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it's mermaid monday!! have a merlinua :D

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Worst Case Scenario

been thinking about @the-mountain-flower's swap au since its was posted, so here's an elemental magus!alinua

i like magus!alinua as someone who wants to help people out directly, but by her magus status is pushed into research a lot, so she does a lot of medical research - maybe she's studying elemental corruption in the hopes of reversing it, and that's what leads her to the storm. she's probably still something of an instinctual mage in her "bone wants to grow more bone" way, which might be why she's sealed

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kendal and alinua portraits!

ive looked at these for so long i cant tell if i like them or not. bone apple teeth <3

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kendal and alinua portraits!

ive looked at these for so long i cant tell if i like them or not. bone apple teeth <3

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The new chapter cover is really pretty!!!

I was wondering when someone would notice :3

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Body Made

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Lighteater

erin and the void dragon are from @comicaurora

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sentinel au tess does her own mech repairs

messing around with a new brush :]

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ok since i posted about it last night, i might as well finally debut my comicaurora sentinel au, even if my drawings for it are. not fully realized

in this chimerae are a localized disaster event that can spring up anywhere, draining the life energy for a mile around. in response (in accordance with the rule of cool), cities built the sentinel corps, giant robots to fight off chimerae before they destroy the city.

more under the cut

kendal is one of these sentinels, a relatively recently developed mark III whose pilot is vash fairblade, captain of the sentinels. there aren't any city gods in this au, so vash is just a guy. why does he have the same name as the city? bc i didnt want to change it. anyway. after a while, kendal develops something of an active mind instead of just being a giant robot¹, mimicking vash's own mind. and then a wave of chimerae attack the city, destroying it, killing vash, and leaving kendal the only remaining sentinel. in the midst of the destruction, though, he could have sworn he saw a woman, unruffled, just... watching.

the sun is on its way down when alinua finds the corpse. or, more accurately, she finds the sentinel. the pilot is still tangled in the cockpit, sentinel curled around him like it was trying to protect him. the corpse is of course vash, and the sentinel is kendal.

alinua still has the 'chimeric plague' (here hypothesized to be the cause of chimera events), and the only reason she goes with him is that a. hes inorganic (can't be affected by the life outburst) and b. if she does cause a chimera event, hes literally a giant robot designed for the specific purpose of fighting chimerae. and besides, vash the city is destroyed. there won't be any collateral damage.

sidebar, alinua can pilot kendal. it's a team effort - now that ive watched pacific rim, i think its a little like drifting if your jaeger also could think. tbh i also think canon kendal and alinua are drift compatible, but thats another post for another time

dainix is another mech pilot, though not willingly - zuurith's sentinel corps is not Exclusively prison labor, but what does it matter if a few prisoners die of brain hemmhorages while piloting? dainix, piloting the sentinel "champion", is the longest lasting prisoner pilot they've had, and he's brutally effective. there are murmurings that he'll be released and placed in the sentinel corps as a citizen, but if he is ever released he'd fuck off in a heartbeat, so he's still in prison, sentence artificially extended for as long as he's useful.

i'm still a little uncertain as to what kind of roles erin, tess, and falst play, so if anyone's got any ideas i'd be delighted to hear them!!

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Design Notes

i think about how the body kendal inherited was deliberately designed approximately one million times per second

vash is from @comicaurora, which you should totally read

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trying out a new way of doing hair inspired by maya kern, with alinua and dainix as my wonderful models :) it was fun, but i think i'm only gonna be taking a few elements of the style - it's a bit much with the rest of my 'style'

as always, alinua and dainix are from @comicaurora, which you should totally read

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that's a heavy burden, son of the sword

i think sometimes about how the heaviest element a star can synthesize without going supernova is iron, and how when a star's core reaches iron it cant burn any longer

anyway take this intensely self indulgent chapter 18 fanart, kendal is from @comicaurora, the only thing ive read that consistently inspires me to draw full color pieces

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the helpless optimism of spring

i have no clue what about aurora gets me to make so much fully rendered art but have a loosely art nouveau alinua

alinua and aurora are from @comicaurora, which i recommend you all go read right now

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technically not a beach episode

aka me fucking around w colors & painting

erin, kendal and alinua are from @comicaurora

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alinua and kendal from @comicaurora showed up while i was doing some photo studies of swing dancing so i decided to finish this one up :] unfortunately tumblr made a mess of the quality lmao

sketches under the cut UPDATE i actually finished another of the sketches instead of doing my compsci hw - both it and the sketches are under the cut