sip.

So I went though all the Vessel sprites and drew each one. I tried to pick out the ones that seemed different and left out others that seemed like the same head shape of others. (like for example the Deepnest ones) There might be some I missed but I think I got most of them.

My take on those hollow bugs drawn before Silksong release.

[these are getting reposted without credit to hell and back so i wanted to post them officially on my account]

"That village above here, home to a sad creature. Hers is a tale of tragic exchange. Cost her and her people greatly, though I suspect she bore no regret in making it.

Heehee, yes. I know. I know. You're intrigued. You want to know the tale. Well I'm sorry. I'd love to tell it, but I'm just, I'm very, very sorry, and I haven't eaten in some time… and oh, I'm STAA-AARVING..."

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Human AU Midwife! Well, she's still not human here, although she can choose to look like it. She's kind of a rare pull for the next character I'd sketch out a design for, but I love how much of a freaky fairytale monster she is in the game, and how she can tell when Little Ghost is trying to peek into her mind-- something very few other characters can-- and I liked the idea of trying to keep that energy for an AU design.

Y'all remember that brief period where I randomly got super obsessed with modded Elliott again? Well I sure as hell suddenly did.

What if pure vanilla was a beast, divine extract cookie, the beast of subjugation

A leader to his lands and his fellow soul jam holders. He was seen as a god among cookies and he saw himself as a vessel of their wishes. But this belief corrupted as he saw the truth of discord, and how he could claim unity through oblivion and so brought his allies down a darker path. Only one who fought against was the pure white lily, however she was dumped into the witches dinner and reborn scarlet starch, loyal to extract forevermore.

He now waits for his turn to reclaim his jam and his role as the “savior” of Earthbread

The Ancients dragonpropaganda on popular misconceptions about the Ancients' culture ikayblythe's speculative biology kociamieta's notes on Ancient character design

Character analysis eliias-bouchard on NSH's portrayal ikayblythe on Pebbles' age and motivations pocket-goat's thoughts about Moon in the context of the Saint campaign shkika on Moon and Pebbles' relationship shkika on whether Moon and Pebbles are siblings skybristle's and my own thoughts on the decay of Moon's organic parts

General speculative biology chaotic-minds-think-alike's interpretation of lizards dragonpropaganda on the relationship of purposed organisms to ingame fauna flickering-nightfall's interpretation of the reproductive strategies and social structures of various species in the game

Iterator anatomy bonniesband's exposition on the Rot as a type of cancer copepods and myself on whether parts of post-collapse Moon beyond the puppet could be conscious copepods on viewing iterators as more than the puppet delta-orionis' method for estimating the height of Iterator cans delta-orionis and myself discuss the meaning of the terms "Recursive Transform Array" and "Abstract Convergence Manifold" orangedoorhingeinstorage and kayjaypax on movable components in the memory conflux and adjacent systems skybristle's and my own thoughts on the decay of moon's organic parts my theory about how an Iterator's memories are stored and why Moon doesn't forget anything when she loses a neuron

Iterator puppet anatomy aluminum-angels' interpretation bitsbug's puppet interpretation copepods' mechanical interpretation: moon & pebbles / post-collapse moon flickering-nightfall's journey to understand the puppet arm: part 1 / part 2 flickering-nightfall on the "umbilical" ikayblythe's arthropoidal interpretation: overview / endoskeletons / "skin" joowee-feftynn observes that puppets can't walk spotsupstuff on the relationship between puppet and can trashiiplant's ragdoll interpretation yellowsnacc's "jello-covered skeleton" interpretation

Slugcat anatomy arrayydee's slugcat design artihunter's take on the fur/slime question dopscratch's mollusk/mustelid interpretation honey-marrow's interpretation of Spearmaster's anatomy