Roshambo Games; God of Chance and Void, the Many-Handed One, They Who Watch
But also, this is kinda the design for Ro in Lost Cause too sooooo for people that came to my tumblr from that. Here you go! My official design for them! EXCEPT. This isn't the Ro that appears when they're on the human realm, this is how the mortals view them and one of their forms that they can take. When they're roaming on earth with Wemmbu, they don't take this form since that would, y'know, be a BIT conspicuous. Just a tiny bit. x4
A bit on my design choices/why things look this way and unedited photos under the cut! :D
SOO. When I started drawing God-Ro, I first asked myself 'what do I think communicates 'god'? And lowk, for me it was the feeling of mystery. Someone who doesn't look real, and yet it. You don't know what they look like, but they are always watching. Always observing.
The hands, are like. Yeah. It's Ro. The eyes communicate that they are always watching, always observing. They see everything. The hands glow with their own aura because they may be extensions of Ro, but they are still power in their own right.
Half of Ro's body is covered in bandages because they themselces are covered in layers of hurt, walls that can be flimsy but no one has broken/cut through yet because they don't realize it's a cause of concern. Why cut through bandages? They're only meant to heal after all!
The bandages don't heal. They hide.
Ro's colour scheme is almost entirely purple-periwinkle-white, BUT. There's the few aspects of red too. There's the heart, that signifies him as Lifesteal, and there's the red halo intertwined with his blue, and the arm that seems to dissolve into a mess of blue-red wires and energy. The red represents the one attachment that is still so huge to them, even though neither Ro nor Mapicc realize or pay much attention to it. It festers in it's own pool of regret and neglect, but Ro unconsciously can't let go of this part of themselves that was so important to them.
Ro's hands have aura. The words have weight. The background has lining. The eyes interrupt everything around them. BUT. Ro themselves, doesn't have one.
They are surrounded by the absence. The null, the void. The only thing that can come into that absence is themselves the extensions of their own power because this void is Ro. It is a part of them, in the way they move and breathe and feel.
For the background colour scheme, I'll be real I just did random shit that looked good for the most part. The red is both Mapicc and the way the world is always surrounded by pinpricks of hurt and pain. Orange is orange. Blue is Ro, and the sadness that is prevalant in the world around them. Green is green, as well as false joy and the claim that everything's fine, they're defending themselves against everything negative the world is throwing at them.
The yellow not only looks pretty, and is Zam, BUT. It also symbolizes the happy that is in the air around them. It's false, but no one needs to know that. They aren't happy, but if they pretend their world is then no one will know, and no one will be burdened by Ro.
And, coming back to the lack of anything around Ro, this is what they hide beneath all their defenses.
The void. The utter lack, the numbness of not being sure. What they feel, why they feel, what's wrong with them-
It's the black hole inside of them that won't leave, that sucks every thought away and leaves them with nothing but exhaustion and abyss.
The background is layers of shields, built to hide what's really inside. The sadness is a part of them, the anger the hurt the pain even the happiness, it's all a part of them. But they're using each individual part of them to hide every other part. Half-truths and misdirections.
Also the rest of it is cause it looks pretty and I felt like it!
AND AND AND the angel symbolism. They try so hard to be perfect, you know what symbolizes perfect? Angels. They try so hard to be the light, to be good and awesome and fine and amazing, but the angel is a facade.
The eyes symbolize that they're always watching, but it also symbolizes that they're always being watched. To Ro, the pressure never lets up. They always have to be perfect. The eyes get through everything, penetrate everything, and Ro is left being watched, isolated, and hidden.
Reference Sheets for the seekers in Lost Cause (there are other seekers but they are just background characters)! (The others who aren't seekers will be put into different files so it will be easier to find each character XD)
Starscream is practically the same as he is in the show except simplified XD (the design isn't by me obviously).
The other seekers, like Thundercracker and Skywarp literally stole Starscream's frame except a few details, and color. Their colors were inspired by G1 and I took Starscream's color pallete and spun the wheel around until I got the color I liked for them.
Skywarp is also male again because I never liked him as a female in the show and would have much preferred if it was the diva Slipstream!
For Slipstream, I took inspo from Novastorm and Starscream in Earthspark and took her color pallete from Transformers Animated!
Hi! A quick question about the AU because I don understand it very well. What's the concern of the Au? What went different here? Or are you keeping it as a surprise?
While I am keeping some details a surprise. The AU follows Starscream and what could have happened before the Events of Earthspark (like what effect did Megatron's betrayal have on the Decepticons though I am mostly focusing on Starscream) and the story will continue to the timeline of Earthspark, where what if Starscream got his redemption arc. This AU also includes characters that didn't appear in Earthspark, such as Slipstream, Thundercracker and Buster, and making Skywarp, Frenzy and Rumble male again.
