#superheroine

Mermay Day 9 - “superhero”

Shark girl vs. Nazi robot shark!

Because, nothing Says Superhero more than punching fucking nazis. Go get em, girl

Fic by Bice
(Source of pictures: twitter.com/GoddessSkotia)

“Oh, pardon me, I didn’t think you would be home so soon. I was just enjoying your chaise… I am a woman who does love the chase, you see.” She giggled at her own joke. You barely had the capacity to register that there was even humor in what she said though by the way her body looked. Sleek black latex painted onto her body in stark contrast to the white leather couch. She looked like she was made to be there. 
 

The fact that you didn’t know her and that she was in your home unannounced only crossed your mind after you finally were able to move your eyes off of her for more than an eyeblink.

“Now, before we get into any of the more interesting issues that arise by you having come home a bit too early for my liking, I shall explain that I have come here strictly to rob you. That was my sole intention. With furniture like this, I can’t imagine what the jewelry looks like.” She yawned, stretching out over the chaise. Her back arched and her arm stretched above her head, aware that the admittance of her potential robbery was at odds with the lust you couldn’t help but feel for her.

You should be calling the police. You should be calling the front desk. There was so much you should be doing, but to go and do those things would be to miss her next subtle movement. 

She sat up, every gesture felt like it was exaggerated and on purpose to continue the show. “My name is .. well, irrelevent really, as you’ll have a personal name for me shortly, but the papers have referred to me as Shine.”

You had heard of Shine… the cat burgler who had been driving the police mad from the lack of evidence they had of her even existing. 

Well, she existed, and she was in your living room.

“You seem to have already gleaned where my name came from, but if you want, I shall spell it out more clearly.  Every inch of this outfit, from my peacock earrings, my diamond choker, and yes, even the latex, is coated in a gently vibrating pattern of glimmering light that has kept your very being locked into place… hasn’t it?”

She looks at you, daring you to answer her question while her mouth takes the tip of her glove and begins to pull on it teasingly.

You say nothing… and you are certain at this point that you can’t.  Perhaps a noise comes out of your throat, a low moan that may have sounded like ‘yes’ but like everything else, your eyes and ears have taken complete control over any other sense.

“Well then..” she continues, “as it seems everything is as it should be, I feel perfectly comfortable in admitting to you that I was well aware you would be coming home… and I was looking forward to it.”

And in one word, her tone changes from teasing, sultry, and oozing sex - into a demand. A demand you can’t help but listen to.

“Kneel.”

The positioning of her body, open and inviting. Her legs, glimmering. Her eyes, intently watching you. What more did she want?  Because whatever it was.. it was hers to take.

“You will take off your clothes while I tell you what you will remember.. what you won’t… and how I like to be pleased.  You may speak. Is that clear?”

You let out words, soft breathy empty words that sound like “yes Shine”

She giggles, her whole body twinkling, “No… I told you.. you have a special name for me.  …and that’s Goddess. Now let’s get to work.”

Violet’s true potential.

A little manga spin on Violet Parr from the Pixar’s Incredibles, unleashing her condensed force fields, for a more potent attack. Enjoy! (And yes was I heavily influenced by Naruto and his rasengan when I was drawing this.)

So for the last while I’ve been improving on renders of my Untitled Cyberpunk Magical Girl Project OCs because last year’s already feel kinda outdated. Presently, only like 2 characters are done right of a main cast I wanna get finished soon.

Been thinking about the artstyle a lot. I can be a bit of a pedant regarding character design diversity and ensuring that each character is as functional as they are appealing, but I also wonder if that perhaps conflicts with the tone of the work they exist in.

While I was busy drawing them, I added cartoony eye highlights on a whim and shared them with friends on Discord, who, when lightly pressed on which eye design they preferred, ALL preferred the highlights, one explaining bc it helps them be more expressive.

For a bit I was thinking of keeping the style to be the same as righty, but then I realized a question to myself that I hadn’t really thought of until now: is this maybe too out of place?

I’ve mentioned this a bit before, but Untitled Cyberpunk Magical Girl Project is a story I do intend to be at least a little mature. Sort of a YA-type of “kids show for adults/adult show for kids at heart” sorta vibe that’s meant to balance out appealing style and color against mature, existential and lightly political themes. Kind of going in with an “indie” sorta vibe where it’s meant to be a little stylized and expressive, but reserved and not supremely all-out. The eye designs remind me too much of like 1930s Warner Bros cartoons, and I felt that perhaps it was too over-the-top and tonally dissonant.

But like, a lot of folks were making the case that it was still “better”, and now I’m thinking how this sort of dynamic applies to the entire artwork.

Any time my art gets scrutinized critically, it’s always these drastic concerns I’m usually already thinking about, in that the silhouettes need to be completely unique, I should experiment more with body shapes, that having same faces is laziness, etc. But now I’m really questioning if that technicality would objectively improve Untitled, or really any of my artwork.

I concern myself with visual diversity/technicality A LOT, possibly too much for my own good bc my desire to be “better” is making me unable to even really “begin” my projects bc I need to learn more to make it merely “good enough” based on my constantly-evolving standards. Right now I’m like… does my story/artstyle really need to be more than what I have now?

This is kind of an aimless ramble, I don’t really have any definitive thoughts here beyond this. Whenever folks are like “you do it or it doesn’t get done,” that conflicts wildly with my desire to have it just be a baseline level of “good" or merely “likable”. I just want to finally accomplish making my projects into a thing rather than dwell on pre-development eternally, but then people keep telling me I need it to be better, and then people are like “JUST DO IT”, then BE BETTER again, and it’s just aaaaaagh

anyways I have 3 more girls of the main cast and a few supporting characters I wanna explore later, not sure when they’ll come out

Batgirl