Sorry if I'm asking too many questions and even sorry if it was asked before.
But what exactly is the classification of this au? What do they mean and if your type of puppet defines your place I that world?
Are there also animatronics?
No need to apologize!
Funny you ask that actually, because Jax is an animatronic! His specific classification is an 'Animatronic Automaton'.
The classifications of Puppets in the Harlequin AU are vast; although still a WIP, I've made some quick guides on the current classifications, so that it's easier to understand them!
And before you ask, Caine's classification is unknown. Not only is it because he's self-modified, he doesn't share details about it either.
i've made this post before but allie by patrick stump is such a song of all time. like surface level it's a ballad about "one that got away", childhood love kinda deal but you listen for two more seconds and it's like. the apex of comedy because it's masquerading as one of those songs, but is actually about the feeling you get when you realize you missed so many signals in a social interaction and you're like FUCK i could've done that BETTER. FUCK! "i'm not broken hearted, i'm just kinda pissed off." i don't want you back, but MAN why did i have to be a CRINGEASS LOSER.
tiana. who are u killing to get these urls? it’s fucking banger after banger over here
actually jesus himself came down and was like tiana you’re so cool and always have great opinions here take this url 😩😩😩😩 in all seriousness i sometimes just reach out to inactive blogs and if they come on after years of inactivity they’ll give it to me (how i got this one) or i get rly lucky because no one tries to save older fob songs thinking they’ll be taken and i save them (how i got thnksfrthmmrs)
If not art can get a bit of description? I know you said it was heavily based off of lies of P and other souls like but I’m kinda curious what the city itself looks like.
If you're looking for City art, I'm afraid there's not much I can give you, since my main focus right now are the characters. I also did not say that Lies of P heavily inspired this AU, I said that it was used as a base inspiration. Aside from that, the AU takes A LOT of creative liberty.
Main street test - concept sketch
The city's look itself is going to be fantasy-esque victorian, taking inspiration from various medias such as The City of Metronome, Little Nightmares 2, We Happy Few, Shadow of the Colossus, Bioshock: Infinite, Dark Deception's Deadly Decadence level, and more. This sketch is a test run of how I want the city to be themed.
Caine's mansion - concept art
This is also an unfinished beta sketch of the mansion that the rest of the gang stays in, Obviously a modified version of the Circus tent from OG TADC. (Z is there for size comparison lmfao, I still need to extend it)
And of course, not only will the City be a former busy, and bustling location (almost china-town like in terms of just how crowded it used to be), it's also going to be filled with dead Puppets.
Just like the Suspenseful Digital Mystery, I do plan on making a masterpost about it, but the story synopsis of the AU is that it follows a serialized-1210 Combat Harlequin named "Pomni": a Puppet who's whole purpose is to fight.
Initially just wanting to defeat the fugitive Puppetmaster, Caine, to "prove a point", she eventually ends up joining the man after he manages to convince Pomni that he's only trying to help improve the situation of Circuit City, a city that's been overrun by manic marionettes, killing and destroying everything that even dares move.
So now, she has to deal with various bosses, with some of them even joining the team after they've been "corrected" by Caine.
The whole AU is inspired by a Souls-like, specifically "Lies of P" because I REALLY love that game. Their designs take on a more Steampunk-esque theming, but the genre of the whole AU is Soulpunk.
So far, the designs I've done yet for the AU are for Caine, Pomni, Ragatha, and Kinger (who's name lacks the "e" part for a e s t h e t i c purposes)
Everyone who's been shown in the TADC canon is bound to be a boss for this AU with the exception of Caine, since he's Pomni's starting ally/objective giver.
And yes, EVERYONE is a different classification of a Puppet, which are robots of sorts.
we are always talking about how we hope the boys know how much we love them and their music and patrick literally talked about having imposter syndrome in dallas two days ago and we all saw how awful he was treated by both fans and the media during soul punk. and now he played spotlight from soulpunk in 2023 to a crowd filled with flashlights and people singing along
patrick stump might still have imposter syndrome about his music but i think he knows how much we love him now
Everybody knows good ol' Olli "fuckass" "cabinet kicker" Liam Blvd-Sys Faggotstump Soulpunk-2011 Foliefag Infinity-On-Fags Foliefag-Deux ^_^ i am quite literally hard to ignore. Sadly.