DANNY WHY DO YOU POST THESE THINGS WHEN IM NOT HOME WHAT IS THE CHANCE PLEASE

Marzenie time guysss

Here’s the Basil design!

Other versions plus a little elaboration on the design:

Cloakless + wing design versions

So for the sake of specificity I’ve been calling him “Marze” whenever I refer to the in-dream version of Basil, Same naming convention as (Hikik)Omori, but don’t be mistaken, Marze is not an individual like Omori is, Marze is a costume- just the suit that Basil wears while venturing the horrors of his mind, Marze is merely how Basil conforms himself to the world of Marzenie, none of the characters there are really human so it’d be out of place if Basil himself was (this can be viewed as a form of self-dehumanizing on Basil’s part but it’s mostly for the artists sake- the meta explanation is just as important as the in-world one)

Now for the design itself:

maybe the symbolism here is really obvious but I wanna explain it anyway, the Deer parts (antlers and legs) are representative of Basil’s general personality as a whole- he’s skittish and vulnerable yes but when forced deer do fight back, an idea that’s very important to Marzenie given it displays Basil LITERALLY fighting to survive against his inner struggles, that and the creator (me) really likes deer … so there’s that

Otherwise, the wings are Moths wings, which seems like it’s a really simple connection to Sunny and the idea that Moths are drawn to light but it’s a little more literal in Marzenie because it’s not just that Sunny is Basils sun in a metaphorical way it’s that in Marzenie he actually IS, in the world of Marzenie there is a Sun-God character that is very obviously just Sunny, which is both about bit about Basil’s view of Sunny as someone without flaw but also about just how much Basil relies on him… or rather the IDEA of him

Sun-God-Sunny is a very important presence in Marzenie because it’s his very absence that’s made Marzenie what it is, returning to that Map art I made for a moment here

Within Marzenie it’s not just that Sunny is a god but that he’s a dead/‘sleeping’ god, and in his absence the world has become cold and dark (which necessitates that lantern in the desgin above)

Yes Basil had issues before the incident but having friends and having SUNNY made that bearable and something he could have gradually put behind him, being abandoned so suddenly in such a traumatic way has thrown Basil’s mind into a state of eternal darkness, the world of Marzenie is cold and dark and dangerous, and all of this is the most literal possible representation of the damage Sunny’s absence has inflicted on Basil’s mental state

Sunny’s character in Marzenie being the Sun god is also why the center of it and the beginning of the journey is a church, the only hope Basil has anymore is that Sunny will return and they can be friends again, so he’s build an alter in his mind dedicated to this hope, this prayer

Also religious imagery is fun <3, also it’s a parallel to the church of something and how Basil’s house is at the center of Vast forest (and thus the center of Sunny’s mind, they center their places of safety around each other, even if for Basil that place is a tiny candlelit alter in the center of a dark woodland while for Sunny that Place of safety is EVERYTHING in his mind, so vastly different and yet sort of the same <- does any of this make sense? Probably not, who cares, it’s my AU and I WILL ramble as much as I like ok)

Sunny and Basil in the hospital after the confrontation

Sunny (trying to explain headspace): “and in my dreams it seemed like everything was nice but-“

Basil: (still coming down from anesthesia) “in my dreams you were god anddd you kissed me”

Sunny: “…?”

Basil: “can you call the nurse, my stab wound hurts.”

ok hi guys

this is what took me what, 3 months?? and i dont even have anything in defense of myself

GUESS WHAT???

THATS RIGHT, MORE MARZE FANART!

I used the folk dress from Krakow, Poland as the primary reference, since the au has some references to Polish. I'm so proud of this one.I'm sorry if it seems a bit rushed; it's because I got this idea just recentlyy. :)

I actually had to do some research, which was surprising since I live pretty close to Krakow, I was also tempted to add a flower crown, but I'm way too lazyy.

An aquarium in Japan was closed for renovations, and their resident sunfish got depressed not seeing visitors. So the staff put some uniforms with printed faces against the tank, and it immediately recovered.

uhh I wanted to try a new style.

ok that's all bye

OOOUUUGGGHHHHHHMYYYYDAYS.

RATMARIRATMARIRATMARIRATMARI!!!!

AND YES!!! YOU GOT ZIEMIA RIGHT!!

pls don't call urself dumb!!! ( ;｀Д´)

I GOT ABSOLUTELY JUMPSCARED BY THE NOTIF FOR THIS POST BUT IT WAS SO WORTH IT???

I LOVE LOVE LOVEEE THE USE OF RATS, SINCE THEY ARE MOSTLY ASSOCIATED WITH PLAGUE AND ETC!!

AND YEAH IM POLISH!! SO IF U NEED ANY TRANSLATIONS JUST TELL ME!!! ( ＾ω＾ )

AAAAOOOUUUUUGGHHHHH I NEED TO DRAW HER BUT MY CSP IS TWEAKING RN.. (ｙﾟﾛﾟ)ｙ

I ALSO HAVE TO KNOW HOW AUBREY LOOKS IN THIS AU OR ILL EXPLODE

but take this sol sneak peek I did a quick screen of... (ohmygodwhathappenedwiththequality???)

the moment you’ve all been waiting for

Ziemia

Or as I’ve been calling her up until now- Rat Mari! Now to tell you the truth Rat Mari/Ziemia took me AGES to properly figure out and when I was first getting started with Marzenie I had no idea what to do about Mari- then I had the rot metaphor idea and decided “rats in the shape of a person is pretty horrible I could do that!”… thus, Mari shaped rat pile and some wooden limbs in there too for vague symbolism reasons? Which. What I mean by that is that I’m drawing a similarity between her and Sol

The whole thing with Sol is the idea of perfection, a person is not capable of perfection and so he must be a doll, must be wood and light and no more- Mari was once perfect too, but her idea is tainted and gone and all that remains is rot. Do you see what I’m saying here? I’m not sure honestly I’ve been brainfogged as hell lately and started this drawing two days ago only to finish it NOW, and to be totally honest the design isn’t everything I wanted from it… but it dawned on me sometime lately that what I do want would be very tedious to draw

I cannot physically draw enough rats for me to be happy with so I compromised with not that many rats- and they aren’t very good rats either I’m not that great with animals … anyhow! Why Ziemia? Well. I think I’ve brought it up before but the in-world explanation for this character is that she was once a nature goddess, like how Sol is a god of the sun- but she was tainted by something terrible and consumed by pests, so Ziemia (in my rudimentary understanding of the polish language thanks to imperfect software because I don’t actually know polish and am doing my best to choose correct translations) is a word that means Earth. There were alternate translations and other words I could’ve used, but I picked Ziemia because it’s 1: a relatively simple word that matches the other ones I’ve used and 2: sounds enough like a name that I find it easy to call a character that and 3: is relatively easy to pronounce for … what I imagine to be my mostly English speaking audience? What five of you there are- other then @/birdzman ! Who I think might actually be polish? Not sure but shout out to you if you’re reading this!! Not fully sure if I’m right but if so then uhhh I apologize for being a dumb little American because I doubt I’m doing these translations right, anyhow!

Rat Mari/Ziemia isn’t just accociated with rats, I also want her to have themes of decay and other scavenger animals such as maggots or worms, the focus on rats is to do with Marzenie’s setting, I guess the idea is that Rats invade homes in winter to survive, whereas bugs mostly die off in winter regardless of available human homes to inhabit, so rats are one of the only pest animals which persist through the snow, which is why they might appear in some places outside Ziemia’s tree area, whilst other associated creatures would be unique to that area

Last but not least of my statements on this character, Ziemia does not represent the grief of Mari’s death, but rather the tangible brutality of it, how death feels in the eyes of a child, the inherent horror of a corpse, of knowing a person was once alive is no longer so, the horror of feeling their body stiff and cold in your arms, arms that once held you … this is what the rot theme comes from, one of Basil’s frequent hallucinations is of her body, decaying on the rope, decaying where he left her.

Cough. YAY!!!!!

It’s late but I’ll just post it now anyway… Musial family tree

I made the base with an app I have for oc stuff and then drew over it, a little bit of elaboration on all the characters I’ve neglected give substantial information on, it’s still not much but yk… and for Basils father and grandfather I shared doodles of their Marzenie designs too since those haven’t come up yet

Two extra points to add to this:

1, for Basils grandfather I didn’t go into his death but the specifics are that he a construction worker and was working on a run down bridge when the structure collapsed, he drowned when he became trapped under the rubble and wasn’t able to swim up

2, for Basia’s older sister/Basil’s great aunt, I imply it a little but would rather spell it out…her face is scared because she was trying to save her sister when she got stuck outside during an air strike, the oldest was just shy of the explosion that killed he youngest, her face was disfigured and her arm had to be amputated due to severe burns, she also walked with a cane for the rear of her life until eventually killings herself out of guilt for not being able to save her little sister, Basia never talks much about either of them

OOOOOOOUUUUHHB MY GOOOD I HAVE SO MANY THINGS TO DRAW

but I'm too lazy.

and I have to finish something...

Can you guys pray for me I have severe arachnophobia and my house is randomly full of spiders . Not even the spildly ones these motherfuckers are proportional :(