riley, they/he, 30. physicist by trade, the art thing is just a hobby. on psychonauts lockdown until further notice. if you send an ask it might take me 3 years to get to it but know that i love you still. main: @2hoots, 18+ sideblog: @noc2owl
Anytime I read your fics or comics, I LOVE the action and fun spy stuff, but it always cracks me up to think about how much Raz must hate the monotonous reports after a mission gone wrong. Here's to another year of him getting into some sort of situation or another!
obviously nobody is obligated to make me anything, but if anyone's feeling generous i would Love art/fics of the fsau cast more than anything else. it makes my day every time to see other peoples' takes on the characters. there is nothing that brings me more joy than seeing even a post-it note scribble of my special guys
Hi! I'm about to RP Psychonauts events on Discord, and there'll be some timeskip stuff involved after the events of the games. I was wondering if I could use your designs for teen and adult Raz and Lili for the post-timeskip stuff?
Ima trial by fire get over my anxiety posting fan art of other artists works @2hoothoots if anyone gafs I have a LOT more. I did infact miss psychonauts anniversary i was recovering from my grand illness :'3 teehee
Almost Psychonauts fanart and almost @2hoothoots 's FSAAU fanart but I'm slowly tearing the archetypes apart with my teeth until they're no longer recognizable as either
finally got these finished and can exorcise them from my wips - another set of tarot card paintings! Mirtala's been done for like half a year but i had to wait til they were all finished so i could post them together. do not separate them
Sorry in advance this is a long one but after looking at the post for the delugionalist tattoo and reading the fan short story I had some questions.
I want to know what your opinion on Dion? Because I noticed that he tends to get more hate from some of the fans because he was a little bit of an ass. But for me he is just a brother that was scared that his brother was gone. Especially when some of the dialogue that was deleted showed that he does love Raz. So I was just wondering.
How Dion and Raz interact in your the future agents, especially since Raz was kidnapped by the delugionists. And do they what happen or is Raz keeping it a secret from them so that they don’t get put into this mess. And if the do figure it out how would they react to it?
With the youngest brother queepie, just a something I wanted to ask, is queepie going to doing some illegal like looking into a certain organization that may or may be the delugionalist. Just curious because it’s says that he’s not angry about it but there is something there that is worrying?
And on a lighter note, from your future agents au what is your favorite storyline that you or others have done
never apologise for sending long asks! especially ones that invite me to ramble (my favourite thing). short essay on Dion up first, answering the parts about au stuff under the cut
i really like Dion and i think he’s a great character, in part because he’s kind of an ass. because, y’know – the central conceit of Psychonauts is that Raz was so afraid his father was going to disown him (or worse) for being a psychic that he ran away from home to follow his dream. and PN2 has to build on that starting point, and show that actually, yeah, some messed-up things have happened to this family – while also requiring you to understand that they still all care deeply about one another, because otherwise the emotional beats in the second half of the game don’t land.
Raz reunites with his family in PN2, and his dad is super loving and chill, and his mum is teasing but happy to have him back. but Dion and Frazie both react with much more hostility, and that’s what sells the tension in the family dynamic, the pressure that they’re all under. because they’ve all been raised with these strict rules – that psychics are the enemy, that they can’t trust outsiders, no matter what.
Raz chafed under those rules so much that he ran away. but Dion and Frazie have both internalised them, and are even now trying to enforce them, trying to claw back some semblance of normalcy in their lives. and that’s an intensely believable way for them both to act, both as teenagers and as older siblings. we see it especially keenly in Frazie’s dialogue, where she accuses Raz that he’s ashamed of being an Aquato – then shuts him down when he brings up the whole psychic thing, chiding him that she can’t play those “silly brain games” any more now that they’re older. she’s trying to police his behaviour in their parents’ stead – never mind that their actual parents have already done an abrupt one-eighty on the subject. i think this is all great writing! it’s an understandable way for someone to act in her situation, it makes her (and her dynamic with Raz) feel very real, and it also underwrites the greater tension in the family that the first game touched on.
with Dion, it’s the same. everything he’s mad at Raz for is the stuff that he’s been taught to believe was important growing up – that family need to stick together, that they have to keep secrets to keep each other safe, that something bad will happen if they don’t. he’s kind of an asshole in his dialogue, but it’s not for no reason. his whole world has just been turned upside-down, he’s freaked out about it, and he’s clinging to these rules he was brought up believing in because it’s the only way he can try and regain some control in his life. he denies obvious facts, like Augustus being psychic (“it’s a phase!”), because right now he’s not thinking or acting rationally – he’s hurt and upset, and he’s lashing out in response. he acts like he doesn't care, but he actually cares a lot. (and we can see from his reactions the moments when he knows he’s gone too far, that he regrets telling Raz they'd be better off without him as soon as he says it.)
i think if Dion and Frazie had both been sweet and welcoming to Raz when he got home, it would completely gutted the inciting incident from PN1. the fact that we get to see how Raz’s siblings have also been struggling under the tension in their family, how it’s shaped them both in different ways, is what makes it feel real. without that, none of Raz’s hang-ups in PN1 are at all believable, and that subsequently makes the reveals of PN2 also feel completely emotionally hollow. if you want to sell that these characters are stressed out and under pressure, you have to make them make rash decisions and lash out at each other sometimes! and that’s what makes Frazie and Dion both feel like characters with actual depth and complexity, instead of one-dimensional cut-outs. so: yeah, i really like Dion, i think he’s great, and i wrote two entire fics from his PoV that are probably a more eloquent encapsulation of my thoughts on him than this whole rambling essay is, hahaha.
in terms of how Raz and Dion interact in the AU, i’ve also written a short excerpt about that here! i think there’s a lot of unresolved tension between them – a lot of hurt that they never bothered to talk about, and instead left to fester over more than a decade of distance. Dion sees Raz as choosing the Psychonauts, and leaving their family behind. Raz sees Dion as a jerk who never even tried to understand his side of the story. there’s still some kind of love between them, but they’re both too stubborn to try and bridge that gap. Raz doesn’t see why he should reach out, because it’s not like Dion ever bothered to try and understand him – Dion doesn’t see the point in trying to reach out, when Raz already made his choice clear years ago. and the rift between them grows a little wider each year.
as for your “what happens next with the Deluginist plotline” questions – honest answer, i don’t know yet! i’ve got ideas that i’m mulling over, but i don’t want to commit to anything yet until i know the rest of the story that goes with it. (it’s absolutely the case that Queepie is his own simmering pot of issues, though, and with the right prompting he could for sure end up doing something drastic…)
finally!! i’m still absolutely over the moon with Whiskerbiscuit’s fic picking up on the Deluginist stuff (i keep going back to re-read it, it’s so great). rose (kibasniper) has also written a few gifts for me in the au and it is such a treat every time they do. honestly i can’t pick a favourite, any time anyone makes anything for me with these characters i’m picking it up and carrying it around with me and sticking it up on my fridge. makes my day every single time without fail
your superstar agents au continues to live rent free in my brain whenever my psychonauts fixation kicks up .. i played psychonauts 2 for the first time yesterday and i suddenly remembered your whimsical art style . felt so much joy in my heart.
happy holidays!!!
this is a really sweet ask. thank you so much!! i have also had these guys living rent free in my brain for like four years now and they're not showing signs of moving out any time soon, so it's good to hear they're also kicking it in other people's heads from time to time
@salempie happy holidays!! i was your PN secret santa this year! had so much fun with this one, Elka is always a delight to draw and i really enjoyed getting to play around with textures and make it look like a scan from an old comic book
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