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[Image description: Two digital painting portraits of a character with red hair & red eyes. In one, she looks grim, and she has shoulder length hair. In the other, she looks quiet and wistful, and she has short hair.]

For this one, I tried out a free painting software application called Krita. Pretty cool, pretty cool.

I decided a while back that the universe in A Tiny Common Bird & the universe in Woebegone should be the same universe, at different time periods. I've also been having some fun with building original characters out of the work I put into fan portrayals of characters I like. I used to write about Kanae from Tokyo Ghoul, & I based my Commander Shepard character on Kanae when I played Mass Effect. Looks like a sketch of a new character, to me! And an excuse to write about what happens when this universe gets so far into the future that it invents space travel and maybe meets aliens.

This is Elfriede, she/they is a ribbon monster like Rillencaite. Riley is ancient (I want them to appear in every story!), Elfie is old but not that old. I still have to figure out her story, but I know she was unlucky in love before she died, and died to save someone who was not in love with her. Being a ribbon may be the reason she was sought out to go to space, once the world was old enough to send her. I still have to figure out what she's doing up there. I'm prioritizing other stories right now, so I'm confident that when I'm ready to really figure out Elfie's situation, I'll have something on my mind I'll want to write about, & I can find a way to write about that.

In my Mass Effect playthrough, Shepard (1) saved Ashley instead of Kaiden specifically because Kaiden was hitting on her and she didn't want him to, and never told a soul why, (2) didn't conveniently allow Mordin to die on their dangerous mission at the end, despite being furious with him for being a eugenicist bastard, because taking a life and punishing someone wouldn't solve anything or save new lives, and (3) chose the ending that would destroy her because it was the only one that would protect everybody else (which I was not satisfied with, & would have done differently if I had had full creative control). I have no interest in writing a cheeky not-Mass-Effect-but-actually-yes-it's-Mass-Effect type story, like a tribute to Mass Effect or something. But I definitely have some good material for the kind of person Elfie might be or might become, and examples of milestone events and choices.

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[Image description: Two digital painting portraits of a character with red hair & red eyes. In one, she looks grim, and she has shoulder length hair. In the other, she looks quiet and wistful, and she has short hair.]

For this one, I tried out a free painting software application called Krita. Pretty cool, pretty cool.

I decided a while back that the universe in A Tiny Common Bird & the universe in Woebegone should be the same universe, at different time periods. I've also been having some fun with building original characters out of the work I put into fan portrayals of characters I like. I used to write about Kanae from Tokyo Ghoul, & I based my Commander Shepard character on Kanae when I played Mass Effect. Looks like a sketch of a new character, to me! And an excuse to write about what happens when this universe gets so far into the future that it invents space travel and maybe meets aliens.

This is Elfriede, she/they is a ribbon monster like Rillencaite. Riley is ancient (I want them to appear in every story!), Elfie is old but not that old. I still have to figure out her story, but I know she was unlucky in love before she died, and died to save someone who was not in love with her. Being a ribbon may be the reason she was sought out to go to space, once the world was old enough to send her. I still have to figure out what she's doing up there. I'm prioritizing other stories right now, so I'm confident that when I'm ready to really figure out Elfie's situation, I'll have something on my mind I'll want to write about, & I can find a way to write about that.

In my Mass Effect playthrough, Shepard (1) saved Ashley instead of Kaiden specifically because Kaiden was hitting on her and she didn't want him to, and never told a soul why, (2) didn't conveniently allow Mordin to die on their dangerous mission at the end, despite being furious with him for being a eugenicist bastard, because taking a life and punishing someone wouldn't solve anything or save new lives, and (3) chose the ending that would destroy her because it was the only one that would protect everybody else (which I was not satisfied with, & would have done differently if I had had full creative control). I have no interest in writing a cheeky not-Mass-Effect-but-actually-yes-it's-Mass-Effect type story, like a tribute to Mass Effect or something. But I definitely have some good material for the kind of person Elfie might be or might become, and examples of milestone events and choices.