#apsind

World: Alternia

Name: Anandi Marana

Meaning: once again, none :( she’s an old troll.

Anandi is a real human name that’s relatively well known, so I think we should move away from that to… Apsind? Which is a discombobulation of Spinda. You’ll see an explanation down below. For the last name, what about Cotsch? As a mixup of Scotch, a reference to Hopscotching. I know it’s kinda a big changeup of names, but it’s probably worthwhile considering Marana is a Place In Arizona. 

Age: 6 sweeps

Gender: gender fluid, will be referred to as she for now to prevent confusion.

Theme/Story: Anandi’s main theme is jade who wants to be free, which is the same as most other jades actually. Funny. As well as childhood games and toys like jump roping, bubbles, and jacks. She often got punished misbehaving when she was younger, and always being told what to do and where to go and how to act. She used to listen, and just go with flow, but when she started meeting other trolls she changed, and tried to make her own freedoms.

So a big theme you have going on here is a kind of childishness/interest in childish games (which makes sense because she’s a kid) and her outfit design almost looks sportlike, like a basketball player’s clothes, so combining those two observations, I think an interesting thing to add to her themeing might be like… professional Competitive Fiduspawn Player 

Maybe in an almost… Jared Hess’ “Nacho Libre” sort of narrative. She loves the grubs and wants to take care of them, but she dreams of bigger things (and bigger paychecks), too! But fiduspawn is such a lowbrow game and she’s a semi-noble! So she’s gotta forge her own path and become the Masked Fiduspawner. 

It’s just a fun extra narrative layer on top of what you’ve already got going on.

Goals: design would help a lot, I’m not happy with how she looks. General overview is good too!

Strife Specibus: jumprope kind. Trust me, it can be a weapon

Fetch Modus: Jacks: she has to pick up the items like playing a game of jacks to put them into her modus.

How does she deposit them? Just tossing jacks? 

Blood Color: jade

Symbol and Meaning: virun, sign of the eager

(My recommendation would be:)

( VIRUS, SIGN OF THE ADAPTABLE) Handle: destructiveBubbles[DB]

How about plushyFirebrand? Plushy as a subtle reference to Host Plushies and firebrand calls to mind more Excitability and Change drive than ‘destructive’, which sounds hostile. 

Quirk: replaces i with ! And uses lots of exclamation points.

You could also make her have xx’s on both sides of her messages to represent Jacks. 

Special Abilities: none

Lusus/Guardian: none, she’s a jade

Interests: games such as jacks, jumprope, hula hooping, and so on. As well as taking care of grubs!

Appearance: I really don’t like this sprite, but I’ve remade it too much already lol

Personality: Anandi is a cheerful and stubborn troll, having changed a lot since she was a younger jade. She wants to make her own destiny, and have the freedom and confidence to do so! She tries to inspire the other jades in her cloister, as well as her online friends. She acts brave and selfless most of the time, but in a panicked situation she can get quite scared and meek. She’s kind to all, which is part of her jadeblood nature. She will do anything to help, even if it includes breaking the rules.

(This, really, is a Prospit character. A Prospit character who’s recently decided to become a revolutionary, but a Prospitan nontheless. The cheer, the destiny references, the lack of facades… I could go on.) (Not all Dersites are freedom fighters. Trizza Tethis, of Hiveswap, is a Derse/Blood player. Dersites rail against things, true, but wanting to change society/the path you’re on is not exclusive to them.)

Dancestor: Arekha Marana, the seer of breath

Ancestor: the Huntress, a rogue jade who didn’t want to live a docile life if caring for grubs and instead became an assassin.

Lunar Sway: Derse

As SA discussed above, I think she’d make a better prospitan. She has the adaptability and mutability of a prospit friend. She’s also emotionally reactive and doesn’t necessarily think things through thoroughly, which is the hallmark of Derse. 

Title: Maid of Breath

I don’t know if she has the same narrative structure as a maid… I’d almost be tempted to say witch? Have we said witch for one of yours yet? Keeping classpects straight in big collections of characters is so hard when they’re not your own. Well, if we haven’t said Witch yet, I’d probably say witch. 

Land: Land of Sky and Towers

Design Party!:

I just neatened things up, added some more details and like, unique fashion pieces (jacket time!) and then gave ‘er eyebags and updated the symbol! 

Thank you! You always do such a great job with these.

I’m glad you think so! Thank you for sharing! <3