You all know our lovely cast for "Autumn in Love"! (don't worry about Dr Damus, he's doing his own thing. And Sinthia doesn't normally show her real legs, I just wanted to practice them.) but I'm thinking something..
How would y'all like to make your own ocs/protagonists for this? Who would be the one to win the hearts of the Halloween/Autumn loves?
Here are the rules:
Your of would have to be in one way or another halloween/fall themed. Want to be a werewolf pumpkin? Sure! Zombie unicron? Sure! Angel scorpion? A vampire? Elf? Moth man? Alien?Yeah! The possibilities are pretty much endless! You can be pretty much anything for Halloween ;)
This is not a contest, this is just for fun. So don't worry about being "good" just go ham on it! I've seen you guys send me random OCS and whatnot and a lot of you are really creative. I want to see what you do with this, if you do
You can draw ship art with one or more of these characters and your oc. Again, dating Sim, so if anything, I'll encourage it (just don't send me porn, deal?)
Any gender! Any sexuality!
To "submit" an oc, you can reblog this post and add your oc, send one to my ask box, or @ me in a post. Those are the ways I'll most likely see it.
That's really it, if anyone has any questions, ask away!
I'll start with random facts about our dear doctor!
Dr Damus usually has his right arm behind his back, which you all have already noticed. Though maybe you're wondering why. Well you see, he does a lot of work that requires arm/wrist strength, and unfortunately he has strained his right arm quite a bit. It has caused him to develop a really bad case of carpal tunnel.
For those who don't know, carpal tunnel is a condition that causes numbness, tingling, and/or pain in the hand and forearm (if it's really bad it can reach the shoulder too). It happens when one of the major nerves to the hand (the median nerve is what it's called, I think) is compressed/pinched as it travels through the wrist.
(It can get real bad if not dealt with, even causing permanent nerve damage!)
Dr Damus sometimes puts rose petals in his mask, that way he doesn't have to smell any... Unwanted scents
He is friendly! He actually likes people, but other people tend to find him unsettling and... legally dubious.
He has a history of grave-robbing.
Dr Damus is Demisexual (Demi Dr Damus, say that 5x fast lol)
He and Samwell have met before. He's fascinated by the scarecrow man. In this world, it's actually not common for scarecrows to be alive (though not completely unheard of, it's still rare). He really wants to know how Samwell works. How he's alive, his anatomy, why he has bones, does he eat, etc.
Samwell finds him unsettling.
Ever wondered why Dr Damus has a tinted monocle? Well, fun fact! It's actually loosely based on old lore. Plague doctors wore goggles/tinted lenses because they believed it would reflect curses back to the caster. (So so apparently if you want to be curse-proof just put on some sunglasses)
Though I draw him with a saw often, you'd be surprised how little he actually uses it on patients. He more often than not uses it for more personal projects. He does some commission work on the side
Sinthia and Damis know each other as well. They get along decently, they're not really close enough to be friends, more like friendly acquaintances. But Sinthia sometimes provides the materials that he can use, most specifically Enchanted threads.
As you guys might have noticed, Sinthia does a lot of seamwork/sewing. She has made a specific type of thread that can be used to repair whatever it's stitched into. Dr Damus sometimes buys some of these things from her so that when he gives patients stitches they heal faster! (Kind of like those dissolvable stitches that you get from the dentist/oral surgeon, but faster and more magical)
Few people know his first name. He doesn't really like to share what his first name is unless it's someone he's particularly close to. It's something sort of intimate to him. Is his first name weird? Maybe, maybe not
If I ever make this into a real dating Sim, I'd want there to be a scene for this. If someone goes the Dr Damus route, they'd eventually get to know his first name
Damus has a "doctor stick". It's basically a cane that he uses to inspect things without having to actually touch people. He doesn't like to touch sick/injured people with his bare hands (like most doctors, that's why he wears gloves and whatnot)
I'm going to make a height chart at some point for these characters, but just so you know, even though he looks tall in the drawings so far, he's actually the second shortest character in the group (not counting his hat of course, that'd be cheating).
Riahna is one of his patients.
He's somewhere in his early to mid 30's, age-wise (all the love interests are older than 20. The youngest is Samwell, who's 28/29)
He has a bit of an interest in taxidermy as well (are you surprised?)
Gender is kind of a weird thing to him. Though yes, he does go by he/him, (they/them/it/it's fine too, he doesn't really care). There's a little Easter egg in the picture that kind of indicates more for this :)
Overall he's a fairly patient guy, but he has his limits.
He tries to have good bedside manner with patients, but sometimes you forget that things that aren't scary to him could be terrifying to other people.
He treats all sorts of patients, human and otherwise.
He once had a patient that was a centaur. They didn't tell him that they were extremely afraid of needles, so when he tried to give them a rabies shot, they kicked him. Broke 2 ribs.
He sometimes has "unconventional" practices, but people can actually afford his help (he charges little to none for medical things) so people don't really mind.
When he has children patients, he understands that he can be intimidating, his solution? He actually has multiple masks! Whenever he has a kid come in for an appointment, he puts on one of his spare masks, and lets the kid draw on it.
He sometimes keeps Tools in his hat
His building/office has little to no stairs. He used to work at a medical Center that had only stairs… for the building that provided wheelchairs. It's a major pet peeve for him. He saved up to have his building remodeled with ramps/elevators. Sure, he can use the stairs just fine, but at his old center, he had numerous patients who ended up missing appointments because they couldn't get inside. He vowed not to let that happen again. He feels like it's the bare minimum for a hospital/medical Center to have.
How about we do some Dr Damus x Y/N stuff? He's supposed to be a dating sim character after all!
He's so used to wearing his mask sometimes he forgets it's there. There's a good chance that he'd try to give y/n a kiss, but forget to take the mask off and end up just kind of bonking y/n in the face lol
He can be a bit nosey, but he does mean well. (When I say he's nosey, I mean it in the way that he asks a lot of questions. He doesn't go through people's belongings or anything like that).
He, as a doctor, has the instinct to treat injuries when he sees them. So if y/n has an illness or wound, he kinda just snaps into doctor mode and feels the need to act accordingly (even if it's just a scrape, he's got disinfectant, hydrogen peroxide, and bandages in a second)
Some of his favorite flowers are Roses and Chrysanthemums.
He's not really flirty until he's in a relationship. So yeah, he's not usually the type to make the first move.
He encourages body positivity, but in a different way. He doesn't just say that "you're beautiful just the way you are", to him, that's too vague. He'd more likely say that "your body is good because it works. It does its job."
Let's say he's talking to someone who's self conscious about… I dunno, their legs or something. Maybe they've got thick thighs, maybe their legs have a lot of scars, whatever. He'd probably say something along the lines of "Your legs carry your body, they allow you to move place to place, what else could you ask them to do?"
But what if the person's legs don't work? They're unable to walk for whatever reason. "You are adaptive. You have taken what life has given you, for better or for worse. You are alive. You deserve to keep and live that life. You know I am here to help if you need."
Sorry if that was long, but that's the basic gist
He often shows affection through words, but he also likes to give gifts to his s/o. Sharing interests with someone is a big thing for him.
Imagine him giving someone a skull he found and just being like "Look at how intricate it is! Look at how it works, isn't that amazing? The teeth!" (He's very passionate about what he does, but he has a particular interest in Bones)
Pet names! He does call people "my dear" but he says that to most people, so it's not really romantic to him. But here are some pet names he might use for his s/o:
Cauliflower
Rosebud
Little bird
Raven
Love/lovely
Feather
Might come up with more at some point but that's all I got right now
I think that's pretty much it for now. If y'all have any questions, let me know!
I finally have a name idea for the "Dating sim" I want to make one day (y'know, the one with Sinthia, Dr Damus, Samwell, and some more characters to be revealed soon)
I've been thinking of a fun cheesy name for it. Since it's Halloween/Fall themed...
Note, the new design will look better as I get more practice with it. I also decided to do a side view of his head for the new design just so you guys could see how his mask works.
