Trust Me Not (Hero & Villain Duet) - oc animatic

IMPORTANT: they are siblings. Absolutely do not ship them.


This animatic has been sitting in my files, 95% done since 2021. I originally meant to post a few illustrations along with it, but I decided to just forget about those and post this so I finally have it out ^^;



For a bit of background for the characters:

Taren and Ashula lived in an orphanage as children, until their maternal uncle showed up and offered to take Taren away. Taren accepted his offer, went to live with him in his mansion, leaving Ashula behind (the uncle didn't realise she was his niece, only Taren knows this truth). He was then educated and trained to fulfill this position of a "hero" in the future, for political and other reasons.

After Taren left, while she was sad, Ashula didn't resent him. The orphanage burned down some years later and she was left to grow up on the streets, eventually losing her arm due to being accused of a crime she didn't commit. I won't say much here, but Taren's negligence played a part, and it wasn't until that moment for her trust and belief in him to completely shatter :)
Taren thought she had died, but she survived thanks to help from others. They meet later on as adults. Ashula is in her early-to-mid-20s, Taren is in his late 20s.

Ashula is an amputee, though I have yet to design a proper prosthetic arm for her. These designs were done fairly quickly, so I didn't do much research on how amputated limbs work/how they're attached, but I've definitely learned more since creating this.


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Programs I used:
MediBang Paint Pro / FireAlpaca (for the duration of the song)
Clip Studio Paint (for the last 20 seconds of the video)
HitFilm Express


Thank you for Natalie Chavez/Backseat Vagabond for the song and allowing me to use it for the animatic!
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[I only own the characters and art shown in the video. Everything else belongs to their respective owners.]