#April Dedyonas

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Unfinished and unpublished ATLA doodles

Based off that one video 'Marii on painkillers' xD

My experience rewatching some ATLA xd

Aang Vs Zuko Vs some Tarantula-Hornet-Wasp thing. There was this one bit where Sokka stated that he agreed with Zuko and was trying to convince Aang that they should kill it, but the way I drew Sokka's face was just stupid and off-model so I didn't take a picture of it xd

They sorta fit the rivalry between two of my OCs (April the cyborg from the city who kicks robot butt, and Eyn the ultra tomboyish combat robot who's dedicated to doing her missions right) :D I find the dynamic between annoying middle-schooler and angsty teenager so funny

Aang blues

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April

--BASICS--

PROJECT: Steel House in the Prairie (AKA Project: April and friends)

NAME: Arpil Dedyónas

DESCRIPTION: The lost cyborg kid who stumbles upon the big building when she gets lost in a prairie. Usually quiet and a lot more brazen than you'd expect, but also bit of an unambitious smart-aleck that has trouble socialising.

ROLE: Protagonist

IMPORTANCE: Main

LOOKS, IDENTIFICATION, ETC.

GENDER: Female (she/her)

AGE: Mid-teenager 15

HEIGHT: 150cm (4'11)

RACE: Human/Cyborg, Southeast Asian + African-Caribbean decent

BASIC APPEARANCE: 

April has a small square-ish build with rounded features. Her hair is coily, dark brown, and measures up to the bottom of her waist. She wears it up in a ponytail. The hair on her forehead miraculously curls up. I don’t know how that would work in real life, but I guess that’s just a cartoon thing. Her skin is brown. Her torso, including her right arm, and waist down are robotic.

In the main story, April wears a white t-shirt with blue stripes and red cargo shorts. She also wears her favourite red trapper hat, and at the beginning of the story, she wears a dark-brown jacket. 

!!!SPOILERS!!! Later in the story, she ends up wearing additional accessories made from cloned loronvesta material. Her protective gear includes a face-mask, goggles, and fingerless gloves that are long enough to cover her arms. !!!END SPOILERS!!!

--NATURE--

MOTIVATION: April doesn’t really care much for Mini Proclia at first, but she still doesn’t want to seem like a douche so she helps out the people who need help, anyway.  !!!SPOILERS!!!  She later discovers that if Mr Skatra reveals the doubling machine to the rest of the world, it will only make an interplanetary war even worse. This will especially impact her because her planet is hugely involved in that war, and that she lives within the capital city.

Later on, she ends up giving up and trying to make her way home. After stopping by at a nearby village, she reads the news that her original identity as the first undead cyborg has been found out by the general public again (via her ‘missing’ posters). Then she returns to the building wanting to at least achieve something before returning to what she considers “hell”. !!!END SPOILERS!!!

PERSONALITY: Quiet, curious, brazen

GOOD TRAITS: Adaptable, has a bit of a nerd streak, observant

BAD TRAITS: Socially weak, unambitious, can get too emotionally stoic

LIKES: Her hat and jacket, reading about history, sports (arnis and baseball)

DISLIKES: Being seen with her parents, bugs, doing too many tasks

HISTORY:

BIRTHDAY: Imesian year X751. If you really want to celebrate her birthday on Earth, it’s on the 4th of January

BACKSTORY:  April grew up pretty ordinarily until at about age 10, she was involved in a car accident and died. Her parents didn't want to lose her so they decided to buy a mechanical body for her to live in. 

!!!SPOILERS!!! Ever since she was brought back to life, her revival immediately made it to the news since bringing back the dead had never been done with machinery before. The news exceeded the city and spread across the planet, and even made it to being big on the neighbouring planets. The news was so large that many were willing to look into April’s life. April hated it.  Ever since, April decided to shut off any media relating to her or her situation. !!!END SPOILERS!!!

April and her family also decided to sell their old place to live somewhere cheaper and have her father go job-hunting far away, for two reasons.  Firstly, the cost of April’s robotic parts exceeded her household’s non-essential savings onto their essential savings, and secondly, !!!SPOILERS!!! April did not want anyone outside her family and close friends to find her.

!!!STILL SPOILERS!!! Even after adjusting to moving in her new body parts, April still did not want to attend school, exit her house, or even be seen with her parents for a long time. During that period of time, April decided that she wanted to change almost her entire identity to who we know her as now. She changed her name to April (since she was not named April before), decided to never get her hair cut, changed the way she dressed, and some more other things. 

!!!STILL SPOILERS!!!  It was also that during those months, there sprouted the debate on whether bringing back the dead with machinery was morally good or not. Since then, April’s parents began to question whether or not bringing April back to life was something they should regret. Regardless of their mixed feelings, they both still tried their best to be supportive of April. 

!!!STILL SPOILERS!!! Eventually, the buzz died down, and April decided she was well enough to start going outside again. However, she still doesn’t like being seen with her parents so she goes around on her own. !!!END SPOILERS!!!

FAMILY: April has two parents, but she only lives with one of them in an apartment. The other lives far away because of his work. April's pet fish may count as family, as well.

MISCELLANEOUS:

April's robotic body parts can only feel pressure, texture, and temperature. She can also feel their movements. She cannot feel pain, tickling, or itching sensations.

Since April doesn't have a complete digestive system, she consumes cyborg nutrients boxes. If she consumes anything (including saliva), it gets stored in a 3L pocket in her torso. She has to empty it regularly. April finds this absolutely disgusting.

April used to wear glasses due to colour blindness, but she’s got contacts now !!!SPOILERS!!!because of her whole identity change!!!END SPOILERS!!!

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April Overworld Sprites :D

If her story were a game, it would actually be less of a turn-based RPG, and instead be more of a 2D action platformer :O

Hoping to make character sprites more suited for 2D platforming instead of these overworld ones soon :O

(I'm looking back on some older art of April and... Why was I so inconsistent with which side of her torso was the robotic one? It's actually supposed to be on the left side xd)

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APRIL MADNESS

Is she beating up just another robot, or did Eyn piss her off again?

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Kamilla and co. in the city rubble

Kamilla and some of her coworkers in a crater of rubble

And a little April doodle that I may digitise

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WIP of April

I haven't done a character illustration focused on action in a WHILE. The last time I did something like that was probably this

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Pixel art xD

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Anyways, here's some OCs dressed up as Cave Story, (Kamilla with her hair down really looks like Misery xD)

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I started reading The Chosen Four some time ago and this is genuinely one of my favourite exchanges of dialogue, no matter how cheesy it is to anyone xD

(Source)

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Fan arts section :D 

1. Zig based from the JPN release of origins 

2. Some assorted doodles and Gorrik's in it 

(no Beht here T-T) 

3. A collection of Balrogs (ignore whatever's below that xD) 

4. Unfinished doodle of Elec & his guitar

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1. April & Felix on the first page :D 

2. Lia dump 

3. Some random stuff feat. some Happy World fan art

4. Just two smart-alecks 

5. Eyn on some guitar-type instrument & Ring Man 

6. Idk just OC stuff & me

7. Trying to give my 'Idiskeda' alias a look 

8. ANIMAPRIL 

9. Idk just some tech based off objects that were around me (feat. Spidey xD)

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Don't even know if I'm ever gonna make games n' stuff, but I love this little April sprite

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Wonder, what're they waiting for?  ---  Starting to figure out the aesthetics of the interiors (although, it will vary from room to room)

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1 & 2.  Eyn doodles while listening to some hard rock :D

3 & 4.  April playing some baseball

5.  A dumb doodle of Jaqui & Ben 2.0 just screwing around in class xD  (Based off: https://youtu.be/iB6gRNYnnK0?t=11…)

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Idek if this should be canon or not, but I had fun drawing Eyn's expressions here :D

Ref comes about 1:45 minutes in

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April with her hair down :D

Also,  I feel like I could use a new pfp. I could draw one up soon (and it'll be of April & Eyn, of course!)