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rainbowwyrm · 3 months

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A Fresh New Makeover!

After some rewriting and compiling all the inspirations I have on Pinterest, I decided to redesign my Welcome Home/OC persona so that I can work from a "bottom-up" (designing a character based on lore) approach as opposed to a "top-down" (writing lore based on the character's design) one.

Of course, I'm still somewhat of an amateur when it comes to character design, and I would love to receive some feedback from anyone more experienced. In the meantime, I'll continue to work on my persona and hopefully get her story out there once it's finally ready!

Edit: I changed the alt descriptions a bit, so my apologies for any confusion!

Old Designs:

New Designs:

Read more for personal commentary!

One of the problems that I have with her old design is that she looked too human for someone who's supposed to be a half-sea dragon, half-celestial, and was almost akin to Howdy Pillar (minus the multiple limbs).

Another is that the gem on her chest didn't make much sense, as Amy is already pretty animated in her facial expressions and body language. Also, I had no idea how to incorporate it into her alternate form (see images above). So, rather than being a body part, I decided to change it to be more of an accessory/tool.

Lastly, I changed her attire quite a bit to emulate her connections to the sea and sky, such as her hair being inspired by ocean waves and stratus clouds, and make her stand out more from the rest of the neighbors.

As for her alternate form, as much as you guys adore the little worm, it didn't exactly look like a dragon (or in this case, a wyrm) as I intended. So, sadly, I have to make some changes to that as well. I did try to carry over some of the most notable traits, mainly the caterpillar-like body and big ol eyes, just to retain that same worm-like appearance.

However, what really bothered me about the old design is that it didn't look functional as an actual puppet due to lacking a proper mouth, which I hastily added in the final version. But after finding references online, I got a clearer picture of how a dragon/worm-like puppet operates. It's not the best, but it's still a massive improvement.

#oh and about her being potentially a 'self insert'; it's still applicable but i want to put a cool spin on it #my art #art #welcome home #welcome home horror project #welcome home puppet show #welcome home arg #welcome home fanart #welcome home oc #welcome home persona #welcome home self insert #character design #dragon sona #marina del phis #wyrm's art

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khaire-traveler · 5 months

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I'll be so honest and say that it can be extremely hard to post devotional art. Sometimes people think it's the greatest thing since sliced bread, and other times, they could give less of a shit. Honestly, it's so discouraging that every time I've posted devotional art, only, like, ten people seem to care. It makes me not want to post devotional art, and I can't imagine that I'm the only one who feels this way.

Let's just be more supportive of the artists in the Helpol community in general because I'm starting to think the reason we may not see devotional art as often (I don't, at least) is not due to a lack of art to see but due to a lack of support for those artists and their work instead.

Posting devotional anything is scary, sharing your personal practice or feelings with random strangers online. It honestly makes it so much worse when no one seems to give a shit. So, if you see a small artist or beginner artist posting their devotional art, please give them a like and reblog. You could make their whole day.

#helpol #hellenic polytheism #hellenic pagan #if you feel this is applicable to other polytheist or pagan communities #you're welcome to reblog with those tags and such #but yeah I've met quite a few people who feel similarly to me #there are a lot of artists who do not share their worl #because no one will pay attention to it; especially if it's nom-digital Ive noticed #so maybe let's make artists feel more comfortable sharing their work #by pspspsing at them #and actually interacting with their work

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ro-botany · 7 months

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An Attempt at a Semi-Realistic Analysis of Thoron Stab Wounds

Yes, I already made a post about this recently. But in my reply to Ana's musing about the subject of the thoron blade, I largely assumed fire-like behaviour from an electric spell, and it's been itching my brain all day. So let's go over it again:

What would be the effect of getting stabbed with a bolt of electricity? What would that look like if we offered like five more centimeters of realism to this setting?

If you don't read the full post, my conclusions are basically:

If we treat a thoron bolt like a live wire, then even if it's a relatively weak source of electricity, with that entry placement it's instantly arresting breath, causing severe convulsions, and probably killing him in record time.

I don't care that Chrom has the power of god and anime on his side. There is no way in hell he's speaking or controlling his own movements in this moment.

The best interpretation of the thoron blade stabbing is the interpretation that makes the story feel best to YOU. Ignore me and my math if it doesn't spark (hah) any joy or interest for you.

Content warning: Detailed discussion of electrical shock and burns, and descriptions of such.

Classification of Energy Blades

I generally consider the thoron blade to be a subtype of a broader class of fictional weapons I call energy blades. These are your lightsabers, your halo fireblades, things like that.

Most of these weapons tend to behave like sources of pure heat, and most can have their behaviour modelled like a Hot Knife. The weapon is treated as though it has a physical component -- a sharp blade at its center that handles most of the actual cutting or stabbing -- and the fire/plasma/heat is treated as a secondary effect of the weapon. Narratively this is often the more balanced choice, because it means the weapon puts out a reduced amount of heat energy, which means damage is (mostly) contained to the initial wound site and its immediate surroundings. This is how you get instant cauterization weapons.

The other option is the Literal Flame model, which assumes pure heat energy with no physical cutting component. This is rarely, if ever, used in fiction, because it is overpowered. It works a lot like the acetylene torch analogue I used in my reblog of Ana's post. In short, for a volume of heat energy to be capable of "cutting" flesh, it's effectively vaporizing/instantly melting that flesh. That means it's putting out a LOT of energy. For a heat-based weapon, that means massive amounts of burning around the wound site, penetrating way deeper into the surrounding tissue than you expect, and the sheer heat of the air around the weapon causing widespread surface burns.

But the problem with using heat-based models in this instance is that Thoron is not a pure heat-source. Thoron is electricity, and electricity behaves very differently from pure heat. So if our aim is semi-realism, we ought to model it like electricity.

The Behaviour of Electricity

Fictional electric magic -- thoron included -- rarely behaves like real electricity. So, for our purposes, rather than an actual arc of electrical energy, let's model a thoron blade as a source of electricity.

Validar, through Robin, has effectively jammed a live wire directly through Chrom's lung and kidney. What does that do? To talk about that, we need to talk about how electric shocks work.

For electrical current to flow, you need a circuit. For a body to complete a circuit, it needs to contact two points with different voltage levels. A bird sitting on a high voltage wire has two feet touching points of the same voltage, so, voltage difference 0, the bird is safe. Chrom, however, has a live wire stuck through his kidney and feet on the ground; he's forming a circuit between a high voltage wire and the low voltage ground. Big voltage difference, big problem.

Once you get past the outer layer of skin, two things happen when a person is shocked. One, human bodies use electricity to move and to send nerve signals, so any muscles getting shocked will tense up. And two, humans do conduct electricity but don't do it well, which means there's a lot of heat being generated, which means the tissue getting shocked is also getting burned.

The majority of an electrical current will follow the path of least resistance. In this case, that means the shock initially goes from the impalement site, down through the legs, and out the feet. But electricity follows ALL available paths in some amount, so its not one straight line through the body, it does wider damage than that.

So What's The Damage?

Time to do some math!

(I am not an electrician or a doctor; please bear with me)

To my understanding, injury from electricity is a function of current and duration.

According to my sources, the amount of shock current someone experiences can be estimated using Ohm's law. To do this we need to know the voltage we're dealing with... so we're going to have to fudge some numbers here, since we can't actually measure the voltage of fictional magic spells.

Given thoron is a third tier lightning spell I'm going to say it's powerful, but not anywhere near lightning-from-the-sky powerful. I'll ballpark it around the voltage of... well, an electric chair, of the persuasion that kills you. Best I can tell, that means 2000 volts. You could probably reasonably go higher, but this feels intuitive to me.

My sources also tell me that the average internal resistance of the human body, with no skin in the way, is 1000 ohms. Just an average, not accounting for the different resistances of different tissue types and fluids.

So! To get the strength of the shock current Chrom's getting:

I = V/R = 2000 volts / 1000 ohms = 2 amps.

2 amps of current. Chrom is experiencing approximately 2 amps of steady current over 22 seconds.

I know that 2 amps doesn't seem like a big number. I need you to understand, dear reader, that currents that injure and kill humans are measured in milliamps. I need you to understand the sheer magnitude of how bad this is.

0.03 amps of current causes muscle contractions strong enough that you can't let go of the thing shocking you.

0.15 amps is enough to stop your heart, if the current goes through your heart -- which means death. It's enough to stop your breathing if the current goes through your lungs/diaphragm. It's enough to cause your limbs to tense so hard you are physically thrown.

Much more current than that, or current for more than fractions of a second, and you start talking severe burns.

I need you to understand that we have just directed 2000 milliamps of current through most of Chrom's internal organs for 22 entire gods-damned seconds.

Did I pull that voltage completely out of my ass? Yes. But Chrom is getting shocked directly in the organs for 22 fucking seconds so there is literally no voltage we can pick that isn't completely fucking him over. The exact number is just a question of how singed we want him at the end.

I know he has dragon heritage and general anime dude resilience on his side. I know this. But I cannot stress enough the degree to which that is not helping him here. In fact, things like the mild super strength like he has PROBABLY WOULD MAKE IT WORSE because your muscles contract way harder than you normally can contract them when they're being shocked!

No, Really, What's The Damage?

Best as I can tell, based on my limited understanding of electricity and its effects, here's roughly what happens to Chrom upon getting stabbed by the thoron blade when we pretend like this setting is a smidge more realistic than it actually is.

If you do not want to read graphic descriptions of injury this is your final warning to bail out of this post.

The instant the blade impales him, all the muscles from the bolt to his toes constrict. He instantly stops breathing. His legs and abdomen convulse so hard it throws him away from Robin.

He lands on the ground, and now the current isn't just going through his legs; it's going through any part of him that touches the ground, and that, in the end, is what's lethal.

His entire body locks up. Muscles pull as tight as they can go. He's convulsing on the ground, like a seizure, only worse. The skin around the bolt bubbles and chars. It smells like meat burning.

There's a sound like wood snapping as the force of his own writhing muscles fractures his bones.

He doesn't speak. He doesn't even scream.

It's bloodless and quiet. Twenty two seconds is a long time.

If Chrom was lucky, he died quickly. Heat turning blood to jelly, a lick of current stopping the heart, pain so great his brain knocks out of its own accord to spare him.

If being a son of Naga "helped" at all, gave him any resilience past what is human, it only means he was conscious a few seconds longer. Just enough time to be aware of the loss of control and the razor-sharp fire of nerve pain that erases all thought. With luck, not enough time to consciously realise he's dying, or whose fault it is.

Twenty two seconds is a long time.

The exit wounds on his back, on his limbs, on his head, sear, then bubble, then char in places. The damage around the bolt bubbles and blackens out and out and out. Don't think about what that looks like on the inside. The smell of burning flesh is thick enough to choke on.

He's still convulsing and burning long, long past the point of death. It only stops when the bolt fades.

In Conclusion:

The only thing saving us all from trauma around this cutscene is the T for Teen rating.

Validar could you pick literally any other execution method because holy hell. Robin carries a sword. Why didn't you just use THE SWORD, VALIDAR.

If you choose to model the thoron blade as a Hot Knife, or as a Literal Pinpoint Flame, or as either of those with a secondary mild electric shock effect, those are all extremely good options for how to handle this event. They offer an experience closer to canon with a highly variable level of injury severity. Singe the man to your taste, allow last words or don't, pick your level of blood and bad smells, those do it all.

Live Wire, as described in too much detail in this post, may be a marginally more realistic model if you want to treat thoron as a straight up source of electricity. Live Wire is also probably the most horrifying option of the bunch, and the one that offers everybody involved the least closure, which has it's own narrative value.

In the end, this is naught but applying a little too much realism and math to anime video game, because I find that fun. If this doesn't work for you throw it out. Pick whatever interpretation makes the best narrative for YOU. If you are like me and are fascinated by the most horrifying option, welcome, we can feel terrible about this together now.

Electricity is terrifying, never touch an outlet, rest in charred little pieces Chrom, goodnight everybody.

#graphic descriptions of violence #electrocution #fe awakening #chrom #meta #I GUESS???#long post #grimleal studies #this is a lot more math and a lot more words than anyone needed to put into this but *i* had fun #sorry or you're welcome whichever is more applicable #i continue to be allergic to brevity

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fairy-boy-butch · 6 days

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I would be such a good house butch let me take care of you pretty working women of the world

#v screams #butchfemme #id welcome you home everyday with dinner and your favorite drink #this is my formal application

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iwasthenightingale · 7 months

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I've seen lots of people talk about how Crowley-type humans like Aziraphale-types and vice versa, and I think a huge part of that is that each have such fabulously complimentary good qualities

As an Aziraphale coded human who tries hard to do the right thing, my biggest failing is leaning too far towards 'lawful goodness'. I want to be the kind of person Crowley is - a big-picture thinker who is always questioning, always empathetic to a cause, making shades-of-grey assessments from his own strong moral code and striving so hard every day to protect those around him.

On the flip side, I could see a Crowley-coded (chaotic neutral??) person cherishing the exuberance and passion that Aziraphale has, the clarity of vision and and faith in an end goal, the excitement in small victories and determination to always keep fighting...

On their own they're both quite extreme approaches, but together they create a wonderful balance. So of course we're drawn to each other. And of course Crowley and Aziraphale couldn't help being pulled into each other's orbit from that very first hello

#looking for my crowley applications welcome #I love how certain personality types just compliment so well #the ineffable husbands were always meant to be #good omens #ineffable husbands #crowley #aziraphale #good omens meta #dnd alignments

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frenchfry99 · 7 months

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Ermm

Do any of your OCs need a bodyguard in mob au-

(zoom in for better quality cuz tumbler CHEWS my art) doodles & info under cut ✿

Haha and yes she does try to replace cigarettes with stuff like chewing gum

(Detailed) human ver jumpscare! Ha!

sleeve tattoos? sleeve tattoos. (I was too lazy to make em as detailed as they're supposed to be-)

I don't have much on my mind for their current lore, but I have some for the past

Not as open and cuddly as her original version, Magnolia Monroe appears to be a cold-minded and tough person. Their past cheery character faded away, now it's rare to hear any puns from them or at least see them genuinely smile. But is this what they really are? Who knows who knows

She knew Barnaby long time before he joined the mob, Magnolia spent most of their childhood with him before their ways parted. Seeing him years later was definitely...suprising! she was devastated lol

But more heartbreaking was when mafia took the most precious thing she had in their life - their fiancée. Her and Poppy were happily together for quite some time, maybe they'd get married soon too but one day Poppy was just gone without a trace. Magnolia couldn't protect even their dearest one

(Local she/they beats ur arse)

Magnolia as bodyguard surely has more pros than cons but one of their very few major flaws is that they may get too attached to whoever she's guarding. Losing her fiancée so suddenly and seeing whatever her brother figure turned into in the mob would make her afraid to lose someone again. As a professional they wouldn't show it but deep inside she'd be almost paranoid about something taking away this person (again).

I feel like she'd be the type to bottle up emotions in order to keep her always reliable and strong character-

And ig I forgot to mention in her original ver post that they're married to Poppy :33 (letting at least her og ver be happy)

In this au even if they meet, which is rare but not impossible to happen due to their jobs, Poppy obviously doesn't recognize Magnolia. And even if Poppy catches feelings in response, the next time they see each other she won't remember a thing, which only breaks Magnolia more.

#didn't really want to put her in mob au at first #but I liked the idea with spiky metallic horns-#lmao I always think like sapphics can't get a single normal ship #and then do this to my sapphic oc-#(friendly fire???)#magnolia monroe #welcome home #welcome home oc #welcome home puppet show #original character #welcome home mob au #mob magnolia monroe #tbh this post reminds me of a job application #stronk ladies for life💪💪#it's hard to notice but sometimes you can see how exhausted they are #doesn't stop her from being competent in her job tho #magnolia monroe wh

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