Fairies, Drawn In 2019

my secret to art happiness is it's not about how many notes what you draw is likely to get. t's about how many times you're going to go back to it, to your own art, and think "this FUCKS actually and caters to me entirely, specifically, fully. i love this artist (me) (me who i drew this) (myself)"

look all I'm saying is Jasper could've fixed things between him and Hendrik in a more healthy way rather than turning into a monster and dooming all of Erdrea. yknow something like having a heart-to-heart in a Chili's

DQXI Characters and Calling vs Texting

Erik

Bad at both. Has hundreds of unread messages and missed calls he never actually plans to get back to

The only person he’ll answer semi-regularly (like once a week) is Lumi, and they barely even text because they’re always right next to each other

Veronica

Prefers texting, uses lots of fun punctuation and emojis like (● ˃̶͈̀ロ˂̶͈́)੭ꠥ⁾⁾

Low-key a meme queen. Finds the most obscure reaction images.

Doesn’t mind phone calls, absolutely does mind when they take longer than 15 minutes.

Serena

Loves calling to check up on you and very much keeps you on the phone for longer than 1 hour

Texts you as if she’s writing a letter to her lover overseas. Perfect grammar, very long winded, occasionally writes “from Serena” at the end

Sylvando

Calls AND texts like a 90s girl kicking her feet in bed, painting her nails, hair up in curlers, modelling on a motorola razr advertisement

Jade

Texts, but like, not very expressively. Uses an emoji every now and then. Her manner of speaking does not translate into written word at all. It always sounds like she’s mad at you.

Rab

Texts like your grandfather does next question

Hendrik

Prefers calling. Writes his text messages like he’s writing an email.

“Good morning, Luminary. I am reaching out to inquire if we will still be visiting the library with our companions this afternoon. Sincerely, Hendrik.”

Jasper

Texts like your mother does. The way he phrases things gives you anxiety. Incredibly offended if you do not respond immediately. Uses ellipses (“…”) excessively.

Personas Vs OCs

This is not gospel, this is just my opinion and how I categorize my own creations! You can define these terms, use or not use them, however you want to! I’m just putting this here for my own reference mostly

A persona is explicitly for self insert purposes.

These characters do not have a role that alters the lore of the existing canon.

They can interact with characters, so long as it is done in an inconsequential way. If desired, the persona can have their own subplot to be resolved.

It’s absolutely possible to have a persona for your own original work.

Personas exist as different versions of the self. No need for lore, sometimes a different costume is enough to establish the self as a different sona

When the persona has a larger role that impacts the canon line of events, they cross into OC territory.

Persona Examples

The Farmer, from Stardew Valley

Animal Crossing Player Character

Character based on the self, but designed for the world. “Me if I were a stand user.”

Any character who is based on the self but does not change the end goal of a preexistent plot

OC Examples

A Stardew Valley OC would inherently change playable canon. If your SDV persona is dating Alex and Alex is no longer a viable Romance Route, then your persona is an OC

A yokai watch NPC who has a cool yokai and directly helps Nate do XYZ, explicitly influencing the plot’s course

A character that may or may not be based on the self that is more plot significant than not.

Plot significance doesn’t exist on an easily measurable scale so it’s a loose metric, deliberately

Mary sues don’t exist btw the point of an OC is to have fun and be self indulgent. Enjoy your blorbos and let them live and love as freely as you would do so yourself.

How DQXI Party Members would navigate TikTok

Erik

Started by posting silly videos for himself and his friends. Videos of him and Lumi doing viral dances, pranking Veronica, the occasional thirst trap fit check or cool knife trick

Accidentally got a decent amount of attention. Like, people get excited when they see him leaving comments on their videos.

Doesn’t post nearly as often as he did before he got famous. Posts way more often on a secret private account he made.

Veronica

TikTok almost banned her for not meeting their age requirement

She’s got a very small presence. Doesn’t post too much, maybe an occasional review of a book Serena recommended to her. Sometimes posts herself showing off new magic abilities.

Restricts most of her videos to “friends only” but that doesn’t stop Erik, Serena, and Sylv from dragging her onto their accounts.

Serena

Never actually meant to post any videos but then she saw a BookTok take that was so horrendous she couldn’t stop herself from making a 14 minute video stitching her response

One of the biggest influencers leading critical discussions about contemporary literature. Would like to post cooking videos, but she’s too shy/under-confident about her skills

Posts videos of herself playing the harp every now and then to try and share some positivity— and then goes right back to dragging Colleen Hoover’s name through wet dirt

Sylvando

His presence immediately drew the attention of all his adoring fans, and he eats it up. Always posting make up tutorials, GRWM, OOTD, cooking, dances, etc. If he misses one day of posting his followers think he’s dead.

A rare but treasured breed of Sylvando post is the two minute long video of him reminding his followers to never stop smiling, always protect their own light, and to never give up fighting against the darkness that plagues the world.

He also dedicates a lot of his content to promoting/collaborating with smaller accounts :) The spotlight is meant to be shared!

Jade

Rarely posts, but when she does it’s usually some variety of a “get ready with me” video. Accidentally became famous because she’s got a lethal face card.

Loves showing off her cutesy matching workout sets and her favorite post gym recipes. Collabs with Sylvando whenever they have homie gym dates :)

Very easily discomforted by the parasociality of social media and will randomly drop off the face of the earth for months at a time

Rab

Help him. He doesn’t even have his own TikTok account, the kids just drag him into their own

Recurring character in his children’s (the party’s) videos. “Seeing how many oranges I can stack on my grandfather’s head while he sleeps.” // “Grandpa’s first time playing deltarune” // “My grandpa’s favourite sandwich recipe”

Not always fully into it but it makes him feel young and hip, and he loves making his kids happy :)

Hendrik

He’s got one of those accounts with a blank profile picture and autogenerated username like hendrik0621593

Never posts anything. Follows his friends and likes their videos and minds his business. Occasionally asks Jasper what certain slang means because he’s so out of the loop.

Always ends up on strange niche sides of TikTok because the algorithm is so confused by him. Ended up following a few mushroom forager accounts.

Jasper

Only has an account so he can block Hendrik.

Has a hard time getting into social media because he’s just so disinterested in the affairs of random people. Whenever he sees something annoying online, he gets a little embarrassed that he even cared enough to get angry in the first place

Tries to avoid doomscrolling but the content he does consume is usually aesthetic oriented. Musicians and singers, vacation inspo, occasionally baking content.

on tha bike

call him bubonic the way he plagues me

haven't done my work but i did draw myself not doing my work. and the specter. not sure how this helps