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Crow Executives (2/3) : VERMOUTH

"It’s me, the scandal; Fatal, designated! It's me, your morale: Damaged, destroyed." - Therapie Taxi, Cri des loups

art + music notes under the cut!

the art for this was such a struggle, especially compared to the Gin piece. i think it's a combination of trying to go for a more swooshy painterly sort of style, and also just generally having an art-struggle week. i'm still not super happy with the details tbh - but i AM happy with the expression i settled on for her! anyone who's been reading my fic knows i've been playing around with references to Naoki Urasawa's Monster. here, the role of Johan Liebert, who could manipulate someone into doing heinous things with just a few little words, simply must go to Miss Vermouth.

also for clothing i was inspired by marlene dietrich, for ... reasons.

with the song, i didn't even hesitate! i knew it had to be from Cri des loups - i just wasn't sure which of the lines. in the end, i settled on the one above, translated from this original;

C'est moi le scandale; Fatal, désigné! C'est moi ton moral: Mis à mal, écrasé

but there's a lot of really good ones, and really i just encourage yall to listen to the whole track

no-one tell her, but this band is also kinda jenever-coded lmfao

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your narrative foil fucking bit me dude

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Crow Executives (1/3) : GIN

"The despair here is driving me crazy! I'll think myself to death - or just kill everyone else." - Sigal Spozhyv Spilka, Letter to Ukraine №1

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art/music notes under the cut

HELLO i'm nothing if not entirely predictable lmao

re: art -- i went for a mostly lineless thing here, in an attempt to distinguish him from the other character portraits. it was also SUPER satisfying to break the borders around him lmao

fun fact, i called the layers with the colourful 'shapes' the "disco" layer!! because those more expressionist bits were directly inspired by disco elysium's portrait art direction :3

what i struggled with far more was finding an appropriate song for him! because it had to be Ukrainian (hes from UkrSSR in my story) but it ALSO had to fit his actual vibe/personality as it appears in my story. so, i had to once again commit to the bit entirely, and immerse myself in a music culture that was (mostly) new to me. (not as if i dont love doing that, anyway. showing my entire music nerd ass here)

the translation also fought me tooth and nail. I ended up asking my Bosnian friend for advice, and together we settled on what's above (a little more poetic, a little less literal).

here's the original though, if anyone with knowledge wants to weigh in...

Я з розпуки тут ошаліти можу — вену вріжу, скажімо, чи всіх заріжу. -Сіґал Спожив Спілка, Лист в Україну №1

the venu vrizhu, skazhimo expression works so well in the original but there's nothing that covers it as succintly in english. so i decided for an interpretation that connects a little more widely to the theme/lyrics of the song.

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13. wear full black

Shuichi Akai's case notes from 5 August 2010

I exiled myself, and the nights, oh, father they don't leave me alone, oh my eyes

figuring out a distinct art style for akai was super difficult, and sticking to it when i replicate it, is even MORE difficult. :')

full chapter is here!

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"Do I Frighten You?" "If that's your goal, you'll have to try harder."

click & open in new tab to see the details tumblr would otherwise devour (also i glazed the art heehee)

Ruined King game, more like Ruined Me into the rarepair hell

specifically this conversation MY GOD HEAR ME OUT they're both hunters whose only interactions with the normal mortal world are predatory and violent and it truly makes me unhinged

extra proud of their expressions ofc

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*sweating, whole body shaking while I stare at a google doc* would he fucking say that????

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realised i never posted his notes from that chapter! here they are

5. you’re in

These were the chemical weapons Shuichi had been tracking all summer: the ‘anomalous organic contaminant’ and ‘biohazardous material’ and ‘disruptive mutagen compound’.

The best place to hide a leaf is in a forest.

from chapter 5 of my detective conan fanfiction - find it on AO3 right here!

took me 2-3 days to complete got the initial idea on the beach in bahrain lmao

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12. Number three:

“You sure you’re doin’ alright, hero?” she asks as she places down Yuri’s second espresso martini. It’s dusted in cinnamon, Yuri’s favourite no matter the season.

Shiho swallows her bitter comment and chuckles softly at her sister’s enthusiasm instead. “I’ll live vicariously through you, my hero.”

Among these people (to admire and despise) Rei Furuya Bourbon is just himself. Fierce but not strong – clever but not sharp – likeable but not a leader – too brown to be ambiguously mixed – too ambiguously queer to pass for anything else – too Zero to be a Hiro Hero.

No! Shinichi wants to cry, I’m not alright! "My little hero," she cotntinues softly, and... Conan sniffles.

aaaaa check out my visual interpretations of all these fan favourite characters! been a long time coming im so excited (i'll post them all separately too don't worry)

i listened to a lot of the Disco Elysium OST while drawing these pieces, so much so that i ended up associating certain music pieces with the characters. hence, the links in the little quotes above.

also! the quotes are from my fanfiction!! this chapter's just got a bunch of little vignettes which are like my favourite thing to write, here's the link [honks clown nose and vanishes]

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11. throw away.

Gotta stop thinking about normal. Gotta start rolling with the punches.

new chapter finally up! here's a link to it, and also my interpretation of some of the characters that (re)appear! :)

firstly, say hello to jägermeister, absolute powerhouse milf!!

i'm very pleased with the artwork here. the character is presented affable and almost playful (both in action and costuming); while the background consists of a pattern taken from East German architecture blending into the RNA structures, overlayed with a particular reddish tone strongly associated with her life's work.

secondly, say hello to vodka!! look at his horrible KGB sunglasses, theyre sof uckingh funny to me the background of this piece is made of distorted/fried images of different spreadsheets in different languages, the research of which led me to researching soviet computer programming for literally no reason also, here is him without his sunglasses on :)

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inspired by @ crimeronan & @ ghostzzy's respective codependency polls. cue round 3, ft. dynamics i've encountered in the wild with my own ocs 👍

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heavy breathing, like ive run a marathon

(but in reality i've just jogged the first 100 meters, and the REST of the marathon is still ahead)

(checks my word count on ao3) uh oh

(checks my word count on my master document) UH OH

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What did I do? What didn't I do?

when you're a god of prophecy, but over the past millenia you've come to realise that all your prophecies do is lock people into their terrible doomed fates and there's nothing else anyone can do to help

i went into this game violently distrusting all the gods on principle; but the moment Apollo's first song started i was like uh-oh is he really just a depressed surfer? and by the third act i was incon-fucking-solable for this sad man

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10. a bullet’s

Red Label hesitates, and then offers a weak smile. “A lot of people forget what they said. I do, too. All the time.”

There is a strange raw honesty to Red’s voice that immediately throws Jenever’s suspicions into complete disarray. Oh my darling, who hurt you?

Despite great efforts to seem extremely normal, Red Label still immediately sparks intense concern and interest from Jenever right at their first meeting.  In retrospect, this isn’t very surprising.

 (the) Red Label subject

why were you shaken beyond the depth of the sun? why were you fearful beyond the depth of the spring?       …why is your destiny so dark?

Keep reading

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i was drawing something else but these extremely beloved violent bastards who will ruin your life (TM) showed up on the canvas and completely took my attention and i'm kinda mad at them for it

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mostly final version , he’s horny art now lmao

WIP bill cipher fanart for hanahyperfixates’ upcoming video, no idea if i’ll finish this in time but let’s goooooooo

i may or may not have forgotten the assignment , this ended up just being a … weird demon design that still isnt done

i just think triangles and eyes are neat lol