#drawtectives lotta justice

[the-stimmerh]

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3rd part of my stimboard every episode series for drawtectives! i really like this episode and it was so fun to make a stimboard for. BUZZ! BUZZ! BUZZ! BUZZ!

Stimboard Per Episode catalog for all other episodes done so far

[wistfulvulpine]

draw out the truth

[munohlow]

Reuploading some Drawtectives fanart for season 3 HYPE

Edit: the most important one

Another edit: This one was traced from a Mike Mignola strip

[kaennibal]

hell hath no fury

another drawtectives by @drawfee brainrot. i have a lot of Thoughts about lotta justice. GOD the way she loses her husband and her son in one night is so devastating. i know she's smiling in the huck e heese portrait but i imagine sometimes she looks in the mirror and catches a glimpse of herself and wonder what kind of monster she created who is capable of murdering his own father. and sometimes, she wonders about what that says about herself.

[full-time-femboy]

Eldest son, rotten with greed...

Justice family my beloved

I actually really love season one (no suprise lol its good) but like the characters are so fun and getting to know the Drawtectives is great

I love this grieving family and their shitty shitty kids

☆

Reblogs appreciated 💜

[allthecastlesonclouds]

tell me about drawtectives. what is this little show.

oooooh my god oh my god. they are my guys. so.

drawtectives itself is a youtube series created by julia lepetit on Drawfee. it's an rpg mystery show– s1 is a murder mystery, s2 is just a mystery– that doubles as an art challenges show. she draws all of the backgrounds and npcs and most of the assets (the 'cutscenes', you could call them) and then the team gets together, knowing absolutely nothing besides what julia's asked them to prepare, and does some funky improv to create a very funky storyline.

there are 3 players and one dm; the pcs are rosé, york, and grendan/grenda/grandma/gma, and the Big NPCs are Jancy True (s1/s2) and Eugene Finch (s2) and they're, in their own words, a found family, so. beloved. their backup plan if all their jobs fail is to move out east and open a bookstore. jancy and eugene have fully accepted their titles as mom/ancestral ghost and son despite meeting each other likely once before the drawtectives dragged them together. overall though if i had to summarize, it's a bunch of friends getting together, making a bunch of puns, appreciating julia's art, and laughing together. the vibes are 10/10 so loving. in writing the transcripts i've written (Karina laughs) (Nathan laughs) (All laugh) So Many Times it's just fun.

so there's three pcs. first one we meet is gyorik 'york' rogdul, who's a half-orc come to the city to learn about his mother's culture. he is the character we have by far the most lore for– if I compiled all the lore I had about the Northern Tribes and Wild Trains, I think the document would be multiple pages. he's also illiterate, which was an interesting decision for the english major of the group to make (in other words, York Will Not Be Illiterate For Season Three bc Y'all Cannot Read) and morally gray if you think about it too hard (he killed his own brother) but yknow he's hot so it's okay. they're all hot any crimes committed are okay. he's also aroace (confirmed by the player, which is!! vibes!! THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR TELLING ME @axolotllee!)

rosé is the Human Rogue and the youngest of the party; her main trait in s1 was Millennial and she Dealt with that. she, in contrast with York, has so little lore we are scraping the barrel. she was a thief, then left everything about that life behind and changed her name to rosé when she went to work for jancy. she lied on her resumé. she knows how to sew; she's sewn Pockets of Holding on most of her clothing. she bonded with a stray cat that lived outside her last apartment. she's three credits short of graduating college. she's, in addition to being a drawtective, jancy's intern, and cried when jancy got her a cupcake. she won't tell her best friends when her birthday is or where she goes to school or what her last name is. that's all we know about her and i love her and she could probably kill someone as she has multiple knives on her person and does not use them. she's bright and funny and can be pretty dark but really does find the humor in it which is. wonderful.

so grendan highforge starts out as The Snobby Rich Boy which. already love the trope something Always Happens To Them if they're a pc. then through s1 they make an offhand comment about a character (faucon, whose name is pronounced 'falco') and how if her name was pronounced that way it'd be grenda. faucon asks how they feel about it. they are caught very off-guard by that and then ask to be called it for the next hour or so. then the next witness calls him gma, and then grandma, and then. yeah she realizes she's genderfluid. and he uses any pronouns and has a full beard and also wears a romper and loves dogs and the player is the Most Experienced TTRPG-er so through maybe using resources a bittt grandma is the most observant character of all of them. he's also a dog walker and a lightweight and does canonically have druidic magic though that was Not Touched On Much and showed up to their first day on the job slightly stoned (they did stop doing that though.) she carries around a box to make the height difference (york is 7'. grendan is 4'. rosé is 6'. you can see the formatting issue) slightly less difficult. she doesn't know how rhinos reproduce but has had a fascination with them since a police chief said one might've committed a crime. i think they could kill someone by talking too much but they don't actually have the strength or dex to do Jack Shit.

and jancy true is the head pi (a great many of the characters are puns and i love it so much) and is there to make sure things get done and clues don't get missed. she has a cochlear implant and uses a cane and solved s1 just by Reading The Paper and hearsay. she solved about half of s2 before Someone Stopped Her. she says hello children to the drawtectives and it is such a fond thing. eugene is. a guy who i love. julia started the show thinking he would be some mysterious character to join them and then made the wonderful improv decision– avoiding having to do npc-npc conversation– of saying 'yeah eugene is spinning a camera on its stand' and rosé just says so gleefully. 'guys. i think he's stupid.' and he became their son. his character is a lot of The Plot of s2 so i don't want to get into it too much but. jancy and eugene my beloved.

they're just. such a family. to quote nathan (grenda's Player) from the s2 talkback: "That's one of my favorite things about this show, is we came in with these vague ideas for characters, and just playing them with each other, they became friends and became better people as a result of knowing each other and solving mysteries. ... Like, we all kind of independently made our characters people that either were distant from their families or, you know, just had tenuous connections to other stuff, and so these are, like, the realest connections they have in their lives."

and then karina (rosé) about 10 seconds later: "Yeah, we love a found family where they bond over just being the worst."

god. them. they're chaotic and loud and feel very real to me. they have excitement and are pretty bad at social cues but they love each other and want to die together because they would hate too much to be separated. i could articulate this better but it's one in the morning and they mean a great deal to me.

[halebop-s-art]

I colored my old Lotta and Harper drawing ! I think that, now that they have only eachother, they would bond and get closer than ever. Lotta would tell her daughter about her thieving days, and Harper would pretend not to be impressed but would keep requesting her favorite stories. Also there's Harold the Dog.

[picklesinabottle]

Lotta Justice milf of all time!!!!

[drawtectives-ultimate-showdown]

Lotta Justice (S01E02) v Buzz (S01E03)

[ottororin]

the justice siblings are so like...THE pair of people ever.

like, one of them is a thief, the other one killed (his dad).

they both just want to be cool. they both just want to be SEEN by others.

(just deep down, VERY, VERY insecure.)

they both have money/material possessions as the crux of their issues... (ie, emery with heavy gambling, and harper with being VERY convinced that she's poor.)

like, i feel like they hate being compared to each other, but when you really break it down, they're pretty much just the same person at different enviromental factors.

anyways. my headcanon is that

harper's "dexterity" and mannerisms as a thief came from her watching emery play boy-scout around the house. like, this girl doesn't know how to keep secrets, but she WILL lace her boots with a sheepshank knot.

[adamofingolstadt]

Drawtectives: Gangster AU

Rosé = the ex-street rat, picked up by Jancy when she was young and has since proven loyal enough to work he way up to being the boss' 2nd-hand-man

Grendan "Grandma" Highforge = The Nepo Baby, Rich kid who rebelled from their blacksmith family, they're the hook-up with wealthy/influential people. Heavily associated with Lotta's blackmail org.

Gyorik "York" Rogdul = The Showgirl, also could be the bodyguard but by the time I realized that I'd already drawn him. He works at the gang's regular speakeasy under the stage name "York"

Jancy = The Boss/the Knower, she is a genius who became frustrated with never seeing real justice served for the crimes she solved, she turned to this life to stimulate her overdeveloped neural cortex after solving crime got too easy. Despite this she has a strict (yet unknown) moral code

How Jancy found Rosé after she tried to pick her pocket

Grendan may get cut off from their allowance/inheritance every other week, but they're never short on cash

Gyorik makes bank, but only uses "York" because no one can learn his past life of a Orcish prince who committed fratricide

Eugene is an absolute poser. the other three imprinted on him snd he wants to hand out with them and help the gang, but he's scared of drugs, doesn't drink, has never held a gun before and is terrified of lying to authority.

Might post the B&W versions too

ID in alt

[aromantic-character-showdown]

Regarding pitches for media involved in the tournament... I have one for Drawtectives! Strap in, it's a long one.

It's a series on Youtube from the Drawfee channel, and it's like. It's roleplaying + drawing. The plot and the NPCs were all done (and most voiced) by one member, Julia Lepetit, and the other three are player characters who must solve the mystery by talking to NPCs and doing drawing challenges. It's mostly goofy and fun bcs. Well. It's Drawfee, that's what they do.

So. The player characters! One, part of this tournament, is Gyorik Rogdul aka York, an arospec ace half-orc prince who loves arm wrestling and can't read and got turned into a model by chance; then, there's Grendan Highforge, aka Grenda/Gma/Grandma, the chill dog-walking dwarf druid who has a realization halfway in S1 and is officially genderfluid in S2 (any pronouns); and finally, Rosé the cool human rogue who can fit so many things in her pockets, (also she is unlabeled but has flirted with men and women). By the start of S2 they all have bonded much more closely and have a sort of ambiguous found family/queerplatonic polycule vibe and I love that for them!!

The NPCs! They are all so varied, and most have punny or silly Ace Attorney-esque names. A paladin named Sorin Justice and his wife Lotta Justice. A director named Anne Daction. A conductor named Conrad Uctor. S2 even has justification for the punny names! Which I am not going to spoil. Julia does a wonderful job with designing all of them and voicing most of them! And a few in S2 are voiced by fun guests like Elyse Willems, ProZD/SungWon Cho, and Caldwell Tanner (the OG Drawfather himself)!

The settings! Oh the settings, the background art! So lovingly created, so detailed and beautiful and fun. In S1, they were all parts of a fancy mansion-- a dining room, a library, a parlor lined with paintings and animal masks! S2 allows for more variety like a circus, a bar, even a jousting arena, and some of these have gorgeous posters made into IRL merch (currently sold out tho)!!

The drawing challenges! They're a staple part of Drawfee as a whole and hence they're a main feature here. Some are fun prompts like "draw a food creature" or "draw a steed to joust with", some are actual challenges like drawing (fantasy, knock off) celebrities based on description and drawing blindfolded guided by spoken directions. Since it's all in character, the usual Drawfee banter turns into nonsense lore and character interactions, and it's so, so much fun!!

Of course, the episodes average at about 50 minutes long, so... I get that it's tough to even start. But it's recommended (iirc by the crew themselves) that if you want a taste tester, go to S2 (Celestial Spear) episode 7. It's the one with SungWon in it, it can generally stand alone, and it's absolutely hilarious. (But it's also a dating sim parody plot, so your mileage might vary. I think it's fun tho)

So yeah. Try out Drawtectives (S3 in the works)! Thanks for being my captive audience, and I'm sorry! (for the long ramble, and also it's a Drawfee thing to end with sorry)

!!!!

[dreamland-arcade]

At least it's not Lotta Justice (real character btw. Watch Drawtectives)

[kawaiichibiart]

There is one thing I am anticipating more than the art and new characters (design wise) we'll get to see in Drawtectives Season 2.

And that's hearing all the names Julia has come up with because god fucking damn it, they killed me last season.

[razmerry]

//DRAWTECTIVES FINALE SPOILERS//

Oops, it’s time for sincere Drawtectives fanart. 

Just something about Emery being described as “really remorseless” and how cold and self-serving he was and how sad Lotta is and her talking about going down to talk to Emery as he’s being arrested really struck me. I dunno I got Drawtectives feels. 

Sillier Drawtectives fanart coming soon. 

[acethedria]

Spoilers for S1 obviously

I was thinking “I’m gonna do socialist readings for my favourite shows, let start with Drawtectives.”

Except then I noticed it literally has a plot about workers rights and how the upper class views itself. Like it is not even trying to be subtle with it:

Drawtectives is a Socialist Webseries

We begin with the murder itself. Sorin Justice is killed by Emery Justice, his son, due to his money troubles, and the fact that his father refused to assist him again.

Emery

Emery Justice is shown to be a very spoiled man who believes he just sort of deserves everything due to his high status and “skill”, while complaining about his sister lacking in sincere anti-bourgeois activism. This, along with rumours of his troop’s camp being shut down, leads to his being completely flippant with money, and gambling all of it away. He then asked Sorin and Lotta to use their money to set him up at a new job, but they told him he must earn that. He goes on to, as previously mentioned, send a ransom note extorting money out of his parents, and later on decided it was more worth stealing his parent’s wealth, during which Sorin entered the room, and in desperation, Emery killed him with the family knife.

There are already many things to unpack here. First of all, Emery’s personality. He is very full of himself and has a lot of pride in his family, and therefore believes he is entitled to their riches. This is the classic kid-born-into-a-rich-family. Even though his parents had always taught him he needed to earn his share, he still felt entitled to it.

As for that “earning your share” bit. This could be taken in two very opposite directions, and I will defend the one I have chosen later on once we go into Soren and Lotta.

There’s one way it could be interpreted, as a typical capitalist “you must earn all that you make. Money must be earned, not given.” Which is reasonable given the words themselves.

However it could also be taken in the sense that Emery is not improving the lives of those around him, and he doesn’t truly need the money. He’s in gambling debt, not trying to pay his rent. He played too many rounds of poker, it’s not that he’s had too many medical problems lately. He doesn’t truly apply to the need in “to each according to his needs.” And he is not contributing almost anything to his community, so why should this wealth be given to him? This second interpretation is the one I believe Sorin and Lotta intended.

Third we have that special knife which I’ll get to later.

Sorin and Lotta

Sorin and Lotta are probably the most clear examples of socialists in the entirety of the series. They’re part of the Shadow Vault along with Sam Ug and unnamed others, which is an information network focused on the wellbeing of the working class. Jorgan’s and Borgan’s was being investigated by the Shadow Vault due to suspected violations of worker’s rights, with Avis as an informant (is he part of the Shadow Vault? I guess??), this is literally Lotta and Sorin using their positions of wealth to benefit the working class. It cannot get more clear than this.

In fact this was such a big part of their whole deal, that shortly after they married they were contacted by the Shadow Vault themselves.

In fact they have taken down an exploitative company before, probably multiple, as we can see with the family knife, which was made by a group of workers because they wanted to, rather than because they were being payed to. Classic part of socialist philosophy.

Harper

Harper is an interesting case, since she’s an example of the type of socialist who refuses to fully denounce the parts of capitalism that benefit her, at least before the end of Season 1. Much of her character is being smug and spoiled by her parents, but still thinking she’s fighting the system. She steals from rich people, yet still gets bailed out jail, and her parents still use their money to get her out of a sentence. (I’ll touch on this later). She thinks she hates rich people yet she continually uses the benefits of her parents as bourgeoisie to improve her life, and she justifies it as “stealing from the rich”, somehow not realizing she is the rich person. However of course, it seems she’s gotten better in Season 2. She’s fully independent from her family, and ofc is taking care of Harold :)

Problems with the Justice family

Sorin and Lotta may do their best to protect worker’s rights, it is undeniable that they, and their children, are a product of capitalism.

First of all, despite their concern over labour practices, the Justices still hoard mass amounts of valuables. It’s what Emery was trying to steal. They may like fair labour practices but they refused to redistribute.

Emery is, as stated before, a classic case of entitled rich kid. However Lotta states that they got him “the best education”, and they gave him as many resources as possible. Resources that not many people could access clearly. Once again using their wealthy status to benefit their own family instead of trying to redistribute.

Harper is arguably the worst case scenario for a rich family like the Justices. She literally had her parents use their wealth to get her out of punitive action or prison time. This is one of the most clear examples of the bourgeoisie taking advantage of the capitalist system to benefit themselves.

Conclusion

Overall, while there are many socialist themes, and three of the four Justices had good intentions, they all benefited from their wealth. None of them truly did what they could have, and did exploit their wealth for themselves.

However it is also important to note the main conflict in the series (once the mystery was solved), that being a young rich kid who felt entitled to the wealth he grew up with once he had left it murdering his father, who’s entire being in the story centered around worker’s rights.

It may not exactly be capitalism vs socialism, but it’s definitely close to a bourgeoisie vs the proletariat conflict.

Hope you enjoyed reading! Sorry if this post is a mess, I wrote it over the course of like a week and a half 😅