“You poor, foolish thing. Do you truly think a single moment of bravery will change you into something you're not? I am what I am, and you're always going to be a coward.”
A bit backwards of an order plot-wise, perhaps, but the next Vessel I’m going to show off from my Slay the Princess themed AU of my beloved crossover ship is this AU’s version of “The Nightmare” — or, as he’s known in this version of the story, “The Discarded”. (See my note in a previous post for a brief explanation on why names often vary in this AU.)
Since this piece contains some of the signature dark fog seen in the Nightmare branch of the Cabin routes, I elected to post a version both with and without that, in order to allow you to better appreciate the main part of the artwork. :)
This has been the third Vessel I had worked on, with the two Base versions of the Prince and the Interloper (AKA the Moment of Clarity) preceding him, and had been completed properly sometime probably roughly around May 11th.
For this Vessel’s final design, I wanted to remain fairly faithful to STP proper’s design of the Nightmare, as the discarded (porcelain) doll theme wasn’t incompatible either literally for FNAF, nor metaphorically for Michael’s life and existence, but actually worked rather well indeed for the route the Nightmare Cabins take. The only changes I made were to adjust for Michael’s preferred gender presentation, and to easily connect to the design for the Interloper.
If you want to see me ramble more about that creation process and see some cool sketches from earlier on in the development process for these designs, you can check out the reblog of this post over on my main blog (which should be able to be found down in the reblogs of this post, obviously.)
Thanks again for reading, as always! I hope you like the artwork and my silly rambles down here below it. :) 💖
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Songs I listened to while drawing this:
The Nightmare — Brandon Boone (STP Official Soundtrack)
Lullaby of the False Hydra — EmpathP
Lullaby of the False Hydra | English Cover — Itacaei
My Love Will Never Die - Claire Wyndham
Lullaby of Woe — Ashley Serena
Puppet: Mary's Theme (Ib) Vocal Cover — Lizz Robinett
