Seeing Gatoโs new designs for Stradeโs basement and Lawrenceโs apartment inspired me to create my own headcannons for the rest of Stradeโs YKMET house. This is based on a combination of the original BTD2 floor plans, house floor plans I found on pinterest, and whatever my brain conjured up while daydreaming.
For each floor Iโll be explaining my changes and thought processes, starting with the basement:
The basement is pretty self-explanatory, so Iโll focus on whatโs behind MC and the second door.
During the table saw scene in YKMET, you can see the edges of something metallic and something wooden. My best guess was that those are the freezer and some additional cabinets, maybe storing his recording equipment.
I considered adding his pottery kiln (Gato confirmed thatโs how Strade disposes his victims), but I couldnโt find space for it and I thought that having a kiln (very hot) next to a freezer (very cold) would be impractical. She didnโt include a pottery kiln in her official floor plan either, so I assume that he owns another property where itโs located. Perhaps he uses the table saw to dismember his victims before transporting them.
The bathroom is similar to the one in her plans, but I changed the layout a bit and added a storage cabinet for either cleaning products or additional medical supplies for when he accidentally goes too far.
The first floor is where I had the most fun and creative freedom with. I really liked how the collar would send a warning shock when you entered the foyer in BTD2, so I extended those red zones to all exits and the entire front of the house to create further isolation. This prevents Ren and MC from:
banging on windows to get a neighborโs attention,
going through Stradeโs garage tools and messing with his car, and
sabotaging his work for his engineering job (hard to believe this man occasionally makes money legally).
More on his office: I believe Strade would be more involved with his legal work than most people believe/what is implied, and that most of his work is done remotely. He would have a work-provided computer (separate from his dark web work ofc) and floor-to-ceiling cabinets full of documents and plans.
I placed his office and garage at the front of the house and relocated the basement entrance furthest away from the front door as possible. The symbolism was intentional. I wanted his house to reflect how his hardworking and neighborly persona hides his sadism and crimes. If you read my previous imagine about Stradeโs garage workshop, that applies here, too.
I kept the upstairs similar to cannon (bedroom-wise at least). I gave Strade a walk-in closet and bathroom since those are things that primary bedrooms have and I just canโt imagine poor Ren sharing a toilet with him.
His closet would actually be pretty full with high-quality practical clothes and a few formal outfits he had tailored to be as comfortable as possible (even so, he still dreads dressing formal). In the corner heโs kept some pieces too bloodstained to wear out, but too memorable to dispose of. He has memorabilia from favored victims, too, and he gets a sense of nostalgia whenever he makes Ren and MC wear them.
For Renโs bedroom, I think YKMET Ren would be a little tidier than BTD Ren. Heโs more vocal about bathing, and I assume that most of the mess seen in his BTD2 room was a result of his mental health slipping after Stradeโs death. Heโs still a teenage guy though, so he sleeps on a mattress on the floor and has an entire shelf of manga and thousands of dollars worth of gooner anime figures that were totally not awkward to ask for at all.
Ren spends most of his time in his room pretending that heโs somewhere else. Strade built him a custom-built PC that heโs genuinely thankful for, and hasnโt pirated a game, manga, or movie since Strade started offering to provide them for him (as long as heโs willing to face some psychological-prying and teasing first). He also owns a collection of consoles that he cycles between regularly for the best gameplay for whatever new game Strade buys him.
The biggest additions to the upstairs are MCโs bedroom (kept bare for self/OC-insertion purposes) and a bonus room thatโs used as a movie/gaming room, which is the only front-facing room with windows that Ren and MC can enter. Itโs more of a privilege that Strade trusts Ren and MC to act responsibly and non-incriminatingly with, but the blinds are always drawn shut and there is a hidden camera somewhere. Any attempt to draw a neighborโs attention is immediately punished with time in the basement; no exceptions.
Overall, there arenโt many front-facing windows as most of the living space is concentrated at the back of the house. Gatoโs original concept didnโt include many windows, either I wanted to preserve more elements of her design, and it also happened to match my aforementioned symbolism. Eyes are the windows to the soul, after all.
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Thank you for reading this far <3 Please share your own headcannons in comments ๐ I always love reading them
His heavy hand pressed against my back until I was bent over the table.ย
Strade: Do you know know what this is?ย
MC: It's...a tablesaw.
Strade: Correct! :Dย
Strade: Well...It's a machine.
I felt a finger touch the back of my head.ย
Strade: I really love machines.ย Did I ever tell you that? >:)
The finger started drawing circles absent mindedly on the back of my skull.ย
MC: No, you didn't actually, you should tell me a lot more about it instead of-ย
He chuckled but his fingers also clasped the back of my neck.
Strade: I like to pull them apart and figure them out. But there's more to it than that...
His wistful tones felt so out of place, pushed against a motionless saw.ย
Strade: Machines are all made by people. For a purpose, a...ah...Intention!ย
He began to stroke my head like some kind of pet.ย
Strade: Mmm, I love to look for that intention. The reason people make what they make. Why they do what they do.ย
I didn't really know what he was trying to say, but I wasn't too eager for him to stop talking.ย
Strade: What do you feel when you look at that blade?ย
"Scared!"
He laughed.
Strade: Well, that's (totally) normal I guess! :D Not very good though, right? >:) Even if I wasn't about to turn it on and push you into it.ย
I stiffed, and a cold bead of sweat rolled down my back.ย
Strade: People think machines are ugly. More than ugly...Hmmm...Repulsive. People make the machines, but they don't want to look at them. I find that very interesting. But it does make some sense, doesn't it? >:) Intentions can be very ugly.
A click, a high pitched mechanical scream, and the saw came to life right in front of my face...
I have feminized Strade, who's next? I also filmed some of the drawing process if anyone would like to see that too. I think I'm getting better at emulating ykmet style. I plan on coloring these sometime too.
Also uh I picked these scenes bc I wanted to draw Strade's tits out...
Strade rizzing u up @ the bar (and you flirting back~!) then abducting you voice lines (Strade voice only) Feel free to use this however you wish~!!!! For example: If you want to voice the MC and do the sound design and music yourself or use this for an animation or an edit, whatever! You may~!!!! With just his voice I figure it would be easier for you guys to use this for your own projects (and totally not because I got lazy lmao </3)
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