He ran into an alleyway and hid behind a dumpster, breath heavy and loud with terror and panic - Eban was... sidetracked on his way back to his house and had noticed someone he’d never seen before walking in his direction. One thing was certain - he couldn’t let the stranger see the colour of his skin.
Eban pulled up his hoodie, dug into his pockets to get his gloves and began to put them on his stone grey hands, breathing quickly all the while.
His abnormally coloured skin (who had grey skin in the real world?) was still on show when a shadow fell over him, and Eban could only look up, trembling and hyperventilating.
I’m going to propose some ideas to you - please answer with your ideal one. They’re quite lengthy, so it’s under the cut!
Contents:
More Character Designs
Faceclaims
More Character Moodboards
More Drafts/Extracts
Name Pronunciations
Characters’ Sexual and Romantic Orientations
More Character Designs
This would take some time and perhaps some feedback. I currently have a lot of character bios to write (Ayla, Davey, Charlie, Forest, Shadow, The Dark One’s, etc.) and only have ideas for some. However, my friend is creating a character for me to use and I will give credit where credit is due - but I will view this character as a base, and will edit traits if I wish to. This would reveal more characters and allow myself to have an idea of what characters look like to give to artists I commission (and also for artists who wish to draw characters for me to not have to draw the same character as everyone else).
Faceclaims
Some of my characters have faceclaims - if you would like me to, I will reveal which characters have a faceclaim and who those characters are. I will also, if requested enough, reveal other characters who will most likely not have a place in the series but are in the universe (such as Blake, Aidan and Nastasia’s late father, and Valeriya, Zlatko’s mother). This would be useful for me because I can then give these faceclaims to the artists I commission to draw my characters as a visual reference and to give people who want to draw or visualise my characters an idea of what they look like.
More Character Moodboards
I have recently been the mood to create moodboards, and I have created one for Jakob (https://the-blood-series.tumblr.com/post/160735846434/ihavenosoul12-excuse-me-my-fashion-sense-is for those who didn’t see it). If you guys want me to, I would happily make them for other characters! I believe that it would allow me to reveal parts of characters’ backstories (the shattered photo frame in Jakob’s symbolises a broken family) without spoiling the entirety of it and being subtle at it, and also allow consumers to have an insight on the character’s personality and attitude as well as their favourite things.
More Drafts/Extracts
Depending on how fast I write things, not essentially The Blood Series - little examples of my writing (I’m in the process of writing a Kevin x Jamie fanfiction which explores abusive relationships, which will help me to write characters like Aerron and Damien). If you guys want stuff like that, I may post some drafts, extracts and examples. Of course, it’d depend if I’m able to write anything (things such as being unable to access my laptop, family issues, my mental illnesses, writer’s block) and if I’m proud to show it off (or am nagged to) to people. This is a huge maybe.
Name Pronunciations
Some characters have names that are bastards to pronounce. Some are pretty simple - Eban, Kai, Alex, Charlie - but others... not so much - Mehmun, Kasi, Nastasia , Kiyoshi - and I don’t want people saying ‘meme-un’ or ‘ka-see’. Thought it’d be funny, it would probably frustrate me as well, and I wish to avoid this at all costs. This is definitely going to happen at some point, but I want to know if others want this to be soon and perhaps my next post. This would avoid mispronunciations (which would annoy me a bit) and help people not feel bad if I correct them (I wouldn’t have to).
Characters’ Sexual and Romantic Orientations
I have an uncompleted list of these characters’ sexual and romantic orientations - however, this doesn’t mean that if a character isn’t into women that you can’t ship them with women. Contrary to most people’s beliefs, I don’t think it matters, considering they’re fictional. Heck, I ship a straight male character with a gay male character (not saying names at the moment) so I wouldn’t care less if you did the same (just... no incest or paedophilia... please no). This would mean that you can have an insight on characters and even form theories and headcanons for them. Perhaps it’d give you idea of the character!
Anything else?
I can’t think of anything at the moment, and if you have any suggestions, please tell me them!
I know I’ve been posting not a lot of original content and whatnot, but I’m trying to change that.
I hope you’ll answer, please give me your feedback!
Zlatko’s mother did not legally adopt Eban, but she sees him as her second son.
Kasi and Kai’s mother has passed, and one of them doesn’t miss her really.
The ‘bad guys’ are more of a family to each other than the ‘good guys’ are to each other. The ‘bad guys’ have stuck together for a few years whereas the ‘good guys‘ have practically just met as the first book starts, so they are more split up into pairs than the bad guys, who work well as a team.
Johnny and Star’s sibling relationship is actually undeveloped. So
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
For now, the only characters with designs are Mehmun, Zlatko, Aerron, Klara, Eban, Aidan, Kasi, Kai, Damien and Nastasia, and the second’s design is only his human form.
But here are some random facts about the above characters:
Kasi and Kai are twins based off characters from fandoms I like - the fact that Kai exists comes from a cringy fanfiction of where Kasi was the OC twin of a canon character, and I liked the idea of Kasi having a twin, so Kai was made.
Their middle names come from two twins in the Percy Jackson/Heroes of Olympus series.
Sorcerers/sorceresses are actually an entire different species, but they’re humanoid and appear to have no physical qualities of being a different species.
Sorcerers and demons were created by two gods, and sorcerer blood acts as a repellent to the demons.
Eban and Aerron are both possessed.
Nastasia’s rank (whether she’s a ‘hero’ or a ‘villain’) is actually unclear in the series, but I’ve ranked her as a minor ‘hero’ due to her intentions.
Full Name: Eban Angel
Gender: Cis male.
Age: Fifteen years, three months.
Species: Hybrid - human, stone.
Height: 5′2.
Personality: Stubborn, clingy, loyal, kind, sort of selfish, quiet (when he doesn’t ramble).
Orientation: Bisexual panromantic.
Ethnicity: Korean (+ unknown ethnicity)
Phobia: Fear of abandonment.
Favourite colour: Emerald green.
Favourite food: Zlatko’s spaghetti.
Can he cook?: Barely.
Favourite type of chocolate: Milk chocolate.
Appearance (Hair, eyes, etc.):
Hair Colour: Jade black.
Hair Length/Style: Barely to his neck, Asian (flat) mullet.
Eye Colour: Sclera’s stone, iris is lime green.
Eye Shape: In between wide and narrow, more on the wide side.
Skin tone: Stone coloured.
Other: Scars, acne.
Appearance (Clothing):
Top Half: Spider black long sleeved, baggy shirt, coal black baggy typographic T-shirt, says, ‘First learn the rules, then break them’, pebble grey hoodie that’s plain and too big for him.
Bottom Half: Stretch waist, navy blue cargo trousers, snow white socks, ash grey Nike-style trainers.
Other: N/A
Rank: Main character, ‘hero’, stone hybrid.
