#Nyx Panic AU

[zxckboltex]

Nyx is a very bad boy, huh.

He needs some punishment, don't you think?

[piskizinho]

I hate Christmas, I hate New years, I hate December

[rynlovez]

Old drawing of Nyx from the MD Panic AU by Candyasbestos! Didn't add the tail because idk

[random-dude228]

Post it for fun, why not

[itzholly2]

Anyone who has the power to evict these two from my brain, please do it I beg

[notthatracist]

Md panic au shitpost… #1 ?

[vespalover24]

I made in Breeze Town some Panic AU and Pallette AU characters ✨

[dead-in-the-zone]

:; As of recently I've gotten into the Panic AU and got super interested in the story... Here's some fanart lmao

:; I know these are all paper art, bite me. I will turn them digital in the future and remake this post.

[adeline-gardina-sarah]

A little sketch of Nyx . Nyx and the Panic AU belong to @candyasbestos . The Panic AU is a murder drones AU

[hidden-1n-the-sand]

doodle of what i look like in headspace. (well. its just a. headspace face reveal ig)

rest in peace sticky note i maybe should have been gentler when organizing our drawings. also will wood lyrics(ignore the shitty handwriting)

[candyasbestos]

Here's something a little sweeter for you guys, a spin-off au of sorts from the panic au. This one is gonna be more slice of life and fluff, plus nhad because there's a disappointing lack of nhad in the fandom

Either way, here's a simple synopsis of the plot!

After an accident with uzi's solver niko woke up one morning split into three. Handed to Thad while uzi finds a way to undo this fuck-up Nyx, Neo and Nel all have to navigate their feelings for Thad and the silly arguments they constantly get into.

All fun this time, can't wait to draw up more stuff for this au on the side! Oh, and a note, this au has no narrative ties to the panic au other than nyx being a returning face! I just like him lol

[oldmanjenkins985]

So, I wanted to talk about something since MD Twitter in particular seems to be having some issues with a current trend in the MD fandom. That being the Panic AU by @candyasbestos (apologies in advance for the ping, just felt like maybe you'd wanna see this)

So I'd like to start right off the bat by saying anyone who is uncomfortable with this AU is completely reasonable for being that way. It's more so that uncomfortableness leading to disdain for the AU that I wanna talk about.

So, I'm a horror fan. I watch plenty of things on horror movies and play plenty of horror games. And what exactly does horror media try and do? Make the player horrified and uncomfortable. Seeing grotesque imagery which may make you wanna vomit. One of the games that comes to mind for something that's definitely meant to make people uncomfortable and not just scared is Fear & Hunger. It's a game with incredibly uncomfortable imagery, sometimes due to gore and other times due to sexual themes. And it's perfectly reasonable for that to turn people off, yet I've never seen anyone have the kind of reaction to stuff like that compared to the reactions some people have had to the Panic AU

And that's the thing with the Panic AU, it makes *N* uncomfortable. Uncomfortable with himself due to Nyx's influence on him. That is the entire point of the AU it seems. And Nyx himself seems to be some kind of representation of mental illness (pretty standard horror trope, I know). I'm not an expert in the subject despite dealing with it quite a bit so I won't name any specific mental illnesses it could be, but it's clear to me Nyx is some kind of urge of N's.

I've made plenty of characters like Nyx for my original works that are also meant to be representations of mental illness. Voices that whisper to you to do terrible things, creatures that make you feel worthless and shut down, etc. I make these not only because I find them scary but also as reflections of my own experience with mental illness. And it's that first point again that makes me question people's reactions to it.

People have said "It's grossly out of character for N" and stuff like that which...honestly that makes me think they only saw the initial wave of art and don't really know how N feels about the whole situation. But the other thing is that so many AUs have intentionally mischaracterized N because of what the AU is. And I'm not talking just swap AUs, I've seen plenty where N's character is wildly different because of the circumstances of the AU. And I see the Panic AU no different.

I also saw another comment of someone saying "We shouldn't normalize behavior like this" and again, I question whether the person has actually researched the thing they're talking about. Nyx, the thing that makes everyone uncomfortable, is very clearly the *villain* of the AU. He killed Uzi, he wants N to kill Thad, he's a horrid little creature. Are villains not meant to do things we disdain? Murder, torture, etc. It's prefectly understandable these things would make people uncomfortable, but isn't that what many villains do? There's plenty of media with torture scenes in them which make people uncomfortable, but that's the point! Hell, some kid shows have torture scenes. What about the Lich's design from Adventure Time? He's a rotting corpse! In a kid show! His design is clearly meant to make the viewer uncomfortable.

So again, while I don't think anyone is in the wrong for being uncomfortable due to the AU, I think many of the criticisms are unfair. A piece of media which is specifically designed to make people uncomfortable should not be criticized for that very reason. Avoid it all you want, that's completely reasonable! Never feel like your reasons for being uncomfortable are unwarrented. But I'm just saying that if you were to critique Silent Hill because it's themes of mental illness and character depictions made you uncomfortable, and that was a *negative*, it just seems a little weird to me.

This is all just my opinion, obviously I'm not THE definitive person on the matter. And I'm not saying anyone who has the AU blocked or anything should check it out. I'm just saying, many people seem to be judging it unfairly.

[piskizinho]

The freaky weird guy

It's Nyx :D

[dangerdoodlenoodle]

Md Panic Au Nyx

[lolkitkatbar]

Drawing AU's but drawing them as accurate as possible to the OG artist's artstyle

First up is Panic AU by @candyasbestos. I did NYX a disservice. Ignore him and just look at N and Uzi. Don't even look him in the eyes. He got redesigned again anyways so fuck it.

They're kinda cramped in there but it felt incomplete if I didn't include all three.

[itzholly2]

What now, Nyx?