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VEZOK the beast
In my heart, at least IMEAN—Character redesign/interpretation for Vezok, a Skakdi member of the Piraka gang from the Bionicle franchise.
I always had a soft spot for him and his doppelganger, but never did proper art that wasn't just silly, scribbly doodles. I hope with this reference to make more detailed art of him in the future and who knows, use it as a basis for the other Piraka.
Chapters: 1/? Fandom: Sonic the Hedgehog (Video Games), Sonic the Hedgehog - All Media Types Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Amy Rose & Maria Robotnik Characters: Maria Robotnik, Amy Rose (Sonic the Hedgehog) Additional Tags: platonic, No Romance, Maria Robotnik Lives, Or will live specifically, POV Maria Robotnik, Supportive Amy Rose (Sonic the Hedgehog), Maria Robotnik-centric, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Angst, Comfort/Angst, Angst and Hurt/Comfort, Friendship, Developing Friendships, Female Friendship, Introspection, Character Analysis, Character Study, Do you ever wonder how the sacrificial lamb feels about being slaughtered?, Do you think they ever wished it could have gone differently? To selfishly want to survive, even if it hurt others?, Is the lamb allowed the little mercy of anger at the greater good?, Time Travel, Game: Sonic X Shadow Generations (2024), Sonic X Shadow Generations (2024) Spoilers, References to Game: Sonic X Shadow Generations (2024), White Space (Sonic the Hedgehog) Summary:
Maria has come to a realization: she's going to die. Naturally, she takes this about as well as one could expect; after all, even she has her limits. Upon realizing that she's the sacrificial lamb that pushes Shadow towards his future, she can't help but be upset that she's the price of the world's survival.
When she meets a new face in Amy Rose, the latter gets to see how the lamb feels about being led to the slaughter, and how much it hurts to be a supporting character in someone else's life. Amy isn't content to let Maria face this news alone; she'll do whatever it takes to help her through this time.
Even if it means helping Maria find a way to change the past.
A short story about how it must feel to be a girl who was written to die for someone else, the anger one must feel to be in that situation, and a desire to make things right.
If I want to make Alpha Flight work for me, I suppose I'll have to try and reinvent the origins of half these characters. I'm not even sure that's something I really want to do, but I know school probably isn't going to be that exciting today. So at least this gives me something to do? I'll have to just see what I can do about writing some stuff down for this whenever the school day gets to be too stressful or distracting or whatever. I'm going to try and treat it all like jot notes, though. Because I can't be bothered to try and write lengthy paragraphs on every single character. Although I may still do it, especially since I'm having a freaking terrible day and I really need distractions for myself. I'm gonna list all these team members in order of their joining the team.
Guardian: James Hudson was an engineer and scientist from Ontario, a world renowned academic studying things like the defensive properties of different kinds of armour. He grew up as a very precocious young man, obsessed with machinery and science. He became a skilled engineer in his teenage years, and even developed a helmet to control machinery telepathically while he was in University. James's dream goal was to wind up working as an inventor subsidized by the federal government, someone able to dedicate himself to creating tech to benefit all of mankind.
It was through his love of science that James Hudson would meet Dr. Walter Langkowski, a man who'd eventually become a close friend and co-worker of his on Alpha Flight. They both attended a lot of the same events, because they both found themselves fascinated by science (albeit in different ways). While Walter goes into biochemistry, James stays firmly in the field of engineering.
Eventually, James gets hired by a big name company to design technology for public purposes. He was set to turn his helmet to control machinery into a full line of exoskeletons for use by people like diggers, construction workers, etc. James eagerly threw himself into his work, or he did until he learned the whole company was a massive capitalistic organization secretly planning to sell all of James' well meaning tech off to the US government for use in military combat. Losing his faith in the institution he'd been eagerly working for, James destroys all his exoskeletons except one, then destroys his laboratory with all the notes inside.
Escaping with his notes, James broods for years. Trying to distract himself, he helps fund his friend Walter Langkowski's research into alpha radiation. But that goes poorly too, and eventually James just falls into a depressed slump. If not for Heather McNeil, the only other person at the company who actually supported James and admired his altruism, James would probably have given up on life. But she hounds him persistently, making sure he keeps himself in check. Eventually, this leads to a romance blossoming between the two of them.
And a year or two after that, Walter Langkowski shows up with an inuk demigod from the far north, and James realizes that his friend wasn't a failure. And if Walter wasn't a failure, then James isn't one either! James Hudson is going to use his exoskeleton to help people, and do the exact opposite of contributing to a war machine. James Hudson is going to be a guardian for his country, a defender of the defenseless. As of 1971, Canada didn't really have any superheroes. None anybody knew about, at least. Wolverine may exist, but the whole Weapon X program is definitely not public knowledge. But in any case, James Hudson becomes the Guardian, founder and leader of the superhero team Alpha Flight.
Alpha Flight is overseen by the government, but it isn't actually an official wing of the government. It's independent, at least to a certain extent. Laws still exist to regulate their actions, but that's par for the course. Guardian, Sasquatch and Snowbird are the first three founders, followed eventually by Shaman, Aurora and Northstar. Heather McNeil actually ends up becoming the team's government liason for a time (one of her relatives used to work for the government, so she has some connections), but she also eventually ends up joining the team as a hero in her own right.
Sasquatch: Walter Langkowski grew up in Burnaby, British Columbia. He's one of the founding members of Alpha Flight, him and Guardian (James Hudson) being the two team members to first join the organization when it gets established. James and Walter became fast friends, since they were both canadian academics, albeit ones in different fields. James was an engineer and walter was more of a biochemist, but they became fast friends from attending a lot of the same academic functions.
Although James ends up becoming the leader of Alpha Flight when the Canadian government decides to loosely sponsor their activities, Walter was actually the real reason Alpha Flight ended up existing in the first place. Walter Langkowski was obsessed with The Hulk, especially after he learned Bruce Banner turned into the Hulk following his exposure to gamma rays. As a biochemist, the concept of a man changing on almost the molecular level due to the gamma rays fascinated him. Walter wanted to see what would happen if a man was exposed to a different type of wave on the spectrum of radioactivity, so he successfully convinced James Hudson to help him assemble a lab up in a desolate part of canada's arctic territories, all just so he could test radioactivity on himself.
Knowing that gamma rays turned Bruce Banner into a destructive and intellectually challenged monster, Walter doesn't dare want to risk gamma radiation on himself. But he's taking a bet that there's a radiation level lower than gamma, but also one whose radiation might be safer than it's predecessors. So under the bright lights of the aurora borealis, Walter Langkowski bathes himself in deadly waves of alpha radiation. These waves initially turned Walter into a mindless beast, a violent monster who destroyed his laboratory and then got lost in the wastes of the north. James Hudson lost contact with his friend that day in the winter of 1969, and he was forced to assume that the experiments were a failure.
But sometime in the summer of 1970, Walter Langkowski makes it back to BC with his mind fully intact. And he arrives in the company of Snowbird, a sheltered inuk demigod who'd been living amongst the people of Nunavut. She'd helped to subdue him when he was rampaging throughout the north, and her defeat of him in combat somehow helped him reclaim his natural intelligence. Apparently alpha rays have the same transformative properties of gamma rays, but alpha rays are significantly weaker and less transformative. Walter Langkowski can now turn into a massive sasquatch esque beast, but he can keep his own regular mind whenever he transforms.
Sometimes he'll have an outburst of extreme emotion while in his sasquatch form, but he's able to control it with things like medication and meditation. It's allowed him to become strong while maintaining his strength. And that's a perfect recipe for a superhero, at least in the eyes of James Hudson. When James discovers Walter's new ability (and his newfound demigod friend), it gives him the push to help found Alpha Flight. I can try to go in more detail about that under Guardian's section in this note, but Alpha Flight got it's name from the Alpha radiation team founder Walter Langkowski once bombarded himself with to become the hero known as "Sasquatch."
I don't have a whole lot more to say about Walter, honestly. His strength level is around the level of The Thing, but nowhere near the level of Thor or the Hulk. I still think Walter Langkowski becoming trans representation as Wanda Langkowski could be interesting, and I'm fine with them transitioning. And I think that he's definitely become a hero to the people in his home province of BC. But yeah, that's about all I really have right now on Sasquatch.
I know I said I was going to make my MCU Sigyn Alternate Universe master post soon, but the end of the university is overwhelming, so I give you this abstract on her name and family
Sigyn Sælldóttir
Sigyn is a name formed of the Norse words Sigr - meaning victory and Vina - meaning friend. Her name hence means "the friend of victory" or "victorious girl friend"
As for her last name, I was inspired by another Norse word related to victory, Sigrsæll - meaning victorious
Considering that names relating to victory in battle could be a family tradition and also considering Asgard as a military culture, I decided the name of her father could be Sæll - meaning fortunate and happy, and because of its part in the forming of the word Sigrsæll.
(Also I followed the sources that place her as part of the Æsir, while I love the headcanons of Sigyn as a Vanir, it just worked for the ideas I had)
Hence, her name is Sigyn Sæelldóttir
As for her mother, I was inspired by one of Sigyn's kenning, the Incantation Fetter. That kenning also inspired the way I see her specific style of seidr, and how she uses it to bind or unbind, for example. (It will be elaborated in another post I promise)
Since seidr is seen as more of a feminine attribute even in MCU Asgard (see Frigga and Eir), this type of seidr that Sigyn has is inherited from her mother, whose name relates to it as well.
The Norse adjective fjǫtra, meaning bind or fetter is my base, from which I made the name Fjǫtra (yeah, not so creative but hey)
So this is the little lore behind Sigyn Sælldòttir, daughter of Æsir diplomats Sæll and Fjǫtra
Art Fight drawing of Marina Florence Delfino-Kujo and her stand Barracuda for Governor-Explosion.
Oh God Not This Guy AGAIN…
// Lowkey debating if I should make him were green and orange instead of green and purple… 🤔
LUMINARY STARSCREAM
Character Redesign + Reference Sheet Commission for @mouseycometz 's Transformers AU "Luminary"!
I loved giving a new frame and face to the mischievous jet 💖 Many of his traits (like the stars in his wings) were input by Mousey. I tried to give him a fresh look while maintaining a familiar aura from his usual character canon and include digit-beans in his servos because WHY NOT.
Thank you so much for the support 🌟 Was a pleasure to work with ya!!!