#sly cooper arpeggio

[aleppothemushroom]

"Sly 2? What kind of title is that?"

[alfafilly]

I don't trust nobody and nobody trusts me I'll be the actress starring in your bad dreams

In honor of Arpeggio's birthday the 20th anniversary of Sly 2: Band of Thieves--my all-time favorite game--I decided I wanted to do something for it, but couldn't come up with anything in particular. Then I figured, ya know what! I always wanted to color a couple of my old Inktober pieces I did back in 2017 when I did my Sly Cooper series. So I plucked one and put some digital color on it! I messed with some new brushes too while I was at it.

It's interesting going back to it. 2017 feels just like yesterday, but I can see how differently I handled my art even then. I was still in college at the time, which is wild to me!

Ironically, this inspired both some old and new ideas! So hey, expect some more ArpeggioSly Cooper-themed pieces to come up this month ;) Perhaps, even... a return of my Survived!AU? Who's to say!

[arpeggio-the-parrot]

Me @ y’all falling for a baseless Sly 5 release rumor for the umpteenth time

[slycooperconfessions]

"Back again to confess that I’m still happily in love with Arpeggio for 15 YEARS now! And I just as happily refuse to get help! <3"

Confessed by: arpeggio-the-parrot

[peregrinefalconlady-art]

OOOH silly me forgot to post my Valentine’s Day art here! 💕

Arpeggio bein sweet and preening his beloved … me.

[tumb1rprincess]

I have to wonder what Neyla and Arpeggio's relationship was like. I know Arpeggio describes her as his "protégé" but that can mean a lot of things. Was it a master/student relationship? Were they partners? Was it more like a father/daughter relationship? It's just left kind of vague and I want more.

[alphascorpiixx]

Sly 2's Clockla twist can be summarized as Clockwerk introduced as Chekhov's gun that Neyla grabs except then it turns into a red herring and instead of shooting you she hits you in the face with it

[ebonysquib]

Keeping Up With the Klaww Gang: who would be who? I need to know

AW SHIT 😭😂

I don’t know shit about keeping up with the Kardashians so this is just vibes and the very limited knowledge I have

Arpeggio (or the Contessa) as Kris (The Momager) and Jean Bison as Kaitlyn Jenner (fuck you. *transes your Jean Bison*) simply because them being an old married couple is practically canon and i think it'd be funniest. also out of all the members Jean and Arpeggio seem to be the oldest? or at least may have seniority? (or i just think that cuz they are like the last two members we face) just these three are the mom and dad most likely okay.

Rajan, Dimitri, and Neyla as the main three kardashian sisters, Kim, Khloe, and Kourtney. I don't really have any reasons for it except they are the last three of the klaww gang left.

this is the dumbest thing ive ever had to think about thank you. yall can feel free to add on or make corrections since my knowledge is very limited in regards to the kardashians.

[inspector-montoya-fox]

so anyway

[alfafilly]

AYYY I recently started posting my 2018 fanfic onto AO3! I am going to try to upload a chapter a day or every-other-day until I get all 51 chapters posted to it! I included all the illustrations I did for it as well!

Arpeggio only desires to succeed in his mysterious, large-scale criminal scheme. However, this becomes difficult to achieve when a pair of his hired workers decide they want to befriend him. But friendship has no place in his plan. That's what he keeps telling himself, anyway.

Check it out:

[arpeggio-the-parrot]

Immortality! Immortality is what I seek.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY to my beloved husbird!!! And happy 20th anniversary to Sly 2: Band of Thieves; the game I was weirdly hesitant to play all those years ago, only for it/my love for Arpeggio to change the course of my life (no, really) and become my favorite video game of all time! ❤️

Sadly, we lost Sam Mowry, Arpeggio’s voice actor, back in July. While I had the idea to redraw this scene of Arpeggio saying his “iconic” line prior to Mowry’s passing, I realized upon completing this that it may serve to commemorate his role as Arpeggio’s voice. 🤍🕊️

I even made a lil video including Arpeggio’s voice clip! I have all of Arpeggio’s voice files handy thanks to someone on the Sly Cooper Amino, when I was active there several years back. Was very pleased to finally put one of them to actual use instead of for my personal listening enjoyment LOL. Video below the cut!

[slycooperconfessions]

"Where are the bird heroes? Every bird in this series is a villain, and that makes me sad."

Confessed by: Anonymous

[arpeggio-the-parrot]

Sorry I had to meme this

[claraknight]

So a month ago, I finally finished the Sly trilogy for the first time. ...And liked it so much it kicked me back into being creative. Story AND character wise.

Brainstormed a Sly-3 alike chapter within days and came up with not one, not two, but three new OCs. From left to right, here are Catherine (Cathy) Laplume, Charles Howler (her father), and Agatha Laplume (her mother). I’ll spare you from a wall of text, but here are some tidbits of info under the readmore if you’re interested:

The story/chapter takes place in Paris, more precisely in Moulin Rouge.

Charles Howler is the owner/showman of Moulin Rouge while Catherine, his daughter, is his most talented performer.

Agatha was a famous reporter and  renowned author who’d constantly try to follow Sly’s father to write the best scoops. She was killed in her husband’s office one night in a mysterious thief accident - an accident that was blamed on Conner Cooper, but there’s more to it...

Unknown to her father, Cathy was a former member of the Klaww Clan, but a more discrete one. She’d write gossip articles under a pen name to ruin the reputation of anyone who’d cause a problem to the clan.

Aside from her performances in Moulin Rouge, Cathy worked as a model at Dimitri Lousteau’s night club while it was still open. In truth, she was using the place as an hideout to write her gossip articles - and it was also a way for her to have fun, far from the pressure her father constantly put on her shoulders.

Cathy considered Arpeggio like a second father - and Dimitri remains a very close friend/dance partner and more as the games’ events unfold.

Fun facts about the names:

Charles Howler is a mix between the two founders of Moulin Rouge (Charles Zidler and Joseph Oller)

Both Catherine and Agatha are cat puns (first one is obvious, second is based on “cat” in spanish). But Agatha is also a reference to Agatha Christie.

I’ll stop for now, but yeah, here I am with yet another hyperfixation. Enjoy!

[totally-correct-shenanigans]

Lousy AU Idea #???

Snapcube Fandub AU where the Cooper Gang retains their personalities from the titular Snapcube Fandub.

(Sly 2 is just a continuation of Kill All Birds as Sly goes after Arpeggio (a bird). /j

I like to imagine Dimitri as Fandub Eggman-adjacent and Neyla as Fandub Rouge-adjacent. Maybe there will be a Sly 2 fandub someday...)

[ms-scarletwings]

Okay so this is not even a critique or much of a commentary but it’s just acknowledging some Sly Cooper… design choices that keep bouncing around in my head rent free

Like I’ve never seen anyone talk about some of this

- the boldness of making a full 1/3rd of the enemies to be encountered in Paris frog people

- Speaking of Paris, apparently those flashlight guards kid me could only guess were some kind of scary cows have this entire time been warthogs.

- just always thought these cyclops squid guards from Relaigh’s level were interesting.

- boldness part 2: Pigs have consistently been the animal of choice to represent the wider police force behind Carmelita, up until only the third game

- Between the bats, the pigeons, the parrots, and the vultures I need Sucker Punch to answer me straight whether or not all the avians are actually typically capable of flight or not. In-game play seems to suggest they do have some limited form of flight and may just be weighed down by personal objects. Clockwerk flies, sure, but he’s a massive jet boosted android. But wait, Arpeggio’s entire sad backstory is that he couldn’t fly, so that MUST mean the norm for birds in this world is fully flight-functional wings. The reason I’m BEGGING to know is so I can say if it’s canon or not that bird people in Sly Cooper can just take off at any moment by flapping their arms ala Bojack Horseman, because it would be hilarious

- sorry I’m actually not finished with the birds but seriously, are their wings functionally hands or not? Clockwerk has literally been seen to only grab things with his feet, the bats in the Contessa levels certainly don’t seem to get any manual dexterity out of theirs, but????

Okay! So that actually settles it- except in game vulture guards also… only ever… use their feet to handle those same crossbows.

I’ll try to tell the little hamster in my brain it should really stop asking questions about the birds at this point tbh