YoinkTober 2020 - Prompts & Grossling Challenge

[Annuil]

Thanks, guys!

, so sweet! But you say “kind of OC” so not Reynir and Tuuri then? (I love the box!)

No, they are Reynir and Tuuri, it’s just... Minna doesn’t exactly say if they really were this close, so I said “OC”, just in case... Sorry for the confusion

[Annuil]

Okey, I got the moment to comment! Mirasol, your drawings are beautiful and I’m sorry that you had so many problems with “Hukka”... though it turned out pretty good! That “Awooooo”! :'D
Do you have a name for your “Character”? She looks adorable  And I like how you make her hair look as your own (at least length-wise)

_{(I once looked at the character sheets for “Adventure II” in the archive and realized that if I joined the crew I probably would have been in Tuuri’s team, since everyone else there is taller than me (even Emil and Lalli) just some random thought about yourself(myself) and the characters of the comic :'D sorry)}

Edit: Also, sorry for the double-post...

[Lallicat]

School has been incredibly draining lately, so I'm going to skip the story that I had planned for my OC for now and fit it in another prompt later, and do a character sheet instead. I'll comment on the other works later, when I'm not as tired.

Name: No one knows. Goes by Albatross.
Age: 18
Profession: Student at the Academy (mage)
Nationality: Icelander
Birthday: 31st of October
Height: Slightly above average
Build: Slight
Hair: White; very short
Eyes: Green
Fylgja: Albatross
Immunity: YES
Languages: Icelandic, Swedish, Norwegian, Finnish (not great)

[wavewright62]

Self-inserts and OCs were specifically allowed for a reason - Look at these splendid characters y'all are coming up with!  I love the details of the dream haven in your picture, Mirasol, and it will be even more stunning once coloured.  I feel your loss of darker greys, especially having seen these two grossling pictures which benefit so highly from it.  (And I hate my white pen too.  Doesn't work, doesn't work, doesn't wo-SPLAARRt)

Annuil, your portrait of Reynir and Tuuri is so sweet.  I looked at the close-up one first and thought to myself that Tuuri was probably even shorter than that, but then again no biggie because Reynir is bending down...and then I looked at the bigger one... ba-dum-tissssh!  Ya got me!  I love it.

I love a good contemplative piece, too.  A missing scene, a vignette, a piece of the real drama of this horrid disease, and you have captured that very well, Jitter, in spare and compelling language.

And then there's this silliness:

The Västerström changelings were very Annoying with their grabby grabby grubby hands and lack of personal space.  They freaked Lalli out a bit and he retreated to one of the bedrooms in the mission HQ.  Perhaps that experience made his later experience with the spirit attack immortalised as Handsy Moose that much more terrible?

[Jitter]

Annoying

He hasn’t been around for a while. Good. Maybe he has finally taken heart of my telling him to stay away. It’s so annoying how he just walks into my space. How does he not understand it’s extremely rude! How it’s like he was touching me everywhere at once, when he rips through my barrier. It’s annoying he can do it, but even more annoying that he keeps doing it! He and his stupid dog! Luckily the filthy mutt usually stays outside. I don’t want a repeat of than one time when... never mind. He and his annoying naivety. “I want to help”, “let me help”, “let me know if there’s anything I can do”. No, Reynir, there’s nothing you can do to help. Nothing I want from you. Except stay away from me.

And! His ridiculous way of asking, if I remember him. As if he’d ever let me forget! His idiot, overlong hair. How he always keeps it braided. Stupid braid, never letting me see his hair open, never touching his... Never mind! Stupid braid! His soft voice, saying all those stupid friendly things to me, never understanding I can’t let anyone close to me. I can’t put any more people in danger. Even if I could let someone be my friend, I wouldn’t choose a stupid Icelander. He and his stupid runes, and his stupid pride when he manages to do something useful. He’s probably been completely useless all his life, to get so worked with very success. The way his deep green eyes shine happily and his soft lips curl in a smile, directed to me... Never mind!

Annoying Reynir. It’s great he’s kept away. I wonder what’s keeping him?

[Grade E cat]

  (not my prime Reynir ship, but boy do writers make those two entertaining)

I remember seeing something on the Internet (no idea how serious it was) according to which the Finnish word for one's romantic partner literally means "the one I hate slightly less than everybody else".

[Jitter]

Cat, not quite But words that can be used for calling names may also be used as endearing. Just like thw Hotakainens seem to do. I think however probably the most common in general use is “kulta” or “kultaseni”, literally gold / my golden one, which best translates as dear. It can be used of a romantic partner or more generally, I often use it about my kids. And dogs. Lately probably more about the dogs.

Lallicat, interesting character! I hope we get to read the story!

Wave, haha, poor Lalli. Grabby hands are annoying to anyone, and surely more so when you don’t like touch in the first place.

[Jitter]

I have a confession to make - I don’t really like ARtD that much. Ville is nice though.

I am the world’s greatest dog
And this is my adventure log

Puppy-fox turned me into a snake
Field of vipers was quite a headache

Next thing I knew, I was a seal
I tricked a great fish, it was unreal

What’s all this then, I’m a moose
And Hiiden hirvi is on the loose!

In the next stage I became a bear
I climbed a huge tree to draw Kokko near

Oh, embarrasment! I’m now a hare
The teen boy gives us a terrible glare

In the place for the dead I was a swan
Stars and sleep, never touched by dawn

In the end I was made a real boy
Hannu still likes me, oh joy oh joy!

First part of all this is hard to sing
Squirrels don’t rhyme with anything.


Apparently squirrel rhymes only with referral, deferral, epidural and poastdoctoral (??) says RhymeZone, which I shamelessly used with all stanzas here

[Lallicat]

Jitter, the incident is some students' idea of a prank. One of them dressed up in the aforementioned troll costume and thought it would be funny if they simulated a troll attack. Onni was visiting at the time, heard the "alarm" and may or may not have knocked out the "troll" with his mage magic. Needless to say, he was not pleased when he found out it was a prank. Lalli teaches the Finnish mages. The Academy they teach at is actually different then the one we saw, Reynir decided to open his own school for Finnish and Icelandic mages. (Did it kind of end up as a SSSS version of Hogwarts? Mayyyybe...)

wave, that farmer got what he deserved!

Annuil, great snowball!

Mirasol, cute Vaettur/Maahinen, Hukka, and OC! They are all great!

---All I wanted was a...---

Albatross was lost. It was the end of her first day at the academy, and she couldn't remember where the dorms were. The Academy was huge; it had taken Principal Árnason years to plan and build it. She looked around the halls desperately. No one was in sight. Oh man, she was going to get in trouble for breaking curfew on her very first day! She didn't even know the way back to the main classrooms, even if she dared to ask for help. One of the many cats patrolling the hallways meowed and she jumped in fright. She wasn't sure she liked the cats very much yet. She turned another corner, but neglected to look where she was going, and bumped straight into Professor Hotakainen. The older one. During his class (defending yourself against the evil spirits in the dreamworld,) he had kept a frown on his face the entire time and had talked rapid-fire in Finnish until one brave soul asked if he could translate. Then he did the whole lesson in god-awful Icelandic. Judging by the way he talked to Principal Árnason, he was much better at speaking Icelandic then he had let in in the lesson. This, of all people in the Academy, had to be the one she bumped into, minutes before breaking curfew. All she wanted was a way back to her dorm, was that too much to ask? He asked her something in Finnish, and she could only shrug helplessly.

"You're supposed to be in your dorm," he repeated, this time in blessed Icelandic.

"I- I know sir," she stammered. "I got lost." Prof. Hotakainen sighed and muttered something to himself. She thought she caught the words "annoying," and "stupid," and "troll costume." Albatross wasn't quite sure if she heard that last one correctly.

"Follow me," he grumbled and walked off, presumably in the direction of the dorms. Albatross followed gratefully. She couldn't wait to get some sleep.

[Jitter]

Lallicat, my Onni and Reynir are also setting up a new school of sorts, the Spirit House. It is for the new magic, combining elements from both traditions and importantly about spirits, which Reynir learned to listen to in Mist, probably in the first chapter break thing. I really should collect the short bits together.

[Lallicat]

Great minds think alike ! I also thought of combining elements from both cultures, for example, it is mandatory to attend classes relating to the opposite mages' training and way of performing magic, to enhance cooperation between Icelandic mages and Finnish mages. I have so many ideas, I'll probably end up writing a fic about it...  :'D

[wavewright62]

So, Hannu and Ville travel to New Zealand.  "I don't think this kakapo is trying to give you an amulet, Hannu, but Paju is giving you a heart thingy on Instagram. Oh, look, Oona's sharing it!"


Inspired by this classic video:

[Róisín]

Wavewright, that video! Helpless giggling! I didn’t know there was a video of this. I have their book ‘Last Chance to See’, which is a treasure.

And Lallicat, I do like your take on their mage school. My version of it gets a mention in my ongoing fic ‘An Historical Document’, a story I started writing for LooNEY_DAC, in which the crew are reincarnated about 900 years later, and future-Lalli studied at the same school of fusion magic where future-Onni teaches.

The origin of the school gets a mention in another fic of mine ‘Caring For a Friend’ and will be continued in ‘Alliance’.

[Annuil]

Great works, everyone! I’ll come to comment a little later, but I’m still trying to catch up, so here are my two drawings from today!
Here is my promised “Bargain”:
https://1drv.ms/u/s!AsSnHPIBASO_tC5zbGlCMPFi0fwZ

And “All I wanted was...”
https://1drv.ms/u/s!AsSnHPIBASO_tDQF_iLF1O_qPPJO

“Annoying” is half-way done, so I’m working as hard as possible to catch up I’ll try do so tomorrow 

Also! Thanks for your kind comments! I’m glad you liked Reynir and Tuuri on her box
It was a real delight to work on that drawing   

[Róisín]

Good drawings. And that second one is heartbreaking.