just look and see, this forest i made for you
[Image ID: A digital illustration of Fresh Cut Grass from Critical Role. It has a colorful and messy pixellated style. FCG is standing in a field of flowers with his hands clasped in front of him, looking down over the grass with a sense of warmth. Tree branches frame him from high up on either side. Behind him, in sharp contrast to the bright colors of the rest of the piece, there is a black panel shaped like an explosion right behind his head. It shows a loose, scratchy looking sketch of a one eyed creature standing over his old party members, with hints of red indicating blood splatters. FCG is turned away from the panel, ignoring it. End ID.]
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tbh video games are a weird exception for me where i can't stand other forms of media having reactionary politics, like i can't look past it to try enjoy it despite the politics, it just ruins the experience for me, but for video games idgaf lol as long as the gameplay is fun i'm good. i mean i did write like 10k words criticising the reactionary politics of life is strange but that's different cause lis is a telltale game and basically just an interactive movie like there's not much gameplay to compensate for the writing and the politics of the writers. normal games are mostly gameplay and you can kinda ignore the writing if you don't like it. not that gameplay is apolitical, obviously the way the gameplay is designed is political too, but ig it's easier for me to ignore it if i can be distracted by the fun-ness of the gameplay? idk. but generally i'll play games with whatever strategy is most successful for the objectives of the game, like if the goal of the game is to make the most profit possible i'll play as a capitalist, if the goal of the game is to conquer all the land i'll play as a coloniser, if the goal of the game is to overthrow the bourgeoisie i'll play as a communist lol. anyway my main source of income in my rimworld games is harvesting and selling prisoners' organs
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not to be basic but 1 and 2 from that meta ask meme?
all the question are on the list for a reason Anon! no need to put yourself down for it v-v 1&2 are Excellent questions I"m happy to answer!
now.
I Imagine you intended this for Lazarus, But!
you were not specific
so you will now get a Very long post about Everyone >:3c
(and by everyone I mean the main 3 characters I consider 'Bartholomew's Nasty Little Bastards')
First up, of course, we will do Lazarus!
1. What inspired you to create your oc?
The really obvious answer here is Re8, my instant consuming love for it and for Karl, the overwhelming need to like... Participate, somehow, in that world, but not being able to cross the Full self-insert hurdle..
He's basically a very Warped-beyond-recognition version of a self-insert, a guy all his own but in somewhere still very Connected to the Me.
But the more like.. in depth stuff, like what inspired Lazarus to Be Who He Is is like.. I love like.. weird Art Gore, Body-As-Art kinda shit, Meaningful and disturbing.. somehow Comforting and he's kinda the perfect vessel for that. I've had the Human Taxidermy Artist thing floating around the back of my mind for a decade or so just Waiting for a place to land and Laz was a golden opportunity v-v.
2.Why does your oc look the way they do? What are your reasons for their appearance?
When I was settling Lazarus's design I wanted him to have this appearance of like, a very refined and elegant individual; beautiful in a sort of Severe way, but twist it up ever so slightly so he registers as Uncanny and Gross.
Beauty Hiding Filth and all that.
(just think about how many Fluids get into that Velvet Ensemble on the daily, it's Not Good.)
Like the way his pants cut him and the vertical lines make him just All Leg. And his pallid bloodstained skin which makes him look like a Walking Corpse, hair slicked back with its own grease.. a figure that's bewitching and unsettling to witness
also yes, the hair is Both a Me thing and a Bride of Frankenstein thing.
Virgil always feels right coming Second on these things..
1. Inspiration
Virgil is ooooooooooold, he's so Old, virgil is Ancient
Virgil is possibly my oldest still-in-use OC, I created him a Looooooong ass time ago.
like 2010 Long Ass Time.
That is to say I do not know Why she exists.
Okay, Not entirely true.
I made her for a comic I was writing with my friend at the time. She was my part of the main villain pair, but I do Not remember how I ended up on Toxicologist prodigy but make it Cowboy (which was always a bit of a misnomer for the vibe but nowadays Especially he's less Johnny Cash more Nickleback)
I Think, I Think, what I wanted was to have a character that contrasted the Hardest against my friends main villain? who was very Orderly and Serious and Efficient?? beats me though that was So long ago..
I was also just listening to a Lot of Nickleback-esk music at the time, which may have been an influencing factor lmao
2. Appearance
Virgil's appearance is pretty simple to explain, all told! He's a Country Boy/Girl, rowdy and ostentatious, and very secure in her understanding of that part of herself. It's where she comes from, and despite his rocky relationship with home it's who he is, y'know?
The brightest (and most dangerous) mind in Toxicology doesn't Have to look exactly how you'd Expect her to look now does she?
(Virgil pictured here on the Right)
Now our wonderful little Ulysses vwv)/
1. Inspiration
oh this is an Interesting one!! Ulysses (and Charlie, for that matter) came from 2 distinct places to land where they are now..
From time to time I like to entertain the idea of starting a band and having a musical career of some kind, something that blends my love of folk/bluegrass, prog-rock, and power metal into a loud villainous and exhilarating sound.
and a few years back, as I was getting into Bluegrass for the first time, I was struck by a Concept for a Concept Album.
It was called The Book of Brother UIysses; the story of a sniveling little priest in the frontier days and his Cursed Book, following him around as he fed townsfolk to whatever entity lived in its pages until he was finally Consumed himself.
I toyed with it for a bit and eventually put it back on the shelf until the Musical Fancy struck me once more, untiiiiil I was listening to friends at the table: sangfielle and had both a deep desire to do a Horror-Fantasy Western ttrpg And satisfy my ever-present desire to weasel my way into playing two characters at once.. and I pulled ol' Ulysses off the shelf again and made some.. Additions.
This has evolved now into them being just like.. free floating OC's? I don't plan on making a comic out of them, I would Still love an opportunity to play them in a TTRPG setting, but I'm not Banking on it, and hey, who knows, maybe I Will make that album someday, but for now they just kinda amorphously Exist within Something resembling a Narrative in my head after a long and complicated journey...
2. Appearance
Similar to Lazarus, I wanted Ulysses to be unsettling, but in a Slightly different way.
He's too clean- his all black outfit is never grimy, he is clean shaven his hair perfectly quaffed, with that plastered on grin, under eyes obscured by reflective glasses the vibes are just Immediately Off.
To the flip side of that I always wanted him to look kinda.. pathetic. When we see him outside of his Persona as The Keeper of the Book, as just a man that is still Human in many ways; he's just..
small, waifish, behind the glasses his eyes are big and jittery, like a pray animal caught in a snare and still trying to fight its way out..
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Sorry to ask, but who exactly is Andrew Tate, and do you have the link to the video you saw?
Andrew Tate is from I can gather from research, a former professional kickboxer and now a social media influencer who...basically is among the worst social media influencers, as he basically holds every single misogynistic view you can name, and spreads those views to his viewers and this in turn, has led to teachers from schools and parents confirming that boys/their sons have been mimicking Andrew with being misogynistic to women.
This has basically led to him being banned finally from Facebook and Instagram and prior to these two social medias banning him, Twitter also banned him when he...basically said in a tweet that women should share some of the blame when sexually assaulted.
And currently, he is at the center of a human trafficking investigation in Romania and is also the subject of rape allegations.
And like, that's just the major stuff: there's also how while he was on the show Big Brother, he got kicked out because a video got released where he beat a women with a belt and he also said depression is not a real illness and even in a deleted video, said he moved to Romania because its easier to be absolved of rape charges in Eastern Europe. Like, this man is basically scum and yet, somehow, he's been able to gather a following and now we got more boys/men mimicking him and his really fucked up views/behavior.
The video I watched was by Daz Games and he does a pretty good job reacting to some of Andrew's content at least, though there are other videos being made by other creators so would recommend looking them up as well:
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