#ei-ecoh

today i managed to sort out a few more hybrid designs:

Many Thoughts, None to Offer - Hazer (because they hide behind their false coping methods. also nonbinary icon)

Six Searing Embers - Box Worm (steamy, hotheaded, and secluded behind aggression)

Knock on Medicinal Wood - Wolf Spider (always wanted to be a bug. +evasion abilities and camouflage)

Unravelling, Disentangling Twine - Scavenger (mmm. monke. during the process his limbs fell off but he’s good at stitching)

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for more info, please see this post! i’m very very of it ^_^ i swear its worth your time pls pls. might aswell get yourself acquainted with my summer hyperfixation…

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a final few arts from yesterday. ft #ei-ecoh Deeper Darker Shadows and Weaving Currents, aswell as just Shadows in his canon ^_^ recently found a new way to stylize him and it’s been great!!

update: the ei-ecoh au has unvale links now! still working on them slowly!

and i suggest shadows’ standard wiki entry too because it has context and he’s my favorite!! plus it’s finished. check it out pretty please

i swear this is interesting chat. i’m really proud ‘o these sketches 🫶 and writing! i’m sprinkling in some character psyche too so oooo you wanna read this ooooo👻👻

so. @rna-world / tarigon’s au “where iterators become hybrids of rw creatures that fit them and then are forced to survive in the wacky wild as organisms” idea is cool. very cool. cool enough for me to have reblogged nearly all of it 3 weeks back. and now its coming back to me… oh goodness gracious

so!! in this post! i’m going to scribble down my thoughts on these barely-shared ocs of mine, and how they’d be integrated into which animal and survive in what way. exciting! LETTUCE BEGIN:

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these are the first few i came up with! was in a little funk so i wasn’t proud of them at the time, but thats changed ^_^

DeeDee isn’t related to the group at all—his design was just a brainwave i needed to get out. but the others! oh boy the others:

Weaving Currents is a ghostlike fusion with the very overseer that lends him his voice. this body enables soundless stealth and camouflage through translucent flesh. i wanted to emulate the deep sea vibe he has goin for him, which was especially built upon with his redesign! Currents is tricky and slinky, working as the perfect assistant and spy in Shadows’ search for power. and his peculiar quest for one specific little “traitorous” guy.

Six Colorful Strings (behold, our timid protagonist!) is a blue lizard. she is fragile and agile and always carries a weapon. whatever sort of process she underwent to become this was prepared with haste, and she’s still getting used to the new systems. and this rapid change and cell death has her rot spiking in activity. now, since a risk of spread is now prominent through coughing fits, she has attempted a makeshift mask out of an old cloth scrap. i honestly wanted to emulate some of tarigon’s AGS-orangeliz vibes through Strings here because. hello? peak??

Seven Even Windy Cycles always wanted to fly away. the wish arose from past circumstances, but remained as a whimsical dream. his can is placed in the run-down suburbs of abandoned architecture that crawl with bugs and bats after his weather modules go…missing? perhaps it was the bugs and the bats that he likes to watch. (insert segue) so he got squidcada-beamed because i said so. there was a running sorta-vulture mask idea that made it halfway, but he’s so underdeveloped as a fella that i need to straighten a few things up first.

Broken Gears over Grinding Gravel is definitely the techhead here. integrated so heavily into his work that anything he’s not good at he’s just accepted as failure. and that’s not a good mindset to have in the wild, but who cares! he’s in the highchair now. and the two things he’s good at are self preserval and working his mech. Gears is a tired old father who tries to forget regret—especially the involvement he had with Shadows’ greed. little beast grew out of control. what was he supposed to do??

Deeper Darker Shadows is the main antagonist and a persistent one at that! with his quest to rejuvenate his disordered systems with other iterators’ rarefaction cells, and having succeeded multiple times thus far, he’s earned the status of something to be feared. however he’s the brains of the operation, not the brawn. especially with a recent development lending him a maw-like wound in his face. giving him all the more reason to seek power to overcome the hurt. with the hushed judgmental fear all around his name, he’d have to appear as something imposing in the wild—right? LOUD INCORRECT BUZZER. this man is a stinky younger brother who’s too self entitled for his own good. but his looming presence is like a shadow (heh) despite the hidden truth. so he also gets bugbeamed. jackass! hope he isn’t too stupid and gets himself killed. a second time.

below is even more character sketches for a select few that i’m extremely proud of. eat up folks!

if you enjoyed the concept of iterators surviving in the wild itself, i’d consider checking out tarigon’s incredible art and thoughts over on zeir blog! featuring both canon and iterator logs interpretations unlike anything i’ve ever seen. there’s a reason i reblogged it all so many times 😔/positive

the Elementally Inclined iterators have been transfigured using dna from the ecosystem. here, Twine(+ scav dna) and Two Leaves(+ salamander dna) have found shelter from the wandering spying eyes of Shadows and Currents, the big buggy bad and his much eviler overseer-fused assistent out to repetitively kill Twine for justified revenge. Two Leaves tries to find a release from the tension of their predicament, and gathers things scavengers usually like.

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shadows is beat up by a blue lizard because of his fighting incompetence, and has to be dragged back to a shelter by currents, who doesn’t give a shit if he lives or dies or heals. he could just wake up tomorrow, but he’s scared. sigh. and to add insult to injury toward his caretaker, he’s has gotten himself to the point of falling apart. an implanted metal arm disconnects in a splash of oozing yellow and makes him harder to carry. currents snaps to glare behind at the soon-to-be corpse of his boss.