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[thereisabearonmyceiling]

doodles for when it's raining and you're gaming

aka impressionsTM from my first time playing rain world

[pine-arten]

the wanderer

[katiekatdragon27]

Thank you Rain World Ray World mod for the inspiration <3

So I got back in to Rain World like two weeks ago and got this cool new mod where I could play as some Rayman characters. I main as Goth Teensy ofc, but it got me thinking about how the actual Rayman cast would work in Rain World. So, here are some concepts.

(Some things for sure are that slugcats are teensies, scavengers are glutes, lizards are dragons, vultures are knaaren, neurons/batflies are lums, ancients are limbless/thingamagigs, the nymphs are iterators, and the lesser fairies are overseers.)

Actual designs the bios below cut:

Limbless Body, Sunray Mind (Rayman) was a purposed organism created by Beyond the Earth and Stars (Betilla). Beyond's fascination and respect for the ancients that built her led to Sunray's creation, a conglomerate of Ancient body parts held together with mechanics. He's still very much like the og Rayman (energetic, kind-hearted, procrastinator, strong, etc.) except now he has two permanent companions in the form of overseers who keep him from dying. One overseer is Ly, and she's actually good at her job. The other, Murfy, is really bad at keeping Sunray alive.

Also, although Sunray can survive downpours of rain, it does cause his body parts to detach and be unusable.

Globox is not his actual name, it was the name that Sunray heard him referred to when they first met. He's a scavenger that is still the same old Globox, big, loving, scared, but this time armed with water and a knife. He and Sunray met on accident while he was being chased by a lizard. Sunray stabbed the lizard (on accident but shhhh) and Globox immediately bonded to him. When he's not hanging out with his own scav colony, he's with Sunray sleeping in shelters or exploring the Glade. He does do weekly food trips for his wife and kids tho.

Raised by a skilled spearsmater and explosive artificer, the Grand Minimus has a knack for fighting and crafting. Although not being the smartest scug in the colony, he is very skilled in thinking on his feet and getting himself and others out of tight situations. However, he does view slugcats higher than most other creatures, so befriending other species is a challenge for him. But with Beyond's protection, the colony has no need to worry about a mass attack anytime soon. He really likes Sunray though; they take awesome naps together.

The Goth is one of the newest residents of Beyond's scug colony. Coming and going from the group quite frequently, he bounces between relaxing / attempting to make friends and guarding the entrance to the Depths and to an extent, the Rubicon. However, he's not very good at either. Whether it's his weird tail and mannerisms or his giant red lizard pet, it's anyone's guess why he struggles. When Sunray comes into the picture, he is able to have an easier time making friends (cuz of that Sunray rizz), but still struggles. When he disappears for longer durations of time, he's either with the Ray Gang or hanging with his found family down in the Rubicon.

I will make more later, but this is it for now. I love them all. If anyone has any ideas or questions, feel free to ask lol.

Have a good one folks :))

[bigfrogdraws]

workin on a lil something ill be posting hopefully soon!

[yaloellie]

congratulations for reaching 500 followers and for how far youve come :3 you should be super proud thats awesome

AND YOU DESERVE THEM 500 FOLLOWERS!! your art is so good, i love your scugs so much :D

and about your scugs, say hi to monk for me i love monk and i love how you draw monk and go awwwwww every time i look at them. love all your slugcats but monk especially. lil guy!

Thank you!!! 🧡

Monk is the best little guy

[colfy-wolfy]

Slugzi and Nlug !! Another drawing of N and Uzi as slugcats from the best game on the planet, Rain World (I am objectively correct, don't even try to deny) No, I'm not trying to avoid drawing drones, that would be.... unprofessional as J would say.

My opinion on the finale? It was AWESOME. There's some hate that claim the episode was too fast-paced and overall wasn't a very good closure for the series as it left some unfinished arcs and unexplained plot points. And while I don't disagree, I'm grateful for what we got because that episode was SPECTACULAR!!! it was such a fun experience. I do wish we got to see more of Khori after their reunion, I wish we got too see N and V make up at the end or at least hug, I wish we got J trying to redeem or explain herself after Cyn was defeated, I wish we got more explanation for past events we didn't get to see such as Nori's death or if humans are truly extinct, I wish Tessa had more to her than to just be a disguise for Cyn, and so so much more. But even then, it was NOT a bad episode, far from it!! We have to keep in mind that it's an indie show and there are some limitations. We are lucky to have gotten a masterpiece of a finale in the first place cuz a lot of indie projects never even get to see a conclusion, especially not one THIS GOOD. I enjoyed the scenes we got, they were entertaining and exciting. While it was disappointingly short, it still became one of my top 3 favorite episodes. I'm gonna miss MD! I hope we get to see some sort of continuation of the story or perhaps just some funny shorts or official art. I'm not very picky.

[spotsupstuff]

What do you think about iterators canonically being Rat sized now? Lil guys.

I mean technically... a.) it's not really The Iterators, it's just their puppets. (we all know that, though, yeah yeah. nerd emoji and all that. i like nerding.) b.) we have canonical Rain World patented rats now, too, and they are smaller than a slugcat (edible too), so rats are smaller than puppets still. c.) it isn't really a new information, either, it's just more clearer and certain (well the height scaling doesn't seem very consistent to me according to the backgrounds. e.g. the fountain in Outer Rim is strangely small, so are the stairs at the murals in Ancient Urban, compared with the table and shelf in the workshop, the pottery and the bed). Outside of the game it has been said before that slugcats are around 3 feet and arguments existed before that these kind of things-

-are ladders and for them to be proportionable to the Ancients, the Ancients would have to be quite a bit bigger than the Iterator puppets. (Alongside the fact that Echoes are probably exactly how big them pals were when they were alive.)

I was aware of that for a few years now. I didn't draw it as such purely 'cuz I just didn't wanna ¯\_ (ツ)_/¯ And about all my drawing stuff has been in an AU that was originally refered to as ,,the Serotonin Take", so..

But genuine thoughts on small puppets: I think it's both funny and makes a lot of sense. I'm pretty sure canonically the only reason for the existence of the puppets is so the Iterators can look good and ,,human" to their citizens through a camera and nobody actually ever visited the puppet chambers except maybe technicians once in a hundred years or something. Essentially biorobo mascots.

They don't need to be big or overly complicated outside of emotative capability (eyes + antennas, shoulders, maybe hands and head movement) to serve their purpose.

My only issue with them is that I'm a transformers fan and I like big robots.

Genuine thought going thru my head while in Ancient Urban 'cuz I was actively thinking about slugcats = puppet sizes:

[yuki-n-centi]

For Centipede: hi, how do you communicate with your slugcat? Can you talk using sounds or words?

For Yuki: How old Are you? Do you remember anything from your past?

I would like to say that I love non-scug ocs and I think this is really good idea. Also your drawings are amazing! <3

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I finally did it, albeit in this form

thank you very much!! :3 There are so many unusual and interesting creatures in Rain World, I would like to see more non-scug ocs too, heh

And I'm sorry that the answer is so late

[thefrogthief]

Please vote Kebab!!!! (Gourmand & Spearmaster)!!! Slugcat that probably isn’t used to being around other slugcats and slugcat that leads slugcat tribe!!! Spearmaster can’t eat in the traditional sense so Gourmand makes them special meals so they can still enjoy food! Spearmaster is able to easily gather food and ingredients for Gourmand! They have romantic dinners! Please!

SOFANTHIEL/NIGHTCAT, two mysterious beings quarantined from the main game. Perhaps these lonely slugcats find solace together? The possibilities for their existence and dynamic remain endless. (91.8% (388 votes) in week 1 -> 55.4% (1014 votes) in week 2 -> 77.7% (629 votes) in week 3) GOURMAND/SPEARMASTER, a lonely and hardened purposed organism on a quest and a worldly slugcat who might just help it let it's guard down. Not to mention expand it's palate. (73.4% (289 votes) in week 1 -> 57.3% (309 votes) in week 2 -> 52.3% (262 votes) in week 3)

This is week 4. Three winners will come out of each bracket and compete in a three way selection in week 5. In week 6, the two winners from both brackets will face off to identify the conclusive winner out of all 44 slugcat ships.

OVERT WINNERS BRACKET: (Nightlight/Cherry Bomb) ♡ (Error 404/Kebab) ♡ (Cherry Bush/Barbecue)

UNDERDOGS BRACKET: (Candy Cane/Spearsaint) ♡ (Lantern Fish/Artisaint) ♡ (Godmode/Boomstick)

[shkika]

hi do you have any refs or designs for the canon slugcats? i know you've got one [a design] for saint but i'm curious about the others too

Here you go!

Random hcs for the designs:

-Gourmand during the gameplay is pregnant and the food list is just cravings. Because I think it's hilarious and after the campaign you get two pups <3

-A big part of me drawing these little beasts is making them look blank and animalistic. To make so Saint having his closed eyes kind of makes him look more self-aware and intelligent than the average is good! It goes well with my hc that he's SOS.

-Hunter I had a zombie in mind when designing. It's predicament reminds me of one and poor thing is probably terrifying to it's own kind.

-Artificer is malnourished and starved, because it doesn't properly take care of itself and uses it's energy to kill scavs with blind rage. Survival is important only, because if you live you get to kill more.

-Riv is probably a cryptid of some sort. A demon perhaps. Loves Moon lots.

-Nothing too notable of the siblings. Young small slugcats. I suppose I can share here that even though I don't think slugcats have genders, I call Survivor the sister and Monk the little brother, because it mirrors Moon and Pebbles! Also being mc does not instantly make you he/him, but that's salt for another day hehe hoho

-Spearmaster is the smallest which is true to the game actually! It's the lightest slugcat and is genetically modified heavily by Suns. By my headcanons Spears was a sickly dying pup that SRS saved and raised to deliver their message.

[samstudios8108]

Goodness y'all are getting a heckin' lot of rain world content today

Anyway, in prep for art month, I designed all the slugcats a couple days ago. Mainly wanted to get down heights and lengths; a couple special quirks individual sluggies have.

enjoy my sluggy babies, as well as a little ramblings

Survivor was of course the almost base for the rest of slugcats; average height, decently average build. They have a stiff tail, which was totally accidental but is now a headcanon of mine. They have a stiff tail, which funnily enough probably treads on their ability to survive, as I see the slugcats' squishiness as a evolved survival technique to outrun lizards and other predators in small spaces like tubes. My source? The amount of times I have narrowly escaped a hoard of orange lizards.

Monk is Surv, just smaller. She is also a little thinner framed, and shorter lengthwise. I love their cute littler face to death, and them being generally smaller gives me the thought they are younger than Surv. Surv is a young adult (19-20's in human years), while Monk is still very much an adolescent when he dives in after his sibling. Oh and of course the little karma flower. What else are you supposed to do with the spares?

Hunter is thick, and a lot of this has to do with the muscle they have. I imagine this is in the first couple cycles of their campaign, after Pebbles I bet they get a whole lot frailer from the rot literally taking their nutrients. Especially getting to Moon, you can tell she is being taken over by the rot; frail and a whole lot more cysts. Also I gave them a pouch for the neuron because... do you know how inconvenient it is to always be carrying that thing???

Artificer is the 2nd tallest --- only bested by the great Gourm himself. I like giving her a bright tail to symbolize her explosive abilities, though now that I think about it she would probably also have an ashy butt. I find her design pretty self-explanatory, triangular features, she decently top heavy. Bud has some crazy abs if she were human I'm sure.

I wanted Rivulet to be the longest one from the start. Kinda like the eel lizards. And his frills have been something I've incorporated from the start of last rw art month. The symbol on faer forehead is that of Unparalleled Innocence. I'm pretty sure I mentioned this in my iterator lineup from way-back-when, but I headcanon Riv to be from UI, and I like the idea of purposed organisms having the mark of their creator somewhere on them and for slugcats that on their foreheads.

Spearmaster my beloved <3. I like the idea of SRS having a little buddy, so they kinda made Spear to look similar to them in some regards. Like their fluffy neck being the juxtaposition for SRS's fluffy collar. He's also shockingly tall, just shy from being as tall as Arti, just like SRS. Out of the purposed organisms, they are the tallest. I kinda think I need to work on Spearmaster's tail more. Hopefully I get to draw the more in the following month.

Gourmand is probably the most self-explanatory. He looks like a wild slugcat, possibly Surv and Monk's Untie (aunt/uncle?). I've been playing through her campaign recently, so drawing her felt super natural.

I love how Saint looks compared to the chonker of Gourmand. Petite little thang. I actually struggled a little bit thinking of what I would imagine his pronouns would be. For a while I thought "it" would be fitting, but I decided on he/him because I still think he wants to be connected with something "human" for lack of a better word at the moment, and he thought that going with "it" would take him away from that. Also possible trauma for being created to just be a solution to a problem? I dunno, I could be slapping some Hollow Knight/Pure Vessel shit onto that, but oh well. Oh and I'm totally not looking at Saint now and thinking that he's literally just Viktor from arcane.

Watcher is difficult because the game for them hasn't come out yet, so I'm definitely taking a lot of creative liberties with them that are probably going to change once I get my hands on the game. Right now I have the distant crackhead hope that they'll be Chasing Wind's purposed organism, so that's what I ran with. No idea what xyr gem is for, but I like it. Really xyr just fan service, and that fan is me.

I almost forgot about Inv until a friend mentioned it. I adore the idea of it wanting to be called "it". I dunno the idea of it just wanting to be seen as a force of nature. Even though nature seems to just be against it. Slay. Also it has the wackiest of proportions. I thought it was on brand for... it. Lol confusing pronouns. I feel no regret for this.

[iteratorsex]

I love when u draw slugcats the few times u do. So foldy. They look like a weighted plushie made of loose skin. Yay <3 being very genuine. Also I like how u draw survivor with a little dewlap. And the way they look like little guys. It's all rly good.

yesss they all have very loose skin in my mind, as do a lot of the rw creatures! Comes with being a purposed organism ancestor. Those things were uglyyyyy. Its also how they're able to survive lizard bites too

[raintailed]

rain rain rain rain how do you draw iterators and slugcats btw like all your gyus are so shaped its so fun to look at theyre just little guys...

i'm gonna start with slugcats! my old guide from 2023 is here.

Note: "slugcat" refers to multiple species (slugcats are in a species complex). It can be hard to differentiate slugcat species, since some are very similar and hybridization between them is common where their ranges overlap. The species that Monk and Survivor are members of is called the "common slugcat."

Slugcats are weird sorta-feline creatures that walk bipedally and have little hands. Their average height is 3'3" or about 1 meter tall.

Their basic body shape is a round head on top of a trapezoidal body. Their legs are digitigrade, they have human-like arms (that are often skinny lol), and their tails are thick and tapering. Slugcats also have retractable arms ig??? I have no idea how that would work

In terms of head shape, it's similar to a cat's, but with a somewhat taller forehead (bigger brain! more room for being Smart!). Slugcats usually have short muzzles, big eyes, and long ears.

Note: slugcat arms usually rest in front of the body (think meerkats) rather than to the sides like a human.

Uhhh I like giving slugcats dewlaps (rabbit dewlaps are a good reference)!

And for fat slugcats, fat is usually stored in the tail (and dewlap) first. So naturally my gourmand has a big tail and a big dewlap :]

And!! I like to think that some slugcats have fur, and some don't. Hairless slugcats are slimy; furred slugcats have oily, waterproof coats. Some shorthaired slugcats have smooth fur like otters and seals do.

TEEFS!!! Except technically, slugcats don't have teeth. Rather, they have sharp, jagged beaks (think cephalopods). Their beaks continually grow and they are self-sharpening. Because their beaks are really sharp, slugcat bites are always serious injuries.

The length of their "fangs" varies by species. Some carnivorous species have long fangs, for example.

And! They have bristly tongues like cats (and kinda like the radula of a gastropod).

For their paws, slugcats have 3-fingered hands and feet. Their claws vary; some individuals have blunt claws, some have sharp claws, others have retractable claws, etc.

The inner toe of a slugcat's foot is opposable, making it easy for them to grab onto poles with their feet. (Compare to scavengers, who mostly use their arms to climb.)

SLUPPIES!!!!!! (don't worry about the fluffy one, they're just eepy)

Slugpups have different proportions than adults! Including having a bigger head, chubbier body, etc. Fluffy slugpups can also be a bit scraggly like longhaired kittens are.

My slugcats are basically egg-laying marsupials. They lay eggs, store them in their pouch, and then the eggs hatch into itty bitty babies. The babies stay in the pouch, feeding on milk until they're big enough to venture outside.

When pups are too big for the pouch, they ride on their parent's head or back. They also begin the process of weaning around this time, since by then they've started growing a sharp beak (i guess before that, their beak is dull and too small to self-sharpen?).

Note: some slugcat species are unisex and others are trioecious (having male, female, and unisex individuals).

For expressions, ears are important!!

Neutral: ears relaxed. The relaxed position varies by individual; some slugcats have their ears rest slightly tilted back, for example.

Alert/interested: ears perked up.

Angry: ears pinned back. Very angry slugcats have their ears positioned so they're almost in line with the top of the head.

Afraid: ears pinned down (sometimes slightly to the sides, too).

Sad: ears droop to the sides.

Slugcats mostly use their tails for balance, but they're used for some emotes too.

Upwards-curled tail is an excited or enthusiastic hello! Kinda like how some cats raise their tail when they see their human.

When upset, annoyed, or grumpy, slugcats may thump their tail against the ground (kinda like how rabbits stomp).

Some slugcats wag their tails when playing or excited. This isn't a universal thing, though.

Slugcats with fur may puff up their tail when startled or scared. They may also puff their tail when excited or playing, too.

[paradoxbeta]

Can I Pleeaaasssee have a Rivulet design? Pretty please? I’m interested to see how you’d draw the eyes, like would they be buggy or sprite accurate? Also SOS would be cool. THX! Wait I mean thanks not-

OH GOD the thx sonic boom

so this ask sent me on a Journey... what was supposed to be a quick drawing spiraled into a whopping 15 different rivulet designs. the full thought process is under the cut, but if you want just the favorite, here's a rivulet based off of a flatworm!

(ps you should totally check out my character design rambles because theres a jetfish rivulet and a shrimp rivulet too and many more)

so the first thing i tried to do was a very simple rivulet design:

however something in this just wasnt enough. im not sure if it was/is the body type similarity to the other slugcats or the fact that i didnt even address the eyes, but i tried to fix it by making the eyes more canon accurate

unfortunately this was Still Wrong. it just felt like i was redrawing the canon rivulet when i KNEW i could make it more visually distinctive. my biggest issue was trying to get the eyes to be sprite adjacent while still remaining buggy because its not rivulet if it doesnt have those big sopping wet pathetic orbs. so there were a Lot Of Eyes

somehow along the way i got distracted and after a long bout of doing something completely irrelevant (trying to make a pupil system for sprite accurate eyes??? it looked bad) i decided to tinker with the body more. leech rivulet came to mind and i drew it because i thought it would be awful in a funny way, but it was...

...not bad?

while it wasnt really rivulet, it was still a step in the right direction: mixing and mashing rivulet with aquatic species appeared to yield interesting results. so after doing the next reasonable step and making a sockeye salmon rivulet which was only mildly cursed,

i started playing god with various aquatic species off the top of my head

+ shrimp

(not pictured: attempts at a horseshoe crab, a barrel-eye fish, and a rivulet with eyes on the top of its head like a halibut which ended up looking like a scav grown out of a test tube. those 3 did not look good)

i did also end up with 2 extras, which i wasnt sure if they were freaky in a fun way or freaky in an "oh dude wtf" way

and finally, there was a jetfish rivulet

which, excluding the flatworm, should be an exhaustive list of the nonsense i did with riv's design. the flatworm ended up being my favorite because the wavy sides and riv's blue color just make it look too much like waves to pass up.

[actual-kiwi-fruit]

Your days are numbered >:3 /silly

In all seriousness (lol), could you doodle of The Failure? (its real, trust)

Failure is so the explode, practically a living nuclear bomb (the Estranged mod but with a failure mark o' communication is what the screenshot is)

+ I also doodled them as well because I can do that because gayness

They say hi and also that vultures are very delicious and I have no idea what you mean by they are "hard to kill" just explode them, like it's so simple why haven't more slugcats figured this out yet?

Not my days oh no :(

And here ya go :3

You know what failure has a good point just use tactical nukes to kill vultures, for that lovely set of advice you get two drawings 

[journey-to-the-attic]

I've been playing a game called Rain World (a game I have a love-hate relationship with, because it's Rain World) and I think it would be really funny if IK was a slugcat, or more specifically, a slugpup, which is what the babies/children are called.

The demons are expecting a human to show up but instead get a tiny creature that's (most likely) about 1/4-1/3 their size, if not smaller. Bonus points if they could somehow understand her when she "talks" because I feel like that would be funnier than them not understanding her at all.

Feel free to ignore this ask, just wanted to send this because I really am a fan of your story and aus and IK, to the point where it's starting to leak into my other hyperfixations.

i hadn't heard of rain world before this but oh my GOODNESS the slugcats and slugpups are so CUTE... and i love getting to turn ik into a Creature so i had to draw it

i think i've made her a lot rounder than they look in game art but NEVERTHELESS

also i'm not 100% sure what the slugpups 'talking' sounds like, but i saw a short of one going 'WAAAAAAA' with this sort of electronic beat in the background so that's what i'm going with. i reckon it'd be funny if only some of them can understand her in the beginning, and the others have to learn to translate for themselves

diavolo, barbatos, belphie and solomon specifically just KNOW what she's saying somehow. little creature pops up in the rad assembly hall and immediately starts going 'waaaa', and while lucifer is staring in bewilderment, diavolo is carrying a full fluent conversation with it