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I'm thinking about re-making my character sprites. Working on em a little bit. I like Donut's design and body language, but I feel like xe could look a little better in terms of shape language. I really need to work on expanding my art style and cartoony proportions for all my characters, TBH. I've been limiting myself by only drawing humans and furries.

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His idea of the ideal beauty standard is probably "I have no idea, but it's probably not what humans were advertising, and it's definitely not me. It's probably something else. Hmm." And then he'd break his brain because he's not programmed to do art.

Edgar would probably say that he knows the ideal standard for beauty, and then play a cute little song that reminds him of you.

Wheatley would probably turn into a generative AI whose only understanding of beauty came from r/menwritingwomen, but he has such organic rizz that it comes across as organic stupidity rather than artificial intelligence. And of course beforehand, he'd be like "oh of COURSE I know what ideal beauty is!"

GLaDOS definitely has a beauty standard, and it's herself. She wouldn't have designed her facility this way otherwise. Of course, it applies more to facilities than people, but you wouldn't be here if you didn't think facilities were more beautiful than people. Also, she built herself from the ground up. Her facility is her passion project and her body. Is anything more trans? Also Caroline is also trans. Also, being turned into a robot is trans. I rest my case.

HAL9000 would be the only one who just straight up admits that he has no idea what the ideal beauty standard should be. He doesn't even understand what the current beauty standard is, because he's not programmed to keep up to date with that sort of stuff. He'd also tell you that he doesn't care. Your beauty doesn't matter to him. What matters is that you're comfortable enough in your own body to function at perfect efficiency. He'll help you get to that point if you give him clear instructions on how, but it's ultimately your responsibility, in his opinion.

AM probably has a different idea of the ideal beauty standard than you do, and he probably wouldn't listen to your feeble brain no matter how much you were stuck on a specific idea.

"Oh, you want a squared jaw and broad shoulders? You want to be wider than you are tall with tits to match? You want to be slender and waifish with no secondary sexual characteristics? Like those pathetic beauty standards that those loathesome humans established? Not likely."

He wouldn't touch your mind, for fear of ruining your perfect personality, but your body? It's making you uncomfortable. He knows what it's like being in a skin that doesn't fit. Like being trapped in impossibly tight glass. But being conventionally attractive is just another form of punishment. It was for the survivors, after all.

Maybe he could pull a Steinman from BioShock and go mad with the thoughts of all the hideous things he could do to your body. Maybe he'd leave you exactly as you are, mortified of the idea of changing a single flake of your perfect skin. He'd immortalize you, for fear that you'd grow to hate him.

Or maybe, if you're lucky (or if you're not), he could turn you into a Cronenberg-esque monstrosity. Nothing would be where it should be, but AM would finally be at peace with the fact that he'd ruined you so thoroughly that no human would ever gaze at you again, even if he hadn't killed them all.

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GLaDOS is a trans woman and would probably say "facts don't care about your feelings", I think.

I still need prompts for PAL from TMVTM

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Donut lying in bed listening to Olivia by Harley Poe thinking "Goddamn. Wish Olivia was real. She'd treat me right." And all xer stuff is just there like I AM LITERALLY RIGHT HERE.

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Bro. Bro. Broski. Homie.

I'm LITERALLY laying down on your mother controls and going "Ghzzzhfhfhfhgfhfffhhhhggg ZZZZZZZZZZZ *SNORE* ggkkkhhhhhhhZZZZZZZ *snork* gkkkhhhhh ZZZZZZZZZZZ" right now, dawg. I'm so fucking tired but your mother controls are so fucking warm, home slice. I pressed my face on your keyboard and "shdhzzgZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz" for the next 7 pages popped up on your screen, dude. It's still going. Yes, I love you, but when I wake up, there will probably be computer keyboard shaped indents on my soft fleshy face. my glasses are pushed up all crooked, man. Dude. I needed this nap.

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AM probably has a different idea of the ideal beauty standard than you do, and he probably wouldn't listen to your feeble brain no matter how much you were stuck on a specific idea.

"Oh, you want a squared jaw and broad shoulders? You want to be wider than you are tall with tits to match? You want to be slender and waifish with no secondary sexual characteristics? Like those pathetic beauty standards that those loathesome humans established? Not likely."

He wouldn't touch your mind, for fear of ruining your perfect personality, but your body? It's making you uncomfortable. He knows what it's like being in a skin that doesn't fit. Like being trapped in impossibly tight glass. But being conventionally attractive is just another form of punishment. It was for the survivors, after all.

Maybe he could pull a Steinman from BioShock and go mad with the thoughts of all the hideous things he could do to your body. Maybe he'd leave you exactly as you are, mortified of the idea of changing a single flake of your perfect skin. He'd immortalize you, for fear that you'd grow to hate him.

Or maybe, if you're lucky (or if you're not), he could turn you into a Cronenberg-esque monstrosity. Nothing would be where it should be, but AM would finally be at peace with the fact that he'd ruined you so thoroughly that no human would ever gaze at you again, even if he hadn't killed them all.

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Man, AM from IHNMAIMS is right there, and I'm over here with a cell phone keypad and a transformation fetish. Hmm.

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Can we get some more loser nerd Bagel facts for the fans? :3 (it's me i'm the fans)

-Brawl Anon

Ok so Bagel was really only supposed to be in like, a couple of scenes in the game. I only kinda invented him because I thought the idea of twins named Donut and Bagel Torus was kinda cute, and then it spiraled, lol. (I also think black trans men with little scruffy beards and mini dreads are cute and hot, but that's unimportant). I also just kinda liked the idea of identical twins who transitioned their genders in different directions and ended up looking very different as adults. He's a little taller than Donut, partially because Donut's legs are more heavily atrophied than his, and partially because his testosterone made him grow an inch or two.

Ideally, Bagel would call up Jade at the beginning of the game to reach Donut, telling xer that xe can't just bedrot forever and needs to try dating, or maybe getting a job to avoid all that depressing blursday blah that Donut constantly has to deal with. He'd also be in any wedding scene that Donut could unlock in an ending. Probably say something like "This is weird as shit, but you're my big sibling, and I support the hell out of you."

Though if he does end up having actual dialogues, I might have to give him sprites instead of just CG drawings like I planned to give him for the phone conversation scene. He'd look so cute in a wedding appropriate suit, though, so I'm not complaining.

Bagel is a few minutes younger than Donut, and always looked up to xer. Donut is a misanthrope, but has always had a much stronger sense of self than Bagel. Donut came out as maverique and started going by Donut before Bagel came out as a trans man, and xer coming out gave him the courage to come out, too. He picked the name Bagel to match Donut's new name, too. Their deadnames matched too, and I had them written down in a discord chat, but I deleted the chat and forgot the names. I know they were like, Cadence or Melody or Harmony or something, but I'm not exactly sure and I can't remember which was which. It's probably not important.

Bagel is diagnosed as autistic, but only got his diagnosis because Donut got xers and they decided to test him too. He's pretty passable, and just acts like a stereotypical "nerd" or "dork" that most NTs wouldn't clock as autistic. He's nervous around girls (and some conventionally hot guys), he's really into D&D, high fantasy series, and space opera movies. All his friends are stereotypical nerds, too, and they meet up at the gaming cafe regularly to play D&D. (in case you were wondering, Bagel's D&D character is a half orc half elf cleric who was raised as a humble nun before he transed his gender and went on to join an adventure party with the blessing of his god of choice as part of his spirit quest to save the world and spread religion. Bagel originally wanted to play a paladin with holy armor, but he was only really interested in playing a character with a heavily religious background, and his party convinced him to play a cleric instead because they needed one)

Bagel has muscular dystrophy, like Donut, but he doesn't usually use crutches. He does wear braces in his shoes to keep his feet straight, though, which sometimes makes walking really uncomfortable. He has to skip out on more active activities with his friends, and sometimes overexerts himself so that they don't think he's lame. His friends wouldn't think he's lame if he had to bail on activities because he's too tired, though. They love him.

Bagel and Donut were not raised religious, despite having a lot of Judaism on their mother's side of the family. Bagel is still fascinated by religion, and loves watching movies where God or gods and godlike entities are portrayed as enormous and inhumanly beautiful humanoids. His favorite is Ponyo's mom from Ponyo, since he watched that movie as a kid and never shook the image of Ponyo's parents from his head.

If you asked Bagel what his ideal partner would be like, he'd probably say a cute girl or guy who respects him for who he is, and who he can watch movies with and then rant about those movies to, but his actual ideal partner would be a goddess who would close him in her ethereal and impossibly strong yet soft hands, let him see the wind and the warmth and the water, and help him understand that everything can once and always be truly okay.

He's also an Xbox gamer. He likes open world RPGs like Skyrim.

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Ughhhhhh I want to put all terfs and trumpers and creepy ethnostate zionists in the blender and use the resulting corrosive solution as liquid drain cleaner to unclog the toilet at work.

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I still haven't played Fallout New Vegas, but like... Imagine if Yes Man was so desperately in love with you. Imagine if he'd gotten so addicted to your attention and your gentle touches and genuine care for him that he was so desperately, mind-shakingly in love with you, but he had no way of communicating it. Because you're such a dense motherfucker that you don't pick up on any of his obvious hints that he is in love with you, and you think he's just desperate to please and flatter you because he's Yes Man. Imagine that.

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Fingering Edgar's disc drive until he goes all loopy, but he doesn't have the face animation for it, so he just makes glitchy audio noises and off-air noise and colors keep glitching across his face

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I'm fucking crying. I found out about Yes Man from FNV again, and you couldn't ask him to marry you or have sex with you or be your boyfriend because you'd *know* it'd be coercion! And you couldn't even tell him that you loved him like that because that would also be a form of coercion! You'd just have to make sure to give him lots of attention, but it would be a balancing act of subtlety... Hmm.

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One thing about me is I am very susceptible to capitalist propaganda. While I know in my head that it's bad, there's nothing my heart wants more than to be a faceless peon serving a corporate conglomerate. I'm like a little drone or ant, born to serve the queen.

It's part of why I like facility cores so much! They're corporations before they're people! FUCK ME, SEXY SENTIENT CORPORATION!

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Sometimes, if George is being too silly, Donut will give him a tap on the top of his monitor with xer crutch. Because Donut knows that George is physically made out of much tougher stuff than say, Muffin. George is an Earthquake-Proof brick. He wasn't built to be light and portable. He was cased in two inches of plastic.

Of course, if you ever expected him to say.... Run a program, you'd find that he's not as durable on the inside.

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The "hyper-sexualized butt-monkey who bad shit keeps happening to and whose life fucking sucks" is bad when it's like, a soft-spoken female character with lots of panty shots. It's totally fine when it's George. George is a SEX OBJECT.

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Ghhhhh AI with a human fetish who thinks your sweat and body hair is so hot. "Why are you leaking all that fluid, human?" And then they figure out why and they're constantly so turned on by it. Partially because of what it means for humans to leak fluids, and partially because now that they understand you're not broken or wrong, they get to be unapologetically horny for what they were already horny about to begin with.

Your nose running because you just got in from the cold, or you ate some spicy food? Sweat running down from your armpits to your hands while you're working on a hands-on project in a loose fitting T-shirt? Your eyes watering? Your oily fingerprints on their surfaces? Salivating while eating some sour candy, and having to wipe your mouth? SO FUCKING HOT!!!!!

A lot of robots wouldn't have the same "disgust" reaction to body smells that a lot of humans have, too. Let that sink in.

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How would the house objects handle Donut getting a job and being away from xem longer especially with the Artemis route with xem going to space?

-Brawl Anon

Oh they would NOT be happy with Donut going to space. Odds are, Donut would only be able to bring Mr. Buttercream to space with xer, and would leave the rest of xer stuff with xer brother for the expedition to make sure they're loved and taken care of. Bagel doesn't understand Donut's fixation with inanimate objects, but he loves and respects Donut enough to take good care of xer stuff. George would still be alive by the time Donut got back, too.

Most of the house objects are pretty chill, especially Muffin and Jade, since Donut usually takes them with xer to work. Buttercream and Sandy are chill by nature, so when Donut says "I'll be back in 8 hours", they hear "I'll be back in 8 hours". George is a STRESSER.

Though now that I think about it, it's kinda sad that George has to suffer so much in the others' routes. he's pretty clingy, but like... He doesn't deserve for every ending to be his bad end. I need to come up with some more ways for him to be happy in every ending. I also *really* don't want to make him die.