#orch dorks

   omg i want u to know i’ve been dying to respond to this ask even though it’s half a year late but it made me so happy seeing this in my inbox bc i rlly love my ocs despite never talking about them for, i dunno, a couple years now hgfdsfgh

   also bc i really really really wanted to redraw and redesign literally all my ocs because i do Not want to use my old art for this, but i only really managed to redraw one recently and i posted the art over [here]  so i’ll mostly talk about her and the relationships with my other ocs since they’re somewhat connected in a way anyway :’D

   her name’s julia ikeda, and she’s one of my ocs who go to some random rich private high school!  there’s a set of kids there who are in that school’s orchestra  ( julia plays clarinet for orch, and trombone in jazz band )   but those kids kinda originally existed to be like,,,,, almost opposite counterparts to the original concert band kid characters i created to be friends with my ghost ocs. basically 2Ps, but i’m not rlly vibing with that idea now bc it makes zero sense and i don’t want them to look so similar to each other now, hence why i want to redesign all of them hgfdsfg

   the concert band kids and the ghost kids both go to the same school  ( and is different from the rich private school ), which would be st. lawrence catholic high school. bc that’s kind of a play on the actual high school i went to when i created them hgfdsfgdfg

   anyway julia is a total memelord with probably undiagnosed adhd, and unfortunately severe depression and anxiety. she’s like,,,, so chaotic but lowkey in a self-destructive way. i love her a lot and i straight up used to manage an in-character blog for her that you can find over at @triiiplebaka  ( formerly @/kedkat )  although i haven’t posted to that blog in like. 7 months. i was way more active on it literally 2 years ago so it’s kinda old stuff now sdfghfg

   she’s mostly the ‘comedy relief’ type of character with secret sad character arcs. she’s also an ace lesbian and dates the clarinet player from st. lawrence, which is cheryl!!  :D i haven’t redesigned her yet so my old art isn’t great but i’m sure u can see her and the other band kids in one of my old tags lmao. 

and the other week i was at a party, surrounded by total strangers, just standing in the hallway, and a girl walks up to me and goes “i know you, i recognise your face. you do music right?” and i was like, “yeah!! i’m so sorry, i don’t recognise you at all, but yeah, i play bass”, and she says “don’t worry we’ve never actually met, but i’ve definitely seen you at regional concerts before - i play cello.” honestly it was the nicest thing having that connection to someone else at that party, and even though we didn’t speak until it was time to leave and we said bye to each other, i’m so glad she came and said hey.

and today i was in waterstones asking about a couple of books i need, and the girl behind the counter suddenly looked up from the computer and looked me right in the eye and said “where have i seen you before??” and i said “you play violin right? you’re in my youth symphony!” and then a 10 minute conversation ensued about what music i’m playing in the winter concert, and how she’s now moved up to the county youth and might be playing clarinet this season, but we’ll still see each other in spring because it’s a joint course. meanwhile, a massive queue of impatient people had built up behind me, but who even cares because if you randomly bump into another orchestra kid in a shop you’re gonna spend 10 minutes talking about how impractical german performance markings are, that’s just the way it is.