RantsOfAMadMan

Ninety percent sure someone has already done this, however it must be said (unlettered below the cut :] )

ALL NEVER LEARN REFS ARE DONE FOR WHO WILL BE ON MY PROFILE FOR ARTFIGHT !!!!!!!

sorry to boost commissions again it seems life is just one thing after another. i have a 20% sale on rn for emergency commissions on my vgen

ill write a little bit about my main ones here!!! im currently changing most of my stories sooooo im gonna keep it somewhat brief? cause i dont know everything yet HAHAHAH!!!

Swallowed-- Raul and Blake

Swallowed is my comic that i used to work on a lot! It takes place in a post-apocalyptic Earth. Humanity had infected the water with pollution and overfished to the point of destroying the ecosystem, so deep sea creatures emerged from the depths of the ocean looking for food and swallowed humanity-- leading to futuristic dystopian florida to get lodged in a sea monsters throat! a hundred or so years pass of humanity surviving inside of this creatures throat, much like the parasitic tongue eating louse! Raul and Blake are two young adults living in the low class area of the throat, trying to survive and warn people as the body they live in begins to decompose and fill with gas. They have to venture out into the wasteland and into the unknown to try to survive this new world! I'll tag my comic in the tags if you want to look at it!

Cole and Anton

My little babies..... okay okay sooooo Cole is this trans man who was raised in a rural Christian cult down in the south. He lived his life as a girl in a highly misogynistic, controlled group of people. He had never been anywhere else at the time, and he never knew anything else. A girl moves in from outside of town —she is a lesbian who is falling in love with Cole, and Cole does not reciprocate. Cole shares that he wishes to be a boy, and when he rejects her advances she outs him to the wholee community. Her father, a drunkard and livestock farmer, decides to hunt down Cole and kill him. COle escapes and hitchhikes as far from home as he can-- with no idea what he's doing and barely any other information on the outside world. He finds himself eventually in the south west, in a busy city with tons of new possibilities. He works in a comic shop, and the owners care for him as if he's their own son. Its very sweet! Anton is a trans man who is deep in the gang life and desperately looking for a way out. He was lead astray as a young teen by his uncle, a member of the same gang that offered Anton money in exchange for carrying and exchanging drugs to customers. Anton was eager to impress his "cool" uncle, and did as he said. Eventually, he began to move his way up in the gang and became a real member-- mostly because his uncle assured him there was no other way he'd be able to survive, especially if anyone found out about his past! Tensions between two gangs pulled Anton into gunfire, and eventually led to him killing a man( an old friend from his younger years) in self-defense. Trying to seem cool to his uncle and the other older gang members, he really talked up the killing and made it seem like he did it on purpose-- leading to his face tattoo... He is overcome with guilt about the killing, and secretly wants to run away and start over somewhere new-- but he knows that people will immediately know what he's done. It's also a little complicated for him, as a trans man in the culture he grew up in. He feels that he constantly has to prove himself in ways that others don't to be a "real man". It's complicatedddddd... ANYWAYS. EVentually, while Anton is trying to dodge some members of a rival gang, he slips into the comic store to hide and that's where he and Cole meet. Cole, desperatte for friends, tries really hard to be Antons buddy. Anton at first finds him extremely annoying, and tries to brush him off but Cole sticks to him like glue LMAO. Anton eventually finds Coles bright personality refreshing compared to what he's used to , and they slowly become true friends... and then even more slowly become LOVERSSSS OOOO OOOO!!!!! They''re both very important to each other for various reasons... one ill mention is theyre both the first other trans person that the other has met! so they bond a lot over that-- they no longer feel that need to preform for each other, and can relax. THey are my little meow meows. ALso sometimes in some AUs Anton is a werewolf HAHAHA

Chowa and Asheni

This one is being changed, so bear with me! Basically, we start with Chowa-- a socially awkward exchange student just trying to survive college in America! Little does he know... a much harder fate awaits him! On campus, the ghost of a past professor haunts the grounds-- as a serial killer. In life, he picked off lonely students one by one, and in death, he possesses more popular students to do the same! Chowa is a perfect, isolated victim. Through the guise of a date, he is lured in and eventually murdered. poor tingy. He comes back as a ghost himself and is forced to haunt the college grounds for all eternity... or at least until his unfinished business is dealt with! Asheni, a film major who's known to be a tad weird, has a second sense when it comes to the dead, and she wears a special stone around her neck that allows her to see ghosts when peering through! After discovering Chowa, they work together to try to exorcise the ghost of the serial killer to release the souls of those he killed!

Elian

This is a story that follows around Elian, a young man who was wrongfully imprisoned for a crime he didn't commit! An old friend who is in a gang tries to pull Elian into his crimes, and in doing so he kills a man when Elian was there-- on camera. Elian is profiled because of his looks and is wrongfully convicted, landing himself in jail. His story walks through the time he lost in prison as well as how he survives in the world after being released. He works at a food truck and lives with his cousin, Manny, as he tries to find himself . He's my little baby (grown man)

Diego

Disclaimer: this is not all the guys I have related to this story, but we're just gonna start out with these few. I've always been really shy about sharing details about my ocs so I'm just gonna jump right in with these :] Please please please ask questions if you'd like, I'd love to share more!

(Text is written directly on the images, but I'll put it in the body of the post as well for clarity)

NEON

ST-S-009 ("Neon") is a test subject born and raised in Starfall Laboratories. She is a part of the Sense Unit, a line of subjects used to push how far the limits of the human senses can go; consequently, Neon is the only subject in the unit who has not yet died.

Sick of the Lab's inhumane conditions and unethical treatment of its subjects, Neon longs for a life outside the concrete walls. With the help of Fiver, a member of the Regeneration Unit, Neon is able to escape her prison into a sprawling, labyrinthine city of a dystopian future. Headstrong and generally aloof, Neon is driven by a desire to seek revenge on the system that abused her while attempting to save others from the same fate. She has little sympathy for those in power, but feels kinship towards (and puts an almost naive amount of trust in) those on her level. Neon struggles with adapting to the changes of the outside world (something that draws her to Theseus), and she often acts selfishly without thought.

THESEUS

Having been cryogenically frozen and released in an undisclosed future year, Theseus suffers a case of complete amnesia. Despite this, he is miraculously laid back, and with nothing to tie him down that he's aware of, roams wherever he sees fit. His mannerisms and clothing are peculiar and outdated, as is the strange device he keeps strung around his neck that he was frozen with. Theseus struggles with his own sense of self and the prospect of having to build an entirely new identity from scratch. He's very go-with-the-flow because he doesn't try particularly hard to differentiate himself from those around him. He is agreeable by necessity— with no place to call home and no self to return to, Theseus is rarely one to say no. As far as he's concerned, he doesn't exist outside the context of others.

CARMINE

Son of the owners of Reactory Labs (a sister branch to Starfall) and heir to the family business, Carmine Jody Sinclair works as the highest ranking supervisor in Testing and Introductory Administration. Unaware that his mother, Andromeda, cares little for him, Carmine is rude, proud, and somewhat arrogant from privilege. He has a flat disposition and poor people skills outside of a professional setting. While he is generally cold, he has mutual respect for his twin sister, Melora, and a soft spot for his younger sister, Adelaide. Though he claims to wear a numbered tag as a show of good will and dominance towards the subjects he intakes, he is a test subject himself; Carmine's mother conducts invasive tests and surgeries on him under the radar without his knowledge. Carmine struggles with stepping out of his comfort zone and opening his eyes to the truth. He has an extremely warped perception of the world due to a sheltered and neglectful upbringing. He will do anything to rationalize his way out of being in the wrong.