GRAH

dont expect consistency from me, kid. I got something called "a life"

[abyssforphantoms]

Finished Sketchbook Spirit Requests:

Part 2

AGAIN, MY DEEPEST CONDOLENCES FOR TAKING SO LONG!!!! Holidays, seasonal depression kicked my butt ;_; if you forgot about this I don't blame you but thanks again for participating in these!!! ^^"

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FYI That top image on this page I redrew like 8 different times because couldn't decide on posing and composition. Drawing instruments being played is hard.

Mixed media - Paint markers, white acrylic paint, pen, pencil, magazine clippings, stickers, and watercolor.

Cheerful Spectator - @tismchasm , @nikicherry1234

Duets Guide - nikicherry1234 (again) , @bobanchikn , @aisdsstuds76

Compassionate Cellist - aisdsstuds76 (again)

Mellow Musician - @traversety, bobanchikn (again)

Respectful Pianist - me?

The Back of Twirling Champion's head (last minute addition) - @tristansnipes

Dreams skater & Dreams Guide - @danelloevee

Nesting Guide - aisdsstuds76 (again)

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I really like this page. Abyss guide is my favorite though of these.

Mixed media - magazine clippings, paper cuttings, shiny tape, pen, paint markers, alcohol markers, water based markers, watercolor, white gel pen, colored pencil.

Daydream Forester - traversety (again)

Blushing Prospector - @sky-rola

Abyss Guide - @jonksi

Rhythm & Performance Guides - @stellarremnant

Troupe Juggler - @voidkrill

Vestige of a Deserted Oasis - tristansnipes (again)

BONUS: a friends oc as a spirit

Mixed media - pen, alcohol markers, white gel pen, colored pencil, and washi tape

Are you happy? Nessa for @krillvern

anyways I'm going to pass out... or am I? Nah I am.

[proviz9]

The !Spotted! @hollowtones

[proviz9]

I got 99 problems with season of Performance, but I feel like 50% of them would have been solved if it and Duets swapped places if that makes sense

[flocktothelight]

Moth w hairbow w rock

[proviz9]

Aviary debris my beloved

[sirnoddodielmincelebcoolgaming62]

chat can we band together and bombard beta feedback to change the hairstyle to be fully locs? this isn't even a locs existing in other cultures situation - they've purely added them for the aesthetic (snake-like hair for year of the snake, which would naturally resemble loose curls or locs). it lowkey just feels like the 2 straight strands are there so they don't have to be linked to black culture

[sirnoddodielmincelebcoolgaming62]

beta spoilers but does anyone else feel rubbed the wrong way with this hairstyle? it looks inspired by african braids (jumbo braids imo), because i have genuinely never seen someone with straight hair do anything similar. so if it is inspired by those braids... why is the style not just jumbo braids? why is the hair texture ambiguous at most, and the braid itself loose????

honestly as a black sky player i might just be tweaking/making a massive reach because its been over a year since a new afro textured style (aviary locs) and im kinda desperate for more than like 15 out of the like 120+ styles that exist to even be curly, let alone coily, since every hairstyle that gets added to this game is 99% of the time is (short) straight hair.

also! even if im just tweaking about this, it's not like tgc doesn't do similar. the braided styles in abyss have a similar issue - clearly inspired by cornrows, but modelled to be loose enough that you can imagine the hair texture to be straighter, not curly/coily. just feels a bit yikes to me, sending the wrong message perhaps.

p.s. tgc should rework the base locs from stealthy survivor. they can model locs so much better now and they're awfully modelled in comparison to the other loc styles, they've been long overdue for a rework

[proviz9]

It's wild to me that apparently anything wavy, let alone texuted, haven't been done but no we NEED another shaggy, chin-length hair.

I wouldn't say you're going insane cause there's defo times where tgc suggests the look of a textured style but never commits (hell the base hairs arn't safe, all the afros have that weird front curl)

There's even another hair from the recent beta that has loc-like ends but it's stapled onto another hairstyle with Very Much Not Texured hair it's wild

It boggles my mind that the hair choices in sky are getting so boring/unispired and yet there's an entire 80% of hair types that are just sitting there unused, and who'd complain if they did???

I've been playing for 4 years tgc I'm STARVING

[seanagtala]

Palestine will be FREE

[proviz9]

Well dot my t's and cross my i's. There is an Eden elder, straight up.

I just hope they're played as something more than "Evil McScreeble" or "Sympathetic B. Story" cause idk I feel like there's a lot you can do in the framework of sky

I still stand by my other stuff, tho. CRF content shouldn't be traded as fact, and shoving all focus of any story to just one character is laMe with a capital M

[proviz9]

Hot take???? But I'm not a real fan of the whole "resh, alef, eden elder" whatever you call it thing.

I feel like reducing the lore and story of the elders / fall of the sky kingdom to "my sad blorbo did a fucky wucky" feels very regressive to sky's themes of community and balance if that makes sence.

(Cont my lil rant??? Idk if it would be called a rant)

Plus it also just.... absolves all the very upfront flaws the elders have just saying they were under the rule of a bigger bad, like nah let them play with fire and learn they messed up.

Forest elder literally ruined the ecosystem of their kingdom for the sake of urbanization (plus kept a stockload of entrapped wild creatures to be made into energy)

The Valley elders set up an entire (very imbalanced) class system

Wasteland elder is a war leader

The other 3 idk commit tax fraud

Writting off their flaws as just responding to some big bad just, idk, rubs me the wrong way.

Plus, it feels a bit at odds with the whole light v dark balance thing, they're forces , non-tangible things of nature. So having it put into this conventional "us vs thr big bad >:(" also just diminishes that aspect too.

The fall of the kingdom stemmed from a lack of balance between light and darkness, one cause by the elders basically trying to play god to keep their kingdom alive. Having it all just be "this one overwhelmed guy tapped into the EVIL power and became EVIL" just makes the story that Sky feel more generic

Not saying there wasn't something or someone at the epicenter of the eden explosion there is an argument to be made there, but I Do Not Think it would be some crowned ruler. A thing of power yes but some big bad at the center of it all? Nah, too cliché, too obvious.

If you do belive in the whole eden elder thing I'm not saying it's wrong, ofc it's just opinion on it all. I just feel like confining the lore of a story just to proving that a single person exists feels regressive to a story that talks about group connections.

Also:

Stuff left on the cutting room floor is not indicative of the final product

Tl;dr - the kingdom of sky should be seen as the fallen oligarchy that it should be seen as.

Thanks for listening to my ramblings

[proviz9]

Nah you're good I understand

I do think my og post didn't give how i properly felt (I'm not good at the ol extensive talk abt a specific topic thing :/) cause I do feel like there was /someone/ in high power shown through the murals n stuff, maybe some ascended star child that was treated like a second coming.

My gripe more comes from how the common interpretation of the "king" character is based upon stuff that is years removed from current lore (in the sence of game development not in-universe), and yet still puppeteer around like they were intended all this time.

It's not something that just Sky as a game has gone through, there are many cases of series being overshadowed cause the Fandom found one beta character to push everything onto.

Ppl can have they're interpretations, that's why I prefaced it with my opinion, but how I've felt (at least in the time that I've been seeing Sky lore discussions), I haven't seen one that's yk, put energy into breaking that mold of "we GOTTA justify this character who's never seen exists".

The ones I've read all feel like they bottleneck into "all this stuff happens... which leads to the king-" and with a story as open as Sky I feel like having a different outlook and seeing how aspects connect with eachother in different ways leads to more interesting discussion. Cause what's the point of a lore discussion if it all leads to the same thing yk?

Least from the way I've seen it, it all started with ppl finding out abt the whole "Resh" thing though consept art, trying to find a way to push that character in a game they no longer existed in, an now 4 years later they've been in a perpetual loop of Fandom telephone where they became this scape goat blorbo that everything revolves around, and personally I ain't abt that life.

Massssive yapping tl;dr: it's less abt the character I'm bothered by, it the perception that "character" has clouding up and different discussions/interpretations :)

[proviz9]

Hot take???? But I'm not a real fan of the whole "resh, alef, eden elder" whatever you call it thing.

I feel like reducing the lore and story of the elders / fall of the sky kingdom to "my sad blorbo did a fucky wucky" feels very regressive to sky's themes of community and balance if that makes sence.

(Cont my lil rant??? Idk if it would be called a rant)

Plus it also just.... absolves all the very upfront flaws the elders have just saying they were under the rule of a bigger bad, like nah let them play with fire and learn they messed up.

Forest elder literally ruined the ecosystem of their kingdom for the sake of urbanization (plus kept a stockload of entrapped wild creatures to be made into energy)

The Valley elders set up an entire (very imbalanced) class system

Wasteland elder is a war leader

The other 3 idk commit tax fraud

Writting off their flaws as just responding to some big bad just, idk, rubs me the wrong way.

Plus, it feels a bit at odds with the whole light v dark balance thing, they're forces , non-tangible things of nature. So having it put into this conventional "us vs thr big bad >:(" also just diminishes that aspect too.

The fall of the kingdom stemmed from a lack of balance between light and darkness, one cause by the elders basically trying to play god to keep their kingdom alive. Having it all just be "this one overwhelmed guy tapped into the EVIL power and became EVIL" just makes the story that Sky feel more generic

Not saying there wasn't something or someone at the epicenter of the eden explosion there is an argument to be made there, but I Do Not Think it would be some crowned ruler. A thing of power yes but some big bad at the center of it all? Nah, too cliché, too obvious.

If you do belive in the whole eden elder thing I'm not saying it's wrong, ofc it's just opinion on it all. I just feel like confining the lore of a story just to proving that a single person exists feels regressive to a story that talks about group connections.

Also:

Stuff left on the cutting room floor is not indicative of the final product

Tl;dr - the kingdom of sky should be seen as the fallen oligarchy that it should be seen as.

Thanks for listening to my ramblings

[proviz9]

Can we get much Skyer~

So skyyyy

[mothaday]

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Why are you blue.....

[abyssforphantoms]

Idk people... but abyss guide reminds me of Madotsuki from Yume Nikki

[proviz9]

Would that mean Cannonier is Uboa due to having similar face marks...?

[proviz9]

After all these years, we finally have...

The Black Smash Bros(tm) Player hairstyle

[proviz9]

Look at these wonderful camera pictures of the AROURA concert I took 🤩🤩

Aren't they magnificent? 🥰

[proviz9]

Aight gotta ask

Who's the bigger hater?

Cackling Cannoner

Hiking Grouch

Voting ended onJul 29, 2023

[proviz9]

Tbt I only made this poll cause of them both being in Prarie Peaks this week and I wanted to see something

Also, I'm man [citation needed] enough to admit that I thought Cannonier would win, and yet the old man is an even sore-er looser, somehow

[latenightskycotl]

The now infamous boar. He keeps showing up. First here, under Village of Dreams…

Then down in the abyss, about here, the direction I’m facing had a Skyd-sized stone boar just floating in place in beta (once again I’ve apparently deleted the pic, I know I had one!)…

Then four tiny piglets in the new 8 lock area, which I've recently posted...

Then a big pink pig at the candles at the end of the rainbow in Forest in beta, which I also recently posted…

Then here, OOB in Prairie Peaks in beta.

Looks like the devs may be using them as placeholders for possible future additions.

[proviz9]

Cool Bugs fact's the 4th anniversary confirms it's called an "Origin Sheep"