Seriously though, after finishing the first season of @jelloapocalypse‘s “Epithet Erased” series, I had to make something to celebrate! Here, I finished pics of my Epithet Erased persona/self-insert, Callie!! I had a blast designing and developing her, I hope you all like this!
More information on her under the cut!
Calliope “Callie” Reverie is a very shy and anxious, but warm and intuitive art student who loves drawing and writing, even more so that her Epithet allows her to LITERALLY bring her ideas to life! She often summons her art subjects and story characters to consult them on the direction of their respective projects, or to act out a scene/art idea she’s stuck on, as well to keep her company...
Callie rarely leaves her college dorm, but she can be found sitting in a local park or cafe, scribbling her surroundings and occasionally summoning small ideas to seek creative advice from.
She’s generally hard to interact with, given she seems to be more focused on her ideas than the real world, but she opens up as a friendly and witty acquaintance once someone shows interest in what goes on in her head.
The limitations of Callie’s powers start with her two hands. For one thing, her drawings have to be complete, and that typically means finished and in a medium/style that she’s familiar with. For example, her powers wouldn’t work as well if she was trying something out of her usual drawing comfort zone, such as chalk or painting. Her most reliable and effective drawing medium is pen or pencils with her sketchbook, which she brings wherever she goes. In addition, her drawings can only be brought to life if they’re drawn on a recognizable drawing surface, such as paper. Anything else, like concrete or tabletop surfaces, is hit-or-miss. Finally, and most importantly, the more fantastical the creations she chooses to conjure are, the more energy is drained from her. This leads her to limit her more wild ideas to certain occasions, especially in a last-ditch effort in combat.
Callie normally avoids conflict of any kind at ANY cost, but her main powers in battle, besides conjuring any real-world object and (almost) any ideas of her imagination, are:
Drawing a Weapon:
Callie draws a weapon in her sketchbook and can pull it out to use in combat. The catch is it has to be a weapon that is or has existed in the real world (so no laser beams, magic artifacts are hit-or-miss if not rare) AND it has to be a weapon she can know how to wield. She’s best at baseball bats or pellet guns, but not so much with battleaxes or cannons.
Divine Inspiration:
Callie bestows an ally an “inspiration”, or power-up, to their abilities (effectively temporarily giving them a bonus Creative Point). Given the fantastical nature of Epithets, this attack can be particularly draining for Callie the more she uses it, so she would use it sparingly.
Artist’s Block:
Callie creates a prismatic shield to protect people or things of her choosing. She has to stay focused on it for it to remain, however.
Epic Apotheosis:
This is her ultimate, often “eleventh-hour”, ability.
Here, she conjures an army made up of her OCs pure imagination to assail her target. The nature of this attack causes her to pass out immediately after it is stopped/completed and be rendered completely inactive for the duration of the battle (or until someone shoves a Stamina-restoring snack in her face).
Fun Facts
Her design is inspired by the phrase “head in the clouds” because. She daydreams. A lot. Heh.
Her Epithet and her subsequent magical markings (her cloud-rainbow hair and cloud pupils) emerged when she was 12-13 years old in middle school.
Has a BIG interest in Greek/Roman mythology, and so mostly conjures creatures and figures from such figures for fun/combat.
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