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OC-TOBER 2020 :: Day 10 :: Sleepover

Vexxin doesn’t know Serpen all that well, yet that didn’t stop him from inviting all his friends to a sleepover, including Vexxin.

This seriously took me a total of 12hrs to complete. It really came together better than I could have hoped. I really love this piece! The concept of these sleeping bags is they are made with sopor on the inner lining.

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Hello again! Hope yall are having a great summer so far!Here is the last of my original 11 trolls. I ended up scrapping the 12th one.

<.< welllll by the time im getting to this it’s almost summer again soooooooooo

World: Alternia

Name: Veerke: (Dutch) This name has several variations such as Veer (Dutch) and Vera (Several but primarily Russian) which means Faith and is sometimes associated with the latin word of Verus which means True.

Luniac: (Roman Mythology) A variation of Lucina which is derived from Latin lucus meaning “grove”, but later associated with lux “light”. This was the name of a Roman goddess of childbirth.

Okay, yeah this is a pretty coherent theme of “purifying flame!” I will say “Luniac” is a little on the nose, so maybe just flip some of the vowels? Lunayc, maybe? Age: ~7

Theme/Story: As you mentioned before with Tahila, Veerke is a more direct reference to the elements with hers being Fire. Story wise there is not much going on for them since they were always the odd one out. The only thing I really have for them is to later help with defusing Haneul. [Here is a quick thought, Ever since she was very young, she has run into trouble with her kind of “Psionics” which has left her as a high target for the highbloods. She has been keeping low ever since then and tries to avoid large crowds.]

Review Goals: Since I’m not very good with making trolls, especially back when I made these original 11, a general look-over would be appreciated.

Strife Specibus: Flamethrowerkind

I think that’s pretty on-the-nose, but if you want a variant that’s a little more tongue-in-cheek maybe she uses bottlekind and throws molotov cocktails? Fetch Modus: Cartridge: captchalogues items by converting them into code on a cartridge similar to those used in the Game Boy. To retrieve items from this modus, one would need to insert the cartridge, wait for the antiquated modus to load the game and then produce the item, and the item would be ready for use. Items captchalogued hastily or carelessly may be glitchy and need to be debugged before proper withdrawal.

Hmmmm. If you want something more in line with her theme, maybe she uses her psiionics to burn away the captcha card while leaving the item intact? It plays in nicely with the complications you mentioned with her powers.

Blood Color: Rust

Lunar Sway: Prospit

Title: Sylph of Hope

Symbol and Meaning: Since I made them waay before the EZ, I think it is based off of a ł from the western Slavic language

Huh. I mean Arnius, Sign of the Heedless, actually looks fairly similar to that, with the added benefit of looking like a shepherd’s crook! You might wanna consider doing a one-crook version of it!

Handle: adoxyCampology

Hmmm. You don’t explain why you gave her this trolltag. “Adoxy” could possibly mean “without belief,” which is REALLY interesting given her name, so I’m inclined to let that be but “campology” I think means…the science of camping??? Which doesn’t track quite so neatly to her.

I seem to recall that you wanted to keep initials the same, and mention that she likes the snow, so maybe we play off that contrast? What about adoxyColdsnap, both because she likes snow and because she has to keep herself “cold” avoid setting off her pyrokinesis.

Quirk:  łiterally something łike this

I think that looks good even if you end up modifying her symbol as suggested!

Special Abilities: They have an advanced form of pyrokenisis, like Neasar with sound manipulation, she can manipulate the flames themselves. The catch is that they intensify with her emotions, so if she is in a lot of stress her powers are more difficult to control.

Lusus/Guardian: My guess would be a Lizard, like a great bearded dragon.

Given her affinity for snow, I sort of want to give her Not A Lizard. Consider a caribou with flaming horns to light the way through the snow? It could cut an absolutely nightmarish silhouette in the night.

Interests: Surprisingly enough, she enjoys the snow and the coziness that comes with it. Besides that, she loves to collect rare stones and blow glass.

Personality: With the advent of her pyrokenisis being so destructive so fast, she has adapted a calm and cautious mindset, not letting her emotions get the best of her. She has been known to be easily tangled into other’s business despite their interjections. Though she has fallen far into others business, she does it out of the care for those who she can trust but due to her lack of social contact she may seem naive at times.

Land: Land of Candles and Reflections

Ehhh even though I can see how it connects it rings a little generic. Maybe Land of Faith and Foundries, covered in molten metal and temples to the Hero of Hope? It would be VERY difficult for her to stay calm there, and she would presumably need to work extensively with pyrokinesis and forges to complete her denizen’s quest.

Other than that, Veerke seems like a pretty good troll! I hope the review helped!

OC-TOBER 2020 :: Day 15 :: Friends

They may not all be friends, in fact it can hardly be called a friend group, more like a bunch of weirdos that kinda know a couple of others. Point is, at the end of the day, each of them is owned by one of MY friends, and I adore them all!

(left to right, top to bottom) Serpen @courierstyx Neasar @nitrodax233 Aamonn @dddeerbo Kivane @noisypitta Vexxin is mine Lakria @Alec

OC-TOBER 2020 :: Day 18 :: AU

Took some time to settle on an AU to go with. In the end I went with a swap AU. Viiveh is an audiophille/gamer/artist with social anxiety, and his best friend Neasar is a goldblood with a love for tech, going anonymous to avoid getting shipped off-world as a battery.

Neasar belongs to @nitrodax233

OC-TOBER 2020 :: Day 21 :: Gaming

They’re playing Just Shapes and Beats. Neasar always picks player two because it’s a yellow triangle, while Vexxin gets the blue square for player one.

This is actually a redraw of a piece I did last year, seen here.

This took me 4.5 hrs.

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Hello again, it took me a while to choose between the last two of my original 11 trolls but since you asked what the Seer would do on the last post, here she is.

World: Alternia

Name: Tahila Meroba

Tahila is a variant of the Australian name Talia which stems from the name of a town in South Australia, perhaps meaning “near water” in an Australian Aboriginal language.

Meroba is based on the name Merob, a form of the name Merab which means “abundant” in Hebrew. This is the name of a daughter of Saul in the Old Testament.

I *do* notice that a lot of your trolls have something to do with the elements, so if you want to make a unifying theme maybe you could shore up a little more on that? Age: ~7 sweeps

Theme/Story: I’m not sure if many of the trolls I make really have a Theme. But with their story, Tahila began in the caverns until a wriggler escaped. They gave chase and eventually caught it more dead than alive. They eventually distanced herself from the caverns as time wore on and eventually heard about her ancestor, The FINISHER, while perusing a library. While on her scouting mission to find out what happened to them, she ran into Arrian trying to find out more about his ancestor, The SCRIBBLER. Not too long before she enters the game, she finds an artifact left from her ancestor, a pocket watch called the Temporus Noctem. One of the functions of the watch was if you set it to a certain amount of time, when the timer is up, there will be a guaranteed death of at least one person. This comes in handy later in the session for it is a bit of a clusterfuck. As with how she stops Haneul, she finds out that it was the provoking from Serena and Lutifi which drove him mad. Thus as she stands over the body of Haneul, she goes back and gives herself two letters concerning Serena and Lutifi. This eventually gets the Sylph of Hope involved and with a bit of understanding and airing things out, the crisis is averted with a feelings jam of sorts.

Hmmmm. I think this mostly tracks, but Seers are a very passive class and I don’t know that a Seer of Time would necessarily be able to time travel! However, I can still think of a way for your character to fulfill her objective if we look back at how Rose integrated with her dreamself from a doomed timeline. You could set it up so that her “time travel” is actually a calculated rewind in which she does not physically return to a previous time, but mentally; everyone else experiences the timeline as normal, but Tahlia’s dreamself wakes earlier, with patchy knowledge of what comes to pass in the doomed one. This way, she can act on that info without creating another doomed self.

Review Goals: Since it’s been a while since I checked everything, A once over would be great just to see if everything fits together.

Strife Specibus: x2 Axe kind: Just two one-handed axes

Fetch Modus: Time Capsule: For each item you captchalogue, you’ll be assigned a date in which that item can be retrieved. It can be any point in time in the future, as long as it isn’t less than a day from then.

Ooooh I like this a LOT for a Time player

Blood Color: Jade

Lunar Sway: Prospit Title: Seer of Time

Symbol and Meaning: When I first designed her, she was a jade gone anon with a more bronze looking sign. Then it was you guys I believe who inspired me to switch up her sign to make it look a bit more jade-like.

Handle: telegnosisTempore I could never settle with a handle that fit with her…

Hey, since she’s a seer, what about just nostreDame [ND]?

Quirk: It is mostly something like this (An exerpt from when she faces Regula),

Tahila: Vhat do you mean?

Tahila: Despite your aggressions, I don’t think you knoVV Vho you are messing Vith.

Special Abilities: Nothing really of note, just a curious troll

Lusus/Guardian: Though I am not very well versed in homesuck, Im not sure what would constitute for a jade lusus…

Yeah, that’s always a tricky needle to thread. We’ve only seen Kanaya, whose Mother Grub lusus was practically unprecedented, and the cloistered jades in the Friendsim, who...I am not sure if cloistering is common? I’ll let you have your pick; she could have a jade lusus of any type from the caverns, or she could just be raised communally with other jades.

Interests:  Lots of reading, the inner machinations of machines, photography, and a hint of decoration

Personality:  With the suffocating limits of the caverns, she has been having trouble embracing the idea of fate especially since she caught wind of her ancestor. With this and her dreading her final days she has attempted to control her environment adopting a somewhat perfectionist nature on how things are done. With this baggage, She carries a surprisingly large bag of optimism to try and combat the idea of futility.

Land: For a placeholder land, it was the Land of Crystals and Gears. I’m not sure if it holds well with her.

Hmmmmm. Since she’s into photography (much like Dave), we can use *that* as the flavoring for her Land and go with Land of Floodlights and Shutters? She could use the two to broadcast clacks-style messages across the planet.

Thanks for showing me your troll! Hope this all helped.

Hello again! I hope ya’ll have been doing great. This troll wen through a few revisions in the past and all they need are a few tweaks.

Sup sup sup I am in 😎 a LOT of pain! So to distract myself I’m gonna review this yeehaw.

Planet: Alternia

Name: Lutifi Fintan

Lutifi being a variation of Lutfi meaning kind and gentle in Arabic and Fintan possibly meaning white fire or white bull. According to Irish legend, this name was the name of the only Irish person to survive the great flood. As well as a name given to many Irish saints.

So this was submitted before SA gave us the more useful revision of our template, which means I’m going to have to guess at your troll’s theme. It looks like we have shades of…survival, “eye of the storm” kind of calm? I can run with that!

Age: ~6

Strife Specibus: x2 prongkind; Specifically dualweilding modified Sai’s

Presumably modified to look a little more like the symbol, yes?

Fetch Modus: Bubble modus: It deals with buoyancy with heavier objects sinking to the bottom and lighter objects floating to the top. The catch (pardon the fish pun) is that if you take something out, everything above it is removed from the deck.

Trolltag: The only documented tag I have for them is gaudiloquentAbsolutism which sounds a bit too over dramatic for a troll like him.

Yyyyyeah let me suggest something like pacificContinuity? Gives you that water theme as well as the “I will survive” vibe.

Symbol: A greek looking symbol is the only way I can describe it.

Blood: Fuchsia

That doesn’t seem to track with the character you’ve presented. He would have a number of societal expectations of him (including the one to impress his personal tastes onto other Alternians), would likely be the only one of his kind (with the implication that he would eventually battle the Condesce), and he would need to FEED GL’BGOLYB OR THE ENTIRE PLANET WILL DIE. None of this is the kind of life you can up-and-abandon to be a surfer bro. If you want to pursue him as a fuchsiablood, I would suggest either:

1) He’s run away from being the next Condesce and is choosing to hide out among his fellow surfers (in which case he would most likely either go hemoanon/just swap his clothes out for violet), and feeds losing surfers and their lusii to Gl’bgolyb, thereby further cementing his theme as someone who survives and hides themselves in the eye of the storm. or

2) If I may suggest a tweak to this character, maybe make him a purpleblood who decided to pursue surfing over subjugglation? This would once again mean running away, but given that purplebloods already live close to the ocean and we have at least one example of a very blissed-out purpleblood in the form of pre-breakdown Gamzee, it’s workable!

Quirk: ~~~ he talks kind of like this and surrounds himself with wicked waves with way more surfer lingo dude ~~~

Special Abilities: Other than being one of the best surfers there is not much else.

Lusus: honestly, I think he just left his lusus behind once he reached 5 sweeps just to do his own thing.

Yeah, this once again doesn’t track with being a fuchsiablood, since Gl’bgolyb is a forcibly high-maintenance lusus (aaaaand based on some reasonable guesswork, may not be a lusus at all). If you really want to stick with him as a fuchsiablood, you should probably figure out how he’s worked around that. On the other hand, if he were a purpleblood it’s implied that they are typically amphibious and potentially neglectful, which means a) he could’ve run without a lot of notice and b) he could still potentially run into his lusus out on the waves, brah.

Personality: Despite the whole weight of the royal court on his shoulders, he looks to be one of the most laid back trolls there is. Somewhat like how Cirava is with their whole 2 4 / 7  M O I S T U R E W A V E  C H I L L  B E A T S thing they have going. When things go down, he just goes with the flow of things.

Ehhhhhh I mean. Cirava is definitely 【２４／７　ＭＯＩＳＴＵＲＥＷＡＶＥ　ＣＨＩＬＬ　ＢＥＡＴＳ】 but it’s also implied they dug their own eye out of their face? It’s difficult to be chill on Alternia while maintaining awareness of the political situation, and if Lutifi is a fuchsiablood then that lack of awareness could have serious consequences. Has anyone tried to assassinate him? Are others protecting him so he doesn’t need to be on high alert? How does he make decisions for the planet? Does he just defer to others? If so, what plans are pushed through as a result of that delegation?

If you make him a purpleblood, he can maintain that trait because he’s high enough on the social ladder that he doesn’t have to climb, but low enough that he’s not responsible for important, planet-wide decisions.

Intrests: He does love to surf as well as practice his fighting skills since he hunts for his food. Though he spends most of his time in the water, he has made his home in a cave on the beach and likes to gather trinkets to decorate the walls of the cave.

Once again, this 100000% reads like a purpleblood beach troll to me. If you wanna keep him as a fuchsiablood, maybe the cave is the kind only accessible underwater?

Title: Knight of Breath

I completely agree that this character is a Breath player, but I’m not so certain I agree on the class! I think he might actually be a Thief of Breath? If you want to keep them fuchsiablood, especially, since his grab for freedom will directly limit others’ freedoms.

Land: Land of Liberty and Aether: A bit of a WIP as of now

I mean you’ve already got a pretty good theme going, so I say Land of Storms and Strings! All the consorts are trapped in their homes because of the strings that are tied between multiple doors! 

Dream Planet: Prospit

Yeah that tracks. The redesign would just involve changing colors and removing ears, and you’ve already expressed a desire in the past toward designing your own symbols, so I think I’ll cut Lutifi free now! Hope this helped!

TR

Adding SA’s very relevant addition:

I hope TR is ok! Of all the things i expected as an intro that was the most concerning :[ Anyway with that out of the way, I’ve decided to rope this guy in lieu of Lutifi’s revision.

I’m doing okay-ish! I was dealing with repetitive stress injuries in both wrists and those are moooostly on the way out but now I have sprained my ankle because I am a comic relief character in a cartoon lmao.

World: Alternia

Name: Haneul: meaning “heaven/sky” in Korean. and Caeles surprisingly having no meaning when I looked it up but it it could be a variation of Caelestis, a late latin term which meant “of the sky, heavenly”.

Hmmmm. I find it really, really interesting that you have a sky-themed Blood player. Especially when so many other aspects of his character have to do with limiting freedoms.

If I may suggest a potential alternate name, perhaps Haneul Catena, the last name meaning “chain?”

Age: Possibly around 6-7 sweeps

Theme/Story: Originally, he had no real theme until I sent in Serena, the purple blooded mafia boss. That is when he became her brawn, getting things done that Serena herself can’t do. Then with Lutifi’s revamp, this gave him the perfect opportunity to act as a co-regent for Lutifi when he is out and about with his surfing. So now he is an agent for Serena as well as a consultant for ruling with Lutifi like how Louis XIII of France heavily relied on Cardinal Richelieu. In light of this co-regency, Haneul has also thwarted several assassination attempts on Lutifi during his surfing competitions. Later in his session, he would eventually snap and cause a bloodbath nearly wiping out the entire session, destroying the bonds of all the players. Yet the Seer of Time survives and goes back and warns the past Seer about that timeline.

I am curious: what does the Seer of Time do differently to ensure he doesn’t cause a TPK?

Goals: Mostly a check if everything fits together narratively and such. If a re-design is needed, then sure design away!

Specibus: I would go with Hookkind, like roadhog’s hook

Fetch Modus: Prison: Basically when you capchalogue something it is closed off by bars. To retrieve the item, you must captchalogue another item. Below the area labelled “Required”, either the item’s name is written or the item is pictured. When nothing appears, you have to give it money, which is why this modus is a complete ass sometimes.

Nice! So it’s a bribery system, almost? Perhaps you could have particular important items set “bail,” meaning they can leave if they provide the requested item and will give them back to you when the important item is recaptchalogued.

Blood: Violet, It was a bit brighter at one point, then I changed it to be closer to cannon.

Given the strong themes of imprisonment/freedom binaries I may possibly suggest making him teal.

Symbol: A bit swirly compared to the other violet signs…

Handle: thonicAcidaemia

Quirk: ᔕ SurroundS hiS SentenceS with theSe weird S thingS ᔕ

Ehhhh as far as I can tell that’s just a letter from the Canadian aboriginal alphabet and doesn’t seem to contribute to any kind of theme. How about he:

§ Open§ up hi§ §entence§ with §ection §symbols?

It’s frequently used to reference sections in legal code and T B H at this point I am very strongly advocating that you make him a tealblood.

Lusus: Possibly a Sea Snail of some kind

If you wanna keep him violet I’m not sure a snail would be appropriate unless he is very very slow. Given his need to be adaptable in situations, may I suggest maybe a ligerfish, with the spines of a lionfish and the teeth of a tigerfish? Beautiful, ethereal, fulla teef.

If you make him teal, I would suggest a flying squirrel! It works nicely with his dual grounding/freedom themes.

Interests: He keeps most of them a secret but has a soft spot for the equivalent of extreme sports are on Alternia. Every now and then he likes to build model hives but they always end up as if a hurricane swept through them due to his short temper outside of his work.

Personality: A Rough ‘n Tumble sort of guy. He mostly keeps a stoic “don’t give a fuck” sort of facade during his odd jobs.

Dream Planet:  Derse; Honestly i’m not certain on the whole dichotomy on how the sways work.

If you’re looking for a guide, CD wrote an excellent one right here, but based on what you’ve given me I’m unsure, and I think it’s up to you! Does he resent having to babysit Lutifi, or is he delighted to have purchase on this kind of power? I think the latter would be a Dersite and the former a Prospitan.

Title: Bard of Blood

I agree that he’s a Blood player, but given what you’ve written in the bio I have no way of determining if he’s a Bard. If he invites destruction through bonds, is it because he enables poor ruling decisions through his friendship with Lutifi? Is it because he uses people’s bonds against them to rip his session apart?

Land: Land of Sulfur and Brimstone: Now that I look at this, it sounds like Hell II: Electric Bugaloo

I like it! I would kinda love it if you had a gag where he walks around his land with a clothespin on his nose.

So here’s a redesign for if you re-spec him to teal! If you wanna keep him violet I still gave design notes you could incorporate.

Horns - gave ‘em a little S-curve!

Hair - Hair in Alternia is rarely as neat as the one on the left, so I sprited it messier

Face - the face was looking a little ripped from canon sprites so I wanted to edit all of it to look more unique. Also I added teef because I like them.

Coat - I removed the hood because it looked awkward and didn’t really seem to add to the flow of his design?

Symbol - I just used the section symbol on its side since it already looked similar to the symbol you sprites

Shorts - Equius’s shorts, to show off the…

Boots - which are adapted from fan-troll, which I meanly wanted to use to again contrast the flowiness of the cloak to the groundedness of the shoe.

That’s about it! Thanks for your patience with the review.