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#Hauntlight the Irregular Line
rjalker · 8 months
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this was from before I made the third leg and I'm too damn lazy to reearange everything now.
Edit: Thank you so much @cybersp4ced for the ID!
You may now reblog this post now that it's described [smiley emojis]
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[ID: A reference sheet with a front view and a back view of Hauntlight, a humanoid character with an ink-black colored body, one large orange eye with a brown slit pupil, and a spike on its head, holding an orange and yellow cane behind its back.
It has two brown stripes on its ankles and arms, and three on its sides that look like ribs. There is a brown cartoon heart on its chest and back.
It also has white cracks on its shoulders, wrist, ankle and hip.
On the far right of the image is a color pallette from both Hauntlight and its cane.
On the far left is a drawing of its face, squinting its eye. Beside it is text that reads: "Not allowed to own or wear eyeglass. Cannot see. Always looks angry from squinting." with an arrow pointing to it.
Another arrow points to a similar drawing below, this time wearing a yellow eyeglass strapped to its head, its eye wide. The text below it says "Super illegal".
In the bottom left corner there is small text that says "August 29th 2023 / Font: Carnivalee freakshow".
In the center of the sheet between the front view and back view, there's big text that says: "Hauntlight. it/its/itself." Under that, near one of its legs, it says "Walking is suffering" with the last word underlined.
Beside that, there are two drawings of its three fingered hands, one with fingers curled into a fist.
Lastly, text that points at the back view's wrist:
"Fucked up wrist makes using cane for any real length of time a nightmare."
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Edit: Feel free to draw :)
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Hauntlight and Cenotaph, a pair of original, public domain characters created for the also public domain book Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions, by Edwin Abbot Abbot.
This character reference sheet took like four days to make.
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[ID: Two images, both compilations of drawings of two original characters, Hauntlight and Cenotaph.
The first drawing, which focuses on Hauntlight, is titled, "Hauntlight - it/its/itself pronouns only, yes, even in mundane, 'all-human' AUs. It's not human, only human-passing, even if born to human parents.
From top to bottom and left to right, the following drawings are labled:
"Daemon / aether / familiar is always a rabbit", showing a simple drawing of a tan rabbit, and a purple and grey shape with three lobes to represent a Flatland rabbit.
Next is a simple black line that has zig-zags and a fork at the end, with the same Flatland rabbit shape next to it for scale, showing it comes up to around where the back section forks.
Next to this is the same zig-zagged line, colored in orange, labled, "Can be thicker, though its exoskeleton is abnormally thin".
Next to this is a crude scribble drawing of a humanoid figure with ink-black skin, withd a dark brown heart shape in the center of its torso, with three stripes on either side like a rib cage. Each ankle and wrist, along with its spade-tipped tail, has two more brown stripes, one thin, one thick. It is missing one eye, with the other orange with a brown pupil. It has pointed ears, a tall asymetrical horn on one side of its head, and grey flopped over hair on the other.
It is labled, "Huamnoid! Asymetrical hair. Triped, cat face, animal ears, 1 horn, stylized grey hair, ink-black skin, 1 eye, needs glasses." Next to its right hand, which we see on the left, is a orange and yellow cane.
After this is a pale human seen from the knees up, labeled, "Human-passing! Earth (with daemons). 'Disguised' as a boy (not really, lol). Gets to have crutches!".
This version of the character is wearing a brown eye patch over its missing left eye, with its other eye black, wearing a grey-brown shirt under a dark brown vest, and warm brown pants with a dark belt. It has wooden forearm crutches, and wears a dark brown newsie cap.
After this is another version of the line from before, labled, "Most simplified! If drawn as a solid shape, should be black or orange", with a smiley face emoji. Next is a "Literal Line", purple with a grey outline, labled, "too short, ran out of paper. Grey exo, 2x repro organs, 1 set functional".
The last form is a humanoid form with three legs and two arms, with a single large cyclops eye in the center of its round head, which is tipped with a swooped arrow like a spear point. It has the same colors and pattern as the earlier humanoid, with ink-black skin and brown markings.
It has the same yellow and orange cane drawn over its right hand, which has an uncolored pencil drawing below it showing three rounded, "long webbed fingers". The rest of the labels are, "three legs", with an arrow pointing at its far left leg, which we see on the right, labeling it "worst leg: left leg", with its simple rounded feet "like hooves". Next to it is a separate spade-tipped tail, labled, "Can have spade tail [because] tails are cool, but not required. Finally, there is a drawing of a large, yellow and orange cyclops goggle labled, "could wear eyeglass if not living under The Current Regime".
The last part of text reads, "Black skin like pen ink, just light enough 2 differentiate from lines, or lineless.".
The second drawing shows three digital drawings on a black background, with white outlines, showing different styles of an original Flatland character, Cenotaph.
The first style is labeled, “Literal Line”, and shows an upward pointing arrow with a small box around the straight tail, with small curved lines coming off the sides, like cilia.
The second is labeled, “Speculative”, and shows a more detailed Flatland version as seen from above. In this form, Cenotaph has a grey exoskeleton, and a body with a rounded main section, and two long ear-shaped sections at the top, with its eye in the center. Its blood is purple, and its brain, lung, stomachs, heart, and reproductive organs are in different shades of pink and dark red.
Attached to the sides of its main body section are two cage-like contraptions with five points boring into Cenotaph’s exoskeleton, with the outside covered in the same short curved likes as the simplified version as cilia or fins. One side of the “swimmer” is colored gold to make it easier to see, the other is greyscale. Where the barbs are injected into Cenotaph’s exoskeleton, there are thick black lines of scar tissue around them.
The final drawing is labled, “Stylized”, and shows a three-dimensional cartoon rabbit walking on all fours, with an orange and yellow wheelchair holding its back legs up off the ground, with orange straps and yellow cushioning. The rabbit is dark brown, with three black stripes on its back, a black fluffy tail, and two stripes, one thick, the other thin, on its ankles and ears, with a single large orange eye with a brown slit pupil in the center of its face instead of a mouth.
End ID.]
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An original character / self insert created for the setting of Edwin Abbot Abbot's Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions, which is public domain.
You can read or download it for free from Project Gutenberg here:
"https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/201"
There's a great free audiobook on the web archive here:
"https://archive.org/details/Flatland_Book/01+1+-+Flatland.mp3"
My art (including many more than shown here!) of this character can be downloaded in HD from the web archive here:
"https://archive.org/details/hauntlight-the-irregular-line"
You can also check out the tags here on tumblr, "Hauntlight the Irregular Line", and "Cenotaph the rabbit aether".
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[ID: The icon for this blog, which is a black right triangle on a brown square background, with text following the diagonal of the triangle, reading, "Let irregulars enjoy fandom too.". End ID.]
Please copy and paste the image description I write into the original post for your art, rather than simply reblogging it from me.
The image description should go directly below the image being described, above comments, and stay in normal sized, black text, without italics, bold, or colors. It may be indented (like above) to make it easier to distinguish from the rest of the text in the post. This is in fact more accessible.
Once you add the ID to the original post, I'll delete my reblog and reblog the original again once I have time.
This blog is run by @rjalker so it's easier to keep track of which Flatland art has an ID already, and so people have an easy place to find it all.
The blog theme is now Account Settings, since I like that it shows timestamps and makes it easy to reblog and go to the original post.
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Posts on the blog so far: 160 Posts still in the drafts waiting for image descriptions: 455 Blog created on September 18th, 2023 Numbers last updated: September 21st, 2023
(The drafts consist of all of the undescribed Flatland art I could find in the whole tag going back to January 2022, at which point tumblr started giving me random unrelated posts instead. Not sure if it ran out of Flatland posts, or just stops actually keeping track of tagged posts after a year...?)
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The tagging system for this blog is under the cut so this post doesn't get too long. More tags will be added as I find more art to reblog.
The tags in use so far, which I have saved to a notepad so I can just copy and paste them as needed.
please copy and paste the image description into the original post when you get the chance, no credit needed, please also feel free to add in more details likes names or pronouns or fix any mistakes i made
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Hauntlight the Irregular Line Cenotaph the rabbit daemon
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Ty for adding it to the original ID added in reblog ID in original
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rjalker · 7 months
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[ID: A digital drawing of A Sphere from the 2007 Flatland film, holding a glass jar with a Flatlander inside. Rather than having his eyes and mouth drawn on. A Sphere's face is made up of a cropped screenshot of two red, rose-shaped earrings with silver backings sitting on pale yellow foam, with a line under as an indentation, making it look like his eyes and mouth, staring off into space. He is drawn pale yellow to match the foam instead of his normal vibrant yellow. He is asking the trapped Flatlander, "Would you still love me if I were jewelry in a google play store ad?" The Flatlander is Hauntlight, an original character, done as a simply drawn irregular black line, with its rabbit daemon Cenotaph represented by an arrow shape, shouts up at him with tiny dialogue text in all caps, "Who are you", while its daemon adds on, "WTF". A blank spot in the corner of the drawing has arrows around a grey dotted blob with a question mark inside to mark the absence of A Sphere's daemon. End ID.]
When you're trying to draw serious things but the google play store add looks like A Sphere from the 2007 Flatland film staring at you from the top of the screen.
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rjalker · 8 months
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Hauntlight's literal Flatland form. Very tall and skinny, with an unusually thin exoskeleton.
alternate anthropomorphic design is on posts one and two.
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[ID: An MS Paint drawing of an original Flatland character as seen from above, labeled, "Hauntlight - it/its/itself, Irregular Line". Hauntlight is first drawn as a simple black stick figure of a crooked, partly zig-zagging line with a fork at the bottom, then as a more detailed Flatlander with internal organs in different shades of pink and purple inside a grey exoskeleton. End ID.]
Edit: Feel free to draw :)
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rjalker · 7 months
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Started drawing this last night. Finished for now.
~transparent background~
You can now buy it from my threadless store, or download the HD file from the web archive to print out yourself :)
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[Image description start. A digital drawing showing it for original characters for the book Fatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions, against a transparent background. Two of the four characters are the daemons of the other characters, otherwise known as animal forms that represent their souls.
The largest character is a pale yellow three dimensional pyramid with an inverted base, floating upside down over an irregular line flatlander. Pyramids demon is a small, yellow-green elliptical sphere with ridged sides like an insect's carapace.
This insect demon is floating further down, almost directly above the Flatlanders daemon, which is almost obscured by the sharp angle it is displayed at, with a curved front and three rounded protrusions on the end visible, representing a rabbit's ears and body.
The Irregular line and its demon are both drawn at a sharp perspective to show that they are lying flat against the ground that we are looking at sideways. The line is not straight, instead having many small zigzags breaking up its form, and an extra point on its rear sticking out at an angle, with the straight end having a zig-zag through it.
Image description end.]
The inverted pyramid(? I don't know math lol) and her daemon have names, I just forgot what I decided on. I'll remember at some point...
...no pun intended
Edit: Nope. I remembered. The pyramid is Raptigan, and the beetle is Sinyai. My dreams are hilarious.
You can watch the speedpaint on YouTube
Has flashing lights unfortunately. Not sure if I can somehow edit them to make the transitions smoother :(
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rjalker · 7 months
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Now an epic transparent version you can buy from my Threadless store. And download from the web archive to print if you want.
TFW a higher-dimensional being comes out of nowhere and flips you onto your side so now you are looking in a direction you couldn't conceive of and now you're staring at the stars you never knew existed.
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[Image description start. A lineless digital drawing showing an original character silhouetted against a black sky filled with symmetrical patterns of yellow and white stars made of dots. The only feature of the character that is plainly visible is it single large orange cyclops eye with a brown slitted pupil, reflecting the sparkle of the stars. In its arms it holds a brown rabbit with black stripes with a matching orange cyclops eye. Both characrers are looking towards the camera, and the stars beyond. The edges of the drawing are partly transparent, with giant black spikes radiating out behind the stars, followed by lighter smudges like charcoal or dust, until the background color (white on this post) is all that is left. Image description end.]
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rjalker · 8 months
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Drawn on my phone at minimum screen brightness without color picking so it might look weird.
No clue what's happening besides maybe "what if a higher dimensional being came along and randomly flipped you on your side so now you can see the stars you didn't know existed before"
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Image description start. And lineless digital drawing showing an original character silhouetted against a black sky filled with symmetrical patterns of yellow and white stars made of dots. The only feature of the character that is plainly visible is it single large orange cyclops eye with a brown slitted pupil, reflecting the sparkle of the stars. In its arms it holds a brown rabbit with black stripes with a matching orange cyclops eye. Both characrers are looking towards the camera, and the stars beyond. Image description end.]
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rjalker · 8 months
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I made a gif.
Wondering how the stylized characters eat? The same as literal shape Flatlanders, with the bonus addition of teeth. They pull their eyes to the sides and extend their jaw like fish. Or a xenomorph now that I think of it. Why did I think of the fish before the xenomorph.
Anyways here's Cenotaph stimming. I forgot to draw a little smiley face so imagine there is one.
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[ID: a GIF of an original character, a brown rabbit with black stripes and an orange cyclops eye sitting upright and leaning forward slightly. The only part of the image that moves is its eye as it blinks sideways, and extends an upper and lower jaw each with a sharp pointed tooth in the center. It taps them together three times, then retracts its jaw again and has the normal eye again, before the GIF repeats. End ID.]
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rjalker · 8 months
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Hauntlight standing instead of magically floating
It squints because it can't see anything and that makes it looks like it's angry
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[ID: A simple digital drawing of Hauntlight, an original character for a stylized version of Flatland. Hauntlight is standing facing straight towards the camera, and has ink-black skin, three legs, two arms, and one large eye on its onion-shaped head. In the center of its torso is a brown heart shape with three brown stripes like ribs, and matching brown stripes on each ankle and wrist, with a larger stripe followed by a thinner one. It is standing with its left hand, which we see on its right, curled on its hip, which is marked by white cracks. In its other hand, whose wrist is cracked, it holds an orange and yellow cane. Its large orange eye with a slitted brown pupil is squinting dramatically, with three squiggly lines drawn next to its eye, making it appear angry. On the top of its head is a swooping section tipped with a thin diamond-shaped point like a spear. End ID.]
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rjalker · 8 months
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here's a link to Hauntlight in Hero Forge...sorta. Hero Forge is lacking a lot of options.
"https://www.heroforge.com/load_config%3D512931406/"
Some clothes for it to wear in its anthropomorphized form. Pretend that's a giant eyeball on the face. Hero Forge doesn't have a cyclops option yet.
Flatland being Victorian, I assume ankles are likewise illegal
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[ID: A cropped screenshot from HeroForge.com, showing a 3D character model with shiny ink black skin, leaning on a flourescent orange and yellow cane with its other hand on its hip, wearing a dress of dark and medium brown, with a two-layered skirt that reaches to the ground, and long sleeves. Its face has no mouth, eyes, or nose, but is orange with a black stripe down the center to mimic a single giant eye. End ID.]
You can see all my posts about hauntlight in chronological order here:
"https://rjalker.tumblr.com/tagged/hauntlight%20the%20irregular%20line/chrono"
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rjalker · 8 months
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WIP
you probably have to open it in another tab if you want to read it.
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rjalker · 8 months
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Here's my Flatland self insert character in a humanoid design. still making the canon-compliant version since it's not symetrical and also the power keeps flickering.
Editing the draft to say wow. Okay. This image description has now taken six hours to write because the power went out for five of them and my keyboard kept being messed up before that. Lol.
Enjoy. Assuming the power doesn't go out again before I can hit the post button.
Please tell me if the ID is missing any details, I've spent too long reading it to catch mistakes.
And yes, it picked its name itself.
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[ID: An MS Paint character reference showing a Flatland style original character. The image has a white background and thin black border, with the date of "August 29th 2023" written in the lower right corner. Black text scattered around the image provides extra info for the things displayed, in an old-fashioned looking font with all caps letters and sharply curved lettering. The character's name is Hauntlight, and it uses it/its/itself pronouns.
"Literal", which is a black forked like with many small zig-zags making it crooked rather than straight, and "Humanoid", showing a stick figure with three legs, two arms, a round head, and another line straight on top of the head.
A small bullet point list in the bottom left corner reads: "Class: Criminal Job: Herbalist Age: 28 Orientation: Aroace Gender: Nunya" The character is vaguely humanoid in shape, with ink black skin with dark brown stripes on the ankles and elbows, a brown heart shape in the center of its chest, and three pairs of matching brown, stripes under the heart to form a rib cage, with the top pair of stripes overlapping with the heart on their points. Hauntlight has two arms and three legs, each bent slightly at the knee as though floating in the air. Its head is topped with a sharp point with a swooping, narrow base over its onion-shaped face, with a single large orange eye with a brown slit pupil in the center. It is first shown facing the camera, then turned to show its back, which matches the front. White cracks are visible on its hip, ankle, foot, shoulders, chest, and wrist. With its hands behind its back, Hauntlight holds a bright orange and yellow offset walking cane, which is labeled, "mobility aids required to be flourescent to aid persecution by higher classes". Two slightly smaller copies of its head show it first squinting, making it appear angry, with a question mark next to its face, labeled, "squinting because it's not allowed to wear eyeglass and it can't see". The next shows it with its eye widened again to normal, now looking off to the side. Around its eye are two circles of black and yellow, held onto its head by a bright orange diagonal strap, forming a giant monocular or single-lensed goggle. This is labeled, "Breaking the law, breaking the law".
In the top right corner, the different colors used in the drawing--black, brown, orange, and yellow--are arrayed in circles and rectangles. Two copies have been made of its three legs, with the copy for each showing the third leg recolored blue so that it is easier to see, because its skin is so dark it almost matches the black outlines. End ID.]
anyways can you believe they literally refer to disabled people as the Criminal Class™. And can you further believe there are people who read this book's blatant criticism of fascism and think the fascism is correct?!?!?!
Edit: Feel free to draw :)
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rjalker · 8 months
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Hauntlight's daemon, Cenotaph. Yes, it also chose its own name.
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[ID: Several lineless digital drawings of an original character, titled, "Cenotaph (it/its/itself), in the font Steamy, which makes the letters look like light bulbs and gears and filligree. The character is a cyclops-eyed brown rabbit, with black stripes. It is shown first in a post as though frozen in mid-jump, first looking towards the camera, then showing its back. It is then showed with its limbs held out to the sides, showing first its front, then its back. It has a single large orange eye with a black outline, with a brown slit pupil like a cat, three long stripes on its back, two stripes on each paw and the back of each ear, a black fluffy cotton tail, and a large black heart shape on its belly. The paw pads of its front feet have five toes and a small black pad. The stripes on its ankles and ears consist of one thick curved stripe, and a thinner curved stripe. Next to these four drawings is a black stick figure with a matching cyclops eye, three legs, a twisted spike on its head, and using an orange and yellow cane. A simplified brown version of the rabbit is shown next to it for scale, first balancing upright, then on all fours, with its ears coming up to the figures knees on all fours, and almost to its hips when upright. End ID.]
It is surprisingly difficult to find pictures of rabbit paws. I got too laze to draw them on the back feet.
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rjalker · 8 months
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I need suggestions for steampunk-y names to go with Hauntlight for its daemon. They both picked their own names.
Also pronouns for its daemon.
Also, this is a poll:
Question: Should Hauntlight's daemon also use it/its pronouns? Or other neopronouns?
Option 1: It should also use it/it pronouns
Option 2: nounself pronouns
(Ex: star/stars/starself)
Option 3: novapronouns
(Ex: ze/zim/zir/zimself)
Option 4: supernova pronouns
(EX: xiy/rik/ix/sirav)
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rjalker · 8 months
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no, the lengths of these arms and the placement of the elbow makes no sense. thank you for noticing. it was not on purpose.
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[ID: A photo of a traditional pencil drawing, showing an original character named Hauntlight. Hauntlight is an upright, three-legged, two-armed, one-eyed being, standing and using an off-set cane, looking back over its shoulder with a sweat drop to show alarm. Its three ankles are marked with two stripes, one thicker above, and thinner near the foot, which is flat, almost like a hoof. There are cracks visible on two of its feet, and on its back knee, along with a large crack on its left hip, which we see on the right, and its right ankle, which is on our left. There are also cracks on both shoulders, and on its side. It has a heart shape in the top-middle of its chest, with three pairs of rib-like stripes below it. Its elbows have the same stripes as its ankles, with the arm holding the cane mistakenly having the elbow very low down where the wrist would be. Its neck is cartoonishly skinny, its face a wide oval, and its round eye takes up most of the space. It has no visible mouth or nose. Atop of its head is a half-diamond shaped spike like the tip of a spear. End ID.]
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