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Diversity win! The 3D model of a placeholder character eating out the Wolfman from Darkwood has hearing aids!
i finally finished the second space clown :D
they're called the harlequin and they mostly hang around in the swamp (because they can't really leave it), trying to make anything that looks human enough laugh or atleast smile with some slapstick humour, balloon animals and confetti :) they've mostly given up on trying to find the pierrot, even though it physically hurts them to ignore that need to be together with their Space Clown Comrade
also, they squeak and bounce like a little squeaky bouncy ball :)
new clown dropped ๐๐ (added some detail shots to make up for the tunglr qualityTM)
they continued on until they found a travelling circus, where they observed the clown performances and picked up a trick or more, for an example, they learned how to make humans laugh, a sound that the clowns like to hear!
they continued on until they found a travelling circus, where they observed the clown performances and picked up a trick or more, for an example, they learned how to make humans laugh, a sound that the clowns like to hear!
they continued on until they found a travelling circus, where they observed the clown performances and picked up a trick or more, for an example, they learned how to make humans laugh, a sound that the clowns like to hear!
a few years later they ended up joining another travelling circus in a bigger city and started touring with them through poland, until they had to stop for the night in a big forest :) that night just so happened to be the night when things started to change in Darkwood, directly impacting the clowns. the pierrot ended up unconscious for several years, their limbs tangled in the twisting branches of some particularly dense growing trees, until they were woken up by the gravedigger, who had already made a grave for them, which they kindly refused to be burried in. the gravedigger brough them back to their hut, where the pierrot was able to sort out their thoughts, show the priest a funny little trick with some rags, and then bid them farewell, as they realised their harlequin wasn't anywhere near them. they've been trying to find the harlequin since, which is made difficult by the Being that changed the woods and its inhabitants, as the Being instinctively suppresses the connection between the clowns and leads them away from each other with false signals without noticing what it's doing (similar to how an organic body would close and slowly heal a wound, without the body's host having to focus on it to do it).
the pierrot usually stays away from the villages, but sometimes stumbles upon lone wanderers in the woods. whenever they do, they often try to show the other one a little trick or goof to make them laugh, wether the recipient is a surviving human, dog or mangled beast doesn't matter
(i accidentally almost posted this on the wrong blog and i don't feel like typing the tags again, so here's some extra lore:
this is the gravedigger's half sister, Kasia :D she's a bit stubborn, very caring to anyone she thinks needs it and can barely sit still without working on some project or other.
she's three years older than the gravedigger and her mother was a childhood friend of their father, who divorced relatively shortly after kasia was born (they were still friends afterwards, they just took their time realising they're not in love with each other and that the marriage wasn't working out). two years before the gravedigger's birth their mother moved to the village, swooped their father of his feet and after her death, kasia's mother would frequently visit the gravedigger and their father with kasia to help each other out every now and then.
during the plague, kasia still sometimes manages to visit the gravedigger and check in on them, in between chopping down trees and beasts and sharing some alcohol with casmir or the bike man or anyone else who's willing to share.
she actually manages to get out of the forest in the end and ends up moving to germany, where she eventually starts working as a janitor at a primary school and even manages to get sober after a while. when she settles down somewhat, she decides to learn more and become more involved with her own jewish ancestry and now local jewish community, as her mother was jewish, but wasn't able to share much of it with kasia. the doodle in the bottom left is kasia with her girlfriend in 2019 at pride in cologne :D (her girlfriend's sign says "nazis out", btw)
here's the gravedigger, this time slightly changed and in colour! :3 (their favourite colour is the green that i used for the lines) (edit: i changed the background colour)
most of my waking thoughts these past few days were about these idiots :)
in short, the gravedigger (they/them pronouns) is hard of hearing, grew up with their father and took up his work as gravedigger when he died and is generally a mellow person and since meeting the priest, is slowly getting braver again to help people, even if the person they're trying to help dies/suffers anyways. they go out every night to look for dead bodies of the beasts and any other unfortunate souls that wander the forest and put them in graves that they dig during the day near their hut (the beasts leave them alone for the most part and usually don't attack them, i wonder why :)).
in short, the gravedigger (they/them pronouns) is hard of hearing, grew up with their father and took up his work as gravedigger when he died and is generally a mellow person and since meeting the priest, is slowly getting braver again to help people, even if the person they're trying to help dies/suffers anyways. they go out every night to look for dead bodies of the beasts and any other unfortunate souls that wander the forest and put them in graves that they dig during the day near their hut (the beasts leave them alone for the most part and usually don't attack them, i wonder why :)).
the priest (he/him) grew up in an orthodox orphanage (i think?) and trained to become a priest, thanks to the influence of his mentors and parent figures. he's really anxious and nervous, but reciting prayers has helped him cope with his anxiety attacks. he got sent to the village with another priest to bring hope and a helping hand during the beginning of the plague, though things escalated and he ended up wandering the forest with an infected wound on his leg, until he stumbled in the gravedigger's hut and almost died. the gravedigger amputated his leg and nursed him back to a slightly more stable health state and they've been living together and helping each other since :)) almost forgot, but the priest also really likes wood carving and he keeps injuring himself doing it, because he's rather clumsy with knives and the like
i'll probably end up revising the pierrot's and maybe the gravedigger's designs, but that's them for now! :D
That moment when you finish a piece of media and can finally look at fanart and fanfictions without being spoilered
I've been binging horror game lore on YT and it makes me want to do more horror writing and interactions on my OCs. But I am always afraid of how far I can go before someone feels uncomfortable or hates it.
When I say "horror game", I mostly mean Fear & Hunger, Darkwood, Bloodborne, and I'm looking for more!
To Darkwoodโs bravest warrior. Before the dark time, they served with great devotion to the Green crown. Fearlessly taking to the front lines, they threw themselves into countless wars and emerged victorious. Here lies the remains of Ramu Raฤm, killed by their own god.
Happy Fatherโs Day Dad.
(Almost forgot what day it is)