May Prompts
May 2024 Prompt: Pop Culture
5/1/24 - 7/1/24 11:59pm ET
Has your Edeia starred in a movie or have they been featured in a magazine? Do they have a celebrity presence, in person or online? Do they produce content for entertainment independently or do work for agencies, and - as beings without physical needs - do they do so without pay, or do they seek non-monetary benefits? Do they maintain their fame or only occasionally appear on a whim?
Many Edeia are private individuals, but some may participate in "pop culture" - entertainment, news, fashion, and more.
You are welcome and encouraged to create fictional movies, magazines, agencies, etc.; this may be better than using something that exists in our modern world, especially considering that the "present" of this world is 100 years in the future.
Art Prompt 1:
Create artwork featuring your Edeia on a magazine cover, movie poster, fashion photoshoot, or other similar media.
The background can be simplified to something like a gradient; some text is required, along with a brief blurb explaining the context.
Art Prompt 2:
Create artwork of your Edeia engaging in some activity related to pop culture, e.g. shooting a movie scene, posing for a fashion photo, interacting with fans, attending a fancy party, etc.
Writing Prompt:
Write about your Edeia engaging in some activity related to pop culture.
Morph, Edeia of Gender Euphoria, featured on a (fictional) magazine called Euphoria, which reports on featuring genders, ways of gender expression, and providing resources for finding one's gender. Morph does not manage the magazine, but they provide much support to it.
May 2023 Prompt: Turning Point
5/6/23 - 6/6/23 11:59pm ET
At that moment, observing him at the brink of death, I descended. I called upon some strange power welling up within me, a power I did not fully understand. I asked him, "Are you satisfied dying here?" I asked him, "Would you fight against death if you could gain the strength to help others again?" He said, "Yes. Yes, if I could." And at that moment, something seemed to fall into place for me. I will help him, I thought. I will help him sacrifice all he is to better the world.
— Selva, previous form of Ascetic
The road to becoming an Edeia is not a simple one. There are events in their lives that shape them into who they are - turning points that are a defining moment for their identity. What is a significant moment in your Edeia's previous life?
Design Prompt:
Design your Edeia's previous form. It can be with or without the changes in appearance from their Idea magic.
Art Prompt:
Create artwork illustrating a significant moment in your Edeia's life, in their previous form. Was it a milestone in their personal journey? Was it their Actualization itself?
Options: for one character - fullbody or almost; for two characters - partial body (thighs/equivalent or more); three or more characters - halfbody (chest/equivalent up).
You can draw more of one character to draw less of another; for instance, one fullbody + one halfbody with two characters, or one partial body + one halfbody + one bust for three characters.
Fully colored and shaded.
Some background with some environment - can be blurry and/or undetailed, but it should give a sense of what kind of location they're in.
Optional: provide a little blurb about the situation, whether a reflection by the character, a summary of what the situation is, dialogue, etc.
Writing Prompt:
Write a scene illustrating a significant moment in your Edeia's life, in their previous form.
Minimum word count: 1200 words
May 2022 Prompt: Unity
5/1/22 - 5/31/22 11:59pm ET
The identity of an Edeia is the core of its being, yet from the very beginning, they could join with another to become a part of a new being.
You may make four submissions for this prompt, one design, one artwork, one writing, and an additional design or artwork with a fusion involving another owner's Edeia. The same or different designs/Edeia can be used for different types.
If you do not own any Edeia, you can use any Edeia owned by someone else with permission for all prompts, but you may only submit one of each.
Design Prompt:
Design a fusion. If it is between your own characters, at least one component must be an Edeia. For a fusion with another owner, it must involve Edeia from both of you.
Must be fullbody, clean, with no cropping
No background required, but you can add something if you like.
Please include their name, pronouns, and components.
An approved design will also be added to the fusion ML. You can provide a TH profile/tab link if you like.
If you are collaborating on the design, it will count for both of you, but you must complete additional requirements:
You must complete a conceptualization for the fusion, though no fields are optional. Note that you will not receive the additional artwork that is normally given - though I do something similar as a gift later if I am inspired and have the energy for it.
Age does not have to be exact, but please provide some sense of how long ago the fusion first came to be.
Height does not have to be exact and can be variable, but please provide something to get a sense at least. You can also put them on the Edeia Height Chart.
Refer to this for Abstraction info.
If you have a TH tab/profile for the fusion, please put the info in it. You can change it later, of course.
Art Prompt:
You have two options.
1. Draw artwork of a fusion illustrating some of their character - doing something they like, being somewhere they like, etc. The minimum requirements are as follows, though you are welcome to do more:
Options: for one character - fullbody or almost, allowing for artistic cropping; two characters - partial bodies (thighs/equivalent or more); three or more - halfbodies (chest/equivalent up). Only one must be a fusion.
Fully colored and shaded
Full color background with some sort of environment; does not need to be detailed or a full scene
2. Make an animation of your Edeia fusing. Minimum requirements:
colored, but can be rough
must have a fullbody representation of the involved Edeia and of the final fusion.
does not need to be high frame-rate, but the flow and movement should be clear.
You can also make an animation of fission and/or reintegration (re-fusing of fission parts).
Writing Prompt:
Write a scene involving your Edeia fusion. Perhaps they fuse for the first time, or perhaps they do some activity they usually do. Perhaps they fuse and unfuse and then discuss the experience with others. You may also write about fission fragments, so long as the fragments themselves are focused on.
Minimum word count: 1000 words
If you wish, you can turn on comment permissions on the submission doc to allow general critique from Auspice/mods on your writing. General audience should not comment in the doc itself.
If you collaborate on the writing, the minimum word count is 2000 words and will count for both of you.
May 2021 Prompt: Mermay
5/20/21 - 6/20/21 5pm PT
Draw your Edeia as a mer creature, i.e. a cross between an aquatic creature and their original (or alternate) form. The aquatic features do not need to represent a real animal, but can be inspired by any aquatic animal.
Note: as Edeia can shapeshift, this can be a form they choose to take at any point, or you can just draw it for fun.
Design Requirements:
Design your Edeia as a mer creature, i.e. a cross between an aquatic creature and their original (or alternate) form. The aquatic features do not need to represent a real animal, but can be inspired by any aquatic animal.
Art Requirements:
Create an art piece of your Edeia as a mer creature, i.e. a cross between an aquatic creature and their original (or alternate) form. The aquatic features do not need to represent a real animal, but can be inspired by any aquatic animal.
Writing Requirements:
Write a scene or narrative synopsis involving your Edeia being shapeshifted into their mer form.