Copernicus (the imaginary band)

All about the fictional band created by HerpDerpWolfBlitzer, header image by @casanovakevin

[promptsforyourocs]

how old is your oc? how do they feel about this?

[copernicus1977]

Joel, Scott and Jez are (as of this writing) 64 while Brit is 63, though she turns 64 on August 8th! Warren is the oldest at 67, with his 68th birthday in November.

[copernicus1977]

This was something I've meaning to do for a long time, but with some help from @mattfroeseart it became reality! These are covers for the band's hit 1987 album Swing, which was initially only released on CD and was sold with four different covers, each with a different band member! Joel is in red, Warren in blue, Brittany in green, and Jez in yellow.

Matt created the portraits (which, if these existed IRL, would be photos) while yours truly created the rest!

[copernicus1977]

That’s right this blog isn’t dead yet! @davidbaronart recently opened up commissions again so I decided on an inked “publicity photo” sketch of the band circa 1989, based on this publicity photo of Genesis! From left to right are Brittany Fox, Warren Smith, Jez Walker and Joel Marshall!

[craembrulee]

A commission for @gaiaresfan!

Thank you for commissioning me, I had fun!

[taguroc]

Does your OC have any siblings? Are they younger? Older? What is your OC's relationship with them?

[copernicus1977]

Joel has a younger (by one year) brother named John, who is also a musician. Both Joel and John get along well but they don’t talk much as John lives abroad and has had a very different musical career than Joel.

Brit has an older (by two years) brother named Mark, a twin brother named Jake (younger by a few minutes), and a younger sister (by two years) named Eileen. She gets along well with Jake, but she would sometimes have little fights with Mark and Eileen. While Jake is a musician too, Mark is an attorney while Eileen works in biotech.

Scott has an older (by four years) sister named Jane, and the two are very close and have always stuck up for one another. Jane and Scott also have very similar musical tastes.

Both Jez and Warren are only children.

[ocprompts]

which two ocs do you pair up the most?

[copernicus1977]

Obviously Joel and Brit since they’re married, but Joel and Scott get paired up a lot since they’re best friends, and also Scott and Jez since they’re the rhythm section

[copernicus1977]

Big thanks to @heyitspizzaking for this wonderful commission of everyone’s favorite nerdy keyboardist, Brittany Fox! Hoping to have more content on this blog soon!

[mattfroeseart]

Commission for @Copernicus1977 of their cool synth lady Brittany!

[j3nnyjams]

Scott Fischer for @gaiaresfan, check out his OCs at @copernicus1977

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[nintendonut1]

Commission for @copernicus1977 of the band's keyboardist, Brittany Fox!

Enjoy!! And thank you!!!

[decondoodles]

A doodle of @gaiaresfan ‘s character Brittany, from their fictional band Copernicus! Sorry it took me a while to get to, haha~

I love all of the members of the band, but Brit is probably my favourite (because of course, I’m predisposed to liking the pretty synthesizer playing lady). I went with the green suit from the band’s 1982 era, purely cos I thought it was super visually striking (although the fact I enjoy green helps), and used this image if the character as a base reference to work from: https://copernicus1977.tumblr.com/post/154148574273/i-loved-brittany-in-davidbaronarts-style-so-much

[mattfroeseart]

Commission for @copernicus1977 of Brittany Fox back in 1981!

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[mattfroeseart]

Emote commissions for @copernicus1977 !

[which-ocs]

Which OC has an accent?

[gaiaresfan]

Most of them have a Californian or standard American accent, but Jez still has a bit of a Brummie accent

[taguroc]

What genre of music would your OC most enjoy listening to?

[copernicus1977]

Joel mainly listens to punk and post-punk, with a little bit of synthpop and indie pop thrown in for good measure.

Brit is big into synthpop and electronic music in general, though she also listens to a lot of pop rock groups (i.e. ELO, Bee Gees) and quirky art rock (especially Split Enz).

Scott listens to loads of funk and R&B, and he especially loves classic Motown and P-Funk.

Jez is more into rock music in general and also listens to a lot of prog and guitar-based New Wave.

Warren's mainly into jazz, jazz fusion and funk, and occasionally listens to classical.

[ocprompts]

where did your oc's name come from?

[copernicus1977]

Joel’s name I think came from Joel of Bonus Stage, it was a name that was floating around in my head at the time and it stuck.

As mentioned in a previous prompt, Brittany was named after an 8th grade crush though she’s not based on her otherwise.

I don’t remember who I named Scott after unfortunately, it’s been way too long.

Warren is named after Warren Cuccurullo who was in Missing Persons and Duran Duran.

Jez is named after Jez Strode who was the drummer for Kajagoogoo.

[ocprompts]

Who is your oldest OC? In age, and how long they've been with you.

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[copernicus1977]

Warren is the oldest in terms of age, he was born in November 1958 so he’s getting pretty close to 70 now! In terms of who I’ve had the longest, I created Brit over 23 years ago with Joel and Scott following not long after. Warren wasn’t created until around 2007 or 2008.

Age-wise, everyone aside from Warren was born in 1962 so they’re all 63 as of now.