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@veistcoatt
[yo random small update:]
after contemplating for a while, I changed my name fr milkivikk to veistcoatt to add congruence to my socmed accounts (which are jus instagram and youtube rn so far), just wanted to announce on here to leave a mark too. peace 🌸🍓🌱
Hi :>
I'm just interested in what other fandoms are you in besides utdr
Oh crumbs, hi!! Sorry, I didn't get the notif when this was asked 😭
Hi, Trina or Annabeth? (I notice this name when I see your posts ^^ if you prefer to be called other names lmk!)
I'm honestly still not over my obsession with UTDR (esp DR) one year and running now, but I am in some cartoon/indie game/anime fandoms as well ✨
rn I'm in/have been in the TADC, Dispatch, The Summer Hikaru Died, Hollow Knight (still a beginner), MP100, Steven Universe, Gravity Falls, Haikyuu, MHA, Gachiakuta, DDLC, Adventure Time (then Fionna and Cake), FNAF (beginning, just got into it after watching the movies), and Omori fandoms to name a few!
Sry if that's a few to list, I can't recall much rn coz I'm usually DR brainrotted but I'm somewhat an internet hermit so when a reference comes up, I'd get it immediately lmao
I'm also quite into psych horror (and unironically psychology too), character analysis/theory videos, and fantasy stuff 🧙🏼
Thanks for reaching out, I'd like to know what sort of fandoms/things you're into as well ^^
Hiii! I usually go by Annabeth, but Trina's okay too! What name shall I use for you? :)
And yeah, I can totally relate to being really freaking obsessed over utdr (played Undertale, absolutely loved it, my friend recommended Deltarune, played it, fell in love HARD. Been obsessed with it for about 8 months)
I am also in the TADC and fandom! And I've been in the DDLC, Steven Universe, Gravity Falls and FNaF fandoms as well. I haven't really interacted with the fandoms in a looong time, but sometimes you'll see me reblog some stuff. Although I'm always happy to talk about this fandoms!!! They used to be so important to me!!!! And I started playing Omori a few weeks ago with my friends!
The DR brainrot is way to real, but since Stranger Things (my other main fandom) finally ended (with the worst finale ever. Seriously, fuck the show) I have been trying to get into new (and old) stuff: I've been watching Yellowjackets, LoliRock, Princess Tutu, Star vs The Forces of Evil, Long Story Short...
Oh, if you like psych horror and videogames I definitely recommend Mouthwashing!! One of my favorite videogames!!!
Since I was a kid I've always loved theorizing and analyzing my favorite pieces of media. I may not be that good at correctly analyzing or organizing my thoughts sometimes (there's also the fact that Spanish is my first language) but I try my best :)
I'm really into sociology and psychology too, and I love listening to video essays that talk about these topics!
Thanks for responding!!
Yo! I have seen SVTFOE and Mouthwashing before too ^°^ (I even had an OC in the SVTFOE fandom and in Gravity Falls so that was when I was most active!). I have also done an Anya cosplay for Mouthwashing (hoping to get fangamer merch one day rip). Do you also have/had OCs or do cosplay?
I have seen Stranger Things before too but have not watched the recent season (honestly kinda wary bc ppl kept saying it was bad, like how bad was it rlly??)
I tend to pick shows and fandoms to obsess over usually because I feel a personal connection or relatability with it (and also bc the plot and characters are written so bangin well!)
I'm open to talking about fandom stuff and maybe get introduced to the new shows/media u mentioned ^^ Do you have any socials (like discord, ig) you are most comfortable to talk in or is Tumblr alr?
Thanks for answering again 🥹💖
(* edit: also, you can call me Vikk/V!)
Human Rals! Concept
Will make like a better design sheet soon but here are some early human Ralsei concepts I'm trying to cook up :v
Hi :>
I'm just interested in what other fandoms are you in besides utdr
Oh crumbs, hi!! Sorry, I didn't get the notif when this was asked 😭
Hi, Trina or Annabeth? (I notice this name when I see your posts ^^ if you prefer to be called other names lmk!)
I'm honestly still not over my obsession with UTDR (esp DR) one year and running now, but I am in some cartoon/indie game/anime fandoms as well ✨
rn I'm in/have been in the TADC, Dispatch, The Summer Hikaru Died, Hollow Knight (still a beginner), MP100, Steven Universe, Gravity Falls, Haikyuu, MHA, Gachiakuta, DDLC, Adventure Time (then Fionna and Cake), FNAF (beginning, just got into it after watching the movies), and Omori fandoms to name a few!
Sry if that's a few to list, I can't recall much rn coz I'm usually DR brainrotted but I'm somewhat an internet hermit so when a reference comes up, I'd get it immediately lmao
I'm also quite into psych horror (and unironically psychology too), character analysis/theory videos, and fantasy stuff 🧙🏼
Thanks for reaching out, I'd like to know what sort of fandoms/things you're into as well ^^
reblog if it's okay for your mutuals to message you and create an actual friendship, not just interactions
"You should create for yourself" and "it's okay to feel discouraged when creating your own original projects if no one interacts with them" are two sentences that should be able to co-exist with each other
On the one hand, you should kill that capitalist in your head that tells you to make art only for the enjoyment of other people. On the other hand, it's totally fine to be disappointed that you spent hours or even days on something that only got 4 notes. You can feel both ways.
media trope that makes me want to throw up and cry is when a character realises there's no way they're making it out of a situation in one piece. and in a single moment they accept it and turn to their distraught loved ones with The Smile. you know The Smile. sickening
PETITION FOR ALL LOVABLE CHARACTERS TO STOP DOING THIS SHIT. IT BREAKS ME.
piece of media you feel crazy about at formative age is truly like the hotel california. you can check out but you can never leave
sent this to a friend just over a month ago
2️⃣-WAY COMM.
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i'm actually so proud of the render and perspective (tried an attempt hnfhnb) on this one (╥﹏╥) ✨ (poor spammy lmao)
i do love me some technologi
Fun Gang and Musical Identity
This is a topic I've wanted to talk about for a while, but one of the most interesting things about the gang (mainly Ralsei, but I wanna talk abt Kris and Susie too) is how they manage musical identity. Let's start with Chapter 1 Susie. She has two themes, both of them heavy on whiny electrical guitar. "Susie" for the hallway confrontation with Kris, and the much more energetic "Vs. Susie" for the Lancer fight in the basement. They're in-your-face songs... and they don't show up again after this chapter outside a couple Tenna soundbites. The original Susie themes are centered on her identity as the unsalvageable mean girl; by the time she's in the stock hero role in Chapter 2, that stuff is behind her, and though it informs her character, she's not that way anymore, so those themes are discarded. We'll come back to Susie later.
Ralsei, meanwhile, does have a more consistent musical identity, but it's very subtle. To simplify a bit, consider how the Prophecy's motif is formatted every time it shows up. In The Legend, it's 4/4; powerful, but controlled. He's telling a watered-down and friendly version of the story. Then, in the first two Castle Town themes, the Dark World over which Ralsei presides, it's in 3/4; flowing, waltzy, pleasant, which are pretty solid descriptors of who Ralsei is as a person. There's a lot of weird stuff going on with Ralsei's musical influence with Chaos King and Castle Funk, where his time signature changes get overwritten, but I'm truncating things here. Where things get funky is in the Sanctuaries, where when the real Prophecy shows up, the eighth note gets the beat instead of the quarter note. While Ralsei's breaking panels and keeping Kris and Susie away from the truth, we're in 6/8 for the Prophecy motif, keeping a similar pattern of note lengths: everything Ralsei performs has ratios of 2s and 1s, with a 3 bridging the two halves the motif. A couple 1/2s for flourish. Keep an eye on those, because everything goes haywire when he's no longer there. 2nd and 3rd Sanctuaries show a Prophecy which Ralsei can no longer hide, and it's in 10/8. When we get to the Third, the note lengths get weird; there's ones, twos, threes, and a five to bridge the gap. Ralsei's been approximating something way out of his control. Ralsei is a very talented musician on the whole, but he doesn't know exactly how to make something original. Take the Raise Up Your Bat sequence, where he can change the lyrics on the fly and maintain the rhyme scheme in sacrifice of all sensical meaning. But he doesn't change Lost Girl. Once again, take note.
Back to Susie on the subject of the music games: for RUYB the first time, she's just doing whatever the hell she feels like and assuming she's doing fine. She... wasn't, but in future minigames, she makes an earnest effort, and when she does, it goes well. What's characteristic of her here is that she starts by doing something entirely her own thing.
But here's where her musical identity gets downright awesome in my eyes: in the 2nd Sanctuary, she unintentionally takes a page out of Ralsei's book, and messes with the Prophecy motif. In the story, she unintentionally rearranges some panels (the Heroes stuff), but in its song, she also reduces down the note lengths to be more simple. 1s everywhere with a couple 2s. It's the most regular version of the Prophecy motif yet, but to me, it's significant that she steps into Ralsei's territory musically, because she's wanting the Prophecy to turn out good, too.
On the note of Lost Girl: that theme is tied to 4 characters now (Noelle, Dess, Susie, and Ralsei, though Ralsei's connection is actually entirely optional to see... for some reason). It's the one point of obvious musical coherency within the cast... and it's most notably tied to Noelle via her own theme, Girl Next Door. That itself is a whole can of worms, but for now...
It's Kris's time in the spotlight. To put it simply, we don't really know what Kris's musical identity is outside of playing the piano, and they will not let us perform for them. The Sanctuary pianos are so basic they don't care. The music minigame guitar isn't something they're known for, so they don't care. They even don't engage directly with the Lost Girl part! But piano performance? That's theirs, and theirs alone. We can't see Kris's emotions, or dialogue, or anything, and it's only when it's time to play the massive piano in the first Sanctuary, with encouragement by Susie, they play without our influence, and it's beautiful. They're disconnected from everything else, but they're starting to express a musical identity of their own... and it's ironically more concrete than the others', which are mired in uncertainty and subtlety in rhythms and garnishments.
Keep in mind that this is all truncated analysis, and there's so much deeper stuff to get across here. But while the three of them don't present obvious or consistent musical identities now, I strongly suspect we'll get fully concrete musical identities for all three members.
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Euughhhh it's over 😭 one of my fave UTDR AUs!
Hi, Isabella of "sailatina" fame here. Boy did I really not want to do this, but I legitimately have no other choice.
Today I learned my step mother got an order of deportation. (She is from the Philippines.) My family will fight it in court, but lawyers are expensive and the bills just went up too. So, starting February 25th money will be tight. I'll have to pay for all my groceries and other necessities.
I don't have a job at the moment, so I'll have to look for one. And I have only about 800 bucks rn. In the event my step mother gets deported, my options will be to either move all the way over to the Philippines or find a new home on my own here.
This has put me in quite the predicament, and I truly have no choice but to exhaust all possible avenues to support myself and my family. Do not feel too much pressure to donate, tumblr donations should not be my primary income, but if you do have something to spare, my cashapp is $SnowStorm626.
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((Long post ahead*))
Henlo! I had the urge to draw the main DR gang as children, so here are some concept designs I cooked up:
Kris and Susie 🍎🦖
I made Kris's design somewhat based on Chara and Frisk's palette because well I guess in a way, Undertale is somewhat the "young version" or first introduction we have of Toby's work and what we may associate with Kris's design, who came after the first two kids. Ofc, Kris alr sorta looks like Chara and for Frisk, I made their shorts blue and also added bandages of Frisk's palette. Also, signature boots and a newer version of Seam. ^^
Susie is definitely taller than Kris forever lmao, not sure which one is older tho. I'd like to think she gets dressed with the standard cartoon kid girl outfit.
Both of them have bandages because their mentioned reckless behavior (Kris being a prankster and- I'd imagine- active; and Susie awakening some violent/aggressive behavior).
Noelle and Berdly ❄️🎮
I mostly based Noelle on the young "Noelle" cameo on the Undertale 10th anniversary and her child self silhouettes in Chapter 2. I especially like the dress I drew and how it makes her look dainty.
Okay, now Berdly is the meme here, I kinda based him off of my younger sib and theorized that he as a lil boi developed obsessions on planets, dinosaurs, and all that jazz (bc for some reason all the lil bois I know like those). He's also notably short bc idk bluebirds are small.
I also made this alt headcannon where he gets like those headgear braces to adjust his teeth, but since bluebirds don't have teeth and I'm not rlly sure if bluebird monsters don't also, I just made it to adjust his beak which would need to have been crooked (there's no real reason, it's just peak cartoon nerd design idk)
Ralsei 🌸
Okay so for Ralsei, here's where all the concept stuff really was. I'll be basing it off of the fan-fave Ralsei is the red-horned headband theory, not necessarily as a bias but bc it just fits my fancy to draw DR as kids and it was interesting to consider what-ifs.
Like I didn't rlly think abt how the Dark World operates but a friend theorized the possibility of it happening real-time (like it exists even before when Kris and Susie were kids) or it only existed on the condition that Kris "created" a dark world or whoever made it first in the current time (this isn't rlly the point but just wanted to mention).
In this case, it's more of a parallel universe thing where darkners are premature (hence, in their primary/younger/child forms).
Anyway, whatever gets theorized in this post is just an excuse to draw some alternative child Ralsei designs lmao:
1. Red-eyed and Red-horned Ralsei: This one is the one I favored the most bc I'd like to think that if he was the headband, it would be quite new at this time instead of hypothetically discolored (hence "pinked out" referencing current Ralsei's pink eyes and horns) and worn (hence references Ralsei's "visual problems"). In this case, his eyes and horns would be a vibrant red, and if he wasn't "old enough" to "grow horns", then he would look more like young UT!Asriel. He would have no use of his glasses given the case.
2. Orrrr he could just be a headband in the lightworld: since Kris always wears it, as mentioned; then, if child Kris would have had access to the dark world at this time, they might have the horns as part of their armor?
3. Ralsei still has red eyes and horns but retains the glasses: not rlly favoring this one bc with the context, it kinda wouldn't make a lot of sense.
Unless, he alr has the visual problems despite the headband still being vibrant, which maybe points to his sentience instead.
4. Ralsei retains the pink features and glasses: basically og Ralsei but even babier.
Height Comparisons
Alr, finally, the height comps.
So Susie is the tallest, and Kris and Noelle will prolly be the same height. Ralsei is significantly shorter than them but Berdly may actually be the shortest one (head feathers? hair? makes him look taller).
Okay, I didn't expect this post to be this long, I sorta just rambled and composed this all on the spot. Again, I didn't have the best concepts and just drew them on the fly. If I had more time, I would prolly put more effort on the design and conceptualization. Thanks for reading if you're still here! 😭🙌🏼🌱🌸🍓
ralsei doodles! trying to get the hang of drawing him
"Normalize drawing your favorite character with your problems"
the possibility of having a kris voice line in at least one chapter intrigues me. like a frisk saying their name type thing. imagine they only get one voice line and they just said fu-
i mean unless they're mute or smth that's fine too i just wanna see their sprite on the textbox considering they r not rlly us (soul) and all
