VeriVeriam

The story goes that Puzzles, after pursuing his career as a writer and TV host without much success, realized he lacked the necessary 'inspiration' to turn his creations into well-known and beloved media. Instead, he decided to work as an assistant in a private military company, which helped him earn enough money to stay afloat and, more importantly, gave him firsthand experience with dangerous situations for his writing.

That's when Wpnz enters the scene. An incredibly efficient and renowned mercenary with anger management issues who- by the time Puzzles started working there- didn't have a proper assistant. The higher ups decided it would be a perfect idea to pair them up as a team... And, surprisingly, it worked! They started getting along and even had a little something going on between them.

Well, at least- that was until Puzzles' eventual disappearance. One day, he just... Vanished. Completely gone. The only clue left behind was that his apartment showed signs of a struggle, and that was it. Wpnz went back to working alone for a while as the company investigated what had really happened until... About a month later, he received an email claiming to contain information about Puzzles' current location.

The moment he clicked on it, some sort of virus infected his computer. A virus that surprisingly looked and acted like Puzzles.

Wpnz initially thought it was a very tasteless joke, but he soon realized the Puzzles on his screen seemed to be conscious and some sort of extension of the original. Though, there was just one problem: he couldn't remember what had happened to his body or where he was. He admitted he'd been programmed to attack Wpnz and gather information from him (basically acting as spyware), but he'd managed to break free from that protocol.

The story follows Puzzles' digital form and Wpnz investigating what had really happened in an attempt to find the original Puzzles. I'll draw and post later Puzzles' virus form, along with some explanations of how that works.

Some additional notes: the backgrounds used on the first two images are free to use assets offered in Ibispaint.

Wpnz's tail is meant to work similarly to a nunchaku. It's made of metal and separated into sections connected by a long chain, allowing each part to detach and rotate individually. Since it's used for close combat, it's the most visibly damaged part of Wpnz's body.

The pompoms also resemble flails. They don't deal any damage (they're just soft) but I thought it was a nice touch. The stitches on his pants actually have a meaning. If you translate the crosses and lines into Morse code, they spell out 'WPNZ.'

Puzzles' tie contains four yellow stars, while the rest are dark red (this was very intentional). On the rest of his outfit, the star shaped buttons on his coat and the stars on his hat sum up to four in total. His shirt also maintains the puzzle pattern from his original design.

Desperately wanted to draw a wallpaper inspired by this film. At this point, you can really tell it's kind of a comfort movie for me. Edgar had to OBVIOUSLY be in it as well.

I also had to do Edgar some justice because, looking back at those drawings I did of him, you could really tell I had zero idea about how to draw computers.

Thank you to that one person on the Electric Dreams server who motivated me to finish this. It had been sitting in a corner, abandoned for like two months or so. But hey, I'm happy with the result :]

I like to call Ms. Trance 'Lili.' It came from a silly mistake when I searched for her name (it isn't disclosed in the series) on the wiki. Turns out I read the name of one of the series' voice actors, Lili, as if it was her name, and kept calling her that for a while, thinking it was actually her name.

Though, she looks like a Lili, so I decided to keep calling her that.

I like this series so much. I didn't watch it as a child, but delved into it later because of the intro song (it's peak), and it ended up becoming one of my comfort series.

I'm pretty much ranting. I don't really do this in my posts, but I really wanted to share it with more people. Lucky for you! This series doesn't have any actual dialogue (everything that the characters speak is just gibberish) so give it a try if you're interested. It's called Mr. Trance and it's available on youtube.

Honestly, this guy crashed into my life and has been living in my head rent-free. So, as always, I decided to draw him. I wanted to create a piece that represents who he is as a character from my point of view, and I'm happy with the final result. Here are the separate frames from the GIF.

Tap the images for better quality :]

So, here we are! It was my very first attempt at using Alight motion and it was kind of difficult to get around but I think the result was decent.

Also, this was part of a trend some months ago. The song used is ¿Porqué te vas? From Jeanette. Here it is in case you want to listen to it:

I really hope the quality doesn't get affected, I had to do some tricks because the app wouldn't let me download the full video by how heavy it was, so I went and did like 7-8 ish separate videos and just merged them together. Edit: as I check the video... Yeah the quality is terrible. Such a shame 😬