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This was supposed to be a quick sketch. Whoops. Hey, does anyone remember the last time I busted out a full piece in 2 days? I don't.

I figured out how to export stuff so it's truer to the palette I used in CSP, which is nice. Now you can really see how eye-bleedingly saturated I make everything, right down to the skin tones.

BTW if you ask me things about my characters on my blog QnA I might answer... might even have them answer, themselves... haha jk. unless

The sniper. He spent years wandering the northern Outlands before Diego recruited him for Atomos. Now, he’s the Captain of the sniper division. He’s got some kind of vague familial relationship with Diana, and an even more vague past.

Well, I guess that... makes this... my first fully colored mini-comic. Consider it a birthday gift to myself. B)

After my last post, @cturtlesea complained that... ahem... quote: "Conk yapping so much we don't get kissing art smh." Hi Turtle. Ev is actually quite good at making his problematic boyfriend stfu when it comes down to it.

Also I've sent a Conkev kissing sketch in your server before and you fully overlooked it so a-hem-hem ok

Most people are pretty put off by Conk's goggles... something about giant gear-shaped frames with bird-eye lenses that cover someone's eyes and eyebrows entirely, so you're missing a whole factor of their expressions... but when you're in love with your best friend of over a decade, that matters a lot less.

I wanted to draw Vipe for his birthday, but had the idea far too late, and started this on the day itself, so I'm just late as hell with this. I'm gonna talk about it anyway, though.

Vipe's birthday is December 13th. This makes him a Sagittarius in the 12-sign system, but an Ophiuchus if you wanna be a 13-signs zodiac freak. Full transparency, I don't actually care about astrology-- but hey, I like the symbolism. Ophiuchus is the "serpent-bearer," a representation of the healer god Asclepius, and is paired with the constellation Serpens to create an image of him holding a snake. TL;DR of the myth is that Asclepius killed a snake, and then learned resurrection from another snake, then got yeeted into the stars by Zeus because Hades was pissed... or something like that.

The symbol of Ophiuchus is one of the elements of Vipe's tattoo, not pictured. I'll leave the bulk up to interpretation and for the future, but this constellation matters to Vipe in its representation of snakes/death/resurrection/healing. I'll probably talk about his tattoo more in the future. I could talk about it for some time.