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Skipper @digitalprincess234.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

It would be cute if she had a bit of a Minifilia thing going on before the Husk

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Skipper @digitalprincess234.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I should finish that art of Mellori

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Skipper @digitalprincess234.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Constraint generates conflict, and conflict is when characters are often at their most creative. So… yeah! See what happens when you add a weird limit, even just for one scene.

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Skipper @digitalprincess234.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Years ago there seemed to be a lot of panic over what was and wasn’t a “Mary Sue”. To be honest, what is or isn’t “too strong” is nearly entirely illusory. It’s not your powers that are going to shape a character— that helps with aesthetics, certainly— but it’s your character’s *weaknesses.*

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Skipper @digitalprincess234.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I’m given obvious reason to. (For example, customizable player characters.) That’s just my personal preference. I think it’s fun to see what I can make within the constraints of a setting’s logic, and if I made the setting myself it usually already has the “norm” I want.

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Skipper @digitalprincess234.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

An OC having “powers” or being “too strong” is, imo, an incredibly subjective concept that doesn’t mean anything on its own. That being said; I generally don’t like to design characters with specific powers or abilities that exist outside the rules or are rare and unique in the setting— unless +

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Skipper @digitalprincess234.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

DAY 6: Strengths and Weaknesses Well I suppose there’s two ways to take this prompt, one being in terms of character traits and the other being in terms of powerscaling. I think I talked about traits in my personality post so let’s talk about powers.

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The Atmoplex @theatmoplex.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

KingsIsle released a puzzle teaser for Ahmarra, where the pieces were scattered over different parts of Wizard101's social media pages. The community has since put it together. Here is our stitched version using the pieces (quality varied). We believe it's the loading screen!

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Skipper @digitalprincess234.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

NONE OF THIS WAS ADVICE ALSO THIS WAS JUST MY PERSPECTIVE ON WRITING.

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Skipper @digitalprincess234.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

that’s very true to real life. You can’t stop yourself from never feeling anger, for example, but you can always work to build better reactions and ways of dealing with your anger. With my characters, I’d rather leave people with the impression that they’re still in motion somewhere, rather than +

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Skipper @digitalprincess234.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

flaws, my biggest mistake was assuming that a character arc was the process of removing a flaw. Sometimes that happens, but sometimes an arc is less about getting rid of a character flaw and more about allowing them to integrate it, mitigate it, or otherwise just live with it. I think +

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Skipper @digitalprincess234.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

dev has characters reducing or overcoming their flaws, everyone has flaws— the difference is whether or not those flaws are up for grabs to be changed by the narrative, or if they’re just part of how the character moves. Actually, I’d argue that even with character arcs that address +

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Skipper @digitalprincess234.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

ideal brought to life. And she was fun to watch, because the people around her were so messy! How Four dealt with her circumstances and how others dealt with her idealism created a lot of thematic pressure. Obviously, a static character doesn’t have to be flawless. While a lot of character +

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Skipper @digitalprincess234.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

how does the narrative bounce against them? A mostly static character I wrote was Four, from my Splatoon fancomic. Outside of a few conflicts, she was nearly a paragon, at least on the page. She was confident, assured, responsible, and though she overworked herself, she was genuinely an +

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Skipper @digitalprincess234.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

cases, you can see how their existence can still generate conflict on the plot level and the character level. Static characters can be walls but when I think about having a character who is “static”, I try to think of a wall— the character themselves may remain unaffected by the narrative, but +

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Skipper @digitalprincess234.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

they’re both expressions of the same character— for Pan to remain Pan, he can never accumulate experiences. Experience is age. He’s forgetful. He doesn’t understand the things some children do or only partially do because he refused the contract to ever properly *begin.* But in both of these +

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Skipper @digitalprincess234.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

while he is designed to be static, he’s not inherently designed to be *understood.* Disney and more lighter adaptations can turn him into a symbol of eternal innocence, almost a paragon of it, while others can make him dangerously cruel and inhuman. While these can be inaccurate to the book, +

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Skipper @digitalprincess234.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

His static nature is in his premise— he never grows up. His legend and character are still being explored, adapted, remixed, and spawning new works from its inspiration because his condition is both infinitely mutable and never changing. We’re fascinated by him as a culture, I think, because +

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Skipper @digitalprincess234.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

react to him. His core beliefs and values don’t really change, but facing different challenges and meeting different people can reveal new sides of him, and new limits he has. If you want an example from a character that’s really slipped their leash, take Peter Pan.

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Skipper @digitalprincess234.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

From watching static characters, I’d actually say that them being “static” is kind of a misnomer— they’re sometimes the most adaptable characters in a cast! Take a character like Goku. (To my understanding of Dragon Ball) a lot of his interest comes from his reactions to others and how they +

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Skipper @digitalprincess234.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Obviously there’s dozens of ways to make a character’s personality and I don’t need to say that. Sometimes you want to a make a character who is static or mostly static. Maybe you’re writing something episodic and just need a fun hero, or you want an ideal for other characters to see.

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Skipper @digitalprincess234.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

need to be as big as you have to go. You could have a character’s “contradiction” be that they’re very nervous, but they’re also a thrill seeker. The goal is just to have enough friction within their character/how other people see them that you’re less likely to get stagnant on the character side.

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Skipper @digitalprincess234.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

“mysteries” that you’ll see characters arguing over in Phase 3 is her cheerful and desire to nearly constantly chase “joy”. To characters who don’t understand her, this looks like shallow escapism. They can’t reconcile that outside impression of her with what she’s doing. Obviously that doesn’t +

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Skipper @digitalprincess234.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

give you a way to either cause friction within that character, or with the world around them— your character might be perfectly happy and understanding of their “mystery”, but it generates debate and conflict for other characters. For example, one of Rose’s smaller +

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Skipper @digitalprincess234.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

nuances of their personality through their backstory. A huge trick I’ve learned that I think makes characters very entertaining and distinct to at least *write,* is to give them a “contradiction” or a “mystery”. This doesn’t and shouldn’t be a big, mysterious thing. The goal of it is to +

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Skipper @digitalprincess234.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Is it anger? Fear? Are they just argumentative? Do they actually know what they’re doing? That answer usually comes instinctively but I try to look at other personalities in that narrative and make sure to at least make something slightly different. From there, I try to fill out the actual +

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Skipper @digitalprincess234.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Out of universe, the first major question is usually what I want that character to do, and what traits do they need to have in order to do it? For example say I need a character to push back against another character consistently. That’s doable. What kind of pushback is it?

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Skipper @digitalprincess234.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

DAY 5: Personality When writing a character, their personality often comes from their backstory, and vice versa. It’s such an ouroboros I sometimes have trouble actually starting a character.

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𝚋𝚒𝚝𝚎𝚢🐺 @biteyfriend.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

nurse just complimented me during labs visit for having nice big veins and i said “thanks i love having blood” idk man

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Skipper @digitalprincess234.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

DAY 4: under-appreciated OC Xeira!!! Love my hacker girl.

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Fandaniel Amonn @fandanielamonn.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

day 3 give it up for day 3

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Skipper @digitalprincess234.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Though now that I think about it, “buddy comedy road trip but the characters have insane DeviantArt levels of powerscaling god lore” sounds like a *great* parody/satire/whatever.

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Skipper @digitalprincess234.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

She does this with the help of… the god of death, who also broke herself into fragments and a “reincarnation” on purpose to try and keep balance. Yeah it was basically a buddy comedy road trip with god lore. I couldn’t get it past the premise phase, so there’s no outline/actual plot beats.

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Skipper @digitalprincess234.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Alice was Vira’s reincarnation until the start of the story. Basically the actual book would involve Alice learning that Vita was alive— her soul was just trapped inside the Earth. So she comes down to Earth to gather the remnants up and restore her to life before madness takes her.

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Skipper @digitalprincess234.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Knowing that if she truly died, life and existence on both Heaven and Earth would be extinguished, Vita broke herself into Remnants— fragments of herself and her power made manifest in objects, and one person to try and act as a (although much weaker) life goddess. The other goddesses assumed +

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Skipper @digitalprincess234.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Alice was a Remnant of the life goddess, the strongest of the three other goddesses and the creator of the immortal realm. When Earth was created, the life goddess— Vita, obviously— tied her power to the planet out of a desire to help it prosper. As humanity evolved, her power began to drain.

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Skipper @digitalprincess234.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

realized that no one really cared about “cool lore”. But essentially, the story went like this: A girl by the name of Alice was born in Heaven (it had a fancy Latin title I can’t remember), a massive world of floating islands. She was raised by the ageless goddesses of Sky, Water and Earth.

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Skipper @digitalprincess234.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

So obviously my *oldest* is Alia, but I have other old OCs I’ve never talked about. Before RE:Vive, I had a concept for a novel called Remnants. I dropped it because it felt like basically just… lore nonsense, and I couldn’t find enough interesting aspects to explore, and I +

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Skipper @digitalprincess234.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

She’s a bit fairy-like in some sense. Her magic of focus is illusions and trickery, and she’s not afraid to use it on others if she’s in danger or otherwise obstructed from her goals. She doesn’t see it as a problem if it’s for the “good of her kingdom”.

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Skipper @digitalprincess234.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This is Fenna. Originally I made her as an OC for something else just as a goof, but I changed my mind and I’ll probably do something original with her someday. Fenna is a sorcerer from a land that feeds on humanity’s endless nostalgia and willingness to pretend.

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Skipper @digitalprincess234.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

You still have your apartment, right? Please don't go live with her again.

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Skipper @digitalprincess234.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I have different favorites for different things if that makes sense?

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Skipper @digitalprincess234.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

…So I obviously have OCs I think about and fixate on more than others, but I don’t actually really have a favorite. I’ve got ones I adore more personally and sentimentally, but they’re all like… mine. Well this is a boring answer.

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