#askmoonpool

[sombermoon]

So. How do you feel about Sunstone? I saw post asking about it from one of the people you follow and I wanted to know what's your take on proshipping? Just a question. Cause I've noticed you did ship NSH and LTTM in your lore? Please don't explode on me :(

Are you deadass? I watched my friend be questioned on this before so I will give my own input on this topic. Sorry if it comes off as brutally honest. Do I condone the ship? Hell no. It's cute from a distance but it's too controversial for my liking an taking a risk of being witch hunted for something I was not made aware of till the last minute is a no for me. This includes the many au's that do this ship an it is often toxic. Considering they never had a mentor apprentice relationship which by the way is fucked up I still don't condone it. Now if they were not in that little clique of being mentor an apprentice then I don't actually care as it was canon Pebbles regularly vents to SRS it was never implied of Suns being his mentor at all. Though I've seen au's where it is pulled off correctly in a good way that makes the character understand that their love interest is wrong and they need a good bonk! to the head. I can't control what people do on the internet and neither should you. As for the Lilypad ship I was far aware that it's considered illegal now within the rainworld fandom and I took my own precaution to break up their relationship in the lore because it makes sense and for my own safety. As for proshipping I also do not condone it either. It's disgusting, I don't know why some people get a turn on from it but I wish them the best of luck crawling out of the pits of their own regret And I pray they choke on it for eternity. If the characters is not compatible or there is no way they would or should get together by canon reasons then by all means DO NOT SHIP IT! This is entirely different then shipping characters for laughs an giggles or just memes in general then shipping them to progress the storyline. It is why i had each of the rainworld cast shipped with a character I created of my own design that are actually compatible (accept for traffic lights love that ship to death) to avoid such catastrophes. I'll get some flack for doing so because it's not what some fans want and i'm sorry if my au doesn't follow other rainworld au standards but I refuse to be in this repeating cycle.

Been a hot 2 months since I stopped answering my inbox but i'm here now.

[sombermoon]

How do you think iterators would react to making contact with aliens?

Honestly they would do nothing. They're already aware that there is life out in space, the ancients just weren't around long enough to develop space travel to accomplish this. But there are local groups that mainly keep a close eye on the stars in case other lifeforms do land so everyone can be prepared. The best I can think of is they'll treat aliens like scavengers an just leave them alone observing them if they don't pose a threat. Long as it doesn't get in the way of their every day life it won't be issue. If all goes well the iterators will attempt to make contact themselves to establish an alliance of some sort to hopefully advance themselves. Even potentially creating an entirely new generation of iterators leading to them leaving the planet. Worse case scenario? each superstructure is equipped with a- hm- I'm not entirely sure what to call it but lets say it's the death ray from star wars. Reduce intruders to atoms.

[sombermoon]

Hey, it's been a little bit. You holding out alright?

I'm doing great! Doing a bit of rebranding here an there if my username scared some you an you realized that something has changed. Unfortunately that means my most detailed work has my old username an i may not be able to fix that. With the rise of AI an constant art drama surrounding it i am staying away far from it all for my sanity. I had a great Halloween with my partner, the convention i went too was lovely, an im glad the blistering heat of summer is over.

[sombermoon]

Pardon me but, i see you haven't finished the rest of the iterators for you au. I'm sorry if you felt pressured into drawing them. May i ask if you're perhaps redesigning Sliver? or any of the main cast? She looks pretty but you seemed burnt out after making it.

Thank you for asking, and yes! i am. i haven't given up at all and my burn out lasted months. I was just testing to see what style i liked the most, there is no harm in experimenting. The reason it's taken so long is because i've learned my lesson on not making them too human. I get it, they're suppose to be machines not the closest thing to a human being so the style has been downgraded to be more cartoonish but still appealing. I'll be dropping little experimental drawings to see how the feedback went after pride month is over. Or maybe earlier if im feeling like it.

[sombermoon]

Hey moonpool, how do you get those huge lore posts out? I'm trying to make my own AU but it's completely dead in the water after 2 posts.

I don't actually know? For me and this is just my way of how I did it not everyone's methods are the same. it was months of overanalyzing rainworld lore. I kind of just wrote little notes of the characters on my laptop and added personality as I went along then meshed everything together into a backstory. Rainworld lore is complicated as hell and I didn't understand squat till it was explained to me in like 2 maybe 3 videos. I made iterator ocs before this but I didn't have enough lore to make them important to the story. In my eye's if they did not interact with the original cast then I had nothing to go off from in terms of lore? So I took one character that I liked the most then went from there.

For e.g Aside from my ocs I liked Moon a lot and not many really touch on how Slivers death affected her and is highly ignored. So I took this single forgotten aspect and branched off to make Moons lore more in depth and severely long and it eventually affected everyone else altering the timeline. It's good to practice on already established characters first before working on ocs whichever ones you think is better is completely up to you.

[sombermoon]

What do you think moon would look like as a human being?

Most interpret her either looking extremely old or in a wheelchair. This Moon hasn't collapsed so I figured she'd look somewhere in her mid to late 40's considering the era she was activated in her hair would be put into some sort of weird hairstyle.

Idk I'm not really good when it comes to human stuff.