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Published: 2016-08-14 21:07:03 +0000 UTC; Views: 1929; Favourites: 114; Downloads: 8
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CAN’T GET INVOLVED IN A FANDOM WITHOUT MAKING OCS/SELF-INSERTS THESE DAYS. I love how I’m worse now with that kind of thing than when I was a tween.

So yes, in light of wandering back into the NiGHTS fandom, I had to do some Nightmaren OCs. Well, some new ones anyways. My old ones have either evolved over the past decade into other things, or were such bland copies of existing canon characters that they would need some serious revamping.

Here we have Caliris. A level 2 maren, who despite my attempts to make her violin mantis-like , still looks based on some kind of moth. She was intended as an attempt to break out of my self inserts always being based on my lampsona, but it didn’t work. As in, even though I like the design and it’s based on something I identify with, I just can’t bring myself to see the character as a self-insert the same way my lamp-based characters are. Anyways. She’s usually very laid back, almost space-y in how she never seems to be focused on anything in particular. She doesn’t like it when she gets mistaken for a moth creature. Unlike Arc her personality still hasn’t come to me entirely, so that’s all I know for now.

Do not use, copy, edit, or repost this art without my express permission. Not for use in ANY roleplays. 


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Comments: 10

MC-Gemstone [2016-08-21 18:03:38 +0000 UTC]

now this is a very interesting design!

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ElectricMaren [2016-08-16 04:08:25 +0000 UTC]

aaa i love this design!!!! the palette works well for nights too

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MyLittleMaren [2016-08-15 19:37:15 +0000 UTC]

I... I feel silly now, but my first thought was neither "moth" nor "mantis", but rather "rabbit"
Either way, the design is lovely! I hope to see more!

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Acrosanti In reply to MyLittleMaren [2016-08-15 22:07:58 +0000 UTC]

I can kinda see why you'd think that, now that you mention it. She is loosely based on a very specific species  of mantis that doesn't have your typical mantis colors/morphology, so. Yeah. Probably not something that would be very obvious at first glance. d:

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MyLittleMaren In reply to Acrosanti [2016-08-16 10:48:28 +0000 UTC]

Oh my, but now that you've shown me that beautiful mantis I can definitely see a resemblance! OuO

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Acynosure [2016-08-15 03:14:43 +0000 UTC]

This is a really cool design dude! What's so interesting about it is that it can mesh with the Nights characters while also doubling as an OC- like I don't think you'd have to change the design much if you ever wanted to make it original some day.
I love this colors on this thing. And bugs. oh and i feel you on the oc thing ahaha

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Acrosanti In reply to Acynosure [2016-08-15 22:10:00 +0000 UTC]

Aah thanks! I seem to have this unspoken rule where I have to make fancharacters look juuust so, so that if I decide to pull them out of fan-related territory I wouldn't have to change too much of their design. I do get worried though that they don't quite fit the universe design aesthetic, but I'm glad to hear that in this case it works!

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RoxasPikachu [2016-08-15 03:09:09 +0000 UTC]

pretty! i wanna draw her!

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Draconia4 [2016-08-14 22:53:34 +0000 UTC]

wow, I love her!

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PantherFlint [2016-08-14 22:09:55 +0000 UTC]

So beautiful. I've been trying to make cute and cool creatures like you do, but the shape designs just aren't coming together. How do you do it?

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