[ID: A drawing of Pit from the Kid Icarus series in a cheerful pose. He has a few changes to his design, including yellow wings whose feathers resemble dandelion petals, a warm color palette, brown eyes, freckles, dandelion fluff on the sandals, a flower shaped belt buckle, a dandelion replacing the gem on his shoulder, and his laurel crown being replaced with green dandelion leaves. /end ID]
This is Pit in my flower language AU! He’s a dandelion: Small and unassuming to villains, but stubborn and tough! Plus, it seems like in canon Pit already has some association with dandelions - particularly at the end of one of the shorts! Screenshot below cut.
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if you’ve been following a lot of my recent stuff, you’ve probably noticed (or maybe you haven’t, idk!) that I’ve been tagging a few art posts as ‘pitverse’. You’ve also probably noticed that I’ve provided no context to these posts what-so-ever! and that sucks! So to explain a bit, I present:
”surachi what the heck is pitverse”
Okay, first. ‘Pitverse’ is a working title. Maybe. It’s cheesy, but I kinda like it because it’s cheesy.
Anyways, if you’ve been following me for a while, you may or may not remember this art where I designed a bunch of pits that were loosely based on the different ending to the original Kid Icarus on the NES. Some took influence from different places (eg. the solider ending heavily drawing inspiration from Kid Icarus: of Myths and Monsters) and some were completely made up (eg. the farm ending’s design). It was fun! And it pretty much started this whole idea to begin with.
I’d draw some stuff here and there for it, but other than that I never really did much with the idea other than ‘oh hey look designs’. That is until it came up again a couple years later when I started to get *really* into oMaM stuff, which led to me coming back to the idea of a weird multiverse thing.
Thanks to a few friends, we talked about it and eventually it became like a four-swords adventure multiverse labyrinth thing. Pandora’s Labyrinth times twelve. So as it is right now, it’s like a hypothetical game where some new *evil big bad* takes a handful of Pits from different universes/timelines and plops them into some pocket dimension of different levels and challenges, and together, they have to find out what the heck going on.
Right now, I think I’m gonna try to keep it to three Pits for simplicity sake. Obviously, Pit from Kid Icarus: Uprising has to be here, that’s our guy. He’s also the protagonist! He’s left relatively unchanged in this AU. This also takes place in a post-game setting, so he’s already fought Hades. This applies to the other guys as well, even if their hypothetical “games” and adventures aren’t actually real (Factor) or heavily rewritten (Myth) here.
Good news is that Uprising Pit can still communicate with Palutena! But he’s the only one out of the bunch that can. (Would’nt that have been nice? Imagine all the work you could get done with THREE Palutenas [haha reference]). In this AU’s logic, Uprising’s world in the pocket-dimension what-ch-ma-have-it space is closer to the one where this takes place, so (Uprising) Palutena is able to establish a decent enough connection to at least communicate, though it’s not the best. The other Pit’s worlds are further away, so communication with their respective realms are off the table. This also causes other problems like occasionally “bugging out” and forgetting stuff since they’re so far from their original worlds. So Uprising Pit got kinda lucky.
Speaking of other Pits, there’s other Pits! Both of them draw inspiration from things previously done/involved in the franchise so they’re not entirely made up, but they do stray pretty far from their source material. Anyway..first, we have Factor! He’s heavily inspired by Factor 5’s rendition of Pit from their “Icarus” project back in 2007-2008 that was turned down. Here, this AU’s interpretation of the idea is a little more in line with the franchise’s overall light-hearted and goofy nature. (In this AU the Pit’s are taken from different points in time, so he would’ve been plucked from the future. I did this so 1. They all could look visually distinct from each other, and 2. the thought of Factor going “oh he doesn’t know about [x] yet” or Uprising Pit insisting Myth to NOT go after the wish seed in the future was funny.)
Next…there’s Myth! He’s based on Kid Icarus: of Myths and Monsters, and besides a few plot points he’s pretty much just a modern take on the character. He was easier to pin down because while the concept of Factor’s story was interesting, being banished from the heavens for some unspecified crime, it’s pretty vague in comparison. With Myth, there’s an entire game with a plot to go off of, even if this AU strays a bit from it.
That’s pretty much the basics of this AU! Just a couple of Pits going on an adventure getting into other-worldly shenanigans. I’m having a ton of fun with it and hopefully I can develop the idea more as I go along. Thanks for reading! There’s some extra footnotes and miscellaneous doodles below.
• This AU follows the idea that oMaM takes place in a different timeline than Kid Icarus: Uprising, hence it not being referenced (at least not on purpose, I’m looking at you aurum track accidentally having the same intro motif) or mentioned. Plus y’know, Sakurai not knowing it existed so there’s that. Might as well rework it into a weird explanation. (coping)
• All of these worlds take place in different timelines, so Factor isn’t an older version of Uprising Pit, nor is Uprising an older version of Myth. They’re all still Pit, and all of them have fought Medusa, but it had different outcomes (somewhat based on the endings) and at that point they diverged from each other.
• I’ll probably change the naming of the Pits at some point. While they’re good right now, I’m not sure if I wanna keep Factor named after a company. Might have their names based off the titles of their respective games, so instead of “Factor”, “Myth”, and “Uprising” it’d be “Icarus” (based on the project’s internal name), “Myth”, and “Uprising”.
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took me two weeks to stop procrastinating to do it, but I finally finished the reference sheet for Eyubis!! look at the gremlin !!
edit: rendered the hair and added a color palette
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Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: 光神話 | Kid Icarus (Video Games), 新・光神話 パルテナの鏡 | Kid Icarus: Uprising (Video Game)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence
Relationships: Medusa & Pit (Kid Icarus), Palutena & Pit (Kid Icarus)
Characters: Pit (Kid Icarus), Medusa (Kid Icarus), Palutena (Kid Icarus), Underworld Army (Kid Icarus), Forces of Nature (Kid Icarus), Dark Pit (Kid Icarus)
Additional Tags: International Fanworks Day 2023, Bad Things Happen Bingo, Implied/Referenced Character Death, Burns, Major Character Injury, Alternate Universe - Modern Setting, (kinda????), Alternate Universe - Horror, Alternate Universe - Human, Vengeful Spirits, Ghosts, Possessed Animatronics (Five Nights at Freddy's), everyone's last name is a PUN please appreciate the work I put into that, I wrote this while sick and juggling both standard work and zine work, IT'S A BIT MESSY AND I WILL NOT APOLOGIZE, Inspired by Five Nights at Freddy's, Hallucinations, small time skip at the end, mostly inspired by FNAF2 but not entirely, (I was NOT clever enough to come up with 10+ bots in like. a week.)
Series: Part 15 of Bad Things Happen Bingo: Kid Icarus edition
Summary:
Angel Land was, in theory, a cutesy, folktale-themed bakery and entertainment business, one that had just gotten a major refresh a few weeks ago. It had one of the most well-stocked arcades in town, a varied menu of sweets, and a creative, colorful, admittedly-slightly-uncanny assortment of animatronic attractions.
That last one was Pit’s only problem.
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(Bad Things Happen Bingo-Angry Mob-crossover AU thing, in honor of International Fanworks Days 2023!)
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Fourteenth entry for @badthingshappenbingo! Also my contribution to International Fanworks Day 2023!!
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WOO finally finished these designs!! I wanted to make refs of all my characters for my Kid Icarus AU, so here’s the two main families: the Newlight family and the Rainwood sisters, their beloved dog Cragalanche, and the mysterious family butler Arlon. And yes, plenty of antics - hijinks even - ensue with these people!
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