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!

Random OFAV doodle-things

GUYS, I FOUND ANOTHER COMIC CALLED OF FRUITS AND VEGETABLES!! What the heck. Hahaha. xD

Anyway, here's some sketches/doodles I did in my doodle notebook thing.

Some years ago, my sister left me a comment with her prediction of all the pairings that would happen in OFAV, by character. For Stefan, she said "Stefan >> everyone."
UNUSUALLY PLAUSIBLE, ACTUALLY...
The only one of these that's moderately canon is StefanxTomato, because Stefan has a sort-of crush on Tomato in the comic. (Actually, I keep forgetting he's supposed to like Tomato... but.....;;;)
The next plausible would actually be StefanxDean. (!?!?) Stefan usually treats Dean pretty well (compared to the rest of the cast minus TB), but that's partially because Dean kind of a little bit reminds of Stefan of Noland. So I guess he's a little partial to Dean because of that.
The least plausible is... UH... probably StefanxKasey. I think Kasey is 100% unattracted to Stefan, purely because Stefan is 30 years old. Which is old for her. IDK, KASEY, YOU'RE ALREADY 25 OR 26 YOURSELF...

This is from some dialogue I was planning out for a comic about Stefan, Gabe, tattoos, and the levels of friendship or something. (????) I never finished the comic or the dialogue... I just took a picture of this because I like Stefan's face, here. 8D I like drawing an annoyed look on his face, hahaha.

I also really like drawing slightly-bashful-but-not-quite Gabe. 8D;;; This is probably the face of Gabe that I doodle the most in my notebooks....

Stefan was freaking out about making the monthly quota, or something. (??? idk how to talk in business terms.) Gabe's trying to help him out like an Absolute Pro.

A little doodle I did based on THIS AMAZING DRAWING THAT GEROCHAN DID FOR ME!!! ;0; ;0; ;0; /i'm totally bragging sorry
The "Stefan and Gabe Japanese umbrella romance" in the background made me wonder if Gabe would draw something like that.
Answer: maybe...

KISS ON CHEEK, OOOH. yeah. Here's my sort of ref. :V I-I like drawing corny romance stuff, okay...
Gabe's actually not that much taller than Stefan, so HOW LAME OF ME TO DRAW HIM SO TALL. Maybe Stefan's leaning down or something, idk.

SO! There's some stuff. :D HAPPY WEEKEND! I'LL TRY TO WORK ON THE NEXT OFAV...

Some SteGabe Stuff

I haven't posted anything with Stefan and Gabe together in a while. Not since, uh... this? That's like... A WHOLE MONTH WITHOUT STEFAN AND GABE STUFF. Time to fix that. :^D
And you thought you could escape the SteGabe. Heh. Heh. Heh. WRONG.
Okay, anyway... this is all actually rather unromantic, so I don't even know.

This first one is the first thing I drew once I fixed my tablet pen. 8D I wanted to draw part of a conversation between Stefan and Gabe. :V Here's the quick and dirty background information: Stefan and Gabe have been dating for a couple months, and Gabe wants to come with Stefan to Stef's parents' place for new year's. Stefan refuses because he hasn't come out to his parents, and Gabe complains... and the two finally compromise that if Stefan tells his parents about Gabe and his parents want to meet him, then Gabe gets to come over.
And then Gabe gets to come over. :^D So exciting. But not really. BAHBUBUHBEBABOO. (??)

The French is brought to you by ~*~GOOGLE TRANSLATE~*~! So idk how accurate it actually is. SORRY, PEOPLE WHO SPEAK FRENCH! Also sorry it's handwritten. Here's what it says, if you can't read my handwriting:

Gabe: So I can come? Sweet!
Stefan: Yes, but Gabriel--
Gabe: Text me the address, 'kay? I'll see you soon--
Stefan: GABRIEL, LISTEN TO ME, DAMN IT.

Stefan: S-sortez vos boucles d'oreilles, et porter de beaux vetements... et de se rasar la barbe, peut-etre. Par consequent, ils ne pensent pas que vous etes... uh... rampant... (Translation: T-take out your earrings, and wear nice clothes... And shave your beard, maybe. That way, they won't think you're... uh... creepy...)
Gabe: ...Uh, what's with the sudden French?
Stefan's mom: This is awful suspicious...
Stefan's dad: What kind of person is this "boyfriend"?

If you couldn't tell (because it's not obvious, probably;;;), the reason Stefan starts talking in French is because he doesn't want his parents to understand what he's saying. If his parents hear things like "piercings" and "shave your beard" and "creepy," they're going to be even more suspicious than they already are. (Yeah, they'd get suspicious at "shave your beard." Idk. IDK!)
Oh yeah, and Gabe does indeed understand French.
...Yeah, sorry it's so text heavy. I hardly post things with tons of dialogue like this, but I actually think about dialogue a lot. xD I also have hardly any things with Stefan and Gabe talking as a couple. As you can see, they're basically the same as they always are. 8D

AND IF TB SHIPS IT... THEN SO SHOULD YOU is the moral of this comic, I guess. (??) Actually, the main reason TB is all for SteGabe is it means Stefan will stop eyeing (?) Tomato. :^D
And yes, I haven't drawn a serious picture of TB in so long!! Not since 2011. I kind of forgot how he looked. xD I made his hair shorter than it used to be... oops. But I did manage to remember that beautiful cowlick in the back. I'm also thinking I should make TB shorter than Tomato... hm.
I also have trouble with drawing Tomato seriously. :V I can't decide how manly or feminine I want to make his face. orz I kind of like how I drew it up there... it seems like a good enough balance. -u-b
What do you mean this picture is totally not SteGabe related? :V THEY'RE IN THE FIRST PANEL AND ARE THE TOPIC OF CONVERSATION...!

I did have one more SteGabe picture, but it was TOO EMBARRASSING FOR ME TO PUT HERE (even though they're just talking)..... It's in my photobucket. You can probably find it. :D;;;

AND, UH... YEAH! That's what I have for you today. Thanks for reading, as alwayssssssss. :D Have a noice Thoisday!

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!

Parallel Timeline: Pre-OFAV

Hey guys! I'm mostly posting this for my own use so I don't forget this stuff, but take a gander if you want. :M This is a timeline of what Stefan and Gabe were doing before the current OFAV comic strips. I could have included Tomato or Jo in the timeline, but... Tomato was in elementary school when Stefan was in college, so that would be weird to talk about. And I mention Jo occasionally in Gabe's timeline. So there.

YEAH, IDK. I write/draw about this stuff sometimes, so think of this as a brief summary of their lives! 8D And by brief, I mean this is actually kind of long.

There are also a couple characters in Gabe's storyline that I haven't talked about here on theO that I have mentioned on dA. I feel like I should at least officially introduce Will someday...

Pre-2000
Stefan: Age 15-18 in 1995-1998. Graduates in 1998. High school is when he begins to develop his tendencies to speak in a manner such that he's always on someone's good side. (Something he does currently when he's trying to book gigs for Tomato. He doesn't care so much around people he's close to.) Mentally, he's very cynical. He has one girlfriend some time in high school, but she breaks up with him after a couple months. He's not bothered because he didn't have strong feelings for her, but he still tried his hardest to be loving while in the relationship. He begins college in 1998.
Gabe: From 1997-1999, he's in high school (age 15-17). Freshman year he has a secret relationship with a friend of his named Dave. Dave accidentally lets it slip, and puts all the blame on Gabe. Gabe accepts the gossip; comes out at school, but not to his family. For part of freshman and sophomore year, his old friends avoid him. He befriends William mid-sophomore year, which helps bridge the gap of awkwardness (?) between him and his old friends. Gabe develops a crush on Will, but he keeps it a secret all through high school.
On a side note, Will ends up marrying his high school sweetheart later in life.

2000-2001
Stefan: Age 20-21, sophomore to junior year in college. Around this time, Stefan begins to notice he's romantically inclined to men the same way he is to women. His feelings for boys don't really surprise or bother him, but he decides not to mention it to anyone due to the fact that he likes girls and can appear straight if he only shows an interest in women. He has a girlfriend, who this time around he is more serious about. Things initially go well between them, but they slowly drift apart due to personal differences. (Stefan was too serious and unromantic for her taste, something like that.) (obviously I haven't had the chance to thoroughly think about this. xD) Their break-up was a mutual decision, but officially it was Stefan's ex-girlfriend who broke up with Stefan. Late 2001, Stefan befriends Noland.
Gabe: Age 18-19. Gabe graduates from high school in 2000, and does not pursue further education. Gabe comes out to his parents after Jo comes out as bisexual to them. (His parents have suspected for a while that Gabe is gay, but have wanted him to tell them himself.) After high school, his father "makes" him work in an automotive shop. He spend the next two years saving up money so he can move out of his home town and quit his job.

2002
Stefan: Age 22, and a senior in college. Stefan and Noland become close friends. Noland comes out and confesses to Stefan, to which Stefan admits similarly. He and Noland begin dating, but their relationship is more physical than emotional, unlike his previous relationship. (Stefan in the future describes to Gabe that he was "100% infatuated with Noland".) Stefan discovers that Noland has been cheating on him late in their relationship, but seems willing to make up with Noland. However, Noland thinks it best for them to break up and their relationship ends. They don't talk to each other for the rest of their college life.
Stefan graduates in 2002 with a degree in marketing.
Gabe: Age 20. Gabe moves to New York and works as an underwear model. He befriends a British (??) model, and the two of them engage in a long-term physical (but not romantic) relationship.

2003-2005
Stefan: Age 23-25. Stefan is hired at a modelling agency as a booking agent for miscellaneous models from the agency, and an overseer for casting calls and open calls (ie: an audition judge of sorts). Because he works with a variety of models at this time, he doesn't become attached to any particular one as friends or romantically. He is not particularly close to any of his coworkers either, because he tends to focus more on work than socializing--even after work hours. He becomes more comfortable being alone around this time, and his distaste for romance becomes more concrete. He is stationed somewhere in the United States.
Gabe: Age 21-23. While in New York, Gabe often uses his British friend (sorry for the lack of name) as a guinea pig for his hobby of hairstyling. Overtime he discovers he enjoys styling hair more than he enjoys standing around in his underpants in front of a camera--I mean, modelling. Luckily (if you want to call it luck), he gets fired in 2004 for getting a tattoo on his arm. He moves back home that year, and discusses with his sister that he wants to be a hairstylist. They decide they want to team up as a hair-and-make-up duo (Jo just finished cosmetology classes at a community college). The two of them spend 2005 figuring out how to get started, when Gabe throws in the idea of moving to Paris (despite only having mediocre skills in French).
Somewhere in 2004 or 2005, Gabe gets that weird tattoo on his chest. (Not that it's relevant at all...)

2006-2007
Stefan: Age 26-27. Stefan is assigned to Tomato as his personal modelling agent. Initially he finds the 17 year old boy extremely naive and highly annoying. After spending copious amounts of time together (and partially because of accidental flirting on Tomato's part), Stefan develops an awkward crush on Tomato. In late 2007, the two move to Paris on orders from Stefan's boss.
Gabe: Age 24-25. Gabe and Jo move to Paris, France. While Gabe's French is bad, Jo knows enough from high school and miscellaneous classes to help the two of them get by. Some time in 2006 the two of them meet and befriend Kasey, another American living in France. (How the heck...) The three of them then decide to team up as a hair and make-up trio. (??) Gabe spends 2006 and 2007 as a freelance hairstylist, rooming with Jo and Kasey until he acquires enough money for himself. Initially he thinks Kasey is annoying, but they eventually bond over their love for attractive male celebrities. (??????) Oh yeah, and his French does get better over time... Sort of.

2008-2009
Stefan: Age 28-29. In Paris, Tomato finds a boyfriend. Stefan initially thinks that Tomato having a boyfriend should prevent his feelings from becoming too prevalent, but instead he develops a kind of jealousy. As usual, Stefan tries to ignore his feelings.
On his bosses orders, Stefan hires a hair-and-make-up crew for Tomato. I don't know exactly how he finds out about Gabe, Jo, and Kasey (probably through a combination of phone calls, the internet, and the newspaper), but he does and he hires them.
Gabe: Age 26-27. Gabe thinks Stefan is physically attractive right off the bat, but at this point he's not emotionally attracted to him. This is the point in life when he notices he feels the most comfortable where he's at. He loves his job and and the people he spends time with. YAY!

2010
Stefan: Age 30. This is the current year in OFAV! A bit before the comics start, he hires Dean Johnson for help with things besides hair and make-up. He sees Dean more as an intern than an employee initially, but eventually trusts him with important and difficult tasks.
Gabe: Age 28. This is the current year in OFAV! Around this time Gabe begins to develop romantic feelings for Stefan, and tries to become closer to him on a more intimate level.

Even though OFAV technically takes place in 2010, I'll probably still make references to things that happen after 2010. Yes, nonsensicality!
I feel like the timeline ends kind of abruptly. Oh well. Thanks for reading, if you did!

I really don't know why I have all this stuff planned out, considering it NEVER SHOWS UP IN OFAV. Or idk, maybe there'll be references to some of this stuff occasionally...

The Origin of Tomato and Tomato's Boyfriend

At one point in time I made a The Origin of Stefan post. I think it's time for me to let the origin of Tomato and (more importantly) (?) TB out of the bag. :V
Note: I may or may not have mentioned some of this stuff before.

Both Tomato and TB have very weird origin stories. But first, Tomato:
At around the winter of 2008, I was at my grandma's house with my cousins. One of them asked me to try and draw him. Now if you know what my art looked like in 2008 (just see my portfolio), you'll know that I could not at all draw realism or real people. xD Anyway, I tried to draw my cousin and completely failed. In fact, he looked kind of womanly with an "hourglass figure". Not knowing what to say or how to make up for my failed attempt, I said "HERE, LOOK. THIS IS YOUR BOYFRIEND."
(My cousin's straight, fyi.)
Anyway, he rolled with it, and was like, "OH YEAH, MY BOYFREIND. MY MODEL BOYFRIEND."
"YEAH! HIS NAME'S TOMATO."

At this point, "Tomato" looked nothing like the Tomato we know today. :V Unfortunately, I have since lost the drawing of my cousin/threw it away. But yeah, Tomato at this point was 1) A model, 2) My cousin's boyfriend, and 3) A guy with an hourglass figure.

Next year my family went to Paris with that same cousin of mine. Somewhere along the way we suddenly remembered the whole "Tomato" ordeal. It might have actually been in Paris when we came up with Tomato's name, because Takara suggested that he turned into a tomato at night and fought crime. (???!?!) My cousin had actually decided that he and Tomato had already broken up or something, but Tomato was still really entertaining to talk about. We were sitting around in our hotel one night doodling and talking about stupid stuff when we all decided to try and draw a sketch of what Tomato would look like. I actually do have some sketches of what Tomato looked like at this point, as well as Takara's design for Tomato. I'll scan them in and post them either this weekend or some time next week. :M

We all thought that this "model-by-day-crimef-fighting-tomato-by-night" thing was hilarious, so Tomato came up a lot while we were in Paris. I would sometimes point to random guys with red hair and say to my cousin, "LOOK, THERE GOES TOMATO."

WHICH, (kind of discursively) BRINGS ME TO THE ORIGIN OF TOMATO'S BOYFRIEND.
I've been kind of reluctant to reveal this, because I always say things like "No one knows his name for unknown reasons"... but now you'll know the real reason why no one knows his name.
So my cousin and my sisters and I (plus the adults) were out wandering Paris when we saw this guy wearing a greenish t-shirt and rolled up jeans sitting on a wall beside a river. Sound like anyone? xD This guy was writing something down on a piece of paper as we passed him, and eithe me or one of my sisters decided to quip, "HEY LOOK, THERE'S TOMATO'S SECRET ADMIRER! Look, he's writing love letters to Tomato!" We all joined in with stuff like, "IT'S TOMATO'S BOYFRIEND!" and things. We were far away enough from the guy that he didn't hear anything. (And he might've only spoken French, idk.)
At this point, we decided to be really kind of freaky: We took 2 pictures of this random guy from Paris. I actually still have those photos. xD

That really should have been the end of Tomato and Tomato's Boyfriend, but I had a weird urge to draw them. And thus, Tomato and TB became official "OC's" of mine.

So yep. Tomato is a failed portrait of my cousin, and TB is a random guy from Paris. xD
The reason no one knows TB's name is because I don't actually know TB's name. He was originally a real guy from Paris that we happened to stumble across. I would feel weird giving him a name considering I don't know the guy. xD And yet, I don't feel weird drawing him anymore. At this point, he's pretty much just my character since I came up with his personality/etc. He doesn't look a whole lot like the real guy anymore. :M But the inspiration was from some random dude!
TB living in Paris is also the reason for the OFAV cast living in Paris. TB being the only French guy in the OFAV cast is also because of that eventful day in Paris: that guy was probably French, so TB is also French.
(I have no idea why no one in OFAV is French. orz)
(Actually, Danny might be. But at the same time, that'd be weird.)

So there you go! the origin story of Tomato and his boyfriend. Never did I realize that I would be drawing comics with Tomato and TB again, or even have a whole cast of characters to interact with them. :D I'm glad I do now though, because the OFAV characters are some of my favorites.

And thanks for reading! :M Hope you found this interesting! Or really weird.