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YEP B'S GOT A REAL REF NOW!! WELL OVER DUE!! WHY DID I MAKE MY PAST REFS WITH THE SKETCHES VISIBLE HHHHH-

But uh yeah ngl this was really fun to do!! It felt really nice to properly show him off in a cohesive way, change up some designs just slightly till I was happy with him, and even do refs for outfits I hadn't rendered before (mainly the Noir and Party fit)! And it is really damn fun to think of ways of covering his eye up without just defaulting to the emo hair over the eye, good challenge! Plus it just feels soooo much nicer for him to be in a cleaner style, good for me when drawing and hopefully for everyone else too! (*wink wink nudge nudge* he's on Art Fight *wink wink wink wiiiink*)

Plus this was a new way of doing refs for me! Since I was drawing B in multiple outfits, wanted to try having the same "base" across the refs and just drawing over that! I know that's already pretty common among artists, but this was my first time doing that, and I think i did pretty well! Actually helped a lot organizing my thoughts/ideas, and hey it's much more appealing to look at! ....which is the opposite of an Eyesore....HA-

DID SOMEONE ORDER A GOOD OL' CASE OF TAROT CARD SYMBOLISM?? >:]

Got the idea to do this piece cause 1. This is based on the detail that in B's Noir outfit he has a tarot card in his hat rather then the classic playing card or something, which.....I absolutely stole from a friend of mine whose Noir inspired character has the exact same thing but shhhh- But uh- when doing research in finding a suitable card I settled on "The Hermit", and thought the pose/key aspects would be fun to replicate like i've seen other people do, so decided to give it a shot! And 2. ...I try to do at least one fully rendered piece every month, that way at the end of the year i'd have a good spread of my progress, and buddy i was running out of time to think of anything else, so I settled on the sketch I did a while ago (which can be seen HERE in this doodle dump i did), and here we are X'D

And....okay not gonna lie when I started this it was a bit of a struggle, mainly due to work and school dragging my ass away from working on it, but one dat I had 2 hours in between classes with no work due, and I locked in like never before-

But really i'm pretty happy with this!! Composition was real fun to do, actually was a last minute idea to add some blur/focal lenses to some of the glass shards, and glad I did! Also felt like my rendering's been getting a lil better, fun using certain colors to help out (and in this case b l u e), was fun to use all the g l o w from the crystal, and overall was a great excuse to use more of my guy >:] .....wait is this my first actual rendered piece with B on here-? 🧍‍♂️

Anyhoo, onto the actual symbolism, I felt "The Hermit" fit B really well, what with his default being secluded in a van most of the time, and trying to figure out who he is when so much of himself from before WKM was erased (like his fucking name) and being difficult to keep track of all the variations he's put through. Plus when I saw the main staple OF The Hermit card being having a lantern, or just any light source of some kind (representing searching for wisdom in ones self ohoho), I immediately thought of the Warp Crystal being that source of light, and that idea was too cool for me to n o t at least sketch it X'D

This also reminded me that i really wanna learn how to read Tarot cards!! Seems just real fun to do, plus would be really interesting to understand all the meanings and interpretations, would be great to work that more into some pieces, but for now just learning bout one tarot card is a good start I think! :'D

Overall real happy I was able to get this done in time, back i go to school hell (one more month till summer i am counting the fucking d a y s), really looking forward to drawing more if I can cause fuuuuuuck I have ideaaaas BUT THE ESSAAAAYS-

Also have boarderless and og sketch ver down below cause e h -

Okay so first off, when brainstorming ideas of what to do for B, I actually thought of B being a satyr at first, purely just cause of vibes (and i like drawing em), which I did doodle a bit as seen below-

And like- that CAN work technically...I think if anything this is B if he was in a strictly D&D fantasy kinda world, since satyrs are a species you can play (and if you're wondering his class would be Monk, subclass: Way of the Astral Self cause lore ohoho-)

But then, I kid you not, as I was starting to fall asleep that day, I was thinking "yeah satyr's fun, but I wish I can find something that fits B's whole eye asthetic, like maybe I can go for a more monster thing like- HOLY SHIT FUCKING MEDUSA-"

And, well, here we are XD

SO- SOME LORE THINGS-

Forgor how exactly it works in Parkie's AU, but for mine, this takes place WAY after ISWM when B's trying to recover from THAT whole experience in the Van, but next time he wakes up...boom, in a forest with a snake attached to his head...so like anything else in this reality he accepts it, "guess we doing D&D now", and trecks through to see what kinda bullshit Actor's got for him.

Thanks to being a D&D nerd, he's a bit more comfortable in this reality, so he gives himself the role of being a traveling merchant, mainly to investigate more of the fantasy world and get some coin to get by, even if half the stuff he sells is bullshit scam stuff. Guess you can call him a......snake oil salesman? :P

OH and speaking of snake, he's technically half-gorgon, so while he has human legs and mostly human hair/traits, he has scales in random places (mainly growing up top), a snake tail, sharp claws (cause i say so >:c), fangs and tongue, pointed ears, only ONE snake attached to his head (tho tbh i may change it to be 3 later on we'll see), and only ONE of his eyes can turn people to stone. Which, of course, is his right one, so he covers that with a blue cloth he found besides him when he woke up there.

And speaking of his stone abilties, just thought of (Like i kid ya not i JUST thought of this while typing this post so I haven't drawn it yet f u c k) that whenever he DOES use the gorgon eye, it does turn people to stone if they make eye contac, but it also starts to turn his left arm to stone as well (following along the scales), Actor's way reminding of what happened in ISWM, so he uses it sparingly lest his arm falls off again.

AND FINALLY with the snake head, while initially it just seems like a normal, albeit peaceful snake attached to him, at random times the snake suddenly gains consciousness of the 3 mains due to some reality breaking stuff I dunno i didn't write this (<-wrote this). While this happens, Actor shows up just to taunt B, also trying to get him to use his stone abilities more, Wilford pops in just for some fun, literally just cause he likes the new experience of being snek, and Damien to offer comfort in a difficult time, being hard for him to show up normally, so...if it means turning into a snake to meet with an old friend, so be it.

.....jesus I swear every post I make bout B the lore rambles get longer and longer hhhHHHH-

......Hiiiii again Parkieeeee *waves shyly only to disintegrate into the dust*

But uuhhhh in all honesty been meaning to do a lil crossover thing with these two, but been struggling bout what, BUT THEN I saw this tag Parkie left on one of the doodles I posted:

.....Then I had my idea >:]

Mainly cause one ☝️ ....honestly made me happy to see a fellow P!nk fan, been literaly listening to her since I was b a b y thanks to my mom, and those songs fit Molly so damn well (Funhouse especially, my fucking beloved), AND TWO- Also thought it was a fun idea to have 'em in their disco/party fits since those are also very fun! Dunno if I mentioned before but I do love Molly's fit here, the Invincible II shirt especially, seems like some actually good merch and I would b u y -

But yeah I did mainly put all my effort into the first doodle, sorry the other two are pretty lazy, I was also crunching time for finals but shhhhhh that's not important right nooooow, but ey if anything makes em a lil bit funnier, least to me :'D

Still tho, has a lotta fun with this concept! In my head B (somehow, maybe Will told him) knows Molly's a fellow Captain/DA from another universe, but she doesn't know he's one, but still he just tries to help out in her having a good time, thinking she knows what they need since hey they got essentially the same traumatic past, but like- Still would drop the most insane vague shit on her, possibly eluding to the fact he knows what she is (being a cross-dimensional traveler [that and bisexual]) but never enough for Molly to realize what he means, so she's just standing there confused when he does, maybe just excusing it for the alcohol or whatever else. So, they continue to party on, and maybe Molly considers asking him some clarifying questions to see what his deal is, but by time the night's over, next thing she knew, he's just. Gone. Without a trace. (Actually due to some Actor bullshit oOo) Probably making her think he never existed, and B thinking he did such a good job being cool and mysterious for the fun of it....only for later they somehow cross paths again and it instantly falls apart when Molly recognizes him and he panics, but we'll get to that when we get to that X'D

I definitely haven't thought a lot about this what are you talking about?

Tho in general think they'd have a fun night and least eventually get comfortable round each other (B may be acting cool but every decision he makes he is internally screaming at himself for doing something stupid) and would have fun singing to P!nk (badly on B's end i'm sure Molly's got good pipes 👀) and Wilford cheering them on. ...They deserve ONE good night angst free, it's the least we can do for them :']

Also just know had a funny thought when I realized that it doesn't make sense for them to sing P!nk....or have karaoke...in the 60's...but we're well past the point of things being chronologically correct, even in canon, so it's fine XDXD