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ALRIGHT ☄️

🌻IT'S VARIAN WITH SUNFLOWERS🌻

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Pipyau

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The brainrot took over and so here's a vat7k hadestown au!! Don't know if I'll develop it fully but I liked designing it at least!

More info under the cut:

- Varian, the Coronan royal alchemist, tasks himself with deciphering an incantation capable of bringing the world back into tune. Times are tough, and the royal family + Quirin are doing their best to cope with the meagre crop yields and desolate weather (Corona not really being the sunshine kingdom - hasn't been for a while). He wants to help and do good and I think he'd be a good Orpheus.

- Hugo, having moved about from place to place, still has his interest in alchemy and does what he can to get by. He plans on temporarily staying in Corona before looting, but he encounters a certain like-minded scientist at the Snuggly Duckling. I think him being selfish works especially well in Eurydice's role, having a more pessimistic view of the world. It also works with how he gets drawn to Donella's offer of working for her later on, leading him to his death.

- Ulla as Persephone! I was initially stuck on whether to have Rapunzel (and either Eugene/Cass) as her (and Hades) but I was drawn to the connection that Hugo has to Donella and the Donella/Ulla relationship in vat7k just works too well. In this case, Ulla won't be Varian's mother. She's still gonna be somewhat of an inspiration to him though, being the previous Coronan royal alchemist and for her intelligence. For half the year, she'll return to Corona with food, drinks, and alchemical compounds/inventions, bringing Spring and Summer to the world, if only for a bit.

- Donella would be such an interesting Hades, losing sight of her love for Ulla, heart filled with fear and hurt, leading to bitterness and cruelty. Ingvarr being Hadestown and how by being the esteemed Ingvarrian engineer, she'd be in charge of major technological advances across the kingdoms and so would wield a significant amount of power (like how Hades is literally the ruler of the underworld). Ingvarr essentially being a near death sentence for its workers while also displaying its technological prowess, all still shrouded in mystery and corruption - a place so otherworldly compared to the rest of the kingdoms.

I didn't want to modify the outfits too much nor the personalities,, if anything I imagine the general plot beats being the same as the original musical/story but with slight differences that'd you get inherently as a result of these characters. I wouldn't want it to be the case where it's just the show but the names are changed. I'd want this to still make reasonable sense in this AU, with the actions being understandable for this particular cast of characters.

For Hermes, I ended up picking Xavier, as he's most knowledgeable of old legends and stories, which would work in reference to the Hades and Persephone myth (and so Donella and Ulla)! He'd act as a mentor figure for V, someone who can guide him in uncovering the forgotten incantation. Quirin would still be the good supportive dad he is (even if he doesn't fully understand his son's project).

Last but not least, the fates!! often lurking in the background, I'm still a bit stuck on who it could be? I'm tempted to have it be Raps, Cass, and Nuru as they've had celestial connections at some point (and ya know how stars can represent fate), but I also love the freckled siblings dynamic so much. Also Team Radical... Maybe Raps and Cass can be their normal selves but their Sundrop/Moonstone counterparts are the manifested physical forms of the fates? They wouldn't be visible to the characters though, just voices in the wind.

Anyways yeah!! Those are my thoughts. Do let me know if you've got any cool ideas or questions. I'm really combining my interests at full force and there's nothing anyone, not even myself, can do about it quite frankly. 😮‍💨

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Some silly Vat7k WIP I made which I never finished….☹️

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A quick doodle just to prove that I’ll never run out of ways to draw their foreheads or noses touching. (Please help my mind can’t think of anything but them)

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Omg I wonder what those colors mean… mlem

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you can not tell me with how many experiments Varian does that he has not accidentally gotten himself high before lmao

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Don't look away from us. Don't ignore the Oklahoman queer community. Don't ignore the indigiqueer community. Don't forget Nex Benedict and the future they should have been entitled to.

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an uninvited guest (its Marceline 🦇)

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pov you’re a kid who puts every creature in a jar and (unknowingly) tortures it (inspired by this post)

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re-reading pjo rn and this scene is always be funny

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the freak you brothers

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Sorry I haven’t posted ina million years [‘>~<]

Here are some varigo modern AU doodles to tide you guys over while I disappear again

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OH MY FUCKING GOLLY GOSH IM TWEAKING RN GUYS IM ACTUALLY TWEAKING

ARE YOU SEEING THIS

ARE YOU ACTUALLY SEEING THIS

2024 VAT7K JJGGRT CONTENT

I WASNT PREPARED FOR THIS GUYS STOP

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Two local self-proclaimed geniuses actually just dumbasses?! More at 11 🧐

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I'm gonna punt them into the sun

(After harvesting star apples and relocating a snake in my hibiscus garden, this piece is finally finished.)

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Happy Valentine's day :333

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Me, not having been able to draw anything beyond silly doodles for months: yea i should totally try a fully colored piece featuring two people with funky outfits