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this is a good question that i haven't thought about actually, thank you for asking!

i feel like the line between Distorting and manifesting E.G.O is quite thin, and out of my ocs Truman is 100% most susceptible to a talk with Carmen in the first place. he has a lot of pent up anger and nostalgia for the way things used to be, i think he'd either distort then manifest or distort and come back like Heathcliff. in fact his bad end ID is a partial distortion (?)

(here are some low quality doodles from last year)

that being said Grace is most likely to straight up manifest E.G.O. - a lot of PHM is about finding hope in the hopeless and i think it would be fitting for them to reject their self-doubt/cowardice and manifest as a result

Luo Ji could also go either way depending on how far into her development we're talking. I don't think she'd ever find herself susceptible to Carmen in the first place unless she's really drunk - if she did end up distorting though that would be a SOTC level threat like she would immediately start killing everyone out of resentment

good question, thank you for asking !! they're all pretty much nods to aspects of the source material :>

Truman's suitcase is pretty much the suitcase in the movie in which he packs up all his things when he leaves Seahaven. it's not only his weapon but it also contains pretty much all the personal belongings he holds dear since he left. including Actual weapons

Luo Ji's is a nod to how her position at the end of The Dark Forest is titled the Swordholder. not gonna spoil but it's basically a metaphor of a sword hanging by a single hair to decide the fate of two worlds. she also has a small gun to be used in extremely dire situations Grace's is a nod to this scene from the book:

and the electric whip gimmick is just so the weapon, when wielded, resembles a red line - the Petrova line :)

in the backdoor (everything there is rocky territory bc yes he needs all that space)

sometimes he also goes to grace's room but they try to be as inconspicuous about it as possible

btw awesome art

first of all thank you so much !! and i'm so glad you asked about this because i've been trying to go for that effect for a long time and only recently figured it out :')

it started with a conversation i had with a very skilled friend where i basically asked them "bro how do you draw like that" and they just told me to shade with blue. like that's it. so now i typically draft sketches with saturated dark blue

secondly, for layer modes i usually shade w light bluish grey on Color Burn mode, and dark brown on Color Dodge mode for lighting. i then slap an overlay layer on top which is usually a desaturated peach, though this varies depending on the atmosphere you want! i've been using add/multiply mode for light/shade for most of my artistic life but the aforementioned 3 blending modes just make things so much more fun

I bet their main sin is sloth!

thank you for the interest 🥹🥹 but being completely fr i don't have much art/lore on her yet bc i haven't yet played lobcorp/ruina... (i know the lore and have watched playthroughs but i'm still by definition a larper)

TLDR (a lot of this is STC):

they're a former head researcher at a Lobcorp branch, got kicked out for being an asshole and winded up a schoolteacher in a Nest

following the White Nights/Dark Days incident arbiter Stratt picks him up, gets him semi-acquainted with the Head, and forces him onto the Hail Mary on a mission related to Carmen and distortions (if we equate sun = Carmen)

the Hail Mary is equivalent to Mephistopheles for the LCB - it's a bus shaped vaguely like a spaceship that can also shapeshift and induce varying degrees of gravity. Rocky maintains its functionality because Grace is a terrible pilot and terrible engineer

speaking of Rocky - for the sake of not violating any Taboos, he's an abno of Grace's own creation that represents his perception of an "alien friend". Grace spends a lot of time in their room with Rocky cooking up weird experiments and yapping about them to the other Sinners who don't quite appreciate it

the funny thing is the equivalent of Armando on my bus is the manager A.M. from I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream. it begrudgingly makes Grace coffee every morning and hates literally everyone else. i don't have a good design for AM yet so that's another story

other details/fun facts:

33 yo, 182 cm tall

any pronouns, agender aroace

his designated Mili song is 1000x1000

she's probably my lore-heaviest Sinner and thus the hardest to figure out. her canto would be dead last

title would be scratched out/blank pre-canto, and "brave" post-canto

aaand the gallery! of like, 3 doodles i have so far

once again thank you for asking about my silly guy! i am very. normal about my ocs i just don't talk about them much here

characters in order belong to @/tsukipii on af, @oakidoki, @/shian_kiku on af, and @mothy35

uhhh i don't think anyone cares about ocposting anymore but in light of artfight, go my scifi bus!

and their sinner portraits:

from left to right: Grace from Project Hail Mary, Luo Ji from The Dark Forest, Truman from The Truman Show (his literary source is more The Giver), and Dr. Banks from Story Of Your Life