#As a bit of bonus lore for this design...

[squipedmew]

so help me god i will learn to draw different body types if it kills me

had to do it

[herrscherofmagic]

Thank you!! ^.^

I read this way earlier today, like 12+ hours ago, but I wasn't sure how to respond at the time so I thought it over throughout the day and I'm sharing my thoughts in reply now. I've also added some extra tidbits of "lore" in the tags :)

@ the preservation stelle sketch, it's already a solid composition because it's a frame from her ultimate animation, so it's super dynamic w/ its movement. The lighting is also pretty strong and I emphasized it with the line sketch I added atop the color sketch, using an eraser to draw in light lines on the lit-up sides of forms and then using the brush tool to draw in dark lines on the shadowed sides of forms.

and "shapely" is an oddly appropriate way to describe these sketches! lol

I hadn't really thought of them in that way before, but it does make sense tbh. I tend to draw my value & color sketches primarily with a large fixed-size solid rectangular brush, blocking in the major values & hues first. Then I refine the shapes and forms using thin lines and then a pressure-sensitive variable size solid round brush!

Since most of these sketches are in the "line atop the blocked-in colors" phase or just the "blocked-in colors" phase, that means they're chock full of big blocky shapes since I can't get any fine detail w/ that rectangular brush x-x

you mentioning the "pop of orange" also made me realize just how well it works as an accenting color for the Valkyrie HoV design! I didn't quite have that intention per se, I chose orange because it's already associated w/ HoV via her eyes and her void powers, but even w/o that it works quite well. I might have to try and brainstorm some better ways to incorporate that color into the design, though I might save most of the orange accenting for the alt outfit (the bottom-right one in the last page, that's primarily white & black)

Sketch dump time!

Collection of WIP studies (except for the last one, which is less of a study but still heavily referenced lol)

[babygirlvanitas]

now introducing... another kamishiro...

Kojirou !!

(click for higher quality + to read the text better sorry ORZ) (on that note if my handwriting is unreadable lmk i will translate for u )

Unlike Rui (and most pjsk ocs) he has absolutely no interest or affliation with music; hes just a college student doing his best <//3

edit of her :3

[zecoritheweirdone]

eyyyy,, guess who's been drawing more of that hc x msa au?

been making a lot of scene redraws/edits for the past few days,, buuut i'm not quite done with them yet,, so i'll prolly share them another time. until then- here's a lil pearl design! mostly made these to finalize her design,, since the next scene i'm doing involves lewis,, sksnsks.

[cyndrastic]

hey remember when i said i was drawing Vic Chaos as a milf?

alternates with different lighting (with and without words) and a time lapse under the cut! (btw the words on the cover all have to do with lore in my post covid au so send asks if you’re interested <3)

tw for nudity (without genitalia) in the time lapse cause i shaded the whole body before drawing the dress

[transentiencestudios]

Osocran lore art post time! :) They received a bit of a design „upgrade“ to look less dinosaur and more alien. Woo

Their eyes are also special. More about that will be available on our website as a lore post.

And a bonus sketch because I love ya‘ll. <3

[shynetyme06]

THEY’RE FINALLY HERE‼️ Meet Inkblot (Blot for short), the dad of all time, the saddest not-sad guy there is, and depending on how you feel about their unrelenting support of the Beings Who Watch, the most infuriating person alive !!

I resisted the urge to make 1632 more pj designs instead to show y’all the other most important character to the story, the very plot hinges on their actions (or lackthereof)

Some more ramblings and bonus art under the cut 😋 (Credit to Comyet for og Ink :D)

- Blot is a bit (A LOT) of a workaholic, needing to be busy and having something to do at all times, and considering the fact that he kinda isolated himself from everyone, his job was the only thing he’s had to stay active for a while (until he found PJ that is)

- He is 1 singular inch taller than canon Ink, just because

- Neither of his eyelights are able to turn blue 💙 (he also cannot cry, not normally at least)

- Currently, he isn’t actually called Blot in-universe by anyone, it was a nickname suggested by my friend (hi Shay!!!) in a discord server that has so many Ink variants we needed to differentiate. It does very well have a place in the lore tho, and for that reason I wouldn’t actually recommend calling him Blot to his face ;D

- Even with his years-long halt in socializing, Blot is as energized as ever with all characters he does end up interacting with, his behavior dips into unsettling territory sometimes tho. He’s just a really positive guy nothing to worry about

Now, for the art I’ve cooked up for him overtime before getting to this reference, including an old reference lmao

(yeah he essentially stayed the exact same I’m just not very happy with the old drawing anymore, he needed to look shorter okay)

Sighh I love him so much I hope he doesn’t die <33

[endearing-dalliance]

Arcane Team's Bias Bastardized Piltover and Zaun

I am not an LoL player, but I read up on the lore because I was that fucking disappointed in season 2. Some key points of original Piltover and Zaun lore, which the team kept parts of. Emphasis on parts.

Geography and Symbiotic Economy:

Zaun was established first. A geographic disaster literally split the earth and sunk part of the city, splitting it into what we know today. Many of the wealthier citizens and those involved in the profitable sea trade ended up on a cliffside and industrial parts of Zaun were now across a river and below. They then became separate city-states in a symbiotic relationship.

"Zaun thrives, its people vibrant and its culture rich."

Zaun has multiple levels of "good" areas like the college and Bridgewaltz market where both citizens shopped for music, food, technology in addition to progressively more polluted and dangerous lower levels.

Piltover’s wealth has allowed Zaun to develop in tandem

Zaun's issues like the Gray were attributed to their own factories and labs that benefitted their own people

Culture and Relationship:

Zaunities collectively take great pride in themselves and their thriving city. Many choose to live there, especially scientists and inventors who find Piltover too restricted, because "their right to do as they please is what makes Zaun the freest city-state on Runeterra"

"A citizen of Piltover is typically self-reliant, does not expect handouts, and always aspires to do better."

Piltover has an elected "very empathic and progressive" government and is "one of the least militarized city-states"

Zaun's technological progress and academic institutions are described as being Piltover's only technological and academic rival. 

Both cities' citizens augment their bodies. Piltover's are more flamboyant and display their wealth, even if they are originally necessary; Zaun's are more practical and "necessity is the mother of invention" very much applies.

So this was what they had to work with. I can understand why many people would prefer to live in Piltover, but Zaun is treated as an equal place to be, with its own distinct and proud culture, complex structure, and thriving economy.

Moving on to Arcane (finally lol) and the now infamous original Arcane pitch. Either Christian posted that while every sane person was asleep, or none of them realized how profoundly terrible it makes them look. 

There's a lot in here that's problematic. Piltover is a gleaming wonder, a pure and magical place while conveniently leaving out why its this flourishing utopia. The next bit frames the entire conflict as Piltover's decision. It screams "Mommy and Daddy need to punish the naughty kids or they'll wreck the house." Except the starving kids are locked in the moldy basement and trying to break the door down to escape.

Now about Zaun...here its called the underground district. This becomes more important later, when you realize how many different and contradictory labels they give Zaun. Its an undercity, sister city, part of Piltover, wannabe Nation of Zaun. It establishes again the underlying superiority of Piltover. And of course it is, because Zaun's people are boiled down to dangerous, manipulative criminals (bonus points for an antisemetic reference!) with no morality.

I firmly believe this team has a fundamental deliberate misinterpretation of what LoL Piltover and Zaun are, and it is due to their own biases and privileges of a team that is primarily white, middle/upper class, able-bodied, and mostly male. It is abundantly clear that they see as Zaun is objectively lesser and that its their own fault. They're just a foil for Piltover and source of enemies. Three quotes from Arnaud-Lois Baudry:

"My role as a Production Designer was to make sure we don't negatively impact other teams at Riot Games and contribute to adding value and enriching the worldbuilding of those cities."

"Once we figured out the shape language of the wealthy city of Piltover, Zaun needed to be its dark mirror. We started by combining Victorian architectural pieces and some old industrial elements and added some asymmetrical flourish ornaments made from handcrafted upcycled pieces."

"Canonically Zaun is supposed to be super-dark, oily, and dirty with green smoke everywhere." Dude it is literally called The Gray. Zaun's marketplace, college, and an example of their architectural style from the LoL website:

Zaun is literally an afterthought. And I think its very telling that once again, Piltover was the priority. Magical, pure Piltover with its moral code...and Zaun was literally just designed to be its opposite. They claim that the show was designed to show the good and bad parts of both, but they failed to include any direct evidence that the problems in Zaun are entirely due to Piltover's treatment of them. They literally just took LoL Zaun, scooped the top (more prosperous) levels off, and buried it under Piltover. Piltover was enriched, and even benefited by inspiration from Eastern European culture like Nikola Tesla and Czech artist Alphonse Mucha. And then gave Viktor the only "foreign" accent in the show to further emphasize his disadvantaged upbringing and displacement in Piltover society. As someone with an Eastern European/Slavic background, I cannot emphasize this enough: fuck. every. last. one. of. you.

*sigh* Moving on to the "value and enrichment" given to Zaun:

cities described as "dissonant halves of the a greater whole" rather than symbiotic

Piltover came first, and the undercity later develops into Zaun. No mention of historical or present-day Zaun having anything to do with Piltover's success. Literally nothing is explicitly connected, though we do get Cait committing war crimes using tech her Mom installed to help the Zaunites from suffering the effects of pollution.

Speaking of pollution, AoA explictly states neither city has "big industry, there are no factories". Uhh then where is the pollution coming from?

It is portrayed unflatteringly with two notable exceptions (the Last Drop and Firelight tree), specifically in the ways that are in real life associated with racism, classism, body shaming, and cultural shaming. Its subtle at times, but a constant theme in their book, interviews, and the show itself.

In AoA, the Piltie extras are "understudies" and the Zaunites are "a motely crew".

Piltover has “normal” food like tea and sandwiches, while Zaun has what appears to be slugs in a muddy sauce from an unsanitary food stall that also displays drooling animal heads and tentacles.

All the Pilties are thin; the only overweight people (who are also usually morbidly obese) are from Zaun.

In Art of Arcane (AoA) they talk about how they specifically chose to design the Chem-Barons "more cartoony than grotesque" and that they made sure to have "a few landmarks, like the bridge, so it doesn't feel too cartoony" when designing Piltover.

Only the Zaunites use augmentation. Its a defining characteristic and objectively "bad". AoA explicitly correlates Viktor fixing his leg and spine with losing parts of his humanity. Lord know what they think of the multitude of augmented-out-of-necessity Zaunites. Coincidentally, the other character most associated with augments is Smeech, the cartoony drowned-rat-looking antagonistic Yordle, whose fight serves as a humorous scene endearing Jinx to the viewers.

They created the Piltover Council and then decided to make the Chem-Barons their direct counterparts, because DUALITY! Seriously, is anyone in Zaun NOT somehow just a "worse" version of a Piltie?

[junosswans]

FMA sketches by Ace Attorney's character designer, Iwamoto Tatsuro

For the past week, Iwamoto-san has been posting sketches of FMA characters on his twitter as a part of his daily sketching challenge and they are absolutely BEAUTIFUL.

I really want to share his art over here and also translate his posts for you all because I think his commentaries are quite insightful for people who are interested in character design!

[Those who know their AA lore would recognize him as who voiced Edgeworth (Mitsurugi) in the games :3]

Anyways, below are his FMA sketches he's shared on twitter so far! (Contains: Ed, Hughes, Kimblee, Mustang, Breda) You can click on the dates to see their original post. I will add to this post if he shares any more sketches, it seems that he has been on an FMA roll xD

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25/11/2023

If you draw your favourite things out you will know them better! So, this is Edward Elric from #FullmetalAlchemist.

Even if you have decided on the pose you want to draw, it is better to sketch out these three first:

the moment before the pose is struck

the pose itself

the moment after the pose is struck

then decide which image works better for your art. I learned this from a really great senior of mine, and it is very solid advice.

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29/11/2023 (Translator's note: I decided to move this one to the top because it is my favourite. No I don't accept criticism.)

I have been drawing Ed's automail again.

I like it when the machine part has a distinctly different silhouette compared to the human body, so I added some original ideas to the design.

What design should I draw next? Perhaps I should draw the military uniform?

# (combined two posts because they’re the progression of the same piece.) #

26/11/2023

Again, it is the time of "drawing your favourite things to know them better!"

It feels so good to draw such great characters...

27/11/2023

My Photoshop has been crashing for mysterious reasons the whole morning, and I tried to troubleshoot in the afternoon and it was a PAIN. Computers are really difficuuuuuuuult--

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28/11/2023

Iwamoto-style drawing Masterclass: Bonus!

It is the "Give the leather and metal items a bit of flare/shine to immediately make the drawing look more complete"-jutsu!

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30/11/2023

I wanted the clothes to give off an oversized, loose impression.

Canon Hughes didn't seem to be wearing a shirt underneath... hmm.

03/12/2023

I am beginning to understand the structure of the military uniform better...

Realising the butt flap/cape didn’t actually connect to the upper jacket is a shocker to me.

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03/12/2023

A continuation of yesterday's sketch

...or so I thought, until I realized how King Bradley and Kimblee during the Ishval war had a different overcoat design, in which they actually wore a single long coat instead of a separated upper and bottom set.

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04/12/2023

When his clothes were unbuttoned, there was something that looked like an additional button on his right chest... I wonder if it could be fastened from the back?

(Translator's note: sorry, I have no idea what button he's referring to here lol)

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05/12/2023

I like how each character's personality was expressed through the way they dress. Contrary to his appearance, this person was very intelligent, which makes him such a great character.

[r-aindr0p]

Ciao! I love your Vamp Rook au and I saw on your chart you had Vil and Kalim (I don’t think you’ve said anything about them pls correct me if I’m wrong) What’re their deals / Lore?

I did tell a bit about Kalim but not so much about Vil !

Vil lives a bit further down the "Seine" river that flows accross Fleur city. Snatching a few merchants or two that were about to enter the city by boat. A lil sing song and bon apétit. And he gets bonus free stuff given by simps, hey it's not stolen it was gifted to him, he can't help it you know. He's not your unrefined volatile, call him a harpy and you definitely will become his next meal.

Though he isn't foolish enough to kill a church member, he knows better. (Children are also spared)

Kalim is from a powerful family of vampires that made an agreement with the city+church. No harm is done to anyone and in exchange they organize Fleur city's nightly events and markets.

But Kalim wants to see the city by day he wants to feel the warmth of the sun, see how colorful everything is in bright light ! He's been told to not step out in the day, since well but he will probably do so anyway. Plus almost everyone sleeps at night (well except the other vamp weirdos and sometimes the hunters but he would still find a way to vibe with them)

Lil research scribbles for Vil's design uhhfhdh double tapped on the sketchbook and the strokes didn't erase themselves automatically 💀

Gave him hands in case someone needs to hold them (◡ ‿ ◡ .) and because he needs to preen and break his pin feathers too, with a humanoid anatomy and no hands it would be infuriating- (and still, reaching for the tail must be hard) + Beak-like mouth

Split sleeves like the Pomefiore uniform to fit the wings, not sure if I have him wear long skirt or something else. Would not be practical if he needs to unfold his train. Also want to make the hair longer but not like the first sketch I did (during uh road an driving theory practice) More like Ganyu from Genshin

And Kalim :)))

[kindaasrikal]

Slapping the ninja with hobbies that aren’t just ninja-ing or the already clearly stated ones because they desperately need lives

Cole seriously likes arts and crafts. He’s got his own little area in his room thats just filled with arts and crafts supplies. Glue, glitter, fabric, ribbons, sticks, gems, you name it. He creates ribbon roses, makes his own birthday cards, creates cute little designs almost all the time and gives them to all of the ninja in random little areas.

Zane actually likes taking small random items and fixing them. Nothing big like how three certain somebodies (Cough nya jay and pixal cough) do but just little things everyone owns and can’t fix. Kai accidentally broke a massive candle in a har and he ran off to find Zane to fix it, a bracelet Nya owns broke so she immediately hands it off to Zane, Lloyd breaks a tea cup and presents it to Zane with a ‘please help me.’

Jay really likes any sort of skating. Roller skating, ice skating, skateboarding, you name it he knows it and much better than you do. He takes pride in knowing the most complicated of tricks and moves, and may or may not have used his ninja training to cheat a little but we all would do that let’s be real. He sometimes starts skateboarding in the monastery and Wu may or may not have snatched it from under his feet multiple times but Jay has no proof.

Kai, after having everyone constantly talk to him about how ‘fun’ it was, got hooked onto adventure books. he reads them all, he knows all the big authors, he knows every character and every piece of lore and if he's obsessed enough he WILL buy the entire series. A guilty pleasure he got hooked onto right after was fanfiction. He reads it all.

Nya, strangely enough, got hooked onto flowers. She loves making bouquets and giving them to anyone and everyone who wants them. She’s memorised every meaning each flower has been given, and soon enough she got interested in other plants too, especially ones under water. She takes care of them like her babies and if they die she will be found sobbing in a corner holding the pot or whatever it was in.

Lloyd tripped his way into making clothes. He learnt how to sow from Misako, who was used to altering clothes for Garmadon and Wu. Lloyd specifically likes making designs on shirts and hoodies and the such, usually working with Cole on that front. You could usually find him hunched over anywhere dimly lit with a needle, a shirt, a bunch of thread and a will to make something cool. He could use the machines, but he once accidentally shoved his finger right underneath and he’s held a grudge ever since.

Bonus:

Skylor loves to write, and write she does with that uncompleted 200k original story she’s afraid no one will like, and keeps procrastinating so much that she even writes fanfiction of stuff she hasn’t been into for years. The reader named ‘redhotshot204’ keeps leaving comments though, so she supposes she should keep updating.

Morro is unashamedly good at ballet. He first learnt it for his ninja business, but he became so good at it he couldn’t let it go. He’s graceful with every step he takes and never makes any mistakes every twirl and spin and whatever and he will kick people in the face. Hard. He honestly hates tutus so he will try strangling people with it if forced to wear one, but he absolutely loves ballet shoes. Spinning around in his tip toes became an instinctual habit after a bit.

Harumi likes making jewellery, and makes them as heavy and as sharp as possible. Shes capable of making earrings, necklaces, bracelets, anklets, whatever. It mainly started because she couldn’t find the type of jewellery she wanted during her SoG years, so she began making it by herself. She even glued the spikes of her gi on herself.

Echo got interested in cars, specifically toy cars, and making them functional as actual cars. Not the most normal of hobbies but knowing who he’s related to its to be expected. He once accidentally made an evil toy car and it kept hitting everyone’s heels and ankles the entire day. Harumi ‘accidentally’ pushed Cole onto it so it would break. They had to perform a funeral because Echo was going to actually arrest them for murder if they didn’t.

Pixal got into painting. Sometimes shes slapping paint onto a canvas and then calling it a day, other times shes making something that rivals the Mona Lisa. Landscapes are what she prefers the most, often drawing the scenes they all see when going on big missions, with bright colours to show the beauty they saw. They love hanging it all up around the monastery.

[thatlightbluefox]

Whoops, got your skin!!!

I made a berserk for the strange oddities au!!

It takes a few bits of lore I randomly made up, but the whole gist of it is that when trying to design berserk she kept looking like a normal girl instead of the usual insane design I was going for so I made up a little thing to make it work

Essentially, in this au, she’s dead. Her cheerful more alive design is essentially just that, her alive. The other one is actually just a monster wearing her skin as a sort of disguise to get close to humans (like a mimic, doppelgänger, that sort of stuff) which caused the real her to become a restless spirit

that skin isn’t hers anymore and she can’t rest without it

(Also bonus Boomer and Bloss drawing I made on my pc for fun)

[sizzleissues]

Its May.

Okay so this is in the same AU I had last year its just changed and evolved while also being the exact same. Except now I have 15,000 words of it written, like 7,000 words of planning and lore and hours upon hours of research that I will be pointedly ignoring. Will be posting more stuff this month about the AU and my hopes and dreams for it

Also slight art improvement check? I’ll put their original mermaid designs below the cut.

It’s Marinette as a mermaid and … its not Adrien or Chat Noir but a third worse thing (Catwalker but in the purest manifestation of it being a curse and not who he wants to be) I will be making designs for mer!Ladybug, and mer!Adrien as its own thing later on.

Okay if you want to indulge me look below the cut

Old mermaid designs first. I am going to be talking about my design thoughts, thoughts and ramblings about this AU and what I’ve been up to. You have been warned

As you can see, some things have changed but neither design I hated, I just wanted to go further with it.

My brain is quite specific about mermaids and how I want them to generally look. I wanted to distinguish biological merfolk from transformed humans by having them being anatomically different. So Adrien has a vertical tail instead which is also way faster underwater. His transformation is quite distressing for him and very chaotic. Of course when he accepts it he’s not so raggedy.

Marinette similarly avoids her life as a mermaid by becoming human and I wanted her mermaid design to hint toward her fascination with humans. She wears a top she fashioned from human fabric she found in a sunken merchant vessel. In general all other merfolk either forgo clothes or wear things fashioned from materials available to them. There’s deep fear of humans and human things so even though human clothes are available to them (off dead bodies but…. Whatever) they choose to difference themselves as much as possible. The same taboos don’t exist for them and their bodies are already adapted from the temperature of their environment. Adrien has stray bits of netting and seaweed on him because he’s not exactly the best at controlling his speed and often crash’s through fishing nets and patches of seaweed resulting in stuff being caught on him.

A lot of their designs are still being worked but I’ve definitely pushed them the right direction!

On to the AU. You might have seem me cryptically talk about something I’m writing the past few weeks. This is because it’s been in my brain since last May and been on and off writing it since then. I decided I’d talk about it once May came back around but and then when I finished writing it, start posting sneak peaks and more spoilery art until it was fully edited and I felt confident in it to post with an aim for it to finish posting once May rolled around again. Oh god.

It’s set in the late 1700s in a fictional version of France that’s actually fragmented over a bunch of islands. I have done more fashion research than I ever thought I’d do and in the end we will still be taking creative license but know I do know what they actually wore! I ALSO did a butt tonne of research about sailing ships and turns out they are super complicated and now I know too much and yet too little still about them. It should be super fun and action packed if I can manage. Have some really good scenes already in my head I know you’ll love. We’re already three ships battle deep and I’ve only written four chapters. (It chills out for a bit after that)

This is entirely self-indulgent by the way. I’m writing this for me, you guys are just a bonus. I literally don’t care as long as it satiates my rabid need for the fic that only lives in my brain at the moment. Saying that, I do want to put my best foot forward.

The next thing I will be posting for this is their human forms and more blabblerings about that. For I am insane and all.

[kexyyxx]

Finally had the patience to draw my Shadow and Rouge designs😚

Woooo this was hell to draw for some reason, especially bc I haven't drawn on my phone for a while. I know, I know, I changed a lot about Rouge, but it's lore XD There's some plus info below connected to their appearance if you are curious:

About Shadow:

• Short king🫅

• He takes great care of his chestfur, that's why it's so fluffy

• He has more stripes cuz badass😎 Also, longer tail because alien hedgie (Gerald fricked his genetics up a little bit lol)

• He has gray hairs because he ages. Yes you read that right. In my AU, when my fankid (Onyx) was born, he decided to consult some scientists; he asked them to make him a mortal, because he thought that it will be torture to see his wife and son die before him. He went through a procedure and it was succesful: so, he didn't lose his powers, just his immortality.

• Scars, because if you get yourself into fights this much, you eventually get a bit bruised no?

About Rouge:

• The outfit change was because of Onyx; when he was a baby, whenever Rouge held him in her original outfit, the little pup would start crying😔 The color of her chest plate hurt his eyes for some reason, so Rouge wanted to wear a more calming color for him, and came up with a new outfit.

• Legs😋🦵

• The necklace she is wearing is from Shadow! He gave it to Rouge on their fifth date😊

• Boom shakalakaaaaaaa😍 (I aint gay but dang this woman is slaying so hard)

Bonus:

A child needs love to be able to develop properly😌 That's why Shadow is also taking the sacrifice of his image to love his son lmao. Onyx's just pretending that he doesn't like this, don't worry xD

[enkays-den]

WELP, WOKE UP TO SEE THIS, TIME TO EDIT THE POST I WAS ALREADY BREWING

was talking to a friend about this and had a lot of ideas, based on what the hermits themselves have said about live events in the past year and my own personal judgement as someone hat has worked event logistics and watched a LOT of online charity events and listened to post-mortem thoughts about said events

i am begging and pleading ollie gets to feature as a musical guest, PLEASE. also jimmy and martyn and lizzie can be there if there's a satellite UK location, might get to see a ren???? who knows

but yeah this was some of my thoughts! feel free to send asks about other questions, I cannot wait to watch this live, if I'm wrong I do not care one bit as long as the hermits are having fun and putting on a good show. if I am right I do get to gloat a little but not at anyone's expense

SPECIAL CONSPIRACY ZONE BELOW

I don't think the timing of all this Poe Poe stuff is a coincidence. Setting spawn is not new, neither is the pig machine. Skizz said back in December they were already working out the details on the world border banishment, the original idea is from like,,,,, the summer, so why implement it now?

Grian is done planning, and now it's time for execution

The POE war escalates within the next month and culminates in an IN PERSON confrontation.

all of POE have been in public, I think the four of them in costume trying to be the 'bad guys' of the stream and participating in events would be hilarious and a great time for the guys to ham it up

on top of that, skizz already has lore in his videos that POE skizz is a slight alternate personality, so he could pop back on stream in normal clothes like "sorry i was taking a nap, what did I miss?"

anyways this is my design

bonus conspiracy:

[whoatherebigguy]

New ref sheet for my rocket turtle!

Complete with extra art and updated lore:

I’m not sure if it’s clear [or even relevant tbh], but Cyclogenesis is mostly based on the English versions/dubs of the films. I mention that because Gamera’s primary title for the majority of her life is “The Invincible”, instead of Giant Monster, Friend of the Children or even Guardian of the Universe. I like the idea of the turtle having to earn the right to be called those and I’ve always kinda disliked the idea of a character being predestined to be good/evil etc etc.

Okay mini lore/backstory time:

The consciousness that would become Gamera was originally a semi-sentient defence system for Atlantis, its primary purpose was monitoring their borders and managing the flow of power for weaponry. Atlantis believed they were under near constant threat from various giant monsters, other civilizations, and now their own failed invasion force: The Gyaos. They developed a prototype for a countermeasure, one that due to its mechanical and inorganic nature, the Gyaos could not feed from. This countermeasure took the form of 10s of thousands of tiny machines that could [theoretically] stitch themselves into the ideal form to combat any attacking force. This would obviously require an absurd amount of power and the Atlanteans chose to use one of their older designs for a nuclear reactor core. In an attempt to make sure their new creation would be suited at its job of defending them, they implemented the artificial intelligent that ran their defence system. This culminated in Gamera and led to the destruction of Atlantis at the hands of it's most recent creation. Although, the Fall of Atlantis is often attributed to the Gyaos instead.

I wanted to reference the original movie and really lean into the idea of Gamera as an originally destructive monster that, through combat with other giants, realized it was capable of protecting as well. It does take her a bit of time and distance to realize this though and Gamera is still frequently in conflict with her own programming, having to actively choose to do “heroic” things.

As for the “Friend to the Children” title, it’s perhaps not as specific to her as it is in the Showa incarnation of the character. Cyclogenesis Gamera is more of a "Friend to Those who Feel Powerless".

Although theoretically possible, Gamera doesn’t speak to humans as she’s learned that it’s better to convey things through gesture. She often exaggerates dramatic poses and does little actions/dances during combat, specifically to entertain onlookers and make them less afraid. She knows she can’t appear cute and non-threatening so she tries really hard to look “cool” because she doesn’t want people to be scared of her.

Gamera's closest [and only, lmao] ally is a prototype Gyaos that she bumped into halfway across the galaxy during her self-imposed exile.

bonus art of the turtle being used as a perch by said Gyaos, bc they are pals :]

hopefully ill have more to show/post about these giant goofs soon..