OOC and Setup

Well, you'll have to survive the summer first 😈

I think we'll just fight monster after monster (assuming we eventually defeat Solomon) in succession. Ending the summer feels more like it would be an unintended "oops, now what?" moment 😄

Summer of a thousand monsters!

And afterwards, it just ends.
Twenty years from now, the characters will just be like, "That was one weird summer break"

Haha I actually love that.

They'll wonder at times if it actually happened.

I'm kinda sure that's how Monster Hunter Arcane stuff works. As you lose "innocence" you lose your connection to the arcane and probably the certainty that magic exists...with a few exceptions. I wonder if that's just because the prevalent culture doesn't believe magic exists?

Well, Ramon definitely knew magic was real deep into old age. So it can't be a certainty

True. He could've left us some notes on all that but nooo.

He was likely young at heart. Or maybe extended adolescence.

I'd like to change Johnny's Avatar if that's okay. I MidJourney-ed up a real good likeness.

Looks awesome. But where is the screwed up hair?

As a sidenote, I should really look into AI art at some point. People get cool stuff done with it

Sure, go for it!

Wow, 5 Bennies for 2.15€. Might be worth it before fighting Chet

I input for long hair on one side and short on the other but there are limitation what it understands. It just hid the short side instead. I fiddled with it for a bit but hit on this version because of those eyes .

MidJourney is somewhat problematic because of how it affects artists but it's an amazing tool for even people who don't have artistic abilities. You just have to learn how to ask for what you want and it does its best to give you its interpretation. I'd be interested to see what you'd come up with, Bowl. I just joined the MidJourney Discord and run it from there but there are other ways to run it.

Yea, I figured the hair would be pretty much impossible. But it looks really cool

It's not impossible but it was a bit beyond what I had time (and the expertise) to work on at the moment. Hands, hair and eyes have improved A LOT in just the last month or so. Hands can still be a little weird but often self correct with a bit of work. Just browsing the image forums is great inspiration for plots, characters and settings!

Do you mind sharing the string you input? I'm also collecting good strings!

I think this was it:

/imagine: prompt: photo of 14 year old athletic Native American boy wearing a black sleeveless shirt with a braid on the left side and short hair on the right. Photorealistic. 4K.

It gave me a 4 really good options. It was hard to choose between them.

Thanks! It is a great character portrait for sure.