#ectostuck

[ardenttheories]

I probably missed something here (recent follower and all that) but what's Ectostuck?

Ectostuck is a Fanventure I’m planning! It’s been in the works for a few years but I’m hoping to be actually writing it up soon.

You can find more info at @ectostuckofficial, though it’s admittedly a little outdated right now, but basically:

Ectostuck takes place in a universe where the ectobaby guardians that John makes in the Ectobiology Lab (and in a parallel universe where Jane does the same to their set of guardians, which I’m calling the Mirrored Verse) are paradoxified into another universe (the Ectoverse). Because they were taken before their timeline split (which diverges them into the Alpha and Beta timelines, essentially turning Orange Ectobaby into Dirk and Bro respectively), they’re a strange mix of their Alpha and Beta selves. 

The paradox specifically means that the timeline is unstable, because they were never actually meant to be there in the first place, and that strange things happen in their universe - such as items being missing out of nowhere, or things being sent with no owner - which also hosts a SBURB session. Unfortunately, the nature of their universe means their session is likewise unstable, and they must therefore figure out how to contact an Anomaly in order to even hope to find a way to win their never-ending session.

Paradoxically, it also means that each kid is only related to themself and their divided counterparts. Because Ectobiology initially makes perfect paradox clones of the Guardians (meaning Bro is literally only related to himself and Dirk, because he’s perfectly paradoxed), and the kids are basically the Guardian babies before the decision on whether they become the Alpha or Beta self, their relations work a little... complicatedly.

So, our two Striders are Drew and Dane, right? Drew Strider is only related to Bro and Dirk. In the mirrored universe (the one where the Alpha session goes first, and the Beta session is their backup), this means that Alpha Dave is the paradoxified Guardian, so Dane Strider is only related to Mirrored Alpha Dave and Mirrored Dave. 

Drew and Dane, therefore, are not related to each other. The same thing is true for the other players (Jaye Egbert, Jace English, Judy Crocker, June Harley, Roni Lalonde, and Rhea Lalonde). Which means there are no player-compatible guardians. Which means there is no Alpha universe, nor even a vague chance for a Scratch - it just straight up doesn’t exist. Which means, they only get one shot at SBURB. 

Honestly the loophole in the Ectobiology is the worst thing to wrap your head around. It’s a lot of questions of identity later in the comic ft. a bunch of kids who aren’t related to anyone else in their universe - not even each other - coming to grips with the shattering isolation of a broken session, desperately trying to contact an Anomaly they think will help them while they’ve actively got a big bad working against them. 

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Day 29 - “Insomnus”

While I don’t necessarily intend to make album art or anything for any of the Ectostuck tunes I’ve got, I did think of this idea and wanted to give it a shot. It ain’t perfect, but it was pretty fun trying out the Limbo style heheh.

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Ectostuck - Drew’s Theme - Insomnis

Here’s the first of the character’s themes. “Drew has to force himself to stay awake for fear of death due to lacking an alive dreamself, so he turns to horror to keep the adrenaline up. How one can stay up indefinitely is unknown, but a dude like himself would certainly have the willpower - and fear of death - to do it.”

I haven’t really done a horror tune before (and, truth be told, this feel more like “deep sad” instead of “neck tingling”), but it came out pretty nicely in the end! Unsettling in a way that fits his situation, I think.

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i have nothing to give so please take prototype ectostuck quirks and conversations

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Day 19 - Rhea from Ectostuck (as shown in @ectostuckofficial )

“You commune with the dark forces in hopes of attaining a fruitful prediction, a vision that leads to the alternate path of action you see. Alas, they only whisper that which you already suspected they would: “This is the path you shall take lest your hubris gets the better of you, Seer of Doom”. Useless crystal ball.”

So you may or may not have noticed but I was making a few tracks for Ectostuck. Seems that it makes for decent fuel for art ideas too heheh.

(Dane and Drew underneath)

(Imagine Dane talking about yet another conspiracy theory that Drew has likely already heard different versions of as he struggles not to pass out)

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Day 2526 - “Does it count as “Daily Drawing” when it’s all rendering?”

Bending the “rules” a bit, I wound up thinking about logo ideas for @ectostuckofficial (Don’t worry; I’m in contact with the owner and he’s enjoying them so far~). This is technically not a finished version, but the colours weren’t chosen randomly. I noticed a (half-)pattern amongst the S***b colours, which lead to a bunch of rabbit holes, resulting in the watermelon colours (Maybe it’s a corruption of “What pumpkin?” pfft). The glitchy effects were a pleasant bonus heheh.

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horqua zahhak, vitila makara, cradin ampora and arawel peixes’ final designs! finally. 

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mirdal leijon, kittur maryam, themis pyrope and aneboe serket’s final designs!! aka cute girls galore