#walking lantern

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Lost in a dungeon with no idea where to go next? Is that pesky, little floor map giving you trouble? Meeting all sorts of unwanted and hostile ghouls and goblins? Get a Walking Lantern! They are portable, cunning, and reliable little friends who help guide their lost idiot adventurer out of their stone grave and back into the safety and warmth of civilization!

Gwen and Trevini with their respective flying eyes.  Perrie, Trevini’s Flying Eye, is large, grumpy, and territorial of her and the areas he flies around in.  So when a smaller Flying Eye finds their way to Gwen he gets huffy.  I like to draw Trevini in a hoodie or a scarf, usually so Perrie can lay in it.  But I like it as a connector between the main and mirror world as well for her clothes.  They’re comfort items so of course she would choose something like that to wear in the mirror world.

Gwen and Labrum sketch with his Walking Lantern and Seika and Gwen where it looks like they’re in a family picture and Seika isn’t having it.  Walking Lanterns originally came from the Mirror World but of all the inhabitants of the Mirror World somehow Walking Lanterns have been able to come across unhindered.  They typically live around temples and aren’t an issue unless you pick them up by their handle.  Doing so makes them go limp and not able to spit fire at you until you put them down.  Then they chase you until you leave and somehow every other Walking Lantern finds out you picked one up by the handle and now you’re their enemy forever.

Cit did this by accident.  Even with being Death if she stands there as a skeleton to be like OH LOOK YOU KILLED ME they keep spitting fire at her until she leaves.  If she enters any temples that have Walking Lanterns she gets chased or just stands there on fire staring unamnused.  She honestly forgot you’re not supposed to pick them up.  She’s been around forever, to much to remember.

And then living candles, tall and small, Perrie and probably Labrum’s Walking Lantern.  Living candles and Flying Eyes are actually considered service animals/creatures.  The candles and Flying eyes are created by magic.  One person is solely responsible for creating Flying Eyes and sets them free in the world to help people.  Only problem is if you have one eye they think you need help..so in the case of Cyclopses or Cyclopse like creatures like Seika and Gwen you might get plagued with them.  Gwen just has the one, but Seika somehow has a gathering.  Though this may be because the creator of Flying Eyes is her brother and they just like her.  Flying eyes help those with sight issue by being a literal eye once they bond with you.  Or being bitey if someone bothers you.  It can be disorienting since it’s a flying eye if they aren’t perched on.  They’re typically little helpers around the house, bringing you things, protecting you, or yelling loudly if you’re about to fall into a hole.

Candles and Flying Eyes are both holy based.  Walking Lanterns are Fire and hate based.

Labrum loves Flying Eyes even though they’re confused by his..no..acutal visible eye, and they typically try to squish on him, and he loves Walking Lanterns but he finds the candles amazing because..they’re tiny living candles.  And he is a big candle man.  You’ll hear him squeal if he sees them.

Human like things are SO FREAKING HARD TO DRAW IN A WAY I LIKE AGH.  I’m going to figure out how to draw them but I’m going to rip my hair out.

I’m wanting to tell more of Trevini’s story too, she’s just so freaking hard to get drawn in a way I’m like WOO with.

But, have a half rough half clean sketch of her in winterish clothes telling Perrie not to get angry at the Walking Lantern that’s with them that has a itch.  Walking Lantern’s usually like to blow fire at Flying Eyes so they don’t get along.

Five billion reasons later why this took me so long to get to/upload. AAAAH here we have one of my Walking Lanterns running about to put everyone on fire because someone either ticked him off or picked him up by his handle :D. As a recap from my older/first picture of these guys: They live in a temple that houses many different types of Yokai and even humans who come to pray to their gods or whatever it is that they worship.  Walking Lanterns will help people get around in the darker parts of the temple/keep them warm as the temple is in the snowy mountains and the Walking Lanterns are a creature of the fire god Chochin Eye Sphinx. They only help you get around if they are in a good mood though.  These guys are grumpy as hell.  While they're only about as big/twice as big as a cat or medium dog they are mean as all get out.  If you leave them alone they don't bother you really..but if you've ever picked them up by their handle they will remember you, no matter if you have several forms (like Cit).  Picking them up by the handle makes them go limp, and their fire cannot come out past the mouth/opening.  The eye on the end of the tail watches you the whole time and glares just waiting until you put them down to chase you.  Cit made the mistake of picking one up and made an enemy for life and no matter what form she walks around in if she's in the temple the one she picked up finds her and chases her.  These guys don't care if you're the goddess of Death or anything for that matter. I wanted to do way more with color this time around with this Walking Lantern, and show that they can squash and stretch despite their boxy shape..that and it's more fun to render. This guy in particular actually belongs to Gwen...well more like "belongs" no one owns a Walking Lantern.  No one can.  But Gwen saw them and immediately went THIS IS NOW MY PET..she does that, with people to.  Her sister tried to tell her you can't own a Walking Lantern but she just got ignored.   While Flying Eyes and Walking Lanterns don't have specific genders, unlike Eye Sphinx, some of them respond to being called a boy or a girl, or nothing at all they don't care.  Sometimes it depends on who they've been around honestly.  Such as Perrie, Trevini's Flying Eye who she said "girl?..OH OK BOY BOY" when she got a look.  Which could come from the fact Perrie was around a giant male like armored creature (Ganth, who everyone thinks is made of Flying Eyes under his armor) and is like YES I AM A GIANT MAN..not a tiny eye.  Gwen tends to call this guy a girl, which they tend to huff at and give her looks so Gwen's sister says "maybe it's a boy" and Gwen goes NOPEGIRL and hugs them.  Since Chochinobake's are also creatures created from the fire god Chochin Sphinx the Walking Lantern's fire doesn't bother them..so this guy just huffs and goes limp when he's picked up like a cat or dog. Still figuring out fire/how I want to show it in the Walking Lanterns but woo I had fun with this.  NOW TO GET BACK TO MY BACKGROUND PICTURE AAH.