#prj: conserva me

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in the Deep may we be kept.

#destiny 2 #my art #sketches #the witness #prj: conserva me #but also. just. normal stuff i guess #is it spoilers if i started it nov 2022? #mortality au #witness me

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some au concept sketches from a month ago i was "totally going to finish later". proto-witness and friends

#sketches #my art #destiny 2 #the witness #prj: conserva me #mortality au #witness me

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in which a test goes very wrong. (1/?)

i lov her btw

#my art #the witness #witness destiny #destiny 2 #origin species #witness me #<- new tags for fanon i think #cause it is au but um. #look its very confusing #so ill add the au tags too #mortality au #witness au #prj: conserva me #comics #also i forgor to post this back in oct/nov. oop

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VEIL-CHILD

#prj: conserva me #the witness #sketches #witness au #destiny 2 #mortality au #witness me

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new sketch collection for my witness au on patreon

#by new i mean . i finally decided 2 get them outta procreate . #some r 2022 most are 2023 #psa #patreon #destiny 2 #the witness #witness au #prj: conserva me

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the series in one post

shifting sands / meaning / calamity / passage

lyrics under the cut

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I am not the only traveler Who has not repaid his debt I've been searching for a trail to follow again Take me back to the night we met

And then I can tell myself What the hell I'm supposed to do And then I can tell myself Not to ride along with you

I had all and then most of you Some and now none of you Take me back to the night we met I don't know what I'm supposed to do Haunted by the ghost of you Oh, take me back to the night we met

When the night was full of terrors And your eyes were filled with tears; When you had not touched me yet Oh, take me back to the night we met

I had all and then most of you Some and now none of you Take me back to the night we met I don't know what I'm supposed to do Haunted by the ghost of you Take me back to the night we met

-Lord Huron

#destiny 2 #the witness #destiny 2 art #series// #not sure if im gonna tag series or not it just depends on if i keep making any #my art #prj: conserva me #witness au #also witness canon. #mortality au #witness me

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how to dress and other etiquette headcanons

#destiny 2 #the witness #rhulk #destiny 2 art #my art #it turns out costume design is hard. but baby steps #prj: conserva me #adjacent #au occurrences are much later #i didnt want to write it on the nice clean page but left corner's mouth is uncovered bc #well i wrote them out on a diff page coming soon to theaters. #mortality au #witness me

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CALAMITY -

(3/4)

#destiny 2 #the witness #destiny 2 art #artists on tumblr #my art #season of the deep #sotd #destiny spoilers #prj: conserva me #yes it is both.

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the knife's edge on which the world rests

#destiny 2 #the witness #my art #sketches #Destiny 2 art #Destiny2aotw #witness au #prj: conserva me #mortality au #witness me

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uh oh. that thing you tried to kill irreversibly changed

#the witness #the witness destiny #witness au #prj: conserva me #sketches #baaaaby witness #mortality au #witness me

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early Witness skin textures/concepts for my au, before I change them a Little Bit

#witness au #prj: conserva me #the witness #my squidness...... #gritting my teeth bc some of these r from a straight year ago and i got so much better at drawing It lmao #like the head and eye and nose shapes -_- #inb4 anyone complains about the nudes. asexual reproduction #which it poignantly lacks in the au to start with... #emeto #? #its coming from the chest . #mortality au #witness me

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long time no post; been busy with college stuff, but i eeked out some tender drawings on my patreon. what's happening?

dont worry about it

#my art #my ocs #UHHH feels weird to have tangentially canon ocs #destiny 2 art #? #prj: conserva me #offshoot branch ig #drawings #suggestive #i guess #mortality au #witness me

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Why all your precursor Witness' about to burst into tear? Do they need a hug? Some chocolate?

they know what has happened and is happening as it happens to them; they will remember it forever.

...at least, as it goes in the portrait series.

(but, perhaps some sort of hot chocolate beverage instead of physical contact...)

#destiny 2 art #to be more direct...they are very troubled in the au #presumably so in canon as well #given what we saw #but the art series dives more into the pathos of parts of the au i'd imagined rather than a literal presentation of either story #prj: conserva me #witness au #gonna stop tagging it with the last one bc uh. well. the mortal part. #sketches #anon #my art #asks #mortality au #witness me

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some old stuff for my witness au. (apr 2022-?)

#destiny 2 #Witness AU #prj: conserva me #there is...too much...and not enough #mortality au #witness me

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not Darkness, but something that wears it as a cloak.

#my art #destiny 2 #the witness #witness AU #prj: conserva me #sketches #mortality au #witness me

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What did Witnessian culture look like? And do you have a name for the species?

I don't have a name for them beyond whatever I make up on the fly ("origin species"). If I had to make something up though I'd probably look at the choice vocabulary in the lore like Unveiling, Inspiral, etc., and etymologies related to them, but that's like a whole essay's worth of consideration, so I'll get back to you on that. As for aesthetics. Concept art from Bungie has notes on the disciples' appearances taking after its culture X, and we have the pyramids (in which apparently the mural styles of Rhulk's may be more Witness-aligned than his own work, but it's also more than likely the graphics were used in the origin cutscene for consistency, anyway that is less important), but something that interests me the most right now is Tessellation. There are visual references to that "artifact" vibe (and I am curious for the quests surrounding its catalyst), it shares material from TFS trailers (+rainbow roads in the Mars relic/some pyramid maps), and the flavor text/lore are formatted much like other "Witness" stuff we've seen.

Namely the handle's spinal shape (think Mykel's Reverence from Root), the tassels, barrel, and the top is literally shaped like a pyramid. It looks crafted with the reverence of a species' dogma. That part might be biased.

Beyond that, though, there is a lot to garner from the pyramids and other Witness-aligned environments. Rhulk's has the horse statues and a lot of general cityscapes (plus a "Dark City" in Savathun's throne world), there are some greyhound-looking reliefs in the Witness' pyramid (but it does not strike me as a dog person lol?), strange floating lights everywhere, etc. Generally speaking, we see a lot of "tomb" architecture (+actual tombs which makes sense given themes of death + disciple lore), but also themes of conquest, so I use all of these in my visual library for picturing their home world and the fleet (where most of the AU takes place, thus the story is a bit grim). That is all to say nothing of the structures we got on Europa which feel a bit unique in presentation (garnering feelings of discovery, unlike stuff from LF's season of defiance which is more clearly meant to invoke "invasion", but of course the other stuff was still being worked on for TWQ+TFS).

If I were to try and extrapolate anything besides what we've been given in-game, though, I'd go back to the (alleged) utopia landscape of their "Garden" world along with a desert/nomad background, [which is what I started my AU with: literal travelers], as the idea of conquest -- if it did not already exist within their culture -- definitely arose from their...integration and newfound purpose with the Final Shape. (Cue separate essay about war, falsehoods in utopias, and paracausal resources.) It feels redundant to say religion and philosophy were important -- Unveiling is right there, and Inspiral has some parables from ambiguous sources -- but I like to think these disciplines were more highly regarded than war or economics in a society that would have had its material needs being met, or maybe just exerted itself with overwhelming force. (Edit: The AU expanded on the powers we now know were granted to them by the Traveler + the Veil, letting them be sorts of planetary/universal curators, though that's a surprisingly less developed portion of that story. It would allow these ideas of authority to pervade their culture over time.)

Needless to say a LOT of the imagery hinted at in TFS trailers looks like really cool expansions on this "empty" empire, with a more personal effect with the hands and half-figures everywhere. like dont even get me started bc we will be here all day about design themes and motifs. But a lot of it also references the whole of Destiny rather than the species.

Sorry that was really long and a bit broader than like, what they would wear in different time periods/decorate with/paint etc. Those sorts of things are very interesting to me and would be born from the foundations laid out above!

#u gotta take my word for a lot of it bc i am not going thru like 900 screenshots #asks #prj: conserva me #destiny 2 #the witness #going more into canon stuff here ig #I really want to do polished design stuff with a lot of this but the Horrors. the Adulting. we will see. #the wicked implement mission is also a FEAST for this stuff #i REALLY wanted to draw smthn for this ask and i prob still will since its been on my mind as i get back to portfolio things. #am just 1 little guy with many work to do. #mortality au #witness me