Just now noticed the dd arm on your tessa design, very cool very cool :0
Ayy thank you!! I suppose it's part of the au..thing I have with my friend! 💫 I want to flesh it out a little bit more!🤍💫
But in the meantime, here's another pic of her! :D 💫
Joke TikTok + info under cut! 💫⬇️
In the au I have with my friend, Tessa survives the gala massacre (due to a series of inconsequential events involving a butterfly, J breaking the rules just one time, and a flippant stock decision). She finds herself floating through space in an old escape pod for a while- before promptly crash landing on Copper9.
Everybody is under the impression that she died back on earth, so her presence is..confusing at best 😅
Alice helped her with her prosthetic! (She also helped with the amputation but Tessa likes to focus on the positive..)
She keeps finding passing evidence that her drones are somewhere on this planet, but it's hard to say if she'll recognize them fully.. or if they'll trust that Tessa is really Tessa, following the solver's shenanigans.
This probably isn't well explained ..ah, I'll try to dive into it more later! 😭💫
What if Clover on the path of genocide had met Frisk of the pacifist run?
Then we'd get reversed Your Home (or Swap?)
•Frisk stayed with Toriel, they will meet Clover in the Ruins, which means that Clover hasn't killed that many at this point in the story;
•Unlike Clover, Frisk hasn't gotten better at fighting over the years but rather at talking, so it would take them several tries and deaths, but eventually they talk Clover out of the fight;
•In general, Frisk would be much better with children and conflict situations than Clover;
•Frisk would probably then reset to the beginning of the day to head straight to Clover and prevent the genocide in the first place (Clover wouldn't remember resets in this AU);
•Frisk is the most determited here, which means they won by default lmao.
The apocalypse has come and gone, and against all odds, Pharloom remains standing. The time has come for Hornet to return to Hallownest, accompanied by friends and allies: Shakra hopes to explore the mythical land beyond the wastes, and properly lay to rest a member of her own tribe; Lace fears unraveling without the aid of a Weaver, while contending with the immensity of a future free of her mother’s threads; and the Green Prince lives only only to spite the Citadel, passively seeking a more honorable end than might be found in the rubble of his homeland.
Meanwhile, Hornet returns from Pharloom with magic and knowledge that might aid in the slow recovery of Hallownest and Deepnest–and perhaps offer the chance to call home the sibling she once thought lost to her forever.
Chapter 6: Finally Equipping that Compass You Bought
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Folks have been asking about whether Ghost and/or the Shade Lord will make an appearance! Well, it doesn't happen this chapter either! Instead we get a totally different miracle: some of the characters are actually talking and communicating with each other (with varying degrees of emotional honesty).
I ended up pushing through and finishing the last page a day earlier than predicted! I'm genuinely unsure how well received this chapter will be, because it is so, so, so text heavy--likely one of the most in the entire comic. However, these conversations are important because it explicitly establishes the core motives (or lack thereof) of most of the central cast, and points us in the general direction the plot will be taking.
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Transcript:
Page 1
Lace: You.
Hollow: !?
Lace: You have some explaining to do.
Hollow: ...
Hollow [signing]: Sorry to wake you.
Lace: That is not what I meant and you know it.
Lace: Really? You have nothing to say? I know you can talk.
Hollow: .... ...Ah.
Hollow: S...ssssorry... Ssspeak-ing isss difff-- diffffi-- difffff-- haaaard. I ammmm--
Lace: Stop!
Lace: Just... stop. If harm befalls you, the spider will unstitch me thread by thread.
Hollow [signing]: Sister likes you.
Lace: Do not start with that nonsense.
Page 2
The Green Prince: I am surprised at the Hunter's absence from this interrogation.
Shakra (quoting Hornet): "They are old enough to manage the disasters of their own making."
Shakra: So she spoke before departing for an audience with her pale mother.
The Green Prince: ...
Shakra: .... You are ill at ease with this state of affairs.
The Green Prince: I had long ago heard tales of Hallownest, Kingdom Eternal. Truthfully, I suspected it another silken lie.
The Green Prince: I knew the spider for what she was... and I have witnessed before how the ceaseless appetites of beings pale leave naught but bile and bone.
The Green Prince: To walk peaceably among gods... such a feat staggers the mind.
Shakra: Hornet-wielding-needle has invariably proven herself my ally and friend. But you share no such bond, noble bug. Why then did you heed her call?
The White Lady: What wish is held for Hallownest?
Page 3
Hornet: I suspect the answer unknown to even himself.
Hornet: His late addition to our party was... unexpected.
Hornet: I feared the grief sunk so deep that my words lacked power enough to reach him.
The White Lady: You diminish yourself, child.
The White Lady: The Beast needed not a god's light to marshal her savage lands, but a fervency of spirit reflected by the magnitude of your own.
The White Lady: And what of the others? The warrior bears striking resemblance to another visitor, long ago.
Hornet: Elder Hu. He lived among the mantises before the Infection drove him to madness. Despite his violent end, his memorial is maintained. Shakra seeks to perform his final rites.
The White Lady: A noble endeavor, but one much impeded by present circumstance. Travel through the Fungal Wastes has been restricted, as the situation between the Mantis Tribes has evolved in your absence. Skirmishes at Deepnest's borders intensify with every passing cycle.
Hornet: I am neither Deepnest's queen nor its minister.
The White Lady: I understand. Regardless, your counsel would be welcome. But for now, the matter will keep. Tell me instead of the Pale Child you have brought under my boughs.
Page 4
Hornet: Lace is of no threat to you, Lady.
The White Lady: No... she is far too frail, with that brittle shell of pale silk. Yet her fierce heart blazes, even to my wavering sight.
Hornet: Even knowing it would damn her, she cut herself free from her creator's malignant web. When I chose to pull her from the void, I shouldered a duty to see her maintained.
The White Lady: It is honorable of you.
Hornet: ... Or perhaps cruel, to bind her to myself, even figuratively.
The White Lady: Unlike the other souls bound within your shell?
Hornet: ....
The White Lady: I require neither explanation nor excuse, child. To exercise such power only speaks of the perils faced in the land of your foremothers.
Hornet: Power alone could not preserve me. Faith turned shield... Song turned care... Joy turned defiance of the end itself. I survived on strength borrowed of others. Including yours, Lady.
The White Lady: Mine and your sibling's. The flower you spun of memory and soul carried the blessing of two gods. I feared even that might not be enough to sustain you in the dark.
Hornet: ... it was not.
Page 5
Hornet: The bloom's light failed before we reached the surface. We lived by the mercy of the void itself. Or rather, its Lord.
Hornet: Did you know? That this was their fate?
The White Lady: Nothing more than idle speculation.
The White Lady: Even bound, I felt the world shudder when the Old Light Fell, and the void rushed in to claim its right. That ancient, primordial god reborn, the Lord of Shades.
The White Lady: And then... it vanished... Without enacting its overdue vengeance, leaving naught by withering plague and collapsing dream.
The White Lady: The Abyss was sealed... the void sea calmed. With no trace of that vessel--
Hornet: Ghost.
The White Lady: ...that Little Ghost.
The White Lady: ... what is it you intend to do?
Hornet: I aim to restore them to us.
Page 6
The White Lady: You propose to reopen the Abyss... too invite that dark god back into our lands... to try to pluck a single shade from its legion. A fool's errand... yet my censure does not deter.
Hornet: I fear not the impossible, Lady... else I would not stand before you now. My course is set.
The White Lady: You have your father's bearing.
Hornet: An unwelcome comparison... And one I cannot determine as praise or condemnation.
The White Lady: It matters little. To place in you my faith, as I once did him... what you ask is no small thing. Yet my hope stirs anew. So for you, my daughter... and for the children I so callously cast away...
The White Lady: I will set aside my fear... my grief... do not prove me again a fool.
Hornet: i will not, Majesty.
The White Lady: Then it is enough.
Hornet silksong is one of the single funniest protagonist ever. In no small part because she isn't a silent protagonist at all. She's in a nightmare apocalypse, but she was born and raised in one of those. She's live most her life in a graveyard. This nightmare apocalypse is way nicer than the one she came from. She got kidnapped, seriously weakened/injured, and is in poor health. She decides "well if they kidnapped me I guess it's important and I should check it out". She tells people a zombie apocalypse is happening as one might comment on the weather. This is very normal for her. Her idea of regaining her strength is throwing herself at dangerous situations until she's better. She has never heard of "taking a nap" in her life. She is so willing to run errands for other people, but do not imply she is a good person, this is a "tactical advantage".
So this started with me asking the question of what would have happened if Kuina hadn't died swiftly followed by the thought of what if Reiju was the one who'd left Germa and then I figure if I was already this deep I might as well let Kaya join and threw Nojiko in for fun
"Someone makes a joke about the mechanicus wanting to fuck toasters" >>> "a nuanced look at the colonial history of the philipines and also werewolves"
Revisiting an oooooold idea I had of some possible C-side characters lol.
The way I see it, the Tainted state represents a character at their worst, their literal rock bottom. No other way to go but up! I want to imagine all the characters eventually can heal and become the better version of themselves through love and affection (and therapy).
For Apollyon I actually recycled an idea I already had for my boy Perseus of using the concept of kintsugi to fix their tainted part.