#cotl designs

i like to hc narinder to still have the ability to read minds :) they have an unspoken little agreement of "tap if its ok to read your mind right now" (which i add in my writing sometimes!)

i think pre-that they kept eachother out of the others mind via. well. basically a swear jar for mind reading. if they get caught they have to give coin to the other. really effective because narinder hates losing and lamb would prefer to keep their money, honestly

my pretty princess also gets a cool scythe. but i decided the way he gets it is evil.

I had the idea of lamb finding an old scythe in silk cradle while on a crusade, showed it to narinder because LOOK AT THIS. COOL AS HELL. and well. turns out thats a scythe shamura had gifted him. he had no idea they kept it!!! suffer, catboy.

first, im running with the headcanon that amdusias, valefar, and barbatos were leshy's disciples. amdusias is referred to with it/its, valefar is referred to with she/her, and barbatos is referred to with they/them.

these designs were based in part on a hc i have that the minibosses were regular ass followers before they were changed to fight the lamb <3 since the lamb can change follower forms in game, the bishops totally could have too.

amdusias was a rabbit, valefar was a cat, and barbatos was a stag. part of the reason im not super happy w how barbatos turned out is because i couldn't figure out how to incorporate any stag-like features 😭 but amdusias has a bunny nose and valefar has cat face, and they both have fur on their faces and necks instead of leaves. (amdusias is also wearing the horn band it got in chapter 22!!)

for amdusias and valefar, i also wanted to try to incorporate the enemies of darkwood into their designs, like. amdusias is based on a chaser + spitter worm, so i tried to make it look a little bit like a chaser worm with their dark shadowy faces. same for valefar and the jumper worms. cannot tell if i actually succeeded tho bc i have artist bias.

i redrew barbatos four times. ouh my god. i love barbatos a lot but i actually wanted to figure out a way to kill them for real. anyways, i ended up taking inspiration from @/aveloka-draws barbatos and @/oneofthosenightbees barbatos for this design. ill probably redraw it later and end up massively simplifying it to something i like way better, but for now, it's good enough.