#No mothiva because i hate mothiva >:(

[shadowthedragoncat]

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[thegreatestheaver]

Cooling down now and I’m very happy to say I had a very good birthday ^_^ I lowkey get worried about it because I always joke that my birthday is cursed because something almost always goes wrong or I just have a shitty day but today the curse is broken!!!! I get weird about it for that reason and also because euhg I hate attention and I usually don’t tell many people. Soup didn’t know till today but still drew me something and it was so sweet I think my heart melted ^_^ Frankie pre ordered me the makeship mothiva plush MONTHS and months ago (she has the zasp one to match!) and it was supposed to come a little AFTER my birthday and she said it was a really really early birthday gift .. I can’t believe it got delivered exactly on my birthday ??? That’s so crazy!!! I got a check which is always nice and I finally got a ipad for drawing woo !!! I’ve been wanting one forever since drawing on my phone is 1. Not fun 2. Very bad for my wrists so this will fix those two problems I just need to get used to it ^_^ also now I can play roblox on it with my sister YIPPEE! Got to sleep in and had a yummy dinner I DIDNT GET TO PLAY ROR2 AND FORT WITH MY BESTIE FRIEND cos we had to leave so early for dinnar :( but she said we could play tomorrow so it’s ok … some stuff I ordered should ALSO come tomorrow … yippee!!!

[barbaracleboy]

OKAY! Finally got some doodles done! Gonna try and draw some more but for now have these:

@amorosebeing Asked for Yin and/or Mothiva, and I like both of them, so...

Yin

Positive Opinion: Super cute in every way, I'm real fond of her dynamic with Maki and chubby cheeks.

Negative Opinion: I'll be blunt...she could be taken out of the story completely and there would be zero changes.

Headcanon: Less of a headcanon and more speculation, but there's gotta be some sort of latent magic energy or something in the Wild Grasslands, right? Crystal or not, between Tarantular and Yin, there's gotta be some sort of magic stuff going on. Even the Seedlings might be affected by it (I'm pretty sure Flowerlings use some sort of magic on their allies...or maybe it's some sort of healing pollen).

Mothiva

Positive Opinion: I'll also take this as an opportunity to defend Mothiva (sort of). She's an asshole, but the game succeeds in making me not hate her because she's rarely if ever rewarded for being an asshole or allowed to get away with it: she loses to Team Snakemouth constantly, she has to be saved by them, and there are even smaller failures like when she wants to get the artifact from H.B. and doesn't or when she's trying to kiss up to Bianca and gets told off by a guard. TLDR, Mothiva's an asshole written well.

Negative Opinion: That said, I feel they should have leaned more into the idea that she and Zasp really care for each other (at least on her end). I like that idea, and I'm pretty sure it's supposed to be canon, but I don't believe too much dialogue in-game supports it much?

Headcanon: Pretty sure I've said this before but I am way into the idea that Mothiva was born poor and hated that life so much she'd almost, if not kill to keep herself from being like that again. That's why she took Team Snakemouth "stealing her thunder" so seriously.

[cordycepsbian]

We can offer more, if you want? The whole thing is based, more or less, on what they would most hate to be - for Kabbu, it's a bit obvious. He fears The Beast, he fears hurting his friends, he fears getting them killed through either inaction or reckless action, he fears having another Master and Bit - and so his Beast Form is a literal Beast Form, a giant centipede with massive combat capabilities that risks hurting or killing his friends if he isn't incredibly careful during battle.

It's hard-hitting, hard to control (albeit mostly because he's got a LOT more legs and body segments than usual), and impossible to hide once it's out - we had them showing off more or less "whenever they hit a state of High Enough Emotion", so he'd probably be trying to just... Not Show It, once he's aware of it. The beast forms in question're more or less... manifestations. A physical form of Kabbu's nightmares and insecurities - the memory of the beast, the fear of losing another team, the "what if i hurt them" and "what if i can't protect them" and faint "what if i'm the problem" lying around his brain. It's technically stronger than the actual Beast, because it's not a real centipede, per se, it's his memory and horror at the Beast wrapped into a form he can barely control.

This ask's getting a bit long so, uhh. We've got some spare snips lying around if we can find them. Everything is the fault of Magic and any emotional wounds also show up as physical wounds in monster form, which also means a whole bunch of Wounds That Cannot Be Healed where they're unwilling to talk about where they're from. We kind of only extended this to Team Snakemouth and Team Mothiva, while we were working on it. Kabbu's got The Beast's tooth marks imbedded into his shell, Vi's got a big 'ol infected wound where her heart should be, Leif's got a hole in his... puppet body thing's chest. They're all Fucked Up. Y'know how it is with beasties.

Ô Ô <looking again

our kabbu's Thing actually has a physical cause (werebug virus, it's a whole thing, the beast itself isn't a werebug it just carried that) so his centipede form is still scary and monstrous but still looks like him in a ... kabbu-ish way

it also works on emotions instead of a time schedule and by the time the game events happen he's gotten more control over it, but kabbu feels everything Very Strongly and the rest of team snakemouth finds out before chapter 5 actually happens. probably via The Tail Thing which likes to appear with the worst timing

there are other werebugs out there just like with the zombugs but we haven't decided who else it should be yet

also, we'd like to hear more about what team mothiva's Thing is in your au :?

[aquilamage]

Please do ramble, we are very interested.

SO, [starting from the beginning because my posting on this has been sporadic and from what I can tell not the most comprehensive] I had a funny joke theory when the game first brought up the idea of Leif having descendants that it was gonna involve Mothiva, which I accidentally got attached to even though it's obviously not a thing.

But anyway my thoughts are: Grandpa canonically mentions that he has brothers [which I get why they don't have Leif chase that mention in canon but also. ?!?] so obviously Mothiva is the child of one of them. I very consistently go back and forth on whether I want/think it's logistically/thematically sensible for Grandpa to be Leif and Muse's only child with the other siblings being from a later relationship/Muse wanting more kids or if they're all related to Leif.

What I am sure on is that I like to think Mothiva had a close relationship and a lot of admiration for her grandma Muse when she was growing up, and that her stories about her time scouting for Elizant I were a good part of Mothiva's motivation to eventually become an explorer. (Also I know I've mentioned this bit at least once probably more but my brain goes insane every time I think about Mothiva's kick attack combined with Leif's one mention of Muse's fighting capabilities being that she had "pretty strong kicks" so you know where I think she learned that one from).

Although by close I mean emotionally, not physically. For Mothiva's immediate family situation, she grew up in Bugaria but outside of the ant kingdom proper [dont' ask me where that's part's not my problem], so while Muse did come visit it wasn't exactly a super regular thing. Generally I think her parents were decent and did their best with her, she was also the younger middle of a large pack of siblings so I think she dealt with some issues with needing more attention/affection than she felt like she got. And while Muse definitely gave time to all her kids and grandkids I think she got along most with Mothiva among her siblings so for Mothiva that additional attention also had an effect on her.

Which leads into my thoughts on Mothiva's feelings on Muze. Which are that she fucking hates her so much. Her cousin is an only child, never having to fight with siblings for attention. Who gets to live in the Ant Kingdom, far more interesting than her middle-of-nowhere home, and where she sees their grandmother all the time. Who takes almost perfectly after Muse in looks. Who's literally named after her. Years of compounded childhood jealousy combined with Mothiva's anger issues, and it's so fucking delicious to think about.

Don't know exactly when Muse dies but I think it's when Mothiva's about 12-15, and not too long after that is when Mothiva decides to run off to the ant kingdom on her own, change her name, and bank everything on becoming an idol both for its own sake and as a way to eventually become an explorer.

[two big sidetrack notes: 1) the whole thing of Mothiva's feelings on Muze kind of developed out of me tossing around the idea of Mothiva's father big resenting Muse and Grandpa especially because he felt like Grandpa was obviously the favorite child because of his parenthood situation (95% sibling jealously 5% yes there was a difference to the feelings dynamic even though Muse didn't actually like him better and tried not to make it a thing in general). and the idea of that translating even better onto Muze and Mothiva. and 2) it also comes from a thought about in my "mothiva gets fired "au,"" she at some point going out and about with Leif (disguised) and them running into Muze. Mothiva recognizes Muze instantly of course and is pissed off about being reminded of her everything about her (especially now that she's doing just fine while Mothiva's having a crisis). And then on top of that, since Leif has no reason to try and conceal it, it gets dropped that Leif and Muze are 'cousins or whatever' which has Mothiva all WHAT and internally freaking out now]

[secret-bug-pain-blog]

hey um. i realize the moth guy in the voice loss episode is probably just an one off antagonist and really not crush material but breadcrumbs about him please? he sounds hot in a pathetic evil red flag way.

No need to apologize - it's always fun to talk about our writing! Arc is technically a shared OC, originating from a RP with @den-of-collars - he's primarily a rival idol to Mothiva. Tends to be our stock bastard, when we want to antagonize her and/or introduce extra idols to a scene (usually both).

His brand is Edgy Punk Bitch, in the palatable way that Edgy is often worn down to for mainstream consumption and he very much profits off of the "good girl/bad boy" type dynamic that working with Mothiva affords him. Earlier drafts of him were a lot more frat-boy-ish and he's still got a few traces of it remaining, but his public-facing personality's drifted a lot more towards "stereotypical punk".

For the most part, he's a common-or-garden asshole who thinks it's fun to antagonize Mothiva - the threat is from his position as an idol she has to play nice with or face massive consequences, and the fact that he sees little wrong with pushing that antagonism further and doesn't really care about the impact besides his own benefit and what reaction he can get out of Mothiva.

He's a few years younger than her, and currently in the "making a name for himself" stage of the whole fame cycle, whereas Mothiva is near the peak of her appeal and trying to struggle though the plateau in her earnings where she's more or less reached Everyone Who's Interested and now has to keep the line going up before her bosses lose interest - what's important to Arc is putting himself out there and getting an audience, and a "ship" with Mothiva is a very efficient way of getting that attention.

The dynamic itself means he's a lot more "stand-out" - he tends to take centre stage because he gets a lot more leeway for talking over other bugs and being Rude, where Mothiva has to abide with common-courtesy rules at absolute minimum, and he's good enough at turning the tables during banter that she has to censor herself in order to avoid saying anything... inadvisable.

It would be a bit more mutually beneficial, but as previously mentioned, he likes to antagonize Mothiva to the point that she'd rather gargle bees, and any integration beyond dropping hints during interviews and making the occasional hint-heavy love song would be very likely to have their brands clash too much to be properly marketable.

He's got enough in common with Mothiva at that stage that she sees something of herself in him, and she hates his guts partially because of it and partially because of the general antagonism.

Also, to be fair, it is literally his job to be hot. Part of being an idol is Aesthetic Appeal - being hot enough to sell yourself to the widest possible audience. You've fallen for the marketing tactic. Congratulations!

[bugs-in-situations]

been thinking a bit about slug fables and right now it's how the campaign for the idol (mothiva) and the devotee (zasp) would work

we said in that one post that the idol was just too fluffy to be hurt but now we think it would make more sense if the campaign was more like the opposite

the player only controls the devotee and the idol is just like. the most fragile ai companion ever. literally every enemy hates her personally and she never gets only stunned by anything she just Dies no matter what it is. and the entire point is just to protect her until the end of the story because all the enemies are completely ignoring the devotee unless he's directly in the way

the actual mission might be a quest for bountiful harvest fields (venus)? just like in regular rain world all her citizens are Gone but like in regular bug fables she liked her citizens and misses seeing them so she like. asks the idol and the devotee to retrieve something like an offering from the city and bring it back to her and that's what their actual mission is while avoiding all the beafts that want to eat the idol

when the mission is over bountiful harvest fields is like you know what i like these weird cats :) they can stay in my house. and it's like the end of the rivulet campaign you are just a pair of little kitty cats in the grand scheme of things

[blindsidedloyalty]

It was late when Zasp finally got back home. He shut the door quietly, noting Mothiva on the couch going over some papers in her hands and takes off his cloak to put it on the nearby hanger, before going to the kitchen without a word. He'd like to make her dinner, then slink off again without talking about what happened while he was out, if he could.

It seems he wasn't so lucky and the moth wasn't as distracted as she looked, as she appeared around the corner, staring at him a little too hard for his comfort, but he only tried to focus on preparing the food he needed.

"Zasp, look at me."

He flinched at her sharp tone, hesitating with his claws digging into the counter, before slowly turning to look at her. He didn't like how cold she looked. He has to stop himself from moving when she approached him, another flinch going through him as she raises her hands, and he expects something worse than her simply holding his face.

"...Someone hurt you again."

He's tense, her voice is so firm, and anxiety rises to his chest as he fears she'll berate him for getting hurt like this. He knows it was his fault. Before he can respond though, Mothiva speaks again with a sigh.

"I hate those stupid termites. I'm going with you next time. Then I can make them think twice about hurting you."

As cool as her voice was, her touch was gentle as she caressed his face, being so careful of the fresh cracks on the side of his head. He can't help but relax, even with the lingering fear crawling along his plates.

"I-I'm sorry--"

"Oh shush. Stop being sorry all the time. Now, let's take care of those nasty marks and I'll help you make dinner."

He goes quiet and simply nods, because he won't dare argue with her, as she lowers her hands to retrieve their supplies.

...At least he was home.

[badlydrawnbugfables]

[image i.d: a scribbly drawing of mothiva done in ms paint, sitting on the ground with her arms crossed and her legs at a weird angle. she looks incredibly cross, glaring at the viewer. there is red text in a comic sans font overlayed on her, reading “shut up shut up shut up shut up shut up shut up shut up shut up shut the fuck up i hate you i hate you i am going to cause you so much physical harm you dont respect me you dont appreciate me you dont respect anything i do everything you do is like sandpaper to my fucking brain i hope you rot i hope you follow me on instagram so i can fucking block you i am going to beat the shit out of you right fucking now i hope you’re ready motherfucker because im not waiting i am coming for you as we speak i am going to bite you like a wild animal and then you will be fucking sorry buster eat shit and die fuck you fuck you fuck”. end id]

[mymarifae]

bub fable

two of you...........

❤ Favorite Male: well kabbu’s my Favorite but aside from him. zasp :)

❤ Favorite Female: vi but that’s another given because if she’s not one of your favorites what is wrong with you.... so ASIDE FROM HER. mothiva >:)

❤  Favorite Pairing: i think leif and kabbu get married and vi is the ring bearer (would bugs have rings?) but during the whole ceremony she’s making gagging noises and disgusted faces

❤ Least Favorite Character: general ultimax i hate men i hate bootboys this is the worst combination

❤ who’s most like me: guess :/

❤ most attractive: they are insects. i will put them all in cups though :)

❤ three more characters that I like: jayde, venus, and zommoth :)))))

[barbaracleboy]

Made a little writing thing for the birthday of @wingusmcdingus​, and I even made a doodle to go with it! Hope you lot like this, and maybe consider wishing wingus a Happy Birthday. He’s a cool dude, nice and funny.

(Story under the Keep Reading)

Queen Bianca was initially apprehensive about going on this “Blind Date”: while she had been a little stressed recently, and did feel that a new relationship could help ease said stress, she couldn’t help but think the idea of going out with some random person wasn’t the best one. She did anyway, though, because she assumed that her date could very well be a nice fellow. She wasn’t expecting him to be banned by over 7852 restaurants and over 32 entire brands of supermarket.

Bianca was sitting across from her date, the Pale King of Hallownest, and while part of her was thinking where the fuck her life went wrong to reach this moment a lot of her was trying to focus on his cute loo-nah, he’s pretty ugly, tbh.

Pale King:...So the chick poop squeezer told me  “I’m married, you butthungry manlet.” , thus encouraging me to do a little dance in an attempt to seduce her. Bianca: (Ready to devour the vase of flowers on the table, vase included) Mhm.

Pale King: Unfortunately, her husband came  and broke my legs. My legs are broken, by the way.

Bianca: Then how do you walk?

Pale King: Sheer willpower, bebe~

Bianca just nodded before she grew a pair of thumbs and started fiddling with them, desperately hoping that the waiter would come with her and her date’s order already. Bianca:...Y-you know, my friends have-good gods, what are you doing?

Pale King was drinking from a bottle of Thousand Islands sauce, as anyone with decent vision could plainly see.

Pale King: Gettin’ my sip on, girl. Anyway, how’s your sex life?

Bianca just stared at him a little but then shrugged it off: she had brought her usual bottle of Gatorade for herself, after all, and nobody’s told her off for it yet.

Bianca: Err, fine. I’ve had good times with my drones, they’re nice men.

Pale King: Ahh, but can they do this?! Pale King jumped onto the table in an attempt to strike a cool pose but ended up destroying the table, spilling Bianca’s gatorade, and getting the decorative vase stuck in one of his eye holes. Bianca:...I’ve only had one who could do that.

Pale King: (Gets up like nothing happened) Then clearly I’m one in a million, girl. Clicks tongue. Y’know what I like? Big women: my wife is a giant huge-ass tree, and-

Bianca: Wait, you have a wife? Would this date make me a homewrecker?

Pale King: No, she actually kinda hates me. My side wife and our daughter also hate me, but “such is life”, as the mehicanos say.

Bianca: Oh my. I had a daughter who had the biggest feud with me and the rest of my children. She was intensely unhappy about how we treated her and her ideals, to the point that she left us, and I personally felt so guilty about it. She showed us how wrong we were with how successful she and her friends were, and though it took some time she was able to form stronger bonds than ever with all of us, including her sister to whom she was once very close but had a nasty argument with!

Pale King: Cool, I kill my kids.

Bianca:

Pale King: Funny story, one time I had this one kid and-

Bianca started thinking about that time she heard that Mothiva had been bullying Vi and her friends. How she arranged a meeting on a remote island for them to meet (and Mothiva accepted the invite it because she’s a kiss ass) and how she shaved Mothiva bald before kicking her all the way back to Bugaria, leading to Mothiva bumping bumping her head on a rock and thinking she was Seth Everman for a month. Pale King:...And then I said “Heihachi, Whohachi?” and chucked ‘em off the cliff. I don’t, like, get extra mileage on my car from killing kids, though. I do it for very important reasons. “No price too expensive”, you dig?

Waiter: That isn’t even how your quote goes.

Bianca: HELLOMISTERWAITERCANYOUPLEASEGIVEUSOURORDERIDONOTMEANTORUSHYOUIAMSIMPLYFAMISHEDTEEHEE Waiter: Actually, I came to say that you two are kinda under arrest. See, the fork-looking dude is wanted in this country.

Pale King: Wait, which country is this? Waiter: The Virgin Islands

Pale King: DAMN IT, I KNEW THIS PLACE HAD A VENDETTA AGAINST A SEX LORD LIKE MYSELF!

Waiter: (To Bianca) And you’re under arrest for kinda harboring him or some-

Bianca grabbed the waiter by his lapels and chucked him out the building’s skylight. Everyone else in the restaurant quickly ran out too, afraid of what the Pointy-Headed Midget and Pointy-Bootied MILF would do next.

Pale King: Hot damn, gal, where’d you learn to do that?

Bianca: (Filled with enough rage to snap a Blue Whale’s neck) I’ve trained with my friends once or twice.

Pale King: That is sexy. Speaking of which, what say you and me go back to my place? It’s filled with buzzsaws. Very good for intimate moments~

Bianca: I am going to say fuck no to that. Actually, I think my life would be improved if I never saw you, heard of you, talked to you, looked at you, thought of you, or envisioned a concept vaguely similar to you ever again.

Pale King: Aw man, why?

Bianca: To be blunt as an atom BOMB, you are perhaps the most deplorable, despicable, and disgusting man I have ever had the displeasure of interacting with. Every word that has come out of your apparently nonexistent mouth has made me regret keeping my hearing in decent condition, your behavior makes me vomit in my mouth (and not honey, but legitimate vomit), and you knocked over my Gatorade. You cannot fathom the amount of willpower it is taking to not tear out my own stinger and impale your nuts with it like a one-third-eaten Hanami Dango.

Pale King: Oof.

Bianca: Yeah.

Pale King: Well, that’s unfortunate, but before you leave allow me to just say that out of all the middle-aged women I’ve met-

Bianca was staring at the burning restaurant, and at this moment she was in bliss. It wasn’t just because the Pale King was in there, head stuffed inside a tuba, either. She just genuinely loved looking at the fire.

Bianca: So this is why Vi loves arson so much! Did she inherit that from me? Can you inherit something from your parent if they don’t know of it in themselves?

Bianca stared a little longer before pulling out her phone and going to “Elizant (Bestie#1!!!!!! (four kiss emojis, seven heart eye emojis, six heart emojis, three flower emojis))” in her contacts. She started texting to her.

Bianca (Over Text): Hello, Elizant.

Elizant (Also Over Text): Bianca, hello! How have you been? I hope the date was good.

Bianca (Still Over Text): No, it was rather awful, unfortunately.

Elizant: (Also Still Over Text): Oh no, I’m sorry.

Bianca (Obviously Still Over Text): It is alright…give Vanessa a call, you and her come over to my hive to meet me. I wanna pay Sam a visit ;>

[Second doodle too, because I was trying to practice drawing PK and his head ended up way big and I found it funny.]

[barbaracleboy]

So, I’ve alluded to my having an idea for a new Bug Fables AU a few times, so now allow me to finally talk a little bit said AU: I call it the “Team Sting Wing” AU, and the short way to describe it is that Jaune ended up following after Vi when she left The Hive, and the two of them formed an exploration team.

A couple other changes in this AU include: Kabbu and Leif end up forming a separate exploration team (I’ve been thinking of calling them “Team Crystalline”), and because Vi and Jaune can both fly the two of them skip over various puzzles and get through many areas somewhat faster. Also, I imagine Jaune would act kind of like a mix of how Kabbu and Leif act like with Vi, where she often tries to keep Vi out of trouble (like Kabbu would), but will totally join her in lots of shenanigans (like Leif would probably like to if Kabbu wasn’t there). This means that Vi would be able to take part in at least a little more chaos. Also, Jaune hates Mothiva just as much, if not more than Vi does (unlike Kabbu, she does call Mothiva a bitch).

Oh, and for the sake of this AU Jaune can fight at least a little decently, partially due to having a Bee as nutty as Vi as her little sister, and she fights using her typical art-related stuff (paint, paint cans, paint brushes, that type of thing).

I’m currently trying to write a little story with this AU, hope you guys are looking forward to that. Heads up, while drawings about this AU are 99% of the time going to be more on the humorous side, the story will be more emotional: it will be largely from Jaune’s Perspective, and the idea is that she’ll often be feeling concerned or conflicted, and she’s gonna learn a fair bit throughout her adventure with Vi. I don’t wanna make it entirely about internal angst or whatever, but I admittedly do want those feelings to be notable part of it (I’ve particularly got ideas for Chapter 5).