Looking at that necro’d poster resembling Jack right on Rhys’s doorstep like…
Yeah, I don’t know what I was thinking when I drew this either. Well, enjoy your own undead company, I guess. I feel that should be more more of a punishment?
More on that poster, are we going for:
- Fake Jack just to screw with us and Rhys.
- Advert for Rhys’s tell-all autobiography about his time with Hyperion
- A ‘Rimmer Experience’ style attraction Rhys can ride if he gets the urge to repair his old Echo Eye. Guaranteed to come out screaming ‘I never want to see that murderous asshole again’
- Underwear advert.
- Workplace Health and safety poster about putting murder-AIs in your brain.
- ‘Adult’ product or experience whose details we are better off not knowing.
So, I checked out Lilith’s new method of making an entrance. Now less worried about the fate of Rhys’s upper lip, and more worried about the fate of …just everyone’s facial hair, clothing, and all flammable objects generally.
“Crap, time to stop distracting myself with Borderlands and start reading the book I was meant to finish by today. What was it about again?”
Page 1:
Ohhh yeah, thats’ right. Damn.
(Amped, by Daniel H. Wilson, 2012)
(So, I speed-read the book and … oh man. Yeah, there are a LOT of similar themes, devices and scenes here, when compared with the stuff that later appeared in Tales. A LOT. If you’re into That Sort of Thing, you will definitely get something from it. Oh yes, and there’s a character in it called Vaughn, and it really messed with me!)
You could tell I was drawing Angel by the sound of me blasting this Sigrid lyric video(flashing and strobing images)
The character who most deserved a seat on the ‘non-shitty found family’ Borderlands bus, and instead walked the whole damn way to saving the planet on her own.
I couldn’t find any Sims 4 outfits for Yvette from Tales from the Borderlands, so I re-textured some of the game’s outfits to resemble hers. They aren’t exact matches (I didn’t want to any serious mesh or normal map editing) but I think they make the character more recognisable. Parts of the texture are from the game rips (the skirt patterns and badge) and other bits just re-drawn over the base texture (shoulder thingy, tights, skirt piping.) The bases were extracted from The Sims 4 (Maxis) textures.
Thanks to this really useful post from toughluck-buck and to LowRider on Steam who extracted Yvette to Source Filmmaker. The hair here is a Maxis retexture by Raizon, though you may have to search as their original links are gone. I’d love to find a shorter hair with shaved side to match Yvette, but I haven’t seen one yet!
Sketch of the Butt Sign in Old Haven, to the limits of my patience and Mordecai’s ammo supply.
Not pictured, the neverending pile of Crimson Lance corpses accrued during my time on the roof, and the one sensible Lance Defender who just crouched somewhere underneath the roof shouting threats the whole time. Hope that overtime pay came through for you, friend.
More sims stuff from my neighbourhood, including Too Many Jacks/Tims: I used some extracted BL2/TPS textures and a bit of elbow grease to make simplified outfits and posters for The Sims 4, as well as a set of skin details. A lot of skin parts e.g. vault mark had to be done from scratch due to the weird way Sims 4 maps stuff (especially onto sims with pissed-off eyebrows - who knew.) Hope someone finds these useful, and not too broken on your sims. All Meshes are Sims 4/Maxis.
Downloads:
Face Details: Face details for Tim or Jack with either plain skin with or without abutments/facial hair, vault scar, red and faded replica scar. each full-body skin (doesn’t adjust, sorta dad bod) or face only. All have perma-sideburns, sorry. / A very minimal skin detail for Nisha that just slightly adjusts the default nose and eye area.
Makeup: Handsome Jack’s mask. Put it on the outfits you want and your sim will take it off to shower, but beware they will rip that sucker off when going to work unless you edit their career outfit.
Rooting through my sketches, I found this old, wildly AU Rhack scribble of the ‘my boyfriend is a homicidal space station, nice to meet you’ variety. I believe my line of thinking was … why all the huge effort to kill Rhys to “eat food and bang people” with his body*? Just … page him, jeez, he has legs. Take some time to really enjoy being a giant murder!space station. Live the dream of being able to fire killer robots out of your own face at anyone you want, 24/7, while giving the biggest side-eye on Pandora.
Anyway, inappropriate behaviour and badly-drawn steak.
(*The boring answer is presumably 90% good old Jack pre-emptive murder and 10% the fact he doesn’t find food satiating when he’s in back seat driver mode…but as we know there’s an app for that.)
So, there was a prompt from Starfruitspice about Rhack TPS AU where they are nerds screwing in space outside Tassiter’s office and the drawing part of my brain just jumped up and volunteered itself with no concern for health and safety.
AU arm ‘cause I pictured Rhys early on a road from inconspicuous cosmesis-toting codemonkey to blue and yellow cyber-peacock, by way of getting his head shoved full of shiny tech.
Chances of avoiding a front seat at the unfolding Jackpocalypse in this scenario: unfortunately 0%
Er, yeah, a more lighthearted (haha) selfie pic for that Tales AU with Rhys, AI Jack, and Nisha that exists in my head for … some reason. Rhys slept through this whole pic, OK. It was great. He dreamed of ponies.
Rhys, Jack needs to borrow the team car for a few in order to go grab a sweater.
[In case anyone wonders, yes, this is the pic where Jack borrows Rhys’s body for the morning so he and Nisha can go dig up his former body, get his sweater back, and shove it over Rhys’s head. Jack took this selfie for Rhys to wake up to, because he’s a dick. ]
