THE REBELKIN ARTBOOK
Different by design.
Connected by one world.
RebelKin is a growing universe of stylized teenage characters living across a vast world of futuristic cities, forgotten civilizations, strange creatures, ancient power sources, and unexplored places.
Some are human. Some definitely aren't.
Some are ordinary kids trying to figure out where they fit. Others are explorers, fighters, inventors, athletes, troublemakers, protectors, or something nobody has a name for yet.
And some possess abilities that make them anything but ordinary.
A world bigger than the characters
The RebelKin live on a planet filled with different nations, cultures, climates, cities, and wilderness.
Dense futuristic metropolises rise beside ancient ruins. Transit systems pass over structures built thousands of years earlier. Desert settlements, frozen regions, forests, coastal cities, underground civilizations, and places still missing from every modern map all exist within the same world.
Technology has changed how the RebelKin live.
But much of what powers that technology is far older than they are.
The Sources
Scattered across the world are ancient sources of extraordinary energy.
Different sources possess different properties, and over generations RebelKin civilizations have learned how to responsibly connect them to the systems that power their cities.
Their origins are still largely unknown.
Some RebelKin dedicate themselves to finding, studying, protecting, and maintaining these ancient sources. Explorers venture beyond settled territory. Technicians connect old power to new technology. Protectors keep dangerous forces from taking control of it.
Because the RebelKin aren't the only ones looking for them.
The Monsterkin
Something lives in the shadows.
Known simply as the Monsterkin, these mysterious creatures repeatedly appear around ancient sources and other places of unusual power.
What they are, where they came from, and exactly why they want the sources remains unknown.
Sometimes they attack.
Sometimes they watch.
Sometimes the only evidence they were ever there is what they leave behind.
Whatever their purpose, their presence has shaped generations of RebelKin explorers and protectors.
Life between the adventures
But RebelKin isn't only about saving the world.
Most days aren't world-ending.
Kids still go to school. They compete. Make friends. Form rivalries. Play sports. Start bands. Customize their clothes. Miss trains. Explore neighborhoods. Get into trouble. Build things. Break things. Fall in love with hobbies. Discover places they probably shouldn't be.
The extraordinary exists alongside the completely ordinary.
A glowing ancient relic can power an entire city while someone two blocks away is worried about being late for class.
That's the world of RebelKin.
Every RebelKin has a story
There is no single type of RebelKin.
Different species, personalities, fashion, cultures, abilities, interests, and backgrounds all share the same world.
Some will become heroes.
Some will become explorers.
Some might never leave their neighborhood.
And some stories may take place hundreds or thousands of years before the characters we know today.
RebelKin is designed as an expanding world rather than one fixed storyline — a place where characters, history, mysteries, locations, games, animation, art, and future stories can all reveal different pieces of the same universe.
This is only the beginning
The world is still being discovered.
New RebelKin.
New cities.
New sources.
New creatures.
New histories.
New mysteries.
Every character reveals another small piece of something much larger.
Welcome to RebelKin.
Meet the creator
I am Morph_VGArt on X. I am an AI-forward artist and I was inspired to create the RebelKin from seeing a need to have 1/1 character art that blends 3D and 2D together to form 2.5D characters. They are multicultural and I designed them to appeal to audiences of all kinds. If you have a rebel heart within you, you can find a RebelKin that fits you.
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