#bunny mod

[tsunadeappreciation]

Any way you could please post from the Tsunade vs Kabuto/Orochimaru fight?

             absolutely anon! we have a large number of posts queued up right now, so we’ll work on adding the sannin fight in there as well! thank you for your question!

[misha-itami]

Bunny Ears hnnnggg ♥♥♥

[ask-wilting-flower]

I just wanna say I've only been following a short while but I really love your art and she is so lovely.

thank you so much! 

[thesueclan]

Bunny Mod

Long time, no see eh? Anyway, in celebration of the “Memory Lane Event” that’s being hosted by Mod Loli, I decided to dig up some of my own old OCs and put myself on the chopping block.

Or at least I would say that if I hadn’t purged my original dA account, so you’ll have to settle for a recreation of this character: Nekoko (I don’t remember her last name).

Although nearly all of my first OCs were bad/uncreative in some way (I even had an OC based on the Twilight hype from a while back even though I hadn’t read the original series), Nekoko is probably the first of them that was actually a Mary Sue. In terms of design, she was initially inspired by anime characters: Digi Charat and  Kanade Jinguuji, characters from two shows that I watched a lot of as a kid, so she’s already got a negative point for being unoriginal.

Initially Nekoko was just an avatar (ironic since I was not a white/Japanese 18 year old with a green sweater, but a blasian 13-14 year old that wore almost exclusively t-shirts), but with time I decided to “flesh her out” into an actual OC.

In her first stage of development, she was just a fairly shy artist type that just sorta hung around my other OCs as the only human-like character (when I was a kid, almost all of my OCs were either hamsters or cats). But as I would develop that world, she would lean towards the more overpowered type.

There came a point where rather than this being an entire world, all of the characters were tenants at this giant mansion which Nekoko was the owner of. Thus began Nekoko 2.0. 

Instead of creating a staff that would take care of the mansion, I thought that it would be a great idea if she had all of these special abilities to let her do it all on her own. So she was super nice, super strong, and super fast. Her only actual flaw was that she was poor at cooking because she had to make food around the clock for over 20-30 people a day, but even then the catch was that she was actually really good if she only had to prepare one or two meals. Otherwise she could solve every single problem that ever came up and was always understanding of an “evil” character’s situation. She was one of those classic “do no wrong” sorts of Sues and I’m kinda embarrassed to think about her.

I don’t think she was ever actually a “main” character and was just sort of written as an excuse to why the mansion could stay as kept up as it was without designing more characters, but she was still a Sue all the same.

I don’t know if there’s a place for her anymore in my lineup of “current” OCs since I’ve pretty much gotten over my “cat girl phase”, but it was kinda fun trying to remember anything about her. She’ll always hold a special place in my heart as the first OC that trended nearly every single one of my main protagonists having blue hair.

(Earliest found image of her, posted 3 years ago. But earlier iterations do exist.)

[ask-keenabelle]

Made another Bunny Cuz you guys seemed to enjoy the last one

[thesueclan]

That was a great help thanks Bunny! (I also hope the way I worded my ask wasn't offensive, I was rushing) also, what are little things you can do to a character that makes them interesting? Is it in the way they act or how relatable they are that grabs people?

Bunny Mod

I don’t believe that it was offensive, but if it was then I apologize for not being up to date with what’s considered to be socially acceptable to say.

On to your question: My current character theory is that there are 4 key elements to a character that work in a sort of power triangle (with ability in the center).

The basic rundown is this:

Action: What they’ve done and will do. How they act.

Psyche: How they think and why. Their personality.

Appearance: What they look like and why. Character design.

Ability: Everything that your character can and can not do.

Each part plays a role in making a character engaging and relatable to the audience. If a single part is lacking, then the other parts need to be bigger to compensate for it. 

Ex. A character whose appearance isn’t very interesting can still be an engaging character if there’s more emphasis on their psyche and/or actions.

People can be attracted/interested in a character for nearly any combination of those 4 things. Personally, I’m more initially attracted to psyche and appearance before I begin to appreciate the actions of the character, but there are some people that attracted to only personality first, or appearance and action, and so on.

But the biggest factor is that core element sitting in the center: ability. 

What is your character capable of and what are they not? Even if the audience isn’t, you, should be aware of what your character can do and how they serve the plot. Knowing your characters’ limits can help keep you from making unnecessary characters that would otherwise take interest away from a character who could have easily fit that role.

Ex. We don’t need to add Charlie to a story where Alice is trapped but Bob can still free them. If Alice and Bob both had the inability to escape or help the other out, then Charlie would become necessary and thus interesting because we want to know how Charlie is going to save them and what kind of person Charlie is to want to save them in the first place. If we don’t get that development, then we’ll come to see Charlie as a tool for the plot rather than a character with motives and personality.

If you know the core of your character, then building the other three parts around that is all dependent on how you want the character to be perceived by the audience.

Those are the “little” things that can make your character more interesting. It’s not just action or making them relatable because action IS a part of being relatable, as are the other two parts. Making a character relatable is just a byproduct of making the power triangle work. 

But making a relatable character doesn’t mean just making them relatable to the audience members themselves but also other people and stimuli in their lives. Even if we don’t see ourselves in the character, we should be able to see other people or concepts in these characters.

Ex. Just because a character is a yellow kitchen sponge in a tie, or a fat lazy cat, doesn’t mean that we can’t relate to the situations or emotions that they go through.

If you can honestly convince yourself that your character is someone that you could meet with in your everyday life (even if they’re not an actual human), then you’ve made a character that the audience should be able to find engaging on some sort of level. If you can’t do that, then your character may be lacking in one or more of the four parts.

I hope that this helped to answer your question. If there’s anything else that needs clarity or a better answer, then you know that the ask box is always open and ready for questions.

[thesueclan]

Sueclan, do you have any suggestions for writing mutes?

Bunny Mod

Make sure you know how/why your character is mute. There are various forms of muteness caused by various things, so knowing that can give you a starting point for research into how a person with that particular type of mutism would communicate. Things like how long the character has been mute or how they reacted when they realized they were mute (if there was ever a “realization” moment) can be essential to this development.

Put some emphasis on how the character emotes/communicates. If this character is important to the story, try not to push them aside due to their inability to deliver dialogue. There are non-verbal ways of communication and self expression; Facial expressions, hand gestures, the clothing they where, their hobbies etc., can all create distinct personality traits without the character ever saying a word. After all, the phrase goes, “Show, don’t tell.”

It doesn’t need to be in the forefront, but addressing some of the issues that come with being mute would help to make the character more relatable. It’s fine if you don’t, but better if you do. Much like making racially diverse characters, just slapping on a disability to a character doesn’t necessarily make them representative characters. Things like alluding to the character getting left out of verbal conversations or other everyday struggles can help pick them up from being a character who happens to not talk to a character with a real disability that they actually have to deal with in their day-to-day life.

That’s all the advice have at the moment. I’m sorry that I don’t have more specific information on mute characters, but I hope that it helped out out regardless.

If you have any other comments, questions, or concerns, then please feel free to leave them in the ask box.