The Designs For Two Protagonists For My Current Visual Novel Project, “Deathbed Dreaming”.

Some of my first doodles of Viktor & Miraig.

My slow mental collapse is reaching its climax because I kind of want some really bad things to happen to the apple-fruit company to vindicate my lost sanity.

I guess on top of everything else I gotta actually save shit with a real background now because FOR SOME FUCKING REASON iOS don’t believe in that transparent-background horse-hockey.

Anyway here’s my new buddy, Desmond. Desmond is dead and I killed him. My dormant brain willed it to be so in the dream that created him, and I’m not gonna argue with that decision because it doesn’t like back-talk.

So…Desmond is a very devoted cleric who practiced weaving a protective ritual day in and day out on the monastery grounds. Even his martyrdom couldn’t keep him from protecting the place. His grave is in a corner of the yard he paced, shaded by a modest young tree and bearing Lillies-of-the-Valley…although his cloak brandished Hyacinth imagery. He still casts the very ritual he was struck down for practicing on occasion, since his dedication and affinities with certain cosmic elements changed him into a sort of guardian spirit.

Have some “League” Miraig!

The first one is “old” canon now, as she in LoL lore was initially meant to essentially have been an enabler to her partner, Viktor.

And then there’s High Noon Miraig. She’s an ex-coal miner turned magic-wielding undertaker. She joined Viktor in this AU as well, believing that the only peace left to be found in the world was in creating a new end. And so, she developed her magic in a way that allows her to rob her victims of sentience, leaving them in a quiet haze, unaware of their own existence. This is how she deals with the risen dead - and the few who dare cross her. She’s been nicknamed “The Unmaker” because of this magic. She robs souls of the humanity that once defined them.

One thing I noticed about MHA is that no one talks about what Mic must be going through.

Including him.

Repressing those feelings can’t be healthy…

Ibis headshots, during- and post-“Arcane”.

I kind of really love them.

A Piltover character this time.

Meet Ibis.

A chemist whose flexible morals and opportunistic nature can make them very dangerous.

While working as an associate with the Hextech Labs, Ibis created quite the amicable connection with mainstay employee Miraig.

During the peak of tension between Piltover and Zaun, Ibis went from struggling entrepreneur to active bioterrorist while attempting to deal with being cornered by parties from both factions.

My FFXIV character, Eyma Ronde.

This poor girl has been inactive since I finished “Endwalker”, bless her. 😔

Cameo portrait of Neeko with Ethiopian Opal and Passion Flower. I was playing her a lot in LoL at the time, ha ha.

One of my cameo portraits featuring Viktor from “Arcane”.

I really love to include gems and flowers in a symbolic fashion in these.

Foxglove was chosen for Viktor due to its coloring and what it represents: ambition.

“That which inspires us to our greatest good…is also the cause of our greatest evil…”

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The end of this episode broken me into so many pieces, in so many ways.