They would find the Traveler at last. They are lurched over a crushed heap of a Sadness, emitting an unearthly choking sound every few seconds. They retch, their grin unfaltering, when they found something - four things - that they, for reasons they no longer know, wanted to love.
Memories are of the past. The mind has torn itself asunder, atrophied to that of primal, longing joy. The four outsiders cringe, they sob, they stare, at the entity that was once someone they loved.
All because of a mistake. A STUPID MISTAKE. Something that could've easily been avoided so long ago.
There was no choice but to end this.
...
Maybe next loop will give them better luck...
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Another fanart for @electrozeistyking and her brilliant In Rot and Infection AU! This is a hypothetical Stage 4 Siffrin, so hulking with tumors all over that his shirt tore off, their cloak is barely hanging on and their hat went missing (again). Tiny boy can't hold that much mass without a few articles tearing off :c
A huge thank you to Zeisty for inspiring my sinister mind - and man I feel horrible for always drawing this poor boy either totally crazy or simply monstrous like this ;-; They deserve to live!!!!
I just found out the dev wanted to be @'d for art, so @insertdisc5 ... This was not my fault, seriously!!!! :c
You already saw all this art but shhh HAPPY BIRTHDAY.
This originally started out with me just wanting to draw Beanie interacting with the Intertwined Codes Kids but then I added some extra stuff lol.
If you're a reader of Intertwined Codes, this kinda sorta spoils future stuff bc only the twins have been mentioned in the Draft/Teaser fic but oh well. You have been warned.
IC!Uzi wouldn't like actually meet GD!N bc they'd kinda decide that "hey, let's not have the widowed man see an alternate version of his wife that actually got live." simply out of respect kinda?? So she would stick around at home with the kids whilst IC!N goes out to look for Beanies Dad after their kids drag her to them lmao.
So yeah she doesn't necessarily know the extent of the mans depression, the kids just mentioned there only being a dad so she just specifically asks about GD!N in this doodle
IC!N would quickly pick up on GD!N not being completely okay, even without being told any details. So he probably would end up sitting him down to talk on their way back to the IC!Doorman families place, wanting to help if he can in any way. (He runs a Daycare and tries to also be a support to any parent that needs it, so I feel he out of habit would lean into trying to do that with GD!N)
More/The kids under the Cut otherwise the post looks so long rip
I will go over each of these one by one (can'tdo close ups bc 10 image limit, I'll reblog this in a second with the close ups.)
Left are the Code-Related Nuzi kids, right are the adopted ones.
Code related kids
Zagi:
Not much to say, I'm still working out their personality - they're maybe 2-3 years older than Beanie, so they aren't too far apart in age. :)
Orita:
She's the sibling who started the trend of putting stickers on her siblings, so she DEFINITELY would do the same with Beanie.
She also probably originally was going to show her how to build a weapon, but her parents promptly stopped that lmao .
She would think it's really cool that Beanie has a custom core icon & in general is completely customized from the start! She herself was originally put into a regular worker body (just with the tail and headband being custom made by her mom), she had to build the DD forearms herself. She also has a sticker of the DD icon on her core, covering the WD icon :3
Rexim:
At this point he has enough siblings to be past the "ew a little kid" phase, so luckily Beanie gets spared that. His main camera is damaged, he only really uses his headband optics to look around, so he would kinda just look as if he's staring past her a lot. But bc of the obvious cracks in his visor I feel she would pick up on the fact he's not actually ignoring her.
Also he definitely would just play music to her, because IC!Uzi kinda always has music on whilst working in her workspace he kinda picked up some of her taste in music (Hence he's playing the same song that Uzi is shown to have been listening to in Ep7)
Raven:
First up THANK YOU Zeisty for helping me brainstorm silly stuff for them. They're a little ball of chaos now and I love them.
Anyways.
They would join Orita in bedazzling Beanie, and then they'd start talking about bird facts and also try to get Beanie to talk about her interests.
(Their height difference isnt 100% accurate bc halfway through drawing this I changed the IC timeline, making Raven about the same age as Zagi instead of them being a teen, so I kinda had to manually try and semi-fit their heights lol)
Adopted Kids
Ray:
Nothing to say. He's a baby. Tho whilst I was outlining this one I had to giggle because of how big he is in Beanies hands. She's so tiny 😭💕 /affectionate
Annika:
Oh boy. Ann.
Annika is the eldest kid & was adopted a while before Zagi was coded / whilst the parents were organizing the code copies for Zagi
She does NOT know how to talk to other kids. Never did. It made her stick out at the orphanage wing because she just avoided everyone. And it is very chaotic when Olivia and Ray first show up, because Ann's only idea of talking to other Drones is "well you got to be relatable" so she brings up the siblings dead parents bc like, her code parents are dead too. Both pairs dying to DDs. So yeah she probably would be the first, if not only one, in the whole household to just bring up GD!Uzi. She would do it like it's nothing either.
IC!Uzi would promptly get her to stop and sit her down having a conversation about "what did N and I say about trying to connect on that topic?"
Like IC!Uzi would actually feel really bad about it despite Beanie not knowing her mom. Bc she herself obviously didn't remember IC!Nori growing up but still didn't like the topic.
Olivia:
Olivia, as I said, was greeted with the topic of dead parents by Annika as well. So she probably would kinda interfere when IC!Uzi goes to sit Ann down to talk.
She would feel the need to apologize for the older girls behavior (which Ann would apologize for herself later too ofc) and would try to get Beanie to go play something together whilst IC!Uzi sorts that whole situation out.
She's also the closest to Beanies age probably, just was forced to mature bc of what happened to her parents, despite being taken in by Nuzi shortly after. She still obviously acts like a kid tho when comfortable, so I feel she would kinda ease up around Beanie and actually act more like a 4-5 year old around her.
Bonus? Bonus!
Needless to say Beanie would return home covered in stickers & hairpins (Orita & Raven have more than enough of those, they'd just let Beanie keep some)
RIP GD!N having to get her out of those stickers once they're back home
Also, for the "*humming*" variation of the picture I blame @k1k0oftheworld. Kiko was in vc with me when I was talking about how Beanie would be covered in stickers when she gets home, and saw the doodles as well.
He proposed the following scenario after seeing Rexim show Beanie IC!Uzis playlist:
Beanie humming dead batteries song & GD!N having a breakdown bc it reminds him of GD!Uzi
I do not take accountability for this, I was going to spare the poor widowed man.
(I scrapped the idea of him not knowing ab the IC!Doorman family and him getting a mini heart attack when Beanie goes "I met Mom today" in favor of him and IC!N meeting & talking - I WANTED TO SPARE HIS POOR HEART)
@k1k0oftheworld you owe him money for a therapy session now /silly
Anyways that's it, I'll put the close ups in the reblog like I said 👍
HI SO HOLY SHIT - has anyone told you infested is a fantastic comic yet?? if they have, then let me remind that YOU!!! ARE DOING A VERY GOOD JOB WITH IT!!!! AND THAT IT'S GREAT AND I LOVE IT SO!!! (to the point i've decided to let you know, because i usually wouldn't in any other circumstance haha.)
i think i've been following along with infested since last year and this is the first time something featured in it has made me feel the way i do right now. cuz like???? watching sonic freak out, having this whole song and dance play out, and then?? AND THEN??? AOOUGH!!!
i can't put it in words, but it's like a yawning pit of horror opened in me and ohmygod that's absolutely fantastic. i may have gone back to reread this whole scene just to have it impact me harder. anyway, hope you have a wonderful rest of your day! :D
YEEAAAAAHHHHH BABY!!!!
It's nice to see an early reader in my inbox! Hello and thank you for sticking with Infested for as long as you have! Thank you for possibly rereading the scene! Yay!
One thing you may soon learn about my style of writing, if you haven't figured it out already, is that I like to play with my food. Horror, I feel, works best when there is a slow, creeping, building sort of tension behind it. Jump scares are cheap. They don't last. Keeping you awake at night, thinking about what you've just seen? Now that's the good shit.
This doodle sheet was originally made as an apology for taking so long to update BoD while I was working on its script, in order to ensure that I didn’t write myself into a corner.
It was accompanied by this fact: Exnic is the kind of person who would say “Fair enough!” if you told him you didn’t miss him. He knows who he is and accepts this fact.
You know what the fun thing is? In the end of Finding Frankie, it's kind of implied the player character dies and gets replaced.
So here, with your self insert, it's like... Frankie really didn't want to do that. Do with that what you will I suppose. :3
For me I keep messing around with the idea that Frankie convinces my self insert to join him as an assistant in a way that helps him with popularity and stuff for the show.
WHAT WERE YOU GOING TO SAY, USER MOONSTANDARDTIME??
What were you going to say in the tags of my silly incoherent Siffrin post that you had to get sniped for it??? Because it is one of the only tags that made me go ‘DFGHNBDGH?!?!’ — next to straight up ‘siffrin pregnant’ — so thank you (and also that guy) for dragging such a sudden visceral reaction outta me, I felt very incredulous and needed to let you know :3
(Hope you have a tremendous day btw! Hope you don’t mind how random this is. :333)
i shant say..... (theres an au out there with exactly that premise. the premise that he was talking about i mean, not the premise of the post)
