#patho2

[jaigeye]

PATHOLOGIC / THE PLAGUE

[prinnia]

2.5 hours later i have finally produced a dankovsky that doesn’t make me want to jump off a bridge

bonus: the artistic process, which started out VERY dire and did not even start to come together until the last 30 minutes or so

used @awetfrog ‘s daniil to study bc they draw him so CUTE im gonna SNAP HIM IN HALF WITH MY TEETH

[helios-two]

tbh one of if not the most fucked up things in pathologic 2 is that they took away the bachelor's platforms AND made him like 185 cm

[oliviakukka]

choose your role

png version!!!

[anne-is-confused]

saw @teamingmate 's terror au pathologic posts and uh i may have started spiralling a bit

[nyxx-nth]

[rathologic]

Who tf is farkhad 😭

he's just this guy, you know? 🔽

Farkhad, so called after the Persian literary figure Farhad who famously built a staircase, is an architect (not-)appearing in the Pathologic franchise.

Fundamental Farkhad Facts:

"Farkhad" isn't his real name; we don't know his real name.

Farkhad is dead long before the player arrives.

Farkhad was employed by the Kains to build the Stillwater and the Cathedral.

Farkhad had his own vision for expanding the town over the bank of the Gorkhon River, which conflicted with the Stamatins'.

In Pathologic, the cause and manner of Farkhad's death are ambiguous. Grace is the only person who ever refers to him as "Farkhad" in dialogue (to say that he likes the color red); notably, the Stamatins don't! Peter describes him as follows:

A guild fellow of mine… his ardour was disproportionate to his talent… You see, he nearly convinced the rulers to grant him that side of the river for his project… Yes, he deserved to die. But I didn't kill him… [...] They say he fell down from a great height and broke his neck. That's how he died. I've also heard a rumour that he got lethally intoxicated with bad twyrine…

He has an elaborate tomb in the Graveyard with the following memorial (original left; translation by Halfgild Wynac on the right).

Pathologic 2 got rid of basically all the interesting ambiguity here by having Peter confess without provocation that he and Andrey killed Farkhad (Day 4). In addition to Peter, Eva refers to him as "Farkhad" in dialogue. If Peter dies, the player is given a quest to give Andrey a key from him with "F." scratched into its surface, presumed to be related to Farkhad (although we never see the payoff of this).

A talented corpse. A capable architect, though far below my league. He built the Cathedral. My brother and I built [Farkhad's grave]. Killed him ourselves, buried him ourselves.

Farkhad is popular in fanon largely because of "Fourfold Bullet", a mistake character dynamic between him and Andrey-Daniil-Peter where he's like, a seductive twink/apparition in dream-spaces/polyvalent metaphor. He doesn't have any canon appearance, but is often drawn as Persian due to the story of his name -- which rules (but often strikes me as poorly handled with the above fanon where your One Persian Guy is smoking "exotic" drugs and exists only in sexually charged relation to white men). farkhad in myyy heart is old and balding.

Bonus Non-Canon Farkhad Fact (it's from the p1 Bachelor alpha but doesn't appear in the final game): Simon originally gave the Stillwater to Eva's mother Vera when Vera was young, so Farkhad probably finished building that one some 30+ years ago. See previous paragraph!

[oof-ow-my-bone]

vladiki…

[lordoftablecloths]

You're late.

10: Abandoned Worlds

[link to prompt post] the pathofest folks moved to a new @ btw

[jaigeye]

re-designed some of my favorite patho2 characters<3

[prinnia]

"𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭? 𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐧’𝐭 𝐠𝐨𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐧𝐲𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 — 𝐈 𝐰𝐨𝐧’𝐭 𝐥𝐞𝐭 𝐲𝐨𝐮. 𝐓𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐚 𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝐚𝐭 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐬𝐞𝐥𝐟. 𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐛𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐲 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐝, 𝐥𝐞𝐭 𝐚𝐥𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐫𝐮𝐧 𝐚𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐚𝐬𝐬𝐚𝐢𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐭.”

🐂🌼 Clip Studio Paint Wacom Cintiq 16 5 hours

[leather-field]

They say you’ve seen a Silent House.

[taxiaan-jun]

[aelizel]

this townsman sweeping the dirt is actually so beautifully symbolic of the futility of daniil's quest to defeat death and of me trying to make any kind of progress in this game

[thanatika]

No. Humanity is a loom. Or its shuttle, to be precise. Humans are actually quite decent. I'll have you know that I like them. (Pathologic 2, Day 10)

[lilyminer]

Guess which interest of mine is forcing me to learn how to draw masculine faces?

That’s right. Pathologic.

I know last time I said I was gonna learn to stylize their designs into my style but uh, naw I didn’t do that. I’m just kinda fascinated by their p2 designs and how detailed their facial features are.

So here’s some facial anatomy/expression practice. Sorry I’m throwing expressions at y’all without context, unfortunately the context is a fic idea which exists solely in my brain.