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So we got three little moodies over here \(^w^)/ The one that was probably the most fun to assemble was Orion’s general concept. Looking for pictures of laughing people just put me in a good mood overall and the dark humour was something I could relate too seeing as I also got the jokes.
Laughter is joyful overall, so I wanted a half warm half edgy looking moodboard for him.
After that was the fashion. Despite looking quite feminine, Orion is supposed to be androgynous. He has an appreciation for both masculine and feminine clothing… soooo you can see him in a floofy dress one day and stacked up like a rapper the next. It really depends on his mood. Regardless of what he wears, he could be dressed in all black like an undertaker, he’ll still wear his classic bubbly grin plastered on his face.
Anyway, next up is the ‘behind the smile’ moodboard. I see a lot of quotes going on about those who have the biggest smiles secretly suffering inside. In some cases, that’s true, in others… well I just don’t trust people that are TOO nice. That aside, Orion is one of those who suffers for his own happiness. Despite his habit, it doesn’t define him, so when his ‘friends’ call him out as being a ‘dark person’ or capitalise on how weird he is (Something I heard a lot in my childhood), he starts to question himself. This constant judgment has essentially sent him into an identity crisis and self hatred spiral that only shows up the moment he returns to his dorms- away from the public. Next to that, he’s tired. Mentally exhausted for constantly having to explain himself and not get somebody to just defend him for once. Even though he has friends, they make no effort to really know him on the inside, so as far as they’re concerned, they could believe that Orion is secretly a sadistic maniac.
So yeah. That’s a little bit more of an in depth look at what the moodboards are meant to show.