Eight Waves Upon A Rocky Shore - Tumblr Posts

I made an iterator OC for Rain World. :3 AND BEFORE ANYONE SAYS ANYTHING, YES, I USED LTTM's PICTURE AS A BASE!!! I've never drawn robots much before, so I wanted to be safe and have something as an outline first.

(Below is the source picture and more info on the OC)

This, is Eight Waves Upon A Rocky Shore. This iterator controls a completely different region from the ones in the game, one that I'll flesh out more, but it's home to a beautiful crystalline cavern region, a suburban Ancient development, and an overgrown fungal forest. I'm ass at drawing environments, so it might be awhile before you get to see that.

Anyways, Eight Waves isn't fully fleshed out, but I have the idea of a generally sassy iterator that's into astronomy and the stars that gets bored inside their can and somehow figures out a way to free their puppet to go exploring the world around them while their superstructure operates on an automated plan. Maybe some conflict in her story could come from the inherent danger of separating their interface from their 'body' of sorts, or noticing how her mission will soon become null once the last Ancients die out. Probably not the most original idea, but tbf this OC only popped into my head like, yesterday, and I loved the idea of an iterator getting lonely and literally breaking loose to go explore.

Regarding design, I tried to be funny with wires on their head to look more like braids rather than just long hair in itself. She also wears a black cloak and has a golden glow from the orb on the forehead. Eight Waves was originally going to be pearl white, but blue just looked better to me.

I also think that if I had to place my oc in the timeline, I'd put her right as the last few Ancients were ascending and effectively going extinct, so maybe I'll try to have an encounter between Eight Waves and an Ancient, or an Echo at least.

But other than that, this is all I have for Eight Waves. I might also make a Slugcat OC of my own. I'll also draw better, NOT TRACED art of Eight Waves once I have a solid grasp of their design.

Eight Waves Upon A Rocky Shore is complete!

After making that trace art, I had to redeem myself with some actual art.

As said before, Eight Waves is the local iterator of a region dotted by crystalline caverns, fungal forests, and a suburban development for the Ancients built on top of her superstructure.

After her creation, this iterator was notable in that she acted as an accurate sky charter who recorded data on the behavior of the stars at night alongside her mission of solving the Great Problem. (Hence her "halo" being one that contains holographic data on stars and planets)

Eight Waves did her mission as she was made to do for a long time, until she noticed that the regular visits she got from the citizen workers are becoming few and far in between. It wasn't until one of them came to her and confessed that everyone was resorting to using the Void Fluid to ascend, leaving the great cities across the world abandoned and being taken over by nature. Her whole mission and reason for creation would be rendered null and void once the people were all gone. What would be Eight Waves' purpose from now on?

It was here that a novel idea came to this Iterator: What if she could explore the great big world to find more people? People who decided to wait for the solution to the Great Problem? They must be lonely, with everyone they know and then some ascending. Using her Overseer wasn't enough. Eight Waves did something novel for a purposed cybernetic organism--she figured out a way to separate her puppet from her can, and do it in a way that she can survive and explore the world.

Interestingly, she shared her plan with her local group. They didn't exactly react with pleasure at this novel idea. What could they do or say to convince her that this idea was ludicrous?

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With DNA-shaped cords and a neat black cloak, Eight Waves seeks to travel and reunite as many Ancients as she can find. But how truly secure is her superstructure while she's away? What will her local group do in reaction to this insane goal? What kind of threats lie out there in a rapidly changing world?

I'll see if people like this before I make any more for this idea.

Plans for my slugcat oc, who I currently call...Snailcat.

Maybe not the most original idea, as I've just seen people mention the idea of a slugcat with a shell on other sites, but I shrugged and went along with the idea I had anyway.

Their current name is Snailcat, but I might come up with a more traditional name starting with "The---" or even give them an Ancient name. I'm not sure what their place in Eight Waves' story will be, or even if they'll even be in the same story. Also I'm not sure of the gender yet either, nor personality.

I do have an idea that while the shell appears a bit too small for the scug, this one is special in that they're able to easily contort their body to fit in the shell.

Hopefully I get around to posting more complete art of them soon!

My visualizations of the areas under Eight Waves' control, using Imagine AI under the Read More: (and I'll tag this as AI since this doesn't contain vital info)

The fungal forest area. It was really bloody difficult to get it to generate a giant mushroom cluster without it being a bunch of tiny regular mushrooms in a big forest.

Suburban neighborhood on top of the superstructure. Do you think Ancients drove cars?

Crystalline caverns. Most of the valuable crystals have been mined out, leaving these glowing stalactites instead.

I hope these can teach me how to draw some good background environments to show Eight Waves and her potential slugcat friend walking around in. If you want actual, non-ai generated content, go see...literally every other post I have lol.