#lore asks

[salt-clangen]

Hi I'm the one who just called Nightleap the Fumbler, I just wanted to expand, Nightleap is such a good character, you did a monumental job with her, and every interaction and relationship she has with the other cats of Saltclan. My horrible socialization queen. I'm always so excited whenever we get to see how more of her and her family's story unfold. Also watching Frostcurl with bated breath, love that battlehungry little beastie!

Nightleap is my least favorite character tbh but I’m glad I was able to make her an impactful character

She has a lot of negative interactions with everyone except Snow, except for the past 2 moons where they argued, broke up, and got back together the same moons. I decided instead of writing a bunch of break up make up scenes I’d just make their relationship super rocky until this moon which is the only one they didn’t immediately become mates again.

Also there’s been several moons where her only interaction with Coralpaw is that she ‘forgot to train her’ and every time I tried to send them on a training patrol together* it would end in failure.

And that’s not even counting all the shit she pulls in the future and the stuff I’ve cut for simplicity’s sake. She genuinely is so frustrating sometimes but the drama is pretty good for the story.

Frostcurl by contrast is a blessedly simple cat, every moon he gets a prompt about getting into a fight with something and barely getting hurt. That or he keeps falling and landing deftly and impressing everyone lol I love him

*I would switch Coralpaw from mediator apprentice to warrior, send her on patrol then switch her back. I did this bc I had no mentor for her so I was fiening for something between her and Nightleap

[stygiansun-totaleclipse]

Does MC know any languages besides Solaran? Do they know at least some Lunaran? Did they even have an opportunity to learn Stellaran or would've that been frowned upon considering their relation to their grandmother?

MC is very well-studied in Lunaran and has some practical experience with it. Their tutors didn’t mandate or encourage studying Stellaran after the country’s collapse under their grandmother’s reign and it was also looked down upon. They are well-studied in the common tongue used by the Royal Syndicate. An mc into reading may have some more experience with a few other languages from delving through foreign texts.

MC won’t struggle to understand others in Celestyl, but Samira will have to learn. Nihm sometimes messes up in Solaran. There will also be opportunities for mc as they get closer to the ROs to share certain terms of endearment etc in their respective native tongues with each other. :) 👍💖

[hrafnaun]

So first, a question, do all the papas in the western AU play acoustic guitar or do some play banjo, mandolin or other instruments as well? I like to picture Terzo specifically playing Spanish guitar.

And second, may I recommend the podcast Old Gods of Appalachia, is is horror and has some great vibes as well as music that make me think of the western AU,

The songs “I cannot escape the darkness”, “crooked man” and “God’s dark heaven” by the band Those Poor Bastards especially give me western au mood

None of them plays any instrument in this AU! It's not music-related at all, there is no equivalent of the Ghost project, and not really any ghouls – if/when some appear, they're probably going to be human-like characters. So no guitar or banjos for the papas here. I didn't even use the trope of cowboys playing the harmonica in the fic so far so you see how detached the story is from music 😅 These devil worshippers are too busy shooting stuff, riding horses across the prairie, performing rituals and being caught in family drama. The only character who is seen with an instrument is Omega with his guitar (just like on his character sheet).

Thank you for these recommendations! I'll definitely look into it as soon as I have the time, it looks right up my alley 👍 Thanks for sharing and for your ask!! <3

[hiddenheartopialore]

I don't know if anyone had talked about this regarding Vanya's curse (or maybe his family's too) before but I noticed that in the Heartopia trailer where before the pink haired girl moved pass Vanya when he was fishing, his fishing line snapped. Then if you see his 5stars sculpture, the fishing line also snapped or not connected to the fish.

Perhaps I was thinking too hard on this but maybe it's a solid example of his (and, maybe, his family's) "curse"? or perhaps it's just to show how he's actually just not THAT good at fishing?

My theory that I had discussed with a couple of friends before is that he actually used to be very good at fishing, literally how he got his badges and titles, but something "happened" that made him "terrible" at fishing. Thus the only thing he could rely on now is his knowledge in fishing theory. It may sound a bit far fetched but there's that.

Thank you for your time reading this, I love your researches on the lores in the game! ^^

I also had a theory kind of similar to that, but hadn't found enough sources that supported it yet. Well, until you reminded me about the Vanya Snow Statue!!! Call my theory far-fetched as well, but here's my theory so far: (Read more below, ~300 words of text)

Vanya's family is considered the best anglers (Loading Text), but they either learnt too much / pissed off a deity by calling themselves the best anglers and got cursed. Hence why nobody wants to take first place for fishing any more (Vanya's dialogue). This curse takes the form of making his whole family unable to fish, no matter what. He notes that the key to fishing is patience (Early-Game Vanya Dialogue), which could possibly allude to him not being able to properly concentrate enough to do so. As a final resort, if he WERE even able to attract a fish, the line WILL break no matter what. Vanya's first introduction to us even has him asking us for a toolkit for his broken fishing rod. All depictions of him fishing end in him losing the fish.

As well summarised by the Fishing Lover of all people, "Some people can't catch fish, not because the fish won't bite, but because they snap the line themselves." which parallels Vanya's experience. Perhaps this is why he has dedicated himself to the theoritical sciences of angling instead, even developing the mermaid lure for over 6 Stars (Equivalent to years) (Theoretical Studies in Angling released in Star 114, and when publishing player's books the date is Star 120, hence 6 years)?

Vanya seems to really dislike the fact he's cursed, and tries to play it off cool, claiming the player should test his inventions instead of him (upon recieving the mermaid lure). This is why he is never spotted fishing (Loading Text) - he doesn't want his condition to be exposed.

...Also, thank YOU for checking out my blog while I go insane trying to run around the map and remember where all the unlabelled NPCs are and which I've talked to, or perhaps go in and out of building mode to find one specific loading text for 15 minutes straight because I couldn't find it in my pile of unorganised photos! It's quite nice to know I'm not the only person interested in this sort of thing~

[cosmicabove]

hi !!! i really like what i've seen of your au so far, and your art is amazing i love the way you draw everyone (especially the bad sanses, i love when people portray them as a found family :3 )

i was wondering if you had like, a post or something where you explained the main plot/story?? i'm very interested in your au and i'd like to know more about the lore

have a nice day/night !! (⁠◕⁠ᴗ⁠◕⁠✿⁠)

Hello! I'm glad you're enjoying my little au, fellow found family enjoyer, I really appreciate your kind words! :D

To answer your question, Really Chill Verse is an ongoing story told through small snapshots in time. The plot is gradually being revealed with the release of artworks tagged with #lore tag. It's for this reason that there's no post explaining the main storyline, as to avoid spoiling the experience for anyone following the AU.

I will probably eventually make a masterpost of the artwork in order of release, but it should be noted that the story isn't being released chronologically. For now, here are four key facts that we know so far:

Some time ago, an event caused The Tear to rip open the multiverse, altering the structure of reality.

Because of this, Ink is currently experiencing a seemingly endless drought of paint and is suffering through the effects of starvation.

At some point, Dream made an honest mistake, but we're not sure what it was.

After an event several months ago, Nightmare fell into a coma and shows no signs of waking.

This probably raises more questions, sorry about that, but all will be answered with time! I'm really enjoying telling this story thus far, and I hope you'll like what's to come. Thank you again for your question, and I hope you have an amazing day/night. :D

[sothequeensays]

Considering that the vessels are alive will they make an appearance or help hornet in silksong?

The whole AU is a fix-it so it's hard to say if/how/when Silksong would happen. At the very least I think the bugs of Pharloom would find it quite impossible to subdue her when she has a few hundred tall, immortal, god-and-void siblings backing her up.

[pirate-trio]

branzy suddenly out of nowhere completely unexpectedly out of pocketly unforseen consequencesly never seen beforely put rekrap everywhere in his video... you know what that means >_o

-phoenix anon

*nodding* exaaactlyyyyy and he doesn’t even have the excuse of rek being the winner…. he lost so so badly. and don’t even get me started on clown’s “as long as i beat rek in something” like why are we thinking of rek right now….. he’s not even here 🤨

all of them are so so rekpilled but i get it because i too am obsessed with that weird little freak of a guy. but to answer your point. yeah. bigggg suprise reks all over a branzy video. i should make a bingo card for next week frankly