#old character

i revamped an older dnd character, this is rustle (crow)

i love kenku so much

And yea I decided to redesign some of them.

Original arts under the cut (tw: cringe)

Ome is based on a very old character of mine originally called "Soul" who started off as my avatar in the DS game Drawn to Life. Originally they were a physical entity of contrary forces and balance in a humanoid form which ironically had 8 wispy spike-like protrusions on the sides of it's head which translate well to the External Gills on an Axolotl.

One thing I like about Drawn to Life despite not being a very religious person myself, the game manages to tell a Christian Story without explicitly saying that it's Christian or telling you what you should believe. In the game you are The Creator, basically the God of this world, but also The Creator is a character with a voice in the game, and you play an avatar character of the creator that is animated from a humble wooden Mannequin, so you are a Holy Trinity. However despite being the God, one thing that stands out to me is that the Villain is right in some ways that you...or the Creator in game is not universally good. Wilfre is basically Lucifer the fallen Angel turned Devil who was Prideful and tried to play god, but he also represents "Free Will" and defiance against Authority that seems unjust, and too an extent he is right! He is STILL absolutely a villain who would be just as bad if not worse of a ruler than the Creator. He deceives, he corrupts, he destroys, and he ruins people's lives because he thinks his life is more important than everyone else around him. It comes to a head at the end of the second game where it's revealed that The Creator is going to destroy this world and your own actions have been in service to that end. Wilfre meanwhile want's to keep this world going on and on forever, but under him the world would become a bleak existence for everyone, and he can't stop it from ending eventually but it would be a slow agonizing decline.

Yin and Yang come from Chinese Taoism. Taoism is more of a Philosophy than a religion; Their main belief is that the best way to live life is to move WITH the flow of Nature rather than fight against it. The Yin Yang by that nature, is neither Good or Evil because those are human constructs that change depending on culture and perspective, they are instead the cycle of complementary and interdependent forces in nature that are in constant flux and able to become one another.

In Aztec myth there are pervasive themes of Duality and Cycles; Their Supreme Primorial Creator God; Ometeotl is the being of absolute Balance and Duality that's actually two gods that fuse and can become a combined being that is both male and female split down the middle. Axolotls are also Mexican and are revered in Aztec Culture as the animals of the God Xolotl a psychopomp who represents Sunset and the transition between life and death.