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[raymanrambles]

hihihi hi hi hi im marie i like rayman this is my blog about rayman where i talk about rayman and i like rayman and talking about him and he's really cool and has a big nose and also no arms and he can fly with his hair but not really fly but they still call it flying and i guess he does fly in some situations oops i am getting off topic anyways hi raymans cool LOOK AT HIM

i hope this sends!!!! Cuz ive been trying to post it and it's not working!!!!

[zelenbug]

ive never really written a fanfic before but i just. wrote this because i felt like this would be better as a fanfic. its not too long, its silly and very self indulgent i hope youll like it also i might be the first person on earth to put globu into a fanfic

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Globox's Misadventures in Changing Colors

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It was a moonlit night at one of the dock villages at the Sea of Serendipity. Most of the Red Wizards were reasonable enough to sleep, aside from this rowdy child of a mere 390 years old (which would equate to 13 if he were a human on Earth instead of a red guy in the Glade of Dreams). Never doing what he's told and stubbornly avoiding the boring things all the adults do, it's pretty obvious Globox hasn't changed much since this. Well, he was red at the time, and his only real friend was just Uglette, as he hadn't met Rayman yet. But, that night, one thing will end up drastically changing, unbeknownst to him!

Globox snuck off specifically to get a midnight snack. For most people it doesn't really amount to much other than going to their kitchen, but Globox's hut didn't have a kitchen, and he found it more fun to just run off into the forest near the docks, especially since his mom didn't allow him to go there. This forest had a delicacy that wasn't just the same old fish; it had numerous bushes full of blubue buberrubies, which, contrary to the name, were actually kind of purplish-pinkish in color. Globox only tried them once before and liked them a lot, so he decided to try them out again.

Delicious! And there were so many of these berries, too! There was something else in the bushes, though, a little bug called a blubue bubeastubie, with eyes of the exact size, shape and color of the berries. Somehow Globox hadn't realised that was a bug, and just kept wondering why this one berry wouldn't come off from the thing it's attached to. After trying for an entire 4 seconds, he just threw the whole thing with both "berries" into his cakehole. But the thing was a bug, and it was still living (for some time), and very displeased about this!

So the bug called out, loudly enough to be heard even outside of Globox's insides, and turns out there was a whole lot more bugs in those bushes. Like a whole cloud of angry stinging insects, about to descend onto Globox while he was picking out another berry. He quickly noticed, and the instinct to run away from all threats and hide immediately took over. Not that there was anywhere to hide from such a swarm.

They caught up to Globox eventually and stung him, and, after him being left alone and noticing that he was probably not dead, he half-ran half-stumbled back home, hoping that nobody was actually awake to see him like this. On the way there, he briefly glanced at his reflection in the water and saw himself covered in all these boils that the bugs caused, as if the pain alone wasn't bad enough!

So he finally got into his hut and hid himself under his blanket. The combination of being afraid of any further bugs coming for him, and also just being in pain from the venom, prevented him from getting much sleep through the night. Though sleepiness also caught up to him eventually.

The morning came and went. Other Red Wizards went about their business, while Globox, who would usually be running around outside at the time, was still home, hiding in his blanket. Someone showed up at the window of his hut, though - it was his, at the time, childhood friend Uglette, who still had her bow at the time, asking "Hi, Globox? You were meaning to show up this morning to chat about your collection of cool rocks, did something happen?" Globox was mostly asleep, but immediately woke up upon hearing Uglette's voice, and, from inside the blanket, told her "Ohhh.. yeah, I've been having a problem! Please come in, I just wanna talk to someone!"

Uglette did, and was confused because she couldn't see Globox anywhere. "Where even are y-- Oh, the blanket?" "Yup!", the blanket answered. "What happened??" "It was last night. I got stung. A lot. And I think I looked AWFUL! But I think most people were asleep so nobody saw me. I think. I hope!!" Uglette was obviously concerned, but still wanted to make some light of this. "You must be thinking a lot, huh?" Globox actually didn't mind that, and replied, "Yeah… I got nothing else to do in here but THINK!" "Anyway, that's awful! Terrible luck!" "I know??? And everything still hurts, except it hurts slightly less now!" "You're getting better fairly quickly! Hey, maybe you'll get to talk about your cool rocks soon!", Uglette continued, trying to cheer poor Globox up even a little. "Maybe! Man, I hope nobody saw me or thought I was anything but a weird bumpy creature scampering somewhere in the middle of the night…" "But! What if someone DID think that, and that formed a new urban legend? Imagine that!" "You know what? That'd be awesome! It'd be at least something good from this whole situation!"

The blanket then shuffled a little. "Hey, I'm not as bumpy anymore, actually! Still hurts, but…" Uglette sat down near the couch that Globox was on, as he tended to use it as the bed (as his actual bed was incredibly cluttered), and asked him, "Do you have to keep hiding here, then?" "I still don't want anyone to see me…" "Are YOU seeing anything, though, from under that blanket?" "Oh, yeah! Good point! I'm not!"

So Globox, thanks to the power of having detached eyes, much like the rest of his species does, just moved his eyes of the blanket. Now looking like some kind of blanket slug creature, he said "Wow! I forgot how sunlight looked like!" while squinting from the light. Uglette noticed something! "Hey, do your eyelids look kind of… blue?" Globox confusedly looked at her. "Do they??? Maybe it's just bruises… Can stings leave bruises?" "I don't know? I think bruises tend to happen when you, like, accidentally hit your arm or butt against something." "True, but this was kind of like that, if the something was bugs. And if my arm or butt was actually my entire me. Speaking of, I need to stretch, both of my arms are SO sore!" So Globox stretched one of his arms out of the blanket, except he was actually the first to notice something odd this time. "Wait, does my hand look green too? Maybe I'm just not seeing colors right. Y'know, I just spent so much time under the blanket!" Uglette put her hand near just to compare, and prove him wrong. "No, that's definitely green…" "What's going on?? This isn't a dream, right? Can you pinch me?" "Well, I'd need something other than your hand to pinch first! Hands aren't very pinchable!" "Well… sure!"

Uglette was curious what was going on in here anyway, and pulled on the blanket to reveal the rest of Globox's arm, clearly now blue. And immediately pinched it, as promised. "Ow! Alright, definitely not dreaming…" "Now that you know that for sure… Are you seeing this? Are you seeing your own arm." Globox was just too dumbfounded by this to answer. Surely he can't just change color like octopuses apparently do? Surely that's not something that just happened? It would also be quite silly for a Red Wizard to not even be red, or orange or something. Not that he particularly fit in with the other Red Wizards, anyways… After several seconds of just staring at his arm, he yelled "Please don't let anyone know about this! That I–- something happened!!! To my COLORS!!!" "Aren't they gonna find out eventually, though?" "Well, yeah, maybe, but I'm not ready for that! Can you imagine if a Red Wizard just-- oh, hi Globu. You didn't see that."

Globu, who definitely saw (and heard) that, was just standing at the doorway of the hut. He looks kind of like Globox used to look approximately a day ago, except browner, with greenish accents. Uglette also looked at Globu and asked him, "Oh, you're his brother, right?" Globu answered, "Yeah, I am. Now I know THAT'S who I saw last night! Well, Globox, at least you're alive? Even if, uh, not very red…" "I… think I'm alive? Aren't ghosts, like… blue? Like. You know.", Globox said, while slowly hiding his arm back in the blanket. Uglette pointed out, "I pinched you just now, though! You can't pinch ghosts, they phase through walls!" Globox, unconvinced, said "What if you can though? What if I can? What if you can pinch ghosts and I can phase through walls, I mean.", and so he stuck both of his arms out of the blanket anyway to try and reach for the nearby wall. He just barely missed it and lost his balance, falling off his couch in a blanket heap. While Globox was trying to get himself out of this mess, Uglette said, "Well! I think ghosts should be able to phase through floors and blankets too!"

The blanket responded with a muffled "Alright, you convinced me!". Globox finally managed to untangle himself from the blanket, and instinctively poked his head out of it. Globu immediately took notice of just how blue Globox's noggin really was now. "No, wait, ARE you a ghost???" "No, what? We just figured out-- Oh. I just noticed my own face. That's really blue, maybe you have a point?…" Uglette wasn't that surprised, and said "Oh, that's about what I was expecting! I think it's fine to get out of the blanket now. You can touch the wall just to finally super make sure you're not actually a ghost." Globox said, "Alright, sure…" and got up, lightly slapping the wall before leaning on it, in relief that he IS very definitely alive. "I'm not leaving the house though!!! And I'm avoiding the windows. If anyone asks just tell them I'm sick. It wouldn't even be a lie this time, my entire skin still hurts!" Globu, abruptly, said, "This is a serious issue, though! I'm gonna go tell our mom!" "GLOBU NO!!!"

Globu, being the more well-behaved kid of the two, of course already left the hut. Globox wasn't happy about this and sat back down on the couch. "Ohhh, my mom's gonna be so mad… She's gonna be so mad that I went into the forest even though she told me not to! She's gonna be so mad I somehow managed to turn myself BLUE!" Uglette, trying to comfort him again, said, "Can you change color to whatever you want? Just blend into the ceiling and you'll be fine!" "Oh, I wish!!! I'll have to find different hiding spots… I'm not that good at hide and seek." Uglette decided to switch to a different subject. "Hey, how did this happen, anyway? The stings? You mentioned a forest, or something?" "Well, I went there for some berries. It was late at night so I couldn't tell one of them was actually a bug! And it didn't like that. Well, it's probably dead by now…" "Make sure to bring a lantern next time!" "I thought the moons were lighting up the place pretty well. I guess not! Not gonna make the same mistake again!"

Globox and Uglette continued chatting for a little while longer just to pass the time. Eventually Globox's mom arrived at the hut, though, and all Uglette could do was to stand nearby and avoid confrontation. "Well. I guess we just can't get enough of your silly shenanigans. How do you even manage that???", Globox's mom said to Globox, who was trying to hide behind the couch.

"I-it wasnt my fault! I promise I didn't actually want this!!!" "Whatever your excuse is, you still went to that forest! You didn't listen about the blubue bubeastubies, did you?" "Well I… I wasn't paying att--" "See, that's what you get! You get consequences!" She then noticeably shifted her tone, though still sounded frustrated. "I'll get a doctor in here. I still need to make sure you don't die of bug poisons."

Globox's mom then left the hut. Globox was somewhat relieved, but said, "Aww, I don't like doctor visits! I mean it only happened twice, and all because I tried out a plum, and then did it again, but still!" Uglette, still standing near a wall, said "Huh. Your mom was less mad than I was expecting, to be honest…" "Well… I know I'm going to be put in the corner of shame again after this. Though, last time I at least got out quickly, because my sister said it's ok to just leave, as long as mom doesn't notice!" "That's just ri… donkulous! Why is your mom shaming you for being stung? Actually, my parents would also do that, now that I think about it… Something about showing up to one of those fancy dinners and then looking like that…" "She was shaming me for sneaking out into the forest, though! I think!" "Oops! Sorry, I missed that part. Yeah, that makes more sense…"

Globox's mom eventually returned with a doctor Teensy, which was the same one Globox saw the last two times, and forced Uglette out of the hut for the time being. The doctor then spent some time examining and poking Globox with various doohickeys he had absolutely no understanding of, and asking him silly questions about how he was feeling right now.

The doctor then started talking to Globox's mom. "Well, your son seems to be remarkably healthy as of this moment, and bubeastubie venom isn't known to be actually dangerous, or anything more than just painful…" Globox, still on his couch feeling kind of dejected, breathed a sigh of relief, but the doctor continued, "However, the fact that it changed his color is very unprecedented. As is a member of his, and your, species being blue! I've never known a blue one! Anyway, I believe the color change must be a really bad allergic reaction to the venom." Globox's mom replied, "I see, then. Is he just going to stay like that?" "This is a very, very rare case, so it's hard to know for sure what will happen. I know of nothing like this! For now, given that this doesn't seem life-threatening, just let him have painkillers. You must IMMEDIATELY tell me if there's any complications down the line." The doctor handed Globox's mom the painkillers, which are a couple of potion bottles, then wrote something down and left. Globox's mom placed one of the potions at the table near Globox's couch, but still glared at him. "You know what's coming." Globox panicked, with all sorts of thoughts running through his head, but the thoughts were cut short by his mom simply handing him a broom. "You will now sweep the floor of your hut and this area of the docks until I can tell it's clean. And don't repeat this kind of nonsense again! I warned you several times!"

Globox sadly answered "Okay…" while his mom left. He then downed the entire painkiller potion he was left with, before grabbing the broom. Uglette was still outside watching, and called out of the window, "Hey Globox, I'm still here! This doesn't sound that bad? It's better than just sitting in a corner doing nothing…" "You're right, but sweeping is so BORING, and I told you I could at least escape from the corner of shame! And also everyone has to see me like this now! What am I even going to tell them? They already make fun of me for not having hair! Or not wanting to wear clothes!" Uglette was clearly trying to not giggle at what she was about to say in response. "Well… you always tend to make up things that have happened to you!" "Wait, you caught onto that?" "You can just lie to them!" Globox realised what she meant, and noticeably got more excited. "Wait… You're right! Who needs to know how this ACTUALLY happened?! Here, check this out: I defeated a… heroic dragon? No, I mean, I defeated it heroically… Or maybe it's all just blue paint? No, that won't work…" "Silly, you should probably start sweeping first before your mom gets more mad! You'll have time to think of an excuse here. I'll go find a good branch so I could help out, I don't know if you have a spare broom." "Oh, alright! Bye, Uglette! Hmm… I was fighting off the bugs… That one could almost be not a lie! Maybe I did it to protect-- oh, right! Sigh! I HATE sweeping the floor…"

Later that day, Globox was sweeping the docks outside, still trying to avoid being seen by other Red Wizards, although he heard a fakir go "Wait, was that a blue one?". Uglette was trying to help Globox out with a branch, which really wasn't sufficient enough to sweep much of anything.

"Hey, Uglette… You know what I just realised?", Globox said, distracting her from trying to get some sand out between the planks, "If this lasts, the weird color I mean, that means I'm special! You remember what the doctor said? That it never happened before? And that someone being blue is un-pre-de-scented or whatever? Also I'm the color of the water and the sky, which are pretty cool things!" "Hey, you're right! Even still, you already stood out from the other Red Wizards! Just for being taller and balder, and actually liking fun things instead of being all boring and cranky. I'd say you're already pretty special!" "Aww, thanks! I am!", and they both resumed trying to sweep the docks. Globox kept being distracted by just thinking about what Uglette said, though, not that he particularly understood why at the time. It wouldn't be until years later that they both realised he just got a crush on her around that time! He did manage to sweep the floors eventually, with Uglette's admittedly minimal help, and it still wasn't long before everybody found out about Globox's blue-ness. Red Wizards are a people very prone to gossip, and, thanks to either Globu or his mom, everyone already had an idea of the true version of the story, and Globox's fancified version of it wasn't of much help. And he spent all this time trying to craft it in his head, all for nothing! Oh well!

Past this weird day where Globox got in trouble for trying to eat berries, he briefly acted like an unusually nervous wreck around Uglette for some time, with her somehow being oblivious to it. He did get over that eventually, and he did get used to being blue (and there weren't complications!), right around the time he met Rayman, whom he immediately told his exaggerated version of the story of how he changed color. And he actually managed to get Rayman to believe it (for some time), unlike all those other Red Wizards! (Rayman did soon find out what actually happened thanks to Uglette, and he didn't tell Globox that he knew what actually happened for years. It was a good laugh, though!)

[zelenbug]

the nymphs are my worst enemies (and like the only other complaint i have about rayman origins) so i reinterpreted all of them as different species to cope

betilla:

holly now has a Magical Didgeridoo (because its desert of didgeridoos! (dijiridoos (im gonna keep spelling it like spore instead))) and is a birdy with an unexplained skull and shes probably tarayzans mom. edith is an al inferno type with a spoon staff and the height difference between these two here is probably stronger than i actually made it oops

annetta is the tallest one of this group probably. unhinged pointy teeth dinosaur fish lady with a collection of bones. i think people are gonna like her especially

then helena here is a red wizard. still berates globox a little for sleeping through all magic lessons ever (and thus not knowing such a basic thing as merely running on walls) but far less harshly than some other red wizards (ie the fakirs mostly) at mystical pique. wears a coat because shes out in the cold usually

as you can see i didnt change any of the names but now theyll have actual distinct personalities

the reinterpretation of the nymphs now here is that theyre the guardians of their respective lands. i dont know why theyre all girls. but theyre all really good at magic, some of them channel magic through their staff things and the rest just use hands idk

betilla is probably more important than the rest since she looked over the great protoon which also IS the heart of the world im gonna be honest. i havent figured out the specifics here though

the death nymph also doesnt exist. theres instead voodoo mama (which is not what the nymph is called!!! voodoo mama IS mama hite) but shes not part of this group. but she also is a lady thats really good at magic (i think thats just because shes a god though. again shes polokuses ex)

[zelenbug]

i released another origins mod on game banana for a bunch of rayman 3 teensy skins

you can play as a janky very tiny hoodlum with magic powers that i invented. the hat is also a guy

ive been sitting on the tufkin since like november or december good lord. but i redid all the art so they look better (left is old right is new)

oh yeah i have also been updating originsing continuously. i greatly enjoy the fact that the more i do the more you get the ability to make what looks like Rayman Origins Screenshots That Are Slightly Off. but this is not origins at all!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

also i like drawing new assets a lot

murfys actually about to be updated to be higher quality soon

[zelenbug]

new discovery: blockbench is fun as HELL

(villagers and bees btw; my friends suggested the latter and i liked the idea enough to immediately go and make the entire model and texture within the hour)

this will need either optifine or a billion mods at once to set up unfortunately (and im still only using vanilla minecraft). but. i am having a great time making these models at all. i have made little progress on the rest of the pack lately

[zelenbug]

theres a clip going around of brawlhalla having cutscenes now and this is basically exactly how it felt like

except it was with characters i dont care about and nothing actually happens. so really mine is better

[sumthinganarchy]

God, the edenonline twi account blocking rayman fans JUST because there like "wow I hope this is season two news, and not nfts" is not something I wanted to see but is incredibly funny nonetheless

[orteil42]

hey folks i've been meaning to boost Ross Scott's Stop Killing Games initiative but i don't trust myself to write something exhaustively informed about it, has someone already made a good post on the subject that i could reblog?

time-sensitive note: if you're located in Australia you have until May 20th to sign the petition!

[orteil42]

to cover as many bases as possible, here's -

50-sec ultra-abridged explanation by Ross Scott:

10-min video summary by another youtuber:

text recap:

this is a consumer rights movement looking to establish legislation regarding companies shutting down paid video games. the general idea is that a game you purchased should have an end-of-life plan to keep it playable in some form after its servers shut down (such as by making server software publicly available).

You can visit StopKillingGames.com for more details and ways you can help.

(there's an FAQ addressing edge cases you might think of!) depending on your location there's a variety of ways you can contribute, such as by signing a petition or contacting a representative. you can also spread awareness by sharing Ross's videos or posts like this one. please consider helping! this is important both for your rights as a consumer and for video game preservation!

[zelenbug]

cant believe i didnt post about my rayman texture pack for miney craft. mega work in progress idk when ill publish it but i will eventually

the whole point of it is i try to reference as many textures from rayman game as possible lmao (for the blocks that is, the mobs are more straight forward references such as the killer bunny being a rabbid)

heres a disorganized pile of screenshots ive taken.... ignore the early textures in some of these screenies, i just posted what i had on hand

wonder if anyone can guess what rayman thing this is based on because this isnt actually "just draw a sunflower in the style of the other textures idk". its maybe the most obscure thing in here with a basis

oh same for melons actually and the spore blossoms

actually if anyone wants to guess the origin any of the textures i added then feel free to!!!

i also made ALL the paintings (even the 1.21 paintings) which was really fun. heres just a small selection. i tried to represent every mainline game (+ arena and rrr) about evenly here (with a few extras)

this one of course serves as like the only bit of decoration in my ugly little house

bonus pic

[raymanrambles]

So, this was just shadow dropped!

A board game called "Rayman: The Board Game" was just announced. Rn there's like not much info outside of that it's 5 player, launching in Q3 2024 and is Legends themed. There's also this image showing the box and Rayman and Globox figures:

Source:

Rayman — The Board Game

Discover Rayman® like never before in an all-new board game adventure!

[vorktyunal]

[raymanrambles]

Get well soon!

[raygirlramblings]

📁 maybe perhaps :)

Send me a 📁 and I'll show you a random sketch/doodle that I never posted

How about a little Rayman outfit? I had this idea for a ceremonial costume Ray could wear for special events which could ‘hide’ his limblessness. The idea is that anyone coming to visit the Glade (Ambassadors, foreign dignitaries etc) who didn’t know about Rayman might find him distracting or scary, so he’d wear this kind of costume which still gives him freedom to move easily but wouldn’t make him a target.

[the-eggplantblog]

ok random thing :)

[lexintothenex]

RABBID PLUSHIES + PIN SET AND RAYMAN PIN SET HAVE BEEN REVEALED ❤️

[raymanrambles]

The Scrapped Rayman Comic Pitch: Rayman Rewired!!

Hiiiii! Sorry for not posting on here for like. almost 2 months whoooops! Anyways, i am back hopefully consistently!!

So, this is about the Rayman comic series that was pitched to Ubisoft by Dave Cook & Steve Gregson sometime either during or before 2020, we don't have an exact date unforch. It was titled "Rayman Rewired" and was about Rayman travelling to other Ubisoft games.

The plot synopsis followed Rayman getting upset that he didn't get a game announced at E3 (you can tell this pitch is from a while ago), so he sneaks into Ubisoft's servers and switches up their queue to make him priority, but ends up messing up and unplugs it, causing a big portal to open and sucking him in while also putting the different game worlds at stake of being deleted.

And yeah you get the gist, Rayman teams up with different heroes in different games to undo all this, with this resulting in Rayman appearing in all these games to players, boosting his popularity and causing Ubisoft to make a new Rayman game at the end. Shame it's a work of fiction.

A few pages were also made as apart of the pitch:

Guys look it's Ramon and Bullfrog!

Yeah u could say that multiversus story or "story which is actually about how rayman is neglected by ubisoft" is kinda generic but idk i think this would've been fun if done right! Also y'know just being a rayman comic series in general like how has that not happened yet. Plok got one!!!

Source: https://twitter.com/davescook/status/1321419840305987584p

[zelenbug]

i finally got ubicanvas (after MUCH hassle) just to look at origins animations and found like a billion unused ones (might talk more about others i found) but what maybe surprised me the most is these animations for standing on slopes, completely unused

heres a cleaned up mockup without the head just not functioning (this is still very broken though but you get the idea of what hes meant to be doing)

whats also worth noting is that 65 degrees is the upper limit for whats still considered a floor, according to my research, and it starts being at wall past that (or AT 65 degrees)

but maybe the game would interpolate between the 40 and 65 degree animations depending on what your degree is? im not sure if it could do that though

theres like . a million animations from just what ive looked at so far that are unused so ill have to start talking more about these. like both of these! some swimming animation and hide_stand.anm

[lexintothenex]

RABBIDS/RAYMAN YOUTOOZ PINS TEASED!!! 👀