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Gargoyle character studies I had on my Patreon for a while now, featuring Brooklyn, Broadway, Lexington, and Angela! :)

These were largely a bid in trying to capture the likeness of the characters while translating them into my style. As seen with Angela's sheet: what I did was take the official character model sheet and trace it to get a feel of their base character shapes, then did a second pass over the trace to add the features I wanted to incorporate into my headcanon design.

The final iteration (the big colored ones) is entirely freehanded and drawn using my passes as reference. I like how they all came out! :>

I'll eventually do the same with other characters (Elisa, Demona, Goliath, and Hudson are next on my list), then do fullbody redesigns to act as refs for any future drawings and headcanons I make for Gargoyles.

"Did those guys look familiar to you?..."

"He didn't really talk much about how anything works, but he's from the future. He's from well beyond our time," she clarified. "And he's human. He's not a god, like he claims, or even a mutant, like us. Just a normal man with access to time travel technology, and weapons and shields well beyond the scope of what we understand. Maybe Cable or Bishop would have a chance, even Forge, but we're working with our 1990's know-how," she glanced meaningfully at Beast as he entered the room, "and circuitry far beyond what we've ever touched before. I'm not saying we can't do it, I'm just saying we don't have a user manual or formal training."

She thought carefully about all she'd seen and learned and managed to glean while playing dumb.

A voice disrupted the thoughtful silence the X-Men had fallen into, a greeting as another entered the room. "Peaceful greetings, fellow mutants."

En Sabah Nur strolled into the room, and all eyes turned to him. He spoke with so friendly an air... it was hard to believe he would one day be such a deadly foe. "Greetings," Charles offered, "and congratulations, Nur."

"You honor me, Charles," Nur replied. "Today's victory belongs to all around this table." His gaze swept across at each X-Man in turn, coming to land on Rapunzel. His head tilted curiously. "I do not believe we have met..."

"This is Rapunzel." Kurt stood, offering the introduction with a smile. "One of our dearest friends. She was lost to us, but has found her way home at last."

"Another mutant." Nur smiled. "Never in a million moons dared I dream of meeting others like me. And yet here you all are."

"You're welcome," was what she said instead, and took a seat. "I only wish I could have done more."

She would never stop wishing she could have done more.

"Whatever you weren't able to find out," Rogue added, "we're bettin' this fella could fill in the gaps. Professor, why not just pull the information out of his dang head?"

Xavier shook his head gently. "Using my powers on him increases the risk of us altering the past here."

"Perhaps we are already fate's puppets..." Kurt muttered, taking a seat beside Rapunzel.

"Perhaps if our lost and found friend here has any useful information," Magneto mused, glancing to Rapunzel, "we may not need Logos at all."