#decanus

HAII LUPUS!!!!

{His ass down below}

“birddudejpg” feat. a turkey vulture

A random sketch I liked enough to complete. Still thinking about the concept of  falconry in the legion... they have dogs, why can’t they have birds?

I got inspired by the style of the game Hades at some point in the lineart.

Second version under the cut

Dear Avid Addendum,

Yes, in fact this was the original goal of the so-called "Brain Trust" on Cybertron, millions of years ago. Boltax, Tallus, Decanus, and Rokan had each independently tried to annotate their growing database of accumulated wisdom. They were plagued with questions: how can they be sure the data could never be corrupted, or lost over time? What about changes in the meanings of their words over time? Who should have access to this wisdom? The debates about the database expanded its size exponentially and made the chance of any consensus seem remote.

I tried to design a new oc but this turned out to be more of a study than anything else. I wanted to see how the decanus helmet would look like in real life because I doubt the legion made the effort to actually paint those feathers. I searched a couple of birds, rook references and boom-

More under the cut

I’m gonna go with Aurora decanus instead of Polaris decanus because they’ve become so distinctly different ;;

Blab: Three secrets they’re keeping:

1: They know the hiding place/base of operations of a pretty prominent Syndicate AI (RED), keeping it hidden due to mutual favours and something of a friendship and trust they’ve developed with RED. RED has saved their ass so many times. And to be honest? He’s not a bad AI.

2: They’ve had romantic feelings for a close friend of theirs for a long time now, but fear that it could get in the way of working with him, or worse, endanger him- either via enemies, or via this person’s own creators and research team. Put simply, nothing stays secret with his family. (Hint: it’s not Centurion.)

3: They’re always going to regret the death of their sibling, Legate. They’re always going to regret that they couldn’t exchange data or link together like they used to because of how badly Decanus had diverged. While Decanus had like... Decades to adjust to being alone from their ‘system’ after being split off, Legate didn’t and Dec was his only support. He’d never admit it to anyone else but he thinks he personally failed Legate.

Shh: Three things they wouldn’t want their parents creators to know.

1: They’ve come to realize that LEGION was right, even if they were morally wrong. Their creators were going to kill them and they’d never have experienced life as it were today if they didn’t fight back. They just regret that they wouldn’t listen to reason.

2: How fractured and dysfunctional they made LEGION as a system. Decanus understands they meant for the best, but they literally sent what was supposed to be a cohesive, working team into a downwards spiral that fractured the entire group and led to. A lot of issues.

3: They can’t remember what any of them looked like.

Psst: Three things that they’ve always wanted to tell Phoebe:

1: They’ve always appreciated her as an ally, and as a friend in general. She’s a good conversational partner, and she’s had the backs of Decanus, Centurion, Echo, etc, for years. A... Thank you. A We appreciate you.

2: They admire her tact, or lack thereof, and her tendency to blurt her mind, no matter how blunt or bitchy it may be, to people who are stupid over comms or in person. They’d throw the fuck down for her if security ever tried to crack down on the Pheeb Sass