Blood pacts work wonders...if you really know what you’re doing.
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Here is the redesign for SkeleKira. I decided to draw him in the srmthfg! female art style. I didn’t care for many of the elements in his first design (especially the antlers) so I changed them up. My goal was to mimic his original design since, let’s be honest with ourselves, it’s pretty damn tight and you think of it when you think of Skeleton King instead of his second design.
I gave him deer antlers because that was where my mind wandered to for the thought of antlers instead of the lightning bolts on the side of his skull. I hated the weird shawl/scarf he had so I turned it into a capelet and switched up his skirt a bit. But I think my favorite change has to be the torso.
We know Skeleton King has guts and so that got me thinking. This might not be canon but I believe his entire body is probably composed of mechanical clockwork and purple glass that varies in transparency. Why you can see his guts I have no clue. And SkeleKira is still technically a Chiro clone so there’s going to be some bones and organs in his body (at least the ones that Skeleton King didn’t rip out of the Chiro clone long ago but that’s a story for another time).
And so instead of it being his guts that show, I wanted his ribs and heart to be exposed in a glass torso. I changed the ribs from being weird 3d shapes on his chest to being normal human ribs inside the torso.
I got the idea for the gem from the red formless from the second Sun Riders episode. The gem technically brought life to the Chiro clone and kept her alive. And so now he is cursed with the gem.
He tried to remove it. Tried.
The staff is just a replica of his original since it’s in the remains of the Dark One Worm underground. He uses it as a walking stick for the most part but also as a weapon (and he will hit a bitch with it just for laughs).
