#i add refs later

[cathedraldecay]

look i’m rly not getting cashgrab sellout nostalgia bait tour from this for many reasons. the main one being that they’re building upon the original concept.

they could’ve made tour announcement posters with a TBP png and call it good, but no they filmed a whole promo for it and left this in the description:

hinting that there’s much more to the universe that they’re going to tell throughout this tour, i’m guessing through sets, costumes, and gerard’s little speeches between songs. maybe something more..

then there’s the political undertones. i don’t think i have to say much about this considering the election happened just last week and the band is very politically vocal. and the announcement IS for a north american tour. the gaudy dictator imagery, a fascist regime. come on.

then there’s the fact that they have absolutely been cooking this for awhile. first of all there’s the secretary

i don’t have to spell it out for anyone, this shit is a CLEAR parallel. THEN there’s their TBP performance at WWWY.

the background looking like the blank slate of something in the very beginning of its creation. plain black and white, the band in all black. then, there were the simple backgrounds, pointing towards obvious themes throughout the album.

it’s a rough draft, each projection is a frame in the storyboard. they knew this was coming, this performance WAS the rough draft in the making.

i’m sure the money has been good for them since the reunion, but they’re not just treating this as a means for the payout. this is a whole fucking production. and we all saw how much they put into the reunion tour. so yeah, we’re in for so much more from them.

basically we’re fucked.

[choccy-milky]

bird in her gilded cage 💙🪽

[shepscapades]

Finally: The Official DBHC Etho Reference Sheet!

I had to clarify that the “current” look is for Season 9, because I’m not sure how or if he’ll change for s10 yet! The “current” version is essentially his updated “default” look! Thought I might mention also that “Back Around” on the loose timeline lineup at the bottom is a reference to a song on his playlist in which he takes some time away from everyone after re-deviating to re-remember and find himself <3

Side note: Etho wears his mask under his chin mostly just around bdubs, but he starts wearing it down more often around doc, tango, or others who are used to seeing the damage. More than anything else, he’s sure to keep it for protection purposes when he’s outside working, exploring, or anything else that isn’t just hanging and chatting with friends :]

[oemmio]

hi hello, i'm back from dead

[kindaasrikal]

Plasma except they platonically hate each other

[nattikay]

ayyyyy look who it is! Neynari, Se'txelu, and Rolukx, for those who don't know lol. Anyways, just a bit of design refining for these dummies, mostly in the outfit department but some minor stripe pattern adjustments as well.

Yes I finally settled on a new name for Neyntìsti! I wanted to keep the "neyn" part of course, because I mean. look at her. I was a little hesitant to go with "Neynari" at first because it still kinda looks like "neyn-nari" and I wanted to avoid the smush-two-words-together thing, that was the whole point of changing her name in the first place lol, but after rolling several potential variations around in my head for quite a while, Neynari was the one I kept coming back to as just sounding right. So Neynari it is.

Speaking of Neynari, I've finally picked a birth clan for her, which was a mystery up to this point: she was born in the Aranahe clan! thanks FoP lol

(Se'txelu and Rolukx are brothers from the Anurai clan for those who don't know; Neynari met Se'txelu while visiting the Anurai on a trading trip and wound up deciding to stay when the pair fell in love.)

[arinmoss]

Posie wip :3 (he/him)

[zu-art]

Babies are really just vaguely human-shaped bags of rice.

[maythearo]

(horribly drawn meme) On the works...

" I cannot BELIEVE I fell for it again. If I may offer you some advice: whenever that Epel kid asks to show you a magic trick, don't feel bad for openly refusing it. Last time I gave him an ounce of my attention, he- opened his mouth and.... a giant SPIDER crawled out of it?? I can't unsee it anymore... these tricks of haunted dolls.... "

- J. Viper

[sunnysideray]

Finally made a ref for the little shit (affectionate) in all my SDJ posts!

Notes incase my hand writing is truly ass [top to bottom]:

- “Gets Spring/Summer freckles”

- “He always tucks in his shirt cuz he’s a freak”

- “Has had this thing forever + won’t let it go”

- “bad British habit he started in ELM.S [elementary school] (it’s the pinky thing)”

- “weird ‘techwear’ obsession”

- “always wears LONG SOCKS. hates every other sock ever.”

- “Wears his ‘comfy shoes’ 99% of time”

Ray is just a funny lil guy that likes to play his drums and not use his degrees for better jobs :)

Wait… who’s this?

(i forgot to add it on there, but he’s around 5’11”, aka taller than lilshit lmao)

[hickeygender]

so we all know the explicit sakai deer imagery, right? despite stags being associated with kazumasa, deer are still an appropriate symbol for jin as well (fast, silent, peaceful rather than predatory by nature but still capable of killing). since jin = deer, what would ryuzo best be represented by? maybe there's some textual hint, or hidden dialogue that we could go off of? maybe it's not explicit, but-

yeah, no. the game literally awards you this trophy right after you recruit him. the only way i think they could get more explicit with the shady wolf analogy is by calling the trophy "the big bad wolf", or "wolf in sheep's clothing".

ryuzo - passionate, unpredictable, violent ryuzo - being compared to a wolf is fitting, even more so when you consider the trophy refers to multiple wolves, meaning the straw hats. he was taken in by them, an unruly, masterless group, and he became their leader. despite betraying jin, he doesn't lack loyalty entirely; he only remains loyal to those he views as family after they took him in following the tournament.

his primary motivations in the narrative are staying fed, and providing for his family. he doesn't care about playing nice, or fighting clean, or lessening collateral damage. if his belly is full and his family is fed, none of that matters, and i can't think of a more apt description of that mentality than wolfish.

[dontvap0rdawave]

One of my biggest weaknesses was never posting the art/reference sheets (does this even count as that) of any of my NGE-inspired angel OCs

Well... That changes now/silly

Silly little rambles under the cut

He's a bigass, fuckass tuxedo cat (also partially inspired by the Manul cat)

He is also a grouchy old man

He hates everyone

He never listens to anyone either, beats up (and even eats) other kaiju or angels for fun

Although his looks are pretty much inspired by the og series Zeruel, he also has all of the powers and can do everything rebulld Zeruel does, which also explains why he's so unbelievably crusty

The only person he actually, geniunely, tolerates is Marie's grandma, not even Marie herself, which just adds to his crustiness

[startistdoodles]

Sidia Knight reference I made for Artfight :)

[manasurge]

Got Mourynn's first fullbody ref done! (I mean first as in chronologically). Not much to say here, just getting some early year fullbody refs done so I can have them to start on some scenes and lore stuff (just gotta finish her Orchid outfit next since that's her main Sapling outfit before she makes her own custom one). I'm also not used to drawing this small so I messed up the face a bit, on the side there, but oh well.

Below the cut is just the line art and the transparent that I'm hoping will work properly on her Hero Panel profile on Toyhouse:

[lobotomize-d]

Chokecherry Cookie! (Final(??)vs concept)

More info/full concept drawing below cut

Chokecherry Cookie(Čaŋpa Aguyapiskuya)

(Apologies my handwriting is really bad)

Txt: Chokecherry Cookie will give allied cookies "Chokecherry Jam," which adds a layer of protection temporarily and buffs against debuff effects/regular attacks. She will use the seeds to poison enemies, throwing them(they'll explode)

She's a half deer/half cookie thing idk lol

[crow-quet]

reference for a new oc i havent shared yet, Night! i dont rly know what im gonna do with her yet but she exists!! :3