#So he just gets his little DQIX thingy

[sysig]

The complete collection

I realized a bit after the fact that importing my OCs wholesale into DQIX didn’t really work since most of them aren’t human, so I’m going to give general descriptions instead. Here we go!

Bar, the Mage: He doesn’t understand why there aren’t any guns in the game, but is satisfied enough with learning how to use knives. Shooting magic out of knives is almost like a gun, right? He wants to flirt with any good-looking guy, but that pool is a bit dry by the by. The closest would probably be eggdad and technically his game counterpart hasn’t been acquainted yet

Cerysidae, the Priest: Cerysidae is generally busy, and is relatively new, so her opinion is kind of lax. The character customization certainly wasn’t enough to capture all of her, and the name was too short, and the outfits thus far are a bit lackluster, but she’s definitely happy to be a supporting role. Kind of like a vacation, haha

Nequam, the Thief: Nequam actually is a thief, and is also dead, so his opinion doesn’t really count lol. Honestly though, he’s albino, he’s got his gloves, and at one point he had a cape, so he’s good. Turning him into a priest was pretty funny, since he’s like, 7 and a half feet tall, and Cerysidae is about 5′ - having to switch gear on them was pretty good haha

Gijat, the Martial Artist: Part of the B team, Gijat is probably the actual closest to his character at this point lol. Obviously I couldn’t give him both the pink and silver hair but close enough~ He’s got a whole big mess of scars and his husband is part of his team too

Tid, the 2nd Priest: I deliberated forever on that face, it’s not at all like Tid lol. But I had to include him, and he was very obviously a priest, he’s the most support class character I think I have haha. He’s married to Gijat in every iteration that exists of him. Also he’s the same species as Bar, this is just his human form, and he’s a cutie <3 He’s wearing a Swinedimples Blazer because he’s a DORK!

Mint, the Warrior: Aight, so to get the effect I wanted, I had to make Mint a girl, but he’s a boy. There’s no particularly long hair for boys, disappointing, and his hair goes well past his butt. Not so for the game but closer haha. He’ll be a Paladin when we unlock that, because he Cannot Chill for even two seconds about being as Extra as possible. He’s also going to go into battle wearing as little armour as possible because that’s just how he is. He 100% believes in the adage of “less armour = more protection”

And that’s everyone so far! Excluding me, The Dork™ who had a crush on Erinn but that crush has floated over to Morag, Voluptua, etc. I definitely don’t have a type or anything hahahaha

[tumblunni]

DR SNAP I LOVE YOU AAAAA

guys I just heard about a NEW SCIENCE GRANDPA *slams fist on the table* FUCK YEAH I will hug all the this one specific character type until the end of time

What's even better is that he seems to straight up actually be Nice Hojo, aka the first science villain I ever liked and then was Incredibly Betrayed By when he turned from funny sassy sidekick guy to child abuse fetal experimentation super duper ultra murder potentially-rape-potentially-domestic-abuse man. And then incredibly confused when his final boss fight tried to be all feelsy and sad and I was just like ok so we are backpedalling to what I wanted him to be but it is too late sorry!! Still the best boss fight ever tho, fuckin punch him in the face three times in increasing monsteriness for not living up to my cute gramp hopes. ALSO HOW DARE YOU BECOME A COOL MONSTER TOO, YOU DONT DESERVE SUCH A NEAT DESIGN

So yeah

This dude

IS CUTE GRAMP AND ALSO ALMOST EXACTLY THE SAME MONSTER DESIGN???

Underappreciated man Dr Snap from Dragon Quest Monsters: Joker 1! Also his monster boss form is called Dr Snapped and I'm just like mmyes gud pun, thankyee

He is still a mad science villain yes, but he is very polite and endearing and round and soft!! And has a spooky final boss form that's even more terrifying than Helletic Hojo and has a cool aesthetic with the floaty orbs and also lil skittery centi-legs. Pretty much the only thing I don't like here is the weird jowls, I dunno why but that creeps me out the most. I guess just cos it looks close to a normal human face but like if the cheek meats were all sliced up and melting. Thankfully the game doesn't seem to indicate that he's in pain in any way, so that's a relief. He' like WEIRDLY POLITE AND CHEERFUL ABOUT EVERYTHING INCLUDING BECOMING A HELLBEAST

Good boy. Soft mans. Sweet grampe.

"oh whoopsie doopsie I appear to have dropped my arms and earlobes, sorry about that sonny"

Srsly he's not going "I'm a monster"in horror here, his next line is basically "yay this wasn't part of my plan but this is even better!"

His entire villain plan is just cos he loves and cherishes monsters too much, and embodies all the virtues of a monster tamer to a dangerous extreme. He thinks monsters are more pure and good than humanity and the only way to truly get humanity to live with them in peace is to let monsters take over the world entirely. And he's like "oh golly gosh my dream came true" when he becomes the world's scariest goddamn Frankenstein centipede, and is happy that he can fix the world even more super duper double much by making everyone become monsters too! It'll solve all problems!! Somehow!! The key to eternal peace is becoming cute abominations like me, yay!!

Srsly wtf he's so endearing I absolutely adore him AND ALSO HIS PHILOSOPHY IS BASICALLY THE SAME AS ME WHEN IM PLAYING ANY GAME WHERE I HAVE TO FIGHT MONSTERS. Like I was excited about this joker game in the first place cos I always feel sad having to kill all those cute designs in the dragon quest series!!! I wanna be their friend!!! It's a shame that this came out before dqix tho so it doesn't have that cute cow pattern vampire bat thingie or the slug with lips. THEY WERE MY FOREVER FRIENDS

So yeh I'm kinda sad that from what I've heard the game isn't sympathetic to Dr Snap at all despite making him FUCKIN ADORABLE and his entire motives being exactly the same as yours, just corrupted. I would have expected some sort of ending where you can convince him he's wrong and have a big speech about a better solution and stuff, and it's all motivational? Cos srsly it just seems like he somehow lost faith in humanity and felt like this extreme solution was the only way to achieve peace. I wonder if he had some sort of sad backstory where he saw a forest of monsters killed by humans polluting the environment or something. Or lived a sad childhood and his only friend was a pet monster that died defending him from his abusive parents. OR BOTH. Srsly I just feel like it takes a big trauma to lead to a guy being this messed up cos I know my own "humans suck, I will always side with the monsters detsroying humanity" feels come from being abused as a kid.

BUT NO

JUST

HE BAD HE DIE

Also the damn weirdness of your own monster partner saying "he's no longer human so we have to kill him"

I never fuckin understand "being non human in any way equals automatically evil and no human rights" as a morality. Morality should always be about what you DO, not what you are! This dude is still 100% sentient and going golly gosh all over the place but now it's okay to murder him without even trying to talk him down???

Apparently you can actually unlock his monster form as a playable party member in the sequel, but it's not actually him and just like.. same species, by merging some other species together.

But no I choose to reject that reality and instead believe that we motivational speech'd him and restored his faith in humanity and ended the fight without a murder, and he stopped his plan and just went home with us to be our wonderful new eldritch grandpa forever. And now he works hard to make up for his sins, and also do research on monsterness from the monster perspective so we can find even more ways to bring friendship and peace to the two worlds. And someone sewed him a new cute fancy labcoat to fit all his extra tentacle arms!! And little glasses with sticky pads on the nose bridge so they stay on even though his head is kinda indented in his torso now. Also he can hug twice as many baby Slimes with all the extra limbs, yes!!!!! MY ELDRITCH GRAMPS BAKES ELDRITCH COOKIES AND THIS IS THE ONLY ENDING I WILL EVER ACCEPT

So uhh yeh anyways this has been bunni accidentally stumbling upon the ending to a game they've never played via pixiv and now being filled with the strongest fire to play it

I MUST SEE THE WHOLE STORY OF GRAMP...

Also thank u to pixiv user [D.J] who makes many fanarts of obscure sad science villain grandpas getting cuddles and happiness. I feel like my goddamn soul twin is living on the other side of the planet where I can never tell them how much I love their art :(