Mudpuddle

she/they/fae/it, adult EU Server | MC: Mudpuddle Sideblog of @mudpuddlenl

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Hi there! <3 I’m Mudpuddle (she/they/fae/it) and I joined the game on March 22th, 2025. I also post outfits over on Miraland Collection under that same name! I'm also still a proud member of Wild Hearts! I’ll probably mostly post outfits, and will crosspost with Miraland Collection. I’m also a Lore Enjoyer, so I might talk about that as well sometimes. My Miraland Collection Outfits Page My Miraland Collection Nikkis Page

General Tags: #my posts is my tag for all my original posts, #my screenshots is for all my screenshots, and #my outfits is for outfit posts that have a link to their Miraland Collection page in them. #mudpuddle's favourites is my tag for some of my favourite looks I've made! I use the tag #dresscoded by tumblr for the occasions that tumblr decides an outfit is "potentially mature content". (It hasn't happened too often but it has happened more than once and probably will happen again, and I don't think those posts will ever get out of content label review :/) Posts relating to specific seasons are usually tagged with that season's name and version, i.e. #1.5 bubble season and #1.6 playful season.

Queue: The queue is currently set to 1 post a day! (though the queue might not always be full) My queue tag is #nikki momo and the queue-set.

Current Activities/Goals: I am currently doing my "Difficult Piece Wheel" challenge, where I put pieces (up to 2.1) that I struggle with on a spinner wheel and style the pieces the wheel gives me. Outfits I've made for this challenge can be found under #difficult piece wheel challenge.

I am also doing a Rainbow Challenge - with lore! You can find the stylings for these under #stylings: rainbow league.

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Halloween Cat

Outfit details here (Code will be added later)

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Good morning Chigda nation

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Happy pride month everybody

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Poppy Maiden

Outfit details here (code will be added when lookbook is back up)

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Watermelon Kitty

Outfit details here

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I’ve decided that once I reach 75 difficult piece wheel looks, I will be calling it quits on the wheel!

It’s been so much fun (and we aren’t quite there yet! We’re at 61 right now if counting looks in queue + those I still have to photograph) but even after cutting a lot of items from the wheel a while back, I still have 100+ pieces left and it’s not going to be fun for me to do all of those.

I think the Difficult Piece Wheel Challenge has done its job and my goal has been reached, which was to become a more versatile stylist through styling pieces I struggle with.

I have some new self-inflicted challenge/styling series ideas that I’m eager to get started on after I wrap this up! (And I should also resume the Rainbow League stylings, since I’ve been neglecting those a bit - Team Blue might seem recent on the tumblr end, but I had had those stylings done for over a month before I actually posted them!)

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Protector of Souls

Lovelyn is a ranger dedicated to protecting the souls and shades in the Boneyard. A solitary personality, she is only very rarely seen in the city proper, instead roaming the outskirts of Great Lumieville at night. Some of the younger Parksolians even think she’s a wandering soul herself. No one knows how long she has been protecting the Boneyard, and it's not like they can get close enough to ask - Lovelyn avoids most contact with others, and she will almost always spot you first.

Outfit details here

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Is Veli’s VA doing a team rocket impression or is that just me

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So we know that mortals did not become Stylists in a widespread manner until after the War of the Heavens, when the Eight discovered Whim and distributed it to everyone

This specific fact made it harder to sort out the timeline regarding Kuroda and Heurta, because of the books consistently referring to them or people around them as Stylists or able to use Whim—but they had to have defeated the original outbreak of Desperate Vines prior to the War of the Heavens, because Heurta explicitly met the Wishing One, and the implication is they were both already wielding Whim at that point

Somehow it only occurred to me today that maybe there is no inconsistency, because maybe the assumption that they wouldn't have been Stylists until after the War...never applied to them

Whim as mortals use it is essentially "lesser" form of the Whim that all gods wielded (which they used/expressed differently based on their domain), so maybe Faewish Sprites in general always had Whim from the start, even prior to the War, because they are Descendants and thus created using the power of Whim? Even then—Whimancers were rare but not unheard of, so Kuroda could have been one the whole time...

As for Heurta, when she met the Wishing One, she received an unspecified blessing or "divine miracle"...what if that was the ability to wield Whim? So she became a Whimancer even back then?

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Music Box Ballerina

Outfit details here

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Falling Blossoms

Outfit details here

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Faewish fandom is not just the people who make things but everyone who likes Faewish characters 💙💛

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Happy Green

Outfit details here

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maybe i missed something but idk if parksolian's like age slower or like meant to stay eternally young in appearance but it's killing me that there will be "elderly" parksolians... and it's just someone in their fucking 30s. like. be so real.

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Yeah I think it was mentioned in a sidequest or something that they age slower? Can’t remember the exact wording though

In my head they can live really long (maybe eternally if it wasn’t for soulrift) and their aging slows when they become adults, but again I don’t have the exact phrasing so I’m not sure if that’s right

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Dark Tiefling

Outfit details here

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Probably something discussed to death and though may be too early to tell how this shakes out in the long run, I currently do believe pivoting Infinity Nikki to be more combat focused is a mistake. The combat system itself was originally simplistic which allowed for interesting puzzle-like enemies and bosses throughout the first year, but archery and its various types are kind of...just a bandaid on this? It is still not very complex, but they make it necessary by adding HP and the shield system. It also feels we are escalating too quickly in the amount of HP.

I also feel the new bosses that are mainly HP sponges are just...not as memorable or interesting as the more puzzle-like ones that actually utilized other ability outfits too.

And it kind of just makes Infinity Nikki as a whole a lot less unique as a 3D open world gacha game. Good for you if you find this combat fun, but where it was largely quick and painless in the past, now it's just kind of tedious and feels like a bait and switch, or even a rug pull where the game is trying to become something I wouldn't have bothered picking up in the first place gameplay-wise

This does also tie into how I feel Itzaland diminishes the Stylist elements a lot too. Where in 1.0 when Giovanni walked on air it was easy to just go "oh that's an ability outfit" but in 2.x if someone did this I would be second guessing if it were an ability outfit or some other magic about to be introduced...

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Yeah I really enjoyed 1.x's puzzle-like bosses. While they weren't exceptionally strong or difficult in most cases, they almost always had something to throw you for a loop, some sort of puzzle/gimmick (often related to specific ability outfits but not always), which you'd have to figure out first. The fight being easy, then, feels like a reward for being smart, figuring out how to solve the puzzle/gimmick, and utilizing your abilities correctly!

Was the Dark Bouquet on Fireworks Island exceptionally difficult or strong? No, but I felt so smart and strategic when I realized that I needed to use the fireworks instead of my purification, it felt extremely rewarding! Same with Chigda's walls he throws up - the moment you first spot that little hole in it and you realize you need to shrink to get past it and attack is a great moment!

Quite frankly, the 2.5 bossfight forcing you into the 5* outfit is a huge red flag to me. Even the most challenging bossfights in 1.x could be done with the base outfits, and needing the new 5* for it to be doable just plainly makes it a bad design for a boss. (And that's not even talking about actual gameplay, because the 1000HP, even with the 5* outfit, makes the fight drag on for so long without really anything significantly interesting happening)

High HP does not immediately make something a good boss and I'm so sad to see Infold go down this path, as the HP amounts get higher and higher while the bossfights get more and more boring. And I hate that it's not even limited to bossfights too, no common overworld esseling should be 30+HP when that HP-range was limited to optional bossfights not even a year ago!

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The Moon

A Moon Deity styling I made for a styling collab with my friend Mei!

Outfit details here