#sepulchritude

[hopethesillyheartwitch]

…Cause I’m already dying inside.

[exar547]

so i was one of the sleuthgens in the Homestuck discord server (you'll know what i'm talking about if you're in it) and i started drawing this piece not long before the last upd8 dropped. it was my prediction of what it was going to look like when Problem Sleuth finally initiates Sepulchritude, which i and the other sleuthgens had yet to see.

even after the upd8 dropped though, and i paused working on this and saw that my Sepulchritude prediction was wrong (way awesomer), the next day (today) i still felt like i had to finish this piece as a sendoff to the rerelease. so, here it is.

i had a lot of fun making this!! it involved a lot of fucking around and finding out mostly, for example the background is for the most part a highly modified version of a comb rave panel. a self-indulgent part of me slightly wishes Sepulchritude looked like this honestly lol

to my fellow former sleuthgens who find this post, thanks for sleuthing with me :D

and additionally, some words i said in the sleuthgen channel that i'd like to preserve:

[sleuthloverblog]

i dont usually post my silly lil doodles here but i like this arbitor

[pawsomelawsome]

( ° ⩊ ° ) (° ロ °')

[selanpike]

Happy 4/13!!

The new MSPA fan-album, Fondly Regard Illustration, is out!! For this one, instead of the musicians making music first and the artists doing the art later, we swapped it-- the art was made first, and the music was made based on the art!!

I, of course, used this opportunity to insert some Problem Sleuth >=)

Listen to the album: Bandcamp / Youtube

[waybackwanderer]

THE CHAPEL PERILOUS: The Guillotine & The Terror Sep 1998 Archived Web Page

[suddenlypiggieseverywhere]

It's time to use SEPULCHRITUDE!

Aww man, can you imagine? Not right now you can't, you're fighting for your life here!

You instruct Michael politely--nay, heroically--to flee to safety and save himself.

He runs for the doorway...

...to motion at the huge stone door blocking any attempt at escape. Guess he's sticking around for this fight.

[p-inkbrush]

I would like to request. Info about your wizard with a gun oc

HI YES I WILL MARRY YOU??

[cough] I mean. Hello beloved mutual I would love to tell you about my new wizard (with a gun).

Here is my concept piece for her, who I have yet to name but I'm thinking about it

I'll add some Wizard With a Gun lore under the cut, and the other art I've done of her (+bonus yuri)

(Heres the song I've been listening to on repeat thinking about her)

In WWAG you're a bounty hunter who was after the people trying to stop the end of the world, called the Riders. Their bounties were being paid by the 'wizard elite' who have control of the mainland. So, my bounty hunter chases them out into the Shatter, floating islands left over from the last time the world ended.

Unfortunately for her, they open the gate that's containing the Big Bad that will disintegrate whats left of the world, and die trying to stop it. This also causes her ship to crash, grounding her near where they died.

The woman who was leading the group against the Chaos was named Hilda. Her soul was untethered from the Tower by the Chaos Emissary, killing her (for real). So my bounty hunter becomes her replacement, counseled by a really old wizard we don't know jack or shit about called the Cryptomancer.

Thus she inherits the Tower, an abandoned godwizard structure, where the Wheel is. The Wheel when rolled back allows you to turn back time. So before, Hilda was in a timeloop, and she always confronted Hilda, trying to take her in for her bounty. Now, she's in the time loop and Hilda only remembers dying, none of the new loops.

Art of their first meeting (according to my wizard)

(Text reads: She's dead, wizard)

Then, she rolls back to before Hilda opened the gate, and she's alive again. (The Chaos destroyed the clock when it shattered Hildas soul so we have to find all it's gears and repair it). Hilda recognizes that she must be the new one on the job, but she also recognizes her as that fucking bounty hunter that's been harassing her???

(Text reads: You!? You're my replacement!?)

She cools off pretty quick though, and helps get her up to speed on the Tower and fighting Chaos.

Since my bounty hunter's soul is tethered in the Tower now (instead of Hilda's), when she dies or the world ends, she's teleported back to the tower safely. (I'm big fucked up about it.) Leaving the entire world behind, knowing that (even though you're going to turn back time and it'll be like it never happened) you let the whole world die? She left Hilda to die, alone, in the Chaos. Again. (The pain.)

(Text reads: "where's that serenity?" (Quoting Untitled by StillSunrise) | shit)

So after a few loops, she's got the understanding for what Hilda was going through. But for Hilda it's still their first time meeting since she died. She wants to talk to Hilda but... gods where do you even start? Especially when Hilda is still kind of acting like she hates her.

(Text reads: Hilda... | gunslinger.)

I like to think though that after. Gods know how many loops, my bounty hunter finds ways to get to know Hilda, and gets her up to speed on her every loop. She buys herself more time, fixing the clock piece by piece, so she can spend even a minute more with her before having to say goodbye again.

Bonus yuri: the last time they see each other before my bounty hunter goes to try the fight that got Hilda killed. Hilda knows what could happen to her. She knows that the only way to stop watching her die over and over is to go, and succeed where she failed.

(Text reads: don't go | I'm sorry)

Other fun facts about my wizard: she was born and raised on the mainland, but she wasn't from a wealthy family, so she turned to mercenary work when she was old enough. She's got a reputation for being like a dog on a scent, ruthlessly determined to bring in her marks.

Her crew may or may not have died in the shipwreck, I haven't decided if i want her to be Alone in the Tower, or if she'll have companions.

She wears the plague mask because she's really sensitive to the poison from The Fell (toxic bog to the south of the Shatter). The mask is part of her usual gear when she's going to be tracking marks off the mainland.

THANKS FOR ASKING I LOVE YOU FOREVER❣️