#I'd like to believe Susie spelled his name

[thrashtrashh]

TENNA C. ROOK

*HEY! *WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU PIPSQUEAKS DOIN' 'ERE?! *'YER IN THE MIDDLE OF A SET! *WHO ME? *'YER TELLIN' ME YOU DON'T KNOW WHO I AM?! *TENNA. TENNA C. ROOK!

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Hey! First post here! So! Tenna, right? What a guy! Since everyone's making up designs for him left and right I thought I'd put my hat in the mix as well.

DESIGN CHOICES:

So, well before I begin with the design. The name. Tenna C. Rook. Well, I don't have to explain Tenna, I guess. Rook's there because I'm a firm believer in chess theory, and the C is there because it makes the "rook" look like "crook", because he's a criminal, I tell you, a criminal! Also, if you put the Tenna at the end it spells out CRT, and that's kinda funny.

THE COLORS:

Green! Yeah, I love green! I chose green for two main reasons: -It seems that the main villains are going from right to left on the color bar thingy.

Queen is light blue, so I thought that good old Tenna over here would be green.

-You can't spell GREED without the first four letters of GREEN. Tenna's that type of guy you know? He cares a lot about THE MONEY. Apart from being a big shot producer, he's an avaricious little troll.

Apart from green, there's no real reasoning behind any of the other colors. Red's just there to not make his suit look to same-y, if you catch my drift. White's there to fit in with King and Queen. Also, headcanon that Tenna's like Lancer's uncle or something like that.

THE SUIT:

I think pinstripe suits are the best thing ever. I am a pinstripe suit supremacist. Of course, there's a reason other than my love for these types of suits: mobsters! I think Chapter 3's gonna be like, a look into the Golden Age of Hollywood through Toby Fox' lens. I could be totally wrong here, and to be honest, I'm probably totally in the wrong, but y'know it could be fun. Mobsters + TV is always fun! The square-y shoulder pads on his suit, combined with the hat are supposed to kind of look like the top part of a rook chess piece.

It's probably really stupid, but whatever.

The little antenna on his hat is a thing he uses to control stuff from long distances, by the way. I didn't put it in the dialogue sprites because I tried and it looked ugly.

The T-Belt, T standing for Tenna of course, is there because he's got a company to promote! And he's got a huge ego, so he has to let everyone know who he is!

GENERAL SHAPE, SIZE AND HAIR

I tried to make him really squarish, to contrast with King and Queen since they're both rather round and curvy. Also, like I said, the top part of a rook is square-y so that also influenced his shape, as well as the fact that TV's are generally rectangle/square-like, so yeah.

Sprite-wise he's about the same size as Kris. I thought it'd be funny to go from these pretty tall, imposing villains to this little Wario-like goblin. The size is also inspired by the "really short leader who's really smart but gets angry really quickly" trope. I don't know the name of the trope, but there's Joe Dalton from the Lucky Luke comic strips that made me fall in love with it, so here you go, this one's for you Joe.

The hair. So, I wasn't going to give him hair originally, but I thought it'd be good to not have the head be entirely white with a green hat. I thought of Johnny Depp's Willy Wonka in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, because frankly, his hair looked stupid in that movie and I think it's really funny to give characters stupid hair. I can easily imagine Susie mocking him for his stupid hair. Also, technically not his hair. It's a wig, and I think it'd be funny for it to fall off during the final boss fight.

Oh yeah, also the shadowy part covering the eyes is supposed to look like a club, because King's got a spade-like thing going on and Queen has got a heart-like thing going on, so yeah.

All-in-all, I'm pretty proud of how this thing turned out. I saw a lot of tv-heads, lots of big and bulky figures and a Jerma thrown in there for good measure, so I tried to stay as far as possible from those, as to not get too inspired by them.

Anyways, see ya bye!

[nochocolate]

How to pronounce "Ralsei"

... according to Susie, you pronounce his name as "ralsay"!

To see this, be sure to re-read Ralsei's editable CYBERPEDIA entry!

[staerplatinum]

so about ralsei.....

read under the cut because i'm not sure how long this will be

since ch 2 was released (but i noticed these theories were also made before ch 2 had been released, it's just i'm not too much in the fandom to exactly know what people think about it) i've seen a lot of "ralsei is sus", "ralsei is the bad guy" theories?? like i've never seen so many theories about one character in a row, but i'm not against it!

while i don't agree the fact ralsei might be the final boss, or the big bad, i do believe he's sus. like a lot, i can see he is actually hiding something from us (not only us as players but also counting kris and susie since they only recently knew about the roaring and ralsei is explaining things reeeeally slowly) but i don't think he's bad. my main thoughts about him are that he can feel/sense kris's soul (so, us as the players), he probably knows how kris feels about this and being controlled (the reassuring hug made me tear up a little), and i think he's the horned headband kris wore as a kid, otherwise he wouldn't know noelle or berdly's names without even introducing to them properly, and he might be the potrayal of kris's loneliness (his name being an anagram of asriel could be connected to the fact kris misses their brother a lot?).

returning on "ralsei is sus", yes i can see he's hiding something from us, but i don't think he's bad. i have two thoughts about his secrecy: one, that is the most basic, could be because we have to go ahead in the game to actually get more explanations from him (we're still at the beginning, after all); two, he wants kris and susie to be safe until the end, so prefers not to tell them too many details otherwise susie would try to act impulsively (and possibly involve kris, and for an extent, us, to what she wants to do) and risk a lot.

as we see him act in the gameplay, ralsei is kind of a black mage (at least, in my opinion, because he mostly casts spells, both healing and offensive), we know what often happens to black mages in games... right? maybe it's more like an unconditional fear than a theory (or both?) but i think, at some point in the game (maybe near the end?) we will actually see a calamity happen and ralsei will have to resolve it by sacrificing himself to save kris and susie (and other teammates as well if we'll have them). i already exposed this one theory on my own au, but it only happens temporarily and in the cyber world, but i thought of all the possibilities?? and... just. what if he really dies for kris and susie to live and continue saving the world, because they're the only ones who can do something. this post turned out longer than i was expecting but!! you can tell me your thoughts if you'd wish, i'd like to read them