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Are froth and pomegranate part of the same universe? And is that universe the same as blanched, floret, and orchid eyes?

Im really interested bc its really cool that they’re object-heads! That’s a type of character i see very little!

The final guy (whose name i cant spell but it’s mr. A something)— can you say more about the world he lives in? Office survivalist is SUCH a cool description and im so hooked

I was hoping to respond to this yesterday, but by the time I finished drawing (see: next post) it was 1 in the morning, sorry.

Froth and Pomegranate, as well as the previously unmentioned Winter and Delicatessen, are from the same universe, and they're all object heads. I think OHs are really fun to make in terms of character design, and you can give them object traits you wouldn't be able to if they were just regular human people.

I feel their piece of the world is a lot more grounded in reality than Vast Above, but Odd Compliment is inherently an incoherent patchwork of various universes held together by strings of surrealism, so if they exist within the same universe, it's more like they live on a different continent. So the "continent" Blanched, Floret and Orchid Eyes are from contains Vast Above (a large rocky island above the ocean level), Mushroom Point (a mountainous area overtaken by mushrooms), and Vista Point (greenlands including the Vista Point National Park best known for its human-faced fauna), while the one Froth and Pomegranate are from contains Sanguine (a fairly modern city the object heads live in) and Theremin Road (a rural small town with a sky that glows different colours depending on the time).

Mr. Acolyte's world is a wildly exaggerated dark comedy depiction of corporate dystopia with the added existential dread of being replacable in the most literal sense. The building is huge, all the rooms look the same, each floor is a maze, only safe spaces are the lifts and designated lunch break areas, if you consistently do all your assigned tasks you end up drained and mentally exhausted, and if you're not up to the corporate standard the Management will come for you, so in order to survive, you have to get creative. It's difficult to describe because in my mind I see it more as a concept for a game, but in the form of a story. Who knows, I might even rethink writing it and make it a comic series instead, you never know.

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Amanda: hey want some squash?

Me: no I have 6 squash already I don’t need more

Amanda: you worth at least 14 squash

Me: aww thanks?

Amanda: now you get at least 10 more

Me: damn it amanda

@roaming-bison

#goddamnitamanda #shenanigans #squash #like I don’t need that much squash #odd compliment #sigh

Talk about your ocs RUGHT NOW i saw your tags you do not get away scot free throw some ocs at me

Okay! I don't really have proper pictures of them (YET!) but I do have words. Some of them don't have a full backstory yet, because I thought of a design first and got attached. This also isn't all of them, but it is some.

Blanched, Floret, and Orchid Eyes are the main characters of The Moon Fell In Vast Above, which is a short story I am writing, and which exists within the general universe of Odd Compliment, as most of my original writing does.

Blanched, named after the act of immersing a vegetable in boiling water to remove its skin, is a mouse skeleton who left Vast Above (her homeland) to travel the world on her flying ship (which is like a hot air balloon, but the balloon part is instead a massive butterfly carrying the whole thing). She returns to Vast Above to visit her family for the annual flooding celebration, and then promptly gets boinked by the Flood Moon (one of the elemental moons of Odd Compliment, a faintly glowing ornament akin to a snow globe), which managed to fall from the sky and now needs to be returned before the flood is supposed to come (because the flood brings in sea glass, which is Vast Above's greatest commodity, and can only be found there). She's around 23, her birthdate is the 13th of October, and her favourite colours are light grey and brown.

Floret, named after the flowering stem of a cauliflower/broccoli, is a rock dove lad with a fresh bachelor's degree in journalism, who was meant to report on the celebration, and instead saw the moon fall on someone, which he decided is a better topic to cover. Promised to help Blanched figure out how to put the moon back if she gives him an interview afterwards. Is a hard worker, but doesn't feel appreciated enough. Also 23, born on the 3rd of May, his favourite colour is teal.

Orchid Eyes, named after a poster I once saw for an orchid exhibition which from afar resembled a pair of eyes, is literally just a large slug, and also partially an orchid. He is on a mission to gain arms, whether through magic or technology is not important, to fulfill his dream of knitting. Orchid Eyes meets Blanched and Floret by accident, when they help him out of a cave he fell into while searching for something and got stuck, and decides to stick with them (and because Orchid Eyes is not particularly fast, he usually sits on Blanched's shoulder when they move). All of his relatives are named after flowers (Amaryllis, Daisy, Iris, Daffodil, and the Roses, to name a few). How old he is is up for debate, but he was born on the 11th of June, and his favourite colour is purple.

Gideon currently doesn't have any origin story, but he is somewhat of a comfort character for me. Gideon is an old fairy man, who used to be a high priest working directly for the gods, and who one day realized his calling, ditched his community (which was by most of them regarded as a terrible move on his part), and went on to sell enchanted detergents and soaps to unsuspecting people, the sort of cleaning products regular money can't buy. He is tall, has long white hair, his eyes are yellow, and he has a vaguely sickly aura to him. His birthdate is 15th of April, his favourite colour is lime green, and he loves apples.

Froth, named after froth, is a fizzy drink can object head (the flavour depends on their mood), and they are absolutely feral. They're an amateur photographer, but all of their photos come out looking incomprehensibly blurry. They're basically the local cryptid in their own right. They love chocolate but hate how expensive it becomes on their birthday. Born on the 14th of February, favourite colour is pale lavender.

Pomegranate, named that due to colour resemblance, is an alarm clock object head with an off-white head and a red face and bells. She has constant headaches, because her head is an alarm clock. Wants to live in a small house by the mountains, because it's more peaceful than her current city life. Birthdate is the 9th of December, favourite colour is dark red.

Mr. Acolyte is an office survivalist (his life, in context, is basically an office-based dark comedy survival horror), and quite good at it at that. He made a deal with the Office Entity (the benevolent spirit of all things office-related) so they do him small favours (such as teleporting him throughout the building if he needs a quick escape) in exchange for fancy stationery. In part 2 of his adventures (because while I haven't written a word of this story yet, I already know it will be a multi-parter), he is sent to a small town of Paradise, in what quickly becomes a surrealist parody of Hallmark Christmas movies, where he discovers the wonders of laying in the grass. His birthdate is the 20th of March and his favourite colours are bright purple and yellow.

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