So after realising that I’ve been drawing his proportions all wrong, I scoured through my battle footage, frame by frame, amassing (not blurry) screenshots for references. After much practice, I ended up with this
I’ll never tire of drawing this sad, proud old fool
Ludwig doodles (ft. bonus Laurence) to try and figure out what his face even is Plus I need to practice making him look absolutely revolting He’s disgusting and I love him
I listened to the Nature of Decay! I haven’t read the lyrics yet, as part of the old magic is listening over and over trying to figure out what all people are saying.
OFFtober Day 5 (…): Draw The Batter with a different weapon!
I mean, a Stand can be used as a weapon, right?
「I DON’T DANCE」
Destructive Power: B
Speed: B
Range: B
Durability: C
Precision: A
Developmental Potential: B
When in close proximity,「I DON’T DANCE」will manifest a switch in the target’s body that can be flipped on and off. In the OFF position, the target is rendered immobile; when ON, the target is under the user’s full control and can be maneuvered remotely like a puppet.
Ah, Driders. The Underdark Drow’s answer to centaurs, but with even more legs. They are humanoid (dark elf, typically) from head until approximately the waist, then consist of about 95% a completely normal gigantic spider body. Some of their artistic renditions do really make it look like a perfectly normal spider wearing half a humanoid as a hat, which is both fascinating and disturbing.
They also, in much of the lore, are blood feeders, because apparently the only way to improve a Mc Frickin’ spider centaur is to make it a vampiric spider centaur, but this rather makes sense as spiders have relatively small mouths and will partially digest their prey before consumption so seem to prefer a soft, soupy or porridge-like consistency. And finally, their origin story is that Driders are unfortunate (or blessed, depending on the lore) humanoids which have been transformed into their current state by a painful process.
As humans, we have a strong, natural tendency to focus on the ‘human’ part of any hybrid monster, but that is less than half of the anatomy of a Drider, even considering their usual variations in art.
Considering that there is significant variation in the relative size of the spider body compared to the humanoid segment, and why wouldn’t there be? The spider can molt and grow, the humanoid part will always remain a fixed size. So the larger the spider body, the older it is.
This looks an awful lot like a perfectly ordinary giant monstrous spider wearing a humanoid as a hat. And that makes sense. Their legends originate as a poor, unfortunate humanoid which failed something, and then gets turned into this spider monster. Subsequent legends re-frame this as a blessing instead of a curse, and instead of scavenging on the outskirts are now revered.
Conclusion: Driders are actually parasitic spiders wearing humanoids as hats to infiltrate and farm the local society building their own spider worshiping cult.
