#sandwich squad

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Where did you get the idea for Dusa's head from? It reminds me a lot of Post Void.

SO Dusa's design and her head thing.

Dusa's design's head thing is mainly inspired by generic silhouetted spooky characters (hatman and whatnot) and I made quite a few of them over the years! (WARNING I RAMBLE A LOT)

the most influential I would say was this character named The Good Doctor. He lived in a caravan in 14th Century Europe, helping out with modern medicine, crank-powered electricity, and his naive sidekick August. I wrote a mediocre pilot, planned out a whole series in my head with each episode having a year of time between them to show August growing up, messing up, and becoming just as smart as his master. I didn't go farther than that.

I then made this character named Tether THE TEETH WIZARD. (Top left is first concept which was quickly changed) She was this tall rectangle of a woman, silhouetted in black except for her teeth and pupils. She was a self-taught wizard, specializing in mouth, lips, gums, and teeth magic. She'd make magic portal mouths, tooth swords, uvulas to swing on, etc. It was a samurai jack style series of lone-wolf traveler helping out whoever needs them while also dealing with their own beef. Alot of it was about the idea of being an outsider artist (or in this case, outsider wizard) in a world that demands institution.

Eventually I played this game called FURi. Good game! It's like a boss rush, bullet hell, action game. It rules! I just thought one day after playing it, "what if I made a game like this?"

So I drew some quick concepts and ended up with Medusa from Greek Mythology hunting down every villain from a Greek Tragedy. So Zeus, Perseus, King Minos, Hera, etc. She'd be reincarnated and PISSED.

Furi requires alot of dashing so I quickly concepted ideas of what Medusa's dashing would look like, quickly ending up with this design.

Weird black glitchy tendrils for her hair. Only her mouth showing due to her constant RAGE. (drew this with a mac trackpad because my hand was hurting that day.) This clearly being adapted from my previous designs of "black silhouette character" but now wearing actual colored clothes.

The idea was that where ever she ran from, a line of black glitchy tendrils would follow her, real line-of-action stuff.

I'VE BEEN RAMBLING A LOT AND TOOK A WHILE TO GET TO THE ANSWER OF THE HEAD TENDRIL THING, THE REST IS JUST RAMBLE.

The original title for the game concept was MEDUSA COMES BACK IN MANY DIFFERENT FLAVORS, before quickly being shortened to MEDUSA COMES BACK.

2024 is when I attempted to put her with the rest of the Sandwich Squad. When I actually tried to give her a fully colored and fleshed out design,

I ended up with Ol' Thumbhead over here.

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I really want to know your oc Dusa’s backstory, she’s such a fantastic character and really want to know what happened to her

OH OKAY!

so this will go over some heavy topics, heavy topics that are under developed because i haven't fully written it down yet but still

(A LOT OF EARLY DUSA LORE IS MEANT TO BE SIMILAR TO MEDUSA FROM GREEK MYTHOLOGY SO BARE THAT IN MIND. Much like Medusa, the story goes over sexual assault.)

Dusa was seen as a young beautiful woman in her town. Her father was emotionally distant, never really speaking to her. Her mother was a very powerful woman and an oppressive force Dusa's her life and always belittled her into doing whatever her mother wanted. Always comparing her to her younger more accomplished siblings. She just wanted to live her life and do what she wanted but what she wanted wasn't good enough.

Her mother disrespected a powerful magick man and her mother used her power to always defend her family. After a few years, Dusa didn't listen to her mom and wandered off from the town. The magick man found her and assaulted her. Dusa became silent, she refused to talk, she was scarred, her hands always shaking. Her mom hated her more for this.

The magick man's wife came weeks later, blaming Dusa for using her wiles against her husband. She proceeded to torture Dusa for hours, comparing her to a fat cow the entire time. Dusa by the end was extremely mentally scarred and now cursed to turn any man into stone so she'll never 'steal' someone else's lover.

When Dusa's mom finally found out, Dusa was banished away. Dusa spent her time living in caves, hating herself. A great hero comes in years later, here to slay the evil woman who can turn men to stone. Dusa allows this to happen, keeping her eyes closed the entire time. Once the hero realizes he has power over her, he tries to attempt the same thing the magick man did. Dusa, with her first attempt in taking power for herself, froze the man's fist into stone, telling him that if he doesnt bash her head in, she'll turn him into a statue. She dies.

~~~~~

A baby named Mae is born.

Mae doesn't understand a lot of things about herself. She's constantly switching between different thought processes, has a strange fear of cows, hates her body, hates the concept of sex, and hates men. The only thing she really likes doing is woodworking. She chops down trees, makes charcoal, carves tools and artwork. It's a lonesome activity, someone has to do it, and it makes her happy.

Eventually, the hero comes to town. He's a smiley great man whose slain many of beasts. With one hand made of stone, he waves to the populous. She hates him. She doesn't know why but she hates him. She hates him so much. He keeps making an ass of himself, treating women poorly, and expecting everyone to foot his bill. After watching this dickhead parade himself there for a week, it all comes back. She remembers her past life. She remembers what happened to her. She remembers HIM.

There's this thing in the world called THE RAGE. It is a natural magick that enters someone the second they feel an unstoppable fury. It makes you almost impossible to kill. Think of a barbarian class in D&D. It's that. Mae takes the sidelines for an identity inspired by the frustrations of her past life, DUSA. Mae, now primarily having Dusa as the host, explodes into black static, realizing she has to kill this man.

Though Mae already had Dissociative Identity Disorder (the others are named Philo and Procne), Dusa came from the memories of trauma.

Dusa dropped all responsibilities, sleep, eating, shitting, everything, just to hunt the hero down. She eventually became a constant thorn in his side, every time he shook her off or did a killing blow, she'd come back twice as angry. She grew her shitlist, planning on hunting down that damned magick man and his awful wife too. One night while waiting for the hero to let his guard down, she met Rankenbass the Half-Ork Druid, who also had plans on beating the hero and the magick man (for his own reasons too.)

They became fast friends due to the common enemy and Dusa tortured the hero before killing him (Rankenbass looked away, he didn't want to see that.)

The magick man and his wife are next.

Eventually Dusa, Rankenbass, and Skunk, will kill everyone on Dusa's shitlist, break down entire monarchies, and kill any man in their way. Dusa will eventually be happy, no longer full of rage, no longer a mess of black static. But till then, she'll hurt everyone she has to.

OF COURSE THIS BACKSTORY IS NOT PERFECT. It's edgy as hell and I've been asking for lots of advice from friends with actual experience to stuff like this (not the reincarnation or murder though) and they've been wicked helpful.

[teeth--wizard]

I think I've posted this a bajillion of times but Dusa has DID and here are her alters.

Shoutout to my friends with DID for helping me out with this.

[theatsthetic]

A cordial invitation to attend a KNUCKLE SANDWICH! on Valentine's Day 2026.

yeah hi, my film's going to be out in a few weeks. I've been working on it for the past 09 months. I'm really proud of how it's looking and hope you like it too!

[theatsthetic]

So howdy, welcome to the KNUCKLE SANDWICH film progress report of November.

(last progress report can be read here) (for some reason the gif of The Hunter opening his gambeson in the last progress report keeps autoflagging tumblr's content label thing, idk why)

FOR CONTEXT: This is a sequel to my last film, Riddle Sandwich.

SO: Where we last went off was me finishing parts 1 & 2, which were mainly conversation scenes. The other two I needed two finish were of a fight scene and the epilogue.

Here's how current progress is going.

The black lines are the beginning of each new part. Pink is unfinished assets. Cyan is finished assets.

Still a long way to go.

:(

i'm very tired.

BUT YEAH!

The fight scene is going well, here's some bits and bobs from that.

a friend told me, CONFIDED TO ME, that The Hunter antagonist counted to them as a tumblr sexyman. My ego is bruised. I mean it's an honor but still, psychic damage.

OKAY IMPORTANT STUFF! VOICE ACTING!

Currently, Rankenbass, Skunk, The Hunter, and the mustached cop guy in the last update have been fully voice acted. Thank you PJ, Marcy, Graven, and Remix for voice acting. I'm kind of ASS at voice direction and I really appreciate how patient the voice actors were with me as I attempted to lead them in seeing my vision. It's a hard skill to learn. I barely even gave them direction on the last film and they did so well.

Dusa's voice actor, my lovely partner, will be voice acting them soon.

ANOTHER THING, I rewrote the epilogue.

After the big fight, I have a little winding down scene and I frankly didn't like it. The storyboards were a bit shit and the writing was a mess. I didn't make many changed but it's a lot better now.

NEXT IS COLLABORATION.

I've partnered with an old college mate to help me with some of the assets of the film. I've been hesitant to do so for so long so wish me luck. I hope it goes well.

FOR MUSIC:

The musician of the film, the very lovely @commandercello , has recorded a few test tracks for the film, such as this.

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fucking phenomenal work from CommanderCello

annnnnnnd yeah! I think that's it. If I forgot something, it'll be in the next status report. I really wanted this film out by December 12th but there's no fucking way it'll be done in that time. I currently have been slightly promoted in my job, meaning more training and hours to do BUT even if I had more time, I still wouldn't hit the 12/12 deadline. Here's hope to hit the March deadline. Hopefully.

EXTRA SKETCH STUFF:

Thank you for reading. I appreciate it. See you next time!

[theatsthetic]

skunk rolls a blunt

[theatsthetic]

So howdy, welcome to the KNUCKLE SANDWICH film progress report.

I've only done one of these before on another website but I prefer tumblr over any other one so I'm doing it here now.

SO CURRENTLY: This is the current progress of the art assets of the film.

Some art assets are missing from the blue, specifically the outside scrolling bg and a few indicator sprites. I'll start those at the very end.

The first scene has been fully drawn out.

The second scene's artwork is almost fully finished. Still have to do a few conversation sprites and the background.

(The Dusa opening her mouth one is my favorite. I love writing a rude character that goes BLUUHHHHH whenever they're annoyed. I've written a total of two by this point.)

Everything past this point is all storyboards that will be cleaned up soon.

I hate storyboarding, maybe it was my bad storyboarding professor who didn't teach us how, maybe it's a preference thing. I have no idea.

(My professor in college had us do a total of THREE ASSIGNMENTS for our storyboarding class, two of which being group assignments. When we confronted him about how he never did a single lecture on storyboarding at the end of the year, he looked like a confused puppy, asking "You guys don't know how to storyboard?" in the storyboarding class he was supposed to teach. My college was a clown school led by clowns and just pretended to teach animation I swear. That guy ran the animation program for years while not fully even understanding how to animate.)

My lovely partner @terastrialbean helped me a lot with the final scene's storyboards. They managed to revitalize my chicken scratch and made it more cohesive.

Other than the visuals, I have voice actors lined up for the film. Same VA's for Skunk, Dusa, & Rankenbass as before. (Lovely people mwah)

I have a few voice actors more that I've gotten into communication with. One is an old old OLD dragon ball z fandubber that I used to watch as a kid and his stuff influenced my sense of humor to this day. The other voice actor is fucking perfect (mwah chef's kiss) for the villain of the story. I went through a handful of voice actors for the villain, most not responding, but then this guy just came out of nowhere and offered his help. I can't wait to hear him in action.

I was so excited after hearing his voice for the first time, I made this tumblr post out of pure glee.

Then there's music, which I do have a musician for. He's really good at getting that old school adventuring game vibe which is what I'm looking for. I love him.

AND YEAH THAT'S IT!

Here's some sketches I've been doing since the film's conception. It's not all but I've wasted all of tumblr's max of 30 images for a text post so I can't post more.

THANKS FOR READING I REALLY APPRECIATE IT! WOWIE ZOWIE! :DDDDD

[theatsthetic]

I headcanon that The Hunter has a big bubble butt

what do you mean headcanon? it is canon.