luna waterwright / moved to night sprinkles! / rider level 26 / they/them / adult / just a blog for sso specific stuff since my other blog is just a ton of nonsense + my art / other blog is @syn-amin
idk bro the pic is finally done sighs with relief but also sorrow. i may do their horses next :3
some facts about them below the cut (minor content warnings for mental health issues, substance abuse, that sort of a thing)
it's a long text below but if anyone's interested at all about the au itself i am more than willing to answer any questions (there is an ask box for anonymous' too)!! i love yapping
lisa
ptsd sufferer, never really got over her mother's death but does not like talking about it. handles death as a topic with a stiff anger and doesn't know how to reassure folks
student in star academy, on a gap year due to burnout/personal issues (this is when she meets starshine in my au!)
plays the guitar/sings well, BUT is also passionate about dance
loves punk rock :3
is in an on-off relationship with josh, but due to poor communication and his depressive tendencies they fall off quite a lot :// it's a really bittersweet relationship
her healing powers tend to peak during winter and specific dates (it is theorized that these dates signify major battles of the past/harsh winters from the time of the previous soul riders)
doesn't rly want to be a soul rider in the first place
linda
got moved after begging for years back to jorvik from the university where her parents work as professors. she is a student in history in jorvik city's university
but she's able to study from a distance a lot
loves hee studies and is an avid history enthusiast, but overworks herself and is often stressed to the point of nausea
distanced herself from parents because she didn't want to be a disappointment
has vivid dreams (some of which have to do with her visions; some of her dreams tend to have visions mixed in)
thrives in taking the leading role and being a soul rider
anne
the evil bisexual (i'm jk but she is more morally dubious than the rest)
raised rich, lived rich, never made any friends beside the few that rode along her fame and wealth. as a kid she was forced into beauty pageants and as an adult she became a dressage rider/model
has the hardest time bonding with animals (even concorde) due to her being raised to view them as something you can benefit from
has a really hard time maintaining relationships and not scheming all the time. she was taught everyone's sketchy and wants something so that's how she also views the world. she is also constantly afraid that her facade will wear off and that people will start viewing her as someone regular and vulnerable
very bad relationship with her mother, but they treat one another with a cool passiveness
alex
has a major crush on anne that she cloaks into anger and a snarky comment
from a poor family in a poor area, is the oldest of six siblings and was forced to seek a job early to take care of them (her mother was incapable for reasons)
loves her family but left them at some point after james had also left (feels guilty about it all the time) james is also the only one in her family that she stays in contact with regularly.
lives with herman, he lets her stay in the attic
clothes always messy from oil and grime from her work (she works as a mechanic at the stables)
doesn't rly know how to ride a horse
nicole
former competitive rider, came to jorvik for a vacation after her accident (speed driving after a dramatic loss in her first olympics)
was forced to quit riding after losing her leg, though she may go on easy trail rides or do light groundwork
herman hired her as a riding instructor at jorvik stables, which is how she came to know lisa + the rest, as well as the dark riders (though she knows nothing about that business lol)
religion plays a big role in her life unfortunately
lives in a house by the sea, and has two horses with her, her competitive gelding kerry and her old connemara fiodha
things that (in my perfect world) SSE would bring back
cold resistant horses
reputation locked horses
buying horses with shillings
level locked horses
level locked items
day blockers
location locked items !!! incentivize people to explore and go to the mall. turn the global store into more of like. a catalogue
dark night sky fuck the light pollution we have going on these days
actually evil/threatening villains
an actual difficult/potentially grindy/immersive element to training horses
having to spam w / be mindful of your horse's gait (i understand they removed this for accessibility purposes - maybe they could let you toggle it on/off)
raptor playing at the mall every thursday
COLD RESISTANT HORSES
regional trailers
the yellow-tinted colour scheme (as opposed to the blue-tint we have now)
not necessarily the old UI but i have to be honest i really do not like the current UI it is so. it is
having to care for your horse multiple times per session
having to wait for the bus !!!
personality for the character designs please... everything looks like fortnite now
having to care for your horses at a stable, not just anywhere on the map
geeking out over the npcs in marchenghast castle. genuinely so amazing to see how far character design has come in this game, especially when it comes to the male models!! there are a few i've been mesmerized by just watching their animations and how interesting their facial structures are
i logged on this morning to see my game's image was mirrored (sorta like a water reflection kinda thing). i uninstalled reshade and got the newest version that was released a few days ago, and it still has the same problem. i even went thru the shaders i have and turned off all effects but to no avail. did sso make reshade unusable or is this user error???
the haunted trail ride is so insanely glitched that it's making it near impossible for me to play
when i got drowned by the songsorrow, it took me to the portal by the trailer at goldenleaf stables, when i got hit by falling rocks it took me there too, same goes for when i jumped too far off a cliff.
problem is i literally can't get back onto the trail area because one of those flame walls appears by the trail portal
jus wanted to complain cuz damn i'm gonna have to play thru this so carefully just to complete it
Bless up to the person who called this out on Reddit. Star stable is once again working with AI, this time in their music.
I could accept the shitty, hastily put together excuse that the Spotify banner was a mistake. Firing real artists is not a mistake. Signing a contract with a company that says this about AI is not a mistake.
Boldly and proudly watching on as someone declares that your values, and we as your audience, align with ai slop, is not a mistake. Having wanted to do this SINCE 2023 when you first heard of dj dex proves that the AI art wasnāt really a fucking mistake either.
Iām going to shoot your servers
I will point out, nowhere have I personally read that all of the music is generated in an AI program. The only references Iāve seen to AI is in the programming and her voice, which allows her to be used as a chatbot. However seeing as she sings in the Stay song used in the Fort Pinta disco, there are at absolute best pieces of AI generated bullshit in the actual songs used by SSO.
āMommy Sabine could step on meā mommy Sabine threw a hissy fit because no one paid attention to her and then stood around for four weeks watching other people enjoy themselves while she was seething in the corner. The reason you think of her as a mommy is because she acts like a Karen. Mommy Sabine is about to kill herself if one more person is rude to her, kitten.
āPeople are having fun without me so Iām gonna,., grrr oh man this time theyāre really gonna get it, Iām gonna free their balloons!ā You look 40, do you not have more important things to do. Pay your taxes. āOh no itās the power of friendship, better say an edgy one-liner and skedaddleā mommy Sabine youāre doing too much without committing to the aesthetic and itās very pathetic. Mommy Sabine are you dressing like a biker because of the midlife crisis rather than it being true to who you are as a person.
Like Iām sorry but sabine is aura loss personified and that is why she is the funniest character to me.
i really love lisa's design from star academy; it's so grungy and fun and feels like she was heavily inspired by avril lavinge, which would most definitely have appealed to younger kids at the time. i wish they still kept her grungy look, rather than redesigning her to look like a millennial. make lisa look like a real edgy teenager again!!!
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