#character design is fun so yeag

[brosif40]

they're so divorced

their big evil divorce is canon, the eu bros told me so /j

Having so much fun with them for some reason

[bacchuschucklefuck]

literally figured sorcerer!kristen's freshman year design out the moment I sat down and attempted to brainstorm (rubs hands together fly style) we eatin good today boys

[steakout-05]

headcanons i have about Craig the scientist :)

as are most of the characters i have headcanons for, Craig is on the autism spectrum. he has a flat effect to his voice and facial expressions, doesn't really get most social cues, doesn't know how to react to others in pain the "right" way, misunderstands metaphors and speaks in quite a direct manner because it makes the most sense to his brain. he's quite a literal thinker. he also tends to hyperfixate so hard on a task that he forgets his basic needs and hygene, and thus has quite an unkempt look underneath that hazmat suit of his (which i will get into later!). Barry often ends up needing to get Craig something to eat because of how long he hyperfixates on something.

Craig sometimes doesn't exactly pay attention to his tone of voice, so sometimes he can say something that, to him, sounds completely normal, but because of his tone, can end up sounding really ominous to other people by accident ("We know who you are, Barry.")

Craig has traumatic cataract in his left eye (or wherever the fuck craig's visor crack is supposed to be in canon lol) from the explosion in 'Level 2' and is half blind in that eye. his eye has a very clouded look as a result of the injury. he's also got a huge scar there too that required some pretty gnarly stitches later, and his skin is almost completely numb around that area.

Craig also never really had the best eyesight before the injury, so he's always wearing these big ol' nerdy glasses underneath his helmet. and yes, they are tacked together with a band-aid lol

Craig is one of the few scientists who is not a clone of Peter Simpkins, the late friend of both Professor Brains and (in my headcanon'd canon) Craig. i like to think that Craig and Simpkins knew each other when they were first recruited by Legitimate Research and was pretty close to both him and Brains, and since Simpkins died, Brains has kind of taken more of a liking towards Craig (mostly out of loneliness and needing someone to help around at the lab, but he has a genuine fondness for him under his demanding and angry exterior).

There's a bit of a fan theory that Craig is the same guy as the scientist in the 'Robot Bird' rock opera, which i like to believe is the case. i mean, he's got the same monotone voice as Craig, it's gotta be him. i hope this does end up becoming canon because i think it'd make for an interesting conflict between Barry and Craig!!

Craig may or may not be related to Lab Lady.

Craig's counterpart in the mirror universe is named Kayla.

Craig is demiromantic and is questioning his sexuality (he thinks he might be bi or pan), though he definitely knows he loves Barry <3

Craig has an unhealthy habit of wiping his embarrassing memories, like, a lot. he wipes memories of awkward accidents in the lab, particularly painful failures, and most importantly, the memories of losing literally all his stuff and his career to Barry, which is why he doesn't immediately recognise him in the shorts. Craig has a lot of trouble recounting stories from the past because of this memory-wiping and felt a sense of emptiness, which getting hit in the head certainly didn't help with, so he tried inventing that apple in the Multiverse Madness event to get some of them back. it was pure dumb luck that Barry didn't end up witnessing what happened to Craig in the 'Robot Bird' opera and both are completely unaware of the disastrous can of worms that could have opened. bro's gonna end up like wallflower blush if he doesn't keep that memory erasing under control

and finally...

under his helmet, Craig has messy dirty-blonde hair, a rounded face that has a few stray facial hairs he forgot to shave, a long scar down the left side of his face, hazel coloured eyes and pale skin. this design is inspired by the designs made by @dexterno-artz and @schnabel53 respectively :D

this is a sketch of my finalised(ish) craig design!!! i've shown earlier versions of this guy in a couple of older posts but i haven't really revised his design much until now. i kinda had the idea of him looking like a stereotypical nerd and then made him messier. i might tone the amount of hair he has down a tiny bit but also i really like the nerdy bird's nest thing he has goin on :) i like to think he literally hasn't brushed his hair in several weeks and it's just become a bird's nest from nights of staying up doing science stuff

how i feel about barry tbh. he's literally so dumb i love him

(also apologies for the photos being kinda blurry and me forgetting to turn off the filter. again. in my defence it looks really nice and orange on my phone)

sometimes i like drawing him saying stuff from the shorts to get a feel of how he'd look when talking and make sure he looks juuuust nerdy enough for me to go "yep that's craig". also his big,g, handns,s,

drew this as a quick side profile sketch to get a general idea of how i want to draw him from this angle. he's talking to barry offscreen and falling in love with him <3

stupid little comic with a stupid little interaction that would definitely happen between these stupid little guys <3 barry being a little asshole every now and then is very entertaining to me. i need to see him antagonising craig and starting an old couple bickering argument with craig, that would heal me i think

i think i'll post more of this design in the future, i really quite like it a lot :)

[hyponautica]

my first clownpierce design (left) and my current design (right)

ramble about design ahead (sory :c)

i think i like the current one better. it looks like it would actually exist. to be fair while designing my brain was scrolling through every victorian outfit aesthetic whatever image i have ever seen... so thats probably why it turned out the way it did.

also the horns being there make his face a big triangle, and if you know anything about character design then thank you because im not explaining shapes in design. unless someone asks. then i probably would--

i know the checker patterns on him make him look really confusing, but i think itd be better to look like an abstract blur when youre fighting someone. just to confuse them yk. clownconfuse. but thats also why i used the white frills. it seperates those confusing parts a lil bit, just easier on the eyes that way.

and yeag the satyr thing never really went away. i just later on decided to show the hooves beacuse its fun drawing them. i do like the bells on shoes idea but now he has them all over his cape so, extra clownjingle

final thing, mean smile on his mask. would definitely say ''tee hee'' after ''accidentally'' committing 4 war crimes in a day

[askamnesiamoonjumper]

DUMP OF SOME AAU ART FROM TODAY !! YIPPEE🎉!!!!

Shady sunburnt mj friendchip…. (Context for the Snatcher thing. um. Points at contractor who had his head pop off. Lol. Lmao.) also I think this is the first time I’m mentioning it bc initially I counted it as spoilers but nowadays I don’t care but ye they’re the same species so yayyy but also I don’t draw him enough to get the chance for that lil lore fact anyway soooo yeag 👍 his [redacted species name] design is very fun methinks I need to play around w him more :3€ ily shady sunburnt you’ll always be famous to me

Erm.. Meow?? (Redrew this one frame from the MV for this song :3€ (don’t ask why I sent two vers I like them both ok peace and love) oh fancy rendering how I missed you so, sighs dreamily,,,,,)

LASTLY A!BADGE MY FRIEND BADGESELLER !! YAYYYYY <3333 !!!!!

otay that’s all tips my hat and walks backwards before falling into black hole on floor like a cartoon charact🕳️

[fallhound]

ooh can we get a fun rant about your human knight looking OC with the purple top and breastplate?

OUGHOUGH she is my designated lv1 long campaign character

I'm horrible about names so I give my characters... pseudonym? codenames? until a name clicks (or a campaign is starting in 2 hours)

Her codename is Failprincess. Like a failwoman. But worse.

In a tl;dr she is a runaway royal/noble/higher caste/whatever the setting might have who found all of her escapism in cheap pulp fiction. It gave her all the wrong ideas. Her codename is such cause I want her to be useless for the first few months. Like, at least in combat- fully deadweight. In the picture she is wearing armour she is Not proficient in, wielding a weapon she does not have the strength for (both stolen from personal guard).

My big thing is reinforcing story and character through game mechanics, so for her specifically, as a Wit Swashbuckler, I want her to be all about building confidence, both short-term and long-term. Panache would basically correspond to her feeling. Sure in herself, and all the features I'm picking are to work with that. A feat that gives you panache if you go last in combat - she just needs a second, give her a moment to compose herself, etc. Fully planning on choosing BAD feats and things that don't work together at first, just to have a mechanical reason to (re)train and actually EARN being skilled and good and powerful and dope.

In terms of characterization, I wrote her while having my own dyke realizations, and a lot of that is reflected. From a meek, shy, has no clue what is going on but is faking it till she makes it to- well. a dyke ass adventurer. Campaign start would fully be like- overwhelmed, unsure of what's happening, anxious, checking in about everything. Walks into a nice quaint quiet cute tavern like "WOAH what a den of CRIME and CORRUPTION, full of NE'ER-DO-WELLS". Fully ignorant to how her information is. taken from cheap fiction meant to appeal to bored housewives. By lv5 she gets a haircut, finally has proper weapons, armour, knows what she is doing By lv10 she is fully in the element. Y'kno, roughly, vaguely planning ahead.

So yeag

Family that wants her back - a little gift of a spiked bat for the dm to hit me with

Useless at first with built in progression and growth - a little plan ahead + gimmick for the first few levels + planned out change so the character doesn't get stale after a year

Fun personal realizations

Fun look changes + gameplay changes

Her sheet is SUPER fun mechanically and I really badly want to play her

Bon Mot, Intimidation, and Deception give me opportunities to make up stupid ass one liners and jokes

Dyke

Fun roleplay quirks that adapts with time (Fish out of water / unfamiliar with a lifestyle outside of castle/house/city/whatever)

Yeah. I want to play her really badly hsdjkghsdjkgh

[jelly-as-in-grape-concord]

48 + 50!

48. OC who is a perfect cinnamon roll, too good for this world, too pure

no one in either story is textbook "perfect cinnamon roll" but sasha ramirez and gigi (gianna crane (shes from cannibalistic pigeons, the project partner i mentioned)) are close contenders. Sasha is a nice person, but not like the pure and innocent variety yk? gigi on the other hand, does start out in cannibalistic pigeons as like 100% cinnamon roll but eventually unfurls completely as the forest begins to call her into it. kinda like how you unfurl an actual cinnamon roll, the sugar and cinnamon and sweetness is still there, it is fundamentally still a cinnamon roll, however it is now a strip of what it once was. or something like that idk the metaphor got away from me

50. Give me the good ol’ OC talk here. Talk about anything you want

uhhhhhhh this is really long so

the gloam started out as bnha fanfiction LMAO

from the basic idea i had written in my notes: "Izuku is accidentally taken to a different universe where the prototypes exist (yu takeyama=uraraka, that version of bakugou that was blunt about everything, other weirdly designed people like kaminari and toruu). The world is kinda in an apocalypse state thats overrun by creatures called aberrants. there’s “heroes” but they’re treated like pest control than celebrities (people still did hero gimmicks for the fun of it)

he ultimately made friends with the other versions. he was forced back home after katsuki was killed by aberrant and yu wanted revenge

when he wakes up back in the regular mha world, aberrants start entering the world and hes the only one who knows how to deal with them"

which in short: alternate universes or whatever. the reason why i abandoned this idea though was because it sorta molded izuku and several other characters into something that they werent. so i saw a post that was like something about fanfics turning characters into basically OCs and i was like. wait a minute. I CAN DO THAT

and so:

the first original idea used to be about 7 teens going on a big camping trip after graduating from high school. the main couple (sylvia + guy i forget the name of) get into an arguement, its super awkward so theyre all like ok ig lets just go home, so sylvia goes in the car with isaac and sasha and in this version, theyre not rlly besties, just people who are friends with each others friends kinda deal yk. but BOOM on the way back they get into a car accident. Sasha and sylvia r badly injured and cant get out, so isaac goes to get help but gets replaced by another person(same as happens in the gloam 4.0 (yeag there is a 3.0 im gettin there)). the rest of the group catches up, get out of the car, and get eaten by a monster. then the whole plot after that was that sylvia and sasha wanted to find isaac as the replacement admits that on the other side of the forest, theres an alternate universe that they could travel to find him. i have no idea what was so supposed to happen after so i scratched the idea.

gloam 3.0 was something similar, adding in the spiciness that the inside of the forest WAS the alternate universe and everyone in it was fighting for their lives. and also sylvia got a gun. what!!! then i scrapped it because i still had no idea how it would be ending or how the story would start because i kinda hated the car accident thing. i could never imagine it quite right.

then theres the gloam 4.0, where you BECOME this alternate version of urself by becoming a sick monster. and also i aged up the main three because i dont know how to write teenagers. im hardly one myself sometimes but i have hanged around both middle aged and old people for my entire life.

i did keep the original ig crossing a threshhold into an alternate universe thing as a seperate idea (anti-glory) but its not something im thinking or working on

(theres a lot more detail that i coul write here but im currently typing this in a moving vehicle and very sleepy)