#oddstar-rambles

I really love these two.

I have some GITM thoughts below the break, spoiler warning if aren't caught up!

GITM au and characters belong to @venomous-qwille !

Alright so this isn't the most elegant or pretty way to get these thoughts out but I decided to make it its own post.

!!! Heads up rn that this will reference multiple chapters and instances from the GITM au fic, so if you are not caught up, I don't advise reading this !!!

@venomous-qwille 's response to the ask on which characters would fall hardest and fastest for the narrator were they to all meet at once reinvigorated some feelings about Sol and Fool, specifically relating to the way they act as foils for each other.

I was a bit surprised, and honestly, I'm a bit surprised that I was surprised, that Fool is actually only one placement up from Sol in this thought experiment of readiness to fall, and honestly? I love it. It works. To me, Sol and Fool have acted throughout the work so far as foils for each other. They do not enjoy each other's company, though Sol doesn't enjoy company in general....or perhaps...doesn't feel worthy of it....and projects his own guilt and self loathing onto everyone around him-

I digress. One of the biggest clues to the dynamic set up by Sol and Fool, but also the others, is through their language. Obviously, Sol, Misuta, and Spot have tight language restrictions given their line of work previous to the story, while Fool was in a roll that encourages, but also demands, an elegant, expansive knowledge and usage of language as means to entertain.

Sol specifically, is an entity of few words, and when he does speak, he is always noted to be careful, selective, guarded with his words. Any time his carefulness of speech is pointed out it reminds me of the very beginning of The Giver, by Lois Lowry, where Jonas corrects his fear for the word 'apprehensive' instead. "No, wrong word, he thought," and "precision of language please," come to mind. Silly comparison I know, but it's all so deliberate with him.

Fool seems to be able to, and to actively say, whatever the hell he wants, constantly quipping and suggesting and making innuendos (always make me laugh, especially when directed at Clip). But what seems so effortlessly sincere for Fool is also just his design, perhaps even what he relies on, especially given that he does act very flirtatiously towards Clip during his impromptu interrogation.

Furthermore, the fact that Fool is able to say so much and yet convey so little about how he is feeling is so stunning, especially when Sol's silence is so damn telling. It seems that even Spot and Misuta are a bit jealous, even if disapproving, of the way Fool is able to speak, knowing full well that were they ever to feel the way Fool implies that he does through his...*ahem* rather scandalous phrasing, they couldn't, physically, ever voice that in a way they'd like. But too, given that he says things like that all the time, when he has something serious to say, it seems to be written off by the others as yet another joke or trick. Even Cricket is confused by Fools lack of punchline at times.

It hurts all the more seeing how deeply Fool wants to connect with his found family through game nights or finally getting company in his garage, even the way he helps Misuta have fun with DDR and gives him genuine competition...there's such palpable love there.

Sol, without saying almost anything at all though, conveys all the hurt and isolation and self loathing in the world. His silence and control say everything. He does care, I think, and that's exactly why he tries so hard to stay quiet and unseen and helpful for everyone else's sake, even if he is a raging ass, while Fool can barely seem to convey anything he means with it being received properly even with his fanciful words.

I know thats a lot lol, but for anyone who wants, hit me up with some discourse yeah? I've been dying to hear from other people about all this!

Hello anyone who sees my blog consistently and cares about the stuff on it!I wanted to give a little update, because I value you, my wonderful new friends, and because I promise I am working on cool stuff, it is just taking so long and I am so very sorry.

some oddstar lore: so I go to college, as many of you may know, and for my major I am taking a lot of chemistry and calculus this year, which is thankfully nearly over (I only have too more weeks until summer, yippee!) but my school is on a quarter system, so even though I just finished more midterms, my finals are also in two weeks, on june 8th. both of them. I'm testing in chem from 8am-10:50, and then from 11:30-2:30.

here are some of the sketches for my upcoming project:

I wanted to share that for my upcoming animatic, I'll be doing From the Start, with a Misuta/Misool focus. I'm really excited and will be working on it any chance I get, but I also have to keep studying unfortunately, so it may be a bit before I finish. Hopefully the wait pays off :,)

Found this and immediately thought of Sol

Soggy napkin man AND pretty boy? Maybe a lover of glitter glue at some point in his Shakespearean tragedy of an existence?

working on my OC's a little today. Pip is the little clown and Zara is the cat. Hoping to have one more that's likely to be a rabbit called Patches. The humanoid one is a healthcare bot who would much prefer to live by the sea. Kass is here too, but just some cleaner lineart. More Kass and friends lore below :3

I am so stuckkkk and art blocked and it's not for shortage of ideas it's because I want them all just so and it's eating me alive

I've been working on my Misuta pmv forever and it's progressing and I really love it but it's so much of a commitment and it stresses me out so much to start working on it on a given day and I'm running out of summer time ahh

anyway

I promie I'm doing arts. art is being done. just slowly. and with like way too much trepidation lol.

I have some other ideas too and I want to do something with them so bad but my brain!!! It's like no if you don't finish the other things first then you will be Doomed!!! Brother doomed by what exactly??? Idk lol.

I'm sure it's fairly obvious that I really like to draw dancing scenes based on my GITM animatics, but I thought it'd be funny to share that in high school I was in a program called IB (advanced classes + an extra diploma basically) and we had to take a fine art.