#Scratchverse

[softgrungeprophet]

waaaaa i commissioned @noisyghost to draw TJ (and his ferrets) and look at him... cute boy... 😍

🥺🥺🥺

oh i just noticed the ferrets don't have whiskers 😂 but I can do that myself haha

ta-daa, whiskers lol

[djhypnotize]

🔥 HZATRON Skratch EP OUT NOW! 🔥

[softgrungeprophet]

as mentioned in my op tags: i could PROBABLY find a way to make analogue costume changes work for most of the characters… but also it is a pain in the ass. lol.

of course for some of them it would still be a magical girl transformation, particularly for like... the illusionists like the psykopomp or auraglow, and maybe still for scratch since their flames involve teleportation anyway (which is essentially what the magical transformation is; teleporting a different outfit on) but for others like dr. wormwood, it's like, her power is super strength and LARPing...

and then there's TJ who only starts wearing a costume after he realizes he can pretend he's a bootleg power ranger... lmao

there's an element to the upgraded costumes that can be handwaved to some extent in that they are made by specialty tailors in most cases, not by the heroes themselves but by people such as Sonam/Solomon (Sulum) or other tailors... but that's just in terms of like, form factor and useful features rather than anything else.

And in the case of eg Geckonyx if she can't henshin her way between glove and headwear styles then that makes it so that the conflicting needs of both being a wallcrawler and venomous, which is to say full vs fingerless gloves and helmet vs mask, is more of a PITA— though hypothetically I could probably also say she has a bit of a specialty case w/ the construction of gloves and helmet being a built in technological thing. Like, the whole thing w/ the Garden of Eden Meta-Atelier is that Sonam is a shapeshifter so they are in fact working on shapeshifting textiles, so that on its own is pretty easy to handwave if we assume that Naomi goes to Sonam's shop for her costume even though Sonam's shop is technically illegal and not certified to be in business. (lol) Or that there are certified metahuman tailors with similar tech of course. which itself raises the question of like, well I'd need to double check to see if Naomi is registered as a vigilante because there's a reason Sonam is blackmarket, because of material restrictions, approval processes, etc. and if Naomi has carbon nanotubes in her costume it would likely either need to be blackmarket or approved through bureaucratic loopholes, which, either is probably workable particularly because the CNTs' main function in her costume is to allow her to wallcrawl without being barefoot... as opposed to being like... some weird body armor or smth

feels like kind of a cop-out to make all the costume stuff in scratchverse work via magical girl style transformations but also. it does make my life easier. lmao.

[starrykitty013]

This is my oc that is part of the scratch verse, her name is Ness

[ask-uwu-scratch]

(If the text is like this it means it's taken)

Ok so, currently we have:

Gun Doc - taken by @ask-scratch-but-with-a-gun

Bussinesman Doc- Free

Baby Doc - taken by @ask-baby-scratch

UwU Doc - taken by @ask-uwu-scratch

Troll Doc - taken by Someone™, if you don't want to run the blog just say it, and i'll give this cursed job to someone else

Scottie Doc - Free

Computer head Doc - taken by @the-guiding-anon

(If you can think of any more docs just say it, this is gonna be a fucking scratch army)

[hoardlikegoldenirises]

inspired to draw this by a prompt in this comicfury thread lol

[hoardlikegoldenirises]

damn just realized i missed femslash friday (in addition to february 😂)

yuri ysaturday

anyway added color to one of the sketches i never finished for oc kiss week. decided it would be fun to draw hypothetical t4t girl-on-girl Lilith x JJ...

EDIT just realized 2 months later i forgot JJ's face tattoo lol

[hoardlikegoldenirises]

character exploration aka "boobies"

I think she goes for the pixie cut eventually 'cause i like it and i think it's cute and I Love Butch and also TJ-related character reasons wrt sensory preferences, but also i'm not sure how long it would take her to be comfortable with haircuts because of plot stuff.

[softgrungeprophet]

commissioned kadavarium on bsky to draw TJ and Kent and I think it turned out very nice 😏🤭

[softgrungeprophet]

realized i can post this for @ockissweek

If you want to read TJ and Lilith's first (and second) kisses—

—here's a little-to-no-context snippet:

Valentine's Day

2023

"So it is you…"

A familiar form, and a familiar face; narrow-bodied, blue-eyed, pale-skinned and slightly flushed from anger or maybe something else. A sharpness in her eyes.

"Oh, don't act like you knew this whole time!" Lilith glowered at him.

The hint of a grin tugged at TJ's mouth and he said, "You've been stalking me."

Lilith flushed a deeper red. "I—"

"You liiike me…" TJ let himself smile, a teasing lilt to his voice.

"Why would I like you?! You're—" Lilith fumed as she searched for the right words. "You're insufferable! And stupid! And I wasn't stalking you! I was just keeping an eye out! You know, covering all my bases—"

TJ kissed her.

She tensed at first, startled. Then softened, one gloved hand coming to rest on TJ's face.

Tensed again— shoved him away with a grunt.

Then she disappeared, vanishing into the air with a rustle, the only indication of her trajectory a loose stone that skittered away from an invisible foot.

For a moment, TJ just stared in that direction."…Shit."

***

Three months later

May 17th, 2023

12:45 am

TJ sighed as he turned out the lights [at work], making his final detour to change into a spare set of clothes in the bathroom.

Outside air— what a relief from the humid stuffiness of the dishwasher and sinks. No chemical smells, no mish-mash of wet food. Just the brisk night, clean and clear and…

TJ lit a cigarette with a snap of his fingers and a little spark of light, and took a long drag, glancing up at the under-lit clouds before letting the smoke drift from his mouth.

Of course, it mostly came out as breath, a thin mist. The weirder side of his powers, filtering and purifying the toxins he'd grown so accustomed to. As long as it didn't purify the important part (nicotine) he didn't really give a shit either way, but even after a year, that didn't make it any less strange to fill the negative space with… what? Warm, dry air? Vaguely, faintly acrid, but more like stale days-old smoke lingering in an enclosed space than anything freshly smoldering.

…He couldn't help feeling like he was being watched.

A familiar feeling at this point, and a familiar car parked in front of the restaurant…

An olive green Mercedes, a head of curly crimson hair, and a sharp stare tracking him as he sauntered over with his cigarette dangling between his lips.

Lilith rolled the window down and before TJ could say anything, snapped, "I've been sitting here for almost two hours. Get in."

TJ huffed. "You really are a stalker."

Her face pinched, but she didn't rise to the bait for once. Just said, "Let me give you a ride home."

"You literally parked next to my truck." Blued-out Datsun, directly beside her Mercedes.

But TJ paused, then said, "…Ah, fuck it."

He tossed his backpack into the footwell and slid into the passenger seat anyway, letting a cloud of smoke halo around his head and dissipate strangely as his lungs processed it and the gentle breeze thinned it away, half steam.

"Next time, maybe you should…" TJ twirled his cigarette between his fingers, reaching into its fibers to waterlog the embers until it fizzled out, and pocketed it as he shut the door.

"…I don't know… text me or something?"

Lilith grabbed him by the collar and tugged him close.

TJ's turn to be slightly surprised by a kiss, but he immediately relaxed into her touch with a soft, curious sound in the back of his throat, and reached up to tangle his fingers into her hair.

She didn't seem to mind.

Though she briefly parted from him to mutter, "You smell like dog food," before a sudden shift occurred in the interior of the car and his body— As if someone had just skimmed all the foulness from the air and fabric, trapping it in a filter to leave behind something much cleaner, albeit slightly empty and vaguely synthetic (illusory).

TJ laughed under his breath, and Lilith kissed him quiet.

[hoardlikegoldenirises]

silly doodle of Lilith and TJ with their personalities inverted, tho if you want to get technical about it, edgy TJ isn't a personality inversion, it's just "tfw you stop internalizing everything" and is technically "canon" lol — Lilith is a true inversion though 😂

really, opposite of TJ would be a clean-cut academic or something, now that I think about it...

wearing a tie and his glasses... that's how you know it's wrong.

[hoardlikegoldenirises]

I thought it would be cute/fun to make up dating profiles for TJ and Lilith, so I drew some selfies to go with them ❤️

These two are Otter and Bandit, btw...

dating profiles ⤵️

(dating profile template from: here)

writing the bio part in first person feels so cringe but... probably good practice for characterization... not sure if i like TJ's tbh... but also like, he is obnoxious. so. you know.

I assume "kids" means "okay w/ dating if you have kids" and not "do you want to have kids with me" lol — TJ does not have kids and is not interested in being a father but I think his enjoyment of MILFs and cougars etc. kind of necessitates him being okay with dating moms lol

[hoardlikegoldenirises]

Bonus of Veritas, REfactor and the Psykopomp all next to each other. 'Cause as I'm imagining it now, Veritas ends up working with them and is part of why REfactor even gets a fancy costume...

edited to remove seams on Veritas' costume

edited again in April 2025 to add fem version of REfactor

[hoardlikegoldenirises]

decided to try actually drawing the visor on top of the janky model i made in november

mostly made the model so i have a reference for drawings but adding the visor on top is definitely also useful. i think this is the final visor shape, instead of the original rounder version or the "leaved"/flame version (which is thematic but looks a little silly to me)

the grille is a little off-looking but that's fine

[hoardlikegoldenirises]

these characters don't really have anything to do with each other, I just happened to be thinking about both so I put them on the same sheet.

the dilemma of latino dude with a pompadour and Waardenburg syndrome�� not actually a ripoff of Robbie Reyes tho. Partly inspired by a guy I knew in high school, plus various shark vibes for the hair and so on...

anyway costume material is a sharkskin-style thing, smooth in one direction, rough in the other, probably not made of teeth though. some kind of fancy textile Ray invented himself. as a... geography student... You know what, maybe he got in contact with Sonam. Or some official tailors.

fun to do a very monochromatic suit without any real color tho.... It's like... almost countershaded lol

long-ass flippers too, but he has booties for walking around.

Bad eyesight on dry land is from powers, deafness is not. He has WS and also shark powers, separately, lol

and also trims his eyebrows lol

As far as Dr. Augustine, I have much less on the drawing since... no costume...

Psychic vampire... and professional psychiatrist (ethically dubious!) Probably a villain/antagonist... considering whether or not TJ tries to go to therapy and accidentally gets seduced and drained of emotion (temporarily)

It's not a permanent thing, more like........ anemia of the soul.... lmao

anyway that's it

[hoardlikegoldenirises]

redid/repurposed one of the kissy sketches to fit what makes sense to me — imagine this as a reunion kiss of sorts. they haven't seen each other in at least a year, let alone kissed.