Mark's Cast
Added 2020-07-09 15:42:58 +0000 UTCA very simplified concept-sheet for Mark and his most immediate cast of supporting characters. I'm not dumping any lore on anyone, just giving the briefest of bios for each character, focusing more on their personality than their history.
Mark is a dumb OC. I invented him at a time when just about every artist on HF (this was before Twitter, I think) had an OC, and I wanted to do what everyone else was doing. 'Mark the Adventurer' was always an intentionally awkward and corny name. He is supposed to be 'me,' but the 'me' I'd be if I had the strength, confidence, and lack of empathy necessary to become an anime-protagonist. He was never supposed to be taken seriously. He is, like me, a joke.
Key is actually a closer aproximation of myself, I think. (Mark, Key, Marky).
Cadence is just my unapologetic dream-girl. Blond, beautiful rich, happy, fun, intelligent, outgoing, loving, curious, feminine, but also a bit wicked and selfish, which I respect. D&D Barbie, basically.
Briar is Cadence's foil. That's basically it.
Tamora is the bad guy.
Thistle is there because I have a fetish for faeries like Tinkerbell.
I started doing Kee-Va and Brule because they're closer to what I think is 'cool,' but Mark is closer to my heart, since my heart is corny and stupid.
I transitioned him into being a Half-Dwarf as a concession to myself. I like Dwarves, and for some reason I just knew that if Mark was Human I'd lose interest in him. Retroactive-continuity is always jarring, but lots of us do it.
Most of my upcoming Mark ideas are very simply chuckle-jokes about rolling 'nat 20s,' or switching between classes, or finding out that God is just a cosmic DM. I've already got a comic about 1/3 done. It features Mark, Key, Thistle, and a trio of Goblins reminiscent of the Powerpuff Girls (since they seemed to be the winners of the last poll I did).
Thanks everyone! Drawing for you has been getting me through Corona. I would be drawing regardless, but it's fucking amazing that I'm getting paid for doing my hobby and I'm not homeless or jobless or dead! Holy shit.
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Tyler Nguyen
2020-07-13 19:18:51 +0000 UTCThat was my very first Mark comic! I was thinking of redrawing that for myself, but with the updated character designs.
2020-07-12 00:03:06 +0000 UTCDamn the Gorgon is hot, I loved that image where a Gorgon couldn't turn Mark completely to stone because he was wearing a 50% stone protection necklace.
Jiren
2020-07-11 23:21:07 +0000 UTCThe history of the planet is quite interesting, I like it.
Servo Kamen
2020-07-10 22:27:08 +0000 UTCCool, hope you do a Keeva Thistle cross over. Those two rock.
Master Dragon
2020-07-10 04:29:54 +0000 UTCBandara π’
makai9
2020-07-10 01:38:47 +0000 UTCThat's a really good idea.
2020-07-10 00:41:01 +0000 UTCOh, no. Sorry, I just included 'Thuinn' as a reference for the other side of my imagination. Mark's world doesn't have a name, since most of the characters in it are not cognizant of concepts like history, culture, or even causality. It's South Park. It's Loony Toons. They The characters can die in one comic and be alive in another without conflict, since nothing matters. These are just jokes. No 'lore.' Kee-Va and Thuinn have actual world-building, but I hate world-building. I think it's anti-creative.
2020-07-10 00:25:00 +0000 UTCYeah, but my energy is to focus on my on characters for a while, rather than parodying existing properties, but I hate to abandon a poll, so I'm just smooshing them together.
2020-07-10 00:22:29 +0000 UTClol. Yes. I'm writing this down.
2020-07-10 00:21:31 +0000 UTCCan you do a Skyrim series character page like this too?
2020-07-09 22:04:06 +0000 UTCSo mark and cave girls are in the same world? I hope to see a crossover along with bell.
RoosterFish
2020-07-09 20:42:55 +0000 UTCIts funny you mention the part about more non humans I think the same a lot as well. love Kee-va and Brule it is more cool lol but that is probably cause they are less dumb or you spend much more time laughing at their foes then at them.
John Smith
2020-07-09 20:08:59 +0000 UTCWait wasn't the power puff gals semi poll going to be about fallout 4?
Master Dragon
2020-07-09 18:46:19 +0000 UTCKeeva and Thistle rule. We need more of those two.
Master Dragon
2020-07-09 18:45:20 +0000 UTCIf you regret having them, be nonhuman, maybe Key could be a quarterling? (Extra funny idea, he blames his small dick on the halfling side to make an excuse to a girl, then she sees a bunch of actual halflings hung near to the ground)
Dantels
2020-07-09 17:47:59 +0000 UTCWhat a cast of quirky characters
Barcod
2020-07-09 17:07:50 +0000 UTCKee-Va is really hot.
Wild Bill
2020-07-09 16:24:36 +0000 UTC
