#obdlc

[aquato-family-circus]

Compared to Compton's Cookoff, I feel Mentallis' Movies stages would include a lot more backstages as well sets, showing the stage of completion of the different 'scenes'. (I didn't mean to make this into a pun, but it fits really well!) It's an on-going movie shoot setting, after all.

You're never done dazzling the audience! You must make sequels upon sequels! (Aka placating and impressing the public.)

you come across a backstage/greenroom type area with movie posters like PSYCHONAUTS 56: PLEASE FUND OUR NEW MAILROOM!! Starring Otto and Truman

[finch-the-fungi]

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Chapter 10:  Delete all the programs you’re no longer using…

AO3 link: HERE  Fandom: Psychonauts Pairings: None Rating: M (due to mental health themes) Summary:  With 0tt0 putting all systems on high alert and his plan for full productivity into action, Lili and Raz must find a way to stop his scheme that won’t overwhelm Otto in the waking world.

A multi-chapter fanfiction based around @aquato-family-circus ’s “Otto’s Brain DLC”.

Finally moved house and managed to get some more motivation, sorry it's been so long again! Thank you all for all your support - It's been so lovely reading everyone's comments.

If this was the first time entering Otto’s mind, it would be easy to say that everything looked well-kept, neat, and tidy. No overflowing pipes or hazardous plants overgrowing in the hedge-maze. However, this was the third time Razputin had entered this mind and things looked too tidy.  

“We need to find 0tt0... and destroy that bad idea before it goes too far.”

Lili grinned, punching her own palm in excitement at the prospect of directional-violence.

They traversed the mindscape cautiously, avoiding any semblance of constructs rather than facing them head on – it seemed like 0tt0 had fitted them with some kind of device that would alert the whole mind to anyone attempting to interrupt his plans. There were even crude posters up of Razputin.

“Hehe – you look like a little robot.” Lili showed him, the boy groaning and shaking his head. “It’s cute.”

Finally reaching the building at the centre, both children held hands as they focussed and soon teleported inside the building foyer.

“Is it just me... or has this been going a little too easily so far?”

“Don’t jinx it!”

They crept through the building looking for the motivational construct and/or bad idea, soon reaching a purple lit room.

“That’s not ominous. Who says that’s ominous?”

Within, the once small motivational speaker now stood at Otto-height, donning a long robe that practically trailed behind him. He also seemed to have wiring wrapped around him like muscle fibres giving him a physical body, the bad idea purring as it seemed to precariously perch on his shoulder, purring into his ear.

Lili tugged on Raz’s sleeve, before pointing to some wires and tubing that trailed down from the ceiling to something under the platform the construct was working on.

“Ah, finally we can get some use out of those meddlesome emotions... We’re going to be ten times more productive once we get this body back up and running. And no more being held back by ‘friends’ or ‘morality’.”

Both children ducked back behind a pillar when the construct turned to leave the room, waiting a solid five minutes before rushing over to the screens and looking over the tubing trying to work out what was connected to what.

“What’s he using all these tubes for anyway...” she asked only for the room to plunge into darkness.

After a few beats, purple light spiralled the platform and the building itself seemed to rumble before a voice echoed from below.

“Would you like to find out?”

[britishsass]

if an otto dlc happened i''d reintroduce nightmares in his mind and make them very much like archviles in offense

Honestly they totally should reintroduce nightmares!! I miss them a lot!! I might not know what archviles are (never played that game) but I definitely wish we had them every now and then

(also, there's a good reason my obdlc is/was called nightmare obdlc... I just haven't worked on it in so long >-<)

[jnixz]

I like OBDLCs a normal amount

Fanart for some designs for people’s Otto Brain Level!! Kinda concepty but I really should be working on other things haha, these look good nuff tho!

@aquato-family-circus ‘s 0tt0 Mechanus + boss fight poster like thing! 

@banjo-bugs​ ‘s figment Otto

@save-me-san-fran-psychonauts​ ‘s clippy Otto

Apologies if it strained anyone’s eyes haha, I do have a weakness for high contrast + high saturation stuff

[2hoothoots]

lichtenberg

[themotherlobehq]

@aquato-family-circus

Inspired by your proposed ‘movie / documentary / always being watched’ take for OBDLC:

I have vague ideas for the Boss, inspired by @inkybeeboops with the Confident Showman. The idea for the climax of the showdown is Otto weakening the Showman / Star by destroying the stage sets depicting the sanitized, distorted history of the Psychic Seven, the Psychonauts, and the events of the Deluge.

Just a little emotional catharis, as a treat.

[feel-mobile]

What is the Idea that supposedly will help with everything in Otto's mind in your OBDLC according to your OC? Or is that spoilers?

oh haha you must have been scrolling awhile to come across my old otto dlc stuff! i haven't given it much thought in awhile since i had so many ideas that they were spilling over and ruining the whole thing

i'm trying to figure out what idea you're talking about and yes, i think it was spoilers. i may try and plan some stuff out more. just in case, yknow? id like to leave it unspoiled

[aquato-family-circus]

Otto Brain DLC. Hollis preemptively calls from her vacation into the Motherlobe and requests another week of vacation. She had a feeling... Truman looks around and sighs, "I'll finalize the paperwork. You've built up enough for another one, and we have enough hands."

Because it'd be unfair to dump all of that chaos at Hollis' feet just as she returned to work.

Using precognition to avoid the chaos of this mess, queen shit

[aquato-family-circus]

Otto Brain DLC. As the loving friends they are, the rest of the Psychic Seven sometimes stack things on Otto's face during his frequent naps post Brain Visit.

Otto's resigned to it. He tells them that whoever wakes him from his nap before he does on his own or make things falls on his face owes him at least two times an expensive lunch, bought or self-made.

It's like a game of reverse jenga. Winner of the heighest stack so far has been Ford bc he's the best judge of when Otto may or may not wake up and ruin his streak.

[aquato-family-circus]

Funny idea for your two Otto Brain DLC AUs.

One of the Mental Denizens Raz meets in Mentallis' Marvels is a robot emaluating Otto but wearing an elaborate outfit and acting more like Tincan Zanotto in Compton's mind.

The Showman complains about 0tt0's micromanaging everything recently. He doesn't have a shred of pizzaz! How are they supposed to bedazzle any potential investors like this if he (the Showman) isn't at the front?

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In Mentallis' Movies, 0tt0 is a stressed director ticking off lists for the movies. He knows they have to make a good impression in front of the press and he WILL do his job, but the Showman doing this whole hubbub is keeping them from actual productive work that will bring in money! Like developing the mini-astrolethes!

REALLY funny to imagine all these different flavors of Otto's psyche having Opinions about each other and one becomes more prominant than the other depending on which of these aus is happening! I like that a lot, it lines up with my perception of the Mind in Psychonauts that visiting a brain isn't always gonna get you the same landscape and issues every time

it also gives Otto a Cassie parallel in that he's compartmentalizing different parts of himself like that. I really like whenever parallels between those 2 can be drawn since they both recognize the self in the other and go OH EW, GROSS

also WHEW, its been a hot minute since I thought abt the other aus that got talked abt here besides the main 0tt0/Mentallis Marvels/Otto's Immune System concept

[britishsass]

I'm playing Brass Goggles again which means I'm thinking about OBDLC ideas again

Turing 🤝 0tt0: I'm a little guy and I am loved by everyone for being adorable :3 I'm the one everyone likes to doodle too~

Lovelace 🤝 0tt0: Green electricity-based overly positive denizens who are the most likely antagonist to an outside perspective who's going in expecting an antagonistic denizen, despite also being outwardly friendly and being basically a tour guide to those who enter

Win-0 🤝 0tt0: nothing. These two have nothing in common other than both being in the same brainstorm session

That's all for the moment but. Wow Lovelace and 0tt0 are similar.

[aquato-family-circus]

It would be spooky after the explosion in Otto's Brain DLC. The deep spiral carved into the rockbed where once the psychoseismometer was. Debris around the site floating. Pressure on your brain and headaches as well as intense feelings of dread. The electronics as well as Otto's inventions are going haywire although the entire lab should be cut off from energy.

How many would know the source was an overloaded psychoseismometer? When would this be discovered? (Maybe Raz tells his suspicions?) This could be how ghost stories start in the universe. Strong feelings from psychics spill out and remain in an area, making it 'haunted'.

Ghost sightings at least in part being the result of psychic energy spilling out is a really cool idea in general :00 I bet that could be fertile ground for fun story ideas even beyond OBDLC

but in the context, yeah absolutely his lab looks absolutely HAUNTED after this explosion, I think I've written before how it's not even possible to get in there because all the entrances have been blocked off/broken except the OttoBON, which is why Raz is able to scramble in there with Lili following him close behind (BECAUSE, as is heavily implied, they can use the ottobon because theyre SMOL...)

The kids are able to push through the immense presure of the psychic haywire energy because Raz has canon really high mental defenses and Lili has more experience if we're willing to believe her assertion that she's already higher ranked than any of the interns

[britishsass]

Table of Contents

I realized recently I never really properly introduced myself here... It's about time I did that, yeah?

General Information:

My name is Owl

I use they/them pronouns

My AO3 is the_angst_alchemist. That's where I post the majority of my fanfiction.

My Tumblr (BritishSass) is the place for every other bit of information-- this place is really hectic, though, and it rarely sticks to one idea at a time.

My Toyhouse (BritishSass) has most of my OC reference photos.

Currently, story requests are: CLOSED.

Currently, art requests are: CLOSED.

Current, commissions (Info here!) are: OPEN!

I'll include more information under the cut for my WIPs, AUs, and more!

Feel free to ask about any of my WIPs, by the way! I'd be happy to discuss them with others :)

Major WIPs:

Mirror Man (Editing) - This story is an original story, and I'd like to keep the majority of it relatively secret.

Otto's Ordeal (Writing) - [Link] - "Otto Mentallis is not doing okay. It's up to the rest of the Psychic 7 to help him out with the things he's been pushing down, even if he doesn't know how to accept the help they're desperate to give him." - [TAG]

Brain in the Heptadome (Writing) - [Link] - "Loss hits everyone differently. Some avoid the past, some surround themselves with it, some just walk the line between past, present, and future. Helmut isn't sure how to handle it all, even five years later. Especially when the plants seem so determined to get him to do things he's not quite ready for yet." - [TAG]

After the Flood (Writing) - [Link] - "After the Battle of Grulovia, four people find themselves in an unknown land without any knowledge of who they are or why they're in this cold place. After the Battle of Grulovia, three people try to pick up the pieces of a group that lost most of its members to the waves. After all, it's not like they could've survived a Grulovian winter, right?" - [TAG]

Less Major WIPs:

Cursed AU

TL!Ford au

Back to the Start

AUs:

(There's a list of more below! These are just a few important ones.)

Maligustus AU

Jarswap AU

Nightmare OBDLC

Time Lord Ford AU

Other important things:

OC Masterlist

Psychonauts OCs

AU Masterlist

"Things I Know" Masterlist

Anything Else?

I'm polyamorous and asexual. These are important to my identity.

I really enjoy talking to people, but I can get really nervous about it too-- I will still try to reach out where I can, but the easiest way to talk to me is about ideas.

And with that... Welcome to my blog. I promise I'll try to keep most posts less rambly than this.

[britishsass]

if could do any of your aus in a nutshell like videos what whould they be like?

TL;DR: I might've done the wrong type of video so I'll go with explaining both.

If you mean: Explaining the AU in a humorous, sketchy fashion that isn't well-animated.

i mean I did one of them for an old Portal au of mine already-- A few years back, sure, but that did happen. It can be found right here.

ANYWAYS! I feel like those videos are reserved for stories with two traits: a) the plot goes way off of what's expected, and b) they have clear arcs.

Couldn't do it for Jarswap or Maligustus then, since those are mostly "It's the same except X, let's think about what all that changes." (Same with Winged, Adultswap, Pshift, Shiftswitch, and other roleswaps/minor changes.)

Couldn't do it for TL!Ford-- it doesn't have definite arcs and it's hard for me to really narrow down everything that's happening there. (Same basic idea for No Astrolathe, Youtuber Augustus, Inscryption, Advisor Augustus, or Gristol Aquato.)

Therefore: This already cuts out a ton of options. There's only a few left, so let's talk about each in turn:

Escape the Circus: Absolutely not. Listen, I enjoy it, but I haven't finished it yet or come up with where it goes.

Valvonauts: I could see it. There are a lot of differences that are planned, but I'd have to really work hard on getting everything figured out. I mean, Cecil and I still haven't really decided on where exactly some major changes fit in, like the whole Blaperture Mesa Conspiracy plot, which I will not be explaining right now. There's also a lot of different stuff here, so I think it would be best to wait on that.

Nightmare OBDLC: This is the one that I think would be the most likely, even though I haven't finished it. I love drawing my little dudes so that's a plus, plus it has a definite arc and storyline. Win-win.

If you mean: Describing the characters using humorous gifs/pictures, like "[abc] when [xyz happens]"

I'd want a story with a lot of characters. Most likely going with Valvonauts or one of the roleswaps, but I wish I could come up with an excuse to do it for Jarswap.

[aquato-family-circus]

"What does Otto Mentallis' Brain look like?" "Yes!"

I've been wanting to pay a little tribute to everyone else's very fun little Otto ideas, since a lot of them inspired my own take, so finally we are here. If yours isn't here, don't worry about it, just means I must've missed it! Mostly worked with ones that had visual refs or at least detailed descriptions~

I included everyone's usernames in the images themselves, and here's the direct links to where I got the refs for these concepts too, so you can show them some love:

@banjo-bugs [x] @britishsass [x] [x] (second link is a fanfic series, go read it) @jnixz [x] @razputin-archetype [x] @save-me-san-fran-psychonauts [x] @sunnievii [x] @vikviky [x]

All image descriptions under the cut:

General ID: 7 Images depecticting different people's interpretations of mental denizens who would occupy the head of Otto Mentallis. A majority of them are iterations on Otto's design, barring a few exceptions such as jnixz and britishsass' concepts. Each image is labeled with the text "Concept By -" followed by the respective person's tumblr username. End ID.

ID #1: Concept by Banjo-Bugs. A continuous line drawing of an abstracted Otto Mentallis looking angry as he balls his fist and points aggressively to the left. The linework of his outer limbs and body is teal, then it grows from yellow to red as the colors reach his face. His eyes are swirling and bright yellow. He's surrounded by particle effects in the same colors as his body, and the background is a solid dark blue with blotches of darker blue circles. End ID.

ID #2: Concept by Britishsass. Three mechanical figures stand beside each other, each on top of a colored circle that is connected to a line that travels across the background in an erratic pattern. From left to right, the figures are Win-0 on the blue line, Turing on the red line, and Lovelace on the green line. Win-0 is a humanoid robot with a bronze/copper like complexion and ball-jointed limbs. It's wearing brass goggles on top of their head, a blue neckerchief, a grey t-shirt and a dark grey pair of overalls with black shoes and a brown belt. Turing is a simplistic robot with a circular head, bright red eyes, and an oval body with a small brain decal on the chest, tube arms, claw hands, and a singular wheel instead of legs. They're wearing a tiny floating hat with a brain decal, as well as a big brown satchel slung over one of his arms. Lovelace is a semi-humanoid robot with long, flowing metal hair, a stark white face with eyes that resemble camera apertures, mitten-like hands, and an electrical ghost tail. She's wearing a flowing grey dress with long sleeves under a green cloak with a silver heart on top. It also has a big green bow on the top of their head. End ID.

ID #3: Concept by Jnixz. A small silhouette of Otto Mentallis is floating down a green murky area as a large monster glowers down at him with bright yellow eyes. The monster resembles the design for a nightmare from Psychonauts, but it is much larger than a typical nightmare, and its multiple arms are all individually representative of a member of the Psychic 7. The limbs are all slightly out of focus, making the focus of the piece the Nightmare's skull-like head. End ID.

ID #4: Concept by Razputin-Archetype. A version of Otto that is modeled after blocky toys or miniature figurines one would find in a diorama or museum display. He has a slight wood grain texture and his joints are connected by small metal chains. He has his hands behind his back and he's looking up wistfully as he stands in a diorama depicting the heptadome by using pictures of in-game screenshots, superimposed on each wall and the floor. End ID.

ID #5: Concept by Save-Me-San-Fran-Psychonauts. A small Otto that is made of bright teal linework on top of a pitch black background. He has fluffy hair, and he's wearing a college graduation hat and robe. He looks determined as he holds onto a rabbit drawn in the same style which has ears meant to resemble lightbulbs. He's surrounded by bright red shark fins that are circling around his feet. End ID.

ID #6: Concept by Sunnievii. Three robotic versions of Otto expressing the emotions of Love, Anger, and Sadness. The Lovestruck Otto is colored in a pink monochrome, and has a heart on his chest that is showing an electrocardiogram, also in the shape of hearts. The Angry Otto is red, has sharper features, and has one hand raised up in a fist. The Sad Otto is blue and has softer features. He is slumped over in a defeated posture, one of his eyes is broken like glass, and his chest has a lightbulb inside of it. The background is a solid yellow color with white lines radiating from the three Ottos, in the shape of hearts, electrical lines, and rain, respectively. End ID.

ID #7: Concept by Vikviky. Otto is standing up against a dilapidated wooden door covered in wooden boards nailed to it, rusty chains, and a yellow ribbon labeled "DANGER!". Otto looks frightened and has his arms up in a defensive posture. His hair and cloak are wavier than is normal, the cloak especially starts to curl off into whisps resembling smoke at the bottom. His Psychonauts dress is also longer, reaching the ground. His glasses are bright yellow and glowing, one obscures his eye while the other is broken, revealing that his visible eye is bloodshot. In the background there are scribbles of eyes starring down at Otto. End ID.