#eddym

Decided to ‘Trollanize’ myself, adapting one of my favorite shirts (I love me a nice hoodie tee) into a decent Trollan outfit. 

This is just me brainstorming a design for Teela in my AU. 

You might see a more refined design for her later. 

And also coming up with how the “Orko saves Adam when they first meet” thing goes in the AU. There’s a flash flood involved. 

Oh, hey, look, I drew Cringer. Honestly, I find Cringer kind of annoying, but he’s too important of a character to leave out, so I’m gonna figure out how to draw the tiger (well, his adult self anyhow). 

Not gonna lie, I have too much fun drawing him in his ‘Oracle’ outfit.

(Although I’ve ultimately decided that his scarf should be white instead of purple like I’m implying with this, for some reason he seems more powerful and important when wearing a white scarf.)

I had the strange idea of drawing Uncle Montork as a child, along with his little sister Ilyne (Orko’s mother). He might as well look kind of like Harry Potter. 

An attempt at my AU’s He-Man, with his little wizard pal, Orko!

Here, have a Sorceress and Teela thingy. 

I dunno, I had a dumb thought of “What if Orko could sense magic in Teela?”

(Sensing each other’s magic signatures is no big deal on Trolla, it’s how they identify each other since they don’t show their faces, but for some reason, it never occurs to Orko that it’s not all that common on Eternia.)

I wanted to draw the ancient Oracle (who I’ve named Arzon) being cool.

Here’s a younger Montork when he was on his Sorcerer’s Quest, rescuing a kid from danger (said kid would grow up to be Orko’s father... I’m kinda undecided on the name). 

This is one of the options in my mind of how Orko broke his wand shortly after coming to Eternia in this AU--he lifts a ton of floodwater with it (when he tried freehand it didn’t work right) and transports it elsewhere, and it was too much for the wand. 

An attempt at Loo-Kee.

Fooled around with the idea of Montork having had a lady love of his own when he was younger. 

Her name’s Esso, and she’s a spunky lady who’s got a way with animals. 

Welp, I guess we’re getting into the darker parts of Trollan lore in the AU. So this was a result of me asking myself, “What if the Unnamed One had a following on Trolla?” Granted, I did rearrange some puzzle pieces on the Unnamed One story because I found the stuff on him in Classics kind of disappointing, but, we’re talking about an AU that’s just me messing around, so, uh...

Anyway, the Unnamed Order is a terrorist cult on Trolla that’s been causing misery on the planet for thousands of years. The Order is like a cockroach--no matter how much you nuke it it just won’t die. They’re experts at cloaking magic, so nobody knows who they are, and often nobody can see them coming. They’re mainly seeking to get the power necessary to break out of Trolla’s dimension and to where they can free their dark master, so that the universe will belong to them. They also tend to punish regular Trollans for growing weaker and more complacent over the years, as opposed to the glory days when Trollans were respected archmages in the universe. 

Edelia was Gorpo’s wife, who was 100% behind him in his attempts to take over the universe. When he was banished, well, she wasn’t too happy... but she found a special crystal to communicate with him, and thus carry on work for him. Thus, she indoctrinated many friends, relatives, and wayward souls into her newfound Order, and no matter how long it takes, they will claim the universe. 

Members of the order have shown up in Orko’s Sorcerer’s Quest post. 

Drawing out an idea for who the Spirit in the Horn of Evil is in the AU. Her name’s Rethilsa, she was the first of the Destroying Angels of the Unnamed Order (who regular Trollans refer to as Cursed Ones). She caused a lot of chaos in ancient Trolla until a song mage that bore the Oracle Ring Mage Emblem (the highest and rarest of the mage emblems) destroyed her with a special song. 

Her bones were made into the Horn of Evil, which when blown into releases her to cause chaos and destruction and stuff. That chaos can be reversed by the special song, though it works best when sung by a song mage. 

Part of Montork’s backstory in my AU is that he actually fought the latest of the Cursed Ones, who suddenly popped up after a few generations without a Cursed One attack. He’s celebrated for his victory over that scary powerful opponent, but Montork himself doesn’t like talking about it.  

It was the day he lost most of his family after all (the only survivor was baby Orko). 

It was a pretty rough fight. 

Okay, darker moment over...

Now, it’s time for Orko and Dree Elle family hour!

Trollan wedding attire in two different universes. Sadly, I made Dree Elle look kind of weird in the first one. XP

I’m one of those people that headcanon Trollans wearing wedding earrings, plus I kind of have a headcanon that Trollans always wear earrings (if they wear them) in pairs--save the wedding ones, because one earring goes to each spouse because the couple are a pair themselves. However, I implemented that for the AU and not the Filmation verse because OG Orko looked kinda weird wearing an earring. 

And here are my fankids, Eddym and Nyxie. Despite having only made two, I actually imagine Orko and Dree Elle having a bunch of kids, I just haven’t come up with any others (well, I do have an idea of the youngest being a little boy named after Orko’s uncle). I end up imagining others’ Orko/Dree Elle fankids as placeholders. 

There’s something about Orko being a dad that’s kind of addicting. 

(Note to self: Draw more of Dree Elle being a mom.)

Drawing Ed in two different styles.

Honestly, Nyxie in the AU style is not much different from the Filmation style.

I dunno, I just wanted to draw a moment like this between them. 

I dunno, I just wanted to draw Protective Father Orko. 

You don’t hurt baby Ed. You just don’t. 

There’s no doubt in my mind that Trollan toddlers would be resistant to hiding their faces. Eddym was especially bad with this, since Auntie Teela thinks he’s adorable, so he keeps showing off his face for her. Orko and Dree Elle had a heck of a time trying to be patient with their son (and Dree had a hard time resisting that little boy’s smile) and teaching him about the sacredness of Trollan faces. 

“Apa” = “Dada”. Orko cried the first time Ed called him that. 

Have a grown up Ed and Nyxie... well, for the AU. I’ve yet to come up with a good design for the Filmation-verse versions, because squishing these to OG Orko’s size... honestly doesn’t work out that well. ^^;

I’m also undecided about Ed’s title when he’s an adult. 

An Old Orko giving advice to his uncertain-about-whatever-situation-this-is son.