#oc blackjack

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Ok I like them.

[leamhanchan]

Some practice with clean lines featuring a donkey lady and Blackjack (who has a name now woohoo)

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Them together

Wonky af cuz my head hurts but it will do for now

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Back when Blackjack and Roulette were paranormal investigators they had different names and they were trying to find and banish the evil they were sure lurked in the Ferris Fivestar casino resort. They discovered too late that instead of the resort being haunted, it was alive. And it responded to this threat on its existence by making the floor open up and swallow “Blackjack” whole. It would have eaten “Roulette” too.

“Roulette” begged for it to stop, saying she would do anything for it to spare the life of her friend. This appealed to the little shred of humanity left in Ferris and it spit out the man but it couldn’t just let these investigators go, they would ruin its life by scaring away all the customers. (It thrives off of being a popular and beloved establishment, if nobody loved it it would die.)

So it manipulated their memories on an external and internal level, and as far as the two know they have always been staff at the resort and everything is fine. All records of their investigations are gone and nobody suspects that they are missing. (And they're technically not missing, as all their legal records seem to be in order and everyone, including them, is convinced they have fairly normal lives. They also have pretty nice rooms in the resort to live in)

I kinda want there to be other staff in the Ferris Fivestar named after different casino games/gambling based things. Some of them are in there willingly and some of them are in a similar position to Blackjack and Roulette but wouldn’t be aware of it

Unfortunately Blackjack does have chronic health issues as when he was trapped under the Ferris Fivestar its digestive enzymes leaked into his mouth and damaged the lining of his esophagus and stomach. He has a lot of acid reflux esque symptoms, eating is painful, and he throws up a lot. He also has no memory of what has caused this affliction. The doctors he visits are largely unhelpful about treating his condition and he ends up getting opioids from a coworker

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I need to redraw Blackjack as this

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Roulette is a lesbian, she’s dating another Game who is a woman called Bingo. Hm idk if the Games are actually named that for real or if it’s like a code name. I have trouble thinking of them being called anything else

Blackjack is. Hm. He could be cishet. Or aroace. I kinda don’t see him with anybody. Maybe cishet alloace could be cool, I think people forget that cishet people can be aspec

But also lesbian x gay man friendship is iconic

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I neeeeed to do more with Five ★ Star (the setting with Roulette and Blackjack and Ferris, who I still need to draw lmao)

Ferris is a sentient casino but he has a humansona. Idk if he possesses their boss or if the casino has a mascot for some reason that shows up in art and such, and he can communicate through it

Honestly the og concept was a 21+ theme park rather than a regular casino I might go back to that lol

Five ★ Star is way more classically horror than my other stories I kinda imagine it like an analog horror thing

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Randomly remembers Blackjack and Roulette. They’re cool…. I gotta do more w them…