DISTRESSED DAMSELS: Sexy Sinister Magician Shasti ahoy! (Patreon)
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Last week, I posted a rather goofy-ass DiD commissioned story—or perhaps "story," more accurately—drawn 20-odd years ago that featured Kei and Y—er, Rose & Lily bedamseled by a sinister stage magician.
Wellp, whilst recently struggling to develop production momentum on Empowered vol.12, I drew a sketchy few pages of a scenario that would've dramatically improved that long-ago "story"—namely, by replacing the generic male Sinister Magician with a Zatannically costumed Sexy Sinister Magician Shasti once again victimizing our hapless heroines. Oh, no!
Initially, this was just a goofy page or two of raw, sketchy cheesecake based on magician costuming I was working on for an Empowered vol.12 Sistah Spooky variation—until I stumbled across an amusing concept.
Namely, I figured out an actual, in-universe rationale for why the heck a pair of Lucien-program genetic upgrades* like Rose & Lily—whose gene-sculpted bodies normally feature preset, fixed somatotypes—would now be sporting the curvier, notably more buxom physique that I've been using for Emp over the last few years.
(*For the uninitiated, the "genetic upgrade" bit is an SF riff I worked up for my version of the Dirty Pair, retconned into my variant continuity with the fifth miniseries.)
Yeahp, poor Rose & Lily have been "biohacked" by That Darn Shasti to make them into plusher pieces of "Shoulder Candy" (per Empverse slang).
I liked the idea of Rose's vanity and sense of competition with Lily blinding her to a wholly anomalous transformation, as seen above. Moreover, this arguably hints that the "distressverse" Rose & Lily might have a more, ah, complicated history with Shasti than the actual-continuity Lovely Angels. (Ahem.)
Ah, but I developed just enough momentum from cranking out these sketchy pages to develop some decent progress on Empowered vol.12, so this episode's been shelved indefinitely. Still, 'twas fun to briefly revisit some goofy crap that harks back to Emp's earliest days of casual, tossed-off, planning-free cheesecakery.
TOMORROW ON THIS HERE PATREON: Ehh, possibly an Empowered vol.12 update, assuming I can get some kind of Photoshop analogue up and running tonight. (Had to scan these pages with a not-long-for-this-world Windows 8 PC, as my Hot New Windows 10 machine can no longer run my ancient version of Photoshop, which was acquired 20 years ago this very month.)
TODAY OR TOMORROW FOR THE BIG SPENDERS: Still wrapping up one more sketch set based on $10 & $20-tier art reqs, so you might end up seeing your exclusive post for June in, well, July. Whoops!