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(19) They/Them

[t4timekeeper]

i keep seeing well-meaning crk only players misgendering them and i’m assuming it’s simply out of not knowing rather than intentionally or anything like that, so friendly reminder that this thing, pictured

is canonically nonbinary! within ovenbreak’s storylines they are mostly referred to with they/them, in addition to she/her and null pronouns (i.e. their name and various epithets) to a lesser extent.

[cotgar]

My thoughts as someone who has been fixated on Pressure for the last two years + even did official art.

For those of you like me who need to move on but are scared to because the media is close to you.

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Hi. Since this is going in the pressure tag, I might as well introduce myself. I’m Cotgar, the artist of the Gotchapon birthday artwork and the most recent Sebastian Solace reference sheet. I’ve been fixated on Pressure since October 2024, even committing personal things to it such as cosplay, merchandise, personal poster works, and two years of fan art.

My statements here assume you know the bare minimum of what happened: Zeal sexually assaulted the previous soundtrack musician, Ren.

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I want to approach this as a community member first and foremost.

My take? The game’s done. I personally wish to see no more support for it, as although the main focus of the document is Zeal, Ren mentions cruel involvement from the dev team and their blatant coverups of Zeals actions, painting Ren as “unstable”. I have promptly left the discords, which I encourage you to do as well.

As for what to do mentally? That’s the hard part as someone who’s been so invested in the lore, story, gameplay, and every other aspect of the game. I literally doodled gotchapon this morning all over my work papers. But as someone who doesn’t wish to support the game anymore, I really find it hard to just cut that off. I am not defending the devs in any way by saying that. I am coming purely from a hyperfixation standpoint where my blorbos are jingling around in my brain.

I would like to say: you will not be incriminated to still love the characters for who they were before this point. I will still forever adore the characters I’ve grown to love. But not the ones who wrote them. Anything with them beyond this point in time is considered Not the characters I’ve surrounded myself with. With losing your sense of humanity as a person and involving yourself in disgusting shit like that, I believe that you lose the right to keep people “doing what You want with their characters”. AKA. If I were to still draw Sebastian, let’s say, I could with no connection to the writers. I will not draw him with his wedding ring, for instance. He does not deserve to be “married” to a dev self insert. It’s not the self insert that’s the problem, mind you. It’s the dev.

I suggest now is the time to maybe review that list of shows you’ve been dying to watch. Check out those games that maybe, if you’re like me, you’ve been scared to play because of fear that it’ll take over the hyperfixation.

Move away.

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My connection and statement as *technically* an artist for the game:

I am horrified. One of the most prevalent things in Ren’s document was the use of cute animal imagery to lull Ren into a sense of security. (From my experience), Kat and Zerum do the same thing. It is unbeknownst to me if it was manipulative. That is not my point. My point is that it’s real language used in the dev team, and it does not surprise me it’s being used maliciously. I am more so scared because I began picking up this habit because people I thought were “cool” were using it as fun conversation. I am impressionable. I began picking it up. Ren’s document showed this to me and I suddenly felt my gut drop.

I will be brief. I have past experience of mental abuse and manipulation. Reading Ren’s document was familiar to me. Not to such a sexual extent, but in a manipulation extent. Seeing the bunny imagery sickened me, as it made me realize that trauma flares that I had worked years and years in therapy to get rid of were now validated: I don’t know whether to trust the devs that were smiling and being so polite to me.

I will not work with Pressure anymore. End of story.

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You are allowed to still like the characters. The lore. The story. But supporting it is different, and I am ashamed that I have for this long. Am I sad that I probably can’t post any more drawings of the silly fish being sad? Oh fuck yeah. That dude fucking rocks.

But this is not about me. To fellow people who feel sad about it too, this is not about you.

This is about being a fucking human being

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I await to see what the devs say to try and damage control.

[innerchildabortionclinic]

who else COLD tonight

[innerchildabortionclinic]

come on everyone you know what to do

[sarcfox]

My Fish Era returns

My freak as they are currently, again, perpetually covered in slime

Then

A hypothetical what-if scenario where, given their experiment project hadn’t been stopped, their legs would’ve melded together and they’d have been an even more fucked up mudskipper-slug-jelly thing. anyways

Pressure Today, yippee! !

[thedeafprophet]

can't think to hard on how nonbinary characters are straight up just not considered at all or ill lose it

[thedeafprophet]

no discussion of fandom demographics ever really thinks about nonbinary characters. discussions of sexuality get them as an afterthought at best. canon nonbinary characters get sorted into an acceptable type, get their ships evaluated for what flavor of gay rep they can still provide. canon nonbinary characters will be ignored or constantly misgendered. exorsexism hounds fandom spaces but people dont even consider it

[sarcfox]

I have Miku-ified one of my freaks

Happy Miku Day!

[homunculus-argument]

Tsundere this, yandere that. I'm a wandere. You took your eyes off me for two seconds and I've already fucked off. Saw something cool glint on the other side of the continent and I'm on my way to check it out.

[sarcfox]

You’re just an empty husk with no memories of your own.

You’re just.. a cheap imitation.

[sarcfox]

I’m eating the foam in the fire extinguisher if they put me in the Iron Lung I am NOT dealing with that shit

[sarcfox]

Did I make up that Starfruit and Pomegranate knew each other when they were children in my head?? That’s why Pomegranate’s betrayal of her trust in her introducing story hit Starfruit that hard right

If you go and look at the story, that part is not in there at all. Does anyone here remember their backstories being that way or did I genuinely make it up??

[dimensioncrosserofficial]

HELLO FIRST EVER FANART!!!! MY GOOD FRIEND @sarcfox MADE ME FANART FOR CHRISTMAS!!!!!!

It's so awesome and looks incredible and I love it so much!!!!! Thank you so much, Sarc and Merry Christmas to you, too!!

Damn they got the group so well!!! Drop them a follow right now or I'm coming to your house

They're so cute omg

[sarcfox]

Teehee

[smiggles]

what art program do you use?

sai (1 or 2)

krita

PS

CSP

Procreate

medibang

gimp

other (tags)

Voting ended onJan 25

[plasmalogical]

lets start wearing cloaks and swords again. its time

[sarcfox]

Me when I am perpetually covered in slime

[shizurek-deactivated20260520]

the worst siblings ever 💜

[gayleafpool]

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[dukemz]

i do not "focus". i do not "lock in". i sit down and stare at my work for an hour and if im not productive i GIVE UP.