#because I have a chronic problem of overrendering

[snackugaki]

venus de milo in rise personal funtime mega self-indulgent visdev project part ... uh, 4... b? I guess? this is more of a recap and a little bit of a clean up so it looks more like I know what I’m doing

true part 4 was supposed to be like the Big Mama comic/storyboard (4a) mutated hybrid where I go into how Venus comes in under Draxum (for my beloved wuxia trope of disciple vs disciple from warring sects pre-Repairin’ the Baron)

prologue | part 1 | part 2 | part 2 ½ | part 3 | part 4a

supplementary doodles: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5

typing IS faster than drawing ssso... Venus and friends sneak into Draxum’s lab and poke around... and get caught! Time-wise maybe a couple years after Splinter yoinks the boys, mmmaybe 10-11 whatever age kids are most prone into going to semi-abandoned laboratories of warrior-alchemists unsupervised. 

Little scuffle and being “’accidentally’ impressive” Draxum explains what he’s doing and piques Venus’ interest by appealing to the back story that Venus admires her spear-wielding dad but he never trains her (mostly because staff-mom has her put her head in mystic books 25/8) so Draxum’s hook is he trains her in the sword, and Venus double checks the mystic components of Draxum’s shenanigans. and out pops Draxum Jr a.k.a Venus (Draxum suspects she’s actually one of his former experiments but doesn’t say anything For The Drama™)

waaaa thassit

developmentally,

I kept the cape on her Draxum protege design as a cute little callback to Venus cape fighting in Next Mutation. Then I used Draxum’s, Garm’s and Freki’s armor designs as a basis for her own set of armor. 

The Big Mama thrall-Venus... I used Shadow fiend pre-Shredder reveal as a design jumping off point since her tone was she was tricked into under-the-table service. And I dunno if I’m old or getting less suspicious because I absolutely did not clock Big Mama’s Assistant the first five time I watched, just saw her front matched the belt thing of the oni guards and her hands were like Garm’n Freki’s hands and just went ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ “guess that’s hidden city fashion!”

Parent guardians are crow yokai simply because, lol tengu and ninja go together like red bean and barley tea, gulaman and sago, peanut butter and jelly.