#gorgon family

[lagoonapink]

Gorgon Family in Spell The Beans

[ID: Screenshots from Monster High The Series (2022) episode Spell The Beans showing: (1) Medusa and Lyra sitting next to each other in the auditorium. (2) Medusa wiping Deuce's chin with her thumb. (3) Lyra glancing to the right. (4) Medusa looking to the side in thought. (5) Medusa standing confidently as Lyra watches her. (6) Medusa confidently pointing to herself as Lyra stands and smiles in the back. (7) Lyra watching with a smile as Deuce and Medusa hug. End ID]

[k1ranishf4]

I want what they have

[whoishotteranimepolls]

"Who's Hotter?" Walking Red Flags

[annoying-leaf]

AHHHH MY HAND SLIPPED NOW YOU HAVE THIS ATTEMPT TO MAKE A NINJAGO AND SXF CROSSOVER AHHHHHHH

dog riyu

[thosetrollkids]

MONSTOBER: DESIGNS

Part 1: Teen Cast!

HELLOOOOO everybody! Welcome to my project, Monstober! A series of several posts with large, in depth looks at different aspects of my AU, Monster Kids, that I wrote during October this year. Special thanks to @eurazba for listening to me ramble over all this and helping with the AU over the years <3

This post will be going over the general monster designs for notable teen characters, as well as some thoughts as to why I chose said designs :D

There will be a second post for the main adult cast, and once posted, you can find it linked here :)

Jim / Toby / Claire

Jim Lake Jr (Sphinx): It's him! The poster boy! Wahoo! Honestly, I don't have many notes for his design process, because his design has stayed relatively similar since the early drafts. His was the very first design, and other than being a typical lion/eagle sphinx for like. two drawings, and then a panther/blackbird for two more, once the snow leopard/blue jay combo was struck, he's only really changed in small ways. I chose a blue jay, because they're one of my favorite birds, they're blue, and I'd used them to be an accent to Jim in a previous drawing. Snow leopards are also my favorite big cat! So similar reasoning for that particular aspect. If I were to design him today, blank slate, I miiiight have changed his cat species, but I still am way too attached to the leopard/jay combo.

Toby Domzalski (Gargoyle): Toby's design also hasn't changed much! The main trio haven't, other than minor adjustments. He originally had yellow eyes, but they're back to standard green. He also used to have larger wings, and while I liked the idea of the main three being able to fly together, I decided to go with a different route as I leaned into his design looking more aquatic, and he instead has wing shaped back fins! They fold down and sit under his clothes, as he only really can use them while swimming.

Claire Nuñez (Harpy) Also another design I haven't changed since conception! Harpies were always something cool to me, and I was inspired by an illustration of harpies in a mythology book I had bought at the time. Her design was originally just 'bird' until I tired to find a more specific species that fit. I landed on barn owls, and coincidentally, they are also associated with brujeria/witchcraft in Mexico! Win-win. With her stronger connection to magic overall, she's also the only member of Team Trollhunter that can fly reliably; her magic feeds her energy enough to keep in the air (Jim's wings are too small for anything besides light gliding and cushioning falls).

Steve / Eli / Krel / Aja

Steve Palchuk (Faun): Steve's design was always pretty formed in my head. For the guy that tries so very hard to be an all-American boy, an icon of that is the whitetail deer buck, and it very quickly fell into place! His design is fairly simple, which is why it works so well for him, IMO. Fun fact, he has a set of scars on his cheek from the equivalent of the fight he had with Jim in S1. More to expand on in a later comic, >:3c

Eli Pepperjack (Bat Humanoid): Eli was actually also a sphinx originally, but I wanted Jim to stay fairly unique among the main teens, so my follow up design was something more batlike! I did do plenty of research for monster bats, or hybrid bat monsters, but what research I could do didn't produce much (then again, could always be wrong!), so I went with 'attributes'. He's based on a Little Brown Bat. He little >:) His wings are also not capable of flight, they're basically large hands, all the better to hunt down creepers with, my dear.

Krel & Aja Tarron (Amphibious humanoids): WAHOOOOO!!!! I'm very proud of these, because you have NO IDEA how many months I struggled to find a design I liked for them. They have been (checks notes) spidertaurs, a few other passes of various insectoid tries, I was going to attempt something more seal like, because I knew the main group's designs were already mammal-heavy, and something aquatic or insectoid was what I wanted to balance the group out. Then my beloved @eurazba, listening to me ramble one night, helped me come to the idea of their 'human' transductions looking closer to old monster movies! Creature from Black Lagoon was an easy pick, I did some research about CFBL and Shape of Water (thanks Del Toro), and bada bing, bada boom! My fishy twins! Also Krel is the only one wearing shoes. Just realized this...

Mary / Darci / Shannon

Mary Wang (Dryad): Mary has also gone through a lot of changes (turns out, I was very indecisive outside of the main trio, AJDJSBSJFHB). She was actually a -taur alongside Darci! Specifically a unitaur (saw a lot of alternate Monster Falls art of Mabel Pines as one, and I really liked the idea. The overall AU was inspired by the Gravity Falls AU, now you know!) She stayed that for a while, then also went through some bug-like redesigns, and then a couple months back, I decided on a dryad! Before that point, I was trying to stay strictly to animalistic monster designs, but it became a little too confining, so she exploded into my sketchbook and became real. Her tree is a california redbud, and her 'antlers' are like the branches of the tree, and leaves/flowers bloom in time with the season on them. The hooves were based on a Zelda design from an artist I liked a lot (truffe.art on IG!)

Darci Scott (Praying Mantis-taur): HERE COMES THE BUG PAYOFF. Some of you may remember my design for Darci hasn't changed for quite some time, and while I liked the look of the cervitaur (a centaur, but deer), it didn't feel... as unique as I wanted? And I was still missing my BUG. So, debating over this, I did a few passes of her mixed with a bee, spider, etc etc... and then once again, @eurazba was like "hey! praying mantis." and I fell in LOVE with the concept. (Very quickly sketched her up as I was doing these sheets, actually NDJSNJKJD)

Shannon Longhannon (Gorgon): Last design of the group, another that has hardly changed since conception. Nagas, gorgons, lamias- whatever they're called, I love the visual of a reptilian character slinking around gracefully, and she helped balance out all the mammalian designs as well. She was originally a typical green/yellow snake, but when I inevitably color her, I picture something more ruddy, reddish brown, to match her hair :) She indeed is able to turn someone to stone, but as she was not born a gorgon, this ability is dulled, and only lasts for a few hours, working only if she focuses completely on doing so to someone. She's taken to wearing shades more often to not scare people who don't know this.

[lune-tic]

[vertigoartgore]

1998's Inhumans Vol.2 #1 cover by Jae Lee and Avalon Studios.

[42-42-564]

i think in vague post-canon world crona is convinced stein and marie hate them forever and ever and goes to great lengths to avoid them. for like months or something. until they get cornered somehow and told point blank by stein I Do Not Give A Shit That You Psychosis Poisoned Me, Everything Was Fucked Up Etcetera. and then they can be friendses

[grimmcheems]

your cromaka au is strange but interesting never seen it before with this pair

Why thank you. I try my best 🤭

[wildwheatfields]

🐍🧁🐍🧁

My love Deuce…the design is kinda growin on me. He’s giving baking prodigy that wants to run away from the responsibilities his ceo mom has placed on him 😔 he just wants to make cupcakes n coffee you don’t understand how attached I’m becoming!! He wants to live that coffee shop au like us all sighhh

[dreamyzworldlove]

some doll doodles recently

i am sooooooooo normal about fashion dolls

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if you like my art please reblog <3

[thunderstomm]

Rewatching MH as always, and in the episode "Monster Movie", Deuce mentions that he used to watch "Zeus Movies" as a kid. Is... Zeus an actor in the Monster High universe???

I have to imagine e it is for a really cheesy genre, like romance movies or naybe even some sort of cinematic equivalent to soap operas?? I like the idea of Zeus being a popular romance star because it would be a funny tie-in reference to Zeus'... mythology, and how he is very. Y'know. Zeus-y.

[bcbdrums]

Seriously tho how come an actual cold-blooded murderer of countless souls and willing traitor is worthy of second chances and full redemption by fandom, but these same people won’t give Spirit any second chance!?!

Something is seriously not computing here.

[ysbrydthespoop]

This is now my new favourite image.

[rolaplayor101]

World Goth Day?? Our favorite goths dressed as our favorite goth couple???

Buy as a shirt or sticker!! Oooo you wanna Commission me so badd oooo! Pls don’t ignore my DNI! Reblogs are mandatory!

[howlingday]

Jaune's Family: Grandma (Other)

Ruby: Wow... I can't believe you got beat up by Cardin and then sent to detention for three days. You're probably the unluckiest kid ever.

Jaune: Well, actually, no, that'd be my auntle. My grandma is SUPER strict with them.

Ruby: Auntle? What's an auntle?

Jaune: It's like someone who's an aunt and also an uncle.

Ruby: Really? Are they both, or...?

Jaune: I honestly don't know. My parents never really figured it out, and neither have I. But yeah, my grandma is really scary, apparently.

Ruby: Really? In what way?

Jaune: Well, I wasn't really allowed to go to their house, because my mom warned me to stay away. She said grandma made my auntle, uh, well, they're not really happy. Like, at all.

Ruby: What does your grandma do?

Jaune: I think I heard she's a scientist, but what kind, I have no idea.

Ruby: No, I mean to your auntle.

Jaune: Oh! Um, well, she kind of locks them alone in their room and doesn't feed them. Something about making them stronger.

Ruby: That's horrible! Why doesn't anyone stop her?!

Jaune: Like I said, grandma is super scary. So scary, in fact, that my dad had to grab me when I jumped in to help my auntle! That was the last I saw them, too.

Jaune: I hope they're okay.

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Crona: Um, m-mother? I did as you asked. Um, c-can I go see Jaune soon? I'm worried about him since he left for Beacon. I heard he got in.

Oh? So, he snuck into an academy, too, eh? Perhaps I haven't given that boy enough due credit. He really is quite cunning, isn't he?