Muffled Stardust

This is a HUGE incentive for companies to avoid AI in their games. Because if you're making a game that's not exclusive to a specific platform, it's on Steam. And if it's on Steam, people know you used AI. And if a whole bunch of Steam users refuse to buy those games and will spread the word even to non-Steam users, having that little AI tag can be the difference between a flop and a massive success. I've already personally witnessed people saying they wanted to try a game, learning it has AI, and deciding to get something else instead.

A ballet dancer in the 1861, Emma Baune is a French immigrant who moved to the U.S. with her family when she was young in hopes of hopping on the railroad business boom because of their steady economic decline in France.

Their money fluctuates heavily in the U.S., so with the encouragement of her mother, she starts training in ballet around 8-10.

So with the history of ballet it was, at the time, a job that was mainly inhabited by lower class girls who would become ballerinas in hope of making their own money while unfortunately being involved and frequently pressured/forced into an open-secret prostitution culture. It was mainly to get sponsors from older men with the goal of rising in social classes, something that Emma's mother wanted for her future as their financial instability continued.

To me it's just a 1860s version of "Fancy" by Reba McEntire lmao

She continues as a ballet dancer for the remainder of the story, and still is one by the time she is 19 in 1861, so a lot of her fashion I talk about will include 1850s ballet costumes.

Oh and one major character involved here is Elliott Cowell, a 20 year old railroad yard-worker who she meets through her dad's business. They're in love and soooo so soft. He's my friend's (@starffledust ) oc so expect him to get mentioned a lot.

As for appearance, she has light blonde very, very curly long hair, a pale complexion with green eyes. Rounded face with a straight, longer nose. I swear I don't just make blonde people they're the minority in my oc list.

A fun little collage I made of her. She doesn't wear that lavish of clothes, it's just vibes. I'll explain more when I get into her clothing

Very much this for her appearance.

Anyways that's an Emma summary!! I'm planning on introducing all my characters first before I deep dive into the fashion. Also I was thinking of photobashing some of them? That could be fun

A cat is a small creature in the middle of the food chain that is fully aware that you are a very large thing that could stomp its head in at any moment and yet it chooses to rest its tiny little head on your leg for a nap and spreads out on the floor near you exposing its belly and its most sensitive organs. It brings dead mice and bugs to you to share food.

Don’t you get it? This tiny thing trusts you. It wants to help you too. It licks your leg thinking that it’s helping. It kneads on you to find comfort. It shares its body warmth with you in the cold and gives you your space in the heat. It hisses at other mammals it sees outside including other cats in an effort to protect its family.

but it's kind of a weird meeting because their partner did technically pull up and shove them into a white van while they were standing on the side of the street with your teenage daughter.

and then they took off from the cops with them both in the backseat.

and none of this is really their partner's fault because they were technically being held at gunpoint the entire time (the people responsible for that are buried in a ditch on the side of the interstate now for unrelated reasons).