#rad answers

[ask-elliot-doorman-fam]

A sixteen year old with blonde hair and a cropped red jersey and red shorts is wandering around Sanctuary.

She has green eyes and her blonde hair is tied up on a high ponytail.

(howzabout Thad's kids meet each other :3?)

- 🐺

Drones are milling around, going to and fro from jobs or whatnot. It seems like school just let out.

There's someone who stands out, a boy with dirty blonde hair and a green cap, florescent green eyes upturned into a grin- in essence, he looks like Thad... but younger.

[orange-scout-tf2]

Greetings, Scout. Well, another Scout.

A part of me is curious if you’re one of the Scoutlings.

-🔪

Is that what they're calling us now? "Scoutlings"???

Well, I can't say I'm not but then again I might be so it's up to you to decide!

[rad-is-more]

Dude, (affectionate, non-gendered) where do you FIND all the media and posts surrounding the Gazette?!

I think you're just my main valve of Gazette-Content, so thank you for that :)

dude!!! (equally affectionate and non gendered) UHHH well the answer is …. a lot. i used to download everything i saw back when livejournal still had a thriving (and dying) community, but nowadays it's mainly just keeping up with everything that comes out while also collecting as much old media as I can get my hands on. keeping up with them on twitter/instagram, buying and scanning magazines and so on. (and buying cds and dvds both old and new) it's a lot to keep track of, especially magazines and pamhplets and the like, but it's become a fun hobby for me! and if you weren't aware of the archive, then you can look at it here! (also, sorry this took a while, i got really sick for a few days)

[radioactivedancefloor]

Hey, buddy! Got the time? 8)

Hello to you. About 22:56 hours GMT.

[paradnormal-investigator]

This one is very you

...huh. neat.

[radpunch]

Hi. wingedjelliefshamira, who you recently reblogged from, is a scammer. They have used this story and profile picture several times in several different scams. I recommend deleting your reblog and reporting and blocking their account. In the future, you can check kyra45 's blog, or simply search up the url of blogs before you reblog them. Please be careful about what you're spreading!

Thank you very much for letting me know!! I’ve deleted the post from my blog, then reported + blocked the account. 👍

[darqx]

Pick up the receiver I'll make you a believer

❗️For commonly asked qs please see my BTD FAQ

After doodling the first image that hug body slam meme immediately came to mind and i couldn't help myself 😂

Thanks very much I'm glad you are enjoying my art and characs! :D

To put the answer simply, Rire used to work for the prior King as a Collector (of souls) and he was that King's only Collector and so got the brunt of his ire for any related, perceived fault. Aside from that personal connection Rire also really disliked him because he viewed the prior king as a useless glutton who failed at ruling a sector (conditions were tanking/had tanked for ages), and which the Royal powers were wasted on.

Almost all of his sunglasses are actually normal human sunglasses, he can just see better than a human can 😎

Anything can be a kink, anon :d

Boring victims are often exceptionally weak-willed victims so that's something in particular he dislikes.

Yes he can play the piano and violin, and horseback ride and ballroom dance etc. Put it this way he has a lot of particular small skills that he picked up during his Earth visits so he could hide in plain sight with the upper echelons XD

Not like how a snake or cat hisses which is what I'm assuming you're implying XDDD He can't bite off a limb (his mouth ain't that big) but his teeth are very sharp so he can feasibly take a chunk out of someone or like, completely bite off something smaller (finger, ear...)

I havent added to it in a while (since I dont often find songs I like enough to actually download lol) but this is my current playlist for him in no particular order:

Anon, the fact you capitalised "Aliens" made me think of Xenomorphs and I had to immediately stop thinking 🤣

On a side note, I can't actually tell you either way because he hasn't encountered an alien (that isn't a demon or a human) lol. He'd probably initially treat an alien much like he would treat a common demon, if they are obviously not human, and then if he realises they are also not quite a demon this could peak his interest.

Pointing you in this direction because regardless of the canon answer this proves he could look good in one LMAO

Sorry to burst your bubble but no :d Though I suppose he could simulate the effect by reverting parts of them to their "liquid" state 🤔 DO WITH THAT INFO WHAT YOU WILL.

It is theoretically similar to a human's.

If you can remember his age then that is how old he is :d I'm not really like other creators who give their characs a definitive "birthday" down to the year, mainly because I don't often have set "time periods" in my stories lol.

His birth date falls somewhere between late October - late November though.

In the context of BTD; they just don't like each other XD Well I can't actually speak for Cain, but Rire not liking Cain is partly a riff on general angel/demon rivalry dynamics, and partly because Rire would see Cain as more of a threat since canonically Cain is way more OP than him.

Most of the time when i draw them Cain is also actively getting in Rire's space whilst Rire is actively trying to avoid him, so there's also that XD

It...depends. On which aspect of "ownership" you're implying. For those that he has deals with, he'd calculate what exactly the value of the deal lost would be and in this situation he'd likely write them off as Cain would be more annoying to handle then they'd be worth (he can always make more deals).

If someone was specifically marked by Rire, that's a different level of possessiveness and he'd actually try cos like

Hey guys some offence but why are some of you sending me asks formatted as if i were ChatGPT

Is there one for like, personal ambition or cunning or something cos I don't think he'd be any of those listed lol.

Rire doesn't have a mobile phone and he doesn't need one because he has a demon power that basically CCTVs all his citizens to himself. And really, if he wants to find you he'll find you.

He's somewhere in the middle of that scale through the sheer fact that he's been around long enough to see technology change and would've kept up with how to use things to blend in better, but also doesn't need to use the electronics to the point that he'd need to be an expert at it.

Is this cos Gato is Canadian cos I don't remember a country location being specified when we did it? |D Personally I figured most of the settings were in the US since the US has the most documented serial killers

Also sos no i dont anon, you'll need to either ask Gato or EP or dig through any of their lore posts they might have left.

Think kind of like Rire (he did learn a lot from her after all), but with a more Elizabethan era socialite vibe. Possibly a black widow but we dont have any proof about that.

Has/had a p good relationship. I use both terms because I still never decided whether she was currently dead or not lol.

Lol a misconception but Rire doesn't actually perceive humans as trash XD Trash suggests that he hates them and they wouldn't be worth regarding at all, whereas Rire usually finds them more like...novelties. Or like whatever that feeling that is associated with viewing ant farms or animals performing tricks is. Rire's mother would view them as more like working animals or livestock.

[ask-elliot-doorman-fam]

"Has anyone seen and commented on the rings Rad and Bishop have?"

"No... I have mine in my pocket where no one can see them... I don't know where Rad keeps his..."

...

Rad keeps his on his desk... he plays with it sometimes if he's struggling with an assignment- according to him... he thinks some of Bishops intelligence will rub off onto him.

[rad-is-more]

bro stop trigger warning reituki I'll kill u

no :3c

[ask-elliot-doorman-fam]

What is love?

"Baby don't hurt me, don't hurt me

No more!" -Tera, Kiara and Rad, singing.

[orange-scout-tf2]

can i have a banana

Sure! Here, have this one *hands you a smaller an average banana* I seen these guys a lot in Asia and they're just as good as a regular banana!

[thealexchen]

thoughts on LIS: Double Exposure?

This is probably gonna be my hottest take in awhile, but: I deeply dislike the idea of an official LiS1 direct sequel game existing. Excluding all my thoughts on the gameplay, story, Max's character, etc. I don't think a game like Double Exposure is necessary.

This isn't a new take either; back in 2020 I made a Reddit post saying I was glad we never got a continuation of Max and Chloe's story, because in order to have a plot, you have to have conflict. And to have conflict means your characters are forced to change or struggle in some way, and I simply wasn't interested in seeing that again. I never even read the comics. As long as Max and Chloe's future existed only in the fanbase's collective imagination and not in an officially licensed game, Pricefield could be as happy as I wanted and I wouldn't have to witness DN or D9's version of canon.

A lot of fans, including myself, are also confused and upset as to where Chloe could be in Double Exposure. Even if Chloe winds up having a surprise role, it would likely be too logistically difficult to write Chloe into one version of the story and not the other. Either way, DE is strongly pointing to Chloe no longer being the deuteragonist. If D9 was going to make a direct sequel with Max and Chloe, I could at least be intrigued by how they might write their dynamic and how they'd use Max's power in new and interesting ways. But instead there's... none of that. Chloe's nowhere to be seen and Max can't time travel anymore.

On a narrative level, Max and Chloe are the heart of the original Life is Strange. They represent the game's central relationship, and their very first interaction (Max saving Chloe's life) kicks off the entire story. Throughout the story, their dynamic advances the plot and mutually motivates their character arcs. You can't have LiS1 without either Max or Chloe; the story simply wouldn't exist without them. Now in DE, they don't even seem to be in each other's lives anymore. It's true, this series is meant to reflect universal feelings and experiences, which could include breakups, but the romantic catharsis of Pricefield as canon soulmates who defied time and space itself to stay together forever is something you can only get from the beauty of fiction. To jab DE's story with a dose of reality and go, "Eh, they grew apart. Shit happens," totally undermines everything the Bae ending stood for.

On a technical level, Max's rewind was an objectively brilliant game mechanic. LiS1 arrived onto the scene after Telltale had paved the way for the resurgence of choice-based, episodic games, but LiS1 totally reinvented the wheel by giving the player the option to go back and weigh each option before continuing, essentially save-scumming in-game. But the right choice was never that easy to determine, and Rewind brilliantly complemented Max's character arc of overcoming her indecision and learning to live with her choices. Not to mention, you could also use Rewind to solve puzzles, instead of the endless fetch quests the later games had. No other LiS game since then has given the player that kind of agency and interactivity. LiS2 had telekinesis, but the player couldn't use it, only Daniel. D9 tried with Backtalk and Empathy, but Max's Rewind was truly the narrative and gameplay jackpot that they haven't been able to recreate since.

So if you take away one half of the central relationship that made the first game so memorable, and the supernatural power/game mechanic that made it so fun to play... why even bring Max back at all? It just feels like D9 threw away their golden opportunity to build upon the major selling points of the first game and are only relying on name recognition of the Life is Strange "brand" and Max Caulfield.

What upsets me most of all about a direct sequel existing is that it proves that Life is Strange, as a series, now stands more for profits than originality. Life is Strange will always be an IP meant to make money for Square, I know that, but back when LiS1 was just a brand new episodic game, it stood out for how different it dared to be. In a landscape saturated with shooters, sexualized female characters, and casual misogyny, LiS1 instead featured a teenage girl in a contemporary setting that took her seriously and made her the hero of her story. Before it was a franchise, LiS wasn't concerned with the bottom dollar; it was a piece of art that just wanted to tell a thoughtful, unique story.

Whether you love it or hate it, Life is Strange 2 was an insanely risky follow-up to Life is Strange that refused to rely on the convenience of a direct sequel because Dontnod stuck to their artistic vision. Meanwhile, all of Deck Nine's games have leaned on the first game's following to generate interest (BtS being a direct prequel, TC bringing back Steph, and Wavelengths expanding on Steph's connection to Chloe, Rachel, and Arcadia Bay). In other words, all of the subsequent LiS games by D9 have played it very, very safe. It's worked like a damn charm because there are still elements I love about each game, but the basic principle is nostalgia-baiting fans. It's just that now, Double Exposure isn't hiding that nostalgia bait at all anymore and prioritizing profits over telling a unique story. It's sad to see that LiS has strayed so far from its risky, daring, original, and unique artistic beginnings.

Before I end, I'll say that I can't be too cynical about it all, nor do I want to be. Because I can't deny how much joy this whole series has brought me, too. LiS was what got me into narrative adventure games and pushed the boundaries of what a video game could be. If nothing else, I am truly thrilled that Hannah Telle got the chance to play Max again. D9's always been great at maintaining relationships with their actors, and the casts of their games always have consistently great chemistry. Getting recognized by Erika Mori on my own blog is still unbelievable and speaks to the amazing community that LiS has built. As you can see, I'm still posting and reblogging stuff about Double Exposure. And while I don't see myself buying or playing this game for myself, I know it'll keep all of us talking for awhile, and I still live for a good discussion.

Thank you for asking! And thank you for reading.

[rad-is-more]

Hi, I was watching a MASS limited edition unboxing vid and I realised 2 Uruha pages are missing from the archive. One with text "I was chased by silence" and the other is Uruha with a pink/blue background. It's supposed to be 10 pages for each member. Is there any chance you could add them to the archive if you have em or know someone who could scan em?

I went to have a look and you're completely right, it is missing some pages. I've marked it as incomplete for now until I can potentially track down other scans of it or do it myself but let's just say that the booklet is very thick and difficult to scan without breaking or cutting it up. This goes for the Heterodoxy booklet too that I was meaning to scan but never got around to because I don't know how to do it without completely destroying it :( anyway thanks!

[k4pp4-8]

if you take requests can you draw the plaza kids as boxbots please I really love your art

Bodega men become robodega men!!!!!

[halcyon-deluxe]

Hey, I don't want to be rude but I would lick that ass as if I were licking the yogurt lid. Have a nice day.

Just so everyone is on the same page? This is the bar now.

[devildomwriter]

hello, it’s totally cool if you do not have anything on thas, buutt apart from mammons car in his room, do we ever get told if they have cars in the devildom?? do they drive around?? or do they just walk and fly around??

(sorry if you got this twice, tumblr acted up and i’m not sorry if it sent the first one i sent)

Yes they actually mention both of these in RAD News articles

When asked about cars they answer that yes there are cars and Mammon’s was featured in a car-specific magazine.

I assume that similarly to Japan, the Devildom has cars but also has more convenient transportation means as mentioned in RAD Vol 3.

Demons do fly but with many transportation options, they don’t do so often.