#aie!xd

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@calamari-minecraft-corner ok so this is not very good, drawn very fast and kinda spoilers but it was too funny not to draw

He is so so unhinged. This is him being normal about something. There's also probably a few that I didn't think of but will come up as I write plot.

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In your Crypt AU what happened to Drista and Dream after Sam gone missing?

Especially since even Dream gone missing (if I read correctly)

*giggles evilly* well this will be a fun one.

Also major spoiler warning as well as warning for copious amounts of murder. Like so much murder only 5 people who are involved in XD's whole backstory get to live. and only one of them is an obviously major character.

Honestly I'm not sure what I what I shouldn't spoil but I guess this au isn't getting a fic anytime soon sooo tis fine :) I wanna talk about it anyway.

First of all Dream did in fact go missing! You read that right!

But I'll leave that situation for last since your asking about what happened to them in general c:

For some context Dream was almost 15 when Sam got murdered(and everyone knows that he is in fact dead, his body was very much there), Drista was not even a year old.

This drives a... conderable wedge between him and XD. Because Dream isn't stupid. And frankly, XD's isn't trying to seem all that aggrieved, just towards the cops and his acquaintances. This is also what sort of tips off Callahan(who is a whole nother can of worms ksjskshskjs).

Basically Dream kinda knows XD did it. But also doesn't want to believe it and can't prove it. He would have run away, but he had a baby sister to take care of, and he wasn't going to just.. leave Drista behind.

He thinks about it more after he turns 16. His close friend Foolish even offering that his dad would take him and Dris in in a heartbeat. And Dream already has a good relationship with Puffy anyway.

But uhhhhh XD likes Foolish, he really does, he does not in fact like him enough to allow him to steal his son. Safe to say Foolish pops up a few days later in less then alive pieces :)

Puffy moves away fast enough that XD doesn't think she'll be a problem.

Anyway. This does not strengthen Dream and XD's relationship in the slightest. It only keeps him there for two more years before he goes to college.

He hates leaving Drista alone, but so far XD hasn't been violent towards him or her, and he just.. needs to be out. He absolutely visits all the time though, just to check that Drista is ok and doing well.

and he actually gets a good support network at college! He meets George and Sapnap, and even the man he decides he wants to spend his life with, Fundy :).

They don't end up being able to get married. Because uhhhhhhhhhhhhhh well Fundy is kinda his own can of worms but the short version is that Fundy has some... Personal beef with XD let's say. And XD doesn't do well with a gun pressed to his head. Safe to say Fundy's body is never found and was probably fed to the gators.

At this point Dream is pretty sure that XD has killed, his dad, one of his best friends, and his fiance. (Oh actually also Punz, who was a close online friend that I couldn't fit in neatly) Somehow it takes him a year to try and kill him.

It doesn't go well, to say the least.

XD at least feels bad about this one of though. Like sure, Dream tried to kill him and has been making it his mission to be (in XD's perspective) an annoying little shit about everything. But that's still his baby boy. That's his kid. And he sort of did it in a rage, he didn't mean to. Dream was just so wrong about all these people. But he still regrets it so much.

Dream's the only one of his victims to get a proper burial.

He can't bear to report him dead though. Just missing. Forever missing.

Now on the Drista side of things :D

She has a pretty normal first 8 years of her life honestly beyond the absolute tension between her older brother and her dad.

Like sure sone people just. Go missing. But she doesn't have enough of a sense of object permanence to really think they're dead.

The only one she really processes that for is Sam, even though she doesn't remember him, Dream makes sure she knows about their dad. Telling her stories and going through his old coding files to teach her about his work. She's pretty good at coding for an 8 year old!

But it's on one of these visits from her brother that stuff completely changes for her. Because she doesn't like. See Dream's death. But she hears it.

The next 2 years are rough. She absolutely hates XD for his actions, and she tries to run away a lot. She always gets dragged back and XD shows disgusting slivers of humanity. He cries every time she runs away, he never starts mad. Just so so terrified.

Then he angry once she's back inside and he's held her for a while. He never hurts her though. Not physically at least, and he doesn't shout either. He still treats her like glass even when he's mad at her and even when she's scratching and biting and kicking and squirming.

No matter how many times she's brought back though, she doesn't stop trying. And one time, she just manages to do it.

Now where she is and what she's doing I'm not actually going to say, but she is most definitely alive. XD thinks she's dead though, he doesn't really see how she could have survived out there and yet he or the police couldn't find her.

She's alive and .... Well I can't really say she's well but she isn't homeless. And that's all I'll say on the matter.

Sorry if this was too long lol I just have a lot of thoughts for this au.

And uhhh just going to put the @calamari-minecraft-corner here :D (for context Cala asked me to @ them in posts about this au so that's why it's always somewhere)

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More AiE!XD sketches because I love my unhinged man <3

He's so innocent <3 he never did anything wrong what are you talking about :( /s

Also on a semi unrelated note @calamari-minecraft-corner I love the duality between the dev!XDs like

one middle aged dude who looks like he's been through hell and back and looks like he barely smiles vs an old man who is just... Way way too smiley and just so unhinged all the time

I gotta draw them together at some point. I don't think they'd get on very well

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Some concept sketches of our lovely developer :D along with a few snippets from an article about his upcoming game Adventures in Esempi

Adventures in Esempi is an ai-powered open-world rpg. One that promises to be truly limitless "I wanted to create a dnd-like experience. Where the story can be truly limitless if the DM has ideas, just for people who don't have anyone to be their DM." The developer "XD" says in an interview. "AI was my way of doing that. And I know people will come at me for using AI. But it does take effort to create. I have worked for years on this project to train my characters. And it's not even ready yet. I'm currently doing my 3rd wave of play testing and I'm sure one of my lovely play testers will come across a bug that is game breaking and I'll have to reset the AI's parameters all over again." Another quote from the developer reads.

"Every character I make is a tribute to someone I've lost or someone who impacted me greatly. With a few cameos for some of my play testers who without which this game would not exist. Though there is one character that's a little easter egg, should you go looking for it." XD says when asked about his character creation process

A little bit more about the development: Adventures in Esempi is a passion project of it's currently sole developer a person known as XD (note that while XD identifies as trans-masc and uses both he/him and they/them pronouns for the purposes of this article XD will be refered to with he/him pronouns or simply "XD"). The game has had many other developers over the years, the longest working on the project being Sam Isenberg, or Awesamdude as was his online name, and the mysterious Callahan. Sam -who was also XD's husband at the time- worked on the first ideas and attempts at the project in the late 90s and the 2000s before being found dead in 2010 shortly after leaving the project and filing for divorce. We know much less about Callahan. Only that he worked on the project from the year 2006 to 2014 when he went missing. But even with these loses, and even more person ones in the time of the games development XD has kept on the project. Honoring past developers that left the project with a character ingame.

I think that's all I'll give you for now ;) but that is a pretty big lore drop

Anyway take some sketches of some of the things XD doesn't want the public to know about them

And also:

i took his gender. Fight me about it.

Anyway now is a great time to mention that I stole(I asked) the X scar design from @calamari-minecraft-corner's digital friend au XD

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Sometimes the only one you have to hold you is the one that hurts you..

I'll draw people other then them soon I swear I just really like them

Also sir you are NOT their father shut the fuck up /aff (he's so delusional guys like omg /aff)

I also just really like drawing in this style. Tis fun :D

@cleofast300 @calamari-minecraft-corner

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Look AiE!XD isn't known for his self awareness

Also I just wanted to draw funny little squished expressions

Also now I'm just gonna respond to things that make me cry(/pos) with this

Because truly, that's how I look XD

@cleofast300 @calamari-minecraft-corner

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ok so just a sketch because I'm lazy but-

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ok so technically only @calamari-minecraft-corner has voted on the puzzle poll yet but I like this too much not to do it.

Anyway have fun ;)

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So now that I've introduced you to AiE!Drista I figured I should finish up my concept sketch for her :D

Not real Drista because I had more ideas for her ai version because XD is very normal about his daughter running away a doesn't feel a gaping hole in his person and lots of grief :D

He's so normal about it that he's just going to engineer an ai based on her then make it the god of his game world. He's so normal about it that he's going to make this ai have the most detailed texture of anyone.

She's based on a burrowing owl just like her brother :D(who I haven't designed yet but shh he will be)

She has so much existential dread.

She's XD's baby girl and if he has to keep reseting her ai so that for a few minutes he can pretend that he did drive away one of the only three things he truly loved and killed the other two so be it.

And of course it always fucks up. They all fuck up. He doesn't care when it's the others. But god does it hurt when that thin, thin wall of illusion falls and he has to see it for what it is, an algorithm taught to imitate his daughter.

And it always realizes that and throw it in his face.

Maybe he should find some more.. real distractions.

Anyway yeah I love my babies :D

Real!AiE!Drista's doing as well as anyone in this au can do though so good for her! I'll have to actually draw her soon. She is great. And filled with so many horrors.

@calamari-minecraft-corner *throws the bab at you*