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!

About the Title: OFAV

I'm slightly distracted from my homework, so I'm going to talk about the "meaning" behind the title Of Fruits and Vegetables because I'm bored. :V I might accidentally switch on-and-off between formal and informal speech because I'm writing my essay at the same time... xD;

I provided a little bit about the title in the description of OFAV that says "..I got it from the title of the book Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck. ...
The title is referring to the main character's name, Tomato. Tomatos look like (?) vegetables, but are fruits."

When I came up with the title, I was just thinking about Tomato's name... and how a tomato is like a fruit, and is like a vegetable. Just about right after I wrote down the title on a piece of paper, I found the title kind of funny because "fruit" is slang for a flamboyant gay man, which Tomato obviously is. In addition to the quote mentioned earlier, I wrote this down in my sketchbook:

"Also a pun on the word fruit, which is slang for a flamboyant gay man. Also also refers to Tomato's similarity to a tomato, b/c he looks like a girl but is a boy."

And that's the history of the title. But now that I think of it, "Of Fruits and Vegetables" has a slightly different, less vague, meaning. Well, two; depends on how you look at it.

The first way I see the title is like this: As I mentioned earlier, "fruit" is slang for a gay man. If a fruit and a vegetable are to be taken as opposites in the title, then "vegetable" would be coined slang to mean "straight man". Or less specifically, fruit is a euphemism for "gay" and vegetable is a euphemism for "straight". Therefore, the title "Of Fruits and Vegetables" can mean "Of Homosexuals and Heterosexuals". That would make sense, but two of the main characters are bisexual (3 including Danny). And what exactly does the "of" mean in the title...? If I add in a bit of information (which I can do since I'm the author HOHO!), the title really means this:
[this comic is] Of Homosexuals and Heterosexuals [as well as everyone in between].
Which is true. The comic has no plot line, so it's just a bunch of comic strips of gay people, straight people, and bi people. (I don't have any transgendered/pansexual/asexual characters in OFAV, if you were wondering why I left them out.)

The second way (and idk, less controversial if you're uncomfortable talking about orientation) is like this: There are two categories implied in the title--"Fruits" and "Vegetables." The only way to organize all the characters into two groups is to do so by gender. So in this case let's say fruit = female, and vegetable = male. (Which food gets attributed which gender doesn't really matter.) In this case, the title becomes "Of Girls and Boys."
What's interesting about interpreting the title this way is that Tomato's name becomes relevant here too. Tomato's are fruits that are commonly mistaken for vegetables, and therefore don't quite fit into either category. Tomato is a man commonly mistaken for a girl, and doesn't quite fit into either gender as well. (Could also be attributed to him having "XXY" syndrome; he has the correct chromosomes to be a girl (xx), and the correct chromosomes to be a boy (xy).)
So in this case, the "extended" title is this:
[this comic is] Of Girls and Boys [as well as Tomato].
It's a little odd that Tomato would be the main character though, since he's not explicitly referenced in this interpretation of the title. Although, it does make him stand out a bit among the characters. But anyways, this title is also true because the comic is just a bunch of strips about boys and girls.

...And yeah! That's what the title means. To me, at least. I hadn't really thought of any of this when I came up with the title, but the more I thought about it the more I found the title to be fitting to the story. :M

Maybe you have a different interpretation of the title? ...Maybe you don't think the title means anything? xD That could be true, too.

Anyways, thanks for reading and I hope you found this interesting. :)

Life: 12/03/12 | By: moonlit dream | 3 comments | Tags: ofav, tomato

Sketch + New OC Preview

I have a couple doodles/etc to post, but I don't want to scan them all right now... so I'll just post this. 8D

This is a picture of Tomato that I sketches yesterday. AGH, more attempts at realism. Sorry. I don't feel like I draw a lot of realism though, since all my doodles are cartoons and chibi-type things... xD; and I doodle a lot.
Anyways, I sketched this for art class. Shocker. It's actually based off of an old picture of me dressed as Tomato. I used to have that in one of my worlds (my cosplay world?) but I've since deleted that world. xD;
The nose came out a bit big, but MEH... I also need to learn how to draw better straight lines.
Well, at least I tried something at a different angle.

Also, I've come up with two new characters for a completely new story! 8D YAY! More stuff that Akioh won't get around to working on... ;u;
Anyways, here's one of the main characters's designs:

8D
I wanted to make some steampunk characters. Though idk if this is really steampunk, but... YEAH. This character's name is Chiminy. AND SHE'S A GIRL! 8D No way, man. I thought I should come up with a girl character that I'll actually like drawing... xD; That's all I'll say for now about her. I'll talk about the story later and include some more sketches/etc in a different post.

That's all for now! :D Thanks for reading and yeahhhhhhhhhhhhhh.

Life: 11/15/12 | By: moonlit dream | 14 comments | Tags: chiminy, Tomato

Old Sketches

I doodled a picture of high school-aged Gabe on my math homework, and didn't feel like erasing it because I kind of liked it... ;u; EHE. So I scanned it and now I'm going to erase it. YEAH!

By the way, here it is.

Woo, angry man! His hand is kind of big, now that I look at it. xD; Floating youthful Gabe... Gabe's hairstyle in high school pretty much looks exactly like Jo's current hairstyle except with Gabe's color scheme. WOO! Idk, I'm having trouble with hairstyles these days. .u.

Also, I found some original concept sketches and other old things of my characters. 8D I figured I'd show them to you all. I already uploaded most of them when I originally drew them, but here's some stuff that I missed. I'VE JUST BEEN GOING DOWN MEMORY LANE LATELY... Sorry for all the "before-after"-themed posts. xD Hope you find this interesting or something! :D

This is actually a pretty recent pic, and it's also the only decent picture of Jamie that I've drawn. Jamie is Rick's little brother. I haven't talked about him much, but he has his fair share of appearances in A Life Like This compared to the rest of Rick's siblings. xD By the way, he's talking to Tim in this pic. He asked Tim if he likes Rick. So uh.. Spoiler? xDD Idk. BAH. This stuff is so idk. :I
Woo, that basketball looks like a giant lumpy round object and not a basketball... ._________.;

This isn't the first picture of Tim that I've drawn, but what's monumental about this piece of paper is I figure out an easy way to draw Tim's bangs. 8D If you look at the part in his bangs, the left bang used to flip to the left, but then I started drawing it flipping to the right. FOR SOME REASON, THAT MADE IT SO MUCH EASIER TO DRAW HIM...! Once I could draw him, I started drawing him a lot more. So thanks to that one little change, Tim's now one of my favorite characters of mine. xD AND YOU THOUGHT LITTLE THINGS LIKE THAT DIDN'T MATTER...
Or maybe you never thought that. :I

This was drawn before the previous doodles. It was another (failed) attempt at trying to figure out how to draw Tim's hair. xD Tim, you gave me so much trouble... but you were worth it. ;u;

This is the first time I ever drew Damian! He still looks about the same. :D I originally spelled his name "Dameon", but that apparently means "DEMON CHILD"... so I changed it to Damian. 8D;
Damian's actually 20, I think. Yep. Idk why I wrote that beard comment, though.

NO ONE'S TALKING ABOUT YOUR BEARD I think I've become more tolerant of beards, because of Gabe. xD I used to really not like beards at all. Now I'm kind of indifferent. I like drawing Gabe's beard, even though it's the tiniest beard in the world.
...My dad has a mustache! 8D

Here's Jamal's original design. There's a colored version somewhere in my portfolio, too. :m (Compare with this: [click]) Takara wrote his name on there! 8D Because I didn't want to name him Jamal at first... Haha. I'm used to his name now.

Lastly, here's what I planned to be the "default" outfits for the OFAV cast. These are also the outfits I used here. The only one that's remained the same is Dean's. xD I hadn't learned how to draw suits until this summer, so Stefan's only changed recently. I draw Kasey, Tomato, and Jo in random things that I feel like drawing. Gabe usually wears that skull shirt or tank top. TB always wears the same outfit of a green t-shirt and rolled-up jeans, which is why I didn't put him on here. :m
Gabe's shirt just makes me laugh in agony and embarassment... orz

And yeah! That's that. 8D I'll try to upload some recent stuff in my next post.

Life: 11/01/12 | By: moonlit dream | 3 comments | Tags: damian, dare, dean, gabe, jamal, jamie, jo, kasey, tim, tomato

Full Animation for English Class

Well, here's the finished version of the animation from the other day! :m Only the first part is in color, the rest is in black and white... ;u; But whatever. xD

So yeah. This is an animation based off of a chapter in the book Pnin by Vladimir Nabokov.

Warning: My voice is weirdo sounding. And so is my Russian accent. It doesn't even sound like a Russian accent....
Also, this may not make sense if you haven't read the book.

BAM. Yeah. Not the most extravagant thing, but whatever. I did it in 4 days. "orz I got so lazy with the animating in the last scene...

I may finish coloring it one day... my mom wants me to. xD

SO YEAH. THANKS FOR WATCHING THAT THING. :D

Life: 10/25/12 | By: moonlit dream | 12 comments | Tags: nabokov, pnin, video, vladimir nabokov

Meme and reeeally short animation

BUH. I need to do homework but I don't feel like it. orz I'll just make a quick post and then be productive.

Hey, want to see an animation I made? YEAH YOU DO. IT'S GREAT. Well, it's not great, but it's not horrendous either.

This is for a school project. Or at least, I want it to be... I wanted to animate a scene from the book I read. But this took like an hour, and it's so shoooort.... ;A; IDK. I HOPE I CAN AT LEAST MAKE SOMETHING...
This is Victor Wind from the book Pnin by Vladimir Nabokov. The book was rather BORING... Pretty much no dialogue was in it. ;A;

And here's a music meme I did.

I'm too lazy to link to the songs. orz If you click it, it goes to my dA which has the links in the footnotes.

OKAY, I REALLY SHOULD DO SCHOOLWORK. BYE NOW! ;U;

Life: 10/18/12 | By: moonlit dream | 0 comments | Tags: N/A