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gone tonight

here’s the premise for DTD 2.0:

bunny schaefer, stage (and preferred) name coney dynamite, was once the sidekick half of moon dog and the march hare; a supervillain duo that operated in northern nueva california before moon dog’s deflection from the ASA as an outer american rebel. she herself now a recent ‘graduate’ of a GA domestic terrorism and criminal mischief rehab center after returning to the organization; now living and operating in nu-new york as a food and supply delivery runner for GA’s bronx food bank.

while her assistant and ‘adoptive’ brother, ‘rep’, is relentless in begging coney to launch her own independent, heroic career (with him alongside, of course); the ex-sidekick seems as disinterested in this as she is in what her life is now: running the same route, to meet the same people, to do the same work, while getting the same lectures.

every single day, all ending the same way:

sitting cross-legged on her bed, in the dark; telling a moon dog plush toy about her day. and every day, he remains silent.

when she’s finally tested the limits of her illegal street racing habit as the unkillable nitrabunny with her parole officer, her ‘father’ demands she return to nueva california to work with him at the bay.

her father — and GA’s CEO: the commander, accompanied by her sister addison, informs coney and rep of their new mandatory assignment: a covert operations task force. his next revelation, however, shocks the three — revealing a recently detained moon dog (now ursanaut II, after his deceased father) will be joining them. even moreso, however, is his announcement that he will serve as second in command — with coney leading the team.

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oh maybe also worth mentioning they had unique power-up/healing mechanics

coney would have various neoherb vaporizers — mutated plants that provide various medical and combat benefits, like increasing pain tolerance to clear misses or slowing the rhythm she fights to

grizzly would be able to collect neoherbs while exploring, creating custom blends of rolled cigarettes to lesser, passive effect but with more range in benefit; each herb temporarily increasing its own unique stat and combinable in any fashion

og dtdemo notes — the basic outlines for the beginning stages of the two main characters (redesigning red ryder and the huntsman from RED)

the other two, cobra and rep, would come later — first as gameplay mechanics (rep doing supply deploy; cobra a summonable NPC striker assist) and later as potential alternate campaigns (rep/bunny, cobra/grizzly) replacing your fire and adaptive abilities with acid projectiles and AI decoy assistants

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og dtdemo notes — the basic outlines for the beginning stages of the two main characters (redesigning red ryder and the huntsman from RED)

the other two, cobra and rep, would come later — first as gameplay mechanics (rep doing supply deploy; cobra a summonable NPC striker assist) and later as potential alternate campaigns (rep/bunny, cobra/grizzly) replacing your fire and adaptive abilities with acid projectiles and AI decoy assistants

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the thing is post-sol design stuff has always consistently had this 2000s near-future dystopian setting so calling it dtd shit is even kinda false bc it’s all … starburn017 shit … this is just the biggest one so far

its layers to this dtd shit

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its layers to this dtd shit

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some more DTDverse tech that’s been around a bit more: audio library micro-discs, or listdisks, are mini disc drives that contain a 8-12 track mix of songs. they’re sold everywhere from corner shops and newsstands; to music stores and department malls. they’re sealed in a heavy paper casing; printed with a customized template design and authentication barcodes. they’re meant to be torn open and promptly discarded.

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its so fucked up that marvel rivals.

i just found the “flopazine” (one-use floppy disk digital magazine download) paper wrapping case design for my ‘starburn’ logo debut from 3/4 years ago. yay for more DTDverse tech!

the back cover teasing a video game UI reimagining project i was gonna do for marvel nemesis — as a hero shooter (+ sequel to the original FDNB poem? apparently??)

it was one of the two in-universe games i was using to tease DTD’s game demo launch (also never happened): a game both rep and coney play excessively; despite the imperfects roster being hastily redesigned variations of their own team after GA’s post-DTD publicity crisis (nitrabunny/solara, cobra/wink, rep/hazmat, etc.)

was kind of a tongue-in-cheek ref in honor of the original game inspiring so much of DTD very unconsciously until i suddenly saw it

but now a HERO SHOOTER called MARVEL NEMESIS isn’t a cool retro throwback concept it’s a parody of the game that exists … which is fine!! cus that’s sooo funny tbh, but i dont see rep playing horndog royale marvel rivals

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here’s a bit to sample for interest —

— but to give a brief intro, sometime in 2021 i began writing some secret lore into my graphic art; linking every piece with shared themes, similar settings; reoccuring names, progressing stories; scraps torn from a near-future dystopian state, the Acquistioned States of America, and shot into ours. each piece serialized, catalogued, and released to ‘us’ by the unseen, unheard, undercover rebel producing the art.

‘he’ was nova. ‘i’ was ash. ‘we’ were starburn017. hannah montana rules. basically.

2022 would introduce nitrabunny, the combustible bioweapon; alley cat, a monastery student with a faulty cyber-prosthetic; and dollface, a horror film about an insecure young girl who can’t feel pain.

2023 wouldve began with the introduction of Player4; an early 00s gaming mag promoting the highly anticipated sequel to a game about a young, cocky red-clad officer and a gruff, jaded veteran mercenary coming up against the evil mega-corporation the rookie has just betrayed.

his name was fox ryder. he would fight the iron fist of his tyrannical former master, silver wolf — and his lethal pet assassin, viper. alongside his two closest allies: a hacker named lilypad; and a grizzled mercenary known as the grizzly.

it was going to be a foreshadowing of bigger, grander things to come when i had the time and resources to do them properly.

then i got a dm. and it wasn’t, anymore.

i have notes for and about the project that eventually became dare to die dating back to 2022. i wonder if it would be worth posting some of them tonight?

as kind of a temporary farewell/small peak into the inner workings of DTD’s story at its core

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i have notes for and about the project that eventually became dare to die dating back to 2022. i wonder if it would be worth posting some of them tonight?

as kind of a temporary farewell/small peak into the inner workings of DTD’s story at its core

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the worst thing about having ocs and being insane over them is that you need to make the content yourself. unless you kidnap your friends

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no art tonight just a dcuo nitrabunny update ft. team-ups

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what are we? some kinda dare to die?

nitrabunny match start (Dare to Die: Dare to Movie: Dare to Game)

ummm but no fr is this style too like yeaujhjhhh im a cool guy and also i assault women

or is it like kinda quirky lil scary always zanyyyy type annoying but like in an art style. perhaps a short-lived sister of the wolverine and the x-men/armored adventures nicktoons run. or dare i even say an homage to tangent joker. or even tank girl?

lmk pls guys thanks + here’s an alt

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“uhhh have i posted this” you haven’t posted shit, dumbass. dumbass bitch

nitrabunny concept art !!! type: pro-wrestler

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slowly remembering this app exists

anyway, i feel like a lot (lot lot lot) of DTD’s lore breakdown stuff needs a massive asterisked explanation for how gameplay led a story decision i then had to work backwards from, for characters i never planned to design, using names i was already using for myself, for a game demo that never happened, at the request of somebody i thought was incredibly annoying and no longer speak to

anyway, never ask ash why her dreamcast era ninja saviors spiritual sequel comic uses P1/P2/etc to refer to the members of its team roster

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oh lil bunny, how we’ve come so far

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more bibble stuff. i looooove helmets. i could talk all day about helmets…