#snatch kid

[blubird513]

If ya’ll remember the Baby Bottle Event I had a while back, you might remember that someone asked for a baby snatcher interpretation. And now, he’s made his great return. 

The armless ghost whisp. Snatch-kid.

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Hey, um, I just want to ask you this, but does Vanessa take over Mustache Girl's role in this AU, and if so does basically everyone go to help him and give him support in the final fight against her? Also, don't think I didn't notice the writing on the cave saying Mafia Rescued in the post involving Mafia Town!

It dawns on me that I’ve been so busy working on my comics that I completely forgot to work on the Snatch Kid AU. PECKING WHOOPS

So, because I know myself and I know this is the only way I’m going to finish this thing, I’m gonna use this ask as an excuse to do a sketchy-summary of the rest of the AU. HERE WE GO-

I did manage to get a few images done before getting promptly distracted. This is the last one I managed, and I think it sums up where we left off and what happens next just fine. Snatch Kid is having a ball sabotaging the sets, when the Conductor catches him in the act. Rather than kicking him out, he offers Snatch Kid those ‘shiny hourglass props’ if he sabotages DJ Grooves. Grooves overhears, offering the same deal but in reverse, and long story short...

...Well, neither specified that he wasn’t allowed to sabotage both of them anyway. Now he gets the Time Pieces out of it, too.

The Review Meter, in this version, is replaced by the Sabotage Meter. Since Snatch Kid isn’t helping with their movies, his objectives become messing up their sets to the point that they can’t manage to properly film their movies. As you can imagine, this aggravates the directors - whoever loses the Annual Bird Awards (that is, whoever you sabotaged the most) is the boss that you fight, angry at Snatch Kid because they know he’s responsible for their loss.

Snatch Kid defeats the angry director, and heads off for Mafia Town. The Mafia of Cooks probably have more information, and he’s negotiated with them in the past, so that shouldn’t be too hard.

...Except, Mafia Town is covered in ice. The whole town is mostly frozen by the time he arrives. Gathering his courage, he goes to investigate...

...and finds Mustache Girl and Hat Kid, hiding in a cave on the frozen island. Yes I’m shamelessly reusing that picture shut up-

Mustache Girl is trying to comfort Hat Kid, and when Snatch Kid asks what happened, she’s the one who answers for them.

As it turns out, the events of the A Hat in Time are completely canon... for about two time pieces. Hat Kid arrived in the atmosphere, got her ship broken into by the mafia, Time Pieces got scattered everywhere, and she started in Mafia Town to try and get them back. After she rescued Mustache Girl from the Mafia, they decided to form a rebellion against them to retrieve the Time Pieces. Mustache Girl came up to Hat Kid’s ship to discuss the finer details... and then noticed Hat Kid’s ship saying how many time pieces she had gathered. Upon asking what the counter was for, Hat Kid - softly, carefully, and very clearly trying to hold herself together - explained that the Time Pieces were her ship’s fuel, and if she didn’t get them back, she wouldn’t ever be able to get back home.

Mustache Girl became sympathetic to her plight, and the two decided to go ask the Mafia for the Time Pieces. If they didn’t cooperate, Mustache Girl was more than willing to pound in a few heads, but if all went well they could resolve this peacefully...

Then the ice came.

The ice came, and if it weren’t for the Mafia acting fast enough to save them, Hat Kid and Mustache Girl would have been frozen over as well.

They tried to save them. To return the favor, and help them. They tried to rescue the mafia. But, as you can tell by the lack of tallies... they hadn’t had any luck. Fortunately, Snatch Kid is familiar enough with Vanessa’s ice that with the three working together, they can start to free the Mafia and gather the remaining Time Pieces.

The ice, however, continues to spread.

By the time the three of them have gathered all but the one Time Piece Vanessa has, the planet is completely covered in ice. The Finale is formally titled World Tour - as Snatch Kid, Hat Kid, and Mustache Girl travel the world and free those frozen, before marching upon Vanessa’s manner.

Snatch Kid decides this that he needs to own up to his mistakes, and face Vanessa alone- which is fine by her. She gets her little prince all to herself. But he’s not alone - he has all the people he’s helped along the way.

With the power of Friendship, the gathered Time Pieces, and the power he’s regained along the way, Snatch Kid sheds his child form and returns to his full being- and the Snatcher fights Vanessa head on.

With Vanessa defeated, the Time Pieces are returned to Hat Kid - she’s the one who knows how to use them, after all - and she uses their power to reverse the flow of the ice, fixing the planet once and for all.

Snatcher and Mustache Girl find themselves with Hat Kid on her ship, and the three say their goodbyes. Mustache Girl, having seen what a real Bad Guy is like up close, seems a bit more willing to give the Mafia a chance. Snatcher has become... well, not altruistic - that’s not his style- but he is more willing to help others now. Before leaving, Hat Kid gives Snatcher one of her Time Pieces- telling him it’s “just in case”.

Mustache Girl and Snatcher return to the planet below, and watch Hat Kid head on her way. And as the two head on their way...

...well, it seems like these two might be doing some adventuring together down the line.

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That brings the Snatch Kid AU to a close. When I first wrote up my notes for this, Seal the Deal and Nyankuza Metro hadn’t yet released, so I didn’t really work them into the story. Chances are they’d slot in just after Mafia Town - as extra locations that the three have to search for the Time Pieces - but who knows what I would’ve come up with if I hadn’t gotten busy doing other things!

If you all have any further questions about this AU, feel free to send ‘em my way. It was fun to revisit it! Chances are that they’ll be answered in this silly-sketchy style, but eh... at this point, better something than nothing.

Hope you enjoyed this little foray into an alternate Hat in Timeline! ;D

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(So in case you were all wondering what I’m doing today, I’m finally revealing this lil one right here!)

Say hello to Snatch Kid, everyone!

Okay so, bit of a backstory! I wanted to make my own AHIT OC (other than Dapper Snatch, who is more or less a mascot), since a lot of other people have such wonderful OC designs of their own! I forget when I drew this ref, but once I was finished I didn’t post it (obviously) because I felt like it wasn’t good enough or the coloring was off.

But a bunch of my friends over at “An AU in Time” asked for a ref of my OC (for my birthday), and they all really loved SK’s design! It made me very happy and now I’m starting to get really attached to them! I’m even thinking about making another ref sheet with some HCs to go along with it! (And don’t worry! Dapper is still very much one of my OC/Sonas and I’m planning to do more with him too!)

So to all of my friends over in the server, thank you all so much! Without you guys, I don’t think I ever would have posted this!

[kaisumisu]

is it sketch time? i think its sketch time

being bored makes me post a lot more, maybe i should be bored more often 

anyway heres more ms paint shenanigans 

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Nice lil’ sneak peak of what I’m working on! ;3

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A Snatch In Time - Snapshots of Dead Bird Studio, 1/?

I honestly have too many things I’m working on right now, good lord

Snapshots of Dead Bird Studio is going to be a pretty long one! This installment, plus at least another two I have planned, and maybe a fourth if the third one doesn’t cover all that I need it to (or if I decide to use it as Basically Filler)... so let’s just jump right into things!

Dead Bird Studio is Snatch Kid’s next destination, largely because he thinks that birds being attracted to shiny things means that he’ll find some Time Pieces in the area. To his pleasure, his suspicions are confirmed as the Conductor and DJ Grooves arrive in the reception lobby and start arguing about their newest movie props. To his displeasure, the entrances to the studio are immediately blocked off, so he has to sneak inside to find the Time Pieces.

As Snatch Kid sneaks around the studio looking for where the two directors hid their ‘new props’, he watches them work on their movies and decides... he’s not exactly a fan. Let’s be honest, the movies the two birds were working on before they hired Hat Kid were... kind of awful. So he acts in true Snatch Kid fashion... and causes some havoc on Grooves’ side of the set before setting his sights on what the Conductor is doing...

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A Snatch In Time - Snapshots of Alpine Skyline

I haven’t forgotten about this I’ve just been busy!!

Only one thing of Snapshots for Alpine Skyline because... honestly I couldn’t think of much else to happen here. Alpine Skyline doesn’t have much of a story that I could play around with for this, but it was important for the Snatch Kid AU for reasons I’m about to explain.

Snatch Kid arrives in Alpine Skyline, worn out from all the running but relieved that he’s arrived at a place he believes Vanessa will never find him. As he’s catching his breath, he catches sight of one of the many Parasite Plants scattered around the skyline!

(No, I don’t know if that’s what they’re actually called. But they’re plants, and they act like parasites - getting into people and controlling them - so that’s what I’m calling them.)

Snatch Kid hasn’t heard about Parasite Plants for years. And last he heard, they had gone extinct a long time ago. As he thinks about that, he realizes the keyword there - a long time ago. If the Time Pieces are involved, and the reason behind their presence in Alpine Skyline... that means they can change the past. He knows that they can. But if they can bring something from that far back into the current timeline... then they can also get rid of the ice that’s covering his precious Subcon Forest.

Filled with a renewed sense of vigor and purpose, Snatch Kid decides to continue gathering the Time Pieces; to stop Vanessa and get rid of the ice covering his home- and while he’s at it, maybe save the world a bit too.

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A Snatch In Time - Snapshots of Subcon Forest, 1/2

(“It might take me a bit to get done,” I said. It hasn’t even been a day!)

Picking up where we left off...

Snatch Kid realizes, much to his dismay, that the last Time Piece is in Vanessa’s Manor. He thinks he may be able to take advantage of his newfound small size to sneak in and grab it... but, much to his terror and dismay, that same small size allows Vanessa to realize that he’s her Prince. Snatch Kid nearly flees there and then, but he really does not want a Time Piece to be in Vanessa’s hands, so he presses onwards.

Unfortunately, right as he finds the Time Piece, Vanessa corners him.

Snatch Kid, in an act fueled just as much by terror as it’s fueled by desperation - Vanessa knows who he is, and he does not want to be chained up again - smashes the Time Piece. As time rewinds around him, he’s able to flee the Manor and escape from Vanessa’s grasp.

But he’s not thinking straight.

And he leaves the Time Piece behind.

Vanessa is now armed with a Time Piece, and the knowledge of what they are and what they can do. She has effectively been given the power to change time - much to Snatch Kid’s dawning and horrified realization. He is forced to flee Subcon Forest as it becomes enveloped in ice, blaming himself for its fate as he heads for a place that he believes Vanessa will never be able to find him...