DOODLEWYN
Alter ego: Dewi Kusuma, 23, Indonesian animator from Yogyakarta.
“Draw it, then do it!”
Origin
Dewi was drawing a flip-book at an animation festival when a fire alarm sent everyone running into a dark stairwell. She drew a glowing arrow on her sketchpad to show the way, and it jumped off the page and lit the path. What she draws now comes to life for a minute.
Powers
- Sketch-Real: whatever she draws becomes real for 60 seconds
- Frame Skip: moves like a flip-book, flickering a few metres in a blink
- Colour Splash: paints colour back into grey, sad places
Weakness
Smudges: rain and erasers smudge her drawings and they fade away.
Sidekick
Doodle, a living scribble puppy made of pencil lines.
Villain
The Smudge King, who smudges every drawing and wants the world grey.
Costume
a sunny-yellow and sky-cyan fitted hero suit with doodle patterns, white panels, a sketchpad bracer, a pencil holster, yellow flat boots.
Episodes (every episode opens with a true fact)
- Episode 1. True fact: Flip-books create the illusion of movement by showing slightly different pictures one after another. A fire alarm hits a festival. Dewi's drawn arrow jumps off the page and lights the way. Next: Her pencil is glowing.
- Episode 2. True fact: Early hand-drawn cartoons used 12 to 24 drawings for every second of film. A bridge is out. Doodlewyn draws a new one for the bus to cross. Next: Drawings all over the city are smudging.
- Episode 3. True fact: The first fully hand-drawn animated feature film came out in 1937. The Smudge King greys the city. Doodlewyn paints it bright with Colour Splash. Next: The Smudge King draws a little sun.
Doodlewyn and every Fire Empire Universe character are original creations of Fire Empire LLC. Character art is AI-generated and does not depict any real person.