not-so-Short rambling about what I was thinking about while drawing:
I like to see Ish's vid as almost a legend of the nations' beginnings
So, some traits on the upper designs are purposefully exaggerated based on how I think they'd change overtime in the next generations' memory and imagination
how they're immortalized as the perfect figures of the Hero and Villain, and, in a way, how distorted their image gets.
Saps, for example, is remembered as an idealized, 'pure' hero who could do no wrong, when anyone who knew him before could attest that he was still a chaotic and playful guy. He's revered and idolized, sure, but in a very sanitized way.
Flux on the other hand is viewed as all sharp angles and malicious schemes. Any positive motivation that were driving him are forgotten, and he's treated as a cautionary tale, an evil meant to be defeated. Long forgotten is the fact that he was still a normal person too, and that his schemes didn't start out of evil intent.