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Man idkkkkkkk I just think it would be so exhausting for people like smuldunde to simply live their lives. Few things are built to accommodate that kind of size. Furniture can be made bigger, but usually at a much greater cost and with fewer options, and even then most public areas are always going to have seating and doorways that are just too small. The majority of everyday objects also apply. Things are JUST small enough to still be usable but they’re nonetheless super inconvenient and annoying.

And the constant leaning. If they cant hear someone they have to lean over. If they are talking to someone new they have to lean over to make themself appear less threatening. If they want to be polite in a conversation they have to lean over to get on the same level as others. The lack of back support on most chairs does not help with the associated strains and aches.

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What if pongorma mink paws

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How do we make more Smuldunde content

Scientists and scholars have been trying to answer this question for years…

This is something I have been struggling with so much recently because I really just don’t have anything in mind despite wanting to draw and write and stuff with them so bad! It’s a lot easier to come up with ideas for drawings and things when a character is talked about often but most people simply don’t care about an npc with like ten dialogue lines. Most of the time I’m stuck just imagining them standing there and never do anything more than that😭😭

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This is like the first half of the thing ive been writing and I like the general way it goes but I feel like it could use a pretty much total revision since the pacing and everything is just so odd. I did this part literally 2 years ago now but I liked the concept so I wanted to build on it again more recently. I’m more struggling with the stuff I’m adding now but the more I look at it the more the whole thing kind of falls apart.

Also I used he/him for Dedusmuln and they/them for Smuldunde simply for the sake of consistency/flow and being able to distinguish them. I really don't think either would feel any gravitation to any gender identities, nor any preference for pronouns, I just wanted it to be easier to read and follow.

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I’m wasting every free minute I have doing nothing I need to make something before I go crazy but I don’t know what

I would sew but for the past few months its been very uncomfortable because my fingers have started to bend back and they get stuck in awkward positions if I do it for more than ten minutes

I would also try to work on that fic that I wanted to finish so bad but Ive hit a wall with its progression and don’t know how to continue it

Y I would draw but I have no ideas so I’m just stuck

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Friendos and Pongorma (with adorable @heparolia design)

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Is there any good reason whatsoever for nobody to be drawing her in these concept outfits I think about soms in a vest every god damn day

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Is there any good reason whatsoever for nobody to be drawing her in these concept outfits I think about soms in a vest every god damn day

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Do you like my presentation i couldnt get the audio to work

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I needed something mindless to do so i tried to a dedusmuln cutout but i made it too small so i gave up and taped it on the door

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Sort of similar thing to last post but with pongorma (entirely 100% random bs i made with no canon basis)

His first day out, I think he would be pretty happy. I can’t imagine how good feeling a breeze or the sun would be after so long without them. Or grass or sand or any kind of ground that isn’t concrete. There would be so many textures and colors and smells and tastes that would be make him feel alive. And I bet he slept soooo good that night. On furniture that wasn’t worn down and lumpy and gross. Sleeping out of necessity instead of boredom for the first time in so many years had to be so fulfilling.

The second day I imagine would be absolute hell. Joyous is a huge, heavy weapon, and he’s been walking miles in heavy armor after being stuck in a cramped room for however long. His muscle mass has dwindled so much from lack of activity that I imagine he probably wouldn’t be able to move much a day after from how much pain he’d be in. And, not being used to it, talking to people would be such a chore. Simply being around people would be draining as he’s already probably super overwhelmed by the presence of ambient noise and light, even seeing movement or hearing conversations often enough would be a sensory nightmare. His perception of time is also very off, so while he could sit for what he perceives as a short while just thinking to himself, others may be wondering what he’s doing sitting completely still for 5 hours.

He is such a complicated creature. I really like imagining that he was bred for violence, or at the very least some kind of defense/guarding. Only being able to find a sense of contentedness in combat is a part of his nature that probably can’t be conditioned out. And his emotional intelligence is pretty stunted on top of him just not being particularly smart, so he is quick to anger for seemingly no reason and struggles quite a lot with understanding and communicating what’s wrong when he feels nothing but pure anger and dissatisfaction all the time despite now being free.

Freedom is something he’s looked forward to for so long, but it’s really not that much better than the vault. He’s out but obsolete. He has no place in the new world. So he returns to isolation in the form of staying inside all day for a pretty long time because it is familiar and consistent.

I don’t think he’d have much interest in hanging around anyone after the events of h1 because he replays the events over and over and comes to the conclusion that they are careless and likely undependable as a result. The crew largely believe that they have made a new buddy because he seemed so happy the first day, and as such are exceptionally friendly with him, which he (unbeknownst to them) takes offense to. They are interested in his story and things about him, and they are decent people so they want to help when they see him start to not do so hot. And he’s short and fuzzy, so he’s not super intimidating, which just makes it easier for them to keep trying to talk to him. His ability to communicate has atrophied so much that he doesn’t know how to just tell them to leave him alone, and he just lets them keep bothering him until he gets unreasonably snappy.

While Wayne would probably give up after a few tries of talking and getting nowhere, and Soms likely wouldn’t even bother trying after picking up on his attitude, Dedusmuln is at least able to make some sense of why he is the way he is. They learn very quickly that he views interactions almost exclusively as transactional, which is why he is so resistant to being treated nicely. He is either incapable of or fundamentally opposed to returning ‘favors.’ He is also a working animal. He needs to be put to work to feel any kind of purpose/value. If they ask him for help with some bits of manual labor or with something like cooking, he becomes far more receptive to talking or being offered things, and they use this to their advantage to understand him more. Maybe they even put a good word out for him to Blerol with time.

When he is able to establish a routine with at least a few familiar duties (and several attitude adjustments) in new muldul, he comes out a much more tolerable person.

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Oughhggh how weird it was for other members to to meet hylics 1 dedus

Speech does not come naturally to split heads. It takes a ton of practice and effort (I have SO many split head speech hcs <—— linguistics enjoyer). Which is the reason why their speech is a little awkward and littered with pauses. Meeting strangers in a kind of high stress environment is a little frazzling and makes them even less confident in their speaking abilities. They’re inclined to be more colloquial in speech because they assume that Wayne probably wouldn’t be receptive to professional conversation, which makes them stumble even more because that kind of language is a little foreign to them.

They are also blind, which I think Wayne has trouble fully understanding. Dedus can still make out colors and general shapes, and has a sharper sense of motion detection than most, but has basically no grasp on distance or object borders with sight alone. Wayne doesn’t really understand how someone can be blind and still see. He tries to hand things to them, but they rarely ever take them because they can’t see that he’s trying to give something. But they still turn to face people when theyre talking and can point out an enemy quicker than anyone else could, so it’s easy to forget they cant see well at all. I think it pisses pongorma off especially because he’d have a hard time imagining that anyone could be a competent travel/combat ally while having “deficits” (even if Dedus’ lack of vision is more than compensated for by other senses).

Dedusmuln’s apparent lack of hunger is also confusing. They are the only true cold-blooded member of the group so they simply don’t have the same metabolic needs, but also have a dedicated storage organ that allows them to forgo eating more than once a day. So they get a lot of “aren’t you hungry?” even though the answer is invariably no.

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I want to get started on my smuldunde shelf but I would feel weird printing and displaying random peoples arts without asking, and asking would be embarrassing. I may need to resort to comissioning

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I need to draw them more

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Pongorma te amooooooo

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Waynething

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OOPS wrong account. Whatever

Am I allowed to think that giving hylics a more solid story kind of makes it lose its appeal

I enjoy absent moon but i do feel kind of let down that the series renowned for its nonconformity in storytelling and music and visuals is getting cleaner and more understandable and nicer sounding (in the traditional sense). I’m worried that developing the characters and world much more will make it just like any other game but with slightly wonkier visuals.

I think I enjoy the first game especially so much because there is no coherence. Every person who plays comes up with their own ways to explain things because none of it is meant to make sense, and that is what makes it so much fun. I know that I personally have dozens of different conflicting headcanons about things because the canon is so vague that it can be twisted any which way and each interpretation is totally reasonable. Removing the vagueness and inanity in favor of improving visuals/music/giving characters personality/whatever makes the universe feel more restrictive and rigid. I fear that giving the series elements that will make it objectively better contrasts very harshly with the elements of the first game being so “alien” by way of being objectively not good, which was what made it so appealing in the first place.

I know for a fact that I will enjoy whatever comes next of the series and in no way do I think any of the new content associated with it as bad or outright disappointing, I want that to be extremely clear. I’m just afraid of the series losing what made it so charming in the first place and wanted to air those thoughts