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Tiny Dangerous's Object Head Tutorial (With pictures!)

Hello all! I’ve gotten quite a few people askin how I went about putting together my head for a recent costume I did at Anime Iowa 2014, so I figured I’d make a tutorial for it! More under the cut!

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WOF - into the wild

KINGDOM OF SAND

LEADER

Queen Bunting - a greyish she-dragon with a large scar across her shoulder, sandwing

DEPUTY

Raptor - a dark brown dragon with orange scales dotted on him, and an orange tail, sandwing

HEALER

Sagebush - a lighter brown she-dragon with a black sail and light yellow speckled scales and underbelly, has lots of herbs scattered on her, sandwing

TALONS

Lion - a majestic, golden dragon with large wings and a large barb, sandwing

Taipan - a large darker yellow dragon with even darker scales that resemble stripes, has large claws and wings, sandwing

West - a big, average looking dragon sandwingDrought - a sleek dark greenish dragon, sandwing

Lark - a pale sandwing with darker scales and sail, and an unusually longer tail, sandwing

Roadrunner - a swift, pale, greenish dragon, sandwing

Wildflower - a very pale yellow she-dragon, sandwing

Mulgara - a small dusky brown she-dragon, sandwing

TALONS IN TRAINING (claws)

Dusty - a dark brown dragonette, sandwing

Ringtail - a small, skinny, dark brown dragonette with pale yellow scales on the tip of his tail and his underbelly, sandwing

Sandy - pale ginger she-dragonette, sandwing

Firecracker - a handsome orange dragonette, skywing

Gray - a greyish dragonette, sandwing

MOTHERS

Flamingo - a beautiful, albino she-dragon with light pink scales, sandwing

Brittlebush - a pretty grey yellow she-dragon with darker spots on her scales, sandwing

Golden - a pale ginger she-dragon, sandwing

Sunstone - a pale yellow she-dragon, oldest mother in the Clan, sandwing

ELDERS

Hyena - a big dark brown dragon with most his his tail missing, sandwing

Stork - a greenish yellow dragon with small ears and horns, oldest dragon in the sand kingdom

Papyrus - a small pale yellow dragon with darker scales scattered on his body, sandwing

Owl - a pale brown she-dragon, oldest she-dragon in the sand kingdom, virtually blind and deaf, sandwing

Diamondback - a once pretty yellow and pale yellow torishell looking she-dragon with large fangs, sandwing

KINGDOM OF NIGHT

LEADER

King bloodhunter - a large dark blue tinted dragon with a broken tail and large claws, has webbed claws and a fin for a sail, nightwing/seawing hybrid

DEPUTY

Blackscales - a large grey tinted dragon with large front feet, nightwing

HEALER

Riskteller - a small light blue tinted dragon with a running nose, has silver scales by his eyes, nighwing

TALONS

Sharptail - a blue tinted nightwing with a small tail

Boulder - a dark brown dragon, mudwing

Clawbreaker - battle scareed dark purple tinted dragon, nightwing

Nightwatcher - a rare black nightwing with white spots on his scales

TALONS IN TRAINING

Bandit - a purple tinted dragonette, nightwing

Windwatcher - a green tinted dragonette, nightwing

Lighthealer - a light blue dragonette, nightwing

MOTHERS

Dawnheart - a small orange tinted she-dragon, nightwing

Brightsky - a blue tinted she-dragon with white patches of scales, nightwing

ELDERS

Aquarius - a thin grey dragon, nightwing

KINGDOM OF RAINLEADER

King Taro - a tall rainwing with a long tail, rainwing, main color: aqua

KINGDOM OF SEAS

LEADER

King Cyclone - a huge light blue colored dragon with a twisted jaw, seawing

DEPUTY Oyster - a dark blue colored dragon, seawing

DRAGONS OUTSIDE OF THE KINGDOMS

Yoruseeker - an old dark blue she-dragon, nightwing

Banana - a plump, friendly dragonette, rainwing, main color: hot pink

Barley - a large brown dragon with white scales, mudwing

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☆KID & LEVERET COVER☆

Vocals re done by me, song by Yaelokre, art is not mine.

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I drew over BBNO$

GAHAHAHAHAH

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Cookie run comic page 4

by Saber-toast-tiger!

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guess who started a new project!

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When writing an Assassin, is there anything you would recommend us not doing? Like should we avoid having a stereotypical assassin who hates the world but when another character comes into their lives, their view on the world changes? Trope wise, is there any that you would like to see more of? Thank you :)

Ah, assassins.

The Ninja: I don’t mean actual historical ninjas. This is the cultural perception of guys in black masks who leap between buildings like Spider-Man. The Assassin’s Creed assassins a.k.a the guys who can’t kill their way out of a paper bag. The supposedly human character whose training gives them a hefty dose of superpowers with a side of Orientalism and fetishizing of “insert Eastern culture here”. Believe it or not guys, people do look up.

The Forced Prodigy: “My character is a super awesome killer, but they were forced to learn these skills”. No. In order to be good at something, you have to enjoy it and you have to want to be good at it. You have to want to learn. An assassin is a hired killer, they kill people for either money or a cause. They stalk them, they invade their lives, they learn everything they can about their target, and then they hunt them down. It’s not the sort of profession you thrive in if you’re squeamish. More, the sorts of organizations we’re talking about aren’t going to take someone who doesn’t want to learn or train someone who actively resents them. Talent isn’t everything, in the long run it actually means very little. Someone who wants want you’re offering, who sees this new addition in their life as an improvement, is much more valuable. The individual who chooses the life, even if it was originally chosen for them, will always beat out the unwilling no matter how much natural talent they possess. There are plenty of other candidates where your character came from. If you want them to succeed, they’re going to have to prove themselves.

Undone By Love: You mentioned this one. The Best Assassin in the World is undone by… a pretty face? What? Seduction is a standard part of the assassin package for men and women. It’s a lot easier to kill someone by attacking their blind spot and history proves sexual attraction is a great one. Assassins are going to be deeply screwed up individuals, their understanding of normal is nowhere near the standard cultural baseline. It’s easiest to start understanding it by assuming everything you understand is inverted: kindness is a lie, interest means you want something, trust is a sign of an inevitable back stab. When you live in a world of shadows and lies, paranoia is inevitable. “Normal” people are either background noise or enemies in disguise. Staying one step ahead is how you stay alive and if you can do this to other people then it can also be done to you. So, someone who shows them kindness? Why would they ever trust that?

The Oliver Twist: This is like Undone by Love. The idea is that once the assassin gets a taste of real life outside the walls of their compound, once they experience kindness, once they experience normalcy, they’re going to want that and realize their life has been a lie. “I just want to be normal’. Well, this comes from a mistaken assumption on the part of the author about the character because they’re assuming:

1) that they’re baseline for normal is normal.

2) that once exposed, everyone is going to want to have what they have and be like them.

An assassin is trained with the understanding that they will eventually go out into the “real world”. Part of their job is infiltration and that means learning how to fit in, perhaps in a multitude of different cultures. Psychology, human behavior, seduction, and general social skills are going to be part of the package. You can’t manipulate individuals without understanding them, understanding their concept of normal is going to be necessary. Normal is relative. It’s important to consider that a character who kills people for a living may not want to be like the people they kill or like their creator (you).

Biting the Hand That Feeds Them: The assassin goes out into the world, realizes what they are, has an epiphany, and says “I must stand against the evil!”. This is an assumption about morals. Killing is wrong, ergo the assassin must be wrong, when they realize they are wrong they will want to make it right by… killing more people? Welcome to Saturday Morning Cartoon morality, where things are black and white and everyone is immortal until someone slits their throat. Death is the natural conclusion to life. People die. In fact, they die all the time. If your character is a professional assassin, they’ve made peace with murder and the muddy waters they wade through. They kill. Death is part of them. Why is one person more or less worthy of life than another? In their mind, some of the people they kill may indeed have it coming. What makes their organization and what they do so much worse than the good guys?

Writing any character who fights involves wrestling your personal philosophy and your morals. Why we fight, why we kill, why we commit atrocities have been a central focus of human philosophy throughout history. There aren’t any easy answers to those questions, nor are there universal ones. Like spies, assassins are among the hardest to understand because of the manner in which they kill. They have to be able to empathize with their target, they don’t have the same luxury of dehumanization that a soldier does. They get to know people with the intent to kill and if you’re not able to get comfortable with that then writing it can be very hard.

The Assassin With A Heart of Gold: The assumption that turning around on their masters makes them a good person, or that doing the right thing somehow absolves them. Black Widow’s “red ledger” line from Avengers. Essentially, the Atoner. I’m sick of the Atoning Assassin. “I’m doing the right thing because I want to make up for my past mistakes” by killing more people. I mean, sure, it’s funny but really. They’re essentially doing the exact same thing they did before but this time it’s okay because of authorial fiat. They’re working for the good guys now. That makes them a good person.

No. They may have changed sides, but if they’re still killing then they’re still the same person. At it’s heart, killing is killing. There is no good killing and no bad killing, there’s just killing. Every person is someone’s mother or father, brother or sister, aunt or uncle, niece or nephew, every person your character kills matters to someone. It’s not people in general, or those people over there, the person being killed is an individual. Your assassin knows they’re killing an individual, they know that because it’s part of their training.

So, why does this individual matter? What is it about this one that made them change their mind? They go through all their training, fully understanding what they’re being asked to do because it won’t work if they don’t, kill all those other people and then they get to this one person who makes them realize their entire life is wrong? Why? It’s not because they’ve suddenly realized killing is wrong.

Figure it out or become an internally inconsistent cliche.

So, what would we personally like to see more of?

Well, don’t do the above and you’re well on your way to what we’d like to see. The Professional Assassin, The Cheerful Assassin, and The Gleeful Assassin, so long as they aren’t presented as villains. Personality types that go in for something other than “sour, dour, moody, broody” and “angsty, whiny, poor me, victim”. Characters who don’t sit around talking about how awesome and dangerous they are or make grandiose claims about their skill set while never backing it up.

What about you, followers? What assassin archetypes do you hate? What would you like to see more of in fiction?

-Michi

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ODOCHINA!

wip lol! i love odochina miku teto and i think reflective detective match that song :D Sorry for not posting much, Im sick and busy with school😓😭

….also as promised I made toodles cookie run design!

Her name is Fizzy blueberry cookie^_^

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Hey. You are a really good artist

You should start taking payment at some point, earn some money for it

tysm <3

I don't have anything set up to get payed to draw for people rn though!

(I'm also trying to perfect my artstyle for the future lol)

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