also this is my first time drawing gustavo and a stupid rat, and that rat is brick
so lately i’ve been sketching out some character designs for a few characters for an au i’m making, weirdcore tower! and of course my self insert is here too, because why not. do note the character designs may not be final, but still feel free to draw them, and also any characters designs that may suddenly pop up when i have ideas for their designs! feel free to make your own ocs and self inserts into this au too!
peppino, ria and gustavo are going to be completely normal people, and they go to the weirdcore tower via dreams. whatever they wear while sleeping in the waking world is what they will wear in the dream
however people who live at the weirdcore tower are weird looking beings who live in weird surreal places, and they range from different kinds of weird: creepy, quirky, cute, toys, and trippy, and more!
you can see that brick is a very sparkly rat inspired by the picture shown above. gustavo first met brick in the tower! but in the waking world… just a normal rat with no glitter :(
that’s enough info for now, that’s for another post!
THIS TOOK ME 6 HOURS ACCORDING TO IBISPAINT SO IMMA JUST STOP THERE
also yeah… i’ve gone way too far with the designs that they’re basically straight up OCs at this point I AM SORRY XD but you should already tell who they are supposed to be judging by their appearance and personalities. anyways without further ado here’s extended info about them
Mushroom Man (He/They) has the same personality and strength as pepperman, except he is a stitcher. he has excellent sewing skills, so excellent that he can craft anything such as clothes, costumes and fabrics quickly. they also utilize anything they sew as means of attack, for example they can bring out a cloak to trick their opponent and trap them like a bullfighter does
Bebe Bleu (He/Him) is a sparkleslime two-way baseball player who is the most notorious of his kind, and also regarded as the greatest baseball player in the tower. he wants to be silly, but he’s forced to be serious in the stadium. he’s got two modes, his natural silliness, and being serious just like the vigilante. he’s inspired by the batter from the game called “OFF,” big cheeses in PT, and the scrapped cheeseslime attack where they use a baseball bat when the scrapped heat meter is filled during PT development
The Giggler (He/Him) is an absolute gremlin who is a crazy ass man that messes around with people for shits and giggles. he giggles a freaking lot. also he is THE Giggler, he is THE greatest out there, saying “The” is absolutely required when referring to him, or he will rip you to shreds! he plays pranks, but he goes overboard A LOT, he’s just as much of a menace as the noise. for example, he can throw giggle bombs, which you have a half chance of them exploding into confetti, or if they actually hurt you like actual bombs
Gigglest (She/Her) is the giggler’s girlfriend, she giggles even more than him which is why she is called gigglest. and of course, she’s even more annoying than him, she’s annoying even to his standards. gigglest is a cheerful and upbeat woman just like noisette, but she runs a bakery where she bakes all kinds of pastries such as cakes, donuts, bread, along with serving beverages such as coffee and milk. most of the time she adds strange ingredients such as eyes, organs, teeth, glitter, etc
i’m still brainstorming on the next batch of characters. which will come sometime later whenever!
⚠️ CONTENT WARNING! This AU explores themes of typical weirdcore stuff such as unsettling imagery like eyes, teeth, and strange entities. It’s weirdcore guys, expect anything you see in that genre to be shown in this AU! I will tag the CWs accordingly, please let me know if I miss any tags needed! If you are uncomfortable with weirdcore in general, feel free to mute the catch-all “weirdcore tower” tag. You can also mute the triggers individually. I tag triggers both ways as “tw trigger” and “trigger tw.” I promise, I don’t get offended if you don’t want to see anything related to this au, the weirdcore aesthetic is not for everyone and I absolutely understand that. Keeping your wellbeing safe is what matters a lot more than a random person on the internet like me mixing my most favorite aesthetic ever with a video game
(note that anything here are subject to change/adjust)
Synopsis
Peppino has sometimes had traumatic nightmares when he sleeps. However, lately, for several months, the trauma torments him frequently no matter what nightly routines he does that had always done to make them less frequent. The cause of this is Poppy, an evil weird floating friendly looking poppy flower entity that can actually turn scary looking, which only exists in the dream world, has caused a [REDACTED] on Peppino, and the only way to get [INFORMATION UNAVAILABLE] to go away is to go to the top of the Weirdcore Tower and defeat Poppy, but the only way he can go there is by going to sleep, and dreaming by any means, whether it would be taking a nap or sleeping at night. Ria (she does not have to be included btw) and Gustavo agree to help him out, doing anything to help Peppino live a better relaxing life that he deserves and stop the frequent traumatic nightmares once and for all.
This AU is inspired not just by the typical weirdcore images, but you will also see that it’s inspired by a lot of weirdcore media such as Yume Nikki, OFF, Osamu Sato games, Hylics, etc. There are different kinds of weird: quirky, creepy, cute, kidcore, dreamcore, etc.
ALLOWED ✅
inserting your ocs/self inserts
using just Gustavo and Brick/your ocs/self inserts instead of Ria for the story (I always imagine it to be both Ria and Gustavo and eventually Brick helping as the default, but you do not have to imagine Ria being there!)
selfshipping/oc x canon/canon x canon (no proshipping please!)
fanart (you are absolutely welcome to tag me in what you make, i like getting surprised by fanart of my characters/au!)
suggestive/pinups (except for Sparkly Rats and Thingies)
NS///FW (EXCEPT SPARKLY RATS AND THINGIES. Thingies are kids, please don’t. Adult characters and adult artists only obviously. Before drawing this kind of stuff, for precautionary reasons, please let me know what idea you have in mind so I can approve it. You can show your art to me, but I won’t share them for obvious reasons. Hard rules: NO RAPE/DUBCON, UNDERAGED, FETISH ART OR PROSHIPS PLEASE)
Adjusting designs as long as the characters are still recognizable
AU Crossovers
NOT ALLOWED 🚫
Proshipping
Genderbends
NFTs and GenAI
Politics
Hate art
Fetish art
Suggestive/NS//FW of Sparkly Rats and Thingies (the Thingies are kids, so don’t be gross with them)
Drawing the characters unfaithfully (whitewashing, slimming down fat characters, greying skin tones, etc. YES I SAID GREYING SKIN TONES. it’s literally not that hard to draw dark skin properly)
character refs 🍄 (wip)
(do note that designs are subject to change)
Peppino, Ria Tequila, Gustavo, and Brick/Sparkly Rats
Pepperman, The Vigilante, The Noise, and Noisette
Fake Peppino, Bruno, Fake Ria, Toppins, and Toppin Monsters
