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I agre ewith you, though, that colors make a person, but, I use a broader range than that - a closet entirely of three colors bothers me a little - like, I need more shade variation. Clothes make the person. We learned this in creative writing class - by describing how such and such has on a black Threadless t-shirt, navy cargo pants, studded pleather bracelets, and Chucks, we can get a good sense of the person and how he or she would act. Like, look around in your school. What do you wear? What do your classmates wear? What do eople you don't like wear? Like, it may be often said that "clothes don't make the man", but they sure show the world what kinda person that man is.

As someone who works in b/w, I'm actually realy sensitive to colors because a) I picture all my drawings in color even though I don't execute them thusly (in Threhold - pic on the right in my sig, Rivek's shirt is cream-colored, his tunic is plum edged in gold, and the cloak is a deep mahogany-cross-wine-red) and b) I need to make sure that the selected colors have enough tonal difference that, when rendered in b/w, you can tell the differences between materials and each piece of clothing.

Like, RIvek's modest, so he chooses very unsaturated colors - greys, dark blues, hunter greens. THey also happen to be my favorite colors *cough*. The thing with Rivek is that he's not a picky person, so he'll take clothing of any modest color. (On his paycheck, he can't afford to only buy one color of clothing. Sale is sale. XD; )

It's not the number of colors for me, but rather how the character wears them - what the character chooses to buy and such.

Yes, but it's completely silly (of course). Do you remember at the beginning of Ghostbusters where Dr. Venkman is showing those flash cards with symbols on them to two people? Those cards are called Zener cards, and they have five symbols - circle, plus, the waves (or "a couple of wavy lines", if you will), square,and star. So that's where I got the design idea from (; Story-wise, four other people were born with those symbols over their eyes - so far I've only had the plus and waves illustrated, but other two will come along eventually ... well, I hope they will (:

Castor's beginnings on earth are fairly humble as a supernatural being go - a number of people claim to be psychic, of course. His powers increase as he gets older, though, as does the range in which he can use them. Eventually when things like precognition and clairsentience start kicking in - and he gets better at them - he leaves home (he's about twelve at the time) because he can finally see things like evil in it's natural form (like ... oh, I don't know - if a demon were imitating a human or possessing one, he would be able to see the demon). It's all a bit daunting, really.


As for the question about too many OCs ... I don't know how many I have, but each of them has a place in the stories I write, so they tend to come out randomly as and when I need them to make an appearance. There are a lot, and that's why I'm flaking on mentioning a number, because finding out would probably take too much time right now (;

Ohoohohoh another similarity is that we're both major sexxxxilicious hotties. 'Cept not.

But you've hit the nail on the head. She can usually handle things, since she's been through a lot, but here in zhe mortal world she's getting hit with new things. Like looove. So the things she can't fake, she gets angry at. Like the pain of being left by the guy she loved. She went on a bit of a rampage (causing all those commissions with the broken pillars/destruction in the background and such). She gets pretty angry and hateful. And when the anger gets out of control she reverts to Hunter!Mek. Which is no fun for anyone, really.



On the one outfit thing- I don't mind it but that's probably because I had a crush on Doug (the nickalodean cartoon character) when I was little and he had a closet full of the same set of clothing. And it's always possible that a character has more than one set of clothing but you don't really want people to draw the other ones.

For me, Mek wears all kinds of things and I don't mind leaving the clothing up to the artist. But Tanek wears armor (unless I'm commissioning him nekkid/in a cloak) and most soldiers don't get a change of style.
Jade/Satin who are my detective/cowboy characters don't change clothing either since their outfits are more "uniform" and in their story, they're time travelling at random (on accident) so they really don't have time to change, at the risk of being sent somewhere naked.
Leiko changes clothing. Loki is a new design but her outfits are pretty much the same since she's a wandering gypsy. Nakari has different clothing, I just don't commission her enough to come up with new outfits. Taig/Strife/Bade don't have set clothing either though I need to design a suit of armor for Taig.

Dude, I think that's so cool - the thing with the Zener symbols. XD

Haha, yeah, I think i'm in your situation, too. LIke, I ahve characters like such-and-such's father who, although has no screen-time is integral in character development, etc. I sometimes count them, sometimes don't.

Well, yeah... I do find it sorta immaterial, btu it helps sometimes. It's just that a full rundown gets kind of nuts. Like, if I say Rivek's wearing a sword and boots, then it says summat about him. But if I say he's wearing a sword, a shirt, pants, socks, boots, a tunic, and underwear... that's a bit much. XD

I'm glad I made you laugh! I kinda..snorted a bit when I wrote it because I find myself way too funny >>;

Mekania's version of hell is in fact so involved that I've never actually been able to explain it properly to anyone. But one day! And I'll tell you how it goes once I figure it out.

You'd be surprised how many times I've heard that but people keep leaving her anyway XD My newest RP partner seems to have disappeared too but we've only gotten a paragraph into an introduction so it's not too bad of a loss.

i set up a livejournal account specifically for my ocs and the whole "joykill" story, but i never got around to using it.

i have a fattyo journal i keep in my underwear drawer [XD] where i jot down everything that comes to me from front to back. from back to front i write the actual story including everything i jotted down previously. it isn't in chronological order, but it's divided up into chapters - a lot of flashbacks and twists in the story. i think it keeps people reading. i have yet to type any of it up or have anyone else read the entire story. i haven't even skimmed through it all to see if it makes sense. it probably doesn't, but that's ok - i don't really think it should.