You're not coming back from shit! Thrashing around in that high-conductivity state of yours, bumping into things and acting like a clown. Who are you kidding?
50 years ago, the L’Manburg revolution rose, triumphed, and was crushed under the heel of the Greater Dream SMP. 50 years ago, President Wilbur Soot walked into the pale, leaving behind his burnt and smoking country under the eternal shadow of the obsidian grid, never to be seen again. Today, Wilbur Minecraft wakes up from the world’s worst three-day bender, half dead, hungover. There’s a body hanging in the tree outside, and it’s his responsibility. Wake up, man. This is your sunrise; parabellum.
Character concepts for a dsmp/disco elysium au focused on c!wilbur (part 1/?)
Link to lore concepts (coming soon)
so theres this and this post that I spoke with @saint-hymn about a while ago! theres another post about c!q as wilbur’s stand-in for jean vq but i cannot find it :[ FOUND IT
characters
quackity: either c!wilbur’s bitter ex-partner, OR the mob boss of manburg for the time being, or a secret third thing?
niki: possibly also c!wilbur’s ex-partner, in the vein of judit minot, equally angry that he abandoned them (leaning more into the dsmp side of things). alternatively, she’s just a bakery owner in the ruins of manburg, hoping to scrape together a bit of happiness in the dying city (this is more disco elysium-esque). similar to the kids in the church, you-as-wilbur would help her build her bakery, possibly even in the abandoned church as well? Most curiously, she has a flag of the old L’manburg on her wall. I imagine this is where you learn about the lore for the first time in-depth. She introduces this world’s equivalent to communism for you.
tommy: your new partner, your kim, your saving angel, your annoying as fuck new little brother. he pushes you forward when you feel like dying. he’s probably from this small town you explore, and revisiting it brings up old memories for him. similar to Cuuno growing up and becoming a cop
tubbo: some options. a) tommy’s dead partner, similar to kim’s eyes, who died saving tommy in a red-festival-esque event. b) the owner of the shitty motel/burger place/bar you wake up in, running it with his gay husband. c) both tommy and tubbo are not adults or cops at all, but instead kids like cuno and cunoesse trying to escape the dying city. ofc this brings up who will be wilbur’s partner if tommy is instead a child.
ranboo: tubbo’s gay husband OR some guy you meet at the bar. Talking to them gives you the “People, Not Sides” thought, aka the centrist one.
technoblade: paledriver. in Disco Elysium, the pale is a place where past and future entertwine and things stop making sense. According to Argo Tuulik, it’s like the point where the world acknowledges its limits as a fiction and being remembered as a story, so i think it would work REALLY WELL as a connection for a LIVESTREAM. As someone constantly driving through the pale, he begins to hear the voices more and more. He introduces you to liberalism (capitalism) and he’s always carrying a bell.
dream: he’s the rich, charming man from the Greater Dream SMP, as the stand-in for Joyce. He doesn’t even tell you his name, only going by an alias as he’s working on behalf of the dsmp government.
DRAMA — Now we're up in shit's creek with naught a paddle, my liege. Sorry.
Drama is up next! this is like the Hymn filler episode, i don't have a muse to continue my other stuff yet so this is what you get
I sure tried to squeeze in some Stuff in there, like the stupid omnipresent tricorn hat among others. I switched to the regular portrait look (completely missing the point of the hazy look of the Skills, yes, leave me alone) since trying to emulate the dry brushing of the original skill is miserable.
just got here and don't understand what Drama is or what the hell did I just draw? Here's one straight from the Disco Elysium wiki! (yes, this is a Disco Elysium AU where I slap on the skills on the characters)
Play the actor. Lie and detect lies.
Cool for: Undercover Cops, Thespians of the Stage, Psychopaths
Drama urges you to treat the world as a stage – and on it, to perform. It will enable you to lie, to concoct the most elaborate and wonderful stories; to take on ingenious personas and perform acts of stagecraft in an entertaining amalgam of fourberie and deceit! As well, it enables you to see through would-be actors and their false antics. If they lie, you’ll know. Immediately.
At high levels, Drama may render you an insufferable thespian – one prone to hysterics and bouts of paranoia; for to know the world is a stage is to know that Truth is a Vanity. However, with low Drama you cannot lie – or discern when others lie. And a cop who can’t do either is a cop who’s soon going to be lying six feet under.
I absolutely adore your art that combines Disco Elysium and C!Wilbur/DSMP. The more I think about it the more I become convinced that C!Wilbur would love that game.
THANK YOU!!! i think cwilbur would BE in the game, he'd fit in perfectly with the "washed up divorced drunk rockstar cop with a penchant for theatrics (disco)" archetype. if he played it i think he'd go with Sensitive or Physical in the electrochemistry/half light way and choose all the options that give you secondhand embarrassment
DE!wilbur would have a shit ton of Rhetoric and Drama, some Shivers, +Electrochemistry in pogtopia... DE!Techno has maxed out Authority. DE!Tommy has the highest Volition
