Perchance

Caine, sarcastically: "Oh the humanity!"

TADC Wild West AU Artshow part 4:

"Wanted Man, Annoyed Partner": Possibly the last of the artshow, Linx made many Jax posters because as you can tell, he's one of the most important characters in this story. I LOVE the poster she made. As mentioned in the last artshow post, Jax associates his self worth with being the biggest and baddest outlaw in the west, so he'll tack on a few extra zeroes on his reward price (as well as some clearly unbiased comments, heh).

The last picture is from a scene during Chapter 5 wherein Jax asks Pomni to "help" him with something. He thinks he has RIZZ of all things. Little does he know that he... doesn't. Pomni is more than annoyed that he thinks after all the BS he put her through that she even wants to be around him, let alone do anything salacious with him. Linx and I had a discussion on how the hallway would look like, and she originally envisioned it to be planks of wood hastily put together. I differed and suggested that the Cellar, a bar that acts as the main cast's rooms, would be a little more refined as their base of operations. She liked the idea and I like how it turned out.

There are a LOT of discussions we had and some artwork here and there that she made unprompted of the work after it got started and honestly, I love every one of them. She's really talented and if you get anything out of this, it's that I appreciate the hard work she puts into her drawings on top of everything life has to throw at us. So that ends the artshow! (For now?) I hope you enjoyed it, and I hope you read my little story that I put up on AO3.

TADC Western AU Artshow 3:

Designs: Obviously concept art/sketches on how Linx (and I) think the characters would look like. If you look at the bottom right of the second image, you'll see my tumblr portrait! :)

In every image, Jax is being a little shit, but that's just him. I don't have much to say about these, but I have some behind-the-scenes fun facts. Linx was having an (understandably) hard time figuring out how to put a cowboy hat on Zooble/how it would be oriented properly, so she left it out, which influenced me to just straight up not give them a hat. Because of this, their main physical trait besides their OG design is their trench coat and how they shoot their four guns through it with their many busy hands.

The whiskey in Ragatha's eye as a backstory is mostly a joke, although I wouldn't rule out that she gets whiskey in her eye every so often as a bartender. Also, Pomni missing her gloves is intentional, as she never adopted gloves during her firearm training so she straight up doesn't think of having any unless something in the future changes.

The wanted poster in Zooble's hand vaguely resembles Jax, although he doesn't have a bounty that big (yet?). This is because by Zooble's account, despite being a bounty hunter, doesn't want to turn in Jax until he gets a high enough bounty, which he has made his goal for much of his life.

Gangle was the second least cemented out of the group in terms of looks to Kinger, except for the fact that she wears a Victorian style frilly dress. This was completely Linx's idea and a great call.

All in all, I often go back to these pictures to ground my mind when I have writer's block on the story and smile at how my friend decided to interpret my words in (their unique) visual manner. It also reminds me of how lucky I am to know someone this talented and this nice. Reach out to people. Sometimes it'll be worth your while for a long time.

"Call": This one is Pomni and Jax at the Gingerbread Gang's hangout spot in chapter 3 where they agree to gamble for information and even a favor or two if they're not careful!

I really like this one because Linx drew them pretty much exactly as I thought of them in my mind: Pomni is actually trying to glean as much info from these guys as possible while sticking to the rules of the game, and Jax isn't even trying to hide the fact that he's cheating (I like to think he flashed the hidden ace for a split second in this picture). Also I love the King card is just Kinger. This is canon now.

I realized that I didn't reblog any of their art because I didn't really have the confidence in myself and kept putting myself down, thinking no one would care; in reality, giving credit outside of just saying "check out this person's art!" shouldn't be for myself, it's to showcase the progenitor of this story and how they inspired it. So now that I'm on a hiatus with the story, over the next few days I'll share and reblog their art (with their permission) and describe what it means to the story and when they take place.

Here I go!

Quarreling: This picture is what made me reach out to Linx and ask if I can make a story about their art. I was especially impressed with how they drew the horses. (Pomni is riding a donkey/pony because she's a lil shrimp :D).

The part of the story this takes place is on the ride to Candyland when Pomni, in her new quest to get more money to leave the valley, takes a bounty on Gummigoo and his Gummy-Gang who've been stealing syrup tankers from the syrup baron, the queen of candy: Lou. She's seen riding with Jax and being ragebaited as usual. Unseen is Zooble in the back, following them and on the same bounty.

Dancing Ragatha!

Character Design: @pikavani

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