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Next Chapter, Next Gimmick!

Now that the X story requirement has been fulfilled, I'll be dropping the "credits for questions" gimmick and replacing it with the Magic Anon (M!A) gimmick! I'd like to encourage more creative interaction on this account, so I hope this will be a fun way to achieve it!

For context for those who may be new to the concept of Magic Anons, it's where askers submit a prompt that affects the current story of the blog. For a deeper elaboration, I found this post helpful and informative!

a short list of guidelines:

I have the right to refuse any M!A I receive, they will be just be deleted from the inbox without posting.

No NSFW M!As - this is a "family friendly" account, no sexually explicit or gorey submissions.

No Permanent M!As - all submissions will have an end point. I'll try to keep them running for about 2-10 posts(?), depending how much material I get. But none of them are meant to last forever.

Ask regular questions! Only 1 M!A can be active at a time

Alrighty! now that those guidelines are out of the way:

Current Active M!A:

"Smile More!" - Bandit is stuck smiling for 5 asks. 4/5

Past M!A's:

(none yet) I'll be listing past prompts and the tag collections of said prompts here.

Also, I'd like to loosen up the style I do on this askblog so I can become more consistent at posting! I really want to draw more stuff for this blog, but sometimes I need to sketch to avoid burnout.

Have fun y'all!

[askbandit]

I haven't been posting much here.. so here's a meme.

Anyway, please send a non-magic-anon ask if you have an idea for one! I'd love to get back into drawing stuff for this blog, but don't have a lot of questions atm.

[askbandit]

A Little OOC note

I'll be reblogging art of Bandit and tagging it under "Fanart Feature". I just spammed a bit of old stuff, but I'll try and balance it out more in the future. Apologies!

[xintetsu]

My part of an art trade with @doughguts-art !! :3

[swirlingnight]

Offtober 9: Fangame/Au

I found some interesting fan games called “Rise” with Bandit, and “Confinium” with Pilot.

Bandit belongs to Cinnamun

Pilot belongs to Xintetsu

[doughguts-art]

Bandit actually belongs to me! He was just a cameo in the RISE games ^^ Never thought I'd have my fella featured in someone's OFFtober prompt, thanks so much for featuring my guy. He looks great in your style :'D

[syensy-art]

Attack for @doughguts-art >:)

[emi-alvi]

so bandit is very much my kinda elsen type

[doughguts-art]

SILLY GUY

EEHEHE yea! Very nice drawing of Bandit, thank you!

[askbandit]

Bandit what's your opinion on zacharie?

That masked warrior might deny it, but we've been business partners ever since I ahem "acquired" my wares. He's not the only merchant around here anymore, haha.

(4/5)

[askbandit]

do you love to smile? or is it because you have to

If I wasn't forced to smile right now, I would probably still be smiling. I'm just that kind of guy, y'know?

(3/5)

[askbandit]

Do the "normies" buy stuff from you? Forgive me if the question is dumb, but I haven't seen any clear answer regarding it and it tickled me

I would be restricting my market if I only sold to one crowd. That just doesn't feel right to me. Plus, it's not usually the protagonists who seek that certain special substance I'm in Zone 3 for in the first place...

(2/5)

[askbandit]

Bandit looks like he already knows what a Magic Anon is, and he doesn't look very happy about it 😰.

Let's change this! Bandit is forced to smile for 5 more asks!

Say, you think my presence is bothering these Normies enough? I bet the constant smile won't help.

(1/5)

[askbandit]

The X

This has been a long time coming.

I've thought of many ways of sharing this story publicly, but I've recently decided that it's better to just get it out there now and revisit adapting it into a game, comic, or video later. I really miss answering your Bandit questions and I want to get back to it in this new year. With all that being said, here's the summarized story about Bandit and how he got his signature X.

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Our story starts with the Elsen that has No Fear in Zone 2, that fellow who ripped the pages from the books and sold one of them to the Batter. There was no "Bandit" back then, just a troublemaker by the name of Varik Fassad. Varik was always a greedy smart aleck, but what's important is that he was (and still is) fearless. When a Zone gets purified, all life is immediately pulled into the Nothingness to die. Elsens pulled into the Nothingness will become overwhelmed and burn out, but Varik did not. His lack of fear prevented him from burning, and because he no longer had a use in the game, he effectively had free reign from then on. The X comes as a physical representation of his connection to the Nothingness after purification. It's a part of him, he's a part of it. His disconnection from the story of OFF when he enters the Nothingness is also why he's able to enter other games/has an awareness of the fandom. He has no restrictions.

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Now that all of that is out of the way, keep a look out for this blog's next pinned post to see what will happen now that the X story's been told. If you all have any additional questions about his backstory or the X, I will now be accepting those types of questions on my main, @doughguts-art . I will be reblogging any questions I get here too for archival purposes.

[askbandit]

Hey Hey! Check out this new vid! Poking a little fun always gets the funniest reaction from Cinna.

[askbandit]

Opinion on nicknames? I often called you Bandito as a joke but now it's a habit.. ^^'|''|

People call me Bandit, but I'm fine with most other things..

Aaand that'll be 4 credits! l guess it's time to share the X story, eh? Well.. let's save that for its own post... Coming soon!

[askbandit]

thoughts on people who ship you with OFF/Unknown characters

This question is being answered Out Of Character (ooc), so no credits, sorry!

Hiya, @doughguts-art (Dough) speaking. As long as it's between consenting adults, go nuts with the ships! I'm not one to stop someone from having safe fun lol I am fine with reblogging ship art on this account in the future as long as it is not NSFW/explicitly sexual. I'd like to keep this account SFW (I would say "family friendly" but I am not opposed to drawing blood/gore for future asks so..)

Below is art I've created of ships featuring Bandit that I've seen/collected the art of over the years. The qualifier was that all of these have at least two pieces of fanart for the ship!

Fun Little Trivia: the top-most drawing (the "it's canon, go nuts" one) is a redraw of a piece Bandit's creator, Technijui, drew in response to someone asking to ship Bandit x Puppeteer. It is also the art I am using as this accounts profile pic! Very fun! You will also see a discussion of Bandit's gender/sex in the linked post, and while I can't find a decision on what Technijui refered to him as (because Technijui cleared all of their old content and abandoned the account), he is now canonically a cis male. Do with that what you will haha

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(the original video was privated, uploading video on it's own)

WONDERFUL commissioned piece done by IHEARTU on YouTube! Don't like to let go of my credits, but I make an exception when it comes to quality stuff!! Look at me in all my glory!

Thieving, stealing, taking what's not yours!