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I hope i have a sans au moot that their feed is full of sans aus and this makes them go "wait a minute."

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AAAA THIS SUBMISSION IS BEAUTIFUL.

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Tenna PSP Concept and swap au i had in mind for a while.

Tenna Swaps with Spamton

Queen swaps with Eram

You encounter Tenna in the old Blockbuster game store wich replaces cyber world in chapter 2.

Freedom swaps with Fate. Fate as a theme for the secret bosses embodies things going right, making sense, the good old days as well as happily ever afters. If i had tu put this theme of Fate into a sentence in this early early stage it would be: "Happily Ever After"

I do not yet have a name for this au but you can have the roles here

Yes I am swapping jevil with the fucking titan.

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TS Underswap Spoilers! ALSO HOLY SHIT THIS TOOK SO LONG.

TS! Underswap by Team Switched: @tsunderswapofficial Thanks to Tile for the gameplay footage without the music: @rupturedtaleblog All Larry art from the falling section by me.

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The mechanics of Play pretend.

You know, I think that one of the reasons stuff like bakugan, beyblade, hell even skylanders and arguably ben 10 were so popular in their era is thanks of the focus of depicting it's main gimmick as mysterous artifact merges of these supernatural powers within a mechanical doohickey that has a physical way to be operated.

If you look at a bakugan in your hand and you can see how it works where it opens, the first step is a physical understanding on how it works in real life, and the next part is left to your imagination. It introduces a device that correlates those two things, and to put it simply, there's a reason why one can consider it "Rad as hell" both first hand as a kid, and retroactively as an adult.

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These all kinda introduce a ritual to "activate" that supernatural power these pieces of plastic are asking you to imagine them having.

Throw the bakugan, the bakugan handles the mechanics they need to Open up you handle imagining it as a cool ass dragon emerging from it.

Let the bayblade "rip" through its mechanism, and as they clash you can imagine a winged horse emerging and fighting it out.

Push the button, the dial pops up, select one of these misterious alien siluettes by spinning the dial, Slam it, and you bet the kid who bought that toy omnitrix is gonna pretend to be Fourams or whoever ther favorite is.

Skylanders is weird in this sense, since it has the mechanism, but instead of leaving it to the imagination it outright shows on screen how the toy ahem "came to life". While it does make really cool the whole process of placing the skylander on the portal and them arriving in the game, it all feels very magical. Altough their medium can make them feel pretty robotic at times.

What you can see here is a physical, real and mechanical interaction with the toy, being used to justify an imaginative, supernatural and fictional effect that is given to them. Just how a kid will need to take a stick before they can imagine having a magic wand in their hands, these toys focus on that aspect as a way to bring to life their own ideas into the playground.

I feel this is partly a reason why this type of toy had a bigger sucess in general. Give a kid a toy that has tons of very specific features like "the toy talks" or "the toy walks on its own" and probably they will get tired of it sooner rather than later. Give a kid a toy that has some specific actions wich let them imagine the effect and how they use that effect and little by little the kid has imagined their whole game by themselves.

Even in the case of skylanders where the toys do talk, walk and have their own powers the kid can have the console represent for them. That activation process, specially with how well the portal cutscenes are represented with its sound design, goes a long way to inmerse that kid within that game world. The portal of power is a completely different beast than the NFC reader for amiibos for example, cause skylanders while products at their core, have had effort put into selling the idea through a "play pretend" approach.

All in all, parts of my infancy were pretty defined by this style of toys, specially ben 10 and to a lesser extent bakugan. As somewhat of a digital artist nowadays a lot of the motivations that i have for drawing were developed in that stage. I see drawing in a sense of a sort of evolution to that play pretend, what once we imagined as children, be it your own custom ben 10 alien, or bakugan or the like, now i have the power to bring those ideas to life and more importantly, share them with others they way i imagined them.

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The Undertale Ghost cousins as Ben 10 Ectonurites. (Well two of them for now.)

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SPOILERS FOR UT YELLOW

Kanako Amalgamate, this is huge spitballing based on what info was revealed but, I’d wager, the experiment that went awry made her soul more receptive to DT and even if she ended amalgamating or well, melting, she never combined with any others. Her hair cascades down creating a puddle in the ground below wich she is always within, her serpentive straw-like body’s end is obscured below it and she can submerge herself in it totally merging with the floor or walls. She can't talk aside from projecting her words into nearby surfaces (her battle would make use of the UTY backdrop and project her dialog in a perspective.) She often lurks around the beds in a sort of ritual where she tucks in anyone trying to sleep gently… if you look under the bed at the exact moment this happens one could see the words "Love you more" on the floorboards below. She is one of the few amalgamates that will not go rogue at the events of UT's True Lab as her attack box will not display anything and in your turn you’ll read messages in the wall instead of battle.

She is retuned to Ceroba (Martlet does it as she tells Alphys is better if she handles things from here) right before she finishes moving up things for the surface. As much as Kanako has changed as a person both physically and mentally from that tragically, that glint of tenderness on her eyes is the one thing that makes Ceroba drop all her luggage and rush to hug her. Things may not be that much easier now, but after the storm there's always a possibility of a rainbow appearing once in a while, wouldn't you say?

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We recently did a Secret Santa a group of friends and I, this was my gift to @secondshiftau