#update on character info!! rewrote some stuff :]

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Happy 2025! [RainSpice Studios plans & updates for the new year]

Hey everyone! Happy 2025 from RainSpice Studios. I hope this year will be kind to everyone and that many good things will be coming your way.

And speaking of good things, I'm cooking some projects that are just itching to be released and available for download. But before we get into that, let us talk a little about the games that were released in 2024.

This won't be a lengthy recap of 2024, as the games speak for themselves, but I am still proud of myself for releasing a full game, a chapter one, and a demo, during a very stressful year both in terms of world events and my personal life (I graduated college, I'm moving, all of that good stuff).

Stardust★Arcadis was my first ever release, and a game I struggled to finish. I lost all of my progress because of PC issues, I rewrote the story a few times, and I released it after working on it since 2019 (2022 if the moment when my PC broke doesn't count). However I love the characters, I love the setting, and despite the many hardships of game development, I had a fun time working on it.

I'm planning to release more games in this universe in the future, including a remastered version of St★Ar.

The Code of Crystals started as a novel collaboration with my best friend. Said collaboration never got finished, and I had a lot of inspiration for stories I could tell with these characters, most of these darker than the original project. Thus I used the characters I made for this former collaboration and started crafting this narrative, and the release of Stardust★Arcadis AND the 2024 edition of Phantasia Jam was a perfect opportunity to get started!

Chapter one will be re-release this January and Chapter two will be released in either late 2025 or early 2026. Stay tuned for more info!

Enter the Eternity, oddly enough, also started as a collaboration, but the idea of a dating simulator with magical girls was too good to let it collect dust and never get finished, especially since its inspiration board kept drawing me in.

With my best friend's blessing, I could re-use the idea, so I created a new cast of characters and got to work, and had to do even more work after I found out that the backgrounds I bought from someone on itch.io were made with an AI image generator, which disgusted me so much it powered me to redraw every single background by hand and I will keep doing so for the entire game. While it is more work to do on my part, RainSpice Studios will never endorse AI generation in any shape or form.

At first I worked on it while I worked on Stardust★Arcadis, which explains why the demo was done on such a short notice, but it has now became my primary project for 2025 and I am aiming to release it around November/December at best.

What's the plan for 2025 then?

My primary goal is to release Enter the Eternity and my secondary goal is to release The Code of Crystals chapter 2.

I aim to finish all first dates for Enter the Eternity AND re-release chapter 1 of The Code of Crystals in January. The dates are already written and coded in the script files, so my focus is to add in all the sprite expressions, draw CGs and backgrounds, and add all the necessary music. As for TCOC, I wanted to remake its menus and add a scene with Eranis that I did not have time to add before the end of the game jam. While the UI code I bought doesn't work, its images are pretty, and I am happy with the result.

2025 will be another busy year for me as I try to find a full-time job to sustain myself, launch some new projects more-or-less related to video games, move out again, among some other irl things. But here at RainSpice Studios, I love making games, and will keep making them for the foreseeable future.

If you read down to here, thank you so much!

There's a lot to do so I'm going back to work 💪 I'll update you guys when I reach a milestone or I find something interesting to share.

So stay tuned! And as said, I wish you guys a kind, good, exciting, fun, and game-filled 2025. Thank you for your continued support and here's to more projects this year 🥂

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MORE OC STUFF AND KODYAG REVAMPED

I've been updating my characters to be alot more radical and alot less barebones (I have update logs in my bulletins over on Toyhouse!)

And i revamped, not just rewrote, Kodyag completely ! (Because she did not have alot going on before)

Info about her below!

You can find the art and all info here in my Pillowfort! (Due to Tumblr shenanigans, my main blog is now over on PF!)

donot steel (goes without saying honestly)

Some (Not all) info

Part of the 'Radical Retrofit' Cast

Name: Kodyag

Species: Liger (Lion/Tiger)

Gender: Female (M2F) (She/Her)

Sexuality: Pansexual, Demisexual

Personality: A very grandiose, sarcastic and clever Steampunk inventor, she's very good in building weaponry but takes a little too much pride in her abilities

Abilities: Sharp claws, a worthy opponent in battle (both in real life and in video games), good at being quick and sneaky, great at inventing stuff (Obviously), advantage in melee combat (Multiple arms), being ''super evil!''

Birthplace: 🇪🇸 Spain (Grew up largely in 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 England)

​Voice Claim: Clover (AHKJ)

Associated Songs: All Eyes On Me - Fillbots

Kodyag was a random character i made as a part of Crimson's previous (now discarded) backstory and so her previous design and character was very random and lacking, it was about time i give her a huge revamp!

Kodyag's Old Ref:

Another (smaller) thing is that i added both Lycaon and Kodyag to my Artfight Profile! (So people who wish to draw em when the event starts, can do that!)

My other Characters rahh

_Commissions will open soon at my (currently wip) KO-FI!_

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So admittedly I'm not sure EXACTLY what I'd do differently if I rewrote tlj, bc there's so many problems and lots of stuff to consider that it'd take forever to rewrite everything. But I do have some very messy miscellaneous ideas:

-Instead of starting off right at the second where tfa ended, skip ahead like, maybe a month or two? I dunno like a time skip that's fairly short, but long enough that both sides could plausibly be able to regroup and regather their forces after the losses they suffered from in the last film.

-Rey's been training with Luke and learned a few things but not a ton. Finn woke from his coma a while ago but still needs to get his back injury looked at regularly.

-Finn and Poe regularly talk to Rey and they give each other updates on how they're doing throughout the movie. This way we can have like, actual character interactions despite our trio being light-years apart.

-Like in the film, a fight between the Resistance and FO fleets towards the beginning results in some heavy casualties for our heroes. However these casualties are not the result of Poe being ooc and doing dumb shit for no reason.

-Poe's main character arc is still learning to step up and lead, but this time in a way that actually makes sense for his character. Maybe he beats himself up for losing so many people bc he's lost someone important to him before, and he has to accept that no leader can save everyone. Accept what you can't change and have the courage to change the things you can. Or something else like that. Just something that does his character justice.

-Paige doesn't have to die. Like I never expected her to have a big role bc there's so many characters to keep track of, but I'm sick of this franchise killing woc right after introducing them so let's say Paige just gets seriously injured. Enough to motivate Rose.

-Somehow Rose and Finn meet but in this version she has a consistent personality and they actually become friends and she doesn't taze him or talk down to him.

-I haven't thought of EXACTLY what I'd do with Rose's arc so if anyone has any ideas feel free to add on.

-The tracking the Resistance through hyperspace thing can stay bc it is interesting in concept, but there has to be a little more to it. Maybe the Resistance is trying to figure out how the FO is even getting all this super advanced tech and how to beat it.

-Finn doesn't know everything but he does know the FO has funding from many corrupt new Republic senators and other officials. So Leia sends Finn, Poe and Rose (plus BB-8 and 3PO bc 3PO needs something to do) to Canto Bight, which is actually designed well in this version.

-While they're doing that, Leia and Ackbar lead the Resistance fleet to the Crait base with the FO fleet hot on their tail, hoping to send a distress signal to their allies.

-At Canto Bight they meet up with Lando who was already on a separate undercover mission for Leia. He helps them get the I they need from some skeezy rich bastards who help the FO and tags along with them.

-Rose is the hacker bc it simplifies things a bit.

-They don't spend nearly as long on Canto Bight. Instead, sneaking around Snoke's ship takes up the bulk of their half of the plot. The animal subplot is taken out entirely bc it's pointless. They come for Lando and the info and go.

-Meanwhile with the force stuff:

-Snoke telling Kylo to stop acting like Vader didn't make sense. He should want Kylo to act MORE like Vader to make sure he stays away from the light and shit or something.

-Snoke takes Kylo to Vader's old castle on Mustafar to complete his training as he said he would in tfa, and the Knights of Ren tag along bc they seem cool and ignoring them in favor of the lobster guards was a mistake.

-Mustafar is not only significant to Kylo's family's history, but also canonically was once the sight of a sith temple, a perfect place to complete Kylo's training. Plus as a bonus it connects the prequels and R1 to the sequels in a natural way.

-Kylo's Mustafar training serves as a parallel to Luke training Rey on Ach-To.

-Luke actually teaches Rey some cool shit insteas of just being grumpy and wasting precious screentime with pointless crap, and they have a meaningful relationship.

-Instead of just giving up and going to Ach-To to die, Luke instead came for Important Plot Reasons.

-Basically, we learn that Snoke is an ancient and powerful dark side weilder, far more powerful and more sinister than even the Sith themselves. The very first Jedi knights formed the group to stop Snoke, and during the battle they gave him his injuries, severely weakening him, and imprisoned him in the unknown regions of space.

-Through the force, Snoke witnessed the history of the Star Wars galaxy as we know it unfold. The centuries of war between the Jedi and the Sith. The near destruction of the Sith. The creation of the rule of two that allowed the Sith to rise again and get their revenge. The Clone Wars. The creation of Darth Vader. The fall of the Republic and the Jedi. The rise of the Empire. The Rebellion. Snoke watched it all from behind the scenes, waiting for the right moment to return.

-His opportunity came with the end of the Galactic Civil War. The New Republic exiled the remnants of the Empire to the unknown regions, where they ran into Snoke and he somehow convinced them that he had the power to help them restore their precious Empire.

-So we now know Snoke's backstory, but his exact plan isn't revealed just yet. There are hints, but save the big reveal for episode 9.

-Luke didn't go looking for the first Jedi temple for no reason. He went in hopes of learning about Snoke, and more importantly, how he was defeated the first time to give an idea of how to stop him now. Unfortunately, he hasn't figured that part out yet.

-Make no mistake, Luke may not be bitter and hopeless here but he's not without his own problems. That crap with him almost killing Kylo doesn't happen, but he does beat himself up for not saving Kylo. He was so sure that if Vader could be turned than so could Ben. But the sad fact is that you can't save someone unless they want to be saved, and Ben didn't want to.

-And the big one: Somehow, maybe through that weird force mirror or something like that, Rey and Luke discover that they are in fact father and daughter. Because like it or not that's very obviously what tfa was hinting at. And like it or not, her being his daughter adds more weight to everything. Rey finally concludes her arc of finding her family. And through Luke's training she becomes the worthy successor to the Skywalker bloodline that Kylo failed to be.

-As for how she ended up on Jakku, why Luke, Leia and Han didn't recognize her sooner, etc. That I haven't thought of a good answer to yet, but I'm sure something plausible could be figured out if given enough thought. Maybe Snoke wanted to make her his apprentice but Kylo was jealous and somehow tricked everyone into thinking he killed her and left her on Jakku to die? Or something? Idk. Again, feel free to give ur ideas.

-Back to the Resistance plot. So while all the force shit is happening, Finn and co. have been undercover on Snoke's ship to not only destroy the hyperspace tracker, but hopefully find a way to stop the FO's whole flow of supplies from their sympathizers.

-Since Snoke is away on Mustafar training Kylo, Hux is in charge of the Supremacy. Unsurprisingly, it didn't take him and Phasma long to discover that they had intruders, and they've been onto them the whole time, adding tension for our heroes to hurry the hell up.

-Finn runs into a small group of his old friends and former squadmates from his stormtrooper days, and discovers that his defection inspired them, and they've been secretly sabotaging the FO in small ways.

-So these defectors take the heroes to some important database or something where they can get the information they need.

-While there, Finn also ends up finding a big secret in the FO's database, who his parents were and where he was born.

-For who his parents are, there's lots of interesting paths to take, maybe they're members of the New Republic, or royalty, or Mandalorians, or force sensitives, or something else interesting. Either way, it's possible they could still be alive, leaving things open for them to play a role in episode 9.

-Back to force stuff again, Yoda ghost can stay but only if Anakin and Obi-wan are there too, with Hayden and Ewan reprising their roles of course. I don't know what exactly they'd do, as long as it's plot relevant and more interesting than what we got lol. Also Anakin and Kylo especially have to have some sort of conversation.

-Maybe Anakin tells Kylo how he turned back to the light, and tells him that if he truly wishes to finish what he started, then he should too. Kylo decides that the great Darth Vader he looked up to all this time is weak, and he destroys his helmet, deciding to do things his own way.

-Kylo somehow finds out where Luke and Rey are, maybe through a force vision or something. Instead of telling Snoke, he goes himself with the Knights of Ren as backup, believing he can capture them himself and prove himself.

-So we get Rey and Luke (plus Chewie and R2) vs Kylo and the Knights of Ren on Ach-To. After the epic battle, Luke eventually surrenders himself if it'll get Kylo to spare the others. Luke is only doing this because at this point he has yet to accept that he can't save Ben, and is attempting to save him by doing the same thing he did with Vader, but tragically it won't work out so well this time.

-So Luke is taken back to Snoke's ship where Snoke plans to finally destroy him, and the Jedi with him, thus eliminating the biggest threat to his plans. Rey, Chewie and R2 stage a rescue mission.

-They somehow manage to rescue Luke, and he finally realizes that his nephew is gone for good and he must accept this.

-Meanwhile, Finn, Rose, Poe and Lando got the info they needed, but have been caught, and like the film, Phasma attempts to have them executed.

-3PO and BB-8 find the defected stormtroopers who rescue our heroes right before they can be executed, resulting in a huge chaotic battle of stormtroopers vs stormtroopers.

-During the chaos, Rey, Luke, Chewie and end up in the same hangar and all the heroes meet up.

-Finn has his climactic battle with Phasma, only here it's a little longer with more buildup, thus making it more intense and satisfying. Also that bit where he reveals that she shut the shields down stays bc it was so cool.

-During the course of the film, there are many hints dropped at force sensitive Finn. These finally pay off during his fight with Phasma where she knocks him down and attempts to stab him with her spear. He throws his hands up and accidentally force pushes her back, giving him the upper hand he needs to defeat his powerful opponent.

-So after a short but epic fight Phasma is killed, and our heroes all gather in the Falcon and meet up with Leia and the rest of the Resistance on Crait.

-At long last, Rey, Finn, Poe, Rose, Luke, Leia, Lando, Chewie, R2, 3PO and BB-8 are all united, the hyperspace tracker has been sabotaged, and they have information on how the FO gets their resources which they can possibly use to beat them in the next film.

-Celebrations are short lived however, as the FO fleet followed the Resistance fleet to Crait, and the fight is far from over.

-During the space battle, our heroes, like in the film, board the shuttles to the planet below, and Ackbar stays behind to pull off the epic sacrifice that helps them get down there safely.

-Like the film, they send out the distress signal to their allies.

-As everyone is preparing for the coming battle, Finn and Rey have A Moment and kiss.

-So Kylo and Hux lead the assault on the Resistance base. The battle of Crait is epic and intense with all our heroes using their combined skills and abilities to fight their attackers.

-Like in the film, the Resistance is eventually overpowered and pinned down, and Luke walks out to distract Kylo to buy them time, only this time it's the real Luke with Rey by his side.

-Luke and Rey have another epic duel with Kylo and his Knights of Ren, but this time things go a little different. The distress signal pays off, and the remnants of the New Republic fleet (possibly led by an older Hera Syndulla, not required but it'd be awesome) arrive to help the Resistance.

-Our heroes manage to escape Crait, and now have the Republic fleet aiding them. Luke has reunited with his sister, and comforts her over Han's death. Lando promotes our newer heroes for their actions, the defected stormtroopers join the Resistance/Republic, maybe Paige wakes up and has a small moment with Rose, and Finn and Rey are set to become the first of the next generation of Jedi, and to uphold Luke's legacy when Kylo couldn't. However, Snoke, Kylo, Hux and their army are still out there, and we have yet to learn what Snoke is planning or how to stop it, leaving plenty of things open for the final chapter of the saga.

As stated before this is all just random ideas, and there's probably some stuff I forgot to mention bc there's a lot to think and talk about with this film, so if anyone wants to add anything go right ahead.

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hello it’s me again with character number 2 because @alminseok just wasn’t enough (whose intro i rewrote cause i had a barely functioning brain the first time around so pls read for updated info and a vine). like to plot or message me directly. overview, app and plots are all linked, so lets get this show on the road! 

and look another gif:

beautiful

born in taebak but was then relocated to a more rural part of gangwon. both mom and dad were at a critical point of their careers where it was work work work constantly and couldn’t dedicate an adequate amount of time to look after her, so she was raised by her granddad on a farm until age 6-7

took her back when things were finally stable to chuncheon, except she’s never really quite adjusted ever since? but ‘cause hye stayed out of harm’s way, any real concerns were just chalked up to her being an “oddball” child and left it at that

has an older sister but she’s been away from home for a looong time

reputation of being the lone wolf…dark horse…a little intense, intimidating but people didn’t actively go and try to mess with her. whatever pent up aggression was put to good use in sports so really she has volleyball to thank for keeping her in check lmao

was there the night of that sexual assault case in '08: knows the victim on a very personal level. doesn’t dwell on it in solitude because the guilt would eat her alive

has always had a talent for analysis and putting things together so reporting seemed like a good place to start!

snu alumni, was part of the school paper both in highschool and college. landed a few jobs with a couple of major news outlets, but with the amount of corruption, beating around the bush and insulting her sense of “journalistic integrity” she got pissed and went rogue (independent)

came across her first big scoop COMPLETELY by accident. took the nation by storm and the process of it all/aftermath kind of maybe fucked her up just a little. or a lot. again, she doesn’t think about it too much and has moved on

currently working under gobal news, which was set up by lee sangho (who, for some background, is the reporter known for the famous 2005 "samsung x-files” story as well as his coverage of sewol), with another case in the works

for her it’s less about justice and more about getting to the root of some long ignored story and exposing it in full. what’s important is that it gets heard first, the other stuff can be dealt with later

just like her granddad in terms of personality; he’s your typical, rough around the edges war vet, and it kind of rubbed off on her. she always looks like she’s about to snap or seen some shit but uh yeah!

her job is literally all she has and the day she puts that pen down is the day she’s packed six feet deep into her grave

“the limit does not exist”

focused. assertive. may not be the most empathetic, warm, sunshine and daisies kind of person out there? but when you have her attention she will listen down to the last breath you’ve got

the dog in this vine probably

also the gif on this

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Writing Journal (6/29/2020)

(I was keeping this as I was buying time, so it goes across a few days)

June 24th

So I had to miss these past two Link Roundups (though I did have some really great stuff to share) on account of laptop issues. But everything’s under control now which like… I like for reasons aside from being able to show you guys the random stuff I find XD

It’s also the reason why I haven’t been updating the Writitng Journal portion of this blog even though I’ve done SO MUCH.

To wit:

I got serious about making the comic I started in 2013 (it was in script form and then in novel form and then in script form again) the focus for this July’s Camp Nano.

I had wanted to do all of June as a “Gettin’ Back In It” month of writing short stories, but got sidetracked by…

I ended up rewriting the mythos of Wee Jas for the DND game I’m in. Her old stuff just seemed very flat and predictable and obviously written by a guy. The most egregious part of that is probably the whole, “She was in love with the god of chaos and they had a volatile, but very sexy relationship-- it was True Love!” which made me cringe right out of my entire being as I read it. Like, how dare you do this to my girl, no one deserves this. I don’t deserve this, you don’t deserve this, this character does not deserve this.

So I did a bunch of reading and made a ton of notes and then rewrote those notes to make a coherent plotline.

Then I wrote idk how many words of a first draft which was very Stream of Consciousness as I was basically reading my notes about her old lore and translating it into a real story.

It was at this moment, reading this crappy first draft that I was like, “Holy shit, 4 months of not writing fiction has made me UNABLE to write, oh god, Camp is next month, what the fuck am I going to do? Do I have to relearn everything again? That took years!” But…

Some kind soul apparently started reading a fanfic I wrote a couple years ago, and left a comment on almost every chapter, so I had to go back and read all the chapters just to understand what they were referencing in their comments (because I sure as hell don’t remember what I wrote years ago off the top of my head). Reading stuff I’d written made me like, “Oh, wait, that’s how I used to write!” and “Wow, this is pretty good, I’m pretty funny!” and also, “Oh, hey, a typo” *fixes it and goes back to reading* And that was a really good thing, it jogged the part of my brain that stored all the info about writing and so...

Then, though I was trying to work on a short story for a competition, I ended up redoing the first draft of Wee Jas’ myth into its second draft, and making it read the way I wanted it to; like a text that’s been translated (similar to how the Eddas look, where they’re formatted like poetry but because they’re in English, none of it rhymes?). And that version ended up being almost 7k words. I’m really happy with how it came out though there are a couple things I want to fix as far as word usage and making it sound more dramatic like an epic poem normally does.

I also decided I wanted to do a bunch of hymns surrounding things that happened in her life, and one for each follower. I’ve only written one so far, because....

I started working on the “show bible” for my comic (this way I have something to give my artist as far as art references) I think I was looking at old notes for it and was like “Hey… this… is actually not as bad as I remembered it being,” not that I thought the ideas were bad (I love the ideas, that’s why I’ve held onto it for so long) but that the organization was bad because I didn’t know how to write or even how to organize my ideas back in 2013 - I was an undergrad who thought she was going into History and ended up switching - but looking at it all now, it ended up not being that bad. I ended up with 38 pages in it, but there’s still a lot to do to totally flesh it out. I don’t know if I’ll finish it before Camp starts, but as long as it’s tiny things that are left out, I don’t think it’s too bad if it is unfinished. I could also find some Super Motivation and end up finishing it during Camp as well. Either is okay.

June 26th

I’ve also been working on a binder to try and keep track of things from a publishing perspective, I already have one for working on stories/books/comics/whatever, but I wanted some place I could keep track of like, if I’m querying something or if I send something in to a zine or anthology or whatever. I also have a friend who posts things to Medium and I’ve been thinking of doing the same and being in the partner program. Maybe I’ll do like one short story a month or something like that, idk yet.

June 28th

So I’m still waiting on that laptop, but it should be here in the next couple days. Then I can get it set up and get everything all ready for Camp. And be all ready to just…

Write ENTIRELY too many words >D I’m very excited.

June 29th

It’s here! I’ve set it all up! And just in time for Camp, too! I’m so excited :D