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Post by soot on Jan 1, 2024 2:23:32 GMT -5
Thank you guys so much! And don’t feel insecure Juno, this was a surprise for me man xD
And I hope so! Gonna work out some details with them, and finish the line art, and try my best to color it!
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Post by Hushabye on Jan 1, 2024 16:57:44 GMT -5
Hiii just popping in briefly to appreciate the art! <3 that has recently come to my smoothbrained attention You did so well on the shading Lazz! It really adds dimension to the fur tone and muscle- if that makes sense- And I love how distinct every wolf is beyond just color and expression! ✨️
I'm really excited to read your comic- but no rush at the same time!- and thank you so much for including the twins! ;;;
I will also reiterate that Tiger Twin Unknown is amazing and I can't imagine how great they'd look with even more detail!
I'm tired now but when I have time I'll go over all the pages so that I can actually ~know what's going on~
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Post by soot on Jan 3, 2024 18:13:57 GMT -5
Haha, working on coloring.. sort of currently. Coloring, my nemesis. And! For the forced shifters, inspiration struck and I wrote this, feel free to read it or not! Just a random little thing.m. I based this off of something I’ve thought up for the Hunters. And so what’s for the witches. I have this idea,(planned with a bit of help) that not all witches/warlocks, in fact a decent amount of witch covens, might not be particular fans of shifters. And even if they don’t particularly care, ingredients fights derive from shifters are so useful that some witches and hunters might actually work together some. It’d be a sort of transactional relationship, hunters get magic infused items, or potions and spells. And covens get what they need for specific spells, and whereabouts of shifters. That doesn’t directly relate to this piece, but it is an idea I had! Fur felt like spines, forcing themselves from her skin. Her gnaw shifted, and gums throbbing and bleeding as room was made, and daggers grew into place in her maw. Ears ringing as they came to a point, and bones breaking, her hands shifting to paws, claws sprouting from finger tips where nails once were. Tailbone growing, shifting, accommodating for a tail. And her back, her back was the worst. The sickening, slow, and near deafening resounding wet snap as her back broke, neck tilting similarly.
Where there was a human, writhing in pain, howling like the beast they were to become. Now, hours later, there’s a beast, a creature with no mind. Only instincts. Needs.
What were blue eyes, open to reveal ice, with green specks of life from their black, emotionless pupils.
What was there, is lost, not to be found until the white, pearlescent moon dips below the horizon once more, and the woman that once was, returns.
But the purple. The purple. It runs through their veins. Their mind, their soul, their body. The collar, with long, thing prisms that come to a sharp point, thing cylinder running through their middle. The silver collar injecting purple, their eyes once ice and vine, with purple bleeding from the corners, tears that burn their skin.
And once the moon leaves, the pull gone, they don’t change back to a woman. She stays the wolf, the creature, the beast of which she loathes.
There is no woman. Only a wolf, with sleek grey fire, and eyes like a swirling storm as she looses herself.
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Post by lazzylake on Jan 3, 2024 19:05:57 GMT -5
OH MY GOSH. THAT STORY IS SO COOL! I’M GONNA GEEK OUT!
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Post by soot on Jan 3, 2024 19:18:29 GMT -5
YAY! That’s what I’m going for!
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Post by lazzylake on Jan 3, 2024 19:40:45 GMT -5
Working on my doctor guy’s form! Should hopefully finally have it up and posted tonight!
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Post by soot on Jan 3, 2024 20:06:03 GMT -5
Oh nice! I’m excited to read up on him, Lazz! I’ve gotten smacked in the face with some inspiration, and am currently working on a feline shifter character .m. And I’m excited to rp Blair and Wulver interacting some with our dear mad doctor, haha.
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Post by Hawkeyes258 on Jan 3, 2024 23:27:38 GMT -5
Love that little story Soot! Lazz tell me your ideas for Jack's creator! I don't have anything in mind just trying to make him or her sound mysterious.
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Post by lazzylake on Jan 3, 2024 23:31:04 GMT -5
Oh be ready because I am about to spill LORE.
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Post by Hawkeyes258 on Jan 3, 2024 23:45:46 GMT -5
I'm ready!!
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Post by soot on Jan 3, 2024 23:45:50 GMT -5
Ohhh, LORRE! And I’m on an art roll man, I drew up Adeline if she was that full on stereotypical witch, haha!
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Post by lazzylake on Jan 3, 2024 23:55:07 GMT -5
I just had the biggest brained idea for some sort of rehabilitation center for forced shifters and the types of undercover activities the hunters could take part in.
For instance, I've been thinking of my and scientist guy Dammion to be a florist and sells and produces plain flower arrangements for local markets. He's been keeping a greenhouse where he monitors the plants frequently. Little do people know that he also works on growing his strands of wolfsbane there and is quite popular within the small circle of hunters in Griffindale. They come to him to get any herbs they need to subdue any shifters and get intel from Dammion on how to force shifting.
Dammion also asks the hunters in exchange for the herbs to help him in his dirty work too. He asks for hunters to deliver any shifters they've captured to an abandoned animal hospice center that he's illegally owning. Dammion is the head of a small group of recruits at the former shelter who engineer and create devices such as shock collars and any other contraptions to rattle shifters in any way possible. The forced shifters are no better than lab animals to be experimented on in their eyes. The more they study were-creature biology, the better chance they have of destroying the shifter race for good.
Perhaps the wolf who cursed Jack was one of these forced shifters and escaped somehow? They're especially dangerous which could be why the creatures taunting Jack called them a bit "strange." And the hunters, especially Dammion, are looking for the wolf to take back... Later on they could capture Jack and Javalle as well.
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Post by lazzylake on Jan 3, 2024 23:58:12 GMT -5
Ohhh, LORRE! And I’m on an are role man, I drew up Adeline if she was that full on stereotypical witch, haha! NO WAY!!! I LOVE THIS!! You drew Adeline so well, and the perspective is so good! Love the house and the trees in the background! Looks amazing so far!
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Post by Hawkeyes258 on Jan 4, 2024 0:04:07 GMT -5
Adeline looks so good Soot and I personally love that Lake! Maybe the shifter took refuge with the rogues for a time but decided to do their own thing or simply can't stay in one place for to long
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Post by soot on Jan 4, 2024 0:40:54 GMT -5
Thank you both!(: and that’s a great idea Lazz! I know Blair will definitely be in in that group, at least the capturing part, haha.
Maybe the rogue shifter could be the one in my little snippet, or someone similar? Maybe a half gone woman who was one of the first experiments Damion had who actually survived certain testing? Which could be why they’re so adamant on finding her, and she’s extra traumatized, and out for blood!
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Post by lazzylake on Jan 4, 2024 0:54:47 GMT -5
Yes! I'm totally on board with that idea! I was actually backpedaling off your story for inspiration on what to do for Dammion and the experiments, which seems to have been brought full circle! I wouldn't necessarily say she's the first experiment (I have plans for that..) But she could be one of the more heavily practiced ones!
Oh! Also I was wondering, do you think the witches have ways to expel the wolfsbane from forced shifters? I'm thinking Adeline could be involved in this somehow; do you think she could have ties to other witches in rivalry with shifters? I'm possibly getting ahead of myself
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Post by Junospower on Jan 4, 2024 1:06:32 GMT -5
I think witches having a way to somehow neutralize wolfsbane would be a neat idea. Maybe they even have a way to enhance the effects too? Through magic or alchemy or something
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Post by soot on Jan 4, 2024 1:13:35 GMT -5
Yeah, that’s sorta the idea! Perhaps an experiment with some interesting results or something?
And I think witches/warlocks would definitely be able to affect any shifters bane. Like mentioned, enhance or neutralize. I’d say they can’t fully expel it from a shifters body, but they can keep the affects at bay, and could perhaps make a potion, or infused item to help the affects of any type of bane?
It’s unlikely to find any already made potions or items with that use though, at least with a few idea I have where witches are more so against shifters than with.
As for Adeline! She gets her powers through her blood line, so plenty of witches/warlocks she’s related to are in fact, against shifters. But not all of the,, though some witches/warlocks might just not be big fans of shifters. Because i was thinking perhaps shifters are immune to witches powers, or at least somewhat in a sense? Which would make using magic on them more didfupicutl, but not impossible.
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Post by soot on Jan 4, 2024 1:23:08 GMT -5
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Post by soot on Jan 4, 2024 1:42:13 GMT -5
I keep on forgetting to ask ;; Hawkeyes! How do you feel about what I’ve thought up for witches and warlocks so far? Anything you don’t want to have added or? I’m fine with whatever! I just wanna make sure all of this is approved(:
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Post by lazzylake on Jan 4, 2024 1:46:14 GMT -5
Same here, Hawk! I also want to make sure the lore I have for Dammion is alright! I have plans for his backstory that I won't be revealing until later. But if I need to change any aspects before I finish his form I'm all ears!
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Post by Hawkeyes258 on Jan 4, 2024 2:06:56 GMT -5
I approve on both! Just makes the hunters all the more dangerous and scary to the pack.
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Post by soot on Jan 4, 2024 2:24:09 GMT -5
Fo sure! Let me know if there’s ever anything not approved of, Hawk. And thanks! If you ever want an info lore dump on witches and what I’ve got for them, I’m happy to provide xD
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Post by Junospower on Jan 4, 2024 2:47:06 GMT -5
I seriously love how much this rp has evolved
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Post by Hushabye on Jan 4, 2024 15:28:06 GMT -5
Aaa honestly everyone's ideas are so amazing!
That piece looks awesome Soot! The colors make it properly witchy! ✨️ And that's such a dynamic pose~!
And I love how dark and ominous your snippet is as well! It reminds me of the little excerpts before chapters in some books that warn you as to what's coming later~
Dammion's whole ~thing~ is amazing and I think the way you've set him up is incredibly clever! ✨️
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Post by soot on Jan 4, 2024 18:16:07 GMT -5
Thanks Hush! I tried to go for some proper witchiness!
And yeah! That’s sort of what I was going for. I’m planning on possible writing a few more, to expand the universe per se?
And I am very excited for Dammion! Now I kinda want to write about a few possible abominations he’d made or something, if that ever did happen. My brainstorming is currently more if tsunami right now, if I’m being honest, haha. I might write up the lore I have for hunters and witches so far to put it up on here so everyone can have a solid idea. Though I’d probably leave a few sneaky things out (:
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Post by lazzylake on Jan 4, 2024 18:45:47 GMT -5
Go for it, soot! I’d love to hear what you have planned. I may drop some things about Dammion’s background as well, but first, I need to finish his form
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Post by soot on Jan 4, 2024 19:24:54 GMT -5
I’m stoked to see his form ,Lazz! And I’m already writing some stuff up for it. And I completely forgot to acknowledge the idea of a rehabilitation center. That sounds great! I’m curious as to how that’d work. Maybe it’s a pack of shifters who had escaped? Some spread out, or joined the pack if offered or something.
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Post by soot on Jan 4, 2024 23:17:20 GMT -5
The finished product! the background was made from very slight effort. I don’t know if got the eyes quite right, but I tried, .m. One deaf Zinoviy ‘Teo’. Metaxas!
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Post by lazzylake on Jan 4, 2024 23:39:03 GMT -5
Excellent as always!! The detail on his fur is really well done! I just feel like my world has been shattered. I've been visualizing Teo as a white tiger like his brother this WHOLE TIME but it doesn't list it anywhere in his form. I am losing my marbles. HAS MY BRAIN BEEN LYING TO ME?!?
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