took a long break but i'm back with my episode 50-53 post-watch drawings!!

provisional hero license exam time...I'm not worried at all for class 1-A to be honest. they have way too much experience to fail i think

081 // First Throws 

Terraria-based fanart. I did a woopsie a couple of weeks back. In the endgame, killing this little shiny lacewing summons a boss fight that pushes your shit in if you’re not prepared for it (which I wasn’t; I didn’t even see it flying around). I’d just made the final weapon, was awestruck and spamming the attack… and killed the lacewing. I immediately died, I sigh-laughed in bewilderment, then figured I’d draw the scenario to try and make sense of it. It all happened so quick.

I actually do not. Most of my worldbuilding was done pre-1.3, and the only stuff I appended in related to the major endgame events.Therefore, you get to witness my process for making crap up off the top of my head regarding this sort of thing (with bonus illustrations):According to my textdump (yes I will continue to link it from time to time for new people), the demons of the Underworld are the souls of the most depraved of the humans from the world’s original civilization, the ones that drove the world into the eldritch ruin it currently is. Mutated beyond recognition by the dark magic surrounding the great soul vaults they created.

However, when you meet the Tax Collector for the first time, it’s in the form of a “tortured soul” implying he’s not actually one of those demons… but was thrown down there as a punishment and is, perhaps, in the process of transforming into one. Since you can still use purification powder on him to turn him back into human, he’s not a soul from the original civilization manifesting as a demon, but a regular human who’s nevertheless ‘wicked’ enough to be converted by the Underworld’s influence. The other souls saw something kindred in him, or something along those lines.

While the guy being recruited from the Underworld is obviously just a tongue-in-cheek reference to people’s low regard for characters bearing his tropes, he’s just generally not a great dude, holding money in higher regard than other people. Where he came from is about as much a mystery as where any of the other NPCs came from, just more settlers stranded by various happenstances, but in his case, he probably pissed off whoever he was originally living with, so they trapped him and dropped him off in the Underworld as punishment for being a jerk.

He reads.

A lot.

It really doesn’t matter where he is, and he’ll either sit in his room to read, or go outside to get out of the way of those who generally detest him. He tries to spend more time outside than inside.

Since the dungeons are the source of most of the books found in any town, and the dungeons go way back and were used as bunkers by stranded space/interdimensional travelers, the available books can range from magic tomes to historical accounts to technical manuals to fictional novels.

Aberrant prefers technical books to outright fiction, as he (ironically) doesn’t follow character-driven narratives well. 

Maybe, once he runs out of textbooks and manuals, he’ll read fiction out of boredom and find he likes it. But seeing as Terraria’s wealth of objectively written work spans multiple times and dimensions, what constitutes their reality is often just as, if not more fascinating than fiction is to us. 

As for the last question…

No.