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I don't think any place has changed the way I do things, but I feel like growing up in Lapland surrounded by lakes and forests has definitely made me more inclined to draw nature scenes and prefer them over things like buildings! Like it's not because I dislike drawing indoor things or find them extraordinarily hard, it's more about the fact I'm so much more used to forests and seen so much of them it's easier for me to recreate them, I guess. Likewise a lot of my stories take place in forests and abandoned houses because I have spent majority of my life roaming in the woods instead of like... traveling around or seeing or visiting super pretty buildings or cities. 

Also I feel like our summer cottage has changed me in some way, like I feel like writing in that environment somehow made me rediscover my joy for writing? My best writing memory is from that place when I was sitting on the veranda all alone and listening to the nearby crows and the trees rustling in the wind and the bark of a dog's echo from a distant location. Somehow at that moment I just had this overwhelming feeling of "damn, this is the ideal day and I sure love writing and want to do more of this" 

Have you ever used a real world place or location as an inspiration for your own settings? Could be a big thing like a country/city or a smaller like a certain place in the woods or a highly specific building 

Have you ever used a real world place or location as an inspiration for your own settings? Could be a big thing like a country/city or a smaller like a certain place in the woods or a highly specific building 

Yes! Several times... Probably the most noticeable in my story is the town of Kirkkala! It was heavily inspired the ghettos and small areas of the city I currently live in. There's a lot less violence in these places than I expected, and the people who live in those areas are some of the most chill people I've ever met despite the fact that they're dealing with a lot of issues. It's really inspiring for me, and I felt the need to pay homage to them.

I also was inspired by the more urban parts of my city for the city of Hautasmaa (though it also had influence from Slavic and Japanese architecture), and one of the towns my character is from is heavily inspired by my tiny hometown. Small towns are great. So many tiny urban legends that no one outside of the town knows about ^^ So, that's always huge inspo!!

What's the first step you take when creating a character?

To me, when creating a character i have to have a concept first. Be it a random thought or inspired by something, I have in mind a very sketchy image of them.

Oni teacher, demon pop star, Danganronpa Ultimate, I have an idea first and then I go for designing them and giving them a name.

I also have a basic personality in mind when first thinking of them too, so it helps me to design and envision them better.

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Do you have any pets? What's their names and do you have pictures?

I have a pet! I have alot of birbs but right now my baby is a rabbit I just recently got! His name is Corn! Have a pic of him! ♥

What's the oldest character you have? Was she/he/them gone through several different stages of change to where they were now? Or they stuck to the same ol' type where there wasn't a difference between from then to now?

yeah i've got a few characters like that? it's interesting bc these characters haven't changed much in design at all so i'm not sure what changed my mind about them!

first there's krypt'n and i HATED how he looked so much that i often forgot he existed - but now he's my main and favourite character out of all of my OCs! he mostly changed in personality, but that seemed to have been enough for me to like his design (one/two comparisons from his first design to current)

another one was kyou and he literally looks NO DIFFERENT to his first design, but i learnt how to draw him in a way that looked... more how i imagined he would if that makes sense? like facial structure and fluidity in his movements i suppose, if that makes sense? (a comparison from his first art to most recent)

and another is vipera! i wasn't very fond of her design at all and for a whole week or so i struggled w/ coming up w/ a colour palette that i liked :/ nothing felt right and i was about ready to scrap her character entirely bc it just wasn't working but i managed to figure something out right before i ditched her and i'm glad i didn't get rid of her like i planned bc i love her ;w; i don't have images of her previous palettes but the few that i recall were brown body/green accents and dirty yellow body/pink and brown accents and idk they all looked pretty horrendous

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what kind of OCs are u drawn to? like are there any particular traits that u just love?

I guess I kind of have two!

I'm really restless (even though people might not notice it) and my brain is constantly going on an overdrive so I remember I started coming up with stories and characters as a kid as a way to occupy myself? Like when I had all these imaginary characters on my mind I could focus on them instead of being restless and feeling like my head is gonna explode, and as I got older this only became more and more important for me as a way to act like a normal human being lmao. 

The other thing is that I was super inspired by other artists when I started out: they had such a big impression on me that I wanted to become like them too! And since other artists were the reason I picked up my pencil properly and started actively pursuing after art, I kind of hope I could one day do the same to someone else! I also want to create things I wish I could have seen while growing up myself, which is why I have a lot of androgynous looking characters and short male characters among many other things!

A more concrete inspiration for me is 70s shoujo manga and youth literature I read in my childhood!

Did you ever get into any sort of trouble at school when you were in elementary school?

Hmm, gotta go with a potential advance! Of course, it would require a lot of extra schooling: how to operate them, how to fix them, potential troubleshooting... And prices for fuel would go up a crapton. But I suppose as long as people know what they’re doing, traffic could be eliminated altogether and travel times could be far less imposing.

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What helps you calm down after a particularly violent argument? (Asking because I’m having people problems rn)