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A. Come on you’re asking this about Dib “Agent Mothman” Membrane
B. Let me explain for serious why this is PERFECT for Dib-
Interpretations of the actual Mothman myth are ambiguous and conflicted. A lot of mothman-related speculation and “lore” was a snowball of things added onto and after the original Point Pleasant Sightings. Originally, mothman was only another “someone said they saw something weird” case, until coincidental timing and dot-connecting started to link his presence to other occurrences. There’s maybe an obscure handful of mothman attack anecdotes, but the creature’s gist is actually wholly one of association to other things he appears to have no understood direct connection to. A major instance of this was the theory that Mothman was connected in some way to the Silver Bridge collapse, just because of the way reports about him flooded in around the same time. Since then he’s also been associated with UFO sightings, to the point of some conspiracists pondering if he himself is an alien, and precognitive visions people report experiencing after his appearance. Long story short, other paranormal activity in the area often gets linked to mothman in some way, while the exact nature/behavior of the entity himself beyond being the original inscrutable glowing-eyed silhouette is… ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ ?
So put all of this together and it adds to the menace factor of Mothman’s reputation, in a way that led many to thinking of him as a harbinger of doom or some kind of creepy, nihilistic watcher; however, it also gave rise to the theory of Mothman as, actually, a misunderstood, benevolent critter. Some paranormal writers cast Mothman as a being that is attempting to protect humans, his sightings not being a cause of these events, but rather a warning of them. If anything I always interpreted this specific legend as a very intentional choice for Dib’s Swollen Eyeball alias.
C. Between the coat and the glasses reflection idk what more anyone’s asking for as far as aesthetic parallels
Zimtober Day 2 : Mask
This one was pretty easy to draw but it took me HOURS to think of what to do. Mask wasn't very elaborate. Still very proud of this
just as a little backstory I imagine this is some future au where the swollen eyeball and the resisty team up to defeat the irken race.
Prompts by @snazzyrat
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Process shots under the cut
A kid with glasses