Character Adoption Addicts Anonymous - v.3 'CAAA' open!

[Desmond]

Do you think that Adoption Agencies dislike when people use small parts of the lyrics to a song in their form? Have you ever done it? If so, for what characters?

As a judge for POH, it does get a little distracting. xD My brain's a little... backwards, I guess one can say, and I always have to figure out the rhythm for the lyrics and it drives me batty for the rest of the form. :B So I tend to skip it, which is probably bad, since we also allow original poetry and who knows what I'm skipping! But it's the only way I can go through a form without going mad... so I guess it's for the best. At least if it's lyrics, I'm not missing much - I usually tend to not think of personalities in the sense of lyrics.

But I have written one form with lyrics, though it was a song everyone would know (so the rhythm would be just a matter of recall), and it really, truly, honestly fit the character. I built the personality and part of the story based entirely on the song. xD

[Vegtaboom]

I totally forgot to put those. OTL

Here are some of my best.

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They're both my characters but I designed them.

Payment... I'm useless with. |D
However, those two look really cute. ^^

Oh my gosh you guys. You make me feel so much better. Thank you. ^^

I must have missed this post before. They look so darn cute ;o;
( I'm bad with prices too ;o; I pretty much just pay what the artist wants )

[zet137]

Do you think that Adoption Agencies dislike when people use small parts of the lyrics to a song in their form? Have you ever done it? If so, for what characters?

I don't know about agenics. But personally, I don't get it.
Maybe a few lyrics or quote are okay, but a song is more than just lyrics. The tune, feel, instruments, etc. can all define a character. One of my character's theme song has no lyrics in it at all, how am I supposed to express it without getting people to listen to it?

Plus, deciding theme songs hurt the ones participating if they don't win.

[KenmilltoSky]

Selling these gorgeous babies here. <33


Also looking to buy characters in the same thread. ;D

[CaptiveLegacy]

Im looking for friends for this gal, anyone interested? c:

Gem

My rose makes your desires come true,

even though misfortune will come too..

[Wlyrout]

I'm gonna stream some feline designs, and I'll take suggestions. :3 You guys can give me a price, too. I don't really care, but I would like some profit. c: Using a free lineart from DA.

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[Jericho]

LARGE AMOUNT OF INFO BELOW!

1. I have many characters for sale. View-able here.

2. Updating my character website once more (got tons of new art and characters)

3. My Oekaki is not working at all so no art for right now (waiting for a mod to figure out what's wrong before I can finish working on art)

4. I have many characters that need art:

Solo piece - drawing of just that character
Group piece - drawing of one or more characters
Main piece - main drawing for their character page
reference piece - for getting more art!
(trying to get 5 solo pieces, 1 main piece, and 1 reference piece each)

Here's what I need (pm me if you want to do one or more!)

Comanche - None.
Cosmos - 1 solo
Daniel - None.
Demitri - 4 solo, 1 main
Gamble - 3 solo
Grafitti - None.
Heaven's Quake - 5 solo
Indy - None.
Jester - 4 solo
Lance - 5 solo
London - 4 solo, 1 main
Mudkip - 5 solo
Nnoi - 5 solo, 1 main
Panda - 5 solo, 1 main
Pocky - 3 solo, 1 main
Requin - 3 solo, 1 reference
Rock on Tommi - 2 solo
Rouge - 4 solo
Ryuu - 4 solo
Shadowless - 5 solo, 1 main
Shiko and Jennifer - 1 main, 3 solo
Shiloh's Battle Cry - 4 solo, 1 main
Skunks - 6 solo, 3 main
Skyerunner - None.
Sock - 5 solo
Sun and Moon - 10 solo
Takumi - 1 solo
Zero - None.
Un-named Wolf - 4 solo, 1 main, 1 reference
Un-named Red Panda - 1 main, 5 solo


EDIT: I also need name ideas for these two new characters!

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[Abissh]

I must have missed this post before. They look so darn cute ;o;
( I'm bad with prices too ;o; I pretty much just pay what the artist wants )

Thank you. ;w; And thanks Zoey! Yay I feel more like making designs now. XD

[Rabbitheart]

@Zoey ~ How about Peppermint Patty? ^^; Yeah, for some reason she made me think of the tomboy girl from The Peanuts. It's probably because the name seems to fit her. XD

Wow! Lots of answers for that one. I've only done it once and that was when I applied for Nitika. I used it as...well...a lead-in to the story I guess. XD I mean I was trying to come up with a story for Nitika and I had the lyrics from Rascal Flatts' song "Come Wake Me Up" stuck in my head and I realized that I could use that as my inspiration for the story.
That and plus I figured I had to do something to get the song out of my head. It's the only time I've ever done it and I don't know if I ever want to do it again. I have to say, Nitika's story is one that I'm the most proudest of. Don't ask me why, it just is. But knowing that and adding the fact that it was the winning form, I don't want to get overconfident and think that I've found the perfect formula to making a winning form and re-use it. That's just not my style. Besides, I like to give each story that I create for a character a bit of originality. If you look at Nitika's story and then look at either Lilac's or Isabella's stories, you'll notice some similarities. Let's not even go there with the fact that Isabella and Lilac both wound up riding on my fursona's back.
Anyway, currently, I'm about to try writing a story for a character from a first-person point of view for their form. I guess the reason why I like to make changes in how I do stories is so I can try out new or different styles and just sort of challenge myself and see if it works for me...and to keep my creativity running. I want to eventually try to do a story without relying on my other characters or my fursona, but when I do that, I end up applying for two characters, like I did with Lorelli and Kevlar. XD
Anyway, yeah. I'm talking way too much. I doubt anyone is even reading this. 0_0

Anyway, there's one thing I don't do though, or I haven't ever done and that was give character's theme songs. Really, for some reason it's just beyond me to give my characters theme songs. XD But when I use lyrics from a song I try to make sure that they do tie in somehow and I do it sparingly, just like how I do dividers. XD

@dieselium ~ What do you mean by that last part? About deciding theme songs hurting the ones participating if they don't win? Do you mean like if you're putting a character up for adoption and saying that their theme song is...I don't know...Break Away by Kelly Clarkson and the people participating don't know the song? Sorry, just trying to understand that last part. It just sort of confused me. XD

Also, new charrie:

Her name is Teri. ♥ I got her from Zoey who kindly gave her to me for free. XD I feel so bad getting things for free. It makes me feel guilty or something. Like I ought to be paying them something. ^^;

[zet137]

@dieselium ~ What do you mean by that last part? About deciding theme songs hurting the ones participating if they don't win? Do you mean like if you're putting a character up for adoption and saying that their theme song is...I don't know...Break Away by Kelly Clarkson and the people participating don't know the song? Sorry, just trying to understand that last part. It just sort of confused me. XD

Sorry I wasn't clear, I was on my phone and I writing lots of stuff hurts.

What I meant was, generally, for me, to decide a theme song for a character, I have to imagine that character to the music, I have to know them inside and out, I have to have fabricated a personality that somehow suits this song.

People always say that they put tons of love into forms for characters, and get really upset when they lose, I think choosing song lyrics is one cause of this.