#tugs human au

[siberian-tug]

Finally finished artwork gift for my friend @jayjay667! It took a bit too long, because of my lazy ass and other stuff happening in life. But it was satisfying to draw our humanized Herculeses regardless. And her design and style are great, although I'm not the best at trying to capturing them. I doubt that I will post art regularly, although I never did regularly post anything tbh. But I'm thinking of improving my art skills, artstyle etc. and practice for a while (I'm not sure if I'll want to do anything else, like translation of episodes). And I'm still thinking of human designs for TUGS characters, if not redesigns (I tried to draw my Hercules with outfit inspired by us navy winter uniform, and give vitiligo which is invisible here now oof-) Also I decided to add watermark for changed nickname, cause why not?

And here's black and white version, like the photo!

[nebbbula]

I've never had a drawing tablet until three days ago, so naturally, the first thing I had to draw with it was our man bestie Herc <3

[starboardsquiggly]

Sleeping Under Your Hat 

Headcannon - Zorran can fall asleep anywhere given where he was raised. Favorite napping spots include the wheel of his tug on slow days, under the sun or in sunny window or Hercules’ lap in their safe house.

[neutrallyobsessed]

an interesting thing bout (my) ten cent's found family is that it's mostly one-sided on tc's part. he sees his co-workers as family but they see him as another important crew memeber.

of course their work-friendship bond is strong and important, it's just not a familial one and that's ok (yknow for the variety xd)

and yes, the ten cents-captain star relationship is quite complicated as to say it's very heartwarming and tragicomical~ one day I'll tell you bout it~

[biggsodorcitystories]

Happy ZipCents Day (01/05/2023)

Just two little switchers from rival fleets having a quiet cuddle moment together

[henryisalesbian]

Holds him out with my HUGE eyes aheem heem

can you tell i ABSOLUTELY HAVE NOT drawn hats in a while JDBSKJDJEJE

regardless, heres topham hatts boatsona

[firecooking]

Out of context facts about my tugs AU #1:

This is what being a Tugboat does to a guy

[sollyinpurplepants]

I wanted to try practicing my humans, and the sketch turned into Herc.

I wanted to do two versions, but then my wifi pooped itself.

I think I did ok regardless!

[siberian-tug]

TW: Mild Blood, Injury.

Humanized Regatta scene with Lillie bleeding and Grampus helping her.

Old artwork inspired by @/l.j.productions3833's video

Video of Speedpaint: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWLiQi6XhxM

That kinda sucks, due old artstyle, but overall fine lol. I love how everyone were always dirty minded about it and got joke, and yet I was always thinking of this moment as… Grampus simply helping Lillie medically, and that she bleeds.

(Also Lillie is engineer\technician and operator working on lightship LV 117 Nantucket , while Grampus was naval warrant officer of the US Navy, and operator of midget submarine A-3)

Also everyone wonders how Lillie and Grampus scene would look like, which is obvious tbh, Lillie is injured and Grampus helps her by pressuring wound, wrapping bandage etc...

But I more wonder how the fuck this scene would make any sense, for them in Human AU???

Grampus getting blown up for his war crimes or got crucified lmao.

I actually tried to explain with request for suicide, from Grampus to Boreas (human name for Bluenose), because of pressure he got and stuff. But it ended up sounding too dark, depressing, overexplaining, and kind of cringe...

[the-starfleet]

HE GOT A REDESIGN LET'S GOOOOO

maybe i'll update the rest of them, and FINALLY get to the Zeds. time will tell,,

[transfem-edward]

ah post exploit edward how u suffer so greatly

[the-charlie-ryan-saga]

Small doodles I guess.

First one is a screenshot redraw. The second one is Zak and some angst.

I'm sorry that there's barely dialogue here. I'm tired, and I just want some rest. But you'll get some food still.

Blood warning for the next one. There's also healed self harm scars, but you can barely see them.

Zorran is getting those leadership vibes amirite?

[starboardsquiggly]

Sunshine for the sunflowers 🌻

[biggsodorcitystories]

More TUGS scribbling and headcanons:

One of my oldest TUGS headcanons is Zorran being Zip's uncle, specifically his maternal uncle. I came to the conclusion after letting my mind wander, which led to Zorran yelling this at Zip.

Let's face it, loveable dumba$$ Zip was ever going to get a place in the Zero Fleet was by being related to one of the others. I picked Zorran as I always thought they looked the most alike.

Unfortunately, being a Z-Stack did result in Zip having to endure his uncle's temper fairly often.

[nebbbula]

If you wanna talk about Tugs headcanons, what do you think about Warrior?

Warrior's one of my favorites, so this'll be fun!

For my Human AU, I picture Warrior as being a really good baker. He'll make a huge mess in the kitchen, and the pastries won't come out looking very pretty, but they'll taste amazing. Like, the Stars could be having an argument in the briefing room, and Warrior immediately ends it by walking in with a tray of cupcakes; each with varying amounts of clumpy frosting. He's swarmed as soon as he gets through the door.

Warrior is quick to notice when one of his fleet mates is upset and will do everything he can to make them feel better. The big guy just wants to keep his team as happy as possible.

I also headcanon Warrior as autistic. I'm autistic myself, so I tend to notice those traits in characters. He takes things literally and asks questions about things that are "obvious" to others. He doesn't notice when the other tugs insult him. His clumsiness could be the result of struggles with motor skills or lack of spatial awareness, which are also common in autistic folks.

[siberian-tug]

Pls like this artwork

Top Hat consoles Sunshine

This is the first time I've drawn anything to do with TUGS at all. It all started when I watched little snippets of the show on Youtube lately, though I enjoyed viewing the fanart here, more specifically humanized Hurt/Comfort sketches which inspired me to draw my own: This is a picture I did of my human versions of Top Hat and Sunshine on the stairs of Star Dock. I sketched it out first on paper, then outlined and coloured in on Paint. I used watercolour pencils for the stairs, then cleaned up, resized and merged the layers together using GIMP till I was satisfied with the end result. Here, they are sitting on the steps of Star Dock, and Top Hat has sat a crying Sunshine onto his knee and is now consoling him. The idea came when listening to snippets of TARDIS9's TUGS audio fanfic Confidence, in which the Z Stacks put Sunshine down so much he causes an accident. www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOTss8… This could be an alternate scenario when Top Hat feels guilty about his attitude towards Sunshine after Captain Star tells the latter off, and he apologizes much earlier then is the one to comfort him, rather than Ten Cents. Well, I'm sure we can decide on your own scenarios, can't we?

I based the posing of Top Hat and Sunshine on an illustration by Anne Fine in her book Loudmouth Louis, which I read in primary school, in which the titular character is found crying by his mother following his failed attempts on a sponsored silence and she sits him on her knee and makes him feel better.

TUGS and its characters and locations belong to Robert D. Cardona, the late David Mitton and the long-defunct Clearwater Features but the human designs are mine. Please do not use, upload or reblog without asking me first.