I finally finished my second revenge attack of the day šš Yay. Don't know if I have energy to continue drawing but I can try.
There's two characters featured so this took quite a while awawa. By a while I mean almost the whole day... Maybe 5-6 hours? There's a solo version too in case it was wanted :>
I'm gonna go upload it on artfight now, before traffic time starts.
The featured character here is called Killer Whale Launcher so I thought wooooowgh i want them on the Killer Whale office right now. They can be a part of the Office after Michael Cassio (pictured here) took over. The original character is actually a Phighting OC but welp. They have been kidnapped š one way or another.
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Following where we last left off, these are the designs for Michael Cassio and "Othello".
Former second mate of Killer Whale Office, now their de facto leader, Cassio survives Iago's evil scheme, though not unscathed as he had suffered another wound to the face and the loss of a leg. He has since sworn off diving, but he still operates the Killer Whale Office in Othello's stead. Part of him wants to call this off entirely, but he couldn't manage to forget his comrades. His new recruits sometimes find him searching the lake for any sight of their return, but too afraid to actually go into the water to look for them. Despite that, he is still well liked by the clients and underlings. Btw, his appearance is based on my headmate Whale.
We face against him in the Canto as "Othello", a pallidified fusion of his missing comrades. It wears the Limbus Company Bus coat over its Office wetsuit, what is now pallid and sticky with Whale membranes. It still uses the same harpoon gun as Othello, but the harpoon itself has changed. It has the same braid as Desdemona, but its proficiency in combat is more reminiscent of Emilia. It no longer has human eyes, so the hat acts as its eyes instead. All that remains where a mouth was is a gaping maw, much like a Mermaid. But it is still bipedal, unlike a real Mermaid. Can it speak with that mouth? I can't verify, but if Hong Lu's Dimension Shredder EGO corrosion can talk, then so can it.
Been thinking of the Wuthering Heights mirror world for my Sinners.
Shou <- Heathcliff
Desdemona <- Cathy
Emilia <- Hindley
Cassio <- Mr Earnshaw
Fajie <- Linton
Ermine <- Nelly
Sirin <- Edgar Family Butler
Othello <- Josephine
Thrones <- Matt
(FYI: Desdemona, Emilia, Cassio and Othello are characters that make up Sinner 12ās story)
Hereās the silly part.
I was thinking of how to fit this into Fajieās story, because like how is a white English family gonna give birth to Fajie? How do I fit this into her story? The character she was based on in Slow Damage, Towa, is the son of the Takasato-gumi, the local Yakuza organisation that runs her district. And they keep trying to get her to rejoin but she doesnāt wanna. So Iām thinking what if the Edgar family serves that function here? Letās make them Japanese š
So now we have Meiji era Wuthering Heights instead of Victorian era. Same colonial themes, just different backgrounds. Shou is still this wild bird they nabbed off the streets and raised in Wuthering Heights Manor (who are still English?..) Theyāre in a decline so when Desdemona found a partnership with Fajie, that was their golden ticket out of impending poverty.
But they sure look down on them, because like how dare this foreign family have more wealth than they doā¦ their assets must be appropriated!! Fajie herself never really cared for money, so she was glad to handwave everything off to Desdemona. It couldnāt have been better for the Wuthering Heights family. However, Emilia and Othello continues to berate her despite her gaining them a huge favour in the first place.
She only has Shou and Ermine to rely on emotionally. Desdemona probably told Shou to leave on his own, because the Birdās gonna leave the nest sooner or later. Even though he wanted to stay, he was told heād be of no help, so he did leave. Desdemona told Ermine to leave too, when she officially marries into the Edgars. So when Iago (representative of N Corp) came to ruin everyoneās lives, she had nobody to rely on.
When Shou came back (in his Wildhunt timeline ahead), Desdemona had been turned into a strange monster (announced dead on paper), and Ermine is the only one who from Wuthering Heights that survived. He didnāt know about Iago, so naturally he suspected the Edgar family was behind it, and so signed up to work there, while Shou is driven mad with grief and regularly sends hordes of forest birds their way to wipe out the Edgar Family.
Thatās the main plot. Hereās about the other IDs. I thought itās really funny that Thrones would be Matt, considering he was revealed to be a fake in the main storyline like.. certified Mimicry moment. And Sirin being a butler under Ermine would absolutely terrify her. Sheās already scared of him as it is, now she gotta be his understudy. And Fajie Linton I imagine would be like Takuās bad end, where heās malnourished and on life support to keep fighting back against the onslaught of wild birds.
Wait Iāve got more thoughts. While fighting Cassio, he keeps guilt tripping Othello to go back to how they were before, with Othello managing everything in the Office while Cassio barely does anything but still gets to tag along and enjoy her leisure life and stuff. Which works on Othello, because she took pride in thatā¦ it was her Office, and she wasnāt all that happy to let him take over after all that happened. She still thought he was a liability to the Office and wanted to fire him.
But hereās the stuff I wanna talk about, itās about that anchorā¦ āļø Othelloās always just going along with the currents, so ironically, she needs an anchor, but the person that wields said anchor is nothing but a burden and a leech to her.
I think Othello should take the anchor from him and smack her with it. Get probably grounded yk?
They have a toxic marriage dynamic that isnāt even really consensual because Othello didnāt care about him but didnāt care enough to kick her out either. But blaming Cassio for everything wouldnāt absolve her of her own Sin either. Both of them chose to stay within their comfort zone and exact their flaws upon the people around themā¦ so until Othello breaks free from her self blindness, she wouldnāt be able to correctly identify herself <- likeā¦ she keeps letting other things define her yk? Thatās her main issueā¦
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Thinking about Othelloās relationship with Michael Cassio. Thatās the main thing that drives their Canto forward.
When they returned to U Corp, the guide took them straight back to the Killer Whale Office. They havenāt come back home since they were lost at the lakes and rescued by Limbus Company, but instead of releasing them, Limbus Company employed them to travel with the Dream Tram. But as usual, they never protested.
When they returned, they didnāt know how to feel about their past home, before they became a whale. Their bodies still stored the memories, and they would sit down on the office desk like it was any other day. But now someone else is there, replacing their position. It was Cassio, their oldest employee who was fired right before the Whaling incident.
Cassio recognised them immediately from the hat, but she couldnāt understand why they were in that miserable state. Then Cassio started to doubt them of being an impostor, as they couldnāt even remember if they were Othello, Desdemona or Emilia. Cassio wailed in grief for those three, and casted Othello out of their Office.
When I think of how to define their relationship together, itās hard to say for sure. But as Cassio puts it, they were like childhood friends who found each other as adults. Cassio came to Othelloās Office after the Smoke War, being older and way too injured to be working at other Offices, looking for a job as the assistant, anything. But instead he found Othello just doing everything on their own, from designing the Office to contacting potential employers.
It made him feel safe even though the favour was too great to return. But still Othello just let her stay in the Office and feed her whatever they were able to scavenge from the lakes. To Othello, the fact that Cassio is scared of death reassures them too, that this person would never risk her life for them. As long as that remains true, then Othello would let her stay as much he wishes.
Until he got severely injured at the hands of Iago. But he didnāt know that, so when he reported to Othello that pirates of the Middle attacked him and he retaliated, seeking shelter from them again, Othello got afraid and ran away from her, choosing the Office and all their employees over her. All of that was a part of Iagoās calculations, to drive them apart and force Othello into a deep instability. Thatās why they went to the Lake in a hurry to escape the Middle and ended up being swallowed by the Whale instead.
Iago had planned to frame Othello from the start and have the Middle chase them across the Lakes. (ā¦is that why Ricardo was sailing out?) But instead Othello ended up doing something with the Resonance Tuning Fork that fused their identity with Desdemona, Emilia and the Pallid Whale. So the Middle would never be able to find Othello. Not even Othello could find themselves anymore. Thatās why in all of their IDs, they are lost, wandering and asking if anyone remembers.
And who remembers? Only Cassio and Iagoā¦ Their memories were also overwritten, one with hatred and one with love. Iago sees all of them as a monstrosity that this world was better off with, while Cassio saw them as home. So even if she didnāt recognise Othello, she recognised that orca tail hat as the Officeās insignia. The insignia that Othello had designed themselvesā¦ even if they are gone, somebody still made that, so Cassio clings onto the remnants of the Office, waiting for news of someone to return everyday. Just like Othello, living without asking for anything and receiving anything they were given, but she couldnāt be happier with that life.
It brought reality back to Othello and reminded them that they were never happy with just submitting to the waves, even if they told themselves that. They wanted, even if it hurts their pride to admit that. They were always charting a future for everyone beneath, even if they were convinced they could never amount to anything. And worst yet, because they had believed in their affectlessness, they didnāt see the pain they caused those who beneath them.
And I know in their ego wounded state they wouldāve said they never asked for anyone to follow them. But thatās just a lie. They did invite others under their wing and took care of them. They did employ people who were loyal to them, but acted like it was nothing. Thatās what hurts and drove their relationships to fall. Iago wanted to prove himself to his father figure, but said parent always only ever looked at Emilia, who was considered an ideal student so nobody else mattered. So since he couldnāt have the approval he wanted, he discarded all of them. It was awfully entitled of him, but as he was the youngest, it was bound to happen.
And Cassio wasnāt clean either. He was the oldest, but he never parented any of them. Only ever choosing to see them as this vague fluffy idea of home, unchanging, always welcoming him. Even a space that presents so lovingly could be smothering and toxic. Everyone was only ever looking at themselves and what they wanted out of this relationship. Meanwhile, the ones who are being bullied like Desdemona could only speak to the wind.
One way to break the generational curse is to start caring for the things you neglected to care for. Thatās why I want to make Desdemona the key character in Othelloās mirror worlds. She didnāt deserve to be dragged down by them and treated as a monster just because they were. Being involved with a bad family doesnāt make you a bad person. Itās a family that taught her to be grateful for any crumbs of kindness that life throws at her. But thatās not a good way to live. She never got to know any other life because they robbed it of her. Itās a tragedy.
Also through the lens of being a system, sometimes you only break through your worst habits because itās hurting someone else within you. Like you would have been fine hurting yourself, until you feel just how much it hurts to live with you. Then itās a harsh reality check that forces you to rethink your life choices.
For a girl that was taught to shut up her whole life, we canāt just ask her to speak up now, we need to do the listening instead. And for the pallidified Othello who cannot see, listening is all they could do now. I think itās a little poetic justice for Desdemona.
I wanted to get these blorbos out of my head so bad, they escaped containment.
Left to right, Desdemona -> Emilia -> Othello -> Iago.
Long story below if you fancy a reading-
They belong to the Killer Whale Office, an Office that specialises in Whale technology. They work for U Corp, using their singularity fairly often. But that comes at a price, so the Office often find themselves doing errands for bigger companies like retrieving cargo or live Mermaids to extract oil from. Beyond these 4 here, there are also Cassio, Bianca and Roderigo but I don't really have a firm vision on their design yet.
Othello is their current leader. They do most of the client talking and logistics of each trips out. Their weapon is a harpoon gun. They're also a veteran of the Smoke War, and prefers to stay out of the City, even if it means facing unknown dangers in the Outskirts. There is large scar on the side of their jaws. It was dislocated in the war, and they had to be force fed food through that gaping wound in their mouth.
Emilia is the first mate and of the Office. He is talented and got promoted to Grade 2 Fixer after joining, now outranking his leader by one grade. (I don't know what's the City's take on trans people, but Emilia is trans). He doesn't particularly like anybody, and is prone to cussing like a sailor. His motive for joining the Office was precisely to run away from the City, where he felt smothered by the people that inhabits it. No matter what universe he lands in, Emilia will always be a shit talker.
Desdemona is their coordinator. She doesn't dive much, unlike the others, but she's still equipped with a wetsuit in case their ship is attacked. While the others explore, Desdemona stays above water to monitor and communicate with other seaborn vessels if needed. She is a kind girl that always tries to help others. Othello is very harsh on her because of that. Emilia also dislikes her, as he thinks she is too weak to survive on her own despite having so much idealism that she canāt back up.
Iago is the youngest fixer of the Office. He hates Othello, despite the latter treating him like a beloved son. There isn't a logical explanation for his hatred. If I have to say, I guess it's because he couldn't bring himself to believe in a genuinely self sacrificing love. It couldn't exist in his worldview, so he had to kill this person that keeps triggering him. He got along with Emilia best, but that's not saying much since they were both very aloof. However, Iago became jealous of him, after he was promoted and favoured by Othello. After facing the Pallid Whale, Iago had an idea to feed them all to it. Not gonna sugar coat it, he just wanted these people to die.
First, he got Cassio injured in a duel with Roderigo of the Twin Hooks pirates. He then brought Cassio back, and told Othello that Cassio was trying to stop a pirate from kidnapping a random girl, Bianca. Iago was the one who killed Roderigo, but claimed that Bianca did. Since the Twin Hooks were a subsidiary of the Middle, they are going to chase down Cassio with a vengeance and soon the entire Office for sheltering him. Othello didn't want to, but they sternly abandoned Cassio behind and immediately headed out to the Lake to avoid pursuers.
After that, Iago stole Resonance Tuning Fork that Desdemona usually keeps, so Othello would get really mad at her. Then he gave the fork to Emilia, who he knew also disliked Desdemona. When they were about to get swallowed by the Pallid Whale, Iago stayed inside a preserved box where he would remain entirely unaffected by the pallidification. Those three that were left behind had to fend off the Mermaids for weeks, barely staying sane from it all.
Desdemona was the first to collapse, as her mental state was not good after being scolded constantly by Othello and Emilia. Seeing her fall, it only made them both more angry. Emilia was impatient, not knowing when Iago's going to come out and tell them this was all a prank or something. Othello was worn out by distrust, and moderately spiralling to the Pallidification. Fighting its influence, they started to question why they were so harsh with Desdemona to begin with. At first, Emilia blamed her for losing it, as she's always so airheaded but when Othello couldn't believe it was a coincidence, Emilia faltered for a second and endured a nearly fatal hit from the Mermaids. Then he confessed he was the one who had a hold of the fork all this time, when Iago probably took the other Singularity and is now gone, far escaped from them. Othello took this to mean betrayals from every front, from Cassio to even Iago and now Emilia. The pallidification rapidly consumes them, as they questioned what they had done wrong to cause their people so much hatred and malice.
It was then that Desdemona pleaded for him to listen to her, that she alone had not betrayed him, nor will she ever begin to. She has always been chided for her innocence, but today it takes on a different meaning. And despite believing himself to be most worthy of surviving this ordeal, Emilia told Othello to keep their head up, as he's going to risk everything on this Resonance Tuning Fork. By fusing all three into one, they just might survive the Pallidification and the constant onslaught of Mermaids. Ironic it is, to resist becoming one with the Whale, they became one with another. A new entity was born inside the Pallid Whale, a human in appearance, but its mind were made up by 3 different people. It longed to find the sparkling golden bough, the one thing that can restore its original forms and bring justice to the poor lives cut short at the jaws of evil.
Guilty. Guilty. Guilty. Guilty.
This parasite lives inside the Pallid Whale until the LCB extracted the golden bough from its heart and freed the remaining contents into The Great Lake. It was taken under research as an abnormality and distortion, but it was neither any of that. Seeing as how it's not breaking the Laws of the Head by existing, Limbus Company recruited it as a Sinner in their extended programs. Its codename is Othello, and its title, "Jealousy".
Did you know Jealousy was also used to mean passion akin to lust and zealousy? It's also used to describe distrust, wrath and paranoia by proxy. I think the root of this feeling comes to desire, and in turn, entitlement to somebody. You think something should be yours, so you're mad when things don't go the way you want. This causes you to lash out at everything, and to claw onto what should only belong to you. In the story, Iago treats everything like it should be his, and he is so convinced by his ego that it goes unquestioned. But really, he lacks a sense of self, and his emptiness can't be filled by removing others from his sight.
Othello's conflict here is the guilt of living, of having a life others do not have, of being an object of jealousy. They survived the Smoke War while others died, and they chose to run away to the safest place they know, the dangerous and unknown body of water outside of the City. In constantly risking death, they convinced themselves they're being worthy of life. They abandoned Cassio for supposedly getting everyone in danger, while they themselves are actively endangering everyone by going to the lakes. In their own Canto, they will meet up with Cassio again, and see how he has recovered without a smidge of guilt, and even rebuilt the Killer Whale Office with its new batch of recruits already. Of course, why would he feel guilty when it was Othello or Iago who lead everyone to die? Othello will struggle with guilt, innocence, complicity and wilful ignorance in their Canto. Not that I've began to write that yet.
Random fact i mentioned somewhere before but when I designed the Killer Whale Office, with Othello and Michael Cassio being the eldest of the group, theyāre obviously parental figures to the 3 younger Fixers here. But I didnāt want people to assign mother/father role to either one of them, because theyāre meant to be both simultaneously yk?
So I had Othello with really short hair and no chest, but sheās tiny. While Cassio, despite his masculine name, gets big ol naturals and longer hair. She also wields an anchor as a weapon, which now that I think about it š¤ symbolises his desire for things to never change and all that. While Othelloās weapon is a harpoon that reels back the target. Like how the consequences of her actions always get back to her.
