Ok this one has a huge backstory, especially as this scene is set at the end of the story. Irutha and her group have made it to the library. Broen is critically injured but determined to see this through, while Makrie has no idea what’s coming (well none of them do except Irutha). The drones in the background (i.e. the pigeons) are just for show – everyone knows that Irutha can’t be stopped now. She’s going to use the Inserendis weapon to make her ending for this world. Yeah, lots of drama and weird concepts! Remind me I have no idea how to draw injured people hahaha, that’s why it looks like Broen doesn’t have a scratch on him, when he’s supposed to be half dead…
I didn’t actually intend for this drawing to turn out how it did! I walked through an underpass lately with a “post no bills” sign and thought to myself, I should draw something that has that poster in the background. The vibe of it had to be similar to this world, so it ended up being Arridon. At first I thought maybe Irutha would be the one waiting here, but I’ve been drawing plenty of her, so the next best fit was Makrie. Why not bubble tea! That idea came after. I’m not even sure the world has bubble tea. Then I thought, this should have more meaning than just a random drinking bubble tea in an underpass. So, I figured, there should be graffiti. Meaningful graffiti, and considering I am still in a “the pigeons are drones” phase, it would be fitting for there to be messaging about taking down the government or something. So after a quick Google crash course on how to do graffiti fonts (I really hate artception; tattoos and graffiti and the like are so difficult to make up on the spot!), I went with the phrase “blind the drones”, meaning hide from the pigeons. But I still need an artist tag or something, right? So there was another piece that was meant to be on here for “see no eyes”, but maybe that’s the signature left on the original graffiti – it’d just be “SNE” and it’d be roughly behind Makrie’s head. The final decision to be made was whether or not the whole wall was made of bricks, and I really didn’t want to draw that, so it’s just concrete!
Making an actual full piece with background is so difficult ugh!
I’m so productive when it comes to drawing when I’m not busy playing games or doing other extra curriculars! This is the Makrie version of The Beginning of Humanity. Except I forgot that I’d called Irutha’s version what it was, which is why I thought this was the number 2 version of it. Oh well!
This picture occurs at the exact same time as Irutha’s version – they are in separate locations looking up to see the Inserendis weapon fire. For Irutha, she knows it represents the beginning of humanity. For Makrie, it marks the end of her life as an android, and after the event, wakes up as a full human.
In the world of Arridon, the saddest ASI self destructs, taking down both itself and all the androids out there – including all the pigeons, because the pigeons are government drones. Makrie, the unique android, survives as she becomes fully human, and walks a world where perhaps libraries will be reborn.
Or maybe it was the Inserendis weapon and not the ASI self destruction? I can’t remember and have to check my notes!
