#weird ocs

Collab with @deranged--butterfly (peak artist and friend btw)

So I'm revisiting some concepts I made for Cars OCs when I was younger. And it morphed into a weird ass AU where CHROME had a shady blacksite division to create the ultimate espionage agents. The project was called Project Delta and nine were made, each having their own distinct role. Leland, Finn, and Guilia were a major part of these experiments, and each of them treated the experiments quite differently. Leland was cold and cruel, often abusing and mistreating them. Guilia was kind to some, cruel to the others. Meanwhile Finn did his best to show kindness to them outside of the experiments. there were nine deltas made, each one having their own unique role. 8's is deep cover infiltration and 7's is adaptive combat/espionage (more on that in a later post).

You're seeing Delta 8's true form in that drawing, a shapeshifting black mass of nanites that wears the faces of those she remembers. Her function would often be gathering intel on enemies and operating in extremely deep cover. Right there she's morphed her usual maw of Mater-sized fangs with some faces she remembers/knows of. Mater and Holley are fused together, Holley's automatic transmission protruding through one of her eyes. Siddeley has Mater's tow hook growing the same way. Meanwhile the manufacturer only knows WTF happened to Finn, but it's rare her morphing goes south. Or she couldn't be assed to morph the rest of his face. Meanwhile she's using Leland as the tounge. She'd often access a car's memory chip, then impersonate them. If she had no reasons to keep the real deal alive, she'd just eat them and her nanites would harvest everything from the other car like their nanites, metals, cells, and DNA. If she needs the vehicle alive, she'll often hide them away after knocking them out.

Delta 8's cover identity is that of a lifted mercury mountaineer who's a wandering trader. Delta 7's cover identity isn't decided yet. As for their allignments Delta 7 is friendly. He's bonded with the kids of Radiator Springs and by proxy the other residents. On the other hand Delta 8 is a wildcard. Not the friendliest, not the most hostile. Outside the desert vault she's sealed in there's tons of car corpses from her eating unfortunate travelers. But there's no real telling whether she'll just fuck with tourists or straight up eat someone. She's generally friendly to the vehicles of RS because of Delta 7.

Also Delta 8 was partially inspired by The Thing/Carrion

The hostile Deltas are 1, 4, and 5. The wildcards are 3, 6, and 8. The friendly Deltas are 2, 7, and 9.

Some fun facts about them both:

Delta 8 got a hold of the memory chips from cars that witnessed Leland getting tortured/compacted on the oil rig. She loves to find Finn and replay Leland's dying screams to him.

Also loves to impersonate Leleand to fuck with Finn. It's not known whether she's being mischevious or malevolent here. When Leland was alive she's also mess with Leland by impersonating Finn. She'd often harass other subjects when she was with them.

All of the Deltas age slowly physically. Delta 7 is mentally 14 years old, Delta 8 is slightly younger.

Delta 7 has electrodes that have been implanted deep within that basically override his free will so CHROME can remote control him. These electrodes seem to have been deactivated when the delta projects were shut down.

Finn McMissile often stays in Radiator Springs while Mater and Holley reside there permanentley because of their daughter. Delta 7 and Finn have a strained but salvageable relationship. Finn is deeply wary of Delta 8.

Guilia had the idea to maybe inject or replicate Delta 8's nanites for disguise purposes. After testing the idea out on some prisoners, Finn tried it for himself. The tests were successful, but with Finn it went south and he had to go through serious medical treatment afterwards.

Unfortunately I cannot draw so it'll just be writing for now. Maybe I'll commission an artist later if I have money.

so i wanted to keep up my momentum with posting a little, so i thought i would share these daft character sketches :') i was working on a kind of faerie universe with my friend, but im actually proper ill at the moment so not able to draw / be online very much

each of these is very loosely based off a different kind of critter, but tbh, i just wanted to see how many arms/legs I could add before it got weird and i think i got there !!!

theres a lunar moth, goliath beetle and a type of mantis :]

i got a bit lazy at the end but i had fun drawing it, when i was anyway cus this took.. a week to finish ill tell you why but, its quite personal stuff so slight trigger warning