Kat

Yes I did another yellow cat IN MY DEFENSE I started another cotl playthrough, playing as the goat, I skipped the beginning/tutorial and my first follower was a yellow cat! Usually I get cows, I wonder why this happened. Maybe because of the skip. AND SHE'S SCARED OF DEATH AND SACRIFICES too good not to draw fr fr

Mjorna likes to farm and refine materials. Maybe because she's the first one, and despite her being pathetic and annoying, Goat is attached to her. They try to do the murders out of her sight.

The twins might have met Ratau when they were little.

The twins' outfits are based on the beta version. haha

Until Grace slips out a sentence along the lines of "could you give me a little grace here" and Rocky immediately points out he used a word wrong so Grace has to explain that yeah, grace means elegance but it can also mean mercy sometimes too.

Random Au idea; Miraculously, the Blip-A crew survive, but at the cost of their travel time, making it so they arrive at Tau Ceti around the same time as the Hail Mary. (Don't think too hard about it)

Grace now gets regularly hassled by many Eridians, all of whom can hold multiple conversations at once, unlike him.

Cotltober Day 5: Conflicted

Finor has no conflicts on staying immortal to guide her adopted child leader, but The Lamb often feels conflicted between keeping her to themselves, thus depriving her of reuniting with her 'true' family in the afterlife.

*rubs grimy little hands together* TROD AU spoilers below

So back in 2023 I was floating the idea of how those two would share the Red Crown, both in a logical stand-point and how exactly the characters would come to that state because lets face it, there's no possible way Narinder OR Lamb would be willing to give up the entity of the Red Crown's power given the context of the situation, and that neither one of them had communicate to each other's intentions in the AU (mainly Narinder cause godly pride and he's got the social skills of a doorknob)

But I got to thinking, keep in mind this is before any of the updates for relics came out. What is the one thing you rip out from bishops when you kill all of them? The Heart.

Who is the One antagonist in the game, the main secret antagonist, and god, who's heart you DON'T rip out when you defeat/kill them?

The One Who Waits. Narinder. He's the only one who's heart you don't rip out when you kill him

SO. What if this pattern continued. What if, for some reason, his heart did get ripped out?

That got me brainstorming as to the 'how and why' and eventually spiraled into the whole Somehow and someway, Narinder's heart was ripped out during the final battle, 'given' to the Lamb, and survived through (detail I cannot reveal yet) and now the Red Crown is shared between the two of them because of this horrible, horrible decision.

(For spoiler reasons I cannot tell you how exactly it got to that point in the final battle. The Lamb and Narinder have amnesia for a reason.)

I really, really started falling in love with the idea that this transplant happened, not only because of the symbolism and romantic theme of it and all, but it gave me like a pretty solid explanation as to how the crown is shared.

Gonna use this as an excuse to post old doodles. I started a comic with the Red Crown starting dialogue around it a bit a year or so but I don't know if I ever posted it, I ended up getting distracted and dropping it before I got to anything decent-

OLD ART WARNING. It's so old it was made in Paint Tool Sai, apologies

Wandering Twins

Commission for @junepurr1!!

This is the canvas was originally 18k for, lmao. I've resized it more appropriately now. Thanks to @jomo-is-here for giving me some critique pointers during the painting process! Here's the HD version, because tumblr kills quality

Speedpaint below:

Finally, I can share my illustration for the @cotl-yoa zine!

I worked wayyy too long on this, repeatedly going back to change things, but I'm happy with how it came out. The Lamb is making wishes :). I wonder what they're wishing for...

Tumblr kills image quality, so HD download is here, and speedpaint below: