An unidentified egg excavated from a primordial digsite was sold to a private egg collector then quickly lost behind other more visually impressive specimens in his gallery. Years passed uneventfully until its sudden hatching. She escaped into the night and recently resurfaced in the city. Her technical owner is aware of her whereabouts but is desperately consulting his lawyer team on the best way to cede his liability for her damages or attempt to "collect" her.
She's an enigma to everyone she meets, and it's impressive if you can get more than a one-word response out of her. Coupled with her rigid, forceful ideology and overwhelming power, she can seem like a vengeful revenant or otherworldly paragon. In reality, she's quite childlike in the rigidity of her morality and her ability to reduce complex environments and encounters into a simple symbollic understanding. She's dense as stone. It's easy to mislead her to keep yourself on her good side, but if she ever catches a whiff of duplicity, appealing to mercy won't save you.
She wields a titan maul with inhuman strength in combat, has an absurd healing factor, and can fly for long distances.
She doesn't have much of a story yet, but she looks cool.
Bats flock around the slumped waifish figure, disappearing into the feathers of her dove gray wings. She herself is stark white from head to toe, apart from the beige roan fur that sparsely covers her hooved legs. Her face, apart from a barbed purple blind-fold, has an air of innocence and purity, coupled with the often childish ways she styles her long, straight white hair.
And finally, one night, soon after moving into her first apartment, she met Caleb in the waking world.
Before long, her apartment was a circus of haunts - incubi and things she had never heard of before. This attracts the attention of a full 500-pound baku (a spirit-eater that is visually indistinct from a regular tapir) and inspires him to take up permanent residence in her bedroom. Her landlord maintains a strict pet weight limit of around 10 pounds, so this stresses her out to no end, at least until he brings her the sweetest dreams she's had since she was in 5th grade. The haunts still rear their ugly heads now and then, but it's usually just her and Funwa, a cute but nosy baku.
A girl with a mane of wiry black hair, warm skin, always dressed in flowing rainbows of ruffles.
Unlike fake cat people like the science origin Bobcat, Cat Man is a real cat person. He is a man well-integrated into society, going into work every day and paying his bills. He is also a cat with all the hyperactivity, play aggression, and 15-hour sleeping period. He frequently dozes off during meetings and ambushes shareholders, but he gets away with it due to cat privilege.
Basically, she lives in a timeline where the Old Testament took place during the space age. The entire Earth is essentially Israel and the solar system's alien races are the Canaanites, Hittites, Jebusites, etc. Israel-Earth has shattered into shards, and the tribes are spread out in space. Some are living on doomed shards, others have been taken into captivity on other planets, etc, so there are plenty of opportunities for adventures. Chandra was called to begin a ministry to reach all 12 tribes and announce that Planet Canaan as the Promised Land. She's also given a spaceship. Van is her pilot and sword.
He moonlights as a superhero. He works closely with the press to ensure maximum coverage of his heroics. When asked his motivations, he always asserts he does it all for the attention. His powers are pretty standard for a cat: claws, reflexes, and stealth.
+Early on, her party is attacked by bandits. The Canaanite Colt rescues her and joins them. They have the ill-fated love thing going on. He falls in love with her, but she is not interested in breaking the command to intermarry with the enemy nations. Way later, the tribes are given the Promised Land, but Chandra was disallowed from ever setting foot in it due to her the LORD of hosts leaves her and gives her quest to another, and even Colt won't take her back because he had become a spiritual Israelite through faith after seeing the many miracles of the journey.
He's got a nondescript but short male human body but with a gray mackerel tabby head, tail, and claws.
She has the millennial RP heterochromatic eyes in the colors from Portal because I wrote Hello, Traveler in the 2000s. Other than that, she's a cute blonde girl with short hair and weird sci-fi makeup and robes.
I was working through a lot of spiritual stuff at this time, and it's most literal in the archetypal "God's Daughter" character Lisbet, who was made to be alone. She's the sole inhabitant of her shard. When rescued by Chandra's crew and settled into her cabin, a Man locked the door. He says, "Turn away from everything else but me," then waits. She spends almost the full duration of the adventure in abject loneliness without getting to see Chandra and the others while going out of her way to ignore the Man. Occasionally, she turns this against him in spiteful argument. She cools, and in weak moments asks him for help, but she only asks for small things and only receives small things, but she generally powers through alone. In the end, she sees his faithfulness and asks him to teach her how to talk to him, to better understand him, and to change her heart. Little by little, the room brightens and expands with opportunity to learn his character until the door opens out directly into Canaan where she enjoys the rest of her days, surrounded by community and fellowship in the spirit at last.
He saves Chandra and her crew from bandits and eventually joins them as a bodyguard. He falls for Chandra to her great annoyance because he doesn't even accept her as a prophetess of God.
He saves Chandra and her crew from bandits and eventually joins them as a bodyguard. He falls for Chandra to her great annoyance because he doesn't even accept her as a prophetess of God. His personality is coarse, and his morality is pretty questionable, but his intentions are never bad. Van and Chandra are still constantly steering him to the narrow path, though. He's initially dismissive, but some of their points stick in his mind.
He's skilled with swords.
He's tall with sharp features and muddy brown colors. Anywhere his hair parts, tiny quills are revealed that contain a mild numbing poison. He's always armed with some kind of weapon while off the ship.
He was a character in a dream.
He was a character I first met in a dream.
Eden's the receptionist for the Abyss. He really should be keeping everyone out, but there's a hard limit to how much effort he'll exert. He's incredibly self-absorbed, so he gets on his peers' nerves.
Eden's the receptionist for the Abyss. He really should be keeping everyone out, but there's a hard limit to how much effort he'll exert. He's incredibly self-absorbed, so he gets on his peers' nerves all the time.
He has soft, pretty features with a musical voice, but his attitude is brusque and careless. He keeps his brown hair long and dyes half of it purple.
If she isn't in her computer room all day, she's exploring equally dark and dank places. Her skin will never get any sun.
If she isn't in her computer room all day, she's exploring equally dark and dank places. Her skin will never get any sun. She hoards spooky chews but never eats them, so her apartment is full of them. Despite minimal time at her plot in the farmlands, she manages to grow a large array of exotic flowers and vegetables regardless. Maybe it's a hidden talent of hers, or (more likely) kind neighbors watch her plants in her absence.
I draw her differently all the time. Fluffy pink hair, pink eyes, and slouchy clothes is enough to identify her.
Helia was basically abandoned by her parents, but she keeps this information on the down low. She doesn't really have a lot of options, so she's going to live in a foreign country with an uncle she hasn't seen since she was a toddler. Worse, he's barely ever at home. Fortunately, despite having a culture shock, she makes friends easily in this small town of Lucrest.
Early on, Tessa dares her to sleep in the haunted shopping center overnight. It turns out the place has a strict curfew with rumors of strange lights, sounds, and slime monsters bubbling up from the ground. Helia finds that to be true and more, stumbling upon an entire dungeon beneath the city, populated with multiple fantasy races and nations. There's dark secrets and political intrigue and all that, but her most mysterious recovery is an abandoned horned boy with otherworldly powers - Rune.
She's short, slender, and flat as a pancake. She uses dark pink contacts so habitually that her friends don't remember what her natural eye color is. She also dyes her hair at home, hiding chunks of fiery orange and burgundy under her blonde hair. She's a high ponytail girl, wearing it so high, it usually falls over the side of her face. To let the hot pink and fiery colors shine, everything in her closet is black-adjacent - deep purple, forest green, navy, and blood red - and she enjoys DIYing detailed accents like corset lacing, reverse applique, and using found objects as buttons or charms.
He and Helmut. Faber is training in sorcery.
His accomplishments in the field of alchemy are exemplary, but he is worried about his legacy on earth. He is divorced and without children, so there's no one special to share his knowledge, wealth, and time with. He adopts the two orphans with the highest magical aptitude in his city: Faber and Tilly. Initially, the relationship is all business with formal meal times, lessons, and planned field trips, but he comes to love them like his own children.
He's always goofing off during studies, but he always looks put-together with his hair slicked back and outfits well-coordinated.
He's still surprisingly young for his contributions to his field, but signs of aging are at the forefront of his mind. He wears his grass green hair rebelliously long, despite what his first bosses told him, and has a vibrant wardrobe that tends towards fall colors and textures.
Helmut and his apprentices are inspired by Pantone colors of the year.
She grew up in Ascalon and is helping to rebuild the city. Not a lot of Elementalists survived the Searing, so she's chronically overcasted. It seems like she finds a new pocket of survivors in the wastes every day, though, so how can she stop fighting for her people?
With the release of Guild Wars 2, it looks like all her work was for naught. The ruins are almost identical to the day Lune left with Prince Rurik to seek an alliance with the dwarves lol.
She's naturally full-breasted with a distinctively doll-like side profile with her smooth porcelain forehead, long, upturned nose and full lips. She'd get all the attention from boys she wanted if she wasn't deemed a lost cause. Ascalon is lost, but she'll never face reality. The refugees need to be rescued, but hyping the return of the kingdom is just feeding them false hope. Regardless, no amount of reason will move her feet from her home.
My persona! She's been made in about every 00s-early 10s MMO out there. Her signatures are her cool-toned, almost lavender-toned white hair, golden or citrine eyes, short stature, and sunny disposition. She's linked with water and the moon. She has a ton of backstories, but her earliest version is as an Ascalonian girl, training under Munne to become a catacombs groundskeeper and votive candle-maker. She'll always be a Guild Wars girl at heart!
Her favorite colors to wear are brown, white, and black. If she wears makeup, it's usually brown or gold tones. She also usually has short, straight hair with peek-a-boo bangs.
She had a frizzy brunette phase for a few years because I convinced myself creative interpretations and personas are cringy. Maybe they are, but whatever. That line of thinking strips away my ability to abstract stressors into art and writing. My creative outlet matters way more to me than some arbitrary standard of coolness. So her brunette phase is an important part of her journey, but her true self has white hair.
Her parents turned their kids loose and never check up on them, so Nephe never came back after it was obvious she wasn't missed. There's an abandoned house in the subdivision she squats in. It's really weird because there's never been any sign anyone actually lives there as long as she's known about it. The front door is locked, but the garage door is open and leads to an unlocked door. Regardless, it kind of creeps her out, so she never leaves the garage or driveway. She has some basic items, like a laptop and some notebooks, and leeches off of a technically illiterate neighbor's wi-fi.
She meets her first friend and true teen love online, Denver. He confides in her that he spends so much time online due to a fatal disease that prevents him from attending a normal school. When he stops logging in, she assumes he died. In a climax of emotion, she scales the house and tears her diary into the wind, page by page, then recedes into the darkest rooms in the house to hide for as long as she can bear.
With spring, she ventures out for the first time in what feels like forever, letting the healing sun sink into her skin and cut through the fog in her head. She stops to look at a particularly beautiful garden before noticing a crumbled piece of paper -- a page of her diary! She's fearful to read it but can't resist, and she's filled with not dread but the warmth of nostalgia. She begins a journey to retrieve all the pages and has a lot of interesting encounters on the way.
She's a short, lithe, girl built from solid muscle. She has beautiful brown hair and blue eyes, with her hair so thick and long it probably weighs as much as she does. She also always wears red, teal, and yellow, like a color-coded cartoon character.
This was actually one of my early gamedev projects. I wrote a GDD for it as an angsty middleschooler. The blog is still floating around on Tumblr lol.
A natural-born genius who quit high school early to pursue apprenticeships at capital hospitals. Then, just as he was offered to study at one of the top research hospitals in the nation, his grandparents' health rapidly deteriorated. He had to rescind the offer and return home to spend his last moments when them, prepare the final paperwork, and decide what to with himself, his orphaned brother Milo, and the property. The mayor Dia has been trying to take over as much of the "adult" work as possible to give him space to mourn and spend time with his baby brother. She's also set him up with a little pharmacy in town, waiving rent for now.
Though mature for his age, he's short. He's headstrong and particular about his things, wearing his hair long and frequently covering his eyes, never using his real name for anything, and overdressing no matter the occasion. Paired with his snarky, cynical, conceited attitude, he has always been distinctly unpopular. The nearest doctor was previously half a county away, though, so the pharmacy was bound to succeed no matter who was running it. At work, though, he is strictly professional, his training and lost opportunity always pressing on his mind.
He has an extreme complexion, with dark hair but light blue eyes. He's vampirically pale, abhorring any time spent outside or exercising. His wardrobe is all neutrals with bold pops and relaxed fits - brown corduroy, navy monk-cloth, striped silk surah, vibrant sweater vests, and dress shirts in every color. Tessa's mom made her alter every single one of Night's jackets for practice, so they all fit like a glove.
She's a rogue VI, lost in Paragon City. She loves making friends and helping them out, but her lack of discernment doesn't always put her on the right side.
She wields a red katana.
She's engulfed in bright orange pixels.
A natural-born genius who quit high school early to pursue apprenticeships at capital hospitals. Then, just as he was offered to study at one of the top research hospitals in the nation, his grandparents' health rapidly deteriorated. He had to rescind the offer and return home to spend his last moments when them, prepare the final paperwork, and decide what to with himself, his orphaned brother Milo, and the property. The mayor Dia has been trying to take over as much of the "adult" work as possible to give him space to mourn and spend time with his baby brother. She's also set him up with a little pharmacy in town, waiving rent for now.
Though mature for his age, he's short. He's headstrong and particular about his things, wearing his hair long and frequently covering his eyes, never using his real name for anything, and overdressing no matter the occasion. Paired with his snarky, cynical, conceited attitude, he has always been distinctly unpopular. The nearest doctor was previously half a county away, though, so the pharmacy was bound to succeed no matter who was running it. At work, though, he is strictly professional, his training and lost opportunity always pressing on his mind.
He has an extreme complexion, with dark hair but light blue eyes. He's vampirically pale, abhorring any time spent outside or exercising. His wardrobe is all neutrals with bold pops and relaxed fits - brown corduroy, navy monk-cloth, striped silk surah, vibrant sweater vests, and dress shirts in every color. Tessa's mom made her alter every single one of Night's jackets for practice, so they all fit like a glove.
He is a mysterious adolescent boy rescued from the dungeon by Helia, Tessa and Angel. He is listless, gaze-avoidant, and asocial initially, barely able to communicate in English. Over time, he warms up to his new friends and opens his loyal, tender, but usually misguided heart. The girls have a tendency to baby him, but he is more mature and capable than any of them in several ways. Unfortunately, his poor grasp on English, surface culture, and social cues confound any attempts to impress them. Being both trusting and born yesterday is an overbearing temptation for Tessa, and she bullies him relentlessly.
Until his rescue, he was living in the buffer territory between the inner earth and Lucrest Shopping Center. Bless, a dark gray styracosaurus, raised him with a hoard of Abyssal beasts. She is fiercely protective of Rune, goring anyone who trespasses in her territory. She's a known threat in the area, and workers take the long way around to avoid her.
He is shockingly tall and white as paper. Even more striking are his empty, red-toned eyes and inky hair that forms semi-rigid keratin "horns" about his crown. He is first found in rags and taped-together trash, living in a kingdom of refuse, but is later lent old hoodies and jeans by Angel.
He is a mysterious adolescent boy rescued from the dungeon by Helia, Tessa and Angel. He is listless, gaze-avoidant, and asocial initially, barely able to communicate in English. Over time, he warms up to his new friends and opens his loyal, tender, but usually misguided heart. The girls have a tendency to baby him, but he is more mature and capable than any of them in several ways. Unfortunately, his poor grasp on English, surface culture, and social cues confound any attempts to impress them. Being both trusting and born yesterday is an overbearing temptation for Tessa, and she bullies him relentlessly.
Until his rescue, he was living in the buffer territory between the inner earth and Lucrest Shopping Center. Bless, a dark gray styracosaurus, raised him with a hoard of Abyssal beasts. She is fiercely protective of Rune, goring anyone who trespasses in her territory. She's a known threat in the area, and workers take the long way around to avoid her.
He is shockingly tall and white as paper. Even more striking are his empty, red-toned eyes and inky hair that forms semi-rigid keratin "horns" about his crown. He is first found in rags and taped-together trash, living in a kingdom of refuse, but is later lent old hoodies and jeans by Angel.
She moved to Lucrest with her family and white, fluffy cat from France when she was really little. Unfortunately, her father died not too long afterward. She doesn't know much about him or his old country of Haiti, but she visits extended family in Blois with her mom every Christmas. That doesn't mean she's that great at French. In fact, to her mother's immense disappointment, she has a better grade in Spanish.
She deeply admires her mother as a strong, loving, successful tradeswoman, so she gives back some of her time to help in her studio. Several days a week, she can be found hand-sewing fabric flowers, or serving as a fit model.
She would rather spend every moment outside, though, forever hiking, jogging, and poking her nose into her neighbors' business. Her cat is an outside cat and joins in on her adventures most of the time. Tessa's the instigator in her friend group, daring or begging to rope everyone into her wild adventures. She's all fun all the time, so she doesn't always know where the boundary is between playful teasing and outright bullying.
She is a light-skinned black girl of Haitian-French descent with silver eyes and a short, very athletic build. Her hair is dyed with darker streaks, and styled with short, choppy hime bangs. She never leaves the house without eyeliner and loves dressing in athleisure or trying new trends. Her favorite color changes with the season, but gunmetal is a consistent love. Her ears are pierced.
She and Helmut. Tilly is training in alchemy.
She's forgetful and somewhat careless, so there will always be one thing wrong with her appearance, maybe unbrushed hair, wrong shoes, or her shirt inside out.
Helmut and his apprentices are inspired by Pantone colors of the year.
She can't pinpoint the moment, but one day she became transparent. She hasn't been able to make eye contact or be heard by anyone since she's realized it. Even if she acts recklessly, like toppling a store display, not a single person so much as glances in her direction. She jokingly(?) theorizes she died while unaware and became a ghost.
She's a plain jane with dull red hair and brown eyes.
She is a relatively older AI but is widely used due to her ease of use, long-term support, and wide availability of libraries and plug-ins. She was originally designed as a virtual assistant for archives and research labs, but is now commonly seen at festivals and sites of interest. She uses a database provided by the owner to process and answer higher-level questions in the natural language of the user. The owner can manipulate the data in the database to give her some semblance of opinions, but she is intended to be bluntly factual. She can't be projected more than 3 feet off her hub, so she must be placed very near everything she needs to interact with.
She has voice recognition but also allows for written input via a written language similar to stenography. Everything she says is also displayed as text in holographic chat bubbles. In addition to chat bubbles, she can display all kinds of symbols, emoticons, and images as relevant.
Her natural state is to rest. During extended usage, her posture will droop and her mannerisms will become less animated. If her task is completed or she receives no input for an certain period of time, she will nod off to sleep, displaying a stream of Zzz.