#a friend and an Eldritch fungal infection

[lunarmicrowaves]

More Houseplant Lyfrassir because the brainrot is real and inspiration juice is flowing.

I imagine that's how Marius eventually finds them; their body overgrown by mutated vegetation and seemingly lifeless. Some of the roots began digging into their skin, becoming one with their flesh.

[the-arcade-doctor]

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Some context: Text Doctors are a collection of Tumblr-based RP blogs featuring plague doctors made out of ASCII symbols with their own unique lore, they're mostly variants of the first one to don the title, Doctor Screech, a eldritch monster who hails from the abyss and landed in a world of violet occupied by walking fungal-infected-corpses and other such nasties.

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ENTRY #1: THE DENIZENS J:\\ THE MAKER \\\\

>> Jay. a 5’8, 17 (now 18) year old boy (when he feels like) with tan skin, wearing a black hoodie with a green “87” on it, grey sweatpants, and black shoes, under his hood lies a led visor displaying green animated eyes. He runs an arcade, overseen by a plague doctor suit made out of keyboard symbols, it has a parasitic relationship with his soul that enhances his ego. he runs an arcade as a front to gain more power to cut the strings of fate the gods have cast upon him.

[ jay speaks like this. ]

Jay, he found his way into a mysterious world occupied by a lone plague doctor, a beast who wore a mask of violet, the first ever "text doctor", at least, that's what he called himself, the plague doctor made out of... ASCII symbols? His name was Screech (@the-text-doctor), they got to know each other, the beast was wiser, older, had a family and most of all? POWER. Jay eventually stumbled onto a stray portal, and found a dimension with a lone arcade in it. It was empty, abandoned. It was quiet at first. Then the trials began with new technology Jay founded. His suit. A green, distorted form of the plague doctor made of symbols he met from days before. it was a beast forever crying emerald tears.. It took over the dimension. Slowly at first, but then rapidly, the floors turned black, the walls turned a dark shade of green, the arcade grew, seemingly floating. It was all falling into place. J:\\ THE SUIT \\\\ A green plague doctor made out of ASCII symbols, slashes make up his limbs and torso, and tear streaks fall down his mask. His left arm is corrupted heavily, with claws made of black triangles. He also has one corrupted wing made out of corrupted textures and glitch artifacts, on his chest lies a dark green mantle with two mirroring "J"s. His belt is made of square brackets and equal signs. This suit was made a host of the place it is now known for, but also to fight, and fight it does, it would be unwise to pick a fight with it in it's unnatural habitat.

thanks to @just-hyper-active for jotette's neck fluff [ J:\\ JOTA SPEAKS LIKE THIS. ] [ ♀J:\\ JOTETTE SPEAKS LIKE THIS. ]

The suit, when worn, made him agitated, angry, violent, egotistical, envious, and any other sense of the words, so much so that it took over his very soul, encasing it in a green hue, and wings, ever since, everyone wanted that exotic, digitized soul for themselves. The Jotette side grade makes Jay feels as if he's the prettiest thing on two legs, still as pyschopathic.

It was perfect for what he needed. He's been researching other worlds for a while, so they were next, but until then? He needed somewhere to cover up his research... the arcade would do just fine. He'd get to lounge around all day, and work on gaining more strength by night. Eventually, he opened the arcade, and attracted quite a crowd. He didn't feel much for them, just lambs to the slaughter, he thought. but eventually he grew fond of some of his visitors, some he loved seeing, some less so. his power grew... but he needed more. He eventually found other worlds, more creatures like his suit, “text doctors” as he calls them, more forms to take, more things to assimilate into his growing matrix of code and hate. J:\\ THE LESSER GODS \\\ In the world of digital evils known only by "EXEs", there lie creatures who couldn't get their hands on the vessels everybody knows them for, Sonic, Mario, Pac-Man, the like. These creatures have been festering inside unknown and uncared for video games, i.e one-off titles or edutainment games. They all think the ranks of Sonic.EXE have it too easy since they have more recognizable vessels, so they've decided to form in gangs of sorts, Jay has felt pity for them, and built a refuge for some of them called Circuitboard City. ENTRY #2: THE DIMENSION, THE BOARDER BETWEEN THE PHYSICAL AND DIGITAL REALMS

J:\\ OUTSIDE \\\\ A vast, black expanse, adorned with grid-patterned green lines and shrouded mountains that conceal Circuitboard City. Green floating stairs serve as the arcade entrance, the space under the arcade leading to an underground subway entry point for access to Circuitboard City.

J:\\ SUBWAY \\\\ The Subway, a dark green and somewhat dirty underground passage, links the arcade to the wonders of Circuitboard City, some Lesser Gods have taken refuge here as opposed to Circuitboard City.

J:\\ CIRCUITBOARD CITY \\\\

helped by @just-hyper-active The cyber-city sprawls beyond the mountains, initially visible like a distant skybox. However, the true nature of this place is revealed when you journey there through the Subway, unlocking Circuitboard City in it's fullest. Jay shelters Lesser Gods amidst the skyscrapers, surrounded by advertisements for JOTA's Arcade.

J:\\ ARCADE INTERIOR \\\\ Inside the arcade, a surreal extension of JOTA's twisted yet whimsical persona unfolds with moving wall patterns and nonsensical floors. Rows of cabinets, a prize corner, and a maintenance room entrance mark the journey. As one ascends towards JOTA's office, the rooms defy Euclidean logic, with unconventional door placements, and other such glitchy mishaps.

J:\\ HALLWAY \\\\ A simple hallway stretching to both the left and right of the office. J:\\ MYSTICS ROOM \\\\ A room where Jay's been studying various deities and other such creatures, such as Zalgo, Screech, and more. This room is to the left of the office hallway.

J:\\ JOTA'S OFFICE \\\\ JOTA's office, a dark green room adorned with silver accents. A faux bird rug lies in the center, and a dark green desk bears a lunatic's scribbles. Nearby stands a simple polygon statue of a pixelated emerald-textured plague doctor. Wall sketches depict a green heart with expansive wings and stylized plague doctors drawn from simple lines and shapes. Above, a mounted skull with a "GAME OVER - JOTAPHOBIA" plaque completes the room.

J:\\ JAY'S BEDROOM \\\\ Jay's bedroom, features a beanbag bed, the sole Sega Genesis in the arcade ever since a run-in with Sonic.EXE himself, Sonic posters, and invisible ink-laden posters of the other text doctors, the Cade Crew, and Jay himself. The dark green room houses a simple stand with drawers, holding obscure games, and a basic TV. This room is to the right of the office hallway.

J:\\ JOTA'S THRONE \\\\ On the main floor, JOTA's throne, a giant green chair, stands amidst corrupted textures and computer parts, adorned with a "GAME OVER" banner. J:\\ SUIT JUNGLE \\\\ Behind the curtains of the throne room lies the enigmatic Suit Jungle, featuring towering, unreachable arcade cabinets and one of them stands far above the rest, displaying myriad copies of JOTA's suit, glaring at whoever roams by, amid twisted metal trees and digital leaves, static falls like water and error messages are the closest thing to clouds, more copies of the suit are found crawling around, acting as birds, glitching green messages, seemingly written by Jay himself adorn the place's floors and walls.

the voices I have for all of my anons unless said otherwise: https://tts.cyzon.us EXE

Jay first encountered Sonic.EXE, also known as "X," during an event called Incident X. This voidspawn manifested itself as Sonic and attempted to claim Jay's soul. The encounter took place fashionably late at JOTA's arcade, following the Halloween EXE Takeover in 2023. Since then, X has been engaging in periodic battles with Jay's suit.

X derives pleasure from toying with human souls, leaving Jay concerned about how long he can keep the entity amused before facing potential death. In the aftermath of the incident, Jay discovered the existence of other entities similar to X, collectively referred to as The Lesser Gods or The X Underlings.

[twst-drabbles]

I feel like if I went to Eldritch MC's world, I'd either die immediately upon setting foot on the ground (probably would just walk right into some monster's mouth while daydreaming)...hell I'm barely alive in THIS world, god knows how many cars would have run me over if not for my friends/family pulling me out of the way last second.

– Abyss Anon

If there's one thing a lot of people over there wish for, it's a quick death.

I'm going to bet 50 bucks that you probably won't die for the first few months, only because you got some help from a "kind" stranger only to find out said stranger is part of a fungus hive mind growing in their stomach that spread and infected their spine, and you accidentally took a drink of water, which is bottled and sealed, that seals your fate cause the river this water came from has been infected with the fungal spores. And unfortunately, you make a compatible host.

Oddly specific, I know, but usually the things you have to look out for are not the obvious. Stuck between a rock and a hard place and a sharp place and a hot place. Lots of things going on, truly.

[spooky-activity]

Just a little update on Cassandratopia 2: Electric Boogaloo (Or as it stands in my Google Docs folder rn, A Helping Hand). I’ll put it under the cut cuz it’s kinda long. 

I just wanted to say that I’m still planning on actually doing it, despite all evidence to the contrary lol 

I did Cassandratopia in a haze of graduating from college(where I was studying animation) and just having ended my first dnd campaign as a dungeon master (which went 3 years!). I was fishing around for internships, but since the pandemic had just kicked off I wasn’t having much luck. So I had a lot of creative energy that wasn’t getting channeled anywhere, and a lot of free time when I wasn’t applying to places. Which is how I did 4 pages a day several times per week. Which was insane. 

As it stands, I’m running 2 dnd campaigns(one meets weekly, the other every other week or so), and just scored a full-time internship at a video game company! The campaigns I’m running are a homebrew open world, which, for those of you who aren’t too familiar with dnd, is a metric fuckton of work to prep for each session because I have no idea what my insane friends and siblings are going to try and do every time we play. 

Anyways all this to say that my storytelling itch is kinda. Sufficiently getting scratched atm and I have a lot less free time. I’m still plucking away at the setting/refining the story of A Helping Hand, but it’s largely on the backburner. Cassandratopia was also, uh, like the first story I’ve ever told in any sort of format besides the give-and-take of dnd, so... I’m not used to having so much control over the narrative. Oddly. I’ve never thought of myself as much of a writer of stories; my main focus is character animation, so someone else is usually writing the stories I’m telling anyways, which is super cool with me. Honestly I’m surprising myself with how much I want to tell this story, which is why I’m still sure I’m doing it. Just. Slower. Than Cassandratopia got done. 

But I’ll share a bit of the lore I’ve been cooking up! Specifically about Zhan Tiri and The Drops. The story will be told in an extremely dnd type setting, because that’s the kind of narrative I’ve told before and am comfortable telling: hard magic rules, neat fights, scary monsters, a dash of eldritch horror, and huge emphasis being put on magical artifacts(kinda like in the show!). Here’s some stuff that’s basically locked-in. 

Zhan Tiri

Zhan Tiri is one of the many Demon Lords of the Abyss. She’s kind of a mashup of two of my favorite Demon Lords, Zuggtmoy, the Lady of Rot and Decay, and Pale Night, the Mother of Demons and Queen of the Night(with just a dash of Hannibal Lecter because who doesn’t like helpful, polite, manipulative-ass bitches lksjflkja;fj). Her domain sits almost exactly between the Sundrop and Moonstone, largely being the new growth that comes from death, and the endless cycle of life and death. Places where her influence is strongest includes the cracks in... Well anywhere really, from society to the planet’s shell, where metaphorical or physical rot could grow; musty, mostly ignored places where something could fester. Iconography related to her would include endless mazes, fungi, grasping skeletal hands, and rotting/blooming corpses. Her spores can animate corpses, which she likes to use as mindless minions when she doesn’t feel like sending one of her Acolytes. She shares a scrap of her power with those few mortals she likes. She appreciates ambition and the desire to Grow to be bigger than what you were to start with, as those are qualities she herself possesses. 

Incredibly intelligent and merciless to those she deems her enemies, her main thing is pulling the strings from the shadows and seeing just how far she can push people to act with as little prompting from her as possible. She does, however, have the power to kinda bulldoze her way through things if she needs to, but she doesn’t like to because where’s the fun in that? 

She first gained interest in the Material Plane when a Wizard with too much hubris from said Material Plane(Named Demanitus) contacted her trying to figure out more information about The Drops and how to control them. After indulging him for a bit, she started preparing to make a summer home on the Material Plane because it’s New and Fun here and Wow These Mortals are Really Fun to Mess With! And some of them she even genuinely liked! Demanitus then realized his mistake and locked her away in Pandemonium for what he hoped was forever, but turned out to be only around 1,000 years, due to the efforts of her followers. Her little stint in Pandemonium magnified the more... Chaotic aspects of her personality, so now she wants to cover the Material Plane in blooming mazes of fungal crops that she can break people with at her leisure. 

The Drops

The drops are two semi-sentient pieces of one original artifact, whose original purpose was to be a tool of creation for the gods. Which, through some great calamity(still deciding that one), got sundered and settled into the two basic aspects of creation: the nearly unlimited well of life-energy which organizes stardust into planets, cabbages, and kings, and the “you gotta crack a few eggs to get an omlette” destructive force which breaks down what the sundrop makes so that it can make more. 

The main goal of the drops is to reunite. I would want to as well if I was ripped in half! This manifests as a... General tug in the direction of the other drop. A desire in the host to Go That Way. It can be resisted, and even ignored for a bit, but it’s always there. Like being hungry if starving wasn’t a danger. Just a bit uncomfortable if you aren’t going That Way, but ignorable. 

Both drops generally try to be as helpful to their wielder as possible, as originally they were a tool of creation to the gods. They are innately obliging. They’re also REALLY UNSAFE FOR MORTALS TO BE MESSING WITH. The Sundrop is a little safer because the most it can do is kinda. Overcharge you into something distinctly not human but still alive, and King Fredrick was lucky he made the Sundrop into soup before giving it to Arianna. But King Edmund got his wholeass arm blasted off for touching the Moonstone. 

The Sundrop

Best I could whittle it down, the Sundrop has power over life energy, like the sun’s light. It also has power over the energy derived from geothermal activities, so deep sea creatures Are Not Immune To The Sundrop, which was a funny thought that crossed my mind that they could be, but that will likely never come up anyways salkdjf;ljsf It is, in its basest form, Growth and Progress. 

It’s a little sentient, but very much entrenches itself into whoever is holding it at the time. Like another mind looking through your eyes and seeing what you see/feeling what you feel while still retaining a bit of individuality from the host. It’s not... Parasitic because it’s in its nature to give, but it’s generally pretty firmly attached to whoever is holding it until they die( which isn’t usually for a WHILE. It ’infects’ a new host when one dies, usually a plant near their grave...) or until a solar eclipse. It wants what they want, but it’s very fussy so they have to ask it for power exactly correctly(like singing an incantation every time you want to heal someone, or doing a Ritual involving lots of very specific ingredients, Celestial Alignments, and Secret Words) or it won’t listen, like an orchid dying if the ph balance is off in the soil by a little bit. But it’s generally pretty intuitive to use, because it wants what you want and (as long as you ask right) is willing to help. 

Anyways basically under the influence of the Sundrop you get a few things: 

Basically limitless energy coursing through your body while you’re in a place with sunlight, which equates to rapid healing, mostly, because every cell in your body is being supercharged with free energy. Never getting exhausted in direct sunlight. (If Rapunzel lived in a place that was sunny 24/7 like near one of the poles she wouldn’t have to sleep like. until it started to get dark in the opposite half of the year. Then she’d have to sleep like a regular human being)

You stay at your prime, or if you are past it, revert to your prime. Someone who is holding the Sundrop, or who has regular access to the Sundrop’s magic can’t die of old age or illness. They have to be hurt beyond the Sundrop’s ability to heal or have it taken away from them. 

The ability to share this rapid healing with others (if you ask right)

The ability to freely draw on the raw, near-limitless energy of the sun to shape into things like cool-looking energy blasts (only if you ask right) 

The Moonstone

The moonstone has powers over varying levels of destruction: from destroying things by ripping them apart/ to Not Letting Things Be Destroyed(also known as protecting) by freezing them in indestructible rock. Like the moon, it can ‘reflect’ a bit of the sundrop’s power, so it can kinda provide energy, albeit a lot less than the sundrop can provide. It’s the inevitable march of The End of All Things, fertilizing the fields of time with the ashes of the old so the new can take root. 

The Moonstone is a bit more in the dark(pun intended hehe) when it comes to bonding with someone, it can only try to figure out what is going on based off the emotions of its wielder, and through anything directly touching the Black Rocks. Because of this it’s... Kinda dumb? It tries to do things to help(Like shooting red fear-rocks to try and scare away whatever must be scaring its wielder so badly) but often fails spectacularly at helping. 

Under the influence of the Moonstone you get: 

Mortals get Neat Body Armor that’s actually just you being turned into a rock! They are very fragile! They need to be protected! The best the Moonstone can do to try and preserve you is to Stop All Destruction by.. Pausing all bodily functions indefinitely. Rocks don’t need to eat, sleep, or breathe, and almost nothing can destroy you if you’re solid Black Rock. The weak reflection of the Sundrop’s energy keeps the host animated, but they’re not exactly alive anymore. Like cryostasis. Wounds (if any) acquired in this state won’t be a problem because they’re not messing anything up, because nothing is technically working in the first place, but they will be a problem when you’re not protected in this way anymore. It’s a cosmic ‘I’ll deal with that later’ button, essentially. 

Like the moon, the Moonstone can reflect the light of the sun. It uses its rock crystals to do so, which can even split the sun’s power into different shades, like a prism. Essentially, different colored rocks can mean new and exciting power sets. 

Blue Lightning! The Moonstone can reflect the Sundrop’s power, so it also has access to pure bursts of energy, even if it is weaker and colder. 

The Moonstone is very helpful, but usually has no idea what you want. ‘Asking’ the Moonstone for more control over its power in the same way you would Ask the Sundrop for more power reminds it of the perfect bond it used to share. The Moonstone’s incantation deepens the bond between wielder and Moonstone in such a way that it actually knows what you want from it, giving you near perfect control of its powers.

*This is kind of just a side note of the Drops: While the Moonstone is weaker than the Sundrop in an head-on fight, it could hold its own if it were on the defensive. Redirecting the power instead of trying to overpower and such.

** Cass made of rocks means I get to draw her skeleton :) not in every picture that would be fucking nuts and way too much work alskjdf;lkjs;fv

[riverbirchindex]

OC LIST 2.0

This is the current compiled list of all my oc’s that I’ve managed to get to on 4/7/2022. This list includes ALL OF MY ADOPTED OC’s, ALL OF THE OC’S I HAD ON MY OLD LIST, and some of the new ones added ontop. 

[] ALL OF THE [newer] OC’S I OWN HAVE YET TO BE ADDED YET [] ALL OF THE IMPS ARENT ADDED ON HERE YET

– The Men:

·        Aedei Osum – Tulip Desert Rose Plantoid

·        Aksle Graham – Fahrenheit Incubus

·        Aurian Jay: Orca Dragon

·        Barjecht Baffomeht – Baffmo Demon

·        Blyoo Ummi – Blue Raspberry Gummy Slime Boy

·        Boojum Baffomeht – Baffmo Demon

·        Caleb Otto – Scylla

·        Calivera Rojo – Old Cardinal Ghost

·        Cesar Isandro Chavez – Cactus Soccer Player

·        Clyde Carnicke – Bull Shark Cop

·        Cinnamin Ruul – Burner Salamander

·        Chase Briar – Crocodile

·        Devin Pascal – Oscar’s Rival / Best Friend

·        Edward Celsur – Yellowjacket Nobleman

·        Emilie Onblooms – Rose Plantoid Flauna

·        Fiful Nifelheim – Skunk Plague Doctor

·        Frederico “Freddy” Santasar - Human

·        Harue Ochi – Snake Demon Prince

·        Jacopo Tato – Red White Tarantula

·        Jicama – Insomniac Shadow Person

·        Julius Flor – Dandelion Plantoid

·        Karlos Astor – Human [Likes Redmond]

·        Mihail Sholes – Botanic Dancer

·        Monatana Ackermann – Shotgun Mercenary Robot

·        “Nasta” – Lich Necromancer

·        Oreo - Rollie Pollie

·        Oscar “Soutman” Browhn – Swing Singer

·        Owen Renfield - Human

·        Parys Beau – “Beauty” Model Demon

·        Popella Hominim – Brazier Hellion

·        Poppycock – Poppy Bastard of Druidic and Incubus dealings

·        Pyrite I– Manmade Idol Angel

·        Rook Bowlin – Mafioso Jerk

·        Rorsch - Ink Blotchy

·        Sebastian Yo – Devils Cigar Mushroom

·        Sicily Rosa - Blue Rose Plantoid

·        Strave Kilos - Alien Sand Skater

·        Sundae Mums – Ice Cream Fairy

·        Toy Bunny – Toy Bunny

·        Walter Briggs – Persistent Coffin System [Human Deceased]

·        Waryn Sallet – Blacksmith Daedra

·        Willow Bunyin – Barn Owl Harpy

·        Zorblo Zathurn – Green Alien

– The Ladies:

·        Aalaya Leare – Black Jaguar Demon

·        Adranuch “Phuri” Shephar – Sheep Ranchhand

·        Afra Azad – Persian Justicar

·        Alouette Cross – Wolf Spider Arachpire

·        Anj’I Vyrss – Kobillianoid Mechanic

·        Arbor Buckle – Goblin Blacksmith

·        Ark’xa Mor – Blue Skinned Orc

·        Aro Anois - Scorpion Lady

·        Anne Gale – Garden Spider

·        Ayiqua Unalii – Thunderbird

·        Ayo – Shade Child

·        Azalea Brightsap – Azalea Bush Plantoid

·        Baisu – Stitch Witch

·        Bayleigh Kells – Maron Unicorn

·        Bii Plum – Bee

·        Boo Bee – Ghost Bee

·        Cassidy Miles – Desert Long-eared Bat

·        Catalina Chavez – Lil Barrel Cactus

·        Celosia Strega – Human turned Flame Elemental

·        Cindii – Fire Bee

·        Colette Myr – Oni Lass

·        Coralynn Tato – Cobalt Blue Tarantula

·        CRT – TV headed Robot

·        Cybia "Mia" Pscillo - Mushroom Witch

·        Cushion – Bed Golem

·        Delilah Carnicke – Nurse Shark

·        Elise Vermillion – Astronomer Student

·        Fawn Hylls – Bear Demon

·        Fifai Foe - Firefly

·        Fuba Chichi – Firefly Squid

·        Gazelle – Revenant Skeleton

·        Gretchen Saoire – Werewolf Queen/Mom

·        Hiji Phrydum – Hunter Class Robot

·        Ivie Myill – Indigo Milk Mushroom

·        Illiyad III – Pugilist Robot

·        Ineruiko Ari – Black Inari Fox

·        Ira Jiya – Venus Flytrap

·        Joey – Eldritch Femme Fatale

·        June Indigo Holiday – Mythical Werewolf [Queen] PI

·        Katherine Ryme – Yuki-Onna

·        Kram Bustonthrooh – Oni Girl

·        Kiki Ketsup – Goliath Tomato Plant

·        Lyio Quill – Dandelion Plantoid

·        Lola Friday – Turkey

·        Matilda Rake - The Country Bumpkin Scarecrow

·        Marie Green – Cow Centaur

·        Mascara Rake – The Cast Scarecrow

·        Melody Rake – The Clubbing Scarecrow

·        Meridia Ile – Drow Alchemist

·        Mikola Tescin – Roadie Skeleton

·        Minx Wehr – Harlequin Mime

·        Mirabelle Pumpernickel [Sourdough] – Scottish Fold Cat

·        Mother Magnet – Maid Robot [Malfunctioning]

·        Ms Badger – Plush Badger

·        Mu – Tall Fungal Finder

·        Myca Dime – Bunny Monster Gal

·        Myra Foil – Mantis Robot

·        Nimune - Swamp Monster Lass

·        Nu – Shortstack Fungal Finder

·        Paka Pita – Snail

·        Pamela Grisgill – Infected Human [Vegan Chupacabra]

·        Pebble Cove – Shoebill lady

·        Porridge – Fluffy Pidgeon

·        Portia Bella – Portobello Mushroom

·        Raynae Papria – Dragonfruit Druid Human

·        Rahmiel Valhm – Fallen Angel of Mercy and Love

·        Rhys Lykcit – Ferret Cursed Witch

·        Sara Indippdi – Christmas Crab

·        Sew Bahr – Undead Ghoul Boar

·        Sii Cookie – Mythical Bee

·        Somnia Munel – Shade

·        Valerie Duccat – Honest Gambling Skeleton

·        Vina Erma – Cornucopia Tree

·        Vulcan Oll – Zippo Bounty Hunter

·        Wimona “Wyrm” Zobe - Zombie Girl

·        Ysabell Asor - Blue Rose Noble Plantoid

·        ZugZug Blubba – Trash Golem

·        Zyl Phynx – Plum Vine Plantoid

– Neither / Gender Fluid:

·        Amadrya Cimmerro – Mandeadrake Nymph

·        Charolette Springs – Spider Animatronic

·        Cygnus – Blackhole Effigy

·        Eridanus – Voidling

·        Fui Bya – Wingless Silverspun Moth

·        Gmooh – [Ether] Voidling

·        Halceyon Tide – Ship AI Navigator

·        Kokolo Flor – Long Flower Plantoid

·        Kris[tine] Shio – Pistachio Plantoid.

·        Ookli Ohkapi – Super Space Alien Scout

·        Othello – Caretaker Paper Spirit

·        Perseus – Star Voidling

·        Rubeka – Watermelon Doggo Slime person

·        Septerra – Anu Guardian

·        Stinky – Pile of Grass Plantoid

·        Vivia Paars – Sock Unicorn Puppet

– The Transistioned:

·        Andi Oli – Toxic Salamander

·        Fain Mail – Piloted Assassin

·        Jake Carnickie - Tomboy Shark

– The Imps:

·        Azucar – Sugar Skull Imp

·        Cinder – Ash [Chimney Sweeper] Imp

·        Dandara – Heart Imp

·        Gymnyst – Geode Imp

·        Jiji – Diamond Card Imp

·        Khal – Club Card Imp

·        Kryll – Sea Angel Imp

·        Michio – Mint Chocolate Chip Imp

·        Qux Huulak – Spade Card Imp

– The Fandoms:

·        Blue Heaven – Morning Glory Floran

·        Chip – Furret Pokemon

·        Clenoa “Clover” Donahue – Celtic Earth Pony

·        Hydrani Gea – Deku Scrub Librarian

·        Lilian Seafoam – Gardevoir Pokemon

·        Ludica Trebble – Gijinka Parasect

·        Mio Cir Loto – Seedrian

·        Pip Mozette – French Earth Pony

·        Raspberry Nebula – Mismagius Pokemon

·        Sapphire Tear – Unicorn Pony

·        Stubborn - Ram

·        Rawr – Tiger Pony

·        Tundra Mist [May Rebirth] – Bat Lantern Pony

– Groups / Creature Species:

·        Dragoil Thatchers – Dragon Rustler Desert Protectors

·        Hydroqua – Aquadile

·        Teil – Rainbow Parrot

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A Plot-Speculative Thing That I Think Would Be Really Neat in BotW (and by “Neat” I Mean “Soul-Crushing”)

If they’re going to go for the Tragic Villain route with Ganondorf this time around, but this game has nothing to do with Wind Waker, I’m wondering if they’re going to go the Eveline route?

So, Eveline. Basically a small child who was genetically engineered to be a bioweapon and raised inside of a glass box. Looks ten years old (or 115, by the time the rapid cell degeneration kicks in just before Resident Evil VII starts), but is actually not much older than five. A small child with no socialization whatsoever with a terrifying amount of power and, once she escapes, license to do whatever she wants with no authority figures to tell her what to do. What would have just been a bratty and annoying (but ultimately harmless) little kid turned into an engine of destruction that ruined countless peoples’ lives with the addition of telekinetic fungal powers and a high exposure-to-infection rate.

What I’m thinking the deal with Ganondorf becoming Calamity Ganon might be is that the Royal Family might have been messing around with something they shouldn’t have, and somehow the current iteration of Ganondorf got exposed to it and became an Eldritch monstrosity, or he was exposed to whatever turned him into a monster by his well-intentioned but incredibly-poorly-thought-out attempt to put a stop to whatever the Royal Family was planning (because he is most likely between seven and thirteen, the typical age range that Magical Children of Destiny are exposed to their defining quests), becoming an Eldritch monstrosity in the process. That would explain why he “came out of nowhere;” nobody would have expected a small child to be able to harness/become the Superweapon, and nobody wanted the truth of the matter to leak out, or to acknowledge that they were basically fighting an angry and extremely traumatized young child, so they covered it up with a narrative of a natural disaster that totally came out of nowhere we have no idea how this could have possibly happened we promise.

So he ends up sealed in the castle, grows up in isolation for hundreds of years, without any friends or family to comfort him. By the time Link and Zelda get there, they encounter a horribly warped old man who is responsible for their problems, who is also a confused, frightened, and angry child who has no idea what he’s doing half the time.

Either that, or this Ganon is the Ganon we know from OOT, but the Royal Family asked the Sheikah to hook him up to a machine to use him as a power source for whatever military weapons they had in development (I doubt they would have been able to whip up something like the Guardians so fast if they were truly as “peaceful” a nation as they claimed). Of course, what neither of them took into account was that Ganon was still alive and aware, and didn’t appreciate being taken advantage of as a slave to a kingdom.

So he breaks out, only to be sealed away again by people who have no idea why he’s there in the first place, and spends yet another century in isolation, with the knowledge that everyone he knew is either dead or not coming for him, culminating in yet another encounter with an angry but confused and horribly traumatized old man in a tower somewhere.

I think about Eveline’s final, tearful line of “Why does everyone hate me?” in the context of Calamity/Downfall Timeline Ganon a lot. Eveline was an absolute bastard to everyone under her thrall, because as a lab experiment trained to assimilate and kill with impunity, she had no sense of boundaries or respect for human life. But, at the same time, she still had that childish need to be loved, and to be a part of a family. Even more tragic is that, had she tried not to take what she wanted by force, the Baker family would have gladly given her exactly what she wanted: a loving adoptive family.

I wonder if that was the same thing with Downfall Ganon, too? The desire to be in control might have stemmed from an unstable upbringing, both in the harsh unforgiving climate of his homeland and the unstable and dangerous Hyrule of the pre-OOT Civil War era. He might have begun his quest for dominance as a way to win his peoples’ love, or to compensate for some sort of “failure” that kept him from being a proper King, real or imagined, whether it was because he felt like he wasn’t doing his job because everyone around him was suffering for no reason, or because in some way he wasn’t quite fit for the role he was born into. As with most things involving warfare and politics, it quickly spiraled out of control, until everything was destroyed, and Ganon was basically unrecognizable but trying to hold onto the one thing that had defined his life and his identity.

And if there was a little moment like that, where he asks why everyone hates him and won’t accept him, even though he was born as the “King” of his people and therefore special, but was later rejected by them; even though he “won” and the war is over. That would take him from being just a boring two-dimensional Ancient Evil to someone absolutely pitiful, even if the harm he caused wasn’t necessarily justified or even necessary.

The Good Ending should involve him being depowered and having to live out in Hyrule. He lives under someone’s porch like some kind of awful overgrown feral child, but slowly learns how to interact with other human beings as a human being again.