Day 10 Gem

Save A Slice For Me, Course 9: Second Main Course

https://archiveofourown.org/works/58496020/chapters/156991744

so uhhhhhh, the reason this chapter has taken so long is that it's over 16k words long. oopsies!

Happy Eating!!!!

Also I'd love to see some skizz and Impulse 💛💛

Bonded pair do not separate!!

Hermit A Day May!

Day 1: ImpulseSV

Bright Colors!

I absolutely love your impulse design and how he always has his eyes closed 😭 the sweetest man...

If possible, and by all means, you don't have to. But please give me just a little grimpulse crumb art 🙏 I just really really love the way you draw them both and they are so underrated

Grian is cranky cause someone broke through his firewall and Impulse is trying to fix it before he glitches himself out.

I'm not doing hermit-a-day but I hear it's Impulse's day today so have this. It's a sequel to a rancher doodle I did a long time ago.

Impact font for Impulse ⚠️☢️

i know ive been mostly posting double life designs and headcanons for my AU but this is just a default impy. Well, obviously with my delusional twist on him but this is him without any bdubs traits.

Just felt like drawing good ol Impulse.

basically i knew i wanted impulse to be netherborn and also wanted him to be an "imp" whatever that means. So while researching imps i found a few forgotten realms designs for their version of imps which is a lil guy with horns, your typical demon kind of wings and....a scorpion tail. so that's where that part came from.

if anyone is curious about the designs process, here are some brainworms of mine;

Then i thought "okay how i make this minecraft nether related?" scorpions have venom right? but poison isnt very nether coded so i thought of other effects. fire is tango's thing in my brain, thats off the table. then naturally my brain goes to wither effect. and what has wither in the nether? wither skeletons. thats where his black markings and exposed spine came from. (also if you remember my double life au bdubs design, this is why he got wither roses in his new design)

then an extra pair of wings to make him more buggy and thats about it.

little things like his tripp shorts and piercings were just me hitting him with the projection beam and making him punk-ier. i literally just used my own shorts as reference.

im not gonna go into the delusional nether lore i made up for him...at least not for now.

oh but the fact he has blue in his design is cause i somehow decided hes native to the soulsand valley biomes. cause uhhh skeletons?

Skizz prefers longer hair on Impulse

Impulse: I'm getting a haircut tomorrow, I think? I think? Oh my gosh, how am I going to get a haircut tomorrow, I'm super busy. Anyway. Look at this. Look at the hair, look at the hair. (three seconds silence) It's fine, isn't it. No, it's a mess. My hair's a mess, doesn't know what it's doing--uh, no, this is my Phoenix Suns hat. Usually I like, wear it like this, but. Wear it backwards today. Oh, it's hard to put a hat on in a camera (laughs) Should I leave it off? Should I leave the hair off-or, the hair out? Every time I take off my hat, you guys are like, "just don't wear the hat. You don't need it." (laughs) Eh, my hair is so long though, it's-it's so long. Ah, "No Shave November"--well, I'm allowed to keep it trimmed though. I did that--so, this is--that's what happened last November, I started growing this, and I've had it ever since. Impulse: I--ooh, I've lasted a year with a beard. It's our year anniversary (laughs). Oh, anyway, um, I guess we should play some Phasmo, that's what you guys came to see, right? Should we play some Phasmo? Gonna cut it tomorrow so it looks good, yeah. Joker: (in the background) I'm ready! Skizz: Me too me too. Impulse: (to himself) that's not the right button. (to the others) Yeah, I'm ready too, I was just talking about my hair. Tango: Oh. Skizz: What's wrong with your hair? Impulse: It's long and I want to get a haircut. Tango: Ahhh. Skizz: Dude, just grow it out, dude. Impulse: (incredulous) What are you talking about? Skizz: Let it-let it be. Impulse: I have grown it out, you've seen it-- Skizz: More, I said more! Impulse: Do you remember how I used to do it? It used to be like, always no longer than an inch long. Every single hair follicle. Skizz: Yes. I hated it. So, I-- Impulse: (laughing) You hated it-- Skizz: 'member, I, 'member, dude, grow it out--remember my hair in high school-- Impulse: No! Skizz: --that's what you're going for. Yeah. Impulse: No, your hair--you have-you have thin hair, I don't. So I just have an afro and yours would actually fall and-and look good. Skizz: I--that's what--if you grew--oh, dude, you would have a sweet afro, dude. (Impulse laughs) A sweet afro. Just do it! Tango: Why can't I crouch? Impulse: (examining himself in the monitor, quietly, to himself) It doesn't--it doesn't look good.

GIGGS Immortal Company AU

"Nothing in the world is more precious than one’s life, and sometimes, we have to deal with forces that threaten to cut it short. Ghosts, monsters, and sometimes, even people. This fear prevents us from enjoying our short time in this world.

"But what if I tell you that you don’t have to worry about your life falling into danger? What if I tell you that there are people willing to let go of their lives so you don’t have to?

"Ghost busting? Monster journalism? Creature Handling? Cryptid hunting? Property retrieval in ominous places and planets? There is no job we can’t handle!

"Throw your worries away and let GIGGS handle your dangerous affairs. Give a grand to GIGGS and your life will be nothing but grand."

aka A GIGGS AU where the five of them are broke immortals trying to capitalize on their inability to die by taking on life-threatening jobs.

more under the cut!

Impulse and Skizz founded the company. Skizz had the idea and persuaded Impulse to pursue it. Impulse has extensive experience in ghost hunting and prioritizes on-site jobs, while Skizz’s expertise is in handling clients and paperwork. They started as a duo and received mostly ghost-busting jobs. Years into their business, the jobs became more demanding and dangerous, and despite their immortality, it was still a bit much for two people to handle.

Their first recruit was Scar. They never talked to the man, but they often saw him in the city; each time they saw him, he always sat near the lake with a journal and pen in his hands, and a cane rested on his chair. They have been working as IMP n’ SKIZZ for a few decades at this point, and Skizz pointed out to Impulse that the man doesn’t seem to age despite seeing him every week or month. When they talked to him, they found out that Scar was an immortal as well. He agreed to join the company, and although he was clumsy most times and he died so often, it helped out the duo’s workload a ton. Especially with clients. It felt like they accidentally hired themselves a top salesman and a PR guy.

Their next recruit was Grian… well, more like their first applicant. He suddenly showed up one day in their company building asking they need one more employee. Impulse thought it was a good idea as they started to receive jobs that required them to go off-country, or even off-planet. Grian served as a great addition to their team with the way he strategizes and how quick he get things done. Though he’s a very unsettling person. They’re not even sure if he’s human. Each time he died, his corpse stayed on the ground, and he suddenly pops up somewhere.

Their last official member is Gem, who was neither a recruit nor an applicant. She was a hitman paid to kill Scar. She sabotaged a lot of their jobs just to get a swing at Scar, who never seemed to die even when she ripped his heart out. When Grian tried to kill her to get rid of her, her wounds instantly healed. After a while, she realized that her attempts at killing the old conman were futile. Skizz and Impulse tried to recruit her, seeing that her abilities can help the company, but she refused. They didn’t see her for a few years, and she showed up one day saying she’s sick of killing people for money and wants to go on (creepy) adventures.

The five of them made a perfect team, and thus IMP n’ SKIZZ was renamed to GIGGS after a few years.

ADDITIONAL NOTES

IMPULSE

When he dies, his body tries to repair itself back together, and if his important organs are still intact, he goes back into consciousness.

The cause of his immortality is unknown.

Before falling into an existential crisis and state of depression and hopelessness thanks to his immortality, he was a ghost hunter.

SKIZZLEMAN “SKIZZ”

His immortality is the same as Impulse’s, but his consciousness never leaves his body.

The cause of his immortality is unknown.

A few hundred years ago, he was a radio host who was known for his ghost stories segment. The station eventually fell into obscurity before it completely stopped its operation.

He joined a ghost hunter services company a year later, and that’s where he met impulse.

MR. GOODTIMES "SCAR"

He gets scars and can bleed, but doesn’t feel pain. He can also get his heart ripped off and still be able to live. No part of his body can die, and even though he can’t regenerate a whole new organ, his organs can live apart from him.

However, once his body parts or organs reattach to him, it connects with gooey gold which harden after a while, making it harder to remove the next time. Though, this also causes problems sometimes and makes it harder for Scar to move. This is why he uses a cane for his leg.

He gained immortality from a golden cat statue after he repaired it. Some of its shards are missing, so he’s unsure whether this immortality was a blessing or a curse.

He used to be a con artist. He once tricked a billionaire into investing in his fake business. After he got some hundred million, he booked it and lived comfortably in hiding.

GRIAN

His corpses stay dead, but he pops back into existence randomly.

Beneath his glasses, his eyes are hollow and hold a deep abyss inside them.

Sometimes, his new body doesn't express emotions well, so the team rely on his voice and actions to tell how he’s feeling.

The cause of his immortality is unknown. It’s also unknown what kind of creature he is.

AGENT GEMINI "GEM"

She can die, but only if every single one of the cells explodes. She can grow old, but her regeneration is so fast that her aging is incredibly slowed down. She calls herself a “Pseudo Immortal”. Her skin is difficult to slice apart with how fast it connects back together.

Her immortality’s cause is a secret.

Her life before being a hitman is also a secret.

Quick Cyberpunk impulse doodle :)

I feel like it's not really readable as impulses character, like I look at it and go nah thats not impulse, but maybe that's just me. I mean this is the first time I've drawn his character since like 2021 and frankly I don't think those were readable as his character so I guess nothing changed.

It’s uh, been a minute, so an angel skizz for your viewing pleasure

He needs to lock the fuck in