Tag: Blood

earthsong9405:

I drew Spike because I wanted to show how he looked in this AU, and I wanted to show the difference between an Orphan and a regular child.

Orphans have much paler and darker colors than a normal child does and their eyes are usually either sickly glowing green or blue with white pupils, side-effects of being injected with the Tantabus. They’re unfazed by the likes of blood and guts and are actually prone to consuming it if their hunger for alicorn is great enough. While not impervious to damage they heal very fast and are more resilient than normal, so scars are common.

What Spike’s holding is the device they use to siphon alicorn from the bodies of dead Addicts. It looks a lot like a water gun that’s been modified (which it basically is) and that pink stuff you see in the container is blood-contaminated alicorn. They gather as many of these vials as they can before returning to their Sanctuary, where the vials will be taken to be cleansed and separate the alicorn from the blood before it’s used. The children at the Sanctuary will also be drawn from before they’re sent back out to look for more recyclable alicorn.

The crystal Spike’s holding is one that can sometimes be seen on a heavy alicorn user; sometimes their blood begins to crystallize in specific pockets of their bodies (typically the arms, shoulder, and belly) and painfully grow through and out of their skin; these crystals still house some blood in them that has yet to harden, so if broken they could potentially leak. They aren’t very valuable since they’re a bit difficult to extract alicorn from, but Spike has found a rather tasty snack in them.