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<3333333 I will never stop 🏳️‍⚧️🐇

(he/him)

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A couch band on the weekend

Since I'm just in the mood to expel thoughts to paper and not in the mood to practice with tutorials, I figured just doodle something from my childhood that stands out.

So here we are, going back to a very fun period of my youth where I spent way too much time playing Rock Band 2 with my sister and cousin.

I mostly wanted to draw the vibe; to make something that makes me retread those memories at a glance, and this does it- as trimmed on detail as it is lol.

I modeled the character after my main character for the entire series, Greg, my boy. It's not exactly accurate for having done that, as in Rock Band 2 I had a full custom band including a sasquatch for drummer since tattoos could be abused to make fun characters back then.

But since in, what was it, RB4 I think it defaults to just copy pasting your 1 character to all 4 slots if you don't have people join- we went with that idea here lol

Anyways, this was just a nostalgia piece. One that has succeeded in making me smile right now.

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I'm glad I have some tools to create, but I really do dislike the state and limitations they hold.

Something for me to keep in mind in the future, for sure.

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Started this doodle a little over a month back when I was trying to get things "out", left it nearly finished (for what that's worth at my skill level) and decided to just finish the lovely guy today.

I sketched out a couple poses before settling as I found it incredibly difficult to present what I had envisioned. By the end I settled on this snoozin' on his side approach.

Molten Tigrex is undeniably one of my favorite monsters in all of monhun.

So it turned out when I was feeling at my worst and wanted to get thoughts- any thoughts at all- out, after a few pieces I decided to just put out something I enjoy. Something positive, to me.

Considering how simple he can appear on paper, when you were "there" progressing through a new monhun and tackling him he felt like an incredible achievement of what monhun's systems could do to make a fun fight.

Namely, I think of Molten Tigrex whenever I think of how much older monhuns created "organic phases" to each fight.

For a lot of players who primarily experienced Monhun through Iceborne the idea of "phases" in monhun has a very different connotation.

Now-a-days it's natural to think of phases in monhun the same way you'd think of them in an RPG encounter or an MMO fight, namely, because that's what they often are now.

In older monhun phases weren't so often pre-defined, and instead phases were born from the integrated energy and aggression mechanics that each monster was made to follow.

These are mechanics that have not died off, and the terms within will sound extremely familiar because of that. Enrage. Exhaustion. Un-enraged.

Very simple ideas, so simple that in (as of typing) modern monhuns (Ice/Sun) it's easy to ignore these states almost entirely, only ever paying attention if a specific monster has a specific gimmick in a state (like Rajang's differing immunities to traps depending on state).

This is in part because modern monhun is undeniably faster, so why slow down to appreciate these details when all it means is "dodge faster sometimes"? With the added mobility of our hunters, and not just with our legs but our newfound ability to easily use items or sharpen without 30 miles of safe space around you, you don't NEED to focus on such things as much.

But it's also because modern monhuns have incorporated a few mechanics that have nearly deleted these states from the game, primarily Iceborne's clutch claw introducing a means to perma-enrage monsters, thus deleting 2 out of the 3 states you'd ever see that monster in.

In the older games these things were slightly more important- though I won't go lying saying they were something you were 100% dialed into 24/7, just that it wasn't uncommon for you to take a mental note if they were enraged, standard, or exhausted before you used an item- for your own safety.

This created a natural phasing to fights where you could "generally feel" if the monster was enraged or exhausted even if you weren't dialed in, unlike later titles where you just know they are enraged and you're swinging constantly anyway so who cares lol

Molten REALLY took advantage of this by making you really feel his different states.

When the fight begins he is cumbersome, slow, borderline asleep and just nipping at whatever is irritating him.

And when he's enraged he's a full power steam engine firing on all cylinders as he explodes into your personal space the second you lower your guard.

I always really liked how he took a built in "vibe" that monster hunter had developed over many years and cranked it to 11. Instead of having a gut notion of what state the monster was in just due to what actions you were naturally taking- you were FULLY AWARE of what state this mad fucker was in and I loved that.

Great monster.

Good to ramble about that for a bit.

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she didnt get to fly with those great ponies

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SWEAR TO GOD IF I HAVE TO REUPLOAD THIS ONE MORE TIME

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Meet Joon (pronounced Yoon), a new Death-Head! This story took all the turns I was NOT planning! Dinky Sugar appeared and took the stage (literally). But it’s good. I like her.

Joon also surprised me. I thought his and Miranda’s thing was a fling but he started speaking how they live together etc. Good for Joon!

The honorific broidi Joon uses of Alrick means brother in South-Finnish slang (from Swedish bror = brother)

Read all previous Death-Head’s Deal stories from here (links at the end of the post)

This is also on Webtoons!

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super sorry but this is what susie looks like now

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apple

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Started watching db recently

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I think FFT’s Knight job class could be on to something, guys.

What does the Knight job class know that the Thief does not?

(And presented without text as well.)

Ask yourself the same question on that other site too.

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purple! 💜✨

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The palolulu !!! Palolumu !! lumulu !! Paolumu !!

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stack!!! Image description: A colored drawing of Kris, Noelle and Susie from Deltarune. Noelle puts her head atop Kris' and Susie puts her head atop Noelle's, who's antlers have shed. Susie's tail wags. They all smile with mischievous expressions and stand in an autumn forest, trees shadowing them. End ID

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A gift.

(commissions are open if interested)

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coloring him is fun

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doodley from aggie with friends