OK, we’re deinnitely starting by talking about the picture.As recently as (checks notes) November 2023, if I wanted a Bond opening gun barrel made out of banana peels, I’d have thought the only way to maybe get that was with some kind of generative AI image.
I don’t fuck with that shit anymore.
Instead, I found areference photo of the Bond opening. I found a stock photo of a banana that had a segment of peel that had an appropriate curve to it. I painstakingly rotated and placed over a dozen of them in this pattern. I cleaned up the parts that didn’t overlap quite right. I figured out, after several attempts, how to shade/darken the portions of the image to evoke the shading in the Bond opening.
And then I took a picture of a secret agent bananaa and plopped his ass in the middle of it with some light reflection effects on the ground.
THIS IS WHO I AM NOW.
So, yeah. Toward the tail end and after my vacation, when I was thinking “man I really need to cut back on impulse purchases”, my eBay Saved Searches kicked into gear and said FUCK THAT NOISE.
Agent Peels is one of a subset of the subset of Fortnite Weirdos. The subset that I missed, and don’t need, but would be open to purchasing cheap. In this case, loose and complete for a VERY reasonable price. They have three faceplates (one distinctly feminine), a Bond style pistol, a very odd backpack, and the usual array of Generic Fortnite Gear. He’s fun! He’s a banana in a tuxedo! But since I already had Potassius Peels, he wasn’t critical to the Weirdos Collection so I could wait for him to be cheap.
The Nonessential Fortnite Weirdos subset is three figures. I now have two of them and am even more tempted to pick up a Victory Royale Shadow Meowslcles complete since I learned he comes with a weight bench whic, as props go, is what Alton Brown would call a multitasker.
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