Maybe a bit too graphic … oh well. Lore ! Here we go ! : This piece is about their insecurities or imagined future. As I’ve said before, Slimii has severe anxiety but I never mentioned he has a horrible image of himself. He thinks he is too skinny and thus the skinny arm. His anxiety is held in his face. You can see it’s split, in reference to his mood swings when he has a panic attack. Slimii feels two-faced sometimes and he feels the two are very different from each other. One paranoid yet still smiling, the other in pain or sorrow. Both emotions exaggerated. The red underneath the two is the pain and secrets he hides, whether that be from strangers, friends, coworkers, or even his own family. (Put in detail later!) Inei is showing his true form here. Snakelike, because he’s a demon, and because he feels like he’s lying all the time to make himself feel or look better. He too struggles with his past, and if you look in his eyes, you can see mortals who have died from their own hand. That symbolises his own thoughts and what he had witnessed. He’s wearing a dress here because, y’know, femboy? (Not related but still) He also has a big mouth here because he talks too much. So much so that some people get annoyed. His horns and tail are scratchy and red because he feels detached from them now, as though they don’t belong. I drew him with no hands because he feels he can’t fix his problems or anything. Esme looks like a normal bubby except her face is scratched out and blank. This is because she’s so young but she knows her parents are not normal like the rest of the Slimes. (I’ll explain how she was born in credits)
Slimes actually don’t have genders, but they’re really close to the human realm and adore them (like a senpai). Thus, they try to be as similar to the humans as they could. In reality, any slimes could come together and have a child, but, at a certain age, the Slimes are asked whether they would like to be a girl or boy. They’re then told how girls or boys are treated in the human realm and Slimes choose what they’d like. Homosexuality is okay there because they understand there is no real difference. So how did Esme end up here? In order for a slime to make another, one injects a portion of itself (in smol form) into the other and the genes mix and make a new slime. But wait, Inei isn’t a slime? If you read a post of mine, he comes into the Slime realm changed. He has feet instead of hooves, hands instead of claws… and a brand new limb ;). All he needed to do was was « inject » a part of himself into Slimii and the process would go on. Art by me. Btw, their mental issues are what I feel. I put them in because I wanted to feel like I wasn’t alone.
