#oc: mini

[firedjinni]

tell me about your rw ocs!!

:D sure!

The main ones I've been doodling are Three Rivers and the Administrator (AKA Mini), who basically spawned out of faffing around in a giant doc of iterator headcanons. (I was trying to work out how an "off the string" scenario could be done with my particular headcanon interpretations of iterators and their puppets, and brain basically made up a guy, lol.)

Three Rivers is an iterator who manages to eventually remove their own taboos (and later goes off the string) via a very risky and roundabout plan:

Reassign abandoned citizen ID drones to a bunch of reasonably intelligent organisms

Do this enough times to establish the minimum number of "citizens" needed to revive a specific voting council

Have the "citizens" vote in a (rigged) election to promote one trusted organism (in this case, a personally selected and hand raised slugcat - that's Mini!) to the rank of Junior Administrator (Senior admin requires tougher credentials for approval, unfortunately)

Get your new Junior Administrator to disable the basic antivirus security and administer a homemade taboo-erasing retrovirus into your systems! Preferably foolproof this step as much as possible so even a slugcat with limited understanding of iterator technology can still carry it out effectively.

The security system flags your new administrator for "suspicious behavior" and "genetic ID mismatch" partway through the infection process, puts the rest of the facility into lockdown, and demands senior admin access to restore basic functionality

Uh

Whoops

That wasn't supposed to happen--

Ironically, TR wasn't even trying to get "off the string" at the time - she just wanted to be able to upgrade and maintain her own facility beyond what her own very limited system privileges allowed her, and the whole mobile puppet thing was kind of an afterthought? But once half the structure stopped cooperating and the inspectors kept trying to kill her little administrator, well... there were only so many options left.

So, using what limited resources they still had control over, they made a traveling puppet (yay self-modification!) and ditched their failing structure to set off out into the world, followed by a small entourage of slugcats and scavengers. The others don't have designs yet, but I feel like that would be a whole post all on its own, lol...

I'm still working on a design for the traveling puppet, but the idea is that it's basically derived/reconstructed from the same base organism used to create normal iterator puppets, just bigger, more robust, and generally capable of surviving independently of the superstructure! (The concept was loosely inspired by the likes of @/ikayblythe's reiterator AU, haha)

Due to the state of the facility, though, it's something of a rush job. It looks cool, but the mouth goes nowhere and is just for show, and it still has to manually flush slag by running a bunch of water through the pseudolymphatic system and directly dumping the Microbial Waste Goop out the back ports, and some of the other internal components are... not terribly efficient... and they had to ditch so much processing power to get this thing up and running before time ran out, but hey, it works, so cool proof of concept, right? Right??

anyway her nearest neighbor eventually catches this on an overseer and just about shits a brick lol

[joldfish]

[cherrie-blue-s]

Timkon

[meo-eiru]

It's okay he loves you even when you act naughty

[pebblethief]

This is Irk, a baby tortle bard off on his first adventure!

He's very excited and optimistic and he inspires people by drawing them little pictures

his plushie is called Gim

[stupidneko]

you know the feeling, don't you? will you ignore him like they did to you?

[deoidesign]

sleeping beauty (available in print!)

[its-elioo]

Poor dawg 😔

[belu-bleeb]

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Danny lost count.

belu_bleeb is typing…

I changed up my style formatting, trying to experiment, since this kind of formatting style will be like in the upcoming mini series.

[senranx]

contract

[firedjinni]

PRIVATE [LIVE BROADCAST] Three Rivers, First/Third Quarter

FTQ: What is that? TR: That's my new junior administrator! FTQ: … ha ha, very funny. FTQ: [F] Did you really give it a little ID drone and everything? FTQ: [T] I don't know what you see in these animals, Riv. TR: Yep! And I'm not joking. It really is my administrator right now. FTQ: … FTQ: [T] What. FTQ: [F] Rivers. Explain. TR: So, remember about a thousand cycles ago when I was spit-balling that idea about privilege escalation via council bylaws to access previously disabled levels of structural permissions? TR: This was my solution! TR: I gave enough organisms ID drones to legally form a new Council of Houses, then rigged the election to promote one of them as my new lowest-tier administrator. TR: Then I just had to walk it through disabling the security system and running the taboo-removal retrovirus, which was honestly easier than I thought it would be. They're really smart little guys! TR: Anyway, due to some unforseen side effects that are, to be clear, totally unrelated to my choice of administrators, I might be needing to ask you for a favor in the near future, so I thought I'd give you some advance notice~ FTQ: . FTQ: … FTQ: ... FTQ: YOU GAVE THE ANIMAL ROOT?!?!

Finally drew some nice rendered stuff of Three Rivers and Mini! Also cameoing First and Third Quarter, one of my other even less fleshed out fan-iterators from from Rivers' local group. I've had this one percolating for a while, mostly because I wanted an excuse to caption something with this conversation, lol.

[mefiless25]

*clank*

A redrawing of the mini-comix about kiss in helmets

[syrupyyyart]

Far-Out! concept arts

[meo-eiru]

Rules

[stupidneko]

POV you notice the Child of Man in the botanical garden trying to climb a tree with no success and decide to go and help her out, only to backfire at you just like Lilia's cooking 🧍

[lilybug-02]

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Glad to have finished this before Halloween. I'm not entirely sure why I decided to create this comic. A sense of longing and sadness maybe. A want to branch out into a more stylistic painterly approach. Also hands. I really wanted to draw hands.

Artist Support. (no pressure) . ♠︎BuyMeACoffee♠︎ . ☺︎Patreon☺︎ .

Okay, now I ramble on about this artwork. HOLY- like. WOW! I think this looks really good :)))) I'm really happy with how it turned out. I was fighting a losing battle at the end there, with trying not to add too much shading or color. I really enjoyed drawing the characters, but the background were quite a chore, even with how simple they are.

And I am really happy with how I changed up the character design of Lost (the ghost). I of course love his TV head, but giving him such a wispy and unidentifiable face really helped the mood. I love drawing facial expressions, but I also love obscuring faces to set an uneasy or uncertain tension. You can probably see that a lot in my characters.

I never really realized it, but these two represent so many metaphors! Haha. With Lost's thoughts of Lucky being ugly, referencing the Ugly Duckling, and their names being so close to "Lost and Found".

And after making this one off comic, I can see some avenues of where I could continue this story ;)