It was hard to think of something…but I settled on Hadri being in a goofy space themed band with their daughter. I remembered that I used to have Kid play guitar so I thought it’d be cute to have them perform together! But they’re not very good…like ‘My Pal Foot Foot’ level music. It’s more of a bonding thing for them. Hadri is also a regular flesh and blood person here but the setting is still something with non-human people cause it’s neat.
They’re good enough to play at public venues and have a small fanbase, which is how I met them! They play at a restaurant I’m eating at, and at first I think to myself “Oh my god who let these guys play?”. But after listening to them more and watching them have fun as a family I get emotional. Kid notices and she and Hadri come talk to me after the show to see if I’m alright. I’m so overwhelmed by the gesture that I wind up getting close to them and sort of working with them (handling appointments, setting up their equipment, stuff like that).
I don’t have much more planned past that but it was fun to think about! Thank you for the ask!
I had a lot of thoughts for this! It took awhile to figure out exactly what I wanted. I have some more ideas but I think I’ll just add them on to this later when/if I decide to. Also, someone asked for a Romantic Comedy AU…I have no idea what to do for that. I’m so sorry, my brain just isn’t wired like that! I’ll think more about it but I apologize in advance if I don’t have a response to it
Yeah, I don’t know if I’ll ever be happy with how I draw myself. The skeleton face thing was inspired by Hone Onna from Hell Girl! I thought it would be a cool way of keeping the skeleton trait in this universe. It’s ghostly! It’s not a very useful vampire ability though.
I thought about making Hadri a bug at first but it’s hard to deny the appeal of a classic bat vampire. Wings are hard to draw…but they’re fluffy and cute! They can still shapeshift too, since that’s a cool vampire trait.
In this universe, Hadri is sort of that trope of the First Vampire. I don’t have the specifics planned out but they’re an ancient creature that can transfer abilities to others through blood. They’ve turned a lot of other people but they didn’t get the community they were hoping for. One of them stays with them and works as their Tailor but they aren’t really close. Just associates. Hadri lives with him in a big abandoned castle. Every now and then, Hadri leaves to go get more blood.
I’m a normal woman living in town but I don’t really get along with my family so I leave home. I’m not able to take much with me and I realize that I’m woefully unprepared for the path I’m taking. I keep walking, getting more lost, running out of supplies. Eventually I can’t do anything but rest and enjoy the quiet forest. It’s a nice moment. And then I die!
Hadri finds me awhile later. They’re curious why someone would be all the way out here. They scoop me up and take me back to the castle because it’s a perfect opportunity to try something they’ve been experimenting with: raising the dead. And it works! Unfortunately I didn’t get any cool vampire powers but I am alive, so that’s something. Hadri is surprised to see I’m so calm about the vampire stuff and even more that I’m grateful and want to help them. I can’t do much since I’m so weak so the only thing they can think to do is to offer me a role as a maid.
Our relationship is pretty close. Hadri thinks I’m so interesting since they don’t really get a look into human life often. They also think my appetite for blood is funny (I like my steak pretty rare, combined with new vampire cravings I don’t think blood would bother me much). I’m a little scared of them at first but they don’t give me a reason to stay afraid of them so I’m fairly open with them. Honestly…I think they’d fall in love first. I just don’t think this version of me would even be thinking about having a relationship. Hadri would probably not bring it up either for a variety of reasons. I don’t have a clear idea of how we would get together here but it would probably be a ‘feelings accidentally revealed’ - ‘oh hey that would actually be really cool’ kind of situation.
Anyway, I don’t know how I will do things with this but I want to! This is being microwaved in my mind somewhere. I think it’s kind of interesting because my oc universe is usually very Soul based and this is like a Blood based version of that! Except I am also there and involved more. (I have no idea how I’d work myself into the normal canon lol)
Oh also, I just want to mention that I love the DS Castlevanias. I used to just explore randomly on my brother’s completed files. Soma Cruz is really cool! Such pretty art and cool monster designs. I don’t remember much about Castlevania these days though :p
Thanks for the ask! I hope this was interesting to read!
I am bouncing between various wips but I feel possessed to share some music because...I really like sharing music ;u;
So! Here are some songs that give me fluffy feelings. They're not really specific to Hadri and I but if I have something to say, I'll mention it.
X BS - Still Woozy
X I Want You - Marian Hill
X Such Great Heights - The Postal Service
X honey thighs - strongboi
X Lemon Eyes - Meg Myers
X Emmylou - First Aid Kit
X Will Do - TV On The Radio
X Frequency - Sylvan Esso
X Thank you, my twilight (Fool on cool version) - the pillows
X Talk to You - Ricky Montgomery(Saw another self-ship person mention this one! I won't mention them specifically but if you know you know and if you are reading this I love the vibe with you two and this song, it's very sweet)
X Be Still My Heart - The Postal Service
X 1mm - showmore (The singing in this one is so pretty! So much emotion! Down right longing!)
X Till the End Of Time - DeVotchKa
X Loverboy - A-wall (Kind of a more negative song, but the chorus is cute. Also a bop.)
X Jitterbug (MEIKO and Hatsune Miku) - 栗山夕璃 / Van de Shop (Love this one! Also one that's I suppose more specific? Some of the lyrics make me think of Hadri like 'who cares! ignore those idiots!' and 'your one and only scorching laser light' [cause of their bright eyes] Generally though, has a fun 'us against the world vibe'.)
X Take Me Dancing - Will Joseph Cook
X Meet Me At Out Spot - THE ANXIETY, WILLOW & Tyler Cole
X Feelin' So Matryoshka - The Scary Jokes
X Weekend - Last Dinosaurs
X Renai Circulation - Monogatari Series
X For Real - Mallrat (Reccomend this one 100%, impecable vibes! Maybe a little sad? I'm not sure. Feels nostalgic)
X Northern Star - Dom Fera (Recently found this and it's been playing on repeat in my head, lovely! The lyrics, the sentiment...!)
X Combat Baby - Metic
X Be Sweet - Japanese Breakfast
X Window - Still Woozy
X Funky at Heart - Studio Killers
X Take On Me - A-ha(A classic and also, I do think of Hadri heavily when I hear this. I would do anything to hear them sing some of this. I wouldn't make them hit the high notes but! I wish I could hear them say things in general...I one time got so desperate that I looked for "listener x" with their vocal headcanon but I found nothing. Anyway, I get very flustered when I hear this out of the blue.)
Well, thank you if you read this. Or if you checked any of these out. I hope it was something! Art soon[tm] hopefully. Bye!
This might seem like a really random post, but I was just thinking about this and felt like writing it out so...take some void thoughts!
I don't think Hadri would like TV. They don't have TV where they're from, there was some development on a sort of radio but the mortals haven't quite figured that out yet. This place where I put myself when I think of us interacting does have TV! They'd try watching with me but I think they'd have trouble getting invested?
I'm not sure exactly how to word it, but Hadri would have trouble connecting with the characters. They didn't grow up hearing stories so they sort of miss the hook, I suppose. Hadri would be very bored. Maybe a show/movie that had some interesting plot elements would catch their attention a bit more but it would still be a hard sell.
If I really wanted to watch something, they'd still hang out with me but they'd mostly be cuddling or spacing out.
Hadri would prefer video games! It would be a very different experience, slightly out of character, but the problem solving and hand movements would keep them engaged. Exploring a game world would be fun too! Probably wouldn't have tried it if I didn't offer the opportunity but yeah! Casual gamer too, not a hardcore enthusiast. But they would have an easier time starting a game than I do (more energy, enthusiasm?).
It would be funny to watch them play something I have before. Not because they'd be bad at it but I imagine they'd have interesting reactions to games I like. (tf2 is one of my favorites and I have no idea how they would feel about that ;u;)
I also want to talk about Kid!
I know I only mentioned her briefly earlier, but I was thinking of her too. I think I'm warming up to the idea of her being a familial f/o. I've never really wanted to have a daughter or thought of myself as motherly material but it feels right. I can't rightly be in a relationship with Hadri and ignore their daughter. Also, she's sort of based on my struggles and things I felt when I was younger so helping her would be therapeutic I guess?
For now, Daughter :)
Like I said though, I never really thought about Kid like that so I don't have a lot of ideas to draw/talk about. I'll try to include her though!
I will mention this in line with the above: Kid would love TV. She's the protagonist of the story, so seeing other protags deal with their problems would be good for her. And she would just really like the stories. Complete opposite of Hadri, absolutely invested! If she watched something and connected with it, it would stay with her for a long time.
Games would be a little more difficult. She'd be more drawn to action-y games, but I feel like certain scenarios would mess her up. Kid had been fighting people for the majority of her life and she has sort of unhealthy relationship with that. She likes to fight but she went through some awful stuff because of it. It's still a sore spot so having to battle and kill characters in a game would set her off. I suppose a show/movie would as well, but it's less direct.
Some work would have to be done before she could comfortably enjoy a video game.
FOR THE UNIVERSE THINGY!!! Wander over yonder maybe? Or the Disney universe would be rlly cool to see you do :))
Alright so, I had a little bit of trouble finding my way with this, but I’m happy with the result!
My first thought was about Lord Hater because he is also a skeleton. I like him a lot! I like a dumb big villain character that might also have some soft spots. For a self insert character though, I don’t think I’d like him much. Not only is he a dictator, but he’s also kinda girl crazy so I don’t think I’d be comfortable with that.
So this is Brix! She is as smart as a brick and has similarly violent potential. She was originally just a normal skeleton just vibing on a planet until more and more people started mentioning Hater around her. “Oh, are you a Hater goon!?” or “Are you related to Lord Hater??”. This drove her crazy because she had no idea who this guy is. So she goes on a journey to find Hater, and when she finds him, she absolutely hates him. Total jerk!
Brix hates him so much that she decides that she’s gonna destroy him as some kind of superhero/masked vigilante. She gets a costume and dubs herself Lord Lover and beats the crap out of anything Hater related while trying to get to Hater himself. Her thought process is 'I have to be the opposite of him!!' and she didn't think about it at all after that.
Hater doesn’t destroy her immediately because having someone this obsessed with him is fun. Also potential girlfriend? Brix wants none of this.
While messing up Hater’s property, Brix also seeks out people to add to her “No Hate” gang. She has her sights set on Wander and Slyvia because they’re ‘Hater’s rivals’ and they’ve encountered him a lot. They want none of this. Brix eventually corners Wander alone and tries to get him to join but Wander ends up talking her down. I’m not sure exactly what he would say or do (my research has been fairly minimal) but I think it would be basically saying that fighting Hater won’t turn out well and if you keep going this way, you’re going to be a villain too.
Brix finally gets some common sense and decides to rethink what she wants to do. Basically I think she’s just a side character that shows up for one episode to show more about the characters. I fully acknowledge that I have side character energy and I will embrace that. I guess this episode also has the “Don’t be obsessed with your Haters” moral too.
Oh and a little extra featuring @fle4floves self-insert!:
How about a Ghbili movie? I think they all count under the same universe, but Kiki's Delivery Service specifically!
(Sorry for taking so long to answer these!)
Thank you for specifying what flavor of Ghibli to try! I wouldn’t have thought to make something for Kiki’s Delivery Service, but I had fun with this! Kiki is also one of my favorite Ghibli movies, so it was nice to think in that space.
I had a lot of thoughts for this, so I'll keep them under here
Anyway! My insert would be a delivery girl, rides around on a bike delivering stuff. I don’t think she’d work with Kiki at Osono’s Bakery because I’m not sure if it would work out. But I’d still like to be a delivery person because 1.That’s the title! And 2. It seems fun, I like going on errands.
Hadri is here too! They’re a witch who lives in a tower and is very tall. They don’t leave their house at all, bit of a hermit. I don’t know anything about the witch lore in this universe. I would assume there are a decent amount of witches? They seem normalized. I tried to not make Hadri too inhuman here since KDS isn’t too wild in terms of fantasy? My original draft for Hadri here had magenta eyes, but I made them a more natural color here. I couldn’t resist making them oddly tall though.
And Kid! She's still Hadri's daughter here. But She has a more stern personality here, like a knight. This Hadri is much more obviously burdened here so Kid works hard to keep them okay. She doesn't trust me at all. Most of our initial interaction would be catching glimpses of Kid as she keeps an eye on me. Oh! And that doll is based off of Kid's friend in the original story. Hadri made it for her because they noticed that Kid wasn't being very kind to herself. They told Kid that the doll would be her friend and look after her. Moral support! She has it with her all the time.
The basic story here is that Hadri needs some supplies for something so they call and order what they need from town. It’s a weird location and I’m the only one okay with heading out there. When I first meet them, I get freaked out by them and I run out of there without getting paid. (Hadri is so tall they have to crouch to get through doorways)
Thinking back on it, I feel bad, so I head back over there to apologize and let them know I'll pay for what they bought. Hadri was initially offended by my reaction but relaxed when they saw I was making an effort to patch things up. On a whim, they invited me in for some tea. I accepted and we had a nice chat!
Since then, they order something every now and then even when they don't really need anything. Going into town is hard for them so it's nice to have someone who would visit without bringing too much stress. I look forward to visiting them too! And of course, romantic domestic antics ensue. I won't go too much into that though because I don't have the mind to now.
It was very hard to draw in the Ghibli style! I did better than I expected, but I also feel like this is too anime? Some of my style leaked in.
I’ll include my original sketch too! While messy, I think some things turned out better. Specifically, Kid looks a lot cuter and in style here.
