#psd vs

[nyalisa-landale]

and since i was just complaining about how i hadn’t drawn anything... bam! drew some character busts. the main characters of psd... and princess riessa. i’m actually super not sure why i even drew riessa, except maybe because i did have to draw seryn (he’s the main viewpoint character) and she’s the only one of the two evelleas siblings i can actually stand. seryn turned out less like archer than i expected... except, of course, for the part where i draw waaaaaay more animu than archer, so i probably should have expected it, really. (and riessa’s hair is bugging me. again. too bad, princess; i’m not fixing it again.)

reithe and tolreis i drew because i fucking love reithe and tolreis, of course. i wasn’t actually sure at first if i was drawing them pre- or post-conflict, but then i realised reithe’s hair looks too nice to be pre-conflict, so it has to be post-conflict. (which also explains tolreis’s scraggly bangs... and probably also his eerie resemblance to cole. pay attention to your hair, lune!) reithe looks a lot less like cassandra than the sketch did, for which i am eternally grateful. (the fact that i gave her cullen’s lip scar... might have something to do with that. oops.)

[writteninstarlight]

tfw you haven’t worked on your camp nano project in 2 days because you fucking hate your protagonist

i should have known psd was a bad choice, but there’s fun parts! D: i just have to get through solo-seryn hell first n_n;

maybe i will force myself through this beginning bit and then reward myself by wasting ink refilling my pen with one of the new ink samples i got.

[writteninstarlight]

i knew switching from notebook to computer was a bad idea.

#the other option was to smash universes together#in such a way that alexiel would take seryn's place in psd#but then i decided that was too many pretentious assholes in one group#besides it's not like the veil fits into psd's magic system AT ALL so it would be au!alexiel at best#though tbh i'm not really sure how psd's magic system even works anymore

actually the REAL other option i guess was switching the siblings’ roles around: seryn would be crown prince and riessa would be king’s champion. (because i actually like riessa, you see.) but then, riessa is pretty observant, and a big plot point is that nobody notices the thing going on with reithe and tolreis, and i’m not so sure that riessa would, you know, not start to figure it out.

(reithe’s mom does, of course, but reithe is actually quite close to her parents, even if it is the first time they’ve seen her in nearly three years.)

tolreis is, of course, pretentious asshole no.1. reithe has her moments, too.

psd’s magic system used to work on colours (specifically, on wavelengths of light within the visible spectrum), but that doesn’t make a whole lot of sense with the six magi of vagrant story, which psd now shares a universe with, or with any of the magic shit in pompeii rising, which psd now also shares a universe with, so... i need to work out something else for it, particularly since tolreis’s whole thing is magic, but i’m not quite sure what yet.

...come to think of it, i never really came up with specific magic for diantha, either, did i? maybe tolreis ended up rediscovering some of the stuff she used.

[writteninstarlight]

i remembered why i stopped working on psd! it’s because i fucking hate my viewpoint character. i can’t even work up enough enthusiasm about him to try and coax anything non-generic or likeable out of him - even his character arc is depressingly predictable.

i mean, reithe and tolreis aren’t really all that more original than seryn is, but i find them significantly more compelling. i can only hope that seryn gets better once he’s stuck in their company for a while, or writing this is really going to suck.

[writteninstarlight]

actually this merge thing is probably the best thing that could have happened to the plot of psd, since it gives me a much better idea of what caused the Conflict

so that’s cool!