#wingmate talk

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(Serrano) emotional support cat who may or may not be your deceased grandma in disguise

saphy finds this malnourished stray cat while wandering around as a ghost, talks to broggles for a bit. broggles doesn’t want to take care of themself and prefers being outdoors. saphy thinks, “but my granddaughter would be delighted to have you! she’d take good care of you...” and just straight up possesses them to make sure they have a good home

broggles wakes up confused in miriam’s place but hesitantly stays because it is nice and warm. whenever they escape, saphy makes sure they get back home safely! this little cat warms up to these two eventually

meanwhile miriam is pleasantly baffled at how a cat ended up on her doorstep and at why it’s so friendly to her until it speaks in her dead grandma’s voice, scaring the living daylights out of her

ghost grandma saphy can have a little mischief and feline mayhem as a treat

Image description: A couple of colored sketches.

Miriam, a woman with pale pinkish skin, blue hair and eyebrows, a long nose, is wearing a very dark purple suit with a light purple top underneath, a purple tie, cyan lining their sleeves, and dark purple boots. She’s petting Broggles, a black cat with green eyes, a white-furred chest, and paws, as they sit on her lap comfortably. She’s crying and smiling.

A bust of Broggles.

A sketch skit of Miriam yelling, “SAPHY WHY’D YOU POSSESS A FREAKING CAT FOR ME”

Saphy, her ghost grandma, replies, “Y’know, nya-”

“NO”

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(Shard) rough sketches of the designs of the rgb trio, who has been thrown into delphi in this AU where they swap places and roles with the delphi band! also, a bit of some updated backstory:

kiwi is the recruiter, vibing a bit sadly in delphi. they JUST moved here, but delphi reminds them just a little too much of chismest! they can see where delphi's headed! and then they hear manny's singing and is like YOU. JOIN ME

audrey is a guitar player who plays at the eagle cafe regularly. she’s lived in delphi for a while, though she appears to have a rocky relationship with kiwi despite them being new here. she seems to be more than happy to join the band with manny there, however.

miriam is the piccolo player staying in the inn. she’s here because her grandma saphy died, and she is extremely upset for many, many reasons. it’d take a miracle to get her to leave this hotel room - how is anyone going to convince her to join the band...?

Image description: Three colored sketches of Audrey, Kiwi, and Miriam left to right.

Audrey, a woman with fair skin, black hair in the style of a bowlcut with shaven sides, and thick eyebrows. She’s wearing a red flannel longsleeve with a denim vest, a black collar, blue jeans, and yellow sneakers. She is holding a cyan guitar with lightning bolts painted on it, looking to her left as she frowns.

Kiwi, a lanky tan person with pink hair, who is wearing a wide-brimmed green hat with an orange flower tacked on, a yellow top, orange bow and belt, brown jacket, green pants, and brown boots. They are standing around with their hands clapped together, looking excited to be here.

Miriam, a grumpy woman with pale pinkish skin, blue hair and eyebrows, a long nose, is wearing a very dark purple suit with a light purple top underneath, a purple tie, cyan lining their sleeves, and dark purple boots. She is slouching with an angry, anguished expression on her face, snarling and looking down to her right as she stiffly holds her piccolo in a fist.

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(Kyka) how viola changes throughout the game

inspired by this thought from Nameless:

i find it pretty funny that delphiswap viola seems to be tending towards cold than hot, in terms of personality. i'm sure she has her heated moments but when it comes down to it she'd need to close herself off from the rest of the world in order to justify ending it, hrmm

i can see her being excited about being a Hero initially, and then as her quest drags on longer, that warmth is gone, replaced by something else

Image description: Sequential sketches of seven black-and-white busts of Viola, a thin, petite woman with half-shaven hair and pointy ears, dressed in a nicely tied neckscarf and tank top, progressing through the acts, each one with a different facial expression.

Act 1: She appears innocent and more than happy to be the hero who saves the world. (Initially, she is wearing her dress from the classic version of Wandersong.)

Act 2: She has accepted her role as the hero, and looks confident that she’s up to the task. (now with her Delphiswap outfit, as previously described)

Act 3.5: Viola is trying to hide her shock upon discovering that she’s the hero who is supposed to end the world. Everything’s fine. Yep.

Act 4: She looks exasperated, ironically grinning. Why are these two (the bard and witch) trying to stop her?

Act 5: She seems mildly tired, but shows off a strained smile nonetheless. She’s still the hero, after all!

Act 6: Viola is worn out, and it shows in her messy hair. There appears to be some steam or smoke emanating off her as she overheats?...

Act 7: Smoke completely envelops her as the exhausted hero glares towards the viewer with cold eyes.

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your opinion on other aus?

i see you like wanderfell/evil au

(Serrano) oh ve love wanderfell!!! absolute creachers, great writing let's see, other wandersong AUs ve've come across that ve like are:

- any kind of roleswap AU in general!! kiwi or audrey as witches are really good! miriam is funny as a bard but kicks ASS as a hero. here's a really cute one ve saw not long ago. and another one. (drake noticed the lack of delphi band-oriented AUs and raised us all a delphiswap)

- ghosting AU seems really interesting, and so does any other AU from their creator.

- in a similar vein of not-quite-existing audreys postgame, ve also REALLY like not alone. just so well written???? makes you feel literally all of the emotions???? ;_;

- your AUs! i've read your sequel stories and am curious how they're going to continue, and it feels like i don't know quite enough about your other AUs but leather, sauntertune, softmelody?? yes more please

- wait i almost forgot to mention wanderscript how could i not. kiwi is a theater kid. everyone else gets dragged into their shenanigans. i really love this AU for exploring aspects of the characters that might otherwise be glossed over in a "HOLY FUCK, THE WORLD'S ENDING" scenario in the original wandersong

- beauty and the beast!!!!!! (slams fists on table) BEAUTY AND THE BEAST

- this fascinating AU about kiwi being an angel from Eya sent down to live as a human in this world (heracles-style) is INCREDIBLE. apathetic eya-mom. miriam's exasperated looks at literally everything. colorful rainbow kiwi!!!!! kiwi having to deal with repressed feelings now out in the open!! good shit!

- ve've seen corruption AU floating around from the older wandersong fanbase days, apparently? and i don't understand what happens in it specifically but i think this artist has a really good take on the gist

haha oops i rambled on and basically just linked to a bunch of AUs i hope people see these and enjoy em

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(Shard) it is the crack of dawn, and y’all get my rambles about my ideas of delphiswap au. pull up a seat, get ready.

ahem

The Coffee Pirates and the Chaandesh Princesses

Two groups of five people. The perfect recipe for disaster, am I right?

Captain Lucas = Hala

Nina = Candra

Penny = Purnima

Francisco = Amaris

Lou = Badriyah

Also, for extra fun, because the relationship with the Chaandesh Princesses and their mother the Queen is just too complicated and personal to them, and Lucas pretty obviously isn’t related to her or any of the royalty we’re familiar with...

Ruby is now the Queen of Chaandesh!

So wait, what’s the deal?? How can you even substitute that many people for each other, you ask? Here’s a quick summary of how their roles in the story have changed:

Lucas is the Chaandesh Prince who ran away from his home, being too optimistic about wanting to end the war, and got killed somewhere on the border. His friends of nobility, Nina, Penny, Francisco, and Lou are understandably distraught and grieving their lost friend. (Also, they’re all witches now!)

Meanwhile, Hala is no longer dead, and is a badass pirate princess who leads all of her sisters together in a super cool band of pirates. As a result of, y’know, being away from their overbearing mother, and also Hala not being dead, all of them are very happy being coffee pirates. Hala’s search for the mermaids stems from her encounter with one having saved her life once, and she wants to repay them for the favor.

(Somewhere in Langtree, a grumpy old lady sits in her recliner, thinking to herself, if she'd been a better mother, her daughters wouldn't be pirates...)

Ruby is still a sour, grumpy old lady, and about as terrible as the original Queen in not wanting to end the war with Rulle. She’s a bit kinder to Lucas on account of him being her only successor.

There’s a whole headcanon in the Wandersong fandom about how Ruby and Grandma Saphy are related, too, right? Yep, in this AU, they’re sisters! And that means...

The Queen of Chaandesh is Miriam’s grandaunt. And Lucas is sort of an uncle to her now.

Miriam gets two dead relatives in this AU, unfortunately!

Image description: Sketches. On the left is Miriam in a suit, thinking, “The freaking QUEEN of Chaandesh is my GRANDAUNT????”. On the right, she’s crying, hugging herself, as a ghost Grandma Saphy looks on sadly, and ghost Prince Lucas is whispering, “Aw, don’t cry, my niece...”

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(Serrano) and that’s how you make a dragon get into wandersong by making them sew a dang cape because a CERTAIN bard wingmate couldn’t front long enough to do it themself /halfjoke

obligatory link to my first wandersong fanfic, Starflight

...actually i just wrote another one about kiwi and miriam switching pronouns for half a day um here enjoy euphoria

hi and bye wandersong fandom

Image description: A sketch page of Serrano, a red dragon with short hair, cat-like ears, two horns on both sides of their head, who wears either a t-shirt or tie-dye longsleeve.

1st sketch: The text describes Serrano “sewing a cape for a bard. And I haven’t even played Wandersong.”

2nd sketch: Serrano looking down doubtfully at a bunch of papers in their claws, saying “I don’t even like this game that much.”

Vesta, a mothbat bard next to them, interjects with an ironic “then why you’d write a 8k word fanfic about it???” smirking evilly.

“...I don’t know what enjoying stuff is like.“

3rd sketch: “It’s fanfic time! I want the readers to have Feels,” exclaims the dragon as they march forwards. 4th sketch: Later, they’re seen hunched over with their elbows on a table with a tortured artist expression on their face. Their thoughts are written in big, capital letters behind them: “I CAN’T WRITE THIS”

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first post on this side blog for all our wandersong fan content! also hi wandersong fandom! so um... well my wingmates wrote a whole bunch of fanfiction i guess i should introduce these first

serrano wrote this awesome multi-chapter story, Starflight, about filling in the blanks of the ending of the game, where kiwi and miriam have a few more opportunities to talk to each other. plus fun shenanigans, of course

A Kind of Warmth, by the kind nameless, is full of the most fluffy platonic cuddles it is so very cute and feelsy. also kyka drew the cutest fanart for it that i will post to this blog later

erie began writing this Colorful Scars one recently, about kiwi and miriam getting tattoos, but they defronted before they could finish the next chapter, maybe someday they’ll finish it...?

and more recently, my friend turned evil bard vesta did this “A Hero’s Sword” poetry drabble of @artseniccatnip​‘s wanderfell, a really fun AU where kiwi and miriam are villains and Audrey is the hero!

i hope y’all enjoy these :>

- Drake

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(Kyka) more delphiswap havoc!!

calliope = clyde. calliope is now a dubious doctor in langtree, who may or may not steal your organs if you don’t have the money. (the mayor keeps her from stealing essential organs.) clyde is the worst fortuneteller!!! he KNOWS the world is ending, why would you even try to save it if you’re not the hero!!! perspires anxiously!! oh no!

mitzi = vivian

dani = sandra

mitzi and dani would make for a GREAT spell squad. imagine. two teens get to be literal magical girls! who put these two irresponsible kiddos in charge of the military in chaandesh??? (ruby, we all know it’s ruby. in her old age, she doesn’t make great decisions)

vivian and sandra are just regular ol’ people who are chilling in delphi, but they already tried starting a band that didn’t quite get off the ground. they think they might get into investigating the local paranormal activity, which has definitely increased lately. ghostbusters style lesbians

dunno if i’ll doodle all of these because this AU is getting way bigger than ve thought it would but!!!! fun thoughts!