Inkbunny

Is that some sort of k-pop star? Sorry, I don't watch mangos or read animoos.

Balmung

3 years, 1 month ago

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This guy from an old an influential anime: https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/vsbattles/images/f/f4...

Also has a foxy shape.

Meowmere

3 years, 1 month ago

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If anything, it was a reference to Lee from Tekken. But maybe Lee was derived from this guy.

Balmung

3 years, 1 month ago

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Ok, piece ideas:

Bishop sticks that very long blade of his right into the queen's vagina. He's being a very bad bishop ;)

Pawn turns around, and uses the pickaxe to murder the enemy pawn that was trying to run past it (en passant)

Bishop slowly tears the clothes off a female trembling pawn that's pinned to her king

Two rooks followed by a queen hold a cannon all together (Alekhine's gun)

Meowmere

3 years, 1 month ago

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Something told me you'd be a fan of the bishop and his crooked blade. I imagine he's the sort of guy whose jaw unhinges to swallow pawns whole.
The en passant idea is creative. Not many know about the rule, and sneaky kobolds would love to catch someone in the back.

Interestingly, if a bishop pins a pawn AND is close enough to undress it, the pawn can usually just take the bishop back.

Balmung

3 years, 1 month ago

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"	Interestingly, if a bishop pins a pawn AND is close enough to undress it, the pawn can usually just take the bishop back.

That's a good point, although the bishop can just be far away enough. But yes, this is mostly because the bishop has a cool design, and the pawns are cute. Maybe swap the bishop for a rook then.

Meowmere

3 years, 1 month ago

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We can engineer our way into a situation where it would make sense.
The pawn could be double pinned like so:
https://www.screencast.com/t/CW7oDp15xcM

Balmung

3 years, 1 month ago

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I'm trying to minimize the amount of characters on the assumption that you'd draw some of this, but sure :)

Meowmere

3 years, 1 month ago

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Maybe I will, maybe I won't.
For now, I just like talking about sexual interpretations of chess.

Balmung

3 years, 1 month ago

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Okay then! How about:

Castling: King crawls under the rook's legs. King looks sheepish, rook is very pleased.

Capture: Queen leads a pawn on a leash to the dungeon.

Colorbound: Bunch of pawns tease a wrong color bishop by showing their butts

Back-rank mate: Rook gets the king in the butt, while 3 pawns stand with their backs turned to the scene

Meowmere

3 years, 1 month ago

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Back-rank mate meaning "butt-fucked" is a super obvious choice, which would likely be first in line for a drawing. Pawns being fodder for the poisonous black queen as well.

I am myself quite partial to the idea of various "queen blunders" on the white side being analogous to her cuckolding the king.

ProfesseurRenard

3 years, 1 month ago

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The black pawns are cute femboys as well, though not as cute as the white pawns. And the white queen definitely seems more regal than the black queen.

As to suggestions, perhaps the knight takes hold of one of the rooks, having gotten him on the bad end of a fork with his queen.
Or perhaps the rook takes an unfortunate knight’s head, the bishop in front of the knight having left him in a skewer.

Meowmere

3 years, 1 month ago

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@ ProfesseurRenard

The kobolds were intended to be girls, but of course, we can't be sure none of them have any surprises under the dresses.

Knight forks are my own primary interest, because horses. The old drawings were of the white queen taken by knights, from a king-queen fork.
The skewer is also just a delicious word with a whole lot of unsanitary implications. I like the idea of the white bishop being "cowardly" and stepping out of the way of an attacking piece, to leave the piece behind unguarded.

ProfesseurRenard

3 years, 1 month ago

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My mistake.

If I’m not barred from any further suggestions, scenario #3 could be a bishop knocking out a hapless pawn while a rook digs a tunnel underneath the knight the pawn had been protecting (a fairly literal case of ‘undermining’, aka removing the guard). Scenario #4 could be a rook moving to knock out a bishop and, in the process, allowing his queen a clear shot at the enemy king (discover check). And scenario #5 could be a knight and a bishop ganging up on the king (double check- up to you if it’s also mate).

Meowmere

3 years, 1 month ago

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@ ProfesseurRenard

No mistake, there's always room for your own imagination.
It would be a shame for me to "bar" someone from making suggestions, when I'm encouraging idle talk. I can't promise I'll draw any of it whatsoever, but I'm interested in knowing if the "chess metaphors" are completely lost on my watchers. Getting too convoluted risks leaving a lot of people behind, which is already a risk when talking chess, even though chess is at its peak popularity of all time.

Double checks are a good idea. I could probably imagine a scenario where the black king is all "oh, you got me", and then he's not gotten at all. I know I have had situations in chess games, where I thought I'd cornered the king, but cleanly forgot that the king is capable of taking pieces as well..

Blackraven2

3 years, 1 month ago

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is that a dagger behind his back?

Meowmere

3 years, 1 month ago

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The king? I think you're overinterpreting the shading.

Blackraven2

3 years, 1 month ago

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Well, we know the king can defeat other figures at close range -- so if he doesn't have a dagger, I assume the roses thorns must be poisoned >:>>>

Meowmere

3 years, 1 month ago

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Close. It's weaponized syphilis, actually.

Blackraven2

3 years, 1 month ago

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What does that tell us of the black queen? ;)

Meowmere

3 years, 1 month ago

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Oh, she also has syphillis. Mega syphilis. Sleeping with her is certain death. But you're still going to do it anyway. Like drinking sea water when shipwrecked.

Blackraven2

3 years, 1 month ago

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Must be itchy all the time ;)

Karmandel

3 years, 1 month ago

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All the black pieces obviously vote for the black queen in the popularity contest. So do the white pieces, including that promoted pawn, and even the king. (And two panda sisters who should really shut up and stop kibitzing if they know what's good for them).

Hmm, if one side wins after promoting to queen, but the original queen is still on the board, which of them gets to go home with the king?

Meowmere

3 years, 1 month ago

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@ Karmandel

Oh well, prepare to get beheaded.
Wait, you guys like getting beheaded. No beheadings then. Instead, you will be forcefed old milk.

I believe in early versions of chess, the queen was instead the king's "right hand" or "first knight", making the promotion metaphor make more sense. The absurd meta-context of the king potentially having nine wives, most of which are cross-dressing soldiers, is part of what got me thinking of the untapped potential in visual storytelling. Probably the first thing I'm planning to draw is the white king being too mentally impaired to tell his own queen apart from a promoted mouse pawn.

Blackraven2

3 years, 1 month ago

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maybe the pawns are actually the harem girls drafted into service? or they are just sent ahead to distract the opposing force.

Meowmere

3 years, 1 month ago

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Might be accurate for the kobolds, if not in real life. Looking at the black king, that is a man happy about his lizard harem.

Blackraven2

3 years, 1 month ago

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and, as everyone knows, lizards are immune to syphilis ;) - I think they can still transfer it though ;)

Karmandel

3 years, 1 month ago

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