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just started reading the house in the cerulean sea, and it's so good✨✨i’m still at the beginning but I already like it a lot!!
here’s my first sketches of the characters I have met in the book so far
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WEIRDLY SPECIFIC BUT HELPFUL CHARACTER BUILDING QUESTIONS
- What’s the lie your character says most often?
- How loosely or strictly do they use the word ‘friend’?
- How often do they show their genuine emotions to others versus just the audience knowing?
- What’s a hobby they used to have that they miss?
- Can they cry on command? If so, what do they think about to make it happen?
- What’s their favorite [insert anything] that they’ve never recommended to anyone before?
- What would you (mun) yell in the middle of a crowd to find them? What would their best friend and/or romantic partner yell?
- How loose is their use of the phrase ‘I love you’?
- Do they give tough love or gentle love most often? Which do they prefer to receive?
- What fact do they excitedly tell everyone about at every opportunity?
- If someone was impersonating them, what would friends / family ask or do to tell the difference?
- What’s something that makes them laugh every single time? Be specific!
- When do they fake a smile? How often?
- How do they put out a candle?
- What’s the most obvious difference between their behavior at home, at work, at school, with friends, and when they’re alone?
- What kinds of people do they have arguments with in their head?
- What do they notice first in the mirror versus what most people first notice looking at them?
- Who do they love truly, 100% unconditionally (if anyone)?
- What would they do if stuck in a room with the person they’ve been avoiding?
- Who do they like as a person but hate their work? Vice versa, whose work do they like but don’t like the person?
- What common etiquette do they disagree with? Do they still follow it?
- What simple activity that most people do / can do scares your character?
- What do they feel guilty for that the other person(s) doesn’t / don’t even remember?
- Did they take a cookie from the cookie jar? What kind of cookie was it?
- What subject / topic do they know a lot about that’s completely useless to the direct plot?
- How would they respond to being fired by a good boss?
- What’s the worst gift they ever received? How did they respond?
- What do they tell people they want? What do they actually want?
- How do they respond when someone doesn’t believe them?
- When they make a mistake and feel bad, does the guilt differ when it’s personal versus when it’s professional?
- When do they feel the most guilt? How do they respond to it?
- If they committed one petty crime / misdemeanor, what would it be? Why?
- How do they greet someone they dislike / hate?
- How do they greet someone they like / love?
- What is the smallest, morally questionable choice they’ve made?
- Who do they keep in their life for professional gain? Is it for malicious intent?
- What’s a secret they haven’t told serious romantic partners and don’t plan to tell?
- What hobby are they good at in private, but bad at in front of others? Why?
- Would they rather be invited to an event to feel included or be excluded from an event if they were not genuinely wanted there?
- How do they respond to a loose handshake? What goes through their head?
- What phrases, pronunciations, or mannerisms did they pick up from someone / somewhere else?
- If invited to a TED Talk, what topic would they present on? What would the title of their presentation be?
- What do they commonly misinterpret because of their own upbringing / environment / biases? How do they respond when realizing the misunderstanding?
- What language would be easiest for them to learn? Why?
- What’s something unimportant / frivolous that they hate passionately?
- Are they a listener or a talker? If they’re a listener, what makes them talk? If they’re a talker, what makes them listen?
- Who have they forgotten about that remembers them very well?
- Who would they say ‘yes’ to if invited to do something they abhorred / strongly didn’t want to do?
- Would they eat something they find gross to be polite?
- What belief / moral / personality trait do they stand by that you (mun) personally don’t agree with?
- What’s a phrase they say a lot?
- Do they act on their immediate emotions, or do they wait for the facts before acting?
- Who would / do they believe without question?
- What’s their instinct in a fight / flight / freeze / fawn situation?
- What’s something they’re expected to enjoy based on their hobbies / profession that they actually dislike / hate?
- If they’re scared, who do they want comfort from? Does this answer change depending on the type of fear?
- What’s a simple daily activity / motion that they mess up often?
- How many hobbies have they attempted to have over their lifetime? Is there a common theme?
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Recently I’ve read the house in the cerulean sea and I loved it SO much!!! I couldn’t stop thinking about them so I HAD to make a least a sketch of these lovely characters who have my entire heart
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So you know how forge worlds have a cyberspace called the noosphere that's basically the internet? What are Katrumarius and Lyrane's noosphere profile/home-pages like?
I got self indulgent oc shitposts about this mostly kat because i dont think lyrane is a social media kinda guy
noosphere is just boomer facebook thats my headcanon
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Konrad outfits 🖤
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Doodled the ratman
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They’re going to a gala and Konrad was forced to take a bath and put on clean clothes!! Also Lark wears a robe cause I could never imagine him wearing a suit
Separately:
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Some underrated relationships, in my opinion.
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Results from the #paleostream
Gaffneylania, Rhachiocephalus, Aelurodon and Brindabellaspis.
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Every friend group should include…
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sci-fi jobs that must exist that i find inexplicably amusing:
- space customs
- tow trucks except they’re towing illegally parked spaceships
- for that matter, spaceship thieves, if only for how much more effort i imagine that would take
- irs agents who have to find tax evaders who went 2 or 3 galaxies over
- literally everything about the concept of the space version of the dmv
- imagine being the person who teaches hapless 16 year olds how to fly a spaceship
- people who analyze Old Earth media for a living the same way people now analyze shakespeare or beowulf, aka a bunch of scholarly and serious academics writing papers arguing the true meaning of Mean Girls and Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure and A Very Potter Musical
- cruise spaceships. you’re taking a slow tour of saturn’s rings and people are still complaining about you running out of cocktail sauce
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- Space cartographer. Some poor sucker’s gotta literally count the stars in order to chart ‘em. Did you think computers made the maps??
- Gas station attendant, but in space. You thought earth truck stops were liminal? Try pausing to refuel on an asteroid hurtling though the middle of inky-black nowhere. You’d see some interesting folks pass through, though
- Imagine working at a space hotel, for that matter
- Traveling Salesman
op, back again, with more
- IT workers who deal with tech that can communicate across the multiverse, rearrange people’s molecules, and communicate with ancient eldritch gods…….and 9 out of 10 problems can still be fixed with “read the instruction manual” or “did you turn it off and back on again”
- let’s players. people’s love of video games and screaming profanity at said video games transcends galaxy and species lines
- the post office. bravest people in ‘verse. though they did have to change their creed. it’s now: “neither snow nor rain nor heat nor black holes nor meteor showers nor solar flares stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds…”
- also, food delivery peeps. all the above danger + dealing with more drunk aliens.
- SPACE UBER
- tourist traps. “welcome to the galaxy’s biggest ball of yarn. yes, it’s this one, not the one on mars. the martians are filthy liars and they’ve always been jealous of our superior attraction.”
- science museum tour guides. the museums have gotten…….very big. it’s a very exhausting job, but it’s so worth it when the field trips full of kids from various galaxies get all excited
- space drug dealers
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- The people who work at crosswalks, making sure no one gets hit
- The insurance workers who have to deal with a variety of claims, black hole and solar flare damage, spaceship crashes etc
- School excursions or school trips
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skinnedbutalife
Fulgrim
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