Update: The humanoid deer creature in this post is labeled GRIM STONE. apparently the stage name of a Canadian musical artist. WG left a comment saying that a character in one of the video games she plays "is a deer-man in shape if not substance" and providing a couple of links. I didn't think the character looked all that deer-like, but the second link, showing customizable "cosmetics" for the character, showed several alternate helmets. I clicked on the one that looked most antlery:
It's called the Oberon Ferosh Helmet (who names these things? Ira Gershwin?), and two designers are credited: malayu and The_Grimmrock. That latter name is obviously very close to Grim Stone.
A quick check of the other helmets shows that none of them are designed by The_Grimmrock, and when I search for "grimmrock," this helmet design is the first hit.
The double-m means his name could also be read as "the grim Mr. Ock" -- Otto Octavius before he completed his doctorate?
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And, interestingly, coming on the heels of my recent exchange with Gondola concerning "The Ancestor", this (skeletal) cervinoid (fleshly) human is female. Bone is a stony component of animals, we have here a deer skull, and "Grim Stone" speaks to that, as well as the eerie quality of the image. Eerie too was our other notable "skeletal humanoid deer creature," which, on day one, I speculated was male in contradistinction to an accompanying female image. That skeletal cervinoid man was "skeletal and nothin' but;" this woman with a cervinoid skull is mostly "flesh and blood," as we say--that is echoed by "rhythm and blood." There's another ad below this of the Grim Stone vintage; I can't make out the picture, yet note the fleur-de-lis.
(Incidentally, I thought Tottenham Hotspur took its name from the song, "When the Spurs Go Marching In.")
https://narrowdesert.blogspot.com/2022/03/the-new-orleans-saint.html
A grim stone would link also to the concept and imagery of a Reaper, one kind said to be pretty Grim.
Soup could be a potential link to the comment I just left on Blood and Vampires. The word means, per Etymonline, "liquid food". Blood is liquid food for vampires.
Logging into Warframe yesterday for the first time in over a month, it soon hit me that my most-used Warframe is a deer-man in shape if not substance. Oberon has a druidic paladin theme about him, alongside the horns and hooves (his partner Titania takes on the more expected fairy motif).
wiki.warframe.com/w/Oberon
wiki.warframe.com/w/Oberon/Cosmetics
And the most antlery helmet at that latter link is credited to someone called The_Grimmrock.
https://wiki.warframe.com/w/Oberon_Ferosh_Helmet
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