Mousey boys for @evtraininguniversity's Subway Rats AU! They are very small!
(Ears are extra big, apparently, because... I don't know why, actually, maybe I was channeling my inner Dumbo, or something)
(I like the Flop of floppy things like ears)
Thank you very much for letting me draw your little guys, Ev!
Everyone else, go take a gander at Ev's stuff! She has a lot of really good AUs, and I think this one is especially cute!
Have a good day, everyone! <3
(Program: Krita; time taken: about 1 hour, 40 minutes)
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i also feel like (upon rewatch) the 1990 tmnt movies do a great job of making the boys seem like actual kids. they goof off and leo in particular isnt held back by the leadership role that later iterations struggle with. im also very fond of the surfer dude style of speech they have, except raph who inexplicably has a brooklyn accent lol.
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Ash Ketchum
Ahahahahaha no... he is like candy to them
Ash Ketchum has the temper of an anime character and the good sense of a ten year old. And the loyalty of an electric rat. He's... a lot like Davie Balfour, honestly, only with positive constitution. The one piece of life advice imparted to him before he left home was "change your underwear every day" and we have no evidence he actually takes it.
Ash tends to leap to conclusions and act impulsively and with good-hearted belligerence. I expect this will be a source of great amusement to Dracula all the way to the Women's Wing, where this particular special treat is going to be the very best, like no one ever was...
But what of the Pokémon? It is incredibly taboo for Pokémon to attack people directly, but they will defend their trainer. It's also taboo for people to directly engage each other - disputes are to be settled by Pokémon battles. (It's the Power of Friendship and Document Review Cockfighting!) Does Dracula even care about these taboos? Are Ash's Pokémon going to sit back and let this little boy become lunch? Pikachu has never done what he's told in his life, Squirtle is a whole mob boss, Bulbasaur lives by the motto No Gods No Masters, and Charmander is... also there I guess.
Or maybe not. Dracula probably steals all his pokeballs the big jerk. But Pikachu is still free-range.
I think Dracula does not keep any Pokémon himself because all natural animals hate vampires so I presume Pokémon likewise. No Power of Friendship for you. He rules the pack of Lycanrocs outside by fear and compulsion. (If Ash does get outside while Dracula is still in residence, Pikachu won't offer much protection, as electric is weak against ground). However, Dracula probably avoids at least some of the taboos by turning into Pokémon himself. Like, if he turns into Zubat, Pikachu probably wrecks him. But I suspect the favored Dracumon is probably Zoroark. I know it says Fox Pokémon, but it's more his color scheme than Lycanroc, and Dark, Ghost, and Normal type moves seem exactly the right combo for Dracula. It'll put him neutral in the elemental rock-paper-scissors against The Rodent, but I am confident Dracula is higher level.
Now if we take Dracula's Guest as canon and the blonde vampiress as Countess Dolinghen, and take seriously the lightning ask from earlier, then vampires are susceptible to electric attacks to the extent of being incapacitated not destroyed. Pikachu can probably protect Ash from the Girlies up to a point. But if Dracumon in pokeform can take out Pikachu, then Ash is pretty trivially back on the menu
So Ash Ketchum, champion of Indigo League, can not survive Castle Dracula.
I leave it as an exercise to the reader to speculate about Dracula's starter and team competition, in the unlikely event he can get Pokémon to listen to him at all
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I love the soundtrack design in Small Saga. Its basic premise is a wainscot-fantasy-meets-sword-and-sorcery sort of deal with mice and rats wielding lighters and pocketknives and other human-made tools as "god-weapons", played more or less 100% straight, with the obligatory blend of plinky faux-medieval ambience punctuated by thumping orchestral bombast for the big events, and then out of nowhere you get hit with a boss fight accompanied by this:
I want you to try and imagine, without context, what you could possibly be fighting that would warrant this music.
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