no cryptic one-liner here. My Castle Town is my favorite track from deltarune, period, and i have a lot of feelings about it. a handful of those many feelings: the song has always sounded like a waltz to me (and music theory-wise, i think it actually does qualify as a waltz?), and i find it incredibly beautiful that it as a theme gets remixed so often in places of home and community. a "default area theme", but a lovely one.
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my partner and i have been talking a lot about finding a new home; of finding a better place to start our lives and work hard in a place that welcomes it. i wish we could step foot into Castle Town ourselves as innocuous denizens; as two vagrant travelers walking into a new home, hand in hand, becoming part of the scenery. i'd like to take them to the streets of such a place and dance, like old strangers and new friends, and hear the sound of clumsy footwork and hard laughter bounce back at us from the walls that cradle us.
those feelings, of love and of yearning, i think may be why i worked on this piece to the extent that i did. i got a little too ambitious, and i did take shortcuts at the end to simply see it complete, but i'm happy to have it made and have it be some level of "done".
originally i wanted the rest of the seniors in this piece, but they were always going to be in the foreground (as they were surrounding the booth). they've instead been replaced by cliq and an extremely out-of-shot sweet. apologies for the lack of sweet. to make up for it, here's something i drew earlier today:
i aim to scale back the effort i'm putting into these for at least the next week, but we'll see if i hold myself to that.
originally this piece wasn't this... big. 4800x3200px, 300dpi, that's probably a chunky file. i draw big and this was bigger than usual. i attribute it to the fact that the first thing i sketched was pink sr and sev-5 dancing as a rough draft... and i got so attached to the pose, i decided to build the scene around the two. i knew i was going to set the scene in the courtyard where the addisons started their pop up, and when i knew that i was going to draw the seniors dancing, i knew i wanted ralsei to also be in the picture.
though ralsei isn't baked into the background (i can take ralsei out), he ties in so well into the scenery that it feels odd to take him out.
canonically, for this piece:
ralsei is totally daydreaming about dancing with kris and susie
that rudinn's the same one that started the Fan Club.
sweet and k_k are playing music. and cap'n is either flirting with clover in the other room, or is with the other addisons judging the taste of cd bagels together (he wasn't sure if any of them were mademoiselles, and they weren't sure if he was going to buy anything, so somehow their energies canceled out and they just started hanging out.)
if my partner were a darkner, i think they'd be a cute robot character. and if i were a darkner, i'd probably be something yellow and scattered.
there's more personal addison lore relevant to this, but i think i'll save that for another post.
