@6415catgoddesses
FIRST:Alterania
Name (preferably include how you came up with it and why):Algiea Actsum- Algiea comes from algae, and Actsum is Latin for Actor.
I get that he’s a seadweller, but that doesn’t mean he Needs a strictly water-themed first name, and I want to give him a surname that’s a little more fun than Just vaguely pointing at his strong overarching theme.
How about Trinel Macavi? Trinel comes from Cyril Trimnell-Ritchard, the first man to play Captain Hook in the Peter Pan musical. Macavi comes from Macavity, the main villain of Cats The Musical! You said he tends to play the villains in his performances, so here’s two really famous villains that he could thrive playing.
Age:Around 7 sweeps
Strife Specibus:Bayonetkind- He doesn’t actually carry around bullets. Just the musket w/ the bayonet.
It makes sense, since it probably looks or functions much like a prop weapon that way! Until he stabs someone with it.
Fetch Modus:Playbill- Everything he wants to store, he has to write up a silly plotline- it can be as short or long as he wants, though he gets carried away sometimes. It’s stored as a playbill.
How does he take things out? Does he have to like, act out the story? Monologue it? Get his pals in on the performance? Because that’d be pretty funny.
Blood color:Violet.
Symbol and meaning:It’s just a circle with a wavy line through it. It doesn’t really mean anything.
I might fiddle with it, but we’ll see.
Trolltag: He changes it, based on what play he’s on- Like, Troll Hamilton, it’s canticusAnarchy. It always starts with canticus, though, Latin for musical.
That’s a fun idea, I like that a lot. Self-promoting his work, truly an icon.
Quirk:Proper grammar when typing and talking to people he wants to impress, and uses lazy talking/typing (no capital, little punctuation) with close friends. Always replaces O/o with Ø/ø.
Of course he uses those slashy o’s. Symbol or not, theater kids are just dramatic like that. I think maybe you could have him EN-UN-CI-ATE when he’s trying to make a point. Just put dashes between letters to symbolize that he’s REALLY saying all those syllables.
Ex: This play will be E-LEC-TRI-FY-ING.
Special Abilities (if any): None? Seadweller, i guess.
Lusus: Bigass sea dragon with horns that resemble Algiea’s, front fins and no back fins, and spines along his back.
Dragons are fun, but a little obvious and not very grounded in any Specific References, so… maybe a two-headed eel, as a reference to flotsam and jetsam? Ooh, or a Grendel-like lusus, a bit aquatic monster who is really, really hard to damage.
Personality: Cocky, in an i-know-i’m-better-that-you way. Tries hard to pretend he isn’t trying hard to impress. Never sleeps, trading sleep for caffeine. Sometimes, seadradad forces him to stay in his bed. For an esteemed playwright, his room is messy as hell- Playbills everywhere, a keyboard tied in place from floating with a string, a never-made bed, pages of scripts and sheet music everywhere. He keeps an above-water stage over his hive when he feels like impressing people, which is pretty often.
Creative types can often be messy… I like this a lot! A young genius, very skilled and talented, trying hard to impress and show off for others… His design is clearly inspired by some oldtimey outfits, so I imagine you’re at least slightly basing his personality off of the character Hamilton (since that was the play you chose to reference in your trolltag)? Which I think is neat. Ambitious, hardworking, rising to the top quick as he can, prrrobably making a lot of enemies along the way. He’s a violet, so he can get away with writing really incendiary plays, too! …Though if he’s mostly trying to impress people he might do more like, faux deep plays that seem really meaningful to highblood patrons but lowbloods tend to roll their eyes at.
Interests: Impressing people? Musical and plays. Often plays the villian character. Writing, too. A good singer, and knows piano.
I love all of that. Maybe he could like musical composition in general, then, too. A virtuoso, a man who has many skills. He could like the Drama, too, and could like competing with others? He could want his opening nights to always be the Biggest and the Best.
Title: Something of Time.
Why do you write like you’re running out of time
I kind of like the idea of him being a Prince of Time. If only because Princely Villains are an at least semi-common theme in plays. The active destroyer of time, he could tear apart the seams of history to make a lovely costume to wear. Just rip out the fabric of the historical timeline and passively create a new space, a new little world with his plays. Fascinating, Dangerous potential for a playwright like him.
Land:It was Land of Theater and Waiting, but it sounds stupid to me now.
How about the Land of Revisionism and Ebony, your boy is tasked with rewriting the history of an ebony-key planet torn by war in order to inspire and bring about a Maybe just slightly ill-conceived but well-intentioned revolution, maybe playing the villain just again in order to rile up the people.
Dream Planet:Probably Derse.
I gotta agree, with his tendency to try to impress others and put on a performative self.
Design:
Honestly there’s not a lot I’d change about his design! At least not enough to justify a full resprite/redraw, so I decided to just edit what you handed me.
Gave him some undereye bags, edited his horns to reflect the changes I made to the symbol, and got rid of the purpley inner-fin thing you drew? Which doesn’t show up in the sprites and looks a little cluttered, so isn’t necessary! I moved his earrings on that side to the bottom of the fin to make up for this.
The symbol itself I kept largely the same, but put some more straight lines in it because violet signs need that v look to their aesthetic. And I moved it to the correct blood color (the one you had was a bit off), of course.
That’s about it, though! Thank you for sharing this guy!
-CD