🦌 Call me Juniper or Pashoo, Filipino-American trans woman, 30
Some people also call me Delilah or Sharks. I’m a furry, I draw, find my art here. Married to @kcdodger✨ Trying to juggle cartooning, painting, and animation. Eventually want to get back into composing, and add in coding and game design. I developed Yongasabi, a fan conlang for Rain World. Ask me about my OCs!
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Undergrowth (Yongasabi: igonda) is an anthro Rain World AU, told as a hybrid webcomic and askblog. While the Endless Winter of Saint's time rage outside, slugcats and scavengers have long been forced to change their lifestyles, with most moving into geothermal pockets underground. In this setting, the timeline is compressed, events overlap, and in the warmth of Undergrowth, Saint maintains a garden shelter where they house the other slugcats.
The blog author is @opashoo. If you have any questions that aren't addressed directly towards Undergrowth or its characters, you can ask me at my personal blog. Ko-fi here if you're feeling generous.
Content Warning: As of now, Undergrowth is a +15 work. The exact nature of subject matter will be subject to change as I feel out the tone, but it will contain depictions of trauma, blood, injury, and sexual themes. This blog is generally aimed towards an adult audience and posts will be tagged appropriately.
Blog context, ask rules, additional info, and table of contents for the blog's chapters below. This post may change as time goes on.
Rules
As of June 1st 2026
Asks are generally handled diegetically, communicated through overseers as a means of long-distance communication. Asks can be fun and playful, but I won't be entertaining things like Magic!Anons, spam, bait, or nonsensical asks. DMs to this blog will be ignored.
Asks should generally be directed towards specific characters. Be sure to address the character you are speaking to. Asks that don't address anyone specific will be up for grabs by any of the characters.
If you have a meta question, or want to ask a question non-diegetically, please include "[Meta]" at the beginning. If the ask is unrelated to the blog, or you just want to send an ask to me directly, my blog is @opashoo.
Unfortunately I won't be able or willing to answer all asks. I'm ultimately doing this for fun and will prioritize telling a story, so asks will generally be slow or closed during story events. However, the breaks between story events are generally the designated time for asks.
No slurs. You can be rude to the characters if it makes sense for the context, and you can even look up some Yongasabi insults if you want, but no real life slurs.
When it comes down to it, I run the blog and I get the final say what gets posted.
Context
The story as it stands
The Undergrowth AU is an anthro AU where the blizzards of Saint's timeline have come sooner and deadlier, forcing most Yongasabi (slugcats) and Mulngjer (scavengers) to settle in underground geothermal pockets or adopt lifestyles suited to the cold. It takes the timeline of the game and compresses it so that all slugcats are alive concurrently, and all the events of the game have already happened much more quickly, oftentimes overlapping.
Pebbles' collapse and Moon's acquisition of the rarefaction cell are recent events. The Metropolis Scavengers have moved underground to found New Metropolis; Artificer's rampage and subsequent exile are still fresh in the minds of the both scavengers and slugcats; the worsening blizzards prevent travel between retaining walls. Hunter—whose condition is dependent on active treatment from NSH—Rivulet, and Spearmaster are trapped in Moon and Pebbles' retaining wall while Monk, Survivor, and Gourmand have all been separated from their colony. Everyone lives in a shelter built in Undergrowth, run by Saint.
The AU centers around Saint after the events of their campaign, who has taken to the teachings of Rhinestones Beneath Shattered Glass and started a garden in Undergrowth, where they have gathered all the other slugcats to live in safety. The other slugcats see Saint as a mysterious benefactor who knows more than they should, rescued each of them from certain death for unknown reasons, and given them shelter from the blizzards, but for Saint, it's all part of a comfortable routine formed from countless lifetimes of repetition.
In their most recent lifetime, however, things have started to change. Things aren't where they should be. People aren't where they should be when they should be. Events that have always fallen on consistent times and dates simply don't. Then Saint starts getting dream visits from someone they've never met before in all their past lifetimes, one who brings ominous warnings about the future.
Tags
Common tags
#Rain World #rw Undergrowth AU - Default tags
#meta - Out of character or meta posts
Yongasabi
The language
I developed the Rain World conlang Yongasabi for Undergrowth, so you may see slugcats occasionally using words and phrases from it. You can find it here.
Yoŋasabi (Scuglang) by oPashoo (Find me on tumblr) The Slugcat language of the Rain World Undergrowth AU dang'ag lamlan pagsa. She is Rivul
(The dictionary has been sorted into tabs. Check them out on the left.) Yongasabi Dictionary by oPashoo (Find me on tumblr) Welcome to the d
Table of Contents
x. Extras
1. The Start
2. Interim I
Credits
I draw all my own art unless otherwise stated. Shoutout to my wife @kcdodger and all my friends who have made this possible, much love.
Panel 1: A view above the clouds. Three mechanical towers stand poke through the clouds, with one listing at an angle. An iterator can sits in the background, clearly fallen to one side.
Panel 2: Some kind of industrial location, with pipes, silos, chain link fences, and other metal structures. Snow blows violently.
Panel 3: A floating, glowing hologram hovering in front of a dark background. At the top of the hologram is two circles, one inside the other, and below is small, indecipherable text.
Panel 4: A broken metal bridge runs over dark waters and leads into a tunnel with a bright light at the end. Everything is overgrown with plants and trees. Two lanterns illuminate the space.
Panel 5: Saint, an anthro slugcat with loose robes and a beaded necklace, stands in a clearing, surrounded by dense foliage as they tend to the leaf of what appears to be a banana tree. Kamuyagi, a small, teardrop shaped creature with three wire-tendrils, observes them from the ceiling.
Panel 1: A view above the clouds. Three mechanical towers stand poke through the clouds, with one listing at an angle. An iterator can sits in the background, clearly fallen to one side.
Panel 2: Some kind of industrial location, with pipes, silos, chain link fences, and other metal structures. Snow blows violently.
Panel 3: A floating, glowing hologram hovering in front of a dark background. At the top of the hologram is two circles, one inside the other, and below is small, indecipherable text.
Panel 4: A broken metal bridge runs over dark waters and leads into a tunnel with a bright light at the end. Everything is overgrown with plants and trees. Two lanterns illuminate the space.
Panel 5: Saint, an anthro slugcat with loose robes and a beaded necklace, stands in a clearing, surrounded by dense foliage as they tend to the leaf of what appears to be a banana tree. Kamuyagi, an overseer, observes them from the ceiling.
Undergrowth (Yongasabi: igonda) is an anthro Rain World AU, told as a hybrid webcomic and askblog. While the Endless Winter of Saint's time rage outside, slugcats and scavengers have long been forced to change their lifestyles, with most moving into geothermal pockets underground. In this setting, the timeline is compressed, events overlap, and in the warmth of Undergrowth, Saint maintains a garden shelter where they house the other slugcats.
The blog author is @opashoo. If you have any questions that aren't addressed directly towards Undergrowth or its characters, you can ask me at my personal blog. Ko-fi here if you're feeling generous.
Content Warning: As of now, Undergrowth is a +15 work. The exact nature of subject matter will be subject to change as I feel out the tone, but it will contain depictions of trauma, blood, injury, and sexual themes. This blog is generally aimed towards an adult audience and posts will be tagged appropriately.
Blog context, ask rules, additional info, and table of contents for the blog's chapters below. This post may change as time goes on.
Rules
As of June 1st 2026
Asks are generally handled diegetically, communicated through overseers as a means of long-distance communication. Asks can be fun and playful, but I won't be entertaining things like Magic!Anons, spam, bait, or nonsensical asks. DMs to this blog will be ignored.
Asks should generally be directed towards specific characters. Be sure to address the character you are speaking to. Asks that don't address anyone specific will be up for grabs by any of the characters.
If you have a meta question, or want to ask a question non-diegetically, please include "[Meta]" at the beginning. If the ask is unrelated to the blog, or you just want to send an ask to me directly, my blog is @opashoo.
Unfortunately I won't be able or willing to answer all asks. I'm ultimately doing this for fun and will prioritize telling a story, so asks will generally be slow or closed during story events. However, the breaks between story events are generally the designated time for asks.
No slurs. You can be rude to the characters if it makes sense for the context, and you can even look up some Yongasabi insults if you want, but no real life slurs.
When it comes down to it, I run the blog and I get the final say what gets posted.
Context
The story as it stands
The Undergrowth AU is an anthro AU where the blizzards of Saint's timeline have come sooner and deadlier, forcing most Yongasabi (slugcats) and Mulngjer (scavengers) to settle in underground geothermal pockets or adopt lifestyles suited to the cold. It takes the timeline of the game and compresses it so that all slugcats are alive concurrently, and all the events of the game have already happened much more quickly, oftentimes overlapping.
Pebbles' collapse and Moon's acquisition of the rarefaction cell are recent events. The Metropolis Scavengers have moved underground to found New Metropolis; Artificer's rampage and subsequent exile are still fresh in the minds of the both scavengers and slugcats; the worsening blizzards prevent travel between retaining walls. Hunter—whose condition is dependent on active treatment from NSH—Rivulet, and Spearmaster are trapped in Moon and Pebbles' retaining wall while Monk, Survivor, and Gourmand have all been separated from their colony. Everyone lives in a shelter built in Undergrowth, run by Saint.
The AU centers around Saint after the events of their campaign, who has taken to the teachings of Rhinestones Beneath Shattered Glass and started a garden in Undergrowth, where they have gathered all the other slugcats to live in safety. The other slugcats see Saint as a mysterious benefactor who knows more than they should, rescued each of them from certain death for unknown reasons, and given them shelter from the blizzards, but for Saint, it's all part of a comfortable routine formed from countless lifetimes of repetition.
In their most recent lifetime, however, things have started to change. Things aren't where they should be. People aren't where they should be when they should be. Events that have always fallen on consistent times and dates simply don't. Then Saint starts getting dream visits from someone they've never met before in all their past lifetimes, one who brings ominous warnings about the future.
Tags
Common tags
#Rain World #rw Undergrowth AU - Default tags
#meta - Out of character or meta posts
Yongasabi
The language
I developed the Rain World conlang Yongasabi for Undergrowth, so you may see slugcats occasionally using words and phrases from it. You can find it here.
Yoŋasabi (Scuglang) by oPashoo (Find me on tumblr) The Slugcat language of the Rain World Undergrowth AU dang'ag lamlan pagsa. She is Rivul
(The dictionary has been sorted into tabs. Check them out on the left.) Yongasabi Dictionary by oPashoo (Find me on tumblr) Welcome to the d
Table of Contents
x. Extras
1. The Start
2. Interim I
Credits
I draw all my own art unless otherwise stated. Shoutout to my wife @kcdodger and all my friends who have made this possible, much love.
I have officially opened my webcomic/askblog 🎉Developing Undergrowth has been a big undertaking for me, and actually drawing and publishing it will be even bigger, but I am both excited and anxious to start. I'm shooting to update weekly, wish me luck!
is survivor gay also or was it only monk that was hit with the homosexuality beam
Survivor is interesting for me. My take on him is that he's uncertain about a lot of things in his life. He's still trying to figure out himself and his place in the world, and it doesn't always bother him. Certain things like his sexuality, neither he nor I are too concerned about.
Thank you thank you! My banner for the longest time was this old animation from about a decade ago, which was the most popular thing I've ever made (outside of one animation on youtube). I'd always meant to do more of the characters and even have the sketches for a version with Bea sitting around on my tablet. I might go back and finish it one day...
💬 10 🔁 4734 ❤️ 9648 · No one’s forgotten who you are and what you did, you know. Small town polite’s all you got, kid.
Bonus:
Once I got into Rain World I wanted to really get into animation and make that my identity as an artist (which didn't really pan out in the long run but it's just as well because animating is hard and my life is richer for having explored it more fully than before). When I made this animation, I decided to make it my new banner because I wanted to be a part of the Rain World community (and also show off one of my earlier conlangs).
💬 5 🔁 567 ❤️ 1704 · "Friend, there are scavengers watching."
Suns gives Spearmaster a heads up. The text is in my own conlang that I'm us
Oh yeah and my wife reminded me that that Mae animation is how we met, because one of her friends sent her the animation, and everything happened from there. We really are one of those couples that met on tumblr.
Thank you thank you! My banner for the longest time was this old animation from about a decade ago, which was the most popular thing I've ever made (outside of one animation on youtube). I'd always meant to do more of the characters and even have the sketches for a version with Bea sitting around on my tablet. I might go back and finish it one day...
💬 10 🔁 4734 ❤️ 9648 · No one’s forgotten who you are and what you did, you know. Small town polite’s all you got, kid.
Bonus:
Once I got into Rain World I wanted to really get into animation and make that my identity as an artist (which didn't really pan out in the long run but it's just as well because animating is hard and my life is richer for having explored it more fully than before). When I made this animation, I decided to make it my new banner because I wanted to be a part of the Rain World community (and also show off one of my earlier conlangs).
💬 5 🔁 567 ❤️ 1704 · "Friend, there are scavengers watching."
Suns gives Spearmaster a heads up. The text is in my own conlang that I'm us
Your anthro spearmaster design gave me so much gender euphoria- I am nonbinary, and I’ve always wanted top surgery. I just looked at them and went- that’s exactly what I want to look like!! Your art is amazing. Thank you for creating, and don’t stop creating
tbh that means a lot to hear, and I'm glad my take on Spearmaster could give that to you! I hope you get exactly what you want! See them happy
is there a direction youre supposed to go in rain world? im lost and havent seen a yellow thing in ages. like i know the games fun but like. help pls.
I'm assuming you started the game and haven't found your way to any of the to Moon or Pebbles? Normally the yellow thing is supposed to guide you but in my experience, it tends to be unreliable. I also personally spend a long time in Outskirts just messing around before I was willing to leave, but there are places to go, yes. I advocate spending some time wandering, don't be afraid to cross karma gates if you find them. Hopefully your little guide shows back up again at some point.
There is a sort of "intended" route that you can take, one that shapes a specific experience. I believe it starts in Outskirts, then you go to Drainage System, Garbage Wastes, and Shoreline in that order. When you're in Shoreline, you should try to find someone named Looks To The Moon. You should be able to see the name of a region when you enter it or start a new cycle in it. If you still need to figure out where to go by the time you find Moon, just ask again.
