Copperpipes - Certified Overthinker

Congratulations @sharkfinn on 2k!!!

I made this while listening to September by earth, wind & fire on a loop

I've a few arts from other people and he never seemed quite scared enough for me

Don't know if I pulled it off myself tho :/

Ooooh and finn your toothy rat king design really reminds of morganucodontids which was the first classified mammal and I find this interesting even tho he's supposed to be a rat :D

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Im still figuring out the format I'll be comfortable and consistent in, give it a lil more time ;] ill do a poll probably

Finally got this out :D

See you in the next part!

I am not a big fan of the ghost king danny trope usually but imagining him as a cosmic horror of sorts is always fun so I give you the newborn king!

I don’t like this trope unless it is balanced out by something being taken from danny as a price for kinghood, like memories of his past or his humanity/mortality. It would make a lot more sense for the crown to pluk him away because finally it found a new wielder who won't (hopefully) abuse its power based on how he'd taken the crown. (I'd like to imagine the crown as a half sentient programmed artifact)

The kinghood being withheld from him until he died fully is also logical, because the previous king has already been asleep for a millenia, what's another hundred or so years? It could wait.

Besides, why does the zone need a ruler anyway? Its a fucking dimension no individual can have the patience to deal with all that,,,

It was probably self proclaimed tho so maybe its just Periah

But thats just me being picky for balance and because I enjoy realistic fiction and worldbuilding no matter the genre :]

I always see people give vlad a Count Dracula kinda design and its cool and all but one time I sat and thought hey, Vlad, doesnt sound like an american name. And isn't Vlad short for Vladimir? Long story short he's Russian now. (In my au! Don't come at me people,,,)

I thought it fit his personality well enough, greedy, cunning, with high education that he is not using enough, and always looking for ways to work as little as possible.

How he got to America is fairly simple, his parents born in the soviet union didn't agree with the communist party so they fled to America where Vlad was born, that’s all.

In his design i have only taken a little inspiration from slavic royal attire, the rest is from how ectoplasm naturally settles combined with Vlad's preferences in how he looks. (Yes he has black teeth, yes his mouth is glowing from the inside.)

How Vlad died is much more interesting tho, radiation poisoning.

*description of a long and painful death, read at your own volition, skip the paragraph if you rather not*

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It started shortly after the portal exploded on his face, with skin ulcers (his 'ecto acne' ,  Is one major symptom of radiation poisoning), continued with organ failure, and ended with a series of seizures with the last one on his bathroom floor while bleeding from every hole in his body. The whole metamorphosis lasted about a year.

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What happened is that he didn't die quickly like Danny had, he didn't shift to a ghost form right away because he didn't have one yet. He hasn't died yet. Without the huge amount of ectoplasm Danny had the suit that kept him together Vlad's ghost-half formed gradually and so slowly that he couldn’t tap into it while in the 3rd dimension for another year after he died and came back.

His death has formed a core, the electric shock from its awakening is what revived him. The poisoning stopped, he already died, the core kept him alive until the body recovered enough to function on its own.

Damn

That's a lot of angst 

Uh, um, he also less cares about Maddie herself and more about taking everything from Jack which is who he blames for his death.

So yeah, poor guy :'o his hate for Jack is now very justified.

LMAOOOOO