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— Sticks Bingen
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#design
#librarian
#oc
#referencesheet
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Description
Hmmm, how best to describe this character?
So, Hypatia "Sticks" Bingen just really needs to be stopped. Her friends call her Sticks because she has the personality of someone who snorted pixie sticks as a kid and just never came back down. She is the living embodiment of the Kirby inhale sound effect. She's also, somehow, Eagle Crest's town librarian and archivist extraordinaire. To be fair, she is capable of using her inside voice. It's not so much her volume as it is her complete lack of punctuation. She knows where every book is. Every book. Even the ones not in the library. It can be a hassle sometimes. Once you get her talking, the only way to get a word in edgewise is to wait for her to take a breath (a shockingly rare occurrence) or manually clasp her mouth shut. It's okay, she doesn't mind. She knows what she's like. Despite her overactive communication skills, she's still the team's go-to for finding all sorts of obscure research and rare books buried deep in the library's catalog and beyond.
Design notes, initially I was thinking of making her all pink, just full on bubblegum and cotton candy themed. However, I decided that was a bit much. I wasn't making a clown, I was making a librarian. I want to experiment with the idea of a quiet comic relief character. More often than not they're always bouncing around and screaming obnoxious nonsense, but it doesn't have to be that way. For Sticks, she talks a lot (like, a lot) but a lot of the time it's in whispers that she's in a constant battle to keep below a certain volume before she runs out of breath and/or explodes. She's played for laughs, but she still very much takes her job seriously. So instead of bubblegum, I went with a more Neapolitan color scheme. Formal enough to be worn at the library, but with a few pink hints itching to peek through.
I hope you all appreciate what I do for you. I had to learn that clowncore is a thing that exists while gathering reference images for Sticks's design. If I didn't already suffer from night terrors I'd make a joke about never getting to sleep again.
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