#voidfishling

BOLDLY GOING WHERE - wait, no.

Happy Valentine’s Day to @sailorshadow from @voidfishling! They also wanna say:

Thanks for your friendship and your good, good puns. Love ya bud!

Inktober day sixteen: oops I accidentally the whole Numenera. This was absurd levels of holy fuck difficult to draw; simple shapes and clean lines are really not my strong point.

Left to right:

@sailorshadow‘s Levin. They’re the shonen protagonist team leader of the group, so I draw them square and blocky, not too far exaggerated in any one direction. Normally they have four hands but I only drew two because I’m lazy (also skipped drawing their poncho/cape because it would’ve mostly hidden their body).

@truebuggy‘s Aradi. The shortest of the group! I like to draw her with a bottom-heavy build, because I think it suits someone who focuses on defense over offense and spends all her time running around exploring things.

@voidfishling‘s Glitz. He’s a curvy boy! I’d like to pretend like I gave him a circular cape to emphasise his rounded build but actually that was just Past Me making decisions at random. Serendipity!

Aaw shit yeah time to be aggressively vague whilst still technically giving accurate answers!! I love this.

4. How easy is it to earn their trust?

Not very! Like, she can probably count the number of people she’s trusted in her whole life on the fingers of one hand. She doesn’t do “trust” so much as she does “it’s extremely beneficial to this person for them to help me and to continue helping me, and it’s unlikely for this to stop being true”.

21. Why do they get up in the morning?

One part habit to two parts sheer bloody-mindedness. She’s come so far and tried so hard and she’s not about to stop now just because it turned out that none of it really mattered.

27. What causes them to feel dread?

Nothing she ever dreaded happening could have compared to what did. At this point there’s not much left to be afraid of.

31. Who are they the most glad to have met?

Her spouse; her best friend and adviser; her adopted daughter. Enodyne keeps all three of them close to her heart.

38. What memory do they revisit the most often?

Dwelling on the past would be gratuitously masochistic.

42. How badly do they want to reach their end goal?

Enodyne’s surprisingly aimless at this point in her life. She’s got some questions she wants answered, and once she knows the answers she’ll figure out what to do next.

3. How do they put themselves to bed at night (reading, singing, thinking?)

Mote’s brain is mostly a computer! She just. literally puts herself into sleep mode. That’s what she does.

7. What triggers nostalgia for them, most often? Do they enjoy that feeling?

Mote doesn’t really do nostalgia. It’s one of the areas where her brain works differently from human brains, she’s extremely focused on what’s-happening-now/what’s-going-to-happen rather than what’s-happened.

Sometimes she’ll run the numbers in her brain and look up at the part of the sky where her space station is, and even if she can’t see it she knows it’s there and remembers why she came down in the first place.

17. Are they easily embarrassed?

Nope! She’s completely oblivious to the whole thing. Human social norms are weird!!

26. What is their preferred mode of transportation?

Mote likes walking best. It gives her the freedom to notice things she might otherwise miss. If she has to go faster she prefers mechanical over organic: it’s the method which feels more familiar to her, and her understanding of machines is vastly better than her understanding of animals.

32. Do they have a go-to story in conversation? Or a joke?