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366 Days of Killian Jones [109/366]

#Hook

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366 Days of Killian Jones [107/366]

#Hook

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Thoughts on my Mr Incredible and Mr Fantastic crossover ship?

It's an interesting combo that I wouldn't have thought of! They're both kind of the traditional 60's family patriarchs of their respective families, so having them be queer and with each other has interesting implications and story potential. Also Reed being the brainy one and Bob being the brawny one is fun, and, hey, Bob's type is definitely flexible superheroes ;)

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Treasure Planet

(2002) dir. Ron Clements & John Musker

#jim hawkins

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We like Disney villains with goatees, okay? King Magnifico (from the upcoming movie Wish) and David Xanatos (from Gargoyles).Just a warmup sketch.

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#David Xanatos #King Magnifico

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i had all these drawings from a few years ago in my drafts that never got around to being posted so here they are now

#David Xanatos #Puck #Demona

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"I have magic and my friend has the power of... money, of course. A lot of it".

Today's warmup sketch is just Puck and Xanatos, because it was too much time that we didn't draw them together.

[Oh, and a lot more of our Gargoyles fanarts: Here’s the Gargoyles tag]

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#David Xanatos #Puck

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Company mandated 3-5 minutes of “kissing with tongue”

#David Xanatos #Owen Burnett

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"I need a kiss, Owen".

Just some more of the very silly sketches that we sometimes draw while talking with our friends on Discord.

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#David Xanatos #Owen Burnett

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Here, have some fuzzy Xanatos (that is changing into pajamas. What were you thinking, huh?). Drawing body hair is relaxing.

An old sketch (from this shirt cut meme) finally colored.

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#David Xanatos

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#David Xanatos #Puck

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"Nice arm for a little bro" 

"Nice arm for a mortal human".

More for our "Vlad Masters and David Xanatos are actually brothers and finally found each other again" AU. We should find a shorter name for this. Hmmm... Found Billionaires? Billionaire Bros? (Like this one, BB). Also, we like to draw muscle and men with ponytails, don't judge us.

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#David Xanatos #Vlad Plasmius

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Xanatos's infamous line!

I come back to the knowledge that we learn that he gains his riches later in life and not born in it. I think it's easy enough for the wealthy to believe their money can get them what they want. I think it's easy to just have a fundamental belief that money just makes things happen for those people.

But I think Xanatos is speaking from experience here. He will walk barefoot into hell if it gets him where he is. In some ways, a lot of what he does in the show is his way of walking barefoot into hell given the risks he takes. He is spending 'astronomical' wealth not only in having this castle relocated to New York, but he clearly fully expects to be overpaying every single individual he hires in the process.

And to what end?

I think at this point too, knowing he has the wealth to do this, it's super fair to ask 'to what end?' Even once we understand early in the series it was to prove to himself that the paranormal exists and learning the reaches to which it exists. Because we do learn he already knows magic exists. But does this magic exist? And if these magics exist, what other magics exist?

His end is to obtain eternal life. Or at least that's the closest we come to seeing him having any sort of 'end goal.' He's testing all the magics he can and discover what he can to learn which magics reach that goal.

So he puts a castle on top of his tower where he lives to see if monsters of old will truly awaken. They will be in his home. He is there when Goliath awakens. He will be standing before him as the first human Goliath sees after everything we've just endured.

Xanatos would walk barefoot into hell, and he believes others are like him. And is he wrong? There's a lot of people shortly after depicted working on this castle. They've taken the payment to face their fears and worries for the right price.

And that's just who David Xanatos is. I love him.

And it brings me back, after all we just saw in the last episode and a half, to the complicated nature of humans. Robert was good to the gargoyles until he wasn't. Princess Katharine was bad to the gargoyles until she wasn't. Xanatos may end up becoming the gargoyles' villain, but without him, would they ever have awoken?

Nothing, so far, is black and white here.

#David Xanatos

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I want to take a minute to talk about this set. First of all, I do have sympathy for animators. How much detail does one bother to put in any given set? Each detail is extra work. The sparsity here gives this feeling of the traditional villain layout where things are cold and uncomfortable and a visual clue to depravity of the villains.

I don't think that's what they're trying to do here though. We've seen Xanatos's castle. He lives in luxury. His office has a window wall so he can have the pleasure of the whole skyline, but he sits with his back to it. We know he looks out at it and appreciates it, because we saw him do it with Goliath. But he doesn't need to see the city to know everything he needs to.

He has a plant and a big screen TV, and there is a sense that while it's mundane, he does have a carpet with a texture that implies, to me, comfort. He isn't your villain sitting in a dungeon because we know dungeon = bad. He lives in comfort with a flair for the dramatic, because Xanatos is dramatic. He has a fucking spotlight over his desk ffs. Whenever someone enters this room, the spotlight either directs their attention immediately to Xanatos even while that skyline is visible, or that spotlight allows him to go unnoticed for a moment when someone enters if he is off to the side, because he will be in darkness.

We come back to it being all about strategy for him and a convoluted theater in which he is the director.

And not that I think Owen would take a seat, but it's also worth noting that this room is intended only to be comfortable for Xanatos. There isn't another chair here. If someone wants to meet him in his place, they must stand and defer to him.

#David Xanatos

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Rafael Auraleón

#decor

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#Deathbird

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Doctor Doom by Ben Oliver

#Doctor Doom