Suddenly. Pineapples.

⬆The first mention of Jhonathan Murphy if anyone wants a better look at his later outfit.

Comic Script for those that can't read it (which is probably everybody)

J= Jhonathan :Y= Miss. Yhtil :G= Gentry. ‿︵‿︵‿︵‿︵‿︵‿

J: Miss Yhtil, I heard that you wanted to... speak... to... me... J: [ Oh Gods... why is it so veiny...]

Y: Ah yes, Jhonathan. I'm glad you came... what is it?

J: O-Oh, nothing Miss Yhtil. Its just.... that's one hell of a conversation piece.

Y: Ah yes, that thing. Y: It's a gag gift from my brother from when I first volunteered for the Clan Administrator Position. Something about how the Guildsmen won't listen to anyone who doesn't have a dick bigger than them. My trophy to show that I can run with the Big Dogs I guess. I have to admit, I do relish in the reactions it draws out of them when they visit. (Sees him still looking at it nervously) Y: If it bothers you that much, I can stow it away for the time being.

J: Oh! Im sure that I'll be visiting this office enough that I'll just.... get used to it... eventually.

Y: *pfft!* Y: You're going to be a riot, Aren't you?

{Some time passes}

J: (looks at lamp) *Pffft* J: [mines bigger] J: (looks up as the door knocks) J: Bem-Vindo.

G: The words you are looking for are "Come In." You awkward swine.

J: Excuse me for wanting to use a bit of the mother tongue.

G: Do you always wake up this ostentatiously stubborn, or is today special?

J: No, you just bring out the best in me. What do you have for me today?

G: A pile of supply request forms from the group and the budget book already balanced by yourself truly. G: Also, T-bone is getting antsy.

J: How antsy are we talking about?

G: He's chewing on his tools... again

J: goddamnit... J: Would you kindly head down to the bulletin board and see what is available?

G: Already on it. G: And for fuck's sake, try to have some proper posture for once.

J: THAT WASN'T THE CHAIR GENTRY.

G: You're telling me! Kinda hard to hit anything else when your fat ass spills out the sides of the chair.

J: MY ASS IS NOT FAT!

G:Tell that to the crater you left in my wingback! *slams door*

J: *huffs, sits down, looks back at the chair* damn it... ‿︵‿︵‿︵‿︵‿︵‿

@iceclew @gender-evil-rose @idocreative @daydreamingallthetime3223

Hi! So... yeah, I finally made a comic based on this character I have that I rotate around in my head quite often. I don't really get the chance to talk about him often, mainly because everything about him is more or less original (to me) and I just never really thought I would get the chance to really share any details about any of the many characters I hold pretty close to the chest. I came up with this comic a while ago and just recently finished it. I don't know if I'll ever really get the chance to get the story together and get it published like I want to, but at the very least I'll have introduced the basics of what I have in mind to somebody so I'll count that as a win!

For now I'll just dove a little bit deeper into the characters shown here and maybe a little bit of the overarching story and some details in the comic.

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Johnathan Murphy (One of these days I'll settle on how I'm supposed to spell your fucking name.)

So as one could hopefully tell, he's the main character. In a world inundated with monsters popping out of mysterious portals in late Victorian England (or around there I haven't figured out when exactly this takes place- but for now think Steampunk or Dieselpunk era) He becomes Valedictorian of the First class of the first ever academy for Monster hunting... and just barely gets a job because all the older, more experienced hunters do NOT trust the academy whatsoever due to being fairly stuck in their ways.

He lands in a "clan" made up of the oldest players in the game who's whole shtick is that they are so old and experienced at their job that they take on anything that seems remotely dangerous and then sees if they can make it "interesting"... WITHIN REASON OF COURSE. For now most of the story in my head is just a lot of monster fighting, but there is some sort of Eugenics B-plot running through the background for some reason that I have no idea where it came from.

Oh and I guess i should mention that hes a half troll. Made of actual granite. Brazilian Blue Granite to be specific. And yes hes actually half Brazilian on his mother's (full troll) side. His father is a Scottish ex-army doctor.

Bonus detail is that originally he wasn't going to have glasses, but then I saw a short talking about the history behind plastic green visors and how there is an older form of those that are the green glasses to the right and I thought they looked so stupid they looped back to being cool, so I tried to put them on John but I hated how they turned out so I turned them back into regular glasses. They are still green though and instead of normal glasses arms I gave them chains instead (like the pic on the left)

Gentry Bloodchild.

The other man in question. Not much to say about him other than they were academic rivals and hes about three years older than Jhon. They had a bitter rivalry that started when John won the Validictorian position that Gentry feels was stolen from him, and it lasted for a while until they beat the shit out of each other and John got to have a one-on-one talk with Gentry about how dedicating his academic years to getting that position actually almost killed his career and how hes envious of how Gentry got to make friends instead. Needless to say, Gentry walked away with a new point of view and a way to finally let go of his need for his shitty father's validation. (The father becomes plot relevant later)

His outfit was modeled after old high ranking military uniforms and he was SUPPOSED to look like a short and wirey little shit but somehow ended up with the thighs and ass thats SUPPOSED to go to John. When I figure out how to draw stick thin and pretentious people his design will change. Bonus fact hes actually a widow here despite being 26.

Yhtil NoLastName (I have yet to figure out one for her because reasons.)

The leader of the clan, John's mentor, and what I'm hoping for her to be his narrative foil as well. Whether that comes across or not is yet to be discovered. She is also a half troll like John but she's modeled after a type of rock formation called a Desert Rose, specifically like the picture shown below. (I actually own one of these rocks but its at my parents place rn so god only knows where its at ) She technically the oldest of the group, although I don't know at what age specifically- but its definitely in the 100s. (Trolls live long lives and sometimes that trait can be passed down to half trolls)

Going into this, I only had a vague idea of what she was supposed to look like and I had decided to draw her portrait first to help with that, but her looks ended up looking slightly different in the comic itself, although I'm sure its hard to tell at the size she is depicted at. I'm kinda going for a sexual dimorphism thing between male and female trolls (I know that's not really obvious since both trolls in this example are half human) but I'm still going back and forth on where to draw the line. So far I've been debating on having females have like... plant growth for hair but I'm still not sure. The main point I'm trying to make here is that the weird little half circles on her neck are the ridges of the rock formations and there's also a little cluster right on the top of her hair line on her right/our left side of her head but you can't really tell because I can't fucking shade that small.

She's got a brother nick-named King who's not really her brother, its more of a half Aunt-but-I'm-so-entangled-into-your-life-I'm-basically-your-sister-anyway kind of situation. I'm also not sure what nationality she is because I haven't looked up where you find these desert rose rocks, especially these chunky pink variations- most that I've seen online have rather thin ridges and look white which I found interesting- not the point. Basically I'm doing a thing where trolls wear their lineage on their sleeve like how I make Jhon half Brazilian. As far as her name is concerned, I just struggle to come up with names for characters in general. I mean , for fucks sake I named the main character JOHN and I only settled on Gentry's like... last month. All I knew was that I didn't want traditional troll names to sound like they're a part of any modern language so I turned to The King In Yellow since I figured eldritch words had to be the furthest thing from comprehensible that I could think of. That and she's got a pink and yellow color scheme. Her skin is also pink and textured like the rock she's molded after I should probably mention.... yeah, those aren't really freckles I just didn't know how else to express that.

YOU KNOW?!?! THAT KIND OF "OOOW" that's like.... like...that is thoughtin cursive?!

Ok I.... maybe my likings have changed and the fujoshi and my age is really showing off by now... but.....but.... somewhere in my brain the glass wall for the sheer chemistry between Gerald and Regis just....all of a sudden - shattered?!?!?

me at the fire pit scene: ( Ŏ艸Ŏ).... oh wait, damn, they actually fit so well....

And don't get me wrong, to this day I was a wholeheart GeraldxYen shipper, because their storyline in the books and everything is just so great and all but.....d'aaaahhhh!!! Now I think of Gerald and Regis storyline as well and I'm like... IT'S A MATCH Y'ALL. Taking their former adventures in count..... Regis is totally Gerald's type....

It is so weird, cause I initially was really sad Yen wasn't part of the DLC first... I thought I was happy seeing her, but I felt like (my) Geralt had his gay awakening hours before and was like. "weeee-he-heeeelll... hey YOU.....guess you're here too now!! xD yay..."

Besides that I - in fact - got quite fed up with the paradise look of Touissant and actually prepared to leave the area as soon as I finished the DLC... now I'm stuck here because of m'lady, who would like to spent her holidays here xDD

well at least I value their platonic friendship a lot more now too!! It was definitelly the best part of the DLC if you ask me.. (°◡°♡)

Og prompt by GOCHUGAN_G on twt/x