Drawing request - Last Life with g/t (any characters you like ^u^)
last life... 👀 (this is from the beginning of ethos episode 5 ^^)
hey anon ur ask made Them take up residence in my brain ...again. (this insinuates that they ever left my brain which is not true actually shdjfbej) i love them so 💛
this is set in an au where green lives are human sized, yellow lives are minigiants, and red lives are giants! in this au, boogeymen have the power to sizeshift between their current size up to red (green lives have all 3 options, while yellow lives can only shift between minigiant/giant).
in my version of this, red lives often also take on… some less human characteristics as they progress towards becoming red. if someone shifts sizes when they are a boogeyman, the individual will also take on some potential characteristics that will become a part of to their future red form
(credit to @/toriowlfluff’s third life au with a similar concept for sparking discussions in the mcyt g/t discord about this idea! i have not watched third life but her content is So Good and you should absolutely go check out her stuff if you have not :])
also some extra info/headcanons about bdubs' design under the cut!
[tw for discussion of injuries and death (with respawn, but canon-typical permadeath is mentioned briefly), plant matter growing on/over a human body, as well as some spoilers for last life]
(right image is just showing where the wood ends and the flesh begins)
- i like to think that injuries obtained through deaths not caused by players are less likely to be healed through respawn (not quite a punishment for being careless, but it certainly feels that way at times. after all, this world demands violence, and it doesnt want its game to end too soon)
- bdubs initially turned red because he fell in the nether off a ladder, and i like to headcanon that he fell directly on his face which is why he looks... like that.
- it also means his spine and such kinda got messed up, so the branches act as supports which double as armour.
- all his kills were done with an axe, so i gave his tail a sharp axe-like blade at the end ;D
- his crown of red leaves is meant to be the equivalent to his red headband!
- ... if i didnt need to redraw the heart marker again later i would have designed it to look more like the targets from shadow if the colossus ;P its also where he gets shot by grian later. just as a fun extra :]
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- after the wither incident, the wood spreads and blackens, growing thornier and harder than before, the leaves crowning his head wilt away, leaving sharp, dark wood.
- however, his cloak mostly withers away, exposing his back (think of it like a weak spot in a boss fight ;P)
- scarring from the explosions appears over his body as layers of lichen, covering areas like his hurt eye
