Rain World aus are the reason I got the game. I still follow some. Idk when exactly I started disliking most.
For the last two months I’ve been making my own. Turning these little critters into characters with personalities and motives is very enticing.
While I use the tag “rw absolute rain au” or just “absolute rain au” it’s not a good description. Not sure what to name the au.
For now I will explain my au’s version of Survivor and a bit of the world.
Survivor’s name is Cross-Stitch Cotton with Cross-Stitch being their name and Cotton being their surname, kinda. Since the Rain World language I’m making is very basic and small, certain words like cotton and lace have variations that are spelled the same. While a persons surname has to be spelled the same as their family members, its meaning can vary.
In universe Cross-Stitch Cotton is read Nenanmiet-Nesin Inpap (nen’an’mi’et-nes’in in’pap) and spelled:
Cross = picture of two lines
Stitch = make fabric attach (stitch two pieces together)
Cotton = white fabric
Survivor is usually drawn as white, duh. I however don’t like to make characters in colour coded groups white or black.
Survivor also has karma one through five on their left arm. Originally they were just red tattoos, but as the au developed I changed them to be glowing and something they were born with. They represent both the different ways you can engage with Rain World and the beginning of your journey, as Survivor is usually the first campaign you play and Saint the last, and Saint is connected with karma six through ten. I made them wrap their tail around their right leg though I don’t have a deeper reason for doing it besides humanising them. The wave on their face was initially safety goggles, though as time went on they were simplified.
Survivor’s jacket is a mix between a lab coat and a blazer. The cone collar thing is to give them a more interesting silhouette and make them more recognisable. The brown-orange shirt you can see underneath the sleeves is reminiscent of detectives. The shoe-socks are similarly so, but heavily simplified. The gloves are a mix of brown detective gloves and blue scientist gloves. The pants are too big for them to let Survivor wrap their tail around their leg as it provides a sense of comfort to them.
In this au basically every Rain World creature is antro. They have their own distinct cultures, but most cities are a mix of all creatures. They have different governments, though almost all of them worship the iterators and as such the iterators are pretty much the leaders of all of the creatures in their respective domains, overseeing all developments in the new societies.
The cycle is also every important to explain. When you die you wake up when you last slept creating a new universe where you can survive, while the other universe that you died in remains. Suicide will be pretty common in this au, especially since Survivor is the main character and they often kill themself to go back in time and fix their mistakes.
The series will be episodic (that doesn’t mean things reset at the end of every comic, just that you can see every comic in whatever order without missing much context). I didn’t make it a serialised series as serialisation often leads to big world impacting plots and that just doesn’t feel right for Rain World.
This au will focus on Survivor and Monk and their relationship. I will talk about Monk’s character soon as they are very important to the message Im trying to convey.
I need to warn you that the Downpour slugcats aren’t really that important. Even Hunter and Watcher have very little going on, at least at the beginning. This isn’t about them. This is about the siblings because I really do love sibling dynamics.
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