Arcane Fighters' Extras

Bonus Content

Additional artworks/stories from artists participating in this collab!

Rita, Ben, and Morden — From BNTarwarn

...How come you're with Ares' team?

Morden was there.

???

I was after you???

At least we're fighting together now!!

(Oh my god bruh.)

Mr. Sharty — From Aro

...

* senses Cazal’s green aura *

!!!

If fart is green and Mr. Cazal is green, then Cazal is a fart. Therefore, he could also be the shart!!!??

A ghost is appalled at the young mortal’s logic and conclusion.

Bryson Horizon's Battle Lines — From Tycho_6592

VS. Enuálios Ares

I’m not fond of being you and Athena’s playthings, but I’m down to prove that I’m more than that.


VS. General Julian

Don’t think I forgot your cheap shot back on Mount Caesar. It’s payback time.


VS. Legendary Beast Atlantean Martin

Oh nah.


VS. Cazal

I’ve heard enough about you... the next act of blasphemy will be my victory, I suppose.


VS. Withered Dragonlord Apophis

Hm. Should probably call the rest of Tributary for this one.

Virent VS Cazal — From LittleShrekSheep

I really shouldn't be here.

A ghost finds a fool in a place and time most expected of her.

At least one of us isn't surprised.

Athena VS Diatara — From LittleShrekSheep

Can I have one of those arrows?

On the side of my brother, you truly are most fitting.

What's that supposed to mean!?

Empress Nilah VS Gargoyle — From LittleShrekSheep

I can sense you are not alone, but so lonely you are at the same time.

You speak without tongue. Begone, wicked servant.

Virent VS Withered Dragonlord Apophis — From LittleShrekSheep

Might I i-interest you in dinner?

-Unholy Rumbling-

One that isn't me, and everyone else.

Trigno vs Morock Creed — From LittleShrekSheep

Today we'll see who burns hottest between us.

You'll find yourself as ashes soon enough, boy.

And you'll be drowning beneath the boiling earth long before that.

Freedrock vs Apophis — From LittleShrekSheep

-Laboured Growls-

Suffering...

Virent vs Ares — From LittleShrekSheep

I can prove myself to the Gods, too.

AHH-HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

Stop that...

Marcel VS Tito — From Wreckage Watercraft

Hey! Think, I can use your arms as jump ropes?!

I mean... You're welcome to try!

After the battle I suppose. I'll go easy on you, so you can do just that later!

No need!

Oh... Uh... Last time I did that's how I got these arms...

Not stopping me from going all out. Ready or not, HERE I COME!

Banana Merchant VS The Hollowed — From Wreckage Watercraft

Stand ready. For my Arrival. Worm.

I wonder if my opponent would slip on a banana peel...? 🤔

ARE YOU EVEN?! LISTENING?! WATCHING?!

Second Round: Elma and the Oracle — From alexgametube

My opponent was backed up into a huge boulder by a kick to the gut, and with my spear to the left of their head and my burning fist to their right, the first round was over. I knew they felt this way, I felt the quivering breath reaching my face and smelled the tears running down theirs; the small bit of energy coursing through them confirmed my observations, so I decided to let them go. They fell to their knees soon after and were grateful I had stopped, though I’m unsure if they said anything after I helped them back up; I had already given my best attempt at telling them that they did good and now I was off walking around the valley and waving my spear across the grass in order to find my zweihander, the overbearing flowers sprinkled around preventing me from smelling any daisy-like odor that it’d get from my body. I really should’ve picked heads.

10 degrees upwards, azimuth of their water jet was 323 degrees? Somewhere around there with a speed of…

Eh, to hell with it, fight’s over anyways. I holler and wave in the general direction of the rest of my team and feel an energy signature from a certain someone I met on my team.

I NEED HELP FINDING MY SWORD!

Yeah, I figured. I’ll help look for it but considering none of us can see it, I’m willing to bet it either fell in the river or went ou- oh, you’re here.

Huh?

I turned towards the lady with the orange signature who I was now right next to, catching a whiff of cherry blossoms before I noticed a blue energy signature that was shaped a lot like my sword, more than a meter long with a protrusion on both edges of the blade. Nodding to the man who also seemed to be a bit surprised about the teleportation thing, I took the zweihander back, cleaning its blade and offering it to the fragrant woman in case she wanted to take it for a spin while the other team decided who to send for the next battle. She saw right through me.

Oh, it’s a lot hotter now, did I get teleported back into the arena, is that sand? Of course they choose a desert during a summer day. I draw my weapons and charge up my energy regardless, overheating be damned.




Okay, where is my opponent?




No, really, where are they?




…hmph. Perhaps this is the Oracle that the cherry blossom lady warned me about earlier with his “spirit energy” that I can’t sense. It did seem like an easy choice for the other team, considering I only got a few seconds of respite, though at the very least he seems cautious since any mysterious attacks would’ve happened by now. It probably will happen soon, actually. I’ll spend some of my energy on fortifying my body, it’s not like I can do much else.


A slight tingle courses through my body. I get pushed downwards by what seems to be a thunderbolt in broad daylight, my armor suddenly heating up in seconds as if I’d been fighting for several minutes. A barrage of lightning then sends me a few meters down the mound of sand I had been standing on a second ago and I tumble along the resulting fulgurites, before planting my spear into the ground and smoothly pulling myself back up. Moving both of my hands onto the handle of my zweihander, I unleash a flurry of sweeps around me with my hefty blade, streaks of energy flying across the desert sands. If I could just land one swing, then I could use the residual energy left on my opponent to chase him down and finish this fight. Heat exhaustion might get to me first, but it was always going to be an uphill battle against this guy.

Perhaps he’s smug about this whole thing, seeing an easy victory in his hands and savoring it; on the other hand though, maybe he feels sorry about what he’s doing and is trying to get this done as fast as possible. Hell if I know, I’ve grown up not being able to hear a thing and then I got a long slit across my eyes on one of my first jobs. How am I supposed to tell anything about this man if I can’t even sense or get to him in the first place? That’s the beauty of fighting for me; the vibrations I feel in my weapons as they slam into my opponent, the gusts of wind flying past me as I rush across the battlefield in pursuit, it gives me something I can speak with, something I can feel with. Everyone who’ll fight in this arena fights the way they do because of who they are: a soldier, an enthusiast, a coward, a pompous prick.

I feel the fire building up from both myself and the bolts of lightning that come my way, my armor has begun slightly warping as the enchantments can’t even withstand this level of heat, and yet I still stand. I fight the way I do because I am what I am, but every day I even question that; am I still a part of my people, am I still the berserker the world fears? Maybe I was fighting to change that. Sure, that seems like a good reason, maybe naive and maybe boring, but just as good as some of the others here, maybe as good as that man, that…

I hit him. I feel so hot, so dizzy, but I hit him. I can’t waste this opportunity, if I continue this for any longer then I’ll burn up, but I’ll swing just a little more in order to make him think I don’t know. After my last swing, I reel my zweihander into a key guard, nearly all the energy coursing through my body now zipping over and surrounding the blade in a torus of dashing particles. I rocket towards my opponent who subsequently sidesteps the attack, the immensely telegraphed attack.

My Radiating Fist style is a combination of two styles of energy manipulation, both born from opposing nations. The first is my home’s Hearth Style, known as Thermo Fist in their universe; through a process of moving particles of magic energy at high speeds, heat is generated, with those proficient in its use able to set their foes alight with their fists and keep themselves warm in the coldest of winters up in our mountains. I combined this with the toroidal auras I can generate with Elephant Fist—or Radius Fist as they call it—in order to not only increase the size of my attacks but to also vent out my heat through expanding the toruses I manifest with my energy and subsequently creating an explosion. Of course, even though I like to give every fight my all, I do understand that this fight against the Oracle was likely to happen, that I’d need a trump card of my own for him; this second element of my style is it, I’ve abstained from using it until now, even in the first fight.

The torus around my blade rapidly expands to engulf the vicinity in an explosion of fire, the Oracle getting engulfed in my blazing energy. He seems to have been stunned by it, this is-

Hrafnelma Borchardt, a Keraxi first name but the surname of a conquered people. You’ve burnt me pretty badly.

…I go by Elma, it’s shorter to spell. You were hiding something too, huh?

Yes, I was.

A frigid cold suddenly hits me as I’m sent into the air for a moment, and for a moment I catch his ice blue magic signature engulfing the ground I’m about to land on. He’s rapidly cooling the entire field of molten sand that I had made, turning it into

Glass. Which you’ll of course know about; instead of trying to shield an explosion below you, you’re trying to shield yourself from the cuts instead. Your energy is predominantly going to the legs where you only have tassets and a maille skirt to protect them.

The tassets accentuate the thighs.

They’re also from an entirely different nation than the one you come from.

And what’s your point? You and I both explored the world to learn from the strongest. Armor or styles from a different place shouldn’t shock you.

But you, you want to change how people see your home, how people see your people. You don’t look like your own people, you’ll thrive as a hero while the rest that you left behind are labelled barbarians.

I’m not going to leave them behind!

Then I need to see a Keraxi spare a man, not someone clad in chivalrous armor.

My signature flares up. A toroidal field encompasses me that goes from a calm white to a fiery orange.

Only one way to do that, right?

Oh?

The particles speeding around me slowly turn from orange to blue as they build up more and more heat, but I don’t have any energy going to my plate armor, just the maille. I throw my zweihander at the ice blue signature in front of me who sidesteps it again.

You know my play, yet you play into it. You truly are blunt.

Well, aren’t barbarians fools? I’ll show you a fool then!

I snatch my spear from the sands and the weight upon my body is shed in a flash of light. My opponent throws up an ice wall to shield himself from molten metal and pure heat.

Though I will say, you present sound advice. I was too afraid to embrace my people, not realizing that it was getting in the way of my goal. I thank you for making me understand.

Walking out of the lingering light is me in my maille hauberk, spear in hand. The man reveals himself by dispelling the ice.

Thank me after this fight, Hrafnelma.

I will, though what’s your name? It still hasn’t popped up.

I don’t have one. I abandoned it decades ago, long enough for it to fade out of my mind.

I hold my spear above me, tip pointed down in a steurhut guard.

A friend, I’ll just call you a friend then.

Some of the Oracle’s magic energy flows to his fists, and through that I can also tell that he’s imbuing his body with his lightning relic, dedicated to a god of their universe.

“Friend” is fine for now, let’s finish this.

I immediately go in to blitz him, but he zooms away and we both race across the sloped dunes. The wind blows past us and I feel tremors in my hand with each clash we make, a tingling sensation accompanying them along with the occasional chill as the Oracle uses his ice magic primarily for defense and mobility instead of actual attacks. I thrust, he deflects; he shocks, I withstand. We trade blows, wearing each other out slowly but surely in this desert arena; and though it’s a shame that it’ll end eventually, that’s why it matters, right? I’ll savor every moment of this, no matter what comes next.

Tito Homework Help — From Aro

*whispering*

Okay now. You repeat what I said to you to that guy over there alright?

*nods vigouriously*

Sir yes sir!

Oh hey. You’re Tito right? You’re on Rita’s team?

Yeah! Rita’s cool!! She fights like boom pow pow—

*stops mid mimicked punch*

I mean yes, sir.

*chuckles*

I’m glad to hear it. So what brings you to the other side? Can’t say I’ve seen too many of Athena’s Champions hanging out here.

I need help with my homework!

Jeez, you still have homework in a place like this?

Yep!

I can’t say I would be too much help. Perhaps you can ask—

How many Ravennian Generals can Morden fight until he loses?

Pfft easy. He can fight all of them.

WRONG. It’s zero because um...

*tries to remember*

He stinks like dead meat because he is dead meat!!

Why you little...

AHHHHHHH

*fireball whizzes pass him*

Ben VS Tami — From Wreckage Watercraft

I won't let you lay your hands on him!

On who?

Uh... Morden...?

Already di-

YOU WH-

While we were escaping from Ravenna.

... IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN ME! GET THE HELL OVER HERE!

Rita VS Marcel (Friendly Fire) — From Wreckage Watercraft

Don't look so down... C'mon, turn that frown upside down!

No.

C'mon...! Being happy is good for your health!

...

Please...?

Rita immediately blasts Marcel with her magic.

Falco VS The Hollowed — From Wreckage Watercraft

What the hell...? What are you, another victim to the dark sea?

We are a collective. Once many. Now one.

United by the curse. Our retribution. Our goals.

A curse user...? Alright, I'll play.

Another fool to have every particle of their body rended and reassembeled. Another fool to be assimilated into one. Just like that foolish craftsman that machine cares to find so, so, much.

Aura? — From EtherealR

It’s called Sightseeker, Mortal

Dude, you need to get the fuck out of my arena, you smell like pure unfettered ass

Gossiping — From EtherealR

Посмотри на всех этих бойцов, детка (Look at all these fighters, babe)

Я знаю, правда? Некоторые из них как раз в моем вкусе! (I know, right? Some of them are just my type!)

Что вы об этом думаете, миледи? (What do you think, My Lady?)

Да, многие из них вызвали у меня интерес. (Yes, Many of them caught my interest.)

Bloody Enemies — From EtherealR

The Famous Undying Warrior. Just when will you give up?

Once I personally take you to the Depths of Tartarus and chained for eternity in hellish pain.

I’ll believe your words once you enact it, weakling.

Uncertain “Ally” — From EtherealR

Cross, I seem to remember you being imprisoned by Poseidon?

What is this false narrative you dare say to me, CREED.

That in regards to your madness laden treason to Lord Prometheus and your Kingdom.

Perhaps you are treasonous to our Lord for these accusations. One questions why he made The Hound of God with a foolish mouth.

Awkward — From EtherealR

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Fuck you three, seriously

Enemy By Faction — From EtherealR

Creed, you seem changed compared to the last time I saw you.

It has been Millenia where I came from.

Yet you haven’t halted his terror. You Promethean lots are only a stain in this world.

Weird Catchphrases — From EtherealR

Does anyone feel we’re forced to say random things during attacks?

Kinda.

I am forced to say DORYA! everytime, and I don’t know how to feel about it.

Mine is HIYAH!, and for some reason it has something to do with sugarcoating?

Weird.

Interview

From the artists participating in this collab!

Tell us about yourself (or your art)!

i'm a beginner artist with little to no idea how to render, if you see something glaringly wrong with my work and have the chance to give me tips im very open to hearing them. I don't usually do art for fandoms but I feel as if ao characters are easy to interpret however you want so i did it.

Hello! I'm Mirage, an artist, writer, and Arcane Odyssey event/collab enjoyer ^^ I love the creativity in this teeny community and joining it has been the best thing to ever happen to my art.

I'm a dude who loves to play the violin, loves history, loves happiness and most of all love's art, I am also a person of Christianity, anyhow I love drawing for people and love drawing so people are happy when they see my art! I just want to be the best presentable person I could be to somebody, so I can complete my goal one by one, which is making people just happy.

i draw

Uhh Im Sancho and Im from La Manchaland

(Im kinda just a guy whos in university hell and does stuff for shits and giggles)

i make da webcomics

Jack of Some Trades, Master of None, honestly

i want to propose to my drawing tablet

I’m a little too old and a little too employed to be playing this game but god forbid a woman have hobbies

I enjoy drawing buff men

I’m a college student who’s taking this summer off of classes, so finally being able to participate in one of these collabs is a hell of a blessing if you ask me. I gotta get my head back in the game with digital art though, it’s been a while since I’ve last done it.

I'm more of a lurker in the AO community, I don't put myself "out there" often, so to speak. I'm content with only occasionally posting my work for people to see. My art is inspired a lot from the Fire Emblem franchise, Darkest Dungeon and Final Fantasy XIV :)

I'm a musician, but I want to learn art to both fill my need to put some things out of my head and fuel my endless greed for money with commission, I'm still just starting out though.

hii i'm mimi, most known as tiramisu, and i like drawing cute girls and playing mahjong ^__^

Aspiring animator who wants to make his own series and still plays Roblox despite being 19. Also likes Kamen Rider if you know what that is (finished ryuki a while back).

I like to draw and play and drink lemonade.

I like... draw things... Super duper inspired off of older cartoons around the 2000s-2010 era or a little before or later. Some inspirations include My Life As A Teenage Robot, Powerpuff Girls, and Wander Over Yonder!

Art has been kind of a side activity for me but I still enjoy it, I may not be the best at it but it’s a catalyst for the ideas I use to build my own world in the form of anderea (which is where Ivory and Morrel are from)

I got back to drawing near the end of last year (2025)!

I'm BNT! A hobbyist artist who mostly draws OCs or characters I fixate on. You may know me as That One Morden Artist.

How did you get to know Arcane Odyssey?

randomly, like a week after release (i had played world of magic so i was familiar) on the front page

I knew Arcane Odyssey long ago when I played World of Magic, I found this game on the front page and it looked really fricking cool, upon joining I played the game and had fun and learned it was getting a rework someday into Arcane Odyssey (I thought that AO was an old project they were going to bring back). Eventually years later in my lowest I found AO and found it's community and here I am! So if you didn't know me as the AO glazer, now you know.

it came to me in a prophecy /srs

From a friend :D

the voices

Arcane Adventures

i played AA, so i got naturally interested in WOM, and then that led me here

Been around since WOM mostly, so I was there for the shut down and the dev process for AO — I started interacting with the community on release.

I’ve followed this game ever since it was World of Magic and its earliest access days because of how much I looked up to Vetex since 2017-2018 when I discovered Arcane Adventures. I even played Adventure Story to find that same inspirational spark I felt from AA.

I've played Arcane Adventures but I completely forgot about it and vetex's other projects until I saw Arcane Odyssey make crazy numbers in its Early Access release LOL. Pretty sure I spent like 11 hours straight playing it the first time. Whoops.

Found World of Magic on recommended tab on ROBLOX, hooked to it, found out Arcane Odyssey is coming soon, fast foward to now and I have spent over a thousand hours on this game with over 20 saves, mastered every single class and it's archetype and done everything to be done in the game, even fighting some of the best players to ever played this game.

Kinda long story? I'm pretty sure I first learned of the Arcane series back in like 2015-2016 when I watched someone play Arcane Adventures, I don't recall their name but I recall their avatar wore a green suit and had a crowned egghead with colorful lines. However, I wasn't able to really play AA though; my first actual experience with the Arcane series was with World of Magic which I'm pretty sure I played when it released, then I played Arcane Odyssey on release.

I love fantasy and magic, so sometimes I'd just put "Magic" "Arcane" "Fantasy" "Elements" etc into the roblox search bar and play whatever game seemed interesting. This strategy has yet to fail me.

Found Adventure Story, then discovered WOM, and then it became an Arcane Odyssey

I used to play Arcane Adventures when I was younger after discovering it on Roblox's explore page. Years later, I get a yt recommendation about AO builds one month after the game went public

It started with World of Magic in the summer, I think it was the second time I saw the game but I decided to try it out and got hooked very fast

I started playing Arcane Odyssey around 2023? Idk how I found it, but that was my first real introduction into the Arcaneverse. I remember watching DanTDM and Flamingo/Albertsstuff play Arcane Adventures

I've been here since Arcane Adventures, like sometime before the game shut down. Pretty much a situation of stumbling into this deep, deep rabbit hole.

What made you want to join this collab?

I wanted an excuse to draw my funny goobers

After participating in the Sea of Love zine and the 3rd Anniversary collab, I think I wanted to keep that momentum going. This collab felt super accessible to artists of all skill levels and relatively simple to complete, since all we had to do was draw a half body of our characters. I was also super curious about the website part of the collab!

To be truthful here, I just joined the collab to find a purpose to draw again since I had no ideas at all.

i crave connection

Thought would be fun + wanted an excuse to draw my OC

the voices

Decently long history with fighting games in general

i like fighting games

I’m just here for a good time

Might have been FOMO, honestly. I saw Afirolic’s submission on the Forum and asked about how to join the collab, then Gamehero told me of this Arthub Discord server, so I finally decided to make my mark and not miss out on one of these projects.

I thought the theme was really interesting and I wanted to contribute to the roster to help balance it out. :)

I want an excuse to showcase my character AND to draw

The prompt was super fun!! I also knew it'd force me to draw something different and get me out of my comfort zone !

Mainly summer break from college + wanting to get more involved with Arthub

Having a website added an interactive element which made it seem a lot more enticing.

Draw my ocs and make them fight random dudes or something

I really like joining collabs, they are fun, especially the arthub ones

An opportunity to draw with other artists is fun and it’s always great seeing my little characters next to other people’s characters, helps build a sense of community

Saw Aro's idea and thought "I could... feasibly pull that off with Javascript".

What was your thought process behind creating/drawing/writing your character?

Grant navy was conceptualized after my friend who had never played ao asked who is grant navy and why is he chasing you, that's important remember this for a later date. Ramon Darkwood was the paladin i stuck with even before spirit weapons came out, ergo the insane title. Both of them were supposed to have counterparts, ms assasssin sydney kitt and Ramon Darkwood's automaton but i ran into a few roadblocks.

I'd say it was more or so making it as easiest as possible for me because I was really new at digital art (still am), and I think my rendering skills from drawing Andora have gotten better and I feel like I have gained more knowledge. Making Abdallah Amin was me trying to create the most badass character I could and eventually settled on something more laxed and now I do kinda wish I did his prime version haha!

if my character’s back doesnt break in their pose that means its not serving enough cunt

Originally Altis was a joke character that i made when I first started AO back in January (her file ingame was supposed to be a knockoff Sancho Limbus build), but she ultimately evolved to be a serious character that I had a lot of fun writing and designing for

the voices

My main 4 originated heavily from Fighting Game Characters, the rest fit in okay for the genre

i honestly just wanted to create a cool looking character with a cool gimmick but she left a lot of room to be explored with her initial design so ive been working on expanding on her

For Demetri, the only OC I submitted, I wanted a vessel to explore religious obligations in a world where the Gods, even when dead or dying, can take an all the more active and present role in their worshippers life. He’s the kind of character who has been saddled with his faith since he was a young boy, and its only as he grows up and begins the work for his god that he finds other things to hold dear to him.

The other four characters I cannot speak on the writing for them per se, ‘cause they’re not my characters. I had this Trigno design in mind for a while because I wanted to give him a more pirate-y feel. Averill looks like that because he just screams cocky to me.

As for Ares and Athena, I could go on a whole tangent for them alone. I won’t lmao but I drew a lot on my previous readings of them in various sources and myths, as well as my own understanding and interpretations of their characters to envision their design. With both of them being gods of war, I knew they would look quite similar, but their respective domains in war I hope are reflected in the differences I thought out.

Bryson Horizon is a character who reflects my compulsive love for this game and my most egregious gripes with it simultaneously.

Driven mad in both senses of the word by how many times he was bested in (PvP) combat, he sought out the Hecate Essence to escape his long-maligned weakness with Water Magic.

The Hecate Essence, being way too inconsistently difficult to locate, contributed to how absurdly long I’ve spent in the Dark Sea, but I did it anyway to continue to enjoy the game to *some* extent.

There’s also my infinite, severe hatred for the PvP community and their parasitic egos needing to subsist at the expense of everyone else’s enjoyment. I won’t be hearing any excuses for them or “git gud”s (I TRIED, GOD DAMN IT).

Asteria was originally the main character of my own little universe before I repurposed her to fit as a stand-in for AO's protagonist. I figured I should submit her to the collab because of her connection to Athena, and because I wanted her to be sportsmanlike to the other fighters :) Like sending your daughter to a football game. Francesca was her rival in the original universe, she's always had an obsession with dragons.

Osiris was initially a self-insert, hence his lack of a face. But he eventually evolved into a maniacal Castlian mage that was transported back in time with knowledge far beyond what anyone in the war sea could ever comprehend, He genuinely believes he could go toe to toe with the two Gods due to his knowledge in magic and any other opponent, be it powerful beings or curse users, were nothing but simple entertainment to him.

This section was gonna be immensely long since I didn't have an actual design for Elma so I was about to go through literally every part of the process in excessive detail (I'll save it somewhere just in case), but then I realized I could just boil it down to me watching/looking at countless videos and images of armaments and thinking about what'd make sense for her. There was going to be some Viking elements that Elma would've had in this design like a varafeldur to protect her from the environment and besagews that'd look like tortoise brooches due to armor sometimes copying fashion norms, but with the clock ticking, I decided to omit these elements as considering she ran away from Keraxe, I could see her wanting to distance herself from that place and their culture. Perhaps if I come back to my artwork in order to remaster it, I'd add those in, but I'm content for now.

I like obsessive characters, and I like a character having an occupation that would give them a good excuse to venture far and wide. Bananas seemed like an odd thing for a merchant to be focused on, and there's already a big banana item in Arcane Odyssey so out of all the things that could be obsessed over and sold it seemed the most appropriate.

Well... In general... My characters I based of random objects I find and I just spice em up with my creativity! I got one based off a syringe and one based of a chess rook piece! But with Arcane Odyssey... I got an existing world on my hands but I did take my own creative liberties with the characters I made... So let's get started!

Tami Tyme
The star of the show when it comes to my AO ocs! Being someone who LOVES robotic characters, I couldn't resist taking a shot to adapt one into the world of AO! However, instead of metal and wires... She uses wood and Arcanium amped up with good ol' glass magic! Using that wind up key accessory from the yuletide event... It was totally possible to adapt them to the game as well. Well now that basic info is outta the way, lets get to the design! Well... Since she's a machine, I wanted to make a design that's unnatural compared to other characters I make or exist in the verse. This was done by making her proportions unnaturally long and tall, she also carries a mostly emotionless expression. The wood that makes up her 'skin' is pretty pale but still can be mistaken for skin from a distance... Until someone comes close and sees their joints. To top it off her magic would be glass! I find this magic to be the most unnatural element which would suit her whole theme. Now being a robot she can also do some pretty fun things like... turning and twisting in ways that humans cannot, and be perfectly okay with loosing a body part from their arms to their head!

Marcel
My mage slot! As well as an ACTUAL star of the show being an entertainer and all! Funnily enough their design is mainly based off a bug I had while playing the game where my arms got deleted off my model except for my hands and he would still play perfectly fine! Now that contributed to the slinky like arms made of cold magic he has. And also thought he would look cute with gloves on so... here we are!

Serrano
A big bruiser of my AO gang! During the full release update, one of my favorite parts was VAPORIZING animals for their clothes... So decided to make a character that took out animals with overkill attacks as a job! Now we got a trio that follows cartoon shape language with Tami being sharpest and unnerving! Marcel being more friendly and round and Serrano being a wall who would love some hugs!

The Hollowed
Now whats a good group of heroes without a villain? The Hollowed is based off the little lore part of curse haunting where a curse user can hear the minds of the previous users or something... I dont fully remember it sorry... But I took that idea and put it into overdrive! A body mangled by the dark sea being kept together by the Electron Curse has three minds fighting for control, the minds being of a Powerful Mage, a Dragon, and someone very important to Tami Tyme... All of these minds combined create a pretty unpredictable being however they all agree on one thing... The World must be rest in it's own vision to fix it.

Dante is a character that I use to explore concepts and emotions that I cannot normally explore in real life, especially through his lens which is a bit different from mine. One quirk of Dante though is that he is a person driven by his will, his ambition and, most of the time, his obsession, and I find it quite interesting to put him in different situation and analyse his actions, why he did those and what consequences would they have on the people around him and himself (to keep it short).

If we are talking about combat style, Dante is all about movement and getting things done as soon as possible. If he wants to get something, he will get it and he is hard to stop. Also, Der Teufelswille (his gun) is based on the magic gun from Der Freischutz and he has bandages all around different parts of his body because he takes drawback damage for each bullet fired in exchange for power.

Both of them inherit powers of their respective god in Anderea, with Ivory representing Ares and Morrel representing Athena, so it was a no-brainer including them

Tito started as a silly character, and he still is a silly character, though I now think about his backstory in the shower.

Morden: I am very obligated to draw Morden for this one. I'd submit him alone if I'm only allowed to draw 1 character.

Ben: The AO player OC who's been there for the longest time! He's pretty much a manifestation of my Morden hyperfixation, mixed with my creative affinity for the angst and the tormented, with a dash of comic relief, and that's how he came to be the Ben you guys know of.

Rita: I gave Ben angsty dead twin backstory, then I decided I wanted to unfridge his twin and let her live instead. That's how Rita came to be, as a character for me to explore stuff outside Ben's AO-Player-Standin role.

Falco: I wanted to design an older man. I had a craving for familial mentor and mentee dynamics. I'm into fictional men who's a mix of being both "gracefully intimidating" and "gentle with an edge". I hadn't made a Curse User OC. That's how Falco came to be, as Rita's mentor figure.

What would you say is the best part of this collab?

the randomize fighters button is such a small thing but it adds to it, same with the discord channel so i see people talking about their oc's, its fun

The interactivity of the site adds so much to the experience! We could've just made the collab be a bunch of flat images, but the website really elevates it. I hope to see more arthub collabs in the future that take advantage of the opportunities of being hosted in an online space.

The best part of the collab was definitely seeing everyone's art style and I don't want to feel like I am glazing or anything, but this is truly the truth. I really enjoyed the little story behind it, the dialogue for each OC each person made, or the absolutely mind-boggling characters like DAMN MARTIN... Damn, I do kind of wish I finished my Poseidon, it would've been pretty cool now that I think of it lol.

finishing the collab

Seeing everyone's OCs was pretty cool + the match up randomizer is fun

getting jumpscared by apophis or tito

The matchups

seeing so many different ocs (with varying artstyles) interact with each other

The parts where I stopped drawing

I definitely loved to see all the different styles come together for this collaboration. It’s why I love joining in on any collab with this talented community.

The best part of being part of this collab is the imagination of interactions between all of our ever-so-different characters. For instance, having followed LittleShrekSheep’s webcomic since its beginning, seeing Virent in this Mortal Kombat-esque setting is utterly hilarious.

I'm very grateful for the integration of the website. It's so freaking cool and BNT and Aro are legit goats for making this happen. I love the layout. I love clicking buttons. I love the way the artist pfps tilt when you hover over them. Legitness.

Seeing what people could come up with for their characters and also the website

I think the best part was seeing everyone's different OCs and art styles come together ^__^ It's always so inspiring to see so many artists work on something !

Goofy matchups (fr though yeah the matchups are cool to think about, its just funny when youve got martin going in for a bite on virent's food)

Clicking randomize button and giggling like a madman imagining all the possibilities...

Best part was definitely putting eachother's characters in matchups they CANNOT win

I love the website omg please I love the interactive aspect of it all and the fighter selection omg

Seeing all the dedication to this game and this community, no matter how meager it may be or may be getting as of recent

Seeing everyone's art together and helping to develop the ideas for the fighting page with BNT

Bouncing the ideas with Aro, seeing everyone's submission being sent, and putting it all together and seeing others' reaction to each update... This one's an incredible experience.

Is there anything you'd like to do in future collabs?

I think the tidbits of story (like between athena and ares) where a nice touch, anything thematic is generally more fun

I really wanna pitch a multi animator project for the next AO anniversary... it would be peak

For future collabs I think I'd like to first contemplate on how much I should take on and clearly review what I have in store for that month, the biggest mistake I did was procrastination but also the bunch of burnouts I created for myself. I'd say my choices I did outside of the collab weren't helpful at all so in the future I would want to fix that. Although for stuff in the future I do want to make something of maybe a 1900's style collab or like a World War 2 poster collab thingy, like you draw your AO characters in these cool "propaganda"-like posters and still staying true to the AO universe (like Ravenna or Sameria y'know).

sleep

Uhhhh idk honestly lol

more takes on lore characters or anywhere i can apply webcomic characters to for fun

Idk

as bland as it is, i honestly like the traditional collab format where you just put characters on a background

I’d certainly like to draw so there’s that

I think having more of a reason to draw canon characters is always fun

I’m down for a lot of collabs in the future, mostly to get my head back in the game with digital art (I mostly draw traditionally), and especially those which involve our Original Characters.

I want to draw a different character LMAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO can't draw this man for the rest of eternity

I'd like to design some of my other characters' appearances since I only have a design for Elma (evidently in this collab) and my sand savant, Aisha Karim (you can find her walking animation if you join arthub, which you should if you're interested in stuff like this). Everyone else either only has an in-game appearance or doesn't have one at all.

Dress up games. I love dress up games. Find me on flashpoint looking up old dress up games. This is Fashion Odyssey and we must look the best we can while delving into the dark seas. Design a piece of an outfit (undergarments, tops, footwear, coats, etc) that you can slot together with others. Would probably need something to be standardized so it could work properly.

Uhhhh Dunno, I liked this one and im pretty simple to please...

I would LOVE a school yearbook collab I will give out my kids for this

The year book collab was a fun idea but a restaurant collab where we decide on foods maybe inspired by our characters could be fun too

Oh you know I have a whole doc of ideas

Something that pushes my ability as the one putting the entire thing together, while still being fun to work on like this one, honestly.

Which team do you think is winning this fight?

Probably ares? idk they got cazal

Athena!! Girl power!!!!

Team Athena is definitely winning, I feel that the majority in team Ares are mostly brutes or strength-ish people, but the strength combined with mainly wisdom for team Athena is definitely a helping factor in this epic endeavor of glory.

athena

Whichever one has the giant dragon on it

Prob Ares

athena, theyve got. demetri. john mr eat himself.

Apollo tattles on them to Hera and Hera grounds them for bringing All these living beings out of their respective timelines because this is asking for a second fracture

Both considering and not considering canonical strengths, I’d have to say Team Ares because…

Martin.

Oh yeah, I guess Withered Dragonlord Apophis is there too.

I think Team Ares has a LOT of powerhouses over there (nervously gulps while lookin' at Ares himself, Martin and Apophis. Hell, the curse users too).

Ares

ARES FOREVER >:D

Team Athena because my guy is there.

Im sorry gang... Ares has HEAVY hitters.

Both because they will make up and with the power of peace and friendship the fight will stop and in the end everybody will kiss and hug

I have a feeling it’s Ares since he has horrors like Wrack’s ???, Martin, Apophis, and such

What abilities/attacks does your character use?

Grant navy uses pure strength, there is nothing more to him except strength, he eats spacing for breakfast. Ramon is insane i.e. go random bullshit

Abdallah Amin's abilities are using metal magic in this stage but a small version of Frostmetal which he has not mastered in yet, he also used Acid magic as his second magic. Abdallah Amin can do something called Vibrant justice and it's a powerful, magic energy pinpointed punch which sends out a streak of flame of different colors due to the heat. He is also proficient in his spirit energy in this version, being able to regenerate limbs and heal himself pretty quickly.

Andora Saf's abilities are mainly death magic and her fighting prowess, being super-fast and agile helps her a ton, she also has a more aggressive fighting style and has ended her previous enemies with a barrage of punches, albeit all this she still needs to train on her skills.

hit things until they stop moving

I don't have it fully fleshed out but Atlis has the blood curse + knows how to use spirt

She fights like a conjurer where she can use her curse's magic to conjure up weapon constructs made out of crystallized blood (all of this is a mix of her build ingame + some influence from Limbus lol)

I had some other ideas but i forgot them whoopsies

Prayers

Adriel - Power Geyser (Terry)

Belle - Hoyokusen (Chun-Li)

Zeke - Electric Wind God Fist (Kazuya)

Imane - Electric Wind God Fist (Reina), Spiral Arrow (Cammy)

Svetlana - Hakai (Beerus)

Nikita - Bloody War (Bryan)

Vasilisa - Canary Cry (Black Canary)

primarily slashing, and blinding. and then she's got a revival gimmick

I don’t know enough about fighting games to make this not sound like larp

Fighting Demetri means you’re fighting an embodiment of nature: unpredictable tempos, heavy swipes in one combo and quick bursts of energy in another.

The big schtick with his character is the way he transforms. Think Kirby with the eating swallowing absorbing power gimmick. If you know that, you can get the gist with him.

Horizon uses Lightning and Glass magic, but is surprisingly aggressive for a mage, using a Lightning Arcanium Greataxe (IF THE SOFTLOCK GETS FIXED) and Glass Magic for melee moves. He relegates most of his ranged/special spells to Lightning Magic too, such as a small and powerful Cannon spell, a Ray spell, and Lightning Annihilation.

Haha, I admit I don't know much about fighting game terminology but I picture Asteria to have an equal amount of defensive and offensive skills. I think that Crystal is a versatile magic capable of tanking incoming attacks and dishing out nasty damage. Of course, there's also her Big Freaking Greataxe lovingly nicknamed Clarimonde. :)

He wields 3 magic: Wind, Fire and Shadow in that order, he can combine them to create mutations and uncombine them at will, though his firepower are comparable to that of an above average mage in the war seas, his knowledge makes up for it, attacking with ways never thought possible, though this also causes him to be rather arrogant and it does hinder him in fights.

I'm writing this before I start on my bonus submission for this collab but anything in that is probably something that she'd be able to do in this hypothetical fighting game. Just in case I don't make that though, I do have some broad ideas for her toolkit.

1. Elma can drop her weapons in order to fight with only one or even none of them. This changes her playstyle by giving her access to different moves in exchange for losing access to others, either because she lacks the armaments to perform them or her hands are taken up. Naturally, this also means that the magic energy channeled through them is lost, and so although Elma can remember where she put her weapons, opponents can take the opportunity to hit them with an attack, launching them away from their locations and making them invisible for Elma.

2. As Elma uses a combination of Thermo Fist and Radius Fist, every attack/ability that Elma uses builds up a heat gauge, extending her hurtboxes and giving her extra DOT damage the higher the heat gauge gets. However, this comes at the cost of heating up her armor, making it more malleable and giving her a defense debuff proportionate to her heat level; not only that, but at maximum heat, Elma may even start taking damage. In order to deal with this, Elma has the ability to vent her heat, causing it to erupt from her body in an explosion that scales in size and damage according to her heat gage, with the additional effect of coating the blast radius with magic energy. Heat also drains overtime, so Elma must constantly attack to maintain heat.

Being someone who was never formally taught any form of martial arts, Banana Merchant does his best as he slips and slides from enemies and into his own attacks. Yowch! Due to his main line of work he's really only capable of basic slashes, a quick shot with a flintlock, and pocket bananas (like pocket sand but banana peels)!

Tami Tyme
A Glass conjurer with a MASSIVE sword, with the unique way their body can twist and turn they can make a fight with a style that not many would be able to get the hang of dealing with the first time. Also shattering that sword is one way to get some shards stuck in someone! With her general resistance to pain and losing important body parts their bound to confuse someone. Especially when losing their head...

Marcel
While being a mage with ice and snow on your side, you got all the perks! Freezing, blinding, the whole shebang! But it's also pretty unstable, a sneeze from them can probably cover the general direction their facing in with snow... And being a bit of a wuss.. they prefer to hide behind elementals. But when push comes to shove those arms will come into play being able to grab, punch, and cast spells from a fair distance and with nearly no blindspots!

Serrano
A bit more predictable of the crew that loves to charge like a boar to pulverize whatever is in his way or chuck a rock or cannonball. However, unless your WAY stronger than him he is REALLY good at taking a hits and it will quickly become an endurance test.

The Hollowed
Well uhh... Theres a lot going on... The Hollowed wields a screwdriver that transforms into it's main weapon, a wand. Also watch out when it surrounds its arm with electron magic and rock, its gonna bash your face in. If you think you've cornered it will probably transform into a cube of electron magic to zip by you and reappear in a more favorable location. If it needs a breather, it will raise Hollowspawn from the earth to keep you at bay. And if you REALLY piss it off... It will raise its wand into the air... Charge up... and STAB the ground with enough force and precision to split an atom.

Lightning magic, Dante's a sucker for summoning lightning magic weapons like spears and guns, fast moving projectiles, other lightning spells.

He has an unique ability called "Overcharge" which allows him to, well, overcharge magic energy in his body to enhance his attacks to deal tremendous damage. The downside to this is that abuse can lead to dizziness, headaches, seizures and death, but hey he's still alive (I love him too much to be dead).

For normal weapons, he uses a rifled musket called Der Teufelswille which is cursed with darkness magic, and for close quarters he uses a knife/bayonet. The gun enhances very bullet to deal great power and to be shot with very high precision in exchange of drawback damage and a chance of missing the shot/shotting an ally or, possibly, yourself. The power of the gun can be amplified by magic imbuement and Overcharge.

Ivory attacks using mainly her halberd royalius, but also would sometimes use alternate weapons like pistols or a short sword.

Morrel would mainly use poison clouds or plants in his attacks, but could extend into other types of magic such as fire, ice, lightning, or even rarer types like Sickness, Thunder, Flash, etc since he has a spellbook

Titopowers! Titonnihilation! Titoxcuted!

How would your character fare in this fight?

grant navy's fine ramon darkwood probably not?

All my ocs are FRAUDS so they'll be out after their first battle... it's okay though they can go raid the Elysium food stands 🙂‍↕️

I think Abdallah Amin would go pretty far in this fight and he probably has a chance of fighting off the curse users, Averill would be his direct match for this one.

Andora would definitely not go as far but she'd hold up pretty well.

die from a flick

I think Altis will fare pretty well, since she is one of the few curse users and all

funeral arrangements have been sorted prior to the collab

Well I know the Curse Users should be fine

she's like.... around mid tier in comparison to everyone else, put her with any of the top tiers she is literally getting vapourised

This is a 9-5 for him just let him clock out and come home to his wife

Middle of the road, I’d say in terms of canon strength. Horizon would be a pretty busted all-rounder in Mortal Kombat though.

In Asteria's quote I tried to give off the impression that she'd be leaning more into the theatrics than actually trying to take her opponent down. She would focus more on defending to let her opponent show off their strength. Whether this is a good idea or not depends on the opponent, haha.

Highballing? Would be able to severely injure that of Trigno and Averill.

Normally? Probably struggle with curse users or even gets defeated by them.

It depends on who Elma is matched up against, but I'd say she earned her spot in Team Ares. Sure, she's going to lose against curse users or anyone else with that level of power, but underneath her barbaric demeanor, Elma is deceptively competent. Her lack of hearing or sight means she has to maintain a nigh meticulous level of spatial awareness, often only having a few seconds to mentally note down parts of the environment that have lingering magic energy on their surface that she can sense; on that note, Elma's sensing also allows her to detect her opponent through their magic energy, pinpointing their location as well as revealing their exact intentions. Elma also wields a spear and zweihander with great proficiency, using them in tandem with a combination of Thermo Fist and Radius Fist for large sweeping attacks that still have an immense level of speed, as well as options to maintain a certain level of precision.

He would get beaten up into a fine pulp the moment the fight starts, but this does not matter for he has already won the REAL fight. His ideals (banana) have already spread far across the land before he has even stepped foot in the arena. Centuries will pass, and his name will outlive his opponent through bananas, unless your character is a curse user then I guess they're still alive.

Tami Tyme
Probably will be the MOST enjoyable to watch fight with characters of their caliber or a little above. Can totally see them confusing the hell out of their opponent when they lose their head and keep on fighting... Or maybe throw it as a projectile to keep up a combo! Their getting slimed by curse users, gods and some REALLY tough dark sea beasts

Marcel
While stronger than Tami offensively, their demeanor holds them back... He's not a fighter... He's a lover... for weaker opponents he would probably accidentally kill them with a sneeze. And for stronger, he would get spooked and hide in a corner

Serrano
You're cool, but the way you fight is way to straight forward... sorry buddy your mage food.

The Hollowed
Will put belt to ass. Will probably claim a few curse users, and vaporize a few other fighters who think they are hot shit and don't take the time to slow down and learn how it moves.

Dante would get very invested in the fight and try his best to win

I think Ivory could put up a fair fight against some of the curse users here like tringo since she and Morrel and basically lesser gods here to protect their power until they rebirth

The same goes for Morrel he’s just a lot less experienced with fighting so he might not be able to face curse users though

Tito stays standing because he has the best armor there is: plot armor

Honestly...

Falco > Morden > Rita > Ben. That's pretty much everyone's chance of survival.

Between BNT and Aro, who's getting smited by the gods?

Aro, "You think you’re the shart? You’re not even the fart!!" is diabolical

I know Aro fed the html to Claude in order to optimize the site...

Definitely Aro, like they told me they'd break my bones if I didn't submit, like are you frrr gng???? (THIS IS A JOKE 😭)

BNT because aro got tito to protect them and we all know tito is as powerful as zeus

Why are you guys getting smited

[interviewee was smited mid-answer]

Aro because bro really thought they was Ript skull emoji

gulp

BNT there are words that haven’t been invented yet that will one day be used for you. Take that as you will.

(Love you both though, thank you for the work on this collab)

Aro, I guess, ‘cause I don't know him.

I know what you did, BNT.

Aro

某一天的晚餐后,我和妹妹在歌婓木先生的庭院里意外发现了一只孤单的小谐乐鸽。那只雏鸟还小,连羽毛都没长齐,也不会唱歌。我们发现时,它落在草丛中奄奄一息,似乎是被父母遗弃了。我们当即决定为它搭建一座鸟巢。可思来想去,那年的冬天很冷,庭院夜间的风很大,还有许多毒虫和野兽出没……毫无疑问,如果将雏鸟留在庭院,它绝无可能坚持到春天。于是我提议帶它回去,放在窗前的木架上,并拜托大人造个鸟笼。我们约定,等到它能依靠自己的力量展翅翱翔时,再将它放回天空。可遗憾的是,我们万万没想到,这只鸟儿的命运早在那之前就已经注定——它落得何种下场,只在我们的一念之间。现在,我将把选择的权利交给各位。面对此情此景,你们会如何抉择?是采取我们的方案,用软垫在原地为小谐乐鸽打适鸟巢?还是选择为它打造鸟笼,在温暖的屋宇中精心饲养鸟儿?我期待你们的答案。

i'm being held at gunpoint as i type this. i think. bnt is getting smited. ... please let me see my family now......

BNT, because Aro has Ensign 1418 for nuclear deterrence + titans that all the people who didn't submit in time were fed to.

Depends on who likes bananas and who doesn't. 🍌🍌🍌🍌🍌🍌

Both because its funny

The hell do you mean between BNT and Aro, we are ALL getting smited by gods and my reasoning is that I dreamt this last night.

Athena is smiting BNT because she hates morden and Ares is smiting Aro because he didn’t get his coffee

I'm sacrificing myself for you, BNT...........

Nuh uh. I'm the only one they're striking.