Here's a lil teaser for a comic dub I've been working on for quite a while!! It should be done and uploaded by today, methinks. I'll update Tumblr as soon as it's ready
Original comic by @its-the-sa
Comic can be found here: @ask-queen-arti
CAST
Azura Hardware VA as Artificer
Protochu as Chieftain Scavenger
Nick Will as civilian scavengers
Some refs for Arti animatic. I was wondering if I should make Artificer more "classic scug", but at least 3 people told me they would like to see my own design, so <3
each slugcat is given a name and a title at birth. naming schemes dont fit that of ancients due to the scugscav society's deviance from ancient traditions. the general slugcat naming scheme is that names ending in vowels are considered more feminine (and vice versa for consonants being masculine), and that each name translates to an adjective of some kind. enot's name does not fit the naming scheme (the word 'enot' has no meaning) and was given to her by herself.
clothing is more akin to human clothing, simply by nature of coincidence. seeing the old ancient ads projected through the overseers, the scugscav society turned all of those old brands into clothing brands, hence their placement on shirts and stuff.
the iterator cities are very cold due to being so high up in the sky. slugcats and scavengers both dress accordingly (most of the time. some of them wear shorter clothes for a multitude of reasons).
because of the cycle, age works differently in urban au. once a creature hits 35 years of age, they stop developing physically, so age is written as # of years before full development (written as #UFD). at 35 years old, their age is denoted as FD (fully developed) from thereon. (the equivalent age is provided in the ref, but it will be written in the UFD/FD format elsewhere)
my assumption with the cycle is that it prohibits death of old age. it could be misinterpretation of the lore (please correct me if im wrong!) but i feel like if the ancients could die of old age, they wouldnt have been so hellbent on ascension. at the same time, we dont see or hear about any elder versions of regular creatures in the game, only seeing youth and adult versions. positions of power/respect seem dependent entirely on other factors, such as recognition (ancients), size/power (slugcats), and leadership (scavengers).
these refs exist for the beginning of urban au, so arbiter doesnt exist yet (but her conception will be a plotpoint later in series 1)