In a world menaced by an invasive insectoid species, the best bet to stop the encroaching Hivelands from turning the Overside into a barren wasteland is a group of horny weirdos. Ain't that just the way.
ORIGINAL TEXT: Okay, some background.
For some time now, I've been working on a new original work. Borne of me realizing that I had a lot of adopted characters sitting around that I wasn't doing anything with and a desire to make Hornier Art, I started workshopping a fantasy story using these adopted OCs. What started out as "excuse plot to facilitate a bunch of fantasy sex and violence" eventually spiraled, as it often does with me, into backstories, worldbuilding, character arcs, narrative themes, etc etc you get the point.
While I do want to work on a larger piece that tells a grander story, I've started by writing some short 4 to 8 page scenes intended to introduce characters, concepts, and just establish the world's status quo. I've been posting these pieces over on my Bluesky along with writer commentary discussing what each piece is meant to explore or accomplish, what the process of creating each one was like, and challenges faced in constructing the events in the scene.
Below the cut I'll be linking all the scenes I've written so far, plus brief introductions to the characters. I'll keep this list updated as I write more and will also include links to the commentary thread on Bluesky for each one that has one.
The current scenes, in order of completion:
Blood Pumping (Writer Commentary)
A Failure of Negotiations (Writer Commentary)
Matters of the Heart (Writer Commentary)
Familiar Skies (Writer Commentary)
Blood of the Covenant (Writer Commentary)
Unorthodox Applications (Writer Commentary)
Torture Interrupted (Writer Commentary)
Sins Unforgiven (Writer Commentary)
To Stalk a Dragon (Writer Commentary)
The Long Walk Home (Writer Commentary)
A Favor to You (Writer Commentary)
First Meetings (Writer Commentary)
Void-Like Dark, Darkless Void (Writer Commentary)
The Right Fools for the Job (Writer Commentary)
The Fifth Wheel (Writer Commentary)
Frenzied Forest Fracas (Writer Commentary)
A Shift in the Shadows (Writer Commentary)
Your New Old Friend (Writer Commentary)
The Melancholy of Xora Kordov (Writer Commentary)
Once More, With Feeling (Writer Commentary)
Hive Sweet Hive (Writer Commentary)
The Endpoint of Desire (Writer Commentary)
Our cast of weirdos:
Tira Masca, axe-wielding horsekin. Somewhat prone to injury and, on occasion, death. Seems weirdly fine with it. Original design adopted from @cosmindart.
Zadak Vintasal, haughty elemental mage dragonkin. Doesn't like it when you call his brat routine a "brat routine," but also possible that's part of the bit. Original design adopted from @cosmindart.
Avalon Loch, pugilist shadowkin. Hailing from the Underside, has impressive physical capabilities but lacks confidence in himself. Original design adopted from @cosmindart.
Xora Kordov, healer dragonkin. Prodigy in healing and resurrective magics, mostly due to the questionably ethical experiments she's performed in the past. Original design adopted from @sugaryrainbow.
Illustration by @witchzilla
Character art by @ginnungagay.
Im agnostic raised liberal protestant, but absolutely the catholics got saints right. Sometimes your problem is so fucking specific you need Some Guy. If you're listening, Guy of Workers Who Have Strain Injuries,
We've seen what COULD have happened, now it's time for... well, what also COULD have happened. We run for another ending in Star Fox Command on the Sharkstream, hope to see you there!
northernlion was reading out a sweet note his daughter wrote him in kindergarten that said "i know my dad loves me because he's my favorite person and i'm his favorite person" and someone commented "circular reasoning"
Sometimes having an OC is like "this character is an outlet for my insecurity and trauma" and sometimes it's like "this character is an outlet for my love of vampires :)". Sometimes it's both
Sometimes you think it's "this character is an outlet for my love and nothing more :)" and then you look it over later like "shit. product of the deepest depths of my soul again"
We've seen what COULD have happened, now it's time for... well, what also COULD have happened. We run for another ending in Star Fox Command on the Sharkstream, hope to see you there!
