b-sides-besides: Finished this earlier today - tossed it to Twitter and figured I’d upload it here,
b-sides-besides: Finished this earlier today - tossed it to Twitter and figured I’d upload it here, too. Matilda the Great dressed / recoloured as Zazz the Zeti, the pink shitpickle that inspired the design of the entire Xeres race. I enjoyed making this, and while making it I thought about, and not for the first time, making IO adoptables - as in adoptables of the currently established canonical species. As fun as this idea always sounds it generally gets shot down by two things: one being that the canon is constantly shifting and I am incredibly anal about how things work, and having the kind of loose ends that adoptables would create in the hands of people I don’t know if I can trust would drive me completely mental; and second, there is a very small but specific handful of people and types of people of which I never want my creations, especially those so closely tied to something so important to me, to fall into the hands of, no exceptions. Folks in-stream got to learn a few facts about Matilda, one of them being she gets shagged by a Fallen Angel named Carbodel after they both have several bottles of wine. Matilda is the daughter of Yesna, and granddaughter to Esreikal, both of whom were Xeres warriors. Matilda makes a name for herself outside of the Xeres city after Greed’s Crown of Brass is passed to Mammon and the Xeres become a slightly less fabled people (by being confirmed to be Actually Real and presenting a gift to Dis in the form of Temptress, a chandelier made from 16,000 pieces of crystal, gold,and silver, later hung in Chapel Hrukas, Dis’ largest library). This would be her as a younger warrior, not yet covered in scars and having already mothered multiple children (her being repainted as Zazz is also the only time ever that she will ever be seen with pants). Her being decked in gold jewelry is hardly a show of riches or modesty, rather it’s a show of self-control, since Xeres eat precious metals - crafting fine jewelry for the sole purpose of eating it later, similar to fancy cakes. If a Xeres can wear an extravagant amount of jewelry and not eat any of it, it’s a definite statement of their character. Working on this also brought some questions to mind that were never answered previously - ex: what is the social / political system of the Xeres city, what is it’s name, what is the name of its founder, etc. The unofficial ”tradition” of having every race in IO have a giant or incredibly fucked-up version of the common individual as some kind of figurehead is probably going to be implemented here. The Xeres city is, or was, a part of Babylon the Great, one of Hell’s first cities before it was shattered by Hell splitting into ever more Levels. It has a lot of old architecture in it, and amongst that old architecture is waste troughs, deep scores along the city’s roads that carry / drain waste to central locations that are essentially colossal pools of shit. Liquid metal will also flow into these pools, creating a horrible mixture of offal and riches. The largest pool squats under the light of the Wheel of Fortune, and living in it is Aurum Saccularius [tentative name], presumably the mastermind behind the thieving of the Wheel. Aurum is a colossal creature and has spent so long under the face of the Wheel that allegedly their entire body is solid gold. Aurum is a master of the art of Alchemy, able to transmute any substance into another. From a bit ago. Prattling included! This was meant to be followed up with Urz and Infliction dressed / recoloured as the characters that had inspired them way back in 2008 or thereabouts, but it didn’t end up happening at the time. Maybe in the future. -- source link
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