DUALITI

Blog for my OC universe because. Why not amirite

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Oh btw im making the executive descision to not use this blog since it was hard for my brain to figure out whether or not to post art here or my art blog, thus causing me not to post at all. Im keeping it up for archival reasons because I hate deleting things but from now on art and oc stuff will both be posted on my art blog @coffindrawings

Just lettin yall know

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new art, new art, fresh from the oven! I wanted to try something new for the backgrounds by using photo editing on stock photos and textures, I think it looks pretty rad

[lordspoooky]

Other Places to Find Me and My Art if This Site Really Does Shit The Bed:

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Cohost: lordspooky

[coffindrawings]

If tumblr really does start stealing our art for ai bullshit at some point and I decide to nuke everything and leave this is where yall can find me.

[dualiti-real]

Trying to spice up my doodles and practice dialogue writing at the same time by making my characters say things in my sketchbook doodles instead of just standing there blankly

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Hi sorry ive been busy with art college but I just realized that I have somehow unconsciously based one of my ocs off of a stuffed animal I had as a kid. whadda hell

this is the funniest shit ever

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Level 90 CUL lets you do this, I think.

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DUALITI MAP

I made this cuz I wanted to try and figure out where everything was, and then I made it actually legible for other people to look at. hope u enjoy

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Rip arthur yes be died but also I keep rewriting what im doing with him every time he crosses my brain

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OC-tober Day 17: Eyes Closed

yeag

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Neglect

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OC-tober Day 15: Meme

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OC-tober Day 6: Symbol

for this one I'm going to show you the symbol (or at least the beta version of a symbol) for one of Dualiti's religions, the Magus Pantheon!

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There are a lot of religions in Dualiti, and things sort of go off of Terry Pratchett Small Gods rules, where as long as something has enough people believing in it, it's a god. so there are a bunch of gods running around of various sizes. the ones that are the most prominent, though, are the ones in the Magus Pantheon. this includes, from left to right,

Noctis, God of Darkness,

Sol, God of Light,

Enis, God of Humanity,

and Lia, God of Knowledge.

their dimension is where magic comes into Dualiti's world from, and the symbol above is an attempted representation of it. each god has their own domain within this dimension, starting from the oldest outside to the youngest in the middle. they don't really interfere with humanity directly, or at least they shouldn't. a lot of trouble has come in the past from gods meddling in the affairs of humanity.

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OC-tober Day 5: Relationships

I was going to do a chart but I have too many characters and I haven't introduced them all yet so instead I'll take this as an opportunity to introduce two OCs at once, my two absolutely terrible guys, Laurel and his husband Faust!

(warning for brief mentions of mind control in the context of Laurels powers, lemme know if there's anything else in here anyone would want a warning about that I missed)

Laurel is the closest thing Dualiti really has to a villain, as mentioned in his neocities blurb. but due to Dualiti's very static state of being, he's mostly been bothering the same places and people for the last 1000 years, the only thing changing being who's being sent to fight him. either way, he is extremely content with the status quo he's in, where he has a lot of control in his little bubble and can do basically whatever he feels like. He and Vex have a very complicated rivalry, but that's a whole different quadrant- *I AM IMMEDIATELY DRAGGED OFFSTAGE BY SECURITY*

His husband is Faust, a mad scientist who is the absolute worst. just about everyone who meets him is immediately repulsed by his personality, which is "I am smarter than everyone else and anyone who claims otherwise is stupid and wrong, even when I am actively failing at something". somehow, though, Laurel is absolutely charmed by his cringefail demeanor. it also helps that Faust is equally head over heels for him. they are both completely terrible but I guess somehow they cancel eachother out, so that's nice? I'm glad they managed to find eachother.

Laurel Fun Facts:

Though Laurel looks like just a really tall elf, (he is 7'6". elves in the universe of Dualiti do not get that tall ever.) he's actually a sentient magical organism that is puppeting a corpse to function as his main body. that organism is the slime, which manifests on his body as the hair coming from his head.

when Laurel (the magic organism) consumes matter, it produces more slime, which can be used as structures, weapons, and as means of controlling others.

He can make hunters by basically infecting people with himself, (someone ingests the slime, it gets into an injury, ect.) and puppeting them from the inside. once he's infected someone, they're basically already on his network, and he can step into the controls any time. (you know, like vris- *I am once again dragged offstage*) he doesn't use it a lot unless he has to, though. he likes the challenge of convincing people to work for him.

(also just to get it out there because I mentioned Laurels powers and I want to make it clear that, no, Faust isn't being mind controlled or anything. he just encountered someone who actually genuinely liked him and went full Gomez Addams about it)

He is very much inspired by my love of classic disney villains. always love a character who is awful and is having so much fun with it. Shoutout to my girl Maleficent she inspired SO much about Laurel without me even realizing it.

as mentioned, he and vex have sort of a weird rival thing going on. do they hate eachother? are they best friends? something else? fucking. I don't know man.

(shout out to Hark a Vagrant by Kate Beaton for the reference)

you can tell thats old art because laurel doesn't have his cape yet. anyway, now we're moving on to

Faust Fun Facts:

Faust is very much inspired by characters like Doctor Robotnik, or Berdly of Deltarune. basically characters that are very confident in being super smart even when they probably aren't actually.

this isn't to say he's bad at what he does, he's really good at making robots and doomsday devices and the like- he's just bad at realizing that maybe he shouldn't keep putting in the function for them to explode randomly or at the slightest interference. high intelligence, fucking AWFUL wisdom.

He and Laurel met when Faust accidentally crashed his egg-mobile type thing into Laurels mansion and DIRECTLY onto the table Laurel was having tea at.

it's honestly a miracle Laurel thought he was funny and didn't end up killing him.

Faust does smoke, even though as a hunter/undead he doesn't really like, get any of what you would get from a cigarette. old habits die hard. (maybe he just likes the taste.)

as mentioned he is absolutely hopeless over Laurel. Laurel could literally do anything and Faust would think it was great. thankfully Laurel likes him just as much right back, which means that Faust can fuck up his evil schemes as much as possible and Laurel will not even care. he loves his silly little idiot so much.

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Grrr grrr i want to be catching up on october right now but i have fucking animation homework i have to do rauuuugh

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GOT IT DONE LETS GOOOO

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Grrr grrr i want to be catching up on october right now but i have fucking animation homework i have to do rauuuugh

[piosplayhouse]

Oh no, you must've misheard me. I never said morally GRAY, I said morally GAY. As in he takes a certain homosexual approach to dealing with ethical dilemmas. Also he's killed 200 people

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OC-tober Day 4: Re-Design

ok so I know it's no longer day 4 but I had a good reason and that was I had to actually draw something for this day instead of just posting old unused art, Ill try and get the others out because even if I miss the days the prompts help me get info out lol

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It's Grimm! I've posted some art of Grimm before, (he often got some of my most detailed artworks on my art blog @sp00ky-doodles) and recently, I had been going "man, I don't like something about this design."

(this is the old one. It's honestly not bad, there are many things I really like and kept- mostly it was just the face that was bugging me.)

So basically I dedicated a bunch of time in my sketchbook to drawing him a bunch in various slightly different ways until I found something I liked. turned out the answer was to give him an emo haircut haha

I also finally actually gave him ears and a nose. which for some reason I didn't give him when I first designed him. he looks better with them honestly I don't know why I didn't do it sooner. also I made his cloak a bit cooler because I am not immune to putting buckles and belts and zippers on everything I can.

anyway time for some Grimm Fun Facts!!

Grimm is a generally very laid-back person. he likes quiet environments and tasks that keep him busy.

due to a magic-related incident in his youth, Grimm has a bunch of extra weird arms that come out of a hole in his back. when he was younger he was freaked out by them, but he's gotten used to them. they're useful for carrying extra things.

Grimm is a Hunter, which is basically a Dualiti-exclusive variant of the undead that the main villain of Dualiti, Laurel, can make people into and control (think zombies but mostly sentient and strong as hell). he mostly uses them as soldiers, but due to the static nature of Dualiti, (not really able to go anywhere else, really only fighting the same people) most of Laurel's hunters are just sort of chilling. In Grimm's case, he's been around since Dualiti's force field went up like 1000 years ago and has no interest in fighting anyone.

this doesn't mean he isn't strong, though. he's a really powerful swordsman. Like crazy over the top anime levels. however as previously mentioned he is completely uninterested in fighting.

instead he spends most of his time maintaining a very large botanical garden area in some remote part of Dualiti. It gives him something to do, and plants are neat.

He's Vex's brother! they don't talk.

He was formerly part of the initial adventuring party that tried to stop Laurel back in the day, but a lot of things went wrong. like. a lot. he doesn't want to talk about it. he doesn't want to talk to anyone really.

The Society of Science (Scientific institution in Dualiti) actually uses the place to get any plants they may need for experiments, so there are some scientists who are also living in the garden in order to monitor some of the plants. they do not know Grimm is there, because Grimm avoids just about anyone who comes into the garden.

It's easy for him to do this because the garden is very big. If you want a visual reference for the garden itself, look at the Queens Gardens from Hollow Knight. I love that area in the game it's so pretty

Most people don't know Grimm is here and think the place is haunted. and maybe it is :)

Hidden deep in the heart of the garden is the grave of someone very dear to him. don't disturb it, okay?