#sys-zero

And as a challenge for myself, everyone after Sys-Zero was drawn with some variation of the GEARS houses uniform based on headcanons from @high-voltage-rat

For the first two, we have the Captain, Sys-Zero and Starbuck!

Sys-Zero's outfit is a pain to draw in all honesty and a part of that could honestly be because of my art style. I would've colored Cysero but the space in which I drew the bust left little wrist room and just adding the bust was a bit of a chore.

I hated drawing Starbuck's hair and that's mainly because I had to figure out how to draw it at a different angle. Was I successful? I don't think so. If you can't read my shitty handwriting, it goes like this

Starbuck: "Is my hair really that hard to draw?" "Yes. It is."

Me: "You can tell my colored pencils don't have the right pigments." For context, these were all colored using Faber Castell Classic Colored Pencils (48 pack). Unfortunately, there were quite a few details in the references that I couldn't quite nail down with the colors I had. That's why Starbuck looks kinda off in my drawing

Sally and Dooder were the last ones drawn and my god the poses I chose were a mistake for my skill level. I have only myself to blame for this.

Obviously Sally's Wolfblade outfit is more in line with the SnuggleMech outfit for the Student class in Dragonfable. Because the idea that everyone else other than Starbuck having little personalized uniforms felt right for some reason. Unfortunately, Sally's looks off because of the pose.

Sally: "Me and Dooder ended up being too complicated for poor OP!" "MY HUBRIS"

Dooder's uniform is the most lax of the crew because he would do that tbh. "No one expected the Mystraven colors being switched!" (His pose is supposed to be the Hakari/Bully Maguire dance)

And lastly, we have River. Technically speaking I drew her third, but for the sake of the post she's last. She also gets the special privilege of having two different pose drawings, because Eveline held me at gunpoint. I'm also doing what the Friday the 13th events did for River and removing the visor to help separate her from Sally, even by just a little bit.

Crystal Asteroid Part 2

Am I wrong in thinking that Cysero was The Mage (Dean Warlic's starship)? Because iirc Sys-zero's starship was the Reliant, and I mean,

"A mage?! Oh, I see! What a clever idea!"

I feel like that would make more sense if, well, yknow. The Mage became a mage.

Wait wait I just remembered something.

The Mage was used to backup the entire universe.

Cysero is weird. Reality-bending levels of weird.

He does things that shouldn't be possible. Knows things that a normal person shouldn't. Way past the occasional fourth wall break to remind the Hero to read the name above the dialogue box.

A literal diety recognizes him as another higher being (listen I know Zeuster is weird but he counts as a diety in my eyes).

And people call him mad.

But how much power would it take for something to backup the universe? At that point, no sky could ever hope to limit you! And what would happen if that something with such immense power had to turn into a someone?

The only thing I'm a bit iffy on...

Why was the starship the closest match?

Well, Dean Warlic knew Sys-zero, dare I say they may have been friends. And we never really hear of The Mage before the finale, so we don't know how much time he spent in it. But he definitely spent enough time in it to build it into A UNIVERSE SAVE FILE, so hey.

Maybe Cysero was the AI aboard The Mage. Idk, some kind of sentient autopilot system. Maybe they were friends too.

Maybe that's why Kordana knows he would remember her. We don't know what DW and The Mage were up to back then after all (and Warlic is old af, this could have been centuries before the events of MQ), so maybe they went on a mission abroad and that's how they got in contact with Kordana?