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OC- Lyra/T’Lyra

As a human: she’s raised in a mixed community on earth where she is influenced by many earth and alien cultures that have settled in the big city she grew up in. She attended inner city public schools for her entire education which gave her a quick eye for social cues and how to avoid a fight and tread carefully. Despite not going to the most prestigious schools as a child, the education system overall in the world has improved in the 2300s allowing for personalized courses and access to higher learning methods with better ease. It many not be on the same level as the Vulcan learning pods, but Lyra advances through courses and finds her way through math and science much faster than her peers, somewhat of a prodigy. She begins computer science and engineering courses as soon as they are available to her and finds her niche in theoretical transwarp physics as a junior in high school. She begins to research and learn all she can about the subject and explore all she can. Eventually, this curiosity leads to questions about the impact of warp on life and her interests turn back to the blue sciences rather than the reds of engineering. By the time she enters Starfleet to conduct further research (because every one of the best papers she’s read has come either from the VSA or a tenured Starfleet officer) she is ready to do whatever it takes to find the answers to all her burning questions about space travel. How to improve it, how it changes humanity, what it means to be human, what it means to be alien, what it means to be from somewhere at all. She wants to expand the known universe and her mind - to confront the stars and herself among them as she ventures into the great unknown.

As a Vulcan/Human hybrid: she’s raised on Vulcan until it is destroyed when she is six. She remembers the day clearly with her eidetic memory. Her family was together in a park in ShiKahr when the attack started and when the evacuation began, they were able to board a shuttle and get off planet safely. They became some of the only surviving Vulcans. Post-destruction of Vulcan, T’Lyra and her family moved to earth, her father’s home world (her mother being her Vulcan parent). Despite growing up mostly on earth, her family lives nearby the Vulcan embassy and her mother is very devoted to retaining her Vulcan roots, especially in light of the destruction of Vulcan. T’Lyra does her best to emulate her mother in every way, including being as Vulcan as she can be, despite her red blood and how tempting it is to smile or blush or tuck her hair behind her ear and respond to the social cues of the human boys around her as she ages. Her mother has less difficulty conceiving a human child than Amanda did conceiving a Vulcan child, and T’Lyra has a younger brother, V’Luk who was born after the family arrived on earth. Her brother is much more human in his tendencies than she is, though she does all she can to encourage him to act in the Vulcan way. They are both more biologically human than Vulcan, somewhere around 60% Vulcan in large part due to their blood being human rather than the green of a Vulcan, though their hearts are still located where they would be on a Vulcan. It seems that though there are now more Vulcan/human hybrids, the data does not help cross-case. Even the siblings are dissimilar to each other in their biology in some ways that make their health distinctive. As T’Lyra gets older, she goes to school with the other Vulcan children who stay on earth at the embassy. She spends her life looking up to Commander Spock who was part of the command team to save the Vulcan high council and Earth from its destruction and who is notably one of the only other Vulcan/human hybrids. Inspired by his efforts in Starfleet, she makes strides to follow his path and join Starfleet someday.

Process/Results:

I started initially just wanting to do a Starfleet officer, hence Lyra. Then I decided to see how the ai could handle a Vulcan with the ears and all. It did not do well with prompts to copy Spock’s facial pattern or Vulcan ears. It struggled with the idea of Vulcan eyebrows and I gave up. I eventually had to use a prompt with elf ears instead, which is why the shape is off - not quite to my liking but close enough when given context. I realized halfway through that Vulcans have green blood and Lyra had a red blush so I tried some prompts to see if I could get a green tinge to the skin instead and…. AI was super confused and only did like one slightly correct generation of the prompt. AI still struggles with fantastical ideas. It can do normal skin tones, but not odd ones. Maybe it doesn’t have any samples of that? Makes sense if it doesn’t have access to that kind of imaginative art to sample.

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OCs - The SlytherTwins: Morgan & Eliza

They're from a half-blood family. They looked a lot more similar when they were younger and started to look more distinctive as they got older, though they still style their hair and do most things very similar. Don't let their competitive nature fool you, they're best friends through and through, though if it gives them the advantage, they'll act like they're fighting or they're worst enemies to get the better over everyone in the room. They may as well have twin telepathy- and at this point there is debate in the castle on whether or not they have it! Legilimens and Occlummency notwithstanding. They're like a more subtle Fred and George- terrifying news for the current headmaster, though it does mean less outwardly damaging pranks (and more people crying????)

Morgan, younger only barely is the more flippant of the two, she doesn't care what people think and is quick to come up with plots to get revenge or simply to get what she wants. She's constantly looking for the best ways to further her social status as a Slytherin. Being a half-blood is better than it used to be, but it's still not as easy as being a pure-blood. She knows the ins and outs of the society, but being able to walk the walk and talk the talk is important to her. But insult her, her sister, or anyone else because of their blood status? You better watch out because something will be coming your way.

Eliza, older but only just, is the more empathetic of the pair. She's a loyal and true defender and if that means she has to set up a plot that will take half the school year to come to fruition for the most beautiful come-uppance of all? You best bet she will do it. Once you gain her loyalty she will do just about anything to make sure you are happy and taken care of, the means of which are usually some sort of devious plot she and her sister get up to.

Process/results:

Both these OCs were generated off the same prompts, but I found enough variety in the photos that I decided to branch them into two characters as twins. I saw two younger looking photos and could see them matching with a few of the older photos and a few of the older photos which could arguably be the same person if I just said they were. I wasn't looking for anything too specific with this prompt, so this one was fun to work with.

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OC - Mina (Little Red)

How well do you know Little Red Riding Hood? Just who is the Big Bad Wolf to her? I have a deep fascination of this story and I love the concept of Red either being the wolf or being in love with or in league with the wolf. I imagine her connected to the moon in some way similar to the wolf in either case, granted powers more powerful the more full the moon is.

Process/results:

This art all turned out really cool. For the most part the only thing was figuring out what I wanted from the ai and tweaking things to get rests that suited me.

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OC - Musician Zombie Slayer

When I was maybe 13 or 14, I had a dream where the Zombie Apocalypse was upon us and (among other ways) you could kill them by playing classical music. It was something about the complexity of the music that was too much for Zombies - they would just explode or pass out DEAD.

Process/results:

I was going through different styles while generating this prompt just to see what kinds of results I could get. The second image had a Gravity Falls prompt with the style. Most images didn't make the cut purely for the violin and the bow being horribly inaccurate. Either the bow would be split in half and continue somewhere else in the image detached or the violin would be positioned where the head of the person should start and thus everything was misaligned. AI is trying, but barely any photos made the cut. I generated so many prompts and so few were worth saving, obviously.

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Hi! I'm Marva.

I have a chronic neurological condition called Idiopathic Intracranial Hypertension. For about 3 years after my initial diagnosis it limited most of my normal life activities and I couldn't do most thing I used to - up to and including thinking activities I enjoy! Thinking was exhausting and, like the scarecrow in The Wizard of Oz, I often wished I "only had a brain."

This ai-art was generated with that in mind, with the idea of my feelings of wanting my brain and health back.

About the prompt/process:

I wanted the crow to have a brain instead of a head, but no matter how many prompts I tried, AI was not clever enough for that. Additionally, some of the prompts I tried gave the scarecrow odd heads. I tried DC comic styles that gave it comic character coatumes instead of the cothing I outlined in the prompt as well so I eventually removed that from the prompt all together.