#caelean

These are all of my Character rn. Most of them have some Lore/Backstory but i varies a lot.

The game we played is called Fiasco- it's a GM-less game for 3-5 players and is basically a cooperative storytelling game where you come up with characters, work out the relationships they have together and other stuff to help flesh them out using dice rolls and a playbook of options to allocate the numbers to, and then act out a sort of caper-gone-wrong type of story together with those characters. It's meant to be played as a one-shot game but in my friend group we tend to take about 2-3 sessions to finish a story bc we like to take our sweet time to play around with the characters. XD ;

It can be played with custom playbooks (basically if you want a specific type of genre/setting you can make one to fit that), the one we used was a custom toon playbook for a Who Framed Roger Rabbit-style setting (basically humans and toons coexisting in the same world) that @mysticdoodles made (and I helped with some ideas for it! :D)

In this post the "control" is split evenly down the middle. Are there any instances like a chimera where one twin's cells are on the other twin's half and vice versa? Could the nervous system act chimera-like and cause sense of touch for one twin that's not on their half?

I was looking through your Luz posts and was surprised that there's no student aid in cases of mandatory hibernation/dryad's time away from their tree that was readily available. Luz had to fight for it. Is this the school's policy or is there universally not a lot of aid for non-human students?

It’s a universal problem for certain non-humans. Saratoans don’t really have this problem, partly because their problems are more immediately obvious and easier to accommodate, and partly because they have a long history of presence in higher education - and humans are not always the majority, since Saratoa has it’s own universities.

Meanwhile, dryads haven’t even got universal literacy let alone anything near that kind of participation in the school system, so when they do show up, they are often condescended to and treated like they are the problem. After all, none of you are educated, you just live like squirrels in the woods, there must be something wrong with YOU if you can’t cut it. And once a narrative like that is in people’s heads it’s hard to convince them you’re just asking for what’s reasonable.

So even though Luz had a problem that 100% should have been addressed by the school and student aid, he couldn’t ask for everything he needed and just had to tough it out and make himself sick a lot of the time.

I have so many questions about L. dexter genetic inheritance, but I'll read up on actual bee genetics first haha. I don't wanna bombard you with too many questions. One question I did have is, would drones look for communities of different color varieties than him for genetic diversity/prevent potential inbreeding? Or is smell more of a factor?

I think of genetic factors for color as being fairly complex, to allow for a lot of variety (because of out-of-universe reasons - helps tell characters apart and give a strong initial impression of their presumed personality) - real honeybees are not quite as varied, especially within a single hive. Concessions have to be made!

But one interesting thing about bee coloration inheritance that I fully intend to depict, is that a queen’s sons are basically all going to be like endless identical twins, with two possible color morphs. Because drones are the result of unfertilized single X eggs and the queen is XX - either one X or the other with no further genetic recombination.

In that case do you also redesign chronologically older looks, like pre-exile Parker? Would you even reconsider any character's origin, or is most of your character development set , and just the designs need updates?

I consider his form from before he went into the ocean to be basically a different character design, so if I were ever to draw it again, I’d go through that same process of questioning everything about it, throwing out anything I wasn’t enthused about and keeping everything that I felt made it a strong design.

I consider character origin to ALWAYS be fair game for change, since I haven’t finished writing their stories. If while writing the story a different origin or series of events makes more sense, is more emotional, powerful or engaging, if it creates a stronger, more meaningful, more consistent metaphor across the arc of the story, etc., - then I’m gonna change it.

Whatever I gotta do to get these stories written! I’ve taken too long already!! Aaaaaa!!!

A lot of character background features aren’t likely to change though only because it’s sort of the point. For example, while I might change events in Parker’s story, he will always be a being who suffered from/is suffering from Depression, spent a significant amount of his life so far isolated living in the ocean (which he didn’t come from), and humans were integral to his mental illness not killing him - these features are the point of his character and unlikely to change.