#and for a newer tablet that'd be unacceptable

[neganium]

you know, I kind of miss my neo-atom ask blog. you know, the one based off of that one arc in the manga that was never fully translated into English, but was set after Atom flew into the sun at the end of the original series. unfortunately I don't really remember all of the lore for that premise, or even for the blog itself; I never got to finish the last ask on it bc the file was on the laptop, and idk if it's recoverable, or if it even still exists after what I tried to do to fix it (which was a reset to before I updated the OS, p much; ig it doesn't work the same way on Kubuntu, or maybe even the laptop itself). I had vague ideas of what I wanted to do with it, plot-wise; since time travel was a core component to the original story, and both interplanetary and interdimensional travel are not only canon to the original series as a whole, but conceptually can tie into time-travel pretty well if something fucks up bad enough (space-time continuum, I believe they call it), it was going to heavily revolve around crossover plots. basically, it was not unlike my Cobalt isekai concept, except with fewer constant companions (or at least, I think so, anyways), and with an actual, concrete reason as to why this was happening, and to what end.

unfortunately, as I said, I can't remember all of the more salient plot points for that arc (I'd probably change some of them, anyways, but I still gotta know them first), nor can I remember the canonical appearances of the relevant characters (Atom's canon colorscheme, tho much as in the old posts of the blog I'd probably tweak or alter some of that anyhow; and Spica's, which I feel like was drastically different from what I was originally expecting for some reason- I learned these from images of rare vinyl toys I found a picture of online once, which also featured a third character that I'm not sure is related to their story or not, but was, I think, a grey anthro rabbit-like character in a spacesuit sort of getup). I think I might have some of these pictures buried on my blog somewhere, tho, either the main or the sideblog, so I might go looking for it some time.

part of this is relevant bc I was asked to draw a portrait of Atom, but I didn't like what I initially put down. I might still finish him, anyways, since I did still put in a lot of work; but I was thinking of ideas to make a better one, and this version of Atom came to mind. the problem is that Atom is not a terribly detailed character, and I'm not very good at adding detail to his design, like some people are. also, I'm kind of bad at drawing human-shaped characters, anyways...