It dawned on me this morning that—at the start of the competition, Hex isn’t very experienced with large scale projects or building full-sized robots.
He’s built a lot of smaller scale robots in his garage, using stuff he’s found lying around, (like the toaster, which he got in big trouble for disassembling...)
…But due to his small size and lack of proper resources, his robots were never quite up to the elite standards he wanted them to be, looking more ‘kiddish’ and cobbled together’ than ‘sleek’ and ‘epic’ like how he visualized in his head.
His fascination with video games—in particular a game franchise called Hero Mania— is what got him into coding and inventing in the first place; seeing as they featured giant hero mechs, which he became inspired to one day build and control/pilot in real life.
But his inability to make The Thing™ a reality, along with all the negative voices in his life got him discouraged. So, he began to focus on the digital side of things instead.
His headset acts very much like a VR one, giving him access to a 3D digital space where he can work with and build his creations while not being limited by resources or space.
Using this and his custom coded tablet, he ends up focusing more on coding, writing up programs, and building digital versions of the robots and suits he wants to bring to life.
But until he meets Lug, he has no idea how he’s ever going to pull it off— or if it’s even possible. But the bulldog loves the whole concept and wants to see him succeed, so he helps him obtain bigger and better materials. Helps him with the building side of things, and even encourages him to silence out those negative voices.
He’s also the one to introduce Hex to the competition in the first place. He thinks it’ll be good for Hex to try his hand in a place with other inventors.
Not to mention—the Athos Corporation has a plethora of supplies and space, something Hex can use to attempt one of his larger scale robots. (Although of course, they don’t understand just how tricky doing that will actually be until they’re already in it.)
⭐️ Bonus note to add: During prelims, people—including Starline—do end up judging Hex on his robots’ appearance since it is still quite crude. But his programming and what he makes it do is what really blows them away.
It’s the only reason he and Lug even get through the first round in the first place. And why Starline tracks them down to get them to join his team.
So yeah! There’s your character lore dump for the day. :)
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Welcome Home Drawing Week Challenge - Day 1
I technically drew all of these over a span of several weeks but oh well-
Day One - Favorite Character
I actually have two favorite characters, Sally and Howdy! I didn’t like Sally all that much at first, I will admit, but after seeing a bunch of fun characterizations of her as well as learning how to draw her, she grew on me.
So! I drew them both- I was mainly inspired by Clown’s post about how Howdy would be a good actor in Sally’s plays, if he could only stop advertising the sales at his Bodega-
Enjoy!
“Picture it, Howdy! The red curtains opening up, revealing you, dressed fully in costume! The stage lights shining down upon you, the audience waiting with anticipation for the star- you, not me, for once- to begin! The sweat dripping down your brow! The script memorized within your mind! Oh, the drama! The intrigue! Can you picture it, Howdy, can you?”
“…Sally, I haven’t the darndest idea what you’re talking about.”
Hope ya enjoy the lads! I had a lot of fun drawing them, though Sally’s plaid was a bit of a pain- I tried to use some patterns I found for all of the Welcome Home cast’s clothes on a Twitter post and do some fun ✨warping✨ to get it to fit, but only managed to do that on her left (our right) sleeve before I decided to do it free hand. To anyone that ever tries to animate hers or any of the other characters’ plaid patterns (I’m lookin at you, Frank-), I wish you all tremendous luck.
Likes and reblogs are appreciated! PLEASE DO NOT REPOST MY ARTWORK!
(Prompt List Under the Cut!)
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