It's your typical high school teenage drama. Only with tentacles.
This is a project spawned from the character concept of 'Muffin' Information on Muffin, his origin, and other such fun facts can be found in the many pages of Slim's comic thread. The main character is, of course, muffin.
Here is muffin' bio. The categorie wth qustion marks are details we have not decided. Please post your ideas.
Name: Muffin
Full Name: (?)
Eyes: Grey
Hair: Purple
Tentacles: Pinkish Gaian squid red
Ears/Paws: Foxy colored red.
Skintone: Sanzo color with a slight tan.
Age: 15
Height: With tentacles- 16' :: Without tentacles-5'4".
Weight: We'll just not bring this up. He's 'light', though. No specific number.
Sexuality: Straight, but for many reasons people beleive him to be bi.
Personality/transformation abilities: (?)
Appearance:
When not in squiddy form, he looks perfectly human save the fox ears and paws, which for some reason nobody recognizes.
*a Muffin Bio, manga summary, links, plot ideas, and other such things soon coming to a post near you! A.K.A. This one!*
THE PLOT IDEAS!!!
Quote:
here they are, in no particular order. They will also be added to the list as they are posted. The writers, artists and storyboarders should try and include these ideas, as it is the ATGer's manga too.....
----Celestial Burden-
I'll live like....five or six streets away.
------wakusei
I wanna live across the street so I can easily spy in my nosey ways.
------ Random 'where does everybody live' comments.
"I really do think he should live with mom&dad&roomie but you can live there too, Undakai, and I can just..... show up, sometimes. I'll have a house too, though. Just not exactly super-close bye.
"The main reason I suggest the rich uncle is because he would probably be able to accomidate the "freak" better then anyone else, using his money to make a room specifically for him, and a back yard partially customized for him." (meaning WATER! maybe they live by the ocean so he cam go swimming....)
"Jimmy would need specialness too. Whose side of the family are you on, Undakai? Jimmy or Sanzo's? " (he's on sanzo's side)
"BETTER IDEA! They all live at your place! The reason I say that is because his parents are already kind of major characters, right? They kind of have to be there."
--- Jimmy
He deserves to follow his dreams, and be as regular as we can pass him off for. At least that's how I want to raise him... And I AM his father...
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"I wanna see tentacled fox-babies!"
"And thus was Muffin born."
"An amazing beginning."
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3) Roomie shant be in any shonen-ai/yaoi, ya! This is a rule!
----
1) How bout we keep his sexual prefrence on females, but due to a couple of misunderstandings with some guys and/or girls, people think he's constantly changing teams.
---- Wakusei
I'm all up for my nosey character to have a hinting feeling of Muffin's changing ability...so I like to, hey, be nosey, to try and figure it out. Partly out of curiousity, and partly because I know the guy would be great for both my potato and porn business...
---Komodo, Mut and Celestial support these ideas!!
"Tell you what, we could have him get sexually ssaulted by the male stalker just for the sake of Yaoi, but he could still be straight."
"The yaoi will certaintly add to the story and make it more enjoyable to read..for me at least."
--
Female (Celestial) best friend secretly has crush on him?
Girl he has crush on is a shallow, popular mean girl jerk?
----(long discussion about what noises Muffin could make.)
"Should Muffin be able to make fox noises, or squid noises? What are fox noises? -_O? Do squids even make noise?"
"Perhaps a "Yip" or some type of high pitched yalp."
"I think "yip" works just fine, afterall, foxes are part of the canine family...so Yips and Growls should work"
"Sounds great, I like it. I don't think squids make noises, though, so we can just... kind a.....
*Sweeps 'squid noise' idea under the rug*"
"a squid can go "squish"."
"*Steps on the lump in the rug so it stops making noises.*
His tentacles can make squishy noises if they get stepped on or are squished.
Like if you tried to pick him up, his tentacles would go *squelsh*"
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"Can't squids shoot ink?"
"Umm.......
*Also sweeps that idea under the rug*"
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"*dirty thoughts* eww... "
"*hands potato*"
"what do i do with a potato?"
"You think of the potato, and it cleanses your mind of the ...mental images. Unless of course you want the mental images."
----
That can be the chibi version. We are going to use chibi occasionally, right? The manga series I followed the most enthusiastically was .Hack, and it would use chibis quite effectively in some of the panals.
---
And I say people should always feel free to add in any omake fun/random fanart as this thing is being done.
^^ (we can use this on title pages, cover art, etc....)
----
"....Or maybe his rival could be female. What do you guys think?"
"I can see that working. How exactly are they rivals?"
"Well he or she would always be tormenting him of his squiddyness and finding ways to make him miserable. they should be very threatening and mean, a real formidible slightly disturbingly scary person.
The plot device that made the rival hate him is up to the writers."
---- Random skirt-related comments.
"Four tentacles in one leg and four in the other? Or... *rip!*
Could be one of the factors that make him so uncomfortable about his squidness and leary of water when he's in public."
"The skirt bit can contribute to why people mistake him for bi."
"Everyone at school can make fun of him (He does not wear it to school though due to school uniforms- they simply see him wearing it outside of school.) and a call it a girl's skirt when really it's called a...MAN-SKIRT!!!
Edit: We can have Muffin and some his friends the only ones calling it a Man-Skirt."
---- random tentacle-related comments/
"At one point his rival should dump water all over him when he's at school."
"How does he transform back into a human? When he's dry? Is there a certain amount of time that needs to pass?"
"Yes, that's it! When he's dry! I went with the rules applied to most mer-folk transformations.(And I'd say about an hour, maybe, because having a delayed return to humanoid form could make for more interesting dillemas.)
"If he's wearing the skirt, he probably isn't tentacley at the moment. Technically when he's tentacley he doesn't need to wear clothes. He can't walk on his tentacles, he's pretty much immobile on land if he ever gets wet."
"heh...and he goes underwearless =/"
"err.... jee, I guess.... maybe not at school, though, cuz of gym class or something...."
-----
"He can drag himself around by his arms if he's tentacley on land, I would think."
"Oh, and yes, I figure he could drag himself around, but that's not very comfortable and is also very very tiring (looong tentacles and scrawny bishie arms) so yes, as a last resort but I personally think he would prefer to be carried."
"He must need to bathe in one really big tub, eh?" (Maybe not super-big, as he could kind of curl his tentacles around him, but a little bigger than normal.)
----
"Why don't those full-body things be links so as not to make everything so scrolly?"
"I figured were were making this maga/book-equivalent. They do it a lot in mangas really effectively to introduce the characters. On the first page the character shows up, along with the panals there's a modestly sized place (pretty big) to draw the entire character. But if this is entirewly web-site ish then actually that's a better idea. The storyboarder will just need a place to put the links on the picture. "
"Really? Of all the manga I have, the character part at the beginning is usually just a small image or just a bunch of headshots...? But your idea could work. I mean, I'm not one of the artists so that's all your department."
"it's really a decision for the storyboarder, but we need to decide if it's weby or booky.."
---
his rival should knock him out or something and sell him to a freakshow/circus/zoo
--
----Celestial Burden-
I'll live like....five or six streets away.
------wakusei
I wanna live across the street so I can easily spy in my nosey ways.
------ Random 'where does everybody live' comments.
"I really do think he should live with mom&dad&roomie but you can live there too, Undakai, and I can just..... show up, sometimes. I'll have a house too, though. Just not exactly super-close bye.
"The main reason I suggest the rich uncle is because he would probably be able to accomidate the "freak" better then anyone else, using his money to make a room specifically for him, and a back yard partially customized for him." (meaning WATER! maybe they live by the ocean so he cam go swimming....)
"Jimmy would need specialness too. Whose side of the family are you on, Undakai? Jimmy or Sanzo's? " (he's on sanzo's side)
"BETTER IDEA! They all live at your place! The reason I say that is because his parents are already kind of major characters, right? They kind of have to be there."
--- Jimmy
He deserves to follow his dreams, and be as regular as we can pass him off for. At least that's how I want to raise him... And I AM his father...
----
"I wanna see tentacled fox-babies!"
"And thus was Muffin born."
"An amazing beginning."
----
3) Roomie shant be in any shonen-ai/yaoi, ya! This is a rule!
----
1) How bout we keep his sexual prefrence on females, but due to a couple of misunderstandings with some guys and/or girls, people think he's constantly changing teams.
---- Wakusei
I'm all up for my nosey character to have a hinting feeling of Muffin's changing ability...so I like to, hey, be nosey, to try and figure it out. Partly out of curiousity, and partly because I know the guy would be great for both my potato and porn business...
---Komodo, Mut and Celestial support these ideas!!
"Tell you what, we could have him get sexually ssaulted by the male stalker just for the sake of Yaoi, but he could still be straight."
"The yaoi will certaintly add to the story and make it more enjoyable to read..for me at least."
--
Female (Celestial) best friend secretly has crush on him?
Girl he has crush on is a shallow, popular mean girl jerk?
----(long discussion about what noises Muffin could make.)
"Should Muffin be able to make fox noises, or squid noises? What are fox noises? -_O? Do squids even make noise?"
"Perhaps a "Yip" or some type of high pitched yalp."
"I think "yip" works just fine, afterall, foxes are part of the canine family...so Yips and Growls should work"
"Sounds great, I like it. I don't think squids make noises, though, so we can just... kind a.....
*Sweeps 'squid noise' idea under the rug*"
"a squid can go "squish"."
"*Steps on the lump in the rug so it stops making noises.*
His tentacles can make squishy noises if they get stepped on or are squished.
Like if you tried to pick him up, his tentacles would go *squelsh*"
------
"Can't squids shoot ink?"
"Umm.......
*Also sweeps that idea under the rug*"
----
"*dirty thoughts* eww... "
"*hands potato*"
"what do i do with a potato?"
"You think of the potato, and it cleanses your mind of the ...mental images. Unless of course you want the mental images."
----
That can be the chibi version. We are going to use chibi occasionally, right? The manga series I followed the most enthusiastically was .Hack, and it would use chibis quite effectively in some of the panals.
---
And I say people should always feel free to add in any omake fun/random fanart as this thing is being done.
^^ (we can use this on title pages, cover art, etc....)
----
"....Or maybe his rival could be female. What do you guys think?"
"I can see that working. How exactly are they rivals?"
"Well he or she would always be tormenting him of his squiddyness and finding ways to make him miserable. they should be very threatening and mean, a real formidible slightly disturbingly scary person.
The plot device that made the rival hate him is up to the writers."
---- Random skirt-related comments.
"Four tentacles in one leg and four in the other? Or... *rip!*
Could be one of the factors that make him so uncomfortable about his squidness and leary of water when he's in public."
"The skirt bit can contribute to why people mistake him for bi."
"Everyone at school can make fun of him (He does not wear it to school though due to school uniforms- they simply see him wearing it outside of school.) and a call it a girl's skirt when really it's called a...MAN-SKIRT!!!
Edit: We can have Muffin and some his friends the only ones calling it a Man-Skirt."
---- random tentacle-related comments/
"At one point his rival should dump water all over him when he's at school."
"How does he transform back into a human? When he's dry? Is there a certain amount of time that needs to pass?"
"Yes, that's it! When he's dry! I went with the rules applied to most mer-folk transformations.(And I'd say about an hour, maybe, because having a delayed return to humanoid form could make for more interesting dillemas.)
"If he's wearing the skirt, he probably isn't tentacley at the moment. Technically when he's tentacley he doesn't need to wear clothes. He can't walk on his tentacles, he's pretty much immobile on land if he ever gets wet."
"heh...and he goes underwearless =/"
"err.... jee, I guess.... maybe not at school, though, cuz of gym class or something...."
-----
"He can drag himself around by his arms if he's tentacley on land, I would think."
"Oh, and yes, I figure he could drag himself around, but that's not very comfortable and is also very very tiring (looong tentacles and scrawny bishie arms) so yes, as a last resort but I personally think he would prefer to be carried."
"He must need to bathe in one really big tub, eh?" (Maybe not super-big, as he could kind of curl his tentacles around him, but a little bigger than normal.)
----
"Why don't those full-body things be links so as not to make everything so scrolly?"
"I figured were were making this maga/book-equivalent. They do it a lot in mangas really effectively to introduce the characters. On the first page the character shows up, along with the panals there's a modestly sized place (pretty big) to draw the entire character. But if this is entirewly web-site ish then actually that's a better idea. The storyboarder will just need a place to put the links on the picture. "
"Really? Of all the manga I have, the character part at the beginning is usually just a small image or just a bunch of headshots...? But your idea could work. I mean, I'm not one of the artists so that's all your department."
"it's really a decision for the storyboarder, but we need to decide if it's weby or booky.."
---
his rival should knock him out or something and sell him to a freakshow/circus/zoo
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