#grounded2

[finwa-art]

Happy GROUNDED 2 announcement!!!

The excitement is going through the roof! Who else is not believing that we get more lore for our gang?!?

[lobstermoth]

Me: I love my bug game!

Someone: aww yeah, I love silksong!

Me: *in the midst of gutting a beautiful blue butterfly, covered head to toe in bug flesh, weilding a staff made of candy*

Me: what's silksong?

[muichiromist]

Trudy misses her husband...even though she was about to divorce wendells ass..

[crazygamecommunity]

Grounded 2 arriva su PS5 l'11 Agosto insieme all'aggiornamento "Into the Abyss"

Xbox Game Studios e lo sviluppatore Obsidian Entertainment hanno annunciato che la versione in Accesso Anticipato di Grounded 2 per PS5 sarà disponibile l'11 Agosto, insieme all'aggiornamento "Into the Abyss".

[ab121500]

I wanna note that i base parent!Pete and Willow on my own parents because they are both very adorable and cute and also fucking hilarious. So here's some things my parents have done recently.

Explanation; we're redoing the living room and are repainting. We keep the paint downstairs (where our laundry room is) anyway, my dad was heading down to grab some paint and just:

Mom: I'll go down with you. Dad: *genuine happiness and joy* really!? It'll be an adventure! Mom: wait, will you bring this laundry basket down too? Dad: there's always a catch. *pouting* Mom: i mean i can do it myself- Dad: *runs past her to get to where the basket is* no! How else will I show off my muscles!? Mom: what muscles? Dad: *Makes a sound similar to a wounded animal* I HAVE MUSCLES

Another fun interaction from when we were playing mario party:

Me: Dad you aren't even trying! Dad: I want Mom to win! If she wins I get a kiss! :) Mom: This is true. If you know whats good for you you'll let me win too. Me: DAD YOUR WIFE IS THREATENING ME! Dad: You deserve it.

One happening literally right now:

Mom: I need a rescue *has both cats on her lap* Dad: I'll be your hero! *stops before he picks up either cat* But you have to pay a fee. Mom: What kind of hero requires payment? Dad: In this economy? A lot. Now pay up. Mom: *rolls her eyes and kisses his cheek* Dad: Payment accepted! :) *removes one cat but not the other* Mom: Jim. Dad: You only paid the fee once! :)

[ab121500]

Did anyone ever ask who Willow's siblings were and how old they are? cause if not I'm asking

Nope, but here they are

In 1990:

Aspen - 23f

Clove - 21m

Ash - 19m

Willow - 14f

Maple - 11f

Magnolia (Maggie) - 11f

Tilla - 7f

(and some little facts about them under the cut so people can just scroll faster because I will ramble)

Aspen was a major whoopsie and accident, their parents were 16 when they had her (technically their mom was barely 16 when she had her, Aspen was born the day after her mom's 16th birthday). Their parents got married before she was born (totally legal in California with parental consent and the parents pushed for it) Their dad dropped out of school and got a job at an auto shop to provide for his new family.

Clove was also a whoopsie, but caused much less fan fair since they were married and kind of stable.

Ash was ALSO unplanned, but it wasn't like they were trying to not have a kid so thats on them.

Willow was their first planned child, but she doesn't know that. All of them (except Aspen) thought they were planned. Oops.

Maggie was a surprise, as none of the ultrasounds showed another baby. Technically, Magnolia was going to be the name of the older twin because that was the name they had spent months coming up with. There was an error and the names got swapped, so the older twin was named Maple and the younger Magnolia. Their parents just went with it.

The twins are the first set of twins in the family...ever? Twins don't run in the family. And yet, when they have kids Maple has a set of twins and so does Tilla (it makes sense in Tilla's case she marries a twin) (I just looked over my notes again, several of them have twins oops)

Tilla is the last whoopsie. Their mom's IUD failed.

Aspen has always kind of been a third parent, even though their parents tried their hardest for that to not happen. After she moves out, she still visits basically every day to help keep the house running. Everyone listens to her. If she gives an order, you fucking do it.

Willow and her mom do not get along once Willow hits about... 12? They are simply too similar. Her mom sees so much of her younger self in Willow and the last thing she wants is for her to end up in the same place. Willow sees this as super controlling and rebels. She doesn't want to be like her mom, she's doing what she can to avoid that. Once Willow is older (roughly around when she gets unshrunk again) her and her mom start getting along again.

Willow has the EXACT same issue with Astrid years later, since Astrid is literally just Willow 2.0, and every time Astrid does something truly infuriating Willow sends her mom some kind of apology gift. There is a lot of "I wasn't this bad, right mom?" "No you were this bad." conversations.

You would think since Clove and Ash are the only boys they would get along, but no. Ash doesn't get along with any of his siblings, he's always picking on the younger ones and causing issues. This literally doesn't change in the slightest as they get older, and he teases his nieces and nephews (and his siblings spouses) the exact same way. Well, he does until Pete puts his foot down after Ash makes Astrid cry. They have a very heated argument and some punches are thrown. Ash gets his nose broken, Pete has a black eye, and Willow's mom, Aspen and Willow sit them down and force a conversation because they cannot be having fist fights in front of the kids. Ash and Pete literally never get along, especially after that, but they just keep away from the other. (Pete tells Willow he has only hated like, 2 people in his life and they're Schmector and Ash.)

Willow has always been closest with Aspen, and she even though she acts like she hates her sisters, she tries to replicate what Aspen did for her as a kid for her sisters.

I'll expand on them more later, I've got an exam I have to get in rip

[ab121500]

welp when ao3 comes back on there may or may not be another chapter of The One With posted.

it might be one of the ones i hinted at, it might be something brand new, you won't know until I can access ao3 >:3

gotta feed the folks who have been so kind in messaging my ask box with grounded questions :)

besides since i've been playing with someone and getting the dialogue between pete and willow i've got stuff to work with.

[ab121500]

So whats the strangers deal in your canon?

The floodgates. They have opened. I will take any chance to yap about my canon, thank you very much.

This is all subject to change as we learn more about her, but if you're curious here ya go. No spoilers? I don't think anyway.

Okey dokey, so:

At some point in Grounded 2, the Stranger (from this point on Ima call her Violet since that seems to be her name in the files) teams up with the other teens to take down Ominent. They end up growing big with her, and suddenly this teen whos been missing for 2 fucking years is back.

The teens stay friends with her, even when she gets sent to Juvie because she did indirectly kill people. Pete's family even pays for her lawyers, especially since Violet's family has disappeared? They've moved, and it's been a struggle to find them. So in the meantime, she stays with the Boggs. Speaking of:

Violet and Pete are basically siblings. They bicker and fight and argue but they both care about each other. Probably has something to do with the fact that they both have the same taste in women and Violet is lowkey pissed Pete got the girl. Like Willow come on, why THIS blonde nerd and not this other blonde nerd??  (and she’s also pissed because she’s a gay teen in the 90s and doesn’t know what to do about it.).

Violet is extremely close with Willow and has a kind of obvious crush on her. Not that Willow ever puts that together, and Violet would rather DIE then have that information get out. Years later, and I mean in like 2015, Violet mentions it offhandedly to Willow while drunk and it breaks her for a few weeks because WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU HAD FEELINGS FOR ME?! I THOUGHT YOU JUST HATED PETE FOR NO REASON, WAS THAT THE REASON?! (Hoops just laughs in the background because she knew like, the entire time. Willow is just fucking dense. Like, MAX knows before Willow does and I feel like he’s the last to know anything.)

Part of her punishment (the courts find the charges were in self defense or something but she gets in trouble for vandalism or something petty. It's the al capone being arrested for tax evasion thing) is that she has to go to therapy and my GOD does that help her. She learns a lot about herself and shit. Learns proper coping mechanisms, learns how to kind of trust adults again. It’s good that she’s got support and shit because she kinda acts like a bitch during this time because EMOTIONS ARE HARD okay. 

She ends up not finishing high school, but she works at like the FBI or something in cyber security. She’s like, Penelope Garcia esc in the sense that the FBI was watching her like a hawk and it was a: Either you work for us or you go to prison forever kind of deal. Her work is like top secret and she’ll just randomly disappear sometimes for a few weeks.  

Violet eventually comes out to everyone, which is very emotional, and her family disowns her. This is where she basically becomes a Boggs.This happens when she's 26ish and she’s genuinely terrified that Pete and Willow won’t let her near Astrid anymore. That’s shot down quickly, Violet is Astrid’s 3rd favorite person. Astrid is her best friend. She loves that kid so goddamn much. She’s been quoted telling Pete that Astrid (and later Eric) is the best thing he’s ever contributed to. She’s also told him it's a miracle that the kids aren’t lame like him (affectionately) 

On her wedding day, Pete is the one to walk her down the aisle. Originally it was her dad, only for her family to drop last minute on purpose to hurt her. Willow hears her crying and she and Pete talk with her, and while Pete’s dad was willing to do it Violet surprises everyone and asks Pete to do it instead. She jokes that it's a practice for when Astrid gets married. He does it, and both of them pretend like they aren’t sobbing the entire walk. 

Speaking of the wedding, Willow’s wedding toast breaks her. It’s something about family and choice and shit and it just strikes a massive chord with her. 

Anyway, she stays super close with the other teens, is an Aunt to Eric and Astrid, and she gets a happy ending BECAUSE SHE DESERVES IT OKAY. Her and her wife have several pet spiders and snakes, as well as a pet house rabbit who hates Pete for no reason.