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Y'all remember that brief period where I randomly got super obsessed with modded Elliott again? Well I sure as hell suddenly did.

I originally planned to rb my OC but then I remembered I still had a drawing of Elliott from a while back laying around in prime condition to be refurbished and reedited. So I fucked around a bit.

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Fiveer numb!!!!!

What if pure vanilla was a beast, divine extract cookie, the beast of subjugation

A leader to his lands and his fellow soul jam holders. He was seen as a god among cookies and he saw himself as a vessel of their wishes. But this belief corrupted as he saw the truth of discord, and how he could claim unity through oblivion and so brought his allies down a darker path. Only one who fought against was the pure white lily, however she was dumped into the witches dinner and reborn scarlet starch, loyal to extract forevermore.

He now waits for his turn to reclaim his jam and his role as the “savior” of Earthbread

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Curated list of Rain World analysis I like

The Ancients dragonpropaganda on popular misconceptions about the Ancients' culture ikayblythe's speculative biology kociamieta's notes on Ancient character design

Character analysis eliias-bouchard on NSH's portrayal ikayblythe on Pebbles' age and motivations pocket-goat's thoughts about Moon in the context of the Saint campaign shkika on Moon and Pebbles' relationship shkika on whether Moon and Pebbles are siblings skybristle's and my own thoughts on the decay of Moon's organic parts

General speculative biology chaotic-minds-think-alike's interpretation of lizards dragonpropaganda on the relationship of purposed organisms to ingame fauna flickering-nightfall's interpretation of the reproductive strategies and social structures of various species in the game

Iterator anatomy bonniesband's exposition on the Rot as a type of cancer copepods and myself on whether parts of post-collapse Moon beyond the puppet could be conscious copepods on viewing iterators as more than the puppet delta-orionis' method for estimating the height of Iterator cans delta-orionis and myself discuss the meaning of the terms "Recursive Transform Array" and "Abstract Convergence Manifold" orangedoorhingeinstorage and kayjaypax on movable components in the memory conflux and adjacent systems skybristle's and my own thoughts on the decay of moon's organic parts my theory about how an Iterator's memories are stored and why Moon doesn't forget anything when she loses a neuron

Iterator puppet anatomy aluminum-angels' interpretation bitsbug's puppet interpretation copepods' mechanical interpretation: moon & pebbles / post-collapse moon flickering-nightfall's journey to understand the puppet arm: part 1 / part 2 flickering-nightfall on the "umbilical" ikayblythe's arthropoidal interpretation: overview / endoskeletons / "skin" joowee-feftynn observes that puppets can't walk spotsupstuff on the relationship between puppet and can trashiiplant's ragdoll interpretation yellowsnacc's "jello-covered skeleton" interpretation

Slugcat anatomy arrayydee's slugcat design artihunter's take on the fur/slime question dopscratch's mollusk/mustelid interpretation honey-marrow's interpretation of Spearmaster's anatomy

Themes and storytelling comrade-slugcat and myself on themes of inevitability and futility in Monk & Survivor's campaigns dragonpropaganda on how Rain World's level design is based on the idea of civilizations successively building upon each others' ruins grunckle's theory relating ascension, void worms, and voidspawn together through the idea of qualia grunckle's illustration of the parallels between the iterators and void worms and some connections to Gnosticism seventeendeer on the thematic significance of ascension and the player's agency in choosing it Miscellaneous bitsbug and ikayblythe discuss the age of the ecosystem flecks-of-stardust's theory that (in vanilla) the Chimney Canopy pearl was created by Five Pebbles grunckle's notes on what we know about the cosmology of Rain World ikayblythe's speculative geology of the surface and void sea monkmain on the illustration for Stolen Enlightenment my theory on the meaning of "HR_LAYERS_OF_REALITY" my timeline of architecture on the surface rw-me elaborates on the canonicity of Downpour shkika on the distances between members of the local group shkika, flecks-of-stardust, and fluffybunny35 discuss why it rains in Shaded Citadel soaricarus, flickering-nightfall, and myself on why Seven Red Suns is probably not a member of the "local group" yunnifo discusses Rivulet ending projections

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head in hands ill color this eventually

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friendshaped yet tiny tav

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going insane. we got absolutely NOTHING this season.

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young empyreans in the modern au 💙💛

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cassandra should've been given a fancier outfit. That is all

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The extra toes add bap damage.

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The idea that two heads are better than one REALLY depends on the quality of the heads...

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drawing with my mouse hurts my little gay hands

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Bingewatched HNK again

Realized I have not drawn my Sillies in a while.

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thinking about miquella who can care but cannot love.

thinking about miquella gazing at his dear one who he knows he should love, knows he would love, but knows he does not love.

thinking about miquella in a dreamlike dissociative state, detached from the world, so concerned for the world, yet unable to embrace the world.

thinking about miquella thinking of the beauty in the world, thinking of gentleness and support and compassion, and feeling the tears spilling down his face— but he does not know when they started spilling, and he's even starting to forget why.

thinking about miquella desperately trying to show compassion. he cannot love but he can care. please let him show you how much, even if it hurts him. please accept his care.

thinking about miquella who cannot doubt himself, but questions still... what is this hollow ache in his chest, and why does it never go away?

thinking about miquella who cannot fear, but so desperately wants to cling to what little he has left, to the compassion he wants to believe he still has; even if he has to throw away what's left of himself to do it.

thinking about miquella who cannot love but can care.

thinking about miquella who cannot love but can care so very much.

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A table bereft of Grace.

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(hands them over)

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Sanguine noble Morgott and Night’s Cavalry man Mohg

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A kinder mother would sure seek her sons, even if it was her who abandoned them.

(Just a Thought of Marika in ragged clothes and covered in veil, unfortunately didn’t hide her grace, descending down to the shunning ground she made to cage her rage and grief from the time long past, just to see her sons who she refused to hold and look at their births. SADLY THAT’S NOT WHAT HAPPENED AHUGHGAHHHHH)