Lyn Wasn’t Thinking About Power, Ambition, Their Plans. She Didn’t Care. Keldor Was Alive.

You may get asked this a lot, so please excuse my ignorance - but how do you go about constructing character expressions and body language and such? Thanks!

Besides The Basics (construction of heads and skulls and muscles and skeletons and how they move), I’ll go over some things I’ve been trying to work on myself lately:

1. Treat expressions as a single gesture of the face/head, as opposed to a head and then individual features dumped on a plate and arranged into an expression.

First, just get down the big shapes of your expression, just like you would for a pose.  

So say I wanna do a low angle angry pose.  I know the features are gonna be all mashed down at the bottom because of perspective.

 Scribble it down

start to put on features

fix stuff

put on more stuff

fix stuff again

erasing and flipping and stuff a whole bunch until you are happy with it or stop caring

Whole head is a gesture!

2. Just like a facial expression, jot down where the important parts of an entire pose goes first.  You can force the rest of the body to fit the pose.

So here I knew I wanted the shoulders tilted a certain direction, and te hand to be in that particular position in front of her face. 

That’s the simplest explanation I got.  Don’t be afraid to push and pull faces and bodies around! Worry about being “on model” last!

Rotten girl

I hate when I'm ranting about how I dislike a character or how they were poorly written and some idiotic stan of their comes in and starts diagnosing them with like 55687876 mental disorders/disabilities to excuse their behavior/writing.

"Uh-um-uh-ah- this character has BPD, lactose intolerance, autism, ADHD, and supercalifragilisticexpialidocious-ism so you CAN'T SAY that they're a bad person for abusing/assaulting their partners and friends!"

News Flash: Having trauma/a disability doesn't excuse shit!!!

((Also: "If you think piling disorders on a character instead of just writing a well-rounded character to begin with is 'shitty writing', go fuck yourself!" I can't believe how stupid some people can be...))

Tw: Graphic depiction of suicide and discussion of abuse

This animation is spectacular and I adore every second of it. This is the true mask-off moment the show was too cowardly to give him and it is my canon end to the series at this point.

The song used for the animation is "Now That You're Gone" by The Raconteurs is very obvious about its meaning that the animation has taken full advantage of. It begins with the image of Stolas asking an absent Blitz what he'll do "now that [he's] alone" and the image cuts to a closeup of Blitz struggling through a white landscape littered with those golden feathers from Truth Seekers.

It's clear that Stolas is getting a petty revenge from breaking Blitz's pride. But the framing of the song makes it very clear what direction the narrative is going. Stolas goes back to his normal life (presumably the video was being made before Mastermind) where he takes back the book and gets back with Stella. Clips of him enjoying his high roller life of luxury. The line that best emphasizes what Stolas is actually trying to do is in the line:

"Who is going to love you if it isn't me?"

Which goes back to my point about abuse in relationships and how that very much is the ground floor of control. Where they isolate their victims from others in order to warp their perception of reality. If you rewrite their world where no one else will ever love them, that will be true. If you can alienate someone from what a healthy and loving relationship looks like, just then saying "I love you" is the proof of their love. It allows the opportunity for the victim to justify the abuse for the abuser to make it make sense that their abuser must love them.

And my favorite part is how, on beat, the animation cuts to Blitz being comforted by Moxie and Millie where Moxie flicks away the golden feather on top of their three entwined tails. A short but powerful bit of storytelling that lingers just long enough, unlike the show that tends to rush every single frame. The feather landed on top, just like how Stolas inserts himself in their lives, and Moxie is rejecting it so as to protect his friend.

And then the music cuts as Stolas changes the lyrics from "What will you do now that I'm gone" to "What will I do now that you're gone".

Which recontextualizes the delivery of the song and connect the early tells to a more overt understanding. Stolas stares into the camera and becomes progressively more unhinged as he realizes he did lose.

The entire point of someone saying "You won't find anyone better than me" isn't a farewell for better things. It's expressly to reel a victim back in, and it lines up perfectly to Stolas' unwillingness to talk to Blitz or have any conversation where he acknowledges his own issues, especially in Apology Tour.

I know some will say Stolas shit talking about the Blitz Hate Party is a sign that he knows he is pathetic, but he doesn't talk to Blitz about that in a way that lumps himself in with the rest of it. He talks about "All these people" without ever acknowledging specifically that he is an active and enthusiastic participant in this pity party. Even ending the episode for Stolas with him begging to have literally anyone love HIM, even as he is at this party, partaking from the table, over how much he felt entitled to Blitz.

This animation fits perfectly in with the events and logic of the show and Stolas in the canon.

Honestly the ending of this animation is the only self-actualization I support for Stolas and Blitz in the canon series. This is my finale, anything after this is a zombie fic that refuses to just stay dead.

K: "Oh, look, little lord...some rats are watching us..."

F: *Looking at you like someone's about to die*

-------couple information--------

Character: Frieza (Dragon Ball)

Oc: Karik (or Karikan Marilyn)

(I would call them Godalien, or something like that)

This is my second most favorite char/oc beside CxH, so I'm about to yap about them :>>

The one you see on the right is Karik. He is a god, literally a god. If you're wondering why is he in that form of SS4 then you're right, he is a saiyan, actually the first and the most ancient saiyan (He didn't know he created a race though, not until he visited Beerus at the seventh universe). I was convinced that SS4 was the form of ancient saiyans.

He is a close friend to Lord Zeno, like his brother or something. Yes, I did say brother. This one is 9 million-year olds, guys, literally the oldest I could think of (And also because I searched Zeno age and it popped up, hehe). He was there when the multiverse was created, just didn't remember a shit since he's old.

He was feared, and maybe respected (just maybe) by the other gods, not as much as Zeno though since Karik is much easier to read, and he doesn't destroy planets out of fun. His work is to protect and keep the multiverse in control, the balance, yes. If Zeno is powerful in the way he could manipulate the multiverse existence then Karik is physically powerful. See those rings around his neck and arms, they were to keep his power in control and not accidentally destroy any universe.

With that power, it's understandable that people rarely try to get on his nerve. Yet, when he first met Frieza, the little emperor didn't know Karik was a god. That was one of the rare times in his 9 millions-long life did Karik be treated like a lowly being (You know Frieza's snake tongue). He was intrigued.

Karik fell first. Frieza is...well, he is not the kind of...you know. It was one-sided all the time, but look at that fod face. Does he look like he care?

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So that's the start :>>

I love this cp so much. From the size (1m58 x 1m92) to the chemistry and all the stuffs they have (Their relationship is sensual as fvk, like they fvk all the time, whenever Karik is bored and you know the stamina of the strongest god)

ROUND 1

K: "Oh, look, little lord...some rats are watching us..."

F: *Looking at you like someone's about to die*

-------couple information--------

Character: Frieza (Dragon Ball)

Oc: Karik (or Karikan Marilyn)

(I would call them Godalien, or something like that)

This is my second most favorite char/oc beside CxH, so I'm about to yap about them :>>

The one you see on the right is Karik. He is a god, literally a god. If you're wondering why is he in that form of SS4 then you're right, he is a saiyan, actually the first and the most ancient saiyan (He didn't know he created a race though, not until he visited Beerus at the seventh universe). I was convinced that SS4 was the form of ancient saiyans.

He is a close friend to Lord Zeno, like his brother or something. Yes, I did say brother. This one is 9 million-year olds, guys, literally the oldest I could think of (And also because I searched Zeno age and it popped up, hehe). He was there when the multiverse was created, just didn't remember a shit since he's old.

He was feared, and maybe respected (just maybe) by the other gods, not as much as Zeno though since Karik is much easier to read, and he doesn't destroy planets out of fun. His work is to protect and keep the multiverse in control, the balance, yes. If Zeno is powerful in the way he could manipulate the multiverse existence then Karik is physically powerful. See those rings around his neck and arms, they were to keep his power in control and not accidentally destroy any universe.

With that power, it's understandable that people rarely try to get on his nerve. Yet, when he first met Frieza, the little emperor didn't know Karik was a god. That was one of the rare times in his 9 millions-long life did Karik be treated like a lowly being (You know Frieza's snake tongue). He was intrigued.

Karik fell first. Frieza is...well, he is not the kind of...you know. It was one-sided all the time, but look at that fod face. Does he look like he care?

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So that's the start :>>

I love this cp so much. From the size (1m58 x 1m92) to the chemistry and all the stuffs they have (Their relationship is sensual as fvk, like they fvk all the time, whenever Karik is bored and you know the stamina of the strongest god)

They'll clap when you die

Ignoring everything else about the comic, I liked how baby Azula is drawn. Like, she looks like a cat!

Also:

Baby cheeks. Azula and Mai are so adorable.

So with tumblr rolling out communities and such, I came across a helluva boss community and since I actually do love a lot of hellaverse fanwork, I decided to check it out

And that’s when I found a pretty good art piece that I’ve actually used a kind of ref for how I want Stolas to act in my rewrite, it compares Vivzie’s “silly lil guy” stolas with pilot/abusive Stolas (what I’m going for).

Someone reuploaded it there (no credit ofc :/)… and ten people reacted with a 😂 emoji. A laughing emoji. To an image that heavily implies and basically shows Stolas is about to SA Blitz. I’ve never closed a tab faster in my life

What the fuck is wrong with this fandom. Y’all don’t have to be like Viv but y’all freaking are. And I’m so sorry to the 1/4 or so of the fandom that is truly awesome and like the shows but not viv, y’all are brave soldiers fr

I’m putting the image I talked about here with credit under the cut, obviously tw for HEAVILY implied SA of Blitz by Stolas with Blitz in tears and distressed (I feel awful for him in this case) (it doesn’t hide how awful Stolas really is like Viv tried to)(f u stolass /vsrs)

Art by Paldo_59670 on X I believe!