I've been busy simplifying my drawing style and doing anatomy; which is why I haven't been on much; I've got some worldbuilding details down though, even picked out some alien names (Flad, Aob, Vent, Law)...
I did all of these this weekend, but if I continue at this pace; I will burn out; so I'll hold off till the new years and then do two or three OCs a week until I've got all the old and the several new ones I've added done...
I also want to finish drawing some of my new OCs; some who go along with Klein and others just cool dudes from anime I wanted to add to my verse
Sorry I've been so inactive lately, I've mostly been world building though, uh, I decided to change some of the background to get further from Eva by moving the setting to a wholly alternate earth, based on a Strangereal map I made; though I tried to use real world names for my alternate history and nations as much as possible; it frees me from the constraints of just an alternate history (even with weird continents) So I can have my own world with a bedrock in reality and some realism.
The setting is my original idea, ruin diving, fighting monsters dungeon crawling, and trying to learn about Bear’s past and nature inside ancient advanced ruins; kinda like season 1 of steven universe, when there was no overarching plot, only hints of larger stories going on, amid slice of life and exploration and other worldbuilding. I’ve been able to reincorporate everything back into ancient myths and tie them together with modern conspiracies, like I love, with ancient aliens and UFOs and government conspiracies and aliens as angels and stuff…
Updated Gang Lore; Mitsuo and Bear, and their gang, live in a small town called Demitel at the foothills of the mountains on the west coast of America, along the ceres sea, its a few hours scooter ride from the town to the ocean, or the nearest major city, Toltus, it was a mining town and a large number of the workers were japanese immigrants, who brought many of the japanese touches to the town, creating its fusion culture. The town isn’t very huge, its surrounded by rolling hills and forests and lakes.
With Demitel I wanted to get out of my comfort zone, the town is based Inuba from persona 4, and on Village-3 from the new eva movie, with the small homes made of metal sheets and thin wood, cargo containers, among regular homes; up in the mountains is the town of Hima. The skullz are a color gang in the town, kids formed gangs because the town is boring and they were looking for fun and adventure, spending the day exploring the region and fighting each other.
These homes, rather than being shanties are based on the tiny home movement, small affordable homes making efficient use of space. When a typical home; almost non existent yard, small bedrooms, ugly open concept, inefficient floor-plans; the micro-mc-mansion, goes for the equivalent of 750 to 1,500k, and the average person only makes 45k, these tiny homes are a must. Bear and Mitsuo live in one 30 feet long and the main house being 8’10” wide; it's actually a larger tiny home, with a side room and veranda; its located up against the concrete bank of the Furbas river floodplain, the house is a nicer new one; a real holohouse (able to layer virtual structures over the physical substructure, like in psychopass)
The new shopping district has a huge department store, along with several tall apartments, a college on top, and even a movie theater; while the old shopping district has recovered well enough since the department store opened and everything started going under. There are few doctors with actual doctorates anymore; the hospitals are staffed with apprentices supervising largely automated robotic medicine (its 30 years old though, by 2060 state of the art was the medipod which can do all the doctoring on its own with no human supervision).
The town is located in the Ceresian northwest. The nearby skyscrapers are actually light condensing blocks (huge half cylinders with an inner layer of mirrors focusing sunlight down to the base, onto a tiny solar panel, both the mirrors and tower rotate to track the sun) in the woods power the city, and the farmland has all been tented over as factory farms, sunlit 24/7/365 for crops that never stop growing.
Since I am freer with this alt world, it's not just an alt history with some weird landmasses, they developed nuclear power before nuclear weapons, and used it and solar and wind to create electric cars; the huge expansion in car ownership in the 50s was electric rather than gasoline powered!
Updated Inusaon lore; they’re now ultraterrestrials; they are the original human race which evolved on earth out of a liquid light primordial ooze, light quantum entangled to matter to gain stickiness and mass; this displays the properties of both wave and particle at the macroscale, but can be arranged into a perfect imitation of organic molecules, in parallel to organic life on Earth.
They developed on earth more than six million years ago, slowly and methodically developing agriculture and then biotechnology, and eventually mechanical technology. They have an antimatter fueled metabolism, though instead of a discrete organ, they have many little organelles powering them; they do not have eternal life though, basically just a long extended life and no need for food, still, eventually their cells stop dividing and they decline and die.
From their antimatter powered physiology they created a race of giant (like up to 8 meters) humans made in their image with a giant antimatter organ (a huge version of their organelles, combining ambient matter with organically generated antimatter), as heavy duty laborers and soldiers; humans called these angels, because many did not resemble humans when completed (think the angels from bayonetta). More than 75,000 years ago, they created mankind (actually several of them), as domestics and infantry; using their own genes again as a template again (they gave their all-living perpetual energy attribute to their angels, and gave us their sapience)
75,000 years ago, we rebelled, and nearly drove them to extinction before they ultimately fled, leaving 17 of their race behind as AIs to guide our development. Popping in from time to time, they were always our gods, but, long after we forgot who they were except as gods, they also became our fairies and angels and kami and sky sprites and elves; and in modern times, our UFOs and aliens, most of their ruins are gone, except for a couple dozen sites of interest; everything else is buried under plant life and soil, while their surviving tools became the basis of myths, and in modern times study has netted a great tech boon too.
In this case they are basically my fan theories for NGE’s FAR, but I am not trying to copy eva anymore; I more or less mutilated my fanon theories to fit my new verse, rather than trying to fit my OCs and world into another person’s worldbuilding, since I love white bring and Bear and absolutely love the race I created (and its not my rut because when I worked on this idea it all actually flowed pretty easily, much more than before).
Their society is hidden and telepathic in nature, not having much in the way of art and literature, at least in visible form; their architecture is ergonomic but otherwise unadorned postmodernist, their spoken and written language is meant for them to be concise, which is why they speak and write at all when their whole culture is basically just telepathic. Their technology began as biotech, since they can psychically alter organic matter, and went on to biomechanical and cybernetics, using physics bending biology as the basis of everything.
