OBLIGATORY ENSEMBLE SKETCH DUMP BECAUSE

So for drawing class we had to complete a whole sketchbook by the end of the semester and I RAGED AT THE HEAVENS.  Luckily I have 8 favourite OCs from my ensemble THEREFORE 8 PAGES OF SNIPPET WRITING AND EXPRESSION DOING killed those pages dead.

I'll clean these and maybe reupload/colour them at some point but until then, SKETCHES THEY WILL STAY.

Sketches for a roleplay

I don't want to use tumblr ;_; all I want to do is focus on one damn site so BLOGGER IT IS, I have chosen sides ;_;

I have been roleplaying with this lovely girl called who I call Naomi 8)  Our now-over-80k-wordcount roleplay--titled "The Vast Idiosyncracies of Hell and Its Inhabitants", is like a nonstop flaming locamotive.  Every post is roughly a thousand to three thousand words because we're sadomasochists who love writing.

Kieran is hers, Valtier is mine.  Both characters were new and created specifically for this roleplay and we have lots of fun flushing them out, their relationship (which is... rocky, to put it very, very lightly), and the vast idiosyncracies of Sheol, which is the name for post-apocalyptic North America riddled with hellish demons and a ruling class of 12 Zodiac-based demon lords and ladies.  Thirteen demon Kingdoms and eight human Territories comprise all of Sheol.  Kieran hails from a human village called Ancora in the Eastern Territory, one of the bases of the human rebellion that the humans refer to in hushed tones as Them, and he is the youngest son of the rebellion leader. Valtier lives in the kingdom Gehénnam in a castle under the ocean, which is where he takes Kieran after purchasing him as a slave.

Coloured and uncoloured for comparison's sake.  Valtier's original design (as he's part of my OC set I call the Zodiac Wheel) was an intimidating man with slick blonde hair and burning yellow-orange eyes, and now I've edited him to have white hair to suit the coloration scheme better.

Kieran turned out beautifully but I feel that Valtier's nose is a bit too... oddly sharp.  His lips are too wide too. I'll tweak it eventually.

A very brief sketch I sent to Naomi when she was confused as to how Valtier was holding a struggling Kieran, fresh after they... uh... "bonded" ;)  Valtier is almost two heads taller than Kieran and much wider so he will hold Kieran like this often.

Our (working) map of Sheol, with the location of each Zodiac Lord and Territory.  We'll add more as the roleplay expands.  Ophiuchus also used to be a Zodiac Lord but he was killed some centuries ago, and now the center land tensely gets ought over by all of the other Kingdoms that touch it (so Capricorn, Libra, Pisces, and Aquarius are all just about meh while everybody else fights)

Here, have a crappy unedited sketch.  This will be cleaned and painted.  The left shows the spot that will mortally wound Valtier if struck (each house has a different spot, eg. Scorpio's is the base of her tail, Leo's is his jawbone, Aquarius are his ankles, etc)

and a better, more refined sketch of Valtier consoling Kieran while he sleeps.  Kieran is a very strong, fierce, but troubled character.  His gentleness was crushed by his father and harsh life conditions, and Valtier has access to his various memories and nightmares when he's asleep.  Valtier, all cold and ice and numbness, cannot fathom why he feels like stroking the boy's hair and cradling him when he watches Kieran cry in his sleep.

MMMM FEELS MMMMMMMMM

I'm gonna go roll in feels as I wait for Naomi to post 8)

The Space Between Us - progress & lols.

The Space Between Us
Jan 4 2012

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Originally I gave silver a beard.  PFFFTTHAHAHAHAHAHA----

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Madeleine and Amor Silver are two characters I write with a lot.  Funny that I don't mention them as much as Colleen and Lale, even though they get much more coverage than Lale does on a regular basis.

I think Silver drowns a lot in sorrow that a lot of people don't think about.  I mean, all the time when I write him, he's always got such bravado.  Swears like a sailor and punches like Captain Falcon.  It's no wonder that confused and listless Madeleine, what with her identity crises and lack of ideologies, is attracted to him no matter how abrasive he is.  She's probably the only person in the entire Ensemble who is able to pull him away from those kind of sorrows.

I mean, I imagine them with anybody else and it just doesn't work.  Like, they're both as straight as an arrow, so their only options are the other Ensemble characters of the opposite sex.  Colleen would be awesome for Silver, finely tuned to him like an instrument to a musician, but he has nothing to offer her, and he's to blockheaded to realize the kind of love she needs.  I love Leen too much to put her through that.  And Skye?  Holy fuck I don't want the world to end, their relationship would bring upon the apocalypse.

Madeleine would die if she followed Lale.  She's much too timid, and would eventually shrink from him.  Aidan is so much weaker than her... put two subs in a room, and what do you get?  Well, they would get nowhere fast.  Valor I've considered and the three of them would be amazing in some kind of threesome but Valor loves Silver, and I don't think Madeleine can understand that kind of deep brotherly devotion that Val has for him, and it would probably even make her jealous.  If Yoshua was older... well, even then, it kind of wouldn't work.  Older Yoshua is lofty and idealistic and much too quick for Madeleine to keep up with.

Which is why I think Maddie and Silver are like... my beta OTP.  Madeleine never quite knows who she is--she's totally oblivious to her obviously heroic, naive, and kind-hearted personality because she perceives herself as bland.  Silver knocks sense into her.  And Silver is one-track minded, proud, yappy, and Madeleine takes that as charm.  The fact that she laughs at his antics, accepts him, and still loves him at the end of the day is all he needs to settle down for her.

Wow tl;dr.  I should write snippets of these two and slip em up here.