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2018 art, featuring a trucker hyena that wants to tell you stories from the road... And he has plenty!
Strange sights while driving at night, unusual vehicles, strange locales and even stranger locals, terrible food from terrible truck stop restaurants, the horrors of gas-station restrooms, UFOs, cryptids, monsters, run-ins with criminals, bizarre secretive delivery jobs where military sorts in long coats load up a trailer full of locked metal crates and don't tell him what he's hauling but only where it needs to get and by what time, encounters with all manner of hitchhikers, hobos, drifters and vagabonds, weird interactions with other truckers...
While not a character I've given a whole lot of thought to, Macario here seems like a guy that would appear in the background of a lot of other stories, a barely visible but common thread connecting seemingly unrelated stories and sometimes dropping offhand references to them.
Strange sights while driving at night, unusual vehicles, strange locales and even stranger locals, terrible food from terrible truck stop restaurants, the horrors of gas-station restrooms, UFOs, cryptids, monsters, run-ins with criminals, bizarre secretive delivery jobs where military sorts in long coats load up a trailer full of locked metal crates and don't tell him what he's hauling but only where it needs to get and by what time, encounters with all manner of hitchhikers, hobos, drifters and vagabonds, weird interactions with other truckers...
While not a character I've given a whole lot of thought to, Macario here seems like a guy that would appear in the background of a lot of other stories, a barely visible but common thread connecting seemingly unrelated stories and sometimes dropping offhand references to them.
Category Artwork (Digital) / Fat Furs
Species Hyena
Size 650 x 950px
File Size 626.9 kB
Macario's expression changes a bit, as he thinks back...
"Well, I've seen a few devils in the past, and I think a couple of them were in Jersey... but I think I actually *met* the Devil once! I was on my way back home one night, and I was tired so I stopped off at some little bar off the side of the highway out in the desert. I guess they were havin' local bands or something because when I walked in, there was somebody playin' a crazy guitar riff..."
"So, I turn to the stage, and I saw the biggest damn antelope I ever seen! Must a'been damn near eight feet tall countin' his horns, fat boy too, all decked out in this fancy-lookin' silver jewelry, long hair, some braids, straight-up wearin' a crown too! And his wings. Big, black wings. And he was jammin' out on that guitar, eyes closed, just in the moment... until he looked right at me!"
"Now I thought, bein' a hyena and all, we were gonna have beef since he caught me starin' at him like that... his eyes, lemme tell ya, stared right into my soul. He had a sorta sinister grin on his face, but at the same time, oddly welcoming and friendly. Then he spoke..."
" 'Your truck's going to get towed if you don't move it', is all he said, before returning to his jam session."
"Of course, I high-tailed it out of there to move the truck, but only as I got in the cab did it hit me... there was no way he coulda seen where I was parked. How in the hell did he know I was parked in front of a fire hydrant?! I didn't stick around to find out."
...So how's that for storytelling? That's exactly how I figure Macario's tales would go--the occasional obscure meeting with some other character of mine, a bit rambling, and often a bit off-topic from what was initially asked of him. I've been trying to practice my storytelling a bit, and play with different styles and typing dialogue the way characters would actually speak.
Of course, that's not what you asked... I'll answer that one out of character--he has. Of course, I have a few characters that match that general description so he might not even know if it was an actual monster, or just some drunken pegasus messing around in the woods!
"Well, I've seen a few devils in the past, and I think a couple of them were in Jersey... but I think I actually *met* the Devil once! I was on my way back home one night, and I was tired so I stopped off at some little bar off the side of the highway out in the desert. I guess they were havin' local bands or something because when I walked in, there was somebody playin' a crazy guitar riff..."
"So, I turn to the stage, and I saw the biggest damn antelope I ever seen! Must a'been damn near eight feet tall countin' his horns, fat boy too, all decked out in this fancy-lookin' silver jewelry, long hair, some braids, straight-up wearin' a crown too! And his wings. Big, black wings. And he was jammin' out on that guitar, eyes closed, just in the moment... until he looked right at me!"
"Now I thought, bein' a hyena and all, we were gonna have beef since he caught me starin' at him like that... his eyes, lemme tell ya, stared right into my soul. He had a sorta sinister grin on his face, but at the same time, oddly welcoming and friendly. Then he spoke..."
" 'Your truck's going to get towed if you don't move it', is all he said, before returning to his jam session."
"Of course, I high-tailed it out of there to move the truck, but only as I got in the cab did it hit me... there was no way he coulda seen where I was parked. How in the hell did he know I was parked in front of a fire hydrant?! I didn't stick around to find out."
...So how's that for storytelling? That's exactly how I figure Macario's tales would go--the occasional obscure meeting with some other character of mine, a bit rambling, and often a bit off-topic from what was initially asked of him. I've been trying to practice my storytelling a bit, and play with different styles and typing dialogue the way characters would actually speak.
Of course, that's not what you asked... I'll answer that one out of character--he has. Of course, I have a few characters that match that general description so he might not even know if it was an actual monster, or just some drunken pegasus messing around in the woods!
Quite! This is exactly how I figure his storytelling would go--he'd describe things from a slightly different perspective, since he'd probably not know every single detail of my universe, or why things are happening, he'd just describe what he saw the best he can. It's fun to think about what a character's perspective of events in-universe might be, as opposed to how I as the artist or you as the audience might understand them.
Don't worry, I know what you're talking about! I have quite a few character that could match that description, really--as far as bizarre winged equine creatures go, Jacques Duncan immediately comes to mind. All that's missing is the horns! I guess the joke I was making is, I actually have some pretty weird characters inhabiting the same world as he does, so what he thinks is the Jersey Devil might have just been Jacques after partying a bit too hard while camping.
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