It was supposed to be sketch with Oscar from @squipedmew's RWBY Team OMEN Au, but something went wrong. I almost made a full-fledged art out of it, but I stopped in time. (I guess)
He and Ozpin are on the same page! THEY’RE GONNA INFILTRATE SALEM! MWAHAHAHA!!! SOME CHARACTERS MIGHT HAVE A CHANCE FOR REDEMPTION!!! I’m so proud of him for how brave he’s been! Also, good on Hazel for holding back... it was still child abuse though.
here's a (tenative) new design for OMEN!Oscar! (Click for better quality)
Details and funny bonus picture of canon Oscar under the cut!
tbh, i haven't been super happy with his design for a while now, mostly because I felt like it didn't fit the character. With all the OMEN designs, I'm trying to strike a balance between a cool new design, but also something the character in the show would wear, and Oscar's design did NOT line up. I kept trying really hard to make the red and yellow color pallete work, but A, he looked like ronald mcdonald, and B, it didn't really make sense in terms of his character. he's literally never had any association with red before in the show, and in the canon of OMEN, red is the color he wore when he was under the control of Salem, so I'd imagine that he probably wouldn't want to call back to that.
I changed his color from red to orange and kept the browns, because his color scheme pre-Ozpin were autumn shades. Considering his entire character arc is trying to find his own sense of identity, it just felt right. I also got rid of the stupid brown sash and goggles, which I have NO IDEA why I kept for so long, they never looked good and there was no in-universe explanation for why the hell Oscar would even have goggles if he never wears them anyways.
Another thing I kinda noticed was that every member of team OMEN has prominent white accents EXCEPT for Oscar. I tried to justify it to myself by saying his white accent was his hair, but he looked really out of place with the rest of the group. As such, I gave him white pants. I also thinned the scar lines on his face a bit to look more actual scars, and also darkened them because scars are not that light on darker skin. Along with the scars, I wanted him to have kind of a crossed lines/zig-zag motif, so I gave him a ton of crooked belts. (also, Oscar in canon wears so many belts, I kinda had to pay homage to it)
and because I really wanted this to look like an Oscar design, I also drew his canon look in the design with a swapped color pallete for comparison.
and it worked out pretty well!
(and yes, before anyone asks, this design was HEAVILY inspired by the survey corps uniform from AOT.)
And Mercury can count the number of times he’s been hugged in his life on one hand. He can count the number of times he’s reciprocated a hug on one finger. And even from his limited knowledge, he can tell that the weird side-hug Oscar’s got him in isn’t really standard procedure.
By all accounts, this is a terrible hug. Zero out of ten, one star.
But despite that, Mercury doesn’t want to break it.
here's a small one-shot from team OMEN's perspective when Penny hijacked Oscar's call with Rhubarb; 'digging through those wreckage piles'.
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
“Oh.” Penny sits back at that, taking that in. It’s… upsetting, to say the least, about how things turned out. She’s not quite sure why she’s so invested in this. After all, she barely even knew Oscar, but Ruby had spoken very highly of him. Surely, that had to count for something. “Did… you speak to him at all?” Penny asks again.
The phrasing of the question makes Blake’s ears stand up, because this time, Penny isn’t asking for the answer she gave the group, the one she gave everyone else. She’s asking if Blake had talked to him. What Blake thought of him.
The next chapter of we don’t talk about oscar is now out!
Oscar Pine stared back at them, shaggy uncut hair gray save for streaks of brown, skin puckered and scarred, and eyes - blissfully clear hazel - bloodshot and exhausted. The t-shirt he was wearing, presumably stolen from Jaune, hung heavy over his skeletal frame, swallowing up his form.
He looked like a ghost.
The next chapter of Team OMEN, we don’t talk about oscar, is out!
Welp, new year, new OMEN poster! For the uninitiated, The Tales of Team OMEN is a RWBY fanfiction series I’ve been working on for about a year. The story is about Oscar, Mercury, Emerald, and Neopolitan all teaming up after leaving Salem, and trying to make find a way to stop her (and if not stop, at least inconvenience and slow down)
This series is my pride and joy, so if you could go give it a read, as well as reblog this post, I’d really appreciate it!
