#kortenaer

[disco-elysium-quotes]

KORTENAER - “They fucking put Lely in a leaf compactor and now these cunts finished the job...” He waves at the gang huddled by the doors.

PAIN THRESHOLD - There's real anguish in his voice. A drunken sadness suddenly engulfs him. Memories...

[mousathe14]

Oh this is bad, this is VERY BAAAAAAAAD.

I am caught between provoking someone and getting killed and I didn’t even get a chance to save my game before all this went down!

[domineeriv]

! TW MATURE / SPOILERS DE !

So I think I finally got it. Based on my last post and the feedback I got, I finally drew Lely and how I think he would have looked when he was alive.

Extra tidbits because why not: 

- I used the palette from Raul Kortenaer's Mercenary avatar, as they were brothers so it would only be fitting.  -  It was described he had a facial injury around his jaw that had shredded his jaw and made him look older than he is; it was also described he had a lot of smaller injuries. I am not sure if I was able to capture all of them. Also male-pattern baldness as he was 42! - I draw with keyboard and mouse so drawing pressure-sensitive areas (fancy beards, hair) not really possible. Standard brushes on Photoshop, unsure which.  - The border is indeed trying to mimic the picture border in-game. - The draft picture with the progess how he evolved over the past few days.

Now I can finally rest sort of knowing how The Hanged Man would looked while he was alive.  

[domineeriv]

DISCO ELYSIUM SPOILERS AHEAD

#tw #mature

-- So at the moment I’m obsessed with Disco Elysium and all the lore. I’m also a very curious bastard. I realized every character in Disco Elysium had a portrait of them in an “alive” state - besides Lely. Lely is only described in the very non-alive bloated state, which leads me to believe his in-game portrait is not how he looked when he was alive.

During the visual calculus/perception skill check in Klaasjes room you see both Lely and Klaasje in .. action... but you also see a very transparent image of - who I can only assume is Lely - in his almost-alive state (as there’s blood dropping from his mouth). So with my limited time and drawing skills I tried to draft Lely when he was still alive with my keyboard and mouse. 

I can only assume he was the same frame/body build as the other mercs, especially Raul, as he had done his ... tours... with them. It was described that he had several scars that made him look older than he was, but I was not able to really capture this. I was not able to find really anyone else who had drawn Lely in his “alive” state (only one person!) so here is my quick draft.