#I will settle for brainstorming lore

[entomolog-t]

Got an Idea

In the world of "Bite Me" vampires are real tiny parasitic things, right? But they're still vampires. Does that mean there are people like paranormal hunters or something? There's so much potential in these...

THIS IS A GREAT QUESTION!

So to avoid spoilers I'm going to be pretty vague-

Vampires in the Bite Me universe are abnormal but not paranormal (though I will be doing a paranormal au because there is SO MUCH potential so by all means I can try to answer some more trad vampire stuff if talking about the potential au).

THOUGH- that doesn't mean that the tiny lil bloodsucking activity has gone completely unnoticed right? I mean, Aedes can't possibly be the only vampire who's been caught...

A BIT MORE ELABORATION

Vampires are completely normal biologically speaking, in that they don't have supernatural powers. The vampires in the Bite Me universe are essentially just a type of well adapted parasite. Some lil tidbits about their biology-

⚠ Nerd Alert ⚠

They are nocturnal- and hunt at night. Their eyes are adapted for low light conditions, though they can still move freely in the light.

They have an instinctual fear towards light (feels open, the feeling of being watched etc...) essentially to avoid predation by animals or being spotted by humans

Vampires have keen senses (hearing, smell, taste, sight) and phenomenal reaction time in order to help hunt. With their processing speed and keen senses, unless you catch one in the act or manage to corner/trap one, vampires are extremely hard to catch by just grabbing (cough cough, unless a certain lil someone likes to be grabbed) His senses dull when not in active "bloodlust" in order to keep the mind from being perpetually overwhelmed by everything all at once, though even dulled they are remarkably keen.

They are stronger than humans (relatively speaking), and quite durable. They have a high density of fast twitch muscles that helps further bolster their reaction time.

I've dabbled with the possibly of them having mild electroreception (basically in order to have a 6th sense towards heart beats as the muscle contracts) BUUUT I want to play around with the speculative biology with that. Mammals don't typically have an electrosense (more of a fish thing) but there are exceptions- yet those are still water based (with the semi exception of the echidna) so I'd have to do some pretty hefty playing around if I wanted to make it work.

They're allergic to garlic (along with a lot of other foods). Carnivorous, especially blood based parasitic diets leave an organism with an extremely reduced gut (Fun fact, theres actually a reason behind Aedes' slutty lil waist 😭) so they typically lack the ability to digest some harsher irritants, garlic being a big one. The smell is also extremely pungent so, yes, it absolutely will keep Aedes away (though it would have to be crushed)

Vampires in Bite Me do have one ability that feels almost supernatural- they are natural mimics. Vampires have incredible vocal control and ranges. This is incredibly useful to both ward off predators and lure in prey. Because of this- there are some typical tactics they use to avoid being caught (Some in more remote regions will mimic a rattlesnake rattle to deter a person from coming closer if they get spotted- and are usually able to slip away while the human calls pest control). This skill has led to both folklore and urban legends, about weird sounds occurring in strange locations. With their speed and skills in avoiding detection, a person would likely assume their house is haunted well before thinking theres a little vampire running around their house

Typically their bite is mildly numbing- though a very small number of people have a mutation that makes the numbing nearly completely ineffective (June being one of them). In that case, the numbing tends to work against its intended purpose- the numbing instead being noticeably tingling, and without the numbing agent, the anticoagulation factors and vasodilators within the saliva increase sensation in tandem with the increased bloodflow to the bite area, as well as giving the overall area a warm sensation.

WHEW

That was a chunky lore dump.

[reblog-house]

I just created a fakemon for an original region whose inspirations are so niche to the country I based it off of that I have no clue how I'd explain the creative process behind it.

[ravenekrops]

I need to know more about Rask'r pls! Embarrassing childhood story for example.

Well, i still haven't developed his story pre-Skyrim, but i can shoot in the dark... hmmm...

Since he was a hatchling he's loved eating bugs! He'd dig to find worms and slurp them up like spaguetti. Even before he got turned he would be the "Rask'r, what's that in your mouth?" *starts chewing faster* kind of kid lmao

[inbetweenhours]

How It Started VS How Its Going

Back on that @pinchhitsfromthevoid hype! This pinch prompt was for @dayables​ who I know got spoiled in the brainstorming chat (rip) but I still hope you enjoy how it turned out! You gave me the option of flower husbands which was absolutely not going to be passed up, as well as the prompt of Arranged Marriage AU. Since I just so happen to already have an arranged marriage au for them, I figured I may as well put some effort into actually showing it off since, despite my very long google doc of plot chicanery, I haven't actually drawn much for it or otherwise got much of anything to show for it.

The real trick here was balancing the angst and fluff. There was no way I wasn't getting out of this without, any angst. The problem was actually finding a suitable amount of fluff to balance this out lol. I knew I wanted to draw their wedding, since that's the whole base of the au and it directly emphasizes your request. The problem is that within the au, these two don’t really get to anywhere that's especially fluffy till weeks if not months after their wedding lol. That’s how I eventually settled on a kind of “before and after” of their relationship. 

Mirroring their less than favourable wedding day and first meeting with the renewal of vows they do near the end of their journey within my plot. Where they choose, despite already being stuck together, to have meaning behind their marriage.

Below the cut I’m gonna ramble about the lore  important to this piece from the au. Enjoy :]

Okay so first off- their “vows”! Instead of exchanging rings my idea is that the Ocean Empire and Rivendell each have a different giving for their wedding ceremonies.

Merlings have a selkie inspired pelt. Its technically their old skin. Young merlings are much more creature esq, and as they grow they grow out of that skin into a more humanoid form. However they tend to keep their pelts since they are pretty durable and are good for young merlings to protect themselves with and camouflage in the depths. As merlings continue to grow out of even that stage, their pelts become sentimental. kept close to their hearts. The lose of the plt is like a severing of oneself from their soul or heart. Its important for their mental health that they know where their pelt is and that is is safe. They’re not typically handled by people you don’t trust.

Which is why it is traditional that merling will trade pelts with their lover at their wedding. Its imbuing this trust that their partner will give the pelt back. As well it is a symbol of love and  soul, metaphorically giving that devotion and adoration to their partner.

Elves meanwhile are a type of fae. The rules I use for elves names are adjacent but not directly the same as other fae, such as the faeries of the overgrown. Elven names hold power over the individual still, but its far less than what a faerie might hold. It more a social power than anything else. Elves keep public and personal names. These “true” personal names can only be chosen by the elf themself. They are only given to people who you trust absolutely. May that be family, longtime friends, or lovers. Its not uncommon in Rivendell for lovers to not share their true names until their wedding day, though even if they have the vows are much the same. Giving their spouse the gift of their name, to use as they please. This is done both out of trust (much like the merlings pelts), trusting their lovers not to hurt them with their name. And more importantly it offers devotion to your spouse, which would be returned of course.

Now when it comes to Flower Husbands... this all falls apart. These two have not had a real conversation till their vows. They have no trust or love for one another, and are in fact quite afraid of each other. Neither want to give over something so terrifyingly precious to the other. 

Jimmy feels pressured to do so, despite Lizzie insisting he doesn’t have to, because he knows how a wedding should go. He knows the citizens of the Ocean Empire do not trust that his mother, The Empress, has made the right choice in allowing this marriage to go through. He knows if he doesn’t do his best to make this look and feel legit for them, then they’ll only have more problems in the future. And he really is trying to be responsible, trying to prove himself to his family and his kingdoms that he can do the right thing. He isn’t just the prince, the second born. He is loved by his country, deeply so, but nothing is expected of him. He wants to do one good thing for them in turn. Hell, he volunteered himself so that his sister wouldn’t throw away her preexisting courtship. He loves his family and his country, and he has never been asked to do a thing for them. He just wants to prove he can.

So he drapes his pelt over Scotts shoulders, careful and with the sudden understanding of how badly it hurts to see. How easily being separated from it would destroy him. And he can only hope Scott will return it soon.

Scott meanwhile doesn’t believe in another choice. He is the Chosen Champion of Aeor, god of Winter and Stasis. He is a representative of tradition for Rivendell. As much as he is fuming about the marriage, he has rarely acted out in his life. The golden child for so much of his adolescence that even when that love has left he knows little more than to hold his tongue and obey... for now. Still, he knows what is expected of him for the wedding. And despite there being no way for his family or the citizens to verify he abided by tradition in this instance, he is loyal enough to his god (and in fact fairly knows his god perceives him and he would know he wronged him) to not try and get around it. 

So he gives his name, as coldly and objectively as he can. It is not a gift, but Jimmy, traditionally, has a right to it through their union. He can only pray Jimmy be kind with it.

Ultimately both spouses are careless with their exchange. Scott misunderstands the importance of the pelt, and keeps it far to long. Jimmy misunderstand the weight of Scotts name, and speaks it carelessly. Its rough, and terrifying. But it leads them to understanding, to finding common ground and for the first time finding hope in their situation as they understand the other not as an enemy but as the only ally in the same situation as them.

Finally I’m gonna do a quick run through of details I was happy with, kinda lore relevant but with less flowery language on the plot.

At their wedding both are dressed in traditional wedding garb for their empires, as well I’ve referenced my board loosely to dress the crowd properly. Rivendell brides/grooms tend to wear white. It represents purity, white is typically only worn in formal settings o it wont be dirties anyways, and it doesn't represent either individual god. Allowing neutrality. Jimmy is wearing a loose cut deep blue outfit with small decorative. Dark colours but especially deep blues are traditional as they connect with both the deep waters and the sky, tying an individual throughout to the world and their life.

In their renewal of vows they wear nearly the same outfits, however Jimmy sports some golden Rivendell jewelry and Scott in turn sports some pearls in his hair much like how Jimmy had at their wedding. Its about the sharing <33

Wedding day was very formal, very controlled. Both of their hair pulled back and styled in very proper traditional ways. At their vow renewal everything was up to them, so Jimmy looks a bit more like himself (as messy as that may be) and Scott has both his kingship and his hair cut (lore) so he’s a feeling a lot more stable

Scotts wears gloves at his wedding, vs without gloves at renewal! Tied in, at his wedding Scotts hair and skin is patterned with growing frost as he gets cold feet (hah) and is very upset about the situation versus his renewals where he has much more control of his powers and very explicitly happy with the situation

That is all for now! Day I hope you liked the pinch! Everyone else i hope you liked the lore! I would love to do more with the au going forward, I have a growing plot document and love talking about it. If anyone wants me to expand on any thoughts, has questions about the plot or characters or otherwise, my inbox is always open and I am attentive to both tags and comments ;) <3

[st7arlight]

meet the sims-blackwood family!! this is set post-200 in a new world where the fears are weaker and more hidden in the shadows, but quickly building strength as more avatars and artifacts are born. meet blaire and not-adam, two students in jon’s homeroom and english class!

worldbuilding and brainstorm notes under the cut :D

the student ocs i created here are

-a transfem student who straight up doesnt have a name. you can call her anything but her deadname. its a fun game the class plays. it started as a gag but jon went “yeah okay ive seen weirder and kids deserve a chance to explore” so he comes up with a different name every day during roll call. shes v chaotic and inspired (personality wise, not funky name lore) by an irl friend of mine

-the student she has a crush on and is best friends with, an AP art student who uses they/she pronouns

they both eat lunch in Jon’s classroom, where they eventually notice that he never really eats much? just. reads a book in his free time, maybe has cereal bars occasionally

they form really close bonds with jon and he sponsors their lgbt club,,,, the second student realizes she’s agender when hes explaining the ace spectrum,,,,,, they come across The Horrors that were released when jmart moved on to Somewhere Else and he saves them,,,,,,,,, after they start to understand that “something spooky is here bc of mr sims but he was a victim in it” they sneakily start categorizing what they call “The Horrors” into 9 groups and get into shenanigans. they save jon at some point

their romance follows the plot of jmart’s but jon notices student B treating student A like he did martin at the start of the year and intervenes

so theyre healthier

(maybe jmart adopt student b, as they’re in a rlly unsafe home environment and thats why they started lashing out at their buddy)

at the beginning of the year student A knows shes trans but isnt sure what name to use. her buddy suggests not-adam (as she isnt suuuper uncomfy with her deadname, just that its too masc for her) so they call her that for a good bit and it comes up occasionally until they learn about the fears and the joke kinda. sours.

jon called her anything but that. not-adam thought it was because he didnt want to deadname her (and she insisted she was cool with it and thought it was funny) but she said that he can use a name that isnt adam, just not to stick to one bc she didnt want to feel boxed in

so the joke of her being anything but adam began

!!! WHAT IF NOT ADAM HAS AN ENCOUNTER WITH A STRANGER OBJECT THAT MAKES EVERYONE UNABLE TO SEE OR REMEMBER HER??? AND (character B) IS THE ONLY ONE WHO REMEMBERS HER BUT STILL CANT SEE HER!!!! AND THIS IS HOW JON REVEALS HE KNOWS STUFF ABOUT THE SUPERNATURAL

student b breaks down only a couple days in when she realized something was deeply, truly wrong, earing lunch (seemingly) alone with jon in his classroom. she says something with “not-adam” and “nobody remembers her but me” and jon’s trauma plus eye powers helps break his illusion, even though he doesnt remember her still

WHAT IF THIS IS AROUND WHEN NOT ADAM IS STARTING TO SEE HIM AS A FATHER

he adopts her bc she still legally doesnt exist and her family doesnt remember her , and its not like jmart already have fake identities anyways. they break the curse but everyone but B and Jon are completely wiped of her memory, just can finally see her now. its a mush of stranger, spiral, and lonely bc the horrors work different here

…she eventually settles on a name because she desperately needs to be reminded that they know her, they remember her, and that they remember all of her. (jon doesnt remember *everything* still, but most. every now and then she or B references something and they pause when they realize it was another memory lost to The Horrors)

oh also jon wears combat boots bc of daisy now. unrelated but important

im realizing my plan of them adopting B is a little funky with them adopting not-adam. however, unconventional found family prevails in tma. B just stays at their house most of the time bc she is neglected a lot at home so it usually isnt noticed when she disappears. theyre both 16 so fighting for custody when they can move out so soon is deemed too much stress on the teens. not-adam’s family actually are v loving and great, they just. dont remember NA. they dont remember how to love her, that they ever did

(thats why B needed to remember her. also, the effect intended of the horror was to torture NA until she died unnoticed and she will either be remembered by everyone when her body is found or will rot unseen until shes gone. or become an avatar, if she chose to embrace it. B was an intended victim of the leitner, the fear of nobody believing you and losing someone you love feed the Horrors)

(jon and his funky eye powers are likely the only reason NA didnt die)

in the end A picks the name astrid, but jon still calls her any name he can think of that starts with A when calling her down for food n stuff

anyways jmart unofficially adopting queer teens bc found family is so themcore but i *know* the fates would never allow them to do anything conventionally or fully legal

(all of this copy-pasted from me infodumping in a tma chat in the past couple hours)

[gay-little-izzet]

I love the funky little phyrexian shapeshifter so much and am curious if you have any spare bits of OC lore about them

I do!

Okay okay so a while back some friends and i were brainstorming what planes we would be from if we were characters in magic, and I tooled around with a few ideas but never really settled on anything, I was fascinated by the worlds and factions of every new set and couldn’t quite pin anything down.

When One started releasing story and cards, I realized I really loved the aesthetics of phyrexia, so I decided to have my self-insert/oc become a phyrexian metamorph, because I’m trans and basic and if I see a shapeshifter I want to be it.

I thought it would be cool to get that izzet angle by making them a surgeon who ended up being rejected from the progress engine for some flaw, and sent to the quiet furnace to be melted down—where they decided they actually liked being molten. Also, I think that the ideas of the “Great Synthesis” and the “Great Work” don’t really oppose each other as red and blue ideas often do, and could instead be combined into an endless cycle of experimentation and creative exploration.

Originally I thought of making them a compleated character, but honestly I feel like I can relate to someone born on new phyrexia—between being trans, being neurodivergent, and coming from an oil obsessed, imperialist, frequently awful country I…well, it’s not too hard for me to project onto some silly little robots.

With that in mind, I wanted to explore what phyrexians who escaped Norn’s mind control might have been able to do after the invasion, so here’s my take on one who decided to devote themselves to helping people have control over their bodies, instead of the typical “compleat first ask questions later” method with phyrexia. Although this is essentially a reference to all of the compleated planeswalkers and ocs I’ve drawn in the past, I imagine he would end up doing a lot more of the opposite, helping reverse the compleations of people who didn’t want to be phyrexians in the first place, or other surgeries. In addition to referencing my art, this isn’t actually too far off from what I’m actually studying to do irl! More the flesh stuff than the machine, unfortunately.

As for the safety of doing such things, I thought it could be interesting if their oil was somehow non-viable, at least to the extent that while they could use it to give others mechanical enhancements, it wouldn’t be infectious or transmissible from these patients. I really liked the comparison of phyresis to a viral infection in the latest chapter, because it makes a lot of sense for my interpretation of phyrexia in general—at their core, they’re just replicating and reproducing, like any living thing (or any protein shell full of genes). And it just so happens that their life cycle and reproduction is directly harmful to most of their hosts, like any parasite. Not necessarily evil, at least not at an individual scale, but certainly dangerous. I’m getting a bit off topic here, but suffice to say I think it would be interesting to see what happens when you remove the inherently infectious aspect of phyresis.

Uuhhmm this was a lot but I hope some of this is interesting to read!

[dearheart42regenerated]

brainstorming/planning Season 2 Fic Stuff and I remembered how Chris P wanted to do a two-parter season opener getting into the LORE and how the world of Motorcity came to be the way it was...and we will never know what he really had in mind and that KILLS me buttttt

if we take that season opener concept and run with it, just imagine with me:

episode 1 as a KANECO PROGAGANDA VIDEO, covering the history of Deluxe from Kane's POV, telling the inspiring story of how he pulled himself up by his bootstraps and built his company from nothing but a dream and a small loan of a million dollars and saved Detroit when the rest of the world was falling apart...

and then the broadcast ends. zoom out to show Claire and Julie watching it while they hang out with the rest of the Burners at their hideout. everyone's chilling. Mike and Dutch are working on rebuilding Mutt. Claire totally buys into the propaganda still and says something about how amazing Kane's story is...Julie looks conflicted, everyone else is fighting the urge to barf...and then Jacob speaks up and he's like "mmmm that's not how I remember it happening"

cue everyone else (ESPECIALLY Mike) perking up in interest and flooding him with questions ("WHAT HAPPENED TO ALL THE CARS???") and begging him to spill the mung beans. and Jacob's like "okay, settle down kids, here's how it actually happened..."

and then we continue to episode 2, where Jacob tells us the REAL story of Detroit.

(all of this nicely sets us up for the eventual big battle we'd get in the season finale? possibly? question mark?)

[y-rhywbeth2]

Is it ever revealed what Gortash got out of trading Karlach to Zariel? I’d assume it would be related to some sort of mechanical know-how he’s an artificer in my heart even if the game doesn’t really have that class option but also. My hc is that it’s directly related to him becoming Bane’s Chosen. The gods were picking their Chosen around this time, I think, and it would make sense that betraying a subordinate that trusts you with their life to a miserable existence of serving a tyrannical hell queen, in exchange for ambition serving power, would make Bane very happy. I could just be behind on my game lore, but I’m less familiar with how Gortash came around to Bane worship than I am with Durge/Orin (though those are rather obvious) and Ketheric.

Now that I’m typing this, I’m also confused about the mindflayer colony underneath Moonrise. How long has it been there? Did the Dead Three Chosen put it there intentionally, or was it just there and the Dead Three had a lightbulb moment? “Fellas, I know we’ve been plotting this world domination thing, and it’s just occurred to me that Shar has a guy whose house is overrun with Mindflayers. Should I dig him up?” -Myrkul in the groupchat

The fact that the Emperor/Balduran went there and was turned into a mindflayer really really muddies the timeline for me. Honestly, making the Emperor Balduran fucks up a lot of things, lore wise.

I'm pretty sure it's said somewhere that he got the schematics for the infernal engines, such as those in her chest, which he used to build the Steel Watchers. Not sure if that's in my head though. I don't think the game ever mentioned how Gortash converted to Bane, and information we might find on it isn't exactly reliable because the man's autobiographical notes are out of sync with other in-game information we find on the chosen, so anything he says should be taken with a grain of salt as half-truths and self-PR.

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I don't think the colony has been directly under Moonrise for very long, though if you overlaid a map of Faerûn and the Lowerdark they might be in similar spots geographically (10-ish miles away, vertically).

Illithid primarily live in the Lowerdark; 10+ miles beneath the earth in conditions that are utterly inhospitable to most forms of life, including humanoids, half-way into the Shadowfell, in a lot of places, and would largely traumatise you beyond functioning if it didn't kill you. Small outposts occur in the Middledark, 3-10 miles down. You can find illithid in the Upperdark (extending from between the surface and the Middledark), but this region is mostly a trading zone, not really inhabited by the Underdark races in a settlement capacity. It's also the layer from which slave-taking raids are sent, which might account for Balduran. Maybe.

So the illithid colony moving into the Upperdark and building a colony directly under Moonrise is kinda weird. I guess there are some really good sea caves under that building because illithids hate the surface and the sun so much.

In a divine capacity, illithid are Ilsensine's domain, the Dead Three don't have a lot of sway here (and mind flayers don't often go in for religion - especially not for the gods of thralls.) If any of the Three had the idea to use mind flayers though, I'd expect it to be Bane (they're closest to his domain in theme).

I have genuinely no idea what's happening here, I don't think this much thought went into it. I would assume it works like this: Gortash and Durge eventually settled on "mind flayers" during the world domination brainstorming sessions (before or after acquiring the Crown of Karsus, who can say... Who even told them that existed, again? Was it mentioned in some texts somewhere? Were the Dead Three aware of it (Bhaal being Netherse, Bane having worked there)) And then they'd have to go deep beneath the earth - possibly all the way into the Lowerdark - somehow not die to a million hazards, get into an illithid city without dying or being enslaved, and then convince an Elder Brain to join the plan. Then the colony starts climbing upwards, as per the plan, and migrates to the Upperdark under Moonrise. Being situated over the sea, sea caves down there might provide a suitable environment for them (they need damn, dark, briny caves).

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"Suprirse! Balduran is your mind flayer "ally"!" does feel a bit thrown in.

I'm still a bit surprised by the decision to make Balduran an elf, which could be canon to be fair, I've never seen anything on the guy, but I have always pictured him as human considering his namesake city is very much a human Tethyrian/Chondathan settlement. The elves were more populous back then, but the settlement was founded by humans and they very much do dominate and have for a while.

[oklotea]

*runs towards you at top speed and comically skids to a halt in front of you*

I wish to know more uberglitch lore 👀

Aha! So you would like to hear more Uberglitch lore, my friend? WELL I'LL BE DELIGHTED TO FILL YOU IN WITH SOME FUNKY ANGST!!!!!

An idea that I got from brainstorming with my sister, came from a question, why would glitch specifically have a grudge against go jet academy? And we settled with the answer that he had a double standard over him, because of his family, and the great expectations that come with that family.

And it seems like everyone in the go jet academy, including most students and teachers, were against glitch. They wanted him to fit the perfect picture of a Glitch family member, and glitch just isn't that. No matter how hard he tried. It was all in vain for him, he would never be good enough for any of them.

And so came a growing resentment and a healthy dose of spite against anyone who saw him as just a part of the glitch family tree, and not as his own person. Which means most people. And the go jet academy itself.

Before he realized the double standard people put on him was really unfair and stupid, he was still willing to become a go jetter for the sake of his family's wishes for him. But now, he could care less if he became a real go jetter or not. He was ALL ABOUT THAT SPITE!!!!! and he couldn't wait to get out of this hell hole.

But there was something, or perhaps someone, he would end up missing from the go jet academy, and that's Ubercorn. He made life in the go jet academy bearable.

Ubercorn for a while now has been talking with Glitch about the unfair treatment Glitch has to go through. And he tells Glitch he'll do something about it, but Glitch always lazily answers that it's futile.

But after another one of these conversations... Something changed with the way Ubercorn spends his time with Glitch.

Back then they could sit in a room in complete silence, comfortably keeping each other company, doing their own things. Back then they would have the most ridiculous conversations about anything that passes their minds. And most importantly... When talking with Ubercorn, it made Glitch feel appreciated as his own person, and not just as a member of a bigger shittier and more famous family.

But then one random day things started to get shaky between them, and Glitch knew it was because of Ubercorn.

All Ubercorn talked about to Glitch was about school. And classes. And good habits Glitch could take up. And if that wasn't all he talked about and were just a small portion of their conversations, Glitch wouldn't be so annoyed. BUT IT WAS.

When Ubercorn came to hang out with Glitch, it's to suggest new routines and schedules Glitch could take up to be a better student. All they talked about during lunch was about how Glitch should sacrifice his precious time perfecting his prototype robots, and instead use his time for something more "productive".

Ubercorn told him he had so much potential. And that he should try harder.

Was he listening to himself?! Did any of their long thorough conversations about how much Glitch loathes the academy and all of its stupid teachers and classes mean anything to him?!

Doesn't he realize what he's doing?! He's becoming just like everyone else. Glitch thought he accepted him for what he is. But now he just wants Glitch to be like everyone else.

He thinks he isn't good enough. Doesn't he.

Eventually Glitch grumbles and avoids Ubercorn everytime they meet eyes in the hallways. They treat each other as if the other doesn't exist. THEY FULL ON DIVORCED.

Now. I'll answer the question you might be thinking.

What changed in Ubercorn that made him say and do all these things? Well it's simple, he was influenced be someone.

When Ubercorn said he'll do something about Glitch's treatment... He went up to talk to The Headmaster of go jet academy. The current headmaster back then. (I plan on making an oc out of them hehehehe)

Ubercorn was very friendly with all the teachers in go jet academy, so it makes sense he was able to get a hold of the Headmaster themself.

Ubercorn came and calmly complained about the way Glitch was being treated by the student body and the faculty, and this bitch, the Headmaster explains to Ubercorn that the reason everyone treats Glitch like shit... Is cuz they want to motivate him to be a better student! Wow! How gracious! And kind!

Of course Ubercorn doesn't take this kindly. He told the Headmaster that he'll prove to them that Glitch can fulfill all of his potential WITHOUT being manipulated and treated horribly. And he storms out of the office. And that's where Ubercorn's conquest of trying his hardest to convince Glitch to be a better student in the most kindest and softest way possible started. Of course it didn't work.

Because Ubercorn is a big people pleaser (and that's something coded into him), his first instinct seeing a big establishment mistreat his friend, is by having that friend change himself to please the establishment.

He really thought Glitch needed to prove himself worthy of human decency. Just like everyone else, even if he didn't realize that was what he was doing.

It's really fucking horrible with what happened to them.

They don't speak for ages... And months...

And even after all the shitty things Ubercorn did to make Glitch feel horrible about himself, there's a big part of Glitch that hopes Ubercorn will come to him, and say sorry, and explain why tf he said all the things he did. Please just make all this make sense... But that day never came. And probably will never come, Glitch thought. He concluded that when the day came, where news broke out throughout the academy,

That Ubercorn is an actual Go Jetter cadet now.

That was what completely tipped Glitch off the edge. Ubercorn had actually betrayed him, and that hurt him more than anything had before.

It hurt that after all the time Glitch gave him to explain himself, he didn't even try. He let him go, drowning in a pit of despair and missed opportunities. And after he made Glitch feel so important and special and worthwhile, it turns out he wasn't that important or special or worthwhile to him at all.

Glitch's anger broke out and he ran straight into Ubercorn, grabbed him by his new jumpsuit's collar, and shouted many, many things. Dripping in that spite that powers him more than anything.

The fight seemed completely alien to everyone else. they had no idea why it was happening. Why anyone would have anything against Ubercorn. But right now, they just see the failure of a Glitch, and they were disgusted.

Eventually Glitch was pulled away from Ubercorn, and everyone once again paid complete attention to Ubercorn's well being, but no one would even realize soon enough if Glitch just disappeared...

If he just... Disappeared.

Disappear.

Ubercorn's head was spinning in confusion, and the crowd surrounding him didn't help with how overwhelmed he was. But through the crowd he watches Glitch run away in panic. As if he didn't entirely know what came over him.

And that was the last time they see each other before many years later, when Ubercorn is with his Go Jetter team in a jetpad on duty... And he sees a giant rickety newly wielded together metal aircraft with a big mustache on it of all things.

And that's it have a good day stranger

Please discuss this with me further they live rent free in my mind

[k00294664]

Movement 13-01-24

After brainstorming the word Movement, I've settled on the Yellow River as the foundation for my project. It is a stream, a tributary of the River Boyne, that flows through our farm back in Offaly. The River Boyne is one of Ireland's most mythologically significant rivers with interesting tales and legends associated with its origin.

Throughout the project, I tried my best to tie each of the electives together. I used my printmaking material in both my stop motion animation and plastic sculptural work. I also projected my animation across the prints and sculptures towards the end of the project.

While I won't be picking a discipline as a B.Ed student, I will integrate the different skills I learned in these electives into my teaching practice going forward. I hope to bring what I learned with this project into the classroom and get students passionate about animation, printmaking and sculpture, all of which are lacking in today's second level art education.

I hope to convey the movement of this stream throughout the project while also delving into the lore and myths about the river that have survived the passage of time.

The River Boyne is linked to the Irish goddess Boann. She is said to have meddled with Connla's Well by walking counter-clockwise around it. This led to the waters of the well rushing up and catching Boann in a flood. She lost an eye, arm and leg in the waters which later became the River Boyne. I find the imagery of this mythology so surreal and captivating and I intend to implement it into my exploration of movement.

Another aspect of the Boyne's history I find interesting is its name. The word Boyne comes from the Irish "bó fhionn" which translates to "white cow". This ties my idea closer to home as we have one Charolais Limousin cross cow that has a pale coat. She will be a part of my primary research going forward. Above is the start of my exploration of ideas in my sketchbook.

[i-hope-this-is-a-phase]

Twenty-Four

The first thing Dream saw was the shrimp.

What the fuck, he thought, staring at his bedroom wall which was covered in shrimp. Why are there shrimp on his wall?

“How would I know,” a familiar voice spoke. Suddenly, Dream was sitting at his desk with his headphones on.

“Seriously dude. That’s just weird. I get having strange dreams, but shrimp?”

“Shut up Tschno,” he snapped, grabbing his mouse. He was playing Minecraft, but all he saw was a blur of colors.

Techno’s laugh crackled through his headphones. “Now Dream,” he said, a smile in his voice. “That’s no way to greet an old friend.”

Dream stopped playing the game. Or he just started. He didn't particularly care. “What?”

Techno hummed. His keyboard clicks could be heard through the mic. “I heard you wrote a song about me. A bit cringe to be simping for a dead man.”

The game swirled in front of him, a blur of blues, greens, and reds. Dream cleared his throat. “How’d you learn about that?”

“Dream, c’mon.” He could practically feel the smirk through the screen. “You know to never question me.”

Dream laughed. It felt a bit like breathing and dying at once. “God,” he said. “Yeah. I know man.”

“Good," Techno said, "glad you’re not getting stupid without me there.”

“Hey!”

“I heard you cried during the song. A bit of an L, don’t you think?”

Dream swallowed the lump in his throat. “Some would say that.”

“Not me though. Nope. I didn’t laugh as my friend cried over my dead self. No. Who would do that?”

The lump broke as tears finally fell down his cheeks, soaking his face and neck. “God," Dream gasped out, "shut up Techno."

Techno laughed again, but it was quieter. Gentler. The kind he used to get late at night on Discord calls brainstorming ridiculous Ideas while talking about nonsense. The ones they had after MCCs, the ones they did brainstorming lore, the ones where Techno was the person he is. Was.

Dream sniffled a little as he tried to calm himself down. He had no doubt Techno heard it, and was prepared for a barb when he heard:

“Sorry I missed your birthday. And everything else that happened.”

Dream took a deep, shaky breath. Breathe. “It’s okay dude. I know you would’ve been there.”

“Still,” Techno said, keyboard clicking again. “You deserve to hear it.”

A silence came over them. It was peaceful though. Like the end of the day, before bed. Or the end of a long battle. A hard won peace.

The clicks of Techno's keyboard slowly came to a stop. Dream heard him take a breath. "I have to go now."

Dream closed whatever was on his computer, and leaned back in his chair. He understood the deeper meaning.

For the sake of familiarity, he said, “I’ll let you know when I’m free again.”

Techno laughed. It rang in Dream's head, as though he was really hearing it. “Sure nerd. Bet you will.”

~

Dream woke up alone in his bed.

He had managed to kick off the blankets in the night. Patches, who had been with him earlier, was nowhere to be found. And his pillow was soaked with tears.

He swung himself out of bed and grabbed the water glass on the stand, taking deep sips. He stared as bis (thankfully) shrimpless walls as he thought over the dream.

Dream isn’t religious. Hasn’t been since he was small and blindly following his family to church. Nor is he superstitious. He doesn’t believe in ghosts, or a heaven, or the walking dead.

But as he settled himself back into bed, after washing his face, drinking more water, and replacing his pillowcase, he said to the empty room:

“Thanks, Techno. For everything.”

[religiousbats]

While I work on some art for Flawed. Here are his older designs and original story ideas.

Here was the very first design of Flawed Cookie.

I designed him after Fake Peppino, if you can't tell from the traits alone, while designing a way to make a horror cookie run character I thought of mimicry, mimicking one of the most adventurous and brave cookie out there. Of course I'm talking about GinderBrave what else I be talking about?

The Original idea for his story was that he was created by none other than the Witch herself as a way to track down and eat these cookies, Flawed started off as a gooey jelly substance with two eyeballs. However the (blobby state) Flawed Cookie attacked the Witch leading to her death by suffocation.

After digesting her entire body, the Flawed grew bigger and started wreaking havoc on Earth bread before being stuck down by Dark Cacao Cookie

After being defeated by the King, Flawed fled from the scene. And he was never seen again until many moons pass, regained a distinct cookie form by just eating other cookies.. Mimics GinderBrave as a way to try to replace him.

While his burning hreated for Dark Cacao Cookie was still held on in his current design now, I feel like the story was cliche and overwhelmingly bad. And Flawed Cookies first design wasent all that creepy enough so I took brainstorming again and redo his design all over to make him more like..

This

With the design fully redone, this was Flawed Cookies most distinct design yet, you can even see resemblance passed onto his current design.

I went for the more analog horror vibe for Flawed, make him more menacing and dreadful.. And also I made two of his art, being a reference from Mandela Catalogue.

And his gacha pose.

And also a face expression concept to be the last hehe

All of these designs were good in their own way, but now that you'd know everything about Flawed.

Here's some Lore Surrounding Flawed Cookies past before he became... Well.. You know.

once a Proud and Devoted Watcher like the others... May also come with a huge obsession of certain.. Foods..

Many Cookies who are knights of the Cacao Kingdom always find him eerie and creepy much to many watchers surprise, This Cookie often hunts a lot of defenseless animals for their lethal and tasty crunchy doughs.. Even going as far as eating His enemies that are still Cookie.

Everything.. Was a delicious course to him, nothing else. Even not hesitate to convince his fellow watchers to be just like Him... Most follow.. But others had other opinions.

When the King talked him down about his so call.. Obsession, it was enough for him to rebel against the Cacao Kingdom.

When the King and Him faced, it was a fearce battle, but He couldn't stand a chance against the King.. No.. And before that after the dust had settled..

The king Announces His banishment and to never return.

And before that... He wasent the same ever since... However as many moons pass, the Cookie found a strange red substance on the ground..

And when He tasted it out of curiosity and test..

He wasent a cookie anymore..

Ingore this accidental question thing, idk how to get rid of it ;-;

I just put dots on it.

[itsswritten]

i'm loving all this content about fairy reader, it's so goood. i was wondering, do we get more information about her? like how did she and az met, where was she born, does she know others fairies? do fairies live as much as the fae? i'm loving this fics so much that i would love to know more about her. love your writing xoxo

I would love to reveal more lore of the wings universe!!!

I've answered a few other asks and we've had a few discussions/brainstormed a little on her abilities. (so defo give them a read if you see them and let me know what you think) But I would love to expand on this so much more!!

A few people have mentioned babies/kids which will be so fun to explore too!!

It's all growing in my brain, and I really need to write it all to share with you guys!

But I think yes to knowing other fairies, the way I see it is that's who she works with. A fairy's duty/role in life is to take care of nature and the natural ecosystems. So she spends most of her days in meadows and forests with other fairies, making sure all the little ecosystems are happy (kind of tinkerbell vibes if you watched the movies)!

And in Butterfly Kisses, I briefly mentioned that Mor introduced her to the group one night at Rita's (lol classic, as I wasn't thinking too deeply into it) But I still think it works. In my brain, I was thinking she's initially a fairy that worked in Spring, but when Spring court went tits up she migrated up to the solar courts, settling in Night. I can imagine she actually really enjoys being there compared to Spring, as they have seasons so it makes her job a little more exciting.

And I can just imagine her taking some of the flowers or mushrooms she'd collected for a days work to exchange at the market and that's when Mor bumps into her, and sort of thrusts her friendship onto her. And then ultimately she becomes a part of the IC! Defo takes a couple years before the bond snaps for her and Az though, but I think those early years before it does could also be fun to explore?? Like were they always pining for one another even before they were mates??

I also feel like fairy's kind of exist not under the rule of Fae, like they abide the court laws and would technically bow to the high lords. But the high lords don't interfere with fairies work as they've been doing it since the dawn of time and it's important balance in nature is kept which what I feel like fairies do!

Sorry just a massive brain splurge there hahaha but these are just my first few thoughts!!

Open to any ideas too <3

[wvbaandtheboys]

. im really not helping my case here am i. anyways though FNAF LORE!! PO FNAF LORE TIME!! SOUND THE FUCKIN SIREN!! IT'S TIME TO GO!! 🚨 yes its mostly kinda not serious either also its kinda dumb so let's share.

So, for the then upcoming anniversary of the WVBA's existence (in 2010), they got together with Dreamland to brainstorm something special to commemorate the boxers.

Eventually, they settle on making replicas of both the Wii and SPO casts. But no just any replicas, no. Robots, intelligent robots that were going to be almost perfect clones of their original human counterparts. So, development started with Dreamland's (rather tech advanced) robotics department to make that shit happen. And well, none of the boxers were told of this project because it was supposed to be a surprise for everyone.

But supposedly, it wasn't all too secret. Some boxers may or may not have reported seeing a few pairs of glowing eyes in the dark of the studio, and hearing voices eerily similar to their own... Anyhow! On the day of the anniversary, the robots were unveiled for everyone to see. And boy, were they magnificently made. They could move around very fluently, listen, respond, you name it! Even their personalities were faithful to the boxers they were based upon. The responses were... mixed. The boxers as a whole when the bots first came out didn't seem too pleasantly surprised with their robotic doppelgängers. But, overtime, some warmed up to the idea enough to express positive feedback and even interact with their bots. Some were iffy about their bots but didn't complain. And some just stayed disturbed by the hulking metal mounds that sounded, acted and looked like them.

The public, though? They ate them all up. Their love and adoration for these replicas was plain as day. They racked up just as much popularity as the real ones in their own special anniversary exhibit. So ya know, they were a total smash hit. But then, strange things started happening.

One would be odd, unheard-of noises usually at night, around midnight. They were sporadic yet frightening, and no sources would ever be found (despite sounding like voices.) But it was also noted that sometimes, according to late night workers, that the ro-boxers would be slightly adjusted in their positioning. Usually stood straight upright, occasionally it would seem that their eyes or heads had moved...

Secondly would be random objects having been tampered with or broken in some way being discovered in the morning by boxers and staff. Mirrors would be shattered or cracked, desks or tables flipped over, storage boxers toppled to the ground, you name it, it probably happened. But no one fessed up to anything.

Finally, the testimonies of some staff or even boxers that stayed after midnight would report that they felt uncomfortable in the presence of the robots. They described this feeling of discomfort as "feeling as though eyes were burrowing into them, or as if something was observing them with malicious/violent intent." The bots were even checked by the mechanics who made them for their peace of mind, but everything was intact. Nothing was wrong with their programming. In the rise of these concerns, an application opened up for a night guard to work the night shift from midnight to 7am. And surprisingly, a certain blonde haired bird filled in the application. That's right, our beloved pal Peter signed up to take the night shift. Why? Cause he thought it'd be interesting to play detective and see what was all the fuss was about regarding the bots. I mean, there's no way something was off with them, right? They were just bots. But oh, how wrong he'd turn out to be.

To explain the way the robots work: The ro-boxers are programmed to act like the boxers, yes, but they have a certain script they run by during opening hours called the Showtime Program. The Showtime Program is a mostly pre-set catalogue of phrases, actions and other basic interactions that a ro-boxer is to do during the daytime. Certain actions or phrases from a fan may trigger one of these responses. For example, if you were to ask Glass Joe "What is your name?" or took a flash-on photo of Great Tiger. Joe would say the classic line (or variation of the line) "Bonjour! Bonjour! Je suis Glass Joe!" while Tiger's gem would flicker, and he would pose for the photo.

But, after the exhibit closes, the ro-boxers are normally left on during the night as they have a similar case to the robots from FNAF where they don't want the boxers to lock up their joints from not moving. They're only supposed to move slightly though, never leave their areas. It's more like they're stretching. But at the same time, the Showtime Program ends when the place closes, which leaves the boxers with a completely clean script of their own. They can do whatever they please. Whatever. They. Want. The ro-boxers are very intelligent contrary to some belief. They're not bland replicas to the bone. They may still act like their human counterparts while they're on the prowl... but believe me, they're not friendly after hours. Don't let their joyful dialogue fool you. They're coming for you, Peter. So you'd better be ready to defend yourself. If they get in, they'll put you out. Permanently.

[the-blazing-light]

The ask to ramble about Fenrar! Plus some extra questions of my own.

Is his name change a canon thing he goes through or just a change to his overall canon name? If former what made him do so?

What kind of interactions does he have with the revenant legendary echoes? Any big serious talks? Any funny discussions? And with what ones?

Other than those, feel free to ramble all you want about him.

So Fenrar's a bit of a mess, he's overdue for me sitting down and figuring out the details of his story as a lot of them are extremely vague so this is as much of a brainstorm as it is a ramble

He's a Priory researcher and a big ol' nerd with an interest in the Mists and all things Mists-related. Despite his vast knowledge, he's been seen as odd at best within the Priory, with a tendency to overlook everything and everyone in favor of pursuing his own interests, be it not out of any malice but rather sheer, constant insatisfiable curiosity that often led him to put himself and other people in danger, he's the definition of "curiosity killed the cat".

Some years before the start of personal story he led a group of researchers into the Mists to track down and study anomalies and the possibility of travelling through the Mists. That, however, didn't turn out great for Fenrar, as he ended up separated from his group in an accident, falling through an opened portal and finding himself on the literal edge of the mists, a weird amalgamation of different places floating in the void with no clear way out, but despite all odds, Fenrar was fascinated and in awe of the place he found himself in, and he'd wander for a long time, only the odd astral creatures that inhabit the far reaches of the Mists keeping him some sort of a company. As time passed by though, the days all started to blur together, the odd, otherworldly landscape, Fenrar lost track of his travels, but luckily for him, eventually, through a sheer accident, he ended up falling through another portal, finding himself back in Tyria yet feeling... Different. Odd. Like his time in the mists changed his very being. Stuck on the edge between the Mists and Tyria, walking the thin veil that separates the two.

He returned back to the Priory, with all his colleauges being surprised to see him back and alive to say the least, interested in his story and the data he could provide to the research team, something Fenrar avoided under the pretence that he doesn't remember much, settling down and continuing his work, along with discovering and training his new abilities of a revenant.

As for his name, it's not really canon either way, as he's a Lion's Arch charr originally, he's never been a part of a warband or a legion, with Mistwalker being more of a title than anything. As for Starcatcher, I simply thought it'd fit him better nowadays, given his connection to the far reaches of the mists that are just empty, chaotic space inhabited by astral creatures, and that his revenant magic creates not regular mists rifts and white clouds of fog, but rather cosmic-looking portals and swirling, star-filled nebulae clouds due to the nature of his revenant abilities.

Now the legends thing is interesting, because in my initial idea Fenrar only really invokes and communes with one legend, Shiro. The idea is, while travelling through the far reaches of the Mists he'd ran into Shiro's spirit, imprisoned and chained up not unlike Balthazar, asking Fenrar for help in exchange for helping him escape the Mists. Things didn't go quite as planned however, with Fenrar basically dying and the two of them getting smushed together into one body, Fenrar's, throughout the process of falling through multiple chaotic portals before finally finding themselves back in Tyria.

I'm not quite sure if I wanna keep that bit of his lore as to not make his story bloated but I do like his interactions with Shiro and how they deal with being stuck together in the same body, Shiro more or less trapped again after over a century of imprisonment far away in the Mists, and Fenrar having to learn how to coexist with a murderous ancient Canthan ghost in his head.

[sparklingdemon]

who wants some cool behind the scenes “making of” stuff for explorers of death?

this is a long post with a lot of fun facts/trivia, so i’m going to have it all under the cut!

i made the first experimental screenshots for EOD back around 2018.

at first, i wasn’t planning on making a fully fledged remake, it was just going to be a remastering of V2.

the beach wasn’t grayscale, or the whole world for that matter, because the original story hadn’t described it like that. instead i tweaked the beach to have a nighttime palette instead.

^ (shot of the beach used in the final)

this changed once i decided to expand on the lore - since explorers of sky’s ruined future was monochrome, i thought it would better suit the theme of the story.

shadow, and all the enemy pokemon myra faced in the original EOD, were all monochrome as well, so i wanted to make the environment suit their designs.

this was a really silly looking test. the original pasta describes myra and shadow as being in a nondescript cave with nothing but a campfire, and this was the best placeholder image i could find?

spriters resource didn’t have sprites of any campfires despite there being multiple in the game, so i just used the effects of some fire type attack. it looks really dumb, haha.

i considered using armaldo’s cave at one point, but i wasn’t sure how far away the cave is from treasure town and thought that might be immersion breaking. this was also before i started developing the rewritten story.

eventually, i settled on sharpedo bluff, because i wanted myra to explore around the ruined treasure town before going into the dungeon.

conveniently, it also had a campfire during one of its cutscenes.

this early test version of shadow’s death doesn’t even have a background!!

i think it was because i couldn’t figure out where the scene took place - the original pasta didn’t describe it as well as i’d liked. 

once i’d finally thrown V1/V2′s environments out the window, i eventually settled on this cave design. it’s a modified version of the pit that igglybuff and armaldo fall into and face a monster house inside of. 

the dungeon is supposed to take place inside of beach cave, but i like to think that cave is somewhere even deeper below than the final room of beach cave you’d see in the regular explorers of sky.

probably one of the oldest test images i made, but i liked it so much that it made it into the final version!

i wanted to emulate the canon style/body type of squirtle, rather than my usual art style, and i think i pulled it off pretty well.

time for the reason why i couldn’t finish this story until 2021, despite brainstorming for it in 2018 - the dungeon!

my pokepastas aren’t really rom hacks, they’re just glorified sprite comics, made using modified screenshots taken from an emulator. so, before skytemple, i had no feasible way of creating convincing looking gameplay screenshots of the mystery dungeon itself.

i couldn’t modify pokemon inside the dungeons, i couldn’t give dungeons the custom tilesets i wanted, and so i couldn’t have myra fight enemy pokemon in a convincing manner. essentially, a major portion of the story was impossible for me to do.

skytemple, the explorers of sky hacking tool, was then released at the end of 2020. it made the whole remake possible to finish.

it allowed me to modify beach cave to have the pokemon i needed to fight, and the number of floors i wanted. 

characters speaking to myra was all faked though, i do not think this is actually possible, even with rom hacking tools like skytemple.

something that was kind of funny though - in my modding attempts, i somehow managed to crash the game when trying to make kecleon’s shop spawn on floor 10, which was unfortunately where i wanted it to be.

whenever i tried to load in the shop by stepping into the room kecleon was in, the game would just crash with no explanation.

the strange part was that kecleon’s shop was perfectly functional if it was on floor 1 instead. i never figured out how to fix the crash, so, for the entirety of the kecleon floor, i had to edit the HUD to say “B10F” instead of “B1F”.

for the most part though, everything in the dungeon was relatively smooth.

the only fight that was Entirely Fake was actually the unborn. i didn’t know how to make a custom boss fight using skytemple, and even if i did, i don’t know if the game can actually handle this many pokemon on the field at once.

so, instead, i laid out a game plan.

i had every movement planned out. instead of myra actually fighting all these pokemon at once, i would insert the pokemon into the scene artificially.

every pokemon that myra attacked, and every pokemon that attacked myra, would be fought in-game one at a time, and spliced into the battle scene i had laid out.

so, if the unborn’s movements are inaccurate to the AI that pokemon actually have in EOS, it’s because i made up their every move in a way that i assumed they would behave.

however. due to an error in my planning, i realized that totodile would be able to move upwards and attack myra for an extra point of damage. i even lampshade this in the story itself.

that wasn’t an intended error on the narrator/player’s part, it was a genuine mistake in my battle plan that i had to roll with. i’d already made a massive mistake with my battle plan that caused me to have to do the whole thing over, and i didn’t want to redo it again just to make the narrator’s fight as optimal as possible.

it... adds realism, i suppose??

also, just for fun, here’s what the unborn’s icon and background would look like in full motion!

there were three different stages of this background, increasing in intensity as myra lost more hp. this is the kind of cool stuff that i can’t show off when the media is still images.

NOW, time for the really fun part!

this isn’t necessarily “cut content” for the story itself, but these are things that were intended to be in the official explorers of death rom hack, developed by jesterfox6. (now cancelled, unfortunately!)

though the hack is cancelled, it had some semi-canon stuff to it that i’d love to show off!

these are ideas i had after the story was already completed, but it was nothing intrusive to the final story. a lot of the easter eggs here are things that the narrator would have missed out on seeing, but were theoretically possible!

this was a hidden easter egg for the top screen. it wasn’t meant to be seen in normal gameplay, as myra would have been covered up by the top screen’s menus and text boxes.

here was a version i made just for fun with eyes!

this bit is noncanon. due to hacking limitations, the part where you analyze your aura was unable to be removed.

if you lift your finger from the touch screen early, you get some secret text!

this was unused text that was in my original draft of the rewrite, but i instead removed the aura analyzing altogether.

it was scrapped because it messed with the pacing of vulpix myra being revealed, but i still like this idea.

the aura test was also modified to have the bow be white 100% of the time. the bow is not obtainable within the story, and was instead meant to symbolically suggest that maybe myra the vulpix doesn’t have an aura...?

there are secrets in the options menu, too! changing the top screen to “job” reveals myra’s objective.

the map and team option seems relatively normal at first, with myra on a monochrome map...

but as you approach beach cave, text appears at the bottom of the map!

some additional text the narrator missed out on! the eggs inside of chansey daycare have all been ruined.

if you try to save your game here, you’re not allowed.

this text has a double meaning, mocking myra as if to say that she can’t save her adventure or her world.

inside of wigglytuff’s guild, the top screen has an image! in theory the narrator would have seen this, but it’s okay to have the story without it, as it doesn’t add that much to the story.

my favorite is the “who is myra?” one, but the “food?” one adds a bit of lore that everyone here is starving as they’re losing themselves.

here’s what the item info for the vulpix tail says!

as the description suggests, myra would have been able to eat the vulpix tail.

i was kind of kicking myself, because i came up with this idea after the story was already done. i would have loved to do this instead of the narrator spitefully throwing it away...!

though the narrator wouldn’t have dropped it inside the dungeon at any point, i made a custom sprite for the tail, just in case anyone playing the hack would have dropped it. 

in the bedroom that the player and partner would have had in the guild, there’s a secret in the bed that would have been myra’s.

this one was jesterfox6′s suggestion, added in as a half-joking reference to a gag from oneshot.

wigglytuff is not happy to be going hungry!

and speaking of wigglytuff, i had a handful of ideas about him!

for starters, if the player tries to go down to the beach before wigglytuff’s guild, myra will shake her head. you’re supposed to go to the guild first and burn it down, but you can actually continue forward despite myra’s protest if you try again!

myra would automatically walk to the middle of the road, before turning around.

wigglytuff’s shadow would quickly rush in to attack her, and the screen fades to black.

but in the demo hack, she just wakes up back at sharpedo bluff as if the whole thing didn’t happen.

a similar scenario would play out if the player tried to go into wigglytuff’s room instead of running out of the guild.

however, a different death would have theoretically occurred if wigglytuff caught myra while chasing her.

the following is a mockup gif of how the scene might have played out -

if he caught up to myra, a scene would start where he grabs her and begins to eat her alive. during the scene, the screen would fade to black.

in canon, these kinds of scenes would have resulted in the narrator’s premature game over, permanently killing off myra before getting to any of the fun story stuff.  that’s why it would have appeared in the rom hack, where players could fail on purpose without the high stakes of missing out on the rest of the story.

but since the hack turned out to be unfeasible, i decided to show off all this unseen stuff!

that’s pretty much all i have to show off for now, but i’ll be willing to show off more if people have any follow-up questions, haha.

if you made it this far, thank you!