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redthedragonall crossposted from my art tumblr which i keep updated more because uhhh... uploading photos is easier there. maybe i could set up a feed to automatically post any images i put there over here...
Last time I did this was like last June, so it's been a few months. I don't feel like updating the old post any more.
This post last updated 9/22!
Rex is one of my dragon shapeshifter OCs from my "closerverse". He is about 6'4", has long wavy black hair, a goatee, and extremely visible cheekbones. Usually he's wearing a jacket or something, sometimes he has a scar over one eye. When he is being a dragon, he is a ten-foot, long and slender beast with mostly black scales, a reddish ticked chest, and broken red stripes along the length of himself; he also has a face inspired by gargoyle geckos with a very large pair of eyes, a permanent 'smile', and two wide fins at the back.
Rex can die, but he does not stay dead; he has two friends (Brin, short for Bringer of Sorrows, and Deva, short for Devastation of Worlds) who together have magic powers that work to find him and bring him back from the dead. They have to do this every time or they can't use their powers for anything else, which is very annoying for them. This has given Rex a fetish for getting killed and dying. He indulges it quite a lot more than Brin or Deva would really appreciate.
Rex is from Closerverse, a novel continuity I haven't actually written the book for yet but I'm planning on it I swear. He is not the main character. He is a minor antagonist that I decided had all of the interesting Tragic Backstory elements I was otherwise tempted to give to every character at random, because I have a very specific shared Tragic BackstoryTM I need to not undercut through most of the story and it won't work very well if I fuck that up, so I need to avoid distractions for the most part. Because so many of these were completely random, this meant that he ended up having, like, 80% more things per year of life than anyone else in the setting, so I've been cutting down on the quantity of random bullshit for a while but it is slow going because I'm attached to quite a lot of it, so he's just kind of around these days, doing nebulous weird shit.
If he's around "Shotgun" and "Felyx", he's anywhere between 16 and 22, if he's not he's closer to 27 or 28, in between I don't do much with him because there's no reason to focus on those years because they were mostly him very slowly putting himself back together after the events of his entire youth... which are currently nebulous as hell, because they need to be made less ridiculous. You understand. Reblog.
Rex has issues. A lot of issues. He's afraid of the dark, he's afraid of most people, he responds to feeling fear with outsized aggression, he's extremely secretive, he's generally of the impression that if he starts to ask for the things he wants he won't get them so instead he works his way around obliquely and takes a million years about it and is mean about it the entire time, he has whatever emotional problems come from being killed a hundred different ways more than the average person has ever experienced and several of those times against his will (which largely he translates to outsized aggression from him, because he responds to fear with aggression); during the years he's hanging around Felyx and Shotgun his social circle is full of people playing stupid mean mind games on one another as a matter of rote and he never quite unlearns the suspicion, he was well old enough to remember when about 80% of his family was killed so he's got issues from that too (and so do the rest of his siblings with the sole exception of Taz, who was not); there are others and I'm not remembering them. He has problems, is what I'm saying. He has a lot of emotional problems. Many of them are problems for everyone around him, too, not just himself, because he's mean as fuck. (I love this for him and I think he should be meaner.)
He is also, due to the aforementioned Not Killable situation, the Whole Dead Family situation, and some other political stuff I'm kind of revamping so I'm not sure about exactly at the moment, Interesting LorewiseTM on an in-universe level and several people have made his life a lot more difficult because they care about that sort of thing and they want him to do things he's not interested in, like "be in charge of anything at all" or "be a cool badass villain" and he's more interested in getting drunk in the woods and going to sleep at 4pm. He really does not like being told what to do. He also really does not like having to tell anyone else what to do. And he has firmly tapped out of trying to fix literally anything.
Rex generally interacts with other characters by being unpleasant and wanting them to leave him alone, but sometimes he is the guy who is there to tell them things like "don't stick your hand in a fire" and "its possible this is a bad idea since it seems like such a bad fucking idea"; most of what he's here for in this batch is the former and not the latter.
Haven is one of my dragon shapeshifter OCs. He's around seven feet tall, extremely built, has long red hair, most of the time I draw him half or more naked. He's got freckles and black scleras, I think he's the only one of my OCs with either. When he is being a dragon, he's around 300 feet long, with a sort of canine face and body, antlers, and a pattern inspired by koi fish on a sort of pinkish-orangey body with black stripes.
What even is Haven. Haven is the most unpleasant character I have ever invented and I love him for it because he is so sucks. He can live forever until he is killed, which so far hasn't happened. This is to the detriment of, very literally, every person who lives on the planet Earth. His job is to run what is essentially a version of the Illuminati, but instead of whatever people think the Illuminati is for he's doing this on behalf of an alien doing other politicking behind the scenes with interests in becoming a controlling part of some sort of, like, Star Wars style Galactic Senate and plans to use Earth as an entry state for coalition-power purposes when the time is right, which so far it has not been. Haven's job is basically to make sure that Earth doesn't enter whatever this governing body is too early and that he can pull the strings when it does. Mostly this consists of starting wars. Haven doesn't actually particularly want to be doing this job, but he's good at it and he does enjoy the mass murder aspects, he just doesn't like having a boss.
Unfortunately for Haven, and also everyone else, the biggest obstacle to Haven quitting his job (admittedly a deeply unpleasant workplace and probably the #1 source of misery and suffering in his otherwise-... well I can't really call it a charmed life, because of how much his life is his job and his job is his life, but certainly he doesn't really have other problems) is that he and his boss share a magic power that means that if they tell someone else to do something, they can put a like magic spell on them to force them to carry out the letter of that command. It's not foolproof and it can be thought around if you're willing to get clever with interpretations, which Haven is constantly doing to his boss and which everyone else is constantly doing to him because it fucking kind of sucks to be forced to do anything, but it's also ridiculously overpowered as long as you're able to speak first.
[points at Haven] Slow.
Among other things the kind of alien Haven is is meant to be hooked up to a very small hive-mind of around four to eight individuals, which he used to have, but rather unfortunately for everyone else that sort of situation makes it a lot easier to work around someone else's compulsion magic and, if one were to be cut off from a preexisting network, suddenly would make it substantially harder. No points for guessing this is the situation Haven is in; because Haven is in a critical position in the organization, was brought on to replace someone who had become too seditious, and is also like, openly seditious himself, just more impotent about it, he gets to have one nonwork social contact and his work contacts are rotated frequently so he's essentially got One friend. He would have none if complete social isolation would not send him uselessly off the deep end. He gets to pick someone out and keep them until they die, which is usually a long as hell time. They don't usually get a say in this and also Haven is a pretty big sadist and he takes the issues he has with his work out on everyone around him and he's got, like, assorted almost-random issues that come up repeatedly that whoever's job is to live in his house Will be forced to handle that half the time he himself can't even predict because a) he's not very emotionally intelligent, particularly about himself, and b) also sometimes he gets mind controlled into really strange issues that did not exist before. So this isn't really an ideal thing to be. At the moment Haven's One GuyTM is named Taran. Taran wants Haven to quit his job even more badly than Haven does and the two of them are actually going to get there, eventually.
Most of the time when I draw Haven he's either standing around looking intimidating or being made fun of. I'm aware that doesn't seem to gel with the fact that he can mind control people into shutting the fuck up. He likes when people say stupid shit to him because it gives him an excuse to beat the hell out of them :) he's so pleasant. and normal. Sometimes he's having alarming gory sex with people. Sometimes I've arranged him into a pinup. Most of the time he's alone, and I went and checked and I've only drawn him as a dragon like maybe eight times total.
Taran is Haven's longterm partner. (See above). He's a normal-height (5'10" or thereabouts?) normal-looking guy in his apparent mid-fifties. He is also another dragon shapeshifter, though I've never drawn him as a dragon; he turns into a black-and-white iridescent slender thing that looks like a white-lipped python with legs and wings.
He wasn't really interested in the idea of being Haven's new favorite guy / chew toy / sex toy / therapy dog at first and he and Haven didn't get along very well, but enough repeated applications of mind control over the next several decades effectively rewrote his personality into something that made this easier for both of them to live with :) Taran isn't, like, stupid, he's aware that that's what happened, but as far as he's concerned it's not like he's going anywhere anyway and it's easier to live like this if he likes his life and he likes Haven. And he likes Haven now, so he's working on the life part, and has mostly got it, even.
To literally anyone else this looks like Taran has the lowest goddamn standards on the fucking planet. This is true. He probably does. And he is perfectly fine with that, and is mostly concerned not with fixing the issues he's still able to have with Haven so much as talking Haven around to letting him have more fun and more free time than Haven does, which he has been ridiculously successful at thus far because as long as Haven isn't worried he's being, like, abandoned or neglected or whatever Taran can about ask for anything from him and be convinced he can get it at this point.
In practice this means that Taran spends a lot of time on hookup apps meeting strangers, having sex with them, and then leaving very quickly because Haven gets anxious and lonely if he hasn't spoken to anyone in like three hours, which isn't a lot of time for Taran to do anything and socialize and whatnot accounting for travel time, but it's hardly like he can bring anyone around the house so he makes the most of it. It also means he spends a lot of time weathering the "you could find LITERALLY ANYONE ELSE" talks from well-meaning sortakinda friends who Taran has not read in on the Situation beyond "no trust me lol you do not want to meet him and i dont want you to meet him either". A larger number of his sortakinda friends are convinced Taran is cheating and it's a big secret.
He also raises goats. His religious situation is particularly complicated and frankly really strange and I don't feel like elaborating, but a couple times a year he kills one of the goats for religious purposes and then he and Haven eat it. This is the result of long negotiation because Haven fucking hates most religion and particularly this one, but Taran is astoundingly good at talking Haven around to these things. This was one of the biggest sticking points in their entire relationship and one of the only ones that, ah, actually stuck. Haven will probably never stop being mad about it; he's considering it a permanent rivalry with Taran's god (admittedly; based on a contemporary of his) that he's personally lost at.
I don't draw Taran very often because he's meant to look like he is in his fifties. And I struggle badly with drawing people between the ages of 35 and 60-something. This drives me UP THE FUCKING WALL. At the moment I'm mostly drawing him in dragon form because first of all it's cool looking and second of all I struggle badly with his human face. I'm working hard on it though.
Full name Ta'jai Elarayn, or something like it; he's a space alien from alien space. He doesn't always look like a human; he's ripped himself down to very narrow strips and put himself back together from rectangles and triangles like a plushie in order to make sure that he passes for almost-human so he can walk through the world conveniently. His eyes have no pupils, his skin is gray, his blood is blue, and his teeth are translucent and very sharp. He's got horns because he thinks it's fun to have them. I keep drawing him looking disgruntled.
Jai's thing is that he cut a deal with a fucked-up space monster called the Watcher (alternately, the Centipede, if you're being a little mean), a walking apocalypse who likes to destroy planets. Unfortunately for Watcher, it's currently under a curse and it can only affect the world by doing things people have asked it to do, which naturally it doesn't like, so it does all sorts of weaselwords loophole-lawyer shit to get away with causing Problems. Jai is under the impression it grants wishes with a condition in exchange for favors (true) and makes a wish for like, charisma and to be attractive, and the Watcher hears him hedge and go "or something" over and over and is like okay let me just throw a million other random assorted things in there for my own amusement. Jai is bitter over it.
One of the biggest conditions that Jai didn't ask for is that he has to have a conversation with and get a secret from anything he wants to eat (encouragement to learn to be charismatic, allegedly). A slight mitigating factor is that he can also speak to fish. He prefers to eat people though. He's kind of a prick. This has shaped his life in large and significant ways.
At the moment I'm putting together a story of some sort with a completely different cast where I'm putting Jai into the antagonist cast (additional context here) and he's kind of a wagie who hates his job but he can't quite leave. He wants to spend his life fucking around doing fuckall and amusing himself during the times he doesn't have to spend charming the socks off of people and/or fish around him in order to eat, which naturally takes up a lot of his time and limits his options significantly. (At times I play around with him working as some sort of military doctor/surgeon type. He keeps nearly starving through med school, but he can't die, so it's fine, I guess?)
He's immortal but that doesn't often come up because he really hates getting killed. His flesh can be cut without pain and put back together because he's kind of constructed as a series of polyps, and each polyp can be reorganized as they feel like. He has a distributed hivemind across all of his polyps and can be in two or more places at once if he feels like, since they can locally control themselves while also connecting to the broader "overmind", but he tends to try to avoid thinking too much about the entirety of himself because a good chunk of him is floating in vaccuum and it's inconvenient to think about being simultaneously burnt, frozen, and starving without end basically-forever if he doesn't have to and some of him is fine, clearly, he's on-planet in other places.
I'm not sure all this is necessary.
Everyone else is kind of minor/will recur only a few times so they're not worth writing up in my opinion.
More information is under them in the low-effort category (first image there) - this is Kit and Kat from a story I'm kicking around.
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I really like how this series of watercolors came out. From the top to the bottom - Haven, Rex, and Jai (Jai was painted on the back of Rex). Jai's eyes don't actually look like that - they're just a sclera and a solid blue pupil, without an iris but looking more like a pupil-less iris because they're brightly colored - but I wasn't going to fuck up the effect on Rex's side, because I was pasting it to my window to block the light from a floodlamp pointed directly at my bedroom window. (I put Jai on the other side specifically so that I didn't have to have the ugly outside of a box of chicken nuggets showing to the rest of the world lol.
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I had intended this to be a silly cooldown sketch but it clearly got out of hand - the line style is less "refined" than I usually aim for, but I think it works and it works well. I'm genuinely very proud of it, and I have a printout of it hanging up on my wall as we speak (but I'm hoping to trade it for a much nicer print when I finally get this set up on my artpal shop because I like their print quality way better than my college's regular printers).
The text comes from Chris Cornell's "You Know My Name", but I consider the Poets of the Fall version to be "my" one true version of the song, so you can listen to either if you want but know the lyrics should be in Marko Saaresto's voice for the full experience lol.
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This is actually the first drawing I ever did of Taran's dragon form. It was also a nightmare to do. Believe it or not this is allegedly watercolors, albeit watercolors I got for about $5 at the local dollar Five Below, and normally I love them, but when I was working on the cardboard the paints went on dark and then dried to a much lighter final color, so it was a ridiculous trial trying to get the colors to look right. I ended up having to spray it over and over with a sealant (Mr. Super Clear) to be able to build the colors up, which was also necessary because before I started doing that it would keep picking up any color that was already down when I tried to paint over it (admittedly, this is normal for watercolor) and making it look abysmally streaky and generally bad.
That aside, I actually love how it came out, so no complaints, really. I might even do it again sometime if I'm feeling masochistic!
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My stupid asshole and his long-suffering boyfriend who has to brush his hair for him because Haven refuses to do it for himself. He is so deeply annoying.
Also for some reason when I put the robe on him (this is the literal reason he wears it so idk why I was surprised) it hid all the scars I put on his back, so I made a version without the robe too, and i've got that under the cut here...
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This is a really wide image that doesn't display nicely, so I cut it up into smaller parts, which you can see here...
These are some of my charcters from an art game I'm part of on DeviantArt: Brida, a poacher and general all-purpose brigand team-leader, and her two tame rukaan (fantasy deer you can ride like horses) Caern and Rautaluu, who both know what crime is and love doing it. I madde this because I was mad at the admins, the game bans gore but not blood, and I wanted to ruffle some feathers without breaking the rules entirely. I'm less mad at them now, which is nice.
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Haven and Taran join the orcas' war on boats on the side of the orcas, mostly for their own entertainment. Originally painted as a color test to make sure I could get the color green out of the acrylics I have, because I only have red, yellow, bright blue, purple, white, and black. After this I went out and bought myself a tube of ultramarine blue and I fucked it up because it was completely dry when I got it to my house (but felt perfectly fine from the outside, sigh) so I need to go back and exchange it but I've been busy and it's a long, long walk.
It looks a lot better in person, which is really saying something. I'm really proud of this one.
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Kit and Kat, two ocs from the same assorted antagonist cast as the story I'm casting Jai into. They're also OCs laying about that I threw into it. I like them a lot. They're really fun.
(Neither is the archetype they "look" like - Kat is tall and scary and stony because Kat is kind of shy and awkward and doesn't like making a fool of herself. Kit is a Femme FataleTM because she's actually a wired high-octane bloodknight battle freak who learned that if she puts her tits on display Space TSA stops looking as hard for where she keeps her knives and stops paying as much attention to her talon augments. I designed them like that when I was like 14 and then didn't do anything interesting with them but I'm doing something interesting now, I hope.
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Text: "Did I 'get it out of my system'? Why don't you come in here and find out?"
Haven being so sucks again. He's so unpleasant. He's trying to convince whoever he's speaking to to come into arms's range of their own volition so he doesn't have to apologize for throwing them across the room like they're another potted plant, which is obviously not happening because he's being too obvious about it.
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"Dipshits go to Pride" - drawn around July when some of the city I go to college in does its local Pride celebrations. Rex doesn't really belong at parties you're not getting into fistfights in, and frankly, no one wants him at those either.
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I can't remember why I was on pinterest making outfit imageboards, but I was. I saw this picture of this jacket and thought it suited my horrible robot girl Shotgun soooooo well so I drew her over onto the top of it. Then I drew some other clothes into the picture because I thought she deserved it.
Jacket: Jean Paul Gaultier Man’s Lounging Suit (Jacket and Pants), Spring/Summer 1996. Currently in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) Pin-Up Boys collection & not on public display. The picture is from View 3.
Pants: green version of the transparent blue PVC pants from this One 2 One phone ad printed in Sleazenation in May 2000. I'm quite irked I can't find a better link than a Pinterest post, so if anyone has access to an archived version of May 00's Sleazenation issues please let me know. I tried to find some, but all I could find was (IIRC) 2001 issues.
Boots: Demonia SLACKER-156 Black Patent & UV Green Platforms, modified heavily & color-changed and also barely visible
The original pinterest board that caused this.
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This was originally a sketch for a commission that wasn't my OCs (i did the commission and posted it here, it's Doctor/survivor snuff art for Dead By Daylight) but I liked the pose a lot and I couldn't use it in its original form for the commission. I ended up sketching my OCs over it because I was like, bored or something.
Rex doesn't get to stay dead, so he and Shotgun have a tendency to completely bypass all semblance of "risk-aware" and just do wildly-dangerous kink. The DBD version is deliberate fatal electrocution, but this is probably accidental fatal electrocution. Rex loves convincing robots to electrocute the living shit out of him until he stops being alive. it's a fetish for him.
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I saw a photo of a dark basement (apparently sourced from a website about fixing leaks in basements?) and felt like drawing my freak over it. DK what he's up to but I was imagining this being the basement of some sort of like, Target or something and him being the cause of several weird lcoal legends about the building being haunted.
He's naked because I thought that was funnier.
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Velan (left), Rocaim (middle) and Vakori (right), the generation before Rex's of the same family. Rocaim and Vakori both die in the course of some Politics Stuff and Velan ends up the one who lives, stuck raising Vakori and Rocaim's kids.
Vakori is a really complicated character and I based ler off of a number of people I know. Le's very pragmatic and very, very clear-sighted about things in a way that is almost pathological, but le has a good heart and cares about people, le is kind of just a crazy pragmatist who wants power for the sake of using it. Rocaim and Velan are both wildly in love with ler because le is just like. Le is a person yes but le is also like a straight line between two points, and good at it. Rocaim and Vakori end up getting married because it's more politically expedient for Vakori and helps ler get ler voice into the actual political leadership of ler time, which matters a lot for ler and if it didn't Velan and Rocaim wouldn't be in love with ler... but this means that Velan - already younger and kind of hopelessly in love with Rocaim for other, unrelated reasons - ends up awkwardly third wheeling for the two of them forever. Which is like torture forever but she's also much more pragmatic than most people so she kind of just forces herself to make it work.
The three of them end up being siginificant political figures of their time, Vakori and Rocaim making significant policy decisions and Velan (trained as an assassin and guerilla fighter and later as a battlefield tactician) as a military commander among a handful of others. Technically Velan and Vakori work in totally different fields, but Vakori has a big mind for strategy and Velan often refers to ler for difficult questions before she properly comes into her own.
Then, of course, the coalition they're working with gets properly kicked over in a crushing military defeat and everyone dies... sick and twisted. This sets the scene for the story I actually write.
This picture was meant to be the three of them talking together over stuff before they actually Attain Heights. I was putting together a timeline at some point. I need to get back to that but it got really time consuming and started really eating up my entire life so I had to stop and I haven't gotten back to it.
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This kind of sucks but I like it so it's fine.
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lizard house. quite pretty for how little work I put into it. Taran (right) is here! I've been working hard to learn to be able to draw him in a way I find satisfactory. One day I will find a way to make sure that Taran looks like the
I asked a friend for advice on Haven's robe and they said (verbatim) "oh, a whore robe?" and I want everyone to know that. It is in fact a whore robe, and he is in fact a whore, and this is possibly his only saving grace because certainly there's nothing positive in his personality otherwise LMAO.
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Yeaaaaars ago I made an OC playlist for Haven, which I still stand by because it's half-decent. I was trying to put stuff together for ArtFight (which I did end up doing, but I was woefully disappointed by the entire experience so I probably won't do it again, which is kind of what I expected in the first place) and I ended up listening to it a bit more than usual, because the usual is "never", and I got inspired by one of the songs.
Lyrics are from Vicarious by Tool, and it's one of the songs on the playlist, which you can find here. It's not the best playlist ever though, really it needs to be reworked but it's fine to listen to if you don't care that much about the transitions.
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Another thing I made quickly for the sake of ArtFight. I got a test print of this from artpal and it looks really good up on my wall, which tbh I didn't actually expect.
The text on the left-hand side says "Rex's radio repair" in my post-apocalypse-plus-eighteen-centuries not-really-english orthography. Frankly speaking I should look into actual orthographic evolution before I start doing these things because I don't know very much about it (maybe more than a complete layperson but not by very much, and certainly not enough to speculatively construct my own plausibly) and i;d like to do a better version at some point, but I think it looks good, and because when I write it it's not like I'm going to be writing it in speculative 2200+1600-post-english it's not like. A priority, and besides, conlangs are more fun. (I do think I'm going to memorize this alphabet just for the sake of weirding my handwriting periodically though, for fun.) As things stand, all it exists for is to look cool and futuristic on images. I overestimated how plausibly readable it is, though, I think - it seems perfectly interpretable to me, but I know that the weird triangle shape is a sideways A and I know that I mirrored the orientation of w so I can force everyone to cross out their zs like I llike to do. All I even did to the Rs is open the back but it also looks a lot weirder in this kind of stretched-outdramatic font, I think.
Lot of rambling about lettering for a picture that's only maybe 1/3rd lettering on the whole. You can find a handwritten-looking version of the alphabet here if you're curious. I'll probably post about it later at some point because i stupid alphabet shit and I have nothing going on tonight so I might honestly just go do a proper sans-serif Text version. who knows.
Anyway part of the reason people tolerate Rex despite his awful personality and unpleasant nature is that he will just fix your shit for free. He's not even charging for it because for him it's stress relief and a break from People, who he has to work very hard to be as tolerable toward as he is. By the time the actual story rolls around he's quite a lot better at socializing like a person and not a bite risk than he is when he first starts doing courier work on behalf of Clan Oserisades, so when he was doing ride-along type apprentice jobs they would just kind of sic him on other people's busted electronics (if the clans allowed, which is dubious for some of them tbf) and Rex is legitimately very good with electronics so he'd just go fix them. Or if they weren't fixable he'd explain why they weren't fixable (sullenly) at prodding from the courier he was working with. This earned him points because he was doing it for free and frankly electronic work in this setting is even worse than it is here, and there's a lot fewer people who know how to do it. Sometimes people ask for him in particular because they need some shit mailed but more importantly they have a broken piece of shit radio handset, can he like, fix the speakers... and he does it.
So this is about that. Asshole 25-year-old dirtbag who comes around by your place, fixes your shit that the last guy qhoted you $3500 to even diagnose, glares at you the whole time, charges you $15 to take a package somewhere else with him, and then leaves wi5h. Good deal for everyone because frankly Rex needs any advantage to not be chased out of town with pitchforks for a while lmfao.
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A friend posted a picture of a shirt and it absolutely captivated me, so I drew one of my ocs onto it. This is Felyx. He's one of Rex's friends.
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Was inspired by yet another shirt, this time for Rex. I worked hard on matching the motion blur effect.
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Mostly I drew this to test out a brush I made so I could draw Taran's patterns more easily. He's the big snake dragon thing.
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Technically this was an ArtFight attack and the mermaid character has absolutely fuckall to do with me, but Haven is there, and I did put a lot of work into this because I just really love painting water. The other person's OC can be found on ToyHouse here.
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Everyone's mostly there for the catering. Not that you could ever convince Haven of that.
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Shotgun is using the fourth wall to kabedon Shard, so we're all clear on what's happening there.
Anyway this was another ArtFight attack but the character Shard (with the ferret) is a friend's character, so it's less awkward for me to link it here, I think.
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This is Nadiya! For a character I enjoy writing so much I really don't draw her often and it's because I'm still torn on her design. Oops.
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zonked. ignore the other image in the thread because it looks bad.
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Strongly inspired by this tumblr post. Given that Rex as a character kind of exists to be put in situations, in terms of like, narrative utility, and that Haven is a character I invented as a verb to specifically put anyone he comes into contact with into a specific situation, it felt pretty fitting.
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I saw yet another dumb shirt. I drew Rex into it.
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Last time I did this was like last June, so it's been a few months. I don't feel like updating the old post any more.
This post last updated 9/22!
Rex is one of my dragon shapeshifter OCs from my "closerverse". He is about 6'4", has long wavy black hair, a goatee, and extremely visible cheekbones. Usually he's wearing a jacket or something, sometimes he has a scar over one eye. When he is being a dragon, he is a ten-foot, long and slender beast with mostly black scales, a reddish ticked chest, and broken red stripes along the length of himself; he also has a face inspired by gargoyle geckos with a very large pair of eyes, a permanent 'smile', and two wide fins at the back.
Rex can die, but he does not stay dead; he has two friends (Brin, short for Bringer of Sorrows, and Deva, short for Devastation of Worlds) who together have magic powers that work to find him and bring him back from the dead. They have to do this every time or they can't use their powers for anything else, which is very annoying for them. This has given Rex a fetish for getting killed and dying. He indulges it quite a lot more than Brin or Deva would really appreciate.
Rex is from Closerverse, a novel continuity I haven't actually written the book for yet but I'm planning on it I swear. He is not the main character. He is a minor antagonist that I decided had all of the interesting Tragic Backstory elements I was otherwise tempted to give to every character at random, because I have a very specific shared Tragic BackstoryTM I need to not undercut through most of the story and it won't work very well if I fuck that up, so I need to avoid distractions for the most part. Because so many of these were completely random, this meant that he ended up having, like, 80% more things per year of life than anyone else in the setting, so I've been cutting down on the quantity of random bullshit for a while but it is slow going because I'm attached to quite a lot of it, so he's just kind of around these days, doing nebulous weird shit.
If he's around "Shotgun" and "Felyx", he's anywhere between 16 and 22, if he's not he's closer to 27 or 28, in between I don't do much with him because there's no reason to focus on those years because they were mostly him very slowly putting himself back together after the events of his entire youth... which are currently nebulous as hell, because they need to be made less ridiculous. You understand. Reblog.
Rex has issues. A lot of issues. He's afraid of the dark, he's afraid of most people, he responds to feeling fear with outsized aggression, he's extremely secretive, he's generally of the impression that if he starts to ask for the things he wants he won't get them so instead he works his way around obliquely and takes a million years about it and is mean about it the entire time, he has whatever emotional problems come from being killed a hundred different ways more than the average person has ever experienced and several of those times against his will (which largely he translates to outsized aggression from him, because he responds to fear with aggression); during the years he's hanging around Felyx and Shotgun his social circle is full of people playing stupid mean mind games on one another as a matter of rote and he never quite unlearns the suspicion, he was well old enough to remember when about 80% of his family was killed so he's got issues from that too (and so do the rest of his siblings with the sole exception of Taz, who was not); there are others and I'm not remembering them. He has problems, is what I'm saying. He has a lot of emotional problems. Many of them are problems for everyone around him, too, not just himself, because he's mean as fuck. (I love this for him and I think he should be meaner.)
He is also, due to the aforementioned Not Killable situation, the Whole Dead Family situation, and some other political stuff I'm kind of revamping so I'm not sure about exactly at the moment, Interesting LorewiseTM on an in-universe level and several people have made his life a lot more difficult because they care about that sort of thing and they want him to do things he's not interested in, like "be in charge of anything at all" or "be a cool badass villain" and he's more interested in getting drunk in the woods and going to sleep at 4pm. He really does not like being told what to do. He also really does not like having to tell anyone else what to do. And he has firmly tapped out of trying to fix literally anything.
Rex generally interacts with other characters by being unpleasant and wanting them to leave him alone, but sometimes he is the guy who is there to tell them things like "don't stick your hand in a fire" and "its possible this is a bad idea since it seems like such a bad fucking idea"; most of what he's here for in this batch is the former and not the latter.
Haven is one of my dragon shapeshifter OCs. He's around seven feet tall, extremely built, has long red hair, most of the time I draw him half or more naked. He's got freckles and black scleras, I think he's the only one of my OCs with either. When he is being a dragon, he's around 300 feet long, with a sort of canine face and body, antlers, and a pattern inspired by koi fish on a sort of pinkish-orangey body with black stripes.
What even is Haven. Haven is the most unpleasant character I have ever invented and I love him for it because he is so sucks. He can live forever until he is killed, which so far hasn't happened. This is to the detriment of, very literally, every person who lives on the planet Earth. His job is to run what is essentially a version of the Illuminati, but instead of whatever people think the Illuminati is for he's doing this on behalf of an alien doing other politicking behind the scenes with interests in becoming a controlling part of some sort of, like, Star Wars style Galactic Senate and plans to use Earth as an entry state for coalition-power purposes when the time is right, which so far it has not been. Haven's job is basically to make sure that Earth doesn't enter whatever this governing body is too early and that he can pull the strings when it does. Mostly this consists of starting wars. Haven doesn't actually particularly want to be doing this job, but he's good at it and he does enjoy the mass murder aspects, he just doesn't like having a boss.
Unfortunately for Haven, and also everyone else, the biggest obstacle to Haven quitting his job (admittedly a deeply unpleasant workplace and probably the #1 source of misery and suffering in his otherwise-... well I can't really call it a charmed life, because of how much his life is his job and his job is his life, but certainly he doesn't really have other problems) is that he and his boss share a magic power that means that if they tell someone else to do something, they can put a like magic spell on them to force them to carry out the letter of that command. It's not foolproof and it can be thought around if you're willing to get clever with interpretations, which Haven is constantly doing to his boss and which everyone else is constantly doing to him because it fucking kind of sucks to be forced to do anything, but it's also ridiculously overpowered as long as you're able to speak first.
[points at Haven] Slow.
Among other things the kind of alien Haven is is meant to be hooked up to a very small hive-mind of around four to eight individuals, which he used to have, but rather unfortunately for everyone else that sort of situation makes it a lot easier to work around someone else's compulsion magic and, if one were to be cut off from a preexisting network, suddenly would make it substantially harder. No points for guessing this is the situation Haven is in; because Haven is in a critical position in the organization, was brought on to replace someone who had become too seditious, and is also like, openly seditious himself, just more impotent about it, he gets to have one nonwork social contact and his work contacts are rotated frequently so he's essentially got One friend. He would have none if complete social isolation would not send him uselessly off the deep end. He gets to pick someone out and keep them until they die, which is usually a long as hell time. They don't usually get a say in this and also Haven is a pretty big sadist and he takes the issues he has with his work out on everyone around him and he's got, like, assorted almost-random issues that come up repeatedly that whoever's job is to live in his house Will be forced to handle that half the time he himself can't even predict because a) he's not very emotionally intelligent, particularly about himself, and b) also sometimes he gets mind controlled into really strange issues that did not exist before. So this isn't really an ideal thing to be. At the moment Haven's One GuyTM is named Taran. Taran wants Haven to quit his job even more badly than Haven does and the two of them are actually going to get there, eventually.
Most of the time when I draw Haven he's either standing around looking intimidating or being made fun of. I'm aware that doesn't seem to gel with the fact that he can mind control people into shutting the fuck up. He likes when people say stupid shit to him because it gives him an excuse to beat the hell out of them :) he's so pleasant. and normal. Sometimes he's having alarming gory sex with people. Sometimes I've arranged him into a pinup. Most of the time he's alone, and I went and checked and I've only drawn him as a dragon like maybe eight times total.
Taran is Haven's longterm partner. (See above). He's a normal-height (5'10" or thereabouts?) normal-looking guy in his apparent mid-fifties. He is also another dragon shapeshifter, though I've never drawn him as a dragon; he turns into a black-and-white iridescent slender thing that looks like a white-lipped python with legs and wings.
He wasn't really interested in the idea of being Haven's new favorite guy / chew toy / sex toy / therapy dog at first and he and Haven didn't get along very well, but enough repeated applications of mind control over the next several decades effectively rewrote his personality into something that made this easier for both of them to live with :) Taran isn't, like, stupid, he's aware that that's what happened, but as far as he's concerned it's not like he's going anywhere anyway and it's easier to live like this if he likes his life and he likes Haven. And he likes Haven now, so he's working on the life part, and has mostly got it, even.
To literally anyone else this looks like Taran has the lowest goddamn standards on the fucking planet. This is true. He probably does. And he is perfectly fine with that, and is mostly concerned not with fixing the issues he's still able to have with Haven so much as talking Haven around to letting him have more fun and more free time than Haven does, which he has been ridiculously successful at thus far because as long as Haven isn't worried he's being, like, abandoned or neglected or whatever Taran can about ask for anything from him and be convinced he can get it at this point.
In practice this means that Taran spends a lot of time on hookup apps meeting strangers, having sex with them, and then leaving very quickly because Haven gets anxious and lonely if he hasn't spoken to anyone in like three hours, which isn't a lot of time for Taran to do anything and socialize and whatnot accounting for travel time, but it's hardly like he can bring anyone around the house so he makes the most of it. It also means he spends a lot of time weathering the "you could find LITERALLY ANYONE ELSE" talks from well-meaning sortakinda friends who Taran has not read in on the Situation beyond "no trust me lol you do not want to meet him and i dont want you to meet him either". A larger number of his sortakinda friends are convinced Taran is cheating and it's a big secret.
He also raises goats. His religious situation is particularly complicated and frankly really strange and I don't feel like elaborating, but a couple times a year he kills one of the goats for religious purposes and then he and Haven eat it. This is the result of long negotiation because Haven fucking hates most religion and particularly this one, but Taran is astoundingly good at talking Haven around to these things. This was one of the biggest sticking points in their entire relationship and one of the only ones that, ah, actually stuck. Haven will probably never stop being mad about it; he's considering it a permanent rivalry with Taran's god (admittedly; based on a contemporary of his) that he's personally lost at.
I don't draw Taran very often because he's meant to look like he is in his fifties. And I struggle badly with drawing people between the ages of 35 and 60-something. This drives me UP THE FUCKING WALL. At the moment I'm mostly drawing him in dragon form because first of all it's cool looking and second of all I struggle badly with his human face. I'm working hard on it though.
Full name Ta'jai Elarayn, or something like it; he's a space alien from alien space. He doesn't always look like a human; he's ripped himself down to very narrow strips and put himself back together from rectangles and triangles like a plushie in order to make sure that he passes for almost-human so he can walk through the world conveniently. His eyes have no pupils, his skin is gray, his blood is blue, and his teeth are translucent and very sharp. He's got horns because he thinks it's fun to have them. I keep drawing him looking disgruntled.
Jai's thing is that he cut a deal with a fucked-up space monster called the Watcher (alternately, the Centipede, if you're being a little mean), a walking apocalypse who likes to destroy planets. Unfortunately for Watcher, it's currently under a curse and it can only affect the world by doing things people have asked it to do, which naturally it doesn't like, so it does all sorts of weaselwords loophole-lawyer shit to get away with causing Problems. Jai is under the impression it grants wishes with a condition in exchange for favors (true) and makes a wish for like, charisma and to be attractive, and the Watcher hears him hedge and go "or something" over and over and is like okay let me just throw a million other random assorted things in there for my own amusement. Jai is bitter over it.
One of the biggest conditions that Jai didn't ask for is that he has to have a conversation with and get a secret from anything he wants to eat (encouragement to learn to be charismatic, allegedly). A slight mitigating factor is that he can also speak to fish. He prefers to eat people though. He's kind of a prick. This has shaped his life in large and significant ways.
At the moment I'm putting together a story of some sort with a completely different cast where I'm putting Jai into the antagonist cast (additional context here) and he's kind of a wagie who hates his job but he can't quite leave. He wants to spend his life fucking around doing fuckall and amusing himself during the times he doesn't have to spend charming the socks off of people and/or fish around him in order to eat, which naturally takes up a lot of his time and limits his options significantly. (At times I play around with him working as some sort of military doctor/surgeon type. He keeps nearly starving through med school, but he can't die, so it's fine, I guess?)
He's immortal but that doesn't often come up because he really hates getting killed. His flesh can be cut without pain and put back together because he's kind of constructed as a series of polyps, and each polyp can be reorganized as they feel like. He has a distributed hivemind across all of his polyps and can be in two or more places at once if he feels like, since they can locally control themselves while also connecting to the broader "overmind", but he tends to try to avoid thinking too much about the entirety of himself because a good chunk of him is floating in vaccuum and it's inconvenient to think about being simultaneously burnt, frozen, and starving without end basically-forever if he doesn't have to and some of him is fine, clearly, he's on-planet in other places.
I'm not sure all this is necessary.
Everyone else is kind of minor/will recur only a few times so they're not worth writing up in my opinion.
More information is under them in the low-effort category (first image there) - this is Kit and Kat from a story I'm kicking around.
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I really like how this series of watercolors came out. From the top to the bottom - Haven, Rex, and Jai (Jai was painted on the back of Rex). Jai's eyes don't actually look like that - they're just a sclera and a solid blue pupil, without an iris but looking more like a pupil-less iris because they're brightly colored - but I wasn't going to fuck up the effect on Rex's side, because I was pasting it to my window to block the light from a floodlamp pointed directly at my bedroom window. (I put Jai on the other side specifically so that I didn't have to have the ugly outside of a box of chicken nuggets showing to the rest of the world lol.
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I had intended this to be a silly cooldown sketch but it clearly got out of hand - the line style is less "refined" than I usually aim for, but I think it works and it works well. I'm genuinely very proud of it, and I have a printout of it hanging up on my wall as we speak (but I'm hoping to trade it for a much nicer print when I finally get this set up on my artpal shop because I like their print quality way better than my college's regular printers).
The text comes from Chris Cornell's "You Know My Name", but I consider the Poets of the Fall version to be "my" one true version of the song, so you can listen to either if you want but know the lyrics should be in Marko Saaresto's voice for the full experience lol.
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This is actually the first drawing I ever did of Taran's dragon form. It was also a nightmare to do. Believe it or not this is allegedly watercolors, albeit watercolors I got for about $5 at the local dollar Five Below, and normally I love them, but when I was working on the cardboard the paints went on dark and then dried to a much lighter final color, so it was a ridiculous trial trying to get the colors to look right. I ended up having to spray it over and over with a sealant (Mr. Super Clear) to be able to build the colors up, which was also necessary because before I started doing that it would keep picking up any color that was already down when I tried to paint over it (admittedly, this is normal for watercolor) and making it look abysmally streaky and generally bad.
That aside, I actually love how it came out, so no complaints, really. I might even do it again sometime if I'm feeling masochistic!
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My stupid asshole and his long-suffering boyfriend who has to brush his hair for him because Haven refuses to do it for himself. He is so deeply annoying.
Also for some reason when I put the robe on him (this is the literal reason he wears it so idk why I was surprised) it hid all the scars I put on his back, so I made a version without the robe too, and i've got that under the cut here...
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This is a really wide image that doesn't display nicely, so I cut it up into smaller parts, which you can see here...
These are some of my charcters from an art game I'm part of on DeviantArt: Brida, a poacher and general all-purpose brigand team-leader, and her two tame rukaan (fantasy deer you can ride like horses) Caern and Rautaluu, who both know what crime is and love doing it. I madde this because I was mad at the admins, the game bans gore but not blood, and I wanted to ruffle some feathers without breaking the rules entirely. I'm less mad at them now, which is nice.
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Haven and Taran join the orcas' war on boats on the side of the orcas, mostly for their own entertainment. Originally painted as a color test to make sure I could get the color green out of the acrylics I have, because I only have red, yellow, bright blue, purple, white, and black. After this I went out and bought myself a tube of ultramarine blue and I fucked it up because it was completely dry when I got it to my house (but felt perfectly fine from the outside, sigh) so I need to go back and exchange it but I've been busy and it's a long, long walk.
It looks a lot better in person, which is really saying something. I'm really proud of this one.
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Kit and Kat, two ocs from the same assorted antagonist cast as the story I'm casting Jai into. They're also OCs laying about that I threw into it. I like them a lot. They're really fun.
(Neither is the archetype they "look" like - Kat is tall and scary and stony because Kat is kind of shy and awkward and doesn't like making a fool of herself. Kit is a Femme FataleTM because she's actually a wired high-octane bloodknight battle freak who learned that if she puts her tits on display Space TSA stops looking as hard for where she keeps her knives and stops paying as much attention to her talon augments. I designed them like that when I was like 14 and then didn't do anything interesting with them but I'm doing something interesting now, I hope.
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Text: "Did I 'get it out of my system'? Why don't you come in here and find out?"
Haven being so sucks again. He's so unpleasant. He's trying to convince whoever he's speaking to to come into arms's range of their own volition so he doesn't have to apologize for throwing them across the room like they're another potted plant, which is obviously not happening because he's being too obvious about it.
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"Dipshits go to Pride" - drawn around July when some of the city I go to college in does its local Pride celebrations. Rex doesn't really belong at parties you're not getting into fistfights in, and frankly, no one wants him at those either.
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Hudson Pride Party 1623
Rex: “You sure this is the right scene? Not convinced I belong here, I mean.”
Shotgun: “Yeah. Go find the booze truck and you’ll fit right in, loser.”
Dialogue in the second:
Shotgun: “Rex!”
Rex: “Hi Shotgu-”
Shotgun: “What is your problem!”
Rex: “In my defense I didn’t think the ‘no lacerations’ rule applied.”
Shotgun: “Wh - Rex, it always applies!”
Rex: “It was a homophobe!”
Shotgun: “You still got kicked out.”
Rex: “Eh. I was sick of it anyway.”
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I can't remember why I was on pinterest making outfit imageboards, but I was. I saw this picture of this jacket and thought it suited my horrible robot girl Shotgun soooooo well so I drew her over onto the top of it. Then I drew some other clothes into the picture because I thought she deserved it.
Jacket: Jean Paul Gaultier Man’s Lounging Suit (Jacket and Pants), Spring/Summer 1996. Currently in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) Pin-Up Boys collection & not on public display. The picture is from View 3.
Pants: green version of the transparent blue PVC pants from this One 2 One phone ad printed in Sleazenation in May 2000. I'm quite irked I can't find a better link than a Pinterest post, so if anyone has access to an archived version of May 00's Sleazenation issues please let me know. I tried to find some, but all I could find was (IIRC) 2001 issues.
Boots: Demonia SLACKER-156 Black Patent & UV Green Platforms, modified heavily & color-changed and also barely visible
The original pinterest board that caused this.
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This was originally a sketch for a commission that wasn't my OCs (i did the commission and posted it here, it's Doctor/survivor snuff art for Dead By Daylight) but I liked the pose a lot and I couldn't use it in its original form for the commission. I ended up sketching my OCs over it because I was like, bored or something.
Rex doesn't get to stay dead, so he and Shotgun have a tendency to completely bypass all semblance of "risk-aware" and just do wildly-dangerous kink. The DBD version is deliberate fatal electrocution, but this is probably accidental fatal electrocution. Rex loves convincing robots to electrocute the living shit out of him until he stops being alive. it's a fetish for him.
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I saw a photo of a dark basement (apparently sourced from a website about fixing leaks in basements?) and felt like drawing my freak over it. DK what he's up to but I was imagining this being the basement of some sort of like, Target or something and him being the cause of several weird lcoal legends about the building being haunted.
He's naked because I thought that was funnier.
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Velan (left), Rocaim (middle) and Vakori (right), the generation before Rex's of the same family. Rocaim and Vakori both die in the course of some Politics Stuff and Velan ends up the one who lives, stuck raising Vakori and Rocaim's kids.
Vakori is a really complicated character and I based ler off of a number of people I know. Le's very pragmatic and very, very clear-sighted about things in a way that is almost pathological, but le has a good heart and cares about people, le is kind of just a crazy pragmatist who wants power for the sake of using it. Rocaim and Velan are both wildly in love with ler because le is just like. Le is a person yes but le is also like a straight line between two points, and good at it. Rocaim and Vakori end up getting married because it's more politically expedient for Vakori and helps ler get ler voice into the actual political leadership of ler time, which matters a lot for ler and if it didn't Velan and Rocaim wouldn't be in love with ler... but this means that Velan - already younger and kind of hopelessly in love with Rocaim for other, unrelated reasons - ends up awkwardly third wheeling for the two of them forever. Which is like torture forever but she's also much more pragmatic than most people so she kind of just forces herself to make it work.
The three of them end up being siginificant political figures of their time, Vakori and Rocaim making significant policy decisions and Velan (trained as an assassin and guerilla fighter and later as a battlefield tactician) as a military commander among a handful of others. Technically Velan and Vakori work in totally different fields, but Vakori has a big mind for strategy and Velan often refers to ler for difficult questions before she properly comes into her own.
Then, of course, the coalition they're working with gets properly kicked over in a crushing military defeat and everyone dies... sick and twisted. This sets the scene for the story I actually write.
This picture was meant to be the three of them talking together over stuff before they actually Attain Heights. I was putting together a timeline at some point. I need to get back to that but it got really time consuming and started really eating up my entire life so I had to stop and I haven't gotten back to it.
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This kind of sucks but I like it so it's fine.
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lizard house. quite pretty for how little work I put into it. Taran (right) is here! I've been working hard to learn to be able to draw him in a way I find satisfactory. One day I will find a way to make sure that Taran looks like the
I asked a friend for advice on Haven's robe and they said (verbatim) "oh, a whore robe?" and I want everyone to know that. It is in fact a whore robe, and he is in fact a whore, and this is possibly his only saving grace because certainly there's nothing positive in his personality otherwise LMAO.
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Yeaaaaars ago I made an OC playlist for Haven, which I still stand by because it's half-decent. I was trying to put stuff together for ArtFight (which I did end up doing, but I was woefully disappointed by the entire experience so I probably won't do it again, which is kind of what I expected in the first place) and I ended up listening to it a bit more than usual, because the usual is "never", and I got inspired by one of the songs.
Lyrics are from Vicarious by Tool, and it's one of the songs on the playlist, which you can find here. It's not the best playlist ever though, really it needs to be reworked but it's fine to listen to if you don't care that much about the transitions.
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Another thing I made quickly for the sake of ArtFight. I got a test print of this from artpal and it looks really good up on my wall, which tbh I didn't actually expect.
The text on the left-hand side says "Rex's radio repair" in my post-apocalypse-plus-eighteen-centuries not-really-english orthography. Frankly speaking I should look into actual orthographic evolution before I start doing these things because I don't know very much about it (maybe more than a complete layperson but not by very much, and certainly not enough to speculatively construct my own plausibly) and i;d like to do a better version at some point, but I think it looks good, and because when I write it it's not like I'm going to be writing it in speculative 2200+1600-post-english it's not like. A priority, and besides, conlangs are more fun. (I do think I'm going to memorize this alphabet just for the sake of weirding my handwriting periodically though, for fun.) As things stand, all it exists for is to look cool and futuristic on images. I overestimated how plausibly readable it is, though, I think - it seems perfectly interpretable to me, but I know that the weird triangle shape is a sideways A and I know that I mirrored the orientation of w so I can force everyone to cross out their zs like I llike to do. All I even did to the Rs is open the back but it also looks a lot weirder in this kind of stretched-outdramatic font, I think.
Lot of rambling about lettering for a picture that's only maybe 1/3rd lettering on the whole. You can find a handwritten-looking version of the alphabet here if you're curious. I'll probably post about it later at some point because i stupid alphabet shit and I have nothing going on tonight so I might honestly just go do a proper sans-serif Text version. who knows.
Anyway part of the reason people tolerate Rex despite his awful personality and unpleasant nature is that he will just fix your shit for free. He's not even charging for it because for him it's stress relief and a break from People, who he has to work very hard to be as tolerable toward as he is. By the time the actual story rolls around he's quite a lot better at socializing like a person and not a bite risk than he is when he first starts doing courier work on behalf of Clan Oserisades, so when he was doing ride-along type apprentice jobs they would just kind of sic him on other people's busted electronics (if the clans allowed, which is dubious for some of them tbf) and Rex is legitimately very good with electronics so he'd just go fix them. Or if they weren't fixable he'd explain why they weren't fixable (sullenly) at prodding from the courier he was working with. This earned him points because he was doing it for free and frankly electronic work in this setting is even worse than it is here, and there's a lot fewer people who know how to do it. Sometimes people ask for him in particular because they need some shit mailed but more importantly they have a broken piece of shit radio handset, can he like, fix the speakers... and he does it.
So this is about that. Asshole 25-year-old dirtbag who comes around by your place, fixes your shit that the last guy qhoted you $3500 to even diagnose, glares at you the whole time, charges you $15 to take a package somewhere else with him, and then leaves wi5h. Good deal for everyone because frankly Rex needs any advantage to not be chased out of town with pitchforks for a while lmfao.
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A friend posted a picture of a shirt and it absolutely captivated me, so I drew one of my ocs onto it. This is Felyx. He's one of Rex's friends.
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Was inspired by yet another shirt, this time for Rex. I worked hard on matching the motion blur effect.
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Haven: For the last fucking time, we both--
Taran (interrupting): I don't care! I don't want to be there!
Haven: I don't want to go either! It's not optional!
Taran: "Your siblings are fucking mean! I'm not going!
Mostly I drew this to test out a brush I made so I could draw Taran's patterns more easily. He's the big snake dragon thing.
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Technically this was an ArtFight attack and the mermaid character has absolutely fuckall to do with me, but Haven is there, and I did put a lot of work into this because I just really love painting water. The other person's OC can be found on ToyHouse here.
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What kind of fucking moron like what sort of actual gibbering idiot arranges a fucking pizza party instead of paying out bonuses?
(Muttering) It is embarrassing. Your employees could buy pizza at home for like forty dollars or something. Have some class.
No one wants company pizza. Your employees hate you. Now, in my company...
See, I know what people really want. You can't jsut give them what you find convenient, of course. The purpose of a bonus is to incentivise them to do more of the work you're paying them for better. If it's not money it has to be something significant. And every other manager is apparently stupid, but not me. I can do non-monetary bonuses. I'm just smarter. See...
When my employees do really well, I arrange a nice little division-wide orgy.
Obviously everyone wants to fuck the guy I'm fucking, right? It's pure genius really.
Everyone's mostly there for the catering. Not that you could ever convince Haven of that.
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Shotgun: Hey baby, can I hold your weird rat pleeeeeeeeeeease?
Shard: uh.... hello there? do you mean my ferret?
Peanut gallery
Felyx: Shotgun you can't call his rat weird that's rude, this is so embarrassing
Rex: Dude I think it's a dog?
Shotgun is using the fourth wall to kabedon Shard, so we're all clear on what's happening there.
Anyway this was another ArtFight attack but the character Shard (with the ferret) is a friend's character, so it's less awkward for me to link it here, I think.
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This is Nadiya! For a character I enjoy writing so much I really don't draw her often and it's because I'm still torn on her design. Oops.
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zonked. ignore the other image in the thread because it looks bad.
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Strongly inspired by this tumblr post. Given that Rex as a character kind of exists to be put in situations, in terms of like, narrative utility, and that Haven is a character I invented as a verb to specifically put anyone he comes into contact with into a specific situation, it felt pretty fitting.
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I saw yet another dumb shirt. I drew Rex into it.
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