um, hello. i think tumblr has flagged me for mature content again, so as usual this is only a sneak peek. the finished piece and the time-lapse are linked here
anyways!!! i drew entity naim reid from leviticus the way i picture him in my head
i did try to make him look scary, but the sorrowful doe eyes kept getting in the way. honestly, though, i’m not sure he would look frightening?
i also just watched obsession and aaahhh, i loved it i won't spoil but i can’t stop thinking about the more psychological kind of horror in entity naim (as opposed to how entity ryan might be more violent. entity ryan still tries to manipulate naim ofc, like he did by the screen door, but i feel like entity naim would do it even more).
i think the idea that the entities are not perfect copies of the people they mimic, but reflections of how the victim sees them, is interesting. they project your own perception of the person you desire back at you. the more you know someone, the better that becomes, the entity would have more memories and expectations to work with
so entity naim would behave like ryan believes naim behaves, mixed with the version of naim that ryan wants. if ryan sees him as guarded, vulnerable, difficult to read, and in need of love and care, then the entity would exaggerate all of that...
Anya is live and ready to show you everything. Watch her strip, dance, and perform exclusive shows just for you. Interact in real-time and make your fantasies come true.
✓ Live Streaming✓ Interactive Chat✓ Private Shows✓ HD Quality✓ Free Actions
Free to watch • No registration required • HD streaming
to be naim is to love ryan and live in fear of those feelings :((
AND ANOTHER THING before i get dragged back to my enclosure
i've seen the sentence "to be ryan is to love naim" said a lot, in reference to entity ryan faltering when naim held its cheek, and i absolutely love that take on the entity, that in emulating this person's traits, they really do start to become that person, which made me think about how entity naim never approaches ryan in public. it always appears in secret at ryan's house, which would explain him saying to "stop coming to my house" and then it walks with ryan, on invitation, to the near-empty roller-rink and presumably to other places, similar to how how naim only started hanging out with ryan after he invites him out to the field. at school, the entity appears in the bathroom after ryan initiates the meeting and even then it's presumably in a cubicle where they absolutely wouldn't be seen. him and entity naim meet up in secret and he just keeps showing up with more bruises and injuries whereas entity ryan appears in secret, but will not hesitate to appear in public. entity ryan has approached hunter and naim even when the barrier between them and other people was clear and they could still be seen, like the windows at the service station where hunter worked or the windows of the bus.
to be ryan is to love naim and have no shame in appearing in public, because "i was never scared of this," and to be naim is to love ryan but still struggle with the shame and fear that real naim feels so it only appears when ryan is not only alone, but also when it was absolutely guaranteed that they wouldn't be seen even though it's invisible to everyone else. entity ryan had the audacity to appear not only in public but at the funeral of the person he killed and lit a cigarette, he was not bothered at all, he talks about naim's mom seeing him and doesnt have a care in the world, it blatantly walks up to naim outside the bus and takes up space even in public, because it was never scared of this, and he gets that trait from real ryan. even in that scene there isn't 100% certainty of which ryan it is, so that is completely believable as what real ryan feels.
ik technically speaking, we dont see entity naim because we're in naim's pov so we mostly see the aftermath of his attackng ryan but i do like this interpretation of the characters.
in the movie, i think naim might be wearing his father’s ring on the gold chain around his neck (although that is entirely me speculating)? i added the snake ring to the chain in this one for dramatic purposes
time-lapse + a link to a one-shot + me blabbering about the drawing and publicly humiliating myself below the cut:
drawing time: 5h
canvas stats:
the total tracked time says 6.5h, but that is only because i left the canvas open in Procreate while i was doing other things. the exported time-lapse is five hours long, which is the actual drawing time.
sometimes i forget that most (if not all) people i meet irl are not infected with fandom disease. i don’t know why i’m telling you this again? i was at the airport two days ago, drawing on my ipad while i waited for my flight. i ordered an iced coffee, and instead of calling my name when it was ready, the barista walked it over to me himself
i looked up and he was just standing there, staring directly at my ipad screen
at this artwork!!! asfgafshfgwgaa
i had to down that entire large iced coffee like it was a fucking shot, crawl to my gate, and hide. i am never entering the netherlands again
a short one-shot:
i made this artwork for a fic i wrote. it's about what i think happened the first time ryan saw entity naim after the healing. it is rated mature, there's some kissing and brief grinding, but it is mostly them fighting and, um, bleeding, i don’t know if it counts as gore exactly?
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works