Fiery

Idk if it's hard to tell but I intended on Jacob's hair to be more messy eventho Lord Roland tried to make him as presentable as possible, he still got that wild Fife boy in him <33 His blush is pinkish because I say so

For Angel I made her outfit mint because that's how I see Tom's shirt and because I got it from a fanfic I wrote and I can't get it off my mind,,, Angel's hat has Lilies in it!! White and yellow because they represent freedom and independence just like her!! My girl boss!!

I tried to make their outfit as close to the century (1895) they're in but also cooperate it with TomLuke's appearance :3 I had so much fun drawing them!!

So, to get these charts, I first listed every mother role I could find across the plays. I did this in Excel, but here they are copied to a google sheet, if you'd like to see/fact check the list, or otherwise play with the data:

I sorted them by SFTH member, and determined the role size for each mother by this criteria: how many scenes are they in, how much screentime is that, and how important is their character to the plot?

For a few of these I had trouble picking between med/large, but when it was pretty borderline by the numbers, I went with "does this feel like a side character or one of the main cast"? (Because you also have to keep in mind that the longforms started out around 20 minutes long, and are now usually more like 30-35 mins long, so trying to determine how big a role is by # of scenes or screentime alone isn't actually consistent. 5 minutes of a 15 min longform would be nothing like 5 minutes of a 50 minute longform. So although side character vs main cast isn't objective, it was still a valuable metric because it brings more consistency across different-length longforms.)

I picked multipliers for each role size based on vibes - basically, how many points does each type of role deserve for its contribution to a longform? This is of course pretty arbitrary, but I felt like it was fair to keep a medium role bang in the middle, with "tiny" roles hardly being worth anything and a protagonist mother being an outlier in the other direction with a ton of points.

Then, it was time to make my graphs. I organized my data in this little table:

And then proceeded to make graphs in Excel based on that data.

One thing you may notice is that the raw and the weighted totals I made with my multipliers don't look at all comparable. I wanted to be able to compare them against each other in a chart, so I further processed the "weighted" totals by finding the average multiplier received by each actor (their Weighted Total / Total), and then dividing it by 4, the "default" multiplier, since it's smack in the middle of my 1-7 points per role system. (This creates the same effect as if my "tiny" multiplier had been 0.25, "medium" had been 1, etc, but that way has uglier numbers so whatever, I'm happy with how I did it.)

So, someone who on average plays medium sized roles (Sam) would have a new multiplier of exactly 1, someone who tends to play larger roles (Tom and Luke) would have a larger multiplier to boost their score, and someone who plays smaller roles (AJ) would have a multiplier under 1 to reduce their score. Then that new multiplier is applied to their raw total. This creates much more balanced data:

I then compared this in the Weighted Roles bar graph you see above.