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Who wants to play spot-the-French-Revolution-references-on-this-guy-?

Smokey here is the main villain of my novel. "Dex Thermidor" is almost certainly not his real name, but no one's dumb enough to correct him on that. Not that anyone really has the capacity to correct him anyways. Despite years of investigating, no one has actually managed to pin down who the hell he is or where he came from. He just sort of appeared out of the woodwork about four years before the events of the story. Originally just a faceless nobody, he managed to single-handedly swipe the rug out from under the feet of the Gévaudan Club, Eagle Crest's oldest and most notorious criminal organization. Originally founded circa 1837 as a resistance against efforts to Anglicanise the descendants of the original French colonists of the region, the Gévaudan Club since evolved into the city's mafia. They were extremely powerful, extremely wealthy, and notoriously corrupt. Still, everyone knew of the Club and what they were getting into. You were only in danger if you double crossed them. There was a widespread… understanding between the Club and the Law that was rotten to the core but no-less formal.

All that changed when Dex Thermidor moved in and ousted the head of the Club's main family. Dex is a cruel man, sadistic and calculating. He rules with the power of terror, and the capacity for violence to back it up. He took the city's delicate house of cards and set it on fire. Now Eagle Crest lives in fear that anyone could potentially be the next victim for nothing more than crossing paths with the man or his goons. Many assume it's random violence, but others hypothesize that there's something more to it, that Dex has a plan for the city, that every order he barks is a move in a grand game of 4D chess. As for what exactly that is, no one is quite sure. The man is so unhinged, it's possible he's five steps ahead of his own brain. He does fancy himself a philosopher, but as for what point he's trying to make, that's a long and bloody road ahead still to find out…

Design notes, like purple, brown is one of my colored pencils that my camera just doesn't seem to like :') Apologies if the lineart doesn't come through particularly clear. His jacket is thick leather, with a snakeskin texture across most of it. I very much tried to go for a humanized viper sort of vibe. He's got a thin chain necklace and chain ornaments hanging off his belt. In addition to the tattoo of a stitch line across his throat, he also has an identical one on the back of his neck, though obviously it's hidden by his hair and collar in the drawing. The mark on his forehead is actually not a tattoo, it's meant to be a bullet hole scar. Don't ask me how he survived getting shot in the forehead. I created the man and even I don't have an explanation yet. I just thought it looked cool and ominous.

Speaking of cool and ominous, I thought for a while on what his primary weapon should be. He's not exactly picky on what sort of implement he picks up, but I wanted something to be uniquely him. A knife or gun seemed too generic, and so I started looking into common improvised street weapons. I'm definitely on a watch list somewhere now. It was strictly for research, government. I'm the kind of person who swerves my bike to avoid hurting worms when it rains. I don't think I'm a threat to anyone-

Anyways, eventually my research brought me to a gallery of implements used by the protesters in the Ukrainian Revolution, and I found this extremely ghetto flail thing that was perfect for what I was looking for. I never thought the lead pipe was something you could upgrade but here we are. I guess I should've known better than to doubt the power of that most ancient of tools: Big Stick. It's exactly the kind of completely unnecessary brutality that I want this character to embody. I cleaned the design up a little and gave it more of a lead-pipe/tactical vibe. He'd probably carry this thing around on his belt just waiting for someone to make a point out of.

Until Dawn and friends can put a stop to him of course~

Description
Who wants to play spot-the-French-Revolution-references-on-this-guy-?

Smokey here is the main villain of my novel. "Dex Thermidor" is almost certainly not his real name, but no one's dumb enough to correct him on that. Not that anyone really has the capacity to correct him anyways. Despite years of investigating, no one has actually managed to pin down who the hell he is or where he came from. He just sort of appeared out of the woodwork about four years before the events of the story. Originally just a faceless nobody, he managed to single-handedly swipe the rug out from under the feet of the Gévaudan Club, Eagle Crest's oldest and most notorious criminal organization. Originally founded circa 1837 as a resistance against efforts to Anglicanise the descendants of the original French colonists of the region, the Gévaudan Club since evolved into the city's mafia. They were extremely powerful, extremely wealthy, and notoriously corrupt. Still, everyone knew of the Club and what they were getting into. You were only in danger if you double crossed them. There was a widespread… understanding between the Club and the Law that was rotten to the core but no-less formal.

All that changed when Dex Thermidor moved in and ousted the head of the Club's main family. Dex is a cruel man, sadistic and calculating. He rules with the power of terror, and the capacity for violence to back it up. He took the city's delicate house of cards and set it on fire. Now Eagle Crest lives in fear that anyone could potentially be the next victim for nothing more than crossing paths with the man or his goons. Many assume it's random violence, but others hypothesize that there's something more to it, that Dex has a plan for the city, that every order he barks is a move in a grand game of 4D chess. As for what exactly that is, no one is quite sure. The man is so unhinged, it's possible he's five steps ahead of his own brain. He does fancy himself a philosopher, but as for what point he's trying to make, that's a long and bloody road ahead still to find out…

Design notes, like purple, brown is one of my colored pencils that my camera just doesn't seem to like :') Apologies if the lineart doesn't come through particularly clear. His jacket is thick leather, with a snakeskin texture across most of it. I very much tried to go for a humanized viper sort of vibe. He's got a thin chain necklace and chain ornaments hanging off his belt. In addition to the tattoo of a stitch line across his throat, he also has an identical one on the back of his neck, though obviously it's hidden by his hair and collar in the drawing. The mark on his forehead is actually not a tattoo, it's meant to be a bullet hole scar. Don't ask me how he survived getting shot in the forehead. I created the man and even I don't have an explanation yet. I just thought it looked cool and ominous.

Speaking of cool and ominous, I thought for a while on what his primary weapon should be. He's not exactly picky on what sort of implement he picks up, but I wanted something to be uniquely him. A knife or gun seemed too generic, and so I started looking into common improvised street weapons. I'm definitely on a watch list somewhere now. It was strictly for research, government. I'm the kind of person who swerves my bike to avoid hurting worms when it rains. I don't think I'm a threat to anyone-

Anyways, eventually my research brought me to a gallery of implements used by the protesters in the Ukrainian Revolution, and I found this extremely ghetto flail thing that was perfect for what I was looking for. I never thought the lead pipe was something you could upgrade but here we are. I guess I should've known better than to doubt the power of that most ancient of tools: Big Stick. It's exactly the kind of completely unnecessary brutality that I want this character to embody. I cleaned the design up a little and gave it more of a lead-pipe/tactical vibe. He'd probably carry this thing around on his belt just waiting for someone to make a point out of.

Until Dawn and friends can put a stop to him of course~