Runs-Red Timm-style (flats-colored sketch)
I thought I'd share a Bruce-Timm-inspired version of Jeremy "Runs-Red" Swanson that I just threw together today. :)
This is my current Werewolf: the Apocalypse LARP character for Mind's Eye Society--a Ragabash Get of Fenris, Metis.
His Metis deformity are bone spurs that protrude out of his skin. They often cause irritation, if not bleeding, which partly how he got his deed-name.
I considered doing some better line work inking, or cell shading on it, but since it's mostly designed as a color reference, I just left it as it is for now.
What isn't shown is the giant Get of Fenris glyph scar on his back.
This is my current Werewolf: the Apocalypse LARP character for Mind's Eye Society--a Ragabash Get of Fenris, Metis.
His Metis deformity are bone spurs that protrude out of his skin. They often cause irritation, if not bleeding, which partly how he got his deed-name.
I considered doing some better line work inking, or cell shading on it, but since it's mostly designed as a color reference, I just left it as it is for now.
What isn't shown is the giant Get of Fenris glyph scar on his back.
Category Cel Shading / Fantasy
Species Wolf
Size 1000 x 950px
File Size 365.4 kB
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When Jeremy was born, there weren't any real notable defects for the infant. His mother, and Elders thought maybe it would be more mental, or spiritual in nature. But after some time, he became more and more fussy. Then he was crying constantly. Late one night they took him to a Kinfolk veterinarian who ran some X-rays to see what might be the problem... and they noticed strange protrusions on his bones. The baby had small bone spurs that were causing him great discomfort. They tried to medicate with pain-killers, and mystical help, but it barely helped. After a year or so, the more aggressive bone spurs began to press against his skin, and with no way of hindering their growth, eventually erupted through the flesh.
The more the protrusions grew through his skin, the slower the young Metis could heal from other wounds. In fact, around the places where the bone would push through, his fur would be reddened with blood.
By the grace of Gaia, he was able to learn one Gift at an early age, the spirit trick allowed him to become numb to the pain, and he was finally in relief.
As Jeremy grew older, those bone spurs continued to grow--while his entire skeleton is mostly covered in such spurs, they tend to grow the largest in areas where there are sharp angles, or the bone comes closest to the skin. This bone can sometimes act a bit like natural armor, which allows him to take more damage in battle, but because his body is constantly healing form the flesh attempting to close around the bone, he actually heals from combat wounds more slowly.
It is because of the near-constant bloody wounds that tint his fur that he was given the name "Runs-Red".
In the Northern Michigan Sept he was raised in, Lief, the eldest Fenrir, refused to teach or train him, constantly testing his devotion and skills. After Jeremy's Rite of Passage, the Fenrir had one last test... Jeremy would have to be marked as a Fenrir and accept the mark without the use of his Gift. A rite was performed that negated the spiritual trick that relieved him of his pain and Jeremy knelt with all of the willpower he could muster to keep from screaming for the moments there without any other action but the spurs and bones assaulting his flesh from within. But the true test was when the heated silver Klaive was set upon his back, and carved out the Glyph of the Fenrir. Jeremy almost faltered, calling upon a reserve of energy he'd never been able to tap into before as the minutes passed... the marking of his back would have been enough to make most warriors falter, but his entire body felt like it was a battleground of pain and terror. Still, he mustered every bit of energy he had until the act was finished. He continued to kneel... and when the elder Fenrir Leif was finished he managed the words to thank him... and when he walked away, Jeremy attempted to stand, but passed out from the pain.
He came to several hours later. His ability to ignore the pain had returned, but it took more than a week for those wounds to close, but he had earned the begrudging respect of Lief.
The more the protrusions grew through his skin, the slower the young Metis could heal from other wounds. In fact, around the places where the bone would push through, his fur would be reddened with blood.
By the grace of Gaia, he was able to learn one Gift at an early age, the spirit trick allowed him to become numb to the pain, and he was finally in relief.
As Jeremy grew older, those bone spurs continued to grow--while his entire skeleton is mostly covered in such spurs, they tend to grow the largest in areas where there are sharp angles, or the bone comes closest to the skin. This bone can sometimes act a bit like natural armor, which allows him to take more damage in battle, but because his body is constantly healing form the flesh attempting to close around the bone, he actually heals from combat wounds more slowly.
It is because of the near-constant bloody wounds that tint his fur that he was given the name "Runs-Red".
In the Northern Michigan Sept he was raised in, Lief, the eldest Fenrir, refused to teach or train him, constantly testing his devotion and skills. After Jeremy's Rite of Passage, the Fenrir had one last test... Jeremy would have to be marked as a Fenrir and accept the mark without the use of his Gift. A rite was performed that negated the spiritual trick that relieved him of his pain and Jeremy knelt with all of the willpower he could muster to keep from screaming for the moments there without any other action but the spurs and bones assaulting his flesh from within. But the true test was when the heated silver Klaive was set upon his back, and carved out the Glyph of the Fenrir. Jeremy almost faltered, calling upon a reserve of energy he'd never been able to tap into before as the minutes passed... the marking of his back would have been enough to make most warriors falter, but his entire body felt like it was a battleground of pain and terror. Still, he mustered every bit of energy he had until the act was finished. He continued to kneel... and when the elder Fenrir Leif was finished he managed the words to thank him... and when he walked away, Jeremy attempted to stand, but passed out from the pain.
He came to several hours later. His ability to ignore the pain had returned, but it took more than a week for those wounds to close, but he had earned the begrudging respect of Lief.
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