#oc: waterstrider

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A bunch of sketches with Salamander, Littleowl and Waterstrider First page's from mid-2023, the second one from few weeks ago! Song (top left corner of the first page): Show me where it hurts by Jukebox the Ghost

[stormwaterwitch]

🖊 If you have any goblins that would be preferred, if not I'm good to read any OCs you wanna write about.

Okay so screw tumblr because it just wont friggin work.

Anyways, for a self proclaimed Lover of Goblins i dont have many goblin ocs D: i have one WoW toon named Tenri who is a goblin!

Shes a beast master hunter who owns a set pf waterstriders as pets named 'Legs' will link to him separately since tumblr is being a DOUCHE right now lmaooooo~

[twistofstory]

Song for vibes: Isle Unto Thyself by Miracle Musical

Waterstrider's playin' some tunes, maybe they're a bit melancolic, but he's still enjoing himself and that's what really matters :3

Fun fact: he's my only (semi)main character who canonically skilled in music! He was taught to sing and play the guitar by his stepfather Katran, who grew up in a seaside seawing village and subsequently lived for a long time in the Possibility, where he met a bunch of musically gifted dragons - thus eventually becoming interested in music himself.

[twistofstory]

A little portrait of Sal for last year's Pride Month and a page from my (dropped) comic redraw project I did in 2022-2023 (this version was finished mid-2023)

I really want to make comics, but put too much pressure on myself and too scared to actually draw them... This experience didn't help, as I redid this page 3,5 times (started reformating it into a far less crowded version, but desided that finishing what I already have is more important) and spent more than half a year on the whole thing. This wasn't very fun, and both of the finished pages far from perfect.

I'm trying to look on the bright side - I DID learn a lot by making it, and I have a whole comic page with my characters interacting, like, c'mon, how cool is that?? I'm making progress in changing my thinking patterns when it comes to creative work, but sometimes I'm just too tired. Fighting with my perfectionism and anxiety need to constantly overthink stuff every day isn't always a winning battle. And I feel like I'm losing it (and some other battles as well) right now.

And that's okay, as frustrating it may be >:/ Bad mental health days/weeks/months aren't here forever. We are still valuable and deserving of love people even when we're struggling and not giving to the world everything we have.

Saying it loud and clear not only to myself but to anyone who needs to hear it - stuff really does get better. We'll get there. Even if it doesn't feel like it at the moment

Returning to the topic: "The nightmare"'s starring two of my main girlies, Salamander and Little Owl, so you can learn about their dinamic a bit more

[twistofstory]

Growing up 4/4

Aaand the last one, sadly unfinished. If you think "Wait, do you have 3 almost identical seawing characters??", you are kinda correct, and it was a bit of a background gag for me. Waterstrider and Squid are twins, and they look uncannily similar to their (late, to their knowing) father Breeze. Currently all three have more distinct designs, but they're still pretty similar. Oh, and twins were raised by their mom Actinia and stepdad Katran in the Possibility. Talking about the original description... I think I was trying to foreshadow that Squid as a kid actually bullied Waterstrider, but it ended up sounding super clanky :( Still, I present this text to you in it's original form 'cus I don't have enough energy to completely rewrite it, sorry (written mid-2023)

As dragonets, Waterstrider (right) and and his twin sister Squid (left) did not get along, to put it mildly, and there was a time that their conflicts reached such a level that their parents were forced to intervene and temporarily split them apart. Actinia and Katran put in a lot of effort to help the twins deal with their «problem» (adding more sports to Squid 's life so that she had somewhere to drain her energy and emotional stress helped a lot). At the moment, the grown-up siblings are friendly to each other, and Squid is very sorry for her behavior in the past and therefore actively takes care of her brother.