#sparklecare meta

[carruni]

quality control re:stylization in sparklecare got way more intense since v2 (some pages are, i am so sorry to say, straight up bad) so v3 and v4 are way sleeker and more consistent. what this means is you can't tell at a glance who's done which page. we're all trying to make it look seamlessly like kittycorns art

BUT. as you guys may know. things like unis eye blood aren't present in sketches. it's something the inkers colorists get to just sorta eyeball. that's the modern era of where you can identify different clowns stylizations

from pages 6 and 7 respectively

there are other small examples of style variations too. again usually things not present in the sketch, like gown spots and sometimes markings and stuff. it could be as minuscule as pen pressure. just some interesting details to look out for!

[vampycat237]

I love your art style, it's so cute! Can you tell us anything about Becca Cake? They have such an interesting design, and I'd love to know more about them-- especially how it got its vampire form!

thank you!! the becca cake art is my attempt to mimic the sparklecare style actually - though i appreciate the compliment regardless!!

I'm so glad you like their design! I have a bunch of variants on Starr (Becca is one of them) because they're one of my main sonas and i love their design so much haha!

oh boy now for the Lore Dive (tm), ill put this under a cut because it is LONG

So, Becca's story isn't extremely fleshed out at the moment, but the gist of it is that they were living a pretty normal life, probably attending college (not sure what they are studying, i have a few ideas but haven't settled on any!) and one of their friends invites them to this party. Not 100% on the details but somebody they don't know at the party turns them into a vampire (unwillingly). (this is what the "worst party ever" bit on their ref is about!)

They then have to deal with, well, Being A Vampire. Becca doesn't want to hurt anybody, and feels generally Awful about the whole vampire situation.

I think maybe they would start like, trying to go to doctors or something, looking for a way to reverse what has happened, but if they do, any doctors they see flat out don't believe them. (something along the vein of "vampires aren't real, it seems like you're just really sensitive to food", "you being attacked has nothing to do with your symptoms", "did you look this up on boogle or something?" general dismissiveness :( ) That, or they don't get a chance to visit other doctors before things start getting bad.

(disordered eating cw below? maybe? i don't know? it's not meant to reference eating disorders but it could be read that way potentially and i don't really want to risk making folks uncomfortable by Not tagging it? okay anyway)

Normal food is just not cutting it - and is frankly uncomfortable to eat now that their body is designed to digest blood (how? magic i guess?? idk vampirism being contagious has never made sense to me but it's Interesting) - and once the thirst is unbearable they start lashing out, brand new vampire instincts taking over and causing them to try to feed on the nearest anthry they can find. This uh. Does not go well in public. Unsure if the police get called first or Sparklecare, but either way they end up at the hospital and well... it doesn't help at all of course.

(end disordered eating cw)

Whether or not Sparklecare believes Becca being a vampire or not, i doubt they would be all that willing to provide blood for them to drink hgslkdjf. and i'd think they probably are roomed alone at least initially, though this depends on whether one of my friend's OCs arrives before or after Becca - some friends and i have a shared fanon(?) and those two are supposed to be roommates.

they pretty much just isolate themself to the best of their ability until they uh, establish a regular blood source. At that point they probably feel comfortable enough to actually socialize with other patients, maybe even make a few friends...

though then my friend's OC's arc kicks in and things get screwed up again lmao. but that's it! that's what i have for Becca so far! hope you enjoyed it!

Also not lore related but thought I'd mention while I'm here, Becca's design also has lots of meta ties to other versions of Starr - there's a good handful of alternate Starr versions now haha. the concept of a starr version being a vampire comes from vampire!Starr, pretty self explanatory. their more pastel colors in the "before it all went wrong" and "worst party ever" palettes come from Starr's feral/warriors form Strawberry, and the idea of their wings being brown and blue come from a doodle i did of Starr as a bat once lol (vampire!Starr's wings are dark brown). Also, the premise of their character arc is pretty similar to a human/vampire version of Starr I cooked up for a dnd campaign one of my friends runs, though the execution is different.