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How is this kid not dead yet

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ok so, you know that trope where if siblings are fighting, their parents might force them to share a shirt with each other and call it a “get along shirt,” right? what if the aquatos had that shirt but for when all of them were fighting

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Yes I'm a diongisu fan it came free with my dion obsession

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flowarrrsssssss

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Dona and Gus from my still unnamed swap au. Basically I’m flipping the backstories and some personality elements of all the characters so Dona and Gus are swapped

Donatella is from a prominent Italian circus family, the Belfiores, who were known for implementing dangerous fire tricks into their acts. This ended when they were all cursed to die a fiery death by a psychic, and many of the family did just that. Donatella herself is psychic but represses it

Augustus was a promising member of the national grulovian ballet. He was an orphan who was living with his aunt when the circus came through town and he was swept off his feet by the pretty acrobat he met

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Dona and Gus from my still unnamed swap au. Basically I’m flipping the backstories and some personality elements of all the characters so Dona and Gus are swapped

Donatella is from a prominent Italian circus family, the Belfiores, who were known for implementing dangerous fire tricks into their acts. This ended when they were all cursed to die a fiery death by a psychic, and many of the family did just that. Donatella herself is psychic but represses it

Augustus was a promising member of the national grulovian ballet. He was an orphan who was living with his aunt when the circus came through town and he was swept off his feet by the pretty acrobat he met

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Lili madness return

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Some more no-context comic panel thumbnails! I love drawing dion and frazie hehehee

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Today's doodles, featuring my first attempts at drawing Augustus and Donatella

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♥

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So was Dion super protective of everyone of his siblings when they were born?

I would believe so. He's still protective of them.

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i did a whiteboard with some friends

or... dare i say

a crispin whyteboard

yeah ill see myself out

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your little baby Aquato drawings are so cute! Do you think the aquatos keep a photo album of their kids when they were young? Do you think they like to show them to people?

MILLA WOULD DEFINITELY WANNA SEE LITTLE AQUATOS!

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okay I saw your doodles of Dion speckly the little Dion holding baby Raz and now i'm imagining little frazie saying she wants to hold only Dion to refuse to let Raz go

Don't drop your brother

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i have nothing to post so here’s some very old psychonauts art that i finished up for funsies. i don’t really like how it looks anymore but whatever the world needs more psychonauts fanart!!

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Don't have anything to post today so here's the mini cardboard dion I made a while back featuring my cat

My cat either really likes him or really hates him I have no clue 💔

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I’m sure I’ve said this before but Helmut and Bob from Psychonauts 2 are probably one of the best written gay couples from a piece of media that isn’t overtly a romance/exploration of queer relationships and I’m mad I never see anyone talk about it

They are explicitly depicted as gay (you even go to a mental recreation of their wedding) without needing to stop and explain to Raz/the player what gay people are. No reliance on queer coding or room for interpretation.

They’re major characters (though not main) in the story and their relationship is a big part of Bob’s arc. It’s not like they’re only part of an optional side quest with ultimately no impact that can be skipped/patched out in other regions.

They have distinct personalities outside of just being The Gay Couple™

Their sexuality/queerness isn’t used as a source of angst, it’s just part of who they are. While they both clearly have their own issues and personal demons, so does everyone else in the game (Bob’s main source of angst is that Helmut seemingly died during the battle against Maligula, but that has nothing to do with them being gay. It’s not like either of them deal with overt homophobia and continue the narrative of “being gay sucks because people will always hate you for it”).

Helmut starts off the game essentially dead, but by the end he’s able to live on as a brain in a hamster wheel with the promise of him eventually getting his body back. I think for a lot of folks but especially queer people, the hopeful message of enduring through difficult and sometimes even deadly times is very poignant and inspiring. It’s kind of like a reverse fridging/bury your gays lol

Their sexuality was never used as a marketing gimmick during the game’s prerelease period (in fact, I’m not sure it was ever mentioned during the marketing at all). This is especially noteworthy because Helmut got a lot of press otherwise because he’s voiced by Jack Black and gets his own song.

Everyone please play Psychonauts 1 and 2 they’re so good even if 2 ruined my headcanons