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alsoyooraiyah · 1 month

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Tell us about Dola!

shsjshs idek where to start with Dola ;w; thank u for giving me an outlet for talking about her LND incarnation omg I hope you know what you’re getting into when you asked this…

so like!! in general she’s my OC that I use everywhere bc I just like her too much to even care about making other OCs because to me she’s like… the ultimate cool doll >.> she tends to retain a lot of her traits each time + I try to keep as much of her original conflicted artist background as possible while still making it make sense with the lore of the universe I’m putting her in

So in LND as MC, she still has Caleb + Josephine, is a Hunter, and ofc has the aether core in her heart but strays from canon in that:

Art has a huge place in her life because her parents were renowned artists and she was primed to follow in their footsteps. She ends up dropping it sometime after she was orphaned though, and only picks it up around high school age and in secret

Gets dreams of fragments of her past lives with Rafayel, but she can never recall the face of the man that’s always in her dreams once she wakes up. Trying to sketch out the man’s face is her main reason for getting into art again, and it snowballs into her making art inspired by her dreams in general

She knows a lot about Lemurian myth and history because she dreams about the place + this one Lemurian so much that she had to look into it, and by extension is fascinated by the sea

Which also means that she did actually attend Rafayel’s lectures at her university when he became a visiting professor there. They kind of only have one proper conversation throughout that entire year though.

Her heart issues affect her more than they affect MC in canon, so the UNICORNS treat her a little differently to work around it. Largely that means she doesn’t go on as many missions as MC seems to? And is often deployed a support/the human radar bc of her Evol rather than a frontline fighter.

Doesn’t feel that strongly about being a Hunter once she actually is one? Tbh I think she kinda hates a majority of the work and commitment that comes with it but feels she can’t just quit after spending so much time working towards becoming one. Xavier and their training sessions together are kind of the main things keeping her there (+ she has fun killing Wanderers)

She’s not as bubbly or cheerful or bratty as the canon MC is. Her personality is a lot more reserved and introverted and she LOVES studying + learning, but there’s still a bit of playfulness there. There’s actually so many parts of the main story, Tender Moments, and Bond/Memoria that I’m changing or outright excluding because they just don’t work out for her the same way they do with canon MC sigh >.>;;

LOVES plants and flowers. In every iteration I have of her she’s at least half covered in floral tattoos and her home is always full of them! Very into flower language to an extent that I’m not ahdjsjs she makes me research a lot of things…

Kind of obsessed with death (mostly because she believes herself to be on a short timer) and is a little fucked up? Will join Rafayel in his quest for vengeance and will believe his murders are all justified if she finds out about them tbh.

^Okay I feel like that’s a lot ahdjshsja >.> in LND I wrote her with Rafayel in mind as the endgame >.> Zayne’s more of a bestie/brother/secret third thing, and Xavier… I guess to her he’s a friend but he definitely is in love with her? And Dola eventually becomes aware of that and isn’t quite sure what to do about it.

Gosh anyway!! Thank you for being interested ahdjshsjs she’s been my baby and muse for like… 3-4 years at this point? I have so many thoughts about her like you wouldn’t believe ;-;

(i have a whole inspo blog for her ahdjshs it’s @dolasach >.>)

#you can probs tell that she’s partially wish fulfillment but i honestly dont see her as a self-insert #shes really just some cool person i have the pleasure of knowing really well and like putting in situations #thank u for the ask omg #yknow typing this out i wonder if OCs are as much of a thing in LND as they are in Obey Me?#i dont really see peoppe posting about their OC/MC in main tag…#skynapple #placeholder ask tag #dolasach

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pxrtalmxster · 5 years

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It’s coming up to one full year of no Skylanders content. I think this is the first year in memory that there is nothing Skylanders related to look forward to.

This series is everything to me. The characters, the story, the setting and even this OC. If I didn’t have it I don’t know where I would be today or if I would even be here at all. Skylanders is what made me find tumblr thanks to an ask blog that’s still running to this day.

I just feel so terrible today for many reasons but also coming upon the realization that this is the first year without the series in any form. I just feel like a part of me has disappeared and I keep thinking that maybe it’s never coming back and that thought scares me.

I had a whole dream last night about me doing everything in my power to bring the series back. (Y’know in odd dream fashion) mainly it was about the last event for a game and that once it ended I was constantly trying to use my dream manipulation powers to bring it back in any form I could and it was frustrating as hell. Nothing would work because as soon as I was able to do anything it would go back to being over and then I’m back to square one and yet I kept trying desperately until I ended up waking up. Still frustrated.

I’m still extremely upset they ‘cancelled’ Academy season 4 but I still hold out hope that maybe in a few years it’ll come back under a new name or something but I think that’s just me holding onto all that I have left to hope for.

Activision is making remakes of so many Crash and Spyro games and I’m happy for those people who are excited. I enjoyed Reignited myself, but it’s not the same. I also realize that some of these people who enjoy these games hate Skylanders and want it to die forever. Like, you people got what you wanted. You know how it feels to have your version of a character forgotten. I really don’t want to say I hope they don’t get anymore games, but I really do. Toys For Bob is only able to handle so much and if they continue to make new Spyro games, that leaves Skylanders nowhere else to go. It really will be forgotten.

Even news outlets seem to have forgotten about the series. At first they used to ask Activision about the series and if it was coming back, but after like two years, they've said nothing. I have no way of getting any statement without them and now there’s nothing I can do. I can’t even get a “maybe” anymore because of this so any hope I have is based on my own clinging to the one thing that means the most to me.

Ring of Heroes is the only Skylanders thing that’s still around but honestly it doesn’t feel like Skylanders to me. It’s just summoners war but with the same characters and no real story or personality outside of the events which still feel empty to me. Supposedly people are turning away from it now too bc of some meta or game mechanic stuff that isn’t being fixed and if this game fails I know the series is probably done for.

If the fandom was actually a decent size maybe I wouldn’t be feeling this way since there would still be more content and discussion but the fandom has never been big and with no new content, it’s going to stay pretty much dead forever now. The only reason ROH even has a player base is because most of them are from Summoners War since they are very similar games and made by the same company.

I just feel like I’ve lost hope in the series coming back, even if it’s only been about a year now. I thought ROH would make me feel better but it just feels like another game that’s just using the characters but not in the way the main games would. Even the original team that talked to the fans has moved on and now there’s other people who don’t seem to have the same passion for the series since they are more the game directors than fans. I think activision just gave them the IP and was like “Do something with this.” because that’s really the only explanation for how the game makes me feel.

I don’t know what would have changed if I had tried harder to keep the fandom alive when it was finally bigger after the first season of the show came out, I don’t know if those people would have left anyways, but I really wish I could go back to those days just to try. The RPC still only had about 9 or so blogs back then but it was better than the 3 others that are here now.

I don’t know how to make the fandom grow, how to make the RPC grow. I feel terrible for ever bringing the series up to anyone who isn’t a Skylanders blog because it feels like I’m pushing them and they may hate the series. I’m just so desperate for anything now. I feel like I’m the only one who’s put so much work into keeping some semblance of the series alive for all these years. If I give up, that’s it.

Even the Spyro RPC is thriving and it just makes me so frustrated. The series are so close and yet so far and it seems like they just want to forget Skylanders was ever a thing or even try it. I bet that they look at all the nonexistent Skylanders blogs and go “oh the rpc isn’t very big so there’s no point in starting a blog” and I feel helpless to do anything about it.

I have like 10 sideblogs for Skylanders muses but I feel awful for interacting with myself. I feel like it looks terrible and desperate. It’s not the same as interacting with someone else and throwing around ideas and getting unexpected replies. I only have myself to talk to and only myself to know what I’m doing.

Every time I come up with something new for my OC that’s almost always related to Skylanders, I get excited, but then I realize I’ll probably never end up using the idea since I have no one else to share it with except myself. I have this whole universe inside my head but it’s trapped there forever.

I don’t know. I just had to write this all down before I forget all these feelings. If I do at all. I know a good 98% of my followers could care less about Skylanders or may even hate it, but this is first a Skylanders blog and I’m never going to leave that behind. This isn’t directed at anyone at all I just feel so helpless right now.

#ooc #vent #rant tw #skylanders rant #Just having strong feelings towards this being the first year without any Skylanders #ROH isn't really Skylanders to me which I'm sad to say #I really hoped it would be #but it's not

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