#🌠 Ashe Anon | Fall To The Moon 🌕

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-Slams desk.-

Tossing this WIP out into the void for the sake of filling it. 🌌 🖼️💨 🏃‍♂️

🧍‍♂️ It's SOMETHING. (Which is better than nothing.) 🫠

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Their hair and faces are going to look a little off because I haven't broken out the Blender refs yet and things are still a scribbly mess, but… even still…! Sneaky peeky of something I'm doing for the faves. 🤍🖤

(I was recently inspired by Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust to do something reminiscent of one of its many beautiful scenes.) 🎨💕

[asheanon]

Welp... It's a start. WIPs I'll never be able to explain, part 276. (Had to frame it all funky just so it wouldn't be a blurry mess, it's so looonngggg...)

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I've been in a mood lately over this AU - and in the mood for it. I keep having thoughts and feelings about it that I've decided to challenge bringing to life through scribbles and "scribbles" one after another! 🎨

(Though, I'm unfortunately not doing so hot today, so no more commission progress or scribbling this time.) 🫠

Anywho! I mentioned wanting to try drawing this dude again (he's the "dark one" from that other scribble.) His name is Vance. He certainly has a story and boy howdy, I'd love to tell it one day, but you know how me and writing things out goes... may or may not happen, nobody knows, including me. Hahaha!

The last time I drew him was around... 2016 or so? 🤔

Though, I'm sharing another old 2013 piece of him instead. 🖤 Even though everything about it is dated, here's to the memory of him once being way more modernly fashionable while going about the whole "my heart is dead" and destroying everything act and all that. Slay, king. 💅

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Another day, another scribble. 🎨🌌

Just some original (mostly) story material stuff that suddenly entered my brain. This may or may not be something that transpires in that same "dark AU" that I've been playing around with lately. Which, yes, that technically involves some fan material from FFIX and whatnot, but everything about this thing is all Anthology of Anon inspired stuff that I decided to put a bit of a different spin on and plant into it.

It's a bit of a... 🤔 I suppose an alternate take and scribbly, but more experienced remake of this old, old (like 2013 old) thing:

(I'll never be able to explain what's actually happening here in greater detail, so I won't try. Please enjoy it for whatever it is to you, should you wish to. Hahaha!)

By the way... I kept blasting this on repeat as I worked on the scribble because it is 110% to blame for that vision/idea the other day. The buildup around 2:06 and onward is where it really hits. I simply wasn't able to let that vision/idea go, so I had to scribble it out. It was like I was possessed.

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Also, I'm sharing the "alpha version" of "Schrödinger's Kuja" here for fun today. I held off on sharing it simply because there was still a lot of work to be done, especially with the outfit.

So, his outfit is being redesigned after figuring out some more story stuff. His physical appearance may or may not also change a bit. He's basically about to become a different character. Haha!

🤔 More like, we'll consider this the first go at Jareth + magpie-ifying Kuja. The true Schrödinger's Kuja! Because he's Kuja, yet not.

The updated version definitely isn't a Schrödinger-y matter and is actually connected to the FFIX fanfic. It's the real deal Kuja, respective to that tale. He's just... uh... been through a lot. Kinda. 😆

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🤔 Between talking Anon stuff and seeing posts about swords, it reminds me of something...

Technically, Amthyr (sorry, no one knows who that is + newer art of him does not exist... he's the mentor of sorts from back in the agent days in Sal's past!) was/is quite the swordsman himself; during Sal's training, obviously, he attempted to teach her how to use a blade above many weapon choices... but really, most any weapon would do. Anything that may keep an Ethereal person safe whenever their Etherealism wasn't an option. That was the ultimate goal.

Sal was... well, it wasn't really her forte, honestly! She learned basic self defense and vibed so much with being hands on with things that it was hard not to just... prefer no weapon. She's one of those types that can make due with whatever may be present in a combative situation (like grabbing someone else's weapon, a lamp, a chair, etc.) but it's very much just a cover up for her freaky alien power. It's not out of desperation for her - it's out of desperation to spare whoever she's fighting from what direct Sal contact is going to do. Hahaha!

All of this is to say Sal may or may not have once been sword-bound too! But her instincts and whatever innate sense of combat she had going for her was just a little too wild for most weaponry. Unfortunately.

(And not unfortunately, in ways... hand-to-hand Sal can be very neat + I especially love to watch the Sal kitty use her "claws" in my head. 🥴The way I wish I could animate and show how I see all these Ethereal dudes do Ethereal things in general, though...! Ugh. The struggle of any creative wishing they could share more of the inner workings of their mind more easily.)

Also worth noting! In the Fall To The Moon AU:

(Where all these scribbles/WIPs are from!)

I do pay homage to that bit of her history in which she is given a sword to use there! But... heh. True to form, she eventually drops it. As she regains her memories, she's just like "this is not what I am, this is not what I do..." and suddenly, she becomes twenty times scarier when the sword is out of the equation! 😆

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The very rough, wacky tobacky Sal scribble was requested and so, here it is! 🕺

Lose an arm? No problem. Just grow another one! #EtherealLife

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(Filling the void with art repeats and some thoughts to accompany them. Little more, really. They take up a fair bit of space, though, so the cut is there!) 🎨💙

I just wanted to see them all in one place here. 🥹💕 (They're all from the same "dark AU!" Wild and wacky as it is.)

I'll also let y'all in on some plans/ideas:

Gonna be putting another spin on this old abandoned thing with this AU's version of Sal. (Or at least I'd like to! It'd be cool if that does actually turn into a "gonna," haha!)

Also, this dude's in that AU too. 🦌 AND He has a freaky monster form as well. So not only do I plan on drawing him again, but get ready for a weird ¿deer? monster to go with that weird ¿raptor? one, at some point.

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I then decided in light of no longer trusting Xwitter with my art, Tumblr will be the new recipient of even the scribbliest scribbles!

For context: I mentioned wanting to scribble out a particular monster before returning to commissions this weekend... 🤔

- If he looks familiar, yes. (I'm sorry I turned him into a funky creature for parts of this AU.) - "Human size comparison" silhouette is another design of a very particular character. Yes, it's probably who you think it is. (I still need to explore her design in this AU. The outfit is a banger, in my mind.)

That's all for now! 🐌🎨

[asheanon]

✨ Original Lore Time ✨

Original lore time, I repeat, it is time for more strictly original story material lore! 🌎 (Someone asked what that white line in the back is and you may think "oh, it's just a little white line, what all could there be to say about a little white line?" And the answer is a lot. Enough to drop a cut over!)

This is the same world in this old WIP - on the planet itself vs. the iconic moon that the "Moon" part of Fall To The Moon refers to. And this "line" does extend from the planet to the moon!

There are a number of somewhat "psychedelic" features to be found in this setting, be it in that AU or in Anon's story itself. And that "line" is one of this area's more notable "psychedelic" features.

This "line" is a natural phenomenon known as the Sands of Time. Appearing as a ray of light connecting the planet and its largest satellite/moon, it is actually a long band of luminescent sand, rendered completely motionless by what can only be theorized as an actual slowing of time (as the lore currently stands.) It's like a north pole, but with "wibbly-wobbly-timey-wimey" stuff!

The band represents the pole of the pole; expanding further upon its radius, time gradually speeds back up and finds a more natural flow. This effect is not just limited to sand, however! One of the reasons it has been such a struggle to study and more closely inspect is due to how it unconditionally slows all local movement, including entities that may approach. (That is one theory of two, however.)

The other theory as to why it is such an enigmatic subject expresses that time does not perceptibly slow down the closer one approaches, however, it still actually does. Those who have paid the Sands of Time a visit are said to have never returned not because they didn't, but their return is so far into the distant future due to the time warping that they may as well be perceived as MIA.

Some sand has inadvertently been collected and taken in for study as it is cast off and sweeps across the planet. Despite being known as the "Sands of Time," it is revealed that the sand itself doesn't seem to have any time-altering effects. Either the effect is tied to that connection between the planet and the moon or is lost when the sand is cast off - it does seem to lose some of its glow and luster when removed. Much like Etherealism, its effects may also seem to extend beyond the corporeal and elude some study. There may be more to the sand than its physical form as well.

It is to that end that there is no telling the amount of explorers, scientists and other brave and inquisitive souls who have doomed themselves to an unknown fate by daring to approach the Sands of Time, looking for answers...

Welp... It's a start. WIPs I'll never be able to explain, part 276. (Had to frame it all funky just so it wouldn't be a blurry mess, it's so looonngggg...)