#also TBH this isnt the FIRST first cus redesign but ykwim

[ennaku-sirri-da]

To hold me down, To make me fret, or make me frown, I had strings

But now I'm free - Concept (2)

[ Plaintext : To hold me down, To make me fret, or make me frown, I had strings

But now I'm free - Concept (2)]

[ ID: Traditional fanart of the Smile For Me game, featuring the artists own interpretation of Dr. Habit from Smile For Me, as a living doll leaning on the marionette side. This concept art is titled ' Hands( Palms )'. The style is semi realistic.

To the top center a typical marionette hand is drawn with segments and slots, ball joints. A big ball joint is drawn from the palms bottom. The notes for it read : 'Palm line and nail emulation/paint/carved' and 'These are always visible'. There are 3 joints of the finger, 2 on the thumb. Some notes on spacing between the finger joints are there with 'more' and 'less'.

To the side of this is a finger drawn from the side view. Only half of the side of the ball joints are noted to be seen. All of the art described so far is uncolored.

Then is the colored part, done in a soft digital graphite brush. To the bottom center are Dr.Habit's palms, fashioned after the typical one. However it is much bigger-palmed with longer fingers. The slots and segments, ball joints are shown here unlike the view of the other hand side. Apple-green fur is drawn covering the base. There are also ball-joints for the wrist area surrounded by dark deep bands cutting into the depth of either side. The fur on the hand plus half-upper arm shown sags with wrinkling and age lines. The hand ends on moderately long and dark red-polished claw-nails, rounded like a cylinder at their middles.

The palms are noted as being covered by cotton at the center of the hand. It is a pale green. On the left palm there is a big heart-patch stitched atop it, and the top of the thumb has a damaged area patched by brown cloth. On the right palm, brown cloth makes a long patch-strip starting from the index finger's bottom and a squareish, dull orange piece of cloth is near it, seen in the path of a long circular scar in the cotton.

Beside these palms are notes-- " Azhagan " ( meaning handsome or beautiful man in Tamil ) and a small " Basic. " section listing the basic features of wrinkles, fur and stick-like fingers that are flexible yet have a solid look. End ID]

Featherless chicken version

( Plaintext: featherless chicken version )

[ ID: The same drawing as before but zoomed onto only Habits palms. No fur or wrinkles or any other details except the hands themselves, doll parts like the segments on it are there. It is a photo taken before detailing and coloring too. End ID]

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Talk under the cut!

Yeah... cotton palms!!

So I've talked about the heart patch more before...! ( link ) ( also the hands in the link aren't what I use anymore so sorry for confusion )

But basically, Habit made Pabit with it when he was younger- taking out a piece of himself to give it life. Pabit represented his dream to be how he wanted to look and be when he grew up, to be truly himself.

The palms have possibly the softest material used in the whole of Habit's parts. So he protects them more than his outer hands, even with a higher pain tolerance...but hurting still happens so he's got a few patched up wounds there as well. They are not easy to be rid of. Usually the cotton grows back on its own, but some severe cases leave it gone for a long time or even forever.

I like to think he stims with such hands as twisting, hand-snapping with them, so many possibilities!...and prime clacking material! Noisy like this crocodile I have!

[ VD: Me recording a simple wooden crocodile toy I have with beady black eyes. I say " And awayyyy we go", starting to shake it back and forth. I play with it more, my hand is seen with it on the floor only. The croc makes the sound of wood hitting on wood, a wooden jingling and click-clacking. I coo that it's so cute. End VD]