Hazbin Characters In The Universe Of My Ocs

when the art got u longing

So, somebody pointed out that there wasn't any Adam & Lute Valentine's merch and that just will not stand!!

Originally I had like 80 bazillion Valentine's art ideas for, like, all of Helluva/Hazbin and BJ, but I'm running a lil low on steam this week, so, instead, I just poured my whole fuckin' soul into this piece specifically...

If I get nothing else done for Valentine's Day, I am so fucking proud of this piece! I call it "Reunion" and, yes, feel free to cry a lil cuz I sure as shit did.........

[copying and pasting this since I already wrote it up elsewhere :p]

Question: What did Summer think "the Hole Club" was?

TLDR: she thought it meant they both had sex on an adventure, but that wasn't really Summer. BUT it was in that scene for an important reason anyway. Much longer answer under the cut 👇

She didn't think it was anything because that wasn't actually Summer, just another thing the Fear Hole was showing Morty in an effort to help him recognise his fear of the fact that Rick frequently puts Morty in inappropriate sexual situations, and nobody around him will step in to make it stop - that he relies on Rick alone to not cross the line, and Rick isn't reliable. You can tell from Mortys body language in that scene that Ricks behaviour and the Smiths reactions make him very uncomfortable, but it's obviously not til the end of the episode that he's ready to confront what he's being faced with - and even then he only actually loses his fear of it AFTER he's double checked it was only him in the Fear Hole, and so concludes (correctly or not) that being freaked out about all of the boundary crossing that happens between them is just him having some "fucked up psychological shit" to deal with, rather than an actual problem in reality.

The implication of the phrase "the Hole Club" is that Rick and Morty both had sex with someone(s?) on an adventure together, and deliberately leaves open the possibility that it might even have been with each other (or at least while they were both present) and NONE of the Smiths take real issue with how messed up that is. Or with the fact that they both apparently shit themselves. Both of which are (at this point in the episode, still fairly subtle) callbacks to two deeply inappropriate things that already actually happened in the show, and were ignored or minimised. Summer calling them "sluts" recalls them all "soul bonding" with the "slut dragons" together in ep 4x4, which Morty was horrified by but Summer didn't care about (she was actually more bothered that Rick "stealing" Balthromaw was a betrayal of Rick and Mortys close relationship), and the Fear Hole having Beth be the one that's mad they shit themselves is a callback to the end of Promortyus (4x7) when they thought they were gonna die in front of her from shitting an egg, but just shit themselves instead. i.e. the episode where Summer told them that their facehuggers (Steve and Bruce) made out and wanted to run away together - which may not have actually happened, in fairness, but, importantly, Morty has no way to know if it did or didn't - he just has to live with not knowing (which is true for a lot of things in his life, given that the mindblowers exist!).

It's very interesting too that the Fear Hole doesn't show us any reaction from Jerry in this scene, considering that he's the ONE character throughout the series that will point out when things are fucked up, despite ultimately never being able to do anything about it. We actually don't see anything from him at all apart from generic deference to Rick until after the Fear Hole's "Say you meet the love of your life" molonogue draws the clear comparison between Morty and Diane, which Morty internalises and blames himself for (because despite all of this, he very much does love Rick!), after which Jerry ALSO responds very badly to Morty being "not normal", at which point Morty starts to address his fears of being shunned for being a "freak" if he was open with people.

All three reactions taken together (Summer being congratulatory, Beth not paying attention, and Jerry being hysterical and disgusted) show just how profoundly isolated Morty believes he is irt his very worrying relationship with Rick. And what's worse, they do all draw from reality to a degree. Beth does ignore problems and frequently decides to interpret things in Ricks favour when she shouldn't, Summer is jealous of their relationship and assigns Morty an unrealistic level of agency within it, and Jerry does freak out about stuff in very unhelpful ways sometimes. And this episode shows us how Morty has noticed all these things and they have significantly added to his fear about his situation, and to his extreme reluctance to acknowledge it, even just to himself.

Funnily enough though, the audience already knows that if Morty were to actually ask for help from any of them... their real reactions may well be very different than he imagines (and so what the Fear Hole showed him).

Beth proves in 5x3 with Planetina that she is very capable of seeing when Mortys in danger from an older person taking advantage of him, and she doesn't blame him for any of it at all (even when he blames himself for loving her and running away with her!). When it comes down to it Beth just offers him comfort, and takes care of him. And while Summer is often jealous, she's also INCREDIBLY protective of Morty once she's recognised he's in danger, as we see especially clearly in 7x7 (among others). And although Jerry freaked out in 6x5 about the fortune cookie thing with his own mom, in 5x7 we see that although he's shaken, hes very supportive of Summer after everything she went through with Naruto when she finally talks to them about it, and in addition, unknown to Morty, he's also probably experienced sexual abuse himself (implied in 1x11, and also another time but I can't remember which ep), which gives him even more ground to be supportive if Morty ever told him about his fears.

So... that's what "the Hole Club" means. It's not an actual club, and it's not "proof" of anything, or some kind of confession, it's ambiguous, intentionally. Because Fear No Mort was the episode that brought the audience up to speed with Morty's side of the story. Because Morty doesn't know if he's "just crazy", or if things might really be that bad. And, as far as he knows... he has nobody to ask. So he ultimately decides that he's just nuts, that he must have been afraid of something he made up out of nowhere, and there's actually nothing to worry about. Which is a very interesting place for them to leave the audience at the end of a season that was all about how and why Rick and Morty so often end up ignoring things that do actually matter.

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Valentine's Day is coming up, and in honour of it and the recent release of Hazbin Hotel I've designed some cards! Feel free to print these for yourselves!! Below is the full image and the card format! More to come!!!

me and my friend @sweetsbunni 's hazbin sonas!

open commissions!!!

WILL DO:

NSFW

mecha

furry

humans

WILL NOT DO:

certain fetishes (discuss with me)

realism

detailed backgrounds

Think it over carefully. Your partner is important.

Do you have any tips on character designs

So many! Character design is my favourite thing and something I've learned is that there is beauty in simplicity. Simple shapes repeated (loosely, usually) throughout a character tend to lead to more cohesive designs; in reference to my Beetlejuice design he's shaped roughly like a pineapple chunk, head and body. And simple colours, palettes of 3-7 colours, work best; one colour that takes up most of the character, two supporting colours, and then (if desired) small amounts of any additional colours. Keeping colours close together on the colour wheel makes them look more unified and then I like to toss in a colour from somewhere on the opposite side for contrast. After choosing colours you can use a colour balance option for digital pieces to "slide" the colours closer together and to a more preferable base hue i.e. make them all redder, bluer, or greener. You can also use pre-chosen palettes from a palette picker site. Also remember pointy vs round. Usually a friendly character will be round and a mean character is pointy, but you can also use that to subvert expectations and do the opposite. Another big thing is consistency vs inconsistency; something great that I was taught is that you don't have to design/render your characters in the same way. To start a character draw them as many times as many ways as possible. Everytime you draw them again take the things from the version you liked and change the things you don't until you settle somewhere. From then on try to draw them as on-model as possible. But, with all that in mind, you don't have to draw two characters from the same universe with the same levels of "realism"; once again regarding my Beetlejuice and Lydia designs, Beej has perfectly round eyes, mostly separated teeth, and implied claws while Lydia has oval and more realistically shaped eyes, solid-line teeth, and actual fingernails. I could have drawn Beej with actual claws, but I preferred the look of the implied claws because it uncluttered the design of his hands, which leads back into the fact that sometimes less is more, and simplicity can look better. And lastly, diversify. It can be really hard to try new things, and even harder to not immediately think it looks bad because you've never done it before, but recently I redesigned some of my childhood ocs and I couldn't help but think that they all looked awful because they all looked the same. Post redesigns they're all so different and it feels like character design I can actually be proud of. Same face syndrome is a curse and try not to get yourself stuck in the rut of drawing the same style of individual and/or the same pose everytime. And, to anyone who sees this, if it does come out bad just remember that all new art is growth, you're never obligated to show anyone anything you don't want to, and you'll never get better if you don't practice, so keep at it. People say there's no such thing as bad art, and, personally, I don't think that's true. Everybody has to be bad at something before they're good at it, but that doesn't make it worth less. And hopefully these tips can help others improve the way they helped me.

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