Heffalumps and Woozles

ramshackle bleps

still kinda figuring out how I wanna draw them :U

(sorry, there was supposed to be more to this but I haven't been finishing a lot of stuff lately...all my art right now is just in this stage)

I mean, Silver is a human(!!!), but he's also adopted by Lilia (someone Baur respects a lot) and Sebek's only friend

If I'm not mistaken, Baur knows how Knight of Dawn looked like, so what did he think when realized Silver looks suspiciously KoD-shaped?

granted, things got pretty wacky when they were escaping the castle, he might not have actually processed what Dawnathon's face looked like! although I guess it is the kind of thing that sticks with you through the centuries, and if anyone was gonna notice...

(continuing my "old Bauru looks exactly the same but with a BIG mustache" agenda)

alternatively, he's gotten a lot better, but his daughter is still working with him on...certain things involving humans.

thanks (and also congrats again to Eng on 7.5 🎉)!! I do think the question of what their dreams would be is pretty interesting; Swing's in particular because it's extremely textual (as in, the characters literally say it while essentially staring down the camera) that he doesn't actually care about Halloween, he's just obsessed with Skully, and also neither of them have figured this out. Swing is too emotionally out-of-touch to understand that he's projecting and Skully simply cannot fathom that someone would not be thinking about Halloween 24/7. now how does this translate to magic dreamtimes...

so it gets a bit more headcanon-y here, but I got the impression Swing really just...had a lot of fun chasing Skully around and messing with him, and that's what he actually wants back. Halloween(/Day of Desire) has always just been an excuse. so I feel like his dream is to go back to having their back-and-forth, except this time Skully is 1) still alive and 2) y'know, into it and willing to play along with the whole ~*~epic eternal anime rivalz~*~ thing instead of constantly running away and/or insisting that "holidays are abstract concepts that belong to everyone" and "this doesn't even make sense". maybe they trade off or do, like, a yearly thing where they decide who gets Halloween this time? the important thing is that it's about Skully paying attention to him instead of talking about a stupid holiday or some dumb skeleton man who nobody cares about. >:(

meanwhile Skully's dream is easier because you just gotta remember that he is, after all, still a Night Raven. which is to say, extremely petty.

waking up in a cold sweat in the middle of the night: I FORGOT A MOM

I'm not super happy with how she came out -- in particular I think I broke style a little too much -- but at this point I need to call her done and maybe get back to her another day! in the meantime, the collection of moms is complete (for now) and there can maybe even be...a roadtrip round two??? 🚐

reminder: these are NOT edits and are not for free use; I drew and rigged her from scratch! please do not use these for your own edits or in your videos, thanks!!

non-gifs:

horse gets tired. Silver keeps going.

okay I admit I've been pretty unfair about those, because it IS difficult to encapsulate...(gestures to the huge emotional mess that is NRC) in just a couple of sentences each. and in particular because some of them ARE meant to be surprising; like, for example, Epel being such an angry little scrungle despite looking Like That. so I will eat crow here! (sorry headmaster) (though to be fair I will say that my issue is less the descriptions themselves being terrible, and more that they make all the characters sound like terrible people...which, to be even fairer, they kinda are. just, uh, more entertainingly so.) but yeah, I must fully admit to my hubris, because the only way I can think of to be more accurate is just to add the same exact label to everyone:

bear with me here, because this actually ties into something else I've been thinking about: between the Knight, Leia, and Henrik, Silver is basically the last remaining heir to all the land the Silver Owls stole, yes? but what with all the global territory disputes and treaties and general drama, it'd probably just be a huge mess that would get tied up in red tape for centuries if he, you know, tried to just give it back. however, for times like this, there is the traditional solution...

what I'm saying is, 99% of Briar Valley's political issues could be instantly solved if Silver marries Maleficia.

happy pride!! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈 the Twst Yuri niche may be small, but we are determined (and also kind of lowkey thinking about Georgina and Dylla 24/7 anyway) (...or that might just be me) (regardless!)

Alexandria's gotta be in full Tournament Mode by now, so I like to imagine her juuuuust offscreen in every scene, shouting furiously at the RSA boys to Chin Up and Gird Those Loins and Stiffen Those Upper Lips! if you don't know her then she probably sounds like a weirdly Enid Blyton-esque drill instructor, but they all know that actually she's being very supportive and encouraging (and of course Dorothy is there to encourage her :)

"Let me take a closer look."