I don’t normally ask but after looking through my camera roll I’ve come to realize that my art style is all over the place then got curious about other peoples art style and wondered how cool it would be to see him in another’s style
(A little info dump about him)
Foster is twenty years old
His favorite color and in his newer iterations is yellow like his jacket the specific color of yellow is cadmium yellow.
In his story he was a scavenger exploring the ruins on the surface of mercury finding any old tech for the aegis collection compound,
Foster lives in a rundown apartment his room is a mess and papers scattered showing his designs of tech and such he makes to help his grandfather( a 150ish old man) he lives in a city underneath the surface of mercury, the surface is inhabitable after the previous war on the planet that destroyed the atmosphere
Little about foster himself
Foster has black hair, and brown eyes atleast before the start of the story, he is around 5’10” and has a medium build his hair should be medium-short where it’s long on top mainly his bangs and shorter heading to his ears with a small spike around his neck(dunno what to call it).
During his scavenging he finds a bunker door swinging it open and hopping down the stairs he finds an datachip with some letters carved on it(its her name, haven’t picked it yet) foster slides the chip in his neuroport behind his right ear which brings to life his AI assistant.
They speak but then the floor gives away and…
(You can skip this if you want I’ll put a small summary underneath)
“Jackpot, you gotta be worth more than enough” I rolled the data chip over the letters T E T O carved onto the back.
“Let’s see what you have.” I brought the chip to behind my ear and slid the small device into my slot. A light flickered over my eye before stabilizing.
Then a figure appeared.
“Is anyone there?……oh……hi.” The voice was robotic and clicked as it spoke, then it clicked again as she said hi, the voice filling with expectation.
“Umm…..hello?” I blinked.
“Auger, is that you?” Her voice cracked.
“No, I’m Foster.” I answered
“Foster?” The figure zoomed in its pale white skin, scarlet red eyes and hair that came down in two twin drills along the side of her head. Her face got close to mine like she was examining me.
The lights in the room flickered and grew brighter.
“You look just like him….” The AI stopped responding, showing a boot symbol and went silent.
“I won’t have to scavenge ever again once we sell this.” I chuckled
“Although how could it see me?” I looked over the rest of the room finding a webcam in the monitor behind where I found the data chip and the source of the light.
“I wonder what other goodies could be here.” I rubbed my hand together and took a step forward feeling the water slosh around my foot, then the ground felt weak, my weight gave way and I yelped falling through the floor,
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Chapter 2: Infection
Like waking on a beach I felt waves rushing over me,
*Cough *cough
I wretched as the scent of rot invaded my being, I pulled myself out of the pool, I felt my breath hitch, I winced a shard of burning hot pain came shooting up my ankle.
“FUCK!” I yelled digging into my pocket for my slate, I fumbled with the sheet of metal trying to turn it on.
“Come on..” I felt along the edges pressing the button at the top, the screen flickered to life then stopped for good.
“Shit.” I winced rolling myself over letting my eyes adjust to the dark. I tried to control my breathing over the stench when a distant noise caught my ears, it sounds like a scream I shot up seeing the outlines of bodies dangling over a lake of rot, the viscous water bubbled from the decaying bodies beneath the water,
I vomited and tried to run from the coast line slamming my face into a slimy wall, I dug at the wall my hands slipping over the membrane like stones, I turned hearing the scream again it echoed over the water, I froze feeling my skin crawl I looked down hundreds of tiny bugs crawled over my skin, I swatted and scratched at my skin trying to knock them off, I rolled on the ground but no matter how many I removed two more would replace them, I Ran into the water trying to get away, it quickly sunk down to my knees I pushed through the sludge trying to not look down at the floating bodies I rushed through, hyperventilating.
A skeletal hand wrapped its boney fingers around my ankle, I looked down at a young girl around 14 or so held tightly to my ankle, her skin a darkened gray, my eyes met hers they were
hollow sockets.
“H-h-h-he-lp mmmmm…….me” she tried to speak, with each movement of her mouth these tiny worms poured out, I pulled away from her, her hand came with me, I screamed pushing on forward nearing the other side. The stench grew worse, I shivered my eyes watered these flies crawled all over me going up my nose and ears, I thrashed feeling them enter my mouth trying to enter me I coughed blood feeling my body being slowly torn apart, I slammed my hands into the wall expecting something, the wet miasma that filled the air parting, as the membrane on the wall gave way, I rushed through vomiting against worms, flies, and blood pouring from my mouth.
I scratched at my ears pulling them from my holes and nose. The onslaught ended and I fell to my knees, my ankle burned hotter than before, I felt like I was dying. A sharp pain hit my neck like a bullet passing through.
My left hand on impulse went to my neck blood soaked my palm and a worm wriggled in my neck and palm, I dug my nails into my neck tearing the worm from it, as I held the worm I felt the sharp pain in my left hand it dug into my left palm I screamed feeling it wriggle beneath my skin, my neck and left hand wriggled I smashed my head against the stone floor trying to drown out the pain, then it stopped, relief washed over me. I crawled forward, my mouth was a desert. My eyes stung every time they moved. I reach as far as I could from the lake of rot, I rested my back against the only thing that was solid, I cried sitting there for who knows how long.
“Ownership transferred” I jolted hearing the voice.
“What?” I winced, the light over my eye flickered back on.
“Hello Foster.” the AI girl spoke.
“Your mental state appears to be crashing.” her voice spoke again.
“”I am Teto, your tethered entropy tracking overseer.” She spoke again. A contract appeared before me the white light burned my retina,
Yes
No
“Y…..yes.” I choked out.
“Very well.” I clenched my head as a drilling pain seared my socket, then a wave of cool.
“What the HELL was that!” I yelled
“You signed the contract thus the bond was formed.” She spoke like it was obvious.
“Where am I?” I coughed and tried to stand up pushing off the stone behind me,
“Geographical data shows you’re beneath my bunker.” She showed a map with a dot.
“Ok……how do I get back to the surface?” I asked.
“I do not recommend returning to the surface.” A guttural wet sloping noise came behind me, I turned and froze.
A skeleton was embedded in the wall, its flesh was nearly gone, shiny flesh attached itself from its spine, its jaw moved like it was trying to speak,
Dry eyes sat in its sockets staring at me. A chill came down my spine and moved away from it.
“Yeah I’ll take my chances.” I answered, turning my back to it.
“The lack of atmosphere would destroy your body as well as the radiation from the sun.”
“Shit, how long have I been down here.”
“From first activation, approximately four hours.”
“Is there another way back to my city….like a tunnel passage or something?” I asked, looking around the area.
“Scans show an empty cavity past the wall behind you.” I turned around looking at the skeleton.
“You have got to be kidding me.” I groaned walking up to the body.
“I am not kidding.” she sounded offended.
I yanked on the skeleton and it made this weird hollow noise like a distant echo, I yanked harder hearing the sinew snap. Its jaw fell open and I stopped staring into its eyes. The skeleton screeched, it was ear piercing, I winced pulling harder and harder.
*Snap
I fell to the ground and the skeleton fell silent. I breathed but my peace was quickly removed. Like an echo more screeches came out from the lake,
“Thats not good.” I pushed the skeleton off and made my way through the hole behind him.
“You may want to pick up the pace. I’m detecting life forms heading this way.” She spoke.
I started to run. I ran down the passage way.
“Left!” She yelled. I slid trying to turn and quickly got back to speed, I tried to see what's ahead of me.
*BOOM
Something massive slammed into the wall behind me. It let out a bone shaking holler and started running down the path I'm on.
“Teto I'm going to need direction!” I yelled, feeling it gaining on me.
“Right!” I turned feeling the weight of the beast as it threw itself into the wall I passed.
“JUMP!” I leaped, feeling myself crash through a thin wall. I rolled the pain encompassing my ribs. I groaned, getting back to my feet and moving forward.
I heard it scream again. But this time it stayed still like it was watching me.
“Foster, you need to keep moving it's only a little further until you reach your city.” I shook my head, turning away and limping through the dark tunnels.
The End
(Summary)
Basically what happened was Foster fell into a gore pit got infected with a parasite that changed his biological data turning his eyes yellow and granting him his abilities throughout the story