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Zelyezda: The Iron Mistress

Zelyezda is the Overlord over the ballet industry, specifically Russian ballet, and is part of the Theatre Overlords lead by The Puppeteer.

When she was alive, she was a ballet dancer and teacher at the Imperial School of Ballet in St. Petersburg, Russia.

However, she was very egotistical and belittled those around her. She was also strict and cruel in her teachings, bullying and berating her students that didn’t meet her expectations, not even the students who were top of the class were safe from her wrath.

One of her students dropped out of the school and then ended her life. However, Zelyezda didn’t feel any remorse, but the girl’s brother wanted revenge.

During one of her performances, the brother messed with props hanging above, causing them to fall on top of Zelyezda, breaking both her legs.

Due to this incident, Zelyezda couldn’t dance or even walk, causing her to sink into a deep depression, where she eventually met the same end as the student.

After arriving in Hell, she was greeted by The Puppeteer, who has been watching her perform during her past life. The Puppeteer offered to fix her legs, return her fame and glory, and give total control over the souls she collect in exchange for her “working” under The Puppeteer, making her follow The Puppeteer’s every demand when needed. She accepted with no hesitation.

She still looks down (both figuratively and literally) on everyone around her, and acts entitled around her acquaintances. She does act kind, almost motherly, towards one of the Overlords due to his young age, reminding her of the student, and he prefers to be around her. After learning about the Hazbin Hotel and what Charlie is trying to accomplish, Zelyezda urges the young Overlord to go there to try and be redeemed, wanting to give him a better afterlife and to break free from The Puppeteer’s control.

Design

Her name “Zelyezda” is a combination of the Russian words for “Iron” and Train”.

She is around 13ft tall, making her the tallest of the Theatre Overlords, and taller than Val.

Her sharpness represents her “sharp” tongue and how she acted towards everyone.

Regarding the colors, I wanted to do dark colors, similar to the Black Swan.

She’s made of porcelain to represent her fragile ego, with cracks covering her legs to represent that they were beyond repair and around her neck to represent how she died (hanging).

The ribbons around her ankles, wrists, and neck act as “shackles” due to being under The Puppeteer’s control.

The giant eye on the back of her head looks like a bun when closed, this takes the saying “eyes on the back of her head” quite literally.

Here is a basic reference without the dress and makeup:

Poppy Playtime OCs Because Why Not (This is just more for fun)

After watching the play through of Chapter 4 & seeing the amount of fanart (both canon & OCs), I thought it would be fun to come up with some possible concepts for some OCs.

Might draw them, might not, I’m not sure yet.

Anyway below are the concepts:

Toys

Smiling/Nightmare Critter

After the scandal & recall of the Catnap Plushies, Playtime Co tried to create a new character to take Catnap’s place in the Smiling Critters Cast. Wanting to keep the same theme of “a good night’s sleep”, Playtime Co decided to base the design off the concept of “counting sheep”.

The character would be a sheep with white wool & black limbs, & wears a cloud shaped pendant with “Zs” in it or a pillow shaped pendant. They also had a chamomile scent.

They would have been named “Sleepy Sheepy”. However, it never made past the review period due to timing & negative ties to Catnap who both are associated with sleep, & fear that another scandal could occur from this.

This design was then used to create “Baba Chops”: inverted the colors, & changed their personality & along with changing their scent to Anise; who is part of a new line of characters called the Nightmare Critters.

Due to a “special request” from an anonymous source, the concept of Sleepy was altered. The character was changed to be a white lamb wearing a bell shaped pendant, but still kept the chamomile scent.

The character was named “Mary Little” & was used as a limited edition toy to celebrate their 3 year anniversary. They also made a special appearance in the cartoon for the same reason.

Their personality was described to be very curious & a bit naive. They wanted to be friends with everyone & for everyone to feel included. They would’ve act as a peacemaker or negotiator between the Smiling Critters & Nightmare Critters. In the show, they only had one major appearance & would then only appear a couple of times afterwards before the cartoon was discontinued.

Due to them being a limited edition toy, there was only a handful of them produced & was only available during the year 1991. A Bigger Body was never created due to the same reasons above, but there were plans of one if the Catnap Bigger Body became “uncooperative”.

The living toy experiments were also conducted on the plushies as well, but were less in number. After the Hour of Joy, most of the plushies were killed & eaten, with the exception of those that followed Catnap. There was also just one that took refuge in Safe Haven.

Humans

Past Employee: Mary Sawyer

Mary was the daughter of Harley Sawyer. Wanting to grow closer to her father, she tried to gain an internship at Playtime Co.

After seeing her potential, Dr. Sawyer put in a request, & pulled some strings, to give her permission to work with him on the living toys experiments & the Bigger Body Initiative.

However, after seeing the experiments & treatment of the toys, Mary was horrified & wanted to leave. But due to fear of being “taken care of”, she continued to work alongside Dr. Sawyer to secretly gather evidence.

During the Hour of Joy, Mary was out doing an “errand” for the other scientists. When she came back, she saw the aftermath & fled immediately.

10 years later, she returns back to Playtime Co to figure out what happened & to see what happened to the toy & BBI experiments.

-or-

Mary was the daughter of Harley Sawyer. When she was younger, she was often brought to Playtime Co with her father & was used to test the experiments’ reaction to children.

The toys were quite fond of Mary due to her kind-hearted nature & gentle approach. She was often around the Nightmare Critters, who were very affectionate & friendly towards her after she would give them snacks.

After Dr. Sawyer was turned into the Doctor, Mary was sent to live with other relatives & hasn’t been back to Playing Co since.

She would constantly ask about her father & “friends”, but many of the relatives would just change the subject or say they didn’t know what she was talking about. This caused Mary to doubt her memory & the time she was at Playtime Co.

10 years after the Hour of Joy, Mary would run away from her home & return to Playtime Co to find her father & “friends”. However, she only found a factory filled with starved toys & notes written on vhs tapes.

Past Employee: Samuel Barnes

Samuel was the older brother of Kevin Barnes. They were separated, with Sam going to live with his parents while Kevin was sent to the orphanage due to his “behavior”. He was sent to the orphanage at a very young age, so he doesn’t remember Samuel that well.

His family would deny the existence of Kevin whenever Samuel would ask about him. It wasn’t until he turned 18 when he found out the truth.

Enraged by his parents’ actions & concerned for his brother’s safety, would go to Playtime Co to find him, but was denied access to the orphanage.

After creating a fake identity, Samuel would apply for a job to work at Playtime Co. Mainly to gather information & find Kevin, while also needing a job in general.

However, after being caught multiple times trying to look through classified documents, he was fired & banned from the facility. He was then arrested & imprisoned for trespassing & aggravated assault about a couple days after being fired.

10 years later, it’s unknown if he escaped prison or was released early for good behavior, he went back to Playtime Co for closure. But was met with an empty factory filled with starved toys & eaten corpses.

These are just a few ideas for concept ideas for possible OCs, I would like hear what you guys think, & if you all like them then I might make art of them.

Couch Potato

Just a little to mid effort drawing of Neue & Sans.

Idk why I made this, but it made me laugh.

Subject WP-DT1.7-001.12 Notes

A lil sneak peek of what’s (or rather who’s) next

Possible More AU Variants of Neue

I’m experiencing low motivation for drawing, but I’m still working on the clothing rough drafts.

However, I am gonna be adding more AU Variants of Neue. These variants won’t have a big impact on the story or none at all (at least for now), but I think they’ll be fun to draw.

Now a few of these AUs will be my own version/redesign, not because I don’t like the original concept, this is just my own spin on them.

Dancetale

-IDK what type of dance this Neue will have, since Toriel is Waltz & Sans is Hip-Hop.

-I could see him being one of these options:

•A combination of both

•Waltz or Hip-Hop, or some variation of them

•Something entirely unrelated to both

Birdtale

-While the original just has the characters have wings on their backs (& I’ve seen some with talon/clawed feet), I’m gonna up the “bird” characteristics a bit more.

-The arms will be replaced with wings & the lower parts of the legs will look like talons.

-The nose/top part of the mouth will vaguely look similar to a beak.

-They’ll be based off a species of birds or a combination of 2-3 birds.

•For this version of Neue, he’ll be based off the Himalayan Griffon & the Collared Scops-Owl.

Reapertale

-This version of Neue would be the “child” of Life & Death. IDK what the correct terminology would be for this, but they would “rule” represent the realm between life & death.

-Their name is Purgatory, which might change if I can find a more accurate name for this, & they would play an interesting rule for this AU.

•They would decide if a soul deserves a second at life or if they must pass on into the afterlife.

•This would mainly affect individuals who are in a comatose state, or if they died “too early”.

Oceantale

-While the original was based more on mythical creatures (with the exception of a few), I’m gonna based this Neue’s design off real life sea creatures.

-They could either be based off a singular sea creature, or a combination of 2-3 species.

•For this version of Neue, they’ll be based off the Leafy Seadragon, Lion’s Mane Jellyfish & the Whale Shark.

Angeltale

-The original was similar to appearance of Birdtale, with the characters just having wings on their backs. So I’m gonna change them to look similar to nightmare fuel that is the “biblical accurate angels”.

-They would have 2 forms:

•Their true form which would be the equivalent of “biblically accurate angels”.

•The “Be-Not-Afraid” form which would give them a more “normal” appearance similar to their Undertale counterpart with some angel-like features.

Deltarune

-You know I had to include this for funsies.

-In this AU, Neue would be the son of Sans & an unnamed individual, so his personality would be different.

-His name would be Neuton, & IDK what RPG class he would have yet in the Dark World.

Blank Template

-Now this would be an original AU (unless there’s an AU like this so please tell me if that’s the case).

-Basically everyone would be a blank template of each character:

•Basic Designs with little to no colors (I guess white would be considered a color).

•Bare minimum concept of powers & personality based off the original Undertale characters.

•Little to no facial/emotion expression unless near a large influence of raw emotion.

-This version of Neue would be named “Canvas” (like a blank canvas).

Please comment any suggestions/ideas for these or other AUs that I’m working on.

Underfell Neue Rough Draft

Neue will have a different name in each universe to help differentiate from each other, so Underfell Neue will be called “Roman”.

Here is the Rough Draft:

So I based this version off a Pygora Goat, which is a bit shorter than an Angora Goat.

Roman’s hair is definitely more unkempt than Neue’s, his horns are more outward than upward, he’s also shorter and thicker than Neue.

There’s one bit of information that I’m still debating on, but if you look at his design you might be able to figure it out.

Dusttale: Revived | Research Notes for WILLPOWER

So I’m starting to get back into the Undertale AUs fandom, and looking back through my past art, I found some rough pencil drawings of what I think was a ship child between Toriel & Sans along with other AUs:

After getting a lot of Undertale AU content on YouTube, mainly videos involving the Murder Time Trio, I got inspired to redesign this character and their alternate versions.

The AUs that I’m gonna be working on:

Undertale

Underfell

Underswap

Swapfell

Fellswap

Outertale

Horrortale

Dancetale

Reapertale

Dusttale

XTale

Killer AU

Dreamtale (Dream/Nightmare)

Underkeep

Birdtale

Plus anymore that you guys suggest.

Now I know alternate versions would probably not be likely in a few of these AUs, but this is more for designing and personality building between the versions.

I’ll post the redesign of the attached character, and then start working on their alternate versions.