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hunter and surv doing some training or something

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some scugs

ive been busy with game projects and also college sorry

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for the karmaflower enjoyers

this is closest that karmaflower will get to being true in my rw au, at least in modern times

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I dont usually have like fav cannon ships (oc ships is a whole other story) or anything but these two have me in a chokehold and I literally cant stop thinking about them—

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if anyone is curious where ive been for the last month or so, i havent died, just been busy starting a new game lol

rw brainrot might resume once the watcher dlc comes out, but thanks to the brainrot, ive definitely gotten better at writing for character stuff so i guess look out for that in this project

Hi, I didn't forget I had this blog lol I was just starting to make a new game called Field Bio (subject to change) that takes place in the same universe as Roa.

It's a game me and my friend (Bitilope, on Bluesky and Twitter) about being on the field, doing biology ecology stuff, with a focus on story, characters, and such.

The main part of the game will be about setting up trail cameras and touching up photos due to the poor resolution (by drawing over them).

You'll be playing as PIp, a young adult Orni who is under the apprenticeship of Mirabelle, a much older and mature Blood Deer (someone who may or may not be somewhere in Roa, they're not hard to find), in a somewhat populated research hub near Kopen Village.

For now, we've only gotten the fishing part of the game going (mostly because it was easier to conceptualize the design and gameplay for compared to the actual "main" part of the game).

We're aiming for something similar to Voices of the Void (in some aspect), but who knows really it's a lil too early to tell, anyways have more random concept art/doodles I've done.

Anyways, thats what I've been doing for the last month or so, see you in another two months lol

Bonus drawing of Pip showing off cursed Orni anatomy:

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Will The Watcher/Nightcat eventually be part of your anthro au (I'm excited for their campaign 🌌👀)

answered this before but yea they'll eventually be part of my anthro au, mostly waiting for the campaign to see what they actually can do

having considered also splitting the character into two basically but we'll see lol, as of recently i havent had the same itch for rw tho thats mostly due to me working on other personal projects rn

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I know this didn’t your main but I still think it’s a better place to ask; the way you draw Enot in your comics and art is super interesting, their face reminds of how studio ghibli depicts the elderly, most notably these two:

you know.. kind of skrunkly and odd. I dunno, this is probably a completely unintentional connection and I’m just seeing something that isn’t there, but it really stood out to me in the last few panels of your latest comic. I know that ghibli films were an inspiration for you (like they are for me!) and so I wondered!

I didn’t know where to put this so here you go, have my ramblings in ask form.

unintentional but honestly it does kinda fit them given that enot is elderly (in a chronological age sense) and is also just odd overall

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finally did a saint and enot comic since i always wanted to do that, i might add more to this since theres some back and forth i would like to do to add to their dynamic

essentially my idea for enot and saint is that saint follows the idea that existence, at least in the material plane, is like an endless play where its actors are forced to stay on stage and play forever and it is their task to relieve these actors from this endless play so they may rest

but enot loves plays especially romances and dramas

they see no issue with an endless play as the show is still ran and controlled by the actors at the end of the day so why wouldnt they just do what they wanted, the subject of the play itself never mattered anyways

plus the play would be pretty boring if there were no more actors for its two eternal spectators

tho weirdly enot with their infinite knowledge, wisdom, and power doesnt stop saint in their task, sometimes even encourages it, with no real answer to why

is it because enot knows that this task will never end and is pointless or is it because enot doesnt actually know if this task is able to be completed which excites him, offering a new experience to one who has experienced everything

or is it because hes stupidly romantic who loves the idea of them being the only two people left in the world

only enot would know

(i totally stole the stageplay analogy from @/fishyaudio im sorry its just so good for this)

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hi! i was curious about the given names you chose for your anthro slugcats? :0 I absolutely love name meanings, so i wondered if there was a direct meaning to why you chose those names specifically! :3

honestly not really? nothing grand at least

the only one with any real meaning would be spearmasters, PO_S_07, which is just me trying to give them what is essentially a code/variable name that fits their in game lore (essentially PO just means Purposed Organism, the S is the type of organism so Slugcat, and 07 is their test/iteration number)

the other given names are pretty much given based on vibe, tho i did take some inspiration from @/opashoo's slugcat conlang since i like the vibe/sound of it lol

saint's name also follows the general naming scheme of my own game's world, particularly an ancient civilization's naming scheme in the lore of it

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Do you have any plans for nightcat/watcher in your anthro au?

yea definitely tho im waiting for the dlc to come out since i wanna make sure ik what the watcher actually does in game before making my own interpretations of them

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remember when i said that the comic before was gonna be the last thing i work on rw wise for a bit, anyways heres my first mini comic thing that is more than 1 page

arti traumatizes her basically just newly found scav pup

heres the first part for context i guess

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I love the designs and lore for your rw anthro au, just out of curiosity are we gonna see Survivor and Monk's third sibling in this universe

thank you and its a possibility, havent really thought about it until this was asked so theyre not in the works yet but ill definitely consider it more if i ever do an ask or comic blog for the au

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Hello. I saw your rain world anthro au and I loved, but I had one question about it. I apologize if its not the case but is your design of the survivor based off of ashitaka from princess mononoke by any chance? It's one of my favorite movies and I just thought it looked somewhat similar.

thank you and yea my design for survivor is based on ashitaka, ive based a few bits of my work on princess mononoke lol

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i had an idea for arti during her exile arc

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wouldnt it be like pretty funny if i made an ask blog for my rw anthro au

my problems im trying to figure out are pretty much 1) who should it be centered around (or if should even be centered around any one group) and 2) how to structure the story/narrative

(also im cooking up something evil for arti)

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i fully redid/redesigned the slugcats in my rw anthro au, this took way too long

one day ill have to like properly do a comic or maybe an ask blog for these goobers

the ones with significantly lore/story changes are surv and monk which ill try to summarize a bit below this cut

surv and monk are from a different smaller colony/family than gourmands and only really passed by gourmands colony while they were migrating

surv and monk are generally teenagers when they get separated and lost at some point during this migration and spend most of their teenage years in the wilderness

eventually they find each other and also join up with gourmands colony after yknow finding outer expanse which when gourmand gives surv his title survivor for his pretty crazy feat of survival

in gourmands colony the two are almost treated like heros/celebrities, especially amongst the kids and ESPECIALLY surv

surv feel undeserving of this treatment and is very socially anxious and maladjusted to social living which leads to him appearing either very stoic and collected or just weird

surv is only ever really socially active with his older sister monk and hunter who he connected with much faster with than anyone else (besides monk) due to similar stoic dispositions

surv is a mess lol

monk has handled this much better as she was able to join a scav colony for a period of time (until a certain red slugcat passed by) so shes way more socially adjusted plus shes also older by like give or take 4 to 7 years

she just chills at the outer expanse gardens/farms for the most part and tries to help hunter with their rot in ways they can

if i were to do an ask blog i would either center it around arti, hunter, and saint or surv and monk since those groups have the most story rn

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hi im reblogging my own game because its finally released lol

(rw brainrot will resume soon-ish maybe)

Ok so I know I haven't like posted here (at least on this blog), that much, but my game Roa has kinda just released so uh you can now get it if you want

All previous builds and Progress Logs are on my Patreon for free here