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Grieving (Sketchtember 2024 - Day 12)

[Rara Avis]

Choi: I promise, Izzy and I didn't intend Day 12's prompt to bring twice as many child deaths in the pictures. But I do gotta say... I'm glad that we're really showing off the "dark" in dark fantasy in our works now ✨🌑✨

The royal siblings Goldie and Sand grew up in happiness, preparing for a life of responsibility and duty, until the assassination of their entire family line. Goldie (26) and Sand (23) found themselves orphaned, grieving, and wandering into the wild countryside. This particular scene is timed around 2-3 weeks since their loss, after they encountered a mysterious scoundrel, whom they contracted to lead them the way to a remote dwarven stronghold.

When everyone turned to sleep that night, Goldie was left alone with her grief while carrying the weight of the last remaining royal bloodline. You can only imagine the ruminating it would take for her to then see a hallucination of her dead baby brother in the mirror.

And it doesn't get easier from there.

Worst Fear (Sketchtember 2024 - Day 13)

[Hollow Hearts]

Choi: This is a recreation of an angsty shower scene that I wanted to do of Samak. Back when it was Tegaki E, I doodled a moody composition of Samak just brooding under a running shower. Unfortunately, I couldn't do very much to expand on it because a few users started commenting on it and started taking it to very irrelevant story territories. Samak back then just had the quality of being a thirst trap in RP circles, I guess 🤷🏻

Anyway! I'm happy how this turned out as far as redraws go. It certainly was cathartic to draw Samak crying out of anger, rather than lying back passive and depressed.

Now as for the prompt: Samak's worst fear was losing his boyfriend, Cole. Which happened. And not only did it happen, it was in the worst possible way - at Samak's own hands. Now he has to live with that, and it haunts him all the time. And that was all just the *beginning* of Samak's story.

How exactly that all shook out, and what happens next, you'll have to stay tuned to see...!

Guilty Pleasure (Sketchtember 2024 - Day 9)

[The Judge]

Ismaire: I guess it's about time I dragged Darr and Ashe into a sweet prompt together, huh?

Let this be proof that, at least much later in the story, Darr finally lets his death grip off the gas a little and learns to relax… sometimes. Almost exclusively with Ashe, and still not as much as he should, but he's learning. He still tends to feel like anything done for personal pleasure is a 'guilty' pleasure, but the two of them just love jamming together so much.

I mean, he painted those lilies on Ashe's guitar for him, for hell's sake. He's so dumb sometimes. Still, progress~

Cuddle (Sketchtember 2024 - Day 5)

[Hollow Hearts]

Choi: Surprise, it's not Sweet Nightmares. Here's a pair of star-crossed space cowboys, bonding together after a long day's work on the honey ranch. For this universe's cowboys, though, they're actually referred to as "bumbleboys" because their livestock are giant alien bees 🐝🍯

Featured OCs from left to right are Samak and Cole. I'm still working out the foundation of their relationship, and tbh, parts of their designs too. Samak was originally an RP character I designed for a Tegaki E group back in the day. Meanwhile Cole was originally known as Casey, a backstory character whose death was used as an example for why Samak turned to bounty hunting. I plan to keep some of the tragedy from the original backstory, so I guess we'll see how it all shakes out in the future :)

Support (Sketchtember 2024 - Day 11)

[Sweet Nightmares]

Choi: Rico, Rico, oh Rico… She genuinely means well and is a brilliant mind when it comes to magitech engineering and field medicine, but her bedside manner has always been a point of contention from her teammates. Thankfully, she doesn't care what they think as long as she can do her job and get the results. Auset's her boss and his opinion trumps everyone else's. Besides, Auset's never told her to stop what she's doing in spite of the shared feedback.

The poor guy in the foreground is Dietrich. He remembers very well they had no choice about using duct tape last time, which he did consent. But that doesn't mean he appreciated her enthusiasm in MacGyvering a medical wrap out of an inappropriate adhesive.