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The muppet archives

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Sympathy for the Unknown

ok not something I ever told Tumblr about but I'm in an rp campaign and I wanted to share my character's concept with you all

So, us TMA fans (and all the other fandoms I post about I guess but MAINLY TMA) absolutely know about the uncanny evil... I mean that's literally what the Stranger is. But I have something else to offer: Jay. Yeah uh, that's the character's name.

Just imagine you're wandering in the wastelands and finally stumble upon a group. A robot, a cyborg, a vampire, a small alien... nothing too peticuliar considering this is a fantasy world. And then there's the surgeon. A limp figure with an ample trench coat, painfully fake hair, leathery skin and a single, staring glass eye, whereas the other eye socket is empty, closed by the sagging fake skin on the right side of its face. Its movements are stiff as it walks to come greet you and lends you its hand to be shaken. It attempts a smile, but all it manages to really make is a grimage, with bumps forming and disappearing from its face. You can't help but notice the low hum that comes out from it. And how perfect, how flawless its voice is when it does speak. A voice without any impurities. It doesn't move its lips to talk. Obviously, it has a voicebox somewhere. But what even decided what it was gonna say? It's simple. Thousands of bugs, crawling onto one another to move around and form what calls itself Jay. One big hivemind.

But Jay isn't some cold and calculating creature. Jay isn't even an it. He's a man. Or so he wishes to be. Back then, he was created with the end goal of making any kind of animal have the same thinking abilities as a man; they've chosen to use bugs for this. I'll spare you the whole process of his creation but after years of process, Jay was born. He was teached everything within the same lab he was born in, everyone's attention on him, always. He was better made back then. His movements were more natural, the faux-skin actually looked lively and his voice box was more nuanced. But that was years ago. And even then, people noticed and his cover quickly got busted, shortly after finally being allowed out with other people. Back then, he didn't mind that much, being hidden away again in the basement of the place. But during his entire existence he was being teached everything, and that was good, he was smart, and his first contact with the actual world was medical school once he was finally ready for it. And then the apocalypse happened. He couldn't renew his "shell" and with the years it just deteriorated, and he found himself in an ever worsening mental state. He was created to be a man, wasn't he? And it's all he ever wanted to be. No, not only. He was set to become a surgeon, to save people's lives. After a few years, he found the group, and they definitely did not help his case. Especially the robot, who doesn't seem to understand that its "main character" attitude is hurting everyone else in the group. But for him it's a little different... it sounds more human than him. It sounds more human than him. And he lives off of validation and praise and just being useful. He's useless in the group. Completely and utterly useless. He can't fight, nobody that he was trained to heal ever got injured seriously enough to need his help and, well, despite him being legitimately the smartest out of the group, nobody listened to him and his advices, even when he is the one that's right. And it dragged him down morally so much.

He wanted to be a man. He's meant to be a man, to be a person, to be a human being. To help others, heal them. But he's not that. He'll never, ever be that. No matter how he wants to be. And he has to bottle it all up. He wasn't made to feel like that. At some point, one of the members, which was the only one he was close to, hugged him for comfort, but as much as he wanted it to help, it didn't do anything. It might just have been a punch and he wouldn't have felt it any differently. And that thought made him want to cry. But he couldn't. He doesn't have eyes. His entire mind aches to scream out its emotions onto his body but his body is not fit for conveying those emotions. The body isn't even part of him. Like the human is just a mask. But what he feels is very much real. It's in his ever growing despair that he decides to leave the group and continue his journey alone. Away from everything, letting his own identity decay away with time until all that's left is a feral swarm of bugs that just roam around the wastelands without a goal. Physically, it's there, but he's gone.

Summary: Uncanny hivemind in a skin suit longs to be human and is put into an indescribable state of misery by his fading identity and his body feeling like something entirely different than what he is :-)

Oh also he's kind of a jerk.

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Michael A Davenport, 3,090 Degrees Fahrenheit (Oil on canvas, 2025)

30in x 48in

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Yea he REALLY needed that paint job

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For your post asking for doodle suggestions: Jon and the admiral spending time together :)

bonding.

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Do I not deserve a rest in the mud from which I came?

(saw @nightcat-png’s amazing hezekiah art and theyr So right, theres not nearly enought art of him!!!!)

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Surprise! Tumblr just got turned into an epic fantasy RPG, just like [your favorite appropriate media franchise]. And the Tumblr RPG's plot needs to have all of its characters covered, in roles both large and small.

That means that you are assigned to a stereotypical RPG role inside our new fantasy world. Spin this wheel to find out what you are now doing for a living.

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I love Dr. Habit. Gotta be one of my favorite genders.

Anyway playing Great God Grove got me thinking about Smile for Me and how much this game changed both my art style and my brain chemistry. And GGG is currently in the process of doing it again. Y’all will definitely get fanart for that once I finish it (no spoilers please)

heck this game inspired me to make my own puppet of my sona

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blood in resin

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Couldn’t decide which filter 2 use so have both version lol

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Please…

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supple-MENTAL am I right-

I love how fast Jon spiraled between seasons

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Cobigail 🌽!!

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putting the jarchivist in my clothes