eternalDelight >> #7240
Posted on 2012-12-28 07:42:32 Score: 0 (vote Up/Down)   (Report as spam)
This is quite the odd pic.
Those are suppose to be torn wing marks, right?
But what's the little metal part on his spine? Is he freed from the matrix?






Also butt.

Pie >> #7242
Posted on 2012-12-28 08:11:03 Score: 0 (vote Up/Down)   (Report as spam)
Well Vriska did jack up his spine, not just his legs. It makes sense that his prosthetics would have to include some of his spine to allow for actual mobility.

And yes those are torn wing wounds it appears, probably meant to symbolize a loss of innocence, loss of dreams the text claims he still clings to. Could also perhaps symbolize the fact that he never got to reach his full potential for one reason or another.

Also I'm of the opinion this is artsy enough to stay, but I'm definitely biased so I open it up to the rest of you board users.

/saves either way.

eternalDelight >> #7247
Posted on 2012-12-28 09:58:14 Score: 0 (vote Up/Down)   (Report as spam)
It looked like this person was just going for the fan-preferred leg amputee, I thought. In which case the spine thingy didn't make sense.
But, yeah, it'd make sense if they did the canon amputation of his whole body from the base of the spine down.

The more I look at the wing scars, the more it seems like it could be a tattoo? Although I'm leaning towards "not", because of the blood. I pretty much took it literally instead of symbolically; like in this artist's world Tavros actually had wings prior, or something.

And that final point still stands. (or sits, in this case)
But yeah, I had no problem with it either.

Pie >> #7248
Posted on 2012-12-28 10:07:04 Score: 0 (vote Up/Down)   (Report as spam)
Meh the canon actual bisection of Tavros never really made sense to me since the other character bisected by Kanaya's chainsaw was "DEAD" almost instantly, and while Equius has great mechanical expertise I don't recall anyone having the medical expertise to somehow keep Tavros alive after being cut literally in half. Cutting off his legs would probably require cauterization yeah, but literally cutting him in half would require heavy reconstruction of his insides and who would have been able to do that before he died?

That's why I never really had a problem with the leg only amputation depictions. It actually makes more sense to me then canon.

That'd be a funky tattoo, since it literally looks like flesh but I guess it is possible? It could be meant to be taken literally, this is one of those pictures you can take a lot of ways I suppose.

Tropylium >> #7269
Posted on 2012-12-28 15:54:20 Score: 0 (vote Up/Down)   (Report as spam)
Oooor they installed some preliminary components before the improptutation.

eternalDelight >> #7296
Posted on 2012-12-28 21:06:12 Score: 0 (vote Up/Down)   (Report as spam)
Oh that's a good thought, Tropy!
Although...the page shows nothing of the sort.
See: http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=004019

After pondering for a while, I think the best loophole around him bleeding out would be one of the psychics helping. And I always thought Equius just was really good with machines and pretty much attached everything to a copy of his legs but mechanical. (pretty much "tube a" to "tube b")
I mean, we've seen many of his robots with blood circulating in them. (well, it's out of them when we see it)
So I guess they just connected him right up. And if we include in the psychic help, connecting the blood vessels/nerves/whatever to the new system was probably done really quickly!

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