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Papineau sticker for me and the bestie :)

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seems legit

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I’ve wanted to do a piece where Sybil, in her “ascension” after initially observing the Visitor, feels as if she is falling into the sky, rather than rising up to it. Gravity pulls her further and further away from her home, and in the moment it feels like she will never find land again, lost in space.

Don’t think my previous art piece can convey it that well, but I’m calling it a day

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Just wanted to say hi and that you're an amazing person n hope you have a good day 💕💕💕💕

Love you creativious! I’ve been away from the pressure fandom for a bit but I heard there has been a big update of sorts, can’t wait to jump back in soon (and also visit your fountain of youth blog). Good day to you as well!

Also hey come look outside /nsrs

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Hey. Turns your friendly wall lady into a magical girl

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he makes an even less convincing human than even a hat...

this is also partially me wanting to draw him with his weird tendrils as tongues proper

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"We both wear masks to hide the thing beneath. But I'm honest about mine." So uh... while datamining I realized there were an absurd amount of similarities between Hellen and the "Shade" type of enemies?

[my batshit headcannon/theory about Hellen's "curse" below do NOT take me seriously i'm just having fun]

SO: Hellen's mechanics all reside in stalking, causing mass panic and confusion, and just about trying to kill everything instantly. She's plagued with insomnia, and an insatiable bloodlust. Girl eats souls. She's become a mirrored version of her pre-visitor self, essentially. Going from nurturing life through gardening, to cutting down anything in her path, and leaving the land absolutely empty. What other type of enemy shares this narrative motif, both visibly and mechanically? Who appears when you, the player, are low on sleep and stressed to hell and back? The Shades. Look at these fuckers and tell me they don't look familiar

While the red eyes are common amongst shades, they're not mandatory.

And now, Hellen's unmasking animation sequence.

The eyes are completely detached from anything resembling a skull. Like they're just floating behind the skin of her face. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ In their combat abilities, they have a few similarities as well. Single Target/AOE Life Drain (Soul Drain/Feast vs. Life Drain) Mass Confusion/Debuffing (Unmask vs. Shadow Dance/Curse) Shades typically have an attack ranging from 20-40, going up the further you go down into the apartment complex. They have some of the highest attack stats in the game. Not to mention their incredible agility and luck stats making them very hard to land a hit on. They can have the same attack power as the final boss of the damn game, and out-speed it easily. To put it succinctly; they're murder machines. Hellen also has the highest HP and Attack stats out of any companion. Capping out at a whopping 356 and 14 without any modifiers.

Her attack multipliers also get ridiculous on paper. [Note: a.isStateAffected(67) is the ID for the "stalk" status effect] [a.level I presume is just raw attack stat, without the weapon modifier.] [a.atk is melee damage w/ the weapon modifier.]

This is Unmask's buff. The left formula is stalk damage, the second is normal attack. A goddamn x5 multiplier.

This is Stab's formula. Left again being stalk damage, right being normal. Her current attack multiplied by 2, then with 10 added to it, and dividing the enemy's defense by 2. What the fuck.

And this is Massacre. Again, dividing the enemy's defense in half w/ stalk.

Not to mention the increased crit chance she gets on stalked targets. This woman's built to set up kills in one shot. Buy yourself octocook, equip the sewer dagger, proc an acid burn, and let this woman go to town mowing down everything in her path. Seriously, it's fun. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------

[More into HC territory here] Hellen also hurts herself with her later game abilities. Attacking, healing others, and restoring her own stamina. As if her own physical self wasn't all that important to her in comparison to her companion's survival. Grim Harvest, Grafting, and Pruning respectively. All with naming conventions tied to her hobby. The Debuff she gains after successfully landing her more potent attacks, Fallow Will, also shares in the overall "harvesting" motif. To Fallow a field in crop rotation, is to let the soil rest between harvests. The visitor has completely taken her identity, her passions, her sense of self, and reversed it. How convenient then, that every Shade speaks in reverse as well. Unable to be seen in the light, as any room you enter with one present limits and darkens your sight severely. And now for more of a character analysis that ties in with the nonsense I've just spewed. Her dialogue with other characters implies the nature of her curse is almost like a kind of rot that's taken root in her heart, twisting her identity into something she isn't, and that it keeps her from sleeping. She's plagued with very vivid thoughts of committing brutal acts as well. [Papineau, Audrey, (stream comment I think?), and Hellen's very vivid description of killing the visitor.] Long-term sleep deprivation can have some devastating affects on people. Impaired thought, difficulty speaking, difficulty focusing, impairing your perception of time to be slower than it actually is, and hallucinations. Hellen's dialogue tends to be verrry brusque. She rarely EVER uses conjunctions, and has virtually no commas present. Every sentence is almost an individual thought. She replies only to the prompt given, and elaborates on nothing else. She has the lowest agility out of any companion, starting at a measly 8 when you first recruit her. She has a handful of interactions with other companions that just have her giving simple "Hms" and "Mhmms" in response. I don't think this is her showing disinterest, but possibly an inability to focus due to her sleep deprivation. She wants to remain polite, show that she's trying to listen, but isn't engaging with the other person verbally. [Ernest, Morton] But is Hellen's inability to sleep insomnia, or something else? Because, AFAIK, she's still affected by the sleep status effect. Perhaps she simply has trouble falling asleep on her own, or perhaps Something could be keeping her up? Being able to deal out death so easily, but denied sleep. (Which is a fun narrative to think about imo. I love you, mythology references.) What does that bloodlust sound like to her. Is it just an instinct to harm, or a dialogue? Is it something else entirely? God I hope I can figure out where the dialogue is stored so I can dig up more stuff because trying to find every little thing is difficult.

Anyways, I'm tired. I'll add more thoughts/explanations later if asked. I've been staring at this post for a whole hour, and my thoughts are incredibly disjointed about this. I'm cooked.

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Sure, while we are at it with odd ships, have some SamShadow sketches I did a while back.

( And play LookOutside, it's quite good! )

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sending my visuals off in to the aether. i think he should get to keep his rational mind ☝️ if only so he has to reckon with a new body

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I think he might've looked....

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I’m so normal about A Starvation

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If Sam got a nickel for every time somebody told him this, he'd have one nickel that he really wished he didn't.

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I want you ti know I love how you draw dan I'm still thinking about it days layer I love him I love how you draw him I love him I love him I do i do....AAAAA

THANK YOU!! I've had him on the mind a lot.... absolutely adore him

I'm taking this as an excuse to draw him more

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OHHHhhhh that's right we got NEW ACHIEVEMENT ART YESSSS