#chains adventurous

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Forgot I did a Kaiju design two years ago, complete with references for the sake of commissions, and then never posted it despite the amount of effort/detail put in. Fixing that now! Kind of wish I had a better name for her than 'Ultra' (because she took more than a few influences from Ultraman along with Pacific Rim). Ultra Wavewalker is a secondary name at the moment, but not exactly applicable to this version of the character, but it can all get polished and improved with time.

A few of the inspirations on Ultra's design (along with moissanite, since moissanite is very rainbow/pretty).

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Been a while since I posted anything with Akizuki Akizu (formerly Akizuki Akira) despite having worked on some design/redesign stuff over the last few years, so she's back and in a few other Studio Gainax styles besides her FLCL origins (and in Steven Universe and Cardcaptor Sakura as well).

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I just think that picking up a Mewtwo like a housecat would fix them, especially if they used to be Shadow Mewtwo. Scrungle that baby god kitty.

(Still stewing on what this Mewtwo's name gets to be, but she's way off of showing up in anything, even there's loose plans in place already, so I've got plenty of time.)

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Despite the fearsome look of his Transmetal 2 Beast Mode, Joltfang is still a young bot who is intent on being liked by the other Maximals, though some are put off by his enthusiasm along with his 'class clown' act.

Don't let his personality fool you though - he's a highly skilled combatant whose expert knowledge of 'practical physics' makes him a very dangerous foe to face on the battlefield, at range and up-close.

Alt-form - Hyena.

Had a lot of wrestling with the color palette on this - the hot pink/red came in relatively early while the copper was one of the last things that came together for Joltfang (who's a Transformers alt-form of another Jumpchain OC, Shumari, I have who hasn't seen a lot of public light beyond a few offhand lines in some of the writing and two rough arts from almost 5 years ago posted on this very blog). He should get to show up more since I've been working on his design lately but it's been a pretty long absence for him.

Also, like Manticon-4, Joltfang also gets a kludged tech spec card (primarily Lockjaw's, given that Joltfang is based on his toy) but with a few unique traits mixed in, like a stronger intelligence + Metallikato proficiency, both suggested by @poisonbat.

And the reason why Joltfang's tech spec card isn't damaged or anything is because... 1) all of the text fit on there comfortably and didn't need obscuring, thus saving me that work. 2) Joltfang is a good contentious conscientious son-boy who doesn't try to eat random objects.

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Guess who's back with more stuff for Kourtefour - the last run was in my own style, but I figured that I at least should try giving my Tallest self-reject something close to the show's style... and ended up working on some other characters that'll pop up in his story along the way. Since this is a Jumpchain story, Canti's (from FLCL) presence is pretty self-explanatory (you just pick some people up along the way through Jumpchain) and Dib is here in slightly more realistic height proportions for scale, but there are two new characters that do need introductions.

Rosabella ‘Roz’ Welles Grey - also known as Agent Roswell (both of these OCs are Swollen Eyeball agents, though with different specialties). This weird lil person was designed both to kind of spork myself and serve as a sort of parody of the whole 'indigo child' concept (which is why all the different indigo colors), though their character outline became more sympathetic over time (early draft Roz was an obnoxious asshole, where as current draft Roz is a well-meaning but scatterbrained helper). named Roz as a play on 'Roswell Grey'. Roz works in IT and focuses their paranormal research on aliens, auras, and psychic powers. They also are remarkably unkillable.@poisonbat named Roz as a play on 'Roswell Grey'.

Zadkiel ‘Zadie’ Forfax Smith - Agent BlueBeamz (named after Serge Monast's conspiracy theory 'Project Blue Beam') was just about entirely of @poisonbat's creation, with me only adding in some minor additions to her ideas as the design process went along. Her specialty as a paranormal investigator are supernatural occurrences - angels, demons, ghosts, magic, and so forth. She also has the dignity of being the most reliable and competent of the cast, on top of best dressed.

The story's a ways off of being shared, but I'm working on the plans currently, though other projects have priority for the time being.

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Seemingly frivolous and lazy, Manticon-4 is a bit more complex than that. While his casual manner may not be a complete deception, there is also a sharp intelligence at work within his core processor, one that led to him abandoning the Predacon faction very quickly - after all, the universe is more interesting without some petty tyrant stamping every other planet into food courts and parking lots. A fundamental flaw in his T-cog makes transforming between his robot and beast modes a painful process. However, that doesn’t seem to slow down Manticon-4 by much - as he might say, ‘it’s just encouragement to play smarter, not harder’. Alt-form - praying mantis. Head designed and colors picked by @poisonbat, who is a proper TF head compared to my own dabbling.

Kludged together a tech spec card for him - with and without his own 'additions' to it - the bulk of it comes from Manterror's card (just like Manticon's body design) with a few others donating small bits of text (Insecticon for the name, Snapper on the function, etc.). The damaged text section is just his bio from above so you're not missing anything important.

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Been taking some swings at various OC updates recently between fanart projects and decided to update Utari's design here at @poisonbat's suggestion, given that it's been about 4 years since I've done anything with her and I've improved a lot in that time.

Utari is a character from my Jumpchain fanfics, though not one who has gotten a lot of screentime yet, and her only current appearance is as a Legend of Zelda Minish - which meant doing a bit of mouse study in to get those feet right.

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Got the itch to fix up this fellow after a few years of neglect - Kourtefour (formerly Dei, which was a little too basic) is my Irken Defective/Tallest (Self) Reject, who left to do his own thing mostly because he thought the Irken Empire/eternal state of invasion was boring and maybe experienced a moral qualm hidden inside of that thought.

His character summary is pretty much 'what if the 4th Doctor was reinterpreted to fit into the main cast of Invader Zim' which immediately spun into '20x more petty' and 'taking the cosmic hobo thing to a new level of stupid'. Design changes (beyond the general reduction of noodle disease) involved getting a more interesting color scheme across the board, better detail choices including the one janky antenna along with a coat intended to invoke some 6th Doctor vibes without being a centerpiece.

Eventually, he'll show up in Chains Adventurous (and his earlier version was in an early posted draft that's since been deleted), but for now, he's just art and a fun idea.