Hey remember when I mentioned pre lacrima Allumos with tattoos? Well I finally got around to it ☝️
(Tasteful nudity under the cut👍)
Look at my silly attempt at front censoring LMAO
To explain some of my decisions:
Sun and moon tattoos on their shoulders, represent him (moon) and Demonia (sun).
The 'A' on their right hand symbolises both their name and its position as first Dragon Slayer, as well as being a founder of (New) Atlantide (Alpha is the first letter of the Greek alphabet).
The blacked out thumbs represent how Allumos sacrificed their body for the war efforts ("cutting off" his thumbs, something it needs to function).
The tattoos around its neck are both ornamental and symbolic: to the average onlooker it is merely decorative, but to those close to him it symbolises being subservient to the Celestial Spirits.
The top of an ionic column on their lower back, it holds up Atlantide, and, in context to the surrounding tattoos, strengthens and bolsters the Celestial Spirits.
The Twelve Celestial Spirits going down their spine represents their intrinsic connection: without the Celestial Spirits (his 'spine'), he would not survive, without the connection to Allumos (the rest of the body) the Celestial Spirits would not be able to perform within the mortal world.
The waves circling around their left shoulder, and specifically the sun tattoo, represents the entire world, revolving around the light of the sun (Demonia)
The tattoo on the nipple is kinda supposed to be reminiscent of the ancient cultural belief that nipples are connected to fertility and life (Fun fact: in ancient Ireland they used to cut the nipples off kings whose agriculture failed under his rule). The tattoo symbolises how Allumos was able to pave the way for new life to grow after defeating the Dragons in the war, this becoming a symbol of fertility and life himself.
Another ionic column on his leg (the Athenians loved them some ionic columns LOL), represents how Allumos held up humanity in the time of need.
The little symbol on the right side of its chest is known as 'Sampi', it was a letter in the archaic Greek alphabet, making the "s" sound. It is used for '900' in Modern Greek now. I imagine it'd be Allumos' little way of remembering the name it had before. Though, I'm sure there would've been rumours he had it to mean how many Dragons it killed lol.
The spirals on his abdomen, spikes on the lower left arm, mounds on their lower right arm and leaves on their upper left thigh symbolise the elements: Wind, fire, water and earth.
The letters on their left thigh represent the original members of Grimshade, in order of joining.
Ursa minor is there because Allumos likes it idk what to tell you (/silly)
Selena I imagine would have the most “average” teeth set, considering Light Dragons seem like they’d be a relatively omnivorous species of Dragon. Though, I imagine Light Dragons would still be better suited to eating meat than plants so I gave her two sets canines.
For Blake (this’ll be the same for Davis too) I took inspiration from bird “teeth” (birds dont have “teeth” in the usual sense, rather, some birds have ridges on their beak to help filter food from water n stuff), so most of the teeth are very sharp, I actually considered giving Blake more, smaller teeth but I chose not to (for now). This was mainly cause I imagine Sky Type Dragons to be more bird like, and thus adapted similar traits to real airborne species.
Vipers teeth set will more than likely change because I wasn’t looking too much at snake teeth, but I feel like they should be more like that after draw it so woopsies. Anywho, since snakes don’t really chew their meals, and are carnivorous, I decided to not give Vipers any molars, only one set of premolars since, well, he’s still a human after all. He’s got one set large fangs (though, again, this might change) on his upper jaw with a set of canine-incisors (not a real type of tooth as far as I’m aware!) for better piercing.
For Mario I decided to only give one set of canines, like a normal person lol, with a whopping 4 sets of molars!! This is largely due to how I imagine Earth Dragons to be physically, mostly herbivorous alongside literal rocks lol — you don’t really need teeth for piercing when the majority of your diet requires crushing and grinding lol. I still chose to give him a set of canines, cause ultimately Mario is still a human yanno.
I have ideas for the rest of the DS too, I’ll draw those when I get the chance, I just wanted to share these now.
(still figuring out how I want to colour it, so this is definitely subject to change)
I figured since I changed it to be Allumos who blinded Viper it didn't really make sense for them to just be two sets of pretty neat claw marks? that's not really how eye scars work cause you know. Brow ridges exist.
While the fight between Viper and Allumos is brutal and Allumos is most definitely needlessly cruel at points ("at points" I say, knowing damn well Pádraig is the only reason Viper is even alive), I don't think it'd go as far as to specifically claw out Viper's eyes — it just doesn't make sense to do — so instead I've changed it to be from some sort of powerful blast that essentially burned Viper's eye sockets. I imagine this was possibly unintentional on Allumos's part, but 'whatever gets the job done'. I don't think this alone would've taken out Viper's eyes, I think that would've come a little later when [probably Michael] has come to the conclusion that his eyes can't be saved and it'd be best if they just got them taken out to avoid infection.
The sensitive scarred skin + the empty eye sockets also give a proper reason as to why Viper wears his bandana — to protect the skin and avoid infection as much as possible. It's already blind they don't need one otherwise lol.
They can technically "open his eyes" but it is incredibly painful and uncomfortable so he generally prefers to just not.
Kate 'Kit' is a Phoenix Slayer and Fire Mage. She is an active guild member of Divinus Magia. Kit is currently dating Marshie and Allumos. 🐦🔥
She was apparently never held her as a child by her parents. (Ep: 35 S5) 👥️
Her parents didn't let her to attend school despite her town having one. (Ep:32 S5) 🏫
And they either kicked her out or she ran away, becoming a criminal. (Unknown) 🔥
She spent a whole year doing paperwork for her Guild Leader, Ritchie who had become an alcoholic upon his brother, Brandon's disappearance. (Ep:1 S5) 🍺
She spent a whole month alone with drunken Ritchie as David and Lucas were gone for six months on a 'death mission', and Mario and Tapio went on a month-long mission. (Ep:1 S5)
She was so weary and/or desensitised that Ritchie's lightning didn't make her flinch... (Ep:1 S5) 👤
She stood up to Ritchie for the first time in a like a year and she nearly got killed because of it. Her best friend, Tapio ended up sacrificing himself to save her Ritchie's lightning. (EP:1 S5)⚡️
She lost her best friend just a few minutes later, after not seeing him in a month... (Ep:1 S5) 🪦
Ritchie disappeares and reappears to convince his guild to 'make Divinus Magia great again.' And apologise for what he did to them. (Ep:1 S5) 👿
Ritchie apologises to Kit saying, "I don't even know what to say to you. Nothing's good enough. You looked after me, you cared for this guild, all the paperwork. And I've thrown it back in your face by taking your best friend away..." (Ep:1 S5) 🖤
She lost her bird, Carl. Carl had been keeping her company that whole year with Ritchie. (Ep:8 S5) 🕊
I essentially just made their s4 attire more slutty. Like. That's really it lmao. I also changed the metal to silver from gold to symbolise the moon. Outfit inspired from this design in my Greek attire post too. His hair is short and super choppy because it just cut it, Allumos is a lot less mentally well in my rewrite, this is one of the results of that. He cuts its hair whenever it enters an episode. I gave Allumos heavy scarring (can be seen in more detail below in a full body shot) since they literally fought a war, though (at least) one of those scars is from friendly fire lol. I gave Allumos a belt of sorts, I didn't draw them cause I still haven't worked out the designs, but it would be used to hold its Celestial Keys — no Minecraft logic here. Lacrima marking/scar!!! Inspired by a black hole. Gave them very pointy ears too, because is it even a human anymore?
I honestly didn't change much about Allumos's (early) s5 design — I like it, it's simple but conveys what it needs to. Patrick|Pádraig is a lot tanner (or, well, he's a regular skin tone Allumos is just albino lol) than Allumos. Pádraig also got kinda pointy ears from Allumos's possession. The Lacrima marking/scar carried over onto Pádraig's body too. I gave Allumos's cloak a blue stripe to allude to his himation that it wore during political events (also from my Greek attire post). Changed the ribbon to purple because it still has that "purple = respectable" mindset lol.
I had so much fun drawing the doll joints here lol (it was torture, but ultimately I'm proud of it). After Salode, Allumos was gifted a replica of its original body by the Celestial Spirit King. This was only after Allumos practically begged on his knees to bring them all home however, even willing to actually die for it. God, they hate each other. Anyways, the new body is pretty 'fleshy' feeling, but there is a slight difference to the feel of it. Allumos also can't really feel cold or heat anymore, only if it's extreme temperatures. It has a lot of complex joints so it can actually still move but he now struggles with semi-frequent dislocation. They also feel cold to the touch. Aside from the body, I gave it a different outfit (yes, Pádraig finally got to wear his own clothes too), the trousers became a sash thing, with white trousers for a bit of colour balance. He's wearing a purple, blue and yellow chlamys, a piece of home, so to speak. You can't see it behind their hair but it's held with a sun clasp.
Close up of his jaw, and a look at all the doll joints:
Pls don't snipe me Tumblr it's non sexual artistic nudity (WITH NO PARTS)
Gosh this was a HEADACHE to draw lol. I wanted to be absolutely happy with the redesign, which meant making sure it would hold up in several months time (not easy for an indecisive perfectionist!). I specifically learnt how to draw leg muscles properly for this drawing — and it's not even visible half the time!! Though I will say it was a litttleee easier because I've already had a lot of the ideas for his redesign for several months, so all I had to do was translate it properly into my art. I might make a Patrick/Pádraig design after this for consistency, BUT also looking at the other redesigns I've done it may be best for me to stick with guild leaders (+ second-in-commands). Idk I've already started working on Flurry so I'll probably stick with the latter. Anyways hope you lot like this design WOOHOOO I can draw sometimes
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