Everything you thought you knew falls apart but youll be alright

Pyroscythe - he/they

Sabresenn (English/Portugese) - he/she/it

(Also, a lot of these fit multiple characters, clearly. I could only pick one duh)

Final redesign

+ background

Starting off with, the quills. I figured out how to use geometry nodes to generate them from curves, then place a premade texture on them for the white markings. I still need to tweak the texture mapping as well as the underlying spike modeling, but this is almost exactly what I had in mind. I might make the banded section wider though.

(Zoom in, there's little white rings sort of like those on actual hedgehog quills)

I also replaced the iris texture with a high-res one. For context, the original one was grabbed from that one Home Alone parody poster. It worked well enough as a placeholder, but it was definitely a bit crusty.

Wondering if I should give him darker limbal rings to make them stand out more, or just make his eyes as close to canon as possible.

Oh, and I also figured out how to blend materials together using vertex-based masks. I could probably make a more precise one using a texture, but I haven't properly unwrapped the model yet, so until then I can't really do any texture painting.

Thousands of you called, good job!! Your voice matters! 🩷 Be happy with me today. This is a huge win!

Bad Internet Bills

bc in no way can be read that she was always gonna send grace on the hail mary, or that she suspected or knew she was going to have to send him.

when she sings, it is absolutely to him, but it's to reassure him that she knows she's going away but that she's coming back. she's telling him to hang in there, that it's going to be hard but that she believes in him and that she will come back when the time is right and they'll meet again somewhere far away from here.

that's the captain of the ship telling her first mate "youre gonna have to run things when im gone but its okay bc i believe in you and youre gonna do fine. I'll be back soon."

she KNOWS she's a scapegoat. she's been planning for her arrest and eventual escape the whole time on the backburner.

and then the disaster happens and she has to send her second in command, her friend, to his death or they all die.

and suddenly there is no more "we'll meet again someday" bc she's never gonna see him again. even if everything goes to plan and she escapes and the beetles arrive with a solution-- she loses grace forever.