An olba blog in the year of our lord 2026? Hellll yeah. Love the way you draw Lee and Derek (and Cove and Liz and Bax and everyone on the cast apparently)
thank you! 🤣🫶 man it rly is midway through 2026.. i get kind of existential whenever i think abt how long i've been at this (ship brainrot) lmfao
I love love looove maggie omg;;; your style is delicious and she's such a ray of sunshine
my own mc for baxter isn't completely fleshed out yet, but I adore this sort of moon/sun dynamic of him with someone stylish in a much more colorful and bright way
😭🫶 i'm always charmed to hear that, thank you for the sweet message!! honestly i think the way baxter's vibe is almost unilaterally ~Dark and Mysterious~ but his story leaves so much thematic space for like.. idk brightness and warmth is a fascinating choice 🤣 rly helps to make their combo feel like a little more than the sum of their aesthetics LOL
Hi there! I hope you dont mind me asking but how did you make Maggie? Or more specifically, what were the criterias or ways you were able to make Maggie the way she is? Your art and just Maggie in general have got me so invested in your blog. Like i love how Maggie and Baxter interacts and just how just bright she is (if that makes sense). The way you depict her and how she acts and the level of depth she has is interesting. Something i wish to have for my own OL MCs bc i have been going through some blocks.
Do you have any suggestions or tips? I do apologize if im bothering you with something like this 😅
Either way, hope you have a good day/night!
i’m incredibly flattered you think so, thank you for the kind words 😭🫶 you’re no bother at all! idk how helpful i'll be, but hopefully you find something of value here 🤣 obligatory disclaimer that this is just the pov of one oc haver, i claim no special authority over the subject LOL
it sounds like you're asking how i landed on her energy, and tbh that might just be a matter of writing preference and style (mine could be described as 'trying not to take it overly seriously') 🤣 it's smth you'll naturally develop as you refine your taste, take inspiration from media, and figure out what aspects of your character (/writing) you want to convey, but i know that's a very 'draw the rest of the owl' non-answer LOL
otherwise, knowing who your character is in broad strokes And what you're trying to say through them is the only way i've been able to make my characters' behavior feel intentional to their character writing 👴 in this case, maggie was the product of a couple character tropes (the popular queen bee, the dumb blonde/beach bimbo, the california 🎶 girl) that i liked and had Opinions abt and wanted to iterate in a certain way, so i had a good idea of who she was, how she'd act, and the general direction of her story from the start. and when i say 'iterate a certain way', i mean that me wanting to see a specific down-to-earth interiority from That Girl, without disavowing the superficial qualities of those tropes, informed everything from her emotional profile to how she would occupy the role of 'an mc of a romantic sol vn' 🤣
my sensibilities regarding what 'down-to-earth' looked like within an idyllic but largely frictionless story like olba's meant that maggie often acted beyond its status quo, and ymmv on this, but i think you Should reject some of what the game asserts abt mc in the process of writing your character 🤔 editing bc i probably wasn't making much sense, i think it's important to keep in mind that olba's intended experience means the default mc is 'a player avatar' first and foremost and 'a character' in function only. bc the game can't assume intent behind its player’s choices but still needs to give 'the mc' some diegetic presence in the text, it just leaves a cardboard cutout in the space where a cohesive narrative arc/distinct individual would go lol - i consider all its mc-related dialogue or flavortext to be stock that you should season to better serve your character 🤣 but when establishing the circumstances that influence who they are or where their story goes, taking what the game Does give you and working with it (ppl are partly the cards they're dealt lmao) rather than ignoring everything might even help you find their voice!
ngl i have a feeling this might be esoteric and not what you were looking for lol.. but thank you for reading, and i hope you have an easier time writing your characters 🥹 i think it'll take trial and error and practice, you might just eventually stumble into your groove (that's what happened to me) LOL
rly old post for your reference, but piper will become a speech pathologist and rowan an interior architect! given bax route i thought it'd be sweet if their kids ended up specializing in communication and designing homes LOL
ty for asking abt them 🥹 in return, here is more yap.. that you did not ask for
i imagine that ro actually has a bachelor's in civil engineering but got an architectural master's (or dual majored, godspeed and rip) bc he takes after maggie as a designer and has liz as an aunt 🤣 i was originally thinking abt disability infrastructure when i like, bestowed him the terrible fate of going to school for engineering And architecture lmfao, so it’s probably important to wherever he works
and my impression of speech-language pathology is that it combines intense technical training and obligate people skills LMAO, and that suits overachiever-for-life piper.. plus i chose these careers partly bc i thought they were harder to silo into either humanities/STEM, which felt emblematic of the baggie household 🤣 anyway i think piper will surprisingly popular with younger patients bc she can match their energy LOL
I love your commitment to drawing baggie (maxter? do they have a ship name?) in every style under the sun. The gifs are so cute!! I love those two oh my lord
(sorry for the delayed response! january's been very busy 👴) thank you!! 🥹❤️ whether it's commitment or affliction is debatable LOL, but yeah i mainly use baggie thanks to another user's brilliant suggestion 🤣 i'm very charmed by maxter though, both are similar enough to their names that i feel like someone Will accidentally call them that lmfao
