#mrkhan

Decided to try @techmomma ‘s palette challenge, trying out how Mr. Khan would look in the palettes of some of tech’s characters! (feel like I cheated by choosing a couple with at least a few colors close to his usual).  Probably gonna try to do a couple more of these with my other characters too!  (probably not as much with any one character.  Started to get a bit messy towards the end there but hopefully its not noticeable if you don’t look closely)

Welp I’ve been here for another year apparently!  Just realized recently so haven’t had anything planned yet, probably will do another follower mural, if anyone has any other fun ideas you can make suggestions!  

At 110 posts currently, so still technically close to my ‘once a week’ schedule... on average.  And really only about 60% of those are story updates (with the rest being announcements, fanart/commission reblogs, and non-story art).  Officially changing my little statement on updates to “every other week, but sometimes a couple times a week” to better reflect reality.

It looks like updates are getting sliiightly more substantial over time though, with the average panels per update going up over time from almost 3 to about 4 (despite my attempts to cram as much dialogue as possible into each panel so I don’t have to draw as much, heh...).  Coulda sworn it felt like updates only used to be 2 panels on average, guess its mostly things like the Hero Twins arcs that made me think that though.  And I think it has been a while since I’ve had any updates below 3 panels.  

Art style continues to evolve slooowly over time (with the occasional regression depending on how long it’s been since I’ve drawn), below is a comparison of each character’s first appearance, their appearance closest to a year ago, and most recent appearance this year (Sorry Mr. Khan, just realized we haven’t seen you (in the story) in over a year!  We’ll see you again soon hopefully)

Some doodles of my characters in @techmomma & @vividfizz ‘s ‘mythnoir’ au 

(might finish these/some of them later but wanted to get these up for now!)

Mr. Khan - Lamassu.  For an unknown amount of time has gone by different names in the worlds’ great cities: now he has come to Tir.  Seems to run a mob, though certainly not a conventional one.  Should you fail to pay for his ‘protection racket’, no ill will befall you- save for missing out on his actual guarantee of protection, and access to some surprisingly decent deals on neccessities via the black market.  

Tomo and Abuela (I suppose just “Grandmother” in this AU)- Baku

Abuela insists they still have a job to do, answering the call of distressed humans by eating their undesirable dreams, council be damned.  (and you can’t very well do that with those silly glamours on can you).  Tomo is torn between concern for his grandmother’s safety and excitement on joining her on these adventures and learning about his heritage

Mr. Boffin Barrow, Councillor of Finance - (Halfling-equivalent, some sort of leprechaun/wee-folk?)  Pretty much synonymous with the treasury- contributed much of his fortune to it in the early days of the city and feels entitled to make withdrawals as he sees fit as well- which he only gets away with by so far managing to make returns on any investments made with the embezzled funds (sometimes in illicit ventures).  A bit arbitrary with how he allocates the council budget- a bit stingy in many cases and cutting the occasional corner, while going all out on other expenditures, such as the shiny uniforms for the Vigilance Bureau (including a special outfit for the Vigilantor himself!) as well as constructions or Council events (the flashier the better.  Which may be in part what he favors about Panoptes.  Him looking the other way on some of Boffins dealings just being an added bonus)

Minerva Barrow - Nymph, Boffin’s wife and part of the Vigilance Bureau (pictured performing surveillance via a scrying pool).  Helps ensure that Boffins’ misdeeds go mostly unnoticed, but is otherwise very competent and helpful to the Bureau (particularly if the opportunity arises to lock up some of Boffin’s shadier business competitors)

Detective Kasimierz- Karzelek.  Beginning to have doubts as to how helpful the Vigilance Bureau and the council actually is.  But for now thinks its still easier to work within the system than outside of it

Not pictured:  Grisaldara- keeping as a griffon, that is a mythological beastie after all and it suits her.  Probably works for the Information Bureau (? I assume this would fall under their sort of ‘propaganda’ purview?) by organizing public events and council parties (making sure to get enough work done so that things go smoothly enough that she can participate herself, of course)

The Barrow children (quintuplets, mentioned previous post)

oof there we go 

“Mythnoir AU” pic, showing a possible eventual confrontation between Mr. Khan and @techmomma ‘s Vigilantor Panoptes, in a raid on a black market warehouse.  Khan’s just trying to buy some time for those under his protection to get away- though the size difference probably helps, it is still nowhere near a fair fight.

2. How easy is it for your character to laugh?

Very easily!  He’s quick to smile or chuckle, It might take a little more to get him to laugh but he’s not going to try to stifle it.

9. Do they swear? Do they remember their first swear word?

If Mr. Khan is swearing you have done something very wrong.  When he swears he means it.  He doesn’t drop profanity casually like most people though- most of his swears are more in the form of curses.  He remembers his first swear word- or rather words, a colorful and creative string of them, and regrets saying them.

29.  Do they usually live up to their own ideals?

Pretty much!  He might not have always, but he’s definitely gotten there.  Mr. Khan hasn’t let wealth change him (other than how he likes to throw it at people if he thinks they need it)

D) Have they always had the same physical appearance, or have you had to edit how they look?

Dangit @techmomma y do you have to be starting all these AUs all the time i should be working on updates or fanart or anything else but whoops i had to join in the fun as usual

extra sloppy tonight cause its late and dangit even putting in the minimal effort for background thats still way too much darn detail what was i thinking 

In the ‘etherium AU” (think age of sail IN SPACE, a la “Treasure Planet”)  Jade & co. run a salvage operation, recovering what’s left from pirate attacks, navy raids on pirate hideouts, fleet battles, planetary natural disasters, etc.   They sell what they can in Mr. Khan’s shop (Mr. Khan’s a turtle alien I guess cause why not, it lets him keep his yak-y humpback shape i suppose?), and the scrap is remade into something new in Jade’s adjoining workshop.  Occasionally get in trouble by unintentionally recovering dangerous tech, alien lifeforms, cursed treasure, or shipments intended for powerful nobles or pirate lords.

(Finally updated the refs, cause the old ones were… old)

(Background color and text color are the colors I’ve been using for their speech bubbles/text)