The Dear Hunter - Tumblr Posts
The problem with The Dear Hunter is that like, it feels viscerally wrong to really fandom-ize it, which is generally the feeling I get from things that register more as "an art piece" than "entertainment media" (I am fully aware of the overlap between these things.) I don't fandom-ize a lot of my favorite movies for the same reason. But I want to.
Oops! All Symbolism Hunter in adult, child, and identity theft forms.
My image is of something that's theatrical instead of grounded-- characters pose and have soliloquies that no one else can hear and there's dance elements, etc.
Hunter's movements start out as pretty natural-- even when singing, he doesn't move around much unless being positioned by someone else (like when he's led in a dance.) What he does most is like... sway with emotion. In general, he's something that is pushed around by his environment.
This changes during Father-- when Hunter changes appearance, his movements become more deliberately posed and unnatural, with a feeling of performance. The drama gets amped way up in King of Swords (Reversed), where he starts making exaggerated gestures, adding flourishes to mundane actions, moving to the beat... generally putting on much more of a show than was previously in-character for him. It ebbs and flows but overall sticks around until the end, even after he drops his guise and his appearance changes back.
ITS US Boy WE'RE THE PS5
SPEAKING TO YOU INSIDE YOUR BRAIN
LISTEN TO US Boy
LEAVE THE City WE DON'T NEED HER
Decided that
The accent colors will be limited to the three primaries.
There's two other characters with colored eyes.
Woag it's Young Hunter and Also Young Hunter and Young Hunter As Well
left and right designs by @windmill-ghost and @emett-sidecast respectively i wanted to draw them because they;re COOL !! !!
sorry there's just one oracle i didn't feel like drawing more
doodle page my apologies for all the dear hunter posting [is not sorry
what she says: I’m fine
what she means: left. right. slide to the back. hop to the right. now kick and clap. hands to the sky with a shake of the knees. praise his number xcv
rotating limbus and tdh in my brain got me like. I Need To Make A Deny It All Animatic With Dongrang
By the way here's a version of my Hunter design from before i knew the Gloria music video existed and adapted that one instead
Baby;s First Shitposts from when i was still trying to figure out the story like a year ago under the cut
slickin' my hair with the kerosene
(Hunter design belongs to @/riveracheron :) )
[Image ID: A digital illustration of Hunter from The Dear Hunter's Acts, dramatically throwing his half-brother's dog tags into the flames of the church he's currently burning. It's a long story. Anyway, Hunter is a white man with long ginger hair + a short beard, wearing grey suspenders over a white shirt. A loose green bow tie is under the shirt collar, and Hunter wears glasses as well. There is a tiny scar on his cheek. None of the colors previously mentioned really matter since everything was rendered in various shades of orange and red. There's some of the original color, I guess. The lighting is vivid and varied as flames devour the church interior and sweep around Hunter's legs. Hunter's expression is furious, teeth bared and all. The artist's signature is in the bottom right corner. End ID.]
Music fandoms are so funny to me. Oh, you like listening to the funky sounds? Now get ready for the lord.