Finally got all the ninths complete! This one has an extra bonus image too :o
The hearts included are: Heart, Artemis and H3art at the start of the current loop (top left), oops loop H3art (top right), Heart without his blindfold (bottom left) and H3art from the most recent comic (bottom right).
Sadly, H3art's transparent eyelids aren't that visible in the final image but I promise they're there 😢
Gonna make a final post with all the ninths and Cee together since I've made some small changes to the others since posting last them :>
actual honest to god wip dump. RIP all of these posts theyll never be finished take them anyway god
(TW/CW WARNING FOR THE ANIMATION BELOW: SUICIDAL IMAGERY/SUICIDE ATTEMPT)
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insane massive ramblings abt each one under cut, open at your own risk, this got very very long
1-3: hair headcanons i developed back in may of last year:3 i kinda see hms' hair as an extension of hms themselves yk? heart keeps it messy and unconfined in any sense and it represents his emotions in that way, while mind washes it/uses product constantly to keep it smooth and in his own control. soul(not pictured, i hate that guy) has half and half, the top is just like heart's and the bottom's just like mind's. whole(not pictured, he's cool though) has hair that does whatever it wants/ref
most of my digital pieces are actually traced over from pencil sketches to fully complete them, but for a sketch that's supposed to remain a sketch like this....? tbh i was just trying to add to it to make it presentable, and ironically it failed bc there was nothing to add bc it was done. i just got bored bc of it. in hindsight i could've just posted the scanned pencil sketches but by then i had already digitized them but then also by then i had outgrown the art and wouldnt be satisfied posting it. ah well lesson learned, most of my shitpostier/conceptual drawings get posted undigitized and doodles i DO want to add to get digitized so hoorayy
(fun fact, i was drawing this during my filmosophy class, my professor literally stopped mid lecture and was like "i'm getting distracted by your art, it's so pretty:oo" AND THE LECTURE WAS ABT THE PHILOSOPHY OF IDENTITY, SPECIFICALLY THE EGO, SUPER EGO, AND THE ID, basically hms, basically cccc lore, basically a massive chonny jash reference, of course he had no way of knowing but it made my semester lol.)
4-5: mario is dead and heart fucking killed him. aka i listened to the mario is dead album early september. life ruining.
since then everytime i saw fanart of Heart with wings on the side of his head, i thought of the cover so i decided to redraw it to be funny. all fun and games until i struggled with the proportions and color. I put in way too much effort, it should have been a funny doodle at best and tbh would have had the same silly result...
like the doodle of mind laughing bowser 64 style next to it, CUNT!!! bowser is one of my favorite characters of all time, so of course Mind gets the honor of laughing like him in this weird hypothetical shitposty world. lol
6: the heart the mind and the soul...this was gonna be a sticker design!
But i fucked up the canvas size which is why it's so pixelated. I was too tired to retry it so oh well! No sticker for me.
the designs got outdated almost instantly anyway. i dont plan on making a reference sheet, my designs are just ever evolving bit by bit, you can tell from the first image too just how they've been tweaked. i probably won't try to sit down and make a sticker design anytime soon, instead if i make a piece and it happens to be something i want as a sticker, i'll use that instead. who knows when/if thatll ever be lol
7: shitpost. drawn during the making of the animation below it. was writing out details/tidbits abt the animation (will share further ahead!!) and thought it was funny enough to draw. i'd go back and clean it up if i had any semblance of motivation to. which i never will.
8: we both reached for the gun
this one's a doozy.
started late august, stopped working on it around early december? i wanna say. the audio was already getting outdated by the time i started, but i still love the song.
i have a bad habit of making my animations too detailed, and thus i give up on them almost instantly. i did try to finish this one without giving that up though, but as a result it was turning out very inconsistent (you can see the style changing at several points through it😭😭) because it was taking so long.
‼️‼️tw/cw for discussions of suicide/suicide attempt(from the animation) scroll to skip‼️‼️
in case it's kinda unclear what's happening i'll explain: Heart and Whole begin to reach for a gun, Heart to shoot Mind, Whole to shoot himself. I see the Juno Incident from RoE as a metaphor for a suicide attempt via gunshot to the head, one that results in Heart getting condemned to Apathy as punishment, aka Whole becoming Apathetic to cope with his most recent attempt and continuing depression.
I depicted Whole much more abstract, like a sketch, to show the disconnect between the trio and who they actually make up. The attempt didn't feel real to Heart or Mind, nor even Whole, until of course it was done, and all of them are collectively horrified...except for Soul, who's seen it all before.
some bits pulled directly from my notes below:
"both reached for the gun lore for me:
-heart/whole uses his right hand, the right side being the supposed emotional side
-soul "narrates" to a third audience bc he knows theyre in a loop, and aware of the audience. he's seen these events before, is going slightly insane maybe(the part of Whole SICK of this stupid ass internal conflict and angst)
(bonus, also a meta narration, bc tally hall fans listening to chonny jashs ruler of everything cover would already know what's happening, juno was mad, he's about to shoot the sun)
-heart only hesitates when mind doesnt react, realizing his threat meant nothing.
-mind starts grinning bc he knows (thinks) Heart was not about to actually shoot him. he assumed heart came to the logic that that would be very bad for them and their host, but a bit of him also thought that he wouldn't even have the courage. he neglects to factor in hearts literal driving motivation of his emotions, not even realizing he's gotten him angrier.
-heart realizes his threat meant NOTHING. still not being taken seriously, still not being seen as equal.
-in whole's head, he got a conflicting thought along the lines of "you are not about to kill yourself. you don't have the guts to even pull the trigger." he's suffering from so much self hatred, his gut reaction is a vengeful, "i'll show you." he hates his own self so damn much, he'll kill himself to prove himself wrong/right.
-mind continues to laugh in the face of danger, Heart will only realize this and its importance way later in the album. right now, he hates it
-flashing to the grave hearts already dug for mind, remembering it's already set for him
-whole crying, about to pull the trigger. feeling a lot, as one might expect.
-soul gun finger silly:3
-two flashes, two gunshots...
-smoke from Hearts gun, as he fired. One body falls, but it's all of theirs, and yet not.
-Mind still stands, shocked that Heart pulled the trigger, barely missed him, and that he was nearly killed, their host nearly killed.
-Heart is shocked, too, crying, realizing he shot at himself
-Whole begins to cry, barely surviving his suicide attempt, laying in a pool of his own blood.
-Heart grins, starting to laugh as a delusional coping mechanism. he cant believe it either.
-Mind looks over at Soul, still shocked, wondering what they were going to do, foreshadowing the rest of Ruler of Everything and Just Apathy (punish Heart by throwing him in the grave he had dug/metaphorically Whole burying the hell out of his emotions)
-Soul begins to cry.
-the cycle continues"
‼️‼️end of tw/cw‼️‼️
yup! at some point i imagined i would color it and everything lmfaoo.
i also ended up overthinking on things, like would Mind really be this shocked? Does it even make sense that Heart would have his blindfold on during the juno incident???? Where the hell is Darrelll💔💔💔???!?!?
in conclusion, i will never finish it, or any of these, and that's okay.
if you read this far, thanks for indulging me. here are some darrells just for you:3
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