Tag: skylanders

Name : Sukiko Iwasaki
Skylander Name : Cherry Bomb
Species : Rosy Maple Moth
Gender : Female
Element : Life
Role : Neutal Good
Homeworld : Nippon
Voice Actress : ((To be decided)) 

Attacks : Cherry Bomb’s main attack involves her flinging bombs from her sleeves. Her secondary attack is "Cherry Storm", where she summons cherry blossoms to slice and dice her enemies. 

Story : Sukiko was working in an Okiya (geisha house) as a simple maiko (apprentice geisha), performing for a party when the Okiya was attacked by Kaos’ minions. The greebles wanted to kidnap geisha to perform at a party for Kaos. While the geisha are taught from a young age to dance and entertain, none of them could fight back except Sukiko. She used bombs she had hidden in her kimono and the cherry blossoms to fight back and she saved the geisha house. Eon was impressed with her heroics and asked her to join the Skylanders after the house made her a full geisha. She was given her a new performing name of Cherry Bomb, which carried over as her Skylander name.

History : Sukiko was orphaned as a child, but was very quickly taken in due to her rare beauty. For her type of moth had never been seen before in Nippon. A geisha house offered a high amount to buy Sukiko when she was a mere 4 years old, and the parents eagerly took the sum. From there, she was trained to one day become a geisha. While Sukiko was often favored and given more praise and attention than the other girls, she would denounce the praise until she earned it. She worked hard, practiced nightly, to not be the prettiest geisha, but the best.

When Sukiko was finally made a maiko, she found herself not just attracted to the art of entertaining and dance, she had a secret knack for creating cherry blossom petals with her wings. The moth took advantage of this, and used the petals to aide in her dances. It was her signature, and boosted her popularity quickly, along with her beauty. But it wasn’t her only knack… she could also use the petals to make little bombs. This of course never went well in her performances, so she kept them to herself. That was, until Kaos heard of her and sent his greebles to her Okiya to steal her and other geisha to perform for a party for himself.

While the other geisha and maiko ran and hid, Sukiko flared her wings and used her petals and bombs to defeat Kaos’ minions. By the time the Skylanders arrived, Sukiko was once again serving tea as if the fight never happened. Spyro was the first to greet her, and with Eon’s approval asked her to become a Skylander. At first, Sukiko refused, as the life of the geisha was more important to her, but her Okiya urged her on. They gave her the title of geisha, nicknaming her Cherry Bomb, and with honor Sukiko joined the Skylanders. She still lives and works at her Okiya, but when duty calls, she takes to the sky in a flurry of cherry blossoms!

Appearance : Sukiko is always seen wearing geisha make-up, with her black hair pulled up in style. Wether or not her face is actually white isn’t known. She’s a mix of bright yellow and lemonade pink, with bright pink and gold eyes. Voice-wise, Sukiko may speak softly, but her silky voice can carry in a room. It’s strong willed, yet calm and beautiful. She does have a japanese accent, but she is extremely articulated as her upbringing demanded it. 

Personality : Polite, socially fleunt, and kind, Cherry Blossom is a caring woman with a strong will. She’d determined to complete whatever goal she has with her own strength and knowledge rather than beauty. While she’s a formidable foe, Sukiko prefers being in the company of others and making them feel good about themselves. She is a people person, and as a geisha she knows how to entertain others with her stories, dance skills, listening abilities, and can even provide sound advice. If she wrongs anyone, she does her very best to make it up to them. But she is a woman who likes her space; Sukiko tends to enjoy herself around anyone, but prefers the company of those that can compose themselves. 

Trivia : 

  • Sukiko’s last name, “Iwasaki”, was a special nod to my personal favorite geisha I’ve ever studied, “Mineko Iwasaki”. Mineko was one of the geisha’s interviewed for Arthur Golden’s “Memoirs of a Geisha”. However, Mineko greatly disliked how she was revealed and how Golden twisted reality, and so she wrote one of my favorite autobiographies of all time, “Geisha, A Life." 
  • Sukiko is a Rosy Maple Moth, a species native to North America, not japan. This plays in why Sukiko was often praised for her unique beauty.
  • Nippon, Sukiko’s homeworld, is a nod to the game Okami.
  • Cherry Bomb’s kimono changes constantly, with the season, event, etc. There is no one set of kimono she will wear.

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Yet ANOTER Skylander OC! This gal came up fairly randomly, a mix of my love of those Rosy moths and fuuuuuuuuuh geisha’s ❤ I spent most of my college years studying Asian culture, focusing mostly on Chinese and Japanese, and the geisha have always fascinated me most. Thought I could use some of that degree in Skylanders cuz why the hell not!

Both Cherry Bomb and Headshot will be available for questions whenever I open them! This may be a villain run blog, but it’s also the Weirdlander verse blog, so any characters in the verse can be asked, not just the Kaos family. Whoop whoop!

~Weird Hyenas

Name : Mr. Marrow (First name unknown, changes on the whim)
Skylander Name : Headshot
Species : Undead Centaur
Gender : Male
Element : Undead
Role : Chaotic Good
Homeworld : Cozy Hollow
Voice Actor : Normal : Jim Carrey Serious/angry : John Noble

Background : When he was alive, Mr.Marrow was one creepy centaur that was at first thought of as harmless; he just liked collecting bones! Specifically, skulls. But the older he got, the more obsessive he became. He starts turning some heads of his won when he starts going to funerals and asking if he could have the deceased’s skulls! The bone obsessed centaur finds himself in trouble with the mayor of Cozy Hollow, and threatened to be kicked out of the village if he keeps it up. But Mr.Marrow there wants more and more skulls until finally, he just can’t take it anymore! He attacks the mayor with his trusty axe and cuts off his head to steal. Unfortunately, the mayor wasn’t too happy with what Mr.Marrow had done. He hops his head out of Mr.Marrow’s window and rats the crazed centaur out. He’s arrested for the killing and sent to the guillotine as an ironic punishment. 

When the village thought he was dead and gone, something strange began to happen at night. The villagers start to spot a dark figure running about at night, but soon they feared the figure as it began to pick them off one by one, stealing only their heads and using them as ammo to fight. It didn’t take the village long to find out that Mr.Marrow was back, undead, and furious.

Nobody could stop the Horsemen, anyone that tried were put in place by his deadly aim! The villagers summoned Eon and the Skylanders to help with their haunting phantom, but because he had such good aim, Eon offers him a spot on the Skylander team. As long as he promised to stop killing people and taking their heads, instead he could take the heads of the bad guys that try to take over Skylands. The phantom eagerly agrees, and takes on the nickname “Headshot”.

Personality : Spastic, high energy, obsessive, and naive. Headshot is surprisingly friendly as long as you don’t try to take his skull collection! Almost seen as the Freakazoid of the Skylander realm, Headshot is always in high spirits and looking for skulls to add to his collection. He can even be friendly to villains if they have a nice enough bone structure. He’s naive in the sense that he has no personal space, manners, and has absolutely no idea what romance is. Let alone ANYTHING about it, as well as most things that don’t have anything to do with bones. He’s a man with a one tract mind, but will defend those he’s grown close to. As happy of a character he may seem to be, there is a dark side to Headshot. When triggered, Headshot turns dangerously serious and downright murderous, taking on a dark deep voice and his trusty axes that he once used to behead his fellow villagers. Most Skylanders learned to never tempt Headshot, so there has yet to be an incident.

Attacks : Headshot’s main attack is flinging skulls at his enemies. He keeps a healthy collection in his empty chest cavity, pulling them out from the empty space in his neck. But if he’s enraged, he pulls out his double axes and gets down to business!

Trivia : 

  • Headshot loves sugar cubes, especially if they’re skull shaped! (Idea by LizzyDoodle)
  • Headshot sometimes likes to prank the other Skylanders and villains by leaving his head in random places and scaring them. 
  • His favorite skull at the moment is actually Havok’s; he constantly tries to touch his horns and get him to let Headshot have his skull when he dies. Havok in return is uncomfortable around Headshot and avoids him at all costs.

Credits : 
Headshot was first inspired by the song “Where’s Your Head At” when it played on my Pandora list. I got to thinking about the Headless Horseman legend, and thought how unique it would be for a character to be a mix of both the Headless Horseman AND his own horse!  I’ve always liked centaurs, but have so much trouble drawing horses I rarely draw them. But I combined the two, thought of some quarks, brainstormed with A7XSparx and LizzyDoodle, and BAM Headshot came into being. 

  • Headshot’s main inspiration was Tim Burton’s take on the legend in the movie “Sleepy Hollow”, where Christopher Walken played the Headless Horseman. Headshot was modeled after Walken’s character design, as seen here. 
  • Headshot’s clothing was colored by A7XSparx, but both her and Lizzy helped with his final design and personality choices.
  • Mr.Marrow’s living form was a mix between the Headless Horseman and Ichabod Crane.

Headshot© – Weirdlanders. Please do not copy, trace, edit/ manipulate this image, repost or claim as your own. Thank you!

So, I had an idea to draw a height reference for Havok, just to get a set size for him to look back on to make sure I keep him on model. But seeing as it’s been MONTHS and I’m still too busy to do much else, I figured; hey, why not just post the rough size ref I had of him with Kaos? Because Good lord, it’s funny how big he is compared to his own father xD

What worse, is that eventually Hov still gets bigger. He stops growing around 45-50 years old. The adult ref of him shows him in his mid twenties, and how I usually draw him he’s around that age (or younger, closer to early twenties since that is before he stays with Stormee and stops his flirtatious playa behavior). Even still, Kaos only comes up to his waist. I do plan on doing a size ref of Hov with Eon even, as he’s suppost to be taller than him, buuuuut we’ll see. There’s so much going on it’s really hard to just sit down and DRAW ALL THE THINGS.

Enjoy! *snickers*
~Weird Hyenas, Mun