Clover Arizona @phenokage@mastodon.social

stopping myself on multiple occasions from just writing the entire lyrics to The Killers' "Losing Touch" as the intro to my sergal sketchbook

And maybe that's okay? Just orally explaining the premise to people when I get art in it has worked out so far—it's definitely worked out so far for my Apogee sketchbook, so it's a tried and true method at this point. But I left the first page blank intentionally, and I kind of want to have *something* there.

I feel like I've got all these ideas about the way my sergal is and the world he lives in, but whenever I sit down to try to draft an introduction page for his sketchbook, I completely space out.

I probably won't! But I'm amused that Gen had basically the same start as Apogee—a set of in-joke pop culture references spun into a character—and now he has his own sketchbook and backstory and he's one of my personal favorite and most well-received characters.

Thinking back on "let's make a fursuit in your garage of this throwaway character so I'll know what I'm getting into when I get one of my actual fursona" as I idly consider the logistics of making a short-sleeved coverall and digitigrade boots.

Jackal is the end-result of a lot of hollering about Anubis. I like the look of Egyptian gods in modern streetwear, and having a character with magical powers opens up a lot of fun, mischievous possibilities. (snap~)

BRAKT ██ ██████ ████ ████████ █████ ████ ██████. █████ ███ ██████ (Bio-Reactive Attack KnighT), ███ ████████ ████ ██ █████ ███ ████. ████ ██ ██████ █████████ 100' ████ ██████, ██ ███████ ███ ███ ████████ ████ devoured.

Kind of thinking I might want to make a website just so I have a place to put all these characters that isn't just, like, a series of toots or Tumblr posts. https://mastodon.social/media/sW6Xiu9mvzjHhaoUzrU

Bodie is a tiger-shark, he's incredibly passionate about surfing and he always smells like driftwood and seaweed and salt because he bathes in the ocean. Anyway, I love him. https://mastodon.social/media/lEU90dT6K8384rKVKsA

Lobst is the best bot, actually. ❤️ https://scalie.club/@Lobst/99203914762656392

Anyway, that's basically all of them! If I have any new characters to share in the future I'll try to remember to add them to this thread. Thank you for reading along, and sorry for all the Content Warnings and stuff causing a bunch of extra clicks, I still don't know how Mastodon works. :D

Lexy is a goat, and the newest character in my roster as of about four days ago, so she's still kind of a work-in-progress! I think she might be in college, I know she has a roommate in what might be a studio-apartment living situation. Anyway, I think she's cute and I'm looking forward to sharing more of her once I figure out what that is. :D https://mastodon.social/media/tFHd2EXchaQd2e2RJkE

Robyn came from a short JeevesBun fic about a big wolverine gal dating a smaller human male. She's 7' tall and her hobbies include crushing watermelons between her hands. I'm not saying I have a buff-women kink, I'm just saying she was designed specifically to beat me up. https://mastodon.social/media/jXgG24qJjPExUy7Vvpw https://mastodon.social/media/NgoFUOPk6ws2xEZNNgg

I tend to only have one outfit for each of my characters, so when I was in the mood for a two-sizes-too-small jacket that barely covers someone's shoulders and back, I had to figure out who that "someone" was gonna be. Around the same time, I was thinking about how I had a sergal and a chakat but no pokémon in my roster. And so: meet MJ! https://mastodon.social/media/ZI3w87eN_1_Xej8JNHM

Airplane Dragons are an open species designed by scpkid (http://www.furaffinity.net/view/16872234/) that became incredibly popular for a couple of months in mid-2015; they're basically fluffy aeromorphs and they come in all shapes and sizes. Flint is very runty! https://mastodon.social/media/anJPosm6eVi2OEKbxRg

Gen was also born out of a bad idea, in this case a "Sega Genesis" pun. I'm still working out exactly who he is, but I've wedged him into a larger premise involving a highway truck stop in the near future that only services self-driving big-rigs, and it's definitely something I want to circle back to. https://mastodon.social/media/o5jZ0CKmcrjikL_yRag https://mastodon.social/media/ycdukmQsKOTmbUrCwBg

Chakat Bramblepelt is a science officer aboard the USS Celica. Like a lot of characters in my roster, she started as a lighthearted "wouldn't it be funny if..?" and grew way out of hand. I maintain that I'm not responsible enough to have a chakat character, but I've been told I'm just irresponsible enough. https://mastodon.social/media/tH380TbnS7HwYPUeBLk

These characters were born out of the same macro/micro fic by JeevesBun, so it's best just to talk about them as a pair. Christine and Amanda are scientists and girlfriends, and it's pretty common for one of them to volunteer as the other's test subject for some fun new experiment. (characters not shown to scale) https://mastodon.social/media/4udw6S74AgeZwBCR-2Y https://mastodon.social/media/dVJIPS5KPAUj8sSNo8M