#Harum Scarum era Megan

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audience participation 🎉

So after all that here's finally my belated new years/Manny Sherman birthday art, also I really wanted to do an audience participation thing and combing the two just made sense and I really wanted this comically large cake and I really had fun drawing his 80s outfit and more of magpie and middle aged Eliza

This is set a good decade before Sherman's arrest (bunch of progress and stuff undercut)

let me know if any of these should be posted individualy(also I straight up put all that work into the young Eliza thing in preparation for this specific thing and I hope everyone loves it 💕)

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It's addictive to depict this dynamic because other Sherman fans focus on the intimidation factor(rightly) but I'm out here having him get bullied by Megan Clarke of all people lol

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haven't finished that my new year's art yet but while I work on that have a scribble of my middle aged 80s Eliza design and again Megan who in both sideshow era timelines would go under the alias of Maggie Vorez and be passed off as Eliza's daughter to add to the whole act(more so for Matches than Magpie due to joining younger)

Also I'm debating on if I should keep Eliza's dress white for consistency of something else?(keeping in mind that matches' colours are black/gold and magpie's blue/silver)

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Clowning around

Because I'm still working on this thing and because my patience is a little flimsy I wanted to put out yet another uncontextualised sketch from the progress of this whole deal

So until I actually get this thing done(I got post holiday brain mush so it's taking longer than I'd like lol) I hope you enjoy the flapper clown dress in motion(also I really didn't appreciate how small I made these details until I was trying to not mess them up with a ballpoint pen 😅)

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Did a little blurring but I wonder what is happening here 😁

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A delicious slice of cake 🎂

I'm giving no context for why magpie is looking at this piece of cake so closely, mesmerized by the flame but I'll have a good laugh at the guesses(that and this is part of an idea I'm tweaking so may be different by the end)

Only tagging little hope au Megan is magpie and again I'm not contextualizing this 😂

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Matches & Magpie

A 1920s flapper through the lens of a 80s circus and a pyro jester? But it's the same person ending up in the circus through radically different life paths

I couldn't pick what to put first so I put them together, close ups and more explanation on Megan's Harum Scarum eras undercut

Matches(pyromegan)

After being the sole survivor of her family's house fire and sevreal years under reverend Carson's roof, being seen as a charity case and troubled child by the town. Kept strictly in line while her trauma is left unattended, eventually she hits a breaking point where she intentionally burnt down the Reverend's home, killing him.

After fleeing town and being 15 in 1975 she comes across the Harum Scarum sideshow where her love of fire was turned to entertainment. In this time she felt like she had a family who understood her and even saw Eliza as a mother figure. After a decade of circus life she set her third significant fire in 1985(yes the circus burnt down twice in the pyromegan timeline), in her horror of potentially killing a second family, one who understood her and had her for arguably as long as the Clarkes, she fled both too afraid to see who lived or to face the survivors(her previous fires had no other survivors). So at 25 she's had a very strange time of it clearly

Also I kept the ashy under eye from some of her other pyro designs, chose gold/black for how it'd reflect and move in her act(note, set well before Silas was born)

Magpie(Megan's 80s adventures)

In a no fire timeline her resentment towards her parents builds up over her forced mentoring by the Reverend and her feelings of invisibility, by 1978 she decides to work a summer job at Hackett's quarry to get away from little hope for a time, she loved it, loved the younger Hacketts who she acted as older sister to and made a lot of friends. She clashed with Constance because she's not going to sit back with her bs and by the end of summer she's a legal adult and realises she has other options. After a much longer series of events between being roommates with a camp friend and a big blank check of whatever else, she joins the circus and it's one in a long list of wild whims she's pursued. Her persona is far more "lovely assistant" than anything but she'd have a range of acts, it's admittedly less fleshed out because it's less archetypal than the jester. Her costume is blue/silver I wanted something that would look good under a spotlight, having used stripes in the first design I wanted checkers on the dress and her gloves/stockings are silver to give a better stage presence and the costume itself should allow for more movement than expected

@kassiekolchek22 @delurkr @tatjana-fantasy @blubary @qusok @kagoa @kindheartedgummybears @ctrvpani @unhingedlesbear @mybrainrotforreal @tinynightmarewoman I find it funny that of my three distinct surviving Megan au timelines, the somewhat Gothy Megan from the hector Clarke au is the only one who didn't join the circus lol(Also working on something for Eliza😉)

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what are some funny/embarrassing circus acts that need audience participation, I'm wanting a character to get clowned on by a clown in further Harum Scarum era Megan au stuff

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1980s Eliza Vorez

When I started working on my Harum Scarum era Megan au and general using of the quarry as spare parts this is one of the first things I started working on and have been on and off since so basically knocking a good forty ish years off her and turning her into this 80s mother gothel looking fortune teller and somewhat of a mother figure to Megan in the two timelines where she joins the sideshow but more so in the pyromegan au(also Curie is chilling in her hair lol)

Original and more undercut

So I originally took this picture off my TV with my phone and as you can see I did a lot of work such as: reconstructing one of her eyes, toning down the shadows on the necklace, altering the creases on the dress, reshaping her eyebrows/nose/lips(I wasn't too concerned about keeping inline with the actress so much as the de-aging itself), smoothing her out, a hell of a lot of light and shadow and that's even before getting to the hair which should probably show why this took over a month(and a lot of colour dropping lol)

Also the only nudge I needed to go all in on the big 80s hair is that one canon child's drawing from the game

I'll probably design her a new outfit for the era because I'm certainly going to draw her for my related 1980s AUs but I had to get this out first, probably could have worked on it and obsessed over it for much much longer but here it is

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Harum scarum era Megan Clarke 🔥 🤡🔥