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Here's an Epic one for: 
Aeto
VERY challenging and fun, took me some days to finish it!
It was a great opportunity, and I'm grateful for the ammount of trust he deposited on me!
Thanks, folks!
Do NOT use this Artwork without Authorization!
AetoVERY challenging and fun, took me some days to finish it!
It was a great opportunity, and I'm grateful for the ammount of trust he deposited on me!
Thanks, folks!
Do NOT use this Artwork without Authorization!
Category All / All
Species Unspecified / Any
Size 884 x 1280px
File Size 960.7 kB
As I said in the note, I'm really happy with how this came out. It's not at all what I would have imagined, but that's why I do these artistic liberty commissions: to see these sorts of things I'd never have thought of myself. I think it's an excellent version of Odon, and I wouldn't ask for anything more.
It certainly portrays him as a creature you really, really don't want to be on the wrong side of. :)---<
It certainly portrays him as a creature you really, really don't want to be on the wrong side of. :)---<
The whole Odon's background can be found at: http://www.furaffinity.net/gallery/aeto/
Amazing character!
And I'm glad you like it! :)
Amazing character!
And I'm glad you like it! :)
It's funny... I was just talking to someone on IRC about this scene. Given that it was artistic liberty, Inert-Ren of course has as much idea as I, but here's what I personally read into it (which would be entirely in line with the snake's character, of course)...
I imagine society descended, again, into the realm of "blood sports," the arena in the background used for gladiatorial matches, beasts summoned up from the netherworld to fight against the human gladiators. Many (most?) of the gladiators don't survive the matches, but the few who do are well rewarded; if you survive a half a dozen such matches, you may never have to work again in your life.
Alas, they're never really sure *WHAT* they are calling up and sometimes they can't control the beast they summon forth. When a 75' long, 4-armed serpent arrives, those responsible for the summoning have clearly not done their research well enough. When it becomes clear the gladiators aren't going to take it down, they send in the military. When it became clear they weren't going to stop him either, the air strike was sent in.
That strike did manage to take a giant chunk of the arena itself out, but the great serpent just slithered out of the wreckage, seemingly unharmed. The army is still trying to contain him, ideally to dispel him, vanquishing him back to the underworld from where he was summoned.
Eventually, they probably will be effective; eventually he'll be sent back to Hell, but the amount of destruction he causes until he can be contained is likely to be rather severe.
So, as the human "player" of the snake, I feel for the soldiers; they are doing their job, doing it well, but the fact is that there will be casualties in no small numbers.
Odon's answer to that, though, would be, "Their senior officers summoned ME. They knew what they were doing, brought me forth to kill, and that's just what I'm going to do. If they don't want mortal deaths, they really should stop summoning demons."
(And, in seriousness, while I've never been military, I was an oceanographer for years and worked closely with quite a few Navy officers as part of that career. I have the utmost respect for them, and what they do. While this clearly shows them meeting a rather unfortunate end, think of it this way: these are people putting themselves in harms way, in front of a clearly deadly, monstrous demon, in order to minimize civilian loss.)
Normally I wouldn't give this much of a reply on the artist's page for a commission, and I hope he doesn't mind here, but the piece really does tell an impressive story, both from his point of view and that of those fighting him. Kind of curious, Inert-Ren, does my interpretation of the piece more or less match your ideas?
I imagine society descended, again, into the realm of "blood sports," the arena in the background used for gladiatorial matches, beasts summoned up from the netherworld to fight against the human gladiators. Many (most?) of the gladiators don't survive the matches, but the few who do are well rewarded; if you survive a half a dozen such matches, you may never have to work again in your life.
Alas, they're never really sure *WHAT* they are calling up and sometimes they can't control the beast they summon forth. When a 75' long, 4-armed serpent arrives, those responsible for the summoning have clearly not done their research well enough. When it becomes clear the gladiators aren't going to take it down, they send in the military. When it became clear they weren't going to stop him either, the air strike was sent in.
That strike did manage to take a giant chunk of the arena itself out, but the great serpent just slithered out of the wreckage, seemingly unharmed. The army is still trying to contain him, ideally to dispel him, vanquishing him back to the underworld from where he was summoned.
Eventually, they probably will be effective; eventually he'll be sent back to Hell, but the amount of destruction he causes until he can be contained is likely to be rather severe.
So, as the human "player" of the snake, I feel for the soldiers; they are doing their job, doing it well, but the fact is that there will be casualties in no small numbers.
Odon's answer to that, though, would be, "Their senior officers summoned ME. They knew what they were doing, brought me forth to kill, and that's just what I'm going to do. If they don't want mortal deaths, they really should stop summoning demons."
(And, in seriousness, while I've never been military, I was an oceanographer for years and worked closely with quite a few Navy officers as part of that career. I have the utmost respect for them, and what they do. While this clearly shows them meeting a rather unfortunate end, think of it this way: these are people putting themselves in harms way, in front of a clearly deadly, monstrous demon, in order to minimize civilian loss.)
Normally I wouldn't give this much of a reply on the artist's page for a commission, and I hope he doesn't mind here, but the piece really does tell an impressive story, both from his point of view and that of those fighting him. Kind of curious, Inert-Ren, does my interpretation of the piece more or less match your ideas?
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