Today Is Not Friday, But... Trying To Ennoble This "uncanny Valley" Mask From Chapter 3.

Today is not Friday, but... Trying to ennoble this "uncanny valley" mask from Chapter 3.

Face paint makes him look so much younger.

tumblr says i “liked” your post, but i loved it. actually, i love you.

my sister just told me my niece said i'm her favourite auntie because i'm the most fun, which is reassuring considering the other day i spent 10 minutes explaining why creating a theme park with 90,000 rides and a £20 admission fee is, at the very least, financially unviable.

Sunny gets bullied BADLY at the Ministry.

Not by the ghouls, they all adore her. Even the older, stoic ghouls belonging to Primo and Secondo. She makes them smile when she shows off her cartwheels and tumbles and flips.

Not even by the Papas. They all (apart from Copia) grumble about how badly trained she is, she has no self control, she's too bouncy. But they adore her really. She makes them feel young at heart and she adapts her activities depending on the Papa. She spends time in Nihil's chambers, looking over all his curios. Picnics with Primo. Long walks with Secondo. 'Hunting' Terzo and then switching roles so that he's tracking her once he's been caught. She dances around with Copia and climbs all over him. She can perch on his shoulders, she's so balanced.

It's the siblings that bully her.

She just didn't realise this, really.

They had liked her at first, laughed at how high energy she was. She'd been invited back to dorms to show back her fire and air tricks.

She had been too trusting.

Too trusting when they made snide comments and disguised them as compliments. Too trusting when they told her that she looked way cuter with shorter hair and 'helped' her cut it from halfway down her back to a bob length (Copia had been furious when he found out).

Too trusting when they treated her as some sort of specimen rather than as a living, breathing ghoul with thoughts and feelings and emotions.

Omega had caught the siblings with her one time. He had appeared behind the siblings, towering over them, looking down at the small group with Sunny trapped in the middle as she giggled nervously. He'd silently judged them, before taking Sunny by the shoulder and guiding her away.

The breaking point had been when Omega had went looking for Sunny one day and found her in Primo's office, curled up in the Papa's arms, all teary eyed and blubbering. Between sobs, she explained to Omega how cruel the siblings had been to her.

Primo had looked over Omega for a moment, evaluating him. Then, he pulled Sunny closer in the cradle of his arms and murmured "They won't bother you any more, cuoricina..." before giving Omega a nod, signaling for him to leave.

A few hours later, Alpha, Omega, and Zephyr sat together in their dorm, cleaning the chunks of flesh out of each others' teeth, licking the blood off of their hands and faces, sated in the fact that Sunshine wouldn't be bothered anymore.

This is my illustration of Spillways. It's been a long journey, I've had a lot of "I hate it" moments and finally "oh it's ok I've figured out how to do what I want". I wasted a lot of time testing different styles for the smoke, I think I found the right balance between full on painting and too much lineart. Anyway, I'm happy to be done even if once again I have to force myself not to keep improving the details that wouldn't even show haha.

And it's also the first time I've drawn ghouls, even if it wasn't the biggest part since I used photos as a reference so as not to waste time creating poses. I did the same thing with the dancers, but modified the shapes for more body variety.

Hope you like it !

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