Ask about the above OC's VISUAL DESIGN

Posted 5 years, 7 months ago (Edited 1 year, 6 months ago) by RadiantRaindragon

Hello and welcome!

This is a question game specifically for talking about characters' physical appearances. Their outfit? Their hairstyle? Their scars? An accessory they always wear or a sword they always carry? You get the idea.


15/02/2019:

To help clarify what kinds of questions are allowed in this game, I've made a list of correct and incorrect examples! Hopefully this should help out anyone who's stuck thinking of a question!


Format example:

Person 1's post: Why does Spike have a necklace of house keys? Edit: Adder got the scar during a criminal job that went a little wrong.

Person 2's post: Where did Adder get that scar from?

You can post IC if you want the next person to question a specific character, or you can post OOC and let them pick for themselves. If you post IC, try to stick to characters that have something noteworthy in their designs - while there's nothing wrong with more plain characters, it can be hard to think of an interesting question about them.


-Rules-

1. Stick to the theme of the game. Your post must include at least one question related to the character's design. You are allowed to ask non-design questions as extras.
2. Don't be rude or passive-aggressive towards other people or their characters in any way.
3. Wait for at least 3 people to post before you go again (unless over 12 hours have passed since the last post, then it's fair game for anyone).
4. All characters must have at least one, SFW art piece. This means characters with no art, or only 18+/filtered art, cannot be posted. You are allowed to skip people if they have no art or only 18+/filtered art.
5. Please do not post the same character repeatedly. This is to lessen repetition of the game.
6. Do not skip people (unless they're breaking Rule 4). Even if the above user has blocked you, that is not valid reason for skipping them.

I actively monitor the thread for rule-breaking, but if you think I missed something, please PM me and let me know.


If you break rules: Depending on the severity of the situation, I may either PM you with a warning or immediately ban you from the game. Regardless of severity, you can be banned if you repeatedly break rules.

Almondlover

How did Anastasia get her pocketwatch? Is it special in any sort of way, or did she just buy it because she liked it?


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I'm glad you asked!

Each of her scars has a story, so they say. Some of them are more impressive than the rest.

The scars on going across her right eye were recieved when Myev tried to catch a rather large rat for dinner. It dug it's claws into her forehead and when she tried to pull it off, it just kept hanging on, until she was finally able to get it off. Her right eye still is her bad eye.

Now for the scar on her neck, that was caused by a larger opponent then a rat: Her fussy teammate Osborn the Halfling. The two have never gotten along, frequently quarreling with eachother, and these verbal fights sometimes escalate into violence. One day while argueing about what they should do with the shiny knife they found, Myev just went and snatched the knife from his tiny hands, but he hung on tight, and in his attempt to pull the knife out of her hands, it sliced her neck. At least she got to keep the knife as an apology.

The bite mark on her arm is a simple story. During a fight with 7 Kobolds, one latched onto her arm and sunk it's teeth in DEEP. She got it off by slamming her arm into a nearby tree.

Finally, the scar on her knee was the result of a scab that she just wouldn't stop picking. Good thing scars are considered beautiful among orcs!

Guardy

How did Myev Lemeliv get her scars?

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Technically, the darkness just manifests somewhere in his vicinity - having it drip from his robes as creepy ooze like that is just him being extra. He got the idea a few millennia ago from a perpetually dripping water sprite.

Adrian Kuzuryu HowlingCat

Herutaz design has always strike me as being interesting to look at. When it comes to the concentrated darkness (I believe that's what the ooze is if I read the profile correctly), is their areas of his body where the ooze is more prominent? Like for example, in the fullbody example I seen of him, the ooze seems more visible in certain parts of his clothes. :0 I hope that makes sense >.>

So here's a funny story about the color purple. It does carry quite some significance that I do kinda need to break down because I put way too much thought into it.

Purple does some symbolism. I did partially explain it in his trivia but I can go into deeper detail. Purple combines the calm stability of blue and the fierce energy of red. The color purple is often associated with royalty, nobility, luxury, power, and ambition. Purple also represents meanings of wealth, extravagance, creativity, wisdom, dignity, grandeur, devotion, peace, pride, mystery, independence, and magic. Out of all of these things, power, creativity, mystery and independence are traits that is often found in Adrian and thus gives him a stronger connection to the color. Of course, one can argue that the interpretation of the color can vary and one might argue they don't see the purple for any of the things I mentioned. However, from my research, it's something that I personally believe. 

I also chose purple because that's honestly the only thing I thought that really worked when I initially designed his outfit without the mask >.> Just look at these

I did various versions too..but these just show how much work figuring out these designs were.

Purple is the colors that you get when you combined red and blue. Both of these colors are actually prominent for Pulaoand Kuraokami/Kuzuryu(Adrian's summons/Personas) so that's a little clever nod to that.


Hippolyte Seiden

Why so much purple? Does it have some signification, or is it really just a colour that you/Adrian likes ?


Hippolyte works out a few times a week. He mostly jogs, but also lift weighs, do press-ups and abdominal exercices, and also occasionally practices boxing. He also pays attention to what he eats, going for proteins and fibres rather than carbohydrates. 

Almondlover

So, I noticed that he's fit and has a 6(?) pack, and since a lot of the rest of his design is explain in his bio, I'm gonna have to ask: What's his workout regimine? How does he keep himself from putting on the pounds?


Ahh, Chickenboy. Truly an odd one, isn't he? He was brought to life by a necromancer who wanted to start small. Small like a... raw chicken? It's cheaper than most other dead things! The necromancer brought it to life using an outdated spell that was normally only reserved for 'normal' familiars, like cats. This gave her new creation, dubbed "Chickenboy", catlike behavior and tiny claws on the stubs of his leg bones. But it was a bit disturbing to have a headless, plucked chicken running about, so she shoved a mayonaisse container into where his head would have gone and bound it to his being. The mouth and eyes were an intresting side effect. He's cuddly as a cat-chicken could be, but we would recommend washing your hands afterwards. And how DOES he walk...? Very carefully.

ElithianFox

The design of Chickenboy is really puzzling me. First off, what is he? Is he truly as adorable and cuddly as his little eyes and muzzle implicate? How does he move/walk? How does the name Chickenboy relate to his design? And lastly, if that is indeed a shell that covers his body, what can we find beneath it?


Feel free to ask about anyone on here ;v;

There is! It ties majorly into his backstory, even.

When Markus grew up, he lived in a small village where he wasn't the richest of inhabitants, for as rich as you can get in a small 200 person community without nobility or royalty. He grew up as a sheep herder and started out with his simple clothing most suited for his location's relatively warm climate. He looked pretty basic!

When he found a box with an artifact buried underground, he was approached by a merchant who wanted to buy it from him for a big amount of money. He accepted, not really interested in the artifact, and used the money to buy a dog as well as his jewellery and his new, more expensive and intricate looking clothing, just because he loved the style and had always wanted to look like that ever since a noble with lots of jewellery travelled through his village. He ended up being duped for selling that artifact, but he always kept his new stuff with him despite now feeling a little bitter.

Guardy

Is there a story behind Markus M. Leon's jewelry and/or for how long has he had it?

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I just really love eye motifs, especially when they're an opportunity to cram more gold accents into a design. 

They also relate to his role as essentially a forest guardian - they occasionally flicker into existence throughout the forest, and he can more or less see with them.

(the forest, by the way, is not technically cursed - the humans living around it are just perpetually freaked out by all the odd creatures within it.)

muwi

What's with https://toyhou.se/2672567.herutaz's eye motif happening there? Is it related to the cursed forest?

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It's the physical symbol of her receiving her blessing from her god! It resembles the cardinal direction because her god is the God of Balance. It's removable if she really needs to.

Almondlover

Claim! Avoid using characters from the folders jerkface and any of my closed species characters

On Irideae, what's the purpose of the map star on their forehead? 

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Valentine's favorite outfits are loose fitting shirts and homemade 'shoes' (more like very basic flip flops), accompined by lots of accesories. None of the colors go together, they're all patterned in different, loud ways, but you know what? He made them all himself, and he thinks they're just wonderful looking!

RadiantRaindragon

You mentioned Valentine loves sewing and fashion but doesn't have good fashion sense. What sorts of things does he like to create/wear?

(I realise this is only loosely a design question but it's still kinda about design-related stuff.)


He actually became a dark-brown tabby cat! I think I chose that colour because it kind of matched his hair colour. And I wanted him to be a tabby because a plain cat wouldn't have been so interesting. But pretty much all the cats in Vincent's story were designed by random, I didn't think into any of them too deeply.

Rudy Demonite

Is there a reason why Vincent became a black cat rather than any other cat breed?

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Rudy’s scarf is a gift from his parents! It’s a little lumpy because his mom wasn’t the best at knitting, but it’s very warm. It’s one of the few things he has to remember them by, so he wears it constantly.

Charlotte Knight Mochagatari

I gotta ask, wherever did Rudy get his adorable red hoodie from, if anywhere at all?

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Almondlover

How does Charlotte move in her hobble-skirt like dresses? Why does she like that style of dress?

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