#hamelin levinski

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noctborne !

the church probably has a bounty on their heads for property damage and repeated use of beast pellets.

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mandatory june drawing, nocturnalization-flavored this year >:)

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Our heroes fail us,                 Without the veil of night !

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tag urself - the (very late) oc edition

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As the Sunday tradition goes… OC time… with refs ! Full, complete refs… this was tedious, and I don’t know how much of the cast I’ll cover this way, but now you really have the basis of what I’m talking about ! :D

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Ask game! 12 for Hamelin and 17 for Samiya :]

12. Do you have a playlist for the character ? What songs do you associate with them and why ? - Hamelin

gods know I struggle to have character songs due to my limited range (i regularly listen to about. 3-4 genres tops) but Hamelin takes the cake because. He's not an actual soldier anymore but still has the underlying motif and it's easy to find songs about that, or for him to reuse the many songs I already associated with Laika. Iron Maiden's The Trooper is his theme proper to me (even has a Protomen cover - I actually prefer the og because i'm too used to it, BUT ! it's here) but Danger Zone by Kenny Loggins also works, and just about anything by Pink Floyd that makes me emo.

17. Are there any motifs or symbols associated with the character ? How are they represented, in their design, personality or in some other way ? - Samiya

Anything that goes with harvest and the crops, especially cereals and especially wheat, but also other cultivated plants like cotton or bamboo or fkin weed or vegetable or wait what was that

Also, rain and the autumn equinox :)

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re-used a meme to make a relationship chart. i came home thinking i wanted to draw but i actually just wanted to make this

Noct’s base unit, aka these guys minus Basile (who’s in his own category), is very much a found family made of

samiya as team dad,

aaru & hamelin as the shitty unmanageable rowdy kids,

taube as the youngest,

and nanook, “team mom” (quotation marks from not having any romantic implications with samiya)

Most of Taube’s and Samiya’s relationships stem from these roles. Taube on the surface was just a passerby dragged in there and the only one out of the five to have a semblance of a normal life with a living family. So even after he proves himself capable, the others still vow to protect him at any cost until the shitshow is over and he can come home in one piece. Obviously, he in return admires his companions as Cool Older People(tm). As for Samiya, half-antelope, he quickly assimilates the group to a herd he’s responsible of. He’s not “smart” in the educated way Hamelin is, but he’s far wiser, and generally more reasonable, and his inputs are almost always taken into account by his juniors.

Aaru & Hamelin are two sides of the same coin : fire and ice, brawns and brain, but Hamelin can be as impulsive as Aaru is (in which Samiya has to step in) and is just as proud. Naturally, they start off clashing a lot, beyond the cat and mouse (*rat) jokes, but eventually realize their similarities : their strong sense of justice, and harbored grief they hide (though for different reasons).

As the heart of the team, all of Nanook’s relationships stem from empathetic connections. Taube is the first she opens up to, as both were dragged into the plot against their will, as targets, while Aaru, Hamelin and Samiya initially keep a more “profesionnal” distance (a little less for Aaru). Like with Taube, they come to genuinely appreciate her as part of the group, mixing in casual friendliness with the initial respect to her status.

Basile, with some help from Paprika, gets to know this merry band both as a group and individually, through stages of suspicion, curiosity, then genuine desire to know about them as they have chance encounters and team-ups. Slowly, he befriends three people he’s more or less smitten with, a cool guy around his age, and the neighbor kid he believed to be normal, while the group learns to see him as a well-meaning and resourceful ally, if slightly out of his depth. 

... Noct isn’t planned to feature official pairings, but Aaru/Nanook and Basile/Hamelin are out there. Both in very classic flavors (protagonist/living mcguffin or “anyone wanna be action girl-best-friends”, and smitten goofy dude/antisocial emo dude) but... food.

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was thinking about my ocs and i realized something

in Hecatia, if your name begins with an “H”, you’re angst material