they/them pronouns. intending to post silly stuff i do for fun. hirudo medicinalis apologist. polychaete haters DNI. if you are a human and can read please know that i am not doing commissions ~_~ (putting this here so i can block bots guilt-free) i have an artfight user. also bluscop. there's stuff on there you can look at. if you're here from there, hello!
so i guess there is at least a little interest in my weird fish. and it's barely still may, so why the hell not
left was the first sketch i did of this concept. right is the most recent. originally an abellivia au yes but i kinda took off with it. hi olivia youre looking so cool
left is the dual-fluid respiratory system of the "manyskin", or the octopus guys. dont @ me if its inaccurate T.T cold-blooded people collectively call themselves "coldfolk".
proper fish people. sort of mermaids sort of not because i guess i HAVE to be quirky and weird with it. the "fanfins" are all based on irl fishes
left is cultural stuff abt intimacy. i find the shiner looking worriedly at their crayfish "stonetail" partner rather funny
more stonetails. sorta centaur-y. one pair of claws one pair of more delicate humanoid hands
tldr bluscop's worldbuilding tendencies will not leave them the hell alone
alright i've come to make an announcement. rher the trickster moon god is a BITCH ASS MOTHERFUCKER , he made me kill thirteen fucking people
THAT'S RIGHT
he took his reality altering fucking green hue out , and he made me kill thirteen people , and he said his realm of influence was this big and i said that's disgusting
so i'm making a callout broadcast on the radio rher the trickster moon god,, you've got a
SMALL REALM OF INFLUENCE
it's like the size of this small Bohemian capital except way smaller and guess what . here's what my realm of influence looks like
( Explosion )
that's right baby. all human power, no divine meddling, no supernatural forces look at that it looks like a ENTIRE FUCKING SPACESHIP
he made me put thirteen people through the meatgrinder so guess what i'm gonna MEATGRIND PREHEVIL!! this is what you get : my SUPER ORBITAL ROCKET
except i'm not putting Prehevil through the meatgrinder. i'm gonna go higher. i'm meatgrinding the
MOON !!!! YES
HOW DO YOU LIKE THAT KAISER?? I GROUND UP THE MOON YOU IDIOT
you have twenty-three hours until the lunar meteorites hit the fucking earth. so get out of my sight before i grind you into sludge too
rotating Olivia Haas in my brain for awhile has made me realize i have a pattern of being fond of characters who resort to violence as a means of reclaiming the agency which has been systematically robbed from them. hm
Oh, I ship it. I support it wholeheartedly, get these two nerds in the room you can't leave without having lesbian sex.
Abella is a fucking badass who deserves better than some crusty ass guy. I picture her as way more muscular than her in game sprite depicts, she can totally hoist Olivia up like it's not even hard.
And Olivia, my beautiful angel of righteous violence and pent up resentment. You've got the charm of a teddy bear and arms like steel pythons, one of the coolest girls to ever do it.
So yeah, they're rad. Both as individuals and as a couple. Love them.
what are your thoughts on Kaisers and the machine gods relationship?(particularly what Kaiser did to get to that point and if he was right to try to make it in the first place)
thanks for asking such an interesting question!!
i know i sneak Kaiser slander into my lore posts more often than not, but he's a pretty interesting character all things considered. to get into his relationship to the Machine God, i'd start in the first game. in both games, his political position and goals are remarkably similar, but in the first game he knows far less about the divine and how it works.
we hear only a few snippets of the "ancient prophecy" Le'garde touts himself as the object of to gain influence over the common folk of Europa. he claims not to believe it, but his goals are aligned with it nonetheless. a snippet of his exchange with D'arce, seen in the Tower of the Endless, goes as follows:
well you're going to need to read the whole thing for that
ok here lmao
D'arce: "But really, many things are scarily accurate in the prophecy. It talks about 'the fair haired man' and 'the one who rivals gods in both power and beauty'..."
Le'garde: "Hah! I thought all the older gods were ugly as hell. Don't tell me you buy that stuff too?"
D'arce: "Nilvan of the new gods is supposedly beautiful. Just as the tormented one used to be... The texts also speak 'He, who unites the warring states, not by the power of the golden staff, but by the power of dozen pitchforks'."[sic]
Le'garde: "Well[,] all the kings hate me at this point, so that one line I can agree with... I WILL strive to unify these lands, be it in the prophecies or not. No matter the cost."
Le'garde believes the way to make his reign have greater meaning is ascending into New Godhood, similarly to many, many powerful people before him. the actual thing which sort of fulfills the prophecy happens completely outside of his knowledge or understanding; he ends up a sort of divine Forrest Gump. according to August, when Le'Garde emerged from the dungeons as a New God only to find some entirely different force doing exactly what he was determined to do except way better, he threw a massive tantrum.
"[Le'garde] did re-emerge from the darkness, but by then the world had already found a new savior in the [God of Fear and Hunger]. As his pursuits turned out to be meaningless, he slowly started to spiral into madness. His frustrations would slowly show themselves in rising hostility and violence. Without the grand 'ends' he had visioned[sic], he only came to be known for his 'means'. Ultimately he came to be known as the 'Yellow King of Madness'. Finalizing his transformation to[sic] a true villain. …They say that in his madness the man believed his own prophecy to the point that it would not let him die until he would fulfill[sic] that destiny. …He would wander the earth in pursuit of that greater good. You think he will finally get his happy ending?" - August, Deeper Woods campsite, Day 3 Evening
Lmao Bozo. but he was convinced that fate foretold that HE had to be the one to drive humanity forward. so he organized the Logic Project. Coded Letter #1 states;
"Eastern Union officials from both Voroniyan Republic as well as from Eastern Sanctuaries[sic] don't understand what they are giving up. ...But Kaiser knows. I first met him briefly during my scholarship at the compound all those years ago. It sounds like Kaiser knows perfectly well what the project has been building towards... in fact from the pieces I was able to gather, it sounds like he was one of the main forces kickstarting the project long before The Great War started and pitted Bremen and Eastern Union against each other."
While we don't know what Logic does exactly, it's meant to be a step forward for the entire human race. Kaiser mainly constructs it for his own pride, but it is (probably) a genuinely helpful thing that will further humanity. Kaiser was determined to be the human hardware because it would fulfill his sense of self-importance, but then he got Divine Savior Cucked by a girl with a bob AGAIN. after hundreds of years of planning. and he actually seems to take it really well compared to four hundred years ago, resigning himself to be the deity's defender rather than its pilot. he shows a lot of growth here, even low as the bar is.
Logic is an objectively beneficial force, regardless of the motives behind its construction. while i like to shit on Le'Fraud as much as the next guy, he did an okay thing. and it's even more okay with someone who is not him at the wheel. he's probably only a little mad about it. To quote someone who shares my general opinion,
"If I didn't detest every fiber of your being, I might even wait and see where all this leads... BUT I CAN'T HAVE A RECTAL EXTENSION LIKE YOURSELF LEADING US TO JACK SHIT!" - Nas'hrah, White Bunker Kaiser fight
