Here's Paschal's (green tea); a very sassy little mer who grew up above a bar with mom. Flirts way too much. So, so stupid. Statticky, uncooperative magic. Lots of self loathing and even more overcompensation sarcasm to cover it up. Poor child.
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One under-appreciated breed of fic writer are the ones who hyperfocus on logistics to the exclusion of all canon shortcuts, and thus usually strike upon an awesome way to flesh out the worldbuilding or characters.
Like, I’m not necessarily talking realism here since often it’s still pretty far from realistic, but more like, “someone has to be running spies in this fantasy kingdom, and we’ve seen the whole royal court, so which background character is it? How does that change these three major interactions?” Or “real life historical nobility did in fact have some things to do that were like jobs, how does this human disaster cope with running an estate?” Or “there’s no reason for a sci-fi robot detective to know how to whitewater kayak, where’d she learn?” Or “if this guy is serving the emperor directly he has to be way high up in the space empire servant hierarchy, why is he doing this menial task for someone else? What’s his motive? Does he perhaps have the secret space telepathy?”
Anyway I’m always DELIGHTED to find a fic or writer who asks these questions because the fics themselves are universally bangers.
underappreciated Nico detail that I like - he seems to be an angry crier! very frequently he's angry when he cries and he cries when he's extremely angry. very AuDHD of him. emotional regulation sucks my guy and he's just going through it.
every time gricko semi-mockingly imitates kremy by going 'and then kremy'll be like 'waddadoo waddadoo fellas etc.', years get added to my lifespan and my skin clears
WAIT STOP I JUST WANTED TO PINCH YANQING’S CHEEK I WASNT EXPECTING SAD DIALOGUE AND THE TRAILBLAZER TO TALK-
^^ aww yanqing’s sad expression… but poor express crew rly must be traumatized huh… first tingyun then mischa…
but yanqing’s line when you click the second option is so cute! the fact that it’s jing yuan worrying about his height and not yanqing himself im melting
i've had a rough time trying to get my creative juices flowing since the hurricane because things just Kept Happening, but i thought it would be a fun little brain teaser to touch up and repaint this old LPS cat that's had its white parts scuffed for probably 15 years at this point. now it's finally presentable again!
the collar was also solid hot pink; i added the silver details and that black wash for the 3D weathered look.
side-by-side vs the factory paint:
(photos on the right are courtesy of 3 separate ebay listings)