⭐Dream traveler✨ @leirathedreamer - Tumblr Blog

Two descendants Oc's and a new horror adventure I made

Connected to the previous image hc (completed hc list here). They might not look that original though, I hope with their story background they are more interesting:

⭐Carter Plunkett is based on my favorite character, Randolph Carter, in Lovecraft's works. He’s the most similar to his grandfather in looks, intelligence and how much he rhymes, but has no Phil or friends in general, and is much more reserved, he doesn't like social events. He saw many seuss worlds and similars (and others stranger, misterious, twisted, darker and still weirdly beautiful worlds) through dreams since early childhood and longs to travel them all while feeling disconnected to his own world. For many years after becoming an adult, he tried to be normal, knowing how worried his family was for him.

He’s closer to his grandpa, mother and little sister, they were his anchor all his life. His little sister might be the closest he has to a "Phil" in his life, they are siblings and best friends, taking care of the other, sharing their deepest secrets and being each other biggest support. He's not close to his father and older brother, not because they're nasty, they're just too different in personality, he's also indifferent to his cousins. He idolized Howard and stole his hat so many times he was gifted a similar one by him, while his mother gifted him a four clover leaf brooch that she put in the hat, with the hope that it would grant him luck and protection in the future, she can't help but worry while Howard knows what's coming and knows he can't stop it, which frustrates him.

It finally happened when Carter reached 30, he’s done trying, his anchors aren't enough to stop the deep longing in his soul, he wants to follow his dreams, literally, so he searches and manages to find Knowledge’s bar and then finds a way to leave with him, finally becoming a traveller of worlds (he himself is the key, but the price is bigger the more he goes down and farther away. Is he willing to pay for more knowledge? How far will he go? How much of himself will he trade?)

⭐Sarah Plunkett, Carter’s little sister (I took the name from Lovecrafts mother, following the trend of Howard and Phillip), 26 years old. She’s closer to Carter than to her first brother, especially considering the big age gap between oldest and youngest. She considers Carter her first best friend, her biggest supporter and anchor. Howard has a soft spot for her because she looks like his mom, just younger and with more energy, but at the same time, he fears she might share the tragic destiny of her great grandmother because of being her look alike. She's an artist, loves to do all kinds of different crafts but her true passion is painting. After Carter’s disappearance, she’s the one who took it the hardest, to the point Howard worries himself sick for her. She stops painting and doing any craft, having lost her biggest supporter, and starts wandering, in the end, she accidentally gets involved with a cult.

She receives an offer to work in an old, strange museum that's outside of the city. She has a strong gut feeling against this place, but decides to ignore it, on one hand, she can use it as an excuse to get away and stop worrying her family, on the other, she knows her family history and there's a chance this could lead her to answers. She'll soon be involved in a terrible adventure, crazy cultist that want to use her (as a descendant of someone touched by one of the Old Gods) as a key and vessel in their invocation, coworkers and unfortunate visitors transformed into works of art and offerings, creatures like ghouls and others have come out of hiding to feast after accidentally being called by the cult, there's also madness everywhere and even if she has inherited the resistance of grandpa Howard, she can get lost if she doesn't stand strong, and as a human she can still get hurt. She'll have to use all her wits and go back to painting and doing crafts if she wants to solve the puzzles and survive to tell the tale. Luckily, a bar has opened its doors tonight. She's the first descendant to face an apocalyptic event like Howard, and in this adventure, she also gets to say goodbye and learn to let go of her brother and best friend, let him follow his dream no matter where they take him nor how far away from her.

Sarah Plunkett ignored the danger

Just to find signs of her brother Carter

Now she's trapped, surrounded by madness

She has to be clever if she wants to outsmart them

The museum of madness has reveales its true face

Will Sarah be able to see another day?

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🌟Note after thinking: my dear Angelique, by this time, has added to her old theory about Howard's curse not being a curse but another side effect. Considering how all of Howard's changes are about knowledge, he fought an Old God of Knowledge, and all descendants have a lesser version of what Howard had, expressed majorly through "gut feelings", she thinks is not so much as his children "attracting" this weird situations, but their subconscious knowing there's "something" otherworldly in that place/person and their curiosity leading them there if they're close but they don't tend to repeat the experience, they're satisfied having seen it once, while the few others "atractted" by it, are just more active and conscious in their search for more and more, their thirst for knowledge seems stronger. All can be summed up as curiosity and knowledge being the biggest aftermath in Howard's children (Howard will forever curse at that Old God, though he always knew, even before going down to that city, that if he ever managed to come back, he would never be the same and there would be consequences).

🔴Extra notes about the descendants hc for those who want to use it: they have the resistance against madness like Howard (they're all strange and see the world different to normal people, but each one also express it in different ways, not all descendants see the world exactly like Howard nor rhyme as much as he does) but just like Howard, in certain situations and if they don't stand strong mentally, they can fell to the madness (bad end). Their gut feelings and small premonitions can protect them but the hubris of this family is curiosity and the thirst of knowledge, stronger in some (that might be a leftover influence from that Old God in the past). They're still fully human and can be hurt as easily as anyone, but they're also smart and resourceful to get out of the situations they get in.

#the island of doctor morose #tiodm oc #the museum of madness #tiodmgame #artwork #tiodm headcanons #tiodm howard #howard plunkett #howard's grandchildren #a new horror adventure #trying to rhyme in a second language i self taught myself and probably failing

georgi-girl

Incorrect TIODM Quotes

Phillip: Old Man Montgomery, he sure likes to fuss.

Howard: I see he likes to scream… at us.

Phillip: Probably he means no harm.

Howard: He’s just really short on charm.

Phillip: You have such a a gift for rhyme!

Howard: Yeah, most of the time.

Montgomery Guntz: Enough of that.

Phillip: Howard, are there rocks ahead?

Howard: If there are, we’ll all be dead.

Montgomery Guntz: No more rhymes now, I mean it.

Howard: Anybody want a peanut?

Montgomery Guntz: GAAAAAAAAHHHH!!!!

Drawing of the hc about the future! (Complete list here)

Like it happens in some Lovecraft stories, close interactions with the Old Ones can lead to a family "curse". In Howard’s case, all his descendants are more susceptible to anything related to these other beings and dimensions, they either attract it or are attracted to it, but is mostly minor stuff and almost never end of the world, but this is counteracted by them also inheriting Howard’s weirdness that protects them from the madness, so they get out in one piece, at least mentally. They also tend to get help from Knowhere the cat, who also send messages to Howie through them, which are still partly therapy, but also partly rage bait. Once Howard gets over his fear for his children after realizing they are protected by his weird genes or whatever he has, he mostly rages over those messages.

⭐Angelique theorizes that, more than a curse, it's another side effect of what happened to Howard, since those beings are timeless and exist in past, present and future at the same time, when he entered that space and was affected, all changes was from present him towards the future, and it couldn't differentiate him from his biological descendants. Howards thinks it makes sense but still calls it a curse.

⭐His descendants have a much lesser version of what Howard has, they have gut feelings about people and situations and following them usually saves them from misfortune, a few even have premonitions and see ghosts, but nothing more.

⭐Usually they tend to attract stuff more than search for it, they are just minding their own business and just stumble across them, for example, making friends with a painter or musician that later revealed themselves to be more than just a little exotic, accidentally acquiring a strange book with weird symbols, being on vacation and stopping by a strange seaside town or going in a scientific expedition to Antarctica that ended badly for everyone but them. To help them, Howard started a collection of different stuff (from books to objects) that he knows will one day be useful them.

⭐From the few that feel attracted to the strange, only one was an extreme case that lead to disappearance up until now, same with situations that lead to an almost end of the world event like the one Howard had to face, just one descendant had the misfortune to fall in this situation. I can show these oc's next post.

⭐Finally, Phil thinks (from what he knows about this character) that Knowledge the cat must have grown fond of Howard and that's why he helps his children so much. Angelique, on the other hand, thinks the cat must find some kind of entertainment from them. Whatever the case, and even if he rages about the messages he sends his way, deep down Howard is grateful towards that cat for looking over the children, in fact, when he’s close to his end, he follows his subconscious and goes out, finding Luckys bar and the cat, they spend the night just talking and playing one last time.

😅Anyway, "I" can't do any of the ships (one is spoiled by the fact that I see him and Phil's friendship similar to a dear one of mine from the past and I honestly should do an art vent about it and this game to get it out of my head a little but idk) and I don't want to bother doing an oc wife and do all the background 😵‍💫, so I'll let it free for everyone who he married and had children with, as long as I don't have to draw it you can do any ships and play with this concept as much as you like (if anyone likes it of course and want to use it in your fics or wathever else) 😊

⭐⭐⭐⭐ Script transcription:

Child 1: It feels strange to ask, ¿But do you know Knowhere the cat?

Howard: ¡Wait a minute, this can't be right! ¡¿How do you know the name of that cat?

Child 2: ¡Hey dad, Knowhere the cat says hi! ¡And you wouldn't believe the night I had!

Howard: Oh please, not you too. ¿Are all my children destined to face some kind of doom? (And that damn weird cat, ¿What irritating words does he want to tell me now?)

Grandc 1: Grandpa, before I tell you about the weird experience I had, I have a message from your old friend, Knowhere the cat.

Howard: Oh no, not that damn cat again... ¡I swear he is involved in this mess in some way!

Phil: I will like to meet him and exchange some points about Howie here. Hahaha!

Howard: ... Traitor.

Grandc2: ¡Grandpa! ¡Message from the cat!

Howard: ¡¡AAAGH!! ¡Knowhere, you damn cat! ¡You better come here right NOW!

Grandc 2: ...grandpa is acting weird again... (The message doesn't even sound that bad)

Grandc3: ¿When is he not? That would surprise me more (and we are weird too yk)

#trying to rhyme in a second language i self taught myself and probably failing #howard plunkett #tiodm headcanons #the island of doctor morose #headcanon #Howard plunkett's descendants #tiodm future #tiodm oc #artwork #tiodm howard #tiodmgame #partner is free real state just don't bother me about it bc I'm going through a chapter on a frienship I thought was closed until this game #this game gave me emotional damage but I'm too obsessed to leave it rn

zishiyao

Average Otome Game Experience Somehow you always pick the one option that leads to a Bad End.

lemonomelette

When you expect her to kiss the ground you walk on after performing a very heroic last-minute rescue but she lectures you about being late instead <3

subliminamilly

First time dad Fëanor interpreting infant Maedhros’s inarticulate utterances with great certainty:

Maedhros: nnnng AHHHH g g g

Fëanor, plucking him from his cradle: SO! You want your blanket refolded into a triangle and not a square. Admirable aesthetic judgement. It shall be done.

(With his other arm he refolds it with unnecessary geometric precision)

(Maedhros grabs for Fëanor’s circlet while drooling on his collar)

Fëanor: Ah! An eye for keen workmanship over fine raiment.

Maedhros: bBbbbBb (wriggling and kicking)

Fëanor: you desire to be borne aloft that you may inspect the proportions of the room by every angle!

(He grasps him under the arms and banks around the room a few times like a great eagle)

(Maedhros shrieks in delight)

Fëanor: as I perceived. You and I understand each other, my son.

So, another drawing based on my list of headcanons and connected to this drawing.

Howard just knows things, the knowledge is stored in his subconscious and from time to time, he even sees images of events that will happen but he mostly has gut feelings. The most annoying thing is when he gets an earworm of catchy songs that won’t exist for many decades. At first, because he feared they would think him crazy, he decides to be cryptic about it.

Phil humored him even if what he asked was quite inconvenient, mostly bc he still felt guilty (later their friendship improved and became healthier, once they talked about everything and let go of their guilt, but as with everything, it still took time), while Angelique simply took it as another one of his quirks, they were still just getting to know each other after all, but she already knew he was a good person so his weird comments couldn't be malicious. It was after being saved from minor to major incidents by his weird remarks that Phil and Angelique decided to confront him while assuring him they believe him, which makes Howard feel much better about this new weird side of him.

Also, Howard can give lottery numbers (he's annoyed when he's asked bc it's become a kind of a common joke now), the problem is that he never knows if those numbers are for the grand prize or not, most of the time it's for the smallest ones.

#trying to rhyme in a second language i self taught myself and probably failing #the island of doctor morose #howard plunkett #headcanon #tiodm howard #tiodm philip #tiodm angelique #tiodmgame #artwork #phillip maude

leirathedreamer

Headcanons tiodm, hc from personal experience (bc why not) and two ocs

Hi. I wanted to share some hc and ideas (I’m so nervous 😖). I love this game so much since I discovered it! because the friendship of the main character reminds me too much of one I had, it’s soo similar, even the emotional codependency (and being shipped bc of how close we were, ironically), I’m Howard, she was Phil, so unfortunately I just can’t ship them bc of it so no hc for that 😞, but you’re free to take my ideas so this community grows! 😋 I’ll also add some hc based on experience on emotional codependency (never thought it would be useful for something 😅). I also made some pencil drawings based on some of these hc, I'll post them later. Hope my english is good, here we go:

• I think Phillip might have adopted Howard into the friendship, as its common between introverts and extroverts. Howard was the follower and Phillip the leader when they were young. Wherever Phil went, Howard went.

• Phil has a weird side but its either a mostly socially accepted one or he hides it well (unlike Howard, who is too obviously weird with his rhymes). Its through this he connected with Howard first.

• Howard was, probably, too self-conscious during his teenage years because of his difference, Phillip probably talked for him a lot and protected him. Once in college though, in a place where people cared more about intelligence and grades and didn’t have time to worry about other people’s business, he adopted a more indifferent attitude, shielding himself with his brilliant mind, but deep down, he’s still insecure ‘cause he knows people still think him slow and strange and he’s still discriminated (like Morose, who didn’t give him the job because of his way of talking, and I don’t think he was the first nor the last one)

• Phillip is the most extrovert and could make more friends, but my theory as to why in game no one else seems to worry for his lack of response, nor is anyone else mentioned besides Howard, is that, after Katie’s death, Phillip pushed people away and his obsession towards curing all diseases and maybe even death, made him unapproachable. Only Howard could understand and connect with his grief and was smart enough not to fall behind in that quest of scientific research.

• I think Howard’s emotional codependency isn’t helped by the fact that Phil is the only constant in his life since childhood and the only one he could honestly consider his family after his mother’s death, adding to that, his oddness probably made it difficult for him to make friends.

• The ugly side of emotional codependency in friendship I think happened more than once by experience. When he saw Phil with other people, making friends, Howard must have felt an ugly mix of emotions: envy, which was in itself also a mix between jealousy at how easily he made friends and jealousy over him because he was HIS best friend and they can’t take him away and are stealing the time they spend together. Then fear about losing his only good friend and being left behind and alone, and loneliness is something he hasn’t learn how to face. Finally shame, because he knows deep down that Phil has a right to have other friends, people who are better and normal and wouldn’t limit him like he does, better friends because they don’t have these ugly feelings hiding in their hearts.

• Howard put his hand in the flower, though, in my hc, in the end he didn’t need them because he survived all the dangers of the island, it did leaved a few scars in his hand for using them. Phil still doesn’t understand why he did this.

• Howard and Phillip’s friendship is much healthier now.

• Angelique put in writing that her Medicinal Research lab would hire based on merit and what they could do and NEVER discriminate for things outside the person’s control like speech patterns, sex, etc. Howard cried when he saw this.

• Nessie is obviously the lab’s pet and never goes hungry.

• There were side effects to facing an Elder God and having all knowledge shove into your head. Normally, Howard can’t remember all of that, his subconscious does though, but when he’s in an altered state of mind, like in the hospital, after his leg was treated and he was given many pain medications during those first few days, he had brief moments were he was fully connected to this knowledge and would say things that would sound like nonsense to most people, immediately after, he would return to normal just to be hit by the aftereffects of this connection, such as nausea, nosebleeds, dizziness and general weakness, he would also not remember what he had seen and said under that state. It worried Phil and Angelique, who didn’t understand what had happened when he faced that God nor what it entailed. It took Howard many months before he spoke about it and there are still some things he saw that he reserved to himself.

• About the subconscious thing, Howard just knows things, from time to time he even sees images of events that will happen, the most annoying thing is when he gets an earworm of catchy songs that won’t exist for many decades. At first, because he feared they would think him crazy, he decides to be cryptic about it, but after being saved from minor to major incidents by his weird remarks, Phil and Angelique decided to confront him while assuring him they believe him, which makes Howard feel much better about this new weird side of him.

• Another major side effect is related to all his descendants. Like it happens in Lovecraft stories, being anywhere close to these deities (worse if you're "touched" by them) can lead to a family curse (or a “blessing” that feels like a curse to a human). In Howard’s case, all his descendants are more susceptible to anything related to these other beings and dimensions, they either attract it or are attracted to it, but is mostly minor stuff and almost never an end of the world event like their predecessor, situations like making friends with that weird painter or musician, accidentally acquiring a weird book, stopping by a strange seaside town with strange fish looking people or going in a scientific expedition to Antarctica that ended badly for everyone but them, but this is counteracted by them also inheriting Howard’s weirdness that protects them from the madness, so they get out in one piece, at least mentally.

• Because of this, Howard starts to collect things that he just knows will one day be useful to one of his descendants.

• Knowledge the cat must have grown fond of Howard, at least, that’s what Phil thinks, because he not only appears there to help his descendants, but he also send messages to Howie through them, which are still partly therapy, but also partly rage bait. Once Howard gets over his fear for his children after realizing they are protected by his weird genes or whatever he has, he mostly rages over those messages. Still, deep down Howard is grateful towards that cat for looking over his children, even if he probably does it because he gets some fun out of it, in fact, when he’s close to his end, he follows his subconscious and goes out, finding Lucky's bar and the cat, they spend the night just talking and playing one last time.

⭐This is a small next gen OC, a small version to share, still not sure if I should share the full one with the drawings of them:

• Carter Plunkett is one of the grandsons, based on my favorite character Randolph Carter, who’s the most similar to his grandfather, but with no Phil or friends in general, and more reserved. He saw many seuss worlds and similars through dreams, he longs to travel them all and feels disconnected to his own. Tries to be normal for many years. He’s closer to his grandpa, mother and little sister. He idolized Howard and stole his hat so many times he was gifted a similar one. Once he reaches 30, he’s done trying, he manages to find Knowledge’s bar and finds a way to leave with him, becoming a traveller of worlds.

• Sarah Plunkett, Carter’s little sister. She’s closer to him than to her first brother, and also considers him her first best friend. Howard has a soft spot for her because she looks like his mom, just younger and with more energy. After Carter’s disappearance, she’s the one who took it the hardest, to the point Howard worries himself sick, for he’s always worried that she might meet a tragic end like her great-grandmother. She does end up getting involved with a cult in her new workplace that makes her the first descendant to face an apocalyptic event like Howard, in this adventure, she also gets to say goodbye and let go of her brother and best friend.

❤️ Hope it sounds good and someone like it? Idk...

hollypolllyy

Thinking of you wherever you are

constant-brain-fog

yeahhh, they can take care of each other out there ㅠㅅㅠ

my shaylas ( ˃ᯅ˂)

made a matching drawing to my Iron Lung fanart, because to me, they are two sides of the same coin (same side of the coin, imo) they go hand in hand 🤝 also the little kibty is named Felicette! she was the first cat to go to space and come back safely 🥹 she is often forgotten in the history of space travels, and for what she had to go through, i wanted to have her here as well because she deserves it 🧎

Iron Lung Matching Drawing

So, a drawing I made based on one of my many headcanons that you can read here (I hope I did it right 😅) Also see me try to rhyme in a second language.

Basically it's about the side effects to facing an Elder God and having all knowledge shove into your head.

Normally, Howard can’t remember all the knowledge, his subconscious does though, but when he’s in an altered state of mind, like in the hospital, after his leg was treated and he was given many pain medications during those first few days, he had brief moments were he was fully connected to this knowledge and would say things that would sound like nonsense to most people, immediately after, he would return to normal just to be hit by the aftereffects of this connection, such as nausea, nosebleeds, dizziness and general weakness, he would also not remember what he had seen and said under that state. It worried Phil and Angelique, who didn’t understand what had happened when he faced that God nor what it entailed. It took Howard many months before he spoke about it and there are still some things he saw that he reserved to himself.

I hope it looks right, I'm not good with hands and perspective 😞 and I'm limited in my color pencils. I also tried my best to imitate the artstyle.

Dialogue in the image:

Howard: I can see you without seeing you. From beginning to end, both body and soul.

Phillip: ¿W-what?

Howard: They can see us but fail to understand, who we are and our road ahead...

Phillip: Howard, ¿Are you alright? Your words make no sense.

Howard: *unintelligible words*

Phillip: Uh...

Howard: *after the episode* Ugh...

Phillip: It's alright Howie, we'll figure this out together.

#the island of doctor morose #artwork #tiodm howard #tiodm philip #howard plunkett #phillip maude #pencil #headcanon #tiodm headcanons #trying to rhyme in a second language I self taught myself and probably failing #tiodmgame

peasant-player

LO-FI beats to study read the Silmarillion

Featuring Maglor ✨️

God i wish I had a Playlist like that ;-;

My Ko-fi & commission page <3

EDIT: on my Instagram there is a version with music 🎶 (just search for "peasantplayer") I use the same profile pic!

-I also have a Instagram exclusive drawing over there~

lauwu801

Is canon trust me.

leirathedreamer

👀🫣 hehe....