#<— because rivulet

[absoluteaffirmative]

oh em goodness it’s the rivulet but pressure style kinda + random oc lore (bad things happening to experiments/body horror/injury mentions)

listen it’s just a ramble about an oc basically.

kinda oc-ish but it’s whatever-

this is riv! riv coming from rivulet ofc hehe

fun fact! those two cuts in her tail fin was done purposely by an oc foundation i made called the impulse foundation. (she does get patched up in her story so dont worry!)

impulse like to make sure their “pet projects” dont run away, so they purposely damage the experiments; docking tails, slicing fins, in some rarer cases declawing/de-knuckling, etc. ethics and morals aren’t in impulse’s code of conduct.

anyhow i think she’s maybe around 6-7 ft (182.88-213.36 cm) tall?? like her base inspiration, riv is actually pretty fast on land and even faster on the water. she both slithers and slides for movement, although she will use her arms if necessary.

due to having feline (common housecat) and otter DNA, she is VERY flexible, which gives her the ability to leap/pounce (like how scugs can in rw!), which can be a bit scary since you don’t usually see mer-like creatures doing that, unless it’s breaching the surface of the water. she can also roll :]

riv was somehow able to teach Sebastian how to roll and somewhat leap, although since he is much bigger than she is, he isn’t exactly as graceful with it-

imagine seeing Riv and Sebastian. Riv spots you and pounces into a roll to get to you.

then imagine Sebastian kinda doing the same. new fear unlocked; giving Sebastian the ability to pounce-

[linterteatime]

Slugcat distribution system gave them an explosive rabid raccoon and a overpowered sewer rat ❤️

[vynnyal]

Some comics

[cactikoi]

Aggie drawings that I ended up liking

I finished spearmaster’s campaign today.. very awesome

[thetrueressii]

rivulet has arrived, sent from a far-off land by someone to repair and maintain other iterators

theyre surprisingly smart, when it comes to iterators and general ancient history that is

their general backstory is a mystery to even pebbles and moon, refusing to state where or who they came from

pebbles has a decent amount of respect for rivulet despite his rude exterior and disinterest for slugcats and scavengers

[whatberry]

i’m never gonna finish this so

[alexander-norkat]

I had a vision

[hedgehog-moss]

In the fir woods

[seven-skies-above]

Just some rivulet doodles! Wasn't super happy with the gills I used on my riv design (mostly because they were annoying to draw) so wanted to try something else :>

Also, Pebbles. because i am procrastinating on the iterator designs LMAO

[mewguca]

stardew time

inspired by a stardew slugcat pet mod i saw posted in main world

[segasys]

divorce

[dieselpvnk]

the mouse did NOT want to cooperate

anyway. I don't have elaborate designs for most of them, but I'm a lot more confident in how I wanna draw the slugs. Maybe expect something more serious where I show off design quirks

[linterteatime]

Love these robots with existencial crisis and their weird looking cats that aren't actually cats but rather slugcats

[vynnyal]

OK, fair warning to the few people I actually managed to convince to try the game??

Rain world does NOT play like hollow knight, and you'll get your butt kicked if you approach it like that.

It's really hard. Like, really hard. Instead of the game literally giving you abilities in the form of power-ups and damage buffs, the only abilities you gain is from what you learn and your own ingenuity. You're a rat from beginning to end. If you just beef your way through it, it's gonna suck and you're gonna be confused and frustrated all the time. But if you pay attention, take it slow, and learn how the ai works and how everything interacts with each other, you can consistently get through and dominate situations you thought were impossible to do so when you first began. Now get out there, kill some lizards, and bully some old computers!

[vchumis]

Had this idea from Twitter

[sycamorality]

what if hunter never made it,

but nobody knew?

this is pretty much just an angsty "what if". i spent far too much time on the background & struggled with rivulet and moon. whoops.

some writing under cut, felt like it

weaving through the collapsed superstructure with ease, the semi-aquatic adapted slugcat halted right before a pipe that lead the chamber's entrance. "to a friend... if she is somehow still alive." that was what the fallen god had said. even he was uncertain if his dear friend was still alive. the slugcat stood still, folding its ears and gills backwards as it stood still, the words still in it's mind. and as effortlessly as it had woven through the collapsed structure, it slid through the pipe and danced across the water to the chamber. but the sight that met it made it freeze. the fallen god they'd stood by just a few cycles before had a tone in his voice that sounded like he had a feeling his friend should still be alive.

yet she wasn't. there lie her puppet unconcious on a heap of rusted metal in a puddle of water, umbilical wires torn. the slugcat clutched the rarefaction cell it had taken. it stared in disbelief. there, right in front of it, a dead god from an ancient civilization. it only knew something had gone terribly wrong for a god to be lying dead. yet, it still, though hesitantly, swam over to the puppet, sitting down right beside it and nudging it, hoping it was just in some sort of temporary unconcious state. no matter how much it tried to wake her up, nothing. not a single sound, other than the puppet's metal scraping against the metal it lied on and the soft vocalizations from the slugcat itself. and the realization had set in. there wasn't any sound from the structure either. the only sound it had heard on the way was the splashing in the water as it swam through it with ease.

the slugcat stood still, the sunlight bathing it and the puppet in a soft, comforting warm light. it felt almost like a 'could've been' as it stared at the puppet, before gently putting the mass rarefaction cell down besides the corpse, and reluncantly taking it's leave from the chamber, giving one final glance to the corpse of a fallen god, hoping she had somehow ended up elsewhere in the cycle, before slipping through the pipe.