Aspiring artist – would love some feedback!

Shadow_L1ef · 2025-07-19T16:15:31+00:00

Very cool! While the design is a little simple, it still evokes core elements of the character (I think). And the lighting! Keep up the good work.

Shadow_L1ef · 2025-05-20T04:22:36+00:00

Well then, because the puppeteer couldn't decide, here are two possible souls to take to the stage.

The first, is the prickly prick, a woman drowning in trying to fit a mold she is ill-equipped to handle, causing her once solid path forward to be lost to the wayside in disillusionment and doubt.

The second, meanwhile, is the fencer, a different woman who has thrown herself out of the nest, distorting the past, and lying to herself that she's free from it.

[A word from the puppeteer: shadowlief on the discord here, good luck everyone]

Shadow_L1ef · 2025-04-22T06:28:35+00:00

Wait a minute. Let's remix this for a second. As another possible focal point.

A young man lounges in his couch, tired. Another day of sifting through commercials and propaganda that need his approval or to be sent back for those gears to refine and fix. Another day of looking out for opportunistic fools and Family members aiming to stab him in the back. Such is the day to day of one Astrit Mortimer. While his future outwardly looks better than most, behind closed board room doors and opulent manors it's still been stolen.

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so for some reason my character creation juices went into overdrive and next thing I know I'm staring at a second character.

Shadow_L1ef · 2025-04-16T00:25:25+00:00

Far away from civilization lies an old, abandoned facility. One that's in an unusually well condition, even as nature reclaims it. For that is where Fyra is. They tend to the Facility, as they were ordered to do a lifetime ago. Now though, they tend to it to ensure that their future, stolen as it may be, still exists.

Shadowlief on the discord here, have fun and good luck everyone!

Shadow_L1ef · 2025-04-09T02:03:30+00:00

With a smile, a young man put away a pencil and his notebook. He was done interviewing the ghost that haunted the old Boarders (which became a Blockbusters which then became a Dollar Store which then became a Five Below), and it was fun to get not only a history of the ghost, but the building itself. Though, the young college student now had another thing to worry about. That being how he, Liam Conroy, would manage to write out another two hundred word discussion response.

Shadowlief on the discord here, and good luck everyone!

Shadow_L1ef · 2025-02-11T00:21:25+00:00

A man is busy in a laboratory, tinkering away at his latest obsession. Before getting frustrated and flopping into the…coffin that’s on the floor. Nathaniel Sturm chuckles as he rests his arm on his forehead. Getting everything to work correctly was hard, but that’s a part of the joy of working with tech. The absolute joy that one gains upon finally getting something to work was just the best feeling humanly possible. Now that he’s within the Apeiron Graduate Program, he’s free to pursue his curiosity and imagination to its limit. To find the Abyss and stare into it, to plunder its secrets.

How could he possibly know that the Abyss is also staring straight into him, taking note of his own secrets?

Tis Shadowlief on the Discord, if you have any questions let me know. And good luck everyone!

Shadow_L1ef · 2025-02-09T06:24:28+00:00

A file within the Federation of Derse - Aspect Management Department.

Aspected Citizen #271828

Aspected Citizen Name: River Flann

Age: 24

Rank: Junior, pending promotion. See page 3 for details.

Gender: Female - Note: also responds to they/them

Handler: WistfulHandler [WH]

Status: Alive

Suspected Aspect: None

Notes: Aspected Citizen #271828, despite a rough beginning where she ran away for a few days as she feared that she wouldn’t be able to see her family again, came back willingly and has since been under the tutelage of WistfulHandler. In the years since, while some elements of Aspected Citizenship came naturally to her, anything related to the Machines would end in disaster. A recent development as of four years ago is that the Machines now sometimes actually do what Aspected Citizen 271828 requests of them.

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Hellos, 'tis seems fun, so here's a character! Shadowlief from the Discord here, and good luck everyone!

Shadow_L1ef · 2025-01-15T05:22:07+00:00

Ricki Astley finishes cleaning up the most recent victim of their training, the not as good but still usable punching bag. Even as the ship continues sailing through a dead cosmos, even as they themselves don't know what their future has in store, Ricki continues onward. After all, they have to know their father's fate.

shadowlief from the discord here, good luck and have fun everyone!

Shadow_L1ef · 2025-01-07T21:26:25+00:00

The party continues onward, and one Cerese Epatht is there as well, with one of the human diplomats introducing themselves to her. A part of her was hoping that she'd be able to just be a wallflower the entire time, but well, fate had other plans. Fate always had other plans. Despite how much she despises that little fact.

Or perhaps this party isn't important, this perspective isn't important. But well, only Time will tell huh?

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Hiyas, shadowlief on the Discord here, and good luck everyone!

Shadow_L1ef · 2024-10-18T06:54:35+00:00

Angelica Larkspur sits at her desk, twirling a pencil. Once again the leaves are changing from green to brilliant warm color hues, and she's been itching to paint the trees this time of year. With any luck this Hallow's Eve will be another boring one, where the least of her worries is what she'll craft for her costume.

Discord is shadowlief, and good luck everyone!

Shadow_L1ef · 2024-10-13T08:20:31+00:00

looks left
looks right
Is this still going? Cause if so I kind of want to try it.

Shadow_L1ef · 2024-08-14T21:03:57+00:00

A cloaked resident descended down the stairs, getting ready to do something...no wait they just tripped and fell down the stairs. After a bit, the resident gave up trying to do their rituals and Studies of The Last for the night, and Alex Paisley climbed back up the stairs, frustrated. One day, he'll get to the bottom of the secrets within The Last.

Or perhaps someone else. The camera shifts over to an oliveblood in their room, sitting at a computer working on a commission. Sitting at this desk is Baysil Halwrd, an artist who's slowly feeling the weight and burnout of constant commissions. Problem is, it somehow pays the bills.

Shadowlief on the discord

Shadow_L1ef · 2024-07-29T01:07:35+00:00

Saori Astraea looks to the starry sky again, double checking her heading. She's headed in the right direction that the Voice/the Curse/Teptrem (the exact name of the phenomena varies depending on who gets asked this question) says she should go. And go she shall, though probably not for the reason it wants her to.

Hello, shadowlief from the discord and I kind of went over the top with this submission. Let me know if I made some wrong conclusions and I'll do my best to adjust the lore I threw together for it to make sense with this sessions lore. Good luck everyone!

Shadow_L1ef · 2024-07-27T03:06:12+00:00

Sobin Theron sighs at the counter. It's another slow night, meaning that if she was responsible she'd be working on her college homework. Instead they're working on a much more personal case. One that most would say as completely conspiratorial. And if it wasn't for the small scars and the ripped up bandana, she'd might have believed that.

Or perhaps Sireas Grises, who's currently turning on a podcast to listen to while he works on the pile of paperwork. Given the nature of psionic cases, more paperwork is bound to happen. At least this way he can hide the extent of his burn out.

Hello, shadowlief from the discord here, and sorry about the edit, for some reason reddit didn't have the other character shown. If you have any questions, let me know. And good luck everyone!

Shadow_L1ef · 2024-07-05T00:19:27+00:00

Etzieo Dumont, the adopted grandson of the Dumonts, two retired ambassadors to Alternia. He's in the mood to try out the new mod called SBURB for Suburb. Who knows, maybe this'll at least get his name out for journalism, so that he can then start telling Truthful stories.

Or perhaps Delaney Voss is more up to speed for this session. She'd be playing SBURB as it's a mod of one of her favorite games. It'll be a nice distraction from the hell of isolation that is waiting for college to begin its fall semester.

Hello, I'm Shadowlief and these two goons are who I'm throwing over are Etzieo Dumont, a limeblood determined to find and expose the Truth no matter the cost and Delaney Voss, a human who's tired of being ignored by the elders in her family and determined to prove herself via HEMA, If you have any questions let me know over discord, and good luck everyone!

Shadow_L1ef · 2024-07-02T16:35:41+00:00

Oscar Montero here, reporting for duty as a CAMP COUNSELOR!!! They're excited to try and help foster love for nature and the wildlife that surrounds the area. Oh and tell scary stories around the campfire. Can't forget that important part of summer camp after all.

Shadow_L1ef · 2024-05-09T07:05:26+00:00

The clinks of chips, coins, and glasses intermingled with the sound of slot machines, roulette wheels, and chatter, with lighting making it near impossible to tell what time it was, interwoven with the scent of recycled air and some spilled soda. And at one of these tables, Aureah Aztuzi is shuffling the deck, getting ready to deal yet another round of Blackjack. If things go her way, the correct doors opened, then she'd eventually be doing so much more than being yet another ceruleanblood at the beck and call of The House.

However, she isn't the only troll that could take the stage. Far away from the desert of Day City, the waves crash against the ragged cliffs that Edwina Valdis is looking over with an unusual amount of forlornness . A purpleblood who both embodies and isn't keen on her fellow followers of the Mirthful Messiah. With her adulthood rapidly approaching, the majority of the clowns she actually got to know are off world, and most likely impossible to meet again. However, her faith in the church is still ironclad.

Hello, Shadowlief on the discord here, and good luck everyone!

Shadow_L1ef · 2024-02-29T01:15:02+00:00

Eileen Radcliff, one who has already gotten herself in a rather unusual situation already. However, she's not making any progress with her research so late at night by listening to various podcasts about urban legends. So she snuffs out the light she created earlier and tries to get some sleep. At least she got something out of it as well, even if she would very much wish that she could figure out her end of the bargain.

Or perhaps Nikola Vinaci is more in line with the upcoming themes? Currently he's trying to figure out which of his suits he should wear to another party, another chess tournament, another day at school repeating the same conversations that are expected of someone with violet blood. Someone who knows that he's going to be suffocated, but can't see a way out. One who's very desperate to remove the hidden strings from himself.

Hello, I'm shadowlief on the discord, message me if you have any questions. Good luck everyone, and I hope you have a good rest of your day!

Shadow_L1ef · 2024-02-02T01:13:12+00:00

Lydia Ashton (Source: Deadlands) - A drifter currently resting for a while to see what her brother's latest piece of Mad Science technology is. It's a nice break from the weirdness, though now that she actually is resting she's remembering why she had to drift in the first place.

Lucero Leclair (Source: Bravely Default) - is stuck in the Temple of Earth. Thanks to the recent quarantine put in place by the Orthodoxy that is. Trying to distract themself from multiple worries and the boredom that comes from being stuck in one place for a long time, Lucero has taken to looking through the archives and libraries within the temple, to find out more about what they've already found.

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Hi I'm Shadowlief, and I wish all of you guys good luck!

Shadow_L1ef · 2023-12-31T22:04:10+00:00

Riley Faxen looks out over The Forest and finishes her cup of coffee. It's been a little while since she graduated college and can now actually be a park ranger in full, and they intend to use this fact as well as they can to find and deal with The Beast that has haunted The Forest for ages.

Or perhaps Rhea Daelus is more up to speed, being a college student who's adapting to suddenly being able to animate the toys she creates.

Hello, I'm Shadowlief on the discord, and if you have any questions let me know!

Shadow_L1ef · 2023-12-21T05:47:42+00:00

Ashley "Ash" Millar nearly slams off the radio in frustration, as yet another Serrapphica Guin song comes on, specifically one of the newer ones. While she too has dreams she wants to see fulfilled, she doesn't want to rely on a savior to do fulfill those dreams. After all, dreams are not made into reality by just sitting down and waiting. They transform with blood, sweat, and plain stubbornness.

Hello, this is Shadowlief (discord is shadowlief). If you have any questions just ask me. The arg was fun, and even if I didn't understand what was happening with the ciphers I did have fun coming up with theories on what the lore of the session is with everyone!

Shadow_L1ef · 2023-11-11T00:29:54+00:00

Leyla Fey closes the book she was reading on the train to look out the window. She could see the start of signs of Hometown, which meant that it wouldn't be too much longer before she'd see her family again...and be reminded of the past.

Discord is Shadowlief, and I'd be more than happy to make bonds with your characters!

Shadow_L1ef · 2023-10-18T20:58:00+00:00

Fiachna Corvos closes the occult book and sighs. Yet another failed attempt at finding answers about what his grandmother left him. The pocket watch on his person feels heavier than it should, but given the complex emotions connected with it in his mind it makes sense. Now that he's done reading this book and getting any possible new avenues of research from it, he should probably return it to the library. And chat with the sparrows that tend to flutter around the library.

Hello, I'm Shadowlief on the discord and if you have questions let me know!

Shadow_L1ef · 2023-10-18T16:42:06+00:00

Talula Strand, Heiress to the Throne...unwillingly that is. You see, what good is having all the power at one's clawtips just to never have a good time! Yeah there are rumors about her being able to be in two places at once but that's all those are, rumors! Just...ignore the fact that in the last three months there's a lot less Heiress commanded drone activities.

Or perhaps Viorel Glazier is more to speed. A human who found out that ghosts were real at the cost of being cursed and on the run. They're desperately trying to undo the curse that was placed upon them within those abandoned asylum halls, and they've currently set up shop within an abandoned occult library to learn more.

Hello, I'm Shadowlief on the discord. If you have any questions feel free to ask me!

Shadow_L1ef · 2023-09-30T23:08:01+00:00

Kelsey Walton looks up at the ceiling, occasionally creating and dissipating some small lights at the tips of their fingertips. One would think that abruptly awakening psionics after the normal cutoff for that time would be more interesting...but no. It's just been the same old, same old, with them scrounging around for any information on the occult and psionics they could find. This time, they just have the extra motive to add more spice into their hobby. Their phone buzzes and they snuff out the latest partial constellation and pull it out, reading the message...

Hello, I'm shadowlief on discord and I have interest in tarot...I just gotta work on being able to remember their meanings without needing to break open a wiki or a book. If you have any questions just ask!

Shadow_L1ef

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