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[kalivasquezart]

How many little kids could artificer beat in a fight before they overwhelm her

None. She can't fight kids, she could not bring herself to do that.

Besides, those kids would likely start crying immediately, and Arti can't stand the sound of crying children. It triggers her PTSD pretty bad...

[kalivasquezart]

Hello there it's me I was the anon who sent in the onion song ask

I honestly thought it was gonna get deleted since y'know it wasn't very conducive to the story and was mainly sent as a meme

So uh honestly fucking cool for you to actually make that into a meme post ^w^

Hehe, thanks! I found it funny, and also... I love onions. It was a perfect opportunity to publicly proclaim my love for them 🧅

[kalivasquezart]

Hi-

If someone were just theoretically to be working on the last stages of a sculpture of Marbles, should they include whiskers or no?

Asking for no reason at all

First of all:

Second of all:

I think I'd skip the whiskers. This is something that I associate more with her classic four-legged form. My anthros rarely have whiskers

btw here's a lil sneak-a-peek for Marbs' ref sheet, as a treat:

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if im not mistaken, you've said before that your artificer's scarred arm has less muscle than her unharmed arm but im bad at noticing the difference

yup! her right arm is muscular and well defined, while the scarred left is atrophied. it's just that ya girl kali still haven't grasped human anatomy well enough. i need to sit down and do muscle studies or something...

[kalivasquezart]

i love your art and arti's designs sm!! its so cool, badass and colors is just perfect... and everything!<3 anyways so here is art of your and my arti lol

[kalivasquezart]

What's Marbles' dad like if that doesn't spoil too much?

Uhhh, let's see *checks notes*... he's been described as very loving, excellent swimmer, tall as a tree, very chill compared to Arti. Unfortunately Marbles doesn't remember him because he died when she was still young (under 1 in human years). BUT, there's going to be a really interesting twist later in the story. I think people will enjoy the drama 👍

I can't say more cuz the spoilers are massive and my lips need to be sealed for the surprise to work :monkdog:

[kalivasquezart]

do arti's elite guard (one, two, three, four) have any relations outside of being guards? i ask bc one and three seem particularly closer (unless its just a ranking thing). i really like them and their designs so i was curious to ask !

The four scavs aren't related, but they are friends. I think they're locals, they've been living inside 5P's retaining wall and witnessed Scav King's rise to power and prominence. And uh, they didn't like it.

One/Two/Three/Four have all deliberately chosen names that came with their new "identity" when they formed the Elite Guard. They have actual familial names, but the idea was to disconnect those from the current role as guards, since... aligning yourself with the Beast of Bones was controversial, but in their mind - necessary as a means to an end, which was to dethrone the former King and then trick Arti into handing over the executive power.

I think they're about the same age, with Two (green) being the youngest and One (black) the oldest, the latter one being the de-facto leader of the group. One and Three talk a lot because the red scav is quite impatient and needs someone to keep a lid on them. When One is absent, Three is second in command.

[kalivasquezart]

GIFT JUMPSCARE

Here's the British Arti comforting your Arti! Hope u feel better soon

(sorry if it's a little scuffed I'm not great at drawing outside my art style djfbhnv)

big man ting...

[kalivasquezart]

Funny you say that people think Marbs is a boy because once my friends spent weeks trying to figure out whether a character of mine was a boy or a girl (they were an animal, so no clear answer) only for me to reveal they were non binary

Anyways who's your personal favorite of the cast? Don't lie to us we know parents have favorites

Noooo don't make me choose noooo I love all of my fictional kids equally....

...okay now that the kids are asleep I can talk freely.

There's a little bit of me in all my OCs and I like each one for different reasons. Although I have to admit I think about Arti most often. She's my favourite tortured soul

[kalivasquezart]

Sait

And selfie with my lil Spearmaster

Can I have live Saint reaction please?

Friend!

[kalivasquezart]

Are Spear, Arti and Hunter gonna meet or did you just draw them together for fun? If they do, FEED ME I wanna know about their relationship

Sorry anon, the three of them won't meet in my AU 😔

...in the main timeline, at least. There's another one where Arti is found (and stopped) before she can reach Pebbles. Another AU, if you will. She receives professional treatment for her burns, takes over her late (?) mate's responsibilities, becomes a messenger/rescue worker, and is paired with Hunter + Spears to go on missions. Fun!

When I'm done with Marbles' story I may explore this AU further...

[kalivasquezart]

very silly n lov ur art!

wowie!

[kalivasquezart]

Hiii!! I've watched around, and saw that you are doing/preferring art trades, and I would love to art trade, can I send examples of my artwork somewhere? (Because its been a While since I've uploaded any art to my tumblr account) Love your art!!!

-🐌

👋 hmmm... i mean, you can either submit your art normally and ping me in a post, or send the drawings via DMs (i have just re-enabled DMs, but to anyone reading this - please be tactful and don't overuse this feature, i don't really socialize on tumblr if that makes sense)

please bear in mind i'm not able to accept all art trade requests, usually because i'm busy with real life stuff, or my own art projects, or artfight, etc. just message me and i will decide on a case-by-case basis.

[kalivasquezart]

hey. Good luck with your work and private life. It should always come first, you do not need to say 'sorry' simply because you have a life. But still, love your art and good luck on getting those asks anwserer both here and on your au blog! 🫶

thanks anon 👍 i guess i just lament the fact that i have no time to decompress after work. part of this decompression was answering asks, which i find very fun. hopefully this wretched state won't last long

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Your Arti is still a murderer, yes? So how will you deal with the moral implications of that? You said she gets help in the end, so I'm assuming some sort of redemption arc. But is taking multiple lives redeemable?

Yes, she's killed people, although the killings have stopped when she defeated the scav king and assumed his position. The damage's been done, she can't return those lives. It's a fact. What I'm more interested in is what happens after, like what you do and how you cope with living after such a tremendous trauma (for everyone involved). Also, what drives people to kill in the first place, maybe how to avoid it, etc.

As one of my friends said - redemption doesn't mean anything, it's not real. There isn't a point at which the good deeds of a person are counted and put against their crimes, to be judged and decided that yes, at this exact point forward they're good and pure again. You can always just sentence Arti to death to satisfy your sense of justice, but consider the perilous consequences of Marbles witnessing this, at the very least. There are people who still love Arti even after everything that happened, she gets help to become a person who is no longer hurting herself or others. There's no going back to the Arti from before her kids "died", ever. There is only forward, the life after the fact. Still, whatever help she's given and whoever she becomes after that does not carry the implication that her victims will forgive her, although the blood feud between her and the scavs will be settled.

(Some of those people Arti killed have been brought back to life by the Minor Cycle, because a certain set of conditions have been met for this to happen. I haven't gotten around to explaining how it works yet, but I plan to)

[kalivasquezart]

hi id like to say your art is peak as fuck. have a nice day.

teehee, thank u~

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As someone who both is British and headcanons Artificer as British the whole colonization thing sounds about right

Her slugpup's oyster card was declined at the scavenger toll

Speaking of though, do you have headcanoned voices for your scugs? One of the most exciting things to me about coming up with a character is assigning voices to them once I'm done designing them, and I just wonder if others do the same thing, whether it be as vague as inflection and accent or as specific as assigning them voice actors you grew up listening to!

(this is so fucking funny to me because of my own very specific headcanons /vpos)

Funny you'd mention that, I thought about the same exact thing like... a week ago. When it comes to voices I don't have a set headcanon yet, but I'm tempted to do like a little showcase video somewhen in the future. If I don't forget.

Theres a couple of characters that I want to include, but I can't do that right now because they only show up in Act 3, with heavy spoilers. Augh.