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So, say you've got a sword or axe or something and are fighting some guy who can't afford a full suit of armor, and like someone who thinks it's a good idea to protect their brain from harm, they go into battle with a real good helmet, but don't have enough money for a full breastplate

So, obviously, this guy's helmet is solid, well-built, and strong. You're absolutely not getting through that with anything short of a mace or warhammer, which you forgot at home or something. So, you want to instead throw some cuts at their torso and arms, since if you can't get at their brain or throat, the entire torso is a pretty good target, and without arms your opponent will have a much harder time both hitting you with their weapons and shielding that torso of theirs

So you start throwing cuts, probably like so, since these are usually the most common, instinctive, and usually efficient cuts to throw (or a rough MS Paint approximation of them lol)

Normally, on someone unarmored, those'd do a lot of damage! You'd probably even win the fight!

However, with even something as small as these weird little guys on, it just sort of...

Obviously these things are like, clearly less effective than most styles of armor, doing little to protect against things like thrusts or trebuchets, but even with as minimal as they are, the humble Jack Chains are bizarrely more effective than one would think just by looking at them!

They work because they close off the most common angles of attack, essentially trying to get the maximum value out of minimum materials. Despite their rarity in media they were pretty common, mostly because of their low cost, but also because they did their jobs surprisingly adequately

In a weird way, it kind of reminds me about that one post about army planes, actually

ja action shots from getty images. i need to get back to doing these, i've been really stressing about how i draw human faces when full bodies should probably be my main concern LOL

figure drawings (5 mins each)

another action shot from getty images (ft. shai also this time)

furrifying players from other teams now. i know next to nothing about the kings but i have two friends who like keon so i had to draw him, he's a serval (thank you adrian for helping w/ his sona). the other doodles are just me

random hodgepodge page ft keon again, a pic of steph where he looks like mother mary, (furry) riley hivemind standing next to (furry) ja cus they're the same height, null, and other Ja Images

yuki and ja art drawn after the last game of the regular season (WHERE THEY LET YUKI ACTUALLY PLAY <333) and me stressing over the play-in game (i've been drawing myself as a bear when it comes to basketball stuff bc i root for the bear team LOL)

figure drawings (20 mins each). i had the goal of being way more deliberate with my lines this time and i think it turned out well -w-

all done after the play-in game against the mavs (except for spongebob he was right before). we proceeded to get absolutely washed by the thunder... but those maybe 36 hours after the play-in i was having the time of my life. I LOVE BASKETBALL!!!!!!!

the put-back dunk ja hit during the play-in. that shit got me so hyped if it wasn't like 10pm during that game i would've been hooting hollering and running around my apartment

i switched to rooting for the timberwolves in round 1 after grizzlies got eliminated. random pic of anthony edwards from media day, my fav guys on the team, crunch, and furry naz reid (i like having one player on the team be the same species as the mascot)

top part is mostly me finagling with the extra colored pencils i bought (chartreuse, turquoise, and process red. mostly bought the turquoise for drawing the grizzlies vancouver jerseys LOL). then some random jamies and rileys cus i was rewatching the hivemind starting 5s vids (they are 1000x better now that i know ball)