Posted to Tumblr on 2020-04-27
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I have so many neglected “living” OCs I want to draw, but here I go reviving a super old OC from the dead anyways
Her full name’s Vue Na Maverie, and literally any of those names is a valid name to call her. There aren’t really first, middle, last, or family names in her culture, you just get a bunch of names because why the heck not?
I was originally going to call her by her “”first”” name Vue, but I sorta fell in love with the name Maverie, whoops. So I guess that’s what I’m going to call her primarily
Some side notes since they’re not visible here: She’s got those same tattoos on her right shoulder and back of her hand, and she’s got toe beans just like the little pink pads on her fingers. I’ll probably design her shoes or foot wraps or something eventually, since I feel her legs are a bit too plain design-wise
Ramblings about her personality and relationships below the read-more
Speaking of accidentally falling in love with things, this is the third time I’ve revived an OC and immediately started unintentionally shipping them with other OCs, hah. Since I’m still character building her it’s not set in stone yet, but I think I’m making some kinda quasi-romantic polyamory hell triangle between her, Viviana, and Copper. Vivi and Copper are still romantically involved, but the relationship between them and Maverie is more queerplatonic.
Maverie has no idea what her romantic or sexual orientation is, she just occasionally sees people and is like, “I wanna cuddle that person.” Her ideal queerplatonic relationship is like Friendship Plus™, where the plus is being closer physically and emotionally, living together, and maybe sleeping together (in the literal way, not euphemism-y way).
Also, I love the trope of “neurodivergent friends / found family make up for each other’s weaknesses by combining strengths,” and that very much applies to these three.
As a person, Maverie’s very generous, positive, and loves to help people, but she frequently gets stuck in her own head and can come off as aloof. While she’s lost in thought, she likes to come up with stories and to build worlds, but she doesn’t write her ideas out as much as she’d like because her organization skills are awful and turning thoughts into words is a constant struggle. Her creativity is a major factor in why she bonded with Vivi and Copper though, since Vivi loves drawing and character design and Copper loves writing and sculpting. Maverie a very cutesy and girly person, but in contrast, she loves stories that explore the dark sides of people, like thriller, murder mystery, and suspense genres.
Lastly, a silly fun fact: Maverie has a sort of typing quirk where, in casual text conversation, She Capitalizes The First Letter Of Every Word. That’s because in her native language, there are no spaces in between words, and words and sentences are separated by capitalization. So she capitalizes most things out of habit. It’s also a very… uncompressed language, so while you can get really detailed and leave little to no room for misinterpretation, it takes a lot of words to get there. If that sounds like ADHD’s worst nightmare, that’s because it’s ADHD’s worst nightmare. She fondly calls her native language “Word Anarchy,” because sometimes languages are just a mess.