sooo I got inspired by dyemooch and Derrick's artwork of Babymetal. And I decided to try out Copia and Terzo in Derrick J Wyatt's style! Sorta paying a little homage to him, since his work is a huge inspo to me. Still can't get over how he's come across my work and has even allowed me to color his sketches ;__; 🖤
For those who don't know, Derrick J Wyatt was art director/involved for shows like Ben 10 Omniverse, Transformers Animated, Teen Titans, and Scooby-Doo: Mystery Incorporated to name a few.
I have this Hex fanfic idea that I wrote when I was a anon blob. It was a Hex RP tumblr.
I shared it with someone here. It was Hex is having nightmares/bad dreams
for reasons- maybe its guilt and memories resurfacing
He is searching for a cure. He is searching for potion ingrediants or a made up cryptid that os based on the Baku yokai. I haven’t decided.
He meets the secret saturdays and my oc Thalia .
Thalia is there because in the Cryptid route she’s helping them find it .
And, in the potion ingrediants route Thalia asks for help because the plants are cryptid plants.
I know that timeline wise Hex isn’t a professor yet
Relax, this is the mostly non-angsty one, Buford just really likes bears and has a dark sense of humor.
So Isabella actually discovers her electricity powers before Buford finds out about his magical aptitude, which means Buford gets the same hero envy Gwen did in the original, just applied to five people/four heroes instead of just one, and we get a more-or-less direct adaptation of Lucky Girl for his first introduction to magic. Part of the less is that he manages to get his hands on one of Charmcaster’s spellbooks towards the end of the episode, so the powers stick a lot earlier.
Hex is Hex, not much to say there, while Charmcaster is around the same age as the kids like the reboot version but has an appearance and personality more based on the classic version. Also she likes flirting with Baljeet, not so much because she actually likes him as because it makes Buford and Ginger angry, which amuses her.
Because he starts learning magic sooner than Gwen did(and because even though I’ve been adapting some canon episodes doesn’t mean I’m gonna do all of them, or do them in the original order) he also finds out about his Anodite heritage sooner. This leads to an episode where his absent father shows up hoping to teach him about his powers, which everybody is having absolutely none of, least of all Buford and Biffany, because he seriously only shows up now when his kid gets fancy powers after not being around at all before and thinks he can just act like nothing’s wrong with that?! I think the fuck not!
Also Buford’s costume is somewhat similar to Gwen’s(you know, the few times she bothered with one), just more grungey and bear-themed instead of cat-themed. His full Anodite form is still purple and pink like Gwen’s because I think he could totally rock those colors.
h-hey guys you want to know more about my favorite and only favorite Ben 10 character Hex he's um...he's really cool um-😤 (PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE-)
i think the hex thing in ov is super interesting actually from hex's pov. imagine youve been horrible for your whole life, treating everyone even your own family like pawns, and then the last remnant of your family dies (at least you think she does) and suddenly your whole worldview is shattered. what are you even fighting for now that shes gone? why did you cast her aside when she represented the thing you were supposed to protect? so you go soul searching and somewhere along the line decide to become an educator, and you make sacrifices and make good with old enemies and you actually have a concrete purpose now, after years of an immortal lifespan you finally know what you want. you even see your neice in an old enemy, and maybe by helping her, you can redeem yourself for your sins. and then your niece comes back and youre ecstatic bc you can show her how good you are now, how much youve changed. but shes long gone, and all she wants to do is hurt more and more, like the black hole you taught her to be, and you learn that the things you did in the past still happened and you still hurt the people you hurt and some of that you can never change, no matter how much you try and redeem yourself.
So I'm rewatching the Secret Saturdays and this screenshot has thrown me for a loop.
If any of those faces look familiar, you'd be right because-
They're flipping Ben 10 Villains.
And for those not in the know, Ben 10 has a crossover with The Secret Saturdays in Omniverse.
As a kid, I just shrugged it off and thought "weird IP crossover but cool." I didn't expect this to be another "Gorillaz and Power Puff Girls share the same world."
Heralding from the extra-dimensional realm of Legerdomain, the sorcerer known as Hex is a self-proclaimed "Master Magician" who desired to rule the world with his vast mystical powers. His ambitions brought him into regular conflict with the hero, Ben 10, who used the Omnitrix to thwart Hex’s various schemes.
Hex has a niece known as Charmcaster whom he cares for following her being orphaned. Aided by Charmcaster, Hex once possessed five magical, mystical talismans called the Charms of Bezel, that gave him the immense powers and abilities of levitation, fire, reincarnation, lightning, and luck, in addition to his own spell-casting abilities.
After overcoming deeply seated issues with depression, Hex changed his ways and became a professor at Friedkin University. There he would ironically become the former archenemy, Ben Tenyson’s favorite teacher.
Actor Khary Payton provides the voice for the one-time villain. Hex first appeared in the tenth episode of the first season of Ben 10, airing on March 4th, 2006.
Honestly Ben 10 is probably one of the most based science fiction series out there by sheer virtue of it having the balls to showcase any alien concept it wanted to no matter how ridiculous, and whenever someone is like “there’s no way in Hell that could ever be scientifically feasible”, it dared to look them in the eyes and go “Yeah, well, this is a world where magic and superpowered mutants also exist. What are you gonna do? Cry about it? You grown ass adult who’s expecting scientific feasibility out of a cartoon meant to sell toys to preteen boys that has lore so inconsistent it’s almost impossible to tell what’s canon and what’s non-canon? LMAO loser.”
I mean OS had it all- obviously aliens but not only that, at minimum 10 of them; mutants in daily life across at least America, no doubt in other places too; magic, albeit one without a system beyond ‘there’s a spellbook and some charms’. The shift to purely alien in AF makes the wonderful nonsense sci-fi stuff into frustrating logic trees of ‘how does xenobiology get this powerful’ which I had definitely fallen into. Ben 10 is unabashedly science fantasy, so why not go the full fantasy and bring back mutants and magic, haha!
Admittedly a good implementation of magic in a series tends to follow a magic system, which I’m not especially great at coming up with, especially in comparison to speculative biology which come with pre-established rules. But hey, I don’t exactly expect it to be fleshed out, at least not as well as the alien aspect of Ben 10; even then, there’s only so much fleshed out, it’s to tease us into making lore for it lmao-
To be fair though, Ben 10 itself had to whack itself on the cheek in order to be reminded of its magic and especially mutant parts, which unfortunately in the latter case was central to major retcons so…