#mecha bs art

[keferon]

Something something I like his shapes haha

[keferon]

THIS IS ABSOLUTELY GORGEOUS WHAT

YOUR ART STYLE IS CANDY FOR MY EYES I CANT EVEN

The free time,, I’ve finally found it!!! 👏😭 [have some mecha pilot au doodles to celebrate 🎉✨]

Shoulder rides for everybody!! >XD ✨

Jazz *picking Prowl up*: [His mech is so light?? Must be the metals or something :0] You’re light as a feather!

Prowl: …I may not know what a feather is,, but I’m sure I could pick you up too. >:|

My spidey sense is telling me something very crazy is about to happen to them,, and I, for one, am very scared 💀🫶

[kinopioa]

Noticing lately people that people are saying "Chris isn't bad, 4kids ruined him", then post this scene out of context

Where toddler Chris is lied to by his parents, and then he says "they never came for me, just kept buying presents"

Here's the problem, it's bullshit retconning

We have literal photographic evidence showing his parents being there for the early part of his adolescence early S1 in bgs (this is literally Ep 2!). This wasn't a goof, it had several pans focusing on it, and was common in other bg art in other eps

This bs statement also ignores later eps where his mom personally invites him and his friends to her work, his parents dropping everything when he gets sick, etc. His supposed emotional angsting is extremely trivialized throughout most of S1. His parents constantly check on him even at work, his extended family and servants are very involved with him, he actually has friends in a public school, it overall feels barely in check when he cries to Sonic in the end of S1's finale. Like, he says...

You ain't alone kid. I weirdly prefer 4Kids lines here- worse music aside- he's more accrediting Sonic's coolness by saying "he had so much fun" and "Sonic's the best friend he's had" rip Tails, Amy, Cream

But yeah, barely passing it. If it was a legit finale I'd be fine

S2's insistence on him being in the already iffy Adventure adaptations and later retconned angst aggravates me. He went from "mostly boring maybe spoiled" to "aggravatingly trauma faking spoiled brat" over the course of of season

But because of the out of context toddler sob clip being removed in dub, people think "oh no, 4Kids solely fucked him up"

No, it didn't. His basis was already fucked, S2 made it way worse then tried gaslighting. Congrats

Honestly him getting super attached to Sonic is weird. Sonic's pretty damn aloof and unaware of in house shenanigans that Amy, Tails, and Cream deal with. Like he's cool, but he's barely there. Honestly it'd be funny/genius when he starts recounting his memories and realizes how Sonic's other friends were more involved with him than Sonic, and then Chris realizes how much he takes people that are actually near him for granted

Overall I find him mediocre. If you hate his voice in dub and prefer OG it's whatever, but I absolutely can't say his existence or writing is good in sub.

Side note, saying Helen should be the protag is still a problem. As much as I like her, the justification of having Sonic and friend's lives revolve around her is still iffy. The reason Chris has a mansion and grandpa's lab is cuz it's the easiest way to not deal with "where will most of Sonic's friends stay" and "where can Tails park Sonic's plane, then his mechas?". Helen can't support that, so either

-Realize two worlds is stupid, and focus the series on Sonic and friends like what the pilot hinted, having him be nomadic and encountering new people every other ep. Helen and Chris can be episodic chars with their own dev

-Make Helen rich, which...ruins her overall struggles

Sonic X gets me... @semi-sketchy

[zogingu]

Somerville Review

A cinematic puzzle game in a similar vein to Playdead's INSIDE and Little Nightmares, having gathered a mote of clout by having former Playdead founder Dino Patti. Unfortunately, his credentials don't seem to have helped much, because even discounting the awkward technical execution of Somerville, the game's creative concepts and art direction don't offer much, even compared to the more amateur entries into the genre.

⬇⬇ Full game spoilers below ⬇⬇

Visuals

The fidelity of Somerville's visuals is quite impressive, and in the game's few cinematics the filmic framing, animated backgrounds and special effects come together to form some pretty impressive sights. HOWEVER the visual design of the game is often either boring or the tackiest flavour of scifi.

Environments

The bread and butter of cinematic-type games are the scenes, the sets, the environments. The best examples are not only well rendered, but tell a story, or elucidate some novel concept or theme. Somerville's environments are mostly very basic, and even worse is that they are often just tedious to get through. A summary of the game's scenes (Spoilers):

The family's house has lots of little details and some novel interactive bits that create a unique feeling of presence. Opening drawers, unplugging wires and other small details do a lot to heighten your awareness of the space and make it feel rich and interesting.

The countryside quickly felt repetitive. Samey fields and woods that take a long time to move through. Empty video-game-level feeling space.

The music festival was probably the most novel location. The wind effects were fun, and the different "rooms" were varied and mostly didn't overstay their welcome.

The mine was by far the worst. Extremely repetitive. Felt like a level in a game, as opposed to a plausible real world location. No build-up to anything. No novel ideas or even a hint of storytelling.

The town had very nice set decoration, but the interactivity is heavily lacking. You lift the same shelf out of the way three times. I see why people bemoan The Last of Us' ladders now.

Underwater base/alien area is where the tacky sci-fi stuff gets turned all the way up. The base's exterior is cool, and the reactor sequence is mysterious, but switching from a man stumbling through a conflict zone to an Aperture Science lab experiment felt like it broke the tone.

Alien Stuff

Across the game are alien "growths", which are manipulated in many of the game's puzzles, melting and hardening them to achieve various effects.

While their technical quality is impressive, I think they're conceptually boring—They don't have any kind of novel adaptation to the Earth environments and visually are just geometric noise. It's a really squandered storytelling opportunity, especially compared to other alien-invasion literature.

In War of the Worlds, the red weed is overriding the Earth biome with alien ecology. In Half-life, giant conduits tear through human architecture to connect monstrous industrial machines. In Alien, the xenomorph hives are an ironic repurposing of the tunneling structures humans inhabit.

The growth in Somerville is the closest thing the game has to a visual motif but it doesn't do much more than tell us "aliens are here" and provide a kind of cool looking visual effect when it's dissolved or solidified.

Badass Military BS

Power armour ninjas... so cool and Badass... wow look at the undulating geometric pattern their armor is made out of... soo cool

Science fiction is an important topic to me. One of my recent favourites is the show Obsolete, which provides a socially-conscious and material lens on the silly concept of mecha, creating a story which approaches war, technology, industry and the humanities with nuance. Every fictional and real-world technology and social system is measured and contextualised. The role of the story's technological concepts isn't superficial—every piece fits together and enriches the other.

Somerville is a story set in modern society, driven by the struggles of everyday people. There are power-armoured dudes doing impossible acrobatics and rapid-firing laser rifles at geometric alien lions. Not only does the fictional technology LOOK bland, but the meaning and contextualisation of its concepts are pathetically shallow.

I know this is a really subjective mode of criticism; preferring stories that are lensed on particular subjects does not invalidate others, and it's not necessary for a story to be intricately laden with subtext to impactful or even just entertaining. But I am VERY TIRED of science fiction that pivots around slick, shiny "badass" WEAPONRY and WARFARE. At the very least, they could have semiotically rich designs, but instead it's just geometry. Bleh.

Visual Telegraphing

The hitmarker is the posterchild of overbearing telegraphing in games. It's wormed its way even into low-stakes single player shooters, where, in the AAA space, graphics technology has developed to offer incredible, high-fidelity depictions of violence that tell the story of injury and evisceration through stunningly detailed models and animations, only to suck all focus away from those incredible depictions to prioritize immediate feedback from the system. Hit. Armor hit. Kill. Damage numbers.

The absence of such overlays is one of the keys to a good cinematic game. Their systems are constrained to only work in ways that can be represented without interrupting or obstructing their immersive world. The drawback is that doing this successfully puts a lot of constraints on the both the audiovisual and the ludic elements of the game. But, when done well, the result is a fantastic, compelling harmony between the aesthetic experience of a cinematic story and the dexterous-cognitive challenge of playing a game.

Somerville doesn't achieve this harmony. You may be inclined to explore the large, open outdoor scenes, but doing so will poison the game's attempt at expressing cinematic pacing. Big yellow post-it notes on interactive objects make it so your controller isn't an interface with an immersive world of diegetic objects; it makes it so you're pushing buttons on your controller to push buttons in the game.

[a-mecha]

Decided to post the past 7 days of daily gundam posting. So here is day 1 which was the Nu Gundam.

I’m new here so let me get this shit out:

My name is Mecha I’m a college student currently studying film at RCAD. I love to draw and mostly gundam BS so I thought I would post here where most 20-30 something can see my goofy art. I’m mostly active on IG @Mecha_Tsuyo which is where I started posting. Hopefully y’all enjoy this journey.

[keferon]

OH MY GOD OH MY GOD OH MY GOD THIS IS MY BOY BLURR THIS IS MY KFMGNGKFNF OH THIS IS AMAZING

i uh…. i think i got a little carried away… (i just had to, its my boy)

the blurr brainrot never ends (thank you so so much @keferon for designing mecha au blurr, i’m on my knees hes so perfect)

i’ll finish rendering it in the morning or something….

designs from @keferon’s mecha au, illustration inspired by that one cover from veil

[abesarsapos]

WIP. In the middle of the process of making the videos where I show how I do this MECHA step by step. Phew!! En mitad del proceso de realizacion de los videos donde muestro como hago este MECHA paso a paso. Uf!! #scratchbuild #junk #manualidades #handcraft #trash #kitbashing #maquetas #modelismo #arte #artesanias #Tutorial #mecha #robot #transformer #robotech #reciclajecreativo #upcycling #shampoobottles (en Bahia Blanca, prov. Bs As.) https://www.instagram.com/p/CgE6Mi4OuUW/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[drawingpotatopenguin]

I posted 184 times in 2021

41 posts created (22%)

143 posts reblogged (78%)

For every post I created, I reblogged 3.5 posts.

I added 177 tags in 2021

#art - 29 posts

#my art - 27 posts

#digital art - 24 posts

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#dl fan content - 14 posts

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Longest Tag: 80 characters

#sheesh potato you're doing so much better than me at this whole art prompt thing

My Top Posts in 2021

#5

For more information you can DM me,

No mecha, NSFW please!

19 notes • Posted 2021-03-31 00:25:49 GMT

#4

Somehow keep forgetting how to count/hj

I love my friends for putting up with my bs

@changeling-rin here's the list again

23 notes • Posted 2021-10-01 17:02:59 GMT

#3

Dub of one of @wolfy1298 's comics, I really like art

And reblogs don't let me put videos so I can't reblog the comic like I wanted to

26 notes • Posted 2021-04-22 17:53:08 GMT

#2

Drawing of @changeling-rin 's Dimensional Links Realm

More like doodles, I was bored in class haha

29 notes • Posted 2021-08-23 17:13:54 GMT

#1

@liccy let me color this, her drawings are amazing!

Go check out @scribb-dibbs as well, they colored Hyrule and did the background! It's very pretty 🥺❤️

205 notes • Posted 2021-04-11 18:29:14 GMT

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[keferon]

AH WELL APPARENTLY THE THEME OF THE DAY TODAY IS CRYING ABOUT BLURR HUH

based on this post and @keferon mecha au in general

Blurr has had brushes with death before.

The same can be said of any driver of his caliber; speeds normally beyond reckless only reasonable with his inhuman reaction times; turns taken with the ferocity and confidence of someone with everything to win. This particular scene even rings familiar, having been yanked out of a burning cockpit before, and arriving to an ambulance and thunderous applause.

But–

Flashes of red crossing his vision – some visual symphony of fire and error messages. The blurry messages announcing each failing system one after another until they too, break into a jumble of characters and flickering screens.

The heat – oh god the heat – the smoke he can choke on through the mask, his armor, now a tomb, the final dull glow of fire behind him as the last of the error lights die out-

Blurr has had brushes with death before, but he knows no one is rushing to pull him out this time. There is no one coming for him. He was the one pushing through the blazing temperatures to save others; there is no one coming for him. There is no one coming for him no one coming no one

Blurr...is

he is so very afraid of dying.

[keferon]

I designed Mecha Pilot!Blurr >:D

His suit is kinda sketchy. I’m still working on it.

Mecha program Boss: Smiles like he’s in a toothpaste advertisement

Blurr: Smiles back

Boss, being blown away by the celebrity aura: I need to ask for his dantist’s contacts….

[minnesota-fats]

Commissions Prices

Line art:

Head n shoulder: $5

Head n waist: $10

Full body: $15

Full color:

Head n shoulder: $15

Head n waist: $20

Full body: $25

Extras

+ (1) one person: $5

Detailed background: $10

Detailed background in color: $20

Will do:

Fanart, oc’s, anthropomorphic/fury oc’s, casual nudity (NO MINORS), ships, blood, guts, vampires, monster oc’s

Will NOT do:

NSFW, mecha/robots, fetishes/kinks, minors getting saucy, antis bs, hate, resists/sexist implications, political cartoons, politics, real people ships

Payment up front

NO NEGOTIATIONS!

Depending on time and how many commissions I get it will take about 1 day to 1 week for me to draw. If I need an extension I will tell you.

Dm me if interested!

Don’t just like please reblog!❤️

[bramblie]

A reminder: I’m smol poor Ukrainian art student that takes commissions!

A wallet I use is Paysend since Ukraine is on “Send Only” list on Paypal and I don’t know any other alternatives.

Character price list:

 - A portrait - 10$

 - A half-body - 20$

 - A full-body - 40$

+50% for another character

Background price list:

 - Easy background (sky and/or landscape sillouette) - 5%

 - Detailed background (interior/exterior/landscape) - 10-40$ (depends on foreshortening) (for example, 5th picture would be a solid 40$ bc it’s a full room, 6th would be about 30$)

I don’t draw:

 - Fetish/gore/any 18+ stuff (but i can draw some light stuff like b**bs)

 - Mecha/over-detailed stuff

 - w/o character reference,based on textual description/bunch of photos/moodboards, etc.

DM me if you’re interested.

Reblogs are very appreciated.

[keferon]

TH. THIS. This iS. LtkgmgnfjfkfkdjOH THIS IS SO COOL I LOVE YOUR ART STYLE SO MUCH

Honestly…..? Blurr. Blurr in @keferon ‘s design.

The mech ? 10/10

The man inside the mech ? 10/10

I love to think about some propaganda posters or video where Blurr’s mech is like

"Hi, I’m destroying Kaijus, wanna join me ? wink wink"

Also I was thinking about the eternal sassy look of Blurr’s mech (with the shape of his ‘eye’) this is how he continued to look even after being fucking destroyed…..he was still watching everything burning (his pilot included) with that damn mischievous look.

Also also I was so in pain at the end of Blurr’s chapter, I coped by fixing him like I could….

TW : BURN SCAR AND OTHER SCARS (in general, Blurr not being very fixed but it’s better than being lobotomised by Shockwave LMAO)

I have a looot of headcanons with these scars etc…and in my drawing (YES) i assumed these were already old scars. If you are interested in seeing the *i just been under a collapsed building and mech in fire* one tell me and I’ll draw mummy!blurr

[lorranalowe]

Animated movie about (alien?)girl with purple hair, purple eyes(?), and lightning/electric-like powers???

Can anyone tell me what the title of this movie is??? Please!!!

This has been bugging me so much. 'Cause I do remember watching this movie as kid. Once. It's a CGI or 3D animated movie which looks a lot like Final Fantasy: Spirits Within (or any FF movie or video game with the same art style).

It's about a girl with purple hair who was discovered by a scientist, when she was just a baby(and I remember seeing her with long locks too, yep, as a baby), in a pod-like chamber. She has weird electric/lightning-like powers that kind of have the same color as her hair (or was it pinkish?🤔). Her adopted father (the scientist) keeps her safe by locking her in her house (or room?). She also has this cute pet to keep her company (I don't know if it was an animal or tiny robot anymore😅).

When she got older, she eventually finds a way to get out and meets this blonde(?) guy (who I think was another main character in the movie besides her, as we do get to kind of see things happening in his POV before she successfully gets out of her house).

They go off on a conspiracy-ridden adventure together for most of the movie [which I can barely remember what it was about anymore, but I think it had something to do with the city they live in (its origins or power source?)... And maybe some other political bs surrounding it... And the enemy/ies lurking in the shadows... They also got to meet other characters along the way (or was it her meeting the people he knew?)... Clues to her hidden backstory... etc. etc.], that culminates with her adopted father finally revealing her origins to both of them (uh-oh).

At the climax of the film, they need to power this huge mecha Iron Giant/Gundam-esque robot thing by using our purple-haired heroine (oh, of course) as an energy source, at the cost of her own physical form (yep, not cool, bros), to defeat the bad guys invading(?) their city(?). She basically has to live inside this robot forever if she chooses to do so.😟

Guess what? The blonde(?) guy refuses because he had already fallen in love with her during their short time together and doesn't want to lose her. She kisses him (I think?) and sacrifices herself to power up the huge robot and fights their enemies(or enemy?) while controlling it.😔

In an epilogue, we see the giant robot lying (or was it sitting?) on a field of flowers, with moss growing all over it, and light (which is the same color of her powers) still present in its eyes. Indicating that she has been alive inside all this time, after so many years had gone by after that intense final battle.😢

I don't remember every single detail in the film anymore (as you can already tell from above🤣), 'cause I was just a dumb kid watching a movie my parents put on TV to distra- I mean, for me to enjoy. And I only got to watch this movie ONCE. BUT SERIOUSLY THOUGH. HAS NO ONE. EVER. SEEN THIS FILM?! I've been looking everywhere for years now. And here I am, still empty-handed.😣

And I know what you're about to say. That bit about giving the Iron Giant-esque robot thing an energy source kind of sounds like Titan A.E., and the characters I mentioned above, does kind of sound like them. Well NO. It's not the same movie!🤦🏻

First of all, the Titan in Titan A.E. was a spacecraft not a mecha Iron Giant/Gundam-like robot!

They used the Drej (the alien antagonists in the movie) as a power source, not Akima, to power the Titan to create an Earth-like planet ('cause in this particular Sci-Fi animated movie, Earth got obliterated years ago), not to save a city/town in a planet!

Plus, the heroine in the movie I was talking about had purple hair all over, Akima only had purple streaks! As for the guy, sure he kind of had blonde hair (at least I THINK he was blonde, but I could be wrong), but he had a weird anime hairstyle going on, not a 90s haircut like Cale's.

And last but not the least, they don't even have the same animation style nor story. From what I described to you earlier, would this movie even come close to Titan A.E.? 😑

It legit feels like I've lived in an alternate dimension for awhile, and branched into a separate one (this one) where that movie doesn't exist at all. Mandela Effect, anyone? 😅 But hey, if you guys find anything, HMU. PLEASE.

[krixwell-liveblogs]

Worm asks

Have you tried to give D&D alignments to The Travelers yet, and if not how would you classify them?

Hmm.

Trickster: True neutral

Sundancer: Neutral good

Ballistic: Chaotic neutral

Genesis: ???

Noelle: Lawful? good

Oliver: Chaotic nerd

Gurer’f abguvat vaqvfchgnoyl njshy tbvat guebhtu, ohg V’q qrsvavgryl yvxr gb frr yrff uvagvat znxr vg guebhtu gur fperravat gb Xevk

Sharks: Fher guvat. V’ir orra ehaavat bss gur vqrn gung vs vg’f va gur sbezng bs na ubarfg dhrfgvba, va beqre gb nibvq nabgure Fpragyrff Zna vapvqrag, ohg V pna svarghar vg vs crbcyr jnag?

As usual, translate here.

While you’re checking out all the Simurgh fanart, you should listen to this theme someone made for her: (google Simurgh Husr, first result. Hopefully sharks can just replace this with the actual link) Same person who made that Leviathan theme linked way back.

https://soundcloud.com/user-371879520/simurgh

This was really nice. I like how it does sound like a good melody while at the same time exhibiting some of the pattern-defying nature of the tune. 🙂

I think you miiiight have jumped to conclusions from an ask that simply asked you if you could list the Traveler’s cape and civilian names. Miiight have. Also, I’m pretty sure most of them where refered to by their civilian names in previous arcs.

It’s certainly possible.

It’s not so much that I jumped to the conclusion as that the ask opened my eyes to the possibility of it, which I hadn’t considered before. From there, I had to reevaluate things and consider how things would change if it turned out I had gotten the two mixed up. Ultimately I think I’d prefer for Cody to be Ballistic, but I’m still not sure either way (even with this ask heavily implying it’s Luke).

As for names, most of their names did show up (all the more reason for an ask about matching names to capes being kind of odd if it wasn’t trying to set me thinking of something), but I can’t recall Ballistic’s being one of them. But you know how my memory can be.

That smurf song you posted definitely says “dab dab dab” several times, despite the video being uploaded to YouTube in 2009, and the song supposedly being from 1978. So that’s suspicious as hell.

I… think that has to be the bits where it actually says “tramp, tramp, tramp på en smurf” (“stomp, stomp, stomp on a smurf”).

Either way, now we’re all forced to consider the concept of the Smurfs dabbing, so thanks for that. 😛

“Dragonberry” was Scarfgirl’s old character on City of Heroes, a MMORPG with a superhero theme that no longer exists. I know you’re not reading the chapter comments, but if you ever go back to read the early ones, you’ll see that quite a lot of the early readers were City of Heroes players who had an interest in superhero fiction. That’s why Scarfgirl’s art is signed “Dragonberry”, because it’s how people knew her back then.

Ah, interesting. Fun to hear a little about the fandom’s early history. 🙂

I’ve had many names, myself. Once upon a time I used to make a different name, if not more, for just about every site I was on. One of the names that stuck with me the most was Elementarion, which I used in the game Godville and a few other places (not every Elementarion that comes up on Google now is me, though), because I found long-time friends while using that name.

Though for some reason I wonder why 😛, nobody seemed to want to type it out every time they wanted to mention me. I’ve been called almost every short form of Elementarion there is. El was the most common (made watching Stranger Things kinda odd the first time around, even though I’d long abandoned the name), but I’ve been called Ele, Elem, Eleme, Elemen, Element…

A couple other highlights I remember were Hiatus (in a browser game I don’t remember the name of), OldHeavens (NewGrounds) and Barbute (ArmorGames).

It wasn’t until I came up with Krix Jace, later Krixwell Jace, that I started stabilizing my name.

1. Do you think people ever submit misleading questions just to fuck with you?

Some, probably. And that might be a good thing — if there are some asks that deliberately imply things that are wrong, it makes it harder to trust accidental implications of things that are right.

2. Have you ever noticed that Danny and Eidolon have never been in a scene together?

Hmmmmmm 🤔

Still no Travelers interlude… do you still think you’ll get one, or has this dashed your hopes?

Ahaha

Yeah, no, I’m counting this as everything I asked for and more. 😛

Sharks:

http://www.nospoiler.com/y/WenCYI_Bn7I

Sent in by “ewerwqer”. “Simurgh Scream” by person257 Don’t… Open it with headphones on. Trust me. Don’t.

I’m scared.

*disconnects his headphones*

…not as bad as the description sounded, but yeah, probably a good idea to not use headphones. It’s a well put-together bit of mind noise, nice work. 🙂

Worm fanart

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Oooh, there are more of these? Awesome! They’re all going in my backgrounds folder.

I love how Behemoth just kinda peeks around the corner of the image border. It’s okay, don’t be shy!

(Also I just discovered I can do slideshows. Neat.)

K6BD ask

My favorite part is the Master of Aesthetic saying “she is an idiot, and a loathsome schemer!” and YISUN is all “YEP, YOU GOT THAT ONE RIGHT 😀 😀 :D”. With Aesma standing right there.

YISUN is the type of person who has “precious trash babies” in every fandom they’re in. 😛

I feel like you all need to know, even if you don’t care about MLP:FiM, that the final episode of the show proved us all wrong.

The show’s resident Skitter is not Queen Chrysalis, the villainous, scheming ruler of a hive full of insect ponies.

Nor is it Twilight Sparkle, the mainest character and socially awkward brainiac who leads a team of five other main characters and always does her research if she can.

No, because of this one episode, it becomes clear:

It’s Rarity.

…

Okay, that’s just a joke, Twilight is still the best fit among the Mane Six, but Rarity using spiders for her fashion did immediately make me think of Taylor.

Twilight – Taylor

Applejack – Brian

Rainbow Dash – Rachel

Rarity – Lisa

Fluttershy – Alec??

Pinkie Pie – Aisha??

(Spike – Shatterbird??????)

K6BD patron comments

1. “What happened to Hansa” is addressed in the Prim story so that’s still out there if you want to know.

Ahh. That would explain why it was left unexplained in Aesma, aside from acting as a noodle incident if you haven’t read Prim.

2. As you observed, the word “demon” has appeared very rarely in the comic, outside of epic title drops & an instance where drunk Allison used it in place of “devil”. It’s used in some of the bonus texts but without a clear definition. Can you speculate further on what it might mean?

The priests seem to call Aesma a demon in the sense of a being of evil, but I don’t think that’s necessarily a definition that’s relevant to the comic’s title (and what appears to be Allison’s “name” in some sense, though the Demiurges do seem to have misinterpreted other parts of the prophecy and Zoss didn’t unambiguously use it as a name). It may be more about inner demons, Allison killing her fears, doubts and insecurities as she grows into the role of a king/queen of the cosmos. Six billion might be hyperbole, in that case, but still.

Alternatively, the prophecy and name might actually refer to Zaid, who could easily end up being the final villain of this thing even if he’s not actually Zoss’ intended successor. In that case, “six billion demons” might refer to humans, if Zaid gets really nasty with his own species. We know very little about Zaid’s base personality beyond “kinda sleazy boyfriend”, so a lot of developments are plausible on that front.

Though there are other parts of the prophecy, as well as illustrations, that do fairly clearly indicate Kill Six Billion Demons is Allison and will be flanked by White Chain and Ciocie, so it referring to Zaid is unlikely.

3. I think the author once said that there are still Aesma-worshippers active in Throne. What do you think they’re like and what would she think of them?

(Somehow the flesh sellars come to mind.)

Well, clearly they’d be Slytherins, if they understand her teachings. Aesma might treat them as ants, if she were still around, but bask in their adoration.

4. Kalpa — a Hindu / Buddhist concept meaning a really fucking long time. Besides in the story you just read, the term has also appeared in the comic at least once so far.

Good to know. I think I kind of just assumed it was Throne’s equivalent of a year, however long it might be.

5. Panopticon — a prison design envisioned by philospopher Jeremy Bentham, allowing all prisoners to be observed from a central point.

Makes sense. When I read it in Aesma’s story, the word’s construction was clear enough that I figured out what it was immediately, before I finished reading the sentence. It very clearly means a place from which to see everything.

6. Root — penis.

Yeah, I figured that one out. 😛

7. To offset the unfortunate scarcity of Cio in your life lately, here’s some of the old concept art:

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(The quantity of arms was somewhat uncertain.)

Oooh.

Her arms and legs look so spidery here. I suppose that might be why she was introduced with the Coat of Arms.

Can Skitter control her?

8. Not related to K6BD but Abaddon has also been working on a tabletop mecha RPG and here’s the very nice cover art:

Ooh, you’re right, this looks very nice. It kind of gives me a K6BD x Steven Universe x Star Wars vibe. And a little bit of RWBY with that one guy that reminds me of Tyrian. I can definitely see the resemblance between this an K6BD in terms of character design style, despite the genre shift.

I particularly like the blonde in the lower left.

In the interest of transparency, I should also mention that the patron has said he probably won’t sponsor full liveblogs of any of the other bonus texts, but has sent me a few recommendations and links to some of the ones I’ve passed (besides Prim). I might read some of those on my own time, though, especially the second Aesma story. If I do, I will of course let you know and discuss any particularly notable observations.

Between: PB7

[keferon]

OH MY GOD YOU DRAW HIM SO PRETTY

this was supposed to be a side doodle for a different sketch but I blacked out and now the ethereal pretty boy gets his own post

blurr for @keferon mecha universe because this au has such a death grip on me :>