Whats Your Thoughts On Delicious In Dungeons Character Designs?

What’s your thoughts on Delicious in Dungeons Character Designs?

Ryoko Kui is the best to ever do it.

Old Nichi! My Rabsca OC! Finally made an OC out of one because I won my first ever raffle and the prize was to have an PMD OC included in something and I just- gotta get my ancient beetle grandma take out there. I just love that there is an implied immortal larvae puppet master up in there!! Info about her personality under the cut!

The idea for this oc is that she doesn’t feel old but to everyone else she comes off as ancient perpetually referencing things long since relevant when it comes to the current history. But! Besides being stuck in countless old eras, she is quite sociable! Thinking like a ghibli grandma type, someone who has long since abandoned shame and is extremely earnest when it comes to talking to people but can have a bit of spunk especially with that lack of shame holding her back. They do however have no patience for bullies in the same breath, finding the behavior immature no matter the age of the individual.

Most of her life she’s been living that civilian life style but did not participate in politics or large happenings which she found horribly repetitive in that history repeats itself kind of way (outside of protecting friends and loved ones during turmoil) She’s not nationalistic to any one identity so feels a bit like a rogue to any power figure if any. Her age she has no idea, why keep count? Her puppet shell reflects the older age she was at when she reached “enlightenment” and evolved which was older for her pre evo but now hardly feels like a decimal point in her long long life. Enlightenment means she just stopped giving a hoot about petty things and decided to live fully and earnestly so the things she treasures the most is people and the moments they can share among cultures and nature.

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“Hidden troves full of treasure and strange relics…uncharted territories veiled in darkness…and new lands just waiting to be discovered!”

a piece for my favorite game!

One piece of acting advice that has stayed with me for years in regards to both writing and drawing as well is: "Don't use the body to act what the character is saying. Act what the character is THINKING."

Like, as a very, very basic example: a character is apologizing by saying, "I'm sorry." But that line is going to look and sound different depending on what the character is thinking. Crossed arms and a sullen tone can mean that a character is actually thinking: "I don't mean it and also I hate you." A pleading tone and reaching out to take the other character's arm can mean: "Please don't leave me." A tired voice and slumped shoulders within context could mean: "I did what I had to do."

This is one way to begin to do "Show, Don't Tell" in storytelling. It is trusting your audience to see the depth and to catch on to the things you leave unsaid. It's fun to let the audience be observant and clever. It is also reflective of real life, where people are often scared of being vulnerable, or don't necessarily even understand their own emotions, or can't articulate their own thoughts, or have difficulty identifying the true feelings of the people around them, and so don't say very much.

There are exceptions to this advice, of course. In writing especially, rather than in a visual medium, some POV characters are very good at reading emotions from body language and others are not, and their observations in the narration may reflect this skill. Some characters will assume everyone around them is always angry with them or simply not pay attention to other people's moods at all, personalities which can also be subtly communicated to the audience and later used in the story in some interesting way.

Some characters have excellent control over their body language and tone of voice, because they are on-guard, highly trained in some fashion, or a very good liar. They will not easily communicate their true thoughts through their body language or their actions. Their lie can be so good that it can be slipped past the audience as nothing important to the plot until it comes back to bite. Their oddly perfect control over their body in a tense situation can instead maybe be used to indicate to the POV character and/or the audience: "Oh, there's something WRONG with this person."

Body language will also change by culture and class and so on. This clash can cause communication problems between characters, as a character's affectionate pat on the shoulder of another might be intended as casual comfort, but be received as overly intimate condescension. Different cultures / people can even have very different opinions on what level of eye contact and overlapping speech is rude.

This advice was originally given to me in the context of illustration and animation, in which it is very common for inexperienced artists to act out the words that the character is saying in mime-like gesture. In media for young children, we might choose to keep things very simple, as toddlers struggle to learn what it looks like and feels like to be angry or happy. But past that? People don't actually behave this way. What we say and what we really mean are not always synchronized, and we can use the body to communicate this.

I don't mean it in a creepy way I promise, but I feel a kinship with China, Japan and Korea i wish more people from my region shared, because...we have sister ecosystems!

It's actually amazing, there are so many plant genera that are not closely related to anything else and just have a couple living species: One (or two) from mid latitude Southeast Asia, and one from the Southeastern USA.

For example, the two living lotus species (sacred lotus and American lotus), the two living tulip tree/ Liriodendron species, the Chinese and American sweetgums (Liquidambar spp.) the Chinese and American trumpet vines (Campsis spp.) the Chinese, Japanese and American wisteria (Wisteria spp), the Chinese, Taiwan and American sassafras (Sassafras spp.) I KNOW i'm forgetting many of them because there are so many. Twins!!!!

And there's so many iconic plant groups shared in common between East Asia and SE USA. Like dogwoods, magnolias, rhododendrons, we even have our own bamboo!!!

I think a lot of how strangely familiar each ecosystem would feel to someone visiting from the other one.

And I bet there's a lot of ecological knowledge and insights we could share with each other...

Sister ecosystems...