Worldbuilding Wednesday.
If I said you had a beautiful body, would you hold it against me?
AnonymousIf I told you that you had awful, perverse, gross, skeevy, thirty year old pickup lines that were terrible then and are much worse now, would you let me crack your skull open so I can harvest your brain and preserve it for science, so that future generations can observe the mind of the least funny or charming person who ever lived?
Unless you’re someone I actually know. In which case, it depends. I might hold it against you, who knows :eyes:
DAY THE SIXTH - Draw your characters siblings if they have any. Draw your character’s family.
Jenna’s mother died when she (Jenna, not her mom) was very little, and she’s been raised by her dad ever since. David is… a little overprotective. He means well, but his private interviewing of her friends and family, and extensive background checks are a little creepy, and might explain why Jenna didn’t make any lasting friends until middle school.
He also (recently) bought her a vicious guard dog, Apollo. To keep her safe when she goes on those long walks in the park. You’re very intimidated by this ferocious animal.
DAY THE FIFTH - Are there any side characters you’re particularly fond of? Draw some of Jenna’s friends.
Jenna has two close friends her age, Rebecca (the Voltorb-haired one on the left and Britt (the one too busy playing with her phone to be interested in your presence). Rebecca likes video games, hit TV series starring attractive (usually British) actors, anime, and the like (she would like Tumblr, if it existed at the time). She and Jenna like to discuss these things together. Britt is less into those sorts of things, more into shopping, clothes, and vapid discussion about other people’s personal lives. She has less in common with the other two, but is still inexplicably their best friend.
Together, they fight crime do what most thirteen-year-old girls do together: Hang out, mostly.
DAY THE FOURTH - Draw your main antagonist (and/or any secondary antagonists). Draw some more side characters, because your story doesn’t have any major significant antagonists…?
Yeah there’re people Jenna conflicts with but if their very identity isn’t a spoiler, they’re not notable enough to really be called an “antagonist”. Like she argues with her dad but he’s not the Big Bad
anyway
Guides of Souls come from all walks of life (and death), and they also service all walks of life. Some, like the gentleperson on the left, look like your western idea of a Grim Reaper, and cater mostly to humans. Then there’s the precious little Kitty Reaper, who deals mostly with felines (and some rodents).
And then there’s the Death of Bugs. We don’t talk about the Death of Bugs.
DAY THE THIRD - Draw any other main protagonists or secondary protagonists.
Okay I’m doing one at a time because the next five days of this are just variations on “draw side characters characters”, so
Jenna’s world contains a variety of spirits of great importance. Grim reapers, gods of the dead, psychopomps, or more commonly “Guides of Souls”. Anubis is the Egyptian God of the Dead, and so he is a Guide.
He likes dogs, sand, and measuring the weight of circulatory organs. Jenna thinks he is a cute puppy who tries so hard to be a stern and mystical mentor figure.
In which Ruke and I talk seriously about a Pokemon world. (In response to this post here: http://maguneedsalife.tumblr.com/post/52838819891 )
Ruke: it's basically my headcanon
Ruke: It bothers me when people apply logic from our society to the Pokemon world
Ruke: Or even in general, forcing our-world logic onto fiction where it doesn't belong
1nky: Yeeeeah.
Ruke: like rather than wonder how adding Pokemon to our world would change things, look at how a world with Pokemon would develop?
1nky: I mean, of course we'd resort to our own political structure for reference, that's what we're familiar with, but key factors such as pocket monsters establishing a key part of political and economic development would affect the growth of the system in a different manner completely.
Ruke: yes basically
1nky: in short the pokemon world seems awesome
Ruke: people are like "BUT WHY DON'T THEY USE GUNS"
1nky: dude you have a fucking dragon-ass pokemon that breathes firey-ass fire
Ruke: bitch when you have giant firebreathing dragons and psychic humanoids that can lift cars with their mind, and time travel
Ruke: maybe you don't develop firearms in a world where you can solve your problems with dragons
1nky: i loved that noir pokemon comic that popped up on tumblr
Ruke: oh yess that was good
1nky: voltorb, dude.
Ruke: yes
Ruke: hell
Ruke: look at cows
Ruke: their cows are famed for the ability to roll like a boulder and wreck everyone's shit
Ruke: their sheep shoot lightning
Ruke: their horses? on fire
Ruke: even basic farming would be radically different
1nky: with hooves ten times harder than diamonds
Ruke: also when the rats have teeth that can punch through like sheet metal
Ruke: the pigeons are capable of lifting a human being and flying away with them
Ruke: and sometimes the plants will attack you
1nky: i think even the environment might be more better off because nature can eat you, poison you, burn your face off, freeze you - all instantaneously, and people may be more reluctant to disturb the natural habitats of Garchomp
Ruke: the stories in the library in gen iv
Ruke: talk of how some guy found a sword
Ruke: and used it to kill pokemon
Ruke: and then a legendary pokemon threatened him, so he abandoned the sword
Ruke: I like to think it represents humanity abandoning their own weapons, in favour of working alongside Pokemon
1nky: god why can't pokemon be real
Ruke: did you mean: things i ask myself every damn day
DAY THE SECOND - Draw your main protagonist’s love interest/partner/it’s complicated
Dominic, the bespectacled friend of Jenna. I wouldn’t go so far as to say “love interest”, but
And so it begins.
RUKE’S SPECTACULAR THIRTY-DAY CHARACTER DEVELOPMENTATHALON 2013 REMIX PLUS: THAT SCYTHE GIRL EDITION
(Borrowed from this here.)
DAY THE FIRST - Draw your main protagonist.
This is Jenna Pearson. Thirteen years old, enjoys wearing oversized hoodies and discussing supernatural politics with otherworldly beings.
