#otiose

OLD art I don't think I ever posted. Nanite zombies! These were originally what was going on over in europe in my Otiose setting- sort of post soft apocalypse wherein every satellite simply died at once and a slow rolling chaos ensued in a very bio/tech dependent future. Also there were space worms. I can't recall what the trigger for these was...I think due to busted communications, an exceptionally bad little bug (nanites animating corpses instead of dying with them) was unable to be reported or responded to in a timely fashion. The nanites were...i believe intended to be Organic and have a lifespan as a failsafe but ehh. Well! Oops! Problem is a lot of people had nanites. Even if not the Really Good ones, they were fairly accessible as a healthcare thing. Kind of a walking dead situation where Simply Dying at all could be enough bc you already have it (maybe). I think these zombies were something of a blight because they would eat just about anything organic, thus creating barren patches as they ate every animal and stripped every plant and tree. Grey goo apocalypse but its shiny nacre and somewhat contained within humans.

I was given a lot of freedom with their designs and so I decided on two extremes for coloring (natural and Extra) while maintaining the teal undertone that comes from their flesh color. 

I totally had plans to type shit out last night and now that I'm awake I can't remember half of if But yes, antagonists, especially the type I'm trying NOT to like, are such a PAIN. I'm so impressed by characters I wanna just. Push off a cliff when I play games or watch shows but ohhh is it so hard for me to create one for some reason BUT ANYWAYS IM TRYING here's a few Sort of Also I'm on mobile and can't do a read more I am So Sorry OTIOSE: Crocoite. I don't know if she's in the "god I hate her" category, but she is definitely unpleasant to work with. A nasty extortionist who mostly just wants your Money and your Things. She's also an usem hunter and escort (and Business owner?).Theres rumors that some of the people her group guides never make it to their destination (and croc suddenly has interesting new stuff to sell). She's a Genuine Designer, but she doesn't like or trust other Designers..most of them are rich and snotty, but not her!! She was saved up for, a very expensive baby right there. The zone she grew up in was a very tense one; some areas in the US at this point are a bit..militarized. So. But of a rough baby life there, to partially explain her callousness (and distaste for the rich/corporate entities/military that Own Everything). She has a main pack she does everything with, the most notable being two army grade Mods (tentatively nicknamed Castor and Pollux) Unnamed Corporation That's right, there's a fucking. Weyland-Yutani Umbrella Corp type corporation at play in this world!!!! They own. Goddamn. Everything. Genetic labs, prisons, company housing, bioengineering research facilities, military grade AI, Moderator Development Facilities....... put those last two together and you have about 2/3rds of the entire military right there, btw. Soooo much shit is their brand. Your implants, your prosthetics, your fuckin. Socks, probably. This is the corporation Ben n Tonks's parents work for! And the one that, when two worried kids of their employees are like "hi our parents haven't contacted us in a month, what's up?" give them one of those suspicious bullshit automated replies. Begin story There ARCHIVES Corrupt Archive Leaders? This is less Corporate Evil and more of..an unfortunate power imbalance that resulted from events out of their control. So like..The big problem in archives is that MANY MANY people were yanked from their homes, and plonked onto an alien planet that only had readily available accommodations for a Fraction of the population. The key word here is Alien: there are no domesticated animals, no crops that have been carefully altered through human intervention for a millennia, they are essentially having to start from scratch in many cases. People don't even have Dogs anymore!! For gods sake!! Compare that to the archives themselves! A colony..city..thing. Lovely place, very efficient on energy and materials, nice cozy places for ppl to live, etc etc. But..this was developed..slowly..over time..they don't have Mass Access to resources to allow them to EXPAND as quickly as a sudden giant influx in an uprooted population would like them to. SO...THAT WHOLE SITUATION JUST KINDA..EVOLVED! People outside the archives have to restart with what little help they can get, and people inside continue on with their (now a little more crowded) but pleasant accommodations. It starts out very helpful!! Very "for the good of all humanity, we must do our best 2 come together and provide for eachother!!" But good things never last, do they Current day archives is a good way into the future. Archives expand, but at the same time get a bit Stingy with their resources.. People outside have started to spread out and settle, but it's still very rough. There's no shops where you can just go out and buy whatever you need (well. Maybe in very limited supply from the archives you can get some things), there's plenty of conflict. Enough that people decide HEY!!! WE NEED TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT THESE HOOLIGANS!!!! ARCHIVES HELP US OUT HERE So they decide to ship them off to Euphrates (the grafter planet), to a modified facility they have there!! It's more immediate than spending forever trying to build a prison or sending every one of these people to a therapist/giving them the Stuff they actually Need. SO JUST THROW EM ON THE NEXT PLANET OVER, SOUNDS GOOD! Give that like a decade or two as things settle even more and then you get people sending people off for, very questionable reasons. Especially people that make offenses against anyone in The Archives, who have Control of all the Good Shit. Also, I heard they don't even drop them at the facility anymore..I've heard that they just pick a spot and leave em there.....do u think it's true??? Badahdaaaaah.......Conflict. Glib Glib is another scientist on Euphrates. She helped discover plenty of things, especially about the "fungus"! But. Not usually in the most eeeuuhhh ethical, ways. -Probably a fair amount of Euphrates residents that are legitimately terrifying people and not just soft babies unlucky enough to have been born there -Definitely a bunch of folks in the archives, like the ones that send Too Nosy Journalists off to the Hell Planet That's it that's all I've somewhat Solidly got, I'm working on some revenants stuff tho so We'll See what happens there

Looking through some old art and realizing: I don't think I ever posted some of my favorite Castors? And a couple pollies too Huge mean tarantula woman, her personality is essentially that of Mr. Hyde from the one Van Helsing movie, you know the one. For every character I get attached to and make a little more tender soft, she gets one additonal bastard point added to her mean meter

I keep forgetting to post these, have some Seth n Jor jor doodles! Wanted to try out a 3 eye look for Jorah, a little closer to her very first iteration but ehhhhhh not sure.. And I missed Seths pink hair...SOME DAY I’LL FIGURE OUT WHAT TO DO WITH YOU TWO