#Alternative path

[randomspagetti]

Random Curse Au(yet again)

Basically after his wife's death dark cacao kinda loses it, he doesn't care what others may think, he doesn't concern himself with keeping his Berserk form at bay, he just can't get over it. The only thing he has energy to do is take care of his kingdom and raise his son. He raises Choco with love and attention, despite not being completely mentally there.

Those around him mostly feel awkward, most even believing that the legend of the great warrior he was were greatly exaggerated. Crunchy chip is one of the only ones who knows that he is a brilliant warrior, due to seeing him in action during a wall breach. On his free time he spends it around him.

Despite Dark Cacao's attempts to push his son away over the years, knowing that he's going berserk more often and is a threat to him, is met with pushback at every turn by Choco. Choco accidentally gets hurt sometimes and it makes Cacao try to push farther and farther away from him, in fear of what he might do. It creates a situation where Choco feels the need to take care of his dad, and sees him as weak/powerless despite legends saying the opposite, with Dark Cacao trying to push him away and more torwards Chocos friends as he becomes more and more fearful of what hes becoming.

This leads to the cod breaking into the kingdom, forcing Dark Cacao back into the spotlight/fight when he has to protect his son. With one strike he not only shows his entire kingdom he's not as weak as they assume, he also is also filled with a sense of accomplishment.

(Edit//: in this au Choco never gets the sword)

[haleyusesherwords]

Obsessed with the alternate universe where Rekha is an Intrepid Hero

[viviraptor-art]

a nice sunset can make you do the weirdest things... ☀️

just something sappy for a certain someone's special day... and i'm a sucker for sunsets. is that enough alliteration? anyway, happy birthday, weevil! 🪲

[rainystressed247]

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You can hardly catch a break between these visitors, can you? Be it Wilbur's intention to spice things up, or the OP's sixth sense of them being extra busy this week, you are presented with two choices.

One button will blow up the whole place while the other will defuse the bomb, and who knows, it might be wired to speeddial a certain anarchist, though I have to agree that getting blown up has a nice ring to it.

This is your final choice.

[leqclerc]

We are working. Yeah, it is quite late. 22:30. The team had to go because at 22:00 there's a curfew so all the team needs to go back. And I've got quite a lot of work to do, because today wasn't a great day, in terms of low fuel pace, and now it's all about analyzing the driving, the different set-ups. Adjust the driving, and should be fine for qualy.

[0hmanit]

One of my favorite types of Rain World rooms are rooms that supposedly have additional cameras/room connections, but they don't.

What do I mean by this? here is an example:

LF_J01 is one of the rooms that bugged me the most, especially when when I notice it during my countless rain deer rides. It's eye catching and makes you wonder if you can bring a grappling worm all the way from the Underhang just to test your dumb theory, only to realize it's not true and be so disappointed.

Fun fact, Rain World Drought is perfectly using this room's potential: by using it as a connection between your starting region and Farm Arrays.

The tutorial room also gets it's own secret, where eventually you find out about it at the start of the Spearmaster campaign. Downpour in fact have a lot of these, and it's one of my favorite additions in this DLC.

Not a secret, just a whole huge region connected through this singular room connection.

Unfortunately SI_C09 didn't receive any additional room connections from the DLC. I remember the first and only time this room tricked me like the fool that I am, into thinking there is a continuation, and got me to jump cluelessly to the left and fall to my death. I guess it's had to do with how open seems this part of Sky Islands look. Gameplay wise I can understand why it stops there, from that point you guided to go up into the heart of the region. And expanding the room from that point, kind of adds too much to the region and makes it more chaotic and confusing to navigate than it needs to be.

Last but not least, this room always seemed odd to me.

Considering that you climb up towers many times in Rain World, it's not very visually appealing when you can't climb up to a place that looks like it has an upper part.

But in all of the presented rooms, you can quite understand why continuing on the region from there would be weird. You have to create a weird fork in the map that distract the player from actually progressing through the game's entire map. And often it makes them get lost and frustrated. this is one of the common causes that makes new players lose their interest in Rain World.

Although you could also go against that point by claiming that Rain World's core gameplay is exploring and getting lost in the world, or at least is what makes the game so appealing. And expanding the region would help increase that feeling of being lost in a complex simulated ecosystem.

I can still understand that for vanilla Rain World, this game is not for everyone. but I mean if you chose to play Downpour as your first experience, that is kind of your problem. Because the whole point of the DLC is to expand significantly the map of the known world.

uh, um. I think got a little bit carried away, lol. This post is still about silly rooms, but I feel like I can't really talk about cool rooms and regions without talking about their important role in the core gameplay.

[uu-tella]

It's Latla's Birthday!

@tadpolebobatea made me realize how similar these two were on the previous loop, so here's a little angsty thing about that (Happy birthday Latla, I guess?)

Art by @lovethedanielhd !!

[iwasntstable]

do you ever think about how fucking lucky we are that Noah chose to be a vocalist. like he was a guitarist before, he just decided one day "I wanna do vocals now" and now we get the privilege of hearing his beautiful voice whenever we want...

[fortunaestalta]

[gurggggleburgle]

I'm proud to say I don't think Luo Binghe would like to eat his boyfriends pussy. He'll do it but bitch he's not here for that. For 1 Binghe is absolutely the kind of guy who wants to see the whole body come undone not just have Shen Yuan tug on his hair. 2 the man's favorite places to kiss are things like forehead, hands, cheeks, he's a foreplay from the waist up man.

He'd fingerblast to next year granted but Shizun asks for a kiss and a downstairs buffet he says yes but in his head he's thinking about how much he just wants to massage and bite that man's shoulders/chest and touch every part of his skin till they're the same person. He needs to use his hands and teeth simultaneously and not doing so is bad for his health. Man can't dine on pussy alone. Shizun let me fingerblast you from the front while taking you from behind while I cradle you in my arms and scream how you love me!!!!! Shizun plssssssss!!!!

[malachitebeck]

Was just conked on the head with the memory of Ecaf existing. A literal sentient mirror who was close with Fabian and (I think?) not a fan of Riz. ...Do you guys think that was one of the four ways Brennan mentioned that the Bad Kids could have gotten into that confrontation with Baron.

[authorafterhours]

Do you ever think about Hannibal worrying that after three years apart, Will has become a stranger to him in that time? What has he become in Hannibal’s absence, unseen and unguided?

[boyrobott]

2003 and 2009 atom: be kind to everyone you meet 💖 be gentle and patient even when you're frustrated 💖 never act on your anger or negativity 💖 it costs nothing to be nice to others 💖

1960s and 1980s atom:

[krispdreemurr]

man now I'm thinking abt the idea of only one ending bc only one ending is permitted and everything else gets reset. gaster as the Undertale backseat gamer who demands you get true pacifist lmao. there's something that needs to happen in his eyes and he's prepared to keep rebuilding the timeline until it does. something something device theory the illusion of freedom of choice

[no-where-new-hero]

i have my masters!!! not officially officially until the end of the month but i passed everything and i got several congratulations-you're-graduating emails so!!! i'm forcing myself to feel a little bit proud of this today!!

[snoopilittle]

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