Rabbit Women and Talking Dresses

Nemo and Rae portrait.

Rough sketch.

Nemo using String Magic.

Rough sketch.

Creeping and Crawling

Rae bein' a li'l scamp.

Nemo and Rae are an interesting pair with a needlessly convoluted backstory I'm in the process of trying to decide whether or not to rework. Nemo was a video game character, a rabbit-woman librarian NPC, brought to life "accidentally" by a hedonistic trickster goddess during a "real life roleplay session". Rather than erase Nemo when her task in the physical world was done, the goddess allowed her to keep on living in the miniature multiverse which she, and several other goddesses, had recently created. She also granted Nemo the unique ability to learn the native Magics of any World she visited, and be able to still use those Magics in other Worlds where they normally wouldn't function. Rae (short for "raiment"), is her living dress, accidentally brought to life by Nemo while the latter was studying the power of String Magic. The two have been stalwart interdimensional travel companions ever since!

Initially, they were going to be the main characters of an adventure series that was intended to be a sort of "tour guide" of the setting they had been incarnated in. That series, like so many others before it, never happened, of course. I have made a couple little things involving the duo, and they are fun to draw, but I've come to feel that the initial setting I made them for has severely hamstrung what I can actually do with them. I've recently been thinking about what I can do to "reincarnate" them into something else, although it would be extremely difficult to do that without compromising a lot of the metafictional details that make them who they are. Also, let's be real, whatever I come up with probably isn't getting made either anyway.