The world's rotting from the bottom up!

Root Blight is a Rain World AU focusing on the Watcher DLC! If you haven't played it and you care about spoilers, click off! This AU is made by me (he/they/it) and three others, Wyrm (she/her), Emily (she/her), and Ell (he/him)!

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About Root Blight!

General info:

Root Blight is a Rain World AU roleplay centered around one question: What would happen if the Prince was successful in his quest to spread across the world? (The answer is lots of trauma). Also iterators can walk because Sliver of Straw decided to make her OWN solution to the Great Problem. Everyone say "Thank you, Sliver of Straw"!

The primary characters are World Within a Seed (mine), A Painted River Stone (Emily's), Belligerent Duelist (Wyrm's), Scholar of Violence (also Wyrm's), and Final Erosion (mine again), and their assorted companions. Also, the Prince, of course. Other important characters will also come up!

This blog mostly focuses on my characters because I don't know everything about everyone else's characters yet! We are all hiding things from each other and it is very fun.

Character info (very vague, lol):

World Within a "Seed" — He/him. The jester. Tags are #rb seed, #rb world within a seed

A Painted "River" Stone — She/her. The researcher. Tags are #rb river, #rb a painted river stone

Belligerent "Duelist" — He/they. The brawler. Tags are #rb duelist, #rb belligerent duelist

"Scholar" of Violence — She/they. The commander. Tags are #rb scholar, #rb scholar of violence

Final Erosion, "Rosie" — She/her. The traitor. Tags are #rb rosie, #rb final erosion

About me!

My name is Cas, you can also call me Gamz(ee) or Fallen! 18, AuDHD + ten thousand other things. I'm in the HST timezone so post times may be odd. I also have a main blog (@sunlit-port) where I post whatever. My main interests are Rain World (of course), Homestuck, Cookie Run: Kingdom, Hollow Knight, and Pokémon Mystery Dungeon games and comics! I'm also writing a Homestuck fan-series that isn't out yet, but I have a blog for it! (@pathogenesis-mspfa)

My asks are always open, you can ask me or any member of the cast, including ones not mentioned here! Asks directed at my characters are most likely to be answered, since I know the most about them, of course!

Textposts are tagged #.txt, images are tagged #.img, asks are tagged #.pdf, and reblogs are tagged #.docx

Character tags are #rb (character's name) and #rb (character's nickname)

Trigger warnings and content warnings are #tw (topic), #cw (topic), and #(topic), just for safety

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if you saw me reblog those posts to the wrong account no you didn't /silly

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woah hi i'm here again

ssssssSO freaking normal about this cishet christian man. so incredibly normal (lie)

he's monument's boyfriend and OH BOY does that impact him. me when my wife traps me & our family in a cave to "protect" us from a (quite frankly pathetic) lady who can and will cry if she so much as sees monument

i really like how striking his face markings look here

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If you’re still taking iterator OCs, here’s Radiant Blossoms :3

I don’t really have a prompt to follow. Go wild and make it silly ^-^

hey hi sorry this took so long! holidays were hectic but i double bugified your bug! featuring my guy dirty water in crystal vase

i looked through her tag on your blog and he's in a very similar predicament to blossoms slime-mold-wise!

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she's normal i'm sure

inspired by the mv of doomer by tokyo manaka! that's also where the lyrics are from

[redd956]

Ask Game for someone’s OC(s)

✨- How did you come up with the OC’s name?

🌼 - How old are they? (Or approximate age range)

🌺- Do they have any love interest(s)?

🍕 - What is their favorite food?

💼 - What do they do for a living?

🎹 - Do they have any hobbies?

🎯 -What do they do best?

🥊 -What do they love to do? What do they hate to do?

❤️ - What is one of your OC’s best memories?

✂️ - What is one of your OC’s worst memories?

🧊 - Is their current design the first one?

🍀 - What originally inspired the OC?

🌂 - What genre do they belong in?

💚 - What is your OC’s gender identity and sexuality?

🙌 - How many sibling does your OC have?

🍎 - What is the OC’s relationship w/their parents like?

🧠 - What do you like most about the OC?

✏️ - How often do you draw/write about the OC?

💎 - Do you ever see yourself killing off the OC?

💀 - Does your OC have any phobias?

🍩 -Who is your OC’s arch-nemesis or rival?

🎓 - How long have you had the OC?

🍥 - What age were you when you created the OC?

[girl-blorbo-polls]

Would your girl blorbo have a Tumblr?

Yes, active

Yes, not active

No, very online in different ways

No, not online at all

Other

Voting ended onDec 27, 2025

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hey guys i'm just about to head to bed but i'm taking iterator oc doodle requests, send me an ask with a pic of your oc and a short prompt i may-or-may-not follow and i'll draw them as one of my bug shaped mobile iterators in the morning! you don't have to be following but it's always appreciated :o)

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ma'am can you please be normal for once. this is getting out of hand

(long)

pleeeeease tumblr don't nuke the image quality

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Is our new world as beautiful as we were promised it would be?

"Absolutely...! The Prince is as merciful as he is powerful..."

-Rosie (Final Erosion)

[the-write-ideas]

Send me a △ and ask a really invasive question aimed at my character

They’ll have to:

Rate on a scale of 1-10 how much they don’t want to answer that question.

Answer that question.

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she's so neurotypical and normal

(she has had a crush on every one of her non-male friends)

[dykeofmisfortune]

i LOVE IT WHEN REDEEMABLE CHARACTERS RELAPSE INTO THEIR OLD WAYS!!! WHEN THEY GO BACK TO THE DARK SIDE!!! TO THE FEIGNED COMFORT OF WHEN THINGS FELT GOOD!! BUT THEY LEARNED SO MANY THINGS ABOUT THEMSELVES THAT THE OLD PLACE DOESN'T TRULY FEEL AT HOME EITHER, BUT IT'S THE ONLY PLACE TO RUN TO!!!! HELLLL YEAH

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Gender, pronoun, orientation, and nickname, name guide for all of the primary characters (animals do not have orientation listed) —

My characters (god theres so many):

World Within a "Seed" — Genderqueer man, he/any, bi with masculine preference (itter)

Final Erosion; "Rosie" — Agender woman, she/it, aro-ace-spec bi lesbian (itter)

Endless "Fixation" — Woman, she/her, bi with feminine preference (itter)

Weeping Monument; "Mon" — Demigirl, she/they, straight ace (itter)

Folding of a "Needle" — Xenic (treegender, skygender), xe/she/they (itter)

Soft "Clay" — Unlabeled genderless, it/its/that thing, unlabeled sapphic (itter)

Snips — ???, he/it (bird dog)

Helpful — ???, they/it (scav)

Eighth "Wing" Beyond the Hills — Feminine, she/her, sapphic (benefactor)

Five Pillars, Five "Chisels" — Feminine, she/they, sapphic (benefactor)

Emily's characters:

A Painted "River" Stone — Woman, she/her, unlabeled sapphic (itter)

Five Reverberating "Chimes" — Woman, she/her, lesbian (itter)

Snapping "Sinew" — Woman, she/her, lesbian (itter)

The Hightail; "Scamper" — ???, it/they (scug)

Wyrm's characters:

Belligerent "Duelist" — Demiboy, he/they, aro-ace (itter)

"Scholar" of Violence — Woman, she/her, unlabeled (itter)

Sapphire — ???, it/they (scug)

Ruby — ???, it/they (scug)

Topaz — ???, it/they (scug)

Emerald — ???, it/they (scug)

Ell's characters:

The Thief — ???, it/they (scug)

If you want to find a character, I tag them with "#rb [character's name]" and "#rb [character's nickname]" if applicable! This includes minor characters. AU versions of canon characters are tagged with "#[character's name]" and "#rb [character's name/nickname]"

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What a normal and well-adjusted lady! I hope she doesn't threaten to kill anyone or trap several people in a cave to "keep them safe"!!

Speedran this in 2 hours somehow

Lyrics from the song "BUMAYE DUB" by KMFDM!

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May I suggest Dave and Nepeta somehow being de-fused and having to process not being one again?

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whenever we try to get our dogs excited for something we've been saying "do you want [activity / treat / etc]" and only now we've realized that they don't actually understand [activity / treat / etc] in isolation. we can say "ice cream" a million times to no response, but "do you want ice cream" works.

however, "do you want" also works.

"want" by itself, also works

we've conditioned our dogs to beg for the root of all suffering - they will not be escaping the cycle of samsara - we goofed - their karma is fucked - absolutely fucked