#a playable slice. yknow.

[bobzora]

hate drawing backgrounds & not good at them anyway -> oh i'll just 3d model the backgrounds for my game -> wait. i still have to design the locations to model them. mfw

[one-pump-chump]

@stabknives haiiii again. hi.

how’d he meet trev trev? like disss of course. he’s the cameraman!! or, yknow. he replaces the cameraman in this cutscene.

yes i guess this means ending c is my canon worldstate (BOOOOO fake tragedy/dead dove enjoyer) anyway. he notices trevor scrambling away and manages to scramble away himself to chase him down! follows him all the way to devin weston’s house, watches the trio push him off a cliff. they “meet” literally 10 seconds after the credits roll when trev wonders away (WHY DIDN’T YOU GIVE HIM A RIDE MICHAEL YOU SELFISH PRICK.) he notices a little freak watching him from the bushes. who saw the whole thing. aaand yeah that’s it. i have very little else to go on. 👍

random bit of info i decided on years ago though, was that trevor learns connor is trans very early, like. in the first day or two, somehow, there’s no big reveal, and trevor’s curiosity and light harassment is a big part of their back and forth. back in those early-concept-connor days it was because trev kidnapped him instead of patricia, (as he worked for mr madrazo) and. yknow. groped him a lil, as you do. felt the goods, or lack thereof. don’t really know where i’m going with this but that doesn’t apply anymore. i do think logically the only way he’d find out early on is through sexual harassment/assault though cos connor is one of those binary, knew my whole life, stealth trans dudes. he’s not ashamed, far from it; just another obstacle he overcame, another bit of control he gained over his own fate - but he isn’t letting random people know.

i could see him meeting michael eventually? in passing? trevor talks about him a lot. he doesn’t really see the appeal. if they got to know each other well enough for connor to see michael for what he is, i bet the crazy dynamic they’d have would rival that of michael and trevor. i don’t really know How, i just know it would. his thoughts on franklin would likely be the same as trevor and michael’s. good kid 👍 respectable. he pulled himself out of gutter, just like him. you should smoking weed, seriously. and stop working for cunts who don’t pay you. get away from these two losers, go use that money wisely. PLEASE KEEP YOUR DOG AWAY FROM ME‼️ hey is that a guitar? you play? no shit we should jam together some time :) you like blues?

he’d really vibe with lester i feel. disabled creepy voyeur solidarity. he’d find lamar great fun. i like to think he maybe already knows them through other contacts? connor is one of those people who knows all sorts. always seems to be making connections wherever he goes.

weapons - early concept connor had a hatchet he named Henrietta and a dagger he named Chelsea. after the fratellis songs. because he thinks he’s so fucking funny. and even though his character really doesn’t need them anymore…. nah, they aren’t going anywhere. too attached to this silly idea to get rid of it. it’s too endearing to me.

guns - like most american things, he hates them. however ☝️ he ain’t being the only sucker without one. and he goes to the shooting range every other month with, what is probably only two pistols. one for his house, one to carry. he’s decent with them! i don’t know if he’s killed with them, though.

pre planner or opportunist criminal - well. i don’t know that he’s much of a criminal at all, really. connor is written to be less like a playable character and more like a colourful, slice-of-life ‘strangers and freaks’ type side character for trevor. like a weirder beverly. he’s definitely doing his share of weird nasty shit but no organised crime for him. he has a job at the pier, weird tortureporn to film, drag queens to generously tip, neighbours to bother with his accordion playing and cats to feed. he just doesn’t have the time. he can probably put you in touch with someone who does though, what kinda talent you lookin for?

[tumblunni]

Today's random maddiman thought!

I am ABSOLUTELY DETERMINED to write my oc comics for the LP as a wild alternate universe where maddiman is actually befriendable and playable and my oc hugs him and yes

And i was just thinking about maybe a really emotional moment where everything just gets a bit too much for him after something reminds him of how much he misses his family, and Mallory and the rest of the yokai team just sit with him for a little while and comfort him while he lets out all the tears he's had locked up inside for decades. I was thinking possibly it could happen during the Hoaxy Coaxy fight in yw3, cos i thought itd be cool if i showed all my yokai's dreams as well as the protagonist. And of course for poor madds itd be an illusion of himself being alive again and his family coming back and he gets to tell them how sorry he is. So i think thatd be really emotional to end this mostly goofy funny battle with a melancholy note like that, and everyone helping poor sad dad remember that he has people who still love him in the real world and not to give up hope.

Srsly there would be SO MANY cool plot opportunities from maddiman joining your team full time!! And also he could be friends with both the yw3 protagonists! Cos in this au my protagonist oc would have befriended him around the postgame of yw2. so madds could play a dual role in both stories of yw3 by being summoned overseas to help Mallory sometimes in her story and meeting and befriending Hailey back in his slice of life adventures in his lab. And it could be a lil sad with Mallory not being able to see him as often after they'd bonded so much in the last game, cos she feels like dragging him along to america would be selfish when he has..yknow..reasons to be tied to that hospital and want to stay there. But her and the other yokai still send him postcards and pictures and keep in touch over the internet, and sometimes he's summoned for particularly tough fights or just when he wants to come visit. (And also itd make it easier to get him to america for the plot with his son later) And his friendshipw ith Hailey could also seem even more heartwarming cos she came into his life when he was feeling lonely from losing his last human friend, and now here's this new kid who helps him make even more progress on getting his life together, in different ways. Like double super duo friendship team up to help this damn daddo get a happy ending!! And wouldnt it be so sweet if Mallory came back to visit and got to meet Madds's new baby turtles and see how happy he is?

God i just have so many FEELINGS

[tumblunni]

Okay it seems we don’t actually have a full res pic of all the pokedex and that pic actually was compressed to the point of unviewability even on desktop tumblr?? And clicking through the link it seems it’s really hard to run this supposed rom file of the beta, and there’s debates about its authenticity cos the file claims it’s the ‘spaceworld demo’ yet we have limited pics of that demo and the titlescreen was different. So it seems weird that this would be labelled as that very specific demo, unless it’s a.. beta of a demo, i guess? That could be possible cos people are saying it literally just crashes when the world map runs out, instead of having your usual ‘thanks for playing this is where the demo stops’ message. So AAAA I wish I was smart enough to understand all this technical talk, and to do the hex editing stuff to actually play the rom myself! But for now I guess I’ll just wait with baited breath and hope there’s more updates as people pick it aprt.

it would REALLY suck if it turned out to be a fake rom hack or something, tho. i hope that’s false and the confusion is just cos it was a fragmented rom or a demo for a different event than people think it is, or something. But tbh it would be a prime time to release a fake demo hack, since we recently had the first new slice of beta info on the early generations that we’ve had in decades. it would be a good time to ride the hype on the speculation about ‘gorochu’. BUT then it doesn’t seem like a rom hack because wouldn’t it actually be a straight up rom, then? like actually playable without a bunch of editing and datamining and running through five emulators at once? i would think it would be harder to fake a non functioning rom that’s still rescue-able, yknow? and why would they even do that, nobody would even be expecting a non-functioning rom so it wouldn’t add more authenticity. We haven’t ever got ahold of any beta roms for the gameboy games so we don’t have any preconceptions about what file type nintendo stored them as. But then on the other hand it seems really unlikely that we’d suddenly get a burst of new info on stuff that was never even remotely mentioned before by nintendo. But then again nintendo itself just did that with gorochu! And TCRF is a really credible source, and they actually dug up that screenshot of beta girafarig SO MANY YEARS after we first heard nintendo talk about the concept, and it matched perfectly with what we were expecting. And it just dropped out of NOWHERE overnight and left zero signs of where the user managed to find it, yet was still proven to be legit...

Also like seriously half of the gold and silver beta art looks completely non-legit, its all in a wildly different art style! I don’t know if anyone’s ever found out why that is? Like does it just mean they had multiple artists at the time and were still experimenting before they settled on sugimori as the main one? But gen 1 had already had a full set of sugimori art by then. but then again later interviews had nintendo revealing that ‘half of gen 2′ were actually designed in the process of making red and green, and they just got cut out because of cartridge space. (So basically, beta stantler + 30 others were what became missingno.) So it could be entirely plausable that these gen 2 mons were designed BEFORE some of the gen 1 ones, and thus had different art...? Though there’s also the theory I had which i haven’t seen anyone else talking about. Considering how the Spaceworld Beta has been super shrouded in myth and we only have first hand accounts of what the pokemon vaguely looked like, maybe these ‘beta artworks’ are actually fan art someone made while attending the convention? like not fake betas or anything, i mean someone was trying to quickly jot down the mons while the demo reel played, cos they couldnt take pictures. And then all the confusion of passing info between japanese and english fandoms in the early days of the internet could mean this stuff was archived as ‘early official art’ and not ‘artist’s recreation of unreleased promotional material’. I just started thinking about this because the screenshot of beta girafarig ended up being EXACTLY the same pose as that artwork of it. And it’s very rare that sprites exactly mimic the official art, especially back in the gameboy era where the sprites were rudimentary and inconsistant between versions. So it seems more plausable that this maybe proves the art was drawn by someone seeing that sprite?

Further potential proof- the ‘beta art’ of Silver:

Now that’s not only a wildly different art style but he’s drawn with super big cutesy eyes and cheek blush. I mean that could indicate his personality was completely different back then, or it could indicate this was someone drawing their own interpretation of a different official art, who didnt know what role this character would have in the actual game. Also we’ve heard people saying that Silver’s gender was unknown at the time of this first beta appearance, so that could potentially mean this fan artist draw him shoujo-style cos they headcanoned the new rival would be a girl? or just that the androgenous style of his appearance would equal a personality that was typical of an androgenous anime character- i.e a cutesy shy boy or a rowdy tomboy girl, etc. Tho tbh that whole line of theory confused me because this beta silver seems to have similar short hair to his redesign way later. I don’t think this design would be remotely perceived as ‘androgenous’ if the art style wasn’t drawn cutesy like this. So maybe this was indeed the early art style? And man, who knows, maybe the inconsistancy of sugimori already existing just means that they weren’t gonna keep sugimori in the second game? The very sketchy nature of these artworks could make sense if it was an attempt to completely redesign a new style for the sequel, so every generation would look different. I wonder what genre of anime every other region would have looked like! I’m imagining some sort of mysterious Clamp-esque style for sinnoh maybe, since its the ‘relic region’? And maybe unova would have even been american cartoon style!

Anyway in summary bunni is very confused and also bunni really fuckin misses silver’s old long haired design and will NEVER FUCKING UNDERSTAND why they gave him the exact same hair as roark and mars in the same generation they introduced roark and mars. (I dunno why people don’t include roark in the family headcanons. Mayb just cos his without-hat look is only seen briefly in anime?)