>Lodged in the crust of Copper 9, there is a monster
>They call it the Cabin Fever Labs
>It's head is on the surface while it's body is buried, the better to disguise itself
>It's concrete & metal mouth cavity leading to an esophagus that terminates in a cavernous stomach
>Once, the human scientists there would take drones down there, suspend them above a hole that leads further down, and feed them to the monster in the belly of the monster
>Some drones were consumed utterly, some drones were driven to self-termination
>Yet some drones; changed
>Then the core collapse happened, humans died, yada yada ya
>Today the labs' population is eight? Ish?
>Alice, Beau and five infected cores. Maybe more
>The Solver doesn't like heat. By extension neither do those who bear it's taint
>The furnaces are working 24/7 to keep the cores inside in a perpetual state of simulated Hell, after Alice used her trapper skills to capture the little freaks
>Every now and then a furnace will give
>This is very bad, as the cores didn't like her even before she inflicted torments upon them
>Alice scavenges for parts to keep the furnaces going
>But in order to do that, she needs a temporary place to keep the cores
>That place being....a furnace
>Only, this one runs on wood
>Her pile of firewood is running low
>It is time again to stock up
>Alice takes the axe that she has had much experience with, and exits through the mouth of the CFL
>Subtle tapping sounds trail her, and she knows without looking that it is Beau
>He is her assistant. Her companion. Her...adoptive son? Little brother? Idk
>It's snowy outside, and quiet
>It always is snowy

>>149517068
Close enough, the Americans too were impressed by that monumental-flagship-superstructure, enough that US subs targeted Maya&Atago over even the actual Yamato in the same fleet. It's the heavy cruiser Chokai, chose her due to aesthetics, personal love, as well as operations in the Indian Ocean allowing for potential bombardment of (North) Sentinel Island which is overdue since these chickens forgot their place
Alice and Yamato is not a bad idea actually since Yamato has relatively orderly/compact/smooth superstructure so should be drawable if far enough away.
>>149525229
Thsnks, I will draw drones soon again I finally managed to get the yearly 1month~ break in. Always coincides with IJN return, but next to Alice, equally, there is no replacement just rest of drawing.
>>149521088
True, I could watch her work on smth as calm as she did in 6 for hours. Or imagine her talking about it too, if she's enthusiastic about something, be it deer or dronatomy, or snything else....maybe even her use of CFL or speculation about the pattern she has on her gown which maybe is purposemade and has a function in breaking her outline?

Either way need to find some good background again to get started, any ideas?