[She/Her - Thorn | Aava] ☀️ UTAU Creator + Multifandom Artist
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Afterdeath fankid art/ask blog: https://www.tumblr.com/callofthecorvus
Took a two day break due to sickness, but I'm back with a revenge on BelovedStill! Was in a lineless mood today :)
I love this lil guy; He's so cute!! <3
Attack on Chasing-Stars of their cutie, Paint!
This took a solid 8-9 hours, 6 of which was just on the background alone. I'm really happy with it cause I wanted to go out of my comfort zone do more more complex composition/ideas this year :)
Oops all tigers! - Af design batch :3
By the time I got to attack 3 I realized all my ideas were tigers, so why don't I make all 5 tigers at this point. So here we are 👍
A redesign of Kaldur'ahm for my Young Justice: Infiltrators AU :3
Essentially my concept for this was: what if Kaldur decided to strike out and become his own hero rather than living in the shadows of those who came before? His hero name is Surge!
The work outfit was heavily influenced by his Flashpoint Paradox outfit
The idea behind the tattoo: I associate Kaldur very heavily with sharks and a lot of the symbolism and spirituality behind them seems to fit his character very well! Every shark on his sleeves is supposed to be a different species - not one repeating. I winged half of them, but some I can confirm I referenced were the hammerhead, winghead, basking, whale, goblin, and thresher shark.
Humans are so hard to draw, but I am very happy with how he turned out. <3
When I mentioned last month that I had so many Young Justice OCs, I meant it... Aaaaand they're mostly animal based. Have I told you I liked animals? slslslsklssls
Meet APEX - A team of meta-enhanced animals, focusing primarily on animal welfare rather than human, that banded together after the passing of their creator, Octavius Gray, also known as The Warden.
Info about each below ↓
Veta:
Veta is one of The Warden's first human-to-animal brain-swap experiments, formerly being a meta-human by the name of Emily Maxwell, who was a 21 year old veterinary student when she was abducted while on her way home from work and became one of many meta-animals under his ranks. She originally came into contact with the Justice League during a zoo raid she partook in, and was freed from an inhibitor collar designed to prevent her telepathic communication. After almost being kidnapped by The Warden and later saving a leaguer during his second zoo raid, she was given a temporary protection order and allowed to stay in the watchtower under supervision, only lifting when she was found to be telling to truth. She then later joined the Covert Ops Teams.
Veta is now the Co-Leader of APEX, though Veta herself is a "team-switch", meaning she often willingly helps out the Covert Ops Team depending on if they need an extra set of paws. Veta is a telepath and can generate electricity through her fangs - the latter being a mechanical enhancement
Octavius:
A clone of the infamous Warden created for a reason unknown, but it's suspected that it was to be a beta subject for The Warden's future animal-to-human brain swap experiments. Despite his direct relation, Octavius is the complete opposite of his creator morals wise, but is just as insufferable and a know-it-all. Octavius was directly responsible for stopping The Warden's attack on New York, by appealing to the empathy of his fellow animals, convincing them to turn against their oppressive creator. An action that almost caused his death before Veta saved his life and ended The Warden's in turn.
Octavius is the leader of APEX. He's the brainiac of the group and doesn't actually go on mission himself unless they are short staffed. Octavius also doubles as the League's general scientist to the disdain of many who find is know-it-all attitude, dry sarcasm, and arrogance to be obnoxious, but he is helpful [and they like his colleagues] enough that they deal with him. While APEX runs out of the watchtower they generally don't follow the lead of the other teams and mainly do their own thing, mainly because Octavius doesn't really respect most of the leaguers and goes against most direct orders he is given, however his Co-leader Veta often keeps him in check when he's going too far.
Skipper:
Skipper is the youngest of the APEX team and is the "everyone's younger brother" type. His meta-power is superspeed, but if you asked him he'd tell you he wishes he had wind manipulation. Though he does make up for this by learning how to make tornados, though mainly just tiny ones. Skipper is goofy, lovable, and naïve, and it's a miracle that The Warden didn't dispatch him for his passiveness and unwillingness to hurt anyone, like many others that refused to follow orders were… Broke his horn by running into a wall, something he has repeated more than once afterward.
Hotrod:
APEX's resident hothead and the raddest member of the team [if you ask him at least…]. Hotrod is the pyrokinetic of the group and certainly lives up to the dragon part of Komodo Dragon - his favorite trick being, you guessed it, fire breathing. Easy to anger, full of sarcasm, and all around insufferable with some nauseating 80s slang ready to make everyone in the room eyeroll. He's not the teams favorite member, but can be a bit of fun when things go his way.
Has a weird knack for problem solving in the most unconventional way possible. Stuck in a trap? Let Hotrod take over and he always seems to come up with some way of escaping by using leftover crates or pipes. If it exists, he can make something of it. Maybe his true calling in engineering, but Hotrod would rather prefer to nap all day, ragebait his teammates, or tinker with old vintage cars. Are we sure this guy isn't a brain-swap experiment?
Umbra:
Named after his meta-enhanced ability with a personality to match, Umbra is the more cowardly, anxious, shy, introvert of the group. He hates confrontation, fighting especially, and often only goes on covert op missions as it aligns with his personality, powers, and skillset much better. He's a selective mute, often preferring to communicate through body language despite having a speech collar. One he often doesn't wear primarily due to his dislike of having pressure around his neck, even after a non-metallic, adjustable collar was offered.
Umbra's umbrakinesis allows him to manipulate shadows, including morphing his body into one - allowing him to seep into the environment acting as any other ordinary shadow casted by object and people alike. This ability makes him almost immune to damage as long as the object he is traversing across isn't destroyed. These abilities have also made him a very good eavesdropper, able to listen unseen from the shadows. He might be cowardly in nature, but he doesn't shy away from listening to the drama of others. In fact it might be one of his favorite accidental past times and he often keeps track of everything happening between APEX members and the other teams with almost an almost scary accuracy. But, if your not already a friend you may have to do him a lil favor or two to get any of the info out of him.
Sigrun:
A Grizzly Bear "liberated" from a raid on the Bronx Zoo by The Warden that was brain-swapped with a discharged vlatavan head guard by the name of Natalya Svetlana, who was an wildlife rehabilitator for roughly a year before her home was attacked by The Warden with her animals and herself being kidnapped. After the transfer, and subsequent brainwashing, Sigrun quickly climbed the ranks due to her former guard knowledge and super strength and ultimately became the general of The Wardens animal army. Later having a pair of cubs with an unknown bear, who, according to her, passed away. When the army later descended upon New York with the intention of taking it over, Sigrun was the one who ultimately called it off after Octavius appealed to her empathy and turned her army back on The Warden.
Sigrun resigned herself to be a simple team member of APEX rather than a team leader, though begrudgingly so, and she often takes issue with being bossed around even by those has was respect for. She contains the same thoughts to speech embed as Octavius, however unlike his hers is present on the inside of her throat. It is not quite sure why, but the location does protect it from outside attacks and she seems to have no issues with it thus far.
Sigrun's unnatural size was originally chalked up to possibly being a side effect of her meta-enhancement, however, further testing has found a liquid compound in her bloodstream that bares some similarity to cobra venom. Possibly being a modified variation of it. More testing is needed however to confirm this theory.
Orpheus:
A theorized former scientist partner of The Warden who was betrayed and mutated into an animalistic beast, but who they were and why isn't known. What is known is the fact that Orpheus was a direct attempt at recreating man-bat, something proven through an experiment report. Orpheus was treated as sub-human, according to himself and many who knew of his existence. He's was The Warden's errand boy; his lap dog that was caged when they weren't needed. He often did the Warden's dirty work. Many of his plans had Orpheus as the bright white target for the Justice League to attack, while The Warden did all his work in the background with everyone distracted.
Orpheus was freed by Veta, and later alerted the Justice League to the Warden's planned attack on New York a few hours before it happened. But it is theorized that his escape directly triggered the attack to happen sooner than planned. He later saved her and Octavius's life after the death of The Warden.
Orpheus is APEX's designated air unit and doubles as air transport for most of the flightless animals. His meta-enhancement gave him the ability to manipulate sonic waves, primarily using his bat echolocation as a deafening sonic blast. Unlike the rest of his team Orpheus is one of two members of the team that have refused thoughts to speech collars, as the feeling of pressure around his neck causes him to panic.
Honeysuckle:
Honeysuckle, often called Bee by her teammates, is the only animal on APEX that didn't originate from The Warden's ranks. Instead being an test subject rescued from an unrelated lab raid. Her in-depth knowledge on The Warden and many of the events that occurred under his rule would only be possible if she used to work for him, but not a single animal among his ranks seems to have any memory of her..
Bee is the second 'powerless' member of APEX, though that's not actually entirely correct… She's a psychic, a powerful one at that that can easily siphon memories from other minds almost without detection by way of memory wiping anyone who catches her using her powers. Why is she so secretive? Well that's only for her to know. Her monster form on the other hand can't seem to be activated at will; primarily only happening in high stress scenarios - hence the powerless label. Because of this inability, Bee is often only put on stealth missions due to her prehensile tail, small size, and exceptional climbing abilities, and she is damn good at her job. Bee is a "team-switch", and has gone on missions with the Covert Ops Team when a smaller set of hands are needed.
Bee, despite her cute looks, is probably the most unhinged member on the team. She is the second team member who doesn't have a speech collar, though she never elaborated on why she didn't want one.
Guys... I've been absolutely binging Young Justice for the past month. Watched the first two seasons twice and just finished season 3, and have been brainworming so many OCs it's unreal.... I'm obsessed atm
So welcome the first of many [hopefully], Derya! My weird lil Reachsona.
Why is she shrimp themed? I was feeling very joyful and whimsical
Commence info and ramblings ↓
Derya is a Reach zoologist and animal geneticist apprentice that joined a delegation focused on researching the wildlife of Earth, with the ultimate goal of creating bioweapons through gene-splicing.
While snooping around in places she shouldn't have been she discovered a secret project created by her mentor. A prototype "scarab" created in the shape of a shrimp, which bonded with her when she subsequently interacted with it [her mentor was OBSESSED with shrimp]. When discovered, she learned that the others were planning to kill her to retrieve the "scarab" and she escaped into Earth's wilderness becoming a fugitive, using her glamour charm to disguise herself as human.
She was discovered by the Justice League after she accidently ran into an ambush set by her delegation and was almost captured, and was later taken in by Artemis and Will as they attempted to figure out her identity. Where, when unsuccessful, she choose her own name, Derya, and was later given a superhero alias by accidently, Tempura. It was said in jest, but she stuck with it cause it felt like a slap in the face to her shrimp loving mentor.
When her delegation became brazen enough to attack the home with people inside, injuring multiple, she was given an emergency protection order by Kaldur and moved to the Watchtower, where she ultimately found interest in being a hero and joined the Outsiders! Later finding the confidence to reveal that she was Reach to her team and the league.
Personality wise she quite energetic, sensitive, and always a shoulder to lean on. She's generally a voice a reason and likes to think about her next moves logically [she's an anxious overthinker]. Autism and ADHD and her special interest is animals! She was really the black sheep of her delegation, being focused mainly on ethics and welfare rather than efficiency. Her main hobbies when she's not recording and logging animal sightings are combing beaches, drawing, baking, and maintaining aquariums! She actually maintains a room mixture of fresh and saltwalter aquariums in the outsider's headquarters. Often just called the "fish room", it also doubles as a lab for her animal research and a destressing space for when her team members need some quiet time.
I got so many OCs cooking. I hope I maintain the motivation to show them all to y'all <3
If I had a penny for every time I have made a ref of a new OC I've been concepting and developing for ages, only to be immediately shoved into the next hyperfixation after sharing them, preceding me having almost no energy to draw them again for months, I would probably be rich.
Believe me it will happen again; It's actively happening as we speak.
Reaper always struck me as someone who gets cute aggression and often bites out of affection. This, however, had inadvertently given Fizzy a bit of a biting problem as a young kid.
Somewhat a comfort piece. I just really wanted to draw these two <3
New critters cause the poppy brainrot hit me like a freight train
All of these critters were based off my idea of the Smiling Critter's TV show having a Halloween special: the critters are taken to a supposedly abandoned haunted manor where they are divided on whether or not ghosts and monsters are real. Shenanigans then ensue when the run into the inhabitants.
Rambles and Info Below 🎃 ↓
Bug-a-Boo:
Bug-a-Boo was based off a firefly and is one of the only critters ever to be shown with colored eyes, which were shown to glow along with his tail; this bioluminescence also transferred over to his plush in the form of glow-in-the-dark fabric. He was often shown to buzz his wings when excited. Very bubby bubby with Callie and the two were often shown creating havoc together.
A bigger body of Bug-a-Boo was actually put into production, but for the factory setting and not Playcare. His large size, ability to fly, along with his multiple limbs made moving heavy objects around almost a breeze and his creation was supposed to eliminate the need for forklifts and pallet jacks. His conditioning was quite successful, and he was known to be loyal to staff and did most of what he was told no questions asked. Until he didn't… See Bug-a-Boo was often starved if he didn't do something up to management standards. He was afraid of failure and grew increasingly more jumpy and paranoid of everyone around him until the accident. While attempting to move a few large boxes of toys, Bug-a-Boo got frightened by a falling latter and ended up crashing into a shelf where it then collapsed, causing 5 casualties and another employee to lose a leg. This caused Bug-a-Boo to panic and in the chaos the escaped the factory and found their way into the cave systems beneath it where they remained unaccounted for and presumed dead. Though if you asked anyone who worked down there, they'd tell you that they can occasionally hear a slight buzzing or see weird glowing lights in the sections inaccessible to staff.
Harvey Hoax:
Harvey Hoax is the owner of the haunted manor featured in the special and spends the deration of the episode convincing the critters that he's a vengeful spirit before being supposedly outed as a fraud near the end. According to messages between the staff team Harvey Hoax was directly referenced off of Harley Sawyer, though whether or not he was aware or had any input in Harvey's design or characterization isn't known. Harvey was based off of a Jackal, but has been accidently labeled as a coyote a few times in advertising which has led to discourse among fans of the show about his species. Harvey is also pseudo-melanistic!
Because of who Harvey was based off of and his limited story ideas, he was only ever shown again in 2-parter leaving some to say he's 'wasted potential'.
Callie Cabra:
Much like her name implies, Callie Cabra is based off an interpretation of the Chupacabra legend, toned down from it's original description to be more dog-like to make her more suitable for a child audience. However despite this, Callie was directly involved with the traumatization of many young fans who watched the special and she has quite a few 'lost media' hoaxes and creepypastas revolving around her. Callie was shown again in the second Halloween special that aired, alongside Frankie. She was shown to be very friendly with Bug-a-Boo and the two often hang around each other.
A few concepts for a bigger body of Callie were made as jokes, mainly made to experiment with various horror styles. Unlike the other critters, it doesn't seem like any mini toys were made of her either. And of course, a rumor has spread from this claiming that one was made, or in some variations of it a smaller variation of a bigger body design, but it then became violet and ended the scientist that made it.
Frankie Froglet:
Only two new Smiling Critters were part of this special [compared to 3 Nightmare Critters] with Frankie being the more memorable of the two with his upbeat personality, struggle of understanding typical social norms, a general interesting design., and his gag of being able to remove his stitched on limbs and even control them while they were detached; often used to give his friends or newcomers a bit of a fright. His plush form also reflected this in having his stitched on limbs be magnetic and thus removable!
Frankie is part of a plot hole in the critters TV show. Where the fact that he was capable of removing his limbs was seemingly forgotten by the end of the special when the main Smiling Critters crew decided that ghosts and monsters didn't exist after supposedly outing Harvey as a fraud. This plothole seems to have been retconned with Frankie showing up in a another shorter Halloween special where he's touted to be the big bad undead monster that the group should fear until someone is brave enough to give him him a chance and learns that he isn't scary after all. This created another plothole in and of itself as Frankie already made peace with the group in the first special so it's weird that he was a stranger to them again in the second. It is heavily debated among fans on the timeline of these two specials, whether one of them is canon or not given the difference in writers, or if they're different universes.
A bigger body of Frankie was indeed made for Playcare, but after management deemed his looks "too scary" he was then put under and had his limbs and features surgically replaced to make him more suitable to be around the children. The surgery was successful, but in following days Frankie unfortunately was put down following what the lab deems the "Frankie Incident"
Caspurr:
The second of the two Smiling Critters featured in the special. Caspurr's design itself was the most striking part of her character. Her furless patches gave her an almost werewolf-esque look, which was supposedly directly based off the cat of one of the artists that designed her. Caspurr was shown to be a more shy and sweet critter, using roleplaying, cosplay, and make-believe as a way to feel more comfortable with herself, which resonated with many. She was originally written to be a potential partner for Catnap specifically, but given management's disapproval of any of the critters having blatant love interests, Caspurr was toned down to just be a "very good friend". But that doesn't mean the animators didn't add any romantic undertones into the special under the noses of management. She was also referenced in a few following episodes as a long distance "friend" that he wrote back and forth to.
A bigger body of Caspurr, or experiment 1211, was created, but any documents about her usage were left redacted.... ;)
Harvey Hoax was designed by predaplants on TH; I designed the rest :)
Finally an updated reference and minor redesign for my favorite chronically ✨ misunderstood ✨ teenager. This is probs the largest reference I have ever made. I mainly wanted to give his wolf form a more majestic and slightly more lore accurate look and I added a few more wolf-like aspects to his main form.
And given that's a been a while I shall take this opportunity to ramble and flesh him out a lot more ↓
Revenant, also called Fizzy because of his love of soda, is the oldest afterdeath kid in CT being 16 Years old. Having been an accidental product of magic combination. Revenant at home is generally is a rebellious and loud "cool kid", but when in public he often gets quiet and withdrawn. He's easily flustered and embarrassed and can get quite hypocritical in the "do as I say, not as a do" way, but this is in a misguided way rather then mean or malicious.
Because of how he was created, the disconnect he felt with his father Reaper, and the feel of always living in his shadow, Rev has always felt like the black sheep of the family. And being the oldest child of 5 made him feel like he was always on the backburner; often overlooked in favor of is younger siblings. But despite this his relationship with his siblings is very strong and he doesn't blame them for anything.
Fizzy's strange abilities were directly granted by the soul gem embedded into his left palm. This gem overwrote any ability he may of had previously in place of electrokinesis and form changing. These abilities are a double edged sword and are often something he struggles to control.
So nice being able to flesh him out further. Fizz has always been a character that's meant a lot to me <3
Ever since my fam started watching Stranger Things season 5 two days go, nearly every single light in our house has been randomly flickering.
Naturally I've been making demogorgon jokes all day alslsks
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