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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~
Guilty Pleasure (Sketchtember 2024 - Day 9)
[Sweet Nightmares]
Choi: When he's not out hunting monsters with the Hunter's Guild, MyungJun is a voracious reader. He'll read fiction and nonfiction, but his real guilty pleasure is reading manhwa. Despite his serious exterior and discipline, MyungJun likes to kick back with a bit of fantasy and romance to recharge his batteries.
Movie Night (Sketchtember 2024 - Day 10)
[Rara Avis]
Ismaire:
Goldstone and Sandstone, the two oldest children of fai royalty, have abandoned their seats to sit as close as possible to the stage on "theater night." A specially requested performance group has come from across the kingdom to put on a play about the founding of the fai kingdom as it is known today, when their ancestor made a pact with the primal of the earth element and secured protection and prosperity for their people that has lasted tens of generations.
The two close siblings whisper and giggle to each other as they enjoy the colorful performers' prancing in elaborate, symbolic costumes. It's the most fun they've had since winter came and it got too chilly to play outside for long.
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We haven't settled on the final designs of characters in this story and are still experimenting, so they are likely to change quite a bit as we nail it down, but we at least know these two cuties will be "fai" - a basically faerie-like race in the world of Rara Avis. More about them to come once they're grown-up~
Movie Night (Sketchtember 2024 - Day 10)
[Sweet Nightmares]
Choi: The trio decided to watch The Nun for their movie night at Bidan's apartment. You would think that living a life of fighting monsters and exorcising ghosts would numb them to the horror genre, but it really doesn't. At least in their line of work, they have control of their actions and choices. It's different when you're watching helplessly as the audience...
The specific scene they're reacting to is when Sister Irene gets blindsided by one of the possessed nuns. Vance has an appropriate reaction to the jumpscare (his maek ears pop out when he's distressed). Poor MyungJin actually hates dealing with ghosts, and as far as she's concerned, demons are just god-modding ghosts. Bidan's gauge on being terrified by horror movies has yet to be determined, but he's not unhappy that he's in the middle of a cuddle sandwich; he's just critical of the human's stupid decisions for going without any firepower.
Support (Sketchtember 2024 - Day 11)
[The Judge]
Ismaire:
I'm pleased I get to show off another member of Darr's hunting team in action. Reba is a fantastic team support, both in terms of her skillsets and her personality.
On the skill side, she is the "heavy" expert in the team, trained in using some of the most complex and dangerous equipment that HOST's operatives have access to - like a giant arm-cannon that requires a generator backpack and a delicate balance of timed shots in order to not risk overloading. Thanks to her body-building hobby, she's also able to use most of this equipment completely without implanted enhancements, which she is very proud of.
On the personality side, she is willing to drop pretty much all notion of self-preservation and rush her freckled ass into danger for the life of any teammate or bystander. She's an absolute determinator and would fight until the life leaves her body no matter how dismal the circumstances.
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.
Grieving (Sketchtember 2024 - Day 12)
[V E S S E L S]
Ismaire:
The three exhausted survivors finally made it back to Wendthy's hideout to move her little family to somewhere safer, as agreed... only to find the door hanging open - and just past the threshold, her whole life turned upside-down.
No... not them, they were just children! It couldn't be too late. Wendthy couldn't have just lost everything she had worked so hard to protect because of one terrible, vengeance-driven mistake.
The kids couldn't have known what was going on outside. They must have seen her friend at the door and let him in, with no way of knowing he had downloaded that virus that was making every robot, cyber-body and implant in the city go nuts and... and do things like this.
Not the kids, please. Please let this be a bad dream.
Worst Fear (Sketchtember 2024 - Day 13)
[The Judge]
Ismaire: Matthew's worst fear is losing Eden and Bradie. And much to his own horror, especially as he continues regenerating toward his previous full size, he realizes one of the things most likely to cause that to happen is… his own monstrous instincts.
When he was injured, Matt's body had undergone a hard-restart. Growing back to full size was like growing up all over again, and just recently he had started experiencing these insanely strong hunting urges, as if for the first time. It had caught him off guard, and Eden had… he didn't know, maybe just moved the wrong way at the wrong moment, and something in Matthew had screamed--
-- 'PREY.'
Guarding Eden's bedside that night, Matt promised himself he'd ensure this never happened again, or he would leave.
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...!
[RED]
Ismaire:
Now for some Red Riding Hood tomfoolery I'm not sorry for.
Claret, you're lookin uh, little thirsty there. Need some water?