#haunted skyblock

[autisticlalna]

64 and VikingPilot! I am thinking of the skin he used for the skyblock series that came before sbk because it looks cozy!

I miss him-

SONG THAT MADE ME GO "OH NO. OH NO IM GOING TO CRY" WHEN I SAW WHAT IT IS,

please listen to both pt1 and pt2. i dont know where pt2 is on here but i love it so, so much.

[autisticlalna]

The Visit

WE DID IT, EVERYBODY. WE GOT THE REVEAL FOR VIKING'S UNRELEASED PROJECT.

BOY HOWDY.

okay, so: the video itself. Wanderer (the Viking previously seen in Youtube Hardcore and his non-SBK Skyblock series) teleports into a cherry grove. he walks up to a grave and leaves blue and red flowers there. he watches the sunset, walks away, and then teleports back to wherever he came from. then the video glitches and ends.

Wanderer's Ruby is dead.

god. i'm still reeling from this and i'm not sure where to start. i've got a lot of things to cover and all of them damage me emotionally. holy hell.

Viking's been hinting at doing something with Wanderer for a bit now (and Rubyco confirmed on stream today that they've had this in the works for A While), so we knew something was going on. this got me thinking about Wanderer, and i remembered when Ruby made "is that a Rubyco reference?!" jokes when seeing Wanderer's clock (because, y'know, clock and compass). Wanderer had the clock as part of his design before Viking met Ruby, and therefore before their shared lore was established, but my little angst gremlin brain went "what if it was a Rubyco reference".

so i drew something. ...and Viking commented on it.

and now we have a video of Wanderer visiting Ruby's grave.

BUT, AS ALWAYS, THAT IS ONLY ONE PART OF THE PUZZLE.

because, obviously, the SBK Community Discord catches fire. and when SBKCD catches fire, Viking and Ruby are there to fan the flames.

(as a side note, Avid has mentioned the OSSHA arc is ending soon, and Viking has reacted with in-character confusion when the other Vikings are brought up in the discord.)

first theory: wait, is this Cherruby? the grave's in a cherry grove after all, Cherruby was from somewhere else before crashing into the Kingdoms, and he's mentioned that he misses his family. if Wanderer couldn't find them after the storm, he might assume they're dead when they're still out there--

oh, right. plus we still don't know what's up with Cherruby and hir opinions of Viking-- if ze has a counterpart Viking, then bringing up that she was told to not trust Summertime (or Viking in general, maybe?) is weird. the whole situation is weird. Cherruby what is your deal

...anyway, this means that, yeah, Wanderer's Ruby is probably dead.

second theory: wait, is this how Skyblock happened? after all, isn't it bad if a Ruby or a Viking that's part of a matched pair dies? i mentioned it in my explainer post of the spacetime siblings, but it's been mentioned in Twitch SMP that if they die, things cease to exist:

Sapphire: Hm! Death. The end. If you die, or if I die… Navigator: But you know what the end looks like? Sapphire: …things cease to exist. So. Death isn’t really… the best option.

we now know that Wanderer... had a Ruby, but if ze's dead then either they weren't doing the whole spacetime thing or things did cease to exist. after all, we don't really get a good look at the area besides it being maybe on a hilltop, and the two series Wanderer's been in have been a) post-apocalyptic and b) Skyblock. which is also assumedly sorta post-apocalyptic seeing as it's in the year 9600 and crosses over with Avid Adventures.

somewhere in the middle of that theorycrafting, Ruby said this:

...and we don't know what that means. it was after arya-saphira asking about how the "they're only demigods sometimes" thing worked, but that's still pretty vague. also, uh, this Ruby appears to be kicking enough to be able to leave ominous messages in the discord, so. maybe there's a ghost situation going on?

in short: A.

[autisticlalna]

I COULDNT GET THE VIDEO TO PAUSE ON THE RIGHT FRAME DO YOU KNOW WHAT THE GLITCHING TEXT MESSAGE FROM V.P. SAYS IN VIKINGS THIRD SOLO SKYBLOCK EPISODE (in the beginning, when he's going to the mangrove biome)

YES I DO! it's way too scrungled in the episode but albyxan is insane and we were able to work out (with cross-checking from Viking) that it says "We can't let him get a hold of this one again". V.P. is big mad that Olm "borrowed" Wanderer for a bit.

[autisticlalna]

did a test art stream last night that went for 4 and a half hours and was pure chaos. somehow in the midst of all that i managed to finish two drawings! :D

i've drawn Wanderer before but it was ages ago and i didnt like it much, so its nice to have an updated version! ive been enamored by this guy since HCYT but he's been a bit of a struggle for me to figure out what i wanna do with drawing him

meanwhile i havent drawn Viki at all until now but i'm completely in love with this design. i love weird little big guys! it always looked like he has big glasses to me so i brought the goggles down and gave him extra arms because Why Not. also the pauldron is a bottlecap =D

[autisticlalna]

finished viking solo skyblock. NOOO HIS EMOTIONAL SUPPORT TORCH FELL INTO THE VOID

(i choose to believe that the torch fell into limbo and is now limbovid's emotional support torch)

FUN FACT! we were so devastated by torchy's death that we did decide it fell somewhere and got found by somebody!

...and that's why tRuby has a named torch in an item frame in his house on twitch smp.

[autisticlalna]

i picked a good day to finally watch viking's solo skyblock series. what the fuck happens to wanderer HE'S JUST A LITTLE GUYY

HE'S JUST A LITTLE GUY!! Wanderer is genuinely one of the little guy-est little guys of the Vikings (the other is Viki Pea from Resonance SMP, who has done nothing wrong in his entire life and is also literally a little guy). he has an emotional support torch. he got kidnapped by an evil god. he's literally just vibing.