#RW Gatherer

[boyswhowawa]

Halloween Costumes Day 10!

there was a slight accident with lineart on the wrong layer, but honestly all things considered, I don't think it turned out too bad!!

also, the green boy is Gatherer, Hunter's twin from me and some friends' shenanigans

[ask-the-pioneer]

"I've always been captivated by them. Something about the shiny exterior, how they glimmer when you tumble them around in your hands. My younger self would obsess about them, a childlike fascination. Even back then I instinctively knew they had value. My mom would use pearls I found to pay for a safe passage at scavenger tolls. We tried to bypass those points as much as we could, but sometimes it was unavoidable."

"It's a looong story…. I was found roaming the wilderness by my mentor, who brought me to er, an entity, called an interator. Do you know of iterators? Apparently they are what was left of an ancient civilization that once inhabited these lands. I couldn't wrap my head around it at first. Iterators are massive, absolutely huge, like mountains. Do you see that big structure of a regular, smooth shape?"

[She points towards Five Pebble's can in the distance]

"That is an iterator's «superstrucute». A mountain, the entire thing… is a person. It still sounds crazy when I say it."

"Ah, right, my name… like I mentioned, I got lost and my mentor found me. He brought me to his iterator. If my memory serves me right, his name is «No Significant Harassment», or NSH for short. I recall thinking at that time, «Harassment? I hope he won't be cruel to me». I had no concept of iterator names, their meaning, why it's three or however many words long. It was incredibly confusing to my young mind, though looking back at it I consider myself very lucky. The iterator was, dare I say, «god-like» (his own words), but benevolent. I saw how well he treated Hunter – my mentor – and it made me trust him more, even though I was scared and wary in the beginning."

"Would you believe it if I told you… there are stories written inside the pearls? That those things I’ve been obsessing about all my life are used for storing information? I had many of them leftover from when I lived at a scavenger outpost. One cycle, NSH noticed my interest, and – I wish Hunter had told me about this sooner, but – the iterator shot at my head with something…? And suddenly I could understand everything he said. Not that he said much, because I started crying loudly and ran straight out of there, haha. But before I bolted, he gave me one of his pearls as consolation. I think he felt bad for the scared little me."

"After that, he would eagerly read all the pearls I brought to him. That is how I learned more about the culture of the peoples who were here before me: the Ancients, their customs, why the iterators were built, and much more. It was like the knowledge of the entire world was suddenly revealed to me – to a seemingly insignificant being, a tiny speck in an endless ocean of life. It both made me feel very important, and very small. And, yeah, it has intensified my obsession with pearls beyond mortal limits. What if I could write into a pearl? I could archive the history of my entire species! All the stories my mom told me when I was small? All the places I’ve been to? Or other scugs have been to…"

[Her eyes widen, sparkling with glee]

"Y-yeah… that would be nice… sadly I am what I am – a slugcat. I don’t know how to do this very advanced stuff at all. I have no means of doing this. I once asked NHS for help, but there’s only so much he could guess from my frantic signing. I don’t think he understood me, in the end. But he did appreciate my efforts, and I was given a title – the Pioneer, like a person who is the very first to explore something uncharted. Apparently no slugcat before me thought of reading from or writing into pearls? I find it a little hard to believe."

"This one! This is a very special kind of pearl – it contains an ancient poem from which my name originated. See, my name was a gift from NSH the iterator. It’s spelled: «Mirmyntasseth». The best way I would describe it, is… it’s a name for a feeling, or an experience. The way it was explained to me, is that the word «Mirmyntasseth» is an expression of seeing a marble roll on a flat surface, then hitting another marble. Ah, right, you may not know this – a marble is like, like a pearl, but translucent and even more ornate. I was told that marbles were used by the Ancients for entertainment. They had a game where you rolled one to hit another. I'll admit, I can see the appeal. Throwing rocks is fun, although I image this game was considered a more dignified pastime."

[She tumbles the dark pearl in her hands, admiring its luster]

"The poem inside this pearl, one of its verses spells: «Eight Marbles Cast in Stone». The poem itself is long… very long… I had the iterator read it to me once, and we had to stop in the middle because the rain was coming. Maybe I will ask NSH to read it again, when I’m back at his superstructure with Hunter."

[Her gaze trails off to somewhere far away for a moment, a subtle grimace on her face. She closes her eyes and shakes off the thoughts that cloud her mind]

"So, um… yes… that is why I am called Eight Marbles Cast in Stone, or Marbles for short. I like how it sounds, it has a nice ring to it. And it’s a gift from an iterator, a god-like being. I consider it a great honor."

"…that said, I wonder why he didn’t just name me «Pearl»? Wouldn’t that make more sense? Maybe it didn’t sound cool enough. They’ve used pearls just to store information. I guess it’d be silly to be named «Dirt» because you doodle in dirt, or «Batfly» because you love eating batflies? Hmm…"

[sleepyc63]

art / info dump of an au i've been thinking about for a whiiile

essentially, artificer and gourmand meet and have a pup! his name is the gatherer, named after hunter (hunter-gatherer -- get it?) as a way to honor them after gourmand found them... yknow. anyway, gatherer meets the mother and they have pups of their own: monk, survivor, and wanderer!

wanderer is an oc i made based off of the green sibling in the intro cutscene and "the wanderer" passage. he's spent his adult life searching for the siblings he lost as a pup, which earned him the title "the wanderer" :) i like to think if he existed as a campaign, he would follow a similar story to monk and survivor; either led to the depths and seeing his family in his last moments before ascension, or reuniting with them in outer expanse!

i have more ideas for this au but i’m gonna save that for another post cause it is 4am and i have places to be in the morning lmao

[zahanh]

fellow ragequit enjoyer??????????

RAGEQUIT BOMB 💣💥💥💥💥

💥💥💥

[motheline]

Clover all growed up

She lives in Outer Expanse as one of the last few Slugcats at the Slugtree alongside her sister Frosty and her mother Minty. Her job is to gather supplies and food for the colony during daylight hours.

[pupb-rur]

Some headcannons with how biomechanical each lizard type is

И версия для русскоговорящих. Немного хедов на то, насколько каждый вид ящериц биомеханический

[mewguca]

The people NEED iderator yuri!!!

What kind of iterator yuri you want

also Gathering Petals belongs to @cloverlady

sorry almost all of it is doomed

[aloe-vera-7]

Group photo with the gang

this took me 9+ hours straight holy shit

[autismagolor]

i forgot to post these. anyways hi i made some rain world ocs

they're all on my artfight btw :3

[cloverlady]

My Rain World Iterator OCs! I have a few, but these two are my main ones. Flowering salvation, she/it, and Gathering Petals, she/her.

They're sort of like siblings, but sort of not? If you asked them, even they wouldn't really know how to define their relationship- but it's undeniable that they're attached at the hip, and protect each other no matter what. They even run off the same hardware, sharing a structure. Both are part of Local Group M2, and are close with their Group Senior, Counting Strings of Beads. Before the Public Mass Ascension, their structure was dedicated to the care of Ancients, serving a variety of roles from medical clinic to luxury resort. (Please feel free to ask questions about them! Also, huge shoutout to @fauxbia and @mewguca, who were both instrumental in their development, and who I have the privilege of sharing a lot of cool oc lore with ^^ )

[mothsakura]

"there will be debates at the function" they said. "you'll have such a great time at the function" they said. __ i hc that councils would definitely drag their iterator along to a fancy ceremony or function!! would the iterator like it? depends on the iterator really! RB sure as hell hates this :( i wonder that the ancients did at such an important ceremony that they needed to get all dressed up in fancy attire and so did their iterators. maybe they had very important governmental gatherings too? maybe it was some kind of debate? i hc that ancients value debates a lot, especially during court cases; where the dude who wins the debate will win the court case as well. and after the initial debate there'd be a whole ceremony for the winning team or individual! it'd be one of the only times iterators aren't doing any work so so much things to think about!!! but alas i need to actually write the lore, after all the lore won't write itself!

[needlemeister]

various things

nsh

nsh n hunter

anti gourm

anti spear

scugified oc

riv n twelve-six, my scav oc

cherrypie n fishstick pups

[spotsupstuff]

How is tarrows relationship with the scavs? Does she have any scav friends?

back at Fish's!!!! she has a whole fam, still! well... technically. after her life as a sluggy that was a sister to two scavs and part of a whole tribe, her relationship with them is pretty good. i like to think that animals n such r better capable of feeling out a person's spirit so they'd know that that there is Their Tinkerer

she can Kind of understand them- it's kinda like trying to listen to the second/third language you know but the speaker is going full ham with some accent that makes it hard to completely make sense of their sentences

her rep would be continentally good and she'd still refuse to harm them (both the Tinkerer and the Seafarer aren't capable of hurting scavs, speaking in game terms, n they r locked at chieftain lvl of rep). prolly would go out of her way to help them out n would be all panicked if They panicked cuz of her shotgun

[mxyzptplk]

idea for a saint double sided mtg card

[rw-ship-showdown]

SURVIVOR/HUNTER, a classic tale of opposites. The mundane and lost Survivor could use help from the world weary Hunter... (lost week 1 (41.9% against seafood) -> 69.4% (252 votes) in week 2 -> 53.3% (210 votes) in week 3) SPEARMASTER/SAINT, one throws the spears, and the other can't. Both (assumedly) sent on their quests by an iterator and hapless against a harsh world, surviving by opposite means. (lost week 1 (38.9% against puffball) -> 54.1% (305 votes) in week 2 -> 76.9% (238 votes) in week 3)

This is week 4. Three winners will come out of each bracket and compete in a three way selection in week 5. In week 6, the two winners from both brackets will face off to identify the conclusive winner out of all 44 slugcat ships.

OVERT WINNERS BRACKET: (Nightlight/Cherry Bomb) ♡ (Error 404/Kebab) ♡ (Cherry Bush/Barbecue)

UNDERDOGS BRACKET: (Candy Cane/Spearsaint) ♡ (Lantern Fish/Artisaint) ♡ (Godmode/Boomstick)

[transsexualunderground]

im genuinely so hyped and so nervous for henry. for those who havent seen, theres a top diseased tumblr poll (@/topdisease i dont wanna bomb their notifs) and me, @theflyingkipper, and possibly some others have nominated henry. he's up against a goddamn owl house char first thing. it's a guy the fandom apparently hates but still. we need support, probably, our henry is definitely an underdog. i'll be sure to reblog any and all of his brackets.

Godspeed, Henhouse, godspeed.