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Awful Hospital Hi-Res Character Art: Chip

Added 2025-02-15 16:09:11 +0000 UTC

this is high-resolution character art I made for "internal" use, such as stickers and merch, including an "opposite side" for reversible charms and standees.

Chip was a character especially created around the solution to his story arc. From day one, Fern was going to have to swap around the roles of Chip, Crash, and Jay, with Chip having always been a Computer Guy who became a Barista Guy, in much the same way the best of us with what should be useful degrees or experience may yet end up serving coffee to people who make a whole lot more money.

His coffee cup theming was meant to make equal thematic sense to both roles, too, since it's also a symbol of office work. There's a joke in there about Coding in Javascript, too.

"Flair" is so named because that's what you call pins and personal accessories, of course, but it's also a bit of a nod to the "Flair" joke in Office Space. She is of course actually a conceptual parasite, like many other concept beings, and needs a host vessel to interact with realities she feeds upon. The more she feeds, the more the concept of a Coffee Shop can take root and spread through that reality, and she's already quite successful in our own.

Flair has an additional little secret, too, hinted at in her design, which some commenters already speculated upon. Technically all things that exist in the setting came from fragments of the Old Flesh, but she's still a fragment of it, just as much as the Parliament. She simply doesn't affiliate with them or care about their cause herself. :)