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[blazingstaro]

Pay close attention, for the world around us tells a greater story than our words ever could...

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Chapter One page directory

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Kirby franchise and all respective franchise characters are copyright of Hal Labs & Nintendo Thanks to @starlightfyre for helping with this mini-series! DotS and all pertaining concepts & characters (unless otherwise stated) belong to me

Support DotS on Ko-fi! DotS on DeviantART!

[icewavex]

The Scarf Arc

[freefallintothevoid]

Dick Grayson's unmatched success as a child vigilante makes a lot more sense when you remember the Court of Owls was a thing and that Dick was meant to be the next Grey Son.

There is no way that someone at Haly's Circus wasn't there keeping an eye on him while he grew up. A future weapon needs to be trained and monitored after all, and a circus, a place where weird skills are completely normal, is actually a great place to secretly train a child.

You know, just some knife tricks that translated really well into actual fighting. How to get out of restraints and pick locks while under a time limit. Death defying acrobatic stunts that coincidentally do wonders for parkouring. That sort of thing. Nothing that seems out of place for a boy growing up around circus performers to learn, but would literally any where else.

I mean, while I fully believe that most kids would want to kill the man responsible for their parents deaths, Dick was weirdly prepared to go through it. He tracked down Zucco with way more ease than any normal child should have too. He became the first child vigilante, for goodness sake. The first Robin! He only started getting formal training after he basically forced Bruce into it!

Bruce himself has no idea that this kind of competency in a child is unusual, considering he was much too blinded by the similarities between his and Dick's tragic orphanhoods.

Alfred is in a similar boat because he’s desensitized to weird children after he somehow managed to successfully raise Bruce 'The Batman' Wayne, so he doesn't clock the hyper-competency as abnormal either.

By the time the other batkids start popping up (Jason 'The Audacity' Todd, borderline-street rat with no fear) (Tim 'the greatest stalker in Gotham history' Drake, child genius, also bullied his way into becoming Robin) (Barbara 'raised by the only uncorrupt cop in gotham' Gordon) (Stephanie 'daddy issues and spite' Brown) (Duke 'Pretends he's the normal one and people believe him' Thomas) it's too late.

It would also explain how Dick got along so well with Damian out of all of them. Similar childhood with different approaches and all that. On some subconscious level, Dick recognises and resonates with the murderous ten year old assassin with strong familial ties to a secret elite assassin organization.

It isn't until after the whole Court of Owls and Grey Son reveal that suddenly Dick realises a whole lot of things about his childhood that suddenly make a lot more sense.

[beebfreeb]

An Interview with Dot.

[lorryicious]

Short comic based off THE NEW PAGES ON THE WEBSITE RAHHHH

Didn't even know it could get more angsty but it literally did ?! Lore drop today was insane. Absolutely worth the wait for the website

[possessedpasm]

Something I try to keep in mind when making art that looks vintage is keeping a limited color pallette. Digital art gives you a very wide, Crisp scope of colors, whereas traditional art-- especially older traditional art-- had a very limited and sometimes dulled use of color.

This is a modern riso ink swatch, but still you find a similar and limited selection of colors to mix with. (Mixing digitally as to emulate the layering of ink riso would be coloring on Multiply, and layering on top of eachother 👉)

If you find some old prints, take a closer look and see if you can tell what colors they used and which ones they layered... a lot of the time you'll find yellow as a base!

Misprints can really reveal what colors were used and where, I love misprints...

Something else I keep in the back of my mind is: how the human eye perceives color on paper vs. a screen. Ink and paint soaks into paper, it bleeds, stains, fades over time, smears, ect... the history of a piece can show in physical wear. What kind of history do you want to emulate? Misprinted? Stained? Kept as clean as possible, but unable to escape the bluing damages of the sun? It's one of my favorite things about making vintage art. Making it imperfect!

You can see the bleed, the wobble of the lines on the rug, the fading, the dirt... beautiful!!

Thinking in terms of traditional-method art while drawing digital can help open avenues to achieving that genuine, vintage look!

[me-beef]

@strangeravatar made a great point

i was gonna focus on the spike-hotboxing-celestia aspect but i got distracted somewhere along the way and i think i forgot what joke i was trying to make

but dont you think its interesting how many guards of the exact same color/body type she's managed to accrue?? i do

ooohh you want to go look at our stickers so bad

[pincushionx]

A family picture

[paintdoktahwho]

spacism?

[slightlyartist]

I know what you are 😏

[unwri-ten]

CW: Suggestive

I'm sorry for my depravity

[blazingstaro]

Perhaps he wasn't kidding when he said he learned his lesson?

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Chapter One page directory

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Kirby franchise and all respective franchise characters are copyright of Hal Labs & Nintendo Thanks to @starlightfyre for helping with this mini-series! DotS and all pertaining concepts & characters (unless otherwise stated) belong to me

Support DotS on Ko-fi! DotS on DeviantART!

[icewavex]

The second chapter of Depths Of The Soul

Yeahhhhh I’m a sucker for Papyton so I thought why not add at least some plot to it instead of making it seem very random and rushed just for the sake of being in this story lmao

In Undertale Papyrus does mention a ghost that used to live next to Napstablook, and that his headcanon name for them is Happstablook, so this little part is kinda based around that.

Also, these pages were recently remade, because I REALLLLLY did not like the way the old ones turned out, but the next two chapters after this one go back to my older style because I made them a couple months ago.

I’ve come to realize that my ghost Mettaton and Mad Mew Mew/Dummy designs are a lot different than others pfft-

It might take me a little while to get the next chapters out, but my asks are always open, so feel free to ask me or any of these characters anything, or suggest something for me to draw!! ^^

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[eggtempest]

dot and liko and the synchro machine

[welcometogrouchland]

ANOTHER SKETCH DUMP! Featuring more of me playing with lineless art. Batman reborn era trio (dick, damian and steph) I miss you...when will you return from war. Also featuring Steph designs bc I've seen ppl dissatisfied w/ her current look, some good mom Talia, and Jason Todd poetry club. Duke is confused not that Jason would start a poetry club but that he'd have such mid poetry opinions. (ID in Alt)

[lorryicious]

BACK WITH THE THERAPRISM COMICS. I was self indulgent this time and put my gravity falls oc lore in it I HOPE THATS OKAY-

If u don't wanna hear about him, just PRETEND THE LAST SLIDE ISN'T THERE. I LOVE BEING CRINGE!!!

haha Jack Cynosure Bill Cipher scar symbolism. A scar for a scar.

Been so busy but finally have a schedule down so expect more Bill art >:))

Also, just a reminder, his scar is TV-STATIC!!, which probably reminds him of Euclydia and his family in general, though either way, he's crying about it!! WOO