I circulated this challenge around on the Parallels server and here for friends to throw some of their characters at me to draw around Thanksgiving week, had a fair amount of responses, but not all the slots were filled, so I picked a few characters to include that I've been meaning to draw this year! I had fun working with such a diverse bunch and looking forward to seeing the reactions of the lovely people these characters belong to ^_^ Merry Christmas, guys! 🎄
Close Ups below the cut~
Lucian @zivvyr
Vex @elyssebeeart
The Ranger @gbellasart /Once There Were Heroes Comic
I've had the pleasure of being in an RPG campaign with @toothpaste-dragon @iggyfing and @5tarryknight !
My character, Taffy, is the little red mouse-y girl, and respectively the other player characters are Tina and Tsugi while I drew Chrysie as a stand-in for our lovely DM!
i've been trying to find an omori game movie since shortly after you started omoriposting, but youtube search is worse every time i try to use it, even with an extension that alleges to fix it TT_TT
if you'd like to, could you explain the story to me? or perhaps you know of a good playthrough i can watch?
Ohhh I am wringing my hands with delight
As a brief synopsis it’s about a teenage shut-in who goes on adventures with his friends in his “headspace” when he sleeps, as a sort of escape after a certain traumatic event occurred. But that trauma starts to creep back in, and you eventually learn what that past event was, and you have to make the choice whether to confront it and reconnect with your friends in reality, or hide away again.
Also in case it wasn’t clear there are a fair amount of psychological horror elements. It earns its M rating and playing it in a dark room really wigged me out at times lol. But it’s simultaneously really beautiful
I highly recommend playing it if you can as opposed to watching. It just hits harder imo and there’s also a ton of stuff to interact with, and small occurrences that can be different per playthrough. It’s probably a 20-30ish hr experience depending on how much you explore and you can play it on PC or basically any other current console. I personally thought it was well worth the time and money (I ended up buying it twice)
Otherwise this might be a good no commentary playthrough? It doesn’t cut out all gameplay though, and it missing some nice optional dialogue/flavor text/etc
It's interesting you picked these three because they're some of my most underdeveloped characters XD And for good reason, in each individual case. But you asked, so you shall receive.
Chrysie
There's not too much to say about her, unfortunately. She's a blatant self-insert (which I still get embarrassed about occasionally) and sometimes I draw her in place of myself when applicable. I purposefully didn't create her with much lore because I'd rather focus my efforts on developing my actual characters. So the only real lore I can provide is that she lives in a fairy colony in the mountains and helps gather resources for her village, while also exploring the area and interacting with various animals - and sometimes humans. Mountains are my happy place, so it's obvious why I went with that location :>
Thursday
Hoo boy, how to explain this seagull child's history...I don't even know how you found him to begin with, since he's so far back on my art blog XD While Thursday's story has been on the back burner for a long time, he was actually my main focus when I created him back in high school. I was obsessed with birds at that age, especially birds that most people disliked or found annoying, so it all started when I thought to myself "What happens if bird + boy?" I eventually ended up piecing together this shred of a story about a journalist named Melissa who lives in a small coastal town and stumbles upon a so-called seagull boy (AKA a boy who both resembles and has the mannerisms of a seagull). It's revealed that the seagull boy has an injured wing, so Melissa helps nurse him back to health over the course of 2 weeks, while simultaneously nursing some of her own wounds and forming a sweet bond with the quirky son she never had. I was very intentional about making Thursday annoying and loud and messy, which explained why most beach-goers didn't enjoy his presence. Thursday purposefully remained underdeveloped because I wanted the story to be simple and focus on the main character's emotions/reactions more than any sort of backstory they arrived with. I also always imagined the story would best be told as a visual short story or comic, and one of my friends had planned to illustrate the script at some point, but plans changed and it didn't happen (which is totally understandable). Thursday's story still means a lot to me, especially since it was the first time I 'finished' planning out an entire story. I hope one day I might be able to see it come to life...but until then, I'll simply hold onto it.
Syllk
Syllk (tiefling sorcerer) was my most recent dungeons and dragons character, before I ultimately left the campaign to prioritize mental health and other important stuff. She was a ton of fun to play! But much like Chrysie, she doesn't have too much lore. Syllk's whole gimmick was that she completely lost her memory and washed up on the shores of Candlekeep, where she met the rest of her companions. The only item on her person was a sealed book, which she believed would help restore her memories and locate her parents. My very first legit D&D character had been easy to play because he acted a lot like me - so this time I wanted to challenge myself to play a character on the complete opposite end of the spectrum. Which is exactly why I made Syllk to be sassy, morally gray, quick to anger, and overall just a little gremlin. Near the end of the campaign, Syllk unlocked her book and it led her to a strange laboratory...and there she faced off against a powerful mage, who claimed to have stolen her away from her parents and experimented on her. Syllk was so angry that she aided in killing the mage, but the anger faded once she realized she'd probably never be reunited with her parents. Thankfully, one of her party companions Karliah (tabaxi monk) had been inching closer to Syllk as a surrogate mother, so Syllk decided to stick with her for the time that followed.
I hope these answers are sufficient...I honestly don't know if I described 'lore' rather than just threw random info at you X'D Regardless, enjoy :>
