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[gillsick]

Just made a blog for my story called "Unbroken Memories: When Gourdy was reunited with his parents"

Come check it out 😁

[tvtoontime]

..little late oops..

[not-so-temmie]

You're always so kind to me, know that i appreciate it.

[gillsick]

My concept for what the 2026 Halloween event lore tape could look like

This is just a fan concept. Feel free to share your opinion down below.

The tape begins, it takes place in the secret room on Seasonal Floor 2 (The Halloween seasonal floor) The date is October 31st 2001, quarter after 9 PM. The Halloween celebration at Gardenview has just concluded. Delilah has asked Gourdy to come into the room she's in. The young pumpkin hops in, full of energy from the celebrations.

Gourdy: "Hey Mrs. Keen! Arthur said I did a spectacular job with the guests this Halloween!"

Delilah: "That's not why I called you here Gourdy." The smile on Gourdy's face slightly fades.

Gourdy: "Uhh, what did you call me here for?"

Delilah turns around to look at Gourdy.

Delilah: "Do you ever feel like you've been, well. Let me put it this way. Missing something?"

Gourdy taps his fingers together as he stands there thinking.

Gourdy: "Well uuuuh, I'm not too sure. I mean, I always have fun getting to meet all the excited trick or treaters."

Gourdy: "Toodles is fun to play with, Soulvester, Ribecca, and Eclipse take good care of me, the candy bowls are always full-"

Delilah: "I don't mean that."

Gourdy: "What do you mean then?..."

Delilah: "What I mean is."

Delilah: "Are there two particular people in your life you feel are missing?"

Gourdy finally has an idea of what Delilah is talking about.

Gourdy: "Are you talking about... Parents?... All the kids that visit this place have their parents come with them. Is that what you mean?"

Delilah takes something out of her pocket and gives it to Gourdy. Its the memory locket. He opens it up to see his parents standing next to him, faces covered in Ichor.

Gourdy: "Are... Are these my... Parents?... I didn't even know I had any..."

Delilah: "You're going to get to see them next Halloween Gourdy. As for now we have to get your floor ready for their arrival. We'll construct a room for them."

Gourdy: "Oh wow... I..."

Delilah places a hand on his shoulder.

Delilah: "They're going to be really happy to see you."

Gourdy: "Mrs. Keen? I just have one question."

Gourdy: "Why are their faces-"

The tape cuts off.

[gillsick]

Why I think the older toons (Especially the mains) shouldn't be redesigned

[stimboardandmoodboardmaker-deac]

TW: Spoilers

I think here she realized maybe giving Bassie the flower was a bad idea

[gillsick]

What I think the real reason is for why no ships are canon in Dandy's World

I'm going to be honest. The real reason why I think Qwel has stated that no ship is canon in the Dandy's World game (Aside from Mr. and Mrs. Holloway who are implied to have never existed) doesn't just do with her wanting everybody to feel their ships are validated. (I do think that's part of reason don't get me wrong) but I believe there is a lore reason for it too. Basically. The toons cannot feel romantic bonds for one another because it was forbidden from their design. I mean think about it. From what we know about Arthur and Delilah, do you really think they want toons to be able to form those close bonds with one another?

This could be why Gourdy's parents were never made into actual toons, because their love for one another might have "infected" the ichor and given other toons the ability to feel the same way.

We know that Gardenview's system does everything in its power to weaken familial bonds between toons. Look at how out of all the toons who are siblings/cousins (Goob and Scraps, Cosmo and Ginger, Connie and Soulvester, and Flutter and Flyte) Goob and Scraps are the only ones who aren't separated from one another for 11 months as they are both year round toons. We see first hand how they have no problem separating literal family to control the toons.

I seriously hope they confirm this. It would really help make Gardenview even darker and more cruel than it already is.

[pkanonynaut]

This is what I was thinking bro ^^^^

Let this person cook

Makes everything more messed up which is GOOD because like… I mean some dark shit is def happening at Gardenview bro.

If this is the reason why NO ships are canon then they should allude to it in a lore thing or something because honestly. Most Dandys world content that is being consumed IS cute ship art, and animations and stuff like that. (I wanna see more angst HELP)

And If they were to confirm toons CANT feel love then maybe we’d have more lore on toons with close friendships!!!. More angst stuff with toons discovering new feelings they weren’t made to feel! Maybe someone twisted from a strong love/heart break emotion? Who knows! Im dying to know what happened with Tisha and Brusha! And what this could mean for Dandy and Astros special bond! Damn even Cosmo and Sprouts friendship!

[gillsick]

ABSOLUTELY

[stimboardandmoodboardmaker-deac]

Re-Analyzing the Christmas Note

Since some of ya'll are still not fully convinced there's no malicious intent behind it. Let me break it down for you.

So, it turns out Delilah may have also checked on the toons emotions as well, but just because she suggested them to get some space doesn't mean she didn't try to help them at all.

She likely DID check on them. She likely decided they'll want to be alone until next year, so she sees it as a good thing because they'll get a well deserved break and some space.

She is not saying that it's good they have seasonal depression. She is not saying she programmed them to be like that. It's not actually confirmed whether she did or not yet.

She isn't ''abusive'' or ''evil'' just because she suggested them to have some space. She's not a miracle worker. She can't just magically cure depression or modify these toons to not have seasonal depression. She can only talk to them and go from there. Mental issues are a lot more different than Health issues, even for toons.

The waste of resources part? That isn't her calling the TOONS resources. She's likely referring to the two Christmas floors, one of which has a huge fucking ice rink by the way. That WOULD take a lot of resources to maintain all year.

And it IS a waste to keep Christmas toons, or any Holiday toons out all year. What would Christmas toons do in Easter? What would Easter toons do on Halloween? What would Halloween toons do on Christmas?

If we count every current event toon, we get 12 extra toons that would have to be looked after all year on top of the several other toons. Gardenview likely doesn't have the budget to support 12 extra toons all year, nor maintain the seasonal maps.

Why can't they share a room with existing toons? That might work for the relatives, but the rest, not so much. Cocoa sharing a room with Yatta is a disaster waiting to happen. Yatta WILL lose control. Cocoa WILL get a bite mark like Ginger. Bobette won't want to go anywhere without Coal. How many toons actually like Pebble? How many toons are scared of Pebble or find him straight up unruly? These toons normally feel similarly about Coal as well. Not many toons here like dogs. Who would Rudie even share with? No one would be able to pretend it's Christmas every day, no one could stand to share a ROOM with him every night.

And although that was a good alternative to what was decided on, you can't blame Delilah for not coming up with that idea. Again, she can't do everything, She's already doing a lot making toons, running checkups, and doing paperwork.

If you want to blame anyone for not offering an alternative, blame ARTHUR. He did tell her to check on the Christmas toons, but did HE offer any alternative to them being together out of the public eye? NO.

You don't know that Delilah DIDN'T check on the Christmas toons. She may very well have and thought that they will need time alone to get better. Real life therapists and people in general suggest giving yourself space by the way.

Why not make the holiday toons rooms? Gardenview isn't infinite. Why did they add 12 more toons then? Likely because Arthur wanted holiday toons, Delilah was just following orders. Would you rather her of not followed orders? But yeah once again, blame Arthur on the poor planning mentioned in that point.

Why not convert other rooms? Once again, that job would technically fall on Arthur and not Delilah. He has a lot less work to do than she does by the looks of it. He doesn't take care of the toons as much as the handlers do. He doesn't even animate the show much anymore, he has animators for that now. So why does everything have to be done by Delilah exactly?

P.S. Being the literal face of a company doesn't count, he gets all the relaxing stuff like interviews or something probably. But I'm pretty sure most other work he would be doing is done by everyone else.

[gillsick]

Flutter and Squirm's interaction for anyone who's interested

[kklps113]

I realized I had never drawn Gourdy before, had to fix that

[ash-lien]

i think my brain finally comprehended how heartbreaking gourdy's lore is like 4 months after the event because iirc, gourdy is one of 2 toons that currently are like semi conscious right? and i feel like what makes gourdy so much more heartbreaking is that glisten as far as we know is an adult. a really really lonely, breaking adult who needs to be perfect. a lot like gourdy, but gourdy is a child. a 7-8 year old at most who has an emotional baggage equivalent to GLISTEN'S, one of THE deepest characters in a game.

THE CHARACTER WHO HAS THE SAME EMOTIONAL BAGGAGE AND NEED FOR BEING PERFECT AND THE SAME DEEP LONELINESS AND FEAR OF BEING LEFT ALONE IS 7 YEARS OLD.

[butchifiedcatfish]

Heres a theory: Twisted Eclipse’s arms are covered in ichor because Gourdy was the first of the Halloween toons to twist and so she tried to dig him out of the ichor puddle that formed around him. Which is why she ended up twisting because she would never let her pack get hurt.

[starlightsams4]

istg it pisses me off sm when ppl say “Delilah forced Dandy to make the Ichor operation!!” LIKE NO LEARN THE LORE.

The Ichor operation is what you do in the game. It brings power to Gardenview, giving the access to the train (which gets them “luxuries,” as Dyle says in his gossip), ac/heating, lights, etc. anything powered by electricity. This is implied in Bobette gossip. (…I've asked her how she's able to direct all the power to keep the lights well lit. I always thought we'd have less energy from the shutdown-!-She uhm… never gives a direct answer though, it's odd now that I think on it… huh.) Brightney didn’t give a direct answer because it’d sound disturbing to use the same substance they bleed to power the building.

The Ichor operation is NOT Delilah forcing dandy to kill his friends. Delilah didn’t force Dandy to do anything. The Ichor operation was made by dandy to give Gardenview power and help the toons survive alone.

The Ichor operation LITERALLY happens after Gardenview closes. Delilah wouldn’t even be there. Delilah’s not even evil?? She’s just apathetic and business minded. I’d say she leans more towards morally grey or just an asshole than evil.

The toons turn twisted because of strong negative emotion. Not because Delilah forced dandy to kill them all. Jeez.

Yall gotta stop believing those theorists who have never touched the game or those yt short animations.

Anyways, questions?

[stimboardandmoodboardmaker-deac]

Thoughts on my Arthur? (Childish mf who blames everyone but himself when things go wrong or runs from his problems, huge control freak, perfectionist, anger issues, projects his insecurities of being seen as useful onto toons)

*BEATS HIM UP*

Can I keep him? I can fix him! :D

Gosh those poor toons/staff members...

FIRE HIM

Aww, cutie!

*Drags his ass to a therapist*

I want to kill him

I want to slap him then give headpats

I want to study him =)

Is he date-able?

Other

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Voting ended onFeb 10

[littleastrolittlestar]

He has a lot of green flags.

He’s Greek, Religious, likes Juice, is a Cartoonist, created my all time Confort Character, is innocent compared to you-know-who, and overall a good guy.

I see no problems.

Me X Arthur Walton canon XD

[stimboardandmoodboardmaker-deac]

The thing is, Delilah can't be behind most of the toons mental trauma because she quite literally spends most of her time isolated

it falls on Arthur by default

so saying Delilah is worse than him makes no sense

At least say both screwed up

[littleastrolittlestar]

that’s what I said

[stimboardandmoodboardmaker-deac]

okay mb did you call him cutie perhaps? >:3

[loving-parasite-moved]

i didn't do the best job at entirely explaining alot of these concepts but i feel it gets it across well enough

[lucasisverycool01]

Lonely Pumpkin

(Based on a headcanon about what happened after this short.)

Dandy’s world

Gourdy

Mystery second character- (it’s easy to tell I just don’t wanna spoiler it..)

3951 Characters, 725 Words.

As Gourdy settled to sleep thanks to everyone’s help, the toons exited the room one by one… until the last toon was in the room. They hovered near the door for a moment… before finally exiting, locking the door from the outside.. their smile bittersweet- it was for the better, they told themselves.. after all, they already had enough toons running around- and Gourdy didn’t seem to follow the antisocial rule… so it would be best to not let him socialize at all. After that, they left to do their own thing, leaving the pumpkin to sleep in the locked room.

After a couple hours passed by, Gourdys eyes slowly opened, he yawned and stretched his plant body, looking around- his eyes widened and his eyelights shrunk a little in surprise! So many gifts- well… he already had the plushies- but he just really appreciated that they were next to him! He hugged the blanket, looking over at the pillow that was next to his head, probably to block the light from the lantern on the bedside table.. he smiled, tears of joy threatening to get out- but he let a few drop.. he was just, so happy that he squealed a little, kicking his feet and giggling, he couldn’t help it! He was just so happy that the others cared so much to do this for him.

He eventually shuffled off his bed, holding onto his Dandy and Vee plush, he reached for the doorhandle, pushing it down to open it-…. What? How come… hm. He tried to open the door again- and again- and again- his bright smile slowly fading to a line… now his happy tears becoming… sad. What happened? Was he bad…? Why did they lock him here… Why- he banged on the door with one of his hands, screaming out for help- but everyone has long left the floor… there was no one who could help or hear his pleas for help.. the corners of his eyes start to feel itchy and like someone was pinching them-

“But…. I-… I only made everyone smile! Maybe spooked a couple toons-… but… do I really deserve… this..?”

He slowly slides down to the floor, his back against the door, his plushies now sitting besides him, Dandy on the right and Vee on the left… he pressed his legs against his body, hugging them closer as he slowly sobbed, not knowing what he did wrong to be locked here..

He wiped his tears, trying to stop crying… he has been crying for the past hour, but he just wasn’t even feeling better.. eventually he was able to stop the waterfall of tears, his vision a little blurry, his eyelights also being barely visible, showing visually how sad he felt about this.. he slowly stood up from the floor, his breathing heavy.

“I.. I’ve been good.. I can’t remember doing anything wrong.. so then why.. did I make Dandy angry again…..?”

He holds his cheeks, still wiping away any stray tears that managed to slip out as he thought about this.. his mind scrambled, not knowing what to pin the fault to.. himself? Someone else didn’t like him that much? A prank?…. His eyelights became scribbles, his breathing getting faster…

“Why… why am I here? What did I do?! I can’t remember- mom… dad-…. Please help me… I don’t know what’s happening… I’m so… confused!”

He finally falls to his knees, supporting himself with his hands, looking as if he was bowing down for no reason.. he felt his consciousness slowly slip away, this outburst having drained his energy enough that he felt… very sleepy.. or was it just him..? Maybe it was aided by a certain toon.. two glowing stars approached Gourdys limp body, slowly lifting him up onto the bed, then a pair of two hands approached, one pair pulling up the blanket and the other two holding the plushies.. the hands placed them next to Gourdy, just like they were before.. a soft smile appeared on the toons face..

After a moment of just making sure Gourdy would have a good nap, the door opened.. and then closed behind the toon.. although, getting locked again.. he knew the rules, but he also felt bad for the little pumpkin.. this was the least he could do, and he hoped it would help.

[starlightsams4]

Dandys world timeline I made in the middle of the night while listening to MatPat explain fnaf lore.

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