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LostEventideStudios
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[2011-07-26 04:14:59 +0000 UTC]
"Twilight Reverie"
(United States)
# Statistics
Favourites: 248; Deviations: 40; Watchers: 165
Watching: 59; Pageviews: 21750; Comments Made: 953; Friends: 59
# Social Links
https://twitter.com/LostEventide# About me
Female ■ Born July 26, 1993Hi there! My name is Katelynn, or Kat, whichever you prefer! I graduated with my bachelor's degree in December of 2014 and currently am working on getting trained as an emergency substitute teacher as well as pursuing a couple other jobs while I work to weasel myself out of the resulting school loan debt and basically get my life started!
I love creating stuff in my spare time along with spending time with my boyfriend as well as my honorary buddy-bird a cockatiel named Cyril. I also enjoy designing websites, spriting, and doing all kinds of artsy stuff, so yeah!
Feel free to shoot me a note if you want to chat! I'm very friendly, just I may not respond to things right away!
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Past Accounts:
→ sanori , Jan 31, 2007 - Mar 7, 2009
→ AyraCalaenlen . Mar 7, 2009 - Jul 26 2011
Also Found On:
→ losteventidestudios.com
→ facebook.com
→ tumblr.com
Likes:
Fantasy, sci-fi, steampunk. victoriana, aquatic life, fishkeeping, birds, drawing, writing, dungeons & dragons, video games, world-building, original characters, glowing things
Dislikes:
Conflict, loud noises, spiders, deadlines.
Favorites:
→ Color: Blue, black
→ Animal: Dolphins, birds
→ Video Game: Mass Effect, Dragon Age, Dead Space
→ Tools of the Trade: Bamboo Wacom tablet, pencil and paper, PaintTool SAI
# Comments
Comments: 322
Thanks for the 50th minnha llama, send a llama for you too
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y o owo you're still alive on dA?! sup its bird/tanue O/
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Semi-alive anyway xD Just moved and all that fun stuff, so getting RL back together! Good to hear from you!
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ooof moving, always great fun :^) hope it went smooth! yeah, i missed your stuff!
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I missed seeing your stuff around as well~ Looking forward to being able to lurk again xD
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Thank you for the llama~ I really appreciate it!
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You're most welcome! <3
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Yeah. I've been a member of the group for years. Abacus was from one of the first adoption rounds, though I had been a member since before the rounds started.
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So cool. I'd own one if I could afford it OTL
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Lol, I never bought Abby. I just won him through the drawing adoptions.
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Im a bad artist... I'll try,but I know the chances of winning are slim.
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The only thing that's really art-based are the create-your-own slots that sometimes appear in adoption rounds. Actual adoptable designs are awarded based a lot more of sheer effort coupled with accuracy to the lore and how well you fleshed out a believable character.
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I feel like I'd create Mary/Gary Sues.. But it guvrs me a little hope. I'll give it my best!
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It's all you can do! Gary/Mary Sues are actually fairly easy to avoid. The trick is to just not make the character perfect and instead focus on being well-rounded. For instance, if your character is a fantastic singer and dancer, don't also make them a great artist, cook, photographer, etc. on top of it. Another trick is to not make whatever their skill is just a good perks, include some drawbacks, and explain why they act the way they do.
For instance, I created Abby with a single phrase in mind "anti-social, high IQ, technology geek, who works for the Black Market".
From that phrase I developed his character and explained why he acts the way he does. He is anti-social because he doesn't like getting involved with people as it puts them at risk should he ever fall out of favor in the Black Market, but it also makes him very anxiety-stricken because at his core he actually cares deeply about people he is close to, but he can't let on what he's doing because it may cause rash reactions from, say, his sister. While he makes a good deal of money selling his inventions, he doesn't actually benefit from it because he funnels everything back into the system to secretly help his sister succeed, and he's still living at a poverty level aside from what he uses to improve his tools and the like. However, he has no desire to remain in the place he's at because of the innate dangers, but blackmail has essentially forced him to continue what he's doing despite the emotional turmoil he's in from having to watch the results that occur when the wrong people get a hold of modded weapons.
Compare that to "Yeah, he just doesn't care about anyone, but he's super attractive and gets all the ladies despite him acting like an ass and makes a fortune on the Black Market because of his intelligence but basically has nothing to worry about -- also all his machines are perfect and unflawed and can't be messed with" which is a (tad overexaggerated) Gary-Stu.
If you give your characters motives as well as weaknesses in addition to strengths, it's not too difficult to make a well-rounded character =3 Basically, I simply ask "why?" when I add a characteristic. Why is this character an ass? Why is he smart? Why is he able to make money? Why does he get all the girls? Why does he want to become a movie star? Couple that with staying away from falling back on overused tropes (like saying such-and-such's parents were murdered when he was two and he grew up with a murderous vengeance that allowed him to master martial arts by the age of seven), though there's nothing wrong with them as long as you really flesh things out and make them make sense, can really help you build good, three-dimensional characters =3
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Thanks for the tips! I'll get me an MTT one day.... yeah. One day for sure.
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No problem! Good luck~
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Thanks,you too.
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How are you doing?
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Can't complain, yourself? Thanks for the watch
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I'm doing good. Would you like to role play? And your welcome.
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Maybe. Depends on what setting you had in mind?
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How about an MTT Role play?
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Sure, that would be fine. Abacus is really the only MTT-verse character I have fully developed at the moment. I have a couple of yols and a human in the works though if Abacus wouldn't really make for a good character though. He's fairly anti-social and generally just tries to avoid getting super involved with people unless they happen to push the issue, so he tends to work with more forward characters, but characters that are equally anti-social or something he'd just pass by xD
Constantine is one of the yols, and he's a charismatic sleezebag. Type of guy that's good at charming people and can be fairly social as long as he can find a potential benefit to the situation.
The other yol is a bodyguard for the human, who is a woman, though I really don't even have names for them yet.
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Does Constantine have a girlfriend or boyfriend?
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No, but I also don't know if he's really a good relationship type xD He's almost entirely out for himself, so any relationship he would find himself in he would probably only involve himself in if he got something through it (money, power, etc.) and he'd be gone as soon as that potential benefit was gone, or the situation got dangerous, and he'd just as soon rat out his supposed "significant other" if it meant saving his own tail, lol.
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