#although ive changed their outfits overtime and their colors a bit. both those aspects have generally been consistent

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3 and 4 for Luna and Sola? 🤔

TY FOR THE ASKS CONNOR :D I'm glad you asked about both of them, because they come as a set in my mind <3 and are also equally old

3. What was the first thing you decided on, the character's name, appearance, personality or their role in the story?

4. And reverse, which one of the four things did you struggle with the most?

Luna

3. Well, she was the first planet, or I guess I should say celestial body, OC that I ever made; to the point where I don't even have the original drawing on my tablet(still thankfully have it though) :( But I actually have a direct quote from myself about her, from when I first drew her! "Human representation of the Moon, maybe?" For me now, it's crazy to think that at some point, she wasn't the god of the Moon, and that none of my world-building existed back then, not even her name! So definitely her appearance! Even if I've changed up her outfit a lot, it's nice to me that a lot of essential traits have survived since her very first portrait(her colors, her white freckles, etc.)

4. I'm always constantly fiddling with world-building, so probably her role in the story. It's embarrassing to admit but, when I was younger, I feel like my main concern with ocs was like. Self insert. LOL. So it's difficult to move on from that in certain ways, like how do I not make her story revolve around my own personal desires, I GUESS. It's also difficult because she exists in a world where there's theoretically a bunch of other moons, so, how do I uphold her importance/significance, right? The way I see it though is both that her importance is the kind of mystical lore thing, but also that the planet god she would be beholden to, doesn't want her involved, so she instead has been given other duties! But yeah, justifying her importance and power is probably the toughest thing, as what I created her as comes into conflict with what my AU has evolved into overtime.

Sola

3. Omg its so funny to me now, but when I first drew Luna, I wrote, "If I make a human sun, they'll date." Which NEVER happened, because ever since I first drew Sola, they were destined to be, at best, frenemies. So I would say her design, but honestly her role as the Sun to Luna's Moon was the jumping off point. 4. Same problem as with Luna, though as she's the Sun, it's a lot easier to justify the importance she holds. I'm glad you pointed out the whole emissary of life/death thing, because that's something I've only been pondering recently. I'm always trying to balance between having omniscient, all-knowing, can-do-anything gods, while still giving them struggles and issues to deal with, so I think that balance is always what I struggle with most. Her and Luna deal with interplanetary conflicts, regardless of if its inter-god strife or has to do with humans. So I like the balance between her being aware of and being "there" for the birth of every single human, but not exactly keeping track of them(thus having the angst of her having a terrible moment of realization every time she comes in contact with a human who's done a terrible enough thing to warrant her involvement.)