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DQXI Mini-playlists <3

Collection of different songs that I personally relate to some of the characters :) If you have any questions, suggestions, or want an explanation for any of these feel free to send me an ask!

DQXI as a whole

Soldier, Poet, King - The Oh Hellos

Words of the Wise - Truslow

Go Big or Go Home - American Authors

Sons of Thunder - Owl City

Everything Goes On - Porter Robinson

The Luminary

What’s wrong - half-alive

Superman - American Authors

Fate of the Stars - Tally Hall

A Little Bit of Love - Weezer

Erik

I Don’t Like Who I Was Then - The Wonder Years, feat Origami Angel

Go to hell - Bayside

Rolled Down Window - John the Ghost

1 Last Cigarette - The Band Camino

Candy Eyes - Jack Stauber

Veronica

If You Say So - Vinyl Theatre

Talk - Winona Fighter

Blurt - Mega Mango

Habitual - Honey Revenge

Growing Up - The Linda Lindas

Serena

Musician - Porter Robinson

Alive - Dabin, RUNN

Days move slow - Bully

Look at the Sky - Porter Robinson

Spark - the bird and the bee

Angry - Mars Argo

Sylvando

Pink Pony Club - Chappel Roan

Trampoline - The Unlikely Candidates

Pride - American Authors

We are Golden - MIKA

Technicolor - Montaigne

Jade

Buttercup - Hippo campus

Happy Trees - Grumpy Plum

Subaru - Winona Fighter

Attention - Winona Fighter

Rab

Violet - Wild Party

Pocket full of gold - American Authors

The Implication - Parrotfish

Homage - Mile High Club

Unconditional I - Arcade Fire

Hendrik

Overboard - Stay Outside

The Fire - Vincent Lima

Tornado - Owl City

Figure Eight - Trophy Eyes

Still feel - half-alive

Gold - Eden

Jasper

Moderation - Eric William Morris

It starts with Indigo, Orange and Green - Drew Danburry

My ugly - cloudfodder

Something Comforting - Porter Robinson

Not to sound like a fuckin hippie but please for the love of god start noticing and appreciating the natural world around you. You don’t have to go hike the entire Appalachian trail or anything and I get that not everyone has access to the outdoors for various reasons, but just fucking … look around you when you’re outside. Notice the sky and the sun and the birds and creatures. Start caring about them. I’m begging you.

laundry day

Thinking again on some Dave Lore: In the book "Dave: A Legend", he's mentioned as becoming a "pink-masked privateer". A privateer was sponsored by the state, so to speak - which got me wondering.

A privateer was often issued commissions, or letters of marque, allowing them to attack other ships without fear of it being labelled as piracy, and being allowed to claim those ships as prizes under law. Dave only became a privateer after his beloved King fell - which I've always assumed to have been King Arnout of Zwaardsrust, the last King. After Arnout fell, so too did Zwaardsrust, leaving Dave without a home kingdom.

Twenty years or so later he met Sylv - a noble by birth - and together they painted all the masts and sails in the inland sea pink. Ergo, Sylv, as Dave's newfound sovereign, commissioned Dave and allowed him to go after those ships without fear of reprisal - and even helped him in that task, as the book mentions.

Expelled from Word, he is now trying to contact you through other programs...

Really simple but fun meetcute idea I just had based on realtime events

Starts at a coffee shop with Character A being nosy and glancing over at Character B’s phone, expecting to see maybe social media or fanfic or something else

Character B is squinting at the menu of the restaurant next door

Character A

Wonders whether or not character B is new in town? Just indecisive? Are you getting a coffee and then going next door?

Can’t stop themselves from laughing out loud at just how mundane that is

Tries to spark up a conversation with a “Hey, I love that place!” (they’re never been there)

most likely in that order

Opposites Attract

DQXI Characters’ Niche Talents

This was an ask from @valeriewarrior137 but I accidentally posted it without fully answering and then deleted it 😭

Erik

He can guesstimate most measurements just by eyeballing them. Height, weight, distance, circumference. When you’re a thief, you’ve gotta know if your loot can follow you through the escape route.

Veronica

She’s an excellent climber, even with her shorter stature. She can scale trees, ledges, and even hop fences like nobody’s business.

Serena

She’s got a knack for learning new languages very quickly, and it helps out with how much traveling the party does. Her musical talents give her the ear for it!

Sylvando

With a stage presence like his? How could there ever be a talent the Great Sylvando hasn’t— it’s hunting. His father taught him. He can hit a target with a crooked crossbow from further away than any man should be able to.

Jade

She can forge someone’s signature to the point where it’s indiscernible. She’s never used this talent, despite how much Erik tries to convince her to

Rab

He can finish a sewing job with a good amount of competency! He taught himself how to when his daughter’s teddy bear ripped, and he was always there to help Jade out if she needed something hemmed!

Hendrik

He really enjoys gardening. He doesn’t get many opportunities to do it, but he’s read several books about botany, foraging, etc. and would love to keep his own plants one day

Jasper

He’s a very good singer! And he’s horribly embarrassed about it, surprising no one. It’s nothing professional, but it helps lift his mood when he’s feeling down

Personas Vs OCs

This is not gospel, this is just my opinion and how I categorize my own creations! You can define these terms, use or not use them, however you want to! I’m just putting this here for my own reference mostly

A persona is explicitly for self insert purposes.

These characters do not have a role that alters the lore of the existing canon.

They can interact with characters, so long as it is done in an inconsequential way. If desired, the persona can have their own subplot to be resolved.

It’s absolutely possible to have a persona for your own original work.

Personas exist as different versions of the self. No need for lore, sometimes a different costume is enough to establish the self as a different sona

When the persona has a larger role that impacts the canon line of events, they cross into OC territory.

Persona Examples

The Farmer, from Stardew Valley

Animal Crossing Player Character

Character based on the self, but designed for the world. “Me if I were a stand user.”

Any character who is based on the self but does not change the end goal of a preexistent plot

OC Examples

A Stardew Valley OC would inherently change playable canon. If your SDV persona is dating Alex and Alex is no longer a viable Romance Route, then your persona is an OC

A yokai watch NPC who has a cool yokai and directly helps Nate do XYZ, explicitly influencing the plot’s course

A character that may or may not be based on the self that is more plot significant than not.

Plot significance doesn’t exist on an easily measurable scale so it’s a loose metric, deliberately

Mary sues don’t exist btw the point of an OC is to have fun and be self indulgent. Enjoy your blorbos and let them live and love as freely as you would do so yourself.

It’s 1:27 AM and I just submitted my last final of the semester. Now it’s 1:29 because I thought too hard about whether or not I had anything else to say in this post.