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Astro || They/them || #astro arts and #mod astro || @astronnonyy Skal || She/her || #skal scribbles and #mod skal || @skaliciadragon Both mods are in their 20s and love to use their powers for evil.
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astral-corner · 2 months ago
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I was not expecting this post to get as much attention as it has, so I figured I'd offer some explanations of design choices and the alternate versions that exist for two of the posters.
Putting those under the cut, because oh boy do I have things to say.
I'm just gonna go in episode order for ease of writing.
AvA 1:
So, for this, I figured, while I'm not generally a fan of minimalism, it fit the simper beginnings of the series. Compared to later episodes, it's confined completely to one window, which makes it feel relatively small.
The minimalist design also puts more focus on the conflict between Victim and the cursor, partially influenced by the episode itself, and partially by Victim's own focus on it in The Box, which was the most recent episode as of creating the poster.
The placement of Victim and the cursor was also meant to invoke the power dynamic between them, with the cursor looming over Victim.
The font choice was also picked because of it's handwritten, more cartoony feel. It was meant to help invoke the animation style of the first episode.
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This was a variant of the design that was made, which was quickly vetoed. The only difference is the line between the body of the cursor and the stem, with the idea of making the cursor feel made of simple shapes to add to the minimalism aesthetic. It just doesn't feel right, and reads clearer without it though.
Another variant idea that I don't think got a sketch, or at least not one that was kept, was an idea for the cursor to be rising from the bottom and for Victim to be impaled on it actually. That got tossed out for the power dynamic imagery, and also for readability's sake. I didn't think the overlapping lines would be as clear/distinct.
AvA 2:
This one feels like the least thought out one to me, but I think that's because it was so easy to make and there wasn't really any other design beyond trying to pick the right size for the cursor. Most of my thought process was really "hey, what if Chosen is outside of a window? That'd be cool."
It was mostly designed the way it was to show how Chosen was able to fight back, and show off his fire, which is probably his most well known power.
I don't really remember the reason behind the font choice on this one. I do know that around the time it was designed, the numbering change for the series was still a pretty recent thing. I'd been debating whether to do the number or the numeral, but when writing out the numeral in this font made it look like a pause button, I just had to keep it. While not relevant to that episode, the subtle nod to future episodes felt too good not to.
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This is the smaller cursor variant of the poster, and honestly? That cursor fought me. It did not want to be made. This was made for a closer to accurate size cursor, even if it was facing the wrong way, and also just to make the fact that it was a cursor clearer. Wasn't really sure which felt better, so I showed it to some friends, and we ended up agreeing that the larger cursor peaking into the frame better helped make it feel more threatening.
While I don't remember if I intended it while initially creating the poster, I do think the larger design really does help sell the cursor as a bigger threat/enemy, like how it is in the first episode's poster.
AvA 3:
Funnily enough, this was actually the first poster I designed. It, and the whole idea of making posters for episodes, was inspired by talking with a friend about Chosen and Dark, and thinking it would be cool if they were in a superhero movie poster. I could remember seeing posters where there were two characters facing off against each other (a la Batman v Superman, or Captain America: Civil War), and thought that would fit the pair of them perfectly.
Other than the background, there's not really a lot of symbolism really put into this. The two were put on each other's colours both to make them pop more, and to help symbolize their attachment with one another, but making it a gradient would make them blend. Luckily, my favourite detail saved the day.
In the center of the poster, the line breaking the background colours, the shape of the fire, and the posing of Chosen and Dark all create a cursor. It was decided pretty early on that I wanted the pair of them to create a cursor shape when facing each other. It's presence being implied rather than outright drawn like in the first two posters was meant to create a sense of it haunting the narrative, and it being created between the two of them was meant to show how it was the reason they were fighting.
The font decision for this was from me looking for one that felt angular to represent their conflict even further.
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So, the only difference in this poster is the title present on it. Pretty obviously emblazoned in the middle we've got The Flashback instead of AvA 3. See, the original poster design idea was created without an exact episode in mind, and was meant more to be a representation of the conflict between Chosen and Dark. I really wanted to tie it to an episode though, and at the time, The Flashback was the one that kept appearing in my mind, because it really tied into this idea of division between the two, and how even when not there, Alan's actions were still haunting them.
The fire was initially added to the poster due to the choice for The Flashback, representing the destruction they spread. When the episode was changed, I saw no reason to remove it. Both because of it helped with establishing the cursor silhouette, and the fact that they both use plenty of fire in every episode they've appeared in. Now that AvA 11 is out though, that fire being tied to their destruction would've really hit different, I think.
AvA 4:
Funnily enough, the idea for this poster was the second one out of this group, but it was the last to be created. There's no alternate version of this one beyond some thumbnail sketches I'll reference as I go through this. One thing that I did want to put in the final poster, but that didn't make in, was a nice bloom or overexposed effect on ROYGB. Unfortunately, doing so would've covered up the number behind them due to how things were layered, and readability was the more important deciding factor on whether to get rid of it.
The design vision for this one was pretty strong from the beginning. I wanted the crew to be holding hands and in a white background with that bloom/overexposed effect I couldn't end up adding to help invoke posters for things that were slice of life, and more happy and hopeful. It was also intended to help give it a bit of a dreamlike feel.
Orange having a shadow to represent Chosen was also pretty cemented in that initial idea because of the flash of him we see when they got angry in the episode and also due to their name. None of the others have shadows, and in the current version, that's both due to a spotlight effect helping create the visual of a cursor - I wanted it in there somewhere given it's importance to the series, and to the crew - and as a representation of Orange's differences to their friends.
The shadow also has another fun bonus in how it fades. That fade wasn't in the original plans, but after seeing people point out the parallels one can draw between Orange and Victim, I felt some hint of homage had to be made. Thus, the shadow fades from Chosen's black, to Victim's grey. More of the shadow is black due to that being the direct comparison drawn by the series itself. Funnily enough, I remember thinking while working to get the fade to look right, that the grey mostly being on the head really fits how Victim has this vibe of being the one who uses their head more than Chosen.
To try and get that Chosen/Victim idea across, an unused idea actually had the concept for Dark and Mitsi's hands to be visible reaching out of the edges of the spotlight to hold the center stick's hands in a mirror of how Orange is with their friends. That would've had the crew shuffled so Red could hold one hand and Green could hold the other, with Dark mirroring Red. The fade on the shadow being angled while not due to the idea, did end up influencing the final angle, to try and have there be a "Chosen hand" and a "Victim hand." The angle was actually to make it distinctly different from the white-light grey fade happening in the bottom corners to try and subtly hint this one wasn't just something done for lighting.
Oh yeah, the order the crew are holding hands in wasn't entirely arbitrary. I knew I wanted Green to be one of the ones holding Orange's hand, given the fact that they're meant to be closer friends than Orange is to any of the rest of the crew. That left the others. While colour order as best I could with Orange out of place was an option, I thought it'd be more fun to put a little nod to the Yellue ship since it's the most common ship I've seen of ships that include just members of the crew.
The font chosen for this poster was going to be another handwritten font, but when I went to go get a reference image from the episode itself at one point, I realized it had the title written in the episode itself. The IV for the episode number had to be done with a pixel brush myself though, because my program had a limit on how big it would make the font. Funnily enough, the numeral was written with Vic's grey, but I ended up lowering the opacity to tone down the colour a bit due to it not sitting against Yellow super nicely. (I don't remember exactly, but I believe I also made the "Alan Becker Presents" text Vic's grey too.
Also yes, I know you should be able to see the numeral through Orange's head. I went back and forth on it for a while, but the corners met just inside their head and made this unbalanced checkerboard pattern I couldn't stand. So no grey gets to be visible in their head.
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Got hit with the overwhelming desire to design posters for some of the episodes a while back, and drew up the first three, only to forget about it until recently. I had the idea for AvA 4's back then, so figured I'd finish that to match before posting 💙
I've also got an idea for a Note Block Universe poster, but that one's fighting me. One day though. One day. Maybe.
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astral-corner · 2 months ago
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Got hit with the overwhelming desire to design posters for some of the episodes a while back, and drew up the first three, only to forget about it until recently. I had the idea for AvA 4's back then, so figured I'd finish that to match before posting 💙
I've also got an idea for a Note Block Universe poster, but that one's fighting me. One day though. One day. Maybe.
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astral-corner · 5 months ago
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please explain the beautiful clusterfuck /pos that is purples family please
So, because this au was started before AvA 11, we didn't know about the animation yet, so all of this is working off of the assumption they were a born stick.
Through some fuzzy magic of however sticks reproduce, Orchid and Cobalt manage to have a kid together that Cobalt didn't know about. Orchid kept baby Purple for a bit, but ultimately put them up for adoption.
Ellie (Yellow, short for Electric Yellow) and Scarlet (Dark), had been debating having kids for a while, but didn't think themselves capable of handling a baby. So they went for adoption of an older toddler to skip that stage of twig life. Thus, Purple grew up with them as parents and not remembering a time before having them as parents.
In typical Purple parent fashion, Scarlet was an ass, and Ellie ended up dying, leaving Purple all alone. One thing eventually leading to another, and they get adopted by Cobalt after he tried to destroy Minecraft for killing his adopted child, Ruby.
So neither of them know they're related, but they've managed to stumble into being parent-child anyway.
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astral-corner · 5 months ago
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Happy Swap AU Day Weekend!
Given the occasion, let us post about one of our funniest aus; The Stick Shuffle au. (Name probably pending, idk we haven't super talked about it.)
What happens when you give every character a number, put their names in a random list generator, and match the new list to the original numbers? Oh boy! Let me show you.
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Welcome to our beloved, beautiful mess.
We set this up to challenge ourselves to make an AU that made sense with all of the characters randomized, and oh boy has it been a challenge. With no rhyme or reason behind the character placements, we really had to stretch some things to get it to fit roughly into the original AvA/M story and timeline.
(We also originally made it before AvA 11 came out, but we liked what we had too much to reshuffle things to include Mitsi, so we added her to a list of background characters and shuffled that instead 👍)
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The plot's a little loose, and it'd be hard to put it all in one post without it getting too long (and we'd like to post this sooner rather than later ^^;), so here are some highlights:
The human characters got shuffled too! I completely forgot about that until writing these notes down! Alan's role is taken by none other than programmer021 (known as the Programmer), with their little sibling alexcrafter28 (Alex) taking DJ's role. DJ and Alan take Programmer and Alex's roles respectively, and are relatively minor characters in the AU.
Powder (Blue) runs Rocket (or it's equivalent) like Vic does in canon. All of the employees at the company, including Powder herself, are anonymized during working hours, using art tools to turn them various shades of gray to protect their identities. This eventually leads to Powder essentially living a double life.
Given that Cobalt was swapped into King's role, and Purple didn't change at all (lol), this means that after the plot of AvM season 3, Purple somehow manages to get adopted by their own biological father. Neither of them know they're related at that point. This will never stop being funny to us.
Warning (Hazard) is very strange, as far as stick figures go, because they literally just appeared one day on the Programmer's computer with no apparent origin or source. They were a force of retribution for the Programmer's crimes against sticksfight.com (don't worry about it /j). Eventually the two of them came to an understanding, and Warning became Programmer's new desktop buddy, along with the four residents of sticksfight at that time (Mango, Yuzu, Green and Agent).
Other important name changes include: Orange/TSC's file name is still The Second Coming, but she has a negative association with that name, and exclusively goes by Orange. Paleo/Primal's name is The Hunter, and she was created to hunt and capture/kill Orange. She totally didn't do that tho, lol. Victim's file name was changed to Victory after they joined Powder's company. And last but not least, Red started going by Ruby Red sometime before their death, matching themes with their adopted dad, Cobalt.
This. just... this.
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astral-corner · 7 months ago
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this was originally meant for swap AU day, but swap AU day was cancelled because of AvA 11, so here it is now instead! except this is a shuffle AU and not a direct swap AU
Yuzu and Mango take the roles of Red and Yellow :)
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astral-corner · 7 months ago
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I've noticed some misconceptions about how Dark's powers work in my time in the fandom, some of which I believed myself, so I thought I'd make a post going over their powers and how they seem to work within AvA canon. I'm mostly just making this for my own reference, but hopefully this will be useful for other people too 👍
(For the record, I'm not trying to call out or criticize anyone by making this, it's purely for reference purposes. You do whatever you want when writing/drawing stuff)
Without Wristbands
Without the wristbands introduced in The Showdown, Dark only has three* powers that we're ever shown, compared to the four+ that Chosen has, which I will describe below.
The power they use the most is pyrokinesis, much like Chosen has. They can create fire, and use fire to fly.
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They're also shown to be able to breathe fire like Chosen does, despite not having a visible mouth (ie. A pac man mouth).
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Dark can also create what I can only think to call fire bombs, and has done so in every episode they've appeared in. These are unique to them and Firefox, and Chosen is not shown to share this ability, (which leads me to believe that this is not directly linked to their shared pyrokinesis abilities).
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*I'm not sure if this counts as one power or two, but I'm going to talk about them as two facets of one power.
Dark and Chosen both seem to possess some sort of heightened physical resilience, as well as super strength. Being thrown through walls, and throwing others through walls, with little to no actual damage being sustained.
(It's difficult to get proper screenshots of this, but you can see it in just about every scene the two are part of.)
There's also. whatever the hell this attack was. which I can only think to put under this section, because they never do anything like this again.
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At no point is Dark shown to have laser eyes as part of their normal powers.
With Wristbands
With the wristbands, Dark's power set completely changes. They're never shown using their normal powers again after this point, which leads me to think they may not be able to, though that's 100% speculation on my part.
They gain a number of new abilities, as well as a boost to their physical strength and resilience, seeming to surpass Chosen's abilities. Specific powers and abilities are described below.
They gain multiple abilities previously used by the Virabots, including the ability to fly/levitate without the use of fire (which they could not do previously), and summon spikes that delete things they hit.
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There's also some things that seem to be unique to them in this state, namely being some sort of black energy balls they can throw, laser eyes of their own, and, most iconically, the ability to summon the V blade.
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The exact properties of these abilities (minus the blade) are unclear.
The V blade, however, is a sharp, sword-like weapon, which has the ability to cut through and instantly destroy normal stick figures, reducing them to code. It, alongside the Virabots themselves, also seems to severely weaken both Chosen and Alan's cursor, ultimately destroying the latter and kicking Alan out of the battle.
Dark seems to be able to easily outpace Chosen with the wristbands on, throwing them around and eventually pinning them down with the help of the Virabots.
It also appears that they may have gained an immunity/resistance to Chosen's laser eyes, or at least they're less concerned about them. Previously in both AvA 3 and The Showdown, they're shown to run away and avoid being hit by the lasers, but after putting on the wristbands, they tank laser beams with no hesitation.
I don't really have much of a conclusion to this post, so I'll leave it here for now. Hopefully this is useful, or at least interesting, to others! ✌
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astral-corner · 10 months ago
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YOUR HONOR. Hero surely has compulsions too, right? What sort, and how do they get in the way?
Title effects are kinda like compulsions, huh? I didn't think about it like that...
Anyways yeah! Hero has them too! The Hero is a title just like The Dark Lord is :)
In our title lore, those are both part of a power scale of sorts. A handful of titles that have similar traits, but with varying levels of strength and slightly different effects. The Hero is the level under The Chosen One on one side of the scale. The equivalent under The Dark Lord would be The Villain!
The scale is sorta based on traits, tropes and stereotypes typical of those titles in media. Heroes and Chosen Ones, along with Protagonists (the lowest level of the scale as of right now), generally speaking, tend to be heroic types that oppose injustice and protect other stick figures. They have a strong sense of morality, and are usually very self assured and determined to achieve their goals.
Hero themselves is effected by their title a lot more than Lord is, for a few different reasons. One reason being that they're much physically younger and less experienced. Their title is kinda all they have to inform their personality and worldview, whereas Lord, being a full grown adult, has more (simulated) life experience to draw from.
As of now though, they've got some vibes of a little kid's cartoon hero more than anything. They've got the sense of justice, but they can't practically apply it all that much as of now. They're probably prone to bringing home injured animals they found outside and begging Lord to let them keep them and take care of them. If they saw another kid being bullied, they'd come to their aid, even if they had no chance against the bully in question. Things like that.
When they get older, they'll probably clash with Lord a lot more, given that their titles oppose each other quite a bit. They'll probably have a 'rebellious' streak of sorts in their teen years, sneaking out of the house and basically becoming a vigilante.
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astral-corner · 10 months ago
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Happy Purple explosion Thursday/Blue Thursday! this took me so long to make that I finished it on Friday and had to schedule it 💔
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astral-corner · 10 months ago
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more Hero and Lord art! this time: their first winter in the Outernet. Lord does not approve
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astral-corner · 10 months ago
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I know the AvA/M fandom is going insane over Green shenanigans atm, but I think y'all would also like the way too complicated headcanons Astro and I have been cooking up for... god has it maybe been a year at this point?
We call it ✨Title Lore✨
In the most basic of explanations; created sticks can be given titles instead of names, and those titles can grant them powers. Titles also have influence on their personalities, but doesn't force a stick to act a certain way. (Unless they're under the effects of a title wave, but that's a whole other can of worms.)
I just mention this because I want to ramble about two of our ocs who were made based on it. (Tho I'm down to elaborate on Title Lore if people wanna know more, this is just really spur of the moment rambling) One is another stick with The Dark Lord title.~ The other titled The Hero, rather than them being another Chosen One and Dark Lord pairing.
Hero is just Babey. Just a lil guy. Actual genuine twig (oh god, does the AvA/M community call stick kids twigs, because y'all are missing out on stick specific terms if you don't)
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Look at them! \o/
And then this is Lord, who's called that rather than something else, because... Dark kinda already exists...
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They get all the demon/vampire vibes and they're a therapist for other titled sticks. (Especially Dark Lords) :3
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The two left their computer together, and Lord is Hero's legal guardian in the Outernet. Hero has not started school yet because they're learning to catch up on everything twigs their age should know. Everyone should fear the day they start school though. That child has the power of God and anime friendship (literally), and they're going to become unstoppable.
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astral-corner · 1 year ago
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“Red? Red!” Nobody could look away from Red’s body. The entity who’d stolen their friend away had forced its way out in violent lurches before quite literally tearing itself free only to vanish with a hiss and a puff of smoke. In its wake, the body fell limp and pixels spilled out into their own mist; like Red was slowly falling apart like what had stolen their body.
Orange tossed themself down from the files above with little care for their own safety, vision tunnelling as they landed next to their injured friend. Were they-? No... No! They couldn’t just accept that! Red was- Red was-!!
For a moment, everything went dark. Like a blink with your eyes closed a moment too long. Orange felt like they were floating, weightless and woefully untethered.
The world settled back over them much too heavy, and their head fell forward a moment towards the now empty spot before them before they could jerk it back up with horrid realization. Tears burned the edges of their eyes as exhaustion fell over them like a blanket. They wanted this all to be a terrible nightmare, because then they could at least awake to their animal loving friend pressing a cat into their arms for a nap guardian. It’d be easier to deal with than the reality of the empty white staring back at them. Better than hearing their friends’ cries from around them.
They hadn’t even gotten to hold them as they vanished.
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astral-corner · 1 year ago
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Things didn't go quite as expected when Chosen chased Dark's virus to Noogai's computer. Now they're left with even more questions and concerns than they had before this whole mess started.
Omg hiiii first proper art post on the blog :D This AU has existed in our brains for several months and I think it's delightful and funky 💛💛Kinda goes off the rails, but when don't they? That's half the fun anyways
Remind me to find a better way to draw the Wifi portal next time, because that was a pain in the ass to recreate properly!
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astral-corner · 1 year ago
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Welcome to Orange's Orchard
A crossover between Animator vs Animation (and it's Minecraft series) and Andy's Apple farm; which lifts elements from the latter and leans more towards the former in appearance.
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What Everyone's Up To
Orchard Crew:
Orange is living their best life on their Minecraft orchard with all their friends; Red, Yellow, Green, and Blue. One day, they find that their friends have replaced the wooden door to their house with an iron one, which is more of a symbolic lock than an actual functioning one, due to their friends pulling a prank and asking for help with tasks around the orchard in order to appease/entertain them. Things seem fine enough at first, but Orange eventually stumbles into knowledge they don't know how to process. There's also the matter of the strange notes, and the not-them in the barn with those green, green eyes.
Outernet:
Green's been doing her best since she ran away from the thing that ruined her life. When making her escape, she'd bumped into Purple, and they were kind enough to let her live with them somewhere safe enough for now. Homesickness plagues her often, and she's not sure what to make of the man Purple refers to as Mango, or the one they call their dad. Still, she's trying her best to live her best life as it is now, her eventual friend turned partner - Purple - at her side.
One day, while home alone, Mango gets a surprise visit from an old friend.
Hollowheads:
Dark and Chosen managed to talk and make up before the showdown went too far, so things are fine now, right? Chosen wakes up, haunted by the scene that greeted them when they'd chased the virabot to that computer. Who was that other hollowhead there? What had Alan been doing to them for however long they'd been around? What sort of title could they have to have been able to defeat the virabot so easily? They'd just been finishing up when Cho had arrived, after all. Chosen hadn't stayed long enough to find out, but at the time it seemed like a good idea to get away from a powerful hollowhead and that computer of all places as soon as possible.
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Who's Who
This covers a quick list of the main characters. More info will be available on the ref post once that's made and will be linked here as long as we remember to come back and edit this. The format for this is "AvA/M (au nickname if they have one) = AAF character they take the role of if they do so"
Red (Otterpop) (They/them) = Felix Orange (They/them) = Andy Yellow (They/them) = Claus Green (She/her) = Melody/Isabella Blue (He/him) = Margret Purple (They/them) = Sam King[/Mango?] (He/him) Chosen (Salt) (They/them) Dark (Pepper) (They/them) The Second Coming (They/it) = Peter/The Entity
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astral-corner · 1 year ago
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Welcome to MDM
MDM is short for Monday Dusk Monolith, which is the (cancelled) FNF mod that this au is based off of. (Warning for body horror; including extra eyes/eyes where they don't belong/things in place of eyes, and spiders.) Or, well, originally based off of. Collaborating with friends, we've taken a lot of creative liberties and gone off in our own direction. The two of us have a focus on the main human(ish) characters, and as a group we've added plenty of mod and other outside characters to the roster, along with incorporating lore tied to things like Pico's School and Spooky Month.
Due to not owning every character, we can't definitively answer every question, but this will hopefully give a good jumping off point for the things we can answer. Plus we can always ask our other friends for clarification.
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Before we dive too deep, let's establish some of the characters:
Adam, aka Boyfriend Hatsune, (he/him) is a head empty, bi disaster of a man. He has the ability to go back in time whenever he dies or loses a rap battle, allowing him to try over again and do better next time. He is borrowing this power. He left his parents and sister behind in Japan, and his brother is currently MIA.
Lilith, aka Girlfriend Dearest, (she/her) has half a braincell, though most of it goes towards her interest in science. She gained her love of science from her dad, who she now sometimes offers help in searching for a cure for the infection that's taken over. Her and her dad try to keep close enough contact in this wasteland, but her mom is MIA.
Cain, aka Pico Newgrounds, (he/him) is tired of being the main braincell holder of this trio. He's not quite sure how the other two survived long enough to find him again, let alone survived curing him. Basically adopted by an army (literally) and forcefully adopted a member of an opposing faction as a cousin/sibling figure.
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While the main plot of this mod, and the inciting incident we've been playing around after, is still the monolith landing in the city, there's some backstory we should give an overview of first.
Back in the day, in the fictional city of Newgrounds, Pennsylvania, (no, this is not a coincidence) Adam (Boyfriend) and Cain (Pico) went to the same high school. While there, the two of them were dating and often hung out with Val (short for Valentine, aka Nene) and Moses (Darnell). Around this time, the other three loved to tease Adam about a friend who "you wouldn't know her, she goes to another school." None of them realize that he really did know Lilith (Girlfriend) back then, having traded names with her at one point while the pair of them were transitioning.
One year, Adam's parents got a job offer in Japan, and moved across the sea with his younger sister Lydia (Miku). Given that Adam was in high school and thus close to finishing schooling, they decided to let him stay with his young adult older brother, Abel (Michael), to finish it out.
Unfortunately, Abel ended up in an altercation while trying to protect Lilith during a hangout with her and Adam. In keeping with the Big Bro mod that Michael originates from, Daddy Dearest quite literally saves his life.
This is not the only gun related incident Adam would be unlucky enough to get caught up in. Within weeks of the event with his brother, the shooting from Pico's School took place. While Cain saved the day as Adam barely survived, Adam's parents were naturally worried about their son staying in America after both gun violence incidents. He was given only a few weeks to pack his things in preparation for leaving, and nobody was quite okay in this situation. As a parting gift, he was given his now iconic hat.
Without Adam for emotional support or a positive influence in the wake of the shooting, the remaining three friends turned into mutual bad influences. With Cain getting scouted by Assassin Corp, the trio slowly turned to a life of crime together. While the trio all turned to contract killing, they aren't afraid to turn to other illicit activities on the side.
It was somewhere around this time when the events of various Pico related things took place; such as Pico vs Überkids, Pico vs Bear as alluded to with the mention of Assassin Corp, and the Pico's Cousin games.
Adam lived in Japan with his family until a few months before the monolith arrived, when he finally moved back stateside at the age of 19. It'd been 5 years since he'd been made to leave, and, having lost contact with all the friends he'd left behind, he had no idea where any of them were. He did manage to reconnect with Lilith, and the two of them ended up dating.
That leads us into the events of the mod: The monolith falling and causing the infection; discovering music is the cure through it stopping Lilith in her attack against Adam; using that to save Daddy Dearest; an adventure to meet two strange children, their spider mom, and a weird creature in a lemon costume; and stumbling across an infected Cain, who very much wanted Lilith dead.
And then off we are into even more original content for this au which includes meeting a bomb man, a cloud man, and stumbling across Pico's family which led to the discovery that Cain has the ability to respawn, just to name a few.
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astral-corner · 1 year ago
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We've been shuffling things around to put together posts about some of our aus, and I found this gem
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astral-corner · 1 year ago
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Welcome!
This is a blog by @astronnonyy (they/them) and @skaliciadragon (she/her)!
We've been making things together for a few years now, and figured that now was a good time to share some of it! Hence what this blog is for!
This blog is intended to be a place for the both of us to post about and discuss the various stories and AUs we've created, and also to have our content in one place. Feel free to chat with us about stuff you find on the blog, we'll only go a little feral over it, we swear.
To learn more about us, the mods of this blog; visit the About the Mods page. To see a list of our general interests, and some of our fandom AUs; visit the About Our Fandom Works page. And, if you're interested in our original projects; check out About Our Original Works!
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