#Failtopia OC

[rosetheocto]

look if the GUN Genie was redeemed then surely it can turn Orion’s Wife back to normal and we can see her in the next season of Failtopia right..? RIGHT???

[sailorstarfishi]

my failtopia oc, her name is les... shes like a cultist/worshipper of lee's. also a laidback cleric ^_^ rntirely nonhuman but we Don't know what she is.. um ye

[k0riekat]

failboat played miitopia on stream for more than a minute im opening my sketchbook and rapidly drawing as i type this

[gnomey22]

Top 5 Therapy-Needers in Failtopia

5.

Chin "Chi" Kid. This girl went through the horrors of saving the entire world twice, got beaten up more than most other characters on both of those journeys, and was placed on the frontlines for an uncountable number of extremely dangerous fights (the primary cause of my previous point). She was locked in a dungeon for a month and had her face implanted on a feral beast, twice in a row for both of those things, and was almost completely alone for three years between these journeys, heavily implying that she's been alone her entire life. This all happens when she's 15-18. What the fuck.

4.

Deko. He may be one of the least remembered character stories in the entire series, but the story he has is horrible. He, a sixteen y/o, decided to submit himself to an unethical experiment to give himself superpowers he felt insecure about lacking, which resulted in him being trapped in the role of an Imp (a literal monster), and bound by the gods to battle for the world with some blond guy he hates. Then, he finds out that there's an alternate universe version of himself who lives a happy and normal life, all because he didn't make the same stupid mistake he himself did. This acts as his 'redemption arc', but if that happened to me, I'd take a very long time to even recover.

3.

Erica. You all know why, but I'll break it down anyways. She has no personal life to speak of, and fully immerses herself in work she doesn't even really enjoy, watching a majority of her coworkers die horribly, partially because she couldn't save them. Then, she joins a somewhat-functional team for the first time, and allows herself to make a genuine connection or two - which are then ripped away from her as soon as the journey ends, leaving her with the same overworking nightmare of a life she had before. This time, she feels the need to abandon a core personality trait, her caution, for the sake of taking out her deeply-bottled-up anger on anything that moves. Because of this, she struggles even harder to make personal connections, and can't bring herself to call almost anyone her friend, or get the concept of death off her mind for two seconds.

2.

Friend. Imagine having a little guy magically attached to your face, by accident, clearly a lost soul who needs all the help he can get. As a Cleric, helping random people is your literal job, and you're a naturally kind person, so of course you care for this stranger! He might be corrupting your mind to increase your aggression, sure, but that's a normal side effect, probably. You miss him when he suddenly disappears. Then, you finally find him again, and he reveals himself as a genocidal demon who intends to reinvent the world for the sake of a revenge plot you can't even comprehend. But you have to comprehend it, because it's partially your fault that he got this far. Not only that, but he's had a clear effect on your mental state, and you start using inanimate objects to cope with his absence, out of sheer desperation. This man has left an irreversible mark on your psyche, and even then, you were entirely expendable to him.

Honourable mentions go to Failboat, Simple Bob, Rose, Orion + Slapo Oopsie, and Bo. Mar does not make the list because he's already been through his three years of therapy, he doesn't need it.

1.

Shrimp. She was abandoned by her father in her vulnerable teenage years, and she has no reason to know he feels bad for it. Due to this lack of protection, many of the awful people in her age range take the opportunity to bully her, mainly over her greatest dream of singing, which they hate that she has. They do everything they can to make her believe her singing talent, one of the only things she has left in her life, is worth nothing, and it gets more than verbal. It's heavily implied that the reason she has an unfixable chipped tooth is because these bullies got violent, and this also gives reason to believe they bullied more than her dreams and talents, they tore into her for her very appearance too. As a result of this, she's left with no option than to abandon her home, just like her dad did, and flee to the unfamiliar surface, hoping she can do anything up there while knowing nothing about it. Her home is behind her now, she has to join a battle party trying to save the entire world just to get by. It's here, where she finds a found family she adores, but they can't replace what she's lost. She still doesn't have a single friend her age, and relies on random adults to survive out here. I don't think it's a coincidence that she has so much fan content, and enough trauma to match it, literally everyone wants this girl to have some happiness.

[zopy4]

wow, failtopia season 1 is 7 years old now!

to celebrate, i'm taking a bunch of doodles/text posts/general things and putting them into a nice little post!

here are some doodles i've done in my notebooks and planner

some little notes about some of these:

the sixth one is from that one scene where failboat asks chat who their favorite is. i like to imagine they just say every character's name at once.

sooo about the eighth one: i've always associated rose and pirahnyawn with cicada days... just feels very them to me. (also my dnd oc meglan is there too. idk why.)

the twelth one is an in the foreground reference because i've been reading it recently (took a little break from reading it though, i'm like 42-ish chapters in)

and here's some stuff from my procreate gallery that's just been kinda sitting there + some explanations of why i made them

more notes!!!

the first one comes from here

the second one is here

the third and fourth ones have been sitting on my ipad for a while. i think i saw them on discord

an old wip i never finished of the eribo garden scene

on friday i was rly sick and i was thinking about bo taking care of a sick erica and it made me feel a little bit better so i drew a lil sketch

sometimes i like to imagine deko accidentally become chi and lanc's wingman. i just love the s1 neksdor kids and their interactions. here's the base image.

i was reading in the background and a certain scene from chapter 10 made me start giggling so hard and then this appeared on my canvas.

[rosetheocto]

From either season of Failtopia, what characters besides Hank and Mar do you think could have solid potential as the new Dark Lord/ Curse—or just as a general antagonist—in a hypothetical swap?

OOO this is a good ask!! I love theorizing about this series, especially the identity of the Mysterious Dark Curse Who Possessed Mr. Behemoth Screamith And Got Flung Aside And Died/Got Possessed(??) For Hank’s 2nd Villain Arc!!

I am 100% in on the Mystery Curse being Dr. SHOOK!! The only lore he had before being scrapped is that he canonically knew about the 4th wall!! and him being a forgotten character works flawlessly with Hank’s whole “Dan how could you forget all these characters/games you’ve played I hate you grrrr >:((” thing!! Gonna rq promote Gnome’s post on it since she explains it better and Mystery Curse SHOOK gives me life. also I think that if Dark Curse Shook is canon and Lanc comes back in S3, I can see SHOOK holding a personal grudge in a similar way Sharc-Chan did with Shrimp! Unlike Shrimp though, Lanc actually was meant to be a replacement for Shook! An unintentional replacement, but a replacement nonetheless. I think there could be some good potential for the Mystery Curse if Dan is smart enough to remember this super obscure character from the first half of S1 Episode 2 (which knowing him.. I doubt lmaoo), ALSO also I think that if S3 is modded (which it 100% will be) he could be the in-universe reason for it!! He’s a scientist so I’m sure he knows his ways to mess with the code of the world.. and him adding new stuff to this game is certainly a way to get The Incident’s attention :]

wow that’s a lot of thoughts I have for someone who looks like this

ANYWAY Kazoo Man could also be a fun twist! I don’t think it’s realistic at all but I think both the main villains of S2 being former victims of Mar could be a take with a lot of potential :0

As for hypotheticals, when Failtopia S2 first dropped and we weren’t in Neksdor yet, I was kinda hoping for C!Fail to be the Dark Curse! thank Kronkui Dan didn’t do that, but him and Mar mirroring each other would’ve been cool and I still think about it sometimes, it could be a fun AU!

And I mean even if the Mystery Curse is a new OC we haven’t seen before, that’s alright too!! either way this stupid blue piece of garbage (affectionate) is SUPER interesting to me and he got kinda robbed of his villainy!! Dan bring him back and my life is yours!!!!!! /ref

[rosetheocto]

What would be your ranking of the Failtopia cast, either in terms of writing, or how much you like them?

I HOPE YOU ENJOY MY AWFUL TAKES LMAOO my thoughts are uh. very scattered and I ramble a bunch but I hope it’s still coherent enough to be understandable! I kinda changed it from a tier list to just yapping about how the characters are written halfway through and I hope that’s ok ;w;

Anyone willing to give some more insight or throw their thoughts and opinions into the mix, please do!! :]

Joker

Him being awful goes without saying I think. Everyone else has a gimmick/something that makes them unique, but Dan had a huge Persona fixation at the time his episode was first being streamed so he was just like “eh I’ll just keep Joker Persona as Joker Persona”! This causes him to kinda fall behind on development, since he isn’t really Dan’s OC. When thinking of a character to bring back after the timeskip, he barely even considered Joker cuz there simply isn’t much to be done with him! Giving everyone else that Failboat Charm allowed them to have more creative things since they’re just loosely based off of other stuff. Like even his canon lore sucks, bro deserves better </3

Smuk

Smuk ilysm but you’re such a nothingburger (haha get it cuz food) of a character in the actual canon of the series, like every time I talk about him to someone I kinda need to remind myself of some of the actual bits of his personality past the Shrek stuff and that is. not good! I’m so glad he’s gotten some info in Character Development cuz Kronkui knows he needed it, but even then most of that stuff is told and not shown?? He’s not like Joker though because he actually does have some personality shine. His dynamic with characters like Bob and Rose is amazing, and when he isn’t serving the others spicy food, he can be really kind! He just needs a liiiitle more on the Being More Than Just A Parody department! Shoutouts to his accent tho I love it sm

Chat

WHY ARE YOU HERE?? ok ok I know why they’re here and I don’t hate them but like. Would you expect the audience insert who’s only notable thing is sniffing stuff and annoying C!Fail to be well written? I mean, maybe! but as of right now? YEAA I don’t really vibe with them as much as the others in terms of how they’re written. Looking at how Chat is rn both in-game and irl, I feel like they’re only gonna get more annoying to me (i stg if they’re a Waddle Dee in S3 i will go 123 ABC scary crazy evil mode) I WILL SAY THO that they have a great design pre-lips era, their dynamic with Bo is nice, and the lore for their existence in-universe is interesting!

Pirahnyawn

I’m not putting Yawn this low cuz he’s BADLY written, I’m putting him here since I couldn’t think of a better placement yknow? This guy is such a douche and honestly I can slightly respect that, him being a jerk doesn’t mean his writing sucks! His love of nature and money is such a clashing thing it circled back to being hilarious to me, and I liked Dan’s idea for his timeskip lore where he’s just On His Deathbed and just. shoves his daughter in front of an iPad and expects Cocomelon to raise her lmaoo, it’s so in character which is way better than what he did for Bob :P

Lanc

As much as I love The FailFleet Miis, a lot of the love I have for them is cuz of headcanon stuff. Like cmon if you look at canon we know next to nothing about Lanc! Other than Smuk, we at least know something about what life was like for the team before meeting Failboat! And the one thing we DO know about Lanc’s past is a throwaway line that could easily be retconned in the future. However, they do impact S2 in a way the other S1-exclusives don’t (if they didn’t get close to Chi, she would��ve never joined The Incident) so they have that above everyone else! But I will say that they need more on their own to do, Dan only really knows them atp as Chi’s 100% Platonic Best Friend™️ and as a fan of Lanchi, I really hope that someday Dan can see their potential beyond that relationship

Deko

THIS MAN IS SO TRAGIC LIKE HELLO?? He’s tied with Lanc for me because even though he has all this angst potential and development it’s just kinda. not used. Like this man was experimented on because he was so desperate to fit in and have powers like AGHHH… I love him a lot though and I think S1 Neksdor is easily the best party cuz of how the trio bounce off each other! For an S1 exclusive that hasn’t come back yet, he has a well written backstory and his motivations make sense!! I really hope that when he comes back in S3, Dan does his character well!

Big Bill

Bill is amazing but in canon he really doesn’t have much going for him apart from his strength or being Shrimp’s brother figure… like even his multiclass is because he wants to help with her concerts! I wish he had more time to shine on his own, and I hope S3 will give him that opportunity! His interactions with both her and the rest of The Incident give me life and I really think Bill needs to be talked about more! Also I’m so glad Dan made him more of a younger-ish older brother to Shrimp instead of an actually older (catfish) mentor/father figure to her especially since she already had Orion in that role and after S2 Dan created Mussel soooo yea!! That was definitely a change for the better! :]

Shrimp

I really like Shrimp!! Her backstory is really solid and seeing her find a place on the surface with The Incident is so sweet!! I will say though, despite a lot of the focus and spotlight being on her, she doesn’t really develop? I mean she does but she doesn’t yknow?? Maybe I’m going crazy. She’s above some others mainly cuz she has a fleshed out backstory (instead of like bits and pieces) and isn’t too shallow. I can see why she’s a fan (and creator) favorite!!

Simple Bob

THE DEMON HUNTER!! I’d say he’s a really well written character, but until Dan does S3 we’re all stuck with that UGLY Simpler Bald who’s just an insult to Bob’s whole existence pre-S2 and it STINKS!! But that aside though.. this man needs more respect by Dan. He has an extremely solid start, a motivation to take Hank down, and has his personality properly shine though later in S1 with his arc of becoming more unique and less, well, simple! I just wish Dan committed to this arc in his “““comeback”””, but looking at what he’s said about the S3 timeskip he has in mind, Bob’s story could maybe take a turn for the better again! Third time’s the charm after all!

Orion

The Nose Of The North himself, Orion Oopsie!! The guy’s a really solid character and I respect him a lot! From being in the royal guard to having his wife go into some sorta coma, it’s clear he has one hell of a past. Also I just need to mention his relationship with Slapo (he wore that goofy makeup the WHOLE TIME because he knew it would make his daughter happy. what a king <3) along with the rest of The Incident.. it’s just all wholesome!! On that note I will say that in some angles the way he seemingly let Slapo just be by herself for a majority of S2 can be seen as concerning, and Orion continues a pattern of male characters being mentors/fathers, but beside those small things, I think he’s a great character!!

Friend

YAY FRIEND!! Her direct connections to Lee and them accidentally helping him with his plan is really interesting, Friend’s kindness is both their biggest strength and their biggest flaw and I love how the series explores that! I also love how it clashes with the aspects of her personality that he adopts from Lee after the reveal (mainly the bloodthirstiness) and AGGHH the whole angst with Lee is so good. Also them just being a mystery to the others to mess with them is perfection. They deserve to be happy I think :)

Chi

CHIN KID ILY!!!! trying not to be biased, after her timeskip cutscene she doesn’t get like. any development apart from funny comic relief bits which is why she is in A Mid Tier but at the same time.. the personality that she embodies is just the right kind of insane! She’s a fun character and sometimes that’s all you gotta be! I really hope she does get some more love someday though.. but even if she doesn’t I won’t complain too much :3

Rose

woah I love identity theft! OK BUT HER ARC SHOWING HER GET WORSE WAS SUCH A UNIQUE THING COMPARED TO THE OTHERS and seeing her become more unlikable is watching a beautiful trainwreck to me. I think Rose is one of the more complex and nuanced characters in this series, since while trying to appease the people who think she’s Rosalina is reasonable (considering how screwed she’d be if she broke character), she just. she gets WAY too into it and it’s pretty sad to see (/pos). I am VERY interested to see what S3 has in store for her! I NEED HER TO LOSE HER MONEY!!

Mar

MY FAVORITE DARK CURSE!! Him being the S2 protag and Facing The Consequences Of His Actions is probably one of the smartest semi-unintentional writing decisions Dan has done for this series! I don’t really have any issues for him apart from wishing he got more spotlight post-anniversary announcement. I also love how he’s still has a lot of traits from when he was the Dark Curse (personality wise), but you can still tell he’s changed from traveling with Kazoo Man! Also seeing him learn to love his party is just nice to witness <3

C!Failboat

You can tell I’ve had some character development when I say this man is decently well written lmaoo, I used to HATE this guy! I will admit, a lot of the bits I like about him is when he’s more established to be his own thing separate from Dan (like in LOS). Him being more self centered but mellowing out as the series goes by isn’t really a front and center thing on your first watch through, but when it makes its impact it makes its impact. My only gripe is that I think HE SHOWS UP TOO MUCH, and while yeah this is the Failboat lore, I think Dan should’ve let Mar keep the protagonist spotlight the whole time since C!Fail is more fit for a side role imo (and he’s the main guy in everything else :|)

Bo

MORE PEOPLE NEED TO TALK ABOUT HER ARC BROOOOO like. A double agent that needs to hide multiple aspects of her identity but learning to embrace those parts of herself and breaking free from the Mystery Curse’s mission AND HER MULTICLASS IT WAS ALL SO GOOD!! Perfect buildup, perfect execution, I love it so much. Peak writing! I can’t think of much else to say rn!

Erica

This was obvious from the start, but can you blame me for putting her at number 1? She has it all!! well written trauma, reasonable responses to the situations she’s thrown into, an arc of her opening up and finding a group that she learns won’t leave her or get killed… (and it’s implied she gets a gf too, so that’s cool!) When I first watched the series, Erica was the character I latched to the most, and I’m sure you all can see the reasons why! People have analyzed her way better than I can, so I’ll just say this: You should’ve seen me watching her cutscene for the first time CUZ OH MY GOD that was definitely one of her best moments!! >w<