Planning for stories and stuff.
Word, dawg.
note: this intro hasn't been thoroughly updated in a couple years
This is a world I made mostly for my own use, but I made it a public world anyways. I'll be posting things about story outlines, my characters, my comics (including fan comics), WIPs, ect... It's pretty much a world where I can store information and/or plan things. xD
Below are short descriptions of my stories to help you know what's going on. xD It also shows which characters are in which story, along with their extended profile if I have one made. Some stories aren't mentioned because I don't work on/think about them often. Therefore, not all of my characters are mentioned.
STORIES
The link leads to the fan comic in my portfolio. If there isn't a link, there isn't a comic yet.
ORIGINAL STORIES
*Rock Band: Something Impossible: The story of a Rock Band and their adventures in music business.
Major Characters: Michka, Zack, Loyal, Dare, Rick
Important/Frequently Mentioned Supporting Characters: Damian, Tim, Dare's Aunt aka Auntie
*Of Fruits and Vegetables: 4-panel comics of the life of a 21-year-old model and his friends/workmates.
Major Characters: Tomato, Stefan, Tomato's Boyfriend aka "TB", Gabe, Janet aka Jo, Kasey, Dean
Important Supporting Characters: Danny, Leah, Mick
*Dreams: The story of a rich and pampered English boy who gets transported to the mysterious town of Dreams, and his adventures there.
Major Characters: Alcott, Luli, Ms. Marigold
Important Supporting Characters: Shinitsu, Annabelle, and others that are to be decided.
**Annabelle's and Ms. Marigold's profiles are in the same post.**
Story Dialogues: 1.1, 1.2, 2.1
*My Dear Princess: The story of an orphan child, a princess, and friends who's home country's peace is threataned by the evil prince of a country that was thought to be nonexistant. (CONFUSING. xD)
Major Characters: Isaac, Charlotte, Rinchu, Segran, Lucia, Nicholay, Faida, Hrafn, Falorin, Gaelnis
Important Supporting Characters: To be decided.
*Foreigner: An alien boy sent to Earth to destroy the human race finds himself in Los Angeles California, befriends a human girl, and gets involved in crazy advetures.
Major Characters: Kor, Gliding Eagle
Important Supporting Characters: Michelle, Dailen
*A Life Like This: A written story in the perspectives of Dare, Tim, and Rick.
Major Characters: Tim, Dare, Rick, Ms. Ackart
Important Supporting Characters: See characters for Rock Band: Something Impossible.
Chapters: One, Two, Three, Four, Five, Six, Seven, Eight, Nine, Ten
*Teach Me Something Good: A story about a friendship between a student and a teacher. Somewhat of a spin-off of Of Fruits and Vegetables.
Major Characters: Noland, Chrystal
Important Supporting Characters: Prudence), Stefan (briefly)
*I Was a Boy, Too: A short 3-part story about Gabe when he was in high school. Optional backstory related to Of Fruits and Vegetables.
Major Characters: Gabe, William
Important Supporting Characters: DJ, Dave
Parts: One
*Nerdy and Jock: So there's this nerd, and this jock, and also they're boyfriends. That's it.
Major Characters: Jack, Ned
Important supporting characters: Matthew Brodney III, Dmitri, Charlotte, Jessica Marron, Lafayette, Brodney's girlfriend who doesn't have a name yet;;;
FAN STORIES
*The Adventures of Marth and Roy: Super Smash Brothers fan comic. Title is pretty self-explanitory.
Major Characters: Marth, Roy, Ike, Pit
I don't have a name for his story, but Jamal is a Kingdom Hearts fan character. I figured I'd mention him because I draw him often enough.
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Also, if you want to find posts that feature a specific character, type in the URL http://theotaku.com/worlds/variousinformation/tags/[character name]. For example, http://theotaku.com/worlds/variousinformation/tags/dare will bring you to posts about Dare. :)
Enjoy Your Stay at Various Planning!
For some reason, I haven't been working on traditional art... ._. I don't have any particular sketches that I feel like inking, because I hate inking. xD;
SO INSTEAD, I've been doing some stuff on Paint tool SAI.
I've been in an OFAV mood lately, too...
....I don't really know what to say about this. I think I'm getting the hang of this whole CGing thing, though. xD;
To me, Tomato's eye looks really scary. o____o Or it did, earlier. I had drawn some lip gloss or something on his lips, but somehow it made his eye look scary. (He looked fine with it before I colored his eye! :I) I erased the lip stuff because it somehow made his eye look less scary.
(Yeah, I have no idea.)
Oh yeah, and look. It's Danny. :U
AGH, chests. Let's not look at them.
Anyways, here's how that summer picture is coming along. I think this is the last WIP I'll post of it, because I want it to be at least some sort of surprise when you open it in your backroom... xD;
YEAH. Just thought I'd show you guys what I'm working on. :U As always, thanks for viewing! :)
I felt the need to post some sketches.
SO HERE!
I drew this in May, I think...? Back when I was reading The Great Gatsby, which was making me think about flappers. xD So I drew a flapper. I wore a similar outfit to this one to school for a project. :M
I drew this one during school, too. Basically it's a redo of this, but his head came out too big.
I used to think that boys with Dean's character personality rarely exist, but this guy who sat in front of me in math class reminded me of Dean in awkwardness. So maybe Dean isn't such an unlikely guy to meet. xD /random
Random doodly-sketch-plan-things. xD; The top is a picture idea I have for Stef and Tomato. The bottom is a possible redux of Alcott's outfit. I've always wanted to give him a short jacket, and I think this looks pretty alright. :m Although, I'm always bothered by how boring his pants are...
A sketch of Luli and Alcott that I drew a couple days ago. At first I wasn't really sure of what to draw, and it turned into Alcott and Luli. xD Even though it's their profiles, I quite like this picture... ;3; I wish I drew the Dreams characters more often. The Dreams story is probably my favorite of my fantasy stories... but I just don't have it planned enough to do anything with it, and I'm not the best at drawing fantastical things. xD;
Doodles and a random comic with Stefan and Gabe. YOU KNOW... IT'S JUST EASIEST TO MAKE COMICS WITH THEM, OKAY...? ._. By the way, that lady next to Stef is Gabe's mom. Also, that giant block of text next to Dare is just me talking about how I should practice drawing suits. (I wrote that before this.)
Um. COLORED ZACK, WOAH!
Read downnnnn.
Like I said, it's easiest to make comics with Stefan and Gabe. -u- But somehow, these comics became a "Let's learn some random things about Gabe!" moment. xD;
I don't know how to put the accents on the letters, so the French is accent-less. Sorry, French people.
AND THAT IS ALL. Now you know what I've been doing.
And that is absolutely nothing.
After finishing the picture of Damian that I recently uploaded, I completely filled up my sketchbook...
But it's okay, 'cause I'm also drawing in two other sketchbooks at the moment. |D;
Since I just finished a sketchbook, I went through and found some stuff that I hadn't posted in this world. YAY... I guess. There were only 4 things that I thought I'd post. Pretty much everything else in the sketchbook was doodles and things I had posted...
Mostly doodles. -u-
I drew this today. Happy 4th of July to America, by the way! :)
Uh... I just wanted to draw Gabe in a suit to see what he'd look like. xD; I like coloring with markers on little pictures like this. *^* It's quick, and it comes out pretty vibrant. But coloring anything large is a pain... "orz
I don't think I posted this yet...? Or maybe I did. Tell me if I did. .____.
This was the planning sketch for the casual and street style challenge. :9 I always thought this drawing of Stefan looked better than the actual picture, even though this is less detailed... :T Idk. Sometimes I just like sketches better than inked pictures.
Some dialogue between Jo and Danny. I actually QUITE ENJOY WRITING DIALOGUE BETWEEN CHARACTERS... but I don't like drawing panels. xD If I could make comics of floating entities, then I would. :9 BUT ALAS...
Idk where this dialogue was really going, but whatever. :m;;;
Last one! Tim and his mom. This was something I considered for the Inspiration Musica challenge, where you had to draw a picture inspired by a song. The song was Trouble by Coldplay. But I wasn't really into the picture, so I just quit. xD;
And that's all I guess. :D I think I'm going to update OFAV and my "ask my characters stuff" thing soon. So yeah. Look for that.
BA-CHOW.
You're in for some fun today! 8D ...Or some weirdness. I was thinking about some of the old ideas I had for some of my characters, and I decided that I'm going to share some of them with you. xD Haha. This post'll probably be kind of long.
I had considered all of these things at one point in time or another...
1) Tim x Jake
HAHA... this is one of the weirder ideas, now that I look back on it... By the way, yes, that's what Jake looks like. helookskindoflikeTB....
So I had this idea that Tim's best friend secretly has a crush on Tim, and is super jealous when he's going out with Clair. When Tim breaks up with Clair, Jake somehow gets Tim alone in his room and says "It's about time you broke up with that <b-word>," and (I'm dead serious about this)... he rapes Tim.
.......
LIKE I SAID, one of the weirder ideas. The point was that Jake doing it with Tim was supposed to make Tim bi-curious. I decided that that would be kind of pointless, 'cause Tim didn't really need Jake as an instigator to make him think about his orientation. And then Jake's character became kind of homophobic, as time went by.
2) Tim's Grandparents and Swing Music
This was kind of a random thing. I had this idea that Tim was close to his grandparents, and his grandparents got him addicted to swing music. I decided that wouldn't be plausible because Tim's Mom wouldn't take Tim to her parents, and her parents would be too young to be into swing music anyways. xD;
3) Smoking Danny
This idea is still pending, actually. :o I thought that if Danny smoked, it'd be a good way to contrast with his sugary-girly personality and emphasize that he's actually older than he tries to be. I mean, I draw him like a teenager and he tries to act like a kid, but he is in his 20s.
But I also don't want to do this idea, because I don't like having my characters smoke... ;u; The only one who smokes for real right now is Tim's mom.
4) Flirty Rick/Dare x Rick
I considered this waaaaaaay early when I created Rick. There are still some remnants of flirty Rick floating around in my gallery... As for Dare x Rick, I considered that for a small amount of time. Takara always wanted me to do Dare x Rick, and I do think it's kind of cute, but I just don't think Dare has that kind of attraction to Rick. xD
5) Jo x Kasey
You probably already know this, but I originally created Jo and Kasey to be a couple. I actually think they're pretty cute together (and I'm not even crazy about gl), but Kasey's too straight to be in a relationship with Jo. :m Although, it is canon for Jo to have a crush on Kasey. But by the time the timeline reaches the current time in OFAV she's already given up on Kasey.
6) Dean x Kasey
This was always going to be a little bit of a gag pairing...
I still think it's plausible for Kasey to crush on Dean, but they'd never become a serious pairing because Kasey crushes on any attractive boy she meets.
7) Damian x Rick
I'm pretty sure I originally created Damian to be a love interest for Rick. xD Damian is completely straight, by the way...
8) Rick Gets Drunk, And...
This was a weird scene idea for RB:SI, where Rick gets drunk and starts mackin' on Dare. The scene was cliche, so I decided it's not going to be drawn. Rick's too smart to "accidentally" drink alcohol, anyways. :P
9) Emo Dare
When I first created Dare in Rock Band 2, I was planning on him having a typical emo personality. There's still some remnants of this here and here, but by the time you reach this pic, the personality change had already happened.
10) Ginger Cassidy (Tim's Mom); also, "Normal" Cassidy
Having Cassidy be a blonde was only decided last year... I thought that Tim would've gotten his looks from his mom, until I came up with the idea of him looking almost exactly like his dad.
Also, back when Tim was just Tim and had no story, his mom was a pretty normal lady living in a normal house.
11) "Chibi forms" in Dreams; Also, blonde Luli
This is a kind of obscure idea I had. xD; I was trying to give a reason to why Luli looks so chibi while everyone else looks more detailed... and I thought that maybe everyone had a "simplified" form in Dreams and they could switch back and forth at will. xD I don't remember what the point was... I think it was you had to be in a simplified form to get into some certain building... idk. Also, I originally planned for Luli to be blonde. :9
12) Nicholay Crushing on Isaac; Also, Tome Magic
Nicholay still looks up to Isaac like a father, but the idea before was that he was so young that he confused his admiration for love. Yeah... Nicholay's not that ignorant (?), so I scrapped that.
Nicholay also used to fight with tomes (books), like mages in Fire Emblem. Now he just uses rings and bracelets to focus his power, while even more skilled mages use only their MIND AND BODY...
13) Faida Turns into a Bird
I'm still not sure what the outcome of Faida's story will be (not that you know any of it 'cause I haven't posted much about her), but an idea was that she's sick and is going to turn into a bird. ...yeah, idk. Still not sure what I'm doing with her.
14) Old Man Gaelnis
I originally planned for Falorin's main minion to be an old man... and then I made Gaelnis, and decided against that. xD
15) Depressed/anorexic/bulemic Rick
SO THIS ONE'S KIND OF DEPRESSING.........
Even back in the early days of Rick, I had already decided that Rick would have a moment in 9th grade when he comes out to Dare and gets bullied at school for it. But another thing I had considered was that Rick was so upset that Dare didn't like him that he would cut himself, and would skip meals and other stuff to get skinnier (because skinnier = more like a girl = Dare would like him better, or something). In the current story, Rick does occasionally skip dinner and loses some weight... but not because he wants to look like a girl, it's because he's too embarassed/ashamed to be around his family and is busy thinking about things in his room. Nowadays I think Rick's smart enough not to intentionally do anything destructive to himself.
16) Divorced Stef
I didn't know how to draw this one, except to draw Stef in a wedding ring... It's probably on the wrong hand. :U
Anyways, I had this idea at one point that Stefan was married at one point, but decided that was kind of weird. I think I only even thought about that because Takara came up with these weird quotes for Stefan to say. xD One of them was "I tell my wife about you", so wife reminded me of divorce, and... yeah.
NOW YOU KNOW THE WEIRD THINGS THAT GO ON IN MY MIND WHILE I TRY TO DECIDE WHAT KIND OF PEOPLE MY CHARACTERS ARE... Sorry for the ridiculously long post. xD;
I think I'm going to start tagging my posts in this world. ;o It'll help with organization. When you click on a tag in a world, I didn't realize that it brings you to all the posts with the tag only in that particular world. That's pretty cool. It's kind of like google search! Like if I tag my posts with the names of the characters in the post, I'll be able to find all the posts with those characters in it! 8D It's amazing! No really, I'm pretty impressed with this. I think I'll spend my day adding tags to my old posts here, too. :m FUN LIFE.
Since I just uploaded a picture of him, I'm going to post Danny's extended profile. :m
**OFAV characters have some information missing from the top part of the profile because such information is irrelevent**
Name: Daniel
Nicknames: Danny, Danny-boy (by Gabe or Jo, on occasion)
Age: 24
Gender: Male
Height: 5'7
Special Talent: Baking, has good fashion sense
Hobbies: Hanging out with Gabe or Jo, eating candy (?!?!?), shopping, going into stores but not buying anything
Profession(s): Coffee shop clerk
Current Residence: Paris, France
Likes: Candy and sweet food, fashion shows, city life, caramel flavored coffee, black and white clothing
Dislikes: Vegetables, dentists, orthodontists, braces, retainers, cavities, when someone doesn’t tell him something
Love Interest: Gabe; later Jo
Sexual Orientation: Thought to be homosexual, but is actually bisexual
Hair Color: Dark brown
Hair Length: Short and spiked
Eye Color: His eyes are naturally brown, but he thinks that’s boring so he wears purple contacts. (But he also wears glasses... what? xD)
Jewelry: One piercing on each ear, likes to wear rings and wristbands
Key Friends: Gabe, Jo, slightly Stefan and Dean (Actually I wrote this a while ago, and I can’t remember what conversations he has with Dean…. >3>)
Key Enemies: None, but considered Stefan a rival at one point
Phobias / Fears: Cockroaches
Bad Habits / Vices: Snide at times, nosy
Best Qualities: Easily converses with people
Worst Qualities: Complains a lot
Personal Goals: TO GET THOSE HORMONES UNDER CONTROL, BOYYYY. Okay, not really. Uh. Well, he’d like to confess to Jo someday I guess…
Professional Goals: He doesn’t care, he just wants money.
Style of Speech: Like, totally girly! But not quite as girly as Tomato.
Personality: Energetic and emotive, but selfish; stubborn; seemingly arrogant, but can be quite bashful; needs to be constantly entertained.
(By the way, a lot of this probably won’t come up in OFAV… xD;;;;;;)
Yeah… Danny. I think I made him because I wanted to draw a very childish and immature character. Tomato is pretty immature, but he’s almost a different kind of immature… I guess. xD Danny’s an energetic boy who gets bored very easily. When he’s bored, he has a tendency to complain a lot. He acts proud and cutesy, but he can also be a bit snarky (I think that’s the word? xD) and mean. He finds hilarity in making fun of people he doesn’t know. Even though he acts like he’s all that, he’s actually easily embarrassed.
So. Danny is a 24-year-old... something. I’m leaning toward guy-who-works-at-a-coffee-shop. xD His parents are fashion designers, so he has an interest in fashion, and designs clothes in his free time. He can’t sew, so his clothes usually just stay sketches. More than designing clothes, he likes window shopping at really expensive stores that he can’t afford to buy from.
He loves candy and anything sweet. :B But he has bad oral hygiene, so his teeth are terrible. He has multiple fillings and is supposed to wear a retainer. (But he doesn’t…) The reason I decided on this is because I used to want to draw him with a gap in his teeth when he smiles. xD; Like this:
But I probably won't draw him like that.
He also has a knack for baking. :9 Yum.
While Danny and his parents don’t always see eye to eye, he’s very close to them. This is because he has only recently been living on his own; in college, he commuted from college to his parents’ house. Danny met Gabe through his parents. Like I said before, his parents are designers. They designed some clothing for Tomato, and were at the photo shoot when Tomato was modeling the clothes. Danny came along too, and met Gabe there (since Gabe’s Tomato’s hair stylist). Gabe, being the flirt that he is, pulled his moves on Danny. (what) Danny wasn’t incompliant, though… Aha. -u-; And that’s how their friendship (?) began. They are real friends, though. I mean, their relationship isn’t totally physical… but I’d say a fairly large portion of it is. .3.
On a side note, Gabe is the only boy that Danny fools around with, but Gabe has multiple lovers. (orz) But it’s not like Gabe keeps his friends a secret from each other, he’s pretty open about it. GABE IS JUST… RATHER PROMISCUOUS…
But enough about Gabe. Danny ends up falling in love with Gabe because yeah. He initially was going to confess to Gabe formally, but he suspected Gabe liked Stefan so Danny kind of lost hope in Gabe. He gives up the idea of him and Gabe being in a formal relationship when Gabe tells him he likes Stef. For a while Danny does consider Stefan his rival, but he knows that Gabe only thinks of Danny as a friend and doesn’t stand a chance against Stef. (Or something like that, idk.) In the end, he tries to encourage Stef and Gabe to go out with each other. Aha. WHAT IS THIS OVERLY-ROMANTIC STORY…
After Danny’s feelings move on from Gabe, he ends up developing feelings for Gabe’s sister Jo. The initial reason is because she kind of looks and acts like Gabe. When Danny realizes he’s crushing on Jo, he kind of freaks out because he’s never been attracted to a girl before. He also doesn’t know if he should confess to Jo because she thinks he’s gay and she’s told him that she’s not really into romance. He also hates how she’s taller than him. Haha. BUT HE GETS OVER IT.
Isn’t that right, Danny.
Yeah.
DannyxJo is like… one of two straight couples in OFAV. Or three-ish. The other two are DeanxLeah and MickxLeah… BUT I’M NOT TALKING ABOUT THAT. Read Dean’s profile if you’re interested in that.
UM… I guess that’s all I have to say about Danny. If I think of anything else, I’ll add it.
