Did a quick painting of Nocturn vs Danny. This may or may not be a design idea I have for Nocturn’s true form in the comic. And…yeah, can’t tell too much.
So basically some concept art. Also getting familiar with more of Clip Studio Paint’s tools!!!
UPDATE: This is part 1 of 3. Pinned has the entire story of Nocturn vs Danny. :D
"Chastile my Starry Night and silly little Dream all you Want Brother
But both you and i know what they look forward to the most after a long exhausing day in under the Sun."
line art by @maebird-melody
Just imagine Nocturn acting as Danny's older cousin.
Nocturn was the youngest Ancient till Danny came along and Clockwork had chastised him after his latest attempt to 'play' with the newly formed Half. Danny's still far too young and far too attached to his perceived mortality for Nocturn's games and Clockwork insists that he find a new way to bond. So he takes to visiting the Halfa's dreams and ensuring him a good night's sleep - and maybe throwing in a few wacky scenarios at the boy's expense and watching him fumble about in his own dreamscape where he's unable to hurt himself.
Just Danny having an annoying older cousin who plays games and cracks jokes/pranks that he's too young to get and the whole relationship is kinda one sided cause everyone forgot to cue Danny in that Nocturn isn't actually an evil meddling ghost. And now that Nocturn isn't the youngest anymore he likes popping in and checking up on Danny who's always ready to square up and Nocturn just finds it endlessly amusing. It's kinda like getting threatened by a toddler who's just learnt how to crawl.
Nocturn can create dreams, pretty much anything can happen in there. How about he creates a dream where he is acting as a boss in a boss fight against Danny inspired by Boss Fight Render Challange Montage by pwnisher?
Experimental sketch i made for a FR user! sadly i dont have their username </3
edit: omg i didnt knew it reached you! anyway the username is lostplanetvoltia !!
He teams up with Danny’s rogues. Maybe bribes them. But they keep him up nonstop. Causing problems all through the night and day. So Danny has less sleep then normal. Like he hasn’t slept in 3 days.
Now Nocturn doesn’t start with amity. He targets heros. Modifying the helmets design to be harder to take off. More deadly to outside forces.
at some point Danny just drops. Nocturn has a special plan for him. Just using his powers to keep him in like a nightmare state. Somehow preventing him to wake up.
Sam and tucker stay up. They can’t deal with Nocturn alone. They do the one thing they never wanted to do. Ask for help.
They reach out to the justice league unaware it’s already happening in other towns.
It leads to Martian manhunter showing up. He gets Danny up. Then they can team up together to take on Nocturn.
Nocturn would be better prepared for a fight this time.
I just want Danny to team up with J’onn it would be cool.