#moved in here after feeling like might run out of tags in tags
#flowers were meant for their dead lover... just... just like to imagine that it might have been the planet itself, sentient planet in love, but now their lover is dead and they keep the flowers alive for them forever
#Also I absolutely hate where it is going. When the flowers can be held by only dead. And it is purple. It can go in so many ways...
#Blurr will never be able to hold Shockwave. He might even never touch this flowers again after his death to just. Dedicate it to him.
#ehehehe Shockwave right away explaining what it is
#Please SHockwave... I know it's hard for you, maybe you even understand that it is also hard for Blurr but you can't help it, maybe you don't see it and don't understand and Blurr can't quite explain it and will not because he respects your decision and will not hold
#But it's just... I understand why most of the things that come to my mind when I want to animate something are usually Spellbound because I am more and more sure in the fact that I might bail in agony
#He would have been happy if he stayed... okay now crying is right in time thank you, my dear body... He is holding his hand, not turned to him but sad face is fully locked on him, light wind from Shockwave's side while he holds a flower... *sigh*
#F***. One day he will die. One day he will die and Shock won't. Other mecha summoning him will not give him a mercy of death. Blurr is cursed to be the one who can give him that... wouldn't it have been possible to at least prolong it a bit?.. so that Blurr at the verge of dying could die with him? ahah? Please?.. I mean... yes... *pokes in the sand* I guess it wouldn't have helped Shockwave feel better... Blurr could die other way, he has a history of stupid sudden deaths, Shock not able to protect him, they both are doomed... yes maybe better to help like this right away.... *even more sadder sigh*
#SHOCKWAVE IT WAS THE LAST SHOT YOU DIDN'T HAVE TO... YOU DID... YOU DIDN'T HAVE TO...WHY IT LOOKS... SO... I CAN'T... Shockwave gifted the flower to alive lover and Blurr can't hold a flower from a dead lover *exits through the window*
#WHICH IS NOT A LOT OF THINGS. NOT A LOT. NOT A LOT TIME. JAZZ PLEASE I DON'T KNOW COME HERE DO SOMETHING WHILE THEY HAVE TIME I CAN'T LIKE THAT SOMEONE FROM SOMEWHERE SOMEHOW PLEASE???
Rainworld flora part. 3
Btw going to reiterate; some names are made up and just aligns with my headcanon!
A common trend in rainworld is being highly adaptable which is no hard task for it's flora. Specialized plants and animals tend to have a major color but for the sake of simplicity, all unspecialized plants are green here. Black is a common trend in the world as well to absorb sunlight and thus, heat.
Headcanons for the top 3 plants here:
Solar Fronds are a type of fern that favors high altitude environments (hence why they're only seen in one region ingame).
Brain Trees are a giant and ancient type of mushroom that has an incredibly long life. They are the main source for iterator mycelial anatomy due to their incredibly complex mycelium network. The inside of them is a bright electric blue.
Wild Bloodtrunks are the non-domesticated version of bloodtrunks, initially discovered deep underground during excavation efforts to the void sea.
Spellbound AU got sudden increase of drawing quality absolutely completely definitely unrelated to @somerandomcockroach amazing animatics that for sure weren’t eating all my brain cells every second of my existence:)
mtmte #54-55 spoilers!
so i was reading mtmte with @vyrroca and i was picking out music that fit pretty well with some scenes and i wanted to share it with you all!
pics of the scenes, acompanied by the songs i picked (with links!)
aHhh okay so the discussions of Titan!Megatron on @callsign-relic's blog have fully. FULLY taken over my brain and ive been drawing stuff for it for like the last few days nonstop
the tl;dr of this is AU is pretty much "what if Megatron got turned into a titan/cityformer as a form of penance/imprisonment and now roams the empty wasteland of Cybertron forever" plus "IDW Megatron has really fucked up internals so... what if that, but as a City?"
and of course since he's a Titan, that also means he has a cityspeaker... or three. One per sub-AU thing. Theres 3 options. 3 flavours of AU.
i have so much art to make. but in the meantime, for more info! check out the #titan au tag on Relic's blog :]!! (also uhh potential ns//fw warning for the link shfjbdkd)
Hi. My battery is running out once again so design and art notes get chucked here instead of an image.
The cuffs and collar are hardwired into Megatron, so I made the lights the same colour as his biolights!
I imagine that on the tops of his shoulders there are solar panels, even if you can't see them here lol.
I really wanted to keep the swirly bits on Megatron's chest from IDW
Other art notes:
The second picture with the seekers is (loosely) inspired by a discussion about whether or not Megatron gets visitors or not. I thought about who would visit him and well... I think this is as close as Starscream realistically gets to visiting him.
Extra detail about that piece is that Thundercracker and Skywarp are keeping watch from above! Also drawing Megatron took me like 8 hours because I was struggling with his legs really badly kshffkbfkdsbdk,, the background went much faster, funnily enough.
Optimus specifically isn't wearing his Autobot badge any more.
This isn't relevant in this series of images, but Ultra Magnus's eye markings are only on the Magnus armour. His other two forms do not have them :] (... until he begins to discard the armour, that is.)
Megatron is roughly 3200m/2 miles tall. Technically he could have clouds around his knees, but I thought this looked a little bit cooler lol.
Also, height chart! Him big. I didn't even attempt to put a human for scale because that'd be. near impossible with this scale.
i am painfully rusty at webweaving, its been like a year, but ive wanted to do something on isat for some time now. (credits below the cut, image id in alt text)
How Do You Talk To A Star, Everybody's Worried About Owen | In Stars And Time, Insertdisc5 | I Am Offering this Poem, Jimmy Santiago Baca | No One Belongs Here More Than You, Miranda July | Flightless Bird, ROAR | I Swear, Next Time I See You I'll Be Funny, Clementine von Radics | In Stars And Time, Insertdisc5 | In Stars And Time, Insertdisc5 | Episode 94: Dead Woman Walking, The Magnus Archives | Quote by Kait Rokowski | Since Nine O'Clock, C. P. Cavafy | Transient Space, Mona Kaur | In Stars And Time, Insertdisc5 | Wolf Hall, Hilary Mantel | @/twig-gy on tumblr | In Stars And Time, Insertdisc5 | In Stars And Time, Insertdisc5 | You love me-you are sure-, Emily Dickinson | Watching you talk on the phone, I consider the empty space around atoms–, Rhiannon McGavin | What If Tomorrow Comes, Black Friday | In Stars and Time, Insertdisc5 | How Do You Talk To A Star, Everybody's Worried About Owen
fuck you *lethal companies your in stars and time*
(long) exposition under cut (spoilers for ISAT + lethal company logs)
This au takes place around the time of sigurd's logs/before them (i haven't decided if Sigurd's crew exists here or not yet)!
Siffrin was someone who used to live on the Golden Planet before it got eaten. They may not remember anything beyond being found in an escape pod, but they're still paralyzed by fear when getting close to the selling window. He's always first in the facilities, making jumps, braving traps, and heading as deep as he can for scrap.
Mirabelle and Isabeau are the medic and fighter respectively, who both came from the same moon colony. They were both pressured into taking jobs by a work-based society, and applied for the company under the impression that it was a short, high-paying internship with nebulous risks.
Odile is their resident ship manager. She keeps a watchful eye over everyone and relays information about monsters, scrap, etc. In absolutely dire situations, she may come help with scrap. Despite claiming to be a first-timer, her badge says Leader??
Nille and Bonnie ended up with the crew after taking a chance to run away from their parents. Seeing a high-paying job that provided everything and would take them far away sounded too good to pass up. Nille lied about Bonnie's age to take them with her. After seeing the reality of this job, though, she regrets not finding another way out. Bonnie is permanently on ship-duty; they mainly type in whatever numbers Odile tells them. Nille is also a fighter, though she prefers the weighty stop sign as opposed to Isabeau's shovel.
Loop, after hundreds upon thousands of quotas, dying every possible death, learning everything they could- even the real identity of The Company- realizes there was one thing they've never done before. They've never died to The Company. Desperate for a way out, and haunted by the whispers and screams beyond the wall, they give themselves up. Maybe that would finally satisfy the monster- to have devoured every last piece of the Golden Planet. Maybe their crew could finally rest easy that way. Well, they didn't loop back. But through the dark and damp, there's static on the walkie talkie. Loop picks up, and hears their own voice just beyond the wall.
(Loop's design is the most different by far, since instead of consuming a star, they themselves are slowly getting digested. They're inspired by the visual of red crying faces from the logs :D)
For someone who wanted them back so badly, you sure do look afraid of them.
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(Basically, it's an AU where Loop's first wish to stay with their friends merged with their second wish for help. Loop's party got dragged into ISAT's universe unbeknownst to Loop, but very slowly started gaining tangibility after Loop woke up in the middle of nowhere post-canon. During canon? They were the stage's audience! What good is a show without one?)
decided to share some of my thought process for these designs! for any of you behind-the-scenes nerds interested
warning for spoilers of like. all of isat. and twohats. also implied self harm
i feel like i should preface this by saying these designs are moreso inspired by the general sadness enemies/bosses than mal du pays (kind of obvious). i love mdp its such a good encounter. atmosphere is impeccable. however i wanted my sadness designs to be goopy and weird and follow the one-word-name trend. so no inverted party members for you! like i said in tags this is like character analysis in the form of creature design
ok on to specifics
ENVIE (siffrin)
you may be thinking 'damn you named it envy? thats a bit harsh' and Yeah its a cognate but i chose it for other meanings!! such as: longing, yearning, craving, desire, wish, and hangnail
design wise i heavily referenced the nostalgie sadness in the game for its relation to wish craft, hence all the sharp straight edges. however that also means no hair sorry sif (though the darker outline around the brim of the hat is meant to seem a bit like his dyed ends). its claw shape is based on the shape of siffrins dagger. the closed eye is that of a tragedy theatre mask (matching epuisements comedy), and its tears are black because i noticed all the boss sadnesses had black tears and thought it was fitting to include for sifs (and loops) sadness. powerful and all that. also just a good contrast cause its almost all white. its pose is supposed to be somewhat dramatic, and it nearly forms a circle. one hand is against its neck because well you know how it is with daggers
ÉCHEC (mirabelle)
name wise i likely wouldve chosen anxiety, but that was already taken so i chose failure instead! based on how worried mira can get about failing
this design probably fought me the most of any of them... it bears the most resemblance to that of the tristesse sadnesses which i think is appropriate. i also snuck some of anxietes spikes onto its back. its eyes are pretty unsettling and contrast miras lovely dark ones pretty well! rings for the change belief of course. the bow made of tears was something i came up with randomly and i didnt hate it so i kept it... theres probably some symbolism to it that i cant put into words right now. its hands are in different signs to represent miras cool dual typing of course (scissors on top cause that represents her resistances/weaknesses), and are in front of where her mouth would be to mirror that portrait of her with her hands over her mouth in shock
COUARDISE (isabeau)
name choice is pretty obvious... cowardice is a big part of isabeaus story!
huge fists come together to block its face as a way to visually represent how isabeau hides himself behind this big strong personality. if i were to draw a hurt sprite of it, i would probably make just one terrified eye visible. a kneeling pose just feels appropriate. making it look like the king wasnt intentional but theres something there! honestly most of this design speaks for itself i feel
ALIÉNATION (odile)
lack of belonging you know how it is. i think the fact that the word is nearly the same in both english and french fits quite well too; it stands out from the other french words
itd be weird to draw it not standing odile is such a stander. it needs a very dignified and neat pose. the chunks missing reference how odile feels like some parts of her are missing. its hands are positioned as if to hold a book, but are distinctly empty. its supposed to be ambiguous to whether its a closed eye or glasses frames; either way, a pupil is not visible to suggest a lack of perception
INUTILITÉ (bonnie)
name translates to 'uselessness'! i know bonnie tries to be useful so badly. 'helplessness' is also a good one but uselessness translated better
this design is pretty simple and small but i think it works very well. bonnie tries very hard to be big and brave and loud and helpful, and hates being helpless. this sadness looks like a small, scared child. the hat is meant to look like a sort of shell in this case, something to hide under. having the left eye hidden wasnt an originally intended detail but it works nonetheless
ÉPUISEMENT (loop)
exhaustion! i dont think i need to say more
similarly to envie, this design is very sharp and pointed. the tears are black for the same reason envies are, and one eye is the eye of a comedy theatre mask to correspond with envies tragedy. its open eye's shaky pupil has a vague star shape in it. its arms twist into an infinity sign, hands in scissors signs meeting over the eye to form a diamond-or star-shape (i dont think loop technically has a craft type when you fight them but they have slicey attacks and make the scissors sign in their just attack portrait so their sadness is scissors now). the negative space between its crossed legs make a similar shape. some of the stars bleed because im sure you know why. the pose is exaggerated and nearly manic to contrast with envies calm somberness. i nearly made its bottom half like tree roots but decided against it. anyways isnt it so cool that loops sadness looks remarkably like normal loop? isnt it so cool guys? im sure loop can be very healthy about this
bonus: the pattern
i DID make the bg pattern myself by hand. it took me way longer than it needed to. but i wanted to include all the partys Signature Shapes so we have circles (within circles), squares, rhombuses, and four-pointed stars! shoutout to the clever one for helping me get a baseline idea
anyways thats about it. there may be things i dont mention specifically here that you might notice and find symbolism in. theyre not mentioned because i either forgot or theyre unintentional but i hope you enjoy them nonetheless!
