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This took me 12h and 55m over the course of two days and is definitely my biggest drawing I've ever worked on. It's sort of like a love letter to art 🥹

I'm currently writing chapter one of a fic for this! I NEVER anticipated this to be something I would start writing for, but they've absolutely consumed me and I have to get them out of my heaaaaad,,,,,,

One is a notorious serial killer who gets life in prison after pleading guilty and not offering up any explanation or information to the public and courts, leaving everyone hungry for context. Like ZERO crumbs and always saving face to the highest fathomable degree.

One is stuck in prison for years before he unexpectedly gets pulled out and put into the digital simulator one way or another. There's game testers already inside who had NO idea a real killer would be INTENTIONALLY dropped into their world. Noor is the AI boss and 'therapist' in charge of rehabbing One! He's the first ever patient here and took up the alias of "One" after Noor referred him as such twice. All the human therapists and officials failed to crack him, so it's up to her to get him to open up. She's gonna end up using less than ethical methods. Unstoppable force Noor versus immovable object One 💭

he burnt a hole in his neck from smoking and he smokes too frequently for it to heal...my dryads can absolutely get addicted to home-grown tobacco since keeping it unprocessed is natural enough for them to consume

his pupils also don't adjust to light, he has 'muscles' that allow him to manually (not reflexively) pull his eyeballs deeper into the sockets to shade them as needed. he has emotionless husky eyes 80% of the time

he has wooden whiskers that can grow back quickly and he trims as desired. in typical reginald designs he would have broad shoulders, BUT as a dryad he has floating collarbones so they aren't as wide unless he purposefully holds his shoulders up

he's ugly like a beloved dog and I captured his essence perfectlyy

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26 april edit bc it's not important enough for its own post: his hair is supposed to look like willow leaves with how the strands stick out