did i ever mention that way back on spore in like 2013 i had an honest-to-god cthulhu mythos deity self-insert oc
anyway i tried to draw it from memory, because this thing's been haunting me for almost 15 years. it turned out..... mixed, but i'm mostly happy with the head and neck area if nothing else. the face turned out pretty much perfect.
it was supposed to be a dark creator god (one of two in a duality, the other god was one of order and was very jyggalag-coded-part of the theme was that you would think at first glance that these two primal entities would be naturally opposed, but that wasn't the case at all; they were best buddies and delighted in fucking with mortals together, because chaos and order are only two different perspectives on the same thing) of primal chaos, storms, and either hypnagogia or hypnopompia, i can't remember which. lightning arced constantly between it's exposed quills and it's body was either "vantablack" or was literally a singularity in the shape of a body, i could never decide which. i did however quite firmly deices that it's stripes were actually "stygian blue and self-luminous orange" and that they were not body coloration so much as light (crackling with faint eerie lightning) seeping from between the slats of the armor plating on it's back. if you think any of this sounds cool, don't get too excited-this was being written by emotionally damaged 12 year olds who thought "lol TACO xD" was the height of humor and constantly roleplayed edgy ocs *tleports behind u*-ing eachother in the spore creations comments section. it was aiming for "sheogorath but with a heavier focus on the darker side", but in practice it ended up being more like an insufferable lolzsorandom asshole that did random shit to arbitrarily move the plot and spewed "funny" media references and words. and just generally came off like a poorly written bootleg combination of "lol cheese" era sheogorath, darcy amphibia, photoshop flowey, and ESPECIALLY Midna twilightprincess (which was not on purpose. i only realized the unsettling resemblance much later, and it's amused me to no end ever since), as written by an edgy traumatized isolated bordering-on-scene tweenager that was obsessed with the legend of spyro and ga'hoole and wrote just, the absolute cringiest fanfic about it. it also had a pet nightmare raven named hades and a lightning sword. don't ask why. despite it's bullshit, it was often ultimately helpful to the main characters-the main reasoning (excuse) being "it can't keep fucking with them for fun if they die". on that front it's counterpart god was more or less the same, and they absolutely 100% did collaborate regularly on fucking with people together.
it started off initially much more silly and lolzsorandom, but i slowly made it darker and scarier and more serious as time went on, and then towards the end of it's usage i boomeranged right back around to using exclusively in a silly way again but this time with a tone of self-aware shitpostiness, this time as "the absolute GOD of Hypermeme". in it's serious and later re-sillyfied incarnations, it's head was a false head that would constantly twitch and distort in horrifying, anatomically impossible body horror ways that would look like it was tearing itself, and could unfurl open to reveal that it's head was actually a set of eldritch armored, toothed tentacles and mandibles strategically folded in a very specific way to appear as something like a more ......." "normal".... face. end-stage incarnations had it's head-mouth unwound permanently open into tentacles because it looked funnier and was easier to draw. in all incarnations i was also very particular for whatever reason about all four of it's wings having NO thumbs, NO visible scales or armor, and EXACTLY seven rays. it's body was meant to be much more both sleek, rounded, raptor-like, and gargoyle-like (especially in the limbs) than shown here. all of the proportions are somewhat off. it's also meant to have an unsettlingly human-like collarbone and shoulders, but attached slightly weird, a little too forwards. it's body plan was always a weird awkward halfway point between gargoyle-like humanoid biped and saurian horizontal biped, that could sort of lean more into either one of the two as it needed, which i don't think i did a very good job of showing here. this is, in fact, the first time in my entire life i have EVER attempted to draw it seriously, as well as the first time i've ever drawn it even non-seriously with a fully non-tentacled head.
i even gave it a theme song. it was "illusions" by two steps from hell. it's counterpart also had a theme song privately in my mind, and that was "metaphysical", an extremely obscure gaster battle fan-theme that may quite likely be lost media by now.
i recall remarking on several occasions in the years since that it "gives off the energy like if "cthulhu" was a species of furry". if i ever somehow made a flight rising clone pet site, i would probably recycle it's design with some tweaks as a dragon species.
i never gave it a real name during any point of it's many incarnations, so it was always just called the same name as my spore account, and then eventually "the magical space imp" and then in-universe just "chaos". i wasn't doing it intentionally at the time, but looking back i avoided using pronouns for it wherever possible-describing it by "name", or just "the magical space imp", or any sort of indirect title or description over pronouns if i could. if i had to use pronouns for it, i almost always went with "it", just used the name "chaos/(insert spore account name here)", or very rarely on occasion threw in a "she".
it's also important that you know this thing was canonically exactly 3 feet tall.