“Caste” Signs: Asclepius (Calypso), Tesseract (Callista)
Hero Roles: Sylph of Time (Calypso), Prince of Space (Callista)
Strife Specibi: Stringskind (Calypso), Wandkind (Callista)
(Yes, a cherub-like character! But these twins will never predominate, so they have to learn to live with each other. Another NPC for Hackspace, a GM-controlled coplayer for them.)
Calypso and Callista are the ectobiological daughter(s?) of Roxy and Calliope Lalonde, the only of their kind that anyone knows of, and slightly estranged from their parents, living on their own as a successful-enough voice actress-slash-camgirl, depending on who’s awake any given day.
Calypso is a shy, introverted nerd who prefers to be heard and not seen, and whose wardrobe consists mainly of hoodies with heavy print. She’s the Sylph of Time and thusly ingame does a lot of cleaning up others’ messes by retroactively stopping them, and can often be encountered to appear suddenly, gently grab you by the shoulders and turn you around right before you make a bad decision, and then disappear just as abruptly.
Callista is louder and more bombastic, but still a nerd, who makes a living off of the twins’ slender modelesque body to do risque cosplay and similar endeavours, and absolutely lets the popularity this nets her go directly to her head, but she isn’t mean about it- she simply can’t conceive of the idea of being disliked or unknown. Ingame Callista does a lot of crazy stuff that somehow Calypso never has to stop- including such a feat as blowing up her entire planet, killing herself, her denizen, and all her underlings at once, en lieu of doing her quest like a normal fucking person.
(Following a bit of artist’s block I decided to draw her showering just for the sake of drawing her doing something other than just standing there like last time.
I originally did have better plans for her.)
“Princess” Gingerva Karies is the “beloved” “ruler” of a single towering mass of bone tucked away in some obscure corner of Mortasheen city, demanding tribute from its other denizens and generally being a bratty nuisance, despite being fairly young, untrained, small, weak, and largely immobile.
She loves the work of Snile and Ostorth allowing her to exert more fear and control over her surroundings than she herself can earn.
(Yeah I don’t actually have a character with a full name whose surname is J, so- here’s a garbage boy!
If you remember this guy from before, his design hasn’t changed- zombies just don’t grow back the same way every time!))
Identified only as The Junkman, this borged zombie tasks himself with caring for a sanctuary on the great Garbage Sea, curating a team of monsters both literally and figuratively garbage to care for discarded monsters that find themselves wandering the seas.
FEBRUAROC, DAY 9, I: IKARIS, ORILIA
Setting: Hackspace (Homestuck RPG homebrew
Species: Troll (Chose not to share blood color)
Gender & Sexuality: Cis F Pansexual
Age, Height: 21, 4′11″
Occupation: Pilot, Technician, and Engineer for the Picer Corps
Caste Sign: Chose not to share
Hero Role: Mage of Breath
Strife Specibus: Yoyokind
(Transbloodedness is a concept I’m suprised that Hiveswap never did anything with after being mentioned by Kankri and then later it being talked about that trolls form an identity around their blood rather than their gender- Orilia normally looks like this, but the eyes and the second set of horns are blood-affirming prostheses, and her tail, gills, and webbed digits are hidden away by her clothing. Orilia’s blood, were it spilled, is lime, and for Hackspace the headcanon we went with is that limebloods were lowblood waterdwellers and were exterminated on Alternia for threatening the royal association of water. But she was also born with immensely powerful psionics, and rapidly began to identify more with goldblood culture than limeblood.)
Orilia Ikaris is an immensely powerful goldblood psion who serves as both the head engineer and pilot of the Picer Corps’ Daedalus-class colony starship of her own design. Orilia’s unique psionics allow her to control electronics as if they were an extension of her own body, and her basic telekinesis is powerful enough to haul dozens of tons through the air, so she’s perfect for diagnosing, repairing, and maneuvering a massive starship to keep it running smoothly and safely.
Of course, a job description and a fancy hookup (fuschia girlfriend!) don’t a personality make, and on her downtime Orilia is a very genki girl sort of type, flitting to and fro making friends and connections and sharing her passions with any who will listen, and spending her alone time tinkering with models, legos, or actual machines while blasting bubblegum pop on her stereo.
FEBRUAROC, DAY 8, H: HARUSPEX, MISSY
Setting: Pokemon
Species: Human
Gender & Sexuality: Trans Lesbian
Age, Height: 26, 6′7″ (but with a SERIOUS slouch)
Occupation: Trainer
Trainer Class: Researcher/Telekineticist/Psychic Ace
Type Specialization: Psychic, Poison
Team, at time of campaign’s end: Venonat/Elgyem/Paras/Slowpoke/Exeggcute/Unown
(Okay, I’m back and I live once more! Two updates today. This lass was made for a game of Pokemon Tabletop United, and was kind of an onion knight by design, so its a real shame we didn’t go on long enough to really grow in power.)
An eccentric woman who would likely be called a quack and a fraud if her methods weren’t very clearly effective, Missy Haruspex is an armchair geneticist and occult researcher who seeks to unlock the true psychic potential that all humans and Pokemon surely have locked away deep in the bowels of their respective genetics, and thusly takes a specific interest in studying the genes and psychologies of psychics and ghosts, with the hope of one day being able to train any Pokemon to use psionics. She’s well on her way to perfecting the technique and, had the campaign not died, powers such as levitation, telekinetic ballistics, and macrogravity would’ve been hers to command and share with her pupils- one of the stepping-stone sidegoals to her ultimate plan was to genetically engineer a non-Psychic Pokemon to be born Psychic.
Setting: Hackspace (Homestuck RPG homebrew)
Species: Nymph (Cucumber-blood, Jadeling)
Gender & Sexuality: Cis F Pansexual
Age, Height: 26, 6′1″
Occupation: Radio show host
“Caste Sign”: Brimstone (No sign available on the Extended Zodiac)
Hero Role: Maid of Heart (Non-Player)
Strife Specibus: Clawkind
(DONE, BABEY! So, some quick details about the Hackspace setting to make sense of the quick facts here-
Hackspace took place in Homestuck’s post-story Universe C, the one with the Earth C that had trolls, humans, carapacians, and consorts all living together. In this version of Earth C, instead of everything going to shit, harmony reigns and as a result of cohabitation and trolls throwing off the shackles of Alternia’s bloody regime, a lot of weird stuff happens with trolls, including:
-Cuspbloods, which I like to imagine are a natural occurrence that was on Alternia was culled with brutal efficiency for the same reasons as any other mutants. Cucumber is the color on the cusp of olive and lime
-Nymphs, half-human and half-troll, arisen from the addition of human genetics to the mother grub’s brooding slurry. They’re prone to more mutation than your average troll but blood colors only go halfway up
-Jadelings are Nymphs that can specifically trace their heritage to Jade Harley, who the epilogue described as “fucking her way through Earth C’s populace”, which we let her continue doing in this setting but in a way that was less self-destructive. They have patchy white fur and powers similar to the most infinitesimal fraction of a first gaurdian’s, such as genuine teleportation or that green radioactive lightningfire.)
SKOUKO HERSELF, AS A PERSON, THOUGH-
Kind of accidentally represents all the worst of the worst of Jade Harley’s darkest moments, and was created as a minor antagonist-
A character who flirts with everyone whether they like it or not, won’t take no for an answer, and thinks they’re a casanova for doggedly pursuing a(nother) potential love interest, with a somewhat unpredictable temper.
Skouko is a malicious prankster who loves to set traps and small fires (which she can do with a snap of her fingers), toy with others and cause paranoia and fright, and then teleport in to reveal herself as the culprit in a sleazy and calculated black pass on anyone she finds attractive enough- disproportionately targeting cat-like olivebloods and easy-to-rile limebloods.
Skouko also enjoys a good mugging from time to time and tries to play up a gangster or street fighter persona, but despite her jadeling power, she isn’t remarkably effective in an all-out brawl, due to an irrecoverable limp and a missing toe on the other foot that heavily impacts her movement- she can’t teleport all the time.
It’s sheer luck that noone had beaten her ass already, especially considering one of the other characters coming up for FebruarOC... the plan, obviously, was for the one PC who was the next unfortunate target of her affections to do the honors.
FEBRUAROC, DAY 7, G: GRUZSCA, SONYA
Setting: Cauldron (Original)
Species: Human
Gender & Sexuality: Cis F Bi/Pan
Age, Height: 32, 5′7″
Occupation: [undergoing worldbuilding changes]
Sympathy Type: Ophiuroid
Trainer Class: Whisperer
Familiar Monster: Monkey Star (not pictured)
(Yeah, skipped F for now, because that character hasn’t been designed yet, and things are extremely tense at home, so the project is slowing down... it sucks, because I’m pretty passionate about actually completing this one.)
(There’s not enough I can really say about Sonya as a description, either, because of aforementioned worldbuilding changes kind of impacting her life history.)
Setting: Homestuck
Species: Troll (Indigo-blooded)
Gender & Sexuality: Cis M, Pansexual in all quadrants
Age, Height: 9.5 sweeps, 6′1″ including horns
Occupation: N/A
Caste Sign: Scutum (Sagicer on the Extended Zodiac)
Hero Role: Rogue of Blood
Strife Specibus: Shieldkind
(Yeah, I’m gonna start adding setting-specific information, too. I unfortunately didn’t leave enough room or energy so I really could’ve done better here... hope you enjoy him anyway.)
Zeorri Endtso is a bright-eyed, bushy-tailed, generally irrepressible highblood with a somewhat convoluted ancestry- the long story short of it is that his ancestor was a bronzeblood woman who was revived as a blueblooded cyborg and contributed to the gene pool in this state. While perfectly comfortable as a cis man, he’s also unerringly confident in himself and chooses to dress in a feminine style to honor his Valkyrie ancestor.
Zeorri is known among his friends for his boundless energy and can be draining to be around for those who aren’t accustomed to it or who require a more relaxed environment, throwing himself wholly into anything he does, be it theatrics or athletics, and like most bluebloods, enjoys a healthy round of gladiatorial combat, in which he brandishes a tower shield as if it were a mere length of plywood.
(I somewhat heavily redesigned this guy during the process of drawing him, though if anyone recognizes him... you’ve been following me longer than I have.
The choice of a dress for a uniform is completely utilitarian, but I’m pretty sure gender doesn’t exist in Mortasheen anyway, hence indeterminable sexuality.)
Roger DeSymbio is a humble and well-liked bellhop and waiter in the popular Ray D.H. Inn, an upscale hotel catering specifically to arthropoids and other radiation tolerant citizens of Mortasheen, and his own two monsters reflect this so as to be able to work with him- a Chernoblab and a Chernoblench. There isn’t much more that I’ve ever done with him, to be perfectly honest, so there’s little else to say.
Setting: Mortasheen (@bogleech)
Species: Etc.
Gender & Sexuality: Indeterminable (She/Her)
Age, Height: ~123 years, Usually 5′7″
Occupation: Mad Scientist
Trainer Class: Feral Mad Scientist
YGORE: Scolomorph
Familiar: Bat
(This drawing could probably be better; you might not even be able to tell what’s going on with her. But I was tired, after doing day 4′s character first, and much better.)
Sidney is a sentient mass of silk born in the depths of the Crawling Wood, an unfortunate location for an arachnophobic entity, crawling with so many different types of spiders and spider-based monsters. Luckily for Sidney, she’s actually the spawn of silk-spinning centipedes, and so is theoretically never forced to interact with any arachnoids, nor is she in any real danger from them, but you can’t go more than six feet in the woods without running into at least seven of them. Sidney spends her time hiding from this reality in a broken down RV she found, watching anime over the psychonet while desperately hoping the woods themselves eventually crawl out from under her, a valid but unlikely possibility.
(I never did design her wings, so that’s why they’re so undetailed. She got them by drinking a mutagenic drug, as one does.)
A half-orc born to the unusual circumstance of a loving union, Roko grew up without the chip on her shoulder that most half-orcs have, and thusly can talk her way out of any situation- and that’s how, on session TWO, she unintentionally made this smokin’ hot minor villainess fall in love with her after talking about the enormity of the world and the impact your choices can make on the lives of others- a minor villainess who followed us around, renounced her evil faith, adopted the faith of the sun goddess, and began dating a half-orc who taught her that few people are beyond forgiveness if they truly repent.
(And the only time you’ll see that string of words under “gender and sexuality” probably, lol. On the 1st, I had a vague day-long anxiety attack, so everything is going to be behind by a day now. It’s alright, I’m missing a few letters anyway, so I’ll catch up.)
Claire Applebee was born in the southern states of the Occidental Alliance, a setting much like the midwest of the USA, to a simple god-fearing conservative ranching family. She grew up happily enough as a ranch-hand and despite her lanky build demonstrates significant physical strength as a result of working with heavy, stubborn livestock.
Sometime after turning eighteen, Claire’s family pulled a lot of money out of savings to send her to a metropolitan area up north, Santa Malva, so she could get a better education than her small town could offer and than anyone in her family had. Here she experienced some culture shock among the extremely multicultural milieu of the area- not only is not everyone white and religious, half the people aren’t even human! She does her best to adapt; southern hospitality and good manners can’t rightly be left at home simply because one is no longer presently in the south.
Her favorite monster type is of course, arachnids, because, oh yeah, the ranch she grew up in? Giant spiders farmed for their silk.
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