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MY BEST FRIENDS HARPER AND JORDAN... THANK YOU AGAIN

commission for @the-fruit-bucket! i had SOOO much fun with this

my commissions are open at a 40% lower price!

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walks into the room dragging this behind me. so how about 3.4 that shit was crazy huh (visible tears in my eyes)

if phainon isn't allowed to leave amphoreous with all of his friends and be happy forever and ever hoyo will be receiving strongly worded letters from yours truly

(3.4 spoilers obviously!)

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My artfight! Didn't have time to make one of those cute placards but I will attack ANYONE who attacks me, and will do any type of character! Check out my page for some of mine :]

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ROSALYN WEBSTER

Pronouns: she/her

Age: 19

Personality: Perfectonistic, melodramatic, neurotic. Rosalyn has had stress wrinkles since she was ten years old, and that's a fair summary of her character. She's constantly fiending for control and perfectly willing act on her own if the others won't listen to her and treat her with the respect she deserves. Beneath it all, a young woman desperate to prove she's a grown adult when she's the second youngest person in the room.

Playlist:

Moodboard:

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JORDAN STONE

Pronouns: he/they

Age: 24

Personality: Detached, resigned, bitter. Jordan is a young emo man of very few words—though, that won't stop him from tearing people a new one if they rub him the wrong way. While a life of being talked over, pushed aside, and beaten down has made him silent in a resentful sort of way, it's also taught him that people rarely have his best interests at heart—so why should he have theirs?

Playlist:

Moodboard:

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HARPER PRICE

Pronouns: she/they

Age: 25

Personality: Energetic, flighty, anxious. Harper is a young punk woman with a rough and tumble exterior and a soft spot that's obvious to everyone besides herself. She may be scratchy and energetic at first glance, but she brings a tension with her everywhere she goes, wound up and ready to cut and run at the first notice of danger. Her life has taught her that the person to starts the fight also loses it.

Playlist:

Moodboard:

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CHARLES WRIGHT-HUANG (and COMPANY)

Pronouns: depends

Age: 44

Personalities:

Charles (any/all): Host. Dedicated, emotional, receptive. A therapist who just wants to piece it all together.

Oliver (he/him): Protector. Nervous, sensitive, placating. The childish instinct to lie down and take it.

Victor (he/him): Caretaker. Adamant, intolerant, overzealous. The youthful energy of sticking up for yourself.

Angel (she/it): Socializer. Impulsive, playful, hedonistic. The eternal desire to have a pretty good time.

Chase (he/it): Worker. Easygoing, hardworking, apathetic. The constant drive to buckle down and get to work.

Lixiang (she/her): Trauma holder. Fearful, secretive, childlike. The perfect daughter.

Chenghan (he/him): Persecutor. Demanding, paranoid, volatile. The family man.

Playlist:

Moodboard:

(Charles is a system, hence the many names! Maybe someday I'll make references for everyone.)

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EZEKIEL WINGERS

Pronouns: she/he/they

Age: 29

Personality: Outspoken, humorous, optimistic. Ezekiel is always (*always*) the first person to crack a joke in any situation, constantly trying to make people share a laugh or crack a smile. Brash but not cruel, she genuinely wants to make people happy however she can--she has to justify the space she takes up, of course. But that eternal drive... who is he trying to please? Others? Himself? Or... somebody far above it all?

Playlist:

Moodboard:

(Another in the main lineup from my original story, Building Character! Stay tuned for when I finally get around to putting them on artfight lmao)

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ANDROMEDA KINGTON

Pronouns: he/she/it

Age: 29

Personality: Reclusive, secretive, pessimistic. Andromeda keeps his body and his past curled inside and tucked behind layers of fabric, refusing to share even the most inconsequential of information about himself. With a muted bark but a sharp bite, she seems determined to push everyone away--but in the moments where her shoulders unhunch, you can almost see the shadow of a lively and energetic person beneath the cracks.

Playlist:

Moodboard (guns, knives, blood tw):

(Another in the main lineup from my original story, Building Character! Posting these bit by bit, but they'll be on artfight soon, so stay tuned!)

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QUESTION

Pronouns: star/they

Age: ???

Personality: Curious, forgetful, intuitive. Question wakes up in a house on an island with no memories—not just of the world around star, but of stars own name and face as well. As such, they're very easily confused and disoriented, though not easily disturbed by anything a typical person might consider unusual. They're also weirdly easily adjusted to this strange world everyone is stuck within.

Playlist:

Moodboard:

HEY, everyone! as artfight grows closer, i've decided i'm going to start posting my original characters on tumblr! each of them is from a story called building character, about eight strangers who wake up on a deserted island and have to break out by going through a series of pocket dimensions representing their mindscapes! question is the main character, an amnesiac ghost who doesn't remember anything of stars life before the island.

i plan to post more about these characters in the future, so stay tuned!

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hello, party people! weeeeee've got commissions! (i think this year i'm going to try posting more art on tumblr hehe)

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holy bokura. played this game recently with my partner and LOVED it, and i ended up very heavily linking it with never meant to know by tally hall; so i decided to do a little lyric comic! i've never done pixel art before, so a lot of this was either me tracing or swinging wildly—but i think it turned out well! i love you unsolved mysteries...

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https://archiveofourown.org/works/64716619

It’s a quiet day at the tavern. Fable is my only customer so far today, and the sun is crawling toward the horizon outside the window. After the chaos of the world almost ending a couple times over, it seems everyone is taking a minute to recover.

Not that I could blame anyone—if I had to run around the continent fighting vengeful psychopaths because my bartender was too cowardly to clean up after their own shit, I probably wouldn’t fancy a drink for a while either.

But supposedly there’s a party of some kind in the works in a couple days, to celebrate surviving the apocalypse with the world and the party mostly intact. There’ll be feasting, singing and dancing, playing games and sharing tales—the whole shebang.

It sounds wonderful.

There’s just the one problem.

After the world nearly ended, everyone is hankering for a bit of celebration. Fable invites Innkeep to join the festivities—except, it's not quite that simple. Innkeep hasn't taken a step outside the tavern since it was created, and the thought of doing so now, even for a party with their favorite patrons and closest friends, is unthinkable. Thankfully, they're not alone.

tumblr link posts seem to be a bit broken right now, but i'm posting this anyways! a little post-canon tavern talk oneshot because i'm nuts about this game <3

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so how about that umbrella academy huh (distant crickets)

umbrella academy has been my favorite show since 2019, and s4 made me so boilingly furious that i spent a month making an animatic featuring the first three seasons and an alternate ending! would love if you gave it a watch, if not for love for me then of hatred for steve blackman

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and with that last post the fic is now complete! thank you to everyone who has read it or will read it in the future.

as a bonus, here's the playlist i wrote most of this to: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7LrGsucBv33YZqCcGS8kdQ?si=7fc6bcb38f394ed1

Jeremy barely remembers the night of the play, just flashes of screaming and fighting and briefly thinking he wasn't going to survive it. But he did—the potential hivemind apocalypse was averted, and now everything and everyone could return to normal. That was meant to be the end, right?

Instead, it was a brand new start.

5 times Jeremy gets to start again with someone else and 1 time he gets to start again with himself.

Updates Daily!

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Jeremy barely remembers the night of the play, just flashes of screaming and fighting and briefly thinking he wasn't going to survive it. But he did—the potential hivemind apocalypse was averted, and now everything and everyone could return to normal. That was meant to be the end, right?

Instead, it was a brand new start.

5 times Jeremy gets to start again with someone else and 1 time he gets to start again with himself.

Updates Daily!

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Penny inhales and exhales before slumping against the couch in the space right beside her, the den now covered entirely with blankets and cushions like a nest for a bird. “Thanks for coming.” She slumps and glances sideways with an edge of a grin on her lips and a hint of a glow in her eyes. “I was anxious that nobody would show.”

The whole party thing was her thought back in the depths of the hospital, to gather everyone and waste the hours until midnight together. It was an old tradition to spend the turn of the year with the people you wanted to have stay in your life, after all.

A couple months after the crash that nearly ended their lives, the St. Cassian's Chamber Choir gathers to celebrate the new year together.