#a hat in time moleman

[thesopwithcamel]

Of all the things to appear in my head, an A Hat in Time sequel/AU but it takes place about 5-10 years after the original, has overall darker themes, guns, steampunk/cowboy shit and is an RTS like Xcom or Mario and Rabbids wasn't it.

But I actually love the idea so I'm gonna run with it.

And now I'm gonna have to do some shenanigans and formulate an AU but I'm gonna give you a basic rundown of some characters and events (its all spoilers because why not, also [TW for mentions of death and death by overheating]):

|| Mustache Girl redemption story. ||

|| Seriously, anyone who remembers Times End doesn't trust Mu with the worst being openly hostile towards her (namely Conductor and Snatcher...though both use her as a towel girl first before the battle, Timmy is sorta this). It's basically Mu trying her damned hardest to redeem herself in the eyes of others whilst theres a bunch of shit going on. ||

|| All characters are aged up (its, like, ten years since the events of the first game). ||

|| There are two Hat Kid's, one is from the alpha/beta (aka beta kid), the other is a grown up retail Hat Kid. Beta went mad with power with the timepieces and basically overthrew Tim (with help from moonjumper, yes there is cut content) and is causing chaos, Tim recruits a bunch of folks to kick this bitch back to hell. Retail has nothing against Mu and really doesn't wanna be there but, following Ahit ARG shenanigans, had its soul stolen by beta kid and held hostage and knows too much about the first timeline and other secrets to the point she is scared that she might actually get whacked for knowing too much. Both are antagonists working together but their motives are very different and one doesn't wanna be there. ||

|| Tim can use some power but he is barely a shadow of his former self, luckily, Tim's Friend sticks around because it likes Tim more than Beta. ||

|| Retail during her boss fight wears armour so tight that its impenetrable unless explosives are used with it, however there is jack all ventilation and Retail HK canonically || overheats, dies and respawns when she moves up a stage ||...she also has a steampunk minigun thing with a gun-shield which falls off half-way through. ||

|| Bow and Timmy are here too, both enter later and Timmy is hanging out in Vanessa's manor like in the beta where he fucks with Mu for a kinda justifiable reason. Bow opted to work with the declining Nyakuza behind the scenes after the death of Empress, the Empress' named successor is basically a puppet. ||

|| Bow is a one woman army. ||

|| Cut Characters reappear with various reasons for being around, Beta Kid and moonjumper are allied. ||

|| The Conductor is just an arsehole in this, Grooves was able to turn the tides and now he's feeling the burn as Grooves wins awards. The fucker even helps Shapeshifter during its rampage through the Science Express and only owns up to it after he has been shot, stabbed and bludgeoned about 80 times. ||

|| Its not actually Grooves but Connie is just as salty. ||

This shit is weird.

[nesonkin]

In a far away land, it is said there is an anchor, a central point in the dream that is said to connect to God and his imagination. But what does a God dream about?

Ultra Silence, watercolors

[fictionkinfessions]

Hat Kid here.

…… I wish more people knew about the Moleman arg. The devs said it wasn’t actually canon, but… It was canon to me. It happened in a parallel universe, but it was still canon.

I remember talking to Cavum as he slowly died of timeline rejection. I remember the double inception of Master Tempus’s memories. I remember the Founders, and my home planet.

… I wish more people knew what happened there.

-Hat Kid (A Hat in Time) #⚖️🎼🕰️

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[thesilentarchive]

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[shortshowname]

A lot of the time I end up using the moleman alphabet when I write for Hat or Bow :) and I believe what you’re reading as Nyakuza is her signature on Snatcher’s contracts

Cause of being a silent protagonist: Being too embarrassed to correct yourself after a minor misunderstanding

[r3d1ke]

Founders is correct ?

Yes!(no)

[miscmangos-wonderland]

IMPORTANT DISCOVERY FOR A HAT IN TIME MOLEMAN ARG ENJOYERS

The current best way to find all the arg content is through the internet archive. Moleman uploaded EVERYTHING, from the vids to twitter scfeenshots to even audio spectrograms of the arg videos.

link for ease of access

[squimbusfrommypolls]

*Squimbus: character that never wins or makes it in poll competitions on Tumblr.com, typically from media that isn’t well known on tumblr but can just be a very obscure/unpopular character

[ultraboo-developmentblog]

[a-fact-in-time]

A Fact in Time #1

did you know the strange alien cipher font can be found outside of Hat Kid's Hattic closet?

in the later half of Murder on the Owl Express, on either side of the key door and the pet's childhood pet door, there are two screens

(pictured: the cipher on the left, next to the key door.)

"HEY • KID • MOV • EON"

'hey, kid, move on'...? either another silly dev joke (like the silly goose warning sign) or another reference to Hat Kid's family (e.g. Snatcher's Death Wish dialogue, Empress' Rush Hour dialogue). who knows!

(pictured: the cipher on the right, next to the pet's pet door. i apologize for the image quality.)

"BOO • PBE • EPD • OOP"

boop! beep! doop!

[rifter-remembers-rockets]

I can't see a mole, man.

[thesopwithcamel]

'We've got hostiles but you're a member of the Prospero Home Army stuck fighting Keepers in Prospero.'

Video made by Imex P on youtube.

Ever since I joined this fandom I have always had a massive interest in the Moleman ARG and its lore, notably the Time War which occured when the founders through a massive hissy fit and attacked the Shadows to grab an object of unimaginable power for their own usage and deployment: the Sunpiece.

The Founders had the Keepers attack the shadows under the pretense that with the power of the sunpiece the shadows could cause Times End and potentially cause some massive damage, not much about this war, which I and some others call the time war, but all we know is the outcome: the shadows were driven to near extinction, Puella and Tempus found and took in Cavus and shit hit the fan at 1000mph.

I have only seen a couple of interpretations of this conflict and those are few and far between, so I thought I might as well throw my hat into the ring...welcome to Prospero, the first battle of the time war and the worst place to live right about now where you can get bomed from miles away and have a cloak wearing supersoldier with the firepower of light artillary break into your house, drink your milk and then leave.

While the main bulk of the population of Prospero are shadows there are also humans living there who hate the founders...like a lot and as such them sending their troops and Keepers to the city pissed off a lot of people, an entire militia known as the Prospero Home Army was setup under an unidentified captain to fight against this threat.

It very quickly turned into Trench warfare with the militia forced to dig in as wave upon wave of untrained conscripts crashed against their defenses, the only time their lines fell was with either overwhelming bodies or Keeper's came and did a little bit of trolling.

Prospero fell a few short weeks after the initial landing, due to overwhelming numbers of conscripts charging at their lines as well as a large number of Keepers arriving the PHA and Shadows began evacuating civilians from the city via train and airship, some of these trains didn't make it but the monumental effort paid off brilliantly. After the last civilian was evacuated the PHA also left the city before it was levelled by nuclear torpedoes buried in the sewer systems to prevent its capture, Prospero claimed millions...but worse was to come.

[nesonkin]

I'm trying to draw more. Here's Puellakami a.k.a. a hypothetical ending of Trab and I where Puella becomes the new God and stops the White Twilight.

moleman fans come get yall juice

[fictionkinfessions]

You know, the fact that I only kin one incarnation of Hat Kid on the main timeline (I kin two other versions of her that are WILDLY canon divergent though) is kind of funny given how much reincarnation/soul stuff was happening with the Keepers back home.

Master Tempus, Puella, and myself were all “the same person”…. but different, due to time hijinks. The best I can really describe it is we used technology to de-age dying Keepers back to their infancy and repurpose their soul for a new being. So I carried a part of them with me, despite not sharing any of their memories.

Due to timeline shenanigans, though, I was able to meet both Tempus and Puella and it wasn’t a big deal, although the ones from my timeline weren’t the same from the Moleman timeline- The only one I met from the Moleman timeline was Cavum.

Anyway! Weird stuff. Honestly I’m curious if anyone even kins from the Moleman timeline given how obscure and complex the ARG is.

-Hat Kid (A Hat in Time) #⚖️🎼🕰️

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[children-of-subcon]

SOMEONE in this AU had to semi-consistently have a braincell.

Sorry about how inconsistently he’s drawn here :”) Out of all the characters so far, he’s the one I’ve drawn the least. Hopefully as I draw him more it’ll get more consistent!

I’m admittedly not super happy with his colors, but I’ve spent way too long trying to adjust them. Can’t win ‘em all ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

If you’re confused what Prince means by “apocalypse”, he’s talking about Time’s End. The transmission’s happening like right before he goes down to face Princess :)

(His pockets are crescent moons :O)

As always, more info under the cut!

Meet Duke, the co-op partner/alternate protagonist! He’s also sometimes called Mon or Moon, mostly by Prince. In the main timeline, he arrives on Earth sometime around USAU’s version of Seal the Deal.

As the most promising student of Time Keeper’s Academy, Prince was subjected to several experiments, many of them painful, in an effort to study and replicate such qualities. One of these experiments used him to test newly developed cloning technology-- after all, creating a clone would be the easiest way to achieve their goal, right?

As it turned out, they were able to create a clone, but not quite as intended. The experiment sort of “split” Prince. His health and strength were halved, becoming just above that of the average child of their species. The experiments were shut down indefinitely.

Despite everything, Prince and Duke became great friends, and consider themselves brothers. They usually speak to each other in their native language, even on Earth.

While Prince has already graduated, Duke is still in school since he’s technically younger. He wasn’t allowed to study law, so he went into the next best thing-- star mapping! It was a combination of two of his favorite things, space and painting. Since it’s actually part of his job, Duke is a much better pilot than Prince, and can travel to Earth under the guise of “studying”.

Although he loves his brother, he really dislikes when people treat him like he IS Prince, as most of his peers and superiors do, although it’s at least better than the ones who don’t even consider him “human”. So, he does his best to make himself look as different as possible, going as far as dying his hair and changing his eye color. It helps... a little bit.

He’s not super confident, nor very good at socializing, but he’s usually very focused and the only one here with a healthy amount of self esteem. He’s not afraid to ask for help if he needs it, and often helps others realize when they need it too. With the exception of his brother, who is equally as stubborn as him and may need a little extra help with asking for... help. Oh no.

All of his crowns are the same as Prince’s, excluding his default monocle. The glasses are a flair for the monocle :)

Thanks for reading! I might make Duke a small comic at some point, but I’m still working on Bow’s so. We’ll see!

[star-cooki]

Now Featuring Puella from the Ahit ARG lore (Sketch to Color)

Adult! Puella

The Hat duo (Hat kid & Puella)