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the most vital part of writing is playing music in your headphones too loud and staring off into space with the doc open until you're struck with a sentence
Which niche Halo side character will show up next in canon material?
Penelope Boren
Yeong-hao Holst
April Orenski
Kevin-A282
Petra Janecek
Melody Azikiwe
Luther Mann
Mshak Moradi
Ignatio Delgado
Jilan al-Cygni
Victor Gallardo
Someone even more niche I will wax poetic about in the tags
Special thanks to @bloodgulchblog for helping me think of the most niche side characters. If Ilsa Zane can come back then so too can anyone you wish. RIght? Right, 343i? We can get along, we can play in this space.
[ID: A cropped section of a Psychonauts fancomic. The first two panels show Mr. Bun on the left and young Oleander on the right (as they appear in the Big Top memory vault) facing each other with slightly confused smiles. They are drawn in the simple-shaded, grayscale style of the memory vaults. Oleander is saying, "For some reason... I thought something happened to you..."
The third panel shows Oleander kneeling on the grass, petting Mr. Bun, and smiling while saying "But I sure am glad you're okay!" However, Mr. Bun's ears are drooped, and his eyes are wide in horror as a shadow descends over them.
In the fourth panel, the shadow engulfs them completely. Oly is looking back in fear, the propellers on his cap drooping like Mr. Bun's ears, while Mr. Bun looks up at something outside of the panel. The rabbit says (in a gray dialogue bubble to indicate animal speech) "...Oly?" as he looks up at something beyond the panel.
Butch Oleander is standing outside the panel, so tall that only his leg is visible as it stands over the panel, casting the shadow over Oly and Mr. Bun and even beyond the panel. He is depicted in a lineless style with more complex shading. /end ID]
I... haven't posted anything in a while, but I'm still alive and still writing and drawing Psychonauts stuff! Been struggling with writer's block but I think I'm starting to work my way out of it.
I don't really have anything complete to share at the moment, so here's a cropped section of this Oleander comic I've been chipping away at every so often for the past... while. It's going to get done, because I need it to be done, and this is the last preview you're going to see of it. Next time you see this, it'll be the comic in full.
🎵🎶 seeley booth cries after sex 🎶🎵
We drawing and we writing and we drawing
I was hoping that my Bartered Wedding series would be about three parts long. Turns out it’s taken me three full parts just to get to the romance.
Just how long is the list of things Kusaka's Celebi has predicted at this point?
(slides tvtropes' Hilarious In Hindsight page down the table)
RATLD Headcanons pt. 5
Oblivious Rayamaari and wing-man sisu
They're useless lesbians
This has been said before by many people but I want my own take on it.
Raya and Namaari are both oblivious to each other.
Raya is oblivious to her own feelings.
Namaari takes a while to understand what the feelings are.
Namaari and Raya had a connection since the moment they met.
Namaari didn't make any friends afterward and so the feelings she had/has for Raya are entirely new and foreign, she just assumes it's because they were friends turned rivals.
Raya had friends as a kid but never had a connection like she did to Namaari and so figures that the intensity of her feelings was just from being backstabbed.
Namaari wouldn't admit it, but she was worried for Raya those six years and was relieved whenever they would run into each other.
Raya refused to explore the feelings she would have (other than anger) when she would cross paths with Namaari, thinking it was just utter hate. (Although she did worry for Namaari's wellbeing).
Namaari would probably realize she loves likes Raya while they are sparring or just watching her. It takes her by surprise and overwhelms her so she makes up an excuse to leave. She finds a place away from Raya, Sisu, or anyone else who would go searching and de-stimulate and think on it.
Once Namaari realizes, she can't stop thinking about it, and she gets more distant with Raya. Which, Raya finds heartbreaking.
"Namaari's been distant, Sisu. Do you have any idea why?" "What? Are you sure? She's not just busy?" "Yeah, she leaves the room when I enter, she has refused to spar with me, hasn't been sleeping with me at night, and whenever I do talk to her she suddenly has something important to do.." "Wow, okay, yeah she's avoiding you. Let me talk to her."
Talk to her she does.
Sisu finds Namaari and pretty much corners her.
"What's up with you?" "Nothing...?"
"Don't lie to me, you're avoiding Raya." "...I don't know what you are talking about." "You hesitated." "I did not-."
It takes some digging but Namaari eventually gives in.
"c'mon, 'maari. Raya's worried she did something wrong. Just tell me what happened and I'll tell her it's not her... unless it is her..."
Namaari instantly feels bad, not realizing that her actions are upsetting Raya.
"I might... like Raya." "Didn't you before?" "No, not like-. I like her as in more than friends..." *silence* "Oh, toi."
After Sisu's shock, she hops right into action.
"It does make sense."
Sisu tries to convince Namaari to confess but Namaari refuses.
"I can't risk the friendship and trust I have worked so hard for."
Sisu decides to try to figure out if Raya likes Namaari back, although she already thinks she does.
"Good news! Ramaari isn't mad at you!" "She's not? What's wrong then?" "Nope, shes just uhhhh," *panicking to come up with an idea* "What's that thing that humans do every moon? With the blood?" "She's on her blood moon?" "Yes! That! She's on her painful horrible moon blood!" *sweating*
It takes Raya longer to figure it out because "that's just what friends do right? Namaari is just my bestie now... even though I'm not like this with other people, not even Sisu... Maybe it's all that we've been through, yeah. That makes sense. Must be that."
But Sisu starts dropping small hints or jokes, hoping to make Raya's brain go. She decides to not say anything until she sees 5 moments that prove Raya loves likes Namaari back.
"Raya, look! It's Namaari sparring! You can really see her muscles..." *Raya blushes and is speechless* [Check one]
*some party* *Raya blushing and clearing staring at Namaari in fancy attire* [Check two]
*Raya grabbing Namaari's hand and they both blush* [Check three]
*Sisu watching as they spar and Raya pins Namaari down, blushing and they just stare at each other for an entire minute." [Check four]
"Sisu, how do you know if you have a crush on someone or your just friends?" *sisu spits out her drink* [CHECK FIVE]
Sisu tries to gently explain (to the best of her knowledge) how to tell the different from close friends and crushes.
"Well, from what I gathered, you have a crush on someone if you want to spend the rest of your life with them."
"You will miss them a lot when they are gone. Not like how you will miss a friend. I never experienced it but I heard that it's more overwhelming than just missing a friend, its more like your missing your family or a part of you."
"But what do I know, I'm just a dragon."
"Are we talking about anyone I know...?" "I'm not talking about anyone! I'm just... Curious." "Hmmm if you say so."
She lets it sink in for her, giving her time to hopefully realize herself.
Raya realizes it when she's back home in Heart, Namaari in Fang. Unable to sleep, she just lays in bed yearning for Namaari's touch, holding each other when they sleep.
Her eyes nearly pop out of their sockets.
She talks a walk for some fresh air and thinks over everything.
The next day when she sees Sisu, she ends up nearly crying while saying, "I'm in love with Namaari."
Sisu wasn't surprised by the declaration but more so on Raya's heartbroken face.
"You... are?" "Yeah." "Why do you look so upset about it?" "Because she doesn't love me back."
oh, toi.
"Why... why would you say that?" "Because she said that we're friends and nothing will ever change that!"
oh, toi
Sisu tries to convince Raya that she does might have a chance but Raya refuses it, so she ends up running into Benja and tells him everything.
"They both love each other but aren't going to do a single thing about it!"
Chief Benja already knowing Raya fancied Namaari for a while now.
"She will realize soon enough." *Namaari and Raya hugging each other when Namaari arrives, pulling away and looking at each other* "Or... maybe not."
Benja starts to help Sisu into getting the two to realize the other also has feelings for them.
It's horrible.
Raya will literally give Namaari flowers and not even bat an eye, "Raya's just being friendly, Sisu. That's how she is."
Namaari insinuating a hug or something. "She doesn't do that to anyone else." "It's just because we have been through so much, she trusts me now."
"Seems you and Namaari have gotten very close, Dewdrop." "She's just my friend, Ba."
"Giving flowers is often a romantic gesture." "Your daughter and I are just friends, Chief Benja." *Namaari scared if Benja disapproves*
Sisu is dying and nearly gives up until one day.
"Sisu, I can't take this anymore." "Take what?" "Me and Namaari. It's killing me, I need to say or do something." *Sisu so fucking excited*
They come up with possible ways for Raya to confess her love so Raya can do it when it feels right.
Sisu did not expect, however, Raya pinning Namaari on the floor during a 'friendly' spar, kissing her, then running away.
Raya ends up really confessing later that night when she goes into Namaari's guest room (their normal routine is sleeping in Raya's room but Namaari wasn't sure after that) and confronts her about the kiss.
"The truth is, I love you Namaari. I don't know when it started, maybe when we first met but I really do love you and care about you. I understand if you don't f-." "I do." "What?" "I... I love you too, Raya."
"I'm sorry, this was not my plan..." "You had a plan?" "A few..."
Raya explains a few plans, mentioning how Sisu helped her with it.
"Sisu helped you?" "Uh, yeah. I told her that I had feelings for you." *Namaari laughs* "What's so funny?" "Nothing, just I... I also told Sisu I had feelings for you too."
"Can we... redo that kiss?" "Of couse, dep la."
They decide to not announce their relationship right away besides for Sisu
Sisu losses her shit the next morning.
"WHAT DID I TELL YOU BOTH?!"
Should I start a taglist?