I decided to redraw some characters I’ve had since 2013. Their names are Patrick and Isobel, and they’re an original, closed species of mine called Conebo!
The reason I decided to was for the sake of practice and fun, because @skeleton-tank , @spatialsphere and I are all working together to make a Visual Novel with these characters in it! I hope that them here sparks interest!!
Here’s their original concept art from 2013, for comparison:
I’m gonna put them under a cut, because they’re each a good paragraph or more... but here’s the profiles, as promised. At least for the main cast!
Patrick Brennan
Age: 15
Height: 3'7''
Patrick is one of the two main protagonists in Tales of the Conebo, and one of the few survivors of the Guarding Gate. Patrick grew up in Cessira, and enrolled in an academy for knights until he and his best friend, Isobel, decided to take a break from their education and travel around the kingdom. He was born without any magic at all, which is a very unfortunate and rare case. About three months after they began travelling, the disaster happened, and Patrick lost his family. He then decided it was pointless to continue any further training as a knight, and pushed to become an adventurer, with Isobel by his side, travelling all over the world, seeing things he’d never seen before. Patrick also seeks to reverse the damage done by the disaster somehow, and has made that a number one search topic in his travels. After assuming that Damien Mercury might have known a way to reverse the damage, he makes it another goal to find a way to revive him.
Isobel Anci
Age: 15
Height: 3'3''
Isobel is one of the two main protagonists in Tales of the Conebo, and one of the few survivors of the Guarding Gate. Isobel grew up in Cessira, enrolled in a school for magic until she and her best friend, Patrick, decided to take a break from their education and travel around the kingdom. About three months after they began travelling, the disaster happened, and Isobel lost her father, who was her only family member, after having lost her mother when she was born and her older sister to illness. Having nothing to return to, Isobel thought it pointless to return to education elsewhere, and pushed to become a travelling witch, Patrick by her side, travelling all over the world, seeing things she’d never seen before. Isobel also seeks to reverse the damage done by the disaster somehow, and to get her father back, and has made that a number one search topic in her travels. After assuming that Damien Mercury might have known a way to reverse the damage, she makes it another goal to find a way to revive him. She is exceptional in her magical art because, despite being a dark magic user, she can also use some fire magic, which is unheard of and taboo. People don’t often react too well to it, so she pretends that fire is her main magic ability, despite the color or her hair saying otherwise, because she favors it over using her dark magic abilities.
Damien Mercury
Age: 34
Height: 4'5''
Damien was what was thought to be the main cause of the disaster three years ago in Valona. He was known as a maniac tyrant, an insane man who spoke out against the Celestials. No one knew his reasons for trying to erase the royal family and take over Valona until it was too late, and the disaster happened. It was later found out that Damien was trying to prevent the disaster from ever happening, even though his methods were insane, and that the disaster was really caused by the hero, the human that was not supposed to be in their world, and the Celestials. By wiping out the royal family and taking over, he’d cut off connection with the Celestials by force, and prevent any chances for the disaster to happen from opening up. It is said Damien knew all this and knew of the Celestials’ plans of destruction because he could speak to them, and was a prophet. Unfortunately, Damien is dead, because of the hero. He was absolutely useless at combat.
Daphne Crowe (/Mercury)
Age: 30
Height: 3'5''
Daphne is a travelling fortune teller that sets up shop in random towns, making what money she can reading people’s fortunes. She was previously married to Damien Mercury before he went “insane” and was killed by the hero, but never tells anyone, and keeps her former identity as his wife secret, no matter how much she hurts at heart after the loss of the love of her life. She pops up here and there, and you’re bound to run into her once while you’re in Valona. She’s incredibly skilled in her magic, and is able to do much more than just read fortunes; she can predict the future.
Kid
Age: kid (10)
Height: kid-like (2'11'')
Kid is a small orphan boy whom Patrick and Isobel meet on the streets. He steals from them but gets his ass handed to him, and ends up joining them on their adventure. No one knows much about him, and he refuses to tell them anything about himself other than the fact he specializes in dark magic. Ironic, though, because he has an earthy palette...
Delana Aiken
Age: 18
Height: 3'4''
Delana is Kid's caretaker. She tails Kid, trying to make sure he doesn't get into more trouble than he's normally in, but isn't quite able to stop him from trying to steal Patrick's bag. Aftar apologizing for his horrific behavior, the two of them tag along on Patrick and Isobel's adventures, because she believes it'd be good for Kid to have some GOOD influence in his life that wasn't her nagging him all the time.
Clyde Abbey
Age: 27
Height: 4'2''
Clyde runs a huge branch of the shops in Valona, all connected by warp panels, named Ends to Odds. It sells mostly magic supplies, and is known for selling the best. Being the owner of the branch, he is able to go to any of the stores and work in them whenever he wants. When he meets Patrick and Isobel in Porton, he decides to cure his boredom by bugging them and following them to different towns, but under different names, until his game is ruined by one of his hired help selling him out around the fifth time he pulls the stunt. A mischievous man, cheap, but fun. Never look into his eyes, he’ll use his magic to manipulate you into buying something. Clyde also has a small crush on his assistant, Walter, but keeps it to himself because of professionalism, and belief that Walter is safer not dating someone like him.
Walter Alden
Age: 22
Height: 3'6''
Walter is the assistant of Clyde in Ends to Odds. Being the assistant of the manager of the entire branch, he's basically assistant manager (though Clyde pays him about as much as the other employees). He's not very liked by many Conebo, mainly because of his habit of talking with Humans, which have, for some reason, been appearing in their world much more frequently as of late. Seeing as Humans are bad luck to the Conebo, they believe talking to one will cause another disaster, and that's exactly what they think Walter's going to end up doing. They avoid him at all costs. Clyde is the only one who really talks to him, asking about his Human friends and how everyone is doing. Clyde is also the only one who knows Walter has a safehouse for the Humans to relax in, funded by the income of Ends to Odds. Walter is very grateful towards Clyde for helping him do this, and it's why he doesn't mind Clyde paying him so little. His magic is Earth based, so he can control the ground around him, which makes it easy for him to escape trouble. Walter also has a “secret” gigantic crush on Clyde, but tries to keep it on the down-low, as he’s convinced that he would never want to be with someone like him.
Bonus Info
Conebo have a max of 4'6'' in height, the average height of a female conebo being 3'5'' and the average height for a male conebo being 4'0''.
A Conebo's color is entirely affected by the magic they possess.
Dark Conebo often have unnatural colors like Clyde's electric blue. Ironically, some of them are completely white! Those are the ones you need to be cautious around... Isobel is an anomaly, because her parents were dark users, but she can also use fire. No Conebo has ever been able to use two magic abilities at once. So while she possesses all the characteristics, such as color, of a dark user, she can use both magic abilities. Stay away from white-haired Conebo, however, for they hold the most powerful dark magic abilities of all of them.
Fire have more hot colors, colors that would be easy at first but burn the eyes if there's too much. As I said before, no one knows what the fuck is wrong with Isobel. She could be unnaturally colored because she can also practice dark magic, which is honestly unheard of, being able to practice two magics at once.
Earth is more natural colors. So browns and blondes and stuff like that, maybe a little orangey. Patrick is the palette of an Earth user, but for some reason, he doesn't seem to be able to use magic at all! Also, what's up with Kid? We just don't know! He could be lying about his magic, because he's never used it.
Electricity has BRIGHT colors but they're still natural. It more sticks to like electric neon yellow and green, though. Sometimes orange! Has to be neon, though.
Water honestly consists of a lot of blues and greens... calmer ones, though. Nothing too bright.Light conebo often have very DARK hair. That's why dark hair in the Conebo world is considered so pure and beautiful. Light Conebo are also often Prophets. Damien and Daphne, for example, have dark hair, to the point it almost appears black. They're powerful.
