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plazmafields · 1 year ago

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My BG3 character, Nathe, as a Cyberpunk edgerunner!!! This took me a couple months of off-and-on work so I really hope some people like it!! ^-^

I'm a little nervous about posting this one because I'm not sure if it's too odd of a cross over. But I kinda feel like we didn't see the crazy body mods I wanted to see in Cyberpunk 2077. Like, we have all these robo limbs but no one is getting dumb shit to make themselves look like fantasy creatures??

Nathe is a Netrunner from England who recently entered the Night City merc scene. Following a job gone horribly wrong, almost having fried his brain when he got tangled in military ICE, Nathe was declared dead at a Ripperdoc's in New Manchester. However, after a seven month recovery and serious upgrades to his cyberware (some more necessary than others), Nathe donned the mantle of "Diablo," and fled the country on the first plane to Night City. After a few months of odd jobs and managing to mask his presence on the Net, Nathe received an anonymous job offer with coordinates to a small high rise in Arroyo. There, he was interviewed–or more accurately, interrogated–by a gang known as Hand And Fang, and their leader whom they simply called "The Vampire."

(why yes I do want to write a BG3 Cyberpunk AU with a dynamic akin to Absolute!Tav and Ascended!Astarion, why was it obvious?)

If anyone is interested in the actual design process of this I'm gonna break it down a little:

Horns - I wanted some of his cyberware to just be for the purpose of aesthetics, so the horns do have the ability to lay back (for more comfortable sleeping, to get through doorways, etc.) but otherwise they're just cool metal implants with blue LEDs.

Eyes - I love that tiefling eyes glow in BG3, and I love the eyes with animated flames. So to try and replicate that, Nathe's eyes have scattered LEDs that slowly pulsate to give the illusion of radiating light. I also drew them with a ring of white highlight around the entire iris to kind of mimic neon lights.

Teeth - Nathe had a couple of teeth capped with fang-shaped chrome veneers. This was my take on translating tieflings' sharp teeth into his new design, and I think it's one of my favorite parts.

Tattoos - I did some research into facial tattoos and picked some with appropriate symbolism, as well as adapting his tattoos from BG3 into just the neck portion. Nathe has his blood type over his left eye. Over the right eye is a simplified drawing of a cathedral window, as a nod to a character in Arcane (which I was watching while working on this). There is an upside down cross under his left eye, a broken chain on his left sideburn area, and carnivore teeth in the hollows of his cheeks mirrored on both sides. He also has 3 small triangles under his lips. There is a sword dripping blood in the center of his throat. Where many people get eyebrow piercings, Nathe has a semicolon to represent his diversities and the struggles he has faced due to them.

Cyberware - The sculpted ridges of the tiefling body in BG3 are just so cool, and I especially love the shoulder blades that look like partially formed wings, so I wanted his cyberware to mimic all of that. He has panels on his stomach much like the "plates" that meet at a tiefling's navel. There are panels on the obliques, placed above where the ribcage stops. The panels on his shoulder blades represent the beginnings of devil wings forming. The spine implant is both representative of the raised spine on a tiefling's body, and also based on the design of the Sandevistan from Cyberpunk: Edgerunners. The implant above the tailbone is in place of the tails tieflings have, only because I think a tail would be incredibly impractical irl, and my only idea for making it look "cyberpunk-y" was to make it into a mantis blade, but coming out of his ass, and that's dumb as hell.

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