Sparky / 闪闪
Our protagonist! Need I say more?
Full name
Sparky Amber Peacock
Nickname
Spark (by Tundra)
Gender
Female (cis)
Soul
Gas, lightning-shaped
Birthday
2017-08-14
Nationality
Bauhinian
Orientation
Bisexual, deep in the closet
Marital status
Married (to Nightsun)
Occupation
Close protection officer
Weapon
Colt 1911 pistol
Power
Superstrength lv. 800
Artfight
Tags
What's this? Cake? Eat! What's this? Donut? Eat! What's this? More food? Eat! Hey, you took the last pancake! I'M GOING TO KILL YOU!
About
Sparky is a cheerful girl who once stood for something. She hides her trauma behind bright smiles and is almost uncapable of taking anything seriously. Usually she looks happy to other people, but she can turn aggressive at the drop of a pin. She is currently the bodyguard of Animus.
Thanks to Ribbon and her mom, she is an excellent chef.
She's sort of a control freak, especially to the ones she love and fear losing. She also used to harbor naive but beautiful dreams about truth and justice, despite constantly handing out very questionable judgements she isn't supposed to give just because she has power to do so, and always viewing her own understanding as the objective truth. She died in the realization that she grew into exactly the person her younger self used to hate.
Stories
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Sparky starts middle school dealing with her crazy friends, patchwork family, and a kleptomaniac.
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The kids find a nuke in the basement of an abandoned house. The Ministry of State Security gets involved. So begins a tug-of-war over the ownership of the nuke.
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Mishap in Sparky's home during the new year leads to shocking discoveries.
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The friends send a kidnapped girl home, all the way across the continent. When the journey ends, everything stays the same, and yet no one is the same anymore.
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The friends get to Fanton with Pearl.
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The friends get to Atlasia with Pearl.
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The friends get to Moreland with Pearl.
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Sparky gets to Sylvandia with Pearl.
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The two families go on a vacation.
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Elegance gets kidnapped. Sparky refuses to leave her side and also gets kidnapped.
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Bramble talks about his family.
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An MSS officer searches Sparky's apartment.
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A group of outlaws escape the country. betrayals happen and they all get caught instead.
Relationships
Amber (mother)
Sparky loves Amber almost obsessively. She always demands to know everything about what her mom is doing. If Amber's whereabouts are unknown to Sparky for even a split second, Sparky would worry that something happened to her mom, because she's terrified of losing her. It was tiring for Amber, like raising a sentinent surveillance camera. She preferred Willow.
Sparky's longing for Jackal also irritated Amber, because for all Sparky knew, Jackal was neither a good dad nor a good husband. But Amber doesn't know how to break it to her.
Peacock (stepfather)
Peacock is Sparky's step-father and reincarnation. Sparky hates him because he didn't match up to the perfect father (Jackal) in her mind.
Peacock, on the other hand, is deep in conflict as he both hates who he was in the past, but also desperately wants to be who he was in the past.
Willow (younger half-sister)
Sparky and Willow have the same mother but different fathers. Willow is the one who understands Sparky the most, because of her mind-reading; but she has a hard time expressing how she felt about Sparky, especially with her being so irritable.
After Amber died and before Peacock sent Sparky to Fancy Private School, Sparky had to walk Willow there every day. At first she made it extremely clear that she blamed Peacock's entire blood-related family for Amber's death, but slowly she took a liking towards Willow.
Ribbon (friend)
Sparky loves hanging out in Ribbon's bakery. Ribbon taught her how to bake.
Qibli (friend)
Sparky and Qibli became friends through Sky. She is always trying to pull Qibli out of her own world and make her hang out with Sky and Firecrackers.
Sky (friend)
Sparky got assigned to sit next to Sky on their first day of Middle School. The stuff he did -- twirl cards, take photos, being able to recognize any sort of tank at one glance -- fascinated her. Though she wouldn't admit it, she had a little crush on him. The crush later turned to a big crush on Nightsun.
As for Sky, he is always looking for new friends.
Firecrackers (friend)
What's the difference between their cursing? Sparky does it unconsiously; she treats curses like like normal words. But Firecrackers curses intentionally, just to piss people off.
Myriad (classmates)
Myriad worked with Sparky on the thief case. They had a fair share of conflicts, as Myriad disapproved of Sparky's recklessness and Sparky thought Myriad was dull. In the end, Sparky framed Myriad for all the theft and got her sent to juvie.
Fantasy (older stepsister)
Ironheart (older stepbrother)
Sparky and Ironheart are locked in an eternal childish sibling rivalry despite growing into adults.
Nightsun (husband)
They're both bisexual and deep in the closet. They both know the other is bisexual. They're both trying all sorts of gimmicks to make the other come out.
Nightsun used to be a no-names Starcorp employee in the headquarters in Coastline. Sparky developed a huge crush on him and kept trying to get close to him despite warnings from Animus. After Fantasy died and Bramble became her child, she proposed to Nightsun and they got married.
Once they got married, Sparky started to exert control over him like she did everyone. She made Nightsun quit his job and stay at home to take care of Bramble. He did, so now Bramble likes him ("papa!") more than he likes Sparky ("auntie"), and now she's mad about it.
Little did she know, Nightsun was a spy sent to get information on Animus. After Animus found out, Sparky refused to let anything happen to Nightsun because she still loved him, and believed that he reciprocated, and also Bramble liked him too much. Animus decided to feed false information through Nightsun, though he didn't want Nightsun to know. Sparky, however, came clean to him about running him as a double agent.
Nightsun agreed, because deep down, he loved Sparky too.
Bramble (nephew)
Bramble still refers to Sparky as his aunt even when he calls Nightsun his dad. Sparky is really mad about it. She really did care about Bramble. Now I wonder where I've seen this before... Ah yes, Sparky calling Peacock "Peacock."
Bramble also constantly pesters Sparky into telling him what happened to his mom, because "Auntie knows everything!" Truth is, Sparky would also very much like to know what happened to Fantasy.
Pearl
Sparky took care of Pearl like she's her daughter. However, as they ran out of money and was struggling to move forward in Sylvandia, she found herself also looking at Pearl and seeing not a person, but a machine for producing pearls.
Devotion (frienemy)
Sparky and Devotion have the exact same pistol so they always have fights about whose pistol is better. They are. Exactly. The. Same. Colt 1911 (didn't the industrial revolution just break out in 1911? Whatever I don't care). But apparently Devotion's gun is retired from the military while Sparky's is bought off the civilian market.
Elegance (friend)
Sparky and Elegance are good friends. There was this time when Elegance was kidnapped, and Sparky refused to leave her side, so she got kidnapped with her.
Sparky's superstrength distorts Elegance's perception of time, though they didn't know this at first.
Animus (friend / principal)
Trivia
- She twiddles her whisker-like hair when lying.
- Tofu is her favorite food. All kinds of them.
- She loves spicy food.
- She loves food.
- If she had a lusus, it would be a jackalope.
- Her motifs include jackalopes, bunnies, cats, and dancing lions.
- She has nothing to do with the character Jackalope.
- If she were ever to have a theme song, it would be titled Sugar High.
Reference
Gallery
Some art are from other people. If you see your art here and want me to remove it / change the attribution, or if you'd drawn this character before and I didn't put that here and you'd like me to, please tell me!
sparky tween2025-03-10
sparky-tween2025-03-10
sparky pop2025-02-22
sparky aaa2025-02-16
I actually cannot remember the precise date as the data's lost. So I put it down as the date I logged this picture in.
sparky dizzy2025-02-16
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sparky grenade2025-02-16
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sparky hammer2025-02-16
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sparky happy2025-02-16
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sparky heehee2025-02-16
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sparky hole2025-02-16
The text says "I prepared a bed for you! It's really warm!"
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sparky orz2025-02-16
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sparky period2025-02-16
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sparky pile2025-02-16
The gun is from Homestuck.
I actually cannot remember the precise date as the data's lost. So I put it down as the date I logged this picture in.
sparky rain2025-02-16
You can't really tell what character that is, but it was meant to be Sparky.
I actually cannot remember the precise date as the data's lost. So I put it down as the date I logged this picture in.
sparky sick2025-02-16
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sparky thanks2025-02-16
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sparky uzi2025-02-16
I actually cannot remember the precise date as the data's lost. So I put it down as the date I logged this picture in.
sparky pride2025-02-09
sparky profile2025-01-18
sparky gape emoji2025-01-14
sparky adult2024-10-26
Sparky as an adult. The only things that changed are the scar and the scarf.
4042024-10-25
sparky nuke2024-10-02
sparky-bounce2024-09-12
sparky zombie2024-06-23
To this day I still don't know why I drew this.
sparky-zombie2024-06-23
sparky dumb2024-05-26
sparky turn2024-05-26
sparky thumb2024-05-13
sparky expressions2024-04-30
sparky xmas 20232024-03-17
sparky head2024-01-26
sparky cute2023-10-17
sparky old2023-06-13
An old picture of Sparky.
banner2025-05-18
sparky firecrackers lineless2025-02-21
nightsun hug sparky2025-02-20
melody hostage2025-02-16
The text says "S... Sorry..."
I actually cannot remember the precise date as the data's lost. So I put it down as the date I logged this picture in.
sparky willow hug2025-01-24
sparky nightsun footer2025-01-21
sparky nightsun crossdress2025-01-15
Have people ever brought up height questions while crossdressing? Now I have.
sparky fern panda2024-11-27
sparky carrying animus2024-10-25
sparky dragonfly2024-09-14
Drew this at like 1 a.m.. I was not well.
sparky nightsun back2024-09-09
Considered obsolete since Sparky's new adult design has a shorter scarf and a scar over her right eye.
sparky ironheart interrogation2024-08-23
Sibling rivalry done right.
sparky willow2024-08-20
sparky elegance glowbugs2024-06-30
This is some vague plot idea in my head, that Elegance and Sparky got kidnapped and that's what set Sparky on her path as a bodyguard.
The song is 虫儿飞, or Glowbugs Fly. I translated the lyrics because I like it and I don't think anyone else ever translated them. I am not a translator and two of my worst school subjects are Chinese and English, so don't yell.
sparky & pearl stand2024-06-21
sparky jerboa deal2024-06-20
sparky and nightsun spinning2024-03-21
Considered obsolete since Sparky's new adult design has a shorter scarf and a scar over her right eye.
sparky carrying pearl2024-03-13
melody sparky tephra2024-06-25
Tephra, Sparky, and Melody as adults. They all became what's opposite of themselves.
Tephra is a cop, maintainer of law and order, when he used to live a life of crime. Sparky is a bodyguard for Animus, living for other people, guarding the interests of the few. Melody is a private detective, meddling in other people's affairs, when he used to keep to himself and mind only his own business.
cms friends lineless2025-02-21
kids garbage2024-10-03
int2024-07-12
This is pure shitpost. Peacock asks the three kids what "int" stands for. They each have their own answers.
cms friends2024-06-25
Something I drew out of boredom and never bothered to shade.
int22025-04-28
An addition to the "int" shitpost.
kids nuke2024-11-09
peacock family2023-09-21
Peacock's family, all mysteriously happy. This is an old drawing; now, Amber never met Ironheart. And Fantasy's necklace should be light blue.
silhouettes2024-09-30
Drawing Permissions
(Nearly identical to my Artfight permissions anyways.)
Character Permissions
- The strand of hair on her left cheek is longer, touching on her chin, while the strand on her right cheek is shorter.
- The highlights on her hair goes down, up, and then down.
- Her pupils point towards the middle! Unless she's looking at somewhere in particular.
- Any interaction with Nightsun (romantic or otherwise) must be drawn in her adult design; so are bodyguarding activities (with or without Animus)!
Global Permissions
- Design clarifications
- The marks on the girls' faces are eyelashes, not face paint! You can draw whatever you want; I'm just making sure you don't think it's face paint.
- None of my characters have real-world skin colors! Their races are just whether they have ears or horns on their heads, so everyone's skin color is the same.
- You can draw whatever color you want as long as it's either normal human color, or grayscale. My default is Asian though for your reference.
- The highlights on their hair are parts of the design, and are optional.
- Their ears are furry but not fluffy. Shorthair, if you may.
- Don't
- NSFW, 18+, whatever
- This involves artistic nudity
- Or anything that sexualizes them
- Change their eye color too much
- Non-canon ships
- Hateful stuff, duh
- NSFW, 18+, whatever
- Go wild
- Everything else should be fine, such as gore, interaction with anyone, outfit / in-universe race / gender / species swap, mass attacks, etc
- If you're not sure, feel free to ask!
sparky ref2025-05-19