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'being obsessed with your ocs is so embarrassing' no it isn't. we're returning to our noble roots of playing dolls. stop self depricating and tell me about your guy.

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FINALLY redid APC's ref !!!!

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Rain World: Torrent VN Dialogue Boxes

SLIVER OF STRAW SOS: Illume, I think that SOS: ... SOS: Reply as soon as you receive this. I have a lot to tell you.

NORTHERN WEB NW: Of course. It would be just like her, to watch us all scramble. She's always been so insular. Some unpolished visual novel-style dialogue boxes for some of the broadcasts I mocked up last time. Maybe some day I'll get around to making finished art for the full conversations, but for now I'll just have fun workshopping character designs and emoting!

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This is what info dumping oc lore feels like

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Rain World: Torrent- Chat Logs

"I'll make some formal versions of my iterator OC chat logs!" they said "Surely this will be very easy and take no time at all!" they said ...styling with SVG in Krita as someone who is 1) middlingly competent in coding at best and 2) primarily used to CSS was a fun journey to go on. Anyways, this counts as the first known appearance of a couple more of my iterator OCs, with a special feature of the canon characters Epoch of Clouds and Sliver of Straw! For context, Torrent runs tangential to the premise that Sliver of Straw created Saint, who then killed her, as the triple affirmative. I know it's not canon, and I'm not yet sure of the exact specifics within the universe of Torrent, but it's too interesting of a concept for me to leave out. This is set a very short while after the triple affirmative, with the messages from SOS being sent just before. IIDW used the excuse of her communications network going down (which happened frequently) to ignore broadcasts from the local group after some fight with SOS. She returned after her head had cooled a bit (a few cycles later? years? I can't imagine what time means to an iterator), only to find... yeah. I'm sure that won't spark any personality altering guilt or regret at all.

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they are unfortunately the only think i'm thinking about at any time, ever

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me when i have a new fantasy story/worldbuilding idea and now i get to do a ton of research which will never be useful in real life about ancient mesoamerican civilizations and nautical history and forms of divination utilizing the ocean(waves fish currents etc.)

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local.[namelost] > NW-D8C.file > print(personality-EF1); A quick, judgmental iterator who loves gossip. Another colored sketch, this time slightly more stylized! Northern Web once managed a very large, busy city, and now redirects that energy into searching for new bits of gossip across the wide expanse of the continent. She regularly "streams" content from her overseers to the rest of her local group, and does her best to constantly monitor any new information coming or going across the broadcasts (whether she's supposed to have access to them or not). Her coat is a replicated form of the jacket her old technicians used to wear--- the originals were carefully preserved for as long as possible, but are now lost to time. (Yes, the big screen has the text 'LMAO BITCH' and an arrow pointing to Capacitor. She thinks that they're a hilarious moron, and also hasn't forgiven them for occasionally destroying her overseers to get points with scavs)

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ILLUMINATED IN DEEP WATER: You've finally come to greet me, little survivor. You are the first to be able to do so in... many cycles. Does she mean the first Poisoner, the first slugcat, or the first iterator? I'm not sure yet. I imagine at this point Illumi has been isolated for quite a long time, her precious few overseers dedicated to observing Poisoner's progress and preserving her own sight. A broken shell of a once confident, curious iterator, now resigned to living in the literal and metaphorical darkness (tbh I would be to, if I fumbled my intellectually compatible gay situationship so bad that my partner built a sentient christmas tree to kill her). - finally found a Krita brush I like to work with, so I might keep it up with this colored sketch thing! Hopefully I'll be able to work on the rest of the FAR local group next (looking at you, Northern Web), or draw some of the aforementioned tragic gay situationship (yes it's oc x canon but both Illuminated and Sliver of Straw deserve a depressing toxic love story and by god if i'm not gonna write it for them)

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NORTHERN WEB: You have thirteen cycles before your can fucking explodes, you rust bucket Ancient wannabe and you blue gumball son of a bitch. I like to think that once Capacitor gets the strange device removed, they continue to bounce around and visit the different members of the FAR local group. It's just Bitter Vessel's bad luck that he's hosting them shortly after they destroyed one of NW's overseers. (Had WAY too much fun coloring this sketch, even if I think BV did turn out a little eye strain-y. I'll probably work on his design more as I flesh out the blank puppets for the other iterators, since I want him to look more like a prototype.)

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A curious explorer unluckily entangled with a strange device.

Second of my (mostly) finished Rain World slugcat OCs! Capacitor likes to explore distant lands and pick up interesting looking objects, resulting in them accidentally getting caught in a strange piece of scrapped technology. Some odd eye-like creatures seem to be leading them towards help, but they still have to figure out how to navigate (re: short out) crumbling, malfunctioning gates by worming their way through maintenance passages and activating the electrical pulse of the strange device they're attached to. TLDR: the Ancients really should have cut their coke can rings before throwing them away.

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A creature of a miserable existence. Produces a paralytic poison when bit. Meet the Poisoner, one of my old Rain World OCs! Created by Illuminated in Deep Water in order to investigate the will to live, they are highly visible to predators and get attacked often. Luckily, they poison their targets when they're bitten, inducing a paralytic effect a short while after being dropped. Before the effect takes place, though, the would-be predator pursues them aggressively--- better make use of that heightened agility! If I knew how to code, they'd be part of a DLC called Torrent. I like to imagine they'd make the laminated paper sound if you shook them.

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there is no emotion, there is peace oc brainrot

there is no ignorance, there is knowledge oc brainrot

there is no passion, there is--