Yep, I think Yoda definitely called it (Sci Fi WIP) (Patreon)

Hello!

The second set of characters from this month are here!  Like I said before, I wanted to do something a little different with Vader.  Just to be clear, I'll still make the fully armored version from the poll.  But rather than just churn out the millionth rendition of that, I thought it'd be interesting to design Vader in a way that hasn't been seen before (at least to my knowledge).  

The Star Wars prequels have an uneven reputation, but one aspect I think they absolutely nailed down was Anakin's journey to the Dark Side.  From Yoda's foreboding warning to him as a kid to his ruinous transformation on Mustafar, we can clearly see the trajectory Anakin's life was going to take.  While the galaxy sees Darth Vader as this invincible symbol of the Empire's might, behind the mask he's just some beef jerky held together by an exoskeleton and a clunky respirator.  A ruined husk of man that needs constant skin grafts, adjustment surgeries and a cocktail of drugs just to stay functional.  

On that cheerful note, let's move onto the Xenomorph!  So I flipped through some of HR Giger's sketches and hoo boy, they're...something, let me tell you that.  I bet Sigmund Freud would have loved to do his thing on those sketches. 😄 But they're definitely great horror material and fertile ground to breed new and disgusting variations.  

While designing the baseline Xenomorph, I was pleasantly surprised to discover AvP had created several different variants.  Holy cow, you mean the Xenomorphs have a titan?!  Why hasn't there been a Kaiju styled movie with the Xenomorph Queen Mother yet?  Godzilla Vs Xenomorph Queen Mother, it practically writes itself!  Just jack her up to ten times the size.  No human protagonists please.  If there must be humans, make all of them suffer horrible deaths as penance for having to sit through their pointless melodrama.  Anyways, I liked the Queen Mother design so much I'm including it this month with several cool add-ons.  Flying Xenomorph titan?  Yes please. 👍

Good news for Grimdark fans.  Later this month, there will be a Grimdark cross promotion and after that comes the latest Grimdark poll (Yvraine will be guaranteed next month)!  Stay tuned!