FINAL FANTASY IV
GHOUL PROJECT #632 CREATED: AUGUST 2019 Mt. Ordeals was home to the unfortunate remains of adventurers who had tried, and failed, to take on the rigorous challenge of climbing the mountain to its summit. Under normal circumstances, these poor, departed wayfarers would be laid to rest on the mountain path, with markers denoting the burial site. Thanks to the twisted machinations of the undead Milon, one of the Four Fiends of Elements, the carcasses of these travelers were resurrected as unliving nightmares, cursed to walk the Earth once more. Cecil Harvey and his friends would encounter numerous Ghouls while ascending Mt. Ordeals. They frequently traveled with the likes of Zombies and Revenants, all of them suffering an undead existence. Ghouls could be harmed with fire or even with implements intended to cure the living, be it potions or magic spells. Ghouls seldom lasted for very long against these measures. I needed four identical action figures for these projects (the Ghoul, Revenant, Zombie, and Ghast all share a game sprite), I settled on the Frankenstein's Monster action figure from the Scooby-Doo toy line by Charter, Ltd. I got one at Walmart in 2017, but I had to go hunting on eBay to get the other three (and ironically, they're just barely bringing them back to Walmart as of this writing). I think I ended up with Chinese knockoff versions of the original toy, because their construction different significantly. The hands, head, legs, and feet were all glued in place, allowing me to dip them in boiling water and easily detaching them so I could modify the parts, paint them, and super glue them all back together. |
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