#oc: seth ratigan

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im normal about my frostpunk ocs (left guy is seth ratigan and right guy is pallav sachdeva)

im going through a giant artblock right now so this all looks like shit but ohh my goddddddd therye soooo goofy. infodump under the cut

before you read, this story has a bad ending. this'll involve talk of cannibalism, murder-suicides, and apocalyptic stuff. i dont think ive done a bad ending before so im going a bit wild with it.

theyre for the frostpunk arks scenario where a bunch of engineers have to preserve seeds for the future of humanity! along the way they gotta automate the whole settlement before a huge storm hits so the seeds survive even after everyone dies.

seth ratigan is the lead mech engineer who helped draft a bunch of automaton designs and pallav sachdeva is the lead botanist. they met in university (roommates because im a sucker for that trope) and fell in love there! both of them are closeted and keep the relationship a secret.

pallav has a sister, nima, whos an ecologist. when they arrive at the arks shes drafted as a scout and gives the reader a view as to whats happening out in the field so to speak. at the beginning of the story when all the engineers are climbing a cliff, seth slips and knocks himself out. everyone keeps climbing except for nima and pallav, and she pulls him to safety. towards the end she gets lost on a scouting expedition and ends up completely spiralling and killing her fellow explorers. cannibalism mightve been involved. she represents corruption in the pursuit of survival. she may or may not be azulin from unicorn wars

sethhhh....... sethhh..... he represents loss of hope. as lead engineer he gives the reader insight into the inner workings of the arks, both mechanically and politically. hes irish and OHH ITS 1:51 AM AND I HAVE WORK AT 9 AM !!!!! hes IRISH!!! and AWESOME!!!!! AND HE SERVES AS THE VOICE OF DOUBT!!! towards the end as the storm approaches, he gets completely overworked by the leader and the stress + sleep deprivation just drives him over the edge. and at the height of the storm when everyone else is dead he kinda. he kinda kills pallav. and then himself. not cool dude.

pallav serves as our insight into how the people are reacting to all this and he represents altruism + perseverence in the face of certain death. oh its 1:55. oh my god. once the arks are fully automated he gets moved to the hothouses as a supervisor, which means he has more proximity to cookhouses and medical tents than our other protagonists. while seth and nima go from kindhearted and optimistic to corrupt and hopeless, pallav stays steady. throughout the whole series he maintains a positive attitude and is always looking to help people. at first seth just laughs along and entertains him, such as the scene at the very top of this post where they're talking about flowers and cottages. im thinking pallav wants to pretend with seth, for just a moment, that all of this will blow over and they can go back to their life in england, get a cottage and whatnot. seth pushes back saying that realistically they wont make it, pallav asks him to play along and so he does. its a stark contrast to their deaths and how much the arks have changed them.

the seedlings survived, but at what cost?

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the smiling grinner knows the worldss its dinmner

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3rd episode is up ! technically its the 2nd episode if you dont count the prologue? but theres 3 now. well technically its the first episode since its just a continuation of the last one, excludinjg the prologue. doesnt matter. i want to kiss men.

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conceptualizing artstyles for my goofy fancomic that will probably never be made. redrew that one thing i posted and revised the dialogue a bit + updated symbolism. trying to come up with a simple, efficient style.

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losing my mind a little. after seth i have to do pallav and nima . and then some other characters. and then a bunch of hands maybe, im not exactly sure how this method works but im trying my best

some more storyboards under the cut. warning for death and stuff, but theyre super rough and messy so its not that graphic.

Revised prologue script: it was about a month after our downfall that they found us. a small fleet from new london scrounging the cold earth for resources, hoping to recover from the same storm that killed us. they were greeted with the bellows of our mechanical orchestra. in our absence, the metal giants toiled away, keeping the generator running. a symphony with no audience.

most died to the frost, some to their fellow man, but we fought to our dying breath to save our future. even if it cost us our lives.

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had to draw seth twice as many times because of his asymmetrical hairstyle, and it took me an embarrassingly long time to realize that, from a side view, nothing changes when the face turns up and down. but here they are!!!!!!!! my face turnarounds and body refs/design bases. this should save me some time if i ever decide to make the comic

uncensored versions under the cut