#braindead panic

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I'm back on my Miitopia Bullshit and my current mission is trying to make Koschei not look like Astolfo's clinically depressed cousin

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Yaaaaay I have a picrew I can make Lu Chu in yaaaaaaay

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Playing around with Rue! Nothing is set in stone but im not UNhappy with what I've got goin so far lol

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More Braindead Panic 1 thoughts heehoo

I'm percolating! Thoughts are percolating! Nothing is set in stone I'm just brainstorming here.

So like. I DO wanna pare down the roster now that we don't have to get Every Single Camper in there. We can at least like more easily relegate some characters to background status. Elton doesn't need to be here all the time. Nils is barely ever relevant. Its fine. They don't have to go they can just have greatly reduced roles.

Anyway like. Idk. Everyone is at a university probably, how they are brought together is...slightly unclear. Maybe they're all in the same Psychic Studies class, maybe they're in the same dorm building, maybe they're in an extracurricular together, maybe they're all participating in experiments for the psychic science program (willingly, like psych undergrads), maybe they're brought together by happenstance. Whatever. What I'm sure of is that it's not because they all have the same major. Koschei is undeclared (maybe history or wildlife management actually?), Rue is botany/biochem, Not Vernon is doing something in either English or film. You get it.

So what's the plot. Good question! Like I mentioned before my brain took some stuff from Gideon the Ninth and ran with it but I didn't really have much else until I got back into octopath and started thinking about Cyrus Albright's story again, which. I will not spoil but has influenced my ideas here

So there's either an old psychic studies building or a door in the current building/labs that nobody ever opens, right? It's always closed, it has a sign that says 'do not open', and as far as most of the students and faculty are concerned, the sign is put up because there's something maintenance or campus IT will yell at them for messing with otherwise. The only people who would suspect something is fishy are those who notice the door is lined with something to prevent psychic observation and interference in an area other than the labs.

And then one day one of the students goes missing. A psychic one. A lot of rumors abound- did they drop out without telling anyone? Did the stress of college get to them? Were they kidnapped? Was it a hate crime? Nobody knows. And nobody knows until Koschei finds himself on the other side of the door a few days later. Idk why he's there. Maybe he was invited to a trial, maybe it was open late at night and their curiosity got the better of them, doesn't matter. The point is that what's on the other side of the door isn't a maintenance room, or a server room, or anything else sensitive but normal. It’s a staircase into a huge underground facility full of weird labs and archive and test chambers. And in one of the labs is the desiccated husk of that missing classmate. Someone notices Koschei and he barely makes it out alive. But like- holy shit, what WAS that?? What can he do??? Who will believe him???? He could go to the campus cops, but he knows they won't do shit. He could tell the faculty of the university, but would they believe him, or would he invite further danger on himself??

So he ends up telling his two closest friends (and maybe study partners? [Who will become his Romantic Partners over the course of the story]), Rue and Vernon (new name pending). And then it becomes a whole thing, going on expeditions into the facility to find out what happened to their classmate, what's being studied down there, and why other psychics around campus are disappearing as well.

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Not participating in artfight this year for a Variety Of Reasons but I still wanted to get a good reference image of my Specialest Punk Rock Boy Alexei, with a slightly improved outfit

heres some Alexei Facts:

-Uses he/they pronouns, if you ask him what his gender is he'd tell you to eat shit and/or die but he IDs as nonbinary ftm/transmasc

-Pan and ostensibly poly but be aware he is super mega in love with his girlfriend Lu Chu Xie (who i also need to redraw)

-Alexei Pyretta is an electrokinetic, which means he can generate and control electricity with his mind. His control over it is iffy though which makes his hair all stick-up (its a lot fluffier when hes unconscious) and prone to shocking just about anything he touches if hes in a bad mood. Those gloves are leather but the palms are rubber to prevent him from exploding his phone every time he gets too mad on twitter

-in this image hes like...21/22 and 6'4"-6'6". Hes tall as hell boy

-he is in a shitty punk band with his friends and its called 'Dropkick Mystery'. they fight over the name a lot thats just what it is right now. i say its shitty but thats mostly bc they're just doing whatever, Alexei is a genuinely good singer/songwriter

-may or may not have an evil clone twin/body-snatching situation

-may or may not also be a werewolf

if you want to know more alexei facts email me or @kibasniper at yahoo.crom

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what if i just copy+pasted DN vernon directly into braindead panic. no changes or anything. same name, same deal, same fez. who would stop me

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@kibasniper @zephror

hey what if. what if what if. what if Braindead Panic 1 takes place in a university, right. i personally wanna get rid of the dan/-gan/-ron/-pa style death game thing but like even if it stays, there's fucked up murder mystery shit of some variety going on. That's fine, that all happens. i dont have any real good ideas for that outside of a bunch of stuff my brain is picking up and running out of the building with from Gid/-eon the Nin/-th. Fucked up psychic research facility in/under the college where there WAS research happening into heightening or awakening or fuckin something but not anymore, it's all long abandoned. What the conclusion was, who was killed to protect it, why, a puzzle they must solve for themselves as more people die around them. Good shit, good shit.

So what if Braindead Panic 2 gets to flip it a bit.

What if BDP 2 gets to be at a summer camp! A fun little nod to the series origin, psychic summer camp or not, death game or not. In this one, maybe it leans a little bit more on the slasher-movie kind of horror and murder mystery. Maybe there's some serial killer on the loose, picking people off (or maybe only psychics?) one by one. Maybe there is a game, tangentially related to the killings. Figuring out who the next target is, participating in weird 'challenges' to prevent more murders. This could get real interesting and fucked up- what would the challenges be? As simple as literal challenges, like a lethal obstacle course or finding and doing something with an object in a certain amount of time. As complex as pulling off a heist. As brutal as assassinations or saw-style traps. And it could still even be in a simulation like this- there is no serial killer among them. There was never a serial killer. They had been fighting over this the whole time and they were all innocent. They had killed their OWN over this. I don't know what the resolution to this would be, what the motives are, but. MAN

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Oh to be a small anxious transmasc enamored with ur giant metalhead gf