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has this been done yet ? is this meme still funny?

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Daily Enot Day 173: waauuuuuuugggh

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The Outskirts experience in Rain World tends to differ a lot.

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sleepover

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happy pride month and father's day to my favorite little scug family (just to clarify cuz i dont want confusion, this isnt surv x hunter, this is monk and survivor's parents who i headcanon as dads)

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Happy pride month everyone

I did this drawing of my sona in celebration of it and a little icon

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I heard this song and instantly knew what I had to do

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happy pride rain worldians!!

here's some pieces i made to celebrate my identity with my fave sluggies :D

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Pebbles reacting to different slugcats taking a pearl while he’s reading it

Based on two moments I had in game, both were unintentional. Second one in particular, I was messing around with mods and forgot pups try to pick up objects you put down, so Chip just stole the pearl right out of Pebbles’ hands. But the difference in his dialogue just made me think so hard, i had to draw it

screenshots under the cut

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Sometimes you just wanna hold your cat, even if she’s literally the same size as you

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the “RELATIVELY MASSACRELESS ARTIHUNTER” AU

or for short, the RMA AU

this is a kind of mini au i’ve had sloshing around in my brain for a while. it’s really just my self indulgent take on Artihunter but it’s an au since it has big changes from the canon (namely, Artificer does not commit mass genocide, and Hunter isn’t going to die from the rot). it’s called “relatively massacreless” because, in this au, Artificer doesn’t actively seek out hundreds of scavengers to brutally massacre

more info about it below the cut! (lots of text so be warned)

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WHY DID I MAKE IT?

i think Artihunter is cute, but with my interpretation of Hunter (sees death as unfortunately necessary due to predators and their diet, but sees excessive unnecessary violence to be cruel and disgusting) i couldn’t see them liking canon Artificer, if anything they’d probably hate her. so i sort of cultivated this little au in my head for how they would work and then i thought “what if i share this with people?” and now this blog exists. tbh i didn’t really need to make a whole sideblog for this but like. Why not

ABOUT ME?

not really related to this blog, but me the owner. my main is @fatickono and i kinda just post/reblog whatever on it and sometimes post art. i use they/he pronouns and i’m nonbinary. i like bugs :)

TAGS? #not rma - exactly as it says. posts unrelated to the rma au

#rma art - art related to the rma au

#rma lore - if i give more lore to it and stuff then i’ll use this tag

#rma related - generally related to the rma au

#reblog - when i reblog someone else’s post. will mostly be rbing artihunter stuff if i do

WHAT EXACTLY HAPPENS IN IT? (warning. lots of text ahead. basically explaining the entire au)

before i rant:

Artificer in this au is female and uses she/her pronouns and mainly feminine terms (though she doesn’t mind being called handsome and similar things)

Hunter in this au is either nonbinary or female and uses any pronouns (though they/she is used most frequently) and doesn’t really mind any terms (although mainly uses neutral/feminine terms)

anyways!

it diverges from canon after Artificer’s pups die. in this AU, she does Not commit mass genocide. she probably enjoys killing scavengers a little too much, but she doesn’t actually seek them out and purposefully hunt for them if they don’t attack her first.

the Garbage Wastes toll sees her as a threat and thief after her pup steals from them, and they send a hunting party the cycle after to kill her. she obviously defends herself and most of the hunting party is killed in trying to slay her.

word spreads throughout the tribes to kill any maroon slugcat with an eye scar on sight because she’s a murderer and thief so now she sort of has a target on her back wherever she goes. meanwhile, she’s just trying to make it out of major scav territory because she never wants to see another scavenger in her life and she wants to grieve in peace. she’s NOT karma locked in this, although she is dangerously close and one wrong step could easily send her spiraling into what her canon self did.

she finds the ID drone after happening into the scavenger treasury (the same you start off in ingame) while trying to escape a hunting party.

anyway, she generally just lives life within Five Pebbles’ retaining wall as best she can, trying to deal with the loss of her children and avoiding scavengers as best as she can. she has not met Five Pebbles (yet)

by the time Hunter’s campaign comes, scavengers have somewhat calmed down on sending hunting parties after her since they’ve realized she only really attacks when provoked, but they haven’t stopped entirely.

the reason they haven’t stopped is because in their eyes, she is a murderer and thief and her story has been majorly twisted from what originally happened (pup stole pearl, forced to defend herself from attacking scavengers) to a horror story (she purposefully stole from the scavengers and slaughters any she sees) that isn’t true. most tribes don’t know any better though so the rumor isn’t going away any time soon.

(btw quick note: the scavengers aren’t really supposed to be the “bad guys” in this au [although i suppose you could see them as that], as there aren’t really any bad guys except really the original few who killed her pups and spread the rumor that she’s a violent merciless monster who attacks unprovoked. because of that rumor, the rest of the tribes are fearful of her and attack because they genuinely, truly believe she will kill them all if they don’t strike first)

anyways back on track. we are now in Hunter’s campaign so

Enter: Hunter

Hunter’s campaign sticks to canon up until they meet Artificer in Industrial Complex. Arti offers to help Hunter in their journey to save LTTM since it’s a welcome distraction from her life. Hunter reluctantly accepts as long as Arti promises not to slow them down from their mission and the two journey to Moon together and slowly get to know each other more and more. as they travel they get closer and Artificer eventually develops romantic attraction for Hunter and a little bit after that Hunter develops a crush on Artificer as well.

they grow ever closer and often comfort each other through hard times, especially when Hunter’s weird symptoms of unknown origin act up…

anyway they finally make it to Moon and save her. Hunter translates to Artificer what Moon says since Arti doesn’t have the mark. Hunter and Artificer, even though they already somewhat knew it, take the news of Hunter not having much time left very badly. they cry, sob, etc. for a while before waving Moon goodbye and going to shelter.

they probably confess to each other somewhere around this time? or sometime along their journey to Moon i’m unsure

they eventually form a plan. iterators are very powerful (according to Hunter, and Artificer agrees after learning they are the huge metal structures in the sky) and they figure maybe, just maybe, Moon’s neighbor Five Pebbles could help them, or at least buy them enough time to get back to NSH.

they make the grueling climb up FP with Artificer along the way helping her. they both notice scavengers are even more prevalent along the Wall than on the ground and have to be very cautious on the way up to avoid them. they finally make it up to Five Pebbles and meet him.

this is one of the ways this au diverges further from canon, since in this Hunter has A) more cycles left than they should in canon and B) Five Pebbles is able to buy them a lot more time than 5 cycles.

Five Pebbles gives Arti the Mark, heals Hunter to the best of his ability, and activates Artificer’s citizen ID drone. he lets Artificer know she can now enter his city as his citizen, however in this au he does not tell her to go kill all the scavs in it. he instructs them both how to ascend (and warns Artificer her karmic balance is rather unstable and to be careful) and then sends them off.

they choose not to ascend and they instead head for NSH’s can in the hopes she can save them (offtopic NSH uses he/she in this au. sorry i don’t make the rules). the rot is beginning to overtake Hunter near the end of their journey, but they finally make it to NSH and NSH is happy Hunter made it back alive.

he explains the rot was a complete, freak accident that resulted from the several genes involved in quick-repair mutating right before Hunter was done forming, and NSH hadn’t spotted it until she had sent Hunter out and it was too late to make them come back. NSH heals Hunter as much as he can (just like FP did) before he breaks the news that he can’t cure Hunter.

Arti and Hunter are both devastated by the news, but he informs them that while he can’t cure them, she believes she could try to cultivate a medicine that would keep the rot at bay if taken often.

excruciating cycles pass in NSH’s city (since NSH let them in) as Hunter’s condition slowly worsens cycle by cycle until finally NSH calls them to his can. she tells them she think she finally made a medicine that could work if Hunter takes it daily and makes sure to never skip.

Hunter begins taking it and doesn’t have high hopes as at first nothing seems to change. however, they slowly notice their symptoms easing, and major rot cysts shrinking and some even disappearing completely. Hunter is not cured and still continues to struggle with their symptoms … but they are alive and will be for the foreseeable future.

Artificer and Hunter just relax on NSH’s can for some cycles just enjoying being together. they visit Moon whenever they’re back in FP’s retaining wall (most of the time to deliver stuff to Moon anyways)

i’m considering doing something with them traveling to the Scavenger Chieftain to try to tell them to dispel the rumors and call the attacks on Artificer off, but not sure on it yet. it’s kinda semi-canon to this au i guess

after the events previously discussed, they kind of just live their life and stuff and this is where this blog will generally take place on the timeline i guess. this blog’s like art and stuff will generally take place after those events have all occurred.

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asks are tentatively open for now but might close soon. for now i just kinda want an excuse to make more art and stuff for this mini au so they’re open for now

that’s all for this blog! i’ll probably just post ship art, reblog some, idk! maybe do writing but i don’t like writing dialogue so that’s not very likely. yea idk i just made this blog impulsively and i’ll see how it goes i guess

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had the joy of creating a thumbnail for a mod i commissioned! thank you again, to @identityarchitect for making this mod a reality!!

it's now up on the steam workshop, so anyone else who'd like to enjoy my headcanon can head over there and subscribe <3

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a lil something for mother’s day! yet another wip

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This started as a silly little doodle but I quickly got carried away…

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New design for Centi!!! Also known as The Mycologist (used to be The Alchemist in the past)

It's old design looked too much like a fake Spearmaster from Temu so this redesign was more than necessary

This is the old design:

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been causing problems for people recently