#devours of god

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Kenneth the terrible and his son Travis.

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I know Kenneth probably doesn't care, but I only drew this cuz the painting itself has been stuck in my head and the back story is so depressing😭

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[rpggoro]

Fucking Sally Face side profiles

[domesticatedpigeonsoup]

conceptual issue with sally face lore

(i haven't been invested in the game for a while so bear with me if i get something wrong)

the whole cult thing having native american origins just kind of ruins some of the game for me, not only because "native american curse/magic/cults" is an annoying trope but i feel like it weakens the message

a lot of sally face is about not fitting in with the majority and trying to find peace with that, caring about finding people who will love, accept and cherish you for your true self

and that's why having christians as the antagonists was great at first, those are the people who have historically hated anyone who doesn't fit in and still majorly fight against indiciality and freedom of self and expression

mr. phelps being in a "satanic" cult but at the same time telling his son that gay people go to hell was a beautiful way to show christian hypocrisy and "no hate like christian love" and their corruption

i think the gang defeating them would've been more powerful if they stayed with just christian origins, maybe having their start as some kind of Faust situation, because then it would've been so symbolic... a group of freaks, misfits and outliers taking down their hypocritical opressors

it's just also weird to give a cult that has a goal of taking over the world in the name of their beliefs with violence to native americans who have been colonised instead of colonisers themselves

[underworldsheiress]

Sally Face Doubt

Guys, I just realized something. 

Sally is sentenced to Death right? And most True Criminals that are sentenced to Death stay years on the Death Corridor before being executed. 

So why Sally’s Executions feels it was in just a couple of days (maybe even hours) after the end of the trial? Because it probably was considering Ash didn’t had the time to show evidence of the Ghost being real. 

The answer to that is simple: The Cult controlled the trial and we already know that considering the substitution of the doctor. But my real doubt here is: How none realized something was wrong?

I mean, if I was the trial of a killer saying “Don’t trust the Government, they are being controlled or are part of the Cult that possessed my family.” I wouldn’t believe most of it. But if I saw that the killer that said to not trust the Government is killed before other killers I would start doubting something:

I doubt I would believe the Cult part, but I would believe in the Conspiratorial Theories that would appear after proving they were trying to shut Sally up. We, in real life, have many examples of people protecting and justifying killers. He saw many Conspiratorial Theories about everything, even the smallest or simplest things.  How we don’t see any of this in Sally Face universe? How none maybe believed Sally? Portable Moose could had explored this (and maybe he wanted but didn’t had the time or space for this on the game) but those are outside game explanations. 

And the only in game reason I can find is: The Cult influence is higher than we believe and actually see in the game. They can control the whole country at once because there were many news about the Sally Face Killer as we saw in Chapter 3 with his interview! 

And then I crossed it with a Youtube comment I saw some year ago that Sanity Falls knows the Cult. The songs talk about what is happening (which is obvious since it was made for the game) but the in game explaining is: they are part of the Cult and their songs are what influences everyone (and maybe even helped prepare Larry to receive the Red Eyes!) 

[arisu-draws]

Kenneth and newborn baby Trav👍 I'm still working on his lore.. But for more context, Mariana was in labor when Michael (kenneth's dad) kidnapped her cuz if he hated Kenneth, he wouldn't want travis either since he saw his own son as a failed heir.

This was the last straw for Kenneth, so he used that sword and his shotgun to kill the cultists and delivered travis in the cult sites💀

He used that sword to protect him, meanwhile travis used it to kill him💕😍

[arisu-draws]

PHELPS LORE🗣️🗣️🗣️

HI, I noticed people don't give Kenneth much backstory since not much is known about him. Even the art book lacked information. So I decided to make one for him cuz he's one of my favorite villains in the game but I hate him so much too. His past is tragic but I didn't make it like that so people would sympathize with him---but to give him more depth and reasons for his goal, which is the cult to destroy God himself. This took a long time for me to make, and I already finalized their designs!

LET'S GET STARTED!!

• Kenneth's parents and home life

The image above are my designs for younger ken and his parents, Eleanor and Michael Phelps. Michael and Eleanor were in an arranged marriage in order for him to continue the Phelps bloodline and their work in the cult. The two were complete strangers yet they were forcefully betrothed. They don't even look happy in their photos

They married in 1944 and had Kenneth two years later. Michael and Eleanor needed an heir, like all the other Phelps. But they also did it to try saving their marriage---but it didn't end well. After Kenneth was born, they often argued and shouted at each other. This led to Eleanor drinking as a coping mechanism. Michael, on the other hand, insults Kenneth whenever he can. Even if he makes a small mistake.

Eleanor isn't any better because she neglected Kenneth too. They forget his birthday, they don't treat him like their son, not even an heir but rather a disappointment (as Michael always refers to Kenneth that way)

Kenneth tried to make him proud, he really has. But Michael doesn't care at all. He lived in their household despite the constant abuse he faced. Michael thought he wasn't good enough to be the cult's next leader once he grows up too.

• Kenneth and Mariana

In 1954,kenneth met an energetic and playful girl named Mariana Sinclair. She often attended Michael's masses on Sundays. She eventually talked to his son personally after the mass and the two quickly got along. Kenneth was awkward at first since she was his first friend. They would climb trees, stargaze, run and play hide and seek. That was until Kenneth started to fall in love with her when they were 16. He courted her through love letters and some roses. They start to date in secret because Kenneth knew that Michael would've disapproved of Mariana.

In 1967, Mariana moved to another state to study nursing. But she promised Kenneth they'll be together again once she comes back. In this time period, Eleanor eventually found out about their relationship because she noticed her bottles were missing cuz Kenneth was taking them so he could drink with Mariana. Once she yells at him about it, Kenneth finally snapped and accidentally pushed her too hard--causing her to fall down the stairs.

Kenneth started crying and tried to wake her up. But Michael, he didn't even show any sign of grief or sadness. He didn't care. His cult members just covered it all up. He confronts Kenneth right after, calling him a disgrace to the family all because he killed his mother for "some" woman he's been secretly seeing. He constantly blames him for it.

After graduation, Kenneth left his household after several years. Michael didn't even stop him. He saw him as a failed heir, after all. He sees Mariana again, and they eventually get married in 1972, then there goes Travis Phelps.

To be continued 🗣️

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Still working on this

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Spider trav lore

This isn't finished yet. But I'll give more context. In this AU, Mariana is still alive, however, she and Kenneth are divorced cuz he chose the cult to gain Michael's approval (they still loved each other but ken's such a bitch) and hes basically uncle Aaron in this AU. Michael was the one who shot him and travis finally let it out on him😭