I'm not sure if anyone remembers the non cannon what if drawing I posted of Venus... and technically reader, in Feb of last year for the experiment au.
Anyway, I wrote and drew two scenes for my fic at the time. The good ending where sun and moon find Venus melting in their room and help her and reader escape the plex (spoilers I know oh my). And the bad ending, where sun and moon never forgave the two for keeping the secret. When the fire starts they take far longer to try and find the two because of their inner turmoil, which leaves Venus and reader trapped in the room above the daycare... the what if drawing i posted a little while later was the aftermath. The angst from yesterday unlocked that memory that I even had it because Venus just always has to be around when the people she loves are dying...
Anyway, I found a couple of old animatics deep in Venus's Procreate files... they're buns but they're mine i guess... All of them are different versions of the endings. So I had a sticky note animatic that showed the good ending, and a small scene for the what if ending that broke off from the stickies.
I felt like the vibe is really close to what I drew yesterday for @doll140's froppy angst so..
i gave the girls (Venus and reader) the good ol pee paw willie treatment a year ago, and now I'm finally seeing it through. Might post it but don't expect picassos work okay, I made it last year... will be giving it a new sound and a small change because i found an audio today that fit it perfectly
These guys are the ones running the show here! Well sorta-
They control the mechs! Every mech has its own sentient AI, and they are being tested for experimental object and face recognition systems. These guys are unknowingly testing those every day they suit up! Along with tons of other newer tech they think is just security overkill.
Their names (experimental numbers) are Viviana (3), Hudson (11), and you of course! (28)
Their outfits match their mech's!
Honestly, with the work fits, it feels like I'm just humanizing the mechs...
They can wear whatever shoes they want, but they have to be black or one solid color.
All of them have their hair up because it's better out of the way when they are working.
They live in the staff complex of the Plex, a small area on the third floor that's staff-only but allows visitors with approval.
Oftentimes, they will just sleep in the room behind their mech's greenroom. The company is nice, and it gives them time to do one of their priority tasks. Bond with their mechs!
They work 10 am to 6 pm Wed-Sunday's, and when they are off the clock, they are allowed to wander the plex and do anything they like as they please! They have security passes to enter every single area except for one, and that's the management office area. They eat at the buffet, but can chose to eat somewhere outside of the plex within a mile. Any further and they start to get intense headaches and nausea. They can't leave. But, they do have goffers! There are some staff designated to assist them with these sorts of things. So you want McDonald's? A new mini figure from a store outside of the bounds of the plex? They'll go get it for you!
The price to pay for a roof over your head huh...
If they need to travel anywhere with management, they don't experience the symptoms. They aren't exactly sure why, but you have an idea.
Ages/pronouns:
Reader - 20/They/Them
Vivi - 25/She/Her
Huddie - 30/He/They
I thought it would be funny to have Hud side-eye reader because they look inhuman...
In universe, reader looks like you!
Their nicknames:
Viviana: Vivi, Viv, Pecas (Is covered head to toe in freckles)
Hudson: Huddie, Hud, Doc (He has the fastest time out of anyone besides Roxy in the raceway)
Reader: Estrellita, Little star, Shooting star (fell down a flight of stairs in front of the others once when the daycare attendant was brought up.)
First chapter is out! Got kinda busy due to school, but hey one chapter down and many more to go! Feel free to ask questions about it, I would be happy to answer them!
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From your post earlier, what are the two ideas in your head I’m curious. I also love goats! But I don’t understand why these images are together. I need to know! My curiosity needs this!!!
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Of course!! Also the goat is very important.
Sorry I didn’t answer sooner I’ve been busy with school 😓
Tw for traumatic and dark themes such as self harm, mentions of almost suicide, and violence. This is masked as a kids show as all good shows are, like gravity falls and she-ra. So strap in yall.
The goat is a god that has somehow manages to keep his universe from destruction and relatively peaceful. He created a tome by accident a millennia ago and while it looks horrifying, it actually has never brought harm to his world, if anything only healing. Except nobody knows this, there is no record of this book or its creation. Nobody knows the goat is the god in charge of the world. It’s supposed to be a sort of inside joke that he's in charge.
Our main character is an 18-year-old Aroace individual, who has suffered from trauma her whole life. Still, in small ways, she doesn't feel like she deserves to be upset or impacted by these ‘micro-traumas’, which she learns is not good eventually. She is very AuADHD coded and most of her mental health problems and traumas stem from that. Her friends in season 1 make her feel worthless, even if not on purpose, but I promise it gets better for her.
She finds a book by chance after a bumpy train ride and she becomes bonded to it and is able to use its magic to transform into creatures of light and power as she discovers more of herself and faces her trauma. These creatures in the universe stem from pure light and hope, like doves, phoenixes, and even unicorns, and of course, mister the goat god is in this category too. Again, this is disguised as a kids show, there's no direct talk about abuse and trauma, it is just heavily implied.
As the first season progresses, there will be little things that her current friend group does that make her feel left out, useless, or otherwise a bad person, when she is in fact not one. They seem like unimportant problems because she's still able to go on adventures with them and have fun, but this is just self-destructive behavior. During this time she starts making new friends who understand her, and who are like her, but she is unable to hang out with them due to outside circumstances, they make her happy though. We also get to see a lot of her thought processes for these events, and why she reacts the way she does, mostly just to prove to viewers that she is in fact not lazy or sloth, just burned out. This is based on many of my friends' experiences as well as myself in order to give something more relatable to viewers.
As time passes, shadow monsters start to plague the cities and the land near her, and she decides to start fighting them using her cool new light powers. her friends are taking advantage of her in small ways until the end of season one shows her new friends, specifically one who had been tasked with deciphering the words in the book, learn that the page that seemed to warn about this other evil that creates shadow monsters was actually a warning to the books user that by being bonded to the book and using the powers it grants them, allows their anxiety and mental health to manifest itself as monsters. The effect of using so much pure light causes more dark to show up to balance it out because the MC has no internal light to give back in return.
The main character ends up almost consumed by this darkness in the middle of the finale of season 1 before her true, new friends come to help her. However, they end up being taken down by the shadows as the main character learns that while she can get help from others, the only way to truly move forward is if she accepts this truth and fights this for herself. Not anyone else, just her, because in cases like these, people need to accept change and help in order to actually grow. And they win. and then season 2 is coming to terms with all of that. with her new friends traumas coming to light and all of them healing as they become harbingers of the light.
The shadow monsters are an allegory for self-harm as fighting them brings physical damage to MC, getting bruises and cuts as a result, and at the end of the first season almost consumes them, which is an allegory for suicide. and the light is an allegory for healing and learning from trauma, as the main character's powers become stronger the more they face and accept their trauma instead of run from it. However, MC’s new friends don’t make fun of her for getting hurt, they tell her she doesn’t need to fight the monsters alone, and basically call her a hero for living through all the battles, because she is, and anyone who survives this sorta situation is because they are heroes, just not those of a typical sense. There is also this random goat(mister god guy) that is connected to the book they meet at the end of season one, which starts at the end of episode one as a sort of random flash, with empty white horns, but in the book, there are pages that allude to it in modern language, and everything else is in ciphers. However, by the end of season one a good portion of its horns are covered in golden plates and coloring.
By the end of the show in the season 2 finale they can use the power of this light hope goat (mister god) to start helping to bring light back to the universe. Basically, it ends on a note that while not everyone can be helped, it is still good to be the light in someone's life, with the end credit scene being completely silent and having help call lines for things like domestic violence, suicide prevention, and many other topics before the credits actually roll. The main topics being, of course, suicide, mental health, LGBTQIA+ support, and violence of any kind. These hotlines are in all of the episodes, not exactly hidden but they only appear in episodes they correlate to.
I want the character design to be a very significant representation of the characters’ personality, such as circle, square, or triangle characters. and their emotions can be shown through their lines and exaggeration. So a triangle or square character can have softer edges when they feel vulnerable or sad or even lighthearted. while circle characters can have sharper edges when they get upset, mad, or snarky.
As for the second idea-
Mc is a siren. Her scales are the colors of the lesbian flag but inconspicuous. (because yes) Pretend it's the needed colors to camouflage in the sand hehe.
In this universe when anything or person dies they turn into whisps. And they actually look really cute, but only creatures can see them, not humans.
In this universe, when a creature eats a whisp it becomes more powerful.
Whips are very rare to find because they are in hiding. However our protagonist hates hurting them.
This results in a small cave being filled with them and the protagonist protecting them from other sea monsters.
One day they get caught by a giant monster and everyone has to flee. But this is just part of the backstory.
Getting to the actual storyline- MC lives in a world where humans live among monsters happily, except for a few. This is actually in the same universe as the last show, just different parts of the world have different effects on the magic due to something that will be explored in the shows ;).
There are lots of scientists that do experiments on these sorts of monsters illegally.
Less of a kids show, more for teens. Yes I know that sounds ridiculous. (Partially due to crazier fight scenes and also due to blatant talk about death.)
In this universe there are many creatures, most are the last of their kind, but can live for long periods of time, like hundreds of years, helped by the wisps they eat.
The point is that the main character has to evade both monsters and humans, and save their friends.
There is a human, a rich one, trying to kill her friends, mer and wisp, and trying to find a way to use their power for themself.
Some of her friends do actually die, and don’t come back as wisps due to the experiments.
But before we can get to that point, MC has to go on wacky adventures, getting a human disguise, learning to be human, and getting a ton of friends as she ends up learning way more about herself in the process of trying to get strong in a world where usually you need to hurt others to do so.
This idea is less fleshed out but I have a ton of ideas for things they have to escape.
At some point she and her human friends find an island with lots of beds that lower into tanks. The island is artificially made and has some rotting bodies inside of older mer. These are from before the ban and illegalization of hunting mer and cryptids.
That and having to find a way to sneak into the giant mansion. And having to find ways to stop the advances of men, because she doesn't like them, having to sacrifice self morals in order to get a ticket in. None of these people know she is not human.
There's a recurring character that is meant to be her partner, but they don’t get together until the last episode. She is actually a cryptid too, but neither of them realize the other's true identity till the MC’s is revealed in the mansion during a large party.
The other cryptid saves her life, along with her friends, and there's a small period of time that involves fixing everything, and finding and putting a stop to all others bringing harm to these creatures.
You might wonder how the wisp friends fit into this. Just know they actually make very good talking buddies, and also secret spies. Only creatures can see them, but somehow they still find trouble.
I am currently working on refs for everyone so I’ll post them by January hopefully.
I’ve been on a trip in Mexico. I now have ideas for a chapter. Might just rearrange it for keeping it cleaner but just- the bois-
This is very long. Encapsulated two weeks of my life. Read at your own risk.
(Tw for almost throwing up. Fish carcass. (Unrelated) And a few other questionable but not really things.)
Greenhouse au ideas
•Going to Guadalajara. Also reader has larger family/ is traveling with a large group for the first half. And yes they are technically Hispanic. Or in non Hispanic terms, you passed Spanish class.
- On the first day you buy a bracelet because it reminds you of sun and he is ecstatic. Later you buys one that reminds you of moon.
- There is a swimming pool that is see through so it looks like an aquarium tank.
- You swim there with family/group. Boys watch and have fun. (100% dressed in the outfits sun-e-chips made for their waterspark au) You pretend to be a mermaid. Sorta. You raced some people one on one and lucky you, you won like 50% of the time! Almost drowned at some point but you tried to make sure the boys didn’t realize. They did. That was a fun night. (No it wasn’t)
- The next day you buy a cowboy hat, a leather belt, some leather boots, and a phone holder to attach to the belt, also made of leather. Sun had a field day with that. And then bought all the same things to match, and you love it.
- they go to the beach and you swim in the waves. That day you end up only spending half of the day in the water. When the sun goes down there’s a thunderstorm and sun almost dies trying to get your attention to get you out of the water (yes he is sorta water resistant but he got scared for your safety and you were relaxing too much.
- The next day you all end up going to crab island. The water is clear there and you swim for a few minutes but you hate it because there are a ton of crabs.
- When you go back to the beach you end up brushing along something, it happens a lot, so you pick it up to see what it is and it’s a fish carcass, half of it at least. The tail. 30 minutes later your sister/close female friend finds the exact same carcass.
- It’s horrifying. You end up staying in the water until sundown.
- They go to Islan del Río Nayarit and climb cristo Rey (you die lmao)
- There’s a kid on the way up in one of the houses. Your mom/some older women, asks if he can help them the way up. He says ‘if you don’t kidnap me I’ll help you!’
- This makes you and sun laugh because no one here has need for more or any kids.
- There are a ton of cats.
- (The climb back down they are very worried because your legs are shaky. Shouldn’t have tried to show off your strength climbing a mountain, Jesus.)
- On the trip from cristo Rey to tequila they are trapped in the car for hours but the air is fine. They are in a giant bus/car thing. It fits 19 people not including the driver, plus all of their suitcases so there’s a good amount of space.
- Los dos carnales by el envidioso plays in the background while you start to focus on what’s happening. Around the end of the song someone make it louder so it feels like the intro to a movie. The three of you (you, sun and moon) joke about that.
- We move to a different bus but forget to say bye to the og driver.
- You thinks about him (no not og driver. He will be revealed later in the story) But are reminded that you have sun and moon now. And are happy. Because there are no seatbelts you sit with the boys. They are your seatbelt.
- For the last 9 days they stay at European lifestyle hotel, there are three separate rooms but sun/moon charge in your room for the nights. Cosy.
- They go to ride horses on the third day at the hotel. In Guadalajara in a park with a castle and Japanese gardens called bosque los Colomos.
- The next day you go to Ahihi and Chapala, and buy a moonchim that reminds you of moon with elephants on it.
- In Tonalá you finds a giant fan for only 75 pesos and manage to barter it slightly to make it 70. Its huge. You are very elated.
- In San Juan de Dios, there are tons of artisan shops. Sun finds an apron of loteria that says ‘El Sol’ and buys it without a second thought.
- In same location: man comes up to their group, asking if they want a phone charger that does massages. Goes to the first person (dad/older man in the group) and places it on his shoulder/ back and then the second person too (little brother or Gregory) before getting to you and retracting his arm. Maybe it was your glare or sun’s ‘touch her if you dare look’ but something deterred him.
- Later on in the day everyone goes to the center of Guadalajara and some women does the same thing but they get to you first. Sun is enraged because it makes you scared (you jump and are very embarrassed) and he knows you don’t like touch that you don’t expect. But he manages to smile at the women and tell her ‘we don’t need any’. Mutters afterwards that he’s plenty good at massaging. It makes you laugh (but he’s being serious).
- You sees a dress shop that will make a custom dress for her while on their walk. You really want it but alas it’s around 750 US dollars and therefore too much for you to pay for. Sun and moon are really touchy the next few hours, hugging your waist and sometimes it’s funny or weird for some reason, your hips or even your chest but you don’t think too much on it. They disappear for a few minutes (almost a good hour) the next day while your group is at the the Guadalajara center again. (They are planning something).
- You find a fruit cupshop while they are gone and buy some mangos. Best damn mangos you’ve ever eaten.
- Later of the day of the first disappearance, your group goes to Tlaquepaque (sun and moon are not left behind). When taking a photo in front of the sign you laugh softly because of a kid who is messing around and ask him is he’s taking the photo with you guys. The kid runs and both you and sun laugh. While taking the photo you both stand next to the A because it has sun and moon decals yippee.
- Same day you do the shock game with your family and sun is horrified that humans do this for fun. You enjoy yourself, and get very shocked. You make it to level 5 in the group one but then you go by yourself and it’s much… much worse. You still make it to 5 but you can’t move your arms and sun is still very worried for your safety and also notes, sort of, that you have a lack of self preservation skills.
- The next day they go to Mazamitla. You go to pet tigers and do tons of crazy things like:
- Sun thinks you’re crazy. Notes that you 100% have lack of self preservation skills.
- You guys are in a very precarious van. It’s taking you on this tour. Seats held up by rope and very dirty. You have fun with all the giant divits in the ground as the rickety bus drives. You think it’s very entertaining. Sun is once again horrified. (Even more notes for lack of self preservation)
- Then you go on a zip line while there’s rain. Sun is not happy and goes in the car with you guys. Wearing a coat of course. The truck is rickety and worse, you and everyone else going on the zipline are in the trunk. You meet some very nice, very funny people(Sun is not amused by them) Sofia-Sofie 15, Miguel-migi 17, Viviana-Vivi 17, Alya-Aly 15, and two others who you don’t get the names of but they are both 27 years old.
- (Yes I met these randos in the trunk car ride up the mountain in freezing cold pelting rain. Nothing was gonna stop me from going on that zipline.)
- At some point the rain gets so bad that you all have to wait inside the car smooshed together. Very interesting and smelly but you manage to make it up the mountains by foot to the zip lines.
- The first one is slower, you get more of a view. Holding onto the rope that is attached to you. You almost miss catching the persons hand at the end and almost get stuck further away, when sun arrives (because of course he had to get on now that it was raining) he insists on going first on the second one. The second one goes so fast it sounds like a helicopter. You get specific instructions to hold on to the metal and hang with your legs facing as forward as possible. You get scared and focus more on getting the signal ti let go of the metal, that you miss seeing everything. You see sun at the end though. Very clear yellow against the dark green background.
- When you make it to the end Sun catches you by the waist, holding onto the precarious stairs/platform up in the trees instead of taking your hand, insisting that he didn’t want you to get stuck again.
- Very embarrassing for you yes (and also you blush but we ain’t talking about that) but his mechanical heart was in the right place. He helps you down by sort of lifting you and hurriedly taking your helmet off, knowing that you were gonna be late for your ride, the poorly held together bus. Staying inside of the truck sorta made you behind because it was raining so much.
- You take off the harness as fast as possible. A 4 year old being the one to take your things. It’s a surprise but you follow her instruction and within the minute, sun is carrying you slightly towards the bus. (He doesn’t want you stepping in mud, such a gentleman)
- When you reach the bus, it has a tarp over the windows to protect people from the harsh rain.
- The bus driver sings songs all the way down the mountain which sun, and you, are concerned about because he was also driving.
- He sings 3 songs, very nicely might you add, you wonder why he’s a bus driver. Sun sings to some, obviously accessing the internet to do so and somehow sings in Spanish… (he was fishing for compliments 100% because he didn’t like that you were complimenting the driver so much)
- When you guys get off the bus it’s pouring so hard you can’t go anywhere. You enter Mia’s boutique to get a better sweater, because yours is not meant for rain. You end up just getting a poncho but sun gets one too. You joke about him riding horses now will make him look like an actual cowboy.
- You eat at a random restaurant, ordering a beef hamburger with fries and sit at a two seater with Sun. You eat your fries first happily, and start to drink your lemonade before taking a bite of your hamburger and making a face before setting it down. Getting embarrassed you tell sun you’d rather not eat it because it tasted really strange. Sun scans it and says it’s a mix of pork and beef apparently. Great.
- You go to get a crepe instead. Enjoying it despite the overtly sweet strawberry tinge flavoring. You asked for chocolate… oh well.
- As you eat it you slowly have a harder time swallowing being the flavor is just not agreeing with your taste buds.
- By your last big bite you almost throw up. The bile rises through your throat as you desperately try to keep it all in. It works but sun notices and takes you to the side. Holding you to let you sit on the bench without getting wet (because of the rain) and talks to you about stuff.
- He asks why you tried to finish it even if you knew you didn’t like the flavor. You refrain from telling him about how you were used to always finishing/ being forced to finish your food even if it meant throwing up, and you instead tell him It was just expensive so you didn’t want to waste money. The best lie is the truth after all and that was part of the reason you finish it.
- On the trip back to the car you trip slightly. Sun try’s to catch you even though you don’t fall and the position that leaves you in is very fun! (Once again no. Mud sucks)
- The ride back to the hotel you sleep together in the back of the car, (family/friends are driving) very relaxing 10/10 experience.
- The showers have been having issues, very hot then very cold, but at this point you are used to it.
- Next day you go on a new tour bus. First stop was to Vicente Fernandez’s ranch and pet a ton of horses and see so many new cool flowers that you 100% are adding to the greenhouse.
- Then you go to a tequila factory.
- You taste 5 separate flavors of the 7 being served. All of them you hated. White, peach, mango, coffee, and one other that you don’t remember the name of.
- You don’t feel uneasy or sick at all afterwards. Yay you’re not a lightweight go Mexican genes.
- Then you go at a nice restaurant back in Ahihi. (I don’t think I spelled it right)
- Then on a boat ride on a very questionable boat. You live, but have anxiety about sinking the whole time.
- Then you go to Chapala. You buy a sunflower cowboy hat because it reminds you of Sun.
- Then you buy another Sun related thing, a yellow jar with sand and tiny trinkets inside.
- Now you need to get two moon related things. It’s only fair of course.
- You start to run out of time.
- You don’t end up finding moon things. And see ultimately upset about that. Sun and moon were fine but you still felt really bad about that. It meant a lot to the both that you were so upset about it not being fair though.
- Then you remember you bought the moon wind chime so almost all is forgiven for yourself.
- This time on the way back you end up falling asleep so moon stays with you awake until it’s time.
- You guys end up back at Guadalajara center.
- You start going to the area with the yummy fruit and pass by a clown show. The one from the first week.
- You don’t know how you end up in the situation but one clown is waiting in front of you while everyone chants “beso! Beso”
- You end up saying ‘lo siento pero no me gustan los payasos. Prefiero los jistes.’ (Im sorry but im not into clowns, I prefer jesters)
- Sun/moon are pleased and the crowd goes ‘ahh’ disappointed
- You give sun/moon a kiss on their faceplate and the crowd goes ‘aww’ happily.
- You go buy another mango cup because it’s so yummy, and sun and moon are amused you get it from the same spot as you did only days earlier.
- Second to last day you go back to Guadalajara center and find a necklace that has a moon on it and you are ecstatic. Balance has been restored.
- You go back to the mango shop and learn that the magos they use are Kent mangos? THe most amazing mango’s you’ve ever had that’s for sure.
- Last day at your hotel you start going over everything. Everything you have gets packed into 3 suitcases and 2 duffle bags.
- Sun had a ton of stylish outfits because of course he did, the diva 😒.
- Then he presets the dress he bought. 725 US dollars. Because he knew you really wanted it. You practically cry as you hug and and thank him over and over again.
- You buy a doughnut from Krispy kream at the airport.
- The riee in the airplane is fun, it leaves at 11:30 and lands at 1:55.
- You draw the whole way back. Sun is… he finds the art to be flustering. Because you drew someone’s human sun design getting pulled into a kiss with your self insert. You thought it was funny because sun was right next to you and you wanted to mess with him.
- You almost throw up on the descent because you get dizzy for no reason. It takes 10 minutes for the nausea to go away and sun is worried the entire time.
- When you get home you hardly recognize anything but after you eat lunch you literally forget you even went on a trip.
- You shower and then sun asks if you’ll try the dress on. So you do.
- It’s perfect. The inside was comfortable and soft, and it matched the theme for your greenhouse perfectly.
- When you leave the room you go show sun he is stunned silent.
- You just found the perfect outfit for the opening of your greenhouse.
