Trying to fix an old character: Jessie
3 years ago
Who remembers her? xD
An old fan favorite for reasons unclear to me. It's not that I forgot, why. It's always been unclear I often wonder if it is more for her body, her quirks, or her antics. Her being a mad scientist??? I don't know.
The most common fetishes I drew of her involve pregnancy, pheromones, farting, scat, and being a thick cow. Not a literal cow. I could just tack on hypnotism and corruption to the list, but I'm super not sure about the latter because only she's not corrupting anyone or is undergoing any corruption in the pics even though she already is corrupted/mutated.
A red fox woman mad scientist gets herself mutated by experimenting on herself. This changed her body. Her muscles grew thicker, especially her legs, butt, and general hip area. Her eyes glow pink and the whites in her eyes are green. Her organs swelled, particularly in her midsection, so without surgery, the thinnest her waste can be would still make her look fat. She developed weak telekinesis powers, allowing her to lift extremely light objects or aid herself in movement. Every odor from her body emits a pheromone that makes anyone lust for her like depraved(?) animals, which she takes advantage of. Due to heavy scarring in her nose, she cannot smell, so it is unclear if she is truly immune to her own pheromone. Her lab complex is in a super secluded place that is practically a void where only she and whomever else in there. She is very out going, and often hides her odors so that she doesn't have a mob chasing her. Has a love for gardening*. She dyes her hairdo purple.
There's more, but this is the most solid and coherent of a description I can give. And this is what we're working with. Like at one point I written that she acts as if she honestly believes she's a succubus. Thanks to her pheromones she could totally pull the act off, but there's a problem with this. Two actually, but this one big one, even though I could play with it once or twice. 1) It felt edgy in a very tacky way and 2) the BIG ONE, why would she be hiding her odor then? Or more importantly, she'd have a bad case of being INCOMPATIBLE WITH SOCIETY and LIFE. How does she get the chance to breathe, have peace and quiet alone or with someone, or not get locked up in prison in a hot flash??? So naturally that angle was abandoned.
* Where are the gardening pics? Good question!
She has a twin brother of the same name. He will not be the subject here, and to fix him, I need to fix Jessie first.
Jessie's origin has changed several times leading to this very unspecific explanation. What was the problem? I didn't like it anymore, leading to that. But I don't like this.
What does Jessie specialize in? That too had changed several times to it was eventually made both unclear and un-emphasized. Starting with bio weapons or whatever, to weapons, to nothing in particular, to bio organic alterations*. At one point I was thinking maybe she's a mad scientist for gardening things. Then I stopped liking it and wanted it to be nothing or just gone.
*Some may recall that a few of the last pics I drew of her, I was changing her design a bit, mostly just adding small cow horns on her. I was feeling like I wanna play on her being a fat cow a little more literally, like the mutation is slowly turning her into a cow. But I quickly went down with crippling indecisiveness trying to figure out if I wanna go back on it, just keep the horns and not continue past that or keep going with that, while not wanting it anymore. Udder? No udder? Big? Still short like a fox? 2 boobs? 4 boobs? And so on. I had hoped to get some feedback without surveying anyone, but got nothing on anything except that she's better off with 2 really fat tits. On the bright side the lack of feedback might mean that peeps liked it either way, but that's now in hindsight. But the reason why her specialty was changed to bio organic alterations was to justify these both her being a mad scientist and why her body isn't normal. I didn't like both that and why I went with it. Felt too closed ended.
So what is the problem with all of this? I stopped liking it. For every thing I wanted to do, I didn't cuz I'd always want to change something first.
What is the most common thing that I wanted to change? Either her specialty and backstory, both of which have something to do with her body, so by extension, her body too.
At one point I was thinking of making her a taur, but I'm super iffy about that. There's a certain appeal to having just two legs that is lost with a whole bottom body.
At one point, I was thinking of making her an actual soul sucking succubus who gets really fat off of the souls she consumed. I got iffy because a certain appeal to her being normal (as can be) is lost with her being a demon. Or at least not like this: just to fix a problem.
So I thought:
What if she isn't a mad scientist? But what would she be if not that? Gardener? Farmer? Or is simply jobless?
What if I just make her base be open to be corrupted instead of being corrupted at base?
What if she just takes a lot of supplements and ended up being mostly like that? Even the pheromones would stay, AND have an ON/OFF factor to it. Like chugging love potions
But then, what about her glowing pink eyes? Do I want to keep that?
To keep her short and heavy? Or to make her somewhat tall and heavy?
What if she's trashy? Or was she trashy already? >.>
Does she have bangs or does she go all natural with her fur and mane?
Writing this down makes it seem like I'm finally getting close to drawing her again. Before writing this, I didn't believe I was, but I got so wound up with the uncertainty surrounding all of this to see that. What DID people like her for? Am I going to ruin that? Because of that I really wanted to hold onto the parts that either made her problematic or made me turn her into a incoherent mess. But whatever. I'm over it. I just hope that whatever I do with her sticks.
An old fan favorite for reasons unclear to me. It's not that I forgot, why. It's always been unclear I often wonder if it is more for her body, her quirks, or her antics. Her being a mad scientist??? I don't know.
The most common fetishes I drew of her involve pregnancy, pheromones, farting, scat, and being a thick cow. Not a literal cow. I could just tack on hypnotism and corruption to the list, but I'm super not sure about the latter because only she's not corrupting anyone or is undergoing any corruption in the pics even though she already is corrupted/mutated.
A red fox woman mad scientist gets herself mutated by experimenting on herself. This changed her body. Her muscles grew thicker, especially her legs, butt, and general hip area. Her eyes glow pink and the whites in her eyes are green. Her organs swelled, particularly in her midsection, so without surgery, the thinnest her waste can be would still make her look fat. She developed weak telekinesis powers, allowing her to lift extremely light objects or aid herself in movement. Every odor from her body emits a pheromone that makes anyone lust for her like depraved(?) animals, which she takes advantage of. Due to heavy scarring in her nose, she cannot smell, so it is unclear if she is truly immune to her own pheromone. Her lab complex is in a super secluded place that is practically a void where only she and whomever else in there. She is very out going, and often hides her odors so that she doesn't have a mob chasing her. Has a love for gardening*. She dyes her hairdo purple.
There's more, but this is the most solid and coherent of a description I can give. And this is what we're working with. Like at one point I written that she acts as if she honestly believes she's a succubus. Thanks to her pheromones she could totally pull the act off, but there's a problem with this. Two actually, but this one big one, even though I could play with it once or twice. 1) It felt edgy in a very tacky way and 2) the BIG ONE, why would she be hiding her odor then? Or more importantly, she'd have a bad case of being INCOMPATIBLE WITH SOCIETY and LIFE. How does she get the chance to breathe, have peace and quiet alone or with someone, or not get locked up in prison in a hot flash??? So naturally that angle was abandoned.
* Where are the gardening pics? Good question!
She has a twin brother of the same name. He will not be the subject here, and to fix him, I need to fix Jessie first.
Jessie's origin has changed several times leading to this very unspecific explanation. What was the problem? I didn't like it anymore, leading to that. But I don't like this.
What does Jessie specialize in? That too had changed several times to it was eventually made both unclear and un-emphasized. Starting with bio weapons or whatever, to weapons, to nothing in particular, to bio organic alterations*. At one point I was thinking maybe she's a mad scientist for gardening things. Then I stopped liking it and wanted it to be nothing or just gone.
*Some may recall that a few of the last pics I drew of her, I was changing her design a bit, mostly just adding small cow horns on her. I was feeling like I wanna play on her being a fat cow a little more literally, like the mutation is slowly turning her into a cow. But I quickly went down with crippling indecisiveness trying to figure out if I wanna go back on it, just keep the horns and not continue past that or keep going with that, while not wanting it anymore. Udder? No udder? Big? Still short like a fox? 2 boobs? 4 boobs? And so on. I had hoped to get some feedback without surveying anyone, but got nothing on anything except that she's better off with 2 really fat tits. On the bright side the lack of feedback might mean that peeps liked it either way, but that's now in hindsight. But the reason why her specialty was changed to bio organic alterations was to justify these both her being a mad scientist and why her body isn't normal. I didn't like both that and why I went with it. Felt too closed ended.
So what is the problem with all of this? I stopped liking it. For every thing I wanted to do, I didn't cuz I'd always want to change something first.
What is the most common thing that I wanted to change? Either her specialty and backstory, both of which have something to do with her body, so by extension, her body too.
At one point I was thinking of making her a taur, but I'm super iffy about that. There's a certain appeal to having just two legs that is lost with a whole bottom body.
At one point, I was thinking of making her an actual soul sucking succubus who gets really fat off of the souls she consumed. I got iffy because a certain appeal to her being normal (as can be) is lost with her being a demon. Or at least not like this: just to fix a problem.
So I thought:
What if she isn't a mad scientist? But what would she be if not that? Gardener? Farmer? Or is simply jobless?
What if I just make her base be open to be corrupted instead of being corrupted at base?
What if she just takes a lot of supplements and ended up being mostly like that? Even the pheromones would stay, AND have an ON/OFF factor to it. Like chugging love potions
But then, what about her glowing pink eyes? Do I want to keep that?
To keep her short and heavy? Or to make her somewhat tall and heavy?
What if she's trashy? Or was she trashy already? >.>
Does she have bangs or does she go all natural with her fur and mane?
Writing this down makes it seem like I'm finally getting close to drawing her again. Before writing this, I didn't believe I was, but I got so wound up with the uncertainty surrounding all of this to see that. What DID people like her for? Am I going to ruin that? Because of that I really wanted to hold onto the parts that either made her problematic or made me turn her into a incoherent mess. But whatever. I'm over it. I just hope that whatever I do with her sticks.
I can't say I really loved her as a "character", as I mostly loved the how she looked (pre-cowhorns), and even then I might've just liked her purely as I have a huge thing for red foxes.
I've never really cared much for the lore/backstories in pictures, as I find it's secondary to the visual aspect.
Interesting vent though, hopefully you get around and make her something you're satisfied with.
But yeah, I'm usually don't care too much about backstories. Not that I don't write any at all. Most of the time it's to establish some part of their shtick, but Jessie's....everything was tied to it. So I'm definitely going to prune that a ton and make sure it's not THAT important to her character ever again. And there won't be cowhorns. xD