Parsing design ideas for Commander Tabris and the mabari + having your pets participate in cultural traditions with you
None of these are canon to him yet and still in their early iterations. Notes below the readmore
Novhen’s outfit here is from a drawing i’ll be including in my next sketch dump whenever that will be. Primarily, i’m trying to design a leather Warden Scout armor, since metal is so loud. The general pattern is based on some of the Fereldan armors from the other games. It makes most sense to me that the different branches would have some degree of variation between their uniforms. It’s more obviously Warden when he doesn’t have that tartan on top (as will be seen in the sketch dump)
I’m undecided if he wears his kippah in everyday life or just for certain occasions. Given the setting, the elves probably mirror a more Orthodox community, so atm i’m starting to lean more everyday. But also there’s a question of what parameter the kippahs should be associated with. It’s the city elves who are the most Jewish-coded, but they mostly practice the human religion of Catholicism-with-extra-steps, even if they still infuse it with some of their own traditions. I have headcanoned a few pockets of elven religions within the alienages. Novhen does belong to one of them, and while not strictly monotheistic, it is monolatrist (or henotheistic? I always mix the two up). Problem there is that single deity is Fen’Harel. Maybe not the best deity to be attaching too many Jewish customs to. For now, i’m tying it most to the alienage culture rather than elves as a whole or any specific religion
This tartan is the “official” one (insofar as i just made it up) of the Grey Wardens. Calenhad has a tartan in his art, so i think they should be more commonplace in Ferelden. Most are just regional patterns based on local materials, but the different noble houses and certain organizations (such as the Wardens) also have their own. He also has one to represent his position as Arl of Amaranthine, but only wears one over the armor if the occasion demands it. He’s not a fan of ceremony (Might change if i can find a better-looking way to incorporate it. This is what iterations are for after all. Also, tartans in his casual clothing are another matter. Oh god, am i going to trick myself into making another outfit sheet D:)
I am inexperienced drawing animals (those eyes...), but what i am trying to do is draw a kaddis pattern for the Grey Wardens. Something griffony. I think i remember something about different kaddis patterns indicating loyalties. If i’m making that up, i’m keeping it regardless. Definitely will have to give it a few more passes though, probably will paint over official art or a screenshot at a better angle
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The full list of every Todoroki family panel:
That's it. That's the list. 7 panels. Not a single double spread or even a full-page image. Actually, there is no panel where all their faces are visible.
I don't think there is any other prominent group / dynamic in the manga that got an endgame of nothing but low-quality, tiny panels without a piece of art emphasizing them as a unit. It's just really weird... That after more than a decade, the family is finally together, and that moment after the long build-up doesn't get a single "impact" art. A framing that shows that something big happened here.
And if this is about Shouto "becoming who he is meant to be" why is there no double spread or a big page art to emphasize it?
I'm not sure if that last panel is supposed to be Enji's "father" moment - but it's certainly not framed like it. You need a magnifying glass to even see what's happening, in a chapter otherwise full of gorgeous art.
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Bucci4ever <3
Based on the transcription originally done by @ violentandmagnificent ~ special thanks to them for doing that so I didn't have to make a transcript from scratch in addition to making whatever the hell this is lol
[TRANSCRIPT START]
BRNINE: Can we talk?
[Kiss Me Thru The Phone by Soulja Boy starts playing]
GUCCI: What's up?
BRNINE: I need to talk to you about something
GUCCI: What about?
BRNINE: About our situation.
GUCCI: Oh. Let me call you.
BRNINE: [cheery] Hello!
GUCCI: …Hi.
BRNINE: Uh, rough week, huh?
GUCCI: Rough week.
GUCCI: I'm not supposed to be on a call with you.
BRNINE: [laughs] Yeah, I bet. Um.
BRNINE: I'm gonna do it.
GUCCI: No. [laughs painfully] Mm. Brnine.
BRNINE: We're gonna do it!
GUCCI: No!
BRNINE: I'm gonna do it.
GUCCI: No. No!
BRNINE: I'm gonna turn the sun back on—
GUCCI: You're gonna turn—
BRNINE: And it's gonna be okay, and they're not gonna come kill you, and I'm gonna make it great—
GUCCI: They're not gonna have to, ‘cause they're gonna kill all of us! Do you think we just like sit on our thumbs, here? What do you think we do?
BRNINE: I know what you do. I—
GUCCI: I don't think you do, because if you did, you would at least have given me the heads up before about not doing the mission. 'Cause I could have fixed it.
BRNINE: I sort of did.
GUCCI: [bluntly] Why do you act like you care about me?
BRNINE: [scoffing] Oh my god.
GUCCI: 'Cause you don't.
BRNINE: How can you say that?
GUCCI: You like the patronage, you always liked the patronage.
BRNINE: We're in this together! Of course I care about you!
GUCCI: You're gonna go turn on the sun.
BRNINE: Yeah. And people are gonna go look at the sky, and know that we could do that.
GUCCI: You're gonna go capture the stellar combustor.
BRNINE: Yeah. I'm gonna turn it off.
GUCCI: We can't stop you from doing this? I can't talk you down?
BRNINE: No.
GUCCI: What do you need?
GUCCI: I should be asking why I care about you. Ah. I'm gonna send you —
BRNINE: I—
GUCCI: What we have on the combustor. And. Good luck!
BRNINE: I don't doubt that you care about me. That's why I don't ask.
GUCCI: [sighs] I'm gonna send you what we have on the stellar combustor, and I'm going to hold my breath, like I always do with you.
BRNINE: Sure! Ummm. Stay safe. Um, and I'll see you after! You should come to the Blue Channel, I think. I think people would appreciate that.
GUCCI: [rough] Yeah, I'll give it some thought.
BRNINE: Cool. Um. Yeah! Well, nice talk. Thanks for calling.
GUCCI: [laughs] We should talk — we should talk again soon, we shouldn't go this far between calls next time.
BRNINE: Okay.
GUCCI: Is, it's what you're supposed to say, right? When you think that, like, there will be a next time?
GUCCI: You know, they used to put people in these bombs. The Rapid Evening. They would put two people wherever they thought there might be so much trouble that they'd have to blow the whole thing up. And there'd be someone who's holding the detonator, and there'd be somebody else who was the bomb. Primary and Satellite.
And I— it's stupid, but [laughs] when I first started learning about this place, I got it in my head that you and me were like a Primary and a Satellite and I'd excised the bomb from the equation, but here we are, and you're gonna go climb into the bomb. [furious, trying not to cry] I'll send over the blueprints. Good luck.
BRNINE: I'll call you again soon.
[Song ends.]
AUSTIN: Hung up.
[TRANSCRIPT ENDS.]
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