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[def-ghijk]

Def Ghijk

Monday Morning (what to do?)

[silverskye13]

Hermit A Day May 8: Hypnotizd

It has been a long long time since I've drawn my little Eldritch Cheerios Eyestones, but if anyone would have em, it would be Hypno!

His armor is loosely based off one of the Frenzied Flame armor sets from Elden Ring, because, more eye themes for the eye guy.

[cypherpers0na]

wip of this beautiful man╰(*´︶`*)╯♡★

[misplaced-aquarius]

Comm for ShyGuyCharley (unrelated character) but they also have a small Twitch/YouTube gaming channel with plenty of lovely pixel RPG games that could use some peeps to good peeps to chat with (shameless friend plug, cough cough, it'd mean a lot, cough!)

[coreechi]

Cult Leader Diva and Eldest Daughter Bhaal Spawn - Aoife

[nighthallow87]

Made a pillbug self insert for comedic effect.

Credit to @serialbxwl for creating this au🤎

[trainerethan]

Red: mixes food/needs to eat each food in equal portions

Green: needs foods to be seperate and eats them in a certain order but one at a time.

[thedevilsrain]

he needs to die on an explosion

[dizzybevvie]

mash has the worst taste ever it tastes like slime you can’t chew it it’s awful and makes me want to throw up but ALSO

cowboy Astrid whose belt is lined with skulls

cowboy Astrid who tucks her jeans into her boots - it’s more practical that way

cowboy Astrid whose hat is lined with the print of nadder spines

Ohhhh my god. Loz the BRAINROT this gave me. are you serious /pos

[justcallmealt]

And if you are going to leave A LOT OF fkng dirty dishes AGAIN I'm going to torture you in the cruellest way possible

Wash all of them at LEAST ONCE

The kitchen is sacred and I can't cook when there's a lot of things that keep me distracted

it's so funny how half of us are like "food is sacred and the kitchen is holy ground. to break bread with others is inherently sacrament" and the other half of us are like "my villain origin story is someone looked at me when i was in the kitchen"

[sweetevoltrap]

So Mephisto having an actual consciousness/soul IG:

- I'm assuming Sylus obvi can't make souls, but maybe he placed one? Or more likely perhaps;

- Stolen data/research from one of the Ever consciousness upload projects that Sylus took pity on and gave a body in the form of Meph in return for loyalty and keeping a covert eye on MC?

- Stolen tech from his space banditry/spaceship fleet hoard, like an AI he decided to not leave behind? This is kinda boring unless we tie it into a new myth with their time conquering space being pirates or whatever, even still not compelling enough so perhaps, considering...

- we have also seen references to androids now in game, which makes sense as an attempt for a longevity project with Ever trying to overcome mortality and potentially entropy itself etc. Androids couldn't be an endgoal bc tech will degrade, but clearly they have dabbled.

- Did Ever farm through MCs memories of her other lives before she forgot them? I debated at one point if Meph could be connected to MC more directly like an imprint of her mind or something Ever made, but that seems probably too convoluted, despite that the timeline for this game is already so convoluted lol. But Sylus clearly has a deep affection for Mephisto and is open about it versus his more guarded affection even for the twins.

- Seems a little too coincidental that MC pulled the eye out of the android to deactivate them, with it being protocore technology and Sylus having his in his eye as well, allegedly. I'm only 85% certain it's an aethercore in the same manner as MCs, frankly he's noncommittal when she mentions it initially "you could say that" I believe. I think if Sylus had a similar eye/tech it would probably provide a more believable path at integration with Mephisto than maybe just "soul magic" or whatever.

- we know Sylus has a keen mind for tech and engineering/hacking at times in the story/memories -- maybe Sylus hacked and reprogrammed/enhanced the addition out of necessity? He wouldn't leave something that could be a vulnerability, but also repurposing something could maybe be beneficial to him, especially since with Mephisto he's able to see MC easily.

[amygdala-ink]

[blondepomeranian]

Per strict orders from my supervisor, I went and played with some cats today and took pictures. Now I can't share the pictures because they're of owned animals, but like.

Cat owners... I get it now.

They're so expressive. So Shaped(TM).

[diycraftyjane]

#PAPER LEAVES DIY

[avilakaylen]

Landscape - Vertical Garden Image of a sizable, partially-shaded backyard landscaping

[szynkaaa]

The Shape of Monkey

EDIT 22/01/2025 @blackknight-kai has made some additional interesting observation about the shape of monkey and their fur placement with things that I previously missed, please check out her post for the details

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Some of my friends were talking about the monkey design in Black Myth Wukong, in terms of how much of monkey features the DO/SWK has, and how we wished they devs added a bit more "monkey" ness to the DO, which then made me realize, the devs did do that, but just not for the "normal" game model that we use to play.

The anatomy here is pretty much very normal, the only few traits pointing at him being a monkey are his feet, tail, his face and his fur.

My friend (who doesn't even play BMW or knows about JTTW but is a certified monster fucker) said she doesn't count him as a monster because his shape is too human LOL

This is how he looks in Chapter 5 ending animation:

very human shaped.

which brings me back to the monkey that looks more like a monkey in the game

The Stone Monkey is a two phase we fight in the final boss battle, after we defeat him he breaks and out comes the Broken Shell of the Great Sage

After you finish the first playthrough, you get the Stone Monkey as a transformation, called the Azure Dome.

If you do the True Ending, you transform into the Azure Dome for the first time towering over monkeys and beat the shit out of the four heavenly kings and Erlang. Great fight 10/10

proprotionally speaking, his arms seems a bit longer, or least looks like it due to his big hands. His tails is also longer (don't have a screenshot of that unfortunately), and his ears are pointed. I also think that his mouth structure is a lot more monkey like with it being more pointed forward than his normal model.

Canonly, SWK can change his size into very big or very small, but I don't think in JTTW it was ever described that he had a Stone Monkey form. He is a stone monkey, or monkey born from stone.

I really love that the devs took it literal and created a form and transformation that looks like a monkey and you can see from his tecture that he is supposed to be made from stone

He punches people and also when he dodges he walks on all four. So I guess that is the closest to a monkey we will get from DO/SWK

Chapter 6 ending animation also goes with a more "monkey" like anatomy for Wukong's design

point ears, longer limbs, shorter legs. I love that they added the red face blush here too. His tail is never shown in the animation, but looking at his pilgrim outfit set and the pulge in his pants (no not that one), he probably hides his tail inside his pants. it's kind of a cute detail

The Old Monkey we see also has more human like proportions:

all the other monkeys in the background (beside DO) are more monkey.

Here are the models I pulled from the game

I also love that each monkey has a different fur "pattern", gives them more variety

This one we only see when you reach the normal ending, when the DO did not break the cycle and the headband is put back onto his head, we see this monkey in the fetal position and then it zooms out to the stone egg and sad credit song plays. You can watch the clip here.

I think it's clear that the devs are trying to show an unbron monkey still in the womb, the stone egg/birth stone being the womb in this case, waiting for the next DO to come and finish SWK's revival.

I guess the stages of growth could be like this:

Why did Game Science went for a more human-like approach for the Monkey in terms of design?

We don't know the answer, it was never mentioned anything in the game about it and I have not come across any interviews about it yet.

I do think that the choice to make the Stone Monkey more monkey like and the "normal" monkey more human like was a deliberate choice by the devs.

For the animation, I believe the Game science gave the studio some references on "hey this is how our monkey looks like" and then let the studio do its own thing style-wise, hence why in Ch. 5 animation monkey has a more human like anatomy but ch. 6 comes with more monkey like anatomy

My personal HC is that SWK has a more human-like anatomy to show that he has a high level of cultivation maybe? We have seen in the game there are few yaoguais that are able to take on human appearances, such as the Pingping and the 5th spider sister. And yes, I also hc that SWK does have a monkey-form too that he can transform into.

I'm really begging for Game Science to release an artbook with concept art and background info on why they did this and that