#regis irae

So let's start off big, shall we? Having to re-design one of the fandom's favorite characters... hmmm... prepare to see him completely butchered!

Or better... prepare to see them completely butchered. We love the idea of strong, elemental ghosts being sexless, genderless creatures, just forces of nature. Leeeet's go!

Here's our new babey:

Clockface

(Just as Clockwork does not show in his drawing any inner workings of mechanical devices, Clockface, obviously, does not show his face XD. Also, Clockwork would have been a very uncharacteristic name for the kind of stories we write, so we definitely had to change it)

Clockface is a nodal ghost (we'll expand on that later, for now the explanation is only available in Italian) with a chronokinetic core.

Appearance 

Clockface, like all nodal ghosts, has an inhuman appearance. 

They're conceptually connected to clocks, calendars, the concept of lost time, and the color purple. 

Despite being entirely composed of ectoplasm, their upper and lower body appear noticeably different: the upper, constantly ticking, resembles a steampunk robot, with gears and "metallic" parts, while the lower is more similar to that of a "common" spiritual entity, with a variable and smoky shape, but which becomes increasingly fragmented, and rotten and decaying, going lower. 

They wear a white mask, which does not hide any face, but only other gears, which in turn protect their core. Their eyes are not located on his head, but on his chest, and are a bright purple color, the same as their aura.

Trivia

They are not a particularly well-liked spirit, and as such there are many nicknames given to them by the other inhabitants of the Otherworld. One of these is simply his name, but without the L.

Clockface is not completely incapable of speaking without singing, but is so obsessed with the idea of ​​"keeping time" that they must sing it vocally. It seems that the metronome that is implanted in their chest was somehow not originally part of their body, but had it implanted.

Clockface is capable of possessing clocks, but has such respect for the passage of time that they always ends up not changing them in any way; a clock possessed by Clockface looks and acts like a normal clock.

Here are the sketches we used to build their design: (with some extra explanations and the visualization of what is the mask actually hiding!)

As you can see, at the start their design was much more similar to Clockwork, we just established that we wanted the weird clockwork-seethrough-head, and then slowly we worked to change it to the final result!

So, ta-da! From this to this:

We'll slowly post all the re-designed and re-written characters HERE. And we'll also post more art, concepts and worldbuilding related to them!

Also HERE the original post in which we talking about redesigning DP characters.

[Oh, and a lot more of our Danny Phantom fanarts: Here’s our tag on tumblr!]