#спасибо большое подружке за вычитку без неё этого поста бы не было😭

[uyunto]

i love your art, especially the paper dolls. it's a hard technique, and you do it so wonderfully! but i wanted to know more about your characters. who are they? what do they get up to?

thank you so much for your kind words!!!🥺🫶💖

and thank you for your interest in my characters, i really-really appreciate it!🙏💕

warning: since english is not my native language, my expressions and vocabulary are pretty much primitive and the mistakes are possible.

so, answering your question about my ocs... to be honest i feel a bit awkward whenever it comes to talking about my characters and their stories due to my lack of storytelling skills and me never being sure about my ideas.

but my nervous nature doesn't stop my brain from generating more and more characters and settings, so, actually for now i have a vast amount of some imaginary people living in my cerebral hemispheres rent free😃😃😃 i just don't talk much about them publicly

basically. i have a BUNCH of original characters whose stories take place in different and separated from each other settings/countries/timelines and they (almost) don't interact.

nevertheless all these stories are situated on an Earth type planet. it's not the Earth we know, but they both share resembling geographical and climate zones for example. also this planet has an alternative history and continent placement. i call this planet Planet B (because i always thought the earthlings colonized this planet in the past, thousands and thousands years ago, as a result of the Earth becoming inappropriate for living anymore)

since you mentioned my paper dolls (Stelliah Gassollinne, Gunadimme Rustich, Anth-Rax, Measlebay..), i'll ramble on a bit about the characters of this one setting. for now i call it «LIMB» which goes for «Lame In Magic Bay» (in original: «ЛИМБ=Лучший Из Миров Буки» , which actually translates as «the best world of Lame» , but in this translation the abbreviation LIMB is just ruined, so i adapted it a bit for the english)

some basic info: the main plot occurs in a town named Lame-Ray (in original: «Миножье», which literally means «the lamprey place»). the town stands on the river and it was found around the ancient «meteorite» which fell on earth thousands years ago. actually this impact event created the river itself by destroying the surface and as a result releasing subterranean river. so the water/river/fish theme is significant to the plot.

i really like the dualism in the translated version of Lame-Ray name, because the word «ray» refers to «ray-finned fish» and «a beam of light» meanings at the same time, so, the phrase «lame ray» can be understood as «an injured fish fin» and also as «a dim light». the light/the stars motif has its own role in the plot as well as the water. and also «Lame-Ray» kinda looks like the word «Lamprey», lol

ancient Lame-Ray people worshipped some «magic fish» called Lamprey, who, as they said, could relieve people from all pain and suffering forever. in fact, the whole life of the ancient Lame-Rayans was circling around their cult of Lamprey - the traditions, the lifestyle, the food, everything. later the Lame-Ray settlement was colonized and almost all of their culture was lost. nevertheless nowadays no one ever saw any evidence of the existence of this fish creature. but there are people out there who strongly believe the Lamprey is real and so is its power. remember how earlier i put the word «meteorite» in brackets? sorta spoiler: actually it's not quite meteorite. (that's all for now because i don't wanna dive into the deeper lore part in this post because it's already too big)

nearby the river there's also two countries - Aldetha (in original: Альдета) and Blaanna (in original: Блаанна).

historicaly the whole river belongs to Aldetha and is controlled by it, and so is the Lame-Ray, since the town is placed on the river.

Gunadimme and Stelliah.

Aldetha is the 'red triangle' country. the name comes from the anagram of the word «Delta» (Δ), i just put the extra letters for the harmony. funny fact: Aldetha is placed in the river's delta.

Blaanna is the 'inverted blue triangle' country. its name comes from the anagram of the word «Nabla» (∇), which is literally the reverse of delta symbol. i also added the extra letters in it so it looks more elegant.

there's no planes in Aldetha.

Aldetha is small closed authoritarian/dictatorship country. the rights and freedoms of its citizens are limited, almost every aspect of their lives is controlled by the government. stupid and absurd laws and propaganda flourish. the ideas of traditional family is generously encouraged by the state. the society approves conformity.

Swam-Sam and Fenny. there's also no color photography in Aldetha. the equipment for taking pictures is pretty rare and even the black&white photos are of bad grainy quality.

TV news from Blaanna.

Blaanna is bigger and more free, open-minded and technologically modern place. Blaanna develop international relations enthusiastically. all kinds of freedoms are available there, people can travel around the world, do business, marry who they love and express themselves in any form of art. individuality of a person is encouraged.

«A» is fell. «B» is disappeared.

since ancient times Aldetha and Blaanna are sort of rivals, who despite their differences share the same goal after all - the creation of a perfect state where everyone would be happy and contented, no grief and no suffering.

but ironically people are unhappy in both Aldetha and Blaanna. these places are supposed to be the distorted reflection of each other - no matter how you rotate the triangle, it will keep its three angles.

(btw i like calling Aldetha and Blaanna 'Country A' and 'Country B' because it's funny, also i like associating them with the A-side and B-side of a vinyl record. the music is also one of the most important themes in this setting, you know.. water/sound waves..)

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some LIMB characters i was already mentioning in my blog:

Gunadimme Rustich (in original: Яосс-Тыну Ржавич) [he/him] is Aldetha's citizen, the Aldethian.

Fenny (in original: Топпи) [he/they or any] is Aldethian, too.

Stelliah Gassollinne (in original: Стеллия Гассоллинн) [she/her] is from Blaanna, the Blaannian.

Measlebay (in original: Коря) [he/him], Anth-Rax (in original: Язва) [she/her], Qusha (in original: Куша) [he/they/any but she] are born in Lame-Ray, so they are Lame-Rayans.

Samuel 'Swam-Sam' Wade (in original: Павел 'Плавуша' Брод) [he/him] and his family (mom, dad and older brother) used to be Aldethians, but at some point will become Lame-Rayans.

Anth-Rax, Measlebay, Qusha.

(of course there are another LIMB characters. i didn't draw them much so i never showed them here, but one day i will)

i have to stress that this setting has deep many-layered lore and it's pretty complicated. there are many characters of different age with their own stories, issues and motivations. even though being different, the characters share some of motives and aspects, they reflect one another, make parallels and experience all sorts of relations... but at the same time being totally different towards another.

Measlebay thinking about his friends, Anth-Rax and Qusha.

and i think it's the main theme of LIMB - being on the edge of contrasts, on the terminator between dark and light of human nature and the world around, that's why i consider all my characters as morally grey (at least they are in my vision). moreover, if i keep discussing, some of my characters suffer from black&white splitting of themselves and their closed ones. its hard and sometimes even impossible for them to see themselves as a whole valuable person (they think about themselves either bad or good, either the best or the worst, as if there's no something in between in their perception), and some of them just have no idea who they are. this duality goes hand in hand with the water theme of LIMB, since the water reflects things almost like a mirror, but not quite; you can see anything in the water, but in fact it's just a fundamental transparent simple liquid that builds the life itself.

important: this setting is just brainstorming thing at the moment, everything is vague and changes as new ideas and thoughts come to me. anyways so far i think the story will be focused on a bunch of children (who are already mentioned Anth-Rax, Measlebay, Qusha, etc) who live in modern Lame-Ray. they will eventually find out that the legends about Lamprey are actually true.

my answer is already enormous so i think i have to stop here, i hope my rambling wasn't boring

thank you so much for asking and reading!🙏💖