BLESSED BE THE WICKED

Null concept art from @kims-asylum She wanted to pitch the idea of Null being skin and bones due to her having been permanently crippled by Tyrant, while the visage is surely a striking one, due to limitations we weren't able to follow through with this design and instead opted for the full body latex suit with the drill sphere embedded in her throat. - The Writing Team

Laszlo in BBTW art from @kims-asylum Laszlo is Lazari from IEPFB in our universe "-as she got older she learned how to push herself into families with her mind. She would walk into a house and slowly make everyone believe she had always lived there. Parents remembered raising her. Siblings remembered growing up with her. Friends remembered knowing her for years. For a while it worked. The family kept going on like normal while Laszlo played the part she made for herself. Then someone would spot something off. A memory that did not fit. A photo that should not exist. A gut feeling that things were wrong. Once one person saw through it the rest usually did too. After that the family was gone. Laszlo would leave and find a new one somewhere else." -The Writing Team

"Gilt is desperate to matter. Not just to survive or to be loved. To matter. Everything she does comes from this need to prove she deserves the attention she got. She needs to feel important and meant for something bigger than everyone else. When that feeling gets threatened she turns insecure and more reckless. She needs someone to tell her she matters because she cannot quite believe it on her own. She just never figured out how to exist without an audience." - the Writing Team

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Pike, Tyrant and Gilt having movie night: Art by @puppycarnage3

Tyrant with his first and second daughters Adeline "Roadkill" and Beverly "Veil" from @kims-asylum The concept of the heralds is one of those things originally brought to the table by the series creator @goblinwithgame when in the original version of the script Tyrant had Null as his one and only herald. The writing team felt this idea deserved to be expanded upon for the sake of Tyrant as a character and so the many daughters/heralds of the Tyrant became a top priority in the writing room.

When Tyrant returns, she is not prepared for what he has become. He is unstable, paranoid. The control and certainty she modeled herself after are gone, replaced by something reactive. She watches him slip in real time, and there is nothing she can do to stop it." - The Writing Team

Current Pike character sheets from @goblinwithgame, Pike was created by @puppycarnage3

Pike and Tyrant art from @puppycarnage3

"Veil starts the story beleiving family is something that can always be preserved. If people drift apart pull them back together. If relationships break, repair them. If someone leaves, follow them. Simple. As Tyrant’s condition worsens and the Heralds begin fracturing, Veil is forced to confront something she has spent her entire life avoiding. Some things cannot be kept. Some people cannot be saved. Some families still end. Her plight throughout the narrative is learning that love is not ownership. That caring about someone does not mean holding onto them forever. And that sometimes the healthiest thing you can do is let someone go." - The Writing Team

Art done by @kims-asylum "Every Zalgoid eventually grows bigger than their own life. They turn into extinction events and cautionary tales. Given enough time, memory becomes unreliable. Stories shift. Motives get rewritten. Whole centuries vanish. A Witness exists to stop that from happening. Their only job is to watch record and remember. Witnesses are not made from strangers. They come from the corpses of people who once mattered to the Zalgoid they follow. A parent. A sibling. A spouse. A child. A friend. A victim. Someone whose loss helped shape who the Zalgoid became. After death the body gets recovered and changed with Ark technology. Cameras replace the eyes. Memory systems replace the nervous system. Normal body functions get swapped out for systems that keep the corpse running forever. The original personality is gone. Only fragments stay behind. Small habits. Familiar body language. Occasional gestures from who they used to be. Just enough to make the Zalgoid remember exactly who is watching." - the Writing Team

Tyrant art from @kims-asylum Tyrant was our way of humanizing Zalgo as a concept while allowing for him to be an actual character. Anton Moreau, the lead writer of this entire project is quoted as saying "Zalgo was effectively an empty concept, just the "anti slenderman" with no real story behind it. I wanted to explore that and see what would happen if Zalgo fell so far down that he became a tool for the Tall man in the end. Something incomprehensible imprisoned in flesh and expected to behave like a good lap dog. Lucky for the audience being a lapdog doesn't suit him."

In universe sketches of Nulls eventual containment suit from @kims-asylum

Blessed be the wicked poster from @goblinwithgame

Unlike most Zalgoids Laszlo was never a regular human who got evolved by the change. She was born straight out of the transformation. Because of that a lot of normal human ideas never grew in her. She gets affection but only as something that should just belong to her. She gets attachment but not the part about consent. To Laszlo if she decides she belongs in a family then she already does." - The Writing Team

"Jeff grew up shoulder to shoulder with Isaac Wight in shit kicker Morland County. Jeff always felt weird in how own skin. Deep down he envied women for the way they moved and the way they simply were. He'd wear their clothes in private, heart hammering, telling himself it was nothing but a kink or a game. those feelings got shoved down and buried under layers of shame and self loathing. He was dying from the sense he was locked outside of his own life. So he fixated on Jane Vuong. she was everything he wanted to be and everything he could never be. Beautiful, untouchable. Real in ways he never felt. When she rejected him it did nothing but pour gasoline on his obsession and haphazardly lit a match." - The Writing Team