#cupidiom

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it is both incredibly easy, and incredibly dangerous, to forget that zoe is, in fact, A Formidable Threat,

#mog art #zoetrope #cupidiom #monster boy #robot #his sideburns also look more like sideburns when he bristles like a friggin porcupine #anyway yeah dont praise zoe too much for this the bar is on the floor #i just like bad things happening to cupidiom #fuck off cupid literally nobody fucking likes you

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he is basically neutral with a solid moral compass but he is also an inscrutable troll who will pull some bugs bunny trickster god shit for -no- reason if he's bored. he will leak details about a damning government coverup but mostly for the fact it will cause drama. he also has a habit of doing JJBA poses while giving you terrible news.

(he thinks this is fine because no matter how bad it sounds he is still confident he can fix whatever the problem is, and he usually can 99% of the time)

#mog art #robot #dr zoic #cupidiom #its pronounced 'zo-ick' btw like mesozoic like time periods #he is incredibly fucking old #he may not have been a robot at the start of his life but nobody knows his origins for sure #he will change his answer every time he is asked #i may tweak his design in full later this was another bit character with a stand-in design who became just recurring enough #that the stand-in design stuck before i got to giving it more thought #idk a more unique faceplate situation mayhaps? i'll get back to it

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Zoetrope: Did you have fun putting all your pieces back together Cupidiom: Oodles. What about the whole "lusting after a guy who even if he cares about you as much as he is capable of caring for another person will never say I Love You out loud with his mouth” thing, how's that been working out for you Zoetrope: . . . yknow Zoetrope: I did tell you to never speak to me again Cupidiom: You initiated this conv-[head is not disassembled this time as much as blown into a fine metallic mist that sprays the wall behind with a silvery sheen] Lamarr: Lamarr: Could you always do that? Why do you not just blow up our heads when we fight? Bianca: Yeah that's a freaking one hit kill move, what the fuck! Zoetrope: Can't. Wouldn't work. Don't hate you enough. Lamarr: Oh..! Thanks? Bianca: I GUESS???

#OC babble #zoetrope #cupidiom #lamarr #bianca border #Zoe’s redeeming traits number 4: he kills cupidiom multiple times at the slightest provocation/excuse to do so #And who doesn’t like seeing cupidiom suffer

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i tried to but almost immediately had to stop because i get upset even depicting those two in the same image

#ask x #doodles #the dj #cupidiom #rebus #demersa #bubbles tripwire #lamarr #yeah that one is too serious i can't bring myself to meme it #even calling them exes feel Incorrect #but i can't expect people to know those details #i haven't really gone into exactly what the situation is/was with them yet #but it's Not Great #we'll get to that eventually

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miscelaney-oo

#mog art #dragon #grimstone #lazuli #misty #cupidiom #necrin #lamarr #demersa #calex v2 #jaren #zoetrope #blood cw #smoking cw #collin #anthro

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things to draw later: scratch being an ideal deterrent to keep cupidiom the hell away from the dj (and any character in her vicinity really) bc cupidiom is super high tech but he is only waterproof if the water isn't sentient and knowingly trying to seep past the seams in his chassis to his actual circuits

tapping into the "is technically a reformed villain who was known for being bloodcurdling scary" skills she rarely gets to use and being as terrifying about it as she can to make sure he gets the message. like increasingly her viscosity just enough to stick to the ceiling and ooze a trickle down on him from above, then just dropping down full force like The Blob when he looks up, but not before making an absolute nightmare face for the nanosecond needed for his optics to catch it. he's a robot, that's all he needs to log in his memory banks forever.

#oc babble #the dj and scratch: two of the most OP elemental types and everyone should be thankful they're good guys #the dj #scratch aqua #bringing this up bc i got a couple asks about the dj and cupid specifically and the Implications #workin on answers to those but there's a lil que atm #cupidiom

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[talking about cupidiom] i want that hunk obliterated

#oc babble #cupidiom

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Hey, what do you mean by Perfect Cell? This has so many possible implications. Can he spawn mini hims? Can he fucking absorb people? EXPLODE?! There is a few things this could mean

On reflection, it's actually more of a Piccolo thing, since Perfect Cell has the trait from Piccolo's DNA, just turned up to 11, and Lamarr cannot regenerate from total obliteration the way Cell can.

So Lamarr can't pull a Perfect Cell, but he can pull a Piccolo. But I wanna use The Lines.

the dialogue in the first 2 panels is stolen from DBZA (as linked) the dialogue in the second 2 panels is not

#mog art #doodles #lamarr #offiver v a bitch who gets no tag #he gon gedder : ) #she's not even their vegeta that implies she inexplicably chills/hangs out with everybody as time goes on but No #she's on the Oh You SuuUUUUUCK villain list liek Cupidiom is #lamarr's friends: where the fuck did that come from #lamarr: [covered in blood] today i decided enough was Enough : ) #lamarr: also that woman killed a toddler with herbicide in an IV drip. also my dad. even i think she had it coming no? #lamarr: but if anyone would like to argue in favor of the racist cop wasp who's even committed acts of [REDEACTED] on top of everything els #lamarr: the floor is open friends. anyone? anyone? okay let's go get bagels please my blood sugar is Very low #as for the mini me thing......... [suspiciously long pause] it... is.. debatable....? #uhh... it could be argued... lamarr is the mini me.... hard to get into that without too many More spoilors #i dont want to answer the absorbing question #no he cannot explode #I DON'T THINK??? #blood cw #body horror cw

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Is the Drifter legitimately morally despicable or is he just an asshole

The Drifter is nowhere near the level utterly loathesome, vile evil that Cupidiom is at, but your mileage will vary on how despicable he is. He's a wildcard that is sometimes helpful to the protagonists, will sometimes help strangers out in the wasteland, and has some code of honor (albeit a very myopic one), but he's also extremely untrustworthy, and often only helps because he stands to benefit, will attack the same strangers he helped the last time they crossed paths, and commit random acts of extreme violence on complete bystanders just to make a point to someone he's talking to.

Like he does save Lamarr and Pals a couple of times over the course of the story, and provides desperately needed info at others, but

One of the first things he does after tricking Lamarr into trusting him, was trap him, and proceed to basically torture him both physically and psychologically in an attempt to make him finally boil over and snap hard enough to use his arrow sting on an enemy. Partly out of sadism, and partly because Drifter's convinced Lam will have to use it eventually, in a situation that "actually matters, unlike this one" and he might as well have his little hippie breakdown now so it gets easier to be brutal later.

Lamarr didn't enjoy that.

#ask x #doodles #oc babble #lamarr #the drifter #demersa #smoking cw #i guess i'll say he's the kind of character where there'd be both civil and uncivil discourse about liking him #compared to cupid who would be 'anyone who argues in his defense is guaranteed to be out of their fucking gourd' tier

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If there is an anti Nickle, then what about the anti Cupidom from the mirror universe? He'd still be manbot pretty but he'll overbearingly kind and compassionate about organic life.

Oh, Dime is not from another dimension, he's an evil clone and a result of Nickle goofing around in his boyfriend's secret laboratory unsupervised

Now I could come up with a bizarro version of Cupidiom... but I'd rather just draw some other robots who do not require re-contextualization to be good people you could totally smooch

#mog art #ask x #robot #mecha #cyclops #nickle #robot blink #robot boo #the others dont really have tags but we can fix that #and no that's not a homestuck reference #sometimes pointy sunglasses are just pointy sunglasses

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another handful of warmup sketch TePoMes

#mog art #tepome #lamarr #bianca border #20q #jaren #demersa #the dj #cupidiom #smoking cw #babys first office job era dem looks so much better with a jacket on #now she looks like shes gonna go solve an X File #anyway why is Sets Things on Fire your type lamarr

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[at a convention or something idk] [the good music jerks spot Cupidiom enter from across the room]

Jaren: Urgh. Scratch: How has that freak not been blacklisted from everything yet. Demersa: You know the answer is Because Money. The DJ: What are we talking about? Scratch: Baby don’t look- The DJ: ...Oh! Cupid’s here. The DJ: O) The DJ: [leans to Dem] Do not let that motherfucker get anywhere near me Demersa: How aggressive we want, scale of 6 to 10. The DJ: Hm, what's 6 again? Jaren: Th...The scale starts at 6? Demersa: Oblique manipulation of walkpaths and events that just coincidentally keeps you both out of each other's field of vision. Unfortunately there is a low margin for error and rogue elements. 6.5 and the emergency backup plan is stealth kill. The DJ: What's 8? Demersa: I avoid drawing attention, but will run open physical interference if he enters a certain radius and will use force to evict him from it if necessary. The DJ: And 10? Demersa: I eliminate the problem right fucking now and I don't even try to make it look like an accident. The DJ: Mh. Mhmm. Let's go with 8.5 I think. Jaren: The scale starts at 6??? Demersa: And it goes up to 14. Jaren: You just said it was 10? Wait, wait [counting on fingers] wh, why isn’t the scale just 2 to 10 then, I don’t g- Demersa: I do not half-ass things, Jaren. I go hard or go overboard.

#oc babble #dem no jaren is already bad at math you cant just mess with the rules like that #the dj #demersa #scratch aqua #cupidiom #jaren

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potential methods in which to deliver comeuppance upon cupidiom aside from just straight up killing him: a. turn him into a human, which he would Hate b. download his AI into a gas station toilet, which he would Hate c. tell the heatsink he abused the dj in the past, and then tell the heatsink where he lives

the lattermost is almost funny bc i imagine after beating his ass heatsink just encases cupid in enough ice to make a comet, and then chucks it into space where he’s stuck for however many millenia it takes for him to eventually impact on something. so imagine how anticlimactic it'll be for whatever alien archeologist ends up excavating that crater.

#doodles #long post #oc babble #cupidiom #get dunked on

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Honestly you just totally wrecking the various assholes in your own story is premium A+ content. All your stuff is so good but thats just the creme of the crop right there.

why thank you!

antagonists with interesting motivations or sympathetic qualities are cool and stuff but sometimes you just need villains whose entire purpose is to make you go “ohhh kicking YOUR ass is going to be FUN” for either the comedy or the serious cathartic payoff that comes whenever they Get It

#mog art #ask x #cupidiom #demersa #the CLoA became some of my favorites specifically bc of how fun it is to mercilessly roast them #acewarden

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i have realized that outside of just outright killing him eventually, one of the few ways to adequately torment/deliver comeuppance on Cupidiom would be to turn him human somehow, since he Could Not Handle being a gross fleshy oily organic lifeform at all

#note: cupidiom gets the generic Tumblr Husband pretty blonde whiteboy humanization explicitly because he sucks n i don't like him #and thats the kind of humanization he deserves as a result #cupidiom #doodles

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oh yeah as some more recent doodles implied, i did completely redesign Cupidiom awhile back. he’s like an action figure only if you pull the string he insults you for not being as rich as he is and then probably throws you out the window for having the gall to touch him with your icky organic skin fingers

anyway for those uninitiated, this guy is evil and he sucks, full bio to come later (working on main characters atm!)

#mog art #robot #the gangly version was honestly a pain in the ass to draw consistently #i had to streamline him a bit #and since he's a narcissist i figured i might as well give him the kind of body he'd design for himself anyway #he might have a few alternates he can download in and out of #i might add his 'ponytail' back in though i miss it #cupidiom