#The lack of Mudd and Gum Gum and Bart and Kyborg is why I have a headache actually /j

[pileofpawns]

girl goes one day without listening to her hyperfixation podcast. 12 dead 34 injured.

[pirateshippotato]

Some thoughts/predictions for campaign 3

Also, somewhat obviously, spoilers under the cut

They’re setting this villain up kinda like the princesses are set up in the first episode of She-ra (2018 version). Everyone is training to fight them in these simulations where they’re super scary, but when they actually meet they’re not actually hostile.

I think The Infinights and the Grotethe Gang all had really good character dynamics, and I don’t know how the new characters are going to compare. There’s potential for good character interactions because the players are all really funny, and good friends, but some of the best interactions of past campaigns were between like Bart and Gum Gum, Kyborg and Mudd, Mathilde, and Barney, Chip and Ellga, and I can’t think of what’s going to compare in this new campaign.

I think Tolv mentioned something about looking for his family (either in the episode or in the second wind sneak peak, also why are blaine’s characters family’s always dead or missing?) so that seems like that’ll be his character arc. Maybe his family is being held like an Inku and Bart’s parents situation.

In the past Jon’s characters have been lacking in backstory, and as much as I would like that to change, I don’t see how Nattie is gonna have as fleshed out a backstory as Kyborg or Barney. I guess I could see her having like a mysterious, murdery, past, kinda like Chip, but I’m really not sure.

I don’t know how Gunther is gonna have a character arc, but I said that about Gum Gum and Barney and I love both their plots, so I trust Chris to have a good backstory, I just don’t know what that is gonna be.

And Dug. I actually like Dug way more than I expected, and as I feel with most of my favorite characters I want him to experience immense trauma, if he hasn’t already. That’s a bit dramatic, but I do hope Dug gets some sort of heart wrenching moment later down the line.

The Drill Sargeant seems like he’s gonna be the Dr. Ahem/Alchemist of this campaign. Not in personality, but he fills the roll of exposition character. Also he’s like sarge from red vs blue.

I’m realizing while typing all these thoughts I still have like 20 minutes left in the episode, so we’ll just hope I didn’t majorly contradict anything that happens at the end.

also I still haven’t finished grotethe but I already miss those characters

[nondienary]

i saw this post sharing designs of the infinights in GL2 and it inspired me to share my own! enjoy (i guess)

and obligatory spoilery rambling warning because character design makes me so happy

starting off strong with kyborg!

details i enjoy- his blue hairties and gold ear cuff are inspired by the ones he has in the picture on the home page of the stinky dragon wiki. im especially happy with the ear cuff because it turned out way better than i expected.

i also really like the arm (and yes i know he doesnt have the diagem in it anymore but it needed some pizazz! said pizazz made me temporarily hate myself because it used up his 4th face accessory slot but i don't even remember what other face accessory i wanted for him anymore :P)

also his boots. idk why but i like them

his hair!! i went through a bunch of styles and chose this one and i'm glad i did because this is a pretty accurate representation of how i imagine his hair, including the color! his mom was a redhead so ya boi is a strawberry blond (ish)

details i do NOT enjoy- the fact that gl2 doesnt have a hip quiver :( because i had to add the quiver to his back but that took up his second cape slot so he couldnt have his cloak of many fashions. and also even if i could give it to him w the back quiver i would still want a hip quiver because i imagine him with a hip quiver! because you can't do somersaults barrel rolls with a quiver on your back!

anyway

i probably should have made these separate posts but oh well you signed up for rambling and rambling is what you get!

next up: mudd!

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details i enjoy: his cloak, i spent ages on it because i was overthinking what to do with his cloak of billowing vs his cloak of the secret garden (?) but i'm very happy with what i settled on

the detail in the undercut drove me crazy because again, characters are limited to 4 cace accessory and i was using one for the runes in the undercut. which i obviously changed but that brought me so much pain and misery /lh

im so happy with how his face, especially his eyes turned out because again, i struggled with them for some time. but now his face is SO perfect. except the lack of sideburns.. maybe something with the side hairs? i keep forgetting that's an option in this game

the little daisy earring. spur of the moment addition, so glad i did it.

details i do NOT enjoy: his outfit :( for all the others i knew what i was going for but with mudd i had no clue other than the cloak. it's based off his puppet outfit because i legitimately couldn't think of what he'd wear. i like the shoes and choice of belt but between this and the sideburns mudd is definitely next in line for a redesign

ok someone who was just redesigned is gum gum!

details i enjoy: his face. that is such a gum gum face. wish i couldve added bigger tusks though. and the lil smudge of dirt on his cheek!!!

silly almost easter egg i added is that each of the colors of the rainbow is in his design at least once because dia's whole thing is rainbows and light and stuff. at first i just had it in the accessories and his whole outfit was blue pretty much but i looked at bart after completing all the accessories and i was like GODDAMMIT he has all the colors. and it's actually incorporated into the outfit AND it looks really good.

the fact that vee and i both designed his hat nearly exactly the same completely independently of each other is so epic.

i originally came up with the shoulder flower while working on mudd but i was like "oh wait gum gum's the flowers guy mudd's the animals guy." and gave it to him instead. and i'm very glad i did it fills in that space in the cloak very well.

speaking of the cloak, i very much enjoy it

things i do NOT enjoy:

honest, nothing comes to mind! maybe it's because he was the most recent to get revamped but its so wonderfully gum gum.

and last, and maybe least in stature but not in much else, bart!

things i enjoy about this design: the little thigh dagger. bart is totally the kind of man to strap a dagger to his thigh instead of just attaching the sheath to the belt like a normal person

i made him VERY visibly part dragonborn because it's honestly hilarious. because gum gum has known bart since he was a baby, he knows bart's just Like that. kyborg hadn't interacted with another person in like 30 years before he met them and mudd had probably never seen a halfling in his life, and even if he had, he wasn't just gonna have his first conversation with the guy be "i don't believe you when you say what race you are." tbh mudd's probably applies to kyborg as well. and bart assumed its just because of the different subraces of halfling. he's a stout halfling, alleve is a lightfoot halfling, no wonder she doesn't look like him!

also the hem of the pants is so fun and piratey and i love it and it's perfect.

i also gave him a crystal resembling his diagem, i haven't decided what's going on with that yet. i didn't give mudd one because no way in hell am i trying to make a ring WITH a diagem in it. how about no :3

things i do NOT enjoy: gl2 doesn't have enough curly hair options, specifically for rear hair. so bart's hair in this is not as accurate in this to my mind's eye as the others. its alright it does look good regardless

and that's all ive got in terms of commentary, please enjoy me talking about my silly little hyperfixation guys. byebye!