Meowdy! I'm Sy, I'm a writer, and my current interest is probably in one of the tags under this. It fluctuates so much, and in the 20 years I've been online, I've always failed to update these whenever my corvid brain finds a new shiny. So I'm leaving up to you, kind stranger.
My life updates are under #life w sy, my writing is #sy writes, and asks are under #ask sy. If I'm wrong pls let me know.
I have a cat named Avie, a dog named Razzle, and a vessel that requires frequent and extensive upkeep.
I'll change this image on a whim to keep the attention of newcomers because that sounds fun. Cat time.
Credit: Emojicat by ChocoCupCake
Edit: oh my stars there's actually a tag cap? I never knew. 🫥
Officially opening up character submission for my story Champion’s Road. It’s syoc and I hope the majority of the cast will be made up of all of your characters! If you’re interested in either the story or submitting your own character, I encourage you to check it out!
I also linked a reference using my own characters for the story linked here: Malosi Character Bio
Want to submit a character to the Mr. Stern/DTD setting? Do it here!
Okay, so instead of doing a Mr. Stern contest, I’ve decided to go with a character submission for. So anyone who’s like to throw their character into the Mr. Stern... verse? Whatever. Anyone who’s like to submit their character can here.
I mentioned this before in the poll and the video, but there’s two Mr. Stern concepts I have in the works. One if pretty much all of the stuff I have on my blog now, the one-shots focusing on Mr. Stern and Ms. Mellow, and another concept I’ll be dropping (hopefully) soon that takes place further into the future for Mr. (and Mrs.) Stern. about another character trying to navigate their way through Red Wood Academy. Whichever one you’d like you character to feature in, pick it in the submission.
Also listed a couple of rules (which I might add to later) and if you got any other questions, feel free to ask! Also you don’t have to list your name/tag if you don’t want to, but if you do you can drop it in the trivia part.
Danganronpa: Happily Never After Prologue Fun Facts
Hello, everyone! For those of you who don’t know, I’m the fanfic author of Danganronpa: Happily Never After, a fun SYOC that I’ve been working on for ten months now! Also for those of you who do know and found this little blog of mine from the last fic update, welcome!
Now, first things first, here’s a link to the fic itself in case anyone is curious: https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13904495/1/Danganronpa-Happily-Never-After.
And since enough people seemed excited at the idea of me posting stuff here, I’ve decided to start off these posts with some fun facts about the Prologue! Fan art courtesy of Sakura Idol on Deviant Art (posted with permission) and Chapter 1 Fun Facts will also be posted at some later date. And any questions you’d like to ask, feel free! I’m happy to share whatever I can without spoiling anything!
Okay, fun facts! These will be under a cut to avoid spoilers for everyone!
Let’s see...to start us off, let’s go with the inspiration behind the entire fic! Specifically, the idea of a Killing Game based on fairy tales. My first fandom I was involved with was Once Upon a Time and more recently, I’ve started reading quite a lot of fairy tale retelling books. So I decided to see what I could do with a Killing Game based entirely on fairy tales, with the characters having similarities/being based on fairy tales but in their reality, that isn’t on purpose, if that makes sense. For Maria, for example, the fact that she physically looks like Snow White is a coincidence, considering she does not have an evil step-mother or a step-mother at all, as we see when her mother calls her in the story’s very first chapter!
Continuing on this thread with Maria then, her talent is entirely due to my past as a ballet dancer myself. I wasn’t nearly as talented as she is, obviously, and I eventually gave it up, but it’s something that was so central to my childhood that I felt I could believably write a character with that talent as her base. Her being involved in specifically the Russian Ballet Company also comes from my previous experiences, having witnessed them dance the Nutcracker before myself. And another fun fact: Maria’s entire personality was formed between the first chapter of the Prologue and the second. Before the other characters started coming in, I didn’t have a solid ‘this is her personality’ yet. But imagining how she could play off all these other characters was very useful in getting her personality in place. I think she’s turned out quite realistic so far, given her extraordinary circumstances.
Now what else...I suppose my writing soundtrack. I was fond of listening to Yuri on Ice (piano) while writing the Prologue, while supplementing it with a cover of Dead or Lie from the DR3 anime, specifically the one used for the Ultimate DR Opening video on Youtube, and AmaLee’s covers of Last Stardust and aLiez. Take those however you wish! And, of course, I added in Genshin Impact’s Lover’s Oath for the final chapter of the Prologue, the ball.
The Palace of Despair layout was actually something I struggled with while writing. I wanted it to be realistic of a medieval castle, but I’d never been to one before! So I looked up some layouts and took some inspiration from older Disney movies, when the castles were stone. Also, nobody noticed this, but the thorns that Hibiki specifically warns Maria away from in the Prologue are a direct reference to Maleficent’s thorns in Sleeping Beauty! Sleeping Beauty was a favorite of mine as a kid, for whatever reason considering I preferred to say Ariel was my favorite princess, so I gave a little nod to it there.
Another fun fact: some of the fairy tale roles are stories I’ve personally never read before. Satou’s Light Princess, for example, was something I’d never heard of. Fuwari’s Nightingale, in a similar vein, was also unfamiliar. I’d heard of Chia’s Little Match Girl, but actually did have to research the story since I was also unfamiliar with it. Others of them, however, such as Jordan’s Sir Dinadon, Irusu’s Jekyll and Hyde, and Robin’s Kai, I actually did have some background with courtesy of Overly Sarcastic Productions on YouTube! If you’ve never seen any of the three I listed and are curious about the channel, go check it out, they’re great!
This one’s actually one of my favorite facts, but I made a point of mentioning Maria’s bedroom changing during the Prologue (and again in Chapter 1). This is entirely due to the fact that in between posting the first chapter and getting to the ball chapter, I had a more elaborate idea for Maria’s bedroom that I desperately wanted to include, but I didn’t want to change the entire first chapter. So I just added it in later!
And last one, but it does connect to that first chapter again! Most of you probably remember, but in case you forgot or didn’t know, originally HNA was only supposed to have 16 OCs including Maria and follow the typical DR format with my own personal twist on it. That was always my plan...but then my deadline passed, all OCs came in and I couldn’t bear to cut two of the final 18 I chose. So I expanded my cast and adjusted things to make the now larger cast manageable. It’s a bit tricky still, considering I’ve never handled this many characters before and I want to be sure everyone gets a chance to shine instead of allowing loners like Chiasa or Rosamie to fade into the background, but I think I’ve done okay so far! I really love the direction the characters have taken me so far and I hope you all have too!
Okay, so those are all the Prologue Fun Facts I have for now! Once the entire story is finished, I’ll probably do another with full on spoilers for the entire thing, but that’s way down the line! For now, I’ll try to continue on with this. If you have any questions you’d like to ask, feel free to do so and I’ll answer to the best of my ability!
I found this list of character aesthetic thingies, and it was more of a ‘tag yourself’ thing, but I decided to take it as a prompt list and try and create OCs from each aesthetic/theme. For each, I intend to do a drawing, a picrew, and then a moodboard which will include the drawing, picrew and the aesthetic/theme list within it.
Jethro Hartzler is ‘saltwater’. He is a Final Destination OC, and I have sent him to this SYOC by Orlando Butler. It has a deadline of May 1 if anyone is interested in submitting, by the way.
Anyway, Jethro is 25, and works in the library of the university he graduated from the year before. He does the late night shifts, so his life is a somewhat nocturnal one. He left the Amish at the age of 18, and is still figuring out his way in the world. He is soft, gentle, sweet and earnest and though he is a pretty good painter and cook, his real love is books. All books, any books. Though all sorts of seemingly ordinary things overwhelm him, at the same time he is fascinated by it all. He loves the bright lights of New York, where he lives.
