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Character Cues

@charactercues.bsky.social

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We serve up character design mashups that'll snap you out of that creative slump. Wild prompts. Zero rules. Pure practice fuel. Your sketchbook is about to get weird (in the best way). Ready? 💪✨

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Character Cues @charactercues.bsky.social · 12d

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Character Cues @charactercues.bsky.social · 1d

With a beaked mask and a lantern of corpse-light, he leads tourists through catacombs that whisper back. #hauntober2025

Character Cues @charactercues.bsky.social · 2d

A glitter-drenched singer commands adoring crowds, her velvet voice laced with hypnotic power, plotting
to turn every concert into a stage for domination. #hauntober2025

Character Cues @charactercues.bsky.social · 3d

Barefoot and wild-eyed beneath a mess of singed hair, this genius prowls their laboratory, fusing instinct and intellect to birth living machines that pulse with animal fury and broken logic. #hauntober2025

Character Cues @charactercues.bsky.social · 4d

Tentacles writhe beneath his mask as he body-slams opponents into sanity-shattering oblivion. #hauntober2025

Character Cues @charactercues.bsky.social · 5d

A hollow-eyed waitress in a soot-stained uniform and ink-stained fingers, she serves shadowy dishes that whisper your secrets back. #hauntober2025

Character Cues @charactercues.bsky.social · 6d

With a machete clutched tight, he hacks his way through cursed jungles, carving both new paths and new victims as he hunts for forbidden treasure. #hauntober2025

Character Cues @charactercues.bsky.social · 7d

Flesh warps into antlers as its tongue drags children into writhing sacks of meat. #hauntober2025

Character Cues @charactercues.bsky.social · 8d

With sand and rot clinging to his cracked skin, he fights endlessly in an arena of bones, hungering for the living applause he can never hear again. #hauntober2025

Character Cues @charactercues.bsky.social · 9d

Draped in a shimmering rain-slicked trench coat, she prowls the city’s storm drains, her sobs echoing through subway tunnels as she hunts for lost children. #hauntober2025

Character Cues @charactercues.bsky.social · 10d

A ruthless enforcer in a pinstripe suit stalks the foggy streets of a crumbling city, his razor flashing beneath streetlamps as he carves both enemies and empires with surgical precision. #hauntober2025

Character Cues @charactercues.bsky.social · 11d

A towering, sinewed beast draped in patchy fur prowls the desert ruins at dusk, its yellow eyes searching for the last creature whose blood can break its ancient hunger. #hauntober2025

Character Cues @charactercues.bsky.social · 12d

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Character Cues @charactercues.bsky.social · 12d

A pale, sharp-toothed detective stalks the city’s underbelly, solving crimes in the hours before dawn while suppressing his thirst for the blood of the very citizens he swore to protect. #hauntober2025

Character Cues @charactercues.bsky.social · 13d

With a silver tray in hand, he serves tea steeped in souls to guests who never leave. #hauntober2025

Character Cues @charactercues.bsky.social · 14d

A black-feathered cosmic-horror avian with wings that trail tendrils of sea mist as it whispers omens of madness. #hauntober2025

Character Cues @charactercues.bsky.social · 14d

A towering warrior cloaked in shifting black mist, his axe dripping seawater under moonlight, storms battlefields to reclaim a cursed relic that binds his soul between the living and the dead. #hauntober2025

Character Cues @charactercues.bsky.social · 16d

Rusting gears grind in his gills as he surfaces from lakes to feast on oil and blood. #hauntober2025

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Character Cues @charactercues.bsky.social · 17d

Imperious yet fragile, a crown of stitched sigils hums over crimson velvet as she exhales ash, compelling mirrors to confess their secrets. #hauntober

Character Cues @charactercues.bsky.social · 18d

Wrapped in unraveling bandages, this toy hums with ancient lullabies, its stitched grin whispering forgotten pharaohs' secrets to the children. Take it. Tweak it. Make it yours! #hauntober2025

Character Cues @charactercues.bsky.social · 19d

A jittery, possessed bug skitters across skin. Eyes glow red as mandibles chatter prophecies, the insect twitching with a thousand voices. #hauntober

Character Cues @charactercues.bsky.social · 20d

Her wail glows green across the wasteland, melting steel and sanity alike.

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Character Cues @charactercues.bsky.social · 21d

Bones rattle as this daredevil skeleton stuntman leaps flaming chasms on a rusted bike, laughing through a jawless grin. #hauntober2025

Character Cues @charactercues.bsky.social · 22d

Stoic yet ravenous, a moss-bearded corpse in a tattered colonial coat stalks by moonlight, stealing hours from sleepers to rebuild the decades he overslept. #Hauntober

Character Cues @charactercues.bsky.social · 23d

Beautiful and always hungry, this gold-dusted vampire with a lapis cobra crown drinks the blood of the residents of the Nile. #hauntober

Character Cues @charactercues.bsky.social · 24d

With a shredded letterman jacket and claws still dripping from midnight hunts, he leans over the picket fence with a grin too wide, desperate to hide his hunger behind suburban charm. #hauntober2025