“Awww, pumpkin! You don’t have to run. Ol’ Jack just wants to see how pretty you bleed!”
anon asked: rhys stuck in a horror genre with just a flashlight…
I took my sweet ass time getting around to it, but here you go anon. Congrats on getting me stuck on an O*tlast/B*rderlands AU btw
THE HYPERION EVENING POST
“That’s a good look for you, kiddo.”
Rhys is having a rough day, and it’s not going to get any better from here.
Jack, on the other hand, is having a great time.
Inspired by @jackassai‘s fic here and @starrelia‘s fic here. I also borrowed @gongors‘s Out/last Handsome Jack design because it is really good, damn. This entire Ou/tlast AU has literally eaten me alive.
I haven’t done a piece like this in such a long time but I think it turned out pretty okay.
Hyperion Poster Boy
a Bun for my Bun @ourintergalactic
love ya, bb
Happy Valentine’s Day!
seraphim
/ser’-a-fim/
plural form of seraphan angelic being, regarded in traditional Christian angelology as belonging to the highest order of the ninefold celestial hierarchy, associated with light, ardor, and purity.
An Atlas made handcanon. CEO Rhys personally designed the weapon and named it after someone the Hyperion CEO was fond of. The Seraphim has a short life span, self destructing after a handful of uses, and as such is usually saved as a last resort. The weapon has pin-point accuracy, high power, low recoil, and during its last use, it’s power triples, providing its user with one last devastating blow to their opponent before it expires.
people in the tags of my valentines post kept saying that rhys looks really good in red, and you know what?
he does
the only things keeping me alive rn are 1) my fic notebook with ideas and updates 2) my sketchbook and 3) the knowledge that this job has 4 weeks left and then I’m free
remind me to stop drawing b/lands characters without reference pls
one last doodle before i head to bed
“jack’s gonna love that color on you”
“lbh, jack loves everything on me”
“he’s way too easy. last week, he nearly creamed his pants when i walked in while smoking one of those shitty cigarettes of his”
work is just, so slow today
so i’ve had plenty of time to doodle eridium au crap, like a rough sketch of jack’s “prophet” form and a very trial version of my rhys for this au, who is a new eridan “"species”“ i actually thought about previously, but only just now thought to add into this verse
Jack’s page:
-“halo” and extra arms are made of elemental energy, and glow with the color of Jack’s current element
-the halo has two eyes, one on top and one at the back of Jack’s head. both aid Jack’s future sight abilities
-With his elemental arms, Jack can perform elemental “smashes” or “slams” that taint the area of impact with their element, causing burns, corrosion, etc.
-the top eye can also fire lasers (no elemental attributes)
-Jack’s skin is more stone-like, with patches of thick rock that act as armor plating
-Jack can grab his enemies and squeeze them repeatedly before dropping them
“The Prophet’s” design is still in the works, so I’ll probably mess around with it more and clean it up a bit when I have access to my laptop again.
As for Rhys, my idea for him was that he is an “Oracle”, an Eridan creature who has the ability to tell the future. At first, Rhys was just another Siren-type, a human born with Eridan powers or whatever the fuck they are, but after I started exploring Jack’s au a little more, I decided to trash that and take it a little further.
For this au, an Oracle can skim the minds of the people they meet, adopt appearances from humans or from the memory of a human, and learn to speak a language based on those memories as well. They can tell the future, but their prophetic visions are reduced to riddles and their memory of the original vision is lost, leaving them too with only the riddle to go by. By consuming Eridium, they can remember the vision longer, but it fades eventually. They have no offensive abilities.
To explain Rhys’ role, I have to explain Jack’s motives a little bit. After gaining his Vault Monster-like form, Jack does what anyone would do: seek out a vault of his own to guard. Or in this case, a vault to raid and pillage and claim as his own after beating out whatever forces were in there to oppose him.
The vault Jack finds is “The Warden’s” vault, and its treasure is Rhys, an Oracle who was held captive by the Warden. After defeating the Warden, Jack claimed the rest of the treasure and stationed Hyperion troops and scientists in the vault to study and protect it, and took the Oracle back to Helios.
Once there, the Oracle takes matters into their own hands and searches Jack’s mind for a suitable “skin” to wear, and finds the appearance of one of Jack’s dead lovers to be pleasing (he looks like the Rhys we know, minus the cybernetic attachments, and goes by a different name). Jack is understandably pissed that the Oracle would do that, but they’re unable to be moved, showcasing a stubborn personality. They glean the name “Rhys” from someone else’s mind and go by that.
Rhys’ right arm takes the appearance of a cybernetic one because they lost it long ago when they were attacked, and had generated an arm out of pure energy until then. Rhys changes their eye color to taunt Jack, and the port on their temple is little more than an Eridan tattoo.
Rhys’ design will be played with more too. I’m not 100% happy with it yet.
(Oracle!Rhys is agender and uses they/them.)
casually draws rhys in my work clothes bc i have no control over my life (+angel and atlas!yvette)
“I think I might keep you.”
Jack has rubbed one off to the thought of his dead Atlas CEO enough times to know where this is going.
Picture based off of @starrelia’s Reverse AU, which can be found here and here!
Floating AI Rhys for @starrelia! Let me know if I need to size him down!
Important: This was made for one person and one person only, and can only be used freely by them. Do not use this without permission.
(edit: forgot his scar lmao rip me)