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happy birthday ping!! gotta be honest im not feelin real good about 2025 but you know what we take it a day at a time

hopefully i can get back on the ball with asks and spoiler writeups this year!!

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going live in about 30 minutes with some dreadnought ask doodles!

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Is this still happening?

yes im just busy and artblocked 🤡

this tuesday ill try and stream some ask doodles though!

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sorry for the wait i have been extra busy and haven't had the chance to queue up more stuff!! i'll try to get back to it this week

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long time listener, first time caller! did any of the characters have beta versions that were drastically different to how they turned out in the final version? (designs, fates, power roles, etc)

MAN i wish i still had the dreamselfy designs from when i was originally planning the cast… not everyone had one but most of the characters i designed specifically for the fic did. pour one out for dreamselfy

both in visuals and backstory, though, nik has changed the most from his original incarnation! so much so that in fact… spoilers under the cut

… he became a separate character entirely! keep an eye out for posts about the mastermind(s) and nik's backstory :)

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hi its me again i fear. is kaponos nose injured or does he wear the Band-Aid for hashtag fashion. if it is injured how hasnt it healed yet

would you believe me if i told you this stumbles into endgame spoiler territory

doylist explanation: i think it looks cute for his design

watsonian explanation: kapono forgot the bandage was on his face. he probably hasn't looked in a mirror since he woke up on the dreadnought

spoiler explanation:

minor injury from playing volleyball or something. after word got out to the dreadnought about The Tragedy they were in a hurry to get everyone in the cryogenic pods with little regard for what they were wearing at the time. hence everyone wearing their costumes or iconic outfits-- they were getting ready for their ultimate talent exams. it's only been a couple days since the injury from kapono's point of view so it still hurts, and he doesn't remember where it came from so he thinks it safer to keep the bandage

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long time listener, first time caller! did any of the characters have beta versions that were drastically different to how they turned out in the final version? (designs, fates, power roles, etc)

MAN i wish i still had the dreamselfy designs from when i was originally planning the cast… not everyone had one but most of the characters i designed specifically for the fic did. pour one out for dreamselfy

both in visuals and backstory, though, nik has changed the most from his original incarnation! so much so that in fact… spoilers under the cut

… he became a separate character entirely! keep an eye out for posts about the mastermind(s) and nik's backstory :)

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oh that is WILD. I HAVE to know the Ping thing, since I can see why that got the fewest votes...though considering the mastermind/mole situation, I guess you could stick an extra human in some secret rooms and have none of the others (able to) question or find them, so that's my baseline guess. It'd be REALLY funny if it was somehow Tiffani though. Also, if I may, was that going to be an endgame reveal or come out earlier? Actually I'm curious about the timeline for when we'd have learned the other big things too since there are a lot, if you plan to go into that...

oh see that's a really good guess! that's the like. logical reasonable way to have ping be a human. but no, uh, well you'll see,

the timeline is a good idea tho lemme put it under the cut

ch2: serial killer fakeout (yall are not ready for this one)

ch3: victim accuses murderer from beyond the grave, someone's mom gets executed, 20 yr timeskip (happens before the story starts but this is when they find out)

ch4: protagonist switch (temporary from tim to mecha-ishi), ping is a human

ch5: yusra has a gun, actual serial killer (probably would've showed up here towards the end? or maybe ch6)

ch6: 16 masterminds (foreshadowed throughout and there were planned to be interludes from their POV in between chapters of the reboot? but not explicitly confirmed until here), despair mole survives game, buble on the mm megamix playlist

a lot of other stuff happens too these were just the funniest ones out of context for the poll

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thanks for voting!! answer under the cut

the poll was a ruse! all of these spoilers are true :)

although the votes are more split than i expected, it looks like we're leaning towards talking about spoilers on main! reminder that i'll be using the #dreadnoughtspoilers tag for these posts in case you do want to wait until reboot ch1 is done (i have no idea how long that will take though!)

finally. the real reason i revived the blog. finally i can post this poll

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I was wondering how tim would look like without his glasses

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(team rocket voice) michi kurosawa

idk what prompted this but it kinda owns

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Hello!! Just popping in to say this was a massive inspiration for my own art. Sad to see it cancelled, but hey saw it coming for awhile.

Shout out to Kapono for being the best guy there (real)

good taste anon

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SO happy to see nikola again :’) also TIFFANIIII I MISS YOU AND YOUR GRUMPINESS

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riko shirai

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can i give nikola a kith

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although the votes are more split than i expected, it looks like we're leaning towards talking about spoilers on main! reminder that i'll be using the #dreadnoughtspoilers tag for these posts in case you do want to wait until reboot ch1 is done (i have no idea how long that will take though!)

finally. the real reason i revived the blog. finally i can post this poll

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long time fan of this fangan (i remember reading it in geography class and i’ve been out of high school for four years now!) and honestly i just wanted to thank you for having the courtesy to tell us that the project has been canned. super unfortunate tht this is how it ends, but thanks for being honest with us. i have to admit i am dying to know how it would have ended had it actually concluded so im super grateful you’re planning on letting us in on all that jazz. thanks for sticking with us as long as you did because what does exist of this project is really awesome stuff

yeah i'm sorry i didn't get around to this sooner! i spent a long time trying to think of ways to salvage the fic, but the scale of the project was just too big with no good way to cut it down to size. this way at least folks will get to know what i had planned in all its ridiculousness while still freeing me up to work on new (smaller) projects

i'm waiting a couple more days to see if the poll results shift dramatically but it's looking like i'll go ahead and start posting spoilers (tagged with #dreadnoughtspoilers) while slowly working on the ch1 ending! i'm hoping to do at least a little animation for the execution as a send-off for the fic

im so glad you enjoyed dreadnought and i hope you'll stick around!!