Luminosity

Art by: YCH artist Well, sorry about the delay. It honest took me a while you find you again. Seems this device is really on the fritz... I must get it looked at, but enough about my own drama. We're here to talk about you, so grab your quills and take a seat. Today I'm gonna talk to you about connections. Connections are the people, organizations, foes, rivals, or anything really that provides depth to your character's story. Sometimes it can provide you with the hook for a grand adventure like how when Shining Armor had a childhood connection to Twilight's babysitter who just so happened to be a princess in training. Or perhaps you've been banned for a particular sweet's emporium for sampling too many flavors in one sitting.. Whatever the connection, they give you something that can shape how your character acts in a given situation. So to help you develop these connections, I prepared a few starter questions for you. Does your character have any people they would consider themselves close to? Perhaps a merchant they see every day or a friend. Has your character cross anyone, that might be looking for your downfall or actively planning it? How do a connection within your character's life enrich their experience? How does a connection within your character's life hinder their life? Is there a connection that really inspires your character as a primary drive? Im really looking forward to your answers and discussions, but my ticker is starting to phase out again, I must look into it! Hey if y-u - mom--t can you grab me a --a-tz c-y---l. ---- -----.

Art by: Scarlet Spectrum You have may thought that the winds of time have taken me away from this place, and while its true that time has a way of driving us in all directions we will always try to be here to help. This time we'd like to talk about setting. Setting provides the backdrop for your character's story. It can provide technology, canon relationships, canon events to provide time and size. Or political backdrops to give your character interesting situations to stick you and your RP partners within. When choosing a setting a few questions may help you come to a conclusion. Does the setting of where my character lives have any special meaning to them? How does the setting influence the character's daily life? Does the character serve a role within the setting, be it purposely or accidentally? How does the setting react to my character? Does it even recognize my character as a part of it or am I merely a speck within a larger sea? Was my character originally from a place that is different from the setting that they now find themselves? The example being of Rarity and how she seems to hold the big city in her heart despite living within the small town of Ponyville. This comes out in the way she chooses to talk to ponies or even her career echoes those ties to the big city. When she is placed into the city you can see her flourish and sometimes even struggle due to how long shes been away from such an environment. So what setting is your character from? What setting do they find themselves now? How does the setting influence your character? I look forward to seeing your answers and discussion.

Art by artist on YCH.com: lamker This week it’s time to help you build your OCs. So to begin, we’d like to ask you to think about your OC and answer this question. “What is the biggest lie your OC tells themself?” This sort of question gives your OCs a flaw which is tied to perhaps a core ideal for them.An example of such would be that your OC believes that their friends would never lie to them. This would cause them to trust whatever their friends say at face value, like Pinkie Pie. While being devastated if they find out they were lied to. The break of their internal reality could cause them to then create another lie that is more dysfunctional then the last or provide a character with something to reflect upon. The example is how Pinkie discovers that her friends lie to her so she falls into a deep depression of which she creates versions of her friends that would never lie to her. Rejecting her friends due to their untrustworthy behavior, by creating narratives in her head about how much they dont care for her. She quickly rebounds once she realizes that her friends were instead planning something for her. While I dont personally recommend such a quick rebound it is an interesting example to get you to start to think about what makes your character tick. So what is the lie that your character tells themself?