Finally settling on a final colour and pattern scheme for Raffi, my TADC oc. I went with the yellow for her since a lot of the cast are already red/blues and purple, so being yellow separates her slightly. I'll likely use the purple form for outside TADC stuff as I just like drawing her!
Raffi is a circus member who seems to like living in the circus and comes off as a bit aloof (Jax would say snooty).
She acts content and calm in the circus because in the real world she’s dying of a terminal throat cancer that’s spread in her body. Dying an inevitable painful death < living in the childish virtual circus world forever (to her).
Ended up in the circus after being fed up with her predicament and everyone's opinions on it; so against doctors’ orders she goes for a long hike. Ends up lost and with no signal/battery (lol idiot). But this abandoned building looks like it has power and may have a phone/security guard with phone...
Deep down she’s full of regrets on what she could have archived and relationships she should have maintained; just like everyone else. But she just knows escape can’t be an option (she is either going to a very sick and dying body or it's already long dead).
Pain is good in adventures; she sees it as reminding her she's alive and that cartoon destruction is far better than the pains she experienced in real life. So she just (outwardly) brushes it all off.
Comes across as snooty because she sounds posh (‘Queens English’ accent and acts like she had ‘An education’) and distances herself from the others outside adventures.
But really she is someone who travelled around and did a lot of menial jobs to fund any artistic pursuits she had (dancing, singing, fashion and painting). Jack of all trades but certainly master of none.
Struggles to talk to the circus members on a meaningful level. It’s hard to associate when you think what is ‘you’ is already dead in your mind (not that she ever knew who she really was either). And what are you in this world? A flamboyant giraffe?
Pomni may be the one to remind her that Raffi must be alive here, otherwise they wouldn’t be fighting to exist so hard. Who ‘you’ are can be figured out easier with others.
Pomni would get her out of her repeating rut of avoiding others, and turns out Raffi has a more ‘Manic Auntie’ quality to her; giving and acting out (both smart and bad on purpose) advice. It’s more fun!
After Caine’s death and crash out, she is NOT DOING WELL and the simmering anger will bubble forth as her ‘Digital afterlife’ seems to have ended in hell.
She’ll crash out, but with the other members she’s finally reaching out to, she may recover.
When she holds her breath; the colour and patterns on her body change shape and colours) They look like this!:
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