A week or two ago, Wizards of the Coast released a new design for D&D's Archlich Vecna, back before he was betrayed by Kas and still had two eyes. He looks like this:
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— Kieran Yanner (@kieranyanner) June 10, 2022
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Here is the final full bodied concept design for D&D’s Vecna. I was tasked with putting together a final look from designs by Ian McCaig, Steve Prescott, Wes Burt and myself. pic.twitter.com/P6U5Sqey2J
Vecna
— Kieran Yanner (@kieranyanner) June 9, 2022
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Final portrait concept design for D&D’s Vecna. The awesome talents of Ian McCaig and Steve Prescott were also core to concept development of the project. pic.twitter.com/7P46xYglXO
As you can imagine given the sharp cheekbones and strong chin, the internet-at-large was very normal about it.
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| Vecna featuring The Book of Erotic Fantasy. |
Continuing with that train of thought, when Nicole saw it, her comment was, "They yassified Vecna..."
And her comment led me to create this monstrosity:
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| I think I met this guy at the club one time. |
Which then prompted this edit of Vecna from the classic Die Vecna Die! cover:
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| A friend said he looks like an Are You Afraid of the Dark? villain. |
And of course, since people were confused about Vecna because of Stranger Things, that led to whatever this is:
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| This anime protagonist needs moisturizer. |
A friend also mentioned Acererak. Acererak the demilich or the regular ol' lich sadly doesn't have enough skin for FaceApp to recognize his face, and the one human picture of Acererak I was thinking about is too low-resolution for the filter to make his face look right:
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| He looks like a Spongmonkey. |
To end this very stupid post, I'll leave you with a friend's ultimate comment about the Vecna redesign:
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| Happy Pride, everyone! |