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You know I have this random idea... What if one of the scientists in hero's duty just goes, "You know, this is the next step in evolution. I'm just gonna use myself as a guinea pig and give myself a shot. That will make me a queen cybug"... But outside of gameplay, they're technically forced to do the cutscene, where they make the final decision to transform into that, behave nothing like a cybug, can constantly switch between phases like some form of a final boss, mostly eats the other cybugs, just like another countermeasure against the d*** things, but it's mostly chill,... Am I cooking?...

i got over it while working on this... It's an idea everyone can share it... And I thought it would be funny

A gift for @king-candybug-backup and their WIP but already amazing fic called Kill Switch! This is my personal interpretation of the Sinistar antagonist who appears in it, which is why I've put this beneath a spoiler if you haven't read Kill Switch yet. :)

Some notes about the design!

Like some other fan-art pieces I saw, I chose not to incorporate the mishmash of weaponry Cy-Sinistar has added on to himself, as it would have been too complicated to fit into the bodyplan.

The arm blades and wings are fully retractable and made of hard-light.

The blocky, purple cerci were inspired from the purple pixels that blast off into space when Sinistar catches up to the player's ship and bites it to dust!

Each of Cynistar's walking limbs contains a built-in rocket booster. Cynistar can achieve VTOL either through the use of it's cybug wings or the four booster jets, but it's limbs are much heavier and more sluggish due to the added machinery.

When grounded, Cynistar is slightly slower than the average cybug when running and not well-suited to evasive maneuvers, but is hard to push around due to his increased weight and low center of mass. Kind of Ankylosaurus-esque.

Very snapping turtle-like mouth, but with his face being as flat as it is he doesn't have much reach when biting. Relatively easy to avoid getting chomped if you don't allow him to get in range, but the pressure his jaws can put out is devastating.

Much less whip-like when compared to KCB, and not capable of turning on a dime or tightly coiling up his body like KCB can.

Lacks graspers entirely (Sinistar never had thumb privileges) so is forced to perform pins with the ends of his limbs or pure body mass.

Not good at quick recovery from being turned turtle. The boosters can be rotated such to topple him back right-side-up with controlled thrust, but that process takes some time and luck depending on how accommodating the geometry of the terrain he landed on is.

Yes, he screams. Loudly. After all, he IS SINISTAR, AND BEWARE, HE LIVES!

primary inspirations include Porcellio laevis (smooth isopod, the kind that can't curl up on itself), Ankylosaurus (mass distribution and armor plating), tarantulas (gait), Cybugs (basic body plan and limb distribution), and naturally Sinistar himself (color scheme, head design, plate exterior).

i can't believe that I got this done in a day... I guess that's motivation, at its finest, if i'm not distracted by other things... Anyway, I hope It doesn't look too ridiculous, @king-candybug-backup ... I did try my hardest to bring a vision of this... Also I showed the base sketch cuz. I thought it might be helpful and to show that I am not perfect

kc: How elaborate do we have to make this fight?!....GET DOWN HERE!

@king-candybug-backup

I'M COOKING!...W.I.P.

@king-candybug-backup for the idea...and clarification

Hey, what does sinstar look like?... I have a feeling I want to cook something

CONSIDER ME EXTREMELY CURIOUS?????

So the character from the original arcade game looks like this, he's basically just a floating spaceship head:

But if you're talking the fic Cy-bug form specifically, I picture him as something kinda like this (warning for EXTREMELY rough and rushed sketch lol):

Basically I figure he'd be mostly like a normal Cy-bug, just bigger and with Sinistar's face and general colour scheme (as a side note, I didn't include the mishmash of weapons he attached to himself in chapter 2 because I am bad at drawing weapons lol, but he's just going around eating random stuff for the power-ups, so that's not super important in how it looks imo lol)