#Turquoisephoenix's Asks

[turquoisephoenix]

You are so powerful. Grubba gang rise up

Thank you! Grubba's really fun to work with because it's basically me turning a big dial that says "Washed Up Ex-Star" on it and constantly looking back at the audience for approval.

His laptop is playing St. Elmo's Fire.

[turquoisephoenix]

Don't worry, @thedooms .

If it makes you feel any better, I've convinced a lot of people to play MediEvil this year. My influence is terrifying.

Not to steal that anon's thunder, but you and TurquoisePhoenix convinced me to play too. I normally don't even like tactical-style RPGs, but the strength of the game and the writing blew me away. Thanks for basically shoving your hyperfixation in my face until I caved XD /genuine

HELL YEAH BROTHER LET'S GOOOO WE GOT ANOTHER ONE!!!!

[hungry-skeleton]

Ghost Roaster, Fiesta, Funny Bone, and Count Moneybone for the ask meme. I desire skeleton takes.

Ghost roaster:

INSANE I'M INSANE. Also bingo

Fiesta:

NEED that guys gender

Funny bone:

He's just a silly litol guy to me

Count moneybone:

I wouldn't be as crazy stupid about him if @/turquoisephoenix 's art didn't exist

[thankskenpenders]

Hello! I just wanted to ask if you also have the very specific childhood memory of browsing the Extras menu on your copy of Sonic Mega Collection and spending a ridiculous amount of time looking at the Archie Comics covers while listening to that really chill music track. I definitely remember, as a kid, thinking the Knuckles covers were cool and wondering what stories they contained. Imagine my disappointment finding out the neat cover with Charmy standing over another injured bee involves LSD.

Oh you know it. As a kid who had an extremely incomplete view of the first 111 issues it was definitely An Experience browsing through the covers while the music played and just wondering how cool the events of those issues must have been based on the Spaziante covers

[party-cat-anthem]

🍃

You remind me of Olaf!

[cyberstarlope]

Jeez sorry no wonder people like turquoisephoenix

1. I asked u nicely to back off

2. You ignored that and responded in an even more demanding manner, completing ignoring the obvious fact that I was already upset

3. So like,,, do u just see artists as machines cranking out art solely for u? What kind of entitled asshole are u? Yeah go bug them as many times as u did me, see if they like it

[turquoisephoenix]

I misinterpreted Tubba Blubba's heart hole as a bow tie and I thought he and bow were getting married for some reason. Still not the weirdest ship.

I have decided to issue a correction. Now they're getting married.

He borrowed that tuxedo from his uncle. When he asked "why do you have a suit my size?", Grubba responded "don't worry about it" and didn't elaborate.

[turquoisephoenix]

You mentioned that you think after Grubba gets out of jail he has an uneasy friendship with Prince Mush. Do you think you could elaborate on that some? Like what do their interactions look like? Just curious as to how you think a murderer and a revived victim of his would act as friends

Okay, this one might be a little long, takes a bit of setting up, and involves some headcanons.

And I will emphasize that the relationship is "uneasy" and they're not exactly inviting each other to watch movies or anything. Grubba should be thankful that Prince Mush even wants to speak to him and give him occasional updates on how the Glitz Pit is running, at his request, while he's sitting in jail and later under house arrest (albeit a cozy house arrest at his tacky rodeo clown of a home, but he has to do it all with an ankle monitor).

Prince Mush is just something of a saint, very mellow, and extremely forgiving. He's just a bit of a wide-eyed shonen protagonist fueled by the power of friendship.

To explain why Prince Mush is so understanding where Grubba was coming from with his most terrible actions, both Prince Mush and Grubba have similar backstories - they were originally from poor backgrounds but then climbed their way to the top to become champion fighters.

This leads me to believe that Prince Mush grew up as a fan of Grubba. Especially since I made Grubba the type of fighter that had a LOT of merchandising and star appeal thanks to some rather aggressive contracts by his fight promoter/agent, who swooped in and saw a business opportunity. Prince Mush had secondhand toys of Grubba that they found in the local Rogueport goodwill because the store shelves were just flooded with them. Prince Mush bought some of his T-shirts and had a few of his toys.

And Prince Mush and Grubba got along for a good several years! Prince Mush had a very cushy Champion's life and his family got to see all of his matches and he was very comfortable! Grubba made sure to NOT treat Prince Mush the way he was treated in the past. Prince Mush had health benefits and vacation plans. Everything was good! Grubba was a good maybe-a-father-figure, maybe-just-an-older-friend type of cool old dude.

Until, one night, Prince Mush alerted Grubba to a strange machine that he found underneath the Glitz Pit Arena while he was training late one night. After Grubba asked him if he told anyone else (Prince Mush thankfully said no, so no killing spree for Grub), Prince Mush lead him to the strange machine and asked him "who could do such a thing?"

Grubba responded by hitting him in the back of the head, knocking him unconscious. They didn't even have an epic battle between champion and monster; instead Grubba panicked, acted like a cornered rat, and then immediately had to cover up the resulting disappearance.

Cut to a few more years later where Prince Mush is suddenly waking up in the Glitz Pit Arena and his own sister is telling him how he straight up died and his blood was on Grubba's hands, all while a little Italian plumber is waving at him and going "wahoo".

So in short, Prince Mush doesn't remember his own death and has to get all of his information secondhand from other people who were way way more traumatized about the events.

And Mush, being Mush...can't bring himself to hate Grubba.

At least, not totally.

Jolene hates Grubba with every fiber of her being and is very much a "if I see you outside of prison, it's on sight, mfer" type of person. Rawk Hawk has really mixed feelings about Grubba and oscillates between rage-filled hatred and survivor's guilt where he second-guesses all the nice things Grubba ever did for him, knowing that he could've been drained and shoved in a dirty old attic. He even visited Grubba in jail and had a shouting match with him as both of them had to unpack a lot of mental baggage. Rawk Hawk's change of heart is fueled by the fact that Rawk Hawk has grown self-conscious and scared of becoming as lost as his mentor.

Prince Mush? When he pieces the story together - the young star exploited at a young age so afraid of aging, so afraid of giving up his own business, that he'll use a magic demon artifact to render himself immortal at the cost of his own humanity and becomes a paranoid monster that can't get close to anyone without hurting or killing them...

He just finds Grubba sad.

And when he tells Grubba to his face while he's sitting in the prison cell, Grubba wishes he got the anger instead.

Having his whole empire crumble and having to live with the consequences of his actions just renders him a pathetic, broken man. He needed wellness checks during his first week of prison just to make sure he didn't do anything drastic. (being away from the Crystal Star that made him young and strong for the first time in 40 years and realizing that he was gonna wither and turn into an old man made him just a touch suicidal for a little while)

On top of all of this, once it becomes more common knowledge that the Crystal Stars were connected to the Shadow Queen, Grubba isn't even sure how much of his actions were his own or if he was Corrupted By the Amulet. Everyone - including him - believes he was mostly in control, but it sure doesn't feel good either way having to second-guess just how much of the past few decades were of your own free will and how much of it was demonic influence and you were just Golluming your way into murder because the shiny rock needed more blood for the blood god.

TTYD is very much a game that ends on the idea of forgiveness for the villains. I'm not going to have Prince Mush stay with Grubba ala Vivian hanging out with her shitty sister Beldam, but Prince Mush seems like a cool enough dude to at least extend a hand and say "yeah you killed me, but now you're in a position where you can't harm anyone else ever again and since you're a paranoid and have like 60 mental illnesses, I'm not going to kick you while you're down and instead tell you that the Glitz Pit isn't on fire and that my sister Jolene is doing a GREAT job".

And eventually Grubba...feels more at peace with himself than he's been in over 40 years.

TL;DR, Prince Mush forges a shaky relationship with his own murderer because his murderer's mental health was impacted by both demonic magic and the exploitation of Hollywood stardom but things are actually kinda looking up? Prince Mush actually wants Grubba to get better, Jolene wants Grubba to choke and perish, and Rawk Hawk is unsure whether he sides with Mush or Jolene.

[turquoisephoenix]

Can we talk about how skinny Macho Grubba’s upper arms are compared to his lower arms/biceps?

That cannot be healthy…

Oh yeah so basically the Gold Crystal Star is inflicting mild body horror on Grubba in exchange for a power boost. He also grows claws and spikes and a longer tail too for additional balance. He's not just getting big, he's having any perceived flaws in his body temporarily erased through just a wee bit of possibly painful shapeshifting. (he just also stays a big round dinosaur because he likes being a big round dinosaur)

Sometimes I'm tempted to draw golden veins on his upper arms to really bring that home but I think I draw Macho Grubba scary enough without that added detail...

[turquoisephoenix]

Um, hi. I apologize for barging in about this, but…

I saw your posts about the roleswap AU with Mags and Krankcase, and I absolutely fell in love with it. My brain immediately kicked into overdrive about it, and I was wondering… does anyone else swap besides those two?

I feel like if so, Wolfgang and Krypt King would switch roles (ie. Wolfgang is a Trap Team member and Krypt King is a Doom Raider) and so would Gulper and Snap Shot (same thing).

Long story short, I have the compilation of “Wolfgang swearing while replacing broken strings on his Traptanium Harp”, “Gulper being a lovable doofus”, “Krypt King being Golden Queen’s lovesick butler”, and “feral Snap Shot getting his head stuck in something” rotating in my head now, nonstop.

Help.

Ah yes, these two! It's been a while since I poked around with their AU.

I actually had two versions of this AU, actually!

FIRST VERSION OF THE ROLESWAP AU - literally only Dr. Krankcase and Mags get swapped, Mags becomes a Doom Raider and the Doom Raiders either have two Undead members or Mags is a Tech type when she's got mechanical spider legs. Dr. Krankcase becomes a lovable dork at the Academy.

SECOND VERSION OF THE ROLESWAP AU - It was multiple characters being swapped and may or may not be similar to the Mirrorverse, but all I figured out was Master Eon swaps with Kaos, Kaossandra swaps with Aurora (basically implying that Kaos' mom joins in for the last sequel), Count Moneybone swaps with Fiesta, and Hex swaps with Malefor (Malefor would be a lot smaller and more Skylander shaped, while Hex is a horrible eldritch abomination witch).

I love your ideas though. Golden Queen doesn't get swapped either way because it's really hard to beat a golden queen living in some desert ruins.

[turquoisephoenix]

i need old man grubba sitting in a retirement home postgame

I'm still debating how fast he'll start aging after he gets his shiny star taken from him (I like to think he just starts aging at a normal rate but he's such a paranoid bastard about it that he gets addicted to various skincare and hair routines while everyone is asking him to please get therapy because a single wrinkle isn't the end of the world) but I feel like he would never enter a nursing home and, if you suggested he go to one, he'd immediately punch you right in the kidneys.

[turquoisephoenix]

If that rumored Medievil movie does happen and they do the typical hire a big name actor to play the main character like say they got Tom Hiddleston to be Sir Dan.

The funniest thing they could do is to market the heck out of Tom Hiddleston being Dan, there’s countless interviews where he’s like “this is a dream come true” or “I really had to work hard to get into character”. Don’t even reveal or imply how Dan actually sounds like.

Then the movie comes out and he voices living Dan for about 6 minutes until he dies, comes back as a skeleton and does nothing but Dan’s iconic mumbling.

I can picture the animated film trailer now...

[sweeping shot of a grassy medieval countryside as a pan flute plays. Various animation logos pop up.]

Esteemed British narrator (v/o): Long ago, in the kingdom of Gallowmere, there lived a daring knight...

[Establishing shot of a man getting up out of bed with physical humor involved. The pan flute stops when he trips and falls, scattering furniture for a couple seconds as the only sounds are crashing effects before getting up and facing the camera. Close-up of Dan's face as he smiles, showing big goofy teeth.]

Esteemed British narrator (v/o): Named Dan.

[Smash cut to Sir Daniel training, with more physical humor punctuated by pained grunts and yells as triumphant music plays. It's a whole montage of him poorly swinging a sword, falling off a horse, and landing in mud puddles and horse manure. The kids in the audience are giggling.]

Tom Hiddleston (v/o): I just KNOW I'm destined to be somebody! I'm not going to go down in history as Sir Daniel the Goof or Sir Daniel the...Fall Down Things Guy!

[We're at the Battle of Gallowmere. The triumphant orchestra swells. Dan does his goofy smile that made the kids laugh as he stands in full armor in front of a bunch of other knights. Everyone is expecting him to trip and fall again]

Esteemed British narrator (v/o): There's just one problem...

[An arrow flies through the air and pierces Dan's helmet with a sickening crunch, causing him to fly backwards. The music stops as we focus on Dan's lifeless body on the ground.]

Esteemed British narrator (v/o): He's dead.

[sudden smash cut to the MediEvil logo]

Cover artist (v/o): BOOOOOOOONE TO BE WIIIIIIIIIILD....

[turquoisephoenix]

Does your Canny Tim have a last name or is he just Canny Tim?

He's just Canny Tim, and it's sometimes written in public records like Tim is a last name. When he ran away from home, he rejected his last name as well as his first and created his identity from scratch. He's only a little bit more comfortable giving away his last name if he trusts you, but he basically has double the deadnames.

Canny Tim is a bit of a goofus in that, when renaming himself, he only really thought of a good first name. The last name was still in the brainstorming stages when he died because he just plain couldn't make up his mind on a cool last name. According to historical records, he's just Canny Tim.

Also at one point he pitched the surname "Manson" while both him and Dan were training for battle but Daniel was like "That's a bit on the nose, Tim".

Sidenote: Sir Daniel Fortesque is basically this tumblr post in regards to his gender and birth name. (he's bisexual and cis+; he looked at his assigned gender at birth and was like "yeah no complaints here")

[turquoisephoenix]

One thing I find funny about official drawings of Sir Daniel Fortesque when he’s alive is that they always just take his skeleton and put some skin on him which makes him look so weird and off.

Like they forget he would at least still have muscles, fat and the lower half of his skull. His most distinctive trait when he’s alive would likely be his teeth.

Yeah I always found the canon living versions of Sir Daniel Fortesque a little disappointing. It definitely feels like when they shrink-wrap a dinosaur in paleoart, but with a human man.

It's like the British Museum saying "Well, we couldn't find his lower jaw, so we're just gonna assume that his lower jaw was so small and insignificant that it never mattered anyways" only to wheel out some poor early 19th century taxidermy where there's googly eyes in Dan's eye sockets.

That being said, I think the best human design we got was in the PSP game if only because they leaned so far into the absurdity of drawing skin on a skeleton that it actually kinda works for me? I don't use it either but I respect it.

This is ironically the only Sir Daniel Fortesque design that feels like he would've been a goofy, dumbass man in life. The vibes are definitely right with this one, unlike the two we got with the 2019 release that were "sex pest" and "charmingly ugly man but where's the goof".

[turquoisephoenix]

Is Canny Tim trans in your Medievil story?

Yes.

I'm just unsure whether to go the realistic route (No HRT, Canny Tim binds and stuffs) or the magical anachronism route (his witch friend is brewing him a supply of HRT made out of pumpkins, maybe she cast the Spell Of Deboobing) for Canny Tim's transition.

I'm leaning towards the latter because being in The Hall of Heroes for centuries in a medieval binder sounds as cruel of a punishment as entering the Hall of Heroes with no skin or organs. Canny Tim can have a little top surgery as a treat, why not. There's magic.

[turquoisephoenix]

Are there any songs you associate with Dr. Krankcase? I’m trying to make a playlist for him

I have a few! Judging by the song lyrics his moves actually reference, I think the best Dr. Krankcase playlist would have a lot of dad rock from the 70's-80's with the occasional song that mentions wooden legs.

Thus, I present the following songs:

I'm Shipping Up to Boston by Dropkick Murphys (Climbing up the topsails, I lost my leg!)

Dentist! from the Little Shop of Horrors album

Flagpole Sitta by Harvey Danger (Put me in the hospital for nerves, And then they had to commit me, You told them all I was crazy, They cut off my legs, now I'm an amputee)

Going Down in Flames by 3 Doors Down

You Give Love A Bad Name by Bon Jovi (referenced in his Soul Gem)

To Hell With Love by Chris Thompson (from the Tabaluga and the Magic Jadestone album)

Jump by Van Halen