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Rings of Saturn

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out of context WDL:

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updated this a little

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Felt inspired by @chris-but-alt ‘s design of Bagley

(Example post of their design linked here)

So I thought why not do my own take because I was bored and also in the midst of developing a Bagley fixation:

Close ups:

Design notes AKA a transcript of my handwriting:

(Top to bottom)

- speaking is shown through the soundwaves surrounding his holographic head; the emotion felt/being communicated shown through the colour of them (e.g angry is red, blue is essentially neutral)

- Silk white gloves are used for the hands

- body consists of wires and metal; metal=bones, wires=skin/muscles

- Gave him a trench coat to suit the ‘detective’ role he plays in the campaign

(E.g “in the last adventure of Detective Bagley and his sometimes useful human sidekicks..”)

And that’s about it really

Extra doodles for the shits and giggles:

(In the first one I was still in the conceptualising stage, so he was initially going to have eyebrows ☠️)

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we could’ve gotten so much more Bagley fanart IF UBISOFT ACTUALLY TRIED TO MAKE WDL A GOOD GAME AND MAKE IT A FUCKING PLAYABLE GAME AT LAUNCH!!!!

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You're making me wonder: Is Bagley's head tangible?? Like, ik you drew a scene with Colin(I think,) was holding his face(?) and it gave off the idea that his head can be touched and interacted with. But, was that just that scenario in general? If (hypothetically) someone tries to smack him in the head, would it somehow work normally, or will the hand phase through??

(Or, even bizarrely, could someone whack his head off??)

I feel bad admitting this but whether he’s physical or not kinda depends on my mood or what i’m gonna draw for Bagley 😭

Because to be honest i never really worked on this, the really really first draft for Bagley is that his entirety is just a hologram, so your hand would go straight through.

My initial thought with his way to appear on screen is, he uses the operatives optiks to display himself so the operative would see him on the optiks (kind of like that AR reconstruction in game, or even more simply like a Vtuber kind of display). He can also be projected as a hologram like that briefing table in the safe house. (Personally i like the Optik one more… tho both works). So when you smack his head it wouldn’t do anything and your hand would just go straight through, unless he wants to give some sort of reaction. But i believe he would pretend his head fell off just to mess with the operative.

I do still use the previous two ideas every time i draw something that’s more “serious” or that’s more related to his character alone rather than some funny memes.

But overtime i started to ignore that sometimes especially when drawing yume type of fanart of him because i find it a little frustrating every time i draw him hugging or do any kind of physical interaction the operatives i want i have to consider that the operative can’t feel anything from it since he’s a hologram, so i choose to not consider it and just pretend he’s physically there since i really really want to hug him and have the operative interact with him (there goes why that pic of Colin holding Bagley exists, and many other silly fanarts of him)

If you feel like that’s too inconsistent, i drew him as a robot/android before (though his head is still that hologram…) i just never really worked on this idea that much:

tldr: physical or not, he’s kind of whatever you want him to be 😭

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So in the book it mentioned how Bagley sees the world, and basically suggests that if he wants, he can connect to every device that’s on the internet since he got the access to it, fridge, tv, phones etc. does that mean he can talk to a smart toilet???

To Bagley, London was a sea of sparkling lights on a background of dark nothing, like looking up at the Milky Way and knowing each star was a computer or Optik, drone or smart appliance. There were countless small intelligences out there in the firmament, from fridges ordering milk to smart meters calculating bills, and of course, his ubiquitous dumb self, the Bagley riding along on everyone's Optik.

I DO NOT WANT THIS BASTARD TO TALK TO MY TOILET SO THEY CAN COME UP WITH SOME SHITTY PRANKS.

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instead of singing Bagley goes on stage as a standup comedian…

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Bagley Miku, Bagtsune Miku, Hatsune Bagku

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what if the reason Bagley fuck around with the operative is due to cute aggressions… considering how small an operative is compared to the entire basement of mainframes, i’d want to crush them too ngl…

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Top 10 Characters from WDL I’d smash

1. Bagley

2. Bagley

3. Bagley

4. Bagley

5. Bagley

6. Bagley

7. Bagley

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