Awseome QueenTenna vs The evil spam email haunting them
Also Tenna folding under basically zero pressure and talking about the divorce.
Anyway! This was made for my dear friend @lesbiantennas who makes such scrumptious QueenTenna fics over on AO3 (Everyone go read them now!!) and it was based off the headcanon they had from the winter newsletter Mike scene of Queen and Tenna discussing spamtons "dissapearance" and how theyre similar in ways because they would both do anything to stay with their lightners.
Written text under the cut (along with some extra comic thoughts)
Queen: OMG And Then There Was Spamtong
How Did I Forget
Did You Know: Bro Just Stopped Paying Rent
Tenna: He... He did, did he?
Queen: Yes // Like // One Day He Just Couldn't Pay Anymore // Which Is Like // Kinda Sus TBH???
Should've Known He Was On Some Shady Stuff
Tenna: Ha... HA! AHAHA!
I knew I shouldn't have trusted that little scammer
He - HA - He played me for a fool since day 1
If I had known it was all fake
I would have...
ha... ha... I should have kicked to the curb when I had the chance...
Tenna: How could I have been so stupid
Ha - He - Haha! He could have said something you know?
He, I, I could've
I could've helped him
Would've
He just had... to say something
Why? Why didn't he say something??
Tenna: Say anything???
How was I supposed to know that-
Queen: *Stare*
Tenna: … That
*Shakey inhale*
... I knew
Tenna: I knew I shouldn't have done it
Mike they... they warned me
*Slide*
About the consequences if I made him sign it
But I had no choice
I had to know his secret
(my family they...)
To being a Big Shot
(I had to)
Spamton: Tenna...
Tenna: To keeping the family together
(I didn't have a choice. I'ts not my fault. I needed to)
Spamton: You're really serious about this... huh...
Tenna: I needed to know
Tenna: *Wrrrr Wrrrr* *Scribble* *Scribble* But it would have been FINE!
We would have become big together
We would have fixed everything TOGETHER!!!
*RING*
Spamton: I... Should take this...
Tenna: I would have helped him
*Tap tap tap tap tap...*
Tenna: I would have *hff hff*
*hff hff hff hff*
I could have
... I
(But it was just garbage noise)
Tenna: ... Was it wrong of me
To go through with the deal?
Knowing what I knew?
Does that make me a bad person?
Do you
...
Hate me for it?
Queen: Before I Answer Your First Question // I Must Query My Own
Firstly: Why Did Your Guy Know About The Consequences
Secondly: Why Did They Not Disclose What The Consequences Were // When They Were Clearly: Bad
Queen: Is That Not Weird To You <WEIRD>
Tenna: No... I didn't question it
o-of course I didn't question it!
I mean it's Mike!
Why would I question Mike?!
She's right... That is weird
Queen: Now Onto Your Question
Yes // What You Did Was Awful
Tenna: h-huh?
Queen: You Knew It Wasn't A Good Idea <TRUE>
Tenna: *Hh...*
Queen: You Said You Cared About Him
Yet You Went Through With The Deal Anyway
And That Is Horrible
Tenna: *Shrink Wrrrr Wrrrr hff hff hff hfff*
Queen: And
Queen: And
I Would Have Done The Same Thing
If It Was Me // If It Was My Purpose // If It Was About Noelle // If My Place In Her Life Was On The Line
I Would Have Made The Same Choice Without Hesitating
So Even Though What You Did Was Terrible
I Can Never Judge You For It
Nor Hate You For It
Tenna: *Grow*
Queen: Because I Would Have Done The Same <TRUE>
And Ha Ha
That Would Make Me A: Hypocrite
Wouldn't It <TRUE>
Tenna: *Hic Sniff Sob*
Queen: Do Not Fret // This Conversation Will Remain Encrypted To Anyone But Us
Tenna: Thank you... Queen
Queen: Of Course
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Okay!! *sips on my glass of queentenna poison like a crisp glass of battery acid*
I can't believe this comic is finally finished!! I started working on it back in like February 😭 passed my original deadline because man there were areas I struggled a lot on. mainly drawing big shot Spamton, i'm not the best at drawing him in his current look anyway idk what it is about the guy but man i just cant get him to ever look right. Even now im not happy with how he looks in the final comic but i would be working on this forever if i didnt just go he looks fine and move on. Oh And then there were just some of the other poses that I had a tough time with. but Hey!! its done now YIPPEE
anyway comic thoughts time!! (apologies if things dont make too much sense)
I love morally grey / morally questionable characters!!! Tenna's been "nuh-uh notmyfault"maxxing since that day happened that hearing someone (queen) call him out for his actions but also tell him that it's okay makes him pause. He was selfish and while that wasn't good it was also understandable to her. These two would do anything for their lighteners and also to keep being with their lightners even if it means...
GOD these two!! FUCK. someone should make a theory board image full of their similarities or something? (its me, im the someone. and i have already done that! Shout out the queentenna server :D maybe ill post it online one day...)
Lmao why did they think they could go here?
Did the PR team that thought them up really think Tumblr would allow them?
I mean obviously they’re bait but did they want bug ass?
It's been just over a year since Deltarune chapters 3 & 4 released! I did the 3D work, which mostly means Tenna 📺 I figured it's been long enough to share some "behind the scenes" stuff, starting with a look at the Maya file for his static poses...
I'd individually render the poses to get that early 3D shine ✨ Here's some of them at their original resolutions! I would work from text descriptions from Toby, and sometimes there'd be a Paint sketch to help out. Gigi drew the concept that I modeled from and some poses too!
I had a lot of fun pushing myself to match the dynamic poses Toby had in mind for Tenna - making him so crazy and expressive was something I couldn't have done without his prompts. He'd draw the faces on afterward too, which really brought Tenna to life!
(lots more after the Read More cut...!)
Here are some of the Paint sketches Toby drew to help me with specific Tenna poses! I love seeing his drawings LOL, genuinely really good and evocative 👍
There was a time when I was struggling to capture what he wanted for these specific Tenna poses… Until Toby acted them out himself, and I thought, "Ah, it's like that. I understand." and then I was able to make them just how he pictured them.
When looking through the renders and choosing what to share, I laughed at these two… Remember when Tenna had a gun? Remember when he bent over in a very specific way that might remind you of another, different image? No? Maybe you don't…? Well. Don't worry about it.
These ones are cute… Tenna is pretty cute sometimes! Has anyone ever thought this? Actually, before people knew he was going to be a strange 3D sprite the Whole Time, I was worried people wouldn't like the style and it'd sour people's views on him. I'm glad that didn't happen.
Toby thought it would be funny to have Tenna do some really smooth, mocapped animations sometimes - specifically free to use ones that often pop up in other things. An extra funny part to me is how many frames these take up in the game, and how his tails are stuck to his legs…
Speaking of mocap, Toby wanted Tenna to use custom mocap animations as far back as 2016 - Ten(na) years ago! I got an Xbox Kinect at the time and learnt how to set this up, but then never used it. Here's a look at messing with mocaped stuff again in 2022. So Normal.
Don't bother trying to help him here, he's just being dramatic 🙄
I particularly like these poses - I think I improvised most of these just based off the context they get used in… I always liked posing his tie and coat tails as if they were also parts of his body he could move. Which I guess they are?
After I rendered out the individual poses in high quality, I'd force the color palette to be limited to just a few shades and then I'd shrink the result down to pixel sized sprites. Like these! I'd tidy them up a little, but they'd really get improved on at the pixel scale by Clairvoire.
As well as Tenna's sprites, I also worked on his intro "movie"…! Seeing people be completely overloaded by this on first playthroughs would always make me laugh. In game, there's a ton of extra editing done by Everdraed, but my unedited cut looks like this ⬇️
This was the entire storyboard I had to work from, and I'm realizing now that there's the note "put him in car etc" that I never did and actually don't know what it would mean exactly. Working on this had me listen to the accompanying audio many times, but it's good so it's okay.
Here are a bunch of random clips of the Maya project for Tenna's intro movie. This is how movies get made, I think!! Yeah… Just like this.
Say it with him, folks!!
For the 3D Ralsei clip from the intro, Toby really wanted it to look a certain way, and drew more sketches for guiding me with this part than any other. They genuinely helped.
Remember how Toby's original storyboard has the note "covered in slime and shrinks"? That meant I had to learn how to make 3D slime. You can see my tech advancing here.
I'm really happy with how the final Tenna animation at the end of the intro movie turned out! It wouldn't look as good if it wasn't for some 2D animation to reference from SmallBuStudio, so thank you to them for the help! Tenna is cute… Huh, I already said that…?
Phew!! That's a lot of Tenna. I hope it was fun to look through my posts! Oh, one more thing - the Fangamer Mr. Tenna Figurine just straight up uses the 3D model I made, which I think is really funny and cool and nice. Check it out if you want! Thanks for reading!
deltarune ultimately posits that when you are in a position of power over someone, it is unavoidable that you will hurt them no matter how good your intentions are. we hurt kris, even if we want to respect their wishes. the lightners hurt the darkners, even if they truly are trying to do the right thing. on a much less severe scale, the adults in the game hurt the children even when they mean well. it's not necessarily a question of blame - it's a question of whether or not certain powers can even be wielded without someone getting hurt.
this is why discussions about culpability and blame in this game frequently miss the mark for me. while it's important to discuss how some characters' actions can hurt other characters, it also ignores a large part of the game's nuance if we don't also acknowledge that every character in the game is a nuanced, complex person who is reacting to a world that is not fair. a lot of these characters evoke pathos precisely because there isn't a reasonable way for them to overcome their circumstances!
when your actions in a world hurt someone else automatically, what can be done about it? that's the uncomfortable question the game is asking. if we can't let the game be uncomfortable and challenging, we simply can't have good discussions about it.
My Spamton is an owl because it's bird hardware running cat software. Also they make funny honks and chirps and my Spamton is a funny little guy (grown ass man)
Also I put Honeypot Tenna in a chef outfit finally... I like his regular dress shirt so I think this will stay as an alt outfit but I thought it was cute
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