Put your heart back in your pocket, pick your love up off the floor
Three couples. Three firsts. Three relationships that won't work, but won't be forgotten.
And, because I can't help but attach a complex backstory and emotional history to every character I make, no matter how spur of the moment they may be, here's some tl;dr character notes for ya (honestly, I could write paragraphs on each character, but I tried to condense it XD). I came up with all of this as I was drawing them so yeahhhhh
Anna and Nicole
Oh Anna. They were friends since meeting in grade school and started "dating" in high school. Nicole is a year older than Anna so little freshman Anna entered high school with a secret sophomore girlfriend and a huge sense of inferiority. Nicole was bisexual, outgoing, confident, and of course, gorgeous, and Anna never understood what Nicole saw in her! Nicole mainly saw what everyone with freckles completely fails to see: that freckles are totally adorable. They broke up after a few months because Nicole was tired of keeping it a secret and Anna was afraid to tell her mom. Oh Anna.
Patrick and Rumiko
Rumiko is a Japanese exchange student attending university on the east coast. Patrick is a middle class kid who'd rather hang out in a garage playing guitar, but his parents would rather he graduate college and have a career. He's Rumiko's first American boyfriend and she loves him to death, but she wishes he'd wear something nicer than band shirts sometimes. Patrick won't be a dick and say it, but he kinda wishes she'd put out more. They break up when Pat finally drops out of uni and moves to LA with some of his screwball friends.
Mark and Joseph
(This was the hardest couple to write, because I was trying so hard to make them non-fan-service-y (damn you yaoi fangirls XD) that I accidentally ended up with a really insincere couple. I don't think that two men can't have a strong relationship or anything like that. orz|| But! Here we go anyway! ^^;;)
Joseph is the fifth and youngest son of a good Christian family from SoCal. His parents wanted him to grow up, get a good job, and marry a nice Christian lady. He grows up, moves to San Fransisco, and gets a hip gay boyfriend. It's a bittersweet coming out, but he's out. Mark has, obviously, been out of the closet since the day he was born, and Joseph is just his "cute Mexican boyfriend" for the moment. Joseph totally understands that he's not much more than a novelty to Mark, but he's so in love with the idea of actually being with a guy that the relationship lasts longer than anyone would have expected.
Confession time: Joseph was very directly inspired by someone I once knew (and had a rather embarrassing--and luckily, secret--crush on). He was very not stereotypically gay and I had almost no gay-dar at the time anyway, so that's my excuse... Anyway, one day a female friend of mine said, "I have something to tell you! You know what (Joseph) told me last night on the phone?" And right away I was like oh, he's gay, isn't he? XD I guess I knew deep down. It was weird because the thought hadn't even occurred to me before, yet I knew I was right. But yeah. THAT'S THE STORY.
By the way, I've fallen out of touch with him and that female friend, so IRL friends on here, STOP GUESSING. You've never met either of them. :P
Of all these couples, I like Nicole and Anna the best. They feel the most real to me. I kinda want to write more about them.
Speaking of lesbians, I am pretty pissed off right now. The close-mindedness of some people continues to astound me.
In other news: I just spent the last few hours bashing my brains out trying to write a personal statement for UHH's scholarship application (and not getting more than a paragraph out of it, despite writing a couple pages worth by now), and decided to log on to the site to double check the guidelines. To find that the deadline was March 3rd. Over a week ago.
I can feel my stomach folding in on itself like a black hole.
Do you ever feel like a complete failure? Because right now. I feel like a complete failure.
Song of the day: "The Futile" by Say Anything (language warning jsyk)
And, because I can't help but attach a complex backstory and emotional history to every character I make, no matter how spur of the moment they may be, here's some tl;dr character notes for ya (honestly, I could write paragraphs on each character, but I tried to condense it XD). I came up with all of this as I was drawing them so yeahhhhh
Anna and Nicole
Oh Anna. They were friends since meeting in grade school and started "dating" in high school. Nicole is a year older than Anna so little freshman Anna entered high school with a secret sophomore girlfriend and a huge sense of inferiority. Nicole was bisexual, outgoing, confident, and of course, gorgeous, and Anna never understood what Nicole saw in her! Nicole mainly saw what everyone with freckles completely fails to see: that freckles are totally adorable. They broke up after a few months because Nicole was tired of keeping it a secret and Anna was afraid to tell her mom. Oh Anna.
Patrick and Rumiko
Rumiko is a Japanese exchange student attending university on the east coast. Patrick is a middle class kid who'd rather hang out in a garage playing guitar, but his parents would rather he graduate college and have a career. He's Rumiko's first American boyfriend and she loves him to death, but she wishes he'd wear something nicer than band shirts sometimes. Patrick won't be a dick and say it, but he kinda wishes she'd put out more. They break up when Pat finally drops out of uni and moves to LA with some of his screwball friends.
Mark and Joseph
(This was the hardest couple to write, because I was trying so hard to make them non-fan-service-y (damn you yaoi fangirls XD) that I accidentally ended up with a really insincere couple. I don't think that two men can't have a strong relationship or anything like that. orz|| But! Here we go anyway! ^^;;)
Joseph is the fifth and youngest son of a good Christian family from SoCal. His parents wanted him to grow up, get a good job, and marry a nice Christian lady. He grows up, moves to San Fransisco, and gets a hip gay boyfriend. It's a bittersweet coming out, but he's out. Mark has, obviously, been out of the closet since the day he was born, and Joseph is just his "cute Mexican boyfriend" for the moment. Joseph totally understands that he's not much more than a novelty to Mark, but he's so in love with the idea of actually being with a guy that the relationship lasts longer than anyone would have expected.
Confession time: Joseph was very directly inspired by someone I once knew (and had a rather embarrassing--and luckily, secret--crush on). He was very not stereotypically gay and I had almost no gay-dar at the time anyway, so that's my excuse... Anyway, one day a female friend of mine said, "I have something to tell you! You know what (Joseph) told me last night on the phone?" And right away I was like oh, he's gay, isn't he? XD I guess I knew deep down. It was weird because the thought hadn't even occurred to me before, yet I knew I was right. But yeah. THAT'S THE STORY.
By the way, I've fallen out of touch with him and that female friend, so IRL friends on here, STOP GUESSING. You've never met either of them. :P
Of all these couples, I like Nicole and Anna the best. They feel the most real to me. I kinda want to write more about them.
Speaking of lesbians, I am pretty pissed off right now. The close-mindedness of some people continues to astound me.
In other news: I just spent the last few hours bashing my brains out trying to write a personal statement for UHH's scholarship application (and not getting more than a paragraph out of it, despite writing a couple pages worth by now), and decided to log on to the site to double check the guidelines. To find that the deadline was March 3rd. Over a week ago.
I can feel my stomach folding in on itself like a black hole.
Do you ever feel like a complete failure? Because right now. I feel like a complete failure.
Song of the day: "The Futile" by Say Anything (language warning jsyk)