With what you’ve posted so far, your Eldritch Space AU is really cool and I’m more than a little interested 👀
thank you! it's actually a collaborative au between a few friends, i've just been going ham since it unlocked part of my brain to be able to create again skjdhfgsdf
more info & art under the cut!
so! the very basic premise is all in the name pretty much. it's set in space, with a few of the skeletons being regular space farers (or pirates in some cases) and a couple that are eldritch beings.
in particular, there's Nightmare (Space), Dream (Time), Ink (Matter), Error (Gravity) and Reaper (Death).
Nightmare's group is a band of space pirates that was initially (and still occasionally) lead by Killer. it consists of Nightmare, Killer, Dust, Horror, Dagwood (ht papyrus) and Lust. (as well as a couple sonas that got picked up for the ride or are traveling alongside them for a time)
Dream's team is lead by Blue, and consists of Dream, Blue, Stretch, Ink, Colour and Red. Ink doesn't always travel with them, and will sometimes choose to instead board with others for a period.
There's also a very quiet space station that houses @/owl-bones' outerhorror boys Alyr and Orion.
Reaper travels alone. He has a job that he takes very seriously, but he has a soft spot.
and then there's Error,,, skdjfhsdf
Error resides on a planet whose colony seemingly abandoned it, using their systems to order deliveries for anything he sees fit. the planet is rumored to be haunted and many ships refuse to land on the planet or even accept the orders to it.
Kyr is a delivery pilot who ends up taking on an order and ends up stranded on the planet. luckily they know their way around their ship and can salvage what they need to fix it, but things keep going wrong.
exposure to the eldritch is not to be taken lightly, and someone has taken a keen interest.
art by @owl-bones
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i think that's the basics for now! there's definitely a lot more i could share but i wanna make sure i get the details correct ( •̀ ω •́ )✧
If there are no 3 heroes fans out there i will make em. I will manifest them. feh has the potential to do soo much, i need all three together (+lehran)
reposting my Soan design with a back view and some adjustments! Ramblings under the readmore:
The bracers, shin guards, maroon belt, and useless little arm-things are all taken from his official transformed artwork. There are a few differences between the game CG and his Cipher card, so I just picked whichever version of each item I liked better
His face markings are also taken from his transformed version. I decided he keeps the large one on his forehead but not the ones over his nose and cheeks (like Skrimir does)
All the lions have straight hair while transformed, even if they have curly hair normally, so it’s hard to tell what texture Soan’s hair would be. I decided to keep it straight and (relatively) short like his mane, but added hair ties for more interest. I made it a brighter green—more like Stefan’s hair—than his official art because I thought that looked better with his color scheme
No known lions are shown with tails untransformed, but I thought he should have one, so here we are 🤷♀️
The outfit is based most closely on Caineghis’s, but I tried to make it look less “kingly” (i.e. shorter tunic, no cape, etc.), as I imagine this is before he founds Gallia. The pattern along the bottom of his tunic and the abundance of tassels are inspired by Altina’s design. The eye-like pattern along the purple trim is also on Altina’s outfit, and the same motif is present in Sanaki, Sephiran, Light Priestess Micaiah, Ashera, and Yune’s designs
It’s noted that beast laguz have excellent night vision, but rather poor daytime vision compared to the bird laguz, suggesting that they have a higher ratio of rods to cones in their eyes. So to them, light/dark differences would be more apparent than color differences. I considered that when coloring Soan’s outfit and made sure it would be readable in grayscale
his hair and skin tones ended up pretty close though :/
drawing this clone high meme was so fun. wanted to try to make my style reflect the shows a little so i followed it's thick outside lineart, thin inside line art