#csplayerweek2022

For Day 7 of @playerappreciationweek, free day! (Cutting it about as close to the deadline as I can, per usual lol) So this is ALSO in that one au that I’ve started to call the “Everyone is broKEn” au cause legit no one is okay in this thing haha. This one takes place before my “So Long As You’re With Me” fic pretty shortly after they get Player back. This is a simplified version of what I was hoping for/what the scene actually is, cause this would actually be right after the team had (forcibly) taken care of Player’s arm. Unfortunately, my inner critic being particularly noisy combined with the tight timeframe meant adding the blood/gauze/treatment supplies just wasn’t going to be an option for this time. I’d loved to tackle it again sometime, but my brain has clearly announced it needs a break from looking at this. I can’t blame it either haha. For any of you artistis out there, I converted my vector sketch to raster before the lineart was ever mostly finalized. Much regret and much time wasted cause of that, but I’ve learned my lesson to always keep my lineart in vector form until I’m sure I’m done. But hey, it was an interesting experiment at the very least. Okay so! For anyone who wants to know the exact story behind this scene (and hasn’t read the fic), basically the gist is that VILE kidnapped and brainwashed Player instead of Carmen. Team Red hears about ACME’s helmet and that it might be able to snap Player out of it, so they steal it and confront Dark!Player. In the fight/process of forcing the helmet onto Player, Carmen accidentally cuts his arm pretty bed, but the helmet works... mostly. Player gets his personality back for the most part, but his memories are still gone and replaced by VILE’s implanted ones. Which essentially painted Team Red as sadistic murderers who liked to play mind games with their victims. This scene is after the team gets Player out of public and somewhere they can patch him up. He thinking they’re trying to hurt him more, so he’s kicking and sobbing and fighting for all his life. Shadowsan has to hold him still forcefully so they could bandage the wound. Player is a mess at this point, starting to accept that he’d someone escaped his old abusers who’d messed with his mind only to fall into potentially worse hands. Player basically is beginning them to not kill him and Carmen can’t take it. After 6 months of frantically searching and then finally getting him back, it’s only to have him injured by her hand and thinking they’d purposefully hurt him more. It’s a rough time. (After this scene, they realise the bleeding is too much for the bandage to handle and so they actually need to undo it to give him stitches which does... not go over well.) Okay that’s so much, but yes! If you want to know the later on of this au (like 2 months later and then another month or so after that), you can check out the fic and the art . I know, there’s a big jump, and the last one barely even seems like the same story haha, but yeah, the au gets wild.

(Made for Player Appreciation Week Day 2; Ivy)

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Day 4: Shadowsan or Player’s Parents! @playerappreciationweek This is a scene we brainstormed a while back that’s been stuck in my head where basically dark!Carmen has realized VILE brainwashed her but is still empathy-less for the most part. Player tells her truth in hopes of getting through to her, but instead, dark!Carmen really latches onto the fact that Chief was the one who killed her father, not Shadowsan. Long story short, Player’s not willing to help her kill Chief and dark!Carmen takes it as the ultimate betrayal since he’s claiming to be her best friend. Carmen contacts Shadowsan and uses Player as leverage to force Shadowsan into tracking down Chief for her. It’s all pretty complicated, so that’s more the cliffnotes, but there’s a lot of angst and whump, and Carmen and Player are both wrecks by the end haha. This drawing is actually the simplified version of what I’m hoping for, but my midterms have pushed me a couple days behind. The other version is more accurate to the scene in context  and that version + cleaning and hopefully color is still coming! I was originally hoping to write out the scene, so it wouldn’t surprise me if a long time down the road that happens too. Or a different scene from this AU, cause it’s an angstmonger.   Also, I think this may be the first sketchy thing I’ve posted? Not really sure, but I’ve got tons of art that’s in this messy style if y’all are interested. Most are pretty basic 30 min sketches though haha. Oops I should probably post the link to my day 1 first haha. Welp we’re going out of order cause I like to be as chaotic as possible apparently.​ As always, reblogs and likes are very appreciated, but please do not repost. <3

^^Taken five seconds before Player leans out a little too far and tips them both into the water. RIP Player’s phone. Hey guys! I know, two art pieces consecutively? And both angst-free? Crazy. But also look, I just want Player to get to have some fun with Carmen and the others in person. Poor kid must get pretty lonely haha oops there goes the angst-free part. By the way, if this looks familiar, it’s probably cause the lineart was included on my 2021 art summary! I had a lot of fun experimenting with textures and stuff in the sky and water and am pretty okay with how they turned out! That being said, I could see myself returning to this one after more practice to add some more lighting to the rest of it, so don’t be surprised if it pops up again sometime! Anyway, I’m actually posting this as a bit of a celebration and thank you for all the support for the @playerappreciationweek event! We’ve been ecstatic to see all of the submissions on the interest check coming in and are really excited for this event. For anyone who hasn’t heart about it yet, this will be a week-long prompt event focusing on Player and his platonic relationships, and is open to basically any type of artistic creation! If that sounds like something you might want to participate in, you can find more info and the link the interest check here! It’s closing tomorrow, and then we’ll be getting the prompts ready for posting. So excited to see what y’all come up with! As always, reblogs and likes are appreciated, but please do not repost. <3