#resonance smp

[autisticlalna]

the "Who is VikingPilot?" Powerpoint is now available!

tysm everyone that helped on it, and especially Viking for freaking presenting it live holy crap. that was definitely an experience! i definitely recommend the VOD for this one, it's wild. anyway, here's your crash course on everyone's favorite split-color bell boy!

[fluffy-papaya]

happy resonance announcement day

[vikingpilot]

So you wanna know more about VikingPilot? Well there's this power point presentation...

its happening live right now! and if you miss it, the vod will be there too! come check it out!

[fallow-foot]

Just a little viki for the sillies.

Sure hope he didn’t see anything he wasn’t supposed to 👍

[resonance-updates]

(07/22) Resonance SMP posted a tweet!

✨CHARACTER REVEAL ✨

"You think you can catch me?"

🥽Say hello to Viki! A inquisitive fellow that yearns for adventure!

📨Welcome @Viking_Pilot to Resonance SMP!

(Mod note: here's Viking's YouTube and Twitch, and he's on Tumblr as well @vikingpilot!)

[stressed-sock]

bug!!

[oogiezucca207]

So.. i gotten myself into a smp...

[mlpmdog]

Ayo?

[treesareredinautumn]

art is a form of mindfulness uwu

[lastlifesmp]

Can we all agree Oli Orionsound is the mystery person who Sausage had to use his coin on. Literally who else on that series is a "one day they will release that" info instead of a oh yeah you'll see very soon when their next episode drops

[erstwhilesparrow]

hey does it ever make you kind of crazy that post-reunion, c!owen introduces himself to us as owen agarci? agarci as in the name of the demon he shot in the chest during his trial? we know that's not c!owen's real last name -- he tells us so right then and there -- but i think it matters that of the last names he could have chosen for his lie, he took this one. his last name might have been the only thing he still carried with him of his family, of his past before the attack, and he refuses to use it or admit to it.

because it is an introduction, y'know? his narration, after the reunion, is a way of remaking himself in our eyes -- he is not the person we thought he was, so he needs to introduce himself again. and here, the thing he claims as his originating point, as the moment from his past he wants to carry around with him in something so fundamental as his name, is the moment he first killed a demon. this is the most important piece of his past. this, he is telling us, is where he comes from.

i think a lot about how we never actually see owen's parents. i don't even think we get their names? we get their voices in flashbacks over shots of empty fields and unpopulated streets. there is a kind of blankness to owen's past, or to what owen will reveal to us of his past, that forces us to take on faith that he is telling the truth when he talks about his own history. there is no one who could say otherwise; all the people who might have known him before he was a soldier and then a general are almost certainly dead.

it grants owen a fascinating degree of control over his own history. of course he can remake himself in this way, of course he can tell any story he wants of himself in this way; there's no one left to dispute his claims. in a way, he is his own origin -- as he tells us the story of his life, he is also creating that story. he came out of those woods with nothing but a bow on his back, no history, no one still living who could call to him by name. whatever life he lived before that point doesn't matter -- the thing that fundamentally made him the person who walked into town and demanded to join the army wasn't the life he lived with his parents, it was the violence he'd been exposed to and the violence he'd discovered himself willing and able to engage in. or so his story goes.

do you think when he woke up at the bottom of that elevator, memories wiped, nothing left to him of his past, there was some strange sense that he had done this before? do you think he rose up toward the light of the clearing above, empty-handed and alive, his entire life before this point a history waiting for him to tell it, and wondered why it felt familiar?

or maybe it's that he's refusing us. because following his turn during reunion, there's almost a sense that he has tighter control of the camera now. he addresses his 'voices' nearly antagonistically, wishing we/they would go away, responding and talking to us/them in a way that feels harsher than how he's addressed chat in the past. he's frustrated with us/them: why are you still here, i thought i was done with you. he accuses us/them of only pretending to care, of lingering not so much out of concern or any desire to do something as out of some morbid curiosity. there's a degree of access to him that we seem to have lost. it's as if he's finally certain that there is an audience, and what he's willing to show us shifts.

there's something really lovely and horrifying about a lot of the more scripted sections of owen's pov after the reunion. how it shows us things only he knows (the knife in his hotbar for much of his dinner conversation with guts, the beat where he grabs his backpack and reaches for a weapon when it seems like ayngel is about to recognize him, the interaction with puddy in the second clearing when he visits with krow), but we are nevertheless shut out of his interiority as he starts talking less to others, starts favouring third-person camera shots and narration where he gets to step out of the moment and talk to us directly. you can even think about the 'scripted by owengejuicetv' segments after each kill as signalling this: he has such visible direct control of the story we get to know now. he is the one who gets to tell this story, who gets to move the pieces on the board. here's what happened, he says to us. this is how it went. this is what i do and who i am and here are the parts that mattered. do you ever think about how rasbi's ending wasn't streamed from her pov? do you ever think about how the only witnesses to rasbi's death were rasbi herself, and owen?

[autisticlalna]

did a test art stream last night that went for 4 and a half hours and was pure chaos. somehow in the midst of all that i managed to finish two drawings! :D

i've drawn Wanderer before but it was ages ago and i didnt like it much, so its nice to have an updated version! ive been enamored by this guy since HCYT but he's been a bit of a struggle for me to figure out what i wanna do with drawing him

meanwhile i havent drawn Viki at all until now but i'm completely in love with this design. i love weird little big guys! it always looked like he has big glasses to me so i brought the goggles down and gave him extra arms because Why Not. also the pauldron is a bottlecap =D

[craftycalico]

Souuulll Eater au :)

(Ranboo design by lavalender on Twitter :D)

[vikingpilot]

I present to you... VIKI PEA! Minster on Resonance SMP! dont put him in a jar. he doesnt like being trapped

[fallow-foot]

WHERE DO I GO?!

*viki panicking noises ensue*

Surely little guy will be find after this yep mhm. Nope definitely not gonna be scared of everything and anyone, what noooo. /sarcasm

(Darker version plus viki doodles under cut)

Fully believe viki is not sleeping on the bed but just right on the ground next to the bed leg out of direct veiw.

[resonance-updates]

(07/24) Resonance SMP posted a tweet!

✨CHARACTER REVEAL ✨

"Let's get to writing! The world is my story."

✍️Say hello to Abel! An aspiring writer, searching for a new story to create!

📨Welcome @FMcwizz to Resonance SMP!

(Mod note: Here's Frizz's carrd, YouTube, and Twitch!)