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Terrek sees a little firefly for the first time. Maybe it's cute and all, but what use is it to the healer? He'll try to find out, don't worry (I've been gone so long that I forgot how to draw and I felt ashamed)

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The previous post made me want to draw a raceswap. So here he is, harp Lendel! I think design came out pretty okay, although I have no idea what I could put in place of the Commonwealth star on the gorget.

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Blue hair?

I decided to hang out in duel mode and after so much time I noticed one strange thing. Everything written below can be removed by the banal "this is a designer's decision" and the presence of a chic hair dye in the Downside. But still… all humans and demons have normal hair color. Blonde, black, red, all that stuff. But Lendel for some reason has blue hair. And only now I noticed that harpies also have blue hair, (the Theyn sisters and Hedwin's beloved) at least it does not look rare among them. And if we discard the "Artist's Choice", then either there really is some good hair dye in the culture of harpies, dyeing hair is not uncommon (and some citizens of the Commonwealth could do the same), or someone somewhere in Lendel's family tree had very interesting connections, which the Commonwealth would hardly appreciate(Provided that harpies and humans are compatible). And I find the last option especially funny because… man. He better not think about it too much, or even better, not think about it at all.

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Hi! Just happenned upon your sea AU of the Neverhood, and I am 100 % here for it. Have you got a story in mind yet?

Hi! Oh, no, not yet, unfortunately. I would like to give the fandom more, but I'm a bit low on energy lately. But I'll try to at least not abandon this idea) Thanks for asking, really, it gave me motivation to do this AU further

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man

(he looks almost normal until he smiles)

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Actually, I thought about this for some time. Despite his aspirations and some braveness, Lattum can be terribly afraid of depth. And therefore he does not understand how Marre even goes out to sea, knowing that there are tens of meters of dark water under him and God knows what else lives there. But Marre doesn’t really understand what’s the big deal if you’re standing on a solid ship and just don’t go overboard.

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I'm a littlebit lazy today...

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Fastest wet mouse in region

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Helvetti is a very fast and active neverhoodian who decided that the most useful thing for him to do would be to carry notes, light things, and just things that the others couldn't get or deliver themselves. Someday, Neverhood might grow to a size where there will be a lot more guys like Vetti. Then it will be called a post.

As was said, this guy is very fast. Perhaps the fastest of the hoodians. And despite the fact that he can be called a rather sociable and generally kind guy, he has some cockiness in his character, which, however, never takes on an evil note. Rather, a desire to bring others to the same wavelength with him, at least temporarily. The bandages on his elbows and knees were not on him at birth, but at some point they became an integral part of him - all because speed and a certain frivolity on the way to his goal often lead to skinned elbows and knees.

Many find Helvetti too active, flickering and often somewhat irritating. He annoys Stellket the most, although, ironically, he relies on him the most when it is necessary to receive or send something to other inhabitants of the island, and there is no desire to contact them. He also annoys Terrek a little, but for other reasons - being his frequent patient, who, moreover, has a tendency to run away from treatment. Although Terrek is more worried about Vetti than angry with him. Vetti calms down only in company of Marre and Lattum, who, to some extent, can teach him something new or just help, but he can really be on the same wavelength with Malleus. Even without understanding what he does most of the time, but still trying to understand at least a little.

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Terrek is the local healer and herbalist, as most medicine on Neverhood can only be made from herbs.

Terrek is a fairly calm and friendly Hoodian, who, however, is not always kind to the thoughtless and irresponsible actions of his comrades. And although nothing serious happens on the island, he still treats his chosen work as a great responsibility.

In addition to wanting to understand how to make the locals recover faster, Ter is also interested in the plants that grow on the island. Mostly because some of them may have useful properties that are not related to use in cooking. For the same reason, he is interested in certain parts of the sea creatures, although this, of course, makes things a little more complicated for him. Most often, he gets new samples for his garden either from the distant islands that Marre visits, or when expanding their own island.

Although this guy has acquired a bit of a reputation as a killjoy, he has good relations with many on the island. His best relationship is probably with Marre, which is not surprising considering how much mutual help they provide for each other. On the other hand, he has big problems communicating with Malleus and Lattum. With the first, because his attempts at mechanics often lead to minor injuries (and it was once proven that injuries can be not minor), and with the latter… well, Terrek doesn't particularly like the idea of ​​picking up objects and using them specifically to cause injury. Even if he understands the intention on Lat's part. On the other hand, the latter's training process still resulted in unpleasant bruises, sprains, etc..

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Stellket, the first (in all senses) and only stargazer and cartographer. He lives on the edge of town, on a hill, in a tower built by Hoborg specifically for observing the stars. Mostly, he tries to calculate the movement of the stars, make a sky map and is generally more interested in the things abow than in the affairs under his tower. However, he did help his fellow-hoodians a couple of times with pure enthusiasm - when he made a detailed map of the island (even if Hoborg had detailed notes before the creation of Neverhood) and when, during the first expedition, he sketched the areas of the nearest islets, calculating more or less the exact distance from them to Neverhood. However, neverhoodian met subsequent expeditions to the sea with much less enthusiasm… for some reasons. Stell is quite smart, has remarkable concentration and a cold mind. Alas, on the other hand, he is a rather arrogant guy, looking down on most of the other inhabitants of the island. This is especially true for Marre, with whom the relationship did not work out from the very beginning, and after the first expedition everything became even worse. However, to the surprise of many, he has a good relationship with Malleus - all because he sees in him someone who is also ready to move horizons with the help of his extraordinary mind, but is simply not understood by society (even if this view is slightly at odds with reality). And Mal also does a lot of useful things for Stellket.

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Good day to you. Can I ask about some characters? There wasn't much information about Glenn, Maleeh and Alto, but I was really wondering if there was anything you'd like to tell about them? Anything, really. For example, What was Glenn able to do with Neverhood's limitations? Do his ideas usually end up as blueprints for the least feasible inventions? And I don't know what exactly to ask about Alto and Maleeh - there isn't much lore about them as far as I remember... but it would be interesting to know more!

Hiii welcome back to another episode of recalling what ive created several years ago! ::D anyway, you're right and there's a severe lack of info in my writings abt OCs other than Shuffle because of his crucial role in Crowns and Revelations story. I'll try to recover something i thought over though, so here goes.

Glenn is the more well-thought character out of all others i guess, mostly because of his also important role in CaR (yeah most of my OCs get development because they end up in a story and it progresses around them and forces them to do something). I mentioned that he's some sort of local Da Vinci and this also meant that a fair lot of his ingenious stuff ends up on paper as either blueprints or written ideas, all that. However he doesn't give up and whenever it's possible, he works on a way to simplify the constructions so that they may be implemented with Neverhood's resources - that being the spaceship he built that Klogg and Klaymen used for space travel. It's a very simple version built with scrap essentially, and still it persisted throughout theit whole journey there and back.

One funny thing about Glenn is that he likes to invent stuff but doesn't want to be a creator in a sense of Hoborg's status. It was mentioned in CaR summary that Hoborg talked to Glenn about passing the crown to him in case of need, and Glenn declined saying that he doesn't want to be a creator, rather a builder. The thing is, it mostly takes Hoborg to think of something he wants to create and to have the materials needed, but for Glenn the joy of building is essential. That's also what Alto thinks about the process - this is what they were both born with, a passion for constructing. However Alto is more of a handyman kind of guy, he's among the strongest Hoodians and it helps him greatly while assisting Glenn. In return, Glenn tries to teach Alto some of the basics he uses for designing and building his creations, and they've developed their own sort of language that others don't really understand. Like, a nerd and his loyal assistant, in their own world of inventing.

Maleeh is probably closest of all Hoodians to my own personality and i think he's my window into that klay world. As mentioned, he's a stark contrast to Shuffle but he also is his best and probably only true friend - Shuffle doesn't talk much to others on personal matters. Maleeh is a pretty friendly one but not overly so; he's polite and lighthearted towards everyone at first sight and may change his behavior as he sees more of the newly met person. However one of his greatest flaws is inability to be idle, to do nothing or to think about nothing. Whereas Shuffle puts all this into something he find useful, Maleeh thinks less of the work and more of the leisure but when there's none, he's practically dying of boredom. His mind suffers from idleness and that's why he's happy to go wreck any sort of (peaceful) havok just so that his mind will be occupied. It's something he shared with Shuffle and tried to overcome to a degree, those efforts aren't futile but the process requires patience. Maleeh isn't a fool but also not a genius, and also is kinda naive about certain things people around him do; he was the first one to be attacked by Klogg on the Pin Island as he brought the man food, believing him to be somewhat docile and have no bad intentions. He was also very reluctant to believe that Shuffle indeed did the prohibited and put on the crown, even though it was the last-ditch effort to help Hoborg anyhow; it came into a violent conflict with his perception of Shuffle and he spent quite some time coming to terms with this.

Also worth mentioning that in the worst case, if none of the four space travelers hadn't returned from the trip to Klay Mountain, Maleeh would've been the first to vouch to help Glenn build another spaceship and venture into space even blindly - just to try and do something about this situation. He hates just idly waiting and often wants to take action, but most of the time there's someone who can handle the situation better, so he just stays on the sidelines so to speak. In a worst case scenario, he'd be the first in line for the task. Glenn on the other hand wouldn't venture out into space even for testing out his own inventions - he's terribly afraid of getting lost out there on his own, and at the same time he doesn't want to put anyone else's life at risk by coming together to assist him (Alto, for example). So Glenn is more than happy to let others test his machines, if only that's out of free will. Good thing Klogg didn't know that Glenn doesn't test his inventions himself.

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Marre is a sailor and fisherman who often goes out to sea, sometimes for very long periods of time. One of many, but also one of the best. Mar knows the sea very well, and also loves it very much, therefore read it even without extensive knowledge of the map of the night sky. In his opinion, the most important thing is to know when sea is too rough, so it's time to reach the shore or safe waters. He is the only one who fishes at night, and so Malleus installed floodlights on his boat to dispel the darkness, and maybe God knows what else lives in that darkness. Marre is a simple guy who can be relied upon, and who is not particularly talkative, but very hard-working. Despite this, he enjoys good company, maybe because time spent at sea at night allows a neverhoodian to remember that he still needs to communicate with his own kind. He has a fairly neutral relationship with most of the Neverhood, but he is on very good terms with Lattum. Perhaps because their temperaments are somewhat similar. The same cannot be said for his interactions with Stellket, who sees him as a simple and narrow-minded algae gatherer, while he, in turn, sees the stargazer as an arrogant jerk.

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Another person from the company. Malleus is a local walking disaster, an inventor and just a adorable boy. He learned the basics from Willie, but the learning of the skill was not particularly smooth, because Ottoborg’s creation failed to correct in his student what had once failed his own creator.

Of course, this overly sociable guy sincerely wants to help others and make their world a better place, but his zeal and a certain carelessness often turns into haste and bringing an idea to life before this very idea has been thoroughly thought through. Because of this, one of neverhoodians had already suffered, and therefore he slightly reduced his zeal. His biggest achievement so far is the design of the double-engine boats that Willie helped refine.

Mal has good relationships with almost the entire group of nevers I showed, but the two closest to him are Lattum and, oddly enough, Stellket. The friendship with Lat began because of Malleus’s failure with the mechanism that injured Lat, and contrary to the Lattum’s attitude towards this whole technological topic, but they became friends with Stel precisely because the stargazer really appreciates this topic. He also appreciates the guy’s intelligence with his zeal to expand the horizons of the known, even if he notes that he is holding back by his difficulties with planning.

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Yeeeeeee, I finished humanizing Ottoborg! He turned out to be surprisingly pleasant to draw, even if there was one total redraw in the process. I think this is the last humanization of the Brothers

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Well, lets go Lattum is a relatively unsociable resident of Neverhood. Not inclined towards fun and company, but some residents are still able to persuade him to have some entertainment. He always watches those around him and walks around the island every day, looking for signs that something is wrong. At other times, he simply practices using the pole (he is not allowed to carry sharp things. Yet). Hoborg is a little worried that something is wrong with Lattum. In particular, that his personal anxiety over Klogg's betrayal influenced creation of the neverhoodian's seed. Lat himself explains his behavior by saying that when he appeared, he saw that everything was fine, but the island was surrounded by darkness. This means that someday good things will endand therefore there must be someone who will help the others at such a moment, just like Klayman did. One antenna(?) on his head is shorter than the other due to the fact that during the demonstration of one of the inventions by Malleus, part of the mechanism was torn out of place and only miraculously did not hit the self-proclaimed guard in the face. Lattum is on good terms with Marre (his closest friend), and also, oddly enough, with Malleus, even despite the incident. Not that he trusts Mal's mechanical things and ideas, though. (Humanization of Lattum is smiling just to show that he is capable of this)