I saw your stuff on tiktok and omg the way you've designed everyone!! Im genuinely hooked on this au from their designs alone- whats the general story of your AU bc holy SHIT im invested?? 🫶
It’s mainly about the characters’ psychological growth and how time and different realities shape their worldview - "what they gain, and what they lose"
The AU follows the idea of Equilibrium: everything has a price. If you gain something, you have to lose something of equal (or greater) value. And Rememberance: every fragments of memory (from emotions to identity, knowledge, and worldview) is shaped over time, carrying its own history and meaning
So yea.. its a pretty philosophy-heavy AU, not exactly slice of life. And since I’m making it all by myself, it’ll probably take a while
Will we get to know how both Crimson and Navy fell in love with Aureate? Follow up question, did they propose at the same time and did they plan it like that? I'm sorry, I'm really intrigued by your au also I really love your art style, it's so detailed and I am loving the designs for everyone🥹
Crimson and Navys never actually proposed to Aureate. Their relationship came much later than most people would expect
Aureate wasn’t either of their first loves, but after everything they had been through, they both truly fell in love with her. In the end, they chose the same person, the woman who had silently protected them across countless lifetimes and realities
Nort. I just need to take a second and genuinely thank you for the story you and Fly are making. But more specific I need t thank you for Cuphead and the way he's written as a suicidal character..
Ive seen so much media with suicidal characters, and yet none of it has really portrayed it "accurately" (or atleast accurate from my experiences)
And Cuphead is a perfect mirror of how it is for me..
It's the fact that he is all to aware of his mortality and yet he puts himself in danger.
His brother is his last string. Cuphead wouldn't take his own life, but he won't fight it if he is killed.
And yet when he finally dose die, the one thing that brings him back is his brother.
And that's how it is for what I've known of it in my life, I've personally struggled with that sorta thing, and it's been to the point of my sister being the one person keeping me here. And I've known countless friends who are in the same situation with that one person being their reason to live..
So I thank you for that, Nort, and Fly.. and I'm curious. How did you write him so well?
I'm so glad you were able to connect with our writing, and I hope you're doing well and that you find love for your life in your own way and time
Cw: Sui ideation
Now its no secret that I project a lot onto the characters, and cuphead has a lot of my mental struggles, adhd, educational issues, adrenaline seeking, addictive
but that specific ideation comes straight from my own experience.
I wont sit here and dump all of the terrible thing's i've faced to you guys, but regardless of my trauma, it doesn't really matter. Whether I went through the worst things imaginable or if i simply dropped my ice cream cone, these thoughts can come for anyone and from anywhere.
What matters is the thought process, and understanding that mental struggle of suicidal ideation. Its not easy to explain where my brain goes in words, so I draw it.
I didn't take over Cuphead's dream as Fly's style of art was more suited to it, but I wrote it. I wrote and choreographed and poured my guts out onto a silly cartoon character to try and show how confusing and terrifying but also numbing it is to have these thoughts.
Its abstract but linear, its crazy but quiet. Its contradictory and still makes sense to us. Its difficult.
From what i've seen of other characters who struggle with this in media, it all stems from a bad moment in their lives that have them spiral downwards. While thats entirely possible for others, I wanted to show a more nuanced take on it. something passive but visceral. A slow buildup that took years and years of the same thought process til it felt like 2nd nature to feel so passive about death. It doesn't matter to cuphead anymore. The only thing that matters is his brother, its the one thing he holds onto.
Now in some screwed up way, he's got anither anchor, the map, bendy and boris. Its terrible but it's SOMETHING.
i really want to talk about it but im also conflicted as its personal and i'm scared of revealing much of myself on here haha
These topics are never easy to discuss, but I know what it's like. I don't think that part of me will ever go away, but i have help. I survived. I will keep going. I have support systems, a therapist, medication, loving friends and family, and a future I look forward to. Even if its hard I will make that future real for myself.
Its not easy, and I don't expect it to be, but I wanted to write this for the character. And I hope we can be as deep with the others as well.
And i also hope that anyone who relates knows that they aren't alone. I see you, and many others do too even if it doesn't feel like it. You will figure out whatever is happening right now, you've done it before and you'll do it again. It'll be okay. You got this. You always have someone in your corner who's rooting for you!
Say hi to MY Lady, Aureate Cylindar (Ms.Chalice in my AU). The strongest Guardian, the Founder of Lilium Maison Group, and the woman has 2 souls in her body (thats why her straw is floating)
I will changed almost everyone's name in my AU for the plot
(i swear you guys will not dissapoint cuz this is not her only official outfit)
Hope you guys love her (LIKE I DO, CUZ I LOVE HER SO SO MUCH💛)