did somebody say insect people
You comment with the name of one of my characters and I’ll fill out this little list for them (Any OC you want to know about, be they group or otherwise, go wild)
01. Name:
02. Best friend:
03. Sexuality:
04. Favorite color:
05. Relationship status:
06. Ideal mate:
07. Turn-ons:
08. Favorite food:
09. Crushes:
10. Favorite music:
11. Biggest fear:
12. Biggest fantasy:
13. Bad habits:
14. Biggest regret:
15. Best kept secrets:
16. Last thought:
17. Worst romantic experience:
18. Biggest insecurity:
19. Weapon of choice:
20. Role Model:Ask through the askbox please
I think I pretty much only have Grand Battle characters, but they could use some fleshing out probably, I haven’t thought about their back-story as much as I should I think. There’s also my Picture Wars stuff, but I think I only had a couple proper characters for that. Whatever, if you can think of a character of mine and want me to blather on about them send an ask.
A couple of days ago I wanted to draw something and so I did. This is an as-of-yet unnamed hypothetical character, he’s a robot or mechanical life-form devoted to some overly complicated machine religion. He’s meant as a physical embodiment sort of missionary figure for interaction with other cultures and spreading his machine religion, so he has an actual body for engaging and converting and such. I don’t know, I still need to figure some stuff out about him. It’s not really that good of a drawing and it went through my mediocre cell-phone camera instead of a scanner but I dunno maybe it’s cool.
Right so I think most (if not all) of the people I know and talk to regularly know about this but I started a Grand Battle. According to others it’s going to be good and if you have any interest in collaborative writing it’s worth looking at, maybe?
For whatever reason I’m having trouble writing a profile for another Grand Battle thing so instead of staring at a blank document for a couple of hours I’m going to try to hash out a summary here instead. I’m not exactly sure if this is the best course of action but it’s at least preferable to not writing anything at all. Also, it’s using this blog for actually providing content.
The basic idea of the character is that it’s a shape-shifting biological terror weapon. Its natural form is akin to a cloud of winged crustacean-like things, which are generally fairly small. To alter its form, the individuals that compose the swarm merge together, forming larger components which in turn merge together to make a new organism. Its creators seeded assorted planets with it— or swarms of it, rather— to discourage other species from founding colonies on worlds they coveted but could not yet expand to. Assuming colonists landed, the swarm could be triggered and attack them, turning into a vicious predator or mimicking the settlers or just gnawing through them as a cloud of angry flying crustaceans. The swarms have a rudimentary consciousness distributed across the cloud— not so much a hive mind as an individual split up into a bunch of tinier parts. They know some language, but aren’t particularly bright past genetically-programmed triggers.
For this particular swarm, there were a couple of flukes. The first fluke being that its shape-shifting isn’t properly working— the components that make it up begin to dissociate back into tinier bits, leaving it incapable of permanently holding a form. The other fluke is that it didn’t have the necessary genetic triggers spliced in— or that they weren’t activated, or whatever— in essence giving the cloud some form of free will but also limiting its ability to flip out and turn into whatever forms were pre-programmed into it.
Assuming I get into the battle I’m entering this monstrosity in, I think the main thing I’d be exploring is its awakening of its abilities and programmed memories, which could be tucked away and subject to activation later on or something. My main idea is that it’s overwhelmingly naive and confused, and while it has the potential to kill things it doesn’t and mostly just wanders about trying to understand itself and turn into acid-spewing eels or something.
Man I write weird characters.
Oh so I mostly do pixel art and this was a thing I needed to work on. These are portraits of some individuals of an alien race of floating cybernetic cephalopod-things, they’re big on scientific knowledge and discovery and also stapling gravity manipulation devices to everything.
Oh hey sometimes I draw things too I guess, I think all of the #grandbattle people have already seen this but I might use this for something other than lurking so here have a drawing.
This is one of my characters, she’s a cybernetic avian alien engineer thing. Her consciousness is stored on computational substrate rather than a biological brain and one of her arms doubles as a matter re-constructor thing. There’s probably other back-story things but that’s not relevant unless someone asks I think.
except I lied and I’m doing this too
http://kevan.org/johari?name=jovian
http://kevan.org/nohari?name=jovian
NOW I’m going
This looks interesting
http://kevan.org/johari?name=jacquerel
http://kevan.org/nohari?name=Jacquerel
I don’t really know much about what other people think about me
http://kevan.org/johari?name=Sanzh
http://kevan.org/nohari?name=Sanzh
Okay sure why not.
Just some characters
So I haven’t really use Tumblr because I don’t make art frequently enough and I’m not nearly a frequent enough writer, but I sort of wanted to post something? So I grabbed a couple of characters off of my big character idea sheet and just slid them over here. All of these are for Grand Battles, so there’s some character choices I made that I might not normally make that I did, I don’t know if that comes off. Also because I’m sort of sloppy they’re only as confusing notes rather than something nice like a coherent paragraph. Anyway here’s some half-developed character ideas:
- A pacifist war-robot who wants others to give up on fighting and sees that as the only way to win, has an internal conflict between his personal view that war is pointless (developed from flaws in his self-determination capacity) and his own programming as an engine of destruction (also being fifteen feet tall and bristling with weapons).
- Siphoned-off portion of an alien consciousness/entity existing inside of a small bubble of its home universe, can’t exist within a normal universe and rather than being omnicidal it is just curious and naive— this is its first moments outside of a dimension incapable of sustaining normal matter, almost like a sentient black hole but enough energy will damage it and weaken its ability to maintain the conditions it is existing in.
- Trans-human/alien mind on a computer, at first it would consist solely of a computer, an extremely basic armature, some construction tools and some bits to allow additions to its chassis, but it would gradually build a body and access saved technological patterns, re-purposing found technological items to be added onto him or as new tools and weapons and such; also probably not the most mentally balanced (maybe develops an obsession with becoming wholly biological again or starts downloading additional minds onto his computer-brain or wants to kill everything to achieve solace, I’m not sure).
- Alien ecosystem, starts as a small collection of spores that rapidly modifies other species of life and reshapes the environment, as it grows in volume it becomes more conscious and aware, probably creates a lot of exceedingly weird instances of flora as it semi-consciously modifies native species, it’s less pre-occupied with fauna except as ambulatory vectors for its proliferation.
Anyway yeah some things. I’ll go back to putting off doing school-work now I guess.
