NostalgiaQuest: The Dark Dragon (DragonBoy)

Drawing all my characters, from middle school on, in their latest incarnation, from memory.

The Dark Dragon (NICE NAME DUDE, WHERE DID YOU COME UP WITH THAT) was a villain who isn’t complicated but is still hard to draw. I think he had some kinda bargain-thing going on with King Khat because I apparently can NEVER have straightforward villains in my stories, ever. He can’t exist outside of shadow, so after escaping the dragon dimension he just kind of hangs out in King Khat’s shadow and plots, as best I recall.

I don’t remember what his deal was, either. 

He also got this exchange at one point, which I was awfully proud of in highschool —

King Khat: Are you threatening me? Ha! I’m not afraid of you. You can’t even leave my shadow. You are bound to it.

Dark Dragon: Funny….. so are you.

—and… no actually, I still think that’s awesome.

NostalgiaQuest: Red Thunder (DragonBoy)

Drawing all my characters, from middle school on, in their latest incarnation, from memory.

The name seemed cool at the time. So did all those scales! Hnnnnnnng. 

Red Thunder was Kamaro’s best friend, who lived in the dragon world. For some reason he was keeping Kamaro’s ability to transform into a dragon a secret, though I’m not sure how he expected him not to notice? He was also involved somehow in the circumstances that made Kamaro what he is, though I REALLY DON’T REMEMBER THAT BIT WELL AT ALL and I’m not 100% sure I ever knew what was going on there.

I’m not sure if you guys have noticed, but every non-villain character in this story was based on a colour of the rainbow. There’s no in-story reason for it, but that’s how I initially made them — I was home sick with a fever, and bored, and thought to myself “I’m going to make a bunch of characters, let’s start with the colours of the rainbow!” So, for future reference, if you ever want to make a bunch of REALLY DISPARATE WEIRD CHARACTERS, just let a bunch extremely saturated colours inspire you. c:

why did I bring this into being outside of my brain

NostalgiaQuest: Zevulka and Cloverpawz (DragonBoy)

Drawing all my characters, from middle school on, in their latest incarnation, from memory.

NOPE THERE’S MORE CHARACTERS IN THIS STORY WHY DID YOU THINK WE WERE DONE

Zevulka was a genetic experiment to create a real, live Pokemon-like critter, because apparently people in this town have nothing better to do! He was mostly a success, except that instead of saying his name to communicate, he mostly complains and swears a lot in perfectly comprehensible English.

He is rich off of endorsement deals and a pretty successful stint in marketing, and is now mostly retired, where he spends his wealth indulging in various weird niche hobbies, like y’do. His private collection of Egyptian artefacts occasionally tours museums but mostly stays in his mansion, and if you’ve been paying attention to the other NostalgiaQuest entries for this story you can probably guess that he joins the party (rather, yells at the party until they join him) after he’s robbed by an absurd supervillain.

He’s sort of snarky and doesn’t really want to save the world; he just wants his stuff back. I’m sure he warms up to everyone eventually. Kind of.

Cloverpawz, meanwhile, is a flying green guinea pig for no adequately explained reason. It is Zevulka’s “exotic pet” (seriously, that’s all the explanation that exists anywhere) and just follows the party around, being adorable but silly and useless like guinea pigs usually are. 

I wanted to make sure Altalamatox got to see this before I put it up here. C: Fanart of two of her characters, Morgan and Magda. Morgan is a master shapeshifter who enjoys e v e r y t h i n g more than he should with something that probably usually looks like evil glee but is more like the joy of a giant puppy who can turn into a dragon whenever it wants, and Magda is his best friend who is more polite to most people than she really wants to be and also more powerful than she looks and also keeps Morgan grounded. Somehow.

I tried to sum up their relationship in a picture.

Altalamatox draws lots of awesome things and delightful characters over here on her DeviantArt page and I really love her work a lot. If you poke around in her gallery you might see some familiar faces because she was awesome and decided to get me back for the gift art. >u>

NostalgiaQuest: Dr. Khat / King Khat (DragonBoy)

Drawing all my characters, from middle school on, in their latest incarnation, from memory.

In the grand tradition of Brainy Guy Who Is Too A Little Too Interested In Weird Artefact Probably Becomes A Villain, King Khat was originally a geeky researcher of Egyptian relics and artefacts who kiiiind of ended up stealing something from someone’s collection and then got really excited that this could make him an actual godlike pharaoh. I don’t remember…what he wanted? Like…… was he taking over the world, or…?

I’m really really pleased with this picture of him, but it’s technically inaccurate because I legitimately didn’t acknowledge that guys have nipples until sometime in my college career.

NostalgiaQuest: Roxanne Vulpina and Mirondak (DragonBoy)

Drawing all my characters, from middle school on, in their latest incarnation, from memory.

Oh man time for me to ramble about old characters that I’m inexplicably still excited about!!

Roxanne and Mirondak are aliens and partners! THEY FIGHT CRIME no actually they are part of an interdimensional organisation called the Anti-Antichrist Organisation which is dedicated to preventing absurdly overpowered entities from taking over worlds in all dimensions.

Mirondak’s species can’t lie for some reason. Because lying is completely foreign to them it STANDS OUT LIKE A SORE THUMB when other creatures do it, so he is basically a living lie detector. Sarcasm confuses him because it is obviously untrue but doesn’t ping as a lie.

Roxanne is sarcastic and sassy and exactly as Jessica Rabbit Sexy as she looks. She basically operates on deceit and feminine wiles and handles all the more sensitive parts of the job where Mirondak’s inability to do anything but tell the whole truth would make a mess. She can also turn into a tiny fox for some reason???

They’re on earth and investigating Kamaro because their radar says that SOME kind of absurdly powerful being is messing around in this world and maybe it’s the random blue kid with a door to the dragon dimension in his basement?

This sounds exactly like a highschooler invented it and I still can’t hate this story because it just kind of keeps on being absurd and I sort of love that.