The Dream-Team by BlockEraser on DeviantArt (original) (raw)

So I was playing Skylanders: Trap Team.
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What? You thought I was going somewhere with that? No, that was a complete sentence.

Anyway, so my buddy's little brother is way into that series, much to the dismay of his mom and her quickly hemorrhaging savings account, and as a result I've been exposed to the game quite a bit more then I anticipated. My first and most crucial observation is that the game is nightmarishly overpriced and literally just designed to suck away an entire generation's college fund. My second observation is that the character design is really good, like really, REALLY, REALLY, REALLY damn good.

I'm actually quite surprised how much I got into it, the characters (the playable ones anyway) all have crazy unique designs, their animations are smooth and fit the model exquisitely, and they get across a ton of personality without offering more then a handful of bad puns as dialogue.

But I digress, there's this character named Dreamcatcher, she's one of the main villains of Trap Team. She's basically the giant floating head of a demonic school-girl who invades people's mind while they're sleeping and steals information... Sound familier? Well if you have no taste then probably not.

That's right she's basically a big decapitated teenage version of Bill Cipher... from Gravity Falls, everyone's favorite slightly horrifying, slightly subtle walking, talking illuminati symbol. I love both of those characters, so I sketched this out in about as much time as it's taken me to write this description, another victory for efficiency.

FUN FACT: Originally Bill's line read "There's one head I wouldn't mind getting into!" but it didn't take long for me to figure out why that wasn't really the best choice of words. It's a shame too, I thought it was a good line.