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Awful Hospital hi-res art & concept notes: Circula Tori

Added 2019-08-02 09:44:45 +0000 UTC

This art looks so incredibly old and bad to me now! Jeez!

"Tori" first began as a concept for the hospital nurses, who were in turn homages to Silent Hill's "sexy monster nurse" tradition, though I wanted to go slightly weirder than their faceless mannequins and stuff.

When I decided to have biohazard waste bag characters, I decided they worked better as the Hospital nurse staff, and the circulatory system was upgraded to a doctor.

Her tiny peanut brain, spork, and googly eyes were meant to imply she was not at all fit to be doing surgery, but of course she is actually a genius and one of the most competent doctors. The eyes move independently to collect more visual information, like a chameleon, and....she put the peanut there because she thought her hollow, see-through head was what distressed grey zone patients.

Of course, this isn't her true form anyway; the real Tori is a giant, artificial heart, controlling a circulatory system as an extension of her body. She grew her son Willis from this as an experiment, making him a fully biological hospital staff offshoot.

I decided she'd also be an artist in her off time, both because it's cute and because surgery is sometimes likened to an art form, with many everyday skills being relevant to both.

As to why she has the shape that she has, well, yes it is fun to draw characters shaped this way, but I try to do it sparingly because it's such a cliche. In-universe, it might just be how grey zoners see her, but I don't know, she might just like it is all. She can change it into any shape she wants, and she can form many more "bodies" as she pleases; they are basically just puppet appendages.