this post is from late september. there was more art i wanted to add to it, but having these drafts is driving me up a wall. so when i finish more i'll add more.
brief refs under the cut for original characters i may never use again?! (from the future: i did actually end up drawing and using these characters again)
no pronouns or they/them for all.
Mail World has always been a very lax and relatively sparse Dark World, though it's slowly sprung to a sleepy kind of life as time's gone on. It used to be relatively self-sustained, as there was little to do, but many of the darker corners of the post office were dangerous and empty enough to prompt Mail Darkners to stay in small pockets of civilization. It wasn't much, but it was honest living.
Aolton showed up not too long after the Mail World's leader, Granny (a desktop computer) did. Their collective arrival brightened up the post office, making Mail World more habitable and more colorful than before. It was a sudden change, uncertain and exciting, and Aolton leapt into bridging the gap between the new digital and old physical Mail Worlds. Granny has always been sweet and gentle (though very much a pushover), so Aolton is seen as her official advisor of a type. Something to be noted is that the post office computer is small and holds very little, so outside of its internet connection, Mail World's digital section is incredibly small. So, the digital inhabitants prefer living with the physical darkners.
Aolton, Baronial, and C4 are Mail World's long-standing addisons and so stuck together as close friends/partners. Other addisons of every kind have come and gone--including Spamton's parent (our Pink Senior Addison), who knows the three well. All three survived into the present, but Aolton and Baronial changed drastically moving into the new era. C4 stayed the same.
Aolton cleaned up their act and shook off their addictions, though they still remain (and are able to be more of) themself.
Baronial has gotten less exuberant and more reserved as time has gone on--saddened by the steady slow of handwritten letters. However, Baronial is just as passionate and simply redirects energy into being qualitative over quantitative.
C4 still has many facts to infodump about when prompted.
I’ve been doing some pondering in my cave as of late and,,
I remeber back during Ad-tober, one of the comics you posted was Cliq meeting Spamton - Spamton says smth about his parent, and Cliq assumes that there are White Senior Addisons, to which Spamton says no
So now I have to ask,,
DO White Senior Addisons exist? Are they just like hella rare, “one in a million” types? #MyRareMail ?
BUT ALSO if upon reaching seniority, an Addison gets lighter in hue,, IF White Seniors existed,, what would that mean for them is it just like staring into the sun 👁️
(not a comic, but this is the piece that 3nder's referring to. i am still happy with it!)
the section you are referencing:
now, to your question:
DO White Senior Addisons exist?
we have met one before; it is just that they were not a senior back in that time period. (that, and spamton had not been shown mail world yet.)
it's rare for any sort of senior addison to exist. it's not necessarily rarer to see a white senior than any other color senior, but it is still true otherwise that (digital) white addisons are much harder to come by than other addisons.
Changes Senior Addisons undergo
a lightening in hue is the most common and universal change senior addisons undergo, but they can sometimes change beyond that (often through their own choices and interests).
when aolton (above white senior addison) became a senior, they physically changed in several different ways:
natural light blue accents changed into natural multicolored accents
stature changed somewhat
eyes
glow did get brighter, but i think it is more that their glow was rather dim when they were a junior
this was less a senior addison-induced change, and more a personal growth moment, but: aolton bucked their drug habits and gained some weight (clothes fit them a lot better)
for some seniors, changes are nearly imperceptible. for other seniors, they look like completely different ads. exhibit b:
