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thinking through designs

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song for your clone/director Wifies. how I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb by ferry (no relation to the book afaik). this could be a stretch but. like the chorus .he learned to stop his worrying and love the bomb? it's Not A Game He Wants To Play Alone?? the head being held by the sycthe. the there was never a hidden answer/meaning for his identity. also the listing out the rights thing playing into the clone idea. the rights are kind of?? in groups of four so: strong picture of him listing them out while counting them by pressing his thumb to each finger in turn as like a subtle self soothing thing. I have more thoughts (specifically on the first verse) but I am listing out lyrics at this point. anyway agygsdkfhkufhrhr er gnawing on the bars. I. will send you a line by line if you want but also I trust you. I also may be cooking nothing. who knows!!!!

i (surprisingly) haven't listened to much ferry but you're so right man. wifies learning to let go at the end of paragon... the lyrics fit him so well

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i'm never going to draw parrot consistently i fear

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invis odyssey sketches i drew in like mid-january too and forgot to post. oh my god my bad . the first two are scenes from ch 3 of ad maius bonum 👍 highly recommend if you haven't read yet

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my invis odyssey height chart. sorry don't look at anyone other than gambit trio too hard

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gaslight gatekeep gambit trio

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finished cleaning up some sketches i made after watching the kww collab lol. i <3 characters with lifeless eyes

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some invis!parrot-specific thoughts. conclusion: i like giving him that swoopy hair strand thing in the front

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how does it feel to have the best interpretation of odyssey duo on all of tumblr....... ur mafia au is sosososososoSO good and i love how u characterize them both its so perfect!!!!!!!! ive been turning them around in my brain nonstop this shit is GAS!!!!!!!!!!

LOL thank you so much!!!! odyssey duo is doing some crazy things to my brain i will not lie i'm so glad other people are being entertained by the idea of them getting evil as fuck and aura farming. my next drawings go out to you 🫵

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this is the insane world i've been living in for the past few days where parrot & wifies accept ashswagg's offer to join the invis mafia post-mining city and then proceed to aura farm for like 20 episodes straight. thoughts under cut

i posted about this sometime before but i think that it honestly would've been really easy for ash to convince parrot to join the invis mafia. he just needed to appeal to parrot's ego and convince him that the invis mafia was trying to seize control of the server for the sake of "protecting people" and "capturing spoke because he used exploits" rather than solely trying to intimidate parrot into joining. parrot is a guy who needs to think that he's doing the right thing & ash did not pick the correct dialogue options that would've tricked him into signing up LOL

parrot is gold trim because he can't bring himself to kill to take the place of a diamond player. ash relies on him a lot for strategy advice but it pisses ash off that no matter how much he threatens parrot, parrot just will not personally draw blood. it's parrot's own little form of rebellion. and it's a huge point of tension between them.

it's all okay though because wifies can. wifies is diamond because (i) he wanted to protect parrot, (ii) he figured both him and parrot would become indispensable if either of them earned a place close to ash, and (iii) he was NOT going to let parrot be the one to risk his life fighting another diamond trim for that rank.

when ashswagg gives parrot an assignment to kill someone wifies does it instead; he won't let parrot get blood on his hands. he's willing to fight but he's always underhanded about it because he's self-admittedly not that good at pvp -- his signature is to get someone fully trapped/unaware of what's about to happen before coming in with the mace to take them out in one blow.

parrot is MISERABLE and so worried about whether what they're doing is the right thing. his confidence in wifies is tested every day, especially given that wifies won't listen to him at all about potentially killing ash and just disbanding the mafia entirely. wifies thinks "well as long as this is keeping parrot off the front lines and i can handle myself in his place who cares." he thinks it's way better to be safe as part of the mafia as opposed to being hunted down by them.

also sorry drawing them in suits rather than full armor was a personal choice for my sanity lol. i tried to incorporate the eye armor trim in the eye shapes on the chains/jewelry & the capelets looking like the shoulder pieces on the chestplate? but not sure if it carried super well lol

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wato doodles

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my personal collection of odyssey thoughts so far lol. extra sketches + lots of notes under the cut

ok first here are my design notes. the non-in-character explanation for why parrot's clothing are neutral-colored are because his wings are already so colorful i was like "how the hell do i color clothing that fits together with all that" so i just made him wear brown lol. also the amount of time i spent fucking with wifies's grays to try to create enough contrast is unreal. i kind of added in the white streak last-minute but i really liked how it looked in other people's art LMFAO

i also was thinking a lot about their mannerisms/how they interact. i think parrot is overall the more physically-affectionate one of the duo. wifies just kind of stands there like the world's edgiest fencepost or streetlamp

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spoke warmup i ended up painting

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genuinely my favorite moment in uu so far. most valid crashouts of all time

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the diamond swords & their immortal younger brother

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compilation of mavbo thoughts from the past week