#woag this took a while

[oyasuminto]

tell us a little more about argus's kids?

>:)

ATTICUS KASPER SULLIVAN

The oldest Sullivan sibling and the one with the worst relationship with his father. Atticus is aggressive, abrasive, and highly adverse to romance in any form. He is constantly doing whatever he can to piss off his father, ranging from wearing pink to being part of various affairs.

MOLLY BLOSSOM SULLIVAN

The worst case of "oldest daughter syndrome" that you may ever see. Molly is much more reserved than her brother, but is suffering an identity crisis as to how much of her personality is real and how much was built up to keep her father happy.

CARRIE KRYSTAL SULLIVAN

A rebel to her very core. Carrie is always fighting against The Man, (The Man being her father, but also capitalism). She is everything her father hates; an independent woman who sees no reason to seek male approval. Carrie's a complete mommy's girl, as she reminds Cherie of herself before she met Argus.

REBECCA AYALA SULLIVAN

In contrast to Carrie, Rebecca is a total daddy's girl. She may not like the way Pa treats Mama, but she's sure he's not evil, he loves his family, he always says he does. She is, however, annoyed at how Argus treats her like she's made of glass. Rebecca can do things for herself! She's not a little kid!

WILLIAM LEONARD SULLIVAN & WENDY HOPE SULLIVAN

The twins, and the most obviously autistic kids you will ever meet. William rarely talks and is more than happy to sit in a corner and play with the wooden toys his father made. Wendy talks enough for both of them and has a long history of biting people as a way of showing love. They love their papa! He's so funny when he and Atticus get into their dumb little fights!

[swordmaid]

.🍂

[wizardnuke]

whoever told me that abjuration wizards suck were lying to my faceeee see this subclass is so cool. i guess if someone likes playing glass cannon wizards it's a shit class but this girl i've got is. well she is tormenting my dm is what she's doing. good class

[dracotheocracy]

i don’t actually know the names of any of your ocs but i’d love to know about your little guys… so for that oc ask game maybe pick whoever you wanna talk about for 🌋 (volcano) and/or 🙈 (see no evil)?

thank you for the ask!! o7 i think i'll talk about more than one annnd i'll link to their art if i've posted it online <- churns out a lot more art than he posts on tumblr

VOLCANO - how bad is their temper? is it a slow boil, or a instant explosion?

erebos - it's impossible to tell when he's angry unless he's downright furious because he's very good at camouflaging it under 60 layers of reservation and cordiality. even at his angriest it looks more like a simmer- the equivalent of an explosion for erebos is a rude/sour comment that immediately poisons the vibe, but if it gets to that point it means there has been a severe and continuous lapse in judgement on someone else's part because he's quick to annoy but slow to anger and slower to enrage

avarice (the one with the red hair) - she has a pretty short temper with some things and an infinite well of patience with other things. with the things that piss her off instantly she's more than happy to make her frustration known, it's not an earth-shattering explosion but she'll be very clearly upset with the catalyst of her anger for half an hour or so and if that's a person and they can't handle her grievances with grace she'll get even more upset (for what it's worth, other peoples' tempers are one of those things she has an infinite well of patience for, she gets more upset because it's something she can take just fine)

SEE-NO-EVIL - whats a side of your oc that they don't want to show other people?

grayson - you could not waterboard this guy into naming a single one of his hobbies. he very much doesn't want people knowing he has a life outside of piloting a big murder robot which is sad for him because honestly the big murder robot is the least endearing thing about him as a person

nestor - he is in fact a goofy, self-assured, somewhat irresponsible guy who sees the world for what it could be as opposed to what it is, but there's a darker edge to it that he'll go out of his way to conceal. he turns into a ruthless pragmatist when a situation pushes enough of the wrong buttons and is willing to commit atrocities to create a world that lives up to his expectations. if his ambitions come at the price of honesty he's ok with that but that's not really good PR is it

[jetstargf]

starting to think foundations on a loop for three days is not good for me? i will keep u posted

[darkclouud9]

no red hood so I have to make changes but heehee Pearlie cosplay (kinda)

also I got a fish pen and I was like, damn that'd actually go really well with Pearl bc of the fish she refused to pick up because of her task 🥰

[1-800-deactivatednearu]

woag character design notes

[i.d.: a drawn line up of the half life vr ai characters, from left to right, gordon, dr. coomer, tommy, bubby, gman, and benrey. /end i.d.]

yeah i skipped some guys , i dont draw some of them enough to have much unique designs and some of them are a png of a dog

trust me i am just surprised as the rest of yall that i am doing hlvrai art . design notes below (very long, mind your step)

gordon:

wow this guy dont got no head

i didnt want to give gordon a face because of how unexact the person is as the fandom engages with it. is it wayne rtvs? (well as presented to an audience, yes) is it gordon freeman? (well as seen from an in game perspective, yes) is it a whole new guy entirely? (well as

i cut the confusion and took it a whole new direction: guillotine

hlvrai being treated as a very broken game is fun to me as a design perspective, so if you (the audience) are not supposed to see his face, what happens when you see it anyways? missing texture time

there are eyes drawn over because i did not have confidence in my expressions at first and then it grew on me

i think if i were to draw (and i have drawn) an actual person under the mask i would still censor the eyes because that is where the vr headset sits!!

(i do not like putting an actual flesh to gordon though)

though i really like seeing how other people interpret gordon hlvrai it is not . my gordon ? we are talking about the same guy . but this is my gordo . i made this one . this guy my guy . maybe i should draw other gordon designs

i can draw the hev suit from memory and it is also the entire reason why i can render metal confidently

i liked how people changed the lambda to read ai :] i also have no clue if i wrote the lambda correctly

(i did, i just checked)

dr coomer:

as much as i draw/drew him i find it more fun to not stick to one set design :)

so a lot of my takes on dr coomer tend to jump from idea to idea, especially from what other people are doing, though they could be fitted to the left and right designs!

the left design is mainly based off what i saw in fandom spaces

we see rounder shapes, making for a more friendly and welcoming appearance

i think of this as straying from the more professional uniform of the actual scientist models

enter swimming shorts and bright yellow socks, for some reason

so now he kind of looks like a cool science teacher :)

it might be the lab coat

the right design is mainly based off thumbnails for hlvrai itself

these use a more angular appearance

i want to push how comically buff he is because of strength he shows at times, especially since his left design seems to completely down play it as a comically not buff man who is still very strong

the shadows on right design coomer get so much more harsh and exaggerated because i have comic books on the mind :)

he really does look like a dehydrated comic book character huh

tommy:

stick bug (he gets it from his dad) (this thought process is explained at gman section)

i pushed a lot of the saturation of colours in her design because i think tommy gets to be a little silly with it

fun art story of the day! when you color, try messing with hue! you might notice you can get away with a lot as long as your values are about right

i like pushing this with white because you can get away with a lot of things reading as “off white”

old faithful for me is cool shadows with a warm transition colour to keep things visually interesting

i keep making white objects the trans flag

happy pride

tommys design looks a little like a school boy, with the tucked in button up shirt+suspenders+shorts+jacket tied around the waist . and the primary colours . but like it is really fun to dress up so brightly

i actually was strongly inspired by medieval babies if that is a weird descriptor? i wanted him to both be a middle aged man but also a young adult

do not be like tommy, who has their finger on the trigger of the gun while not even looking at where it is pointing and good god he is squeezing the trigger . top ten firearm safety of all time

bubby:

the absurd part is that i think bubby is tall . he is just between tommy and gman who are exaggeratedly lanky .

i wanted to make bubby a pointy kinda guy, so he is the only one actually wearing the lab coat proper . and the only one actually wearing dress socks but not even wearing dress shoes

i wanted to give him a novelty tie but i was running low on ideas and running high on boreds so we dont get a tie

he does have crocs though!! in attack mode!!

i do think we all kind of saw his model and collectively decided it works for him because i have honestly not seen major divergences from his model?

gman:

stick bug

i wanted to stress the more spooky and unknowable nature of him and took it in the dark souls direction of “make bigger than player character”

maked too bigger

he cannot walk through any doorways but you will have to crane your neck to look up at him

in the opposite direction of tommy, i pulled a lot of the saturation in gmans design

it feels important to make them both not fully match the rest of the slightly less broken npcs because there was so much work to make them look cool so i have to respect that

actually a lot of gmans and tommys designs are made in opposite to one another

gman has a largely stationary face and very stiff line work

while tommy is pushed to expressive as possible

thats pretty fun, way to go me

benrey:

benrey also has two designs

and in both of these i keep getting too lazy to use a reference so  the vests are super plain (forgetting the badge and black mesa logo) . i think the helmet is supposed to be darker actually .

the design ethos of benrey was “built like a brick shithouse”

a friend of mine took this cooler and interpreted it as a shield/wall/barrier as a physical (and narrative) obstacle

again the first uses fandom designs

most notably the overcast shadow (seen in video thumbnails but i never noticed it or understood why so many people did it until someone pointed it out to me)

i think hlvrai is such a great medium because it acknowledges it is a game and is able to play into that to great effect! i think the shadow is fun to imagine as solid black as a small reminder of the impossibility of the space :]

benrey is a smug cat in the body of a human . to be honest . and this is the full range of emotion i have ever drawn him with

the second was mostly because as fun as taking creative liberties are, i just really wanted to see benrey as is: the half life security guard model in all its slight wonk :]

i actually do prefer this design . it is a little more uncanny because i choose the worst translations of the model . i like it because it is a little more uncanny !

that can be said for like . every single design in this line up huh .

[kakyogay]

hunter and their scary girlfriend thought of a way to expand on my arti lore

(technically in br au since that's my main fix it au)

oooooo if I had the motivation you'd get such a feast but nooo nooo that's too much for my little baby brain anyways I'll just bs my way through an explanation because I find it really neat

so after artificer finally left the collapsed blorbot's side, she went out to explore what she could have missed (and to just escape the cold she don't like it). She comes across a weird looking dog (unter) and gets in a fight because suspicious individual grrr who are you I miss my robot kid angry sad face. They both proved to be great fighters but artificer eventually wins because woag so strong and fast (cancer slug is looking respectfully). before things could escalate, a couple of pups interrupt the fight in hopes to "not lose another friend to scavengers". plot twist the pups are her kids and the suspicious slugcar found and took care of both while she was far away. the pups do recognize her and emotions and reluctant co parenting with the (actually no longer) rot infected slrug because the pups love having two (gay???) moms :D.

mmmm I got big stuff planned for the connection to br au so I'll save that for another time :]

[lokh]

woag guess who is updating their artfight 💪 i wanted to have a go imitating the art style and i think it turned out pretty good!!

text in image reproduced under the cut with additional info

image text id: agustín "asuka" guerrero y mercado. 19. he/him.

what the hell is a breathing style

not even an actual slayer???

fights primarily with his bolo knife - sword is just for decapitation

haori belonged to deceased relatives

rips his jacket open when fighting because he thinks the cross shocks the demons. this is not why this technique works

took the opportunity to start presenting male when he fled to japan

family passed down stories of demons but didn't really believe them

♪ dragula - rob zombie

end image text id.

His Japanese ancestors fled to the Philippines to escape Christian persecution. Now, as the US colonises the Philippines, Asuka is encouraged to escape to Japan. He finds his relatives only as they are being killed by a demon, and the slayer fighting the demon is at death's door. While he is able to defeat the demon, he is unable to save the slayer. He dons their uniform and their sword and sets out to find out more about demons and how to kill them. Has absolutely no idea what the Corps are and will eventually get in trouble for 'impersonation', but until then will go on his merry way slicing and dicing.

i like to think maybe hes made to Actually go thru final selection once people figure out that hes not actually a slayer and like. obviously he gets thru it. gets his own sword (old one goes back to the family of the deceased slayer) but still fights mainly with the bolo. will he ever learn a breathing style??? who knows.......

hes kind of dumb. not really the most empathetic or sensitive but he means well

[chewtoyfrank]

@pisshandkerchief

Holy fuckkk. I. Fuck. Yeah. Yeah. Fuck.

Okay so. Favorites are probably, in order: Bang The Doldrums, I've Got All This Ringing In My Ears, This Ain't A Scene, The (After) Life Of The Party, and Hum Hallelujah.

I feel unwell.

Below are the notes I took while listening to each song 2 or 3 times. View at your own risk.

Thriller

Holy shittttt what the fuck

Starting off fucking intense

Oh

Holy shit

Ily vocals

Well. Uh Oh.

"The Take Over, The Breaks Over"

Ooooooo woah

Vibey

Broooooooo the chorus fuckss

Oh shitt

Shittt the guitarr

SHITTT the drumss

This Ain't A Scene, It's An Arms Race

Woah

Woahhhh

Bro???

That little guitar bit. fuck

The likee buzzy lil emphasis on God Damn is soooo tingly holy shittttt

Fuck. Okay. Yeah. Okay.

I'm Like A Lawyer With The Way I'm Always Trying To Get You Off

Vocals ilyyyy. Pretty

Yeah

Hum Hallelujah

That bass fucks

Someone who knows someone who knows-

The chorus is so prettyyy

The pronunciation makes brain go brrrrrr

Crunchy ass ending

Golden

Mmmmm piano

Godd i love fucking backing vocals

Oh???? Pretty???

OH SHIT

OH SHITT

Fuck. Yeah okay

Thnks Fr Th Mmrs

Oh shit it's this song i know this one! Kind of

Very dramatic

Oooo clickity clackity

OOOOH THAT GUITAR

Don't You Know Who I Think I Am?

👏👏👏

Epic gamer moment!

I need to take vocal lessons. blease

Sexy ending

The (After) Life Of The Party

Oooooooobh prettyyyy

Damnn

Thw change into the fucking drums and to the next verse good shit

God DAMN the fucking VOCALS

Fuckkkkkkkkkkkk

This Slaps

GOT DAM THAT FUCKING fuckin uhhhh the last 'loose' fuck man

fuck.

The Carpal Tunnel Of Love

Sexy guitar

The drums fuckingg. Dun dun. Dun dun. 👍

More sexy guitarrrr

Vocals

Woag bridge what the fuck

God damn girl.

VOCALS

Bang The Doldrums

I LIKE? SEXY RHYTHM

Ooooo HELL YEAH Guitar!

Oh shitt

Oh Shittttttt it's fuckin bang the doldrums

I don't know it but I've heard about it so that means its popular right

Girl. Girl help.

Uh oh. Autism

This fucks so hard

It's giving uhhhhh piratey? Idk but I like it

Goddamn. Yeah. Yeah.

Fame < Infamy

Sexy guitar, chef's kiss

Haven't deciphered the lyrics but I'm feeling some type of way abt them

More guitar yummm

👍

You're Crashing, But You're No Wave

SEXYY GUITAR

This fucks

Oh shitt the fucking silence after hushed fuckk

👍👍

Woahh damn the choiral part, shit

I've Got All This Ringing In My Ears And None On My Fingers

Oooooooo

Shittt

The truth hurts worse part is so brain tingly fucking chills fuck

Fuckk

Ooooooooo

OOOOOOHHHHHHH

FUCKK, MAJOR AUTISM SLAY

💞💞💞

God Damn. Fuck. Shit

G.I.N.A.S.F.S.

Ooooooh cunty ass intro

Oh shit this slays

CUNTY ASS GUITAR HELL YEAH

Love the energy this fucks

She's so mysterious. What does she stand for

It's Hard To Say "I Do", When I Don't

Oooooooo

Damnnnn hella lyrics

Ooooooo that buildup Yessss

The ending that fucks

Dance, Dance - Live

Ily drumsss

ILY BASS

Believe it or not. Ily vocals

Good shitt

This Ain't A Scene, It's An Arms Race - Live

STILL FUCKS.

Fucks more i think actually

Extra cuntyyy i love it. ILY LIVE VOCALS

Autism hungry feed it fob

Fuckkkk this SLAYS

Thriller - Live

CRUNCHYYYYYY

pretty

Crunchy AND Pretty. Impeccable.

FUCKING CRUNCHYY

pretty again. shes versatile

Slayyy

I want to gnaw on this song like a dog bone

[asherasgayagenda]

oopsie link click angst thoughts hit me. my apologies for the rest of this ask 🙏

do you ever think about a potential ending where lu guang is dead and cheng xiaoshi goes through all the photos they have together just to feel like he's not gone. to spend just a few more moments together. but each photo can only be entered once and eventually there's none left and he has to accept that lu guang is Gone.

or what if they never had any photos together. what if that was an unspoken rule between them. so when lu guang is gone cheng xiaoshi can do nothing.

and they had bunkbeds. it's always strange losing someone when you're so used to having them sleeping in the same room as you. everything feels quiet. too empty. too big of a space for just cheng xiaoshi and qiao ling.

apologizing in advance bc im no fandom theorist i just kinda go woag. feelings

thats like. chefs kiss angst level. cause I think cxs would obviously try to preserve the memories that he has and gain more in the remaining ones, if any, that he has. that kind of ties to a paradox theory—what if cheng xiaoshi took photos in the photo and then preserved them? and then jumped back in time [in a photo in a photo]—would that work? I keep thinking about that one lc comic I saw a while ago that begins with shiguang having a normal day, and lg is oblivious to the odd way cxs is acting.. and his golden eyes. yet he's not really There he's only catching glimpses of his memory and even that is a ticking clock. I think he'd be gripped by that fear and desperation, knowing that he's selfishly using up whatever he has left just for one more moment of peace? calmness? normalcy? with the one that he feels connected to. but I think it'd be character of cheng xiaoshi to fight with whatever he has, tooth and nail, whatever it takes to bring lu guang back to him. disregard lg's rules because he just cannot accept that he's beyong the realm of saving.

I think they would have a few photos since cheng xiaoshi has (canonically? atleast in the shorts... but that's not exactly canon) taken photos of lg before but. I like the way you think. imagining cxs absolutely hopeless., knowing that nothing he can do in the present world can change the fate of lu guang's death. ough. because it's always worst when theres nothing to do. there's nothing more hopeless than knowing a definite fact and having the knowledge that there was AND IS nothing that could alter it. maybe he could convince himself that "it's for the better" if he acted (no matter how rashly) on the small glimmer of hope to restoring lu guang, to restore his memory, to restore the person that he knew. maybe, he could tell himself enough times that lu guang isn't completely gone, there was still some way to capture the "lu guang" he knew, and then do something about it. but all he can do it to settle with his own futile memories , that crack as time goes on.

your last line holy shit that was poetic as hell. thinking about that... how cheng xiaoshi would need to get himself used to the way that it used to be Before Lu Guang. and finding himself absolutely unused to dealing with a silence beside him. because there's a blankness where the 'silence' used to be, you know? it might've been fine with ql in the past, but then again, there's something missing that even his childhood friend can't fill.

[uglygirlstatus]

15, 17, 18, 27

15. Is there any new style/technique/medium you want to explore next year?

Art dolls. I need to make a Cheryl Blossom art doll. I have to.

17. What piece took the longest to create?

I believe it was this commission of a tlt x halo crossover moment. I have never played halo nor drawn mech before so it was an interactive learning experience. shout out to the commissioner for their unending patience

18. What work of yours do you go back and admire again the most?

ok to be honest I don’t go back and look at my own art that much (besides rereading daily comics in my notebooks), I tend to be more obsessed with going back and watching my own videos and/or edits. In 2022’s case that would be my Will Wood Teru edit and my Light Yagami I’m a Bitch edit

27. Biggest surprise while creating art this year?

sounds so stupid but I had one of my annual “woag using references really DOES help me draw!” moments a couple months ago

[partypoobindahouse2nite]

I’m doing okay, just trying to teach my demon boyfriend (@pestxhazbinhotel-alastor (whoops! Ping em)) how to use tumblr..(ooc// explaining this, it’s a lore we agreed on, we aren’t dating irl.)

Woag that sounds fun!

It tooks me a while to figure out how to use it but I bets u can teach 'em and theyll learn in no time!!!

[stuffedsand]

Woag....hornet.../pos

Also thank you!!!!!!!!! Took me a while evening to design that haha

[cassioppenny]

okay milesverse lore post but for the siblings uh yay

red green and silver

okay they're kinda weird. red and silver are half brothers (same dad) and green is red from an au that got eebied into the main timeline as a little kid (fun fact her name in the timeline she came from was leaf but she renamed herself green because 1) she forgor and 2) she wanted to match red and blue). green was adopted by red's mom after she fell anyway so uh yeah.

green learns that she's a faller a little bit after rgby after red went missing but doesn't learn she is literally red from a different timeline until rainbow rocket. yes she is the red of rr giovanni's timeline.

silver learned that red took down team rocket and immediately went "woag this guy is so strong and took down my shitty dad so i need him to mentor me so i can also get strong." but then red disappeared and silver immediately assumed that team rocket kidnapped him or something. red is actually peeping the horrors on mount silver instead but no one knows that

so during gsc he impersonates red (keep in mind they don't know they're related at this point) and steals totodile. he goes around beating the shit out of random team rocket members and getting annoyed by ethan, lyra, and kris (mostly ethan) who keep accidentally running into him. ethan immediately learns that silver isn't red because 1) silver dropped his trainer id and 2) ethan is huge gigantic red super fan who's dream is to become so strong that he surpasses him in strength so of course he recognizes silver looks nothing like red

post gsc ethan, silver, and blue (who has been helping against team rocket under the alias "gary" and wearing his pokespe cape during gsc along with lance i guess he was there too) go to kanto to look for red together. they also go through the celebi event and silver beats up his dad but that's besides the point.

when they're pallet town they meet green. silver and green become besties. do they know reaction image. also blue and green hate eachother because of the whole red missing thing but that's off topic.

anyway they eventually find red. awkward family reunion. yippee. im talking way too much about them moving on

hilda and nate

ceos of ignoring the plot. hilda and nate used to live near hilbert cheren and bianca but moved away to nimbasa before the events of b1w1. hilda is a pretty minor character in b1w1 honestly she's just grinding the battle subway.

her little brother nate though actually travels with rosa and hugh. admittedly it's just so he can train up a team so he can also grind on the battle subway but he's having fun. while rosa and hugh have team plasma related angst he's just kinda chilling the background eating popcorn with his oshawott. he's just a silly guy. he looks up to his big sister a lot

selene and elio

both of them act as the protagonists in sm and are twins. selene does most of the story stuff while elio focuses on the island challenge. basically selene gets to be gay with girlfriend lillie while elio fights for his life against the beasts. elio is the serious one while selene is the silly one.

there's a gag where selene's pikachu (off topic but every protag except lucas and elio has a pikachu on their team) keeps stealing elio's hat which always annoys him. elio eventually gets a mimikyu which pops out to fight pikachu whenever that happens

gloria and victor

they fucking hate eachother. victor (the older one) thinks gloria is annoying and egotistical while gloria thinks victor is a loser and failure. victor went on the gym challenge before gloria and gave up before kabu. gloria started to resent him for giving up and started to call leon her real older brother because of how much of a loser she thinks victor is.

victor just wants to go to culinary school but once gloria gets her sobble and gets ready to go on her journey their mom forces victor to go with them. he basically becomes the brock of the group but if brock was the biggest hater ever.

[neosatsuma]

Thanks for the tag, @nijinskys, and sorry it took so long to do askjgnJFGB merry christmas...

3 ships: oh man. so something about me is that I don't really "ship" "things" but. Mulder/Scully, Jack/Sam (Stargate SG-1), and PERCY/VEX FROM CRITICAL ROLE. THIS IS MY FIRST AND ONLY TIME UNDERSTANDING WHAT Y'ALL ARE ON ABOUT WITH THIS "SHIPPING" BUSINESS okay I'm normal

First ever ship: I guess Jack/Sam because while I didn't feel strongly deranged about it, I was like 12

Last song: strangely enough, Choked Out by The Mountain Goats yes this means the last time I listened to a song was two weeks ago when you personally sent one to me don't @me

Last movie: A Muppet Christmas Carol (yeah, on Christmas)

Currently reading: I just finished Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk!

Currently watching: Avenue 5, which is perhaps the only comedy on earth that I have ever found funny. woag

Currently consuming: just had cinnamon toast :) and flashbacks to deviantart profiles in 2009 LMAO

Currently craving: Safeway bagels :sob: I've had like 6 dreams that we have them and I keep waking up and we don't....

tagging @septemberskye, @somfte-on-main-and-mizzen, and @teesbees if y'all feel like it!