#los hope

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Death-Motif and a Cape Club. Why is Snufkin here, you ask? We don't know either. He just kinda showed up one day and never left.

@jewishicequeen you wanted me to draw Hope with Siffrin? There you go. Enjoy my stupid pun

I did not finish In Stars And Time! I'm at the beginning of act 3 so please no spoilers!

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Haven't posted about these guys in a while.

Anyway! Here's the Letters of Sorrow crew, in the freelings' hotel! Someone needs to stop Abaddon and Rage. Also tiny Spoilers to my story ig

Closeups (and alt text) under the cut

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Crying ocs is my favorite genre of art

Made with acrylic markers and a pen for lineart

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The child!

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Introducing Robin!

Robin works as a mailman, and their assigned emotion is Ambition. Unlike most people in Spirit Express, Robin decided to use a name he chose and not his code-name. How does a mailman's job work with chronic pain, you ask? It doesn't! Robin suffers a lot. But it's fine because their lady training included taking advantage of others for your own gain.

Robin and Hope used to share an apartment, before Hope moved in with the rest of the main cast. The two started dating at some point, they're not sure when it happened either.

Also introducing some lore? I don't think I ever said they're dead, before. Well, I guess you're getting Robin's backstory before anyone else's :)

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OC time!!!

Hope, Trust, Longing, Dread and Rage are characters in a webcomic I hope to one day write, called Letters of Sorrow.

The five of them are workers in a company called Spirit Express. It's a mail company like no other, that delivers emotions and feelings in the form of letters. They operate world wide, all day, every day, and in return receive special powers, such as invisibility, intangibility, and immortality. But seeing as the company is a secret, every worker has to give up the lives they once had and forget their past. It's a (mostly) painless procedure, and the rewards are worth it! But not just anyone can do it.

You're welcome to send questions to me or the characters, more information about each of them under the cut!

!The drawings below show blood, detailed injury and death! (Injuries include self harm, stabbing and gun wounds)

In Spirit Express, every worker represents a different emotion. The emotion has three "embodiments", each in a different department of the company. The worker called "Happiness" from Headquarters is right above the ones called Happiness from Research and Delivery. But while Research and Delivery meet in a daily basis, people from Headquarters almost never meet the other two departments.

The line of work is HQ to R to HQ again and then to D. Headquarters give Research the name and basic information about the addressee, Research write down everything they can find about the person, and then Headquarters create the desired letter. Then Delivery makes sure the letter gets to it's place.

Hope is the main character of the story. He's sixteen, and the sunshine of the group. He's a proud mailman, delivering letters of hope to their addressees. As the embodiment of hope in the company, he has a tendency to day dream of endless possibilities. Hope doesn't remember much from his life before he started working in Spirit Express, but that doesn't matter! He likes his job and his roommates, and he has everything he needs in life!

Longing is nineteen, and a mailwoman. She is considered the dreamer of the group, although when you get to know her you find she can be rather sassy and even harsh. She knows she was engaged or married before, because of the ring on her finger. But she figured that, if the girl she was before chose to give it up, it was probably not worth it. Still, sometimes she finds herself looking at roses and longing for a life she never knew.

Dread is twenty, a mailman, and a Jew. He knows that only because of the Kippah on his head, and he tries to learn about his culture. Just for scholar reasons, of course, nothing more. He's not really sure why he's the embodiment of dread, but he's sure Headquarters have their reasons. For now, though, he just tries to do his job best and make sure all letters of dread reach their addressees.

Trust is twenty two, and a workaholic. She works as a researcher. Trust is very thankful for only being responsible for the letters about her emotion, because even now she can hardly keep up and has to pull one all-nighter after another. She always says that she would trade her position with one of the mailmen in a moment, but actually enjoys her job. And she knows that, somewhere in the company's archive, there's probably an essay someone wrote about her old life.

Rage is kind of a mystery to his roommates. He's nine, and doesn't talk much at all. All they know is that he works in Headquarters, but since he leaves before they wake up and comes back after they're fast asleep, they don't meet him much. He makes them pancakes every weekend, tho.

Send questions!

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For the LoS gang, when you deliver emotions, what shape or form is it in? Do you just bonk people over the back of the head with an envelope?

Is it possible to accidentally give someone the wrong emotion? What about too much or too little of the right emotion?

I... don't think it's possible to give someone the wrong emotion? never heard of a case like that... everything just... works...

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