thats right. i just cannot help myself (but fall right into you) so this will be a new blog made specifically for rambling and reblogs!
(reblogs with comments, that is)
im. im gonna make more tags when i can come up with some and get on my thinking streak but. all the tags i make for this acc will be tagged on here... oooh......
go to my main one @lettuce10k for more stuff. and art!!! wow!!!!
disclaimer im actually very media illiterate this is just me GUESSING and will be HEADCANONS half the time. however i AM wiki staff for grace's miraheze (mandatory wiki plug) so 💖💖
something funny i noticed is just how much grace's style changed SO MUCH cuz oh my god the old style was an comprehendible mess and ill be dead honest i kinda miss it
something i appreciate the newer style for is how good it looks in note/documents like mwah so clean so pleasing to look at sometimes i wish they remade the old documents just to match in quality oughhhh so good
Dw Litany is in a polyamorous relationship with them (pls tag me if you will draw this designs or make edits I NEED TO SEE THEM PLS PLS PLS I'M CRAVING GUYS)
eventually i'll post these to my main @lettuce10k (actual drawings!) but for now i have thoughts
so here are the thoughts behind my current designs of the characters of grace! iddy yet edition ~~~~~~
(yes this means no outdated ones. no litany or dozing dozer)
warning i yap a lot
also yeah i use it/they for most entities interchangeably. most of them use any prns unless specified
khookhoo - blue for obvious reasons
kookoo. i designed my kookoo very not for lore and because i was having fun, but! i still want to mention them because i can't just say ire and dozer and call that the iddy yets </3 i couldnt mention litany however because litany is getting a MAJOOOR rewrite on my end!!! blegh! dont look up my litany arts you'll regret it
now ok lmak now for kookoo. my kookoo is actually a pocket watch! it's head is, anyways. the outside of the watch is its normal face, and when it begins to count down, the pocket watch swings open and the countdown is there!
on the inside of the watch, sorta like a heart locket, is actually a screen, right next to the clock... on the screen is where kookoo has like a windows 98 system on lmao and thats where they put a little kookoo virus on so it can see you and you can see it! occasionally, to grab your attention, little high tech compartments will open from the shell of the watch and neon signs with lights will pop out with arrows pointing at the screen. a little hard to miss! it's very distracting for a reason..
kookoo wears a very large trench coat. underneath its trench coat is its 'body'... a bunch of random parts it's possessed. its body isnt even connected- it's just held up by super tight pillows in the trench coat!
kookoo's 'body' is just a bunch of random, mechanical parts it picked up and thought were cool. i like to think of them like a little pocket knife! one of its hands is just a huge, singular claw... the other it uses the 'REMEMBER' glove (this idea is courtesy of im pretty sure ticking_it on twitter??? sanest kookoo fan) and the mechanical parts are of another artist who said sanest kookoo fan drew a while back... im not.. very sure who it was 😰 my bad
dozer - yellow
tumblr doesnt have yellow so i'll have to use orange. it works with its bound trait anyways
dozer uses he/it. the he makes him feel like a king
i'll only be discussing my king design for dozer! i'll remake dozing dozer eventually
my king design is almost entirely based on kings from the 1800s. idk who in particular and i haven't drawn him with references in a while 😭😭 but dozer has all this rich material and stuff
dozer was actually my first grace design, so there isn't much about him.. he has a floating crown that i stole from someone.
also! his head is always a perfect circle. iirc, dozing dozer's head isn't!
i'll add notes if i remember
Ire- purple colored
i dont count ire for the iddy yets but i need to have 3 so..
ire is purple cause of its bound trait. thats all there is to it, really...
ok here. so ire has devil horns on a headband as an accessory and this is because wrath, the 'sin' it represents, is often connected with the devil himself. so ire, to me, is very close to that guy!
ire doesn't have a body (since its in the discord) but instead it is made up of just wind. very angry wind that changes speed based on ire's mood! it can almost be like a mini tornado if it gets really pissed.
on top of that wind, to give it more shape (+aesthetic purposes) ire has a little cloak! this cloak is very similar to Rue's, but very tattered due to the strong winds and also very neglected.
ire always has a weapon on it! its weapon of choice is a scythe, as it reminds it of the grim reaper, but it has a lot of those thingss. in my original design, ire also had straps that had vials of poison wrapped around many of its limbs! not sure how i'd incorporate that into its current design, however, considering how it doesn't have a body...
ire also has a little tail! a spade, like a demon's. this is meant to mirror mime's, since they also have a tail except instead of a spade at the end, it's a heart! the shapes are basically the same, anyways..
thats all for the iddy yets! catch you later when i yap about my planned lust trio, john graces, and escapism trio- yes there will be repeats!
there also ought to be a few miscellaneous. whateeever
my new ire design is just smoke. similar concept to the wind but different. its head eye thing is a portal to where ire comes from (its domain) because it cant actually leave there. ire is just the smile and stuff (for reference look at hescraps ire)
ire can sometimes just dissipate into smoke if it wishes.
now for the fun part: ire can possess things, which is where it can get its own body. it can only possess dead bodies, weapons, or those who have fallen especially into wrath. this means john rOT is especially vulnerable to ire
in my drawing you can see ire possess a guille, a sword, a guy whos been executed, and john rOT. also the iremajig cosmetic this is how i explain that
if ire wanted it could try to pretend to be a sinner this way, but it doesnt have full control over the limbs, which would make many parts of them limp, and it also would leak the smoke. in the drawing you can see that the sinner has bandages on his feet, and thats because its too limp for ire to control so it has to be held up by bandages if it wants to walk
you'll notice ire will consistenly almost always have horns. this is because wrath is commonly associated with satan so i gave ire horns. they grow bigger with ires anger
ire still has its tail. also chains that are optional
sometimes i make up a random body that ire has itself. in my yumeship ire can make a body that only exists in the presence of a strong bound connection, and in a fic ive written ire can make a body out of the smoke. i imagine this wouldnt really be 'canon' to my interpretation and is solely like that to make it easier for me. in fact 90% of the time the yumeship one isnt even true or utilized. also in the smoke body i imagine it to be similar to rufus' ire but also like. ire wouldnt have feet because it would fade into the smoke and stuff
A pet peeve of mine is when people draw John Grace (or Sinner, whatever you wanna call them) with a blue accent/outline. THAT MOTHERFUCKER IS THE MOST SINFUL THERE IS. HE SHOULD NOT EVEN BE NEAR BLUE.
I wish more people would take into consideration the meaning of colours in Christianity.
hmm
used to be into games like this maybe i should get into grace more
not to be rude, but the sinner is not 'the most sinful there is'
in the grace gamemode in particular, the entities represent, in simple terms, the potential to commit those!
(to be a little more particular, they don't represent potential, but moreso concepts that could stray you away from Him. the presence of each entity in your soul proves there's a potential of that concept in your life! i say this because certain entities such as epik duck and litany represent concepts rather than actual sins.)
therefore, john grace has not commited anything.
grace is the shell to the soul, which basically tanks all the entities for zen! so, only dying to a sin means you actually committed it.
to get technical, ruined/spoiled zen is actually the most sinful (of the three that exist currently! rOT ought to be similar, except, to my understanding, rOT is the shell rather than the soul, which has already been penetrated by sin.) since spoiled zen actually has what is sin in it.
the lore of grace (the game) is actually just the states your soul is in. so grace exists at the same time as zen (NO SIN AT ALL!!), rOT exists at the same time as ruined zen, and REPRIEVE exists at a similar time as ruined zen except that you are now at the confessional. REPRIEVE technically would exist at the same time as MUTTERS, MAYHEM and spoiled zen. however, since actually being able to confess your sins is holy as of itself, i'd say spoiled zen is the most sinful! (since REPRIEVE dies when you leave the confessional without confessing everything (TRAGIC IRONY badge iirc), leading me to think you revert back to spoiled zen!)
if we really wanted to color code everything, although i don't quite know much about colors in catholicsm (which grace is based off, since simon is a catholic), i do think blue would be alright for grace! it does kind of make you think of the Virgin Mary, which i'd say more fits zen, but what can you do? they still exist at the same time and form the same being (You!) anyways
red, in grace (the game) represents sin, which i find a little ironic that it is seen to represent REPRIEVE than spoiled zen, but pink has also been shown to represent similarly (since the Fruit in zen is pink). pink has also been seen to represent LOVE, but only as it decreases... we'll see how that might change in the update next month :^
clean zen, however, is purple, which i also think works since purple is like? somewhat of a holy color as it's used during advent.
speaking of the church calendar, it's a little funny that red is sin, since red is also pentacost. i dont think we should color code anything, guys...
of course, i didnt make the game, so i'm bound to be a little wrong, but i've thought about this a lot!
(read up on it a little more on the miraheze wiki which is now up! that one is a lot more accurate than i'd ever be lol)
addendums to make this more accurate as of GRACE BUT EVIL! id know because i work as wiki staff now HAHA
rOT- rOT, i would still say, is a little less sinful than spoiled zen. just a little! mostly because rOT actually has the potential to go into mutter, which, to my knowledge, is still confessing your sins. pretty cool! for spoiled zen, there is no window into REPRIEVE. you just keep going.
- note that im not very sure what DISGRACE is lol, but the fact that mutter is accessed through rOT is enough for me. im pretty sure all the entities were and still are sin in disguise, but yk in spoiled zen that's just sin. straight up no disguise
mutter- yes it's mutter and not MUTTERS. whoops. anyways. thats it really. i colour it green because there is no actual colour for mutter (id imagine itd be white, actually!) so thats completely unrelated lol
the fruit- the fruit has been changed to red now! it was always red, it's just it appeared pink due to the lighting of zen... i do think pink represents LOVE officially, due to the LOVESPILL badge and the L.O.V. trait!
this time its a trio i made the fuck up. thats right. the blasphemy/red trio
this trio consists of goatman, pihsrow, and heed. i'll extend on them under the cut :^)
yap warning - it’s unfinished! i posted this on accident
only pihsrow has no actual design sketches, but heed's is outdated now.
i see these guys as all connected in a way, especially goatman and pihsrow. in the context of this trio, goatman means spiritual apathy, pihsrow is worshipping a false idol, and heed is expediency. these meanings are subject to change and are all almost pure speculation on my end.
to preface, i'll explain what connects the three just since this is a trio i, again, made the fuck up.
so, pihsrow is worshipping a false idol. while it might be hard to connect this to spritual apathy, worshipping a false idol does not just mean worshipping a fake god. it can also mean presenting yourself as god, through pirde. i speculate this is why pihsrow and dozer appear to be similar. worshipping yourself can cause you to not 'need' a god, and is nearly the definition of spiritual apathy.
as well, spiritual apathy can also be caused by the trait of expediency. following any sort of religion is always hard, and by 'taking the easy way out' and skipping some of the rules and regulations of these religions, you become apathetic to your spiritual needs.
how does expediency connect to false idols? well, exactly because certain religions are difficult to follow, many cults might advertise themselves as easier or more kind i suppose. taking the easier way out by knowingly following a fake religion just because it's easier is literally heed and pihsrow.
that's the thought process behind the trio! now, for my designs....
starting with goatman. probably he/it
i base my design off, mostly, stuff on the grace wiki (since i was in a wiki mood whilst drawing this) and also certain entities i connect him with.
goatman wears a suit and tie, though his coat isn't closed for mobility and also to show how informal he is. his shirt is tucked, however, under a large belt with a golden belt buckle. this belt is heavy as hell.
goatman has a goat head and two goat legs. his legs are actually similar to my elkman design, since they share a model in-game and are somehow related (probably cousins) in my headcanonned lore. his fingers are very long since i think they are in game? but also as a reference to pihsrow.
goatman actually has wings! they get bigger when he's enraged, and they're there in reference to baphomet, who might be related, according to the wiki. i doubt it, but w.e. could also be a reference to clocktower mayhem!
he also holds a large, bloody axe! this is in reference to the pope lick monster, who is sometimes said to have one. that guy is also listed as a possible inspiration lol
his wings allow him to move as quickly as he can and lunge better at you as he does in game!
he wears a suit because he doesn't care for his spirit and would rather work. heed also values efficiency a lot so that's somewhat related.
i imagine goatman would probably have a yellow sclera and red irises.
next up: heeeeeed
now everyone liked my heed design somehow. i dont know why. huh
