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To The Wonderful World of Skin to Scales and the profile page of TwistedHensley~!
Hee-Ho, howdy everyone! My name is TwistedHensley (some call me Hyembs), and I am a writer, illustrator, and most of all I am a world builder! Here you will find the whimsical and alien setting known as “Skin to Scales” and "Hyembs the Dragon"
Skin to Scales is a "Dark Epic Fantasy" setting with an extremely bright and colorful coat of paint. There is magic, sci-fi elements, dragons, kobolds, gigantic monsters and an extremely colorful cast of characters who live within it! Just because the universe is this "dark, cold, and unforgiving" place, doesn't mean the characters have to be! See this mystical multi-universal realm with an ever-expanding timeline through Thomza, the Maskless Entity and main hero of the setting. Or how about the Sci-Fi Superhero, Hunter Star Spine! The Faceless Survivors, Huntley or even Caroline Star. Maybe posts with the swashbuckling Kobold, Freya. The warped and boundless researcher Aellea. The tactical commander Captain PiK. Or even the feral veteran, Ayvil. There are so many characters for you to meet and more within this mystical realm!
With so many characters and so many varying perspectives across this multi-universal setting they’re all bound together by one big bad guy, Maxwell. For he and his faceless forces wish to call the curtains on who he would call "rejects". No matter how grim things may be these heroes will gladly fight for a better tomorrow. However, Maxwell isn’t their only threat... There’s Angel-Tech, The Council of Colored Gods, King Keii and the Holy Order and not to mention the various wildlife and monsters of unknown and terrible origin.
If this dark fantasy setting does not suit your wishes, there is always the setting with "Hyembs the Dragon", which is a much more colorful, bright and hopeful setting without a real need for many bad guys. The main character being Hyembs and her various Kobold Squires as they get up to no good while playing the guise of a hero to the various villages spread across the land. For she will protect them the best way she knows how through love and friendship! Although keep in mind, she is also considered to be my "Internet Persona", and avatar for the most part. Any and all "crossovers" with any other IPs or anything like that is simply fanart, and are all entirely unofficial, this goes double for skin to scales. Although, I still do fanart on this page, let it be Pokemon, Pikmin or some video game you "never ever heard of before, and I'm *TOTALLY* the only one who shares this interest." There is never any copyright infringement intended on my page or the artwork I create.
Now let me get into one last thing, all of this stuff is a passion project of mine, I do artwork, writing, worldbuilding, all that stuff for fun. I do not do it out of obligation, I do not do it for the "fame" and "internet points" that mean nothing in the end. I have created all of this for myself and it's why you do not really see me take commissions or anything like that. (I may open commissions one day, but it's still off the table.) I started artwork about 12 years ago from today, maybe even longer, and it's been a very long journey to get to this point. I am entirely self-taught, and I try my best to be friendly and open towards people, but I also suffer from some social anxiety issues, so please do not be to upset if I somehow miss a comment or it takes me a very long time to get back to you. I try and joke around a lot too, so don't take anything I say tooooooo seriously either
With all of that being said? I thank you for reading, and I have one last thing to go on about before you get going here! I have an FAQ page right below here, and my pronouns are She/Her/They! I am Demisexual/Pansexual, and you may refer to me as Hensley!
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IMPORTANT STUFF TO READ PLEASE! IT'S AN FAQ AND STUFF!
>>These will be split into bulletin points so it is easier to understand.
>>I try my best to keep things organized on my page. If you have any questions, please do feel free to ask me! If you're looking for certain characters? It might very well be in the reference sheet folder. You want to learn about locations? That'll be there too! Factions and species? It's all there! You just have to check the folders on my DA page and the subfolders! It's quite a lot of information and I do my very best to make sure things are up to date! If you notice something wrong with the lore or something I forgot to make outdated? Please do inform me!
>>I have many people who have claimed to be me, stolen my artwork, stolen my username, etc. Even though this threat is long gone and was a minor annoyance if anything, I mostly only really use Deviantart, (and one other place), but I do have a dead Youtube channel and a few other "Dead Accounts", but they do not really need mentioned. Now I'm going to say this like I say in every post, I do not mind people sharing my artwork, in fact? I encourage you to do it! Go right on ahead if you like my work! Just please do try and link my work though and my page of course. If it inspires you? That's even better! You have every right to draw my characters (as long as it stays SFW of course lmfao. Also you do not own my characters/places/lore,etc— either if you draw them (obviously.). Just make sure you properly credit me!) You're also allowed to make fan characters of the setting of Skin to Scales too, none of my species are "closed", and I seriously don't understand why some artists get so mad about stuff like this. Write and draw away!— Just as I said? Make sure you credit me and stuff
>>Copyright stuff: I, TwistedHensley, am the creator of the "Skin to Scales Universe", as that's what I like to call it. The characters, places, all that stuff belongs to me, and any form of copyright infringement is mere coincidence. Skin to Scales is not meant to be part of any other setting at all, any names and places are merely coincidences, and the setting does have a lot of "faith based" content, but it is also not meant to connect to any real-life religions either. The setting is meant to be completely grounded in fantasy and stay in that fantasy realm. Even if names are similar, such as "Dwarf", "Mandrake", "Tiamat", "Kobold", I assure you they all have different meanings in this very alien setting.
>>Please keep comments SFW, alright lads? I really wish I didn't have to come out and say this, and I'm not here to shame any specific individuals, but the content I post on my Deviantart Page is meant to be, entirely, safe for work. With that being said I would also appreciate if you didn't make any f*tish edits of my work either. I will also remove any NSFW comments on my artwork or page. I repeat, I'm not here to shame or get mad at anybody. Just please keep things respectful to those around you as none of this is meant to be f*tish related content, alright?
>>I do not roleplay and I do not take free requests for drawing artwork. I have gotten multiple offers on it, and the answer will always be "No", and those comments will very unfortunately be ignored or sometimes deleted. Very rarely will I ever do art trades either, and most of the time they are with only really close friends or people I trust. I also don't really like making money off my artwork, so probably don't expect commission work from me unless it's a rare occasion
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Hi there, your art is super cool! Have a great day! :D
thank you! have a great day! appreciate it!
You're welcome!!!
Hello, I have been looking at your art, and stories, since yesterday they are great. Question with your story Skin to Scales and Hyembs the Dragon", is the plot of the story spread out through numerous pics with biographies and funny pics, and some flashbacks. I am just wondering if you have a web comic or something that tells the story from the beginning.
Most of it is spread throughout, there's not a pure definitive timeline yet. Although the best place to start Skin to Scales would be reading this one here:
(Wish I could find a way to make that a simple link instead of it posting the image wholesale. There are going to be two more images though that follow the entire story of Skin to Scales and its synopsis however.)
Skin to Scales is basically a world building project, but that's more or less the definitive "beginning" of the setting and how it gets started. Much of the information is spread out however, but most of it's also sorted in my folders. Such as different factions, species, etc- As well as most of the story being just small glimpses of the timeline from a character's point of view
Hyembs the Dragon on the other hand is much more episodic and there's not much lore to be found in it. Only handfuls here and there
I don't really write fanfics, but I do have a bunch of short stories based on the setting. Currently there are only two, but this year should have it be a lot more filled up. Usually in the bottom of the text of my posts kind of reveal what timeline stuff is in.
Right now, there are 10 cycles. Or technically "10.5" cycles in the setting as they all take place after the Creation of the Universe. Cycle 1-7 are duds as the gods were mostly trying to figure out how things worked, something beyond terrible happened to Cycle 8, some sort of magical explosion wiped it out and not much information is known, Cycle 9 by the time Thomza wakes back up is decaying in some way- and it's also the "Primitive Past" of the realm of materia and that's it's own arc
and then Cycle 10 which is the most common arc in the setting is where *most* of the content is based around. Large events happening such as the Golden Age of Humanity, The A.I War/War of Love, and other cataclysms that are documented. Although it truly starts with "The Boars of War" and goes on from there, such as the Early war of New Materia
To ask how many worlds there are? The universe is split up into realms (or at least in Cycle 10 they are) which can be found here:
Thank you for the watch and taking interest in my work though! If you ever have any questions do feel free to ask!