#zennith

[illegaltruffle]

Waves (emotions)

the big final piece for Zennith's bootcamp :> also my first time working with panels! this took a little over a week to complete hhh

you can find process breakdowns and my ramblings on /~Ponnish

[the-uninformed-zennial]

In light of the new project starting on Sunday… here’s my playlist for Zennith!

[retrowebz]

‼️flashing lights

Heroes incoming… DUH!

[ben-101-rewrite]

Do you have plans for Zenith in the rewrite?

I do, a lot of is mostly expanding on her history, including all that happened between her and Azmuth, since their falling out isn't something that just happened over night. Azmuth and Zennith truly did love each other, but they were both idealist when they were younger, idealist with every different method in trying to make a change. Azmuth was much more aggressive in his method, while she was much more passive. When Azmuth left to try and make a difference in the galaxy, she stayed in Galvan Prime because she wanted to help change her people, something Azmuth gave up on since they partly broke his spirit back then. By the time Azmuth returns to Galvan Prime after Ben found him and snapped some sense into him, it appears his homeworld pushed Zennith enough as well as she left at some point as well. Azmuth does get to find her eventually, helping out across the galaxy in her own way, and while they do make amends they never get back together. They've both matured into different people.

[absolutelyrover]

good morning!! (＾▽＾)

My name change has been very long overdue, so due to issues with it affecting my mental health I’ve decided it was time for a change. Not forgetting it, but rather leaving it behind.

I was formerly @zennithexists,

my new user is @kieriex, please only refer to me as Kiersten or my username, as I prefer to not be called zennith/zenn anymore.

thank you!! (＾▽＾)

if you have any questions feel free to ask!!

[fxvixen]

what can i say, i'm a giver <3

[sweetpeaches666]

Does Ben ever met zennith in your au?

Yeah, Ben and Zennith have met. It was awkward at the beginning since you're meeting your dad's ex girlfriend. But they're nevertheless ended up on good terms.

Funny enough, Zennith at first believed that Azmuth had moved on and married Sandra, which is a running gag in this au.

[jessiesjaded]

As a homie

[pirateprincessjess]

If you could have a tv for a head which tv would you have? I’ve definitely thought a lot about this, and I think it would be a Zennith LM8833 portable CRT in powder pink

This TV is literally perfect! It’s pink! It’s has lots of buttons! It has an antenna! And it’s even got a handle.

This would 100% be my TV Head.

[insanitize]

how old is tenna. like actually

okay so 4 hours ago at 2am i saw someone say tenna is from the 70s (likely because he's a game show host) and my gut reaction was There's absolutely no way that's true, he's for sure a late 80s or early 90s tv. but i realized if i were to believe that i should probably have a verifiable reason to, so i went and made sure i did my research to validate my opinion. my opinion has not changed, i still think he's probably supposed to be from the late 80s, but here's why i think that.

so. if i wanted to be anal retentive as fuck about it, i could say that if deltarune is meant to have a similar in-universe technological development timeline to ours irl, and if deltarune is indeed meant to take place in some analogous place to the united states, then tenna is likely no older than 18 (from 2007). because he's a crt receiving over the air signals, but past 2009 irl it would need to be a digital signal, and i assume deltarune takes place after 2009, and tenna crucially does not appear to have a converter box. which would mean he'd need to have that capability built in.

however, i like. really badly do not think that matters. not only am i positive he's meant to be much older than a tv from 2007, but i just don't think a detail that minuscule would be on anybody's list of priorities when designing an old tv in fiction.

so let's imagine none of that factors into how old he could be at all. what else can we go off of. primarily i want to first look at his design. you'll notice that although he verbally references one, tenna does not actually appear to have a dial in any visual we have of him. he doesn't even look like he has a button array of any kind.

this was extremely uncommon for the 1970s, especially for just everyday family households on an average budget. this wasn't, however, as uncommon after the 80s swung around. you'd still see a lot of tvs with dials on the side, but it wasn't so notably rare to see ones lacking in this control scheme.

part of this is likely due to the invention of the infrared remote, which would take television manufacturing by storm in the 80s. to be clear, wireless remotes for tvs did exist before this, but i specifically do think the zappers are infrared due to their attack patterns and sprite movements. if this is true (and especially if the zappers are universal remotes), then the existence of the zappers would support the assumption that tenna is from the 80s at the very earliest.

as an aside on the topic of tenna's appearance, while i do think the photorealistic images are more of a visual gag than anything meant to be like. concrete canon appearance of the guy. i do want to point out that the ridged edges he has were especially typical of 80s zennith tv sets. which makes sense to me, because zenniths were pretty state-of-the-art at the time.

another thing we could look at for clues to his age is the "programming" itsself. there are a few minor details to this i'd like to point out. none of these necessarily materially impact how old tenna could be, but seeing as he's already designed as a symbolic gesture towards nostalgia, understanding the references made with these small details can help us better construct what timeframe he's meant to evoke.

first of all, his reference to a "cooking channel". correct me if i'm wrong, but i'm pretty sure the first cooking channel broadcast in america was the food network, which is from the 90s. there is also literally a Cooking Channel (proper name) but i think it's from like 2002

secondly, the rhythm minigame. live music performances have been on the air forever and ever, but specifically the channel he's on is one dedicated to music videos. that wasn't hardly a thing at all until mtv. which is from the 80s. (Adding onto this point hours later hi. they're also specifically performing hair metal, which is. 80s.)

thirdly is the existence of lanino and elnina, who are (to me at least) a blatant reference to the weather channel. weather is a staple of television, of course, but i do mean the weather channel specifically. which is from the 80s. (also. this is going to seem like a stretch but the line "weather girls are the wave!" reminds me of the work done by 2nd wave feminists to make it so that more women could go into news network jobs. so that's cool)

i do also want to point out an even smaller tidbit. tenna interrupts (or claims to interrupt) his normal programming for breaking news. this was not impossible, per se, before the 80s, but it didn't become a regular occurrence until the 80s as well, after the inception of CNN. again, this doesn't mean tenna wasn't possibly at all manufactured sooner than this, but thinking about this from a fiction writing perspective, what matters here is what tenna is mean to make the player feel. these references are ones to a world post-cnn, post-food network, post-mtv. it's an expression of fondness for a very specific past.

this is also true in how older tech itsself is utilized. the tv time intro being played back with vhs effects is telling to me, because vhs wasn't the dominant household market video format until the 80s and 90s. this is even present in the format of the game show. it's a merging of the game show concept and the prevalent force of 90s video games. television programs based on video games weren't uncommon at the time, as they were essentially literally an attempt to teach an old dog new tricks. nick arcade came to mind right away for me the first time i saw the boards.

so that's why i think he's supposed to be 80s or 90s tech. honestly, this still makes him a ridiculously old crt. most crts on a regular use schedule will last a while, but only a little over a decade.

anyways so that's my stance. i;m so so tired

[illegaltruffle]

maids :3c

[elodieunderglass]

Eggs for Killie!

I finally finished my Pansexual pride themes Spirit Hosts minis! They are the most complicated I've ever built, and they're the first time I used multiple colors through the airbrush for more than just priming/zennithal highlights!

hahahaha I don't know anything about miniatures, but I know these are great. i hope they're very menacing or very friendly maybe. I do know that Derek would commission 75 and stick them with blue-tac around the top of his monitors (he isn't pansexual but would probably collect a little set) (he's a multiple-monitors guy)

[retrowebz]

Sua alien stage come back to me

[benjimarii]

This drawing is based on a post Omniverse AU called "Lost to Time, Stuck in Space"! This is Rook and Ben meeting for the first time again after a year and a half of the entire universe thinking Ben was dead. If anyone is interested in the au, I have a lot of lore for it! Including Zennith being a prominent character!

Here's Zennith in this Au! There's a lot to this story, but this is the summed up version :)

[strawberryartgallery]

putting a sweater on that creacher

i did this cause its getting cold enough that my shitty circulation is making my fingers hurt from it and i thought "I bet malware got cold easy when he was super sick"

this is a universe where Zennith takes over his care after Azmuth fucks of

alt colors under the cut

[shadow-coolness]

*Ben 10 Multiverse*

Irene: They say live people ignore the strange and unusual, i myself am strange and unusual.

Frightwig:……Wha-

*Punches her in the face as Frankenstrike*

Ben 100: Ugh, How long have we been doing this again?

Gwen: 10 years but it definitely feels more like Eons.

Ben 100:…….Say that again.

Zennith: So let me get this straight: You’re future self came to the past?

Azmuth: Yep.

Zennith: To give you something you created in the future?

Azmuth: Yes.

Zennith: Because the future got so bad that time travel was the only option?

Azmuth: Indeed.

Zennith: And this creation is a watch that can transform you into almost every species in the universe?

Azmuth: It appears so.

Zennith:…You are beyond any type of control you know that?

Azmuth: I do now.

Ben: As they say in Russian, "Damn my space watch that lets me transform into multiple types of aliens across the universe has once again given me the wrong alien for this situation."

Tiffany: Hey how yall-

Ben: *Snarls and growls*

Tiffany: AAAAAHHHHH!!! GET YO FUCKING COUSIN BITCH!!

Gwen: He dont bite.

Tiffany: *Holding Ben back* YES HE DO!!

TBWNN: So Billions The Kid, we meet again.

BTK: That we do Tennyson.

TBWNN: We both how this is gonna end.

BTK: Yeah, Me victorious.

TBWNN: Clearly the sun is frying your brain because theres no way you beat me.

BTK: Then lets settle this now.

*The 2 stand there getting ready as a tumbleweed tumbles path them*

TBWNN: *Prepares his Omnitrix*

BTK: *Pulls out a laser gun and fires*

*TBWNN transforms into Chromastone,absorbs the laser blast and fires it back*

BTK: Oh Shi-*gets blasted*

TBWNN: As i said, Brain Fried.

Ben: Man can you believe im the one who discovered fire?

Gwen: You nearly destroyed an entire forest.

Ben:…..But now we can make meat even tastier.

Ben: Sometimes i can still hear his voice.

Zs’Skayr: Gay Gay Homosexual gay.