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t3mperanc3

10 months ago

shout out to heather taffet’s actress for filling me with genuine rage every time her character appears on screen. that’s serious talent, genuinely.

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darkwood the gravedigger darkwood oc the lines are just cleaned up sketchlines but otherwise i can't believe i actually managed to finish a whole drawing even with somewhat of a background researching tartans for their skirt pattern took me alot longer than drawing that background i wanted to avoid specific registered or even protected tartan patterns/setts and i wanted to keep the pattern relatively simple since (as ive learned yesterday) tartans used to be a bit simpler in design and the setts themselves were presumably just bound to region and what natural dyes the weavers could make until like the 17th century i think which was around the time tartans started to become acceptable fashion fabrics instead of just the clothing of ''barbaric highlanders'' and clan chiefs started creating specific setts for their own clan tartans that was in the 18th century i think the sett of the tartan fabric the gravedigger is wearing is from before all of that though their mother brought the big piece of fabric with her to darkwood when she married the gravedigger's father and moved out of krakow her mother was from scotland and broght the fabric with her to poland when she moved with her husband to his homeland in about 1910-1920? the sett of that tartan is from the region in the highlands where the gravedigger's grandmother is from they didn't have easy access to chemical dyes yet so the regional setts in that specific small region were still being weaved into tartans when their grandmother moved away the gravedigger is usually wearing mostly clothes from their parents since they're an only child and their mother died shortly after giving birth to them so their father just clothed them with whatever clothes he had at home that he isn't wearing himself and one or two pieces of clothing they got from well-meaning neighbours when they were younger so they often end up in a mix of hand down clothing from both their parents their father didn't manage to sell all of their mother's clothing after her death

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vjonk

4 years ago

most of my waking thoughts these past few days were about these idiots :)

in short, the gravedigger (they/them pronouns) is hard of hearing, grew up with their father and took up his work as gravedigger when he died and is generally a mellow person and since meeting the priest, is slowly getting braver again to help people, even if the person they're trying to help dies/suffers anyways. they go out every night to look for dead bodies of the beasts and any other unfortunate souls that wander the forest and put them in graves that they dig during the day near their hut (the beasts leave them alone for the most part and usually don't attack them, i wonder why :)).

the priest (he/him) grew up in an orthodox orphanage (i think?) and trained to become a priest, thanks to the influence of his mentors and parent figures. he's really anxious and nervous, but reciting prayers has helped him cope with his anxiety attacks. he got sent to the village with another priest to bring hope and a helping hand during the beginning of the plague, though things escalated and he ended up wandering the forest with an infected wound on his leg, until he stumbled in the gravedigger's hut and almost died. the gravedigger amputated his leg and nursed him back to a slightly more stable health state and they've been living together and helping each other since :)) almost forgot, but the priest also really likes wood carving and he keeps injuring himself doing it, because he's rather clumsy with knives and the like

i'll probably end up revising the pierrot's and maybe the gravedigger's designs, but that's them for now! :D