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The most recent @neathyfashioncoalition prompt is Parabolan Elegance, which of course brings to mind all sorts of impossibly vibrant or ephemeral dream-clothes... but it was hard to imagine Samuel Ashman being that sort of fancy. Eventually I realised he spends most of his time in Parabola hunting nightmares and dream-beasts, so maybe his idea of fancy clothes for the dream realm would just be a nice hunting get up. Norfolk jackets are period-appropriate as far as my haphazard googling could tell, and I thought he might be handsome in one......

I had already been thinking Sam might look a little ratty in Parabola since his experiences in Death and Tax Evasion, bUT THEN IN THE MIDST OF SKETCHING THIS I finished playing Dream of a Thousand Tails and where u get access to ratty dreaming so......... ITS EVEN MORE CANON NOW. Sometimes he just gives his parabolan self rat features. He doesn't notice he's doing it.

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LOOK!!!!!!!!!! AT HIM!!!!!!!! AAAAA I LOVE HIM SO MUCH THANK YOU AGAIN FOREVER. YOU CAPTURED SO MUCH OF HIS PERSONALITY AAAAAAAAA i'm so sorry he has so many Little Things tm bUT I'M OVER THE MOON WITH THIS

another fl inspired commission for @coffeethathurtsyou !! figuring out translating different patterns and metals over into this style was such fun practice - and i absolutely love the result! <3

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i'm just so fond of her do u think she'll like me more now that i might be made of spiders?

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eyepatch spotted, astrally projecting the MGSV Duran Duran Invisible memes at Sam now.

I dont go here and completely missed the "making metal gear solid AMVs to Invisible by Duran Duran" trend until this ask, but after looking it up I thought it would be funny to mimic Snake with some sort of short animation of sam walking set to this music. aND THEN I GOT CARRIED AWAY....... THIS WAS SUPPOSED TO BE A SILLY MEME BUT I LOST CONTROL AND GOT TOO INTO IT NOW ITS JUST SINCERE I GUESS!!!!!

(memories of mozart spoilers, implied eye injury, spiders)

A heart, the glass... formaldehyde.

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this is from LAST YEAR'S ART FIGHT??? monster AU where @frost-mothit 's Atropos is a centaur and Zagel is some kind of...siren mer... creature.... idk. Moth and I had found a drawing of a mermaid with tentacle hair on a table at a bar and just immediately had to give that to Zagel somehow.

Mer-Monster-Zagel ref under the cut

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Mr Pages opens a jar :)

...or not.

Greetings, Fallen Londoners!

I've joined the fandom fairly recently, and I'm still learning the details about the vast world of FL, but I already adore the Masters so so much :D (more ramblings under the cut-)

There don't seem to be many clear references for their appearance, so I was looking at the descriptions on the lore wiki. Aaand I thought that having Just A Regular Hand protruding out the wing's joint would be a tad boring, but they also need thumbs for precise movement-

-so I figured this was a good solution :D

I plan to make many more drawings of them, but I first have to figure out what's going on beneath those robes - in order to not mess anything up :')

Also, a bonus, non-digitally-coloured version:

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Masquerade in the Feast of the Exceptional Rose, a Fallen London commission.

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Wait did I never post these. Handful of Light Fingers doodles! Eris’s hair changes every time I draw her.

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if you look very closely at Perfectly Content, you can see the slightest outline of the truth.

now that I posted about Alice, here's the real art of a time long gone.

Love to do very niche expressions. As you can see, uncertainty is met with false confidence and concern is met with a smile.

And y'know, joy is met with panic.

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Nest in the Eaves was a WILD Exceptional Story for a Light Fingers player for dIFFERENT REASONS, THAN I EXPECTED,

tfw you wanna learn about the Starved Men and instead get scammed into joining a bug cult...... anyway if you let them shape you it doesn't SAY that you get a weird mouth alteration but I just feel like thats the only explanation for Samuel not screaming like he's figured out soylent green as soon as he realised what the "nectar" is

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Originally there was a lot of, oddities... I never really decided on what they are a hybrid OF, they were just very mutated in many ways. A lot was removed, or trained out of them (like making their eyes have round pupils instead of slits, and not letting their joints fold out in ways that are not quite human)

Despite all the misbehaving Zagel tried to do, the two were actually very obedient, quickly realizing their life was held in the hands of the scientists around them. This is perhaps why Zagel is... still quite often trying to be a menace, but also is very good at following rules when he wants to.

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So I already have a reference, including all his very specific physical details here.

Instead of just leaving this reblog as a link to that though, I wanted to answer something that was still relevant: why does he look like that?

From the creator perspective: I was extremely inspired by the third gender option that I needed to click when importing my latest TTRPG into FLondon. Which was great, because I already wanted to make sure the character wasn't a direct import. For a while I wasn't sure how that’d manifest, but eventually decided I wanted to explore a trans-masc character who has not just a non-masc appearance, but a very fem one. This visual was solidified when I decided I wanted him to have dangerous and persuasive as highest stats, and was using the red Corsetted Dress + Apian Coronet as his main outfit. 

So ultimately, Zagel is a trans-masc genderqueer character who loves to wear clothing that is more bright and glamorous visually, and shows off his very large chest, which he's very content with having. He refuses to wear skirts or dresses, and will be upset if he's gendered as female, but quite enjoys anyone making lots of unsure stuttering while trying to address him, too. He acts like he's content with his body, but there's still some dysphoria he needs to address. But it's not in the more "fem" ways he presents.

From in character perspective: The reason why he shows off so much skin and dresses in what he thinks looks great (no matter what general societies opinions of it are) is because Zagel had spent his entire life hiding. He was hidden away when he was just another sharing a body with Alice throughout youth, and even into adulthood was hidden from public eye, until Heinrich suggested trying to dress masc and hang out sometimes without having to hover behind Alice, (but that still involved having to dress to societies standards to avoid prying eyes, as a mutant.)

After the assassination attempt, he had to hide away to prevent his cover from being blown until he had managed to get enough footing in the Neath to defend himself… and that's when he found the coronet. And for the first time he wanted to just… be there, as himself. He wanted to wear something that made him feel nice. He didn't want to have to care what it said to other people, why he was supposed to wear it or not or even what HIS reason for wearing it was… he just wanted to wear it.

The reason he dresses as scandalous as he does now is because he doesn't want to hide anymore. He doesn't wanna hide his mutant half, but also he doesn't want to hide behind expectations either. If people don't like it, if they're unable to deal with so much skin showing and such… THEY have to look away now. He's not gonna carry that burden anymore.

Oh also:

Colour Scheme leans towards reds and purples.

Posture is very upright and straightened, unless he's doing something where that'd be too stiff. Then it's flexible (wynk)

This disaster is in his mid twenties, which is why all his emotional decisions are still in the moody teenager zone. He still hasn't had time to go through that phase yet.

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What does your character look like? Do they have any notable physical characteristics? Do they have a set colour-scheme? What's their posture like? How old is your character?

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in the #mr-london-fall-me-a-down channel in a server where i'm the only avid fallen london player

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I worked way too hard to get sims to cooperate with me trying to make this shape of building, lmao.

Zagel owns almost every available parcel to own, and I imagine he has different lodgings and ventures set up on different ones as he needs. (townhouse is his salon, den above gambling house is a dungeon, rooftop shack is where he takes people he needs information from, etc.) and for all of those, he doesn't try to hide the fact he owns and uses those locations. But his Suite at the Royal Beth? that one is kept secret, and thus, is safe. Or at least safer.

I will probably go through later and dress the place up more / get better walls and flooring / make it more red / see if i can get the glass domes to light up as well, but I'm quite pleased with it so far and now I have a layout to work with mentally for doing drawings later.

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finally drew my updated design for jack with curlier hair. him cute

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in Fallen London you can experience many fantastical scenarios, such as "making a living writing short stories" and "having five free evenings a week"