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the them <33
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"We're Muse, and this shaggy coat rack is Leif"
"Greetings. Don't mind our wife, she's always like that."
Venturing in Snakemouth Den, Kabbu and Vi find two moths trapped in the Spider's web. Those call themselves scout mission, and turns out to be a husband and a wife.
i ADORE how muse is so open-ended. the only things we really have about her is she was most likely pink, she was a moth, she was "loud, confident, and outgoing", had "pretty strong kicks", basically wore the pants in the relationship, and. thats about it.
its implied that she's dead, but its never really confirmed. theres no grave, no mention, no mourning besides leif's own grief. thats all we have on muse. and, honestly? thats what i LOVE about her character - she can be unique depending on the person!
i adore games that do this, because its a great way to involve the community. dont leave major plotholes, but just small things up to interpretation. we know enough about muse for it to tell the story of leif's past, or what he remembers of it, but not too much to the point that its like reading a history textbook.
like, personally, i think shes out there. maybe something happened to her, but i dont think she's quite dead. sure, thats just my leif/muse brain clinging onto hope, but i have lore behind my ideas, and thats all because the bug fables devs gave that freedom, intentionally or not.
ive seen so many amazing lore ideas, plenty of stunning designs, and its really got me appreciative of the devs, the community, and everyone else. its also whats made the game stick so hard in my brain. i have never gotten over this game, even if my hyperfixation momentarily shifted a few months back. (i think i associate bug fables with tumblr now tho because every time i open it all that i can think is "mmmm silly bug trauma" HDFGKLJS)
tl;dr i fucking LOVE muse and her lore slash lack thereof. im drawing her as soon as i have enough storage. MUSE MY BELOVED!!!!
early snakemouth explorers
they make me ill <3
sighs. fixates.
hello again bug fables fandom, have my muse gijinka 🤲
[Image Description: a set of five edited bug fables screenshots from the pre-battle zommoth encounter. The first is the same as in-game, Kabbu saying "W-What is that!? Something's coming!" The second is of zommoth appearing on screen with its sprite edited to be various shades of pink and yellow, wings the same pattern as Leif's (but still with the purple blight magic stuff in the chest area.) The next three images have the sprite edited in the same way.. The third image is of Leif's saying "...Wh, Rkejrm-m-Muse!? Kjdrira, mebsrgr...!!!" The next is Kabbu saying "Muse!? Leif, that's..." The final is Vi saying "T-That doesn't make any sense!" End ID]
I thought about one of my fucked up and evil au ideas for five minutes again, so I decided to spend like fifty hours making a thing about it. Basically what if Muse went back into Snakemouth later to try to rescue Leif or at least bring back his body and got caught by the roaches.
Putting just the edited sprites under the cut if you wanna see those without the lab mood lighting: