one more chunk of bus doodles

[egypturnash]

Drowning City related stuff.



Looks like I've finally decided to pull Clyve, the Designated Hero, out of the over-designy world of the original iteration of the concept and give him a nose. Albiet a flat one. And make him a little more dimensional. He's still got that weird, never-explained eyepiece, though. If he looks rather generic, that's good - while the original story was to focus on his journey through the Campbellian 12-Step Ubermyth, he's now just a side note to the much more interesting-to-me story of Alecto pretty much refusing to bow to Fate and Destiny. As seen here: he's firmly in the Hero Groove, standing there with a gun and a sword* - and she shifts from being the Designated Opponent, to refusing to play the game.

Sorry about the quality of these scans; .5mm mechanical pencil really comes in a little too light. I had to do a lot of futzing around to get these two pages to this point.

These are my chattiest bus doodle posts ever. Usually I seem to let the art speak for itself.

*Probably "Edge", the very prosaically named and utterly utilitarian magic sword that shows up throughout the story.

Comments

[kensan-oni.livejournal.com]

But it didn't KISS him! Monsters are suppose to Kiss people when they say stupid things like that! :')

[shatterstripes.livejournal.com]

She. Okay, you can't really see it in these poorly-scanned scribbles, but trust me, that's a girl monster. In a gloomy gothy dark fantasy comic, not a WB short.

Besides, if she tried to kiss him, he's still the Hero, and he's got the Hero Gadgets; he'd probably interpret it as an attack and slice her head off.

[ovon.livejournal.com]

And to throw a bit more focus back on Clyve... it strikes me as kind of an essential dilemma of the alpha male in this society, too: what does he do when the monsters just shrug and run off, leaving him without his traditional raison d'être? (I guess I've been intrigued lately with the whole notion of male power - or any sort of power, really - and what happens when it's threatened with that sort of irrelevance.) Does he give in, and go find something more constructive to do? Or does it simply rile him up even worse, spoiling for a fight that never comes, depriving him of his chance to make good?

[shatterstripes.livejournal.com]

Mmm. A very interesting line of thinking.

For the most part, everyone in the story reacts to him the "right" way - he's the Destined Hero, though one of the twists of this story is that all the prophecy on both sides says he's going to lose. Still, he's a Hero, and Heros go down fighting. He's got to save the world and Alecto is just a small part of what he's saving the world from, just another twisted monster that lurks around the edges of the Sidhe incursion. Something else probably quickly ocmes up to distract him from "why won't she fight me like a monster should".

Really, his story is somethins separate from Alecto's, that we only see now and then. The style might change a little to indicate we're crossing into it. She's a bit character in his story, just a recurring monster he doesn't really understand. She affects it a lot at the end... by refusing to play out her Assigned Role.

This story's definitely a metaphor for my transition on some levels, isn't it.

[kamenkyote.livejournal.com]

Very cool doodles. You know what would be even COOLER? A 24-hour comic! :"D

What, you thought I'd just go away?

-T'

[shatterstripes.livejournal.com]

Quite probably this will happen in the next couple of days, now that I'm not sick, and am in the schedule flexibility of not having to get up and go to work.

[rainwing.livejournal.com]

Clyve has got to be more interesting that that. I mean seriously, here. You or I may find him about as interesting as a dried out corncob compared to Alecto, but as a major antagonist, he needs a few more dimensions. Which is the natural course of things; it's going to happen whether you care about him or not, judging by the way you fabricate concepts. n.n Maybe his blandness will grow so severe he'll just implode into some perversely inverted mockery of his former self? He's so boring it makes him interesting? Something will happen.