Enough of the trope where memory loss undoes the damage or the corruption or whatever. More content where removing memories just removes the context.
The tragedy of needing to grieve and not knowing what or who you lost or why. The angst of having trauma and being denied the awareness that it's trauma. The suspense of being different somehow and left to wonder how and when. The tension of knowing that something is off and you can't find where it hurts. The Adventure Zone gets it. Kingdom Hearts gets it.
There is an aching inside you and you don't know how it got there.
NVM I BOUGHT IT. EVERYTHING IS GOOD AGAIN
im very upset i found something i want and i CANT BUY IT (as USUAL UGH)
Ik I can literally just play god with my ocs but it’s like alpenglow is a FULL complete story and my brain just reveals it to me in little parts. lmao. Idk how to explain it man
fully convinced my brain is a whole seperate entity or something and I’m just along for the ride
im very upset i found something i want and i CANT BUY IT (as USUAL UGH)
I was asked how I make my characters fit the background with such minimal shading, and here's how I do it!
Starting point is just background + the base colors
Add a multiply layer on top of the characters. The color is usually eyedropped from the background, but just as often I just play with the hue/saturation/brightness slider. This layer usually has either high transparency or brightness so it doesn't become overpowering, especially if the background is light.
Airbrush the background colors lightly on top of some parts of the characters, usually the outer edges and the parts that should be in shade. I do this willy-nilly with a big brush.
Add color dodge as the last thing, and let it affect both characters and the background.
There's thousand other ways out there, this is just how I've done it!
having an oc you havent drawn / written about publicly yet that only exist as a concept is so funny. i have special access to this limited edition guy from my brain
i found finch too
SCREAMING oh my god Night from 2020
last thing I promise but this is why I removed the whole fading thing from warrior cats. SO BORING. instead of fading from the dark forest because nobody remembers you what about most people who remember you literally abandoned you? most people who ‘remember you’ genuinely believe you did something that you would never do.
could you do it now though? Maybe you’re now the cat they remember and someone you forgot
sometimes i feel really stuck on how to characterise characters like Night and other starclan cats who have been dead for so long because i cant really comprehend how exactly that would change you. fading isnt a thing in this universe. youve been dead for centuries. tiny little things in life havent been relevant for that long because youve forgotten what being alive was.
while i dont characterise my starclan as god-like figures the oldest of them certainly aren't just little cats. WHAT ARE THEY??
I haven’t written fic in a year+ scripting this story is killing me 😔