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Vace turns the strange device over and over in his hands. "Know thy enemy," he says in a low growl.

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Small chibi sticker of Vace from I Was A Teenage Exocolonist. I have. Many complex feelings on him.

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Vace is so babygirl-coded.

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Shout out to the event where Marz tries out different Vertumnian season themed outfits on Sol. I have not been able to get it out of my mind.

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you're telling me?? that's a canon event in his route?? he does?? unprompted?? all on his own??? and i'm supposed to act NORMAL about it??? for why did he just... DO THAT????

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Sym texts like a boomer send tweet

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✨BEGONIA KEYCHAINS ARE HERE!!✨

You can check them out here!!

These keychains are in collaboration with the lovely Poayo, who will be handling shipping- and remember to check out the rest of their merch while you're at it! :D

I'll be posting the art for each of the designs over the next few days! <3

(also, full link to the shop is here!!)

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Merry fucking crisis y'all

drunk fuckass Cal doodle for the occasion

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a mysterious stranger

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SymVace Brainworms are Inescapable 🫡

Eh, fuckit, let's call this done.

Learned that SymxVace is a thing and thought that was pretty funny... so instead of Vace I just drew his boot. As you do. I'm sure Sym's about to hit him with some cryptic condescendingly smug quip dw.

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Everyone thinks you're crazy and that all your worries are completely unfounded and frankly, kind of silly? Can't relate, sorry, Utopia.

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my favorite worst man

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AUGUST 28

NEW EXO PLUSHIES ON THE 28TH!

https://www.makeship.com/shop/creator/northway-games

THEY WILL BE SOCKS THE DILLYPILLAR AND A HOPEYE!

there is no released design yet, but there is a silhouette until they are made available!

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Vace? Vace? On my knees your art is spectacular

(only if you want to of course :)

my wife will kill me for this

but anything for u

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HOLY SHIT I AM GOING INSANE OVER THIS I AM ASCENDING THANK YOU

(also you're right i am not normal about them at all)

art request for @manaquartz

i rlly love how you're (probs) as normal to symvace as i am to calsol

enjoy <3

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Exocolonist language headcanons

The stratos are all textually established as speaking Esperanto as a first language. There's some conflicting evidence regarding their speaking other languages (Sol has no idea what language Nomi's anime is in, just "is that another language," but Sol can also be a connoisseur of old influencer videos which probably weren't in Esperanto)

I don't think the helios speak Esperanto as a first language. At the very least, the ones who boarded the ship had another primary language, and while it's possible that they close Esperanto as their primary on-ship language, I think it's more likely that they didn't. They're an occupying force. It's unlikely that they'd adapt to the language of their targets before even reaching them.

I think Nomi's the best at languages among them. People don't recognize that as a genuine talent because for the first 15 years of Nomi's life they spent it around the same hundred people who all already had a common language, but Nomi speaks the best Esperanto of anyone on the Helio. They were fluent at landing, and it took them like a month to completely assimilate the dialect differences between their textbooks and the way the stratos talk. They're also conversant in Japanese, but have hardly anyone to speak it with outside of their immediate family, so their dialect is extremely weeby.

@thydungeongal suggested Nomi would speak Toki Pona as well, and yes, absolutely, they would. If they didn't live around the same hundred people, they'd be constantly surprising all their friends with their "oh I can speak that" and would be fluent in at least five languages by fifteen. But they do only live around the same hundred people, so they taught themself Toki Pona. I'd give better than even odds that they can read Tolkein's poetry in the original Elvish, too.

I could see them also dabbling in archeology, and after a decade or so, being the only one who can keep up with Sol about Convergent Domain language

Rex isn't great at Esperanto, but Nomi made him practice anyway, so his is passable at landing and only gets better once he's fully immersed. Marz also schedules lots of "language practice" sessions between the two of them.

Vace speaks kinda stiffly, at first. He tries because, despite everything about his personality, he knows they have to get along (especially after the heliopause passed through the wormhole), but before landing, he hadn't really tried to learn it so much as he tried to get a good grade in class. Which is why even when he adopts a strato-style name, he still sounds pompous about it. He gets a lot better after practicing with Nem.

I don't have much of a handle on Lum. He clearly speaks it decently enough to parley with the colony on landing (but I could see some of his awkwardness being a language barrier). Maybe when he was shuffled into the paper-pushing corps, he studied a bunch to try to make himself useful as a translator.