#TOUCHSTARVED seaspring

[carp-from-space]

Lil concept sketch inspired heavily by @assmaster-8000 post about found footage seaspring.

[silverryuan]

Another far-fetched theory...

So remember the part where Ais said it's not bad to be a black sheep?

This sort of implies that Ais must've been a sacrificial lamb possibly as an offering to Ocudeus. Was the Hivemind a cult before turning into a gang? Were the other sacrificial lambs members of it? And who was the Shepherd?

[westbifire]

Another background sketch i did ft. the Seaspring and Ais (I also might make the one on the right an illustration we'll see)

[mstrchu]

?̵̦̤̙̠̊̒̿͝ ̷͙̫̬͚̪̥̟̄̾̈́?̵̡̩̯͉͔̒̎̎̈̑̐͝ ̸͇̟̽͜?̴̨̹̳̣̙̙͇̈̂̌̀͑̒̑̅ͅ

[fattummyt]

The scheming eunuch smirk™️

original meme reference under the cut

[k3n999]

ohh my godd one day. ONE DAY I'm gonna find the time to yap abt Ais, write 100 paragraphs abt why I love this red horn-y man so much if I could. I'm not very good at putting my thoughts into words but I really need to do it. It's hurt to keep everything in your head for too long. So I hve to get it all out🧑‍🦽hhhhhhggggghhhhhhhh

[allswellinthiswell]

are u lost, baby sparrowrr?

[adastra121]

I have an Ais headcanon.

Ais writes poetry.

Ais has always had a fascination for language. Language is connection. In each exchange, it binds people together, gives each person a glimpse into another’s existence — in some ways, Seaspring’s Groupmind is a pale facsimile of the same phenomenon, a cheap shortcut to knowing another soul without taking the time to listen. Language is connection and for someone who detests isolation, Ais’s hungry soul can never devour its fill.

He picks up on the subtle ways that words interact with the world — the ways in which one word can mean one thing, but can transform in meaning when paired with another. The ways in which a word can grow and evolve with people. The ways in which words are alive.

The more he listens, the more he learns, the more he holds — words, language, entire worlds in his mind and on the page, arranged and rearranged, meanings shifting and transforming, to give shape to a moment. To existence. Scrawling it all down as a way to parse out which thoughts and feelings are still his. Even if they aren’t, there is a comfort to penning down lost souls’ words as they defiantly continue to leave their marks on the world they, for the most part, could only drift through.

So he writes and fills pages with thoughts, feelings, observations. Experiments with the words, the syntax. He writes poems in every new language he learns.

[quabbeigh]

Okay so with the updated Touchstarved demo, I finally got around to decoding (or attempting to decode) the one note left at the Seaspring:

We all remember this, right? I figured it wasn't just nonsense, and turns out if you go backwards in the alphabet from each letter by seven, you get a coherent sentence.

"Never wish on a shooting star he's always listening."

I could fully be reading too much into this, but I don't think I am! I think it could be foreshadowing for something in the future, although I don't know what?

[diamndkarma-vn]

Ais's isolation is on my mind AH

The hinting at him being a seasoned leader, implying he used to be surrounded by people, only to lose them all somehow (maybe something to do w Ocudeus?)

How he doesn't even really seem to have himself either--possibly losing his own sense of self and his mind the longer he's possessed

Ais lives at the shrine way outside of Eridia where someone would only dare to come to not for his company but for the seaspring

If he does want companionship, he probably has to be the one to go out and seek it, not vice versa bc again--seaspring out in the scary wastes ain't a walk in the park

Repeatedly bringing up how bad of an impression he's made on the MC since they arrived as if he doesn't want to miss out on a potential companion

I wonder how Ais would respond if MC became a prominent figure for him--leaving or dying--and leaving him behind to be alone again. Would he be resigned to it bc he's lost count of how many times it's happened or will they be a breaking point?

[portsandstars]

It's a relief that they can't open doors

[carp-from-space]

Taking a dip

[aiscapades]

the fact ais was the first character created and they're called red spring studio

[bigmeandragonlady]

bio re-do! (template here)

[6okuto-moved]

About the Ais hc, I'm thinking......his pets and yours would eventually get along to the point that would spark the thought of living together and waking up next to e/o and being domestic and lovely and:(((( *screams and cries*

KNocks down your door. i am here. and i am losing it . imagine if it's a pet that is like...soo much smaller than the soulless... ogh those clips of the cat and dog coming to snuggle with the other who's already sleeping...it's so over. it's soooo over. getting them little outfits too... I love pets bro...i love those little animal friends....

there's no way to be all-encompassing of every pet for a proper drabble but like! the idea of! you joking about how your pets have gotten so attached to his, how they always perk up when you mention visiting. and ais humming as he continues to watch them play... and then Half joking about moving in together so they can see each other more often.

and you're like hahah. for real? and he turns to see the shock/hesitancy on your face, and he smiles, and he teases you like what? you don't want to move in with me? (he's partially hiding the fact that he's sort of nervous you actually don't.) and he knows princess probably wouldn't be welcomed by most renters, huh? would you rather come here? (wherever Here is. i have no idea where he sleeps every night. is it the seaspring...) or maybe build a house somewhere else?

he's turned to keep watching your pets play together at this point, and you think his voice is oddly calm for what he's proposing. your mind is reeling at the thought of living with and waking up to him—not new thoughts, and definitely not unwelcome ones either. so after a few beats of silence you say you'd like that. and he doesn't respond at first, maybe to see if you keep speaking. and you say you're not sure where or how, but if you could live together, you'd really like that. and so would they, probably.

and :(( AAAHHH... ais saying he probably has spare room for you somewhere. and you say what? you don't sleep in the seaspring rafters every night? and he's like ? the amount of back problems i'd have. and then you both laugh and WAAHHH

[starlit-eudemonia]