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OC-tober day 15, dramatic

Following bweirdart's oc-tober prompt list!

Not canon to the story of Timberfall, and mostly just using the Princess Mononoke meme template for fun. But I specifically chose Raiden (top guy, he/him) and Bretta (bottom one, he/she) because the both of them are half-breeds, half daithi'ma (dragon-like anthro furries, pronounced da-he-ma) and half lao'cu (bear-like anthro furries, pronounced la-ow-ku). Raiden resents his heritage and what he experienced - and still experiences - in his youth because of it, while Bretta has some kind of closure with it despite some lingering trauma she's buried deep down and refuses to address, and there's a part of Raiden that hates Bretta - or is possibly jealous of her - because of how she deals with it. It's a point of ridicule and shame to him, and it frustrates him that Bretta appears to not be bothered by it at all. It's a trauma the two of them share and grapple with during the story of Timberfall, and ultimately brings the two closer together.

Day 15 complete, 9 drawings remain.

Raiden and Bretta are (C) me, do not use without my permission.

Art was done by me, DO NOT USE MY ART FOR AI.

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OC-tober day 14, romantic

Following bweirdart's oc-tober prompt list!

Ignore that I'm going to be posting these post-October/OC-tober, it's done when I say it's done.

Haven't drawn characters smooching in a hot minute, so I'm not too confident that I got the lips looking right. Kiss challenge template credit to Hiveworks for the inspiration. I did chop one of the boxes off, though, since I only have concrete designs for three of the main cast of Timberfall right now, but there are at least two others that are part of the eventual polycule Fliss helps create.

I also tried tying in the color palette challenge part of this prompt for the fun of it (with a few extra colors for the backgrounds), and while I think it came out ok in the end, I'm not entirely happy with the end result, but eh, whatever. It was a nice exercise working with a limited color palette.

Day 14 complete, 10 drawings remain.

Fliss, Thora, Raiden, and Bretta are all (C) me, do not use without my permission.

Art was done by me, DO NOT USE MY ART FOR AI.

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OC-tober day 13, silly

Following bweirdart's oc-tober prompt list!

He/they for Stanley/Storm (big guy), he/him for Marz (little skeley).

What is love if not putting your tiny skeleton monster friend up to the security camera at a Walmart so everyone can see the boy you love so very much :)

Ok, so looks like I am going to be posting these into November. Whatever, fuck it we ball. I'll try to do as many as I can when time allows.

Day 13 complete!

Sona and Marz are (C) me, do not use without my permission.

Do not repost my art anywhere, DO NOT USE MY ART FOR AI.

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OC-tober day 12, weakness

Following bweirdart's oc-tober prompt list!

She/they for Thora, they/he for Fliss.

"Stop that. Stop making me care about you.."

Thora has mixed feelings for Fliss. What those feelings are, not even Thora can say. All she knows is that Fliss is one of her biggest weaknesses. She has to stay strong.

Inspired by this screenshot:

Day 12 complete!

Thora and Fliss are (C) me, do not use without my permission.

Art was done by me, do not repost anywhere. DO NOT USE MY ART FOR AI.

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OC-tober day 11, skills

Following bweirdart's oc-tober prompt list!

She/they for Thora (left character), they/he for Fliss (right character).

Species lore drop incoming. My original species, the daithi'ma (pronounced da-he-ma), have the ability to transform parts of their bodies to whatever they like, within reason. It's mostly adaptational mutations, like longer claws for climbing, shrinking/growing their wings, making webbing between their fingers and toes, etc., but they can only have one mutation/transformation active at a time. It also takes a lot of energy to keep active, and those who are not very experienced in activating these kinds of mutations can tire out very easily and quickly.

Thora, however, has pushed her adaptation ability further than the average daithi'ma, and is able to have more than one adaptation ability active at once as well as for much longer. She mostly breaks down her wings into tentacles to aid her in her work, as pictured above, and is the mutation she uses most often. She writes with them, gathers materials or tools with them, can use them to get into small crevices/spaces that she can't, and so on.

Fliss is conflicted about how they feel about Thora's tentacles, as on the one hand it's cool to them, but then on the other.... well, let's just say Fliss learned something about themselves the first few times they saw Thora activate this ability~ ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

Day 11 complete!

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OC-tober day 10, themes/symbolism

Following bweirdart's oc-tober prompt list!

Only took a few days to get these done because I couldn't think of what to draw for this prompt and now I'm a week behind on prompts, but I'm getting it done 🙃

Gonna try to keep this brief, but a few themes in Timberfall are found family and the various relationships Fliss makes during the story, Thora and Fliss' relationship and how it shapes the narrative and character motivations, and the project Fliss and Thora are working on for most of the story, a machine they call 'Cloud Buster'. They're hoping it will be the solution to their entrapment problem.

Gonna try to keep my drawings loose from here on out, I'm spending waaaaay too much time and putting a lot of effort into these drawings when I probably don't need to. If i keep going like I have been up until this point, I don't think I'll be done with this prompt list until mid November DX Don't get me wrong, I'm enjoying myself and I'm proud of the work I've been doing, but I kind of want to speed this up a bit and challenge myself to not get so focused on little details or fully rendering a piece. I gotta get more comfortable with not fixing every mistake or redrawing a single line for three minutes, or that a drawing isn't "done" unless it's been colored in grayscale and put a texture over everything, and so on.

Day 10 done, woooo

Thora, Fliss, Bretta, and Raiden are all (C) me. Do not use without my permission.

Art was done by me, do not use or repost anywhere.

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OC-tober day 9, inventory

Following bweirdart's oc-tober prompt list!

I've technically done this prompt before for a Inktober prompt list a few years ago, but since some things have changed concerning Timberfall, I wanted to redo it and tweak some of the items Thora and Fliss have on their person and use regularly.

Thora's items are on the top, and Fliss' items are on the bottom. Starting with Thora, she primarily uses a hip bag to carry her things around. Anything and everything important to her or that she uses on a daily basis are on her person in some form, either in her pockets or her bag. She carries a lot of medical and first aid stuff, since she's prone to accidentally hurting herself, and because she also acts as a doctor when she's not holed up in her lab, so it's useful to have if she's suddenly called in case of an emergency. She also carries vials and bottles, again, for medicines or samples she takes for examining/research. She wears a utility belt that can easily become cluttered with items such as her gloves, rope, any books she's in the middle of reading, her journals and notebooks, or her knife. A lot of her stuff is practical, as it reflects the nature of her work. She's not concerned with her outward appearance or keeping trinkets around, as it would only clutter her already messy work spaces. The only non-essential item she ever carries or keeps around is a small, fine-toothed, bone comb that was gifted to her by her parents when she was young. She doesn't use it much nowadays, but it holds great sentimental value to her, as her parents died several years ago as a result of having helped lift the islands into the sky to escape their enemies. It's a reminder to her to keep going with her work so she can undo the "mistake" her parents and those who sealed them inside the islands made.

Fliss mostly carries books around, as they love to read and learn. They also have a few sketchbooks that they take with them on occasion, sketching from real life, writing down their thoughts, notes to themselves, or just doodling for fun. They also carry a medicine bottle that Thora gave them, as because of their condition (having only recently woken up from a coma) they're prone to bouts of exhaustion and pain. If they have a sudden spell, they can take the medicine Thora's provided for them to help them stabilize and feel better, or at least give them enough energy to get back to the labs if their condition gets really bad. They also carry a water flask with them to help them take the medicine, and because they like to stay hydrated. They carry around a pocket watch because they have time blindness and never really know what time it is, so it comes in handy a lot. Fliss also carries around two types of knives, a small necklace knife for eating, and a pocket knife gifted to them by Bretta (against Thora's wishes). They use the pocket knife to do wood carving in their spare time. Fliss isn't really one for jewelry, but at a few different points in the story, they are gifted a few different necklaces, one of the daithi'ma people's crest (the three spirals), and one with an Ogham rune etched into it (the rune is Oir, which means bonds/family). They treasure them dearly because of who gave them the necklaces and what they represent/symbolize relationship-wise.

Day 9 complete!

Art was done by me, do not use or repost anywhere.

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OC-tober day 8, personality

Following bweirdart's oc-tober prompt list!

Had a bit of trouble with this one, since I originally started the first drawing in color, but because I haven't fully decided on Thora's color palette and fur patterns yet, I was spending way too much time trying to troubleshoot that and find something I liked or felt like "Thora", and wound up getting frustrated that it was taking too long that I just switched to grayscale to get this prompt done. I might do a proper colored version later, once I have more time to do so.

Anyway, here are Thora (she/they) and Fliss (they/he) , the two main characters from my story, Timberfall.

Thora is a bit of a recluse, having taken to living almost exclusively in her labs where she toils away trying to find a solution to her people's survival, since the islands they're currently living on are slowly crumbling away, and they need to find a way out of the cloud barrier they are all trapped in. Thora is direct and to the point, not bothering with pleasantries or small talk. She is very intelligent and well-read, and is knowledgeable about a ton of different things. Others who aren't as familiar with her would call her cold, aloof, and hard to talk to. She definitely puts up barriers around herself to keep others away, mostly so that she can work in peace. She can come across as emotionless and even apathetic to others, but she does have those she cares about, she just has difficulty showing it, and it's not helped by her trying to intentionally close herself off from her emotions so she can make extremely difficult decisions concerning her work.

Fliss (they/he) is more on the reserved side and is soft-spoken. They have a more relaxed energy to them, and a curiosity of the world around them. They love to read and learn, and take to learning new skills very quickly. They like to tinker with things and figure out how they work. They're always willing to help others, as they hate to feel like a burden or just stand by. They have a strong sense of justice as well, and even though they have mild anxiety, there are times they can't help but snap a someone or rush in to help/intervene into a given situation. They're desperate for connections and to remember who they are, as Thora told them they had been in a nasty accident years ago and suffered blunt force trauma to their head. They want to find their family, if they even still had one, and reconnect with their people and make new friends... But they can't ignore this quiet feeling in the back of their mind that they don't quite belong here on the islands... They're not sure if it's because they've lost their sense of identity due to their amnesia, or that they just feel disconnected from the world at large and from their own body in general.

Day 8 complete!

Thora and Fliss are (C) me.

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OC-tober day 7, home

Following bweirdart's oc-tober prompt list!

No new art for this one, because I already drew it back in 2016 and I don't feel like redrawing it.

Not so much a house as it is a lab where Thora and Fliss spend a majority of their time. The labs is all that Fliss knows at the beginning of the story, as they need to stay there while they recover from the physical and mental damage they sustained from some terrible accident that happened years ago. Thora lives there by choice, even though she has a home that she shares with her twin brother, Rurik. She is devoted to her work, borderline obsessed, as she believes she's the only one that can save their people (long story short, the daithi'ma people - my original fantasy species/race, they're basically wolf dragons - are stuck on a bunch of floating islands and encased within a magical cloud barrier because of a war that broke out years ago, and it was supposed to save them from their enemies, but is now their prison and the islands are starting to erode away) from falling into the land below. It is also a frequent haunt of Bretta's, as she loves dropping by to see what Thora's up to, and to hang out with Fliss and cause problems on purpose.

Day 7 complete!

Art was done by me, Thora, Fliss, and Bretta are (C) me, do not use without permission.

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OC-tober day 6, relationships

Following bweirdart's oc-tober prompt list!

Only took a week (maybe more), but I did it! Haven't had much time to work on these prompts as I would like, since I've been busy with class assignments (this semester has been ROUGH), but I'm slowly chipping away at it. I'll keep working on these until I'm done with all of the prompts, even after October ends. I really want to see this through, and I'm having fun doing the prompts :)

For this prompt, I wanted to show off some of the relationships Fliss (they/he) has in my story Timberfall. The first drawing is Fliss' relationship with Thora (she/they), a doctor/scientist/biologist who is helping Fliss regain their memories after having been nearly mortally wounded by some accident years ago. Thora is doing a routine check up of Fliss' vitals, and no matter how many times Thora and Fliss have done this, Fliss never gets used to being hooked up to her strange machines. (also when i was drawing it i realized a little too late that i forgot to also draw thora's wings so i had to awkwardly put them in oops)

The second drawing is Fliss' relationship with Bretta (she/he) , a large half-breed who often barges into Thora's lab to cause mischief and be a general nuisance. She's generally laid back but is always sticking her nose into things and loves seeing how far she can push others. He encourages Fliss to explore life outside of the labs, much to Thora's chagrin, and live a little. The two eventually get very close, and often take naps together or physically touching each other in some way (mostly hugs, being held, Bretta using Fliss as an arm rest, etc.) Bretta starts stopping by the labs a lot more often once Fliss wakes up, as their appearance catches his curiosity, and she very quickly wants to know more about them.

The last drawing is Fliss and Raiden's (he/him) relationship. The two are awkward and shy with each other, both obviously harboring more intimate feelings towards each other, but unsure of how to express that, and equally afraid of being rejected by the other. They also have a casual friendship thanks to Bretta dragging Fliss outside of the labs, but it starts to bloom into something more the more time they spend together. Raiden is stand-offish and guarded, not giving his trust to others until they prove he can open up to them. He's gruff and quiet, but isn't a stranger to making the occasional sarcastic comment or snide joke. But he gets very shy when it comes to being more intimate. Fliss likes hanging out with Raiden because with him, they feel like they can relax and just be themselves. Raiden also feels this way when with Fliss, but doesn't let his guard down fully due to past trauma.

Had a lot of fun drawing these, and it was also a good excuse to test out some custom brushes I have to see which ones I like drawing/sketching with. It's also nice to be drawing again in general. Haven't drawn like this in ages.

Day 6 complete!

Fliss, Thora, Bretta, and Raiden are (C) me. Do not use without my permission.

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OC-tober Day 5, Under-appreciated OC

Following bweirdart's oc-tober prompt list!

Only took a few days, but I finished Day 5! I couldn't really think of a really under-appreciated oc that I have, I would have to do some digging for that which is something I don't really have time for right now, so I chose this little guy, Marzipan (Marz for short). I think he still fits the prompt, though, since I forget about him a lot even though I'm really fond of him :(

Marz started off as an Undertale bittybones adopt (bitties were basically Undertale characters - namely Sans - but like if they were something akin to The Borrowers or The Secret World of Arrietty) from forever ago, specifically a "Cherry" Sans bitty. I kind of participated in an art/reblog chain thing where this guy was getting mocked and bullied while trying to get himself adopted. I drew up a rough comic about me adopting him, and I've kept him around ever since.

He hasn't really changed too much over the years, aside from not really resembling what he started out as - ie. he's not a bitty anymore, rather a species of monster that are small in size that monsterkind at large thought had died out - and is now his own character, with the core part of his personality staying relatively the same (he's what some would call a 'tsundere', but he's really just a traumatized softie who puts up an intimidating and 'I don't care' front to protect himself from being hurt again and struggles opening up to others because his trust has been betrayed one too many times so why would this be any different). He has Underfell inspirations, since Cherry Sans bitties were an off-shoot of Fell bitties (there were SO many different Sans bitties based off of all the different aus).

I wanna use him more in my stories, specifically my Undertale self-ship fics (which are more stories I need to put pen to paper to or else I will combust). I really like G/T (giant/tiny) stories, as it's an interesting way to explore character dynamics, how they navigate a world that wasn't built with one of them in mind, and the problems and challenges of trying to co-habitate together. Very interesting concepts I like writing about.

Day 5 complete!

Sona and Marz are (c) me, do not use without my permission.

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OC-tober Day 4, Sona/Self Insert OC

Following bweirdart's oc-tober prompt list!

It's interesting to look back and compare my first sona designs to my more recent ones, seeing where I started and where I am now, remembering where I was in my life at that point in time, and seeing the design choices I kept through some iterations. I've been using these designs over the years in my various fanarts and fanfics, creating new sona designs depending on what series I'm inserting myself into.

It's been hard to come up with a design that feels like "me", and maybe part of that has been my complicated relationship with my gender identity when I was younger and allllll the way up into my adulthood. Now that I'm finally feeling more comfortable in my own body and how I choose to identify, it's been easier to come up with and settle on a design that feels more like myself. Might tweak a few things in the most current version (the black and white winged one on the right end), but I'm pretty happy with it so far :)

Two versions of today's drawing, as while I was working on it I really liked how just the silhouettes looked. Also had to restart the coloring on this because I was trying to rush it last night and was hating it and knew I had to start over 🙃

Day 4 complete!

All sona designs are (C) me, do not use without my permission.

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OC-tober Day 3, Fave OC

Following bweirdart's oc-tober prompt list!

Yeah, you could say I have a fave oc.

This here is Fliss (the little furry original species character featured in the collage), one of the main characters of a story I'm currently working on called Timberfall. I've posted about it before, but mostly out-dated, older versions of the story. I could ramble on and on about this story, but I'll save that for another day.

Fliss (pronouns they/he) is my go-to oc to draw when I'm testing new brushes, deciding which brush to use, just wanting to doodle, or anything really. And this isn't even half of what I've drawn of them, just some more recent stuff.

They've gone through a mess of personality and design changes over the years, and I'm still trying to pin down their most current design. I'm kind of Frankenstein's monster-ing elements from some of their previous designs together, and I'm liking what I'm coming up with :)

I love this little guy, I am thinking of them constantly.

Also, new sona design reveal, yaaaaay 🎉

Fliss is (C) me. Do not use without permission.

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OC-tober Day 2, Old OCs

Following bweirdart's oc-tober prompt list!

Geeze, I haven't drawn these two knuckleheads in YEARS. If anyone recognizes these guys from my old art posting days, I will be massively surprised. Kinda put more effort into this than I needed to, but whatever, enjoy my inconsistent shading :)

These two are Gale (the hedgie currently being playfully strangled) and King Candy (the big platypus guy), two VERY old OCs I've had since 2013, probably earlier. They're both part of a story I've been writing and re-writing for the better part of a decade now (GOD) which was initially inspired by Super Smash Bros of all things. It goes by the name of Baka-Dono, which roughly translates to "idiot master", or at least I think it does. I could probably come up with a better name for it, but I'm sentimental for its original name, so I probably won't.

The story features Gale either escaping or having been kidnapped away from the abusive environment of the Ocarina Castle, and he quickly finds himself stuck on the floating island of the Kernel Kingdom that King Candy rules over. The story's gone through a number of changes over the years, but this is the one consistent plot point that's stayed the same.

I've drawn up the first chapter several times with each new re-write, with the last one I did on my old Inkbunny account having scared me away from touching it for a while, and resulted in me deleting my account. It was at least ten years ago now, but I still think about it every now and then. When I was close to finishing the chapter, I decided to change how I was drawing the characters to make it easier for me to draw them, but when I posted about this to share the designs I was happy with, nearly everyone who commented on my drawing was against me changing the designs. It got to the point where one guy told me that my art and comic pages were being enjoyed on some other website, I guess as a way to convince me to not change the character designs, but it terrified me because he was essentially telling me someone was stealing and reposting my art without my permission. When I tried to press him for details, he just told me to find it myself. I never did find wherever that guy said my art was supposedly being shared on, and a part of me still believes that he was lying just to get under my skin. Anyway, a big fuck you to that guy, whoever you were.

Anyway, long story short, I panicked and deleted my account and didn't post my art anywhere for a long while after that.

Drawing these guys again after years of having shelved their story made me extremely nostalgic and wanting to work on their story again, as if I don't have several other wips I also want to work on XD Might start chipping away at their story again soon.

Day 2 complete!

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So! Haven't posted in a while, but ever since it's been getting closer to October, I've been wanting to revisit doing an OC-tober event again. I tried doing one a few years ago, but wasn't able to finish it. I'm feeling inspired to try again, and want to try and see this one through.

I'll be following this prompt list by bweirdart, so credit to them for making it! It looked interesting, and I'm always down to yap about my ocs :)

I know I'm almost a week behind now, but I'm still going to truck along and do some of the days in batches until I get caught up.

Starting off with Day 1, New OC, I've decided to show off some relatively new OCs I made for my Darkner Sans AU I've been working on since 2018. One of these days I'll start posting about it, which might be soon since it feels like I'm going to explode if I don't.

These are Lake and Kutrina, Sans' moms. Originally when I was first developing the story, they were just one-note characters that didn't interact with Sans much and disappeared from the narrative pretty early in the story. But then I started developing them since I figured Sans needed more of a backstory and family, and suddenly I'm up late at night writing out how the two first met and what their lives were like before they had Sans and caring very deeply about them, and now they're a core part of the story.

I am very normal about them and I love these two lesbians very very much ❤️❤️❤️

Day 1 complete!

Deltarune (c) Toby Fox.

Lake and Kutrina are (C) me.

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Happy father’s day to King Spade and King Spade only (or at least the version of him from my Deltarune au that I still need to properly talk about, AAAAAAAAGGGHGHHG)

King Spade and Lancer are (c) Toby Fox.

Art was done by me.  Do not use or repost anywhere.

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Some recent sketches of Fliss that I like.  I did these mainly as tests for some new brushes I got recently, and as is tradition with me, I used Fliss as a model to practice with them.

Also, Fliss has undergone quite a few redesigns within the last several months, (which I might show off at some point, but we’ll see) and this is the one that I’m happiest with :)

Fliss is (C) me.  Do not use or repost anywhere.