(Gore Warning) Virgil Character Exploration (Patreon)

just some sketches, testing out a new direction for virgil’s character

so i’ve been kinda unhappy with virgil and his story for a while. It just feels flat and boring, and i think that comes from him being such a close expy of my old mlp character, chakra blossom. I’ve been writing/drawing Chakra for years, same old same old smarmy vaguely sinister asshole, and it’s just gotten kinda stale, y’know? A while ago i was sketching concepts for virgil’s (very absent) dad, and then i wondered why i was expending effort on a character who doesn’t really show up in the story proper, a character who was basically just a more interesting version of Virgil. So i decided to smush the two of them into one character.    Virgil 2.0!

He’s a work in progress, but so far he’s pretty fun to work with. Some things didn’t change, he still annoys his foster sister Savannah, he still does that involuntary spooky hyena “laugh” when excited about food. He’s still a paramedic. He can still be a smug little shit, and uhhhhh some of his interests are still kinda questionable. But! He’s no longer a big smarmy douchebag, he doesn’t antagonize people for fun anymore. He has a better relationship with Savannah, they’re still not the closest pair of siblings, but there’s a level of fondness and familiarity that pervades their interactions.