#re3koning

[3remita]

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[agentlove]

DON'T READ THE COMMENTS AND DON'T FEED THE TROLLS

rough designs for m1nx my detested!!! they/them for all three! design notes below the cut:

until now i've only really drawn dylan and roddy who we have canon pictures of, and in their case i just draw them in the same outfit we see them in for, ykno, character recognizability, you can tell i wanted to have more fun with these guys' 'fits

i figured giving them overt aesthetics would sort of defeat the vibe of hypnospace, that being that it's a place for people to live lives they can't really irl, plus the down to earth human factor makes designing these guys a bit of a tightrope in that making them look too... 'character design'-y? might quash that some. however i figured re3koning is the type of person to commit to the aesthetic, fitting their sort of chuunibyou thing... lots of zippers. reddish coat to contrast with dylan's blue - rusty, leaky piping!

swirly dreamy pattern on re3koning's...jacket-under-the-coat. just fits their aesthetic i think

dyed hair pinkish cuz i figured that would help tie things together with their pink text ingame, washed out however to make them more grody looking and of course to ground them a little, they strike me as someone who loses time and upkeep easily in investment in their projects

wanted all three of them to look unfulfilled in some way: jezz0 is creative and fun but stuck in a crushing tech job and so can only present the way they want via colorful glasses and socks, re3koning on the other hand is so involved in this edgy vigilante hacker look that it keeps them from coming off sincerely, dumpy_1 is just tired and doesn't have many prospects or real interests and is filling the void with meanness

jezz0 is the opposite of counselor ronnie - rounder glasses with thick corners, bonier and angular features rather than round cartoon friendliness, rounder hair going down instead of up, thick in texture to emphasize that also. boring work attire as opposed to the fun Totally Radical kiddie outfit

their glasses+socks have the pattern from the virtual shaman image

back hunched, working for merchantsoft does a number on their posture, also makes them look a bit more shifty/mean/leery hehe

was originally gonna give re3koning more of a stinkface but figured the prominent icy stare suited them more, both cuz of their eye motif and to show more of an intelligent hatred than the other two. still comes out a little with visible strain in their frown

dumpy_1 i wanted to channel snarky internet reviewers lol, gave them long hair because theres a LOT of men (well "men" in their case) with long hair in hso, and then just kinda gave them the nonbinary flag along the way cuz i see everyone in m1nx as nonbinary, checker pattern i feel suited their interest in music, i was thinking of ska checkerpatterns bwl, bit of a nerdy disposition - they're not above anyone else in hypnospace deep down

notepad for ideas, also cuz i imagine as dumpsterposting wanes down and they mention wanting to get into something more constructive, that something is drawing!

[syensy-art]

gay people

[ID: A digital drawing of Re3koning_inc and Jezzo from Hypnospace Outlaw on their phones texting. Re3koning has dark skin, brown eyes, dark brown hair in an updo, red circle glasses, snake bites, and earrings. They wear a purple shirt and a leather jacket and respond to Jezzo saying "RELAX It'll be fun <3" with "DO NOT <3 ME." On the right is Jezzo laying on a pillow texting; they have pale skin, a green eye, braces, acne, rectangle glasses, curly orange hair, and a green tank top. They are texting and winking. /end ID]

[bikenesmith]

read your recent xavier blog post and i really liked it. as a fan of the character and someone who understands him a lot, is there any moments of characterization that seem OOC to you or unfair to the character?

hi!! thank you so much 💜

(aside to the audience: link if you haven't seen that post...)

oh absolutely lol. i have a whole different essay planned on how ableism affects both the way charles is written and read. the prejudice's presence is evident from the first few xmen issues — the infamous jean panel that plays off the notion that disabled people (and disabled men in particular) are sexless and/or inherently unattractive and/or predatory

i have a lot of thoughts abt deadly genesis + onslaught + related stories. i believe that, when it comes to charles, writers feel a need to reveal "darkness" within him that goes beyond the longstanding storytelling exercise of "what if good character actually bad", and is actually an expression of their belief in ableist stereotypes about the supposed perverseness hidden within disabled men

on the reader side of things, fans validate the canonicity of these story beats in ways they don't validate others (kitty pryde saying the n word, etc) specifically because they also — consciously or unconsciously — believe in those ableist stereotypes

[syensy]

Did some designs for some of the other characters in Hypnospace Outlaw! The last person is the uncle from the experiment 342 page, though dunno if I like his design a ton. @daisybells assigned them names :)

[squisherz]

[agentlove]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

So it doesn’t surprise Re3koning, in the end, that Roddy Wall spends New Year’s online. The kind of closeness that kills you of an irradiated seizure at age 26 and puts your name on international news is one that Re3koning is grateful to never feel. —— On the ill-understood subject Re3koning_inc knows as “friendship”.

(stumbles in five years late with a Gray's Peak™️) hypnospace outlaw is really good

i've been bouncing around so many different vague ideas for what i'd like to write about it, and then i really thought about roddy and re3koning sharing a zone, and then i really thought about ways they contrast, and then i really thought about m1nx and then i really thought about the mindcrash and then… well i'm here now bwl. enjoy!

[syensy-art]

Merchantsoft gone woke :///

[ID: A digital drawing of Roddy, Dylan, Jezzo, and Re3koning from Hypnospace Outlaw.

Roddy has pale skin, long blond hair, facial and arm hair, an earring, and green eyes, and he wears a black shirt with muleta on it along with a tauros pin and a transgender pin. He holds one end of a pride flag up with his right hand, has his other hand on Dylan's left shoulder, and looks at Dylan excitedly.

Dylan has curly hair, brown eyes, and light stubble, and he wears a purple turtleneck and a polyamorous headband. He looks nervously up at Roddy.

Jezzo has beige skin, curly orange hair, acne, a goatee, green and blue eyes, arm hair, a tooth gap, painted nails, and a cyber piercing. He wears a green sweater over a blue button-up, and he has genderqueer and pansexual arm warmers on his left arm. He holds up the other end of the pride flag with his left hand and has his right on Dylan's right shoulder and is smirking at Re3koning.

Re3koning has medium brown skin, dark brown hair slightly bleached blond up in a hairtie, black painted fingernails, and brown eyes. They wear rose-colored circular glasses, snake-bite earrings and several ear piercings, a magenta shirt, and a black leather jacket. They adjust a nonbinary pin on their collar. They look away from Dylan, but are holding his waist with their right hand. /end ID]