#ascelhire

Context for viewers I was talkin via DM w Ascel bout Elfilin and Duana and I mentioned I wanted to talk bout my ideas publicly more thus xey sent me one million asks about things (everyone else is also free to send me asks about anything Kirby Ever I will Hopefully have smth to say) ANYWAYS

[ID: Digital art of Elfilin and Duana, a Dark Matter original character, from Kirby. They are colored with a rough watercolor brush. Duana wears a purple scarf and orange cape, has curly hair like appendages on his head, a couple tipped grey, and a purple eye with a grey section in it. Elfilin looks up to the left, holding their cheeks as they cry. Duana looks at them, smiling with his eye as he also cries. The background is a gradient pink to purple to blue from the left. /End ID.]

Elfilin and Duana are both lads that appreciate the small joys in life. Not to say everyone else doesn't but given their pasts (spending decades on ur own cus everyone wants to capture ur butt & spending countless years watching others experience joy but being ordered to end it), having a sleepover with friends or chilling on Orange Oceans Beach and watching the sunset is something they never imagined they could have and it means the world that they get to experience such peace!

@konan720 @ascelhire

suria is actually heavily the work of @venus-is-in-bloom, who is lovely and wonderful and kissable and cute and sweet

it translates to “sun”, i believe, and it’s mostly to go w the location shift - she’s malaysian and wouldnt. like. have any reason to be “susie” dsjkgjsdklgsdg. venus may have further thoughts which i very much encourage her to share

Thank you so much for your kind words!

thanks!!!!!!!!! i try Very Hard to make things Make Sense w/ the characters’ original Personalities and Interests and whatnot bc like, what’s the point otherwise.

as for how i come up with ideas!!!!!!!!!!!! honestly i have no idea. i just find myself with a deep CRAVING to CREATE and i start throwing random concepts at the wall, trying to see what can be spun into a compelling story. generally they all start with a simple Concept that catches my attention for one reason or another (ex: “haha what if chara was a ghost monster”, “fuck dude i just really love loz”, “all these swap aus suck i’m going to make my OWN”) and makes me want to make a full story out of it.

and then i just kinda................ elaborate on it. like okay, here’s what we’re working with, how do i make this come to be/what are the ramifications of this change. what would the characters do. how do i make the characters do these things and still have it make sense. it’s all just... extrapolating the Natural Conclusions of things.