[Image description: three character profile cards for the Monster of the Week tabletop game system. Each card has a drawing of the character, their first name, their class name, their stats, and some descriptions. The last names are redacted with black ink strikes.
Card 1 shows Pause, of the Mundane class. Pause wears a short sleeved red shirt with blue highlights, beige shorts, as well as a red, white and blue bracelet. He has square glasses, and two small feathers are tucked behind his ear.
Pause’s stats are: Charm +2, Cool +1, Sharp +1, Tough 0 and Weird -1. His description reads:
- works a regular 9 to 5
- had a completely supernatural-free life until a woodland cryptid collided with his car
- now travels with Beef and Etho, solving paranormal mysteries all around Canada
- the designated driver
- is the only one in the group who can pass as a "normal" person. don't let appearances fool you, though, he's just as unhinged as the other two
End of card 1.
Card 2 shows ?????? (six question marks) also known as Etho, of the Monstrous class. Etho wears a green jacket over a grey shirt, grey jeans, black boots, as well as a headband and a scarf over the lower part of his face. The jacket has patches of the Canadian flag, the meme rabies pride flag, and a simplified cryptic creature. There is purple skin discoloration on the left side of his face and his left hand. In his right hand, Etho is holding a wrench.
Etho’s stats are: Charm 0, Cool -1, Sharp +2, Tough -1 and Weird +3. His description reads:
- a literal cryptid from the Canadian wilderness. normally a shapeshifter, Etho's been stuck with this half-human, half-monster appearance ever since Pause hit him with his car
- is weirdly good at car maintenance and engineering in general
- needs to feed on blood to survive. Beef, being a butcher, provides him with enough animal blood to sustain him for now... but ultimately, human blood is a much tastier snack
- immune to garlic, silver bullets etc, but is badly allergic to carbonated drinks
End of card 2.
Card 3 shows Beef, of the Flake class. Beef wears a blue baseball cap, a light brown coat, a black shirt, grey pants and black boots.
Beef’s stats are: Charm 0, Cool +1, Sharp +2, Tough 0 and Weird +1. His description reads:
- a butcher by day, a wannabe paranormal investigator by night
- (he's not very good at either)
- knows a lot about the supernatural in theory, but had little field experience - until an old friend called him about hitting something not quite human
- the others live with him for now, since Pause is from out of town and Etho never had a home to begin with
End of card 3. End description]
Here they are, the three heroes of the Monster of the Week Team Canada AU! I’ve never played the game myself, but I think these three would make a pretty fun monster-hunting, mystery-solving team. I briefly considered making Beef an Expert class, but if you’ve consumed any Team Canada content, it makes it very hard to call them experts on anything...
This is technically for @shepscapades’ hermit redesign challenge, but I’ve deviated from the original prompt quite a bit (the prompt was DND characters and I’ve boldly chosen a different TTRPG system) so I don’t know if I even qualify for this week. Regardless, I’m very happy with this AU. Check out this little introductory comic I’ve made for it, if you haven’t yet.
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Hermit-a-Day May #12 - Friends of Hermitcraft, PauseUnpause
HE! PAUSE! I keep giving this man cool outfits, and he gets to have a cool jean jacket because as far as I'm concerned he made half of those patches we keep drawing Etho with. Like, they made a team design together, and Pause turned it into a patch, and that turned into a whole thing of Team Canada each choosing an item of clothing to absolutely COVER in patches. It is a bonding experience.
. . .
I might have too many ideas about Team Canada.
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[Image description: a six panel digital comic, drawn with limited colours. The image backdrop is a light blue, all the panel backgrounds are in black-and-white, and all the speech bubbles are a light brown. Some of the text is obstructed, presumably referring to geographical locations.
Panel 1: PauseUnpause is speaking on a cell phone. Pause wears a brown leather jacket, and two small feathers are tucked behind his ear. There are trees visible behind him. Pause asks: “Beef?”
Panel 2: VintageBeef is speaking on a landline phone. Beef wears a blue baseball cap, his usual black shirt, and one strap of his white apron is also visible. Beef says: “Pause? Is that you?”
Panel 3: Pause is looking at an asphalt road going through a thick forest. There is a car on the road, parked at an unusual angle. Pause says: “Beef, are you still in [blank]?” Beef answers over the phone: “Yea, why?” Pause says: “Can you come pick me up? I’m near [blank], just off the highway. I think my car’s totaled.
Panel 4: A closeup of the car’s front. The car is damaged and there’s a crack in the front window. Off-screen, Beef says: “Oh my god. Are you okay? Are you hurt?!” Pause responds: “Yeah, I’m fine.”
Panel 5: A further closeup of the cracked window. Pause continues: “But I think... I think I might’ve hit someone. Or-“
Panel 6: A creature known as Ethoslab lies across the road, unconscious. Etho has a large mouth with four vampire-like fangs sticking out. There is dark purple discoloration all over his skin, primarily on the left side of his body. The tips of his fingers look sharp and claw-like. Etho is wearing a white ragged t-shirt, black pants and black shoes. Pause continues: “...or something”, with emphasis on “thing”.
Below the last panel, the watermark reads: comic by @paradise-and-cola. End description]
sooo it’s week one of @shepscapades‘ hermit redesign challenge and i already cheated big time. i didn’t feel like doing high fantasy, and thought “hey, what if i used classes from a different ttrpg system?”, and one thing let to another, and now i present to you a Monster of the Week Team Canada AU!
version without text below the cut because i’m really proud of the backgrounds!
[Image description: The same comic as above, but without any speech bubbles and split into two image files. The first image has an added watermark between panels 1 and 3. End description]
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