[x]

Browse More Like This

more ▶

More from ~Kid-Apocalypse

Years LaterIt had seemed like a good idea at the time. Exciting, new, not like the same thing they did every other weekend. But now Jussi was lying face-down in a pile of clean laundry—mostly shirts—and chuckling at a stupid joke his roommate Caj had just made about ducks. Just like every other weekend. Liv, Jussi's best female friend for the past year, and girlfriend as of two weeks ago, was probably rolling her eyes and finishing off the last beer. Jussi didn't like beer and had let her and Caj fight over who got to monopolize the six-pack. Everything was funnier when Liv was drunk, even if she was the only one who was.

The apparently

Tough Little Bugger"I'll get it!" Jussi chuckled as he jumped over the low fence and out into the street. His sister Aliisa was a top-notch baseball player, the best pitcher in the neighborhood, but she was terrible at basketball. The ball had bounced out into the street for the fifth time in twenty minutes, and he could tell that she was getting frustrated.

The road in front of their small townhouse was on an incline, which meant that he had to run as he tried to overtake the rolling basketball. He muttered a few nonsensical medieval-styled curses at it, noting that he would have to tie his shoe soon.

One short leap and he had it in his hands. He grinne

View Gallery · View Prints

Featured in Groups:

Not currently featured in any groups.

Details

Submitted: March 30, 2010
Image Size: 157 KB
Resolution: 850×900

Link

Thumb

Statistics

Comments: 19
Favourites: 1 [who?]
Views: 96 (0 today)

[x]

Where has Nick gone?by ~Kid-Apocalypse

Designs & Interfaces / Editorial Design

It's been a really long time since I drew anything, so I took yet another break from novelling to doodle a bit. Of course, books still popped into my head, and this came up.

Maybe I'll colour it later, but my shoulder is remembering why it's been so long since I started drawing. I don't really know anyone else who's read any of the Oz books, but suffice to say, these kids lost their AU tinman. And their AU scarecrow Bo is stricken, of course.

Luckily for me, my copy of The Two Towers started crapping out right when I finished, so I didn't get really distracted--except when Bo's and Sofia's feet refused to comply. Even so, as I type this, I'm trying to get it synced back up to the Riff Trax.

*drawitbig Feb 1, 2011 Hobbyist General Artist

I thought about it, and technically, according to the series, Nick has kids.

~Kid-Apocalypse Feb 6, 2011

Is it according to the original forty or some of the myriad apocrypha?

*drawitbig Feb 6, 2011 Hobbyist General Artist

well, he might have kids: if Nimmie Amee and Chopfty had kids then there's a 50% chance that he's the biological father

~Kid-Apocalypse Feb 6, 2011

I vaguely that Forever in Oz had something about their progeny, but that's apocrypha. As far as I know, Nick hasn't got any canonical children, even via Chopfyt.

This was supposed to be an AU group in any case, not requiring a terribly cogent link to the original. If I ever gave it another go, I think I'd choose different characters, like the Hungry Tiger, a much-changed Ozma, and maybe Prince Inga or the Shaggy Man's brother.

*drawitbig Feb 7, 2011 Hobbyist General Artist

I guess you have a point there, I guess we'll never know.

~Kid-Apocalypse Feb 7, 2011

Still, it'd be an interesting question to ask a geneticist. Or a genealogist.

*drawitbig Feb 7, 2011 Hobbyist General Artist

Well, one night I was writing a random story without really thinking about it and in the story it turned out that Nick had a daughter and Nimmie handed her over to him to raise her. He named her Willa. Don't ask how I came up with it because I have no clue how I did.

~Kid-Apocalypse Feb 15, 2011

That reminds me of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, when Arthur Dent had a daughter he didn't know about pushed on him.

Asking where Oz names come from is like asking why honey is edible.

(1 Reply)

*Hagge Apr 1, 2010 Professional General Artist

I'm not sure I fully understand, but I like it!

~Kid-Apocalypse Apr 2, 2010

I was messing around and drew something like characters from the Wizard of Oz. Roughly. XD The important thing was the poses, and I think I learned a lot about feet and remembering to erase my lines. Hair too.

More from ~Kid-Apocalypse

Featured in Groups:

Details

Statistics

Where has Nick gone?by ~Kid-Apocalypse

The Journal Portal

Polls

What is your preferred drawing software?

deviantART [dee·vee·un'nt·ART]

Keep in Touch!

Deviousness

Add Media

Style