With the amount of people asking to draw ocs nows a Good time to mention the fact that i obviously love people slapping headcanons or questions onto my characters, gives me more ideas and a reason to ramble about minor lore :)
With that in mind folks have some reference sheets of some characters (others coming soon) to fulfill your drawing desires
Some minor facts:
Theres gonna be a running joke that caff just stares into the fourth wall when she's in her title defense mood, use that to your advantage
If you wanna think of ravens title defense design use an albino turkey vulture (yes thats a literally bird) for a reference
I FORGOT THE ANTI DOUBLE HEALS ON CARMEN?!
Well thats awkward, the first anti heal is contender where she'll toss an empty perfume bottle at the water bottle in a careless fashion, the second one is essentially throwing her shoe at it in title defense.
Vicky's title defense was actually inspired by a picture another WVBA showed me (plus her special punch)
The only fact for ardin is that she is very sleep deprived in title defense, use that for any humor you can (this will be explained in the future)
And now we return to your regular schedule of mak's randomness
In the full irony of what happened in the past hours we won't be talking about anymore i recently gave a "demo" design for caff and a redesign for ardin! (Under cut but yeah
Caffs gacha design is still in the works.
I'm also working on a road map for 2025. so be ready for that
This is just a head + info thingy but yeah she's coming along nicely! Not more i can say for her atm
Biggest fucking glow up in an oc i had (og design for reference)
And to list of the changes:
Skin actually has color!! Whoa!!
Her hair was changed from the messy one to a more neat one, if i had to describe it think of spo arans hair.
Outfit changed to be more in character to what i think a twin of ryan would wear. Pants didn't change but the belt did!
Shoes went from black to green with teal.
And finally: added back her squiggly iris's and gave her somewhat visible eye bags to remind everyone this gal doesn't sleep much!
thanks to atypical-artisan for helping with the errors!
given that it's a mini story i'll post it here to, but for those who like ao3 stuff i'll give the link here
story in undercut!
The locker room was pure bliss and quiet, with only a cat and water bowl in the entire room.
Well that ended as Ardin slammed the door open, prideful of her victory against the cat's owner.
“Maybe train harder and you can win a world fight one day Vicky.”
“I am begging you to actually shut up.” Vicky muttered as she headed to her locker. “Hi Katz. Hope you didn't feel too lonely.”
Vicky petted Katz, who let out a satisfied purr, as she proceeded to open her locker.
“You're just upset that I won and you didn't.” Ardin said, slightly in a mocking tone as she opened her locker and took a bag out. “And I would love to keep rubbing it in. But i got shit to do so goodbye ‘emper-”
Ardin ran right into the door backing up just a bit to comprehend what was happening.
“The feck?” “what?” “The bloody door is stuck?” “Wh-”
ardin kicked the door, which still wasn't moving.
“The damn thing is stuck!”
“What?! How the hell? came in!”
“The devils light. algún nombre español al azar? Im not even gonna try to pronounce this one- jesus fuck aran where did you get these?” “Oh like i'm rattin’ anyone out to you, lucky.” “I'm more impressed by how you kept crates in your locker than anything.”
“They put fireworks in front of the fucking door.” Ardin muttered.
“You can hear?”
“Barely.”
Ardin backed away from the doors.
“Normally I would just set the damn things off but i'm very certain lucky is there and well they aren't livin’ up their name in the “don't get hurt” department.”
Vicky rolled her eyes.
“And worst is that the other exit is the gyms and that's getting a deep clean. Any ideas?”
Ardin held up a phone.
“Call them?” “Yes! Cal- wait a fucking minute.” Vicky patted her pockets before snatching her phone back.
“You shouldn't have that in the ring ya know.”
“For your information it was- ah damn it. It's dead.”
Vicky placed her phone in her pocket before turning to Ardin.
“Left mine in my bike.”
“What?”
“Under the seat is hollow so I can put bags and whatever in it.”
Ardin walked over to her locker and opened it.
“In due time they're gonna move those damn things to the basement.”
Vicky muttered, before looking over at Ardin. Curiosity getting the best of her.
Ardin wasn't one to allow her locker to be seen for some reason. So the fact she was crouched down definitely gave a spot to look in it. Vicky walked over just enough to see the inside.
It was very neat. Literally there were six different first aid kits on the locker well. A clear space where her bag would have gone.. oh hey that's why, she had a whole bottle of liquor stashed in the corner. Her gloves were neatly hung up, weird Vicky didn't notice her take them off, she shrugged and started to walk to her locker when she saw the locker door.
It had pictures on it, lots. Some were of Aran, some of Andrew who Vicky didn't recognize much, some of two other people, one of the two being lucky, And some of a couple of birds, with captions of lunar under a yellow one and solar under the black one, and a dog, who had no captions. The only stand outish picture was one that had two sticky notes on the end covering two people up. With one having Angel wings and halo while the other had devil horns and tail. Curious Vicky tried to take them off.
Only for the locker to slam shut and Ardin looking pissed.
“Now I know feckin' better than to assume your dad out there didn't teach you not to touch people's shit!”
She shouted. Vicky immediately backed up at that, not really knowing what to say as Ardin’s eyes showed icy glares. After a bit, Ardin rolled her eyes, growled, and picked up the liquor bottle and slightly shut the door.
“You uh know you shouldn't-”
“oh please you and those mystery rules you have, what's next you're gonna see my hair is not up to code? Give me a break.” Ardin Opened the bottle and took a swig at it.
“Ok but that's still bad!”
“God, do you ever shut up! You know this is why you and your father are 2nd in the Minor circuit!” Ardin turned and looked at Vicky. “You're too obsessed with your looks, you criticize others unwarranted, and you are actin’ like you're one of the feckin' officials!”
Ardin shouted before grumbling something and headed to the sinks. Vicky was shocked at the whole altercation. And just sat down on the bench as Katz jumped up to her.
The two sat in silence for a good while, not much to say after something like that, outside the purring from Katz. Looking at the time it was nearly 10.
“God, we've been here a while.” Vicky thought. Before sighing and going over to Ardin, holding Katz like a doll.
“Hey Ardin, uh.”
Ardin gave a glare, and her hand moved into a position where her thumb was the ceiling. Vicky had a sense of dread loom over her.
“Uh, I just wanted to say sorry.”
Ardin had a look of confusion as Vicky said that.
“I know I tend to be. Um, what's the word?”
“Annoying and obnoxious?”
“..right..”
Vicky looked awkwardly at the mirror, not really knowing exactly what to say before Ardin sighed.
“Lass you don't need to apologize.”
Vicky looked very confused as she turned back to Ardin.
“Huh?” “Look.”
Ardin pushed the bottle away before looking at Vicky.
“It was an overreaction. On my part. You were just curious and-”
“No, it was completely reasonable.”
Vicky placed Katz on the counter as she said that.
“It was your stuff. I shouldn't have tried to mess with it. And you're right.”
Vicky placed her arms on the sink.
“I’m constantly nagging folks about everything. I know I shouldn't, they aren't kids in the rookie league but you know I just worry about them.”
“oh i know that feeling.”
Vicky did a double take on what Ardin said before looking at her bewildered.
“Huh?” “Well not with everyone. Just a few.”
Ardin grabbed the bottle and jokingly offered it to Vicky, who refused.
“And those few are?” “Me brothers, caff, and zoid.”
Vicky had a more confused look, before she opened her mouth Ardin put a finger up.
“I can explain them.”
She took another swig of the bottle before pushing it away.
“Look. Me brothers should be oblivious. Aran is constantly cheating, getting his arms hurt at least once a week, and Andrew? Hah that guy couldn't even keep his anger under control if he wanted.”
Ardin looked at the mirror, albeit almost lonely.
“Caff and zoid are another story. Zoid is just 17 years old, vic. She doesn't know what could happen to her here. Sure we are very close to the Canada border but c'mon that's not comforting to someone with common sense. And caff…”
Ardin sighed before looking at Vicky again.
“Don't tell me you don't think something off about her.”
Vicky was more concerned and confused now than ever.
“I think you had enough..” “no i'm serious! You ever see her around for long? You ever notice how every lost seems to have her go emotionless in rematches? How she looks at her coach with fear?”
Vicky took a moment to process that. Come to think of it, Caff was actually scheduled for a fight this morning but nobody actually seen her after it. Actually the fact ardin noticed all that.
“Wait, how did you notice all that and not any of us? I'm certain raven would have stepped in if she saw it.”
Ardin had a look of upset and pain before she covered her face. “Cause those were the same fucking reaction me siblings had with dad.”
Vicky looked shocked upon hearing that. As Ardin just sighed.
“I. I can't go into details but it wasn't anything physical. The bastard was just a drug Loving drunk who oh so loved to put his insecurities on us. Roree and Andrew specifically.”
Ardin reached for the bottle but Vicky just pulled it away.
“Ardin. Why didn't- “
“cause frankly it didn't matter. But it landed them in situations they shouldn't have been in, you know me and lucky aren't the only ones who needed a hospital stay? I'm glad the bastard’s dead but.”
Ardin bit her hand which caused Vicky to automatically pull it away. Ardin just pulled back.
“But what?”
Ardin looked down before sighing.
“The last time he was bailed out by my mother was the last day we seen either of them alive. Drunk driver crashed into them. He died instantly, and he just had to drag her with.”
Vicky looked at Ardin with pity for a bit.
“I wish we could trade mother's then.”
Ardin looked at Vicky.
“Ah right your dads single. What happened to your mom?” “Oh nothing as bad as she deserved.”
Ardin was shocked to hear that Vicky was always kind when talking about others so this was a surprise.
“Sorry sorry. I know that's out of character but- but she's just one of those I can't see redemption in.”
Now Vicky was the one taking swigs out of the bottle before she continued.
“She's still alive. She left me and dad when I was around 7. Wanted nothing to do with me. Wanted her own mini her! Can you believe that? So when she tried everything and it failed she sent me to military school. Jokes on her dad got me into boxing class.”
Vicky chuckled at that part.
“She left a year before the school closed. Then we moved here and never saw her again.”
Ardin put a hand on Vicky's shoulder before yanking the bottle away.
“You had enough.”
There was a pause before both of them started laughing, mainly at the whole thing.
“God what is this therapy? We get trapped in the locker rooms and next we're complaining about our parents!”
Vicky said, causing concern in katz.
“Fuck sake really. This is the weakest either one of us has been huh?”
Ardin went back to her locker and put the bottle away. The two stopped laughing eventually but another thing hit them as they looked at each other.
“Let's um. Let's just take this to the grave, ja?” “Ay you read my mind- uh is that smoke?”
Ardin pointed at the door as Vicky walked over and looked at it.
“And..sparks?”
The two looked at eachother, and remembered that the door opened both ways.
“I suggest we take cover.” “Yeah that's a good plan.”
The two dashed off in different directions just as a firework shot into the room. More to follow. Vicky grabbed Katz and hid under the sinks while Ardin hid in the showers. Colorful lights blinding the two as they closed their eyes, vicky shielding Katz eyes and ears, until they suddenly stopped.
A ringing was still being heard as Ardin got out of the shower. Located vicky and pulled her out from under the sinks just as lucky popped their head in.
“What the- you both were in here the whole time?!” “Yeah! Did you all forget or what?!”
Deedee walked in, trying to put a small flame out and looked at the damages.
“Honestly we didn't know how heavy those things actually were. Or how fragile they were to just go off. What the hell were you two doing in here without calling us anyways?”
Vicky and Ardin looked at each other before shrugging.
So while the polls still up its very clear you all want blood to be written. So yeah unless that somehow changes we got an obvious story winner. (Their all plans dw i just wanted to see what people wanted first)
So heres a funny on a cut draft
It was gonna imply Vicky went and knocked ardin out with a fire extinguisher and it got me thinking of this meme so here it is
This story really went to "talking about Australia slang to horseshoes to someone being a dick to ardin smashing their brains in to "she really just did that huh?" Like it was a daily occurrence." In a matter of minutes.
Is this gonna be in the final version? Mmm probs not.
So i did the stupid move of not uses a tutorial on our good 'friend' Aran Ryan (super punch out, i don't have a wii yet :( )
Another limitation in art, i can't draw men that well. So the undercut is gacha version for any punch out peeps who don't want to see a butchered aran ryan spo gacha version.
