#orb rambles

Because, see. Cave Party is so so fun. Listen to that intro.

But-- It's the 6-3. This is where you slaughter the last of their forces. This is where you put down the people you were sent to save; after pushing them to defect, after slaughtering the wounded.

And Cave Party is so high energy, and everytime I play through this section I have to stop and head bop and grin while I mag-dump into their heads. In another game, the soundtrack for a scene where you slaughter your own men would be... well, something else completely.

Then I remember that 106 is genetically engineered to get dopamine highs off of inflicting violence.

But the end scene.

What an existence.

edit: dragging this out of the tags actually i think im onto something

is it like addiction? is violence the *only* way for him to feel alive? did they make him that way? or did his brain naturally build a resistance to anything of a lower dose? does he crash after the highs? how heavy did he feel sitting there. thinking about what he did and how it *felt* and now its gone?

Decided to do some doodles for one of my characters Xiamei, (or just Mei)

I've been mulling on this comic idea for a while with her and a 3 others (which I have all drawn) living in a Scott pilgrim type world, where things just exist and happen. So she's a highschooler who was born from a priest father and knight mother making her a paladin.

Concepts of her paladin outfit on the way, but the story is following the group of friends handling being teens with a lot of weird shenanigans and musically based monster references, ala JJBA style, and coming to terms with their feelings for each other.

To actually talk about Mei, she's the very extroverted and fashionable of the group, very energetic, seemingly knowing just about everyone. In the group of 4 though, she tends to reign in the others out there plans and ideas as a sort of straight man. (Though that's mostly done by another character)

She has an older brother, who only inherited being a priest, and is at the start of the story first year of college, and somewhat protective of his little sister. Which has caused conflict between them, since she's more than capable of handling herself now that she's in high school.