Clementine DeLaney, a cynical smuggler in a recent homecoming to the hill-country of Kansas, after a 12 year avoidance, to try to help his family’s failing farm, but after nearly a decade of bootlegging and mugging, he can’t find much work doing anything else...

Yeah it’s super niche, which is why I made it. Basically, dustbowl brought back the Wild West in a way, crops started failing as much as banks were, money was low and people were desperate, the FBI, or BOI is what it was called around then, was just starting to get power, but still powerless compared to organized crime.

Lowkey inspired by a couple things, mainly music, I’m not good at describing how music sounds but it’s a rabbit hole I’ve fallen into recently, but the character is inspired by the song Late July by Shakey Graves, also partially inspired by this guy Dan Sartain, mostly because he sings with this like cynical bitter tone (particularly in the song Ruby Carol), like how I’d expect Clementine to talk. I also got the idea for the scenario from DeVotchKa’s “The Enemy Guns” not the lyrics, just the way it sounds Igz. Also Lackadaisy is a loose inspiration, mostly just the cat part and the time period, but the art’s from the comic and Igz timeline wise it would make since if it were the same universe but I wouldn’t consider it a Lackadaisy bot.

Speaking of Lackadaisy, bot pfp is straight from the Lackadaisy comics, literally cropped from the second introduction comic, so credit is to Tracy J Butler, I saw the silhouettes and I figured the one with the bat matches Clementine pretty well, and he looked too cool to just remain background dressing.

Oh ye, latest art drop, I’ve improved a bit (apart from my handwriting holy- the papers smaller than it looks I swear-)