#tektite outer wilds

[process-analog]

moments of calm and kids being kids

[cobaltbluesu]

all my outer wilds related outer wilds comics (there's only two really unfinished so meh) for funsies since I have too much cringe in my blood to finish any of them

about riebeck, hornfels, chert and gabbro

about hornfels, feldspar, riebeck (finished)

about gneiss, slate and some ocs/// second one is about slate and one oc

about feldspar, futurely tektite/// feldspar and some ocs

about slate and an oc

about marl and riebeck

two animatic/comic things, first is about feldspar + the village/// second is Gossan and Slate

first one is about elwensa's au: the legend of outer wilds, feldspar + hatchling second is about gossan, slate, hatchling and hornfels

first one: Gossand and hornfels (FINISHED)// second is Slate and Feldspar

Gneiss, Slate, Tektite, Feldspar (was gonna have hornfels but I had to kill them) - almost finished

It's not much stuff, but it's definitely fun to put things on paper from time to time, and it's a bit of a shame that no one really knows about all my projects, even though thats mostly my choice

so there's this for that

[sasa-fistulosum]

That's all for now

[660percent]

"What, going to leave without saying hello?"

[awanderingmuse-fandom]

Biterflies

Rating: General

Warnings: Major Character Injury, Bugs & Insects

Characters: Solanum, Cycad, Obsidian, Gossan, Tektite, Hal

Additional Tags: Short Story, Fluff, Humor, Horror, Action/Adventure, Crack Treated Seriously, Pre-Canon, Post-Canon, Canon Divergent, Everybody Lives, Not Beta Read, alternating pov, Player Character (Outer Wilds) Has A Name, Cycad is Solanum's Brother, I wanted Solanum fluff but don't know how to be nice to Obsidian

Summary:Solanum visits her brother on Timber Hearth to meet the two new species he has discovered with his mentor. Little does she know that the things she learns about each species during her all too short visit with her brother will still be relevant 300,000 years later.

[poisonhemloc]

im gonna start tagging this as the taco truck au

(mostly from conversation with Feef)

Tektite is a retired (volunteer) firefighter, and an active park ranger. The reason they’re still active is Marl, local Issue who has Issues with One Specific Tree. Tektite is the only person capable of talking them out.

Gneiss is a retired doctor. The two are on again/off again, and live in Gabbro’s apartment/condo complex (Granite is Gabbro’s new roommate so that area gets more attention)(they needed a place and Gabbro’s other other other hobby is taking in strays)

(Don’t remember if I said it already)(this is from Hollows on discord and you have a tumblr and for the life of me i dont remember what it is) Rutile runs the parks and rec in the area- they’ll put on festivals and events that the taco truck goes to.

There’s, three trucks, now? The first one is the smallest, no one really loves working in it except Feldspar, no one is comfortable working in it except Feldspar, Gossan and Chert. The other two are larger- Chert and Riebeck work together (Chert is in charge, is the chef, is the driver, Riebeck has the neatest hand to write things down and is good once they get into the flow of it) and Gabbro and Granite work together (newbie with the most experienced person who isn’t Feldspar Gossan or Esker) Gabbro and Chert can work together (Gabbro takes cooking and Chert has to deal with people) but Chert and Granite or Gabbro and Riebeck all work fine. Riebeck and Granite barely manage to keep their heads above water but since Chert and Gabbro are both part time sometimes that’s just how it goes (Granite cooks, Riebeck takes orders, because Riebeck burns things when they’re nervous)

Gossan is still down an eye, here. There was a manufacturer’s defect with the truck (brake line wasn’t attached correctly) and it failed while Feldspar was driving them. Truck hit a tree, Gossan lost an eye and broke an arm and several ribs, Feldspar got ejected from  the truck entirely. Gossan was awake after a couple days, and no one knew where Feldspar was for three weeks (assumed they were dead)(was going to be brought to the morgue soon to maybe id a body?) until Gossan recognized a scar on a Mx Doe in the coma ward (medically induced coma). Feldspar was woken up a week after, and still isn’t medically cleared to drive

Buddy Feef’s hatchling Graphite is an aquarium employee with an unhealthy fixation on Feldspar and Slate, who they see as Immortal and a Mechanical God (Feldspar used to do (illegal) drag racing and they did crash but never badly enough to take them off the track more than a month, they won money but they would have done it for free)(Slate hot rodded their cars). Feldspar is fond of them, in a ‘hey so if you go totally limp right before you hit you won’t break every bone in your body’ ‘I know i was just doing that but don’t you dare’ kinda way.

Graphite and Granite both are learning parkour because Feldspar is still doing it (more carefully)

I do have. Rough permanent menu figured out. And Feef wants to draw one of the trucks and this has taken over my brain

[awanderingmuse-ficrec]

Hatchlinghood (Series)

Fandom: Outer Wilds

Author: Spitzle

Rating: General

Warnings: Injury

Word Count:  7,976

Characters: Player Character, Marl, Tektite, Gneiss, Hal, Feldspar, Minor Characters, Gabbro, Slate, Gossan, Hornfels 

Tags: Injury, Frostbite, yowch, Possibly inaccurate medical information, as far as im aware frostbite is treated with water that is slowly heated, Children, Childhood, real kids moment here, characters play tag asldjakjd, POV Second Person, its implied gneiss and tektite but. barely, TECHNICALLY this would be player/hal but. i don't consider it enough to say it is, since it's only really briefly touched upon., a lot of villagers (and ocs) are mentioned but not the focus, Broken Bones, the main focus was originally on the tree but i carried on to 3k words, no beta we die like men, friendly taunting. marl is a child, staying up past your bedtime, Campfire stories, Sneaking Out, riebeck is mentioned a few times but they have no dialogue

You’re It!

“You ready?” Marl asks, tilting their head with a cocky smile. “I’m faster than you.”

“No you aren’t,” You quickly reply.

—

or: malachite loses a chunk of their ear

breaking new: local dumb hatchling fall out of a big tree and get hurt

“Really?” You nod. “‘Chite, you’re a minnow.”

“Am not!” You yell back, because you aren’t!

“Prove it! Get me!” And Marl pushes up to start climbing higher.

—

Or: Marl breaks their arm (and the events after it)

Just One More Story?

You step out, quietly, socks light against the wood, and close the door just as carefully as you opened it. Then you creep along the path from the hatchlings' cabin down to the woods surrounding the bonfire, where you can hear the grown-ups talking, though it’s faint. You climb into the underbrush, crawling through until you’re relatively close, still hidden, and settle in to listen. Stars, there are some times where you want to be a grown-up just so that you can listen to some of the stories that the astronauts tell. There’s not many people left, mostly just the adult members of Outer Wilds Ventures and a couple of other stragglers.

—

It's past their bedtime, but they want to hear a bit more of the story!

[gametourism]

Outer Wilds, Timber Hearth, Youngbark Crater

[ID : a close up screenshot of the dark bramble seed in the crater. Tektite is investigating it with a tiny lamp to their feet. resting their hand on a a pick axe handle. /End ID]

[friendlyengie]

Do you think Tf2 X Outer Wilds could be anything?

If im going to be completely honest, i have a deep, profound love for outer wilds, but i have a Really hard time doing anything au related for the game just by virtue of the story it tells and the conclusive ending it has. And tf2 could not be more tonally different from outer wilds as a game.

Obligatory “play outer wilds please for the love of god play outer wilds” schpeal uhh you should do it. Super cool open world space exploration game. Sort of like subnautica but minus any resource gathering or building mechanics, very environment and story oriented, but a wide amount of all types of people playing videos games can confirm its a really cool experience even if it didnt seem like a game they’d enjoy. Prepare for a lot of reading and puzzle solving. Also funny non-binary aliens which is awesome.

So, ignoring the wider Narrative Implications, it would still be fun to assign roles to the mercs. So. Cracks my knuckles. Dishing out role under the cut

I think Engineer should be the Hatchling, the main player character, because he seems like the only one who would commit to solving the Mysteries of it all.

Sniper’s very gabbro coded to me, stick him in Giant’s Deep.

Mmmmmm. Medic on Ember Twin in Chert’s place perhaps? Probably the closest one aside from Engineer who would make all the Realizations Chert does during the game.

I think Scout could be a fun Riebeck. Guy who promises hes so not at all afraid of the black hole but also hes just gonna uhhh chill out for a while ok.

Soldier. Soldier Feldspar. You know. Yk.

Maybe Heavy as Esker? Wouldn’t have the same desperation as them, id see him being pretty content (or at least indifferent) to being stationed up there.

Pauling Solanum perhaps. Demo, Pyro, and Spy can be timber hearth residents. Maybe Pyro Hal and Spy Hornfels… Demo Tektite.. checking out the Dark Bramble Seed. Nods.

[shwoo]

Trying to figure out Outer Wilds datamining, and I got the low-detail textures for the Hearthian villagers! Which I wanted because I wanted to compare their eye colours, and Arkose's eyes in particular are very difficult to see.

Here they are:

Arkose: Dark purple Esker: Purple Galena: Orange Gneiss: Dark red Gossan: Orange Hal: Dark yellow Hornfels: Orange Marl: Green Mica: Orange (Not visible in-game) Moraine: Red Porphy: Greyish red Rutile: Dark green Slate: Orange Spinel: Orange Tektite: Orange Tephra: Yellow Tuff: Blue Protagonist: Orange

All orange-eyed characters have the exact same eye colour except Galena, whose eyes are very slightly redder and duller. They also have different skin tones and spot patterns (Gossan has stripes!), but I'd like to see some more detailed textures to get a better idea of those.

[oflightningandstars]

Outer Wilds Adventures Pt. 3

(This contains spoilers for the game Outer Wilds)

Loop... 11? I’ll call it 11 and start counting from here.

I fell into the sun. Again. This time it wasn’t because of my autopilot, but because I didn’t get my bearings fast enough to start moving away from the sun. Whoops.

Loop 12

I made it back to Brittle Hollow. Last time I was there, I found a note from Riebeck(?) saying they went to look at some ruins near the equator. This time, I found those ruins, and another note, directing me to a path leading INTO the planet. I’m glad the Observatory back on Timber Hearth had the crystals that shifted gravity so I wasn’t too surprised when I encountered them. Inside the planet, I found another note but by the time I got there the planet was starting to collapse and the path I wanted to take had already crumbled. I haven’t mastered the controls on my suit yet and when trying to get back to the surface I fell into the black hole. I hung out in space until my oxygen ran out.

Loop 13

I didn’t feel like going back to Brittle Hollow just yet, so I did something I’ve never tried before: I grabbed my suit from the ship and I used the propulsion system to follow the river out of the village. I wandered around Timber Hearth for awhile and met up with Tektite in a crater. There was a seed pod of some sort, maybe from Dark Bramble??? I sent a scout into it and it was BIGGER ON THE INSIDE. I don’t know what’s going on with that, and I don’t know if it’s the coolest thing I’ve ever seen or the most terrifying (and that’s with the sun repeatedly going supernova and everything else that’s been going on). I left that crater and continued wandering until I came across another crater, near the south pole. There was a platform on a tree and a path that went into a... I don’t know what to call it. It was pretty dark down there, and there was a signpost with some really mysterious signs. There was also a quantum shard?? I don’t know what that means, but apparently it’s connected with a quantum moon, though I also don’t actually know what that is. Maybe next time I can try to find some information in my ship or from someone in the Observatory. Eventually, I climbed back up to the platform and watched the supernova.

[sasa-fistulosum]

i love your art so much!!! your depictions of the OWV group as hatchlings are always so funny. poor tektite

Ah I'm so glad to hear you like their hatchlinghoods! I think Tektite is a role model or something for them.

[awanderingmuse-fandom]

Off The Marshamallow Stick and Into the Campfire

Chapter 17

Fandom: Outer Wilds

Summary: The light of the exploding singularity is brighter than anything Obsidian has ever imagined. Breathtaking as a spark of hope when they thought everything was lost. Obsidian would know, they’d worn that feeling like a  second skin, loop, after loop, after loop. The feeling still holds them even as pure light, pure possibility, consumes them. Then, nothing. 

Obsidian wakes up…

Rating: Teen

Warnings:  Major Character Death, severe injury, trauma, Existentialism, aftermath of trauma, alcohol use, references to suicide, mentions of substance abuse

Characters: Player Character (Obsidian), Gabbro, Hal, Gossan, Marl, Gneiss, Chert, Hornfels, Riebeck, Slate, Esker, Feldspar, Porphy, Rutile, Micha

Tags: Aftermath of the End of The Universe, Cannon Continuation, Gabbro didn’t just sit on Giant’s Deep the whole time, Player Character and Gabbro are friends, Science Compels Us to Explore the Multiverse, everyone lives kinda, things I wish the game let happen, liberties taken with in game timeliness and mechanics for easier write-a-bility, physics, metaphysics, fluff, hurt comfort, slice of life, Multiple POV, No Beta We Die Like the Universe, A Bit of Prose for Flavor, All the writers and artists in this Fandom are amazing and y'all gave me brain rot

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"Where are you going?" Gossan asks. They're suiting up along with Feldspar. Both clearly plan to follow. Obsidian is a little surprised Gossan is letting Feldspar go. But maybe it's just the unspoken truth in the venture that nobody let's Feldspar do anything. 

"The next window to Ash Twin is in fifteen minutes." Obsidian informs them. "I can check that the area is safe for Tektite and Marl to join us. Hornfels and Slate can test the Ghost Matter Theory while I do that. Then in another two hours you all will be able to join me."

"Well you’re not going by yourself.” Gossan says. “You’re still technically grounded.” 

[awanderingmuse-fandom]

Off The Marshamallow Stick and Into the Campfire

Chapter 16

Fandom: Outer Wilds

Summary: The light of the exploding singularity is brighter than anything Obsidian has ever imagined. Breathtaking as a spark of hope when they thought everything was lost. Obsidian would know, they’d worn that feeling like a  second skin, loop, after loop, after loop. The feeling still holds them even as pure light, pure possibility, consumes them. Then, nothing. 

Obsidian wakes up…

Rating: Teen

Warnings:  Major Character Death, severe injury, trauma, Existentialism, aftermath of trauma, alcohol use, references to suicide, mentions of substance abuse

Characters: Player Character (Obsidian), Gabbro, Hal, Gossan, Marl, Gneiss, Chert, Hornfels, Riebeck, Slate, Esker, Feldspar, Porphy, Rutile, Micha

Tags: Aftermath of the End of The Universe, Cannon Continuation, Gabbro didn’t just sit on Giant’s Deep the whole time, Player Character and Gabbro are friends, Science Compels Us to Explore the Multiverse, everyone lives kinda, things I wish the game let happen, liberties taken with in game timeliness and mechanics for easier write-a-bility, physics, metaphysics, fluff, hurt comfort, slice of life, Multiple POV, No Beta We Die Like the Universe, A Bit of Prose for Flavor, All the writers and artists in this Fandom are amazing and y'all gave me brain rot <3, I’m gonna make it everyone’s problem

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"Okay, so help me understand a couple more things so I can tell Tektite to tell the village to bug off." Marl says, tearing off another bite of their sweet bread with their teeth. "That would be appreciated." Obsidian agrees. But Gabbro has some questions of their own. “You said that you’re telling Tektite that you’re not concerned about us hurting the village, but are very concerned about the danger we present to ourselves?” Gabbro states. “Yeah. No offense.” Marl says, “I mean I get it’s been rough. I just think you need a little help learning to live again.”

[poisonhemloc]

Hey so uh I'm gonna talk about Feldspar and why they are how they are for a bit

So Feldspar is the first astronaut of Outer Wilds Ventures, they’re a foolhardy explorer, they don’t stop and let people know where they’re going next, and they got themself crashed and stranded in Dark Bramble for an unknown (but longer) amount of time. So, why are they like this.

Well, let’s take a step out, and look at Feldspar as a plot device, not a character. 

Feldspar has a unique designation among the other travelers; their role, in the game, their purpose, is to be a late stage clue to a puzzle (I can’t say ‘crucial puzzle’ because let’s face it, all of the puzzles are crucial, except maybe, maybe the Quantum Moon, in that you don’t need that one done to finish the game). 

Feldspar, and their first campsite on Dark Bramble, are the last clues in what I’m gonna call the Eye Coordinates puzzle before you actually get there. Their purpose, in game, is to point you towards thinking about how you can use the jellyfish to get past the core of Giant’s Deep, to find the probe tracking module and the coordinates. So they can’t be easy to find, but, you have to have reasons to go find them.

So, we have the most Hearthians involved in any of the puzzles for this specific puzzle- the mini museum under the launch pad tree sets up Feldspar, then first Gneiss tells you they’re missing, then Hornfels and Tephra. Then Esker’s notes tell you they’re hearing a harmonica from Timber Hearth, and Tektite, in Youngbark Crater, tells you the harmonica you’re picking up from the seed that must be from Dark Bramble. There are also Feldspar’s notes on the bramble island; those are both another pointer for where to find them and your first introduction to why you need to find them (the fact that they’re missing aside); they found a way into the core of Giant’s Deep. 

And then you have to figure out, how to get into Dark Bramble safely, how to get past the current (taking you from the canon workshop to Brittle Hollow and following Riebeck’s notes to the equator and then south), and why you even need to try (in the orbital probe canon). 

So. All of that, to make Feldspar hard to find, but to make you want to find them. 

And all of that is what informs their character. 

None of the travelers had to have the personalities they’ve been given; Riebeck did not need to be an anxious wreck, Gabbro did not need to be lazy, Chert not… let’s call them detail oriented, Esker not lonely. But any other personality is not going to have a reason to still be stuck in Dark Bramble, where Feldspar needs to be for their role in the puzzle and the overall story. Lazy Feldspar never went in in the first place, detail oriented (or astronomer) Feldspar told Hornfels where they were going (if they even went), anxious Feldspar told Hornfels and made sure it was very easy to find them, lonely Feldspar was looking for a way out. 

Feldspar, as a plot device, needs to be in Dark Bramble with no intention of leaving. And so thrill seeking, glory hunting, the first astronaut in the program, the one who never got killed by any of Slate’s contraptions, went flying off to the least known planet in the solar system without telling anyone, crashed and got stranded, and isn’t in any hurry to go home and be the center of attention when someone manages to find them. And so their character is fit into what the plot needs.

[awanderingmuse-fandom]

Off The Marshamallow Stick and Into the Campfire

Chapter 20

Fandom: Outer Wilds

Summary: The light of the exploding singularity is brighter than anything Obsidian has ever imagined. Breathtaking as a spark of hope when they thought everything was lost. Obsidian would know, they’d worn that feeling like a  second skin, loop, after loop, after loop. The feeling still holds them even as pure light, pure possibility, consumes them. Then, nothing. 

Obsidian wakes up…

Rating: Teen

Warnings:  Major Character Death, severe injury, trauma, Existentialism, aftermath of trauma, alcohol use, references to suicide, mentions of substance abuse

Characters: Player Character (Obsidian), Gabbro, Hal, Gossan, Marl, Gneiss, Chert, Hornfels, Riebeck, Slate, Esker, Feldspar, Porphy, Rutile, Micha

Tags: Aftermath of the End of The Universe, Cannon Continuation, Gabbro didn’t just sit on Giant’s Deep the whole time, Player Character and Gabbro are friends, Science Compels Us to Explore the Multiverse, everyone lives kinda, things I wish the game let happen, liberties taken with in game timeliness and mechanics for easier write-a-bility, physics, metaphysics, fluff, hurt comfort, slice of life, Multiple POV, Tragedy, Character Death, Echoes of Eye Spoilers, Suicide Attempt, Adventure, Substance Abuse, No Beta We Die Like the Universe, A Bit of Prose for Flavor, All the writers and artists in this Fandom are amazing and y'all gave me brain rot

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The Village is the same when they enter it. Hatchlings run up to excitedly ask the astronauts about their adventures. Feldspar promises scale raising tales of Hearthian eating blackholes, and daring forays into the vast openness of space. But only after the astronauts put away their gear at the Observatory.  From there Gossan asks Gneiss where they might find Tektite. Gneiss' reply that Tektite was talking to Rutile, Hornfels, and Slate in the museum was unsurprising. That's all it takes for there to be a clear path to the Observatory. Gabbro can feel Obsidian's anxiety increasing the closer they get without Obsidian doing anything to indicate it. Or maybe Gabbro is projecting?