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Some more phantom hourglass stuff lol. Linebeck is so tired lol
#I love drawing freaky looking monsters#wanted a Bellum design#not a lot of freaky monster stuff but that’s fine#i want to make him creepy#anyways#linebecj cannot escape the puns#phantom hourglass#legend of zelda phantom hourglass#linebeck#jolbeck#bellum
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THE WEIRD AL-CANA - 02. THE HIGH PRIESTESS- AIRLINE AMY
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full disclosure, this pick was almost exclusively so I could represent one of my favourite underrated al songs. when I was drawing this I looked for live performances and al literally introduced this song as 'probably nobodys favourite weird al song' and im here to break the allegations
so i struggled back and forth on high priestess for a little until it hit me like a freight train. of course airline amy is the high priestess. shes literally 30,000ft up in the air, cant get much higher than that- [rimshot]
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#alloyart#weird al#weird al yankovic#weird al-cana#amys design here ended up very miss bellum by accident :V#i wanted the cloud hair and obscured face as a sort of. indication that als character in this song def has his head in the clouds#about this nice lady doing her job wanting him as badly as he wants her lol#it was a little harder to work the rider-waite symbolism into this one because shes off center there but#i tried with the coloured curtains and her holding the clipboard as a stand-in for the scroll and stuff#im putting much more thought into these than anyone on earth ever should and having an awesome time doing it
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guyssss I'm dipping my toes into selling original art on stickers, T-shirts, etc., on Redbubble
not QUITE ready to post a link yet (I want to have at least 10 designs up and I currently have 6)
but I'd love to do some of my monster OCs as designs there
so tell me your favorite monster (werewolf, naga, alien, etc. etc.) and if I have an OC for that monster type, I'll give em priority in making a design for them first
love you guysssss <3
#Bellum babbles#I'm excited abt it I've always wanted to try making designs of my original stuff like this
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drawing is difficult for me and writing is something i’m considerably better at sooooo…
written list of ideas i have for a humanoid design for bellum bc i think im finally zeroing in on something after a few uhhh years of brainstorming
(if you read this and have like. some ideas you want to share or some possible [constructive] criticisms go ahead and share them if you want)
Not actually properly humanoid; he can take on a fully human look but it isn’t his default and requires a bit more energy
Therefore, he usually lacks ears (they’re just. holes), finger or toe nails, a navel, an adam’s apple, or basically any kind of human detail that could be easily overlooked at first glance (maybe leaning into a bit uncanny?). He does have these traits when he actually puts the effort in to pass as human
The traits shared between his usual humanoid form and the more explicitly human form are: an eyepatch over his left eye (he doesn’t have a left eye or eye socket in either form. it’s like one-eyed willy in goonies), yellow hair (actually the same color as link’s), a lack of a nose (effectively like it’s been torn off, just leaving the nostril lines/openings), and a lot of large scars pretty much everywhere (some are just normal looking scars, like one across his face that looks like items from a wound that cost him his nose, while others vaguely resemble the markings on his body when he’s in demon/normal form), so either way he’s going to draw attention
In his usual form (more obviously nonhuman) his left eye is his usual black and orange eye, and he has sharp teeth, but he can switch those to appear more human if he’d like
He’s below the average height and appears to be only slightly muscular, logically more built for flexibility or with the build of a dancer, but his demonic strength remains, though his speed and flexibility is limited by the form he takes
His hair is a mess and mostly short, and if he’s in the more demonic-leaning human form, it’s usually got streaks of black (black is in there in some way, how it appears is still a wip) in all of the yellow
Clothing can vary but most commonly he chooses something loose and casual, he doesn’t particularly value his clothes and doesn’t really have anything to hide and so pick stuff that won’t drag him down or get snagged in a fight, flimsy loose clothes are good
Other times he’ll wear boots and gauntlets and gloves in a more serious context, usually opting for designs and materials similar to what he gives his phantoms, he doesn’t fully lean into the phantom-style of armor or fighting unless he needs to focus on defense, however
In either of his human forms, he’s still capable of fighting (and in his more demonic form he can use his tentacles, the come from his back), and doesn’t so much as have a fighting style as he generally just kills with whatever seems most convenient or entertaining at the time, ranging from creating a weapon for himself to use to just bashing a guy’s skull in with his bare hands
He’s very violent but can talk just fine and can be just about eloquent if he wants but usually leans into being more chaotic and acting the part of a brutal ruffian if the job can be completed using force, so a lot of the time he doesn’t even bother with looking explicitly human most of the time
He greatly prefers his demonic form and uses the human form for specific reasons, and can’t actually use it if he’s too weak
#bellum height is weird bc my idea of a tall/short ph realted character got skewed bad when i decided linebeck is 6’ 8”#now that im writing this out ive realized that im reasoning thst bellum’s human form looks the way it does to lure in prey yknow#he tries to look normal and friendly and unassuming and then he fucking kills you brutally or just by turning you to stone#it’s less like. gijinka or whatever and more just a form he can temporarily take if he wants and half of the time doesnt bother passing#he takes human form to more easily communicate or to directly get info from people or if he wants to do some brawling or whatever#timeline of humanoid bellum’s nose: went from vague nose shape to missing half the nose to just missing the whole nose#bellum having the same hair color as link is something i use to my advantage. he absolutely abuses looking related to link#im mostly having fun with his human design but it is something i need to figure out bc he does use it in a lot of my aus#this is a mess but its fine just wanted to share what ideas i have bc good lord this is hard#its harder to create a design for an existing nonhuman than to just whip one up for an oc obviously but still. man#listen unconsciously assigning 21st century schizoid man as my bellum song was good and bad at the same time#amazing vibes for this character fantastic now i have to work on the now-inherent prog/jazz rock vibes bc that doesnt fit the setting#also mixed dirty little animals in there so now we’ve got this crude and raucous scrappy demon who starts bar fights to bare-handedly kill#this kinda just turned into 'bellum w/ a human form headcanons' but ig its hard to talk abt visuals without. visuals#he changes depending on au cuz its the idea of like. immortal being learning from and adapting to their changing surroundings kinda thing#i think my personal fears abt this stuff is that then bellum comes off as v. like. edgy#also might be a bit of over-designing or whatever but idk???? accepting constructive criticism for a reason#loz#legend of zelda#phantom hourglass#bellum#salty talks#really putting this out there huh. ew. lol.#shoutouts to bellum's human form and my oc damien fletcher for finally getting somewhat stable designs after actual years
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Lol, imagine this : cosmic horror AU
The Noise would be the charismatic TV host of chaos, hosting his mysterious show, his public would be the souls of the damned, and his audience would be random people who watched TV at the wrong time and at the wrong place, they are the unsuspected victimes of The Noise's game, a game starting as simple challenges and slowly turning into psychological torture, he'd be narrating your moves like a sports narrator you hear on TV, if you survive those challenges, you'll go back to your life... But you'll never be the same... If you fail, you'll be part of The Noise's audience... forever. Ooooh this is so edgy I love it >:)
Appearance wise it'd just be Cosmic Noise in a less cartoony style with half of his face skin missing revealing a second row of teeth on top of his current teeth (you know like you see in children skull X rays) it's gross, it's creepy, I love it
As for Peppino he'd be the Great Primal Cosmic chef, creating every level of existence from his mighty pizza oven, and blessing humanity with the art of cooking and the Holy Book of Recipe. His words are of unmatched wisdom (and loudness) but are somehow of common comprehension, his presence is overwhelming and yet somehow comforting, he's so calm and so unstable at the same time, he creates in love and in wrath. Peppino is a contradicting deity and his authority is often challenged, his existence only been reduced to fairytales (so yeah basically Italian Arceus). Despite having an age beyond compression, his omnipotence and omniscience and his status as the Cosmic chef, he's one of the most human cosmic entity of them all, experiencing feelings like loneliness, stress and fear. He combats those feelings by cooking, pretty much being a workaholic, it kinda works but he's still pretty lonely.
Appearance wise he'd be cosmic pep in less cartoony style but absurdly huge, like no matter how you tilte your head up you'd only see the beginning of his collar at best, basically being like miss Bellum. And if somehow you manage to get around head level he'd cover his face with a pan, if you're mortal it's because you'd burn if you see his face and if not it's because he doesn't want you to see his disfigured face he got after a cosmic battle with The Noise. He'd be translucent, his body is marbled with scars of past fights, and his overall color palette would be a lot more cooler and darker with his apron and chef hat being the only bright thing on his body.
Yes it's absurd, yes Peppino is God in this AU, yes I made my favorite character into an OP being, yes I'm being a kid. It's meant to be edgy and it will.
Ohhhh but I see you from miles away "BuT wHaT aBoUt CoSmIc FaKe ???!?!!??!" I KNOW YOU WERE ABOUT TO SAY IT, KIWI SEES ALL 👁️👁️, well lucky for you, I may have an idea for our fav ticket stand
THE FAKER is a shapeless dark entity, with infinite amount of faker faces on its body, it hides itself inside a ticket stand where it waits for unsuspected victimes, if you go to the ticket stand and ask for a ticket, a voice will invite you inside, wether or not you accept the invitation, a hand will drag you inside, your body will slowly be assimilated, your mind shifts into one that isn't your own, you feel like you don't know who you are, you feel cold, but one thing is for sure, you have to be so big, strong and mighty to the point you'll rival the might of the Cosmic chef. So yeah basically here it's the thing who wants to be a god.
Okay I'm done with my trip, obviously it's not canon in anyway and it's just my inner kid (and idiot) expressing itself. It doesn't have much of any link with True cosmic, only vaguely taking some of its ideas and exaggerating them to make them sound creepy. I really love horror in general and since Cosmic Au is already absurd I just want to push it to the max and make it an edgy and angst mess. I'd probably design it someday but I already have so much to do ! You know what, to anyone who managed to read this far, I challenge you into drawing those characters using the description I wrote.
If this post gets some people interested maybe I'll do the rest of the cast...
Okay NOW I'm going back to work...
#pizza tower#peppino spaghetti#the noise#fake peppino#cosmic au#ahhh and here I hope to make actual cosmic horror when I pissed my pants playing the Stanley parable#and my goofy ahhh style will not help#maybe someday
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“Si vis pacem, te ipsum vince”: the meaning behind Erina’s banner
I’m sure most people have noticed it, as it was shown firstly in the trailer and then in the opening: “Si vis pacem, te ipsum vince” seems to be the official motto of Persona 5 Tactica, and is indeed present on Erina’s banner when she uses Flag of Freedom.
The slogan is in latin, it roughly translates as “If you want peace, you must conquer yourself,” and it’s an alteration tailored to the game from the most commonly known “Si vis pacem, para bellum” (If you want peace, prepare for war).
What most don’t know (myself included before digging deeper to make this post), is that even the “original” phrase wasn’t exactly born as such and is itself an adaptation of a wider paragraph from a military treaty — Vegetius’ De Re Militari or “Epitome of military science” (the following quote comes from the beginning of Book 3):
Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum; qui uictoriam cupit, milites inbuat diligenter; qui secundos optat euentus, dimicet arte, non casu.
From what I read, the author does a sort of introduction by citing war masters from the past, including Athens and Sparta, and declares his task in compiling all their teachings in one place. Then, he concludes by saying “Therefore, the one who desires peace shall be ready for war; the one who longs for victory shall diligently instruct his soldiers; the one who’s after success shall fight following the art of war, not chance.”
The concept here is clear: you can’t search for and uphold peace without being skilled in battle and ready to fight for that peace if need be… which is a pretty interesting message in the wider scheme of Tactica.
(Warning for story spoilers from here onwards)
I didn’t reflect on it much as I was playing, especially because the game never gives you any “official” translation of what’s written on Erina’s banner. But as I went back to thinking about it, I realised just how fitting this alteration is. The whole deal with Salmael is peace should be the ultimate goal for mankind, a state of existence where no conflict is necessary—on the contrary, conflict is viewed as a bad thing, because it causes hurt and is ultimately harmful. So it makes perfect sense that “Si vis pacem, para bellum” is something that goes against Salmael’s philosophy.
What bothers me, instead, is that it perfectly fits what Erina represents, as is and without any alteration: she battles Marie like rebels do tyrants because the peace in the Kingdom has been disrupted and she wants it back. Putting metaphors aside, Toshiro is the one that realises that only by opposing his father and his fiancé he can right the wrongs that his family committed, and eventually find peace within himself. “Si vis pacem, para bellum” is actually already tailored on what the game is about, so thinking back about the alteration they made, I can’t quite explain it.
It has to be said, though, that “Si vis pacem, te ipsum vince” is also fitting. Reconciling with one’s Shadow self, tame it and embrace it is what awakening a Persona is all about and what Toshiro does later on in the story, so to have “If you want peace, you must conquer yourself” written on Erina’s banner is also a really nice touch!
I guess my main point here is that both phrases go well with the story’s themes and plot, but I do have to say, removing “para bellum” kind of ends up reinforcing Salmael’s point, which is that war (=conflict) isn’t necessary. It ultimately serves P5’s whole narrative that puts individuals at the center of societal changes without questioning too much what role society at large plays: it is acknowledged society needs reform, but reforming passes through righteous people and removing bad apples rather than dismantling and rebuilding anew a system that is designed to be exploitative. More so that “te ipsum” is a bit like saying “you yourself” so I’d argue that a really great emphasis is put on the person/individual. Also worth noting that “te ipsum” is specifically male-gendered as “ipsum” is accusative cause (direct object) for both male (“ipse) and neutral (“ipsum”) pronouns, but “te” is accusative case for the pronoun “tu” which can only be used referring to a person; this means that if the phrase was to be female-gendered it would be “te ipsam vince”. So it really seems to be tailored to Toshiro.
I think what they did with Tactica’s motto is cool (if anything because it let me put my high school diploma at use again after 7 years lol) and definitely a nice addition that shows this game was made with a decent level of care for being a spinoff… at the same time, I can’t help but find a subtle contradiction in the alteration they made.
#persona 5#persona 5 tactica#p5t#tactica spoilers#persona 5 tactica spoilers#p5 meta#meta#p5t meta#persona 5 once again brainrottimg me to the point i go fish back for my latin
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*Tungsten's To The Bottom plays*
I've basically been wanting to make a Bellum gijinka since the last edition of FoE, and I'm happy with how the design came out!
[Image id: Two mostly identical images of a humanoid version of Bellum from The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass. The only difference between them is that one image is shaded. The character is a young looking male posed with his right hand on his hip and his left arm bent upwards so his hand is directed towards his mouth, which is open and smiling to reveal fangs. He has blue-black hair and light yellow skin and eyes that are orange and yellow with black scleras. The hair is spiky in the front, and gathered into loose ponytails with red-orange hair ties on the side and in the back. He is wearing an olive green outfit with puffy sleeves and knee-length pants, with black undersleeves and leggings, and a membranous cape. Fitted through the cape are five black tentacles that end with flat pads that have eyes on them. The eyes match the ones on his face. /end ID]
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big agree with a lot of these points good and bad. i know a while back i made posts for most of the loz manga (and ph got an extensive one) but yeah ph like the others is a pretty mixed bag.
giving linebeck a little backstory is nice on a surface level but specifically tying him to the ghost ship kind of opens up questions like… why is he going back if he knows exactly what’s waiting for him. i think it would be more interesting to give him a backstory unrelated to the ghost ship tbh
its nice that ph gets this adaptation in the first place but it really is better to consider it a supplemental bit rather than letting it be your only exposure to ph oh my god. the way the story is heavily condensed despite still reaching a lot of the same conclusions is rough going right from the ghost ship into the final boss sequence is insane and rushes linebeck’s arc like crazy esp since his arc doesnt really start to kick into gear until after the ghost ship in the game.
(despite cutting literally half the game i think the worst casualty of the pacing is linebeck’s arc. it feels really rushed and awkward for it to follow the same slow pace as it does in the first half of the game and then suddenly slams into the back half of his development without any of the time or small changes that the game had)
(also we lose the bit with linebeck holding off bellum with the phantom sword rip. and his letter. tbh despite it not having any big cutscenes the second half of the game has some good moments)
the art is a big of a mixed bag here, too, and you’re right about it seeming like it’s caught between two styles while linebeck, oshus, and the kids gets the ph style astrid and jolene get the usual loz manga style and its… why? jolene is like.. sure it still matches up with her game model but what they did was astrid is absolutely insane to me. everything about manga astrid just feels wrong to me. plus, the art overall feels… a bit lower-effort than past zelda manga? the character designs are simpler (linebeck feels inconsistent but that might be me) backgrounds are either simple or nonexistent, and i know art is hard but the other loz manga have good art so idk.
it’s got some good original stuff, like some extra depth to bellum and the changes made to the bellumbeck fight, but its flaws make it hard for me to really enjoy as an adaptation of ph. ph especially feels like it would really benefit from having a longer adaptation since it’s got a larger main cast and the travel time between islands could be good for slice-of-life kind of things or scenes of the characters interacting and extra little bits of character development, plus theres space to flesh out other characters and concepts introduced in ph. theres a fair bit of potential for a longer ph adaptation.
oh we do lose some jokes or otherwise more humorous bits, a lot of the humor in the manga is silly little art or the usual making fun of linebeck except with a bit of a straighter streak (he feels more hetero and neurotypical in the manga i cant explain it but he has a lot less gay/bi autistic swag. but the loz manga in general is pretty fucking het, excluding four swords, so idk)
i think my general overall opinion on the ph manga (and a lot of the other shorter loz manga) is that while some of the new stuff is cool, it doesnt do the original story enough justice to make up for it. the new stuff can do heavy lifting but its not really going to be enough if you cut out half of the story, speedrun through half of the story, or completely omit the thematically impactful stuff (majoras mask im so sorry about your manga you deserved SO much better)
its fun and haunted my subconscious after i randomly picked it up once and before i played ph for real but its mid at best ph deserves an extended adaptation imo
Here's a post where you can share your thoughts about the Legend of Zelda - Phantom Hourglass manga! ⌛️
Pros, cons, general thoughts - go crazy
#reblog#loz#legend of zelda#phantom hourglass#yeah you covered like. everything#id want either a longer ph manga or straight up an anime adaptation#you could do a lot with a longer adaptation of ph#tbh my ph fics are in line with what id want#like more slice of life stuff exploration into linebecks psyche and generally what hes up to and links relationships with everyone#tbh you could set up some banger shit by taking the timr in a longer adaptation to do a lot of setting up for bellumbeck#make that shit HURT with the time you get in a longer adaptation#like idk. you could do more world building and delve more into side characters or oshus or bellum or the spirits#sprinkle in some tetra flashbacks to give her some screentime if you stick with the canon plot#also didnt mention but linebecks manga design overall is a mixed bag for me (cuz i have my own preferred design for him n whatever)#like i dont like what they did with the end of his coat and he generally feels awkwardly between the toon style n a more typical manga styl#and its not. great? and sometimes his hair is a little inconsistent and i personally dont like that style of drawing his tuft of hair#but i do like the detail of him sticking his lower lip out and the shape of his nose. theres some good little things#when i first started noticing the flaws with this manga the art was the first thing that caught my attention#salty talks
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BELLUM. birthday girl !!! I'm officially super old (... 30, I'm 30)
Mom took me, my brother, and my cousin to a ramen shop about 40-ish minutes away that my cousin and her fiance have been to ... it was gorgeous and the food is incredible so we'll definitely be back ! I got their "niku ni" ramen with grilled chicken, chashu pork, corn, mushrooms, green onions, and boiled egg ... and a glass of plum wine even tho I don't usually drink in the daytime, cuz it's my birthday and I wanted to try it (was DELICIOUS)
the shop had FOUR different TVs playing anime and the one playing MHA was playing the fight between Hawks and Jin and Dabi so I am. emotionally compromised. but then I took a picture with their fake cherry blossom and fairy light tree !
then we went to Crumbl for the first time and my birthday dessert was a "skillet cookie" which was. AMAZING. messy but amazing
then we went to Panda Express cuz I've never had it and got some takeout to heat up for dinner
also I wore my Dabi shirt that I got in the comfort character care box of him I bought ! the design is cute and it's so soft
I have long since ripped my fake nails off and wiped my lipstick off and changed into a tank top BUT IT'S BEEN A GOOD DAY
Mom got me a blanket, a travel cup, and crystals that both she and my brother picked out
now am tired but happy, I don't feel any older yet but I'm sure it'll kick in soon haha
#in all her nerdy glory ! ( MUN SELFIE. )#( BIRTHDAY SHENANIGANS. )#(( me finishing my wine before we left the ramen shop : THIS ONE'S FOR YOU JIN BABY ILU#also at one point we were talking and I was like “oh a KFC ad is that what's happened to Hawks these days?”#and my cousin looked at me like I had just shot the man dead myself XD ))
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I’ve been thinking about the big deities of Hyrule and decided to make designs for different deity designs.
Hylia is the Goddess of Heroes, ordered by the golden three to watch over the Triforce when they left. She is the goddess of Hyrule, though it existed when she no longer existed because she gave up her immortality to defeat Demise. So really, no goddess protects the Triforce, and instead it scattered after ocarina of time when Ganondorf tried to grab it. But yeah Hyrule is kind of a mess with no Goddess to protect it. I lvoe big bird woman but honestly, I wanted her to look like Hylians so she’s a regular Hylian with some godly designs added. Yayy.
Then there’s Labryn, the war god of Labrynna. He’s focused on war and strategy and so he has the owl insignia to kind of represent Nayru’s wisdom. He’s kind of meant to be a mixture of Ares and Athena. He’s fun! Very rageful and has no respect for Hylia or her heroes. Hope he doesn’t create a labyrinth to test a hero 😳 that’d be crazy tho
Then we got Hollow and Drumm, the dancing gods of Holodrum. I want that kingdom to be focused on entertainment so I gave them the comedy and tragedy masks which is fun. Their designs are loosely based after the oracle Din too and yeaaaah. Idk what they do but they just kinda vibe and do their own thing.
Then there’s Oshus, king of the oceans. I feel like the ocean is its own domain, it’s own kingdom. I mean in our world, the ocean is its own world, so it makes sense for the ocean here to be separate from the kingdoms on land. So Oshus is doing his own thing and watching over the world of the ocean. And I also just love him. Def adding a ton of power to him, putting him on the same level as Hylia but idc it’s what he deserves. Now, if he was so powerful, why couldn’t he defeat Bellum? Well… Hylia had Demise so…. And she didn’t survive that battle sooooo…. Tho he’s not involved with Hyrule, Oshus has a lot more respect for Hyrule and its hero after phantom hourglass :3c
And idk, I wanted to draw Loria. Idk how her world exists she’s just kinda there vibin.
#I love adding lore and worldbuilding that’s not supported by canon at all! :D#legend of Zelda#legend of Zelda au#Oshus#Hylia#Loria#Labryn#hollow#drumm#Loria was hard#I like her tho she’s pretty
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Sooooo I saw this lil meme on Twitter and thought it would be fun to do!! :3 While R. Marie is still a self-insert all the way down, she's the most unique and involved s/i I've ever made and I put a whole lotta thought into her. I've written out details on how each character inspired her, both in design and personality, under the cut if anyone would like to read it! :3
[If you enjoyed this, feel free to reblog! All of them are seen and appreciated! 💜🖤💜]
Commander Peepers
His dynamic with Hater as well as dynamic with the minions
Hot temper, quick to anger
Very passionate about evil, and clearly more competent as a villain than his superior
Also sharp lines! Love them sharp lines
Tbh, Peepers was probably the biggest inspiration for R. Marie. They even have the same title! :3
Sarah Bellum
Femme fatale working under a rather incompetent superior
Hot + Smart
Big Hair uwu
(It may not seem like a lot, but Ms. Bellum was another big inspo for R. Marie!)
Tawna
R. Marie was kinda designed as a foil to Tawna, the same way Crash is a foil to Cortex
I did want the couples to mirror each other, including dynamic-wise of course
In the way that Tawna's outfit is similar to Crash's but just on a hot babe, R. Marie's outfit is similar to Cortex, but also on a hot babe instead
(Also in the same way that Tawna's N. Sane Trilogy design has a picture of Crash on her shirt, R. Marie also has the iconic N-blem that Cortex is known for on her chest)
Cortex
This one is obvious, but still :3
Design-wise, R. Marie's fit was drawn to mirror Cortex in multiple ways. So they look good together 💖
Twinsanity's Cortex design was the hugest inspiration (you could almost call it stealing hehe), from the stripe down the labcoat to the knee-high boots, to the N-blem being on the left side of the chest
Morticia & Jessica Rabbit
Grouped together because the inspiration taken from each of them was essentially the same
Inspo was taken in both their designs and their dynamics with their significant other
I wanted that Hot Woman devoted to Weird Smaller Guy energy 😎
Yellow Diamond
Yes, believe it or not!
Yellow Diamond didn't start to be an inspiration until I was already partway into designing R. Marie
Yellow Diamond's ruthelessness and antipathy for others was put into a lot of R. Marie's personality and the way in which she views both her minions and just. Everyone else in general 😅
#🍒🧠: evil does it better#💜: the man of my schemes#🥭🧠.fndm#self shipping#oc x canon#ruby rambles#this was fun to do and i LOVE talking about r marie so!! i hope yall enjoy! ùwú
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Part 1.
I think that we don't talk enough about how Carmen Sandiego has not one, but TWO straight up psychopath characters. Sociopath at the very least. Professor (Gunnar) Maelstrom and his favorite student Paper Star.
First off, let's start with Maelstrom. He was clearly the most intelligent/smartest out of the V.I.L.E. faculty and gave severe main character/boss vibes in V.I.L.E. since he was always the one that leaded the majority votes, explained something important and came up with a huge amount of their plans. Sorry Doctor, you were the cereBellum but Maelstrom was the brain of V.I.L.E. The series tried to soften that by having Countess Cleo on the middle of the table, giving him the most dark yet discreet design and a mysterious aura since compared to the other faculty members, he is the one we know the least about his past, personality, etc. We see that he knows a lot about the people he lives with and they barely know something about him, on purpose. Because he wants it that way. The attention being on the others, it becomes even easier for him to manipulate things behind the curtains, on the backstage, and make everyone believe him. Not to mention, he is also the most dangerous out of V.I.L.E. faculty, a point proven in the finale. He escapes through a secret passage in a rock that I bet only he knew about. We see Coach Brunt in the entrance, Doctor (Saira) Bellum trying to escape flying and Countess Cleo just waiting for her fate. Maelstrom never cared about any of them to at least suggest to them to already have a escape plan like he did. My head canon is that he wanted the others to be caught to have V.I.L.E. all for himself and do whatever the hell he wants. Coming back to the Carmen situation, the others never thought about it? Have they never talked about it before? Because they knew putting Carmen in a faculty position would be risky. Maelstrom is the one that says Carmen has a risky behaviour while stealing that doesn't fit V.I.L.E., he just let it slide because all her missions were successful but he always thinks ahead. He was ready. Dare I say, he saw it coming. Meanwhile, Brunt never betrays family and, let's be real, genuinely cared for Black Sheep before she became Carmen Sandiego. And Cleobellum are girlfriends. Okay, seriously they seemed to be close, even if just as friends. And Bellum clearly cared about her students since she missed Crackle. Also she liked cat videos, there's no way she was truly evil. The point is, Brunt, Cleo and Bellum were evil but they had a little bit of good in them. We even see Countess Cleo being sad and calling the island "Sweet Palace" while saying goodbye to it. Maelstrom was never attached to it like the others since he and Doctor Bellum are the ones that agree they have to leave the island, Brunt and Cleo being against it. Maelstrom isn't attached to anyone or anything. He only needs himself and only cares about anything that has to do with him.
#carmen sandiego#carmen sandiego 2019#maelstrom#professor maelstrom#gunnar maelstrom#countess cleo#dr bellum#saira bellum#coach brunt#V.I.L.E.#A.C.M.E.
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trying to come up with a human(ish) design for a non-human character is stressful because it feels like there are certain things you have to do or things you have to avoid doing but then it’s like actually you can do whatever the fuck you want maybe
#have spent actual years stressing over a humanoid bellum design bc i want it to represent the character and be a good design#but also avoid shit like. accidentally making a tumblr sexyman design bc thats a fucking pitfall#and then today i listened to 21st century schizoid man on loop for a while and its like. actually fuck it ill have fun with him#giving him similar vibes to that song. its great btw. theres like 3 verses and its 7+ minutes#human designs for other nonhuman loz villains tho? idk man#salty talks#may delete later#character design is important and complex and i know this but i get to have fun and be self indulgent with bellum as a treat#still trying to like. make a genuinely good design but also. lets have fun. lets be a little cringe or whatever with it
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Rewatched the og series and decided to watch S5 & S6 as well, not the best to end on but decided that hey, why not watch the movie and specials? And then decided to do something I genuinely hadn't thought I'd ever do, watch the reboot
I found myself enjoying a small handful of certain aspects like how there's more female villains and some of the designs are nice! I want to redraw Bianca and Dupli-Kate in the og style especially. I even watched that crossover with TTG (it's okay)
But overall my assemnet is, don't watch past season 4 of the og series, but the specials and movie are fun too
Oh my gosh, I thought this ask was about Invincible at first because there’s a character named Dupli-Kate in it, too. 😆
Like most things with the reboot, yes, an attempt was made when it came to that, and despite people lying and saying that I never had a kind word for the show, I always have vocally appreciated their effort to try to add more female villains. Unfortunately, the characters sucked! 🤣 I don’t know who Dupli-Kate is because I clearly did not watch the rest of the reboot after the first season (why is there more than one season of the show 🤮) but I can speak for Bianca, and she TOTALLY had promise but she’s just, like, a regular person and fashion designer that’s evil. And sassy. That’s not a very interesting concept when you have mutated intelligent monkey and a pink fuzzy hillbilly terror and a gang of green teen creeps… like, at least make the ladies gross! Interesting! She was also introduced in the episode that got rid of Ms. Bellum which, oh yeah, you really wanna debut a villain when you’re BEING the villain, okay. 😩
But yeah, I think your final assessment is the one I’ve come to as well. 💖 And the reboot has a few redeeming qualities to it, but overall… boy, it was a mess. I can’t even watch it because they massacre my boy Mojo so much in it, too, weh.
#I’m still SO MAD that they made an evil female ape and even after I was like#‘please god I hope they didn’t just make her as a love interest for mojo’#they made her a love interest for mojo#HE DESERVED BETTER#also it sucks for HER character if that was always the intended case UGGGGHHHHH#she could have been cool too#but here we are
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Here's a Commission I paid @murumokirby360 to draw. He drew me for a Halloween pic, the Powerpuff girls enter the Dark Hour from Persona 3. The Powerpuff girls have lost their Chemical X Powers and now they have to use their Evokers and the Weapons the Persona players use, And Koromaru got to tag along with Blossom and Buttercup. Bubbles was the one who lost her powers due to her using an Evoker to get back at Townsville. Let's say this is an alternative version of Bubble Vicious which I do feel bad for Bubbles like people are treating her badly. So for that, Bubbles wanted things to be better, so she picked up an Evoker and a Persona called Palladian. So Bubbles used her powers a little differently and even got back at Blossom and Buttercup for not treating her well. So Blossom and Buttercup felt Guilty in shame. And worst, Townsville has now entered the Dark Hour where everyone in Townsville has turned into Coffins. This might be the work of Nyx. Nyx even tried putting the Villains in Coffins as well, Koromaru came in and gave Blossom and Buttercup an Evoker, but then Blossom and Buttercup have the same Persona called Orpheus, except in a different design. Like how the Male and Female Protagonists use. So now in order to save Townsville, looks like the girls will have to use their Persona Powers in order to save Townsville as well as for Cartoon Network City. And I'm sure the other Cartoon Network characters will help the girls out too. Like Johnny Bravo, Little Suzy, Cow, Numbuh 5, Numbuh 2, Double D and Ed. Maybe they might've got Evokers too and got the Persona that the characters in Persona 3 use. It looks like the Cartoon Network characters now have the powers and work for the Specialized Extracurricular Execution Squad. I hope the Professor, Miss. Keen, the Mayor and Miss Bellum will count on them to save Cartoon Network City and Townsville and Stop Nyx from causing the Dark Hour.
And I'm also looking into getting Persona 3 Reloaded when it comes out in 4 Months. Wanted to check it out compared to the original and Portable. Like the Voice acting, the Music and the Graphics. Even if I can get it for either Xbox One or PlayStation 5.
People I tagged @bryan360 and @rafacaz4lisam2k4
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Jessica facts:
First, she was inspired by Jessica Rabbit, as you could guess. Actually, @emishows123 said that she kinda looks like Jessica Rabbit in my post, assuming things about Jessica, which she was correct about. She is based off of Jessica Rabbit but also other characters.
The design you see of her wasn't the first design but a redesign or a whole change to her character. Her old design name is Jane. Jane was a bimbo that is an Arthur of a small novel book series. You may wonder why Jane was a bimbo? I wanted to make a character that is different from my normal type of characters and some prompts I got from a pal of mine.
She is kind, sweet, and loves to be seen for her talent and love of writing. Jane was also in a relationship with Dr. Teeth. Her and Teeth’s relationship is sweet and wholesome. Teeth loves to listen to Jane talk about her books or some ideas for them. Jane loves Teeth because he listens and sees her for her talent which is what she wants for a lover that she wants to stay with forever.
Jane’s colors look like the colors of Cherry, @groovyguitarist oc. I made Jane back in 2022 when I got back into the Muppet fandom after leaving the FNAF fandom due to some personal reasons and that fact I was cringing back then. Her design was plain to me and seems like a normal muppet oc design. Not really fit me as my own oc that is my design.
I love her but her design felt off to me and not really special to me. Then one day this year, I made this doodle of an oc who you all know as Jessica.
This design kinda reminds me of Betty Boop. Jessica’s bar singing job was inspired by Betty Boop, also her hair. Jessica’s hair is short and curly like Betty Boop. Her skin was inspired by the old black and white cartoons, like Betty Boop. Right side of her body is a blackish gray color while her left side is white. Jessica’s hair is opposite to her skin. Her right side of her hair is white while the left is black.
Jessica’s mole and freckles are details that I felt like it fits her and she looks cute with them. Her ice blue eyes are inspired from an old oc I made when I made an old story called Castle of Memories. The story never got finished due low energy and being blunt. One of the main characters had ice blue eyes that glow under his mask that cover his void face.
Jessica’s design felt wonderful and nice to me. It has more personality to her and more of her own details that make Jessica her.
Jessica’s voice claim? I think Mrs. Bellum from the Power Puff Girls fit her, the old Power Puff Girls. The sound of her voice fits Jessica.
Other characters that Jessica was inspired by? There are some magna characters that inspired her personality or some headcanons, etc. First is Narumi Momose from Wotakoi: Love is Hard for Otaku. Narumi is the main character who slowly falls for her child who is a friend but fears her secret of being an otaku, a writer of a magna, will get out. The story is sweet and wholesome, it also involves video games and their friends falling in love and one getting married.
Narumi’s personality fits Jessica and some scenes from the six volumes of the series fit Jessica’s character. The next character is actually a male character named Naptum from Our Torsos Align Human x Monster Love. Naptum is a bird- human like monster. I think he could be a sparrow but I could be wrong. He finds Hannah, the main character, floating in the water of the jungle.
Naptum loves and cares for Hannah, he doesn't realize that Hannah doesn't love him due to a language and sign barrier. Hannah actually does want to love Naptum but due to her heart and love being broken before, she lashes out and ends up breaking Naptum’s heart. The story does have a happy ending where Naptum saves Hannah from a giant snake in the dark of the night even though he can’t see very well in the dark.
Naptum being oblivious or not understanding what is happening or what is wrong is something that Jessica has a problem with due to her father keeping her “safe” from the world and learning how to understand clues of people’s body language or to tell when something is wrong without words.
Thank you for coming to my TED talk
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