This time on Messy Doodles Monday: Monkeys! (... yes, I am aware that it is technically Tuesday. Don’t judge me)
Most of these are really old doodles that I kept telling myself that I would eventually turn into finished illustrations, but... cest la vie.
We got some Gibotto from @jigokuhana ‘s sgemmthfg AU
Some more Gibotto from @musekicker ‘s Evil!Gibson AU
Some group monkeys
Some Jinmay Aging concepts (including never-before-seen Mom!Jinmay and her husband Chiro)
And my own personal Human!Monkeys AU! In this au, the team all went to an international preschool run by the Alchemist, which was shut down when he went crazy and gave all his students cybernetic implants. The kids were separated by their parents after that, and they were all raised back in their home countries. Antauri Naidoo is a South African man of Indian descent, who spent his teens in the Himalayas. Mandrin is a Mongolian man who grew up to be a warrior, one of those guys who rides a motorcycle in traditional armor (and is incredibly proud to be a direct descendant of Genghis Khan). Doctor Haleef Abduhl Gibson is an Islamic man who studied abroad in London, married an English Collegiate to keep his green card, and then kept the surname after their amicable divorce. Otto Ornellas is a Portuguese mechanic who helps his family run a restaurant in America. Kim Nova is a punk-rock Korean lady who’s into K-Pop and Boxing, and rebels against traditional gender norms (though she does still partake in the more spiritual/grounded aspects of her home culture). Sprx Lee is an American-Asian dude who is culturally more American than Asian, who probably grew up in like Kansas or Ohio or someplace rural like that - he earned his flying license at 14 and flies planes with his uncle.
After some sort of global event, like an alien invasion or something, they discovered the previously dormant cybernetic abilities, and found eachother to save the world! After that, they all fought as a team for many years, traveling the world to hone their abilities and keep the Earth safe from danger.
But one day, after a catastrophic event that almost went sideways, Mandrin started gaining more political aspirations. It wasn’t too bad at first - the team in fact encouraged their leader, proud of him for his attempts to use policies to keep people safe - until word got out that he was using his powers to threaten his political opponents. That he had plans for global domination, reasoning to himself that “the world must be United in order to protect itself from extraterrestrial threats!” That he would do ANYTHING to protect the planet he called his home. Even if it meant hurting his friends.
The team ended up having to arrest him for breaking the Geneva Convention.
They kept protecting the Earth, and eventually there was a child named Chiro. Not one of their kids, mind you, but a latchkey kid from a wealthy family who hung around them. Eventually the team sort of... unofficially adopted this kid. Teaching him how to defend himself, sharing their cultures with him, taking care of him. One day they met with the kid’s wealthy and neglectful parents, and they all decided to make the team Chiro’s official guardians. So Chiro grew up with the Hyperforce, and basically the events of the rest of the show happen, but on Earth and with humans instead of monkeys.
