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Kissing

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obligatory dess scribbling and non-dead napstablook,,,,

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made a shimeji of the Mold Spore Battat. 👀 👀👀 🍏🍏🍏

Adopt him

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Their interactions were everything to me

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it makes sense only to me because im a ghost family freak and the timeline logistics could be nonsensical but i really like to imagine in my head one of the ghost cousins(napstablook probably) formerly being in dess and asriels friend group before they died,,,,,plot relevant ghosts ill never give up on you,,,

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buged

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You are this dark world's greatest treasure, Toriel ✨

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In an unused Town Mission "The Psychologist's Test" in Sonic '06, Shadow would have encountered a psychologist and undergone basic questioning.

The questions to be asked were:

You're lost in the forest. Later, you find a big lake. What do you do?

There are beautiful flowers on the other side of the river. What do you do?

When you drive a car, what do you focus on the most?

Due to the player being allowed to select from various answers (along with it being cutting room floor content) it's difficult to gleam much about Shadow from these questions.

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ok i put my weird ghost/soul theory on paper,,its out of my system i can be normal now,,,,,

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thinking about that one tidbit in the undertale alarm clock dialogue where mettaton talks about an mtt ornament,,,,,,which could mean nothing for the character with angel symbolism in one of his forms and a moving heart in his design,,,,,,it could mean nothing

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of all the dreemurs tenna takes after i always felt he was most like toriel,but like specifically the overprotective version of her in undertale, mostly with how tenna keeps the heroes between the game show and green room until you have to actively escape him to progress the story,like how you have to confront toriel in order to leave the ruins,,,like he definitely is a product of everyone in the household but i think its just kinda interesting and would probably make a good au

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art fight!! i only did revenges this year lol

for @cjtheskeleton ~DrPigeon ~Asonr @mephiles-the-jester ~kuzay-i ~Cynayna :3

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self-indulgent two favs (three favs?) hanging out

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these two again

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upset at myself that i didnt do much artfight because this years theme was my excuse to have cool fossil imagery in the thumbnails and i literally only did it once,,,,ough,,,,,

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You can’t tell me Frisk WOULDN’T have a field day trying to get these two together

(Audio: Game Grumps - Arin injures himself on some of the worst kitchen tools ever)

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Ant Tenna Anatomy: Not Short For Anthony

Hey guys the dumb thing that I said way back when chapter 3 first came out? When I was making jokes about Tenna being an ant? How he should have an ant design because an ant's abdomen is called a gaster? That was in the concept art. I'm sorry that I broke NDA for working on Deltarune definitely, I will be executed at dawn.

In all seriousness I love ants and find them fascinating. I do not have a degree in myrmecology (the study of ants) like I do with media production, but I wanted to share some of my knowledge for people who like my info for designs. Below I'll be putting some stuff I find fun that you could probably mess around with and explore. I'm putting a cut here for long post, but also because pictures of insects (I stayed mainly with anatomical diagrams but no diagrams for an ant foot closeup exist lol).

What's a gaster anyway?

This is where I originally did the joke about Tenna being an ant, and you can see it on Toby's sketch. The gaster is the abdomen on an ant, or y'know, the butt. It houses the digestive system, reproductive organs, something not very important called the heart? In some species, it also has a retractable stinger, which you could easily swing to be his plug or XLR cable for his microphone. Fire ants, for example, have stingers for defense. Other species (wood ants) could have an acidopore, which sprays formic acid as another way to protect their nest. I've been thinking about this one and I don't know, sorry, I'm sure someone can think of why the hell he would spray acid because it's not like CRT TVs use coolant. Maybe he just has battery acid in there for fun. He could also just do the normal pheromone thing, that works too. The gaster can vibrate or make little squeaks to communicate as well, so why not make it a sound system?

This would really work for emotion, too. They lift their gasters up when threatened and protecting themselves, and also to give them extra mobility if they have to flee. Scared? Defensive? Even just momentarily startled? His butt's in the air like a cat and I think that's funny. It would also be very easy to put pants on because the connecting bit between the gaster and the thorax, the petiole, is thin and flexible, so he’d just need a small hole in the back of his pants and for his belt to go over it. Anyway I spent too much time talking about this ant’s ass let’s move on

Antennae (for technology and insects!)

Ya'll wanna know the funny thing? What we get in canon is closer to what you wanted in a television, but what we see in that concept art is how ant antennae are shaped. Ants are one of few insects whose antennae have a bend in the middle, letting them better move them to pick up scents. Females have more of a bend to them, but it’s a bend nonetheless.

They use their antennae for smell, taste, sight (coming back to this later), and hearing (they also hear through their feet but I doubt Tenna has that going on). This is how they give information and study their surroundings - Tenna does this in game by receiving a signal through his antennae. It’s to be assumed his version of pheromone communication is electromagnetic signals. They also fold their antennae back if they’re in danger or on the offense to protect them.

Back to eyesight - what do you mean they see with their antennae?

Simple: their eyesight sucks so they might as well be seeing with their antennae given how much it’s used for navigation. Ants have compound eyes, so this is very straightforward for Tenna: his screen is a compound eye. This isn’t that important because most people expected his screen to be an eye anyway, but if you want more thoughts on it - cool, ants have that too. They also have these other three eyes on their forehead called ocelli which are even worse than their normal eyes. No wonder he didn’t recognize Spamton, he probably can’t see shit and there’s no way Mr. Living-In-A-Dumpster smells the same. Get him glasses-a monocle?-something to help him out he can’t seeeeeeeeeee

Limbs and claws are a must

We’re grouping together arms, legs, hands, and feet because it’d be all mixed up otherwise. You probably know that insects have six limbs, but did you know ant legs can have up to six distinct segments? The legs are why ants have such a reputation for strength, because of their powerful muscles distributed through these segments. How many segments and what they’re designed for really depends on the ant, with some cutting leaves, some burrowing underground, and some needing to bring down prey for the colony.

Some of these don’t need explanation but I do want to point out tarsal spurs. They’re used to clean antennae by grabbing the antenna and just forcing it through the gap like a toothbrush. If Tenna has these, they’re probably on his forearm, but it’d be funny to put it on his legs and make it where he can’t do the antenna cleaning without kicking his head like a dog (if your CRT’s whining, take it for a walk!). Maybe that’s why Mike does it for him.

Also, these claws are real! Ants need them to climb. They only have two toes, though he has five fingers because he looks like a cartoon. If you want to make his feet “ant accurate”, two big claws are the way to go. The bottom of it kind of looks hoofish, with a bunch of little hairs to help them feel where they’re going. They have sticky pads between their toes to cling onto surfaces that they normally shouldn’t be able to, like glass.

WAIT! Don’t some ants have wings?

Why yes, they do - at a certain life cycle. Ants that are sexually mature have wings and are called alates. The queen makes them to create a new colony if the original is successful enough. Virgin alates leave, find a new spot, mate, and eat their own wings as sustenance while they make eggs and start fresh. This means Tenna would probably only have wings in the Big Shot Era and before, since that *is* him establishing a colony in a way and he seems married? Divorced? He and Spamton did something. It’d also be great for a NEO form if you want maximum limbage.

Wouldn’t that make him a queen ant?

There are so many ant species every rule to them seems to have an exception, but the biggest idea with ants is that a female, the queen, is in charge. The female ants who are not the queen do all the work. The male ants mainly sit around waiting to be mated with. This means, with Tenna being the leader and doing all the work, he’s the queen.

Trans Tenna has some serious legs (ha) as a direct result. You could also say that he’s the queen in an older gay man way. Also just to cover something that confuses some people with ants: they don’t have a “hivemind”. The queen actually has very little influence over the colony. Ants decide for themselves what job is best suited for them, and they stay with the queen because she makes pheromones they like and reproduces, not because she makes them. Compared to Tenna trying to force people to stay via contracts, and then dying if they don’t all help him out, he really is a queen with no control. Depressing, right?

God I don’t know how to end this one and it was probably so much longer than my other posts even though almost the whole thing was done on my phone SORRY IF YOU HATE INSECTS I GET IT I’M JUST HAVING A MOMENT