New group of characters! I had some of these designs sitting around for a while, because there were

New group of characters! I had some of these designs sitting around for a while, because there were parts I didn’t know how to draw. I ended up just doing sketches of those desings (which are the last three, I’m just not very good at creature design) Some of these drawings have been sitting around for nearly a year and I had to make a few changes to them because the proportions and hands and stuff looked even more off than they usually do. The ones with the thicker lines are the older ones. I almost forgot what the whole story was with these three. I think I remember most of it though. I think I took a lot of inspiration from Gravity Falls and It. Penny and Melody live in a very small town, it’s in a valley surrounded by mountains. Melody has lived there her whole life and Penny moved there when she was younger. I haven’t really figured out their family lives and backstories completely. Melody has a really big family with lots of siblings. Penny is an only child. Melody is loud and outgoing and adventurous while Penny is a shy and quiet book worm type. Penny’s family moved to the town for a reason that will be important to her character, but I haven’t decided on that reason yet. They meet soon after Penny moves to town and become fast friends. Melody enjoys Penny’s company because it’s nice to be around someone’s who’s calm and actually listens to her. Melody has so many siblings she often feels overlooked and talked over. And Penny has such vastly different interests than most people in town she finds it exciting to talk to her. Penny doesn’t make friends easily, Melody is basically the only friend she made since moving to town years ago. Penny is a genius but she’s too shy to talk to most people. When she tries to talk to people her age she’s often made fun of because they think she’s just trying to sound smart. She became friends with Melody because they met at a young age and Melody was the one who initiated the conversation. Melody actually loves to hear her talk about her interests (which is science or something smart idk) even if she doesn’t understand a lot of it. The problem is Melody makes friends very easly. While none of them are as close to her as Penny, she’s still very social and gets along with people. Penny is always afraid she’s going to lose her or they’ll drift apart, which ends up leading to jealousy sometimes. And Melody isn’t great with emotions, while she’s loyal and loves her friends she often doesn’t pick up on the more subtle things and doesn’t realize if someone is upset. She very much lives in the moment and doesn’t put much thought into the future. Penny on the other hand worries a lot, she often looks too much into what people say and often derives meaning where there is none. She’s always worried she’ll lose her friendship with Melody because of something she said or did. She’s just very self concious and is always afraid she might come off as annoying in some way. Melody would never think ill of her or consider her annoying and never realizes Penny is so worried about these things. One day during summer they are exploring the woods, there’s not much else to do around town. They end up wandering further than they’ve ever gone and stumble across an old large abondoned building. This is where they meet Echo.Echo is an immortal interdimensional being that crossed over to our dimension and has been stuck here for years. (I don’t know how many I haven’t figured out the timeline yet). Echo doesn’t have a gender and goes by any pronouns but I’m just going to use he for him for this. Echo is part of a race of beings that don’t remember when or how they came to exist. They do not age, and they cannot die as far as they know and can take almost any form. They have always existed in their dimension/universe. They do not have much sense of self and instinct is what most drives them. They were meant to destroy and create, to shape they universe they exist in. But they never really figured out the create part. I think they along with the universe they exist in were created by some powerful being or god but then abandoned before they ever got to know their purpose. They never learned what they are or their purpose so they ended up destroying and consuming what existed in their dimension. They consume and become more powerful but when their is nothing left of their dimension they try to reach into another one. One of them figured out how tear open a hole to another dimension. The portal they opened sent them to another universe but closed before the others were able to cross. In the process of crossing dimensions they lost most memories of where they came from or who they were, their mind was not much more than that of a wild animal. In this universe they were less powerful than they were in their original, able to be harmed, and needed to eat to survive instead of just for power. After ending up in this dimesion they basically existed as a cryptid for years. Mostly staying hidden in woods. They would eat animal or people they came across. Penny and Melody stumble across them while they are hiding in an abondoned building. They almost become the creature’s next meal. Most people that encountered them were paralyzed with fear, for they could take any horrifying shape in order to frighten their prey. But Melody was the first human to seemingly show no fear (she was actually terrified lol). She attacked the creature with a branch and when that failed and she was backed into a corner she stood in front of Penny with her arms out to protect her. The creature doesn’t understand these actions and is curious. For the first time they try taking a shape similiar to the humans they usuallly preyed upon. They change it a few times until they find one the humans seem less afraid of. The humans still seem scared and  they don’t understand why (he’s not very smart at this point) They reach out a hand and the red haired human seems hesitant before reaching forward and taping one of their fingers and says “one too many’” before spreading her own fingers and wiggles them. It seems humans only have five fingers. (they don’t pay much attention to detail and usually get something wrong on whatever they shift into) So Melody actually befriends the horrifying creature and names them Echo. Penny doesn’t like this, at all. And she has good reason lol. This was not Melody’s brightest move. How about we don’t befriend things that eat people Melody? She argues with Melody about how absolutely terrible of an idea this is but Melody doesn’t seem worried. So Penny’s going to be stuck hanging out with her bestfriend and her bestfriends pet shapeshifter all summer it seems. Melody starts teaching Echo about how to act like a person. How to talk and not kill, you know, the basics. Echo is a quick learner and for the first time in his whole existence actually develops true awareness and a sense of self. He still doesn’t have memories of what he was before though and most of his time on earth is foggy. Melody starts spending more time with Echo and becoming friends with him. While not neglecting her friendship with Penny, her attention is divided. Penny becomes jelous and feels like her friend is being stolen away by this monster. Does Melody actually prefer this thing over her? Melody is just thick skulled and doesn’t realize that, hey, maybe making friends with the eldric horror wasn’t the best decision you’ve ever made and your’re pushing your best friend away because of it. They have a bit of a falling out at one point or an argument and Penny stops spending as much time around Melody. One day Melody is with Echo out in the woods and Echo starts to remember, his life on Earth and before. It’s too much for him and the power he does have starts going out of control. At the same time Penny shows up, she was looking for Melody so she could apologize for the argument (even though she did nothing wrong) She shows up right as Echo is freaking out. He shifts into his other dimensional form and unconciously opens a portal that goes out of control and Penny sees her friend pulled through it. The portal begins pulling everything around into it, Penny lets herself be pulled toward it and grabs onto Echo before she is pulled in and stabs him in the eye with her glasses. This closes the portal and Penny is thrown backwards. The last thing she see before she blacks out is Echo burrowing deep into the earth. She wakes up in a hospital with her parents there. She finds out a part of the forest and town was destroyed. She was found near the site of origin. There’s goverment people there who question her, they’re researching into what happened. She tells them she doesn’t remember because she doesn’t think anyone will believe her. But she developes a plan. She’s going to find Echo and make him open the portal and get Melody back. When she’s released from the hospital her family moves again. Penny throws herself into her school studies. She graduates high school early and goes to college to get a degree that will allow her to join the teams studying what happened in her town.She kind of loses herself in the process. All she thinks about and all she cares about is getting Melody back. And she wants revenge on Echo. When she joins the teams they seem to know that something supernatural happened in that town, so she explains what she knows. Surprisingly they believe her. They begin to develope ways they can find and capture Echo.They locate him in a cavern deep underground. He puts up no resistence to his capture. He seems broken emotionaly and is willing to comply with whatever they want. Penny wants him to open a portal but he doesn’t know how. Penny hates him and is willing to do whatever it takes to get Melody back. They run dozens of tests. But still no portal. I haven’t decided what finally makes him able to open one but it will be something emotional. Melody has been stuck in a sort of in between dimension this whole time, her body ages but she needs no food or water. She been stuck in one place unable to move but mentally she has been able to view and walk through other dimensions. She is not able to physically interact with them but she can travel to them like she is a ghost. It feels almost like a dream to her. When they are able to open a portal to get her back they accidentally open more than just one. Beings from Echo’s home dimension are able to get through along with many others from other dimensions. Penny doesn’t care. She has Melody back. But Melody isn’t the same as she was before. She’s angry and confused and distant. She’s so happy to see Penny and be in a physical realm again but her time in the portal changed her. She also has some kind of powers but I didn’t decide what yet.Penny, Melody and Echo are tasked with capturing the creatures that came through the portal. Penny does eventually reconcile with Echo but it takes time. The white hair black body suit is Echo’s base human form, and what he prefers. The younger version is when they where kids and he changes it when they are older. He can take almost any form though, but often gets details wrong. For the human forms the hair and eye color always match and his pupils are sort of diamond shaped. The bottom sketches are other forms he takes. I haven’t designed what he usually looked like in the other dimension yet. The last picture is his original and first form.That’s all I have figured out for now. I’m not good at writing things out and have a hard time putting my thoughts into words so this is kind of a mess. -- source link

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