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Birb.

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More art from…. I want to say last year?

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I'm going through my drawings and posting old stuff that I never got around to submitting before.

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I think my header for this blog is a wee bit too intense, given that Elle/Ed mostly just wanders the country doing repair work.

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Bonuses I made for moi;

I shall print these and press them to my wall.

This has been in my wips for… somewhere between several months to a year. Anyhow, it's been hogging my data and I don’t think I'll ever finish it (in large part per how my tablet just can’t handle it and repeatedly crashes whenever I attempt to chip at it).

Here's an old comic about Ed poking around Lab Five, trying to figure out why its arrays don’t quite make sense. Envy, in the form that the public recognize to be Ed, tells Ed to leave the area because of how overly reactive the raw stone material can be whenever the young homunculus gets too close.

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This has been in my wips for… somewhere between several months to a year. Anyhow, it's been hogging my data and I don’t think I'll ever finish it (in large part per how my tablet just can’t handle it and repeatedly crashes whenever I attempt to chip at it).

Here's an old comic about Ed poking around Lab Five, trying to figure out why its arrays don’t quite make sense. Envy, in the form that the public recognize to be Ed, tells Ed to leave the area because of how overly reactive the raw stone material can be whenever the young homunculus gets too close.

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“Watcha doin' down there?”

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Homunculus concept art: Teeth.

Homunculi don't have too many physiological traits that separate them from the rest of humankind. What use have creatures of the Gate for superhuman or subhuman features? That's what Sins are for.

The sole exception for this comes in their predatory natures. Envy is a firm believer that homunculi exist to inflict punishment, whether it be on the person who tried to bypass mortality or those who caused the original to die in the first place. Regardless, there is no denying that the mouth of the homunculus was designed with mutilation in mind. Their long, sharp incisors are most similar to the sanguinivores of the animal kingdom, which does make sense given the rumor that philosopher’s stones are made from the flesh and blood of the living.

The face of a homunculus doesn’t give away their altered teeth, the closest tell being their slightly more pronounced cheekbones due to the larger, tooth-filled gap and added muscles that grant them their crushing bite. Their bite size is larger as well, a rather apt feature to have if the tales of blood suckers favouring the throat hold any truth.

What is not viewable, at least not under pleasant circumstances, are the additional teeth tucked further into the mouth. These wiggling points have shallow roots and are connected to muscles so as to drag in or shear whatever spirited thing the homunculus has in their grasp. This feature is believed to be a vestigial trait and is shared with the shadowy entities of a disembodied homunculus. It is also a feature made necessary in cases of a homunculus preying on these Shadows.

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Truly the most graceful of creatures.

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This is what I did tonight when I sat down to write;

Ed's henna was fun to design, though, so I did enjoy the time I spent.

Believe it or not, Ed being able to turn invisible isn’t from TOH nor ITSV, it's actually inspired from an old MLP fanfic called Background Pony. It's a somewhat bleak fic but so is my work and that story has been one of my favourites for…. maybe two years now?

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While Ed had seen henna and mehndi art from time to time when growing up in Resembool, given its proximity to Ishvall, he'd only really gotten a chance to wear it once or twice in his childhood (curtesy of one of the many people who decided to watch out for the town's resident stewards).

Once William (Envy) becomes a part of his life and decides to teach Ed about their heritage, Ed is reintroduced to henna and decides that he rather likes having it. He can’t apply it himself (as he doesn’t wear the automail art by that point, although I will likely have him start sporting a prosthetic similar to what is seen in CoS) and he takes a fair amount of liberties with the medium, but it is fun.

(Yes, I am projecting. I didn’t learn about my middle eastern heritage until I was eighteen and my grandfather was literally from Lebanon.)

William gifts Ed an archeology book containing illustrations of henna art and styles, which Ed proceeds to use or inspiration whenever Kit (03 Wrath) or Nina agree to use him as a sentient canvas. Kit uses primarily floral or thermal designs (mainly vines or snow), weaving them to work with Ed's homunculus markings and spanning the length of Ed's whole arm rather than just the hand.

Nina, being the artsy wee lass she is, sticks more strictly with illustrations. Her work is more geometric in shape as well as generally more defined.

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A curious creature.

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I never did finish this piece… Hm……

This comic is taking forever and has caused my tablet to kick me out of the program, it had better turn out amazing.

(Also, is Ed alright? No, he's all left.)

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A new chapter of @marcellebelle 's Tin Can Man came out the other day.

I enjoyed it.

Edit: Bonus rendering under the cut.

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I missed drawing my birdy bab.

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Gyah! Wrong blog!

Chapter 2

It has occurred to me that I haven't worked on this fic for two months, so I'm going to start archiving it just in case I never pick it up again. I have seven or so chapters fully written and three in the works. Again, it might get discontinued around chapter seven, so please don't get too attached.

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the US Copyright Office is asking for public comment on AI and copyright!!! now is the time to be LOUD about it so there can be government regulations.

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