on biomechanics: No Significant Harassment
(i have been fighting with the tagging system for this post specifically as it won't show up in tags. ive narrowed down the cause to be the non-fandom tags [ie. my typical post-comic monologue lol]. those are under the cut if youre curious)
before the monologue id like to congratulate tumblr user mewguca for perfectly predictung the subject of this comic under my 5p one
anyways, tags:
NSH is so fascinating to me because of the way he completely memes on his intended purpose
#hes so unlike every other iterator we see in game. its like he doesnt even care about cycles or sliver the big problem at all
#this comic is my personal headcanon as to his thought process:
#hes a little jokester as a spiteful rebellion towards his purpose and creators
#but im sure he also finds it funny lol
#and the ancient's design philosophy as well:
#let them think and feel and be a part of the cycle to drive them to keep trying
#but dont let them ascend! because what would stop them from just solving the problem for themselves only and leaving you behind?
#making them fully mechanical would have forced the ancients to input solutions and think on the problem themselves.
#and i remember pearl dialogue where moon talks about how taboo it was for the ancients to aspire for anything in life
#even if that aspiration is death
#also its in my personal hc that rain world's surface is covered in a thick mat of piping and metalworks
#and that biological life forces its way into (much to the chagrin of the ancients!)
#theres patchy semi-deep ponds all over the surface due to drastic and irregular rainfall. basically like an overgrown industrial district
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Guilt
The rot was very inspired by that one scene and Akira and how gods turn into demons in Princess Mononoke. Which, I also thought was fitting because that's sorta what's happening in a symbolic sense kinda.
I've had the interpretation that the rot is a symbolic representation of Five Pebbles guilt [while ofc, still being his quite literal cancer], so that's what I'm trying to portray here
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Kinda my 'official' designs for these two i think
And a lil doodle of SoS, not sure if this is the design ill be going with yet
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Some iterater designs !!
Individual portraits and hc below (this shit is long btw)
Sliver of Straw she/her
-most articulated, very brittle, prone to fracturing
-does not wear the clothes of her ancients, loaths them after they abandoned her
-magnetic joints, designed for biology
Seven Red Suns they/them
-made w soft metal after older models began to crack, has many many observatorys across their area
-clothes are embroidered with tiny pearls and metallic floss
-elastic joints, designed for astronomy
Looks to the Moon she/they
-least articulated model, made partially with rust resistent material, can detach from power cables to perform field research
-clothes are based on the tides, pearls are meant to resemble reflected stars
-magnetic joints, designed for meteorology
No Significant Harassment he/she
-same model as moon, can also detach from cables
-does not wear the ancients jewelry because she despises them but still wears the same clothes cuz of nostalgia
-ripped out his antenas because of faulty signal wiring that caused migraines
-designed for pathology (specifically to study the rot)
Five Pebbles he/him
-youngest and smallest so he is most power efficient
-jewelry is made of local minerals, being gold, quartz, and bismuth
-elastic joints, made for geology
Additional headcanons I thought were cool:
- both sos and nsh hate their ancients, but nsh was able to come to terms with his abandonenment and heal, where as sos threw herself into her work to prove them wrong
-lttm used to visit pebbles frequently before pebbles' experiment
And yeah! I'll probably post a doodle of what sos clothes would have looked like before the ancients left.
This was fun!!! I cant w8 to do some slugcat designs next
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"Back home they thought I'd vanished without a trace, but I found space, I found space!"
('I Found Space' by Miracles of Modern Science)
Hii hii, this is my first time ever actually drawing Sliver of Straw, at least as an iterator, alongside my first time ever drawing a void work, had a blast with this! (Also gosh I just really like the krita lighting brush tools!)
Bonus no text version
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