[id: the uncolored line drawings for the above egos, as well as an alt version of macbeth's without her veil.]
she kinda mogged everyone else i cant lie. but i'm also very glad the other songs had Outfits in their pmvs that i could copy because designing this took so long. corrosions coming soon! for like 2 of them because i have no ideas for the others~!
I don't think I 've talked about this much in details, but one of my ideas for the Twins' book 1 adventures is having the Water and Wind orb sagas occur simultaneously.
Part of this is a way to take advantage of having two heroes, but also to take advantage of Cap. Blackberry learning about the Wind Orb via a chest he discovered at sea. It's a fairly easy jump to adjust the chest so that it came from Kathool the same way that he influenced Davey's madness.
The basic premise is that the twins start the Wind Orb saga with Rhubarb but during the Water Potion heist, Macbeth is knocked overboard during the fighting. This brings him to what would be the locker where he is found and rescued by Aquella.
Water orb story progresses broadly in line with canon, with notable changes including the Locker not yet being founded (due to the water potion spill being literal days ago), and the deathknight twins being more present allies throughout the story.
With Macbeth missing, Blackberry uses it as leverage to keep Miriam in line and helping him with his search for the Wind Orb. Story progresses in-line with canon until he gets the orb and becomes Bracken. At this point Kathool takes more direct control and proceedes to invade the surface with an army of adepts and undead, as well as corupted pirates and ninja.
This leads to a desperate alliance between the Pirate and Ninja as they fight off an apocalypse.
Around about this time Team Water Orb is also engaging Kathool's other army of undead, corrupted elementals, and Abyssal elves.
Eventually, Miriam and the Alliance successfully take down Bracken and break the back of Kathool's invasion. The backlash from Bracken's defeat also weakens Kathool himself enough that he can be knocked back into slumber.
During this time, the twins experience significant changes to their fighting styles. Macbeth, struggling to cast spells safely underwater, picks up Deathknight skills from Caran & Diawe. Miriam quickly realises that fighting a viral enemy with just melee is a very bad idea and picks up a more ranged fighting style with the Pirate class.
Also elements of Mass effect bleed into the story as well. Kathool's influence takes cues from reaper indoctrination with Kordana even describing Kathool influenced entities as indoctrinated life forms.
My totally normal and mentally stable woman. She is FINE and DANDY and DID NOT ☝️ kill her younger sister. She does however beat zombies with a barb-wire wrapped baseball bat.
endling design attempt 1 and terminarch ego suit revision… didn’t draw the weapon but it’s still a bigass crescent moon scythe.
design notes:
the abno itself is based on a combination of a crane (body and legs), peacock (head and tail), secretary bird (face), and bleeding-heart dove (coloration). the rest of its feathers are white under the effect, if you'd ever be able to see that.
the effect is just like an aura it has around it at all times, as well as on all of its attacks. would ideally be made of old research notes and field drawings but im not illustrating all that. it's meant to be mildly hard to look at, and agents under a certain level get instantly captivated upon seeing it.
crane for the connection to longevity in chinese culture/mythology, the fact that they're supposed to carry the souls of the dead, and the association with paper cranes because of its papery look hehe
peacock mostly because that fits the plumed head and tail idea i had in my mind for it, since it's supposed to be very splendid, but when researching i learned that peacocks also symbolize pride, which is very fitting as that's the sin affinity of its ego and its mechanics outside of lobcorp lean toward poise ^-^
secretary bird because they're cuntyyyyy
the swirl under its eye mimics the eye of horus, which represents protection among other things. it also kinda looks like a tear from far away, which i didn't intend, but think is fitting.
the bleeding-heart dove patterning obviously because it looks like blood. also because endling is the last of its species, so it's both stained by the blood of its dead fellows and its heart bleeds for them in the metaphorical sense. it was originally going to be colorless before i thought of this.
its ego gift now acts more like a monocle
added a pink puffy tie that i hope resembles the bleeding heart; to do that i had to get rid of the pale damage tie from the old version, so i made the belt pale instead.
suit keeps the regalish look because the name terminarch still sounds royal to me
the draping part of the suit is meant to resemble curtains (for the "curtain call" thing symbolizing an ending) as well as endling's tail
overall the suit takes a lot of endling elements and very little from the standard L Corp suit, which it seems is the convention for alephs? not sure if it really looks like a suit from the game but i think i like it.
