#whitebookposts

[boncorner]

@whitebookposts spoke tf up when seeing human Edwin at x and y :

Edwin when you turn the lights back on be like

[godslush]

I just wanna say that your au of Preservers is one of my fave in the fandom! I really like how it gives a much bigger role to some of the characters, and gives a bit kinder ending to others, as well as leaving room for exploring the difficulties found in the new world after the visitor while not being as bleak as the no going back or flawed\failed rituals :3

Thank you. 🥲

I had the idea very early on, before I'd really settled in a niche; I don't even think I'd really played much of the game and was going off early-adopter videos/streams, and TVTropes. Granted I did add more to it over time (especially the 'requirements'), a few early ideas made the cut where maybe they shouldn't have, but are still pretty critical to the whole picture and thus hard to change out.

Although I POSTED it after 1.03, I had it written up in my doc well before then, since I originally wrote it up to be an extension of Psalm's purpose (before cutting her out of it, because heaven forbid a self-insert be given an important role in anything /hj).

I'm not sure what I wanna do with it now, since I only have the vaguest of visual ideas for what the various final entities look like (like Celestial Choir, and the Preservers of Humanity, but also other things), but I'm also in a burnout slump where I'm having a hard time working on more involved pieces within my comfort zone, much less coming up with brand new designs for very beloved characters.

The fandom's growing a bit quickly now, and people are getting very opinionated about how their favs are depicted, and I'm definitely not brave enough to tread those waters atm, seeing how people are beginning to act (new monster forms? Safe. But this technically would require coming up with human versions and/or revealed faces for characters, which is turning into very unwelcoming and borderline dangerous territory).

I feel like I'd rather just leave it as a written thing to plant the idea in people's heads and let them imagine what that'd look like with Their Preferred Headcanon Designs, but that's a great way to get overlooked and eventually dusted under the rug (which is how I feel about my other attempts to write things, which is why I don't write more).

But at the same time, I wanna just show that I've had these ideas for a while, so that if I ever DO get around to doing something - anything - with it, people don't just accuse me of Copying That Other More Popular Artist's Idea Because They Were Still Drawing While I Was Burned Out.

I already get frustrated when artists with more visibility than me just Happen to draw something I tried that didn't do well when I did it, I don't need the frustration of people assuming I copied them on top of that...

...

This frustration is all posturing at the end of the day; going back into my archives, I always seem to run into these slumps around the Late July - October corridor every year, so it's probably cyclical/hormonal and only exacerbated by surrounding activity sort of building up bad feelings, with my life situation determining whether or not they start bogging me down earlier or later.

Whether or not people continue to support me as I go through it/hang around once I get over it determines if I stick around and pick up where I left off, or move on.

[all-hail-king-resh]

uh oh, your highness, from your words it seems things are getting pretty heated in the kingdom. Mind telling us why there might be a risk of a war start?

"It seems the creatures of Light aren't too fond of recent developments in the kingdom. They've been capsizing boats carrying light jars, and they've been breaking down the bridge to an important light processing plant. I had to have an automated bridge-rebuilding system installed because of that. I fear for what may happen in the future, but we need to stay calm."

[twinsoftriumph]

hi, so... um... who is "megabird"? I was going trough your blog and saw it mentioned a lot of times. At first I thought that it was just a meme, but apparently it's not??? I'm new to the fandom, so sorry for dumb questions, and sorry if this has been answered before...

please don’t worry it isn’t a dumb question! megabird is only mentioned by name in tom zhao’s concept art, but long story short, she’s basically a divine entity of the flame and the creator of sky kids. (putting a read more in case this gets long, and of course, game spoilers ahead)

so she’s a god in charge of the reincarnation cycle of light creatures, including sky kids. her presence isn’t restricted to the concept art, of course; we see the megabird in the wind vanes in the prairie bird’s nest as well as the prairie temple entrance, and a popular speculation is that megabird is the one narrating at the beginning of sky (the whole fall of the stars and “if only they had listened” spiel describing the destruction of the sky kingdom).

in the concept art above, the holy site refers to the eye of eden, so it’s pretty safe to say we fly into megabird during the orbit sequence.

probably the most important bits of megabird lore come from the concept art timeline, though. it’s a bit hard to read because of the low quality, and i might put a transcription in the next ask for anyone curious, but i’ll just take the bits related to megabird and type them below:

Fire Era

- All souls are part of the Megabird. Each soul cycles through the Human and the Sky. World gathers experience before returning to Megabird. We are all one and one is us all.

- Megabird grants flame to Prince and Creatures.

- Megabird is at her strongest and all life is connected by light.

- Both Ancients and Creatures worship the fire, migrating to the holy land to die and be reborn.

Dark Stone Era

- The Ancients enter a golden age and the Prince is crowned King. However, dark matter begins to corrupt the Prince and Ancestors.

- Ancients become indifferent and disconnected from the Megabird. The Ferryman Ancestor (Isle Elder) retires with no new souls to shepherd.

Post Storm Era (after the Sky Kingdom is destroyed)

- In dismay, Megabird blesses the sky Kingdom with a new Descendant race (sky kids) in the hope that they will reconnect all souls.

it’s important to note that lore stated in concept art is not necessarily canon, but there are plenty of safe assumptions we can make based on what’s in game that are basically accepted as fanon. megabird is indeed meme’d though. if you ever hop into the official sky discord’s lore channel, you might see her get called megan or described as a bunch of noodles because of her appearance. i also personally like joking that any mysterious source of light in the sky (such as the sun) is megabird. hope this helped :]