Hiiii Eri! Quickly dropping off to tell you that I love how you NSR-ify characters who are from different series! (Do you have any tips? Or designs you’re proud of?)
Aw! Thank you so much! Glad you like them!
I would say the designs I am most proud of, or like the ones I like to look at the most, would be Miwa, Gayatri, Pav, Peni, and Jade!
I like those designs the most because, to me, they seem to fit the vibe of NSR the most. Well, maybe Miwa and Jade could use more tweaks to make them even more NSR-like but I like the designs I came up with for them despite that!
As for tips? Hmmm... I would say the first thing you might want to do is get the "style" of the game down. You know, the big hands and feet (with some exceptions like with Eve's body) as well as making sure to have good color combinations.
Though you can always have your own style and don't HAVE to copy the game's style at all! It does help make a character look like an NSR character if you copy the body type, kinda like a cheat or something (but I've seen plenty of non NSR styles out there and can still tell who the character is so like I said, that's not entirely something you have to do to NSR-ify a character).
I'll say, to me, the most important thing for NSR-ifying a character is the colors! You can have a totally different style, but it's the colors that really help sell that the character is an NSR character (at least that is how I feel about it).
It's hard to give tips on how to color a character other than to say study some color theory. I tend to do a majority warm or cool color and then have an accent of the opposite (so majority warm color and then an accent of a cool color).
I also tend to try and keep things down to 3 colors for a body/character unless I am doing something extra or an exception.
Eyes, skin, and hair. Those are the three main things I work with for a base and then add onto the design depending on what I am doing.
Peni has blue hair, red skin, and yellow eyes. That is kits base. I then added the little extra flairs such as the yellow skin condition and the light blue hair highlights. But my main focus was keeping the base hair, eyes, and skin cohesive before adding more onto the character.
Same for Miwa. She has blue hair, purpley-grey eyes, and beige-grey skin. And usually you would have a lot more saturated colors for an NSR character, but Miwa is an exception with more muted tones. Her hair and eyes are also given a special treatment with misty hair and shaped eyes like Mayday.
Then you have Gayatri who has purple skin, blue hair, and then multicolored eyes with a special white pupil. She has a basic design but her eyes are her gimmick.
And honestly that is probably the main thing I would suggest you do. Keep things simple and don't put too many ideas/themes into one character design.
Imagine if Eve had her skin condition, as well as an eye shape, and even a special hair or added elemental components on top of her mind theme and extra limbs gimmick. That would be WAY too much for a single character (at least in my opinion).
Mama is a super simple character. She really only has skin and eyes to worry about since she doesn't have any real "hair" (depending on how you see her head tail thingy). However, she has a whole tree/rose bush gimmick that makes up for that (as well as the heart motif on her head and dual toned eyes).
So when I personally make a character (either NSR-ifying one or making an OC), I look at the designs that the game has done and pick a few to possibly use for a design without picking too many.
If a character has a very unique trait (like Hobie's skin condition) then I tend to only give them that one trait only.
If a character has multiple kinda unique traits (like Miwa's hair and eyes, or Yinu's eyes and flower hair) then I try to make one trait more "important" or like visible than the other.
You can also have a character with no real unique traits at all, or at least a very minor unique trait (like Bunny in general or Gaya's eyes), which will allow you to over complicate the character design since there is nothing else you really have to worry about (like Bunny's design gets her uniqueness from her style and fashion, not from her natural body's traits which there isn't anything like elemental or a skin condition or anything like that).
You can also make it so that the character's unique trait makes them look less "unique" in a stereotypical sense. Noir and Mia have conditions which makes them unique by getting rid of the color aspect of the NSR world (Noir being greytones and Mia having pink eyes, hair, and skin that she needs to change herself with dye and contact lenses).
I would say find general design elements you like from NSR (eye shape, eye color, skin color, skin conditions, elemental theme, hair color, hair shape, etc.) and only choose one or two things when you want to NSR-ify a character or make an OC.
Hope that makes sense! You can always just ignore this though and just choose to make a character with a ton of these elemental designs that NSR has given!
Just look at my OC Ilma! She has special eye shapes (crystal) as well as coloring (based on her emotion). She has a split elemental hair type (space/fire and feathers). As well as a special mouth and hands (beak and claws).
Very much she has a lot going on for her, but I don't have a LOT of characters with this kind of over complex design. Which is why I am able to have a character like her in my opinion. I feel like if I made EVERY single NSR OC or NSR-ified character super over complicated, then the whole cast becomes disjointed but also they feel less like NSR characters.
So yea, you can even make your own design type to add into the little list I already gave (such as Ilma having a beak, you can make it so that lip types are a thing that can change or even something like teeth type. It doesn't have to be just things with eye colors and shapes or hair or skin).
But I would say, for starting off, try to replicate the NSR style if you want, but at the very least try following some design elements from NSR's character designs with your own twist! Keep the super unique design elements with more simple overall design, while the more common design elements can be combined together or given to an over complicated character design!
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since we're all having fun talking about theories and headcanons before the game drops. one thing that i do want for missing link, that is mostly wishful thinking on my part, is a reveal for kairi being a descendant of the player
this is based on their parallels of being shooting stars later found washed up on a beach from the new missing link trailer, plus that one moment from KH1 where kairi's grandma tells her about the age of the fairytales and nothing else lmfao
and i want that so badly because. it would be so fucking ironic and poetic to have kairi be a direct descendant of the one person that raised and cared so much for xehanort. the player, whose memories of ephemer and skuld and chirithy and everyone else influenced xehanort into starting his whole ass spiral and descent into darkness
only for her (and sora) to be the ones to get xehanort to stop in the end. ending a cycle of sorts. for her to be haunted by the memory of xehanort, the same way xehanort was "haunted" by the memory of the player's past life
PLUS. i want it to SPECIFICALLY recontextualize kairi's inheritance of the keyblade from BBS. because kairi's reason to wield a keyblade being nothing more than an "accident" feels like such a disservice to her AND aqua??
if they could recontextualize xehanort into whole new depths in dark road, i dont see why they couldn't reframe that moment as kairi reclaiming a dormant power, her own heritage that her bloodline forgot for centuries, since knowledge about keyblades and wielders began to fade out over time to the point where people who KNEW about them thought they were evil. makes sense that as the age of fairytales is left FORGOTTEN, no one can remember how to summon a keyblade, let alone the knowledge to create one from someone's heart. but having a strong heart (one of the requisites for bequeathing ceremonies) and being in direct contact with a keyblade, could just. help jog the memory a bit
and show that yeah. kairi deserves to wield a keyblade because she has a strong heart, and because this was her heritage that was taken away from her when the worlds began to drift away from each other and so on. not because of an accident
everytime chance, fate and destiny are brought up in the saga to explain why something. happened the way it did. it carries so much weight and so many events that led to That Point. but kairi's inheritance as of right now was just. yeah, an accident. no ceremony at all AND I JUST THINK SHE DESERVES RLLY COOL THINGS OKAY
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x. he spun the stars on his fingernails (regular version)
self ship playlist for me n huffie composed of more contemporary music <3 i think this one is maybe the most representative of my s/i story tbh!!
lyrics under cut!!!
the ballad of mona lisa - panic! at the disco
- a lonely speaker in a conversation / her words are swimming through his ears again / there's nothing wrong with just a taste of what you've paid for
she had the world - panic! at the disco
~ she held the world upon a string / but she didn't ever hold me / spun the stars on her fingernails / but it never made her happy / 'cause she couldn't ever have me
remember my name - mitski
- 'cause i need somebody to remember my name / after all that i can do for them is done / i need someone to remember me
when you were young - the killers
- he doesn't look a thing like jesus / but he talks like a gentlemen / like you imagined when you were young
shadow - bearstronaut
- i'm the one you want in the palm of your hand / running down your back at every word's end / you can let me down, put me in my place / although you've had enough, there's still more i can take
i will - mitski
- i will wash your hair at night / and dry it off with care / i will see your body bare / and still i will live here
stay soft - mitski
- it's why i've arrived, your sex god / here to take you where / you need to go / to where the dark remembers you
genghis khan - miike snow
- i know there's no form / and no labels to put on / to this thing we keep / and dip into when we need
animal - neon trees
- here we go again / we're like sick animals, we play pretend / you're just a cannibal and i'm afraid i won't get out alive / no, i won't sleep tonight
casual affair - panic! at the disco
- break involuntary ties / a secret so the spies / could never find us out / stay for as long as you have time / so the mess that we'll become / leaves something to talk about
kiss from a rose - seal
- there used to be a graying tower alone on the sea / you became the light on the dark side of me
pure love - hayley williams
- if i want pure love / must stop acting so tough / (i give a little, you give a little) / (we get a little, sentimental)
far too young to die - panic! at the disco
- well i never really thought that you'd come tonight / while the crown hangs heavy on either side / give me one last kiss while we're far too young to die
resistance - muse
- will they find our hiding place / is this our last embrace / or will the walls start caving in?
fear the future - st. vincent
- when the war start anew / in our bed, in our room / i'll come for you, come for me too
starlight - muse
- far away / this ship is taking me far away / far away from the memories / of the people who care if i live or die
deus in absentia - ghost
- the world is on fire / and you are here to stay and burn with me / a funeral pyre / and we are here to revel forever more
parachute - sean ono lennon
- 'cause if i have to die tonight / i'd rather be with you / cut the parachute before the dive
skyfall - adele
- let the sky fall / when it crumbles / we will stand tall / face it all together
on my own - les misérables olc
- without him / i feel his arms around me / and when i lose my way i close my eyes / and he has found me
trade mistakes - panic! at the disco
- i feel marooned in this body / deserted, my organs can go on without me / you can't fly these wings / you can't sleep in this box with me
haunted by the kiss - talkfine, starkid
- my heart won't stop beating / hoping that this kiss / will never ever become a scar / you're in my soul / you're tormenting me / if you're suffering as much as i am / please, won’t you tell me
maps - yeah yeah yeahs
- made off / don't stray / well, my kind's your kind / i'll stay the same / pack up / don't stray
sweetest goodbye - maroon 5
- where you are seems to be / as far as an eternity / outstretched arms, open hearts / and if it never ends, then when do we start?
high - the cure
- and when i see you happy as a girl / that lives in a world of make-believe / it makes me pull my hair all out / to think i could've let you leave / and when i see you take the same sweet steps / you used to take, i know / i'll keep on holding you in my arms so tight / they'll never let you go (never let you go)
dig - incubus
- we all have a weakness / but some of ours are easy to identify / look me in the eye / and ask for forgiveness / we'll make a pact to never speak that word again / yes, you are my friend
two slow dancers - mitski
- it would be a hundred times easier / if we were young again / but as it is / and it is / we're just two slow dancers, last ones out
in our bedroom after the war - stars
- it's us, yes, we're back again / here to see you through 'til the day's end / and if the night comes and the night will come / well at least the war is over
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firing a BEAM of 10 and 35 at you. i guess. Zap-boom.
...eh, for the ask meme thing I assume is going on.
*i absorb the beam and am healed for half of my hp* thanks
10. would you say you’re an emotional person?
somewhat yeah. i wouldnt consider myself like overemotional but i can get caught up in emotions sometimes (lesson learned i could talk about my emotions and how they work and why they do shit forever apparently. i rewrote this little parenthesis part like 4 times now)
i tend to like go from thing to thing really fast... like one thing could piss me off and then ill just. lose that immediately. also alter switches can changes things up too. like we woke up so tired and were mad about it so yesod was fronting and then boom agent 3 fronts and were. just fine lmao
(i mean thats normal for a lot of systems but i still find it like. kinda funny/absurd maybe? we have a designated mad guy which is funny enough but also when he leaves all our anger just dies. his pet. he takes it with it for the road)
35. do you trust easily?
honestly im not really sure. idk how to like. tell very well ig? id say i dont trust too easily though, especially if we havent known eachother for long.
oddly enough though i think i trust people here more than normal since theyre like. shown to be more like me ig. and also not have bad intentions bc who the hell is out here trying to scam or hack me or something on tumblr especially with my friend/mutual group. we are all just reblogging art and rping and obsessing over our ocs
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