Trying to design a manic workaholic service top girl (Calliope) who is in love with her failing artist mother (Vasti, pictured in the bottom left and right.).

Calliope's self-worth is wrapped up in the labor she can do for others. Although her story follows her going after something she personally desires (her mother's love), it is still wrapped up in her need to service others and perform acts of labor in exchange for potential acceptance or validation.

This is not immediately apparent as Calliope seems almost super-humanly capable in her tasks and is overtly energetic, friendly and positive on the surface. After Calliope essentially brute forces her way into her mother's life, Vasti gets to see the parts of her that are usually masked slip through as she learns who her daughter is as a person.

Meanwhile, Vasti has to come to grips with abandoning Calliope as a child to pursue her art career, and at first believes her daughter's pursuit of her is a twisted act of vengeance.

There's so much more but I've had these two for a while now and I finally got to jot down some presentable concepts for them... they are still fairly recent in terms of OCs I've had. No working title yet, but I'm going to have a lot of fun with them because while it's a silly/outrageous plot on the surface, it actually speaks to something painfully personal for me and I hope the humor and sincerity can go hand-in-hand.

#OC #originalCharacter #yuri #momdaughter #agegap