Potato13 :D

I write and do art sometimes! Ask about my OC’s or just interact with me if you want! Friendly Reminder to eat and hydrate :D (main blog @thelegendaryfluffypotato13)

[ask-lily-curo]

Now that I have more than 2 active followers (I love all of you by the way and am kissing you all gently on the forehead), I am obligated to clarify my alias’s last name is pronounced KYU-row.

Why is it pronounced like that? Who knows, I made it up when I was 12 because I loved making names up instead of ever using a name generator.

Anyway, marketable plushie upon ye, go forth and put her in situations:

[ask-lily-curo]

And if I told you the message of my Gentle Flower story, no matter how much the plot changes, at its core, is that small acts of kindness snowball and pile up and change the course of the lives of those around you, even to the point of possibly changing what you thought was “fate/destiny/predetermined” what then

[ask-lily-curo]

Marcus Ramirez the man and prey that you are

I need to draw him again goshhhh

[ask-lily-curo]

Hey guys welcome to Story where Character thinks they’re a bad person (and might be) and yearns to be loved anyways featuring The Author’s barely disguised desire to be wanted

[kianamaiart]

ive always had this hang up that i have to keep everything i want to turn into a commercial project super secret and professional and never make personal comics or doodles about them, so seeing how you've approached idwtbamg and how people respond to it really fills me with inspiration! maybe the line between silly little OC and real project doesnt have to be so distinct, huh.

definitely doesn't have to be that way at all~ until you sign with a studio and they (maybe) tell you that you can't do that for spoiler or marketing reasons, you're free!

ian jq has a nice little thread about this

[ruvviks]

OC ASK GAME

Where was your OC born, and where did they grow up?

How does your OC remember their childhood? Is this an accurate reflection of what their childhood was actually like?

If your OC could revisit their childhood, what would they want to change about it, if anything at all?

Describe three of the most important photographs your OC owns.

What is your OC's gender identity and sexual orientation? Is this also what they identify as in canon, or are they not (fully) aware?

How comfortable is your OC in their skin? Do they like who they are? What would they want to change about themself?

What is your OC's occupation?

What does your OC's family look like?

Describe a mundane day in your OC's life.

Does your OC have any physical scars? What is the story behind them?

What does your OC carry around in their pockets? What about their bag?

What is the worst thing that has happened to your OC? How has it affected their behavior, their health, and their life in general?

What is something your OC does (to others) that they would not like if others did to them? Are they aware that they do this?

Does your OC hold grudges? How good are they at letting things go? Do they believe in second chances?

What is your OC's fatal flaw?

Is there anyone your OC has lost contact with? What happened?

What are some of your OC's coping mechanisms during stressful or overwhelming periods in their life?

What are your OC's bad habits?

How does your OC handle preparing for and initiating a difficult conversation? How does the conversation itself go?

How quick is your OC to shift blame? Do they own up to their mistakes, or are they prone to start pointing fingers at others?

How does your OC handle criticism?

How good is your OC at apologizing, if they do this at all?

What is your OC like when they're angry?

What is your OC like when they're upset?

What is your OC's deepest desire? Would they ever ask for this?

How quickly does your OC reach their breaking point? What are they like when this point has been reached?

What are some assumptions others make about your OC? Are any of them true?

What does your OC think others are saying about them behind their back? Is any of this true?

What are three traits your OC has that can both have positive as well as negative qualities?

How paranoid is your OC? How does this affect their daily life?

Are there any places or people your OC is avoiding?

How does your OC handle rejection?

How does your OC handle jealousy?

What would be some of the signs your OC is starting to push people away?

If your OC had to kill someone, how would they do it? If killing is a near-daily occurrence to them, what is their preferred method?

Does your OC believe they deserve it when bad things happen to them?

What is the most common feeling or emotion in your OC's life?

What is the most recurring theme in your OC's nightmares?

What is your OC's pain tolerance like? What is the worst pain they have ever felt?

What is your OC afraid of?

Has your OC ever hurt someone, either physically or verbally?

How easily influenced by others is your OC?

What are common things your OC worries about?

Do others consider your OC to be scary or intimidating?

Does your OC keep their promises? Have they ever broken one before?

Does your OC carry any guilt with them?

If your OC had to pick a new identity and skip town, what would they come up with? Where would they go?

What would your OC do if they knew that this was their last day alive?

Does your OC fear death?

How does your OC die, eventually?

[ask-lily-curo]

Help! My trauma is bleeding through the page and creating consistencies in the story’s themes (both intentionally and unintentionally created)!

A few weeks(? maybe a month or two now) ago, me and my partner were reading a vent story I created about 2 years ago and I was explaining and ranting about all the themes and writing choices cuz I love writing and character analysis and I won’t lie, while I did talk about the choices I intentionally made while writing, half of the dots I was connecting were analyzed on the spot and I was realizing in real time that some themes were um. A little more prevalent than I remember.

Anyways, it’s fun to see how my perspective and personal experiences bled through the page whether I wanted them to or not.

[ask-lily-curo]

Help! My trauma is bleeding through the page and creating consistencies in the story’s themes (both intentionally and unintentionally created)!

A few weeks(? maybe a month or two now) ago, me and my partner were reading a vent story I created about 2 years ago and I was explaining and ranting about all the themes and writing choices cuz I love writing and character analysis and I won’t lie, while I did talk about the choices I intentionally made while writing, half of the dots I was connecting were analyzed on the spot and I was realizing in real time that some themes were um. A little more prevalent than I remember.

Anyways, it’s fun to see how my perspective and personal experiences bled through the page whether I wanted them to or not.

[ask-lily-curo]

analyzing my old writing is how I realized I was aromantic you're totally valid. I treat my middle school original work like it's the writing of a subject of a sociology study

I truly am my own favorite object of study, I love analyzing my own character

[ask-lily-curo]

Help! My trauma is bleeding through the page and creating consistencies in the story’s themes (both intentionally and unintentionally created)!

A few weeks(? maybe a month or two now) ago, me and my partner were reading a vent story I created about 2 years ago and I was explaining and ranting about all the themes and writing choices cuz I love writing and character analysis and I won’t lie, while I did talk about the choices I intentionally made while writing, half of the dots I was connecting were analyzed on the spot and I was realizing in real time that some themes were um. A little more prevalent than I remember.

Anyways, it’s fun to see how my perspective and personal experiences bled through the page whether I wanted them to or not.

[ask-lily-curo]

What's a random tidbit of lore you've been itching to share but never had the opportunity to bring up

A random tidbit of lore you’ve been itching to share?

Creator Lore: The real reason Marcus wears a white button up and black pants is actually because early on, I had made a The Little Mermaid AU and Marcus was Eric so naturally I had to give him that fit. And then it stuck cuz 1) it was in character and 2) it was easy to draw lol

^ A very very old ugly wip of this (back before I decided Water Lily has RBF lol)

Actual Character Lore: Everyone on the team has assigned colors! The Gentleman is red, Water Lily is green, the captain is yellow, Music Box is cyan, and Eye Spy is purple! Originally, captain was red but then that would mean Gen couldn’t be red and I kept associating him with it and he looked ugly in yellow so I decided to just switch em. Additionally, in canon, Water Lily is supposed to eventually change to blue from her green but, due to this current timeline, that doesn’t happen.

[ask-lily-curo]

Little Event Maybe

Random Unimportant Gentle Flower Trivia

Elevator Explain Other Characters

Voting ended onApr 29

[ask-lily-curo]

Limited Edition: Event Time!

Alrighty, if yall want random unimportant GF trivia, come into my inbox (yes you can do it multiple times (please ask multiple times)) and yall can ask about Marie “Water Lily” Angson, Marcus “The Gentleman” Ramirez, or both and I’ll give yall random canon, retconned, and in limbo details :)

[ask-lily-curo]

If yall literally just wanna ask “tell me something about Marie” that’s cool too, yall can be as specific or as broad with your answers as you like

[ask-lily-curo]

I have two questions:

where did Marie and Marcus' names come from? both first and last names

I MUST know some info that has gotten retconned out of canon. I love hearing about how ocs change over time

Answered! Tumblr hates you though, wouldn't let me answer on the question itself 😔

[ask-lily-curo]

Where did Marie and Marcus's names come from?

OK SO quick context for everyone, Gentle Flower as a whole concept originally came from a dream I had from a nap in my car during my family's trip in Florida to visit my cousins. This dream included me and two of my friends. This is important because I had placeholder names for the OG trio.

Water Lily and her first name Marie were PLACEHOLDER NAMES that STUCK. As you guys know, my online alias is Lily Curo. Ok that explains the Water LILY part, what about Marie? Quick lore drop, OG!Lily's middle name is Marie (this was also kept for Obey Me!Lily). Unfortunately, I kept the placeholders for so long that I couldn't change it after a certain point👉👈. So yeah, Marie was based off my perspective in the dream, I put things with me as placeholders, and they stuck for too long. As for Angson, this last name was made after a specific character trait I gave her which is that she is. Not the best at names and combines words and existing names to give things names. With the context that Marie Angson is the civilian name she chose for herself and that, if I were to make this a full story, Marie Angson and Water Lily being the same person would be revealed later on, I needed a last name that sounded normal enough to not be looked into too deeply but also was something that carried that trait of being combined out of two words. I might elaborate on her backstory later and why she chose this name she created, but I will say that the two words that make up Angson are "angel" and "arson" if yall wanna try to dwell on that :)

Now, Marcus's is um. Really funny actually. So again, the concept is based off of a dream, right? The person Marcus had as a base for his character is my then-friend now-best friend-and-partner @siempreseresol and I had used their irl name as a placeholder. As I was creating Marcus, I wanted him to be (or at least feel) very basic, normal, a number, someone who could be found anywhere as that was a very important aspect of his character and his insecurities. THAT SAID, his original last name I came up with in the shower was like one of the most basic Hispanic last names I could think of. Unfortunately, a day later I realized that um. That was also @siempreseresol's last name. I just gave this character bro's full name on accident. So naturally I SCRAMBLED to find a name that was different but also similar enough to me that my brain could easily accept the sudden name change. Marcus had two letters kept and Ramirez had the same first letter. As for his alias, "The Gentleman," lowkey I don't remember the exact details. I knew I wanted something that gave a mysterious hitman/spy feel, like those nicknames that are just a title. This name also came up early in conception when I already knew Gen's powers and vague early personality. However, when I later started writing some small fanfiction snippets and stuff to get a feel for my characters, I found myself. Really annoyed by bro's name. Like. It's so longgg I'm not typing all that, which is why I just have the team refer to him as Gen as a nickname.

2. Some retconned Gentle Flower lore?

Ok so I can't remember everything, but here are some things I do remember:

The number one funniest thing that got retconned real quick to become the Gentle Flower you all know and love today: Marie and Marcus were originally meant to be just friends. That's right, my main couple, as their biggest supporter, were not supposed to be together in their original conception. They were supposed to be shipping bait but were never meant to be canon, that was the whole point. And then I MYSELF fell for my own trap and the rest is history.

I've made art of this before, but Water Lily's opossum plush from Gen, Jimmothy, had to be retconned due to some changes in story and also cuz I had a cooler idea for symbolism purposes. Jimmothy's original role, currently, is being replaced with a plush scorpion named Stigma. However, I could not bring myself to take him out completely so for now, Jimmothy is a normal plush Marie has.

Marie used to be much more expressive than she is now, both verbally and in her facial expressions. She was also more impulsive when it came to her fights with Gen. I decided that didn't fit what I wanted for her character and I also wanted to separate her from the Lily Curos who share these traits (lol I'm talking about them like a species). She and Gen still fight and she still ragebaits him, but it's with a more straight face and her words are less immature than I originally wrote her.

Marcus is scared of cats, which is still true, but this was originally because of an incident where he ended up all scratched up as a kid by a feral cat. One day, Marcus and his older brother are at their grandmother's house and either she or their father warn his older brother to be careful outside cuz there are feral cats out. As kids are, his older brother (who does not like Marcus) naturally is like "Hey lil bro, you see that cute cat outside? Wanna go pet it :)" and let's Marcus out and he comes back crying all scratched up. I later realized this moment was inconsistent with Marcus's power that literally prevents physical harm like this from happening to him as his body would've dodged it. So I've changed it to his body jumping and spinning really quickly as this was before he learned to control his movements, so the sudden uncontrollable movements would be overwhelming and dizzying to a young kid. So the outcome of him crying coming back from a "prank" his older brother put him up to would remain the same.

Marie was originally a choir kid in high school and that was how Marie and Marcus knew each other. Marcus is still in choir but currently, though this is in limbo and may change again, Marie in high school is a theatre kid. Specifically worked back stage because I liked the idea of her putting in a lot of effort backstage and being a core pillar of the operation but staying kinda in the shadows and not being seen and appreciated for her work. This would also contrast her suddenly being in the spotlight with the team's Captain (still don't have a real name for her) and being praised, even if more than she should, which makes her uncomfortable. Currently floating the idea of having her be in band or orchestra, with the metaphor of her being seen as her instrument. We'll see what this evolves into.

[ask-lily-curo]

Little Event Maybe

Random Unimportant Gentle Flower Trivia

Elevator Explain Other Characters

Voting ended onApr 29

[ask-lily-curo]

Limited Edition: Event Time!

Alrighty, if yall want random unimportant GF trivia, come into my inbox (yes you can do it multiple times (please ask multiple times)) and yall can ask about Marie “Water Lily” Angson, Marcus “The Gentleman” Ramirez, or both and I’ll give yall random canon, retconned, and in limbo details :)

[ask-lily-curo]

Little Event Maybe

Random Unimportant Gentle Flower Trivia

Elevator Explain Other Characters

Voting ended onApr 29