definitely others that I neglect, like Archaeus and Reed. It's mainly because I don't have a good voice for them. Reed had a great voice until I brought him to Toyhouse, then it just kinda  disappeared. I'm hoping to find some good artists for these bois, because I think that'll definitely help.

Lup !  You seem cool, so I have a lot of questions that aren't related to each other haha.

 What're your favorite comics? Also do you enjoy reading webcomics or mainly thing MCU related? Also, how'd you get into making characters! You seem really busy ((in a good way like with studying and stuff)), and it's always a pleasant surprise to see a student who's still creating! 

^{Sorry for the late response I've been sleeping a lot and Thank you!!}
What inspires you to create your characters?

Dreams!! Stuff I wanna see in moves and games. But lately, mostly odd dreams I've been having lately.  Also, real people... I don't base my ocs completely off of people of course, but my OC Lennan was kind of made to make a friend happy. He ended up developing on his own though.

Also Pinterest boards hahahaaa.

What inspired Hettaverse? 

My inspiration behind behind the Hettaverse is related to religion and how I think a cool system for existing would work? The idea behind death, how creatures come into existence, a higher power, the meaninglessness of life,, etc. Also, what occurs Hettaverse is based on probabilities, like the likelihood of a certain event occurring and the likelihood that there is a solution to it.. There's a lot of random inspirations behind the Hettaverse and I've thought about the logic behind it a lot and I'm not completely sure what's inspiring me anymore.

@TheFaeryKing What inspires you to create your characters? All your characters seem really unique! Also what inspired Hettaverse? I'm also curious about it as it seems really interesting from what I've heard of it!

Holy heck sorry for the really late reply, I was on a really long airplane trip! x_x

But most of my ideas tends to come either randomly (like if i’m sitting in the middle of class or just doing stuff rip) or me reinterpreting things like mythology and folklore. My inspiration is obviously a lot of mythology and folklore, with a pinch of reinterpretation for good measure haha. The potential that I can use with characters really draws me in; I just like using all the ideas I get from my characters.

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How do you come up with character ideas? What's your inspiration and what do you see yourself getting drawn in regarding characters?

WHEEZES I forgot about that

It's kind of an inside joke? Like, I have so many males and I'm basically drawing them all the time, hence the dick thing (hope it's not innapropriate for the thread oops)

Also I seem to magically be summoned by that word in this discord server I'm in too so there's that.

Also, I came up with my username at random :0 I was just staying one day and was like "... you know, i should change my username. Polkadot sounds cute. Yeah let's go with that"

And I'm not sure what exactly you mean by the inspiration thing but honestly it comes from everywhere . o .

polkadot

First question: What is with the first line on your profile? The one that mentions a male private part? I’m just curious! Also, why is your username PolkaDot? Is there a reason for it? What do you get inspiration from?

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Monochrome-Melody

One pain in the ass overarching story! It mainly revolves around Adrian/Yin and Winter/Yang. It will likely start off very slowly with cliche as hell characters. I want it to slowly develop the characters (or have a few chapters completely dedicated to a character).

Really no aspects. Like most of the ones I keep are adopted- I have one that I drew. But when I do draw characters, it totally depends on what I’m listening to, watching, reading, hell even What base I’m using. It also depends on what I want to have as their personality.