about myself
helllloooo, im a deathshead hawkmoth named zathsu!!!!
my biggest passion is creating. i love devising worldbuilding projects, creating artwork, and writing existentialist fiction. i could go on about my various projects for hours and will probably post about them a lot here. my art style is scratchy and sinister, involving both a traditional linework and digital coloring component.
some of the games i like include risk of rain, darkest dungeon, the entire soulslike genre and aesthetic, slay the spire, hollow knight, etc. just a big fan of roguelikes and soulslikes in general.
i also really really like bugs!! especially moths, ants, bees, and earwigs. definitely the best "broad category" of creature on this planet.
some of my projects
A Tale Where Nothing Matters: A post-apocalyptic early-contemporary setting set in a completely alternative world with none of the species we know and love on Earth or in traditional fantasy. A bunch of weird gritty gremlin creatures living in the equivalent of the early 20th century, but with a magic system thats barely understood in canon. Deals with the nature of purpose on a personal and cosmic scale, using the world the story is set in as a microcosm for this conflict. Despite the name, is not actually all that purely nihilistic. Its... existentialist. Absurdist, even, maybe. Told through an anthology of disconnected short stories all told by different narrators, which come together to convey a bigger picture.
Neo Sulfur: A near future sci-fantasy setting with heavy alchemical motifs and a message about what makes us who we are and the pursuit of the perfection of the self. Follows Red Hornet, a former human soldier reanimated as her exoskeletal combat suit, and her squadron of the Nautilus Dispatch. The Skall came to Sol tracing a signature in the ice caps of Mars, violently seizing the north of the planet for themselves. All signs increasingly pointing to it being their vanished god of machines and knowledge trapped within. And the plans that He has must not come to pass.
NO SUN: Pretty much just my one-to-one homage to the souls series in general. Features a lot of the same through-line tropes and vibes and aesthetics. The arcane sun was a source of life and magic to a ring of swirling continental islands called the Storm of Stones. A zealous ancestral king sought to unify the sun's blessing with mankind, but the incompatibility between the two essential forces of the Hearth and the Primeval Outcry instead brought about its end. Power vacuums have been opened in this dying world, and the splintered fragments of light from the sun have scattered across the land, becoming an agonizing source of infinite life within an unfortunate few.
