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Or rather, two characters... welcome to the house of Constance and Dafydd Illian.



To be perfectly frank, I had way more fun than I should have with this, because it's absolutely stuffed with Easter eggs. Some of them are impossible for anyone other than me (and maybe Kaitlyn) to get; others are more generally PPC or Dafydd-related. A few of things I will highlight:

-That's Hera chilling on the window seat. Ilwion is probably off playing with the kids.

-Both pictures are direct copies of Lily Winterwood's Dafydd/Constance fanart, because it's my favourite piece of fanart I've ever had. ^_^

-The viewpoint is deliberately low and off-centre, both because it's more interesting and to tell a story - this is clearly one of the kids sneaking in.

-The Quenya scroll above the bookshelf reads 'Essenen Eruo, a auta' - 'In the name of God, go!'. This is the contract with Mandos that renders Constance functionally immortal in Middle-earth. The precise text is an Easter egg in its own right, too...

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I'm gonna start by saying that I love the detail on the heads - all three of them, counting that beautiful harp [/Dafydd]. Skepnadth looks completely relaxed, just gazing at Derik, while Derik looks both focussed and faintly amused. And harp!dragon is just super proud to be here, guys - it's her big break, so she's giving it all she's got! [/Dafydd... again]

I don't think Derik's shoulder flags up as wrong (though I note that he, too, is missing something ^_~), but I can't follow the line of Skepnadth's neck for love nor Marks. I think he's got a 90-degree bend in it? There's definitely something weird going on with him spine.

(I'm also being thrown off by the lack of him body. It ought to be curving waaaaay up as it heads to the right, but as it is that sweeping curve looks like a back leg, making him the most truncated dragon ever.)

(Also, confession: at this point I realised I had consistently referred to Skepnadth as 'she'. :O I apologise profusely, and have no idea why that happened.)

I like this picture. I hope you get it finished, because I think it'll be really good. And I really do like that harp. [/Dafydd... nah, it's just me, really]

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What mad alternate universe is this?

(As you will see when I get my #4 up in a few minutes, this is rampant hypocrisy.)

I think the differentiation of the beds is a nice marker of personality, but... where's all their stuff? Having nothing makes it look like you forgot it exists, whereas having only a few things - a lamp, a mug, essentials of that kind - looks like a deliberate choice. You could also use that to distinguish the two bed-sides a little more - you just know that the one on the left has glasses of water from the last three nights left on the table in various states of fullness.

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Dark darks: you're right that I could probably afford to pull out the 6B pencil (this is HB and 2B on the shading, 4B for the lines); that said, Anda's bodysuit is shiny silver, so I think it's catching a lot of light.

Eyes are a nightmare; I think thinking about them as 3D objects will help me, as you suggest (that, or drive me mad...!). It either does or doesn't help that Kaitlyn wears glasses - we'll see as the month goes on.

Looking at it again, I'm actually really pleased with the right side of her face. Okay, so it's a really tiny area, but... baby steps!

hS

(PS: Keep the advice coming!)

... I don't spend that much time looking at women in scanty body-armour, so my reading is entirely possible to be off. ;) As usual with my comments, don't read my confident tone as indicating that I actually know what I'm talking about!

I think part of the issue with the mace is that it seems to be coming off at an (upwards) angle to her arm; I feel like the only way that could happen is if she's deliberately holding it that way. A swing would tend to draw the mace straight, even if the arm was bent.

... ow. So, having just tried swinging a poker around with it raised above the angle of my arm, I can confirm that doing that actually hurts. It pulled wrong on a muscle somewhere near my elbow. (Don't worry - I'm fine!)

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Hey Thoth, every time I see the term "FOOF" I can't help but think "Dioxygen Difluoride" and chuckle a little bit.

(Oh yeah. I got Neocities up and running, finally)
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No, unfortunately not. I just don't know anyone in my area who's interested in them. Otherwhise I'd be all over it.

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Out of curiosity, do you do Dark Heresy/Rogue Trader/DeathWatch? Dark Heresy occupies a special spot in my heart, since even though I'm not as big on 40k as I used to be, Dark Heresy was the way I got into it in the first place.

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I'd be happy to give it a look over for readability and to give you a second set of eyes on it (or at the very least, some friendly encouragement), but you've probably seen I'm still pretty in the dark about how the way things are run here.

If you're okay with that and interested, let me know and I can link you to my contact information.
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You're right about 40k, I also used to be really into Star Wars, though that's lessened a lot now. Other than that I just jump around to whatever happens to catch my interest.

I also have a pet budgy and a pet turtle. It's not very relevant, but I think it's interesting

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Horay and welcome! I assume you're big on Warhammer 40,000?
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Greetings, Newbie! I trust you've made yourself comfortable. I'm Thoth, man with an unnecessarily pretentious username.

Take some Fenrisian ale (and grab some Klatchian coffee while you're at it: they seem to neutralize one another), and your choice of book from the libraries of Prospero (slightly singed).

Anyways, fandoms? I already know you're 40k, but anything else? Also, anything beyond fandoms you want to tell us about yourself?

Apparently I can't edit messages. Now I know

If you can read this, how did you not get incinerated by the jet engine?

"If you can read this, how did you not get incinerated by the jet engine?"

Have a bumper sticker. What does it say?

She'd probably wind up in HQ presenting as someone who's straight from the memory-whatsit. She has memories, at least.

My dad had an audiobook called "TimeQuake" that I kept half-hearing while doing other things. It talked about how when the repeat ended, people couldn't adjust to suddenly having free will again. Many people ended up falling over at the bottom of escalators, while the other hemisphere had less injuries because everyone was in bed.

She's not going to freeze up when she hits HQ. I'm thinking that while the "reality" of the PPC is more forgiving than a Reality Room, it's still going to start tweaking her fundamental nature. She's going to lose some abilities and have to re-learn others, though she still will have the muscle-memory for her simpler attacks.

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Well, first off, this might end up just in private scraps if I don't like how it turns out.

I was looking through agents that were native to World of Warcraft and Barid is about the worst person for her to run into first. She's killed a lot more trolls than blood elves, after all.

There is Kur'nak if he's suddenly wandering around without Durotar... I can't picture how meeting Durotar would work.

Voltarmi might be interesting. Everyone else is Alliance side.

I'm not really intending violence. A tense moment where Barid is prepared to cast mind control, but Teacup should relax as soon as she hears him speaking common. (His translator works like that, right?)

I'm new here, so here's my introduction post. Pleased to meet you all!

So I've decided to just put out my name and number and ask for someone to invite me that way. Will that work?

Other than that, it looks pretty good as far as lines and angles go. I can tell you didn't use a straightedge the whole time, but it's only really obvious on the left-hand table and the books.

With all that wall space, though, it's very apparent that there's nothing on any of them. I guess there wouldn't be if it's a barrack, but there would if it's a dorm. Posters, weapon displays, mirrors, lights, sheets, whatever else people hang on their walls... anything to show the personalities of the people who live there. And your characters clearly have personality to display. {= )

(I'm dreading this prompt. So many details go into a well lived-in room, and it all has to line up with the vanishing point, and scale properly, and ugh.)

When this thread drops off the front page, we can start a new one.

~Neshomeh

Okay, here it is, the inside of the Shinonomes' room. I'm still not quite sure if this is going to be a student dorm or some kind of military barrack. (Damn, I really have to finish my worldbuilding.)



Can you tell which bed belongs to whom?(including the third bed with a teddy bear behind the camera)

P.S. what are we going to do once this thread gets bumped off the main page?

I know it's my own fault that people keep doing this, but see Memory Implant Device for what FicPsych can actually do to aid a severely underdeveloped character.

They'd be happy to help with the name, though. {= )

~Neshomeh, writer of most of FicPsych.

It could be something like, say, Rina happening to run into Ilraen that one time: incidental, yet serving to provide characterization by the main character(s)' reaction. That wouldn't be a bad thing, and Phobos would barely even have to look at it.

Makkara, what exactly did you have in mind?

~Neshomeh