#friar pan

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And BOOM, first pass at some Quest for the Queen designs! ^^ This ain’t the whole cast, unlike my OG Bordergrams designs—QftQ has a much bigger cast that I’m probably gonna need a couple posts to get through, three of whom are spoilery to the degree just seeing what they look like constitutes a spoiler. But! Until then, here’s the “main trio” so to speak: Render, Leigh, and Pan!

Artist commentary under the cut—much like when I drew the Bordergrams cast, ‘s all spoiler-free ^^

Sir Render: I did a beta design of him for my QftQ hype art, and y’all will definitely spot the differences: darker skin, eyebags, curls, and, of course, red hair ^^ The reason I had Render as a blonde originally was so that his design wouldn’t overlap too much with B’s (whom I also made a redhead), especially since they both have braids, but then it turned out it made sense Render would have red hair because [SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER]. The darker shade is meant to distinguish them further, and also [CLASSIFIED—ALL WILL BE REVEALED AT A LATER DATE 😉].

You might also notice that even though he’s decked out in gray and green, his background and text are purplish-pink. Deliberate! See, for B, I’d drawn from the book cover to give him his signature color, but by the time QftQ was announced I already had two characters with heavy purple theming (Irratino and Ty) and felt like Render being purple too would have too much overlap. So instead, I drew on the green in the design, hence why Render has green eyes.

But then I read the book. And then I realized Render could still have purple. For reasons.

:)

But I didn’t feel like changing his whole color scheme yet, so! Render starts out green, then picks up a purple outfit as part of his character development. Add that to the list of things to draw in the future ^^; Until then, the one bit of purple on him is his sword. (Which I’m fairly sure I drew entirely too short. Weapons may be the bane of me. Unfortunate, for a Murdle artist XD)

Anyway uh I’ve spent a fair bit on him MOVING ON—

Queen Leigh: Since Render will lose green as a signature color, Leigh gets it as a permanent one! She was designed in Gacha Life (as was the original version of Render) and is one of the few characters who pretty much follows that design exactly—right down to the embroidery on her dress ^^ Haven’t actually got much to say here, at least not as much as I do for Render, but much like him, her design does get a bit of a makeover later in the book! I’ll explain if we get there XD

Friar Pan: AKA the designated “guys I swear I didn’t gender flip this character”…character :P His hair was originally shorter, if still long, but I made it longer to fit Render and Leigh’s better. You know it’s fantasy because everyone has impractically long hair :P Naturally, he and Leigh look similar, them being siblings and all, but he’s got a lighter hair color and a subtly different shade of blue for his eyes. You may, uh, also notice something a bit. Familiar. About his color scheme. And the butterfly decorations in his hair. All I’ll say without going into spoiler territory is: that was deliberate. :)

But yeah—that’s QftQ’s main characters! Others will be drawn in “batches” so to speak (major supporting characters, the other knights, Render and Leigh’s late-game designs, and the three spoiler characters) sooooo look forward to those in the future ^^

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Puzzle Book Blorbo Headcannon:

Irratino and Logico being parent figures for Pan: comforting him, teaching him communication skills his parents definitely forgot to tell him and giving him special gifts.

…..I JUST WANT MY DOOMED BABY TO BE HAPPY OK!?

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I Put the Puzzle book Blorbo’s through the Headcannon generator!

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Who’s your favourite Puzzle Book Blorbo?

Logico

Irratino

Agent B

Ripley

Ty

Sir render

Queen Leigh

Friar Pan

All of them 🥰

Remaining time: 7 hours 6 minutes

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You know, it occurs to me that if the puzzle book blorbos are sharing their home after the events of their books…well, one, it probably needs to be Irratino’s house because he’s the only one there who has a big enough place (they sure as hell aren’t fitting in Logico’s apartment) but two, the original Bordergrams trio…probably aren’t too hot on each other! For a variety of reasons, largely down to various betrayals, general poor attitudes, and also The Big Spoiler Thing.

My point being: whenever B, Ripley, and Ty wind up in a room together, the other five blorbos all dive for cover :P

For 1, I feel like most of the bordergrams: quest for the queen gang will have massive culture shock. Like, they didn’t even know what TNT was and just thought they were Obelisks, Imagine their shock when they see a massive Tv, light bulbs and a god damm modern watch when they first enter Irratino’s mansion.

Leigh: Is that a magic mirror?

Logico: No Leigh… that’s a Tv.

Pan: what’s a Tv?

That’s when Logico realised they grew up in a medieval fantasy land.

For 2… At best, B and Ripley keep doing side eyes at each other whenever they see each other, which ticks off some of the other Blorbos. At worst… they get into a fight that’s so bad the rest of the Blorbos have to exit the room while Ty tries to keep peace between B and Ripley.

And after each fight has settled, Irratino holds a moment of silence for the room before spending weeks rebuilding it.

After one of the fights(slight spoilers below)

Logico: thanks a lot B, now we have to go outside to pee for an entire week.

B: It was her fault the bathroom is gone!

Ty: B, I’m sorry to say this but, you did attempt to throw the toilet at Ripley and caused a leak.

B: If she didn’t betray me again, we’d still have a bathroom!

Pan: she just took your toothbrush!

B: do you want to be possessed again? DO YOU!?

Pan runs out in terror

Irratino: Okay, everyone calm down! B, you getting time out.

B: Nooooo!!!

Irratino: In your brooding room.

B: sigh fine..

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My thoughts on Friar Pan across my Quest for the queen reading experience because he is my fav puzzle blorbo next to Irratino(Spoilers for the book of course)

• Okay, So he’s the comedy relief/ sidekick character of this story to contrast Render! Not that Original but okay.

• Oh, he seems to be up to something and has some issues…

• Aww! Render seems to be warming up to him even though he’s lowkey still roasting him.

•OH. I have seen this before, he’s definitely going to have a villain arc! A character like that in BORDERGRAMS of all things will always turn evil and/or die and suffer horribly( cough B cough)

• Oh my god, I can’t believe he just did that! Guess he’s this books version of B now(AKA: Mistreated blorbo who becomes evil)

• wow. He’s so god dam Evil it’s actually charming. Not the things he’s doing to the people of the queendom but his personality!

•Okay, I’m now starting to think be became an Evil Vampire™️ from getting sucked dry at the bay of bloodsuckers, because why is he desiring renders blood?

• Okay, now he’s just becoming B at this point.

• Oh. My. God. I did not expect him to be possessed the ENTIRE TIME!? I feel so bad for him(even though I still find evil possessed by B Pan fun..).

• He’s dead. He’s Fucking dead. They actually killed him. In the exact same way Ripley died(getting blown up willingly). I hope him happiness in the afterlife.

Overall, I think Pan has surpassed Irratino in being my absolute favourite character in the G.T Karber Puzzle-Verse. Even though he’s possessed for 99.9% of the book, I still find him endearing, even when he’s possessed by B(seriously, he’s so deliciously evil in that form it hurts in a good way).

I’m starting to think of an AU were he is revived(or just magically healed by someone, probably one of the knights, finding him and taking him to a healer) and ghost B, as a form of redeeming himself for what he did earlier, decides to help him with his social skills and making friends(because Pan is implied to be an outcast with nepotism allegations thrown against him pre-book)and wacky hijinks ensue(I will share more info in a later post).

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Guys

How would you feel if I made a little series/AU where the puzzle blorbos(Logico, Irratino, B, Ripley, Ty, Render, Leigh and Pan) are in a house together and they like interact with each other and be silly, angsty and all in between. Wouldn’t that be cool?

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GROUP THERAPY WITH IRRATINO, TY AND PAN!(SPOILERS FOR ALL MURDLE AND BORDERGRAMS BOOKS)

Irratino: so yeah, even though we are still together, the past was…. Pretty bad. Like, I ran away from my responsibilities by faking my death and It led to me being punched by Logico. Even after that, It took me ignoring his voicemails, nearly being beheaded and crumbling a Techno Dystopia for me to actually start improving myself without some bullshit stopping me dead in my tracks. Even now, I feel like I could slip up and ruin all that progress any moment every day..

Ty: Well, I tried my very best to help B become a better person and to grow him into something that isn’t plagued by thoughts to divide everything in the world and Ripley. But, no matter how hard I tried, he still became the director of the division. He still went on the wrong path. Sometimes, late at night, I feel like it’s my fault. Like I didn’t try enough. How about you pan?

Pause

Irratino:….uhhh are you going to…talk or-

Pan: I killed a man. All of my relationships are gone. All I have is the hope that the light will fix everything and somehow make up for everything I have done…

Ty: Are you okay? I can get one of my association agents to help you..

Irratino: I killed people too! You’re not alone!

Ty: Okay, let’s talk about that next session, right guys?

Pan and Irratino: Okay, Ty.