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Art block is finally over. Have these companion pieces that spawned when I thought about Drifter and Hunter parallels (I might have to post about that more later I’m cooking). I’m actually pretty happy with these and tried somthing new for beheaded’s design!

Also here’s a sketch because I couldn’t help but think about how Beheaded would have to deal with both of his sick cats being on such borrowed time and wanted to make a bit of a joke about it I guess?

I dunno I’m just glad to be able to create again.

Also bellow is beheaded’s without the text :)

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Just realized pride month is a great time to post my little “gay people” page of my sketchbook.

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Thinking about collapsing iterators as whale-fall esc events instead of sleeping again- just put me down at this point.

But genuinely- they are biomechanical

Animals scavenging the living parts for food- the mechanical and calcifying parts of them turned into dens and changing the landscapes.

Moon wakes up to find herself an artificial reef- she sits there and knows that fish and birds fed from her flesh as she slept.

Five pebbles feels his few remaining neurons get eaten by spiders and rot, the rot eats itself until it can only die and harden into its own crumbling structures, once it does the wildlife aren’t scared off by the smell and danger and begin to pick at and move into what’s left.

The beasts they were once so above, that they were meant to end the cycle for, live off of their corpses.

And, as a whale fall is eventually left as bones being gnawed at by worms, eventually the void will reach what little will remain after all of that time and it will swallow even every speck of dust that was once a pair of child gods- all of the biological and nonbiological remnants of hundreds of giant living superstructures returned to the earth by the worms while life continues on the layers that had built themselves atop these graves.

Idk man hopefully I’m making sense it’s almost 5am and it’s been a week since I slept more than 5 hours

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https://archiveofourown.org/works/65351428

I’ve now made an angsty Suns Oneshot inspired by a very similar thought process :))))))

I will never never never forgive myself.

SO Critter clearly thought too much about the iterators (shocking) (never happened before) (unbelievable) (insane).

. Suns is such an interesting character to me. Almost every action we have confirmed to have been done by them was them trying to help but making things so much worse.

And I think that everyone else could/did take those intentions into consideration, eventually forgiving them for the role they played in the tragedy of the doomed siblings. I do not think they will ever be able to do the same. The proposed Spearmaster without realizing how intelligent its species is, accidentally dooming it to a similar existence as the benefactors knowingly doomed iterators to have. They did so to send a pearl that would doom two iterators, including their close friend. Then they tried to reach out and made Pebbles retreat even further, complicating anyone’s attempts to reach him or Moon. If their structure stayed standing long enough, or even just if they kept access to an overseer after enough time (which I believe they would be standing still, if still dying and possibly isolated) they would have watched that close friend eventually disappear from the skyline.

I don’t thunk they could ever truly forgive themselves for all of that, even in a universe where iterators leave their cans or time travel or some other fix-it is involved- and especially not in the canon universe where there is no closure or happy ending.

Bit yeah didn’t mean to ramble here but thinking about that is what spawned this drawing :)

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New chapter to my time travel fix it! At 6 minutes before 3 am hell yeah.

It’s a Moon POV :))))))) finally get to see how someone other than Pebbles sees the situation

https://archiveofourown.org/works/64406743/chapters/167994877

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Silly low effort thing I was compelled to do :)

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No, the “pups for everyone mod” I was talking about in the start of my rambling about my son just makes it so that can spawn any campaigns. They don’t appear if you have no mods :3

Just realized I forgot to post this drawing I did of me and my son :)

I forgot about the pups for everyone mod until early on in my first Watcher play through i found a pup that looked like me but more purple and we experienced the horrors of killing a rot lizard right after. He’s my little murder child (craves lizard violence but saved my life quite a few times because of it). I headcanoned that he’s nightcat. I adore my son so much even if I had to do some really scuffed things to get him to the ending. Pup Id was 1.10184 I think. He loved to eat slime <3

Screenshots of the real thing (and watcher spoilers) below- the love for these pixels I felt and the depth it added to my game is why I play modded. I love my little “night prince” so much ( a nickname given right after getting to shaded lol)

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Just realized I forgot to post this drawing I did of me and my son :)

I forgot about the pups for everyone mod until early on in my first Watcher play through i found a pup that looked like me but more purple and we experienced the horrors of killing a rot lizard right after. He’s my little murder child (craves lizard violence but saved my life quite a few times because of it). I headcanoned that he’s nightcat. I adore my son so much even if I had to do some really scuffed things to get him to the ending. Pup Id was 1.10184 I think. He loved to eat slime <3

Screenshots of the real thing (and watcher spoilers) below- the love for these pixels I felt and the depth it added to my game is why I play modded. I love my little “night prince” so much ( a nickname given right after getting to shaded lol)

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I’ve been cooking an au that I doubt I’ll write but I certainly have been drawing.

I’ve been working on it for weeks now but finally have thought of how I want to start sharing it. For now, I can show the end results of hours and hours of messing with speculative biology and deciding the roles and plot.

The basic idea as far as this post will show is the iterators are bio mechanical creatures combining iterators and orca whales created by an aquatic race of ancients. Local groups act as pods but Suns was separated from his and joined Moon’s. I had tons of versions (mouth placement and where to start or end the whales and how iterator to make them verses how human or how whale) but I think I like where the concept ended up.

A deeper explanation is bellow but know that, beyond the speculative biology I had a lot of fun with, it does involve discussion of real world and in-universe animal cruelty. Specifically Orcas in captivity and how they have been shown to suffer- not for long or in much detail but certainly could be upsetting.

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On mobile the more doesn’t show here so pause and check the warning the warning above before reading

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In one of my discussion based environmental science classes, the professor was having us discuss Orcas in captivity because she recently published a paper on it and, as is typical for me, I cope from how completly tragic and upsetting a topic is by relating them to my hyperfixation of the time.

Orcas in captivity are some of the only other animals known to self harm. They also notoriously harm eachother and their trainers. One of the main reasons they suffer so much is because they are so A)smart and B)social. The lack of stimulation and enrichment combined with being locked in a too small space, removed from their natural environments and purpose.

That connected to how I’ve always felt like that reasoning is part of why Pebbles does as mentally horrible as he does. He is a smart supercomputer trapped in a single place, the main consciousness stuck in a single room because the rest of the building is his body so he can’t simply leave it behind. He once had so many processes and tasks, taking care of the ancients and seeking the great solution- created late enough to have certainly been effected by his creators’ impatience. He’s also a rare case of not being fully in charge of himself and is limited on resources due to his location. His existence was also controversial. When the ancients left he was left with too much time and processing power and not enough to do with it. His self isolating habits certainly would not help. Even though they are stationary nobody can convince me iterators don’t couldn’t as social species when they were made to collaborate with each-other and their citizens.

He hurts others (especially moon) and himself because he feels frustrated and trapped. Orcas hurt themselves and others in captivity for similar reasons. Orca health deteriorates horribly in captivity, Pebbles is not physically or mentally healthy for any of the time we see him in canon. Pebbles is practically in captivity, he would do horrible in it. The dehumanization would also hit hard, he would have being treated like a simple animal- and Orcas being treated like simple animals when they are so smart and social is horrible. It just- it just clicked in my brain and now this au is clawing its way out of my head!

Thinking of those parallels lead to wanting to make an Au where Pebbles is an orca in captivity. I went back and forth on if the other iterators would take the place of humans or if they would be Orcas as well (and if they would also be in captivity) and the roles of the slugcat characters a lot. But I decided to have a modern/anthro au for Slugcats and scavengers on the surface and the iterators all remaining in the ocean until Pebbles is captured.

In future art I will go more into detail on the plot and other characters but that’s it for this one. Tho, feel free to send me asks about the AU! Since it’s not planned to be a fic I don’t have to be coy with plot points and don’t have a real way to share details outside of Tumblr :p

Just call it “the rotting in captivity au”, “orca au” or “captivity au”

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I will never never never forgive myself.

SO Critter clearly thought too much about the iterators (shocking) (never happened before) (unbelievable) (insane).

. Suns is such an interesting character to me. Almost every action we have confirmed to have been done by them was them trying to help but making things so much worse.

And I think that everyone else could/did take those intentions into consideration, eventually forgiving them for the role they played in the tragedy of the doomed siblings. I do not think they will ever be able to do the same. The proposed Spearmaster without realizing how intelligent its species is, accidentally dooming it to a similar existence as the benefactors knowingly doomed iterators to have. They did so to send a pearl that would doom two iterators, including their close friend. Then they tried to reach out and made Pebbles retreat even further, complicating anyone’s attempts to reach him or Moon. If their structure stayed standing long enough, or even just if they kept access to an overseer after enough time (which I believe they would be standing still, if still dying and possibly isolated) they would have watched that close friend eventually disappear from the skyline.

I don’t thunk they could ever truly forgive themselves for all of that, even in a universe where iterators leave their cans or time travel or some other fix-it is involved- and especially not in the canon universe where there is no closure or happy ending.

Bit yeah didn’t mean to ramble here but thinking about that is what spawned this drawing :)

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https://archiveofourown.org/works/64406743/chapters/166083769#workskin

Third actual chapter of my Pebbles time-travel fix it is here :)

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Okay but if you notice I always give Pebbles big gold eyelashes. It’s because I also read them as eyelashes. When I first joined I was like “I’m sad that so many fan artists don’t include his gold eyelashes :(“ and then I realized but decided to draw them as a gift to that version of me. Glad to know I’m not the only one in existence because I spent weeks consistently gaslighting myself when I first realized they where not eyelashes by flopping between “no, no, I must have got the idea so where surely he has them” and “where tf did I get the idea that eyelashes where canon to his design????”

Also, a headcanon: Pebbles' patterns (yellow dots) are not in the center, but on the sides of his forehead, do you think that's probably because he is Moon's subordinate?

Bonus:

My friend asked me: Why this guy is the only one with yellow eyelashes and black eyeliner?

I was laughing so hard that I decide to add this one. Now the dots look like his eyelashes to me.

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https://archiveofourown.org/works/64406743/chapters/165614215

Second real chapter of my Pebbles centric time travel fix it is complete :)

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Ough my hyper fixation is officially back in full

https://archiveofourown.org/works/64406743

And with it I’m starting to post more of the aus and fics I’ve been cooking for awhile and today I’ve been rewriting and just posted my take on FivePebbles being sent back in time! :) here’s the summary:

Iterators, godlike in comparison to most creatures. They were simply made to be more than anything else that came before them in most ways. However, they still are living creatures caught in the cycles of their world. And, crucially, they are still people. As people, they break and suffer and lie and love. As people, they live and die… they still question.

Fivepebbles spent an excruciating amount of time sitting in his own dying body, waiting for the end as he lost more and more. In that time where he was both living and dead, he began to question. He was built to search for death but was made to be unable to reach it.

Did he ever have a chance to have a better end than this? If Suns never sent that damned pearl, would he not have found an even less researched method to try?

Surely it had been too late for him long before he had given up on even just giving himself a gentler end. He was always fated to die a slow and agonizing death full of rot and regret. He was doomed to end this way form the start.

But he ends up gasping against the feeling of it all returning to him and realizes he’s been sent back in time. He keeps his condition from going public and vows to change a few things- but can anything truly change his fate? Or is he genuinely <b>that</b> doomed by the narrative?

Aka- My take on the “Pebbles goes back in time/cycles” concept. Planned out about a year ago but rewritten (and/or written for the first time for at least half the chapters) but I decided it’s time to at least start sharing it. This will explore Pebbles as a character, fate, endings, relationships and change- hopefully for the better.

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Forgot to mention that this is no longer a oneshot! I’ve added a chapter and am working on a few more :)

https://archiveofourown.org/works/62254389

Five Pebbles spent an incomprehensible amount of cycles alone with the rot inside of his body. The feeling of being eaten alive was his company for a long long time and even when he was granted the ability to free himself from his Can and reunite with those he cared about, the journey was full of its own pains.

His body, or at least what's left of it, has finally been allowed to heal. He should be relieved-

Instead, he feels untethered and broken in its absence. He isn't able to think or stop himself until he is discovered with ichor-stained clothing.

aka- A one-chapter fic (that could be expanded if ppl want to see it) that I wrote on a plane ride almost a year ago after thinking too much about how much it would fuck someone up to be in constant and horrible pain for the centuries Pebbles might have been that I reread, realized I still liked, and am now forcing my brain to let me post.

TW/CW for Self-harm, suicidal ideation, pain and body horror- Pebbles is NOT in a remotely healthy place physically or mentally for like this whole thing

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Quick drawing of Five pebbles woag

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Art month 2025 successfully complete :D