Using the home blend chilli paste, mum cooked this mildly Spicy Bean Curd with pork slices, prawns 🦐 and tomato 🍅 wedges. She dusted the remaining pieces of the Emperor Red Snapper Fillets 🐟 (红狮) with flour and fried them. For the shabu shabu pork slices and vegetables, mum blanched them in the pot of soup stock she had on the stove.
??: Drop it, Fish.
Fish: BLEH!
Rupert: OH MY F*CKING GOT FINALLY!!!
School has been such a pain that I have genuinely found no time to post anything other than Discord art channels. LUCKALY I'm out of college for the semester, so I'M FREE NOW YIPPEE!!
... And my grand return is THSC whiteboard doodles... uhm.
You think Rupert missed me? I personally think he missed me a lot and eagerly awaited my return.
I missed Mallory tho, I missed them a lot I love you Mal please don't explode or something.
Below is a ton of Swap AU stuff for those who didn't see it on the whiteboard lol:
I HAVE BEEN CRACKING DOWN ON TS FOR A WHILE I LOOOOOOOOOOOOVE MY DUMB AHH SWAP AU WHERE I DO WHATEVER I WANT WITH NO REGARD FOR CANON!!!
Ted: SHE KILLED AN OFFICER!! HAND UP!!
Wilson: YOU'RE UNDER ARREST!!
On the whiteboard I could only really bring myself to draw this stuff. It's fun, I love drawing Rupert with actually kind of nice hair. Also, I've been enjoying swapping characters for this AU, really makes me stretch my brain. However, BtB is easy. Winston and Ted swap with Chad and Philly. Except uh... they get super injured (this will definitely have no impact on their lores later on trust).
Bill: Get in and get the dirt, then, you're a free man.
Johnny: Her Pronouns are HE/HIM!!
I've started to really sit down and analyze ITA. Even though it's one of the games I don't really care for, I will admit it has a lot of stuff to write and rework for this AU. And it's fun so that's a plus.
ITA is affectionately called "Raiding the Wall" until something better comes along lol.
Bill is the Galeforce here. He's in charge of operations for the CCC, but right now he is specifically in charge of trying to resolve this insanely vast chaos hiccup that's caused the CCC to lose control of most of their assets. He's the one who suggests recruiting Rupert, as Rupert has shown crazy levels of chaos alteration that could be promising if used to help the CCC get their stations back. His first task is providing a good reason for the Warden of the wall to be investigated and arrested by the Government, to which Rupert can do, take care of the warden himself, become the new warden, or he can just steal the infamous Teleporter for some nefarious deeds.
However, the most "canon" route is just getting dirt. And that's when Rupert meets his best friend for life (who is trying to be supportive but doesn't quite understand Rupert's multiple predicament).
Rupert: There is no way in HELL this guy was a cop.
No, Rupert, it is entirely possible that he was a cop. It's just that every cop encounter you've ever had has been horrifically negative and mean. (Why do you think he left the force? /J)
I have also been messing with CTM. Besides the obvious ones, I wanted to come up with a design for a possible Revenged Rupert design. Bro learned the Wall and the Airship were in kahoots so they attempt to merk him. However, as the main character, he can't die. His lower body was just busted from the fall (with the betrayal happening in the desert oooooof).
I wanted to theme his mechanics a bit more cuz I like doing whatever I want. I love the porcupine jokes, but we are really sleeping on the bee/hornet comparisons. So, I did that. Hornet bee creature thing with a razorblade tail and super strong prosthetic legs. On his way to beat the shit outta Dimitri that old man better RUN.
On the other side of that, a certain someone reblogged my first Swap AU post and made some funny jokes about the TCW ending, and I ran with it.
Ellie: Hey, Warden! Maybe use your brain and get me out of here!
Rupert: And why the HELL would I do THAT?? How am I supposed to trust you!? You ARRESTED ME!!
Ellie: OH! I DON'T KNOW!!! MAYBE YOU NEED HELP SINCE YOU'RE DYING NOW GET ME OUT!!
I mentioned in my other post that Ellie and Dave swapped. Ellie actively holds a grudge against Rupert, but Rupert also actively holds a grudge against Ellie. These mofos HAAAATE each other at first, which is really funny, but mutual interest in escape and survival ties them together to lock in and be adults about the situation. She kind of becomes his right hand after all ts.
As for the two other Wall guards who join Rupert's overthrow, they are Nadya Merakova and Colby Phelps.
I chose Nadya for her ambitious personality and her goal to run her own complex. Seeing Rupert overthrow a questionable person in power really inspired her, and she has been one of his loyal followers since. Plus, Rupert really likes her. He views her like a little sister.
Colby Phelps was also picked on the basis that he's been suspecting the corruption for a while now, and with this recent foul-play maneuver from old management, he's jumped ships and completely sides with Rupert. He's hoping to find a way to flush out the malpractice, and Rupert is happy to have a ride-or-die he can immediately trust unlike Ellie.
Worst crew ever, plus they're being actively hunted for freeing an inmate so they might be cooked. Who knows.
But that's all I have today. Once again, sorry for being so quiet about my own stuff. Expect more art later this month (I have it backlogged).
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