my new pixie hollow oc, her name is Astoria and she's a scribe talent. (she was made to basically be another mouthpiece for me to infodump about disney fairy facts and stuff, if you got looking in my past art/videos i think i posted Livra my first oc and basically sona for the same purpose)
i want to try opening up specific commissions so i can draw more of these lil fairies in the style of the books illustrations, like this one.
Tinker: W-w-wait! Where are you going?
Kia: 'Just taking a look around.
Tinker: But I haven't properly Moored this thing yet!
Kia: 👋 I'm sure you'll figure it out.
Inspiration: Lupin III: The Castle of Cagliostro
Fun fact: Tinker's goggles are made of the undersides of 2 strawberry jam jars. One of the lids is used to secure the sail! The sail itself is also made out of an old bed sheet.
continuing from the eggdad post i made a month ago, issue #60 (and #59. and #50) has given me so much more to think abt in like. one panel.
metal sonic WANTS to be the golden child so bad he wants to be the best kid ever and formerly, when it was really just him vs orbot + cubot and the general badniks, that was easy. like. they don't even know there's a competition, they aren't even trying, most of them aren't CAPABLE of trying (not as much as metal). he's winning by default
then comes belle. she's not competing with metal but she's interesting. eggman finds her interesting enough to extend a hand out for her to join her - she's fine work, intriguing, even if she's against him. he made her and look at her. she doesn't know there's a competition and she doesn't even want to win but she's neck and neck for eggman's interest`
that's not fair. that's not fair.
then the shadow androids. i can't remember who it was but someone pointed out how metal seems to be jealous, unhappy at least, that eggman is so proud of the shadow androids. i don't think he's shown as much interest in eggman's creations before - maybe the metal virus but that doesn't quite slot into a creation in terms of metal or belle or the androids - or maybe i'm wrong. even if he has, i think his 'interest' (bad way of putting it but i can't think of another word rn) is sort of built from this new competitor in his internal competition
he's never had to worry abt eggman finding someone, or something else, useful, bc he's always been the top choice. the golden child. the one who obeys his father to the end. the one who's programmed to do nothing else. belle's rattled him. eggman directed attention to her. she's not even on their side! why does eggman care?
why is eggman so proud of the shadow androids? he's right there.
i think his pursuit of tangle, even though it left eggman in an arguably vulnerable position (the city was recovering from shadow's chaos overload, there were just three intruders, sonic and co. were trying to find him), is indicative of this. get rid of the present threat. focus on her capture. do something right. prove to eggman he's the successful child. show him he's the best
he made metal to be.
it just makes eggman's line in issue #60 so much crueller - metal did his best, taking on sonic and his friends alone, trying to get rid of the problem, and all eggman can think abt is the wrong he's done. how he needs to be corrected.
how bad metal is at being the golden child when it's all he's for.
he's never going to be good enough. but his system won't let him realise that. his coding will convince him otherwise.
metal will keep trying because it's all he can do.
"Patient exhibits signs of agitation and distress related to sleep. Patient keeps himself awake through constant talk, movement, and self-harm*. Night terrors may be evident, although patient refuses acknowledgement and no official sleep disorder has been yet diagnosed.
*Patient was forcibly restrained after repeated violent strikes against the door to his room and shattering a security camera." — Oliver Jacoby, Solarview Psychiatric Hospital