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weewight — Monthly Quest l Prompt 2

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Published: 2019-08-13 03:31:08 +0000 UTC; Views: 322; Favourites: 22; Downloads: 0
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Description Draw your Ballator with their best friend, lover, or closest companion, simply enjoying their company and being thankful for their friendship. Alternatively, you can draw your Ballator listening to words of wisdom from Regale about what he beleives truly matters in life: friends, family, and love.
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    “Who are you grateful for? Who are you thankful for still being around?”

   He flinched from the question. A mere month ago he’d would have trouble mentioning one friend, surrounded by trusted comrades that he had bled with, consoled with, and even won with. 30 or so days later, only one solitary ally came to mind.  

    “Starscream.” Sure, it was his job to keep Starscream alive but he was still grateful all the same. “He’s been a…surprisingly reliable ally.” Really, the only lead stallion in the wild that wasn’t entrenched in highlord’s cults nor wasn’t automatically insecure that Behemoth would attempt to usurp.

    “He provides food and lands in exchange for my protection from his enemies.”So many enemies, nearly all of them driven wild by a personal vendetta against his benefactor.  How exactly the stallion managed to cultivate both quantity and quality of grudges was perplexing but Behemoth didn’t bother asking. The draft mountain just needed to get the job done and that was hard enough with their disagreements on how to neutralize such enemies. The tactics that Starscream pushed turned Behemoth’s stomach, reminding him too much of the pits that he had escaped from.

    Those noxious suggestions would have soured Behemoth’s view on Starscream together but one action of the grullo kept him from judging him: At Behemoth’s weakest moments the other somehow  saw through the ribs and the ineptitude and instead, focused on value or potential in him and offered this venture.

    Perhaps for  manipulation or for more noble purposes. Perhaps this arrangement would be over by the first frost when food became more scare. None of this mattered to Behemoth. He needed to prove Starscream right. That there was still value left in draft stallion yet.  

    Providing protection and hopefully peace to the twilight years to one so insightful and his family was a noble cause. Behemoth was grateful for this start of doing right, correcting his long list of wrongs.
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And the other half of Beo's confirmation prompts! This prompt was absolutely perfect with the plotting that been going on with Beo's future and it was really nice to delve into how he would overall get along with his not-dad/boss as well as how he'd try to make/avoid making his whole usual moral judgements. Right now he can't just take on any more shame so moral justifications everywhere!

For the art itself, the idea was basically just Behemoth blocking off someone from Starscream (I originally was going to add a piece of prey to Starscream but posing just didn't work out)I had to redo this like five times simplly because as much as I love drafts, I can't draw them <_< I feel like I'm drawing giant ponies portions wise. One of these days I'll learn. I really liked how Starscream came out and the lighting in general. Felt nice to do a nice neon backgrounds again.

Also drawing his horns at this angle krjht;lajkh;a

Thank you SharpAsFlint for letting draw your boy and the plotting/rp in general, it's been so much fun.


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+3 Fullbody
+2 Otherbody
+3 Detailed Background
+1 Shading
+1 Wordcount (319 Words)
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10 stats for 6994 l Behemoth
Stock used for him Taz Stock 5

                                                                                                   
+3 Fullbody
+2 Otherbody
+3 Detailed Background
+1 Shading
+1 Wordcount (319 Words)
+1 AS +2 general  for ghoul companion 
+2 stamina for hare companion
+2 gaits for bat companion
+2 intelligence +1 speed for dog companion
+3 general stats custom companion
+3 general stats for jackalope
+4 general stats +10 Denarii for Phoenix 
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30 stats for 3405 | Starscream   (I think that's right?? Let me know otherwise Flint!)
Stock used for him Carlos Andalusian Stallion Rear Leap
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Comments: 9

espclyheinous [2019-09-10 01:09:29 +0000 UTC]

Hey there! This piece came up during a review of a Ballator's stats and it was noticed that a small error slipped by during the review process of this piece! 3405 | Starscream 's total should be 30. Please update that in the description now, just to be sure that nothing is confused in the future! 

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weewight In reply to espclyheinous [2019-09-10 17:55:08 +0000 UTC]

Oh no! Though I updated that awhile ago, sorry about that! all cleared up now.

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espclyheinous In reply to weewight [2019-09-11 00:33:34 +0000 UTC]

No problem! Thank you!

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Buzzbees [2019-08-13 16:14:45 +0000 UTC]

wow this is just stunning!!!

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weewight In reply to Buzzbees [2019-08-14 15:21:11 +0000 UTC]

Eee, thank you!!

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Jasper-Eyes [2019-08-13 14:00:15 +0000 UTC]

DeviantArt, how dare you not give me the notification for the tag! I nearly didn’t see this! 😠

I never expect anything less from your art and drool over your style a lot but MY GOSH. Everything just works so well! Your colour palettes are always so thoughtful, everything just fits together so well into a scene! The ballators look so dynamic and coordinated in their arrangement, especially with Starscream noping out of there to save himself from putting as little effort in as possible. I really like how exaggerated the shading is, it really puts emphasis on their facial expressions. The background’s abstract (minimalist?) style brings the attention back to them and just...I adore this composition! I’ll have to include behemoth in the foal prompts for the twins when they appear, it’ll give him some nice sibling bonding ;w; .

You nearly got all of his mountain of companions! He’s just got a jackalope and Phoenix too now. Because I’m unorganised and need to list them on his ref lol

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weewight In reply to Jasper-Eyes [2019-08-14 15:20:48 +0000 UTC]

OH MY Gosh thank you, you picked up everything that I had to plan around  The composition most of all, something a little action oriented but still kind of shows the basics of their alliance. I couldn't resist having Starscream noping out of there, it was just too perfect with his chracter being a schemer and all that! And YEEees, that'll be so wonderful ;o; Beo would totally love to fall into the big brother role.

Aaah I know that feeling all too well! It's all update, though the stat amount might change just because of the angle Starscream head is at the Bone Crown isn't the most visible.

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Jasper-Eyes In reply to weewight [2019-08-23 11:04:49 +0000 UTC]

pst also, I just noticed that from adding this to his stat tracker, his total comes to 30 and not 28

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weewight In reply to Jasper-Eyes [2019-08-26 23:07:01 +0000 UTC]

Whoops, sorry about that!! All updated ^-^

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