#redux!Yoyleland

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Absolutely loving this blog. Do you fw the head cannon that Leafy would hate the taste / smell of yoyelberries after being forced to eat them for years?

Also your opinion on having any romantic relations in redux! since the og series doesn't have any romance at all.

Sorry if this sounds a bit awkward I wasn't sure how to phrase everything.

No need to apologize Anon!! It's all fine, I understood !

I do fw that headcanon. I can imagine--

Months/years in isolation destroyed Leafy.

She hated herself. She punished herself. She pushed everyone who tried to help away. She told herself that she deserved it.

Yoyleland had very little food sources. She turned to yoylebushes and their budding fruit: yoyleberries.

Fresh, ripe, unprocessed yoyleberries.

The cool smell of the leaves, like mint, while the fruit was balmy. The initial sweet flavor on the tongue, followed by sour the longer it sat in her mouth. The metallic aftertaste.

Sometimes, she can still smell and taste it. Nobody will bring it up and she can feel it on her tongue, in her nostrils.. she HATES it.

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Now, in the romance department!!

I am not that much of a romantic myself,,, but I know a thing or two about writing it!! And I've confirmed romantic attractions for several characters.

I think it's a wonderful idea!! Part of the redux is presenting different dynamics and relationships. Healthy, unhealthy, or otherwise.

I think Match had feelings for Pencil around BFDIA-IDFB. It began to die down in BFB, especially after both of their eliminations. They suddenly had problems. (Six years of trauma) Doomed toxic one-sided yuri!

I also considered Needle and Pencil, which would also be toxic and probably doomed because of the way Pencil was with Needle in BFDIA and how she is with her whole team in IDFB. (inspired by this tiktok)

I toyed with Golf Ball and Tennis Ball but I find it didn't go anywhere, I didn't like it. I ended up giving the flirtiness between them in BFB to Lollipop. The old character proposal I made for them is getting a huge overhaul!

Lollipop flirts with every friend she makes but she is a lesbian!! If Teardrop stuck around after BFB ended, the two of them would've kissed. TD is demiromantic!!

Pen, Blocky, and Eraser as a polycule mayhaps? With Blocky splitting off following BFB post-split and maybe doing something with Woody. I like queer relationships I am queer

Price Tag and Book could be worth something. They're both in a good headspace for it in TPOT!

If the audience has any suggestions, I am all ears!! They do not have to be healthy. They can be toxic and doomed.

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In early BFDIA pre-hiatus, I remember Gelatin having the freeze syringe and anti-venom and stuff. Could you keep that part of his character? Somehow? Maybe by working it into his background? I mean he owns a restaurant and is some sort of chemist/inventor/just has things. He’s lowkey competent (even though he went out of business)

Gelatin !!!! He changed a lot throughout BFDI-- and I mean a lot. When we first see him in BFDIA, you're right!! He's competent and smart. But going into BFB, he kinda regresses? He becomes childish and he feels like another stock silly guy.

I love silly guys. But Gelatin deserves complexity. He places SECOND in BFB, I need to do something with his screentime. I also have a strong idea for him!!

Redux!Gelatin

Laidback, hardworking, nice, compassionate, creative, upbeat, and decently perceptive. He mostly knows when it's time to be serious and when it's time to goof off. There are a couple of moments though!! Everyone has them.

He is GREAT when he's not under stress.

He likes making people laugh. It's his way of helping and comforting others. This goes for himself, too.

Gelatin is a person who ignores his own wants and needs in order to help others. It's ironic, given how in-tune he is with people. (You'd expect his friendship with Firey to make him focus more on himself but it's quite the opposite!!)

Gelatin's creative energy has always gone to science. As a kid he loved getting science kits and messing around with them, even if he didn't really understand what was happening.

In middle school he had a biology phase, which shifted into biochemistry, and right as middle school ended, he found his true calling: chemistry.

He binged docuseries, read articles, and bought books. He got chemistry sets and found social groups online, as well as getting into an after school club!!

Gelatin waited a couple of years to enroll into a college. He wanted to make enough money to avoid going into debt. With a small job, help from his parents, and a good letter, he got in!!

However, in his second year, he had a bump-- his parents were retiring and he inherited their restaurant chain.

He does NOT want this but he can't let down his parents. They've done so much to support him. But... Putting a stressed student still trying to figure himself out in charge of a fairly successful business MAY NOT HAVE BEEN THE BEST IDEA.

The business is failing. Gelatin drops college to focus on that steakhouse instead. He's growing desperate--

BFDIA applications open.

Maybe it's a stupid idea but BFDI is a famous show and people were clamoring to get in. If he gets in, he can try to promote the steakhouse and stabilize the business.

He gets in!! Yippeeeeee!!!

Gelatin meets Firey right off the bat. Friendship established. Gelatin helps him let loose.

The second challenge is to make a cake for next episode's Cake at Stake. It was originally a stew but. Yoylecake. Guys, yoylecake!

Gelatin, Needle, Spongy, Ice Cube, and Book hitch a ride onto Puffball to get to Yoyleland. Puffball is in a rush to get to Yoyleland and this causes Spongy, Ice Cube, and Book to fall off.

Puffball leads Needle and Gelatin through Yoyleland, searching for ripe, healthy berries.

They find a leaf made of metal-- a side effect of eating yoyleberries. She follows them from a distance and Needle goes up to her, Gelatin follows.

It's Leafy!! Needle has history with her. She wants to be left alone and Gelatin comes up with a wonderful idea. He asks for Leafy's help with finding berry bushes. She says she knows a good patch but will only take them if they agree to leave her alone after. Gelatin promises to.

After gathering berries, Gelatin goes back to Leafy. Yes, he promised her he wouldn't, but also according to Needle she's been out here on her own for months. He asks her to come with them and Leafy declines. Gelatin can't imagine why. He tries again and again and eventually she pushes him.

Needle intervenes, fast as lightning, and takes the crew back to BFDIA's main playing field . Turns out they lost!!! Wow!

Gelatin won't be a main focus in the season. But when he does get it, he's got relationships I'm gonna flesh out!! As well as his financial struggles.

YEAH. Mid-season his steakhouse business falls flat on its face. He has to close it down, with existing establishments either being abandoned or repurposed.

Gelatin can't bring himself to go back to college after that and his elimination. He feels like he fails as a person. He feels like he failed his parents. Firey is there to comfort him.

Gelatin eventually meets Leafy again near the end of the season. They decide to stay in contact after.

Going into IDFB, Gelatin is PIVOTAL to Leafy and Firey's storyline. He's the one who gets them into interact. Firey is snippy and insists he doesn't know Leafy while Leafy makes it clear that they do have a history. I think this song does a good job giving off the vibe.

He and Leafy eventually drift away. Leafy's just spending time with others more now!!

BFB!

I don't have much for pre-split Gelatin. Still him focusing on others and helping with contests. I swear he'll get fleshed out here.

He stays in BFB during Two's arrival. His oldest friends are there and he thinks the added prize, while silly, is FUN to mess with.

POST-SPLIT GELATIN! Now the characters have time to breathe.

Gelatin gets to know the Have Cots.

Teardrop is wildly competitive and effective at her work.

Balloony, while he didn't last long, was VERY MUCH SO the Team Dad. He was the moral support's moral support.

LEAFY'S ON THE TEAM!! Gelatin is ecstatic to hang out with her again and gets to hear more about her past with Firey.

Bubble and Ruby are a strong unit together. Gelatin knows that they went through something with their old alliance pre-split but he hasn't pried.

Lollipop is fun. She's confident and witty and makes for a great teammate.

BFB 22!! Donut's diary has gone missing and there's a court case. Leafy calls Firey up for questioning and Firey sputters out a whole story about Leafy stealing the diary. Leafy takes Firey outside to talk.

During that time, Gelatin realizes he and Lollipop are the only new folks left on the Have Cots, with everyone else being season 1 veterans. He invited her to an alliance. Say hello to the Newbie Alliance!!

TD's comic where Gelatin dies horribly? It catches Gelatin off-guard but he's able to work things out pretty quickly with Teardrop!! And then Lollipop invites her to the alliance.

They are the type of friends to flirt with each other. Lollipop always initiates it with Gelatin and Gelatin is shit at it. Post-BFB they will be asked if they're together and they're going to stare DIRECTLY at the asker and go "You thought we were romantic??" High chance one of them is gay or biromantic leaning same-sex. I have had several friends like this and it is the funniest thing ever

When Lollipop is eliminated, she gives some of her pigment to Gelatin! He doesn't keep it just because it's cool, he keeps it because Lollipop is his friend.

Gelatin isn't that close with Flower when BFB first starts but going into the end of post-split, the two of them spend MUCH more time together as the finalists.

Four's motivation has been running dry and X refuses to leave his side... And someone shows up to take advantage of that.

Announcer!! He's here to host while Four and X are out of commission.

And he runs the budget into the dirt.

Flower and Gelatin work together to gather donations to raise the budget by posting online!! Fun contests and exclusive finalist interviews-- and when Gelatin gets interviewed he feels a bit awkward.

For as long as he can remember, he's been focusing on others. Taking over his parents' business as a young adult, being there for his friends, doing what Lollipop and TD want..

He's been neglecting his own wants and needs. He was going to go to college. He was going to study chemistry and become a scientist. He wants to win. While he wouldn't change anything that's happened to him, he does want a chance to do things for himself.

During the finale, season 1 contestants get to share their grievances as Announcer tries to deny his actions and Gelatin cheers them on.

Flower wins the BFDI and BFB. This crushes Gelatin some.

Everyone is setting up a big party to celebrate the end of the season!!

She disappears for a while and comes back to Gelatin with the BFB.

"Hi, Gelatin."

"Hi, Flower!"

"I think this is yours." Flower slides the BFB over to Gelatin.

"No?" Gelatin chuckles. "You won the season, you goof!"

"Yes, I won the season. Though I think you deserve this, you clearly want it."

"Wow, I- I don't know what to say, Flower.. I.. Thank you."

They hug it out. Win!!

As the episode ends, Gelatin and Flower see Firey and Leafy off, where they are going to find their own island!

After the season, Gelatin goes back to college. It's a heartfelt goodbye!!

He returns with his Bachelor's degree in chemistry a couple of years later. Gelatin has made sure to keep up with his friends, though!! Online calls exist :]

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I feel like Leafy should have been more affected by her time in exile. Idk she comes back to bfb almost the same but a biiit more aggressive but like, if I spent YEARS of my life in exile, I’d definitely change.

Impulsive choices in response to extreme emotions.

I don't want her to go from cool nice gal to isolated and thus kill. Kill eveything. Y'know?

I want to foreshadow Leafy buying Dream Island off of Announcer. Let her be good-natured and impulsive. I also want a different reason for Firey to deny her a place in Dream Island-- I mean,, he lets his #1 enemy in the show in, Flower too. But NOT Leafy.????

The two of them will have a strong bond going into BFDI. Leafy will do something that hurts Firey and because it's coming from his best friend and nobody else, he denies her.

So, Leafy purchases Dream Island. Announcer, rather than taking a lick of accountability for accepting the offer, redirects everyone anger to Leafy.

The confrontation is heated. There's yelling all around her and very few people defend. The ones who seem like they want to (Bubble. It's just kind ol' Bubble) get shut down. It even (nearly?) gets physical. Leafy runs.

She takes the Convenient Goiky Map That Teleports You and ends up in Yoyleland. I'm thinking maybe Book ends up with it and keeps it stored away after it's torn in half by Pin. Good way to get Leafy to realize Book had it and to tell her how to use it in BFDIA 19!

Leafy spends most of the season isolated, feeling remorseful. Because of the way she left, she feels like she has to punish herself. She did this to herself, didn't she? She ran away from her actions and now she's stuck in a country she doesn't know.

She's got good survival skills but... She's lonely. She develops anxiety. She gets aggressive with people because she's slipping mentally. Days become blurred together, she rarely gets to see others, and her own self-destructive thoughts DON'T help.

Somewhere in her isolation, her feelings are warped. She has to do nice things to redeem herself, right? Being nice will get her friends again.

AND IT WORKS! She gets rewarded. She'll hold onto that thought process into BFB.

At the end of BFDIA, Leafy starts interacting with everyone again. The veterans are still hesitant, and some will continue to hold that grudge, but the newbies are nicer to her.

I plan on having Redux!IDFB be pretty long!! I want to follow what they do in canon IDFB but it's untouched, so free reign!! It'll give a chance to have Leafy transition into her BFB self. IDFB will also be used to take a break from the gameshow format, be slice-of-life, and set up season 4.

I have IDFB 1's rewrite planned and a concept for Cake getting an episode that introduces him and Loser!!

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LOVING your rendition of cake actually omga,,,,,

wondering what you would do with golfball? i've always been interested about her backstory (that scene in idfb has never left my mind) and why she is the way she is (i have my own personal headcanons but i'd love to hear someone else's interpretation)

GOLF BALL!!!!!

I LOVE canon Golf Ball. I'll make sure Redux Golf Ball does her justice.

BUT! You can't have Golf Ball without Tennis Ball. Two in one.

GB and TB are FOILS. They are together from BFDI to TPOT. They're BEST FRIENDS!! They're on the same team every time, they're rooting for each other, and they're hanging out beyond challenges too.

So, I'm going to play into that.

Them no longer sharing a team in TPOT? I want that to be jarring. Like, hey! Status quo change!!

Golf Ball's proposal first--

GB is REALLY intelligent, a perfectionist, and leaderly. However, in wanting to be leader, she doesn't take account of what others think. As far as Golf Ball is aware, her plans are always the right ones and she can't fathom it being any other way. That's where the Bossy Bot nickname comes from! (She's grown quite endeared to it--- Not that she'd tell you!)

She's vocal with a sharp tongue. Honest to a T. Also a stickler for the rules.

There's times where TB has to relay the ideas from his team to GB-- and only then will she listen.

As much as she demands it... Golf Ball doesn't receive a lot of respect from others and it makes her SO upset. Tennis Ball has so much for her and that's part of why Golf Ball appreciates her. He's also, like, SUPER into science and an incredible inventor!!

GB isn't a fan of physical affection or interaction. She doesn't tolerate it from friends or strangers and rarely for those she's closest with.

GB was born in a small town in Yoyleland and moved to Yoyle City after highschool to pursue a college degree. Something! Happened that resulted in Yoyle City being abandoned.

Whatever caused it to happen, GB is one of the few who stay behind... It was SERIOUSLY traumatic. Perhaps she lost friends in a way that they couldn't be recovered or was the victim of an attack. Open to ideas on this!

Golf Ball initially HAAATES 8-Ball. He completely took over A Better Name Than That in BFB-- how awful! Also, she KNOWS he's petty, making the team do the opposite of what she says. Come on.

By TPOT, she finds that her feelings about him have calmed down. She hasn't seen him in years, so like... Who knows what he's up to now?

From late BFB to TPOT I want Golf Ball to learn to be more emotionally available-- hopefully change her social standing with others and understand proper teamwork. Donut may come in handy for that one!

Golf Ball starts to get a better reputation in TPOT. She gets along well with most of CLOUD YAY.

She clashes with Pencil a LOT. Not only do both want to take charge but Pencil's demand for control is... Much more forceful. She's used to people doing as they're told and Golf Ball is notorious for NOT listening to others.

Donut helps GB become a lot more there emotionally. GB thinks he's cool-- also a lot nicer than he was in BFDIA.

Tennis Ball--

The girl to ever. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈

TB is innovative, polite, and kind-- but don't mistake her for a pushover. If he has to be assertive and set his boundaries, he will.

She is easily stressed. That's where GB comes in and offers him support.

Golf Ball got Tennis Ball into Yoyle studies.

He's happy to be with her! He finds it fun to listen to GB's long rants. She could go on for hours and he'll stay invested.

These two are attached at the hip wherever they go. But, as close as they are, things are messy.

Shs has separation anxiety. High chance TB was pretty lonely growing up and also craves social interaction.

When she gets desperate, TB finds himself doing things he wouldn't have otherwise. This is shown best in BFDIA when he uses the WTFers to fill up her box-- as suggested by Leafy.

I want to do more with TB. I do. But as I looked into his canon I just? Don't know really. Hopefully it'll come to me as I rewrite BFDIA considering how far he goes in it.

I was originally considering QPR Tengolf because I keep getting flashbanged by this:

Tennis Ball is gay!!

But then, I remembered I am in control of the rewrite and thought... Yuri.. trans woman on trans woman love. She/her GB and he/she TB. Doomed Yuri. They try and it doesn't work out.

There's a kiss in the hotel in TPOT and both of them stare at each other after. Honestly, either could've initiated it but at the end of the day?

They speak at the same time. From Tennis Ball: "Did that just happen?"

From Golf Ball: "Uh."

"Are we actually...?"

"I don't... know.." Golf Ball looks away, biting her lip. This is stupid. What are they doing??

Golf Ball is the one to leave. She doesn't know how to feel, there's a butterfly in her stomach and it's making her sick and uncomfortable. Something tells her TB is feeling similarly too.

The next day is awkward. Golf Ball isn't sure how to talk to Tennis Ball about it and their separation does not help. Things keep getting in the way.

They've been friends for YEARS. Could they be more? SHOULD they be more? It doesn't feel right and neither are certain. Golf Ball wants to ask, "What are we?"

...but that's for another time, it seems. They both have a new team that they have to get along with now.

And when they may have the chance to talk about it again, Seasonal Shift happens and Two goes dormant. Another time comes and Fanny needs help from Tennis Ball with notes on... Well, GB doesn't know what. A THIRD time when Pencil REALLY starts grinding GB's gears. She'll have to sort things out with TB later.

Nothing can be easy for anyone ever!!

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I dont know how satisfied I am with this :[ I brainstormed for two days and I'll literally take any ideas to flavor both characters more atp. They both have huge presences with GB being such a strong character and TB making it so far in BFDIA. TB probably feels stronger about it than GB?? Maybe for the official rewrites of them I'll make it one-sided.