#relationship map

[helbrides]

the greater nassau polycule - black sails s1-4

[kaylarcreates]

Bowie's Parlor Relationship Chart

Finally finished this masterpiece!

[digitalsimpsonspark]

THE D'AMICO CRIME FAMILY RELATIONSHIP MAP.

Content warnings: brief mention of sexual abuse, cartoon imagery of blood, cigars, cigarettes, discussion of struggling to transition, discussion of physical trauma. This AU is centred around a criminal organisation and by default involves mature themes.

Over hours, through a painstaking design process, I created an illustrated map detailing the relationships between frontal characters in my Simpsons alternate universe, The Good Ones. A lot of love and effort has been put into this, so I hope you guys like it! If there are any characters you'd like to see drawn, just let me know.

More info and close ups of icons beneath cut!

I know I always say this, but interactions, especially questions would mean SOSOSOSOSOSOSO much to me, as I've put so much thought into this and would LOVE to yap to interested people about it. I know art is done for oneself, but it feels really good to share my creations and hyperfixations with the Simpsons community :)

For every character, I drew a little icon and wrote a line of dialogue, in order to give some inside into their personality and traits in a concise way. A few further explanations and elaborations are given below!

Valentina 'Tits' Albertini Her icon is a visual pun, featuring two Great Tits drawn in the colours of the transgender flag.

Aside from Memphis, Valentina is the only other explicitly genderqueer character in the AU's focus (Lucy-Mae is heavily implied to fall under the nonbinary umbrella, but she never personally feels the need to explore it further, and is happy with identifying as female). Her former nickname was a play on how ballsy of a person she is within the mafia - though Cora is a wildcard, she makes very rash decisions: Valentina is both calculated and bold, and her current nickname is a crude (fittingly), but well-spirited adaptation introduced by Memphis. After coming out, she experiences backlash from Tony, who is concerned her late transition will impact the image of the mob. Memphis, being a trans man, asks him why Valentina is any different from himself, and in the heat of the moment, Tony exclaims that half the people in their own family have no idea that he's transgender, which leads to some tension between the two. Tits' main character arc revolves around her exploration of gender and gender expression, and the character that plays the biggest role in it is Tony's son, Michele (purposefully drawing parallels between Tony and Memphis' own relationship, and showing social change between generations).

Michele 'Softfoot Mikey' D'Amico His icon is a nod to his (in this AU) love of ballet, and how he uses it to his advantage in his role as an underboss.

Michele is a simple evolution on Tony's canon son, Michael D'Amico. In this AU, he's been aged up to 23, and instead of having an unconventional love for cooking, has an unconventional love for ballet dance. Most all of his other traits have been kept the same, however, aside from the obvious fact that he's more rational and mature than his in-canon counterpart. He's straight, but is portrayed as very effeminate - and comfortably so. Mikey really just is a girlboss who never fails to (sometimes literally) slay.

Cora 'Connie the Howler' Mezzasalma Her icon plays on her nickname, portraying a dog with some of her key characteristics, such as a matching necklace given to her by her adoptive brother, as well as a splatter of blood - presumably from one of her usual 'errors'. Her nickname refers to the colloquial term howler, meaning a laughable mistake.

Frankie's awkward adoptive sister of Greek origin, Cora was initially made with the sole purpose of providing a dynamic for Frankie, outside of his relationship with Johnny (which is still the primary relationship explored), but she really grew as a character. Initially I made the name 'Connie the Howler' on the fly as a sort of female version of 'Frankie the Squealer', but I ended up actually putting the effort in to rationalise it and bring it into her character. The result was an awesome little dynamic between two characters who were equally stupid, but in very different ways. She may be responsible for a number of incorrect hits, as well as a good few accidental deaths and injuries, but at the end of the day, she's a silly girl at heart who really synergises with her brother's anxious energy.

Maximus 'Legs' Legman & Luis 'Louie' Walters Both of their icons refer to an car accident the both of them got into, wherein Legs, ironically, suffered severe damage to his legs (resulting in the amputation of his left one), and Louie underwent significant cranial trauma.

The two do admittedly have a closer relationship because of the shared experience, though they both experience significant impacts. Notably, Louie develops Broca's aphasia (yes, I know the injury is on the wrong side, that's my bad), a form of non-fluent aphasia where one's quality of speech and grammatical structure is significantly diminished - even though the words are in your head, you cannot get them out, usually due to damage to the area of the brain responsible for the production of speech. Louie really struggles in the aftermath, and has a difficult time adapting to his disability. Thankfully, he's got his friend there to help him through it.

[fake-married-my-dead-fiance]

What we know so far:

One sided arrow of unrequited love Double sided arrow of requited love Dashed line of evil

[abuddyforeveryseason]

See this nerd crap? This is the Buddy for November 15th. It is a relationship map, which is probably the geekiest thing an artist can make in regards to their own work, but also one of the funnest.

I'm one of those guys who enjoys doing character descriptions, backstories, relationship maps, analyses, floorplans, clothing article lists, family trees and unnecessary details more than writing proper.

In fact, even though I read a lot (not as much as I did when I was young, admittedly) and even write myself, I don't enjoy the beauty and fluency of the prose as much as I do a workmanlike skill in describing an interesting story.

I understand these two things are actually not as segregated as I'm pretending they are, and that competent prose is usually what pushes the story into the reader's mind as opposed to being pretty for its own sake. But I still see it as a secondary element - like how in comics, the art is usually less important than the story, but some comics with bad art won't catch my eye even if the story's amazeballs.

On the other hand, I think there are some cases where these values are inverted - like with comedies. Nobody cares about the plot of a comedy. It's all about the jokes, and jokes are carefully constructed pieces of prose. Sure, it's a plus if the plot's good, but if the comedy can carry the story, I don't really care. (Of course there are exceptions to everything)

The reason relationship maps are fun to creators (and not much fun to everyone else) is that they're basically pure plot idea splashed onto the page. It's funny how stuff like worldbuilding has been turned into a game nowadays - we draw the maps, the charts, list the items and describe the characters. There's an app for writers called Campfire that's basically all about that.

Then again, I don't know how much use apps like that are to people who want to write for a living. Seems like a big distraction, in a way.

So today's Buddy's not just Buddy, but a flowchart explaining his relationship with several other people. But he's still there.

[alkanette]

Relationship Map update:

Ok so, we've played a couple more oneshots, we expanded the relationship map and add the main NPCs, then one of our friends run a couple of sessions of Mage the Ascension keeping the same setting, so we added that to.

Here's the new map:

The big red dots are all vampire PCs (or were at some point), the small ones are NPCs

The purple ones are the mages, we didnt make the size difference for them tho

White dots are the different groups (coteries, cabals, chantries, etc)

VTM Relationship map of the 2 chronicles and 3 one-shots we played in a continuos timeline, each one represented with a green circle. Shout outs to that one mage that allmost died 4 times

This is ONLY the playable characters, btw

Maybe we'll add portraits and other info later

[birdboishion]

[seriousaboutsiriusblack]

James: a guy should mess up your lipstick, not your mascara

Regulus: *wearing a bit of makeup* mess up my lipstick and people will watch your body get scooped from the black lake in the news

James: …

the rest of the marauders:

[blackbatcass]

guys i won’t lie to you. the potential next gen teen titans team that lives in my google docs is kind of crazy fucking insane

[illdothehotvoice]

too fucking easy.

[natsmagi]

i posted this on my twitter already BUT! the tumblr people should see too.

have u guys ever noticed how in the pleiades night outfits, only natsume and tsumugi have a pentagram on their designs? this is likely a reference to the Pentagram of Venus!

as 5 periods of Venus take eight years, it makes it so when viewed from earth, Venus is in the same position with respect not only to the sun, but also the stars 5 times! with its path creating a pentagram, its recognized as the Pentagram of Venus in astrology! only natsume and tsumugi have a reference to Venus, the planet of love!!

and for anyone confused, note how one circle is for venus and the other for earth, just like in their design!! venus also conjunctions with the pleiades yearly!!! its all connected!! its so cool!!!!

[annabelle--cane]

I simply don't know why the deh movie decided to take a source material that was fundamentally about the tragedy of what happens when children are failed by their parents and completely gut it by removing all the flaws from one set of parents while rendering the other major parental figure practically nonexistent in the narrative. bad creative choice!

[musubiki]

new tragic plot line by the way is both the to-be snake witch (older daughter) and the current snake witch (mother) die so it goes to the younger daughter who is too young to even traditionally be a witch but the mothers familiar deems it to be so

[aqui-yace-noia]

Alaevra did nothing wrong (they did)

VTM Relationship map of the 2 chronicles and 3 one-shots we played in a continuos timeline, each one represented with a green circle. Shout outs to that one mage that allmost died 4 times

This is ONLY the playable characters, btw

Maybe we'll add portraits and other info later

[fourthemarauders]

Remus:"bisexuality means you can love two things. I have chosen books -"

Sirius:"And me?"

Remus:"and cats"

Sirius:"Meow, I guess"

[lordgeneralsix]

samuel is one of the best characters in kcd2. btw. like top 3.