boss who hired all clumsy anime girl office ladies who keep dropping papers, spilling drinks etc. with sexy results: ahh! my business is ruined! our cleaning costs are through the roof!

his bespectacled secretary carrying a nice cold beer in to cheer him up: don't worry, sir, I-

RESPECT THE LEGEND BUBBA
BLESS

Completing the mission no matter what.

They'd let us die for air miles.

Then they started really basic, yeah. The rest of what made them happened organically. Writing over time.

Weird how it works out

Raege and Boone I can't get to six with. Levy I would have to trim to get to just 6.

The characters have evolved over time, but a good starting point is nice too.
I should do more. Not just gobs, either.

Look rest of the world we're doing what we can here with our extremely well armed and funded bourgeoisie home guard (cops and feds) but you gotta sanction us. Don't trade with us. Don't speak to us. Don't let our tourists into your country. We're just gonna keep doing this

It's okay, I get a bit of this. I don't respond to it, but I can appreciate people's enthusiasm.

In universe, there is a small cult that seeks oblivion by her hands.

Or other parts of her body, they're not picky.

Neither is she, she supposes.

An illustration of four human characters standing in roughly neutral poses in empty space for the purpose of concept art. The first one, the former-mercenary Eden, is a woman with curly hair partially tied up in a ponytail, and wears a short shirt, an open long coat, pants and tall boots, has a pair of pistols in holsters on a belt, and has a necklace that holds a multi-coloured five-pointed star icon. The second figure, the engineer Risk, is a woman, taller than Eden and notably curvier, with long wavy hair worn loose, a lab coat that reaches her knees, a pair of jean shorts, a bikini top, and some work boots with normal socks. Her eyes are drawn closed, which will be her default state, but an example of her eyes as they are open floats next to her. The third figure, the mute psionic Zero, is the shortest and smallest of the all of them, and has long straight hair that covers one of her eyes. She wears a long, closed, slightly robe-like cloak with a collar high enough to cover her mouth, and pants and shoes. Her visible eye faintly glows with latent power. The last figure, the swordsman/rifleman Jake, is second-tallest, only barely taller than Eden, and has spiked-up somewhat short hair. He wears a basic singlet, rather wide and loose pants, and basic shoes. He has four arms, all of which are designed to look kind of like muscles but made of synthetic fiber bundles instead of meat - two of which sit under his main arms, and both are connected to synthetic pectoral muscle-like modules that cover his chest. His eyes are similarly synthetic, with glowing pupils and other details.

An illustration of five characters standing in neutral poses in an empty space to use as concept art. Four of them are covered in the previous image in this post, so their details are in that one The fifth figure, which dwarfs all the others and is at least two and a half times as tall as any of the others, is the robot/mech Ton. They are a humanoid figure, standing upright, but has a vaguely dog-like head structure and has digitigrade legs also kind of like a dog. A large canister-like piece sits on their back, which houses their reactor, their left arm has a three-fingered clawed hand and a boxy energy weapon on the outside forearm, and their right arm lacks a hand and is instead a heavy-calibre cannon of some kind with a thick drum magazine embedded in the side. Their torso, large enough to fit a person inside, has a series of panels in the front to open up to the cockpit for any pilot, but this interior isn't shown. A couple of other panels sit on their shoulders, and their legs and back have vaguely triangular shapes jutting out to imply jump jets. Next to their head is a redraw of the same head, but showing more details of the eyes, which have a disk with a large central lens and a ring of smaller lens surrounding them to represent other vision modes, and a bundle of cables leading behind where the sclera would be on a person's eyes. Both this and the standard drawing's eyes are glowing quite strongly.

doing some concept work for an episodic kinetic novel series i'm aiming to work on soon. follows a group of mercenary/adventurers - the leader, Eden; the engineer, Risk; the mute psionic, Zero; the cyborg swordsman, Jake; and the ancestral robot/mech, Ton - taking contracts and getting into trouble

When a young lady tragically drowns, you get a rusalka.
When 1000 particularly angry young women all drown at once you get The Rampart.

Some dismiss her as mere superstition but they still dim the lighthouse when they hear her laugh. Playing smooth jazz and leaving mangoes on the shore
Just in case

Lumsden had given up the adventurer lifestyle years ago.

Being a ships captain and drinking too much meant that she had gotten out of shape - at least by her original standards.

Now and again though, she would catch her reflection before bed.

"Could still bounce a gold coin off it."

That's cause you're a real one!
thank you!!

We have a sweet team! We have a secret mission! We have a theoretically limitless supply of alcohol!! We are living our best space adventurer lives!!
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Everton doesn't even smoke. She just pretends she does to irritate her favourite cop.

There are worse ways to have some of your soul sucked out.

Nah, in my world it's pussy juice.

That's bon stuff!

Little two part reverse angle set of pics done for @misterbadguy.bsky.social for @mculexus.bsky.social 's characters

She's a maple dryad

Elves

I know I say this a lot. And I know I'm constantly making more work for myself but we haven't seen the last of her.

Whatever stereotypes exist for humans, elves and grels, all of them are equally capable of being dumbasses.

Oddly enough, she has fielded such speculation in universe.

Colton