#fossil fighters todd

[its-dean]

The Caliosteo Patrol Team are together like family! Happy Thanksgiving from their family to yours!

I feel like this year I’ve been seeing a ton of “it’s already time to get ready for Christmas!” and it’s a lot more that I usually am used to seeing in years past. I wish there was more of an appreciation for Thanksgiving and the fall season during these weeks 🍂❤️

Also I’m sorry to say this is an older illustration of mine again, and I wish I could redo this art someday with a bit more refinement 🥲

[captainmvf]

Dina, Dino, Todd, Pauleen, Rupert, and Joe Wildwest vivosaur teams and headcanon vivosaur names:

Dina- -Teffla: Fang -Lugmos: Dave -Compso: Bitey -V-Raptor: Killer -O-Raptor Fiend: Brutus -Red Angato: Claw -Zanth: Destructor -Dimorph Ace: Punchy

Dino- -T-Rex Lord: King -Paki: Buddy -Giga Raja: Sebastian -Blue Toba: Akane -Red Tsintao: Pepper -Ryden: Raiden -Purple Hopter: Gerard

Todd- -Barbaros: Percy -Parium: Silver -Edapho: Fruit Roll-Up -Blue Seismo: Ranger -Blue Stego: Ramune -Yellow Allo: Beans -Green Spinax: Warhead -Purple Goyle: Grape Kool-Aid

Pauleen- -Omias: Amalthea -Saichan: Salsa -U-Raptor: Baker -Yellow Amargo: Goldie -Green Saichan: Fern -Purple T Rex: Monster -Plesio: Leviathan -Synthos: Moose

Rupert- -Mapo King: Helena -Tanstro: Loki -Archaeo: Queenie -Yellow Shoni: Sune -Green Krona: Kronos -Yellow Mapo: Midas -Red Mapo: Beelzebub

Joe Wildwest- -Ptera: Denver -Bulgon: Goliad -Heracles: Davey -Blue Ptera: Colt -Green Seidon: Hurricane -Yellow Argento: Diamondback -Berto: Monarch

[suddenfossilfightersheadcanons]

oh and basically since my hcs are kinda scattered between posts i'mma just make this a little clearer here:

joe wildwest is dino's father, and is also becky and sean's uncle. dino, becky, and sean have a relatively fantastic friendship despite the fact that joe has a slightly threadbare relationship with becky and sean's father (that being joe's brother), but also will stand by him when push comes to shove.

terry and cole went to highschool together, as did todd and dina (at a separate institution). hunter also attended todd and dina's school for a while, but then moved away; he bullied her when they were students, and both of them struggle immensely with the after-effects—her with the shards of her self-esteem, him with the guilt of having done so. they're not really on speaking terms.

joe is an audhd king. change my mind.

[suddenfossilfightersheadcanons]

not in the least! I absolutely love his character, in part because he's so damn needy. He's just above-average enough at most things to have a chip on his shoulder, so lives out his gifted kid burnout vicariously through Dina. He is dependent on her success, on Joe's success, on his heroes really being his heroes to justify his own not quite being as amazing. Every time he finds out the things he's idealised aren't as good as he thought they were, a little piece of his identity gets chipped away. He pushes himself because he doesn't know how to live up to the heroic ideals he learnt from TV, and if he can just fulfil them, he'll be able to feel like they're not degrading after all. He ends up estranged from Dina et al. because he can't grow out of his pride and envy until he accepts others' flaws. He's seeking redemption for his round 1 loss through Dina's success, for his being imperfect by making himself a martyr against ZZ, for his neediness by pushing himself away. He's trying so hard to be a good person but the pubescent dialectic that you can be a good person and a bad person at the same time hasn't kicked in for him yet. He fears second place so much more than Rupert, and I love how they contrast each other in that regard.

As far as I'm concerned, he's developed a surprisingly good relationship with Rupert, in that they share much of their insecurity in common, so don't have to act as if it doesn't exist around each other. Moreover, he's better at cleaning fossils and reciting fossil fighting trivia than Rupert, and that helps abate his inferiority complex. Around the others, however, he's notably cagey. It's going to take years to repair his relationship with Dina, and even then, the Cup has very much damaged it to the foundation.

Did anyone else fucking hate Todd in champions

[raes-trash-art]

goodnight, mr. the missile

(composition/base sourced from here - it's a super awesome resource for group pictures, please check it out!)

[zestyderg]

Concepts for Dina and Todd battle forms

[slicksquid]

i fucking hate this pathetic little boy he is such a wuss AND he’s an anti-masker and sexist he deserves to be eaten alive by an allosaurus

[fan-file-stack]

I’ve always assumed that Todd is lying to cover for his fear. It’s meant to be obvious that he doesn’t actual have a stomachache from whatever silly thing he says he ate, but because he wants a ‘plausible’ excuse for why he can’t step up.

Why did you willing eat a rotten banana

[evangelimes17]

Text ID:

RUPERT: lately I have been having a headache that comes and goes.

TODD: *slams open door*

RUPERT: Aaand it’s back.

[rosie-richmond]

Fellas...

[its-dean]

It's a BareBones Brigade Halloween!

I'm sad that I don't have something new to post for this year's leadup to halloween, but this is an illustration from last year that's still very close to my heart. Everyone on Caliosteo is here celebrating together, the patrol team, the former commanders of the BB Brigade, and even Joe Wildwest himself. What's more, it seems they all decided to collaborate and dress up with some BB Brigade flare (maybe it reminds them all of the good old days).

I remember working tirelessly on this one for a near month, and it was honestly a really fun project in hindsight that I wish I could replicate. I have the distinct memory of staying up all the way until Halloween morning making sure that it was perfect, and I wouldn't have had it any other way.

Since the image is a bit widely cropped and not the most "mobile friendly," here are some close-ups on the batches of characters scattered around Ribular Isle. Dina and Rupert sticking close together (as usual), Cole lashing out at Lester after finding out that he stole some of his hair dye (as usual), and Pauleen's Amargo acting snarky, Todd getting himself into trouble (as usual).

Here are also some WIPs from this one. This was the beginning of the phase where I started refining my sketch lining rather than doing a whole separate layer of lineart on top of an original sketch. It's honestly super satisfying, and I recommend anyone who likes drawing to try it out!

As for the lighting, when I do a shading layer I like to change everything underneath to be a solid white, it makes it easier for me to create realistic lighting in a 3D sense, almost as if I'm forming the shape of a sculpture. Plus, when it comes out like this before adding in color everyone here looks like a ghost >< (how appropriate)

One more thing, I made these little pfp icons to go with the Halloween vibe, also making one for Kris (one of the characters from my own Fossil Fighters sequel story). All of their last names are purely headcannons of mine, but there's still a bit of meaning behind all of them.

Being that I'm half Greek, I've always seen Dino and Dina as being short for Κωνσταντίνος and Κωνσταντίνα respectively (also because that happens to be my Greek name, where Dean comes from ><) so I think it makes sense to give them a Greek last name that may or may not also connect to something in my own story.

As for Rupert (still going with my own headcannons), both he and Kris originally hail from Bockland, a European-based Fossil Park that's just as big as Vivosaur Island/Caliosteo. Both of them act so posh and well-mannered, and I'd love to come up with a reason for imagining Rupert with a slight British accent. Kris's story comes a good 9 years after the events of the first 2 games, but she shares a lot in common with Rupert back when he was her age, much more than just being from Bockland.

Thanks if you read this far. I'm both happy and sad to be able to share and talk about this illustration again. If there's anyone here on Tumblr seeing this for the first time, then I'm very happy I can share with you.

I hope you all have a happy week leading up to Halloween night!

[captainmvf]

Aged-Up Patrol Team designs!

Tried to stay true to their personalities in the game and even gave them parts of Joe's outfit (Rupert gets some Zongazonga influence). Pauleen was the most challenging to figure out.

[suddenfossilfightersheadcanons]

Most of Dina's playlists are a mix of 2nd-generation kpop and bubblegum girl groups; however, every five tracks or so, an oddly sombre number emerges. 'Hyper-ballad', Björk. 'Ice Age', How to Destroy Angels. 'Love is a Losing Game', Amy Winehouse.

A few months after meeting Joe Wildwest for the first time, Dina and Todd ended up packed together on a road trip through the Blue Mountains. Dina wrested control of the aux cord. For half an hour, Todd complained irreverently. Then Mitski's 'I Want You' broke through the car. In those timid three minutes, he wondered what on earth Dina had been through to draw her to such. Often, angst doesn't necessarily have an identifiable cause, especially at that age, when emotions cast broad strokes like bloodstains over rationality. It's easy enough to feel estranged from oneself in those years, and to feel rage for the peace that was once taken for granted. But he wasn't wrong. Dina never explicitly told him she'd been bullied badly some years prior, but it wasn't overly difficult to piece together. The way she smiled and looked away whenever the last couple of years came up in conversation. The way she laughed, forcing the noise deeper into her torso than it would comfortably descend, at meek-seeming students in the halls. The way she eyed the pavers when Auto Counter came up in conversation. Her inexplicable dislike of thyreophora such as Ankylo, Goyle, and Perso, no matter how he tried to exhort their strength. How she chewed the air when she read about the prodigy on Vivosaur Island. She always brushed these things off as her being somehow weak, and imploded, unveiling an impermeable shell of silence, whenever her past came up. Todd tried to praise her throughout the Caliosteo Cup. When she bristled, and said she didn't really feel her victories were anything but flukes, he felt a whorl of envy. If luck could carry her this far, why, why, why did he keep losing? Both carried a measure of shame. For her, as far as he could tell, it seemed arbitrary. For him, it burned, brighter and brighter for every effort she made to reach out to him. They didn't interact much throughout those final rounds of the Cup. And when Zongazonga gave him impetus to let his months' worth of amorphous fury take shape, it billowed through him.

Todd only saw Dina interact with Hunter Buckland once; he'd come as a spectator to the Battle Royale. He was ganglier than Todd had expected, too tall to be comfortable in his movements, which halted and started like split-ended wood. Dina noticed him in the Ribular fighter station, and lowered her gaze. He said 'hello', and after an eternity, she responded. 'Hello.' They attempted phatic talk, and the conversation withered. Eventually, he asked if they could talk sometime. She smiled, laughed through her teeth. 'I'll think about it.' As Dina watched Hunter walk away, Todd swore he heard her humming 'Ice Age'.

[beast-feast]

FUCKIN TODD

JOE'S DEAD NOW

[zestyderg]

Some battle form au doodles

[wulfbytez64]

Pauleen: "I'm a lesbian"

Todd: "..."

Todd: "I thought you were from Viviosaur Island"