Do you have any drafts of the backgrounds in the hijack animatic?? Floorplans, detail notes, references? I keep getting amazed every time I rewatch it you did so well on making the characters feel alive in their environment I'm starting to think you're a professional with their fandom side blogs lmaošš
I gathered a bunch of references from the wiki and took more screenshots from the movie and rtte! (had to turn up the brightness a lot to see the house and room properly) it also helped that I had the httyd artbook on hand.
drafts and lineart below!
here's a page of the thumbnails where I try to sketch out how the room looks to make sense of it for myself
(the rest if you're curious)
my drafts are super messy (it's more important for me to see how the shots flow and feels when it plays) so when drawing the backgrounds I do have to do another proper draft and then draw over that... I usually avoid backgrounds in general so I'm super proud that I made the effort here. maybe I CAN draw backgrounds after all
Had to just use a link previously since I wasn't able to upload the full video on tumblr (the file was too big) but I can still upload a little toothless compilation so... here!
The Japanese emperor or great purple emperor (Sasakia charonda), is a species of butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is native to Japan, the Korean Peninsula, China, northern Taiwan and northern Vietnam. The caterpillarĀ of the species (above) feed on hackberries. Ā (x x x)
obsessed with this muppet clip where Gonzo breaks a piece of machinery and then just stares at the camera in an empty room and says āGUILTā in the most harrowing way possible
Guards! Put the blond man in spandex in situations!
Ahah you thought it was gonna be a silly introduction? Well me and @sam-i-am-27 (who's writing a fic about it!) have been coocking some more loree. (PREV) I'll be drawing more scenes here on my blog.
WOOOOO FIRST BATCH OF DESIGNS COMPLETE!!!! I initially planned on posting all of the designs together but FUCK IT I finished Simon and Grace first and I wanted to share their designs. So Rocky, Stratt, and Colt (yes if you didn't see the preview, Colt Seavers from the Fall Guy is also here, keep up) are coming in an additional post.
ANYWAYS! WELCOME to the Bloodymary Star Wars AU because I'm fucking insane and combining all of my hyperfixations together. First things first, credit to this post and this post who gave me the idea for these casting choices! The actual story and designs are all my creations, but I wanted to give credit where credit is due to the inspiration behind Grace being ex-imperial and Simon being a Mandalorian.
I will now proceed to put actual story details below. Enjoy the insanity folks!
Grace
Grace was a scientist who worked for the Empire, but ran away after finding out his research was being used to oppress others
Author's Note: Likely he was working on some kind of project that was studying midichlorians or how to biologically replicate/suppress Force Sensitivity (due to his microbiology degree in canon) but I haven't worked out the details for this yet
He ends up going into hiding, staying mostly in the outer rim and doing odd jobs here and thereĀ
When hunting for scraps on a ship one day, he comes across a broken droid named R-0K7, left behind and in complete disrepair. Sympathizing with the droid almost instantly, he fixes him up and they became best friends. Grace nicknamed him āRockyā
He ends up getting kidnapped by the rebellion at some point for information, and basically gets forced into working with them (āeither you work with us or we turn you over to the empireā)
Simon
Simon was part of Clan Eden after being adopted into it as a child. After Night of a Thousand Tears, this clan was absolutely PISSED at the Empire and did everything in their power to make a statement against them. And they did not care if innocent civilians got in the way.
One day, they commandeer an Imperial transport that they plan on blowing up as its docks as a statement. However, thereās civilians on the transport AND the dock, meaning they would be casualties
Simon, who was known as one of the more ruthless members of their group after nearly taking out an entire Imperial base on his own when he was teenager, actually fights back against his clan as he thinks this is going too far. They proceed to call him āsoftā and do it anyways.
As Simon tried to sabotage the attack, it went completely awry and he was left as the only survivor, losing his arm in the process. He surrenders to the Empire and gets taken as prisoner
How They Meet:
One day, Grace is tasked with a mission. The Rebellion wants information on Clan Eden, as they're becoming concerned with how their attacks might draw eyes on them. Unfortunately, their best way to get hands on that information is Simon, whoās still being held in prison. Even if he helped take out a transport unit, his group causing the death of innocents makes him hated amongst Rebels as well. Despite this, heās their best chance for information and they want Grace there because heās being held on the Star Destroyer Grace used to be stationed on, therefore heād be most familiar with the layout.Ā
Grace actually gets stuck guiding Simon out of the prison on his own (due to some shenanigans that got him separated from the rest of his infiltration team). They donāt really get along at first
After the Fact:
Simon ends up staying on the Rebel base as a prisoner at first, but, through Grace beginning to trust him and vouching for him, he ends up becoming a part of the Rebellion.
Simon gets a prosthetic arm and reconfigured as an X-Wing mechanic due to his mechanic experience from his Mandalorian days.Ā
He kinda gets bullied by the X-Wing pilots. A lot.Ā
He also gets bullied by Rocky. A lot.
Simon and Grace end up getting along due to their relatability of coming from systems that used them and abandoned them, even though they once thought those were places they belonged
They both also do willingly get more involved in the rebellion once they see how much it ACTUALLY helps people and they want to be apart of that to make amends for their own mistakes
Literally EVERYONE on the base can see Simon and Grace getting closer except Simon and Grace. Theyāre taking bets at how long it takes.
Design Notes:
Simon's color scheme (outside of his prison uniform which is an in-canon example of a SW prison uniform) is green, red, and brown. Grace's color scheme is orange, blue, and white. This is directly taken from colors both characters consistently wear in their respective movies, as well as some creative add ons (Simon wears white in his movie but I've switched it out to brown to give his color scheme reminiscent of nature ala trees. Plus red because duh)
All of their clothes are basically SW adaptions of their clothes from their films (god bless the Galactic Style Guide website for giving me DETAILED references of everything i needed). Grace's outlaw look in particular is literally what he wears when he's asking Stratt to keep studying the astrophage. The only two outfits that don't take from what the characters wear in film is Grace's Imperial look (again, because that's a uniform with a hyper specific aesthetic) and Simon's mechanic jumpsuit. The latter I sacrificed as referencing Simon's clothes (regulating that mostly to his Mandalorian fit) so Simon would aesthetically read as a mechanic from the Star Wars universe. as that also can have a specific aesthetic (i also think it's fitting though that this design feels less like him because he's basically lost without an identity and trying to find himself again).
Robotic arms that basically look like a regular limbs are a thing in SW but pffftt. That shit's LAME, I'M GIVING SIMON THE COOL ROBOT ARM!!! His arm was heavily inspired by Anakin's!
I know there were a lot of people expecting Grace to be a Jedi from my previews, but I honestly do not really see Grace in that kind of role of mysticism. I thought the post that said he'd be an ex-Imperial was really inspired because if there's one thing we know about Grace, it's that he has a bit of an ego. ESPECIALLY when he was younger. I believe he would've been both egotistical and naive enough to think he could be this great scientist for the Empire, fully believing all of their propaganda at first. But the moment he actually realizes what he got himself into, he tries to run away. This is basically my adaptation of when he runs away from his academic field because he got too pissed off at how people treated his paper. Thus you get the storyline of him (and Simon) learning to be brave about helping others when he's forced into working for the Rebellion.
That all said, I am toying with the idea of making Simon force sensitive because A) I think it works as an adaptation of Simon's mutations from the film, and B) it creates a fascinating dynamic between him and Grace, an ex-imperial scientist who was STUDYING Force sensitivity. also i may or may not be projecting my love for force-sensitive!din au into this but that's a whole rant for another time
Fun Fact: Simon still very much swears in this AU, but he only swears in Mando'a
this is as far as I can get today my hand is killing me and I literally do not own a stylus so Iām using one of those shitty ones on the back of a pen helllllppppppp me
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