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@kibasniper happy birthday rose!!! i realised i'd never really drawn Chloe, so this was a perfect opportunity to paint something with her (and some extraterrestrial-themed friends!)

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i doubt it's your style not to get / what you set out to acquire, the eyes are on fire you are the unforecasted storm

quick painty thing i did most of on saturday and finished up this evening. the thing about this guy is that he's always posing

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impromptu dungeon meshi posting because i think the new orc lady is really cute

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It had been a hot second since I saw your art on my dash so I went snooping to see what I missed and!!!!! I just gotta gush about your sense of design (especially in the posters/poster style comps!!) it's SO strong and SO cool you've got such a good eye for shape and composition it's fantastic!!!!!!

Hope you have a nice day c:

thank you so much!! this is so sweet, it really made my day to wake up to this in my inbox <3

i always have a ton of fun with the more graphic/painted-style pieces! i wish i had time to do more of them, honestly. i have too many IDEAS and so a lot of stuff i make is quite loose and sketchy because it's the quickest way to get the idea out before moving on to something else. but there's also something really rewarding about investing time in the bigger pieces and hashing out the composition and colours and values and all that other stuff. (and it makes my day every time to get complimented on it, haha! makes all the hard work feel worth it.)

i'm still working (slowly!) on the tarot-themed pieces, so as a bonus here's the rough sketch for Bobby's card (the Chariot):

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bit of an odd ask but have you ever created a design for like “anon people” to interact with the characters, I’ve seen certain blogs do it so like if someone asks “hey (CHARACTER) can I hug you” they can draw them doing that. Usually it’s a weird grey person or something (bit of a ramble whoops, I may or may not have abandoned tumblr for a few months and crawled back from the depths to soak in your art like a sponge)

"Did all these people get our email address, somehow...?"

anyway very cute question, this isn't an askblog exactly BUT in-character asks are a lot of fun and i'm always happy to take them!

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not to be a hater, but i gotta say, the old raz plushie (left) is infinitely cuter and more appealing than the new one (right)

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I find it funny that Dogen is just. Out here making fursonas for people. Do you think they get into silly arguments about it. He’s goin off vibes.

he is absolutely and exclusively going off vibes

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balancing act

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it is laughably late for valentine's day art but my life has been consumed by Baldur's Gate 3 so you'll all just have to pretend i'm posting this three weeks ago. ANYWAY here's something silly with my favourite goons, love is for all year round, i'm throwing a cloud of heart-shaped confetti in your face

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i don't believe that man's ever been to medical school

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I doodled a thing for @2hoothoots Villain AU, inspired by the fanfic where Raz from their Future Stars AU meets his future self. But this time, Raz isn't happy with what he sees. Something's gone horribly wrong in this timeline. (the original fic's not depressing it's a really fun romp) https://archiveofourown.org/works/36152542)

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thank you!!

i don't do commissions for these (not least because i have way too many unpainted models of my own to get through orz) BUT pro-tip: you can probably find a ton of really talented commission painters by looking in wargaming/miniature painting spaces! it's a pretty big hobby niche, and i bet a keyword search for "miniature painting commission" will help you find plenty of people who could get that done for you!

and here's Raz all painted up! the only thing he's missing is a coat of varnish, but i don't wanna spray when the weather's like this so it'll have to wait. really happy with how he turned out though, i even managed to add some detail to the badges on his backpack!

bonus shot of the three of them together:

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because i'm predictable, what're bobby and chloe up to in the villain au? or how's the dynamic between sam and dogen since he's taken psychoisolation to the extreme?

Bobby's in a pretty similar position to the regular timeline - at least, at first glance. he's overworked and underpaid, constantly crunching to try and keep on top of the ever-growing mountain of paperwork his superiors keep handing down to him.

but i think the trajectory of his character looks pretty different? he never really met Raz at Whispering Rock. he never got humbled by him, never had to suffer the embarrassment of his spot as top dog being yanked away by some new kid... but he also never really got to go through a lot of the character growth from their ensuing rivalry? he's definitely mellower than he was as a kid, but he's got a lot of unresolved issues bubbling under the surface - anger problems, poor self-esteem, a tendency to lash out at authority figures...

he still really believes in the work he's doing, and wants the Psychonauts to be the force for good he knows they can be. but he's carrying a growing burden of stress and exhaustion, stuck in a toxic work environment that's more likely to change him (or just make him snap) than he is to change it.

his only real friend at the Motherlobe is Chloe. Chloe is... well! again, first-glance, not that much has changed. she works the same job in the Motherlobe's engineering and aerospace department, and she still gets to pursue her childhood fascination with space.

but the harsher work culture and the more pragmatic, efficient environment have exacerbated some of her less personable traits. she's blunt, rude, and almost fanatically devoted to her work, to the exception of basically everything else. her workplace safety standards are lax, and her ethics laxer. she'd sell the Psychonauts out for one corn chip if she thought it'd get her better funding for her pet projects

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i'm not going to be posting much from the artbook, but on behalf of intern enjoyers everywhere i would like to apologise to Gisu that everyone has been spelling her last name wrong all this time

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It sounds like the Raz in your Villains AU would be more emotionally stunted than the proper FSAU Raz. I can imagine the Performer and Lover archetypes either didn't form to balance out the Agent archetype, or we have a Cassie situation. Maybe the Agent archetype usurped them and Raz ate his feelings.

It's not that I can't. I just find it more prudent to focus my energy elsewhere.

v!au Raz doesn't have any archetypes. he never really saw the need to develop any. what's a guy like him need a little doodle friend for? he's already a walking one-dimensional paper cutout

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their hardest match yet... but i believe in you Raz/Lili/Dogen...!!!!!

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(photographer voice) "okay, now let's do one where canon events play out slightly differently and everyone ends up in a significantly worse place because of it"

here's an au of an au because i have issues watched the genghis khan music video one too many times. lore dump + crops/bonus art below

Due to an unfortunate combination of chance factors, Razputin Aquato arrives at Whispering Rock one day late.

He finds the camp a ghost town. The campers are stumbling around, brainless; the counsellors, nowhere to be found. Ford doesn’t know what to make of this kid showing up out of nowhere – but he’s got promise, and with Sasha and Milla out of action, he’s their best hope. He gives Raz a crash course in what he needs to know, and sends him out across the lake.

Raz pulls through, against all odds. But he never gets the starstruck meeting with his heroes Sasha and Milla that he’d been hoping for; never gets to bond with Lili, or any of the other campers. It’s a harrowing and lonely experience for him, but one that ties a burning knot of resolve in his chest. If he works hard, he can be a Psychonaut just like he dreamed. He can save people.

When the alert comes through from Headquarters that Grand Head Zanotto has been captured, Sasha and Milla scramble the jet with Lili on board. They don’t bring Raz along – Ford’s account of his accomplishments is impressive, but without seeing him in action themselves, neither agent is convinced to bring him along on the mission. Sasha invites him to next year’s session of the camp – after all, he clearly has promise, and the Psychonauts are always interested in nurturing young minds.

Raz returns to camp next year with something to prove. He throws himself into his studies with a single-minded dedication, sparing little time to interact with any of the other campers. This time, he’ll show them. He’ll show them all.

Sasha, Milla and Lili are unable to locate Truman in the Rhombus of Ruin. It ultimately takes a week to locate the Grand Head, following an anonymous tip-off (later found to have been planted by Nick). It takes six months for the ruse to be uncovered. Ultimately, Nick is unsuccessful in finding any clues to Maligula’s whereabouts. Lucrecia will pass a few years later, surrounded by a family that has no idea who she really is. Ford never remembers the truth, and when Razputin is fourteen, he takes the secret to his grave.

Truman’s brain spends almost seven months in a box, under poor conditions with insufficient oxygen. When it’s finally returned to his body, he’s not the same man he used to be. He quietly steps down as Grand Head of the organisation, and spends years of his retirement in intensive therapy.

Lili is heartbroken. Her faith in the Psychonauts is shattered. She never returns to Whispering Rock again. Over the years, she becomes more and more withdrawn; isolated from her peers, estranged from her mother, and struggling with her relationship with a father who on bad days can’t even remember her name. The bitterness grows day by day, blooming within her chest.

She’s sixteen the first time she's forced to turn her powers against another person. Even in his current state, her father has enemies – old foes the Psychonauts can’t (or won’t) protect him from. There’s a raid on her house, late at night. It’s only by chance that she’s still awake. She breaks two of the assailants’ bodies, and when she twists her hand, the plants in her father's greenhouse writhe under her command and rip the third one to pieces. It’s the last time that house ever feels like a home to her. She cuts ties with the Psychonauts entirely, and never looks back; the next time they hear of her, it's under a completely different name.

Dogen Boole never returns to Whispering Rock either. He’s thoroughly traumatized by the events at camp, and his parents refuse to send him back the following year. With nobody to help him learn to control or harness his powers, his episodes steadily become worse as he gets older. Although reluctant, his family is eventually forced to reach out to the Psychonauts to help. Compton is still a nervous recluse, and nobody else in the organisation is quite sure how to handle Dogen’s powers. He spends his teenage years in and out of psychoisolation, and is subjected to more and more intense experimentation in the name of “treatment”. Nothing works. In the end, all he has to show for it are the scars.

His helmet is the only thing he can rely on to stop him mulching the cranium of anyone in a fifty-foot radius. There’s no place for him in “normal” society. Just like Lili, he’s driven to become a villain by a combination of circumstances, trauma, and a bitter feeling of hurt and betrayal towards the Psychonauts.

Raz enters the intern program at thirteen, and quickly graduates to the rank of Junior Agent. The Psychonauts he finds waiting for him is undergoing a marked transition from the organization it used to be. Upon Ford’s passing, the only member of the old guard still around is Otto. Hollis is a Grand Head forced to prioritize efficiency in order to keep the Psychonauts afloat after numerous losses and funding cuts.

Raz enters a passionate, determined boy, remarkably talented but who struggles to connect with his peers. When he gets his promotion at eighteen, he’s the most decorated junior agent the organization has ever seen. At twenty-six, he’s in the prime of his career, honed by years of training into an efficient, meticulous, ruthless Psychonaut.

He’s the perfect agent. As far as he’s concerned, that’s all he needs to be.

under-the-cut bonus, here's some tighter crops on the art, and also a couple extra bits and pieces:

dogen's helmet seals up like a pillbug most of the time, to stop his powers from leaking out when he gets stressed. i couldn't find a way to work it into the art while still making clear that Hey It's Ya Boy, but i think it's a neat visual. the extra pic of lili was gonna be a mugshot - at first i was planning to composit her art into, like, a dossier/file, but i couldn't make it work in the end