Various Planning

Planning for stories and stuff.
Word, dawg.

note: this intro hasn't been thoroughly updated in a couple years

This is a world I made mostly for my own use, but I made it a public world anyways. I'll be posting things about story outlines, my characters, my comics (including fan comics), WIPs, ect... It's pretty much a world where I can store information and/or plan things. xD

Below are short descriptions of my stories to help you know what's going on. xD It also shows which characters are in which story, along with their extended profile if I have one made. Some stories aren't mentioned because I don't work on/think about them often. Therefore, not all of my characters are mentioned.

STORIES

The link leads to the fan comic in my portfolio. If there isn't a link, there isn't a comic yet.

ORIGINAL STORIES
*Rock Band: Something Impossible: The story of a Rock Band and their adventures in music business.
Major Characters: Michka, Zack, Loyal, Dare, Rick
Important/Frequently Mentioned Supporting Characters: Damian, Tim, Dare's Aunt aka Auntie

*Of Fruits and Vegetables: 4-panel comics of the life of a 21-year-old model and his friends/workmates.
Major Characters: Tomato, Stefan, Tomato's Boyfriend aka "TB", Gabe, Janet aka Jo, Kasey, Dean
Important Supporting Characters: Danny, Leah, Mick

*Dreams: The story of a rich and pampered English boy who gets transported to the mysterious town of Dreams, and his adventures there.
Major Characters: Alcott, Luli, Ms. Marigold
Important Supporting Characters: Shinitsu, Annabelle, and others that are to be decided.
**Annabelle's and Ms. Marigold's profiles are in the same post.**
Story Dialogues: 1.1, 1.2, 2.1

*My Dear Princess: The story of an orphan child, a princess, and friends who's home country's peace is threataned by the evil prince of a country that was thought to be nonexistant. (CONFUSING. xD)
Major Characters: Isaac, Charlotte, Rinchu, Segran, Lucia, Nicholay, Faida, Hrafn, Falorin, Gaelnis
Important Supporting Characters: To be decided.

*Foreigner: An alien boy sent to Earth to destroy the human race finds himself in Los Angeles California, befriends a human girl, and gets involved in crazy advetures.
Major Characters: Kor, Gliding Eagle
Important Supporting Characters: Michelle, Dailen

*A Life Like This: A written story in the perspectives of Dare, Tim, and Rick.
Major Characters: Tim, Dare, Rick, Ms. Ackart
Important Supporting Characters: See characters for Rock Band: Something Impossible.
Chapters: One, Two, Three, Four, Five, Six, Seven, Eight, Nine, Ten

*Teach Me Something Good: A story about a friendship between a student and a teacher. Somewhat of a spin-off of Of Fruits and Vegetables.
Major Characters: Noland, Chrystal
Important Supporting Characters: Prudence), Stefan (briefly)

*I Was a Boy, Too: A short 3-part story about Gabe when he was in high school. Optional backstory related to Of Fruits and Vegetables.
Major Characters: Gabe, William
Important Supporting Characters: DJ, Dave
Parts: One

*Nerdy and Jock: So there's this nerd, and this jock, and also they're boyfriends. That's it.
Major Characters: Jack, Ned
Important supporting characters: Matthew Brodney III, Dmitri, Charlotte, Jessica Marron, Lafayette, Brodney's girlfriend who doesn't have a name yet;;;

FAN STORIES
*The Adventures of Marth and Roy: Super Smash Brothers fan comic. Title is pretty self-explanitory.
Major Characters: Marth, Roy, Ike, Pit

I don't have a name for his story, but Jamal is a Kingdom Hearts fan character. I figured I'd mention him because I draw him often enough.

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Also, if you want to find posts that feature a specific character, type in the URL http://theotaku.com/worlds/variousinformation/tags/[character name]. For example, http://theotaku.com/worlds/variousinformation/tags/dare will bring you to posts about Dare. :)

Enjoy Your Stay at Various Planning!

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Interrelated Stories Chart/Summaries

Keba Si Rota was wondering if all of my characters are from the same story or not, so I thought I'd make a post about how my characters are related to each other story-wise! :D The intro to this world actually has a list of my stories, but it hasn...

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Happy New Year's! (OFAV Doodles)

Hey guys! It's 2 minutes to midnight as I'm typing this. :D Happy almost new year's, everyone!! In the new year's spirit, I did some OFAV new year's doodles. C:

This is the first one I drew. :D Champagne for Stef, and beer for Gabe 'cause I guess he's not classy enough. (?) Idk why Gabe's winking. Drawing laid-back and happy Stef was weird, but it's nice to see him causal(ish) and friendly every so often. :9

I like drawing random dialogue. The main reason Stefan likes new year's is because he has an excuse to drink and not worry. I actually had him saying something along that line, but I accidentally cropped it out. xD;

This isn't related to the previous comic-thing. The premise is that everyone's basically like, "We sometimes think you don't like us Stefan, but it's nice that we got to be your friend this year again! :D" And Stefan is emotional when he drinks.
This bit of StefanxTomato is dedicated to Wakusei Aoshi, who used to ship them and maybe still does.

Actually, there is no drinking age in France. It's illegal to sell alcohol to people under 18 years old.
Dean doesn't drink. Jo does sometimes, but not really much. Pointless information.

Okay, it's 22 minutes after midnight where I am now. HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE!! Happy 2014! :D Let's have a good year this year!

Mega SAI Doodle Dump!

Yeah. I have a lot of old sketches and doodles on SAI. I can't show you all of them since I can only post like 10 pictures in one post, but here's a couple of them. Hooray! 8D

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I posted this on my DA, so this might look familiar. This is Stefan's boss! She's the head of the New York branch of the modelling agency that Stefan and Tomato belong to. :D She probably won't appear in the comic, but she appears from time to time in Tomato's backstory. So if I ever draw that, you'll know who she is.
She doesn't have a name yet. :m Any suggestions?

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I totally thought I posted this on theOtaku, but... idk, I can't find it. xD; This is a mock sticker sheet of the main characters from OFAV! :D I actually did make stickers out of these using my sticker machine, and stuck them on my physics binder. (why? xD;) I like how Stefan and Dean's came out, but my least favorite is Kasey... Kasey's always my least favorite. Her hairstyle just looks so weird to me... I want to restyle it, but it's already too late, I think. xD;

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I also thought I posted this on theO, but... ONCE AGAIN, I GUESS NOT! If you were looking closely, you could see it in his "character development meme" I posted several months ago. This is actually really old, from November of last year. This was probably when I realized that I really enjoy drawing Gabe. :D;

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This is REEEAAALLY old, from last year or something. Just some random stuff on alcohol and drinks, I guess.
I think Gabe looks hilarious here, for some reason.

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I drew this last month, I think. I was drawing pictures to the song I was listening to. Drawing something in less than 5 minutes is really hard! ;u; And no girls, because I'm a buttox.
I don't remember what song I was drawing to in the last picture, but I think it was Motorcycle Drive By.

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Idk when I drew this, but it's pretty old. I had a sudden urge to draw HMNNNHIIIO and Dare, since HMNNNHIIIO is technically Dare's Pokemon. Idk, I thought it was kind of cute despite its sloppiness. xD;

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Stefan and Gabe doodles in comic form. I actually doodle stuff like this all the time in my doodle notebooks........
along with, y'know, actual stuff like OFAV comic strip plans and stuff. *cough cough*

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Timmeroo! Tim. I had a sudden urge to draw Tim some weeks ago. I keep drawing that head angle, but idk if I'm even drawing that head perspective right. :M;;; OH WELL, WORKS FOR ME I GUESS...

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And more Tim! I've missed Tim. I think I drew this the same day or the previous day as the previous one. My handwriting's even worse with a tablet, so if you can't read it, sorry. xD;
By "Gabe idiots", I mean people who are "idiotic" in a similar way that Gabe is. DOES THAT MAKE ANY MORE SENSE? NO! 8D

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Luli doodle from yesterday. Woo! I haven't drawn her in forever. I made a Luli outfit in Animal Crossing, though! 8D It looks weird! But oh well.

This is a grapefruit gijinka I did for someone on Gaiaonline. I do a lot of freebies on Gaiaonline, but I don't bother posting them because they're pretty lazy. xD; This one came out cute enough, though. I like a grapefruit color scheme. :V

And yeah! I should probably work on other more important stuff, now...

About the Title: OFAV

I'm slightly distracted from my homework, so I'm going to talk about the "meaning" behind the title Of Fruits and Vegetables because I'm bored. :V I might accidentally switch on-and-off between formal and informal speech because I'm writing my essay at the same time... xD;

I provided a little bit about the title in the description of OFAV that says "..I got it from the title of the book Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck. ...
The title is referring to the main character's name, Tomato. Tomatos look like (?) vegetables, but are fruits."

When I came up with the title, I was just thinking about Tomato's name... and how a tomato is like a fruit, and is like a vegetable. Just about right after I wrote down the title on a piece of paper, I found the title kind of funny because "fruit" is slang for a flamboyant gay man, which Tomato obviously is. In addition to the quote mentioned earlier, I wrote this down in my sketchbook:

"Also a pun on the word fruit, which is slang for a flamboyant gay man. Also also refers to Tomato's similarity to a tomato, b/c he looks like a girl but is a boy."

And that's the history of the title. But now that I think of it, "Of Fruits and Vegetables" has a slightly different, less vague, meaning. Well, two; depends on how you look at it.

The first way I see the title is like this: As I mentioned earlier, "fruit" is slang for a gay man. If a fruit and a vegetable are to be taken as opposites in the title, then "vegetable" would be coined slang to mean "straight man". Or less specifically, fruit is a euphemism for "gay" and vegetable is a euphemism for "straight". Therefore, the title "Of Fruits and Vegetables" can mean "Of Homosexuals and Heterosexuals". That would make sense, but two of the main characters are bisexual (3 including Danny). And what exactly does the "of" mean in the title...? If I add in a bit of information (which I can do since I'm the author HOHO!), the title really means this:
[this comic is] Of Homosexuals and Heterosexuals [as well as everyone in between].
Which is true. The comic has no plot line, so it's just a bunch of comic strips of gay people, straight people, and bi people. (I don't have any transgendered/pansexual/asexual characters in OFAV, if you were wondering why I left them out.)

The second way (and idk, less controversial if you're uncomfortable talking about orientation) is like this: There are two categories implied in the title--"Fruits" and "Vegetables." The only way to organize all the characters into two groups is to do so by gender. So in this case let's say fruit = female, and vegetable = male. (Which food gets attributed which gender doesn't really matter.) In this case, the title becomes "Of Girls and Boys."
What's interesting about interpreting the title this way is that Tomato's name becomes relevant here too. Tomato's are fruits that are commonly mistaken for vegetables, and therefore don't quite fit into either category. Tomato is a man commonly mistaken for a girl, and doesn't quite fit into either gender as well. (Could also be attributed to him having "XXY" syndrome; he has the correct chromosomes to be a girl (xx), and the correct chromosomes to be a boy (xy).)
So in this case, the "extended" title is this:
[this comic is] Of Girls and Boys [as well as Tomato].
It's a little odd that Tomato would be the main character though, since he's not explicitly referenced in this interpretation of the title. Although, it does make him stand out a bit among the characters. But anyways, this title is also true because the comic is just a bunch of strips about boys and girls.

...And yeah! That's what the title means. To me, at least. I hadn't really thought of any of this when I came up with the title, but the more I thought about it the more I found the title to be fitting to the story. :M

Maybe you have a different interpretation of the title? ...Maybe you don't think the title means anything? xD That could be true, too.

Anyways, thanks for reading and I hope you found this interesting. :)

Miscellaneous Things

I haven't been posting a lot of WIPs lately, just doodles... xD; Here's some doodles. YAY.

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These are for Harvestmoonluvr, who got me in the mood to draw some Dare. :U Just some random comics... yeah. xD
Literal fruit. (Idk, that's just what came up when I googled "literal fruit" just now...)

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I drew this at the beach. Just an OFAV relationship chart. It looks complicated, but it's less confusing than it looks. xD

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Some random thing of Gabe that I drew last week. It started with a random head, and ended up turning into Gabe... YEAH. I don't doodle much on SAI, so this was kind of weird to draw. ._.

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Just finished this today! :0 It was pretty quick 'cause I didn't color anything. There's some Japanese in (randomly. xD;;;), so here's the translations:
Enraged: Tomato-kun!
Sad: I look sad? Um... no I don't.
Bashful: (He doesn't have glasses)
Impatient: Hurry up...
Also, here's the link to the magazine cover I used. :M [click]

AND YEAH! I've said it before, but these posts always end abruptly.
Oh.
And here's a secret number character that I didn't tell you about in the previous post. I made him for my sister... [click]
And with that, I leave you.