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[bloodorangee1]

trying to improve on pixel art

[flowering-darkness]

still here just exhausted, by the way

I haven’t had the energy to do more than just idly scroll the dashboard for a while, so I apologise for the lack of acknowledgement of (for example) the things in my inbox, which I do want to say I greatly appreciate and am aware of. I am also aware I have not been commenting on others’ posts as often as I otherwise try to ‑ I hope that me doing so isn’t an overstep when I do it, but no-one’s said it is so far, so that’s always a good sign to keep going.

I won’t be able to prepare anything for the Ides of March this year, amusing though it has been to have posted selfship things on the date before.. but it is Yi Xi’s birthday (/release anniversary), which - combined with her box art letters ‑ probably explains a fair bit of how she’s characterised in her Vimalion Project design (the one that was used for Butcher Vanity). I may still be trying to make my own personal design for her, which talking to my friend has helped me with (thanks Clue!), but I still find it funny to acknowledge that~

It’s probably going to end up being midnight by the time I actually go to bed, and I am sorely tempted to turn off my alarm or at least set it back an hour because of such, but.. I hope that tomorrow treats everyone kindly

[worldruins]

Meet the Remnant, my "slugcat" oc. Because I have no sense of moderation, it has an entire campaign loosely mocked up in my head- I don't have the modding ability or time to make anything of it but I enjoy thinking about it! The two iterators on the sheet are the central npcs of the campaign.

Remnant is larger, more aquatic, and faster on all fours than a slugcat. It struggles to use the same tools, carries items in its mouth, and can eat batnip and bubble weed. And, though it doesn’t know it, it is one of the last four of its kind left.

More about the campaign below VVV

BONUS: Remnant obviously resembles a slugcat, and they are sort of a slugcat ancestor! The genomes of the pipe slugs slugcats evolved from had remnant DNA as well as the simple tool-worm base that ancients used for many creatures. The blueprints were present in the modified organisms, and over several generations and mutations began to express themselves once more. Anyway…

To start, the Remnant is living with their family in an idyllic natural landscape much like survivor and monk at the beginning of their campaigns. The incident kickstarting their journey would be them wandering off from their kin and- gameplay starts here- getting lured off by something interesting, before the wall closes quickly behind them and the player realizes they have been trapped. They find themselves in a crate lined with wet plant matter, which gets shaken and turned around for a bit before settling down. It continues with a gentler rattling and remnant is clearly being taken somewhere, but the game acts like you're in a den and, once you've eaten the food set out for you in there, you sleep.

You are woken when the train carrying you crashes. You are able to escape and wind up in a light drizzle. Numerous overseers, some purple and others seafoam green, follow you around. The artificial, dilapidated surroundings are alien to the remnant.

During the first cycle an overseer will direct you to the nearest den, but you don’t have a rain timer until the first time you hibernate. You’ve never experienced rain like this before, after all.

The fact is that the remnant and their family are primal fauna, from the old world before bioengineering and iterators. They have spent their whole lives in a carefully controlled environment, maintained at first by ancients and then the systems the ancients left behind. The mass ascension happened, and nobody really knew what to do with these creatures- depending on the species, animals in captivity were generally released to fend for themselves or set for years of being maintained by machines scheduled in advanced, automated to care for them.

Remnant is taken when the iterator Ink Stained Palms orders a specimen of one relatively hardy species to study and potentially have the rest delivered to their regions. Something goes wrong- their delivery is sabotaged by their semi-active former senior, Calls To Stony Skies. And out Remnant goes into an alien land, with each of the two rival iterators trying to lure or force it to go to them.

This generally takes the form of projections like Iggy uses to get the slugcats to Moon, though it’s two different kinds of overseer guiding you in opposite directions at the same time. There may also be introduced environmental hazards- some of the chases in Little Nightmares come to mind- to corral you toward wherever the iterator causing it wants you to go.

ISP was the one who was getting the remnant delivered to her facility. They’re a bioengineer interested in long-term ecosystem restoration. It’s come to believe there’s a natural ‘balance’ to the world that could, in time, let living things leave the cycle of their own accord if it was realigned properly.

CTSS is in a condition not unlike spearmaster moon, though his decline has been steadier and over a longer period of time. They’ve been replaced by another iterator as group senior, and derailed your journey in the hopes of using a rare animal as collateral to get ISP’s help. Watching the remnant’s struggle to survive, however, he ends up very attached to it and can’t bring himself to kill it as he originally planned to.

Though they might want to, CTSS can’t save the remnant from a more insidious fate. The air, the soil, the water itself is toxic to you, whose kind has lived countless generations shielded from the heavy metal byproducts of industry and the artificial metabolisms of those great boxes in the sky. Ascension is an option, but so is going to ISP, whose body itself possesses a complex with artificial environments much like the one you began in. It can’t protect the remnant fully, but it can offer them a longer life. There are multiple endings to the campaign, based on the order you visit the iterators in.

If you read all this thank you so much and feel free to send questions!! About my little guys.

[psicore]

i hope whoevers brain the crew is scurrying around in is sincerely fucked up or part of a murder plot or something. wouldnt it be fun to have good/neutral parties being part of the brain of a bad person. brennan. wouldnt it be interesting for them to grapple with being part of a bad person/story. wouldnt someone who wanted to end their partaking in that crime be an interesting antagonist that should be expanded upon. Brennan.

[secretlyhuntokar]

2012 Cecil be like

[unhistorical]

Trecheng Breth Féne, “The Triads of Ireland,” 100.

[next-lvl]

Cannelle pretending to be Miku as I'm too focused on the challenge to draw anything else