In which I break promises and am generally terrible.

[mistytpednaem]

I said I'd write something on how psychodrama therapy works today. I... ended up not doing that. Maybe tomorrow? ;;

I have no excuse, really. Might as well fess up to what occupied my brain today.

First, the Japanese magazine Nintendo Dream, which has been steadily publishing GK2 concept art with commentary from the developers, released some Shelly art. I was obviously all over this, and asked material_guy  to give me a quick translation. With his permission, I sloppily overlaid it over the original scan! Additional, relevant blabber between the two of us:

cdnmmastermind: 1. Is this his basic form?
"As expected, this time, whether it is Tanaka's true form or not... ..... is honestly still unknown even to me. Perhaps that face is actually just one of several variations...?"

8:36 PM me: ... BUT. BUT MY PRECIOUS HEADCANON.

 cdnmmastermind: It's a total dodge answer.

  It's a wordy way of saying: "We have no bloody idea."

8:37 PM me: Maybe that's their excuse for never settling on his facial proportions.

  (I'm glad it's not just me!)

(NOTE: the official artbook came first and it states that it is, indeed, a scar, so... Nobody has any bloody idea! :D)

cdnmmastermind: Then in the last one, they were trying to set him up as someone suspicious as all hell. Mysterious and serious about his job.

8:41 PM "His fixation towards his job and his sense of aesthetics are the foundation of his actions, so I took great care towards that when writing/drawing him."

 me: ...

  his

  WHAT SENSE OF AESTHETICS

 cdnmmastermind: Fixation. Their words, not mine.

  Kodawari. Literally, obsession, fixation.

 me: no, no, he definitely has a fixation

8:42 PM cdnmmastermind: Bigaku.Aesthetics. Style. That thing Greed insists he has.

 me: 80 or 90% of what he says goes back to "I MURDER PEOPLE FOR A LIVING"

  ... BUT WHAT AESTHETICS

 cdnmmastermind: BUT HE DOES IT POLITELY AND FORMALLY AND STYLISHLY.

 me: IS IT THE MONOCLE

 cdnmmastermind: IT'S THE KIND OF THING THAT MAKES GREED CALL HIM A COMBAT BUTLER!!!!!!!!

(And yet, a small part of me wants to shout out "SEE, HE WAS MEANT TO BE A STYLISH MOTHERFUCKER ALL ALONG!")

Second, I don't really have an excuse.

Third and last, Tumblr made me do this. I am so sorry. and holy shit I just noticed I misspelled the name fuuuuuck ALSO NOTE THAT I DIDN'T MAKE ALL OF THESE.

Comments

[whipcracks.livejournal.com]

omg this is great. MAKE HIM TRANSLATE THE WHOLE THING!!!!!!!
also shelly has always been a classy-ass bastard idk what u talkan about

also also: this needs to become an actual meme template. that is used.

[whipcracks.livejournal.com]

oh my god i didn't notice the ones that were already made

sdfosdkfosd LOLING SO HARd

FOR GOD'S SAKE, MAN, THE RECOIL FROM THAT SHOTGUN WILL BUST YOUR <i>OTHER</i> ARM

[perverbially.livejournal.com]

I LIKE ALL THE PARTS OF THIS.

ESPECIALLY THE PART THAT COVERS MY ASS AHAHAHAHA. It's pathetic, but I'll take what I can get. Cuz that still drives me crazy. I messed upppppp :(

Also all the stuff about his FIXATION BLAH BLAH BLAH ~AESTHETICS gives me a happy right in my knickers. I knew he was fancy ♥ And hoshit, I just noticed, is his eye open in that one sketch with the IV - ?

SOMETIMES, DISLOCATING YOUR OWN SHOULDER IS WORTH IT. PROBABLY.

[mistytpednaem.livejournal.com]

Ahahahah, I actually thought of you when I read that part. We can say that either interpretation is valid, because even Capcom isn't sure! How convenient!

I actually zoomed in on the picture just to check and nope, it's as closed as ever.