I wanted to try my hand at designing more detailed versions of the stick figure characters. It was fun, thinking of what would fit with each character and what my different headcannons would be, but I'm not, like, married to any of these designs. Some I like better than others. Also, didn't do the mercs because I didn't feel like it.
Only before he could speak again there was a movement, a painful struggle of limbs weighed down as if exhaustion lay upon them heavier than iron—yet when they gained their footing they lurched, reaching out, reaching for, and in that instant the questions ceased to matter. The broken glass and the walls around them ceased to matter; the urgency of escape, like the sounds of battle somewhere above them faded to background noise, as distant as the past. Here, at this time, they were The Dark Lord and The Chosen One—just them, each holding to the other as if nothing had changed and nothing else mattered except you, you're here, you're alive.