Neon’s A Doll A Day… Again (2020)

[neon_jellyfish]

There's a very good spooky feel here!

Glad to hear that, she's an Oddling, so spooky is the way to go!

You know that over here we worship the very ground that Beatrix Brasschester walks on... or the air that she flies in... right?

Oh, the way her hair seems to fly in the wind, even when she is grounded and not sporting her goggles! I suspect Beatrix has her own zephyr spirits or some such thing that follow her around to ensure she always appears to be airborne.

I know. Beatrix knows too, and she's very flattered.

You're not that far from truth, Oddlings, on account of living in a land soaked with magic, are all magic themselves, although to different degrees. Some of them don't really care all that much, but they tend to lean towards occupations and hobbies aligned with their magic affinity, and be better than others at them. Beatrix can navigate the impenetrable sea of fog shrouding Oddwickshire without the special lenses, and wind always makes her hair beautiful and dramatic, instead of messing it up, so that makes me think that she has some type of air/wind magic. She just likes piloting an airship better.

Considering how ubiquitous magic is in Oddwickshire, a lot of my characters don't seem to care - they have other things going on, and they only use a bit of magic to support those things. Out of 16 shelled ones, only four (and two of them aren't human) are powerful magic users, one uses considerable amounts of magic, but not as strong, and the rest only practises very little magic, or none at all.

Her Insane Majesty would be a very rare case of a non-magical Oddling, as she cannot learn any magic -  t seems like Rosamunda was born with all the magic, and when her lil' sis the Queen was born, there wasn't any left for her. Though lately, I've been thinking that her Royal Presence that prevents anyone from disobeying goes beyond the usual aura of authority and confidence, so maybe her little bit of magic simply manifested in an unusual way.

Beatrix is owning that picture.

Thank you!!!

Beatrix looks amazing - I’m with Davidd that she’s got her own flotilla of air spirits following her around to make her look just right.

Thanks!!! Not exactly spirits, but yes, the wind is her friend (and obviously in love with her hair. I totally get why).



Day 291

Winter ravens are here! Arrival of winter ravens is one of the most important 'events' in my year, so I'm super happy. I couldn't take a photo, they looked like tiny black pixels, eventhough they were pretty close. I guess I would need a better camera for that. So for now, here are some non-winter Ravens.

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I'd like to request your counsel regarding an Oddwickshire-related dilemma I can't seem to figure out. There's this place and its inhabitant(s), and the place and the character would fit into both Oddwickshire and the backstory I'm preparing for my BJDs (who still don't have faces, as I need to import some of the supplies from abroad, which is kinda difficult right now). I originally came up with this place as a part of Oddwickshire, but it would fit in both 'worlds', and its main character seems to really want to be shelled as a BJD. Plus I have an existing place that offered to take the role of this place in exchange for a proper name.

So, I've been pondering multiple options:

• decide to make it either a fully Oddwickshire or fully BJD place (but I'm afraid I wouldn't be able to stop thinking that I should have chosen the other option later on)
  
• make Oddwickshire interspecific and let other types of dolls in (but I'm not really good at combining multiple types and scales of dolls like werepuppy, I tend to strongly prefer separate 'verses for separate types)
  
• make that one place a crosspoint of sorts, existing in both worlds at once, where characters can pass from one world to the other one, and shell its character twice (that would be costly, but I could take my time with it, and since the place is kinda sorta dangerous, making it the only portal between the worlds could lead to some funny situations)
  

I'm mostly leaning towards the third option (but still not sure), then I would consider the first one, and I'm not really feeling the second one. What would you do? Thanks!