#atram

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🔺~ SUN ON THE TOP ~🔺

The light of curiosity illuminates the dark world of mystery.

Personal illustration of my original character, Atram.

It is drawn as a pair to this one, showing young Atram in a similar but opposite idea. Unlike Vewis, Atram was fascinated by the Towers since childhood, feeling no fear towards them. He wanted to grow into a Tower Keeper and worked hard to achieve this dream.

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"Like sleep like death, you wake up again - whether you want to or not"

Rain World fan art with my own character, Atram.

He is familiar with death and the idea that he was beyond but came back is one of the important themes in his original story. I like that I can keep his personal symbolism while drawing him as a slugcat, it's like the same melody but played on different instruments.

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Regeneration is not the return of what the thing once was; damage cannot be undone, and what doesn't kill you doesn't make you stronger, it's just that you were already strong and lucky enough to survive it.

Personal illustration of my original character, which is a Kotie, fictional fantasy feline. (This is an artistic and metaphorical interpretation, not a 100% anatomically correct thing. Plus, this species is fictional. Do not use this as anatomy reference, please)

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[Love and Decay]

Distorted love that strives to recreate the object of love over and over again, until it decays.

The Black Entity is known to be associated with love and passion, and at the same time - with the abyss of agony. Horror and attraction. Creation and destruction as the very same thing. It may not even be aware of what it is doing, as it percieves not the process but a state, a paradoxical one. Being all-seeing makes it blind, crippled and isolated, stuck in a deadly loop. All you can hear in it's heavy darkness is your own heartbeat.

But in the end, the element that was taken away from it must be returned to it. Understanding. Response. Awareness. The red fire to fill its hollow veins.

Personal illustration of my original characters ~

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The sun turns warmer and the snow has melted, revealing the old dead grass. Looking messy with his winter fur, Atram tries to take a nap in the quiet, enjoying the warm days that have finally arrived. All he wants is to rest.

Personal illustration of Atram, my original character, as a couple to the one with Vewis. I wanted to draw a simple and realistic everyday portrait of Atram too.

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A wound that never heals, a song that never ends. It remembers me, as though I’ve always been part of its story.

The broken heart of the destroyed Pyramid, hidden deep beneath the earth. A black hole that will devour anyone who touches it. And the Kotie that was broken by it, but who gave it his heart of fire, so that it may become its Sun.

Symbolic illustration for The Black Pyramid story. It's very simplified to make the symbolism readable, and the Black Pyramid is actually many times larger. I also wanted to give it some nostalgic style and vibe of my old art ~

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[Anechoic Chamber]

Rain World fan art with my own characters, Atram as a slugcat and the Black Pyramid/Tower as an Iterator. This illustration is symbolic and simplified, partly referencing "The Broken Pyramid" which I drew for their story. The title is just an association that came to me in the process.

I've already drawn Five Pebbles and Looks to the Moon as Towers from my world, and so I also wanted to draw the opposite idea, with my own characters in Rain World. It's interesting to fantasize and speculate about what form their story would take in such an alternate universe.

I thought about what the Black Pyramid would look like as an Iterator, and I came to the idea that… well, she doesn't look like anything anymore. Her puppet is gone, she is cut off from the world, being stuck in a paradoxical state of eternal death, while being unable to die. What happened to her is a dark mystery, which is too much for the little creature to solve, and yet, they reflect each other in a way.

The desire to find answers led them both into an abyss with no way back.

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Hello, little animal…

An illustration for my "The Black Pyramid" story, inspired by the "Rain World" game - I haven't played it myself, but I enjoy watching my mate play it. I love its visuals, world and lore, so I got inspired to try to draw something in a similar style. Plus I think it's an interesting interpretation to see a parallel between Towers and Iterators - their idea and nature are very different, yet they feel similar in a way :')

Towers are mysterious structures of unknown but ancient origin, which have colossal amounts of energy and are capable of remembering the imprints created by the "songs" of living beings, having a kind of mental reality inside them. It is not a language of words or pictures, rather of feelings and inner rhythms, which beings create and feel both physically and emotionally.

I see the inside of the Towers as a kind of layered and multi-story labyrinth, reminiscent of both some kind of mechanism and magical, even living structure. They are inextricably linked to the ecosystem (and capable of changing and creating ecosystems), evolve, and even seem to have some their own relationships with each other, that are so distant and incomprehensible to all the living beings.

Koties use them as an energy source, and as an unique tool for communication and information storage. They are the only known species to have such advanced intelligence that allows them to use information from the Towers' internal network so efficiently, and they even learned to tune and "tame" the Towers. But what the Towers actually are is a mystery even to them. Some see them as gods, as a physical embodiment of mother nature, while others see them as natural mechanisms of how the world works. There are plants, animals, water, the sun and the stars… and the Towers.

One young and ambitious Kotie wanted to find the answer… To the Tower, he is just a little animal, one of many others, living and dying in its world, while its life is like eternity; who knows what it thinks and whether it is capable of thinking. The little animal, however, has grown an inquisitive mind, and wants to understand it.