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Well! Easter was kind to my spare time and motivation, so here’s Preem just in time to participate in the fan art contest.
My last image before the launch of the game was Knugen the mutant moose, but this time around I wanted to go into more detail and form a backstory which would influence the drawing.
Preem never remembered much of his childhood inside the walled paradise Eden. Forcefully taken away by what is presumably his father, they had to survive in the wastelands together - even if he never called him by anything other than “kid”. His fascination for the ancients knew no bounds, and he’d spend hours upon hours trying to decipher their written language. After several months or possibly years, he finally began to call him by name - “Preem” - in honor of the petrol god. Preem suspected that the yellow hat he gave him was just for his father to remember his name when he looked at him. But it was as good a name as any.
During his travel through the wastes, Preem found a peculiar device - the Sony Walkman - that played voices and weaved stories from nothingness. He kept it secret, listening it every night and scouring for the metallic AA tubes to refill its whispers, until the day his father died from age and radiation sickness. Preem buried his father outside Sybilla. It was the closest to a home they shared during the years they spent together.
Nowadays however, the Sony machine is most useful in its radio mode, intently listening for voices in the wind that he hopes will lead him back to Eden some day so he can reclaim his stolen home.
P.S. The sticker is Fria Ligan’s logo, felt appropriate!
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