#askmargra

*GETS IN REALLY CLOSE*

WHAT IS YOUR USERNAME. I MUST ADD YOU

I like this question~

To really generalize, the visual design almost always comes first. That said, by the time the character is finalized, the personality would have been set and done long before the visuals. That said, my characters, at least in interactive settings like rps, will change their personalities drastically over the course of a long time before they finally fall into what, to me, is a real identifiable them. That’s the general way that I work, but of course there are exceptions~

Rarely do characters just spring out of the ether in my mind, and even those that initially seem to have done just that almost always turn out to be fated for a certain role that I’ve been needing filled. I subconsciously summoned them forth, I guess XD

I suppose though it’s kind of incorrect to say that the visual design is what comes first. I think the very first thing that comes when I’m making a character is their voice. The inimitable sound of their voice in my head, and the way they talk and communicate. That says everything about a character for me, the way they communicate. Even if I can’t ever make it show through on my characters, it’s still what, to me and for my own reference, is the most important feature in identifying them as the kind of person they are.You could call it mannerisms, but it’s more specific than that. Mannerisms as far as quirks and how they express opinions on situations and events and stuff, that all comes later, that’s the icing on the cake for me XD Though I could be just interpreting the word differently from what you mean.With the voice comes personality, and with the communication comes visuals. Body language, how they move and use their body to talk, I think in animation XD too bad I can’t actually translate what’s in my head into the real world.

Sor I want to come over to your house and use your VHS player and VHS tape and watch Fantasia. I LOVE THAT MOVIE. But dang wow that’s really expensive for what would have been an old movie even back then, and a not-princess Disney movie. I’ve bought new movies on DVD for half that 8U!

And it’s funny how animated movies keeps coming up. Because it keeps coming up, everywhere I8 I’m so excited. I’m /so/ /excited./

Planning has begun this semester for an animated short next semester, I’m doing a pixel scene in a film challenge this weekend, I watched Perfect Blue last night and I STILL HAVE NO IDEA WHAT MY EMOTIONS ARE DOING I HAVEN”T BEEN IMPACTED BY A MOVIE THAT STRONGLY IN A REALLY LONG TIME

and HIFF starts tomorrow I’m so stoked I WILL STAND IN THAT DAMNED LINE AND SEE MIYAZAKI”S FINAL FILM IN THEATERS EVEN IF I HAVE TO FIGHT SOMEONE FOR THE LAST SEAT I”VE BEEN ON THE WEBSITE PICKING OUT EVERY SINGLE MOVIE I WANT TO SEE AND HOPING I”LL BE ABLE TO MAKE IT TO EVEN HALF OF THEM

I’m so excited MY EXCITEMENT IS SPURTING OUT OF ME LIKE BLOOD OUT OF A SEVERED JUGULAR. THAT IS THEPERFECT METAPHOR FOR IT.

http://kantobromance.tumblr.com/post/61582225107/the-day-he-died

I publish weird things in the middle of the night.

flood: One of our characters helping the other one to keep their head up

(PRAU because reasons)

It was just another day in the Shatterdome.

Jaegers were fixed, pilots trained, and the officers went about their daily life.

And Dennis Darlington kept up the fight in his head.

He shook his head around, rattling the headset he was plugged into, and focused back on his station. With the complex’s massive communications array, Dennis was listening to all marine traffic within five hundred kilometers of Hong Kong.  Right now, however, the one he was focused on wasn’t showing up.

"Any luck, Mr. Darlington?" Copernicus asked from his position over the black man’s shoulder.  

"No, sir, not a peep from the Kaga for at least thirty minutes.”  He turned around and beamed a smile. “Could still be radio issues, no other ships around that area reported anything odd.”

Will already knew otherwise, though.  He didn’t want to remember, yet the memories came back.  

The alarms blaring, the ship heeling over, before starting to tear apart.  William was belowdecks, and thrown through a gash that suddenly appeared next to him.  

He found himself staring into the eyeball of a Kaiju, which had a third of the warship in its mouth. And then he fell into the water, and with a crunch- 

He rubbed his eyes, trying to flush away the images of men dying, of the large containership suddenly disappearing below the waves-

"… The Perry, wasn’t it?”

Will’s eyes shot wide open, and he looked down quickly in surprise at Dennis.  The radioman was calm, but Will’s face quickly became stern.

"Just keep looking."  He turned to walk away.

"Sir, there would have been alerts if this was a Kaiju attack.  They’re fine, I’m sure of it."

Will glanced behind his shoulder, before walking down the corridor.

Dennis watched him go.  From the young man’s reaction, he knew he was right.  The USS Oliver Hazzard Perry, the lead frigate in her class, was ripped apart by a Category 3 Kaiju, with the loss of almost all of her crew.

All except one.

LOL OH MY GOD WHAT IF IT DID.

That would be so awful and hilarious. When someone outside hears them banging on the door and finally puts the key back under, and then they all fight over it again, and then they have to explain what the three of them are doing in Sergei's room all roughed up.