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[haywirehorse]

sneaky raccoon ✨ replaying the sly games has been such a blast, i love these games so much 😭

[val-lady]

*ACHOO* Oops, sorry. I didn't mean to sneeze my monthly obsession on you...

...or did I?

(Also I am actually sick, send tissues)

[alfafilly]

I don't trust nobody and nobody trusts me I'll be the actress starring in your bad dreams

In honor of Arpeggio's birthday the 20th anniversary of Sly 2: Band of Thieves--my all-time favorite game--I decided I wanted to do something for it, but couldn't come up with anything in particular. Then I figured, ya know what! I always wanted to color a couple of my old Inktober pieces I did back in 2017 when I did my Sly Cooper series. So I plucked one and put some digital color on it! I messed with some new brushes too while I was at it.

It's interesting going back to it. 2017 feels just like yesterday, but I can see how differently I handled my art even then. I was still in college at the time, which is wild to me!

Ironically, this inspired both some old and new ideas! So hey, expect some more ArpeggioSly Cooper-themed pieces to come up this month ;) Perhaps, even... a return of my Survived!AU? Who's to say!

[vortexz-star]

X -> O

[bricker-man]

Sly Cooper drip for 20th anniversary of Sly 2: Band of Thieves

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[arpeggio-the-parrot]

Immortality! Immortality is what I seek.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY to my beloved husbird!!! And happy 20th anniversary to Sly 2: Band of Thieves; the game I was weirdly hesitant to play all those years ago, only for it/my love for Arpeggio to change the course of my life (no, really) and become my favorite video game of all time! ❤️

Sadly, we lost Sam Mowry, Arpeggio’s voice actor, back in July. While I had the idea to redraw this scene of Arpeggio saying his “iconic” line prior to Mowry’s passing, I realized upon completing this that it may serve to commemorate his role as Arpeggio’s voice. 🤍🕊️

I even made a lil video including Arpeggio’s voice clip! I have all of Arpeggio’s voice files handy thanks to someone on the Sly Cooper Amino, when I was active there several years back. Was very pleased to finally put one of them to actual use instead of for my personal listening enjoyment LOL. Video below the cut!

[bricker-man]

Conner Cooper's 1000 yard stare

[arpeggio-the-parrot]

Sly 2’s 20th anniversary got me deep in my mental illness again LMFAO here’s a lil family tree for my Sly Cooper AU featuring updated versions of my sona’s parents (albeit their “anthro” versions) and Arpeggio’s!

I always felt as though Arpeggio’s father would have been named after a musical term or something based in music, and I chose Forte as it means “to be played loudly”, and parrots are LOUD so I just thought it was right LOL. I originally called Arpeggio’s mom “Hazel” because I love that name and I had also just watched Watership Down for the first time when I initially came up with Arpeggio’s parents. Roughly five years ago though, I thought Harper to be a more fitting name, as her and her son’s name would then have similar roots (arpeggio comes from ‘arpeggiare’ meaning “to play the harp”; a harper is one who plays a harp).

In my AU (working out a label for it) Arpeggio does eventually reunite with his parents after ceasing contact with them prior to joining the Klaww Gang. With some budging by his wife (yours truly 😘), Arpeggio decides to maintain loose contact with his parents upon them meeting again. Since the events of Sly 2 do not occur, the Plumeworths never discover their son or daughter in law’s criminal activities and it’s all pretty chill! Maybe a lil tense tho.