If More People Played X Lao Would Easily Win This Poll. I Know You Guys Like That Type Of Character.

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Ask Game for someone’s OC(s)

✨- How did you come up with the OC’s name?

🌼 - How old are they? (Or approximate age range)

🌺- Do they have any love interest(s)?

🍕 - What is their favorite food?

💼 - What do they do for a living?

🎹 - Do they have any hobbies?

🎯 -What do they do best?

🥊 -What do they love to do? What do they hate to do?

❤️ - What is one of your OC’s best memories?

✂️ - What is one of your OC’s worst memories?

🧊 - Is their current design the first one?

🍀 - What originally inspired the OC?

🌂 - What genre do they belong in?

💚 - What is your OC’s gender identity and sexuality?

🙌 - How many sibling does your OC have?

🍎 - What is the OC’s relationship w/their parents like?

🧠 - What do you like most about the OC?

✏️ - How often do you draw/write about the OC?

💎 - Do you ever see yourself killing off the OC?

💀 - Does your OC have any phobias?

🍩 -Who is your OC’s arch-nemesis or rival?

🎓 - How long have you had the OC?

🍥 - What age were you when you created the OC?

My sleep schedule is fucked up so lets talk XenoCAVE before I pass out

-Placeholder name for the cave world is Cavius, after the planet from Kirby Super Star. Surface is still just called the surface for now. You'd spend most of the game in Cavius, but the endgame's on the surface. Surface is at least somewhat dangerous to the people of Cavius since they wouldn't be used to that much light, along with the presence of strong monsters. Leaning towards the party not fighting a god with but there's gotta be some strong opponent up there, maybe the person/people who are responsible for the surface becoming dangerous?

-The Nopon are here, they are in every universe. As for new races, there's a mostly humanoid race but with some sort of extra feature just to make things a bit more interesting (first thought was little horns like Fiona from 3 but I don't know character design man I'm no artist). Also think some kind of bat people would be neat, fits with the cave setting along with being neat. Might be a fourth race in Cavius if I can get a good idea but this is fine for now. Unsure on if there's any sapient life on the surface though. I'm all for the Nopon having Canadian accents, unsure if the whole cast would be Canadian with different regional accents for the races or if the others would have completely different accents.

-As for the party, only have a few ideas for them. Starting trio consists of protag boy with red sword and his two friends, one guy and one girl, they're all young adults (18-25). Gotta make their dynamic distinct from the Colony 9 trios though (and protag boy distinct from other protagonists in the series). There's an older woman (40s) as a mentor type since I think we deserve more older women, a kid (~10) who gets roped into this, and a Nopon girl because we need a proper female Nopon party member (Nene's locked to a side game and you can't even control Manana). Probably room for one more permanent party member based on previous games but it's better to focus on these six first.

A isn’t even a they/them either. A is only ever referred to as A, never he, she, they, or anything else. A is just A.

"A" from Future Redeemed! She ended up being my favorite character.

question because i'm curious...

+ tell me your favorite pokemon/reasoning in the tags i'm nosy

OH YEAH, REYN TIME

Losers Round 1

I think that more fanfiction should be written with the aim to tackle the original meaning of hanahaki. Because when the concept of hanahaki disease was originally created, it was intended to be a metaphor for suppressing one’s feelings.

Your feelings are this beautiful garden of flora inside of your chest. When you express how you feel honestly, you allow for it to grow freely. But when you hide how you feel out of fear of rejection, and try to make it smaller and smaller, the flowers become cramped inside of you, until you choke on your own feelings. Every flower you cough up is something you’ve felt, but refused to say.

The whole “dying” thing is intended to be more symbolic especially. You’re killing off bits and pieces of yourself and how you feel, because you’re afraid to express yourself.

It’s not really supposed to be, “The one I love doesn’t love me back, and I’m dying from it.” Rather, it’s more along the lines of, “Repressing your emotions is bad for you, and it’s better and healthier to express them freely, even when it’s scary.”

Which is to say that, one, the cure for the disease should be telling the person that you are in love with how you feel. How the other person feels about the person afflicted should have nothing to do with it, as the trope is meant to be about feeling your emotions unapologetically.

And that, two, it’s not an inherently romantic trope. Obviously, it has romantic applications, but it can be written for any situation where a character is hiding how they truly feel. This can include a refusal to address a specific trauma, a desire to indulge in something that they’re ashamed of, and even really practical things, like wanting to ask one’s boss for a higher position.

Although (as an aromantic person myself) I don’t agree with this conclusion about the trope, this application would also avoid people calling it arophobic. When the thing killing the character is a refusal to be honest with themselves, rather than an unrequited love, it’s on nobody’s hands but their own to save their life.

There are a ton of ways that this interpretation of the hanahaki disease could be applied in new and interesting ways in fanfiction, and I’d love to read what things people could come up with!

#ELMASWEEP LETS GO

Round 2

I’m so tempted to submit something for this, I just don’t know which OC to pick.

Welcome, friends!

This is the OC tournament! Submit any of your original characters to have them go head to head! Just submit their full name, the title of their story (if applicable!), and a little biography for me to use as propaganda in the polls!

There are just a few rules you must abide by:

You may NOT submit someone else’s OCs, but you may send them this post and/or tag them in it so they may submit OCs themselves!

Any form of OC is acceptable! Sonic OCs, self inserts, characters in a story of your own creation, etc so long as they are yours (adopted characters are also welcome!)

you may submit multiple of your OCs, BUT, they must be from separate storylines. No two OCs that are able to interact (unless they’ve interacted in a temporary crossover form). And, of course, only submit the same OC one time! Once is all you need

If you have an OC, and your friend has an OC, and they exist in the same universe, they’re both still able to be submitted because they’re owned by different people!

The picture you submit of your OC must fall under one of the following categories: a piece of art that you’ve drawn, an image from a picrew, a picture of yourself cosplaying your OC, or a piece of art drawn by someone else (a commission, art request, art gift, etc)

Under no circumstances may you submit a picture of someone (a face claim) that you found on google images or wherever, as i do not know if they consent to having their likeness as part of this tournament

When the voting commences, there is to be absolutely NO making fun of or being hateful towards ANY of the characters in this tournament. Be civil and polite, I’m begging you

If you have any questions, just send an ask!

I think that pretty much sums it up! Now to tag a few bracket blogs

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Submit here (the deadline is April 20 at 5 pm CST):

Have fun ;)