#mr. rook

[glitch-the-artist]

chapter 3: smile! your on camera!

[petra-creat0r]

Petra's chapter 3 concept

Welp. I finally caved and gave into the full prediction. Or at least my take on Tenna, Mike, and Rook. (Plus a shop keep for Bitsy)

Are my takes on Rook and Tenna a little safe/cliche? Probably, but I still like them. Especially Tenna. She's a silly fella. A real wiser cracker. They berate Mike over their hyper specific coffee order off camera.

I might also hear you asking "Petra, if your Rook and Tenna are horrible people, how are they supposed to mirror Asgore and Toriel?" IDK. I just wrote that down and am still working the take out. Additionally, while they'd be parallels, they wouldn't be one to one. Most of how I imagine them atm is they're how Kris wishes Asgore and Toriel were when it comes to their relationship. Aka, loving and together. Rook and Tenna are horrible people in a healthy relationship, Toriel and Asgore are relatively good people who's relationship wasn't working.

Again, I don't know, I'm still working on it.

Also Mike. I think Mike is my favorite take/design of these three. Overworked, tired, boom mic operator/stage hand who hates it here. Even prior to Rook meeting the Knight and making changes to the studio, Mike was generally under appreciated and didn't like all the entitled actors he had to work with. Especially Tenna. Only person he's worked with who he's actually liked and gotten along with was Spamton, who I imagine did some commercials back in his Big Shot days. (Oh if only Mike knew what Spam was going through in those days... The horrors.) As for Mike's opinion on Bitsy? He tolerated her, pre- the spider's popularity. I imagine after Bitsy signed that contract with her mysterious benefactor, she became a little bit of a brat off camera. Before just completely going off the rails at least.

Just some more notes on stuff. Rook is based on the TV remote and Tenna was originally just a game show/variety show host before Rook started cutting corners and costs and so now half the channels are hosted by Tenna or sponsored by TennaVision. Tenna is either the TV itself, or more likely just the antennas. Mike's of course a microphone. Maybe a speaker idk. I've said in previous posts that Bitsy is an old VHS tape and Lanino and Elnina are just on there for another frame of reference. They're the weather channel, I doubt there's any argument about that.

Finally, the shop keep. V.C. Ramsey, aka Grampa Ramsey. He's based on a VCR player and the nursery rhyme, "Baa Baa Black Sheep". Ramsey is the shop keep connected to Bitsy, and they used to be old friends before you know, the whole mystery man stuff went down. The VCR details may be subtle, but I still like Ramsey's design. I could listen to his stories for hours.

[probablygayattorneys]

My brother and I were working on an edit about the localization name changes and I left him alone for FIVE MINUTES and came back to this like “I couldn’t remember the fan translation names… or the new official ones… so I improvised…”

[im-s0rry]

This is a question for this other “Mr. Rook”!

im getting my lawyer, YOU WILL NOT STEAL MY POSSIBLE INCOME OF RICHES-

This can go one of two ways,

Option One: "Alright, Rook, I'll see you in court with my best lawyers (who just happy to be my closest friends with the snazziest of suits!)"

Or Option Two:

[krispilol]

rook

He’s hot

@glitch-the-artist

[static-studios]

Opinion on seals?

Rook: so bad news, I banned seals in static seas. So uh, get good. B)

[jolieeason]

WWW Wednesday: Feburary 28th, 2024

WWW Wednesday is a weekly meme Sam hosts at Taking on a World of Words. The Three Ws are: What are you currently reading? What did you recently finish reading? What do you think you’ll read next? Here is what I am currently reading, recently finished, and plan to read from Thursday to Wednesday. Let me know if you have read or are planning on reading any of these books!! Happy…

[rookanisstuff]

Bed heads

[r-aindr0p]

✨Merry Christmas and happy holidays ✨

Initially meant to draw art of the actual nutcraker tale but I blinked and this happened. Anyway, I'm not good with words but I wish nice winter holidays to you all and a nice day/evening✨ Bonus Idia as the crazy uncle Drosselmeyer scribble under the cut

[densewentz]

old married couple istg ☠️

[postcardsfromheapside]

There's just something very insane to me about this quest that has no markers, that's so easy to miss because the little caves aren't identified and are only found if you're being extremely thorough with your exploring.

All I could hear was Solas condescending to Rook, "Many would have died, I know. But afterward, flowers would grow again." and how Rook is such an inverted mirror to Solas' despair and "burn it down" mentality.

Rook spends all their *own* effort (rather than treating other people as necessary sacrifices for good things to appear once more), risking their own life (because these spots are frequented by darkspawn and spirits) finding flowers to soothe Despair Undying, and bring back Hope.

It's such a bookend to the quest in Dock Town, where you give names to people who brought joy, and art, and knowledge to the world.

I'm always thinking of Lord of the Rings, and often of The Council of Elrond and I hear Tolkien's echoes in this game, over and over.

“It is not despair, for despair is only for those who see the end beyond all doubt. We do not. It is wisdom to recognize necessity, when all other courses have been weighed, though as folly it may appear to those who cling to false hope.”

To take the hard road, not the expedient one, to resist becoming the very thing you fight against.

Ugh.

I love this game so much.

[glitch-the-artist]

High-Tennavision Multimedia Interface

aunt tenna owned by @creepa-b0t-inc

[robo-milky]

Ambiguous Late Valentines Day art for you all <3

Loosely inspired by the heart dissection I did a couple days ago

[twisted-wonderland-but-gayer]

[raven-at-the-writing-desk]

I know it’s canon that NRC has a translation spell, but do they ever explain how people understand each other when they leave? Like they go to the Scalding Sands and Sunset Savanna for events and understand people just fine. Or are all of those events just noncanon?

Yup, we learn that there is a translation spell over NRC in the first light novel. The protagonist, Yuuya, is from Japan. There is a passage in the book which describes how the Twst characters seem to be saying something else but their words are heard by Yuuya as Japanese.

As for what happens when they travel to places outside of NRC, well 😅 we never get an explanation for that! For the native Twisted Wonderlanders, there is a “common language” that is spoken, similar to how English is often taught in schools as a second language. We see Marja (Epel’s grandma), Fleur City/City of Flowers merchants, the Harveston mayor, fae NPCs, and other characters swap between the common tongue and using another dialect or language.

I assume that most, if not all, of NRC students speak this common tongue too. Some, like Epel (Harveston dialect), Sebek (nocturnal fae language), and Rook (what we perceive to be French), can be considered multilingual. Sam sometimes shouts phrases in what we perceive as English, so he might also count. Ruggie knows a few choice phrases in 10 different languages due to the part-time hospitality jobs he takes over school breaks. He can haggle in roughly the same number of languages. We also know this from Sebek: "Different groups of fae speak different languages and enunciate words in different ways, but magically imbuing one’s voice makes it possible to communicate regardless. In modern times most people even in Briar Valley speak Common, and speakers of fae languages are somewhat rare…”

It’s not clear how Yuu, the otherworlder, is able to understand what Twisted Wonderland residents outside of NRC say. Maybe we can assume Crowley casts the translation spell on Yuu before they leave campus?

By the way, all events and most vignettes are considered non-canon to the main story! ^^ They wouldn’t fit cohesively in a since school year, especially since the main story is only up to like… mid-May by book 7?

[zayray030]

I want there to be a twst event where a really horrible teacher comes to teach at NRC and its the teachers banding together to get rid of them so they don't ruin teaching and the learning experience for the other students

Like he's just bullying the students, throwing the overblots in their faces, making them doubt themselves, etc