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So I have a character design Dilemma

“well you don’t LOOK very sorry” I mean. I Was. but now that you’ve said that I guess you’re right, I’m not ^_^

Fat Knuckles is an inspired design choice. Completely fitting. Boy's supposed to be a bruiser, he should either look stacked or like he could knock over a house if he ran into it fast enough, and making him fat a way to satisfy that in a way thats both surprising and makes complete sense. Also the way you draw him makes him look awesome. A+ no notes.

ahh thank you!! i'm glad you appreciate my take! i make him fat because i portray him with a power lifter's body type! a regular body builder will just have a lot of muscle mass and less fat percent - it's often just for show and it isn't very sustainable. power lifters are built to .. well, lift a lot of weight! they have a higher fat percentage and are often a lot physically stronger than bodybuilders.

here's an example pic from this post on quora

for knuckles, i imagine him as being able to not only throw a devastating punch but be able to lift a lot of weight over his head too. a shredded look wouldn't make much sense for that, especially since he lives on an island and doesn't have gym equipment or anything. i feel like he'd be fatter looking, but he's not overweight per-say. he's just very strong - and naturally so!

heres a pic i drew earlier this year. you can kinda see what im going for :D altho these days i draw him even bigger lol

another factor for him is his age! i draw/portray him as being in his 30s so he's kinda softer now. that period of time in his life where he was able to evade the gut is long gone. you'll notice that if i ever draw knuckles at a younger point in his life, he isnt fat. being bighuge is a more recent thing for him as a result of him hitting later maturity

okay! @whitepearl and @plateapus, here's Mav! He's a wizard :D (more info about him under the cut)

so I don't know a lot about how wizards work in this world but I think his magic would specialize in music and summoning (mostly inanimate objects like weapons) a little backstory on him: he doesn't speak to most of his family, and his childhood best friend, Aermi, has some sort of magical illness and can't go out a lot so he's trying to find a way to heal her. I think maybe she could be shimerian although I'm not sure on wizards/shimerian relations and contact but if she was I was thinking that little red thingy on his belt could be like a feather or braided fur that reminded him of her :D since he doesn't talk to a lot of people he's really bad at conversation and opening up to people but he does try (and fail) to be friendly there's probably other things I forgot

sometimes i feel really stuck on how to characterise characters like Night and other starclan cats who have been dead for so long because i cant really comprehend how exactly that would change you. fading isnt a thing in this universe. youve been dead for centuries. tiny little things in life havent been relevant for that long because youve forgotten what being alive was.

while i dont characterise my starclan as god-like figures the oldest of them certainly aren't just little cats. WHAT ARE THEY??

dude I wish I had friends :( like I was fine with being alone at first but now it's just killing me

wait do endos think traumagenic systems hate their alters?? like dude we’re all vibing in here- and also some systems are parts of a whole and some aren’t? not all traumagenic systems are the same. plus it’s a bit harder to like being a system when it also overlaps with ptsd and other issues (like disabilities). but that’s not to say some traumagenic systems dont love being plural, we couldnt imagine being a singlet. being a traumagenic system isn’t so linear and this take really irks me because it’s not so cut and dry, there’s pros and cons. the systems anon was talking too were most likely complaining about certain alters (example prosecutors) or how being a system can make life harder, not about how being a system is all bad all the time

pro endo traumagenic culture is preferring endos bc im actually allowed to LIKE being plural. like.... it seems like most anti endo systems i talk to really fucking hate themselves/their other alters. thats not healthy, dude. especially those who believe they're not fully separate and they're all parts of one whole.... you really fully hate an entire part of yourself so much you actively want to hurt them....?

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NEED there to be like, a party or something after an alien invasion and like someone brought alcohol to the watchtower and like usually captain marvel doesn't drink because ??? billy's like 10 alcohol tastes like absolute chicken butt to him but Zeus is like " drink drink drink " and the other gods(minus Solomon,, someone has to be the rational one there) join in and go " DRINK DRINK DRINK !!! " like they cheering for the Olympus world cup

and captain is like " eh ok sure " and decides to see how much alcohol he could drink in the span of 2 minutes or less. and so that spirals into almost every member of the Justice League witnessing THE Boy Scout™️—that no one has EVER saw drink a drop of wine—chugging down each glass like it's no tomorrow,,, and it's kinda impressive..

of course. captain stops (only because he didn't want to finish it all,,, plus the alcohol he just drank doesn't even taste like the rum from the 1950s,, so, even if it doesn't taste like chicken butt it still doesn't taste great either) but like hey at least the gods were having a blast!!! (they were a bit bummed captain had to stop though) (solomon felt like he could actually breath again after that)

and the jl??? respect the ever living shit out of him because god fucking damn captain marvel just walked off and continued whatever he was doing afterwards like he didn't just chug down fifty glasses of booze,, (he just doesn't have a liver or kidney to damage nor mind to get drunk off LMAOO)

and then they were like . huh. How much liquor can cap hold??? so they all get a bit curious .. and try to see how many more shots could he take ,,, and then it somehow just spirals into a long, nasty competition, one person just straight up bringing a barrel of rum for captain to try

and marvel?? he finds it kinda funny. the alcohol doesn't really affect him anyways and if he just turns off his taste buds he can pretend it's water most of the time. plus a good past time if there's nothing to do. but he does like giving out his thanks and reviews on the taste of it most times

,, and maybe the utmost eagerness that shows in Captain Marvel's face whenever a member wants him to try a very VERY strong concoction full of alcohol that'd probably kill a horse if a sip was taken by a normal civilian and how sincere he is on the way he pats their heads and gives out actual advice on how to improve it (thank you Solomon) was KINDA nice. just a tad bit nice.

oh who's pretending at this point, the competition at the end of the day just waters down into how many drinks??gifts??? the line blurs to a certain point ,, they could give to marvel and to see how many compliments they could get from marvel. they all know at this point that the drinks can't really affect him anyways. plus plus!!! captain would give the extra rum leftover into a tiny-ish water bottle made of magic and brings it with him everywhere, strapped to his waist like fanny pack. no one questions this. we love you capdad

(most of the gods living rent free in cm's head fucking cheer when one day billy gets gifted booze that could affect the gods)