#almondkeeper

More stuff I’ve been drawing. Since drawing these guys initially, I wanted to draw more of them just in little sketches, but didn’t have the time. But I remembered earlier this week after saying I didn’t know what to draw that I had these guys I wanted to draw, so I’ve sort of been drawing them on and off for the past week

I was planning on drawing more, but this is what I stuck with. Also sorry most of them are Dark Choco kids

So for some of these guys, I have thought about them more since their initial drawings, but didn’t know how to relay those details, so I’m making these sketches to tell

So first off for Mandel, I wanted to lean more into the “Stanley Parable narrator” angle and so now he has a British accent. However as stated, it’s fake. He does it because he thinks it makes him sound more refined and professional (I’m not too clear what his actual accent is, since I want it to be some sort of New York accent, but also I don’t think Almond or Timekeeper have New York accents. So I guess just, an American accent or something). However, when he gets nervous or shocked, he ends up slipping into his real accent before realizing his mistake and going back to the British. I was going to draw him with that shocked expression and slipping accent, but I couldn’t get the face to look right, so I didn’t

Also Mandel has gone from a weird cryptid to just sort of a weird guy that also controls time at his leisure. I imagine he likes to just mess with people and send them to other timelines just to see what happens, while also being a voice in their head watching from an unknown distance. But also they’re aware he’s just a dude (the people he sends I mean). I imagine the two he spends the most time around (as in the ones he likes to mess with) are Golden Raisin and Gancao, who know he’s not all he hypes himself up to be and just bully him, though not relentlessly. Also I’m considering that he also works for the TBD? But given the time messing he does, maybe not. Though maybe he just does it in his free time in between work and nobody knows. Now I’m imagining a scene where he’s narrating someone’s journey through another timeline, and is like “oh, sorry, it’s time for my shift at work, see you chaps later!” and they’re like “wait what hang on-” and then they hear a door slamming in the distance and he basically just leaves them on their own for 8 hours

Next up I drew Gancao because I just wanted to. I drew her with a licorice servant giving her a health potion for just a bit of energy to not overexert herself. Whether this is her servant (because I remembered that she’s technically licorice flavored and thus would have that power) or her dad’s, giving his daughter a little pick me up, I suppose you can interpret either way

I’ll be honest, I really like Gancao, she is a favorite of mine, but I also feel like I need a different one. Like, first off, her name and design do not match, and she’s the only one to really do so. Either I need to change her name to fit her design, or her design to fit her name. And second (and more what I meant), I feel like I could have done more with a darklico kid. Like, for Mallomar, I gave him mind control powers due to a combination of the Strawberry Jam Sword’s leftover influence and Kumiho’s seduction powers, and I feel like I should incorporate the SJS more into other Dark Choco fankids. And I feel like that’s especially prevalent with a darklico fankid, considering they met and their relationship would likely have started within the Cookies of Darkness, when Dark Choco had the Strawberry Jam Sword (I suppose this is true of any ship with Dark Choco and CoD member, but this is the only one I have so far, so it only applies here). Like, I feel like a kid between these two should be more weird than Gancao; all things considered, aside from her lack of reaction to body horror, she’s a very normal person. So honestly I’m planning on doing another one

I think I may have decided to get this sketch dump out just so I can say that, since I had already drawn her here

Anyways moving on, then we got Turtle Fudge. So you remember how back in his thing, I said that he ended up getting kidnapped by Affogato, and I believe in one timeline he never gets found and rescued? Well this is that timeline’s version of him, now a loyal disciple of Affogato, who reveres him as the one who took him in after his parents abandoned him. Though he might somewhat see him as a father figure, he only calls Affogato “Lord Affogato”, since that’s what Affogato prefers. Basically Affogato and his disciples did brainwashing to the poor kid to make him believe this. In this future, Affogato might return to the Dark Cacao Kingdom to reclaim his throne (or something, I’m not too sure Affogato really wants it, but maybe it’s about being petty and getting revenge), with a new group of disciples, Turtle Fudge among them, but Dark Choco and Caramel Arrow don’t realize it’s him, at least not until some dramatic reveal of his blindfold coming off. At the end of things, he does eventually realize that Affogato tricked him and turns on him, but how mentally stable he is at that point I’m not sure. The version I personally favor is the one where he stands there (possibly without Affogato knowing), Affogato having let slip his true intentions with Turtle Fudge (aka he’s just a pawn he stole from them to get back at them), and he ends up being the one to kill Affogato with a surprise spear throw that not even Affogato sees coming, and afterwards he just collapses on the floor, having a complete mental breakdown as his entire life has been a lie, with him crying and taking off the blindfold, so his parents know it’s him, but he’s been so broken by this that he never really recovers from it, spending years with his parents, but still a wreck from everything that’s happened to him and never really being a stable person again. I recognize the nicer (and more typical) version would be him turning on Affogato earlier, declaring his defiance of him and dramatically taking off his blindfold, and then after he and his parents defeat Affogato and his forces, they have a nice happy reunion, and I recognize the ending of that scenario I present is probably overdoing it, but I like my angst, so let me have this. Or at least everything up to him killing Affogato and having a breakdown afterwards

Anyways so then I drew an older Mallomar, which I’ve been wanting to draw since I first made him. I had the little ponytail envisioned, but I’ll be honest, I half assed the outfit like normal. I swear, I’m just really bad at outfits. I mean it looks fine, but I basically just took this from Dark Choco’s Vestements of Old Memories design, instead of something of my own. Ah well. Also I don’t know where that white streak in his hair came from, I just thought he needed one. Basically the idea with Mallomar when he’s older is that he’s mellowed out from when he was a little kid and is a lot more genuine, if not a bit nervous sometimes. He gets embarrassed easily, I’m sure plenty of it coming from his mom. Also he’s really big like his dad and grandpa