I don’t know how many people in the ssss fandom are familiar with Hotline Miami, but, just like my first ever drawing for this fandom, I’m gonna try to explain to the best of my abilities the similarities that led to the creation of this drawing
So, in the first Hotline Miami game you play as Jacket, a quiet, reserved individual who’s traumatized by a past event in his life which resulted in the loss of someone close to him (seeing the similarities yet?). One day, he gets a strange phone call that tells him to put on the chicken mask that he had just unexpectedly received, go to a place and do some stuff. He does what he’s told to do... and also the next time he’s called, and the next one, and so on and so forth... He does all of this without any questions and without saying a single word against it. Lets just say that a lot of people ceased to be... er, functional, due to his actions.
I won’t go into WHY he does that, but the way he so cold heartedly does everything he’s told to do, without any questions at all, reminded me very much of how Lalli used to be when the crew first met him, and also how he behaved (or was trained to be like by his grandma) long before that meeting. I also wanted to draw a more morbid and even colder version of Lalli (possibility him if he lived in modern times and joined a gang or the mafia). I also replaced the common and well-known chicken mask of Jacket and Richard with a lynx mask (I hope it looks like it) so as to better suit him and his Luonto. And, I replaced his main weapon of choice with a fire axe instead of the baseball bat *cough* name *cough* Finnish mythology *cough*, sorry, must be all those cigarettes my avatar’s been smoking...
I have plans to draw all of the other crew members as HM characters at some point, though I can’t say that will happen in the near future, due to how I am with drawing things. At best it might take a few months to draw the next thing, at worst a few
millennia years. Lets just hope the God Emperor of Mankind doesn’t kick the bucket 40 thousand years from now in his
piss-yellow HERESY! *BANG* golden throne before I finish something.
Some inspiration was taken from
this image with the skin shading and it might have also contributed to me wanting to draw this
It’s probably one of my personal favorites and one of the most beautifully drawn and colored fanarts I’ve ever seen for this fandom, so I applaud whoever drew this for Guardian G.I.
For those of you who’d like to read more about Jacket and Hotline Miami as a whole, here’s the link to the
wikiAaaand... here’s a link to the game’s steam page, in case my drawing and brief description of the game’s plot made you want to go on a rampage while listening to banger synthwave music and also press the R key a lot (Tumblr post)
