Artist and Graphic Designer | Mexican | Currently obsessed with hedgehogs and lambs đđŚâ¤ď¸đ
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I want to do silly comics abt Sonic's life and everything (COTL cute things too) but I'm dumb and idk how tf being with and now it's just me staring at the empty canvas with the idea trapped in my head forever!!!
Hello, My name is Mosab Elderawi, and I live in Gaza with my family. Life here has become harder than I ever imagined, and Iâm writing this with hope in my heart that you might hear our story.
The ongoing war has devastated my family. Weâve lost 25 family membersâeach one a beloved part of our lives, taken too soon. I miss them deeplyâtheir laughter, their presence, their love. Every day is a reminder of this unimaginable loss.
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We are now facing daily challenges to surviveâthings that most people take for granted, like food, clean water, and a safe place to sleep. The harsh realities of life here have replaced our dreams with the constant fight for survival.
đ Lost Stability: The war has left us without work or a stable source of income. đ Basic Needs: Food and water are becoming harder to afford with rising prices and scarce resources. đ Dreams on Hold: Like so many here, my familyâs dreams have been replaced by the need to simply survive. đ˘ Unimaginable Loss: Losing 25 loved ones has left a void that can never be filled.
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Thank you for reading this far. It means the world to us to know that someone is listening. Your kindness gives us strength and helps us believe in a better tomorrow.
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Tu recuerdo brilla como una estrella fugaz đ , dejando un rastro de luz en mi corazĂłn...
QuerĂa seguir con este tipo de dibujos, tengo tantas ideas respecto al espacio, amo el espacio. ÂĄđŤ!
(aprovechando mis Ăşltimos dĂas para dibujar mĂnimo todo en dĂa đ)
Por cierto! ÂĄÂĄfeliz aĂąo nuevo đŤŁđ!!
HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE â¨ď¸đ
I was thinking of doing it with Maria instead, but it didn't work out. However, I like to think that Sonic's words really gave him the comfort he was needing at the moment. After watching the movie, the last 20 minutes really excited me like a little kid; not only because the action, but how handles grieve, coming from someone who lost a loved one a few months ago.
The light shines even though the star is gone đ
Trod Bad End doodles from last night + older ones I'm posting so I can delete the files
I will burn this world and the next if it means I could get you back
Trod Bad End! Narinder I drew on art stream last night. He's goin sicko mode
hello
Can't wait for the updates to come out so that I can replay Sonic Frontiers entirely
Bringing some happy memories home â¨
A sharp, golden streak of light curves across the pitch black sky.
Sonic needs to be there when it falls.
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hi sonadow fandom can I come in, I bring cookiesđ§đ˝ââď¸
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Alternative versions below the cut
Also, here is the background available in case anyone wants to use it.
(Info on the au I accidentally created in a future post)
thats right, cotl fandom. I'm a sonic fan.
I was like- I gotta do right by the Sonic fandom and make narilamb into sonic ocs but I love Shadamy and recent events reminded me of that so TEEHEE
I think I ate with Amy's outfit.
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Hope yall enjoyed this <3
POV: you are a spy, and this Lamb can no longer read minds...but they don't need to when the Devil can, whispering in their ear
Early but Merry Christmas everyone
I just want everyone to know that I'm alive and well rested after chilling for a couple of days at my friend's place. Also thank you all for asking me how am I doing after artbook shipping crunch and wishing me some time for myself. There's still a lot of stuff I have to take care of, but because I finally have a little bit of free time after the convention and working over 10 hours everyday for almost a whole month, I've started to draw againâ¨
YEAH MY GUYS, NATURE IS HEALING!
15 year old 70s kid meets modern day 15 year old more at 5.
I just got a love triangle happening between Leshy, Valefar and one of my Disciples (the last two had Immortality necklace btw) LMAO
so i got into cotl
Concept scene comic for a Narinder dream scene in TROD + a redoodle of an older comic I made a year ago that the scene will later lead into.
At the stage where a lot of the older comics are starting to appear in writing, the actual (refined) written portion takes me a long time to get there, but y'all get lots of out-of-order/context stuff for the timeline in the meanwhile
ohhhh... the doodles i did to just get a feel for these characters got away from me
that's what happens when you throw black kitty characters at me though... i can't resist.
Some Narinder character analysis for yâall.
This is a slightly re-edited excerpt from a much longer post of mine where I was specifically trying to provide a rebuttal to someone else. Iâm kinda proud of some of my takes here and the write up took me hours so Iâm gonna repost it here on its own.
Iâm going into specifically into Narinderâs
Speech patterns and way of expressing emotions.
Implications of his post defeat dialogue
Relationship with Aym and Baal
Feelings on Ratauâs death
And a little extra on why do we âbabygirlâ Narinder
Full analysis under the cut.
First I gotta establish Narinderâs voice. Narinder seems almost incapable of giving a genuine compliment especially without turning it into something about himself.
Hereâs three examples of him giving a complement to The Lamb. Taken from after defeating Amdusias and Shamura. He also complements The Lamb when you sacrifice Ratau but Iâll come back around to that.
I wanted to grab the entire quotes so it didnât look like I was nitpicking.
"Very good, my vessel. It seems I chose well when I kept you from Death.â
First example, âvery good,â is the complement, but immediately after he takes credit for this by calling you âmy vesselâ thereby claiming ownership over you. His vessel did well. And again âI chose wellâ doubled down and complemented himself.
âI admit, you have worn it (the red crown) almost as well as I could have myself.â
Again we see the complement layered in ego. âAlmost as well as Iâ in other words you did well, but donât forget Iâm better. Also important to draw attention to is âI admitâ this is a very explicit statement of his refusal to acknowledge the success of others.
"Your appetite for death is something I can admire, Vessel. But the Crown is mine, and none - NONE - are worthy. None other than I.â
Here he almost lays down a complement. âYour appetite for death is something I can admireâ straight up, states his admiration. He seems to almost realize what heâs done and quickly pulls back into his ego, âBut the crown is mineâ â-none are worthy- None other than I.â
These are the three of the four ONLY times that Narinder ever says anything explicitly positive about someone else when he is a god. Thus establishing that the head ass cannot give out a compliment to save his life. The one time he gives you full credit for your actions he immediately pulls right back into his ego.
I cannot stress this enough. Someone who is characterized as cold and emotionally closed off as Narinder is WILL NOT suddenly undo this characteristic when they try and express a positive feeling.
Okay with that established we can look at his follower dialogue. Specifically these two examples from when you resurrect a follower and allow him to go on a mission.
âI cannot begrudge supplantation by one such as yourself.â
Literally saying I donât resent you for taking my place. Itâs not an explicit statement that he respects you but this is he weird fucked up little way of saying it. Of course he still lays it out in a way thatâs self centred but we know from the way he has spoken that this is about as much verbal praise he is capable of giving.
The other one is a less explicit statement but I think itâs a interesting reflection of the final place of his character.
ââŚmy thanks, Lamb.â
Being his last bit of unique dialogue, itâs an incredible ending to a character. He thanks you. Thatâs all he needed to say.
Letâs go over his dialogue in some depth.
"You weak, snivelling, foul thing. You - wait! Waaaiiiiiit!"
Iâm starting with this line as it compels me the most. I find that there are two separate readings of this and I canât really point to one above the other. On my play through I had assumed his wailing was more in reference to being denied death. It could also be read as him not wanting to be reduced to a follower and realizing what your mercy really means for his future.
â-are you to be a vengeful false idol, or a merciful coward? No longer can you blame your vile acts on me."
Okay, looking at the way he presents your two options he seems to push more for the murder action. â-vengeful false idol,â is how he refers to murder. Itâs not exactly a glowing review but his use of the word vengeful is important. We know that one of Narinderâs main goals in the game is revenge, we he already acts with revenge I canât say that heâs using this word as an insult. The false idol part of this statement seems like heâs attempted to separate himself from you, again for is ego.
Then he presents the spare option by calling you a âmerciful coward.â The flow of this full sentence puts more pressure on this option. He presents it as the âorâ the second option. This is the bad option, the option of a coward.
âSo. vou are no different to me after all. You have become as I am."
I know this is a deranged order to go over these quotes but last we got murder. Compared to his spare dialogue this is incredibly sombre. We know from already establishing how big his ego is that saying you are the same as him is almost a compliment. I do find this dialogue incredibly interesting tho, I canât exactly explain why but I canât help but read this as damning as well. Itâs like he means it in both ways, the ultimate fuck you. You are just as I am, for better and worse.
But from what we know about Narinder his edgy ass cannot express emotion. He wraps his statements in layers of irony and selfishness. Unless it supports the persona he puts on or inflates his ego he WILL NOT right out state his feelings or needs, especially when he was a chained god.
Aym and Baal are incredibly hard to characterize. They donât have much dialogue to work off of and only three characters every speak on them, Shamura, Narinder and Forneus. The context of the game does present them as more Narinderâs first (and second) hand, less followers more apprentices, almost, but whereâs the fun in assuming.
"Intended as keepers, perhaps, but they were young and in need of guidance. Must I be blamed for my influence?"
I wanna draw attention to the specific wording of keepers. Again, based on the way Narinder speaks its safe to assume he means the formal meaning of a keeper, meaning a caretaker. It is unclear if Narinder was told they where his keepers or if he assumed so, but either way he still speaks on them as such.
For the sake of argument (and I donât wanna rewrite this bit entirely) Iâm gonna put the idea that Narinder brainwashed Aym and Baal against my presented idea of them being his keepers or apprentices.
The proposed idea of the brainwashing angle can be developed based on Narinder saying that âthey where young and in need of guidance, must I be blamed for my influence.â This implies that, as much as Aym and Baal may have been sent as keepers, they where still young and Narinder could not help but be an influence on them. I am gonna come back around to this thread so hold onto this for a moment. Moving on.
âTwo kits I did have, true love found! And yet one lackadaisy summer day, my beautiful children were taken away... a gift, they said, for the one they loved most, the one that waits...â
âOoh, kits... I remember, I remember... two kits in my claws... a gift.."
It is unclear and morally dubious how Aym and Baal came to Narinder. First weâre not 100% where Narinder is chained. The wiki lists it as the afterlife and in dialogue Narinder refers to it as âat the gates between this life and the next, trapped at the nexus of what was and what wasn't.â (When he asks you to send him on a mission.) We can travel there both by dying and being summoned there by him.
Either way the assumption is that Aym and Baal had to die. (As an aside I have my own speculation on the conditions required for a person to be presented to Narinder or to be resurrected but thatâs off topic.) The horrific implications being that either Shamura themself killed the kits or that they where already dying. However you cannot blame the reaper for ushering the dead away from life.
Iâm going to work off of the cult specific definition and characteristics of brainwashing. Itâs hard to characterize where Aym and Baal sit here as, again they have little dialogue and due to the nature of brainwashing itâs hard to spot. First I wanna grab my brainwashing resources.
Iâm using Encyclopedia Britannicaâs page on brainwashing, cults, indoctrination, manipulation as my primary resourse.
Again I kinda wanna apply a layer of irony to how literally I apply real life tragedy to this game that obviously uses cults in a comedic manner. I wanna focus in on the characteristics displayed by victims of brainwashing and the techniques used in brainwashing by an abuser.
Looking at the elements used in brainwashing the only one I can say off the bat that is present is isolation, obviously. But with that letâs grab all of Aym and Baalâs dialogue.
What is clear from their dialogue is their obedience to Narinder. They call him master while his keepers and still when you meet them later when adventuring. And physically we do see them by Narinderâs side the entire main game and they fight the Lamb first. But if we add some nuance and look at their role as keepers or my own theory of being apprentices both actions of obedience make sense still for those roles. On the same note they also donât display traits you would expect for someone fully under Narinderâs control. They speak to the Lamb out of turn and attack without prompting from Narinder.
Other characteristics are hard to imply. With torture I do want to pass it off an unlikely as based on the way Narinder tries to manipulate the Lamb itâs only verbal and he cannot attack while chained and I donât see that changing with the keepers. Traits like sleep, water and food deprivation canât be applied for various reasons (mostly the being dead one) and we donât know anything about Narinder and the keeperâs interactions in the past so Iâll have to disregard other traits like suggestion.
Baal: "It's you. Usurper of the Red Crown. The one who freed us."
Aym: "Ha! You are nothing compared to our Master. We have not been in this world long, but already I can tell you are weak. You lack discipline. Our Master wielded Death with precision and control. You allow chaos to reign."
Baal: "What my brother means to say is thank you."
Moving onto groupthink I can pretty comfortably say that this is not a present characteristic of Aym and Baal. In their limited dialogue we can easily characterize Aym as more outwardly defensive of Narinder but Baal is more reserved and even contradicts Aym and is able to speak freely of Narinder.
Looping back around to the way Narinder speaks on his influence on Aym and Baal. Again we know how Narinder speaks, he cannot give honest compliments and dodges affection like itâs a professional sport. With the way he will outright tell the Lamb to manipulate followers and then uses the words âguidanceâ and âinfluenceâ about Aym and Baal, he has to be avoiding admitting affection to the keepers. He does follow that up with âDo what you wish, scornful God. I care not for them.â But again does Forneus not also allow her kits to do as they wish?
My own reading of Narinderâs relation to Aym and Baal is that of mentorship but it could also be read as parental. But saying brainwashed is a big stretch.
This is like another example of like, yeah, wow, an evil character does evil? Who couldâve possibly foreseen this? Sarcasm aside I do see his comments on this being a lesser evil.
First I do have to ask why, if Narinder held strong sense of unrest against his former vessel, did he not have him struck down? The main reason I can see is that Ratau is still devoted to the red crown, most clearly seen by the statue at the lonely shack which generates devotion.
Second, Ratauâs death isnât on his hands, itâs on yours. I find his pride here is from The Lambâs actions not the death of Ratau. You killed your mentor, he describes your actions as âtreacherous opportunismâ and says âA great Vessel takes their master's will as their own.â Based on his later dialogue this is likely more foreshadowing the Lamb becoming as Narinder is. Narinder tried to kill his siblings, and you did kill your mentor. âYou have become as I am."
Iâm gonna tangent quickly cause thereâs a line here that is incredibly interesting.
"He renounced his position after striking a bargain that resulted in the sacrifice of a Follower. He was weak."
Incredibly interesting the way he condemns Ratauâs sacrifice of a follower. Narinder directly contradicts himself. It is implied that the follower was lost to another being that did not benefit Narinder, but the Lamb also sacrifices followers to the Fox and Midas. Just something to chew on.
This is kinda the last bit Iâm gonna get into before I cap this off. It is incredibly funny for me to say âI babygirl Narinderâ only to get a reply thatâs like âI donât think you babygirl him on purpose.â But I wanna talk about why this happens and why it happened to specifically Narinder.
When people complain about the fandom interpretation of Narinder I think they forget the tone of cult of the lamb. The closest thing I could think to call it would be a dark comedy kinda energy.
The game has very dark themes going on. Mentions of real horrible things like genocide, cults and religious abuse. But also just like look at the game, itâs visual style is so cute and non threatening, the bird characters have two mouths to commit to the bit. If you look at the way it depicts cults itâs very surface level, itâs more focused on being a satire on the common satanic media kinda look of a cult. Visually it bathes in its aesthetics, taking names from books like The Lessee Key of Solomon, uses villainous depictions of symbols like the pentagram or old Hebrew script, disregarding its nuanced origins.
And then they go onto do the funniest thing ever. The other bishopâs? Gross little freaks, based on commonly disliked animals, worm, frog, squid and spider. And then- and then they make the god of death, who they characterize and manipulative and evil, they make him a catboy. You cannot tell me they did not know what they where doing.
Why have I shot Narinder with the babygirl beam? CAUSE THE GAME DID IT FIRST!
Iâm gonna call the god of death my little meow meow and point out his status as a Tumblr sexy man cause heâs a little guy and I wanna give him head scritches. But Iâm also gonna call him a layered, fucked up and an incredibly interesting character in the same breath.
The way Shadow started crashing out when Doom was getting on his actual last nerve
I'm still figuring out how I wanna drew him and Lamb but for now I have this doodles of him being him. THIS CAT is a little bit mean but in-game the guy stopped me every night to tell the lamb that he loves them so HAHAHAHA the guy is so "Good Things Go" of Linkin Park coded.
Your art and writing is amazing! I can't wait for kallamar to come in. An chance you have anymore art of Kallamar sitting somewhere? đđ
I do but they are comics and storyboards that I cannot post yet because Spoilers, but I am. Holding That Squid And Shaking Him
EMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM no se por que pero quierom preguntar esto:
Si Lamb se lanzara a Narinder para darle un abrazo ÂżNarinder se lo devolveria o simplemente lo esquivaria? O el se asustaria por esto Idk (disculpa las molestias^^)
Mas adelante que confĂen en el otro un poquito mejor quiero pensar que si lo devolverĂa uwu pov- se te olvida que tu pareja es un dios de la muerte/no se lastima fĂĄcil
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Ask- If Lamb throws themselves at Narinder for a hug, would Narinder return it or simply avoid it?
-A little further on when they trust the other a bit better I think he'd return it uwu pov- you forget your partner is a death god/wont get harmed easily