#are you sure about that Kabbu?

[aridis]

[applebunch]

for all that leon and leif are similar they wouldn't be friends because leif would make fun of leon too much. leif'd be like "man you schedule everything down to the letter? *leans over to kabbu* this guy needs to relax..." and kabbu'd be like "LEIF BE RESPECTFUL!!!!!!!!!" and leif'd be like. ". no."

[mantisgodsaus]

(via @zombiebugbites)

We forgot to respond to this for a whole entire day. Very inch resting indeed... The House's Vi has a stronger sense of individuality than Canon Vi has while working in The Hive, but probably a significantly looser sense of individuality than a version of itself that was actually allowed to, like, follow what she wanted to do.

The House's Vi was taken for the Snakemouth experiments as discard - a worker whose absence will make no difference to operation, in service of a political deal it still doesn't fully understand. It has access to the files that this deal was stored in, and thus is fully aware of the recorded details of its discard, but lacks any information on anything before it was registered in Snakemouth Den's system. Not uncommon for a Zombee, honestly, but Vi was taken from desperately trying to make herself useful in a system that would never work for her, to throwing everything it could possibly do to help in a system that wanted it dead or ground down to uselessness, to trying to find anything to do after the near-obsolescence of its actual skills during the hibernation.

It lacks the context of former memories, but it knows that it is important for it to be useful, and it knows that it has been historically bad at that. It knows it is skilled at things, but everything it's good at is more or less obsolete - and it's trying to be useful through any means it can, but that basically means bashing its head against the wall until it makes ground on things that are immeasurably unintuitive to it.

This means, of course, that as far as it remembers, it has spent its life attempting to be useful to the colony, a lot of its worth hinges on that utility to the colony, and if it can't be useful to other people its entire purpose of life is basically moot. It doesn't really have a concept of "doing things for itself", and if you suggested that to it it would probably give you a weird look and tell you that the colony is more than four hundred individuals, do you seriously think that everything should stop just to cater to one person?

(note that it has, in fact, shifted things around before and directed significant resources to cater to One Person, on multiple occasions. it doesn't really register this as hypocrisy and if you pointed out that it thinks that arranging things around keeping kabbu functional is perfectly fine it would huff at you and tell you that that's a different thing entirely and then treat you like you're stupid for the rest of the interaction)

It is, genuinely, incredibly good at what it does by now, but it remembers being bad, and it remembers every stupid fuck-up it's ever done, and it remembers people with better brains for this than it being able to fix things it's struggled with for weeks in less than an hour, and it calibrates its expectations by the people that this is natural for, and in the process putting itself up against people with supercomputers for brains like it's got the same capability, which it doesn't.

It's got a good eye for improving systems, and the experience to know how well something is likely to work. It can fix things and they'll work. It can optimize things better than almost everyone else in the colony, because it has a good eye for simplifying, for improving design, for making things easier to utilize and harder to break. If you ask it to build something on its own it will make either the most dog shit object ever or a copy of Something Else and then it will spend the next hour having a crisis about how it can't make anything correctly.

Putting parts together is hard and clunky and it's not good at it. Deciding what a Good System looks like is hard and has no solid answers and it's also not good at it. If you give it a system that already functions, but does so badly, especially if it's a system it's worked with before, it can do a bang-up job of making it Work. It will probably also make it better to work with in the process, because ergonomics and making the tools it uses more pleasant to work with are something it's genuinely Good at, it's just that those skills don't translate to making something good to begin with - just improving something towards a given purpose.

It does not mesh well with software, because all of the parts are weird and squishy and affect each other unpredictably. It does significantly better with hardware, because despite it being Much Of The Same it does so in a way it can see and touch and interact with and tell what is going wrong. If you present it with a task it does not understand it will try to do it and get progressively more frustrated at lack of progress without catching on to the fact that it is trying to shove a square peg into a triangular hole. It also spends like half of its time optimizing Kjdrira's code so that it can be effectively run by people who cannot run hundreds of parallel processes at once and probably leaves a lot of comments along the lines of "why would it ever need to do that??? removed feature forever don't put it back" in code.

Unlike more conventional versions of Vi, The House's Vi is actually loyal to its colony, mostly through the same general Fucked Up Situation mechanism that leads most of the Snakemouth Den symbiotes to bond so closely to the rest of their colony. This means it has the unique feature of being deeply loyal to its colony for the people that are there, and the desire to do literally anything that it can possibly do under any circumstances to help.

It's in a weird situation of having great rapid data parsing, and excellent long-range reception, but a lacking ability to perform other tasks. It also has the fun & enjoyahle feature of the desperate itch to contribute- to do something for the people who helped it, to justify its upkeep in its contributions to the hive, to do anything but sit around twiddling its thumbs - which also means it's one of the most active bugs in the colony throughout this period, thus meaning it sits in a Very Weird Intersection.

The House's Vi is not talented with mechanical work, per se. It is not the kind of programmer who has any sort of inbuilt instinct for how it's meant to work, or the kind of person who's good with organized systems. It is good at moment-to-moment parsing and decision making, which is a skillset that is incredibly niche in the mid-hibernation colony. It is Not Good at almost all of the nerd junk it's meant to do, and it is always Very Aware that it doesn't have the same touch for the nerd junk it currently does as other colony members.

It is also, at this point, the single person in the colony with the most hands-on experience, because it has worked consistently with these tools for decades by now, and this amounts for enough knowledge to overtake a lot of bugs for whom this comes more naturally.

[loupy-mongoose]

*Ahem*

Happy Halloween!! ^w^

Bug Fables.

It's my current favorite video game, and actually, you can thank it for Linden Roots existing~

I'll explain, but in order to do so I have to dive into spoilers for one of my absolute favorite plots for one of my absolute favorite characters, so I need to slap on a;

MASSIVE SPOILER WARNING!

In my opinion, this game is best experienced SPOILER FREE, so if you haven't played it and want to some day, I recommend skipping my info dump below. (This info can be acquired before beating the main game though. :>)

You're okay with spoilers? Yes? Okay, carry on.

So.

Those who are familiar with Leif's story will probably see how Bug Fables influenced the creation of Linden Roots.

A long while ago, I mentioned Randy being inspired by my favorite fictional character.

That's Leif.

Leif is a moth who is ancient.

And dead.

Loooooong before the game takes place (I can't find an exact timeframe; it's like a generation or two), Leif went with a team of bugs to explore a cave, but ended up dying in there. In that same cave, a group of scientists later experimented on cordyceps. Now, as soon as they became relevant to the story I was HOOKED.

I learned about cordyceps as a kid, and they scared the crap out of me. But it also was one of those morbidly fascinating things I'd look into once in a while. (Before anyone tells me, yes, I know that's what's in The Last of Us.)

If you don't know, IRL cordyceps basically turn bugs into zombies.

Anyway, the scientists were trying to find a way to create eternal life (what else is new lol), and did this through cordyceps. Which, as one could guess when dealing with zombie fungus, ended up going badly for the scientists.

One of the "failed" experimental fungi was thrown out, and found its way to the deceased Leif, and brought him back to life. It took on his memories, and Leif woke up without knowing what happened, until you dig into his story during the game. So the "Leif" we know in the game isn't truly Leif, but is the fungus living as him.

Now... I'm sure that sounds a bit familiar...

This idea of a character being dead-but-not struck a chord with me. It fascinated me to no end.

But there's more to it.

As one might expect, Leif has some tragedy surrounding him.

While playing the game, you can stumble upon his decedents.

This here is Muze. With a 'z'

This is Leif's great great however-many-greats grand-daughter, who you meet in the game's present day.

When he was alive, he had a wife.

His wife was Muse. With an 's'.

We never get to see what Muse looked like, but he says in-game that Muze is a spitting image of her. Hence why Akoya is dressed as she is in my pic. She's dressed as Muse.

Now, according to the developers, Muse was pregnant when Leif went into the cave where he died.

And he didn't know.

There are several moments in the game that show Leif's potential as a father, but one in particular stood out to me.

(Note for the images; Leif refers to himself as "We/Us".)

Oops, I forgot one. Vi finishes by shouting "I said it's not happening!"

The text in the last shot bounces/wiggles in-game, indicating playfulness or joking.

If you're familiar with Goombario and Goombella in the Paper Mario games, this dialogue is this game's version of that. You can have the main characters give flavor text on any area and most characters in the game. (And I recommend doing it often, as it adds SOOO much to the game! ^v^)

This bit takes place in the first room after Kabbu and Vi meet Leif. And at the end of the room, an event happens to change what's said for the rest of the game. Meaning, the only time you see it is RIGHT after they meet; He was getting playful with these two bugs he'd met only moments ago.

I'm sure it can just be seen as sarcasm, but having found this dialogue after learning about Leif missing out on raising a child, I saw it as a clue that he would've been a great dad. And it shattered me. ;w;

Randy and Akoya are wish-fulfillment. They're my version of Leif and Muse. They're my way of giving Leif and Muse what I'm sad they missed out on, while also keeping some of the angst, lol. Thankfully, they've evolved into their own separate characters that I feel I can be proud of, but Leif's story and tragedy still has a deep, well-protected place in my heart.

Anyway, thanks for checking out my ramble. I accept no blame for any potential spoiler you might've seen against your will. XD

[mantisgodsart]

THE WORLD'S MOST DATING POLL

As Kabbu's birthday rolls around, the internet turns pink, and people talk about "love" and "romance" and other things like that. Very ironic, considering the man is aroace, but in accordance with the season, we have assembled some very viable bachelors to... date, probably. Dating profiles below the cut, but you can choose from cliff notes if you want, we guess, this is just so the post isn't ABSURDLY long.

Bau (short for Bauplan) - They/any - Dune Cricket - 18-21 (varies based on fic, generally tied to Vi's age) - Bi/pan

When it comes to a date, you can't do better than Bau! Though dune crickets are normally more than a bit antisocial (and cannibalistic), Bau is an exception! Terminally friendly, great at parties, and unendingly loyal - they'll do anything for a friend, and if you can get friendly with them, they'll be more than happy to date if you ever pop the question! You'll have to compete with other friends, of course - not to mention other partners, and their criminal entanglements as a Bandit that often operates as an intimidation detail but really, is it that much of a downside?

Jask - He/they - Ashy gray lady beetle - Late 20s - Gray-ace

If you want level-headed, Jask is your bug! A bandit medic with years of expence under his belt, Jask is well experienced with taking care even the most dangerous of bugs - his boss, for example. Sure, he's a bit busy with patients - but there's a tender heart hiding under that tough exterior. You just have to stick around for... what, five months? Ten?

...more?

...you'll figure it out, we're sure.

Zoza - Whatever the bandits come up with that isn't immediately veto'd (usually she/her) - Damselfly - 70+ - None of your business

The Bandits' second-in-command, a feisty old damselfly with more than a few tricks up her sleeve. She's a bit old to be dating around like you young'uns, but this old woman can still be a loving partner - prove you can contribute to the Bandits, prove that you're strong enough to not die horribly on your first outing, and manage to build enough of a rapport with her despite her many, many vital duties, and you might have a chance... if you're into grandmothers, of course.

(...is GILF a thing? GMILF? Hold on, we need to do some research...)

Marigold - She/her - Death's Head Hawk Moth - 30s - Married to her job

The most eligable bachelor on this list by far, judging by how people have reacted to her! Marigold is a charmsmith with a good, stable job, a good, stable personality, and only a little bit of active torture going on in her basement! We, uhh... aren't entirely sure how you're planning on getting her out of her lab and into the dating scene, seeing as she hasn't really been anywhere near the zone of "dating" since she was... what, sixteen? But we're sure you can figure it out.

Agapanthus - Variable (genderfluid) - Orchid mantis - Older than you'd think - Pan

A waiter(and sometimes waitress) at Club Maenad, this mantis knows exactly how to show you a good time. Charming and attractive, even if they've been banned from bartending for the forseeable future, and flexible for nearly anything you might need in a partner, if you slip in the right compliments between rounds, you might very well have a shot! Just... keep in mind the waiver you signed at the door, and please remember that this is a bar for parasitoids and bugs of species prone to eating their mates.

ZM-32 - It/they - Io moth/cordyceps - 100+ - Fungus

Bugaria's most eligable bachelor! Everyone wants a piece of this, and for good reason! It'll be fierce competition, but maybe, just maybe, if you can evade the deadly lasers and circumvent the persistent hatred for the living that tormented it and its colony for years on end... you could win its heart.

Chips - He/they - Two-striped grasshopper - ??? - Has Better Things To Worry About

Green is in this year - and so are grasshoppers. This one is dateable! Probably. Just be sure to cosy up with him before his gambling debts do, or he might get eaten by a large praying mantis before you get the chance.

ZB-162 - It/its - Cordyceps symbiote - 100+ - Switchboard Operator

...are you into responsible bugs? Are you into fungi? Do you enjoy dating people who are preoccupied with regulating and operating the communication network used by an entire cordyceps colony? Well, ZB-162 might be the bug for you? Though, uhh, often occupied with its job, ZB-162 is a fine specimen of the cordyceps species, and certainly very attractive if you... if you...

...okay, we won't lie to you, this one's a bit of a fixer-upper. Not sure how you're going to drag them away from the communication channels long enough for

The Wraith - ??? - ???????????? - Reported active since Elizant 1's reign - ???????????

Mysterious figure from the Ant Kingdom's criminal underbelly. Married, but you can still shoot your shot, we guess...???

Marble - she/they - Wasp - late 20s - It's In There

…didn't this one get blown up? We're pretty sure this one got blown up. If you pick this one, you have to take mandatory bomb safety courses, we think.

Unit of Radioactive Decay - They/it - Iterator - First activated in late Gen 1 era - Aroace

This is... a building, but you can still give it a try, we guess? Honestly, we have no clue how you found this one. We're pretty sure it's not even a bug.

L2tM & Enot - Any u can call us anything u want bb <3 - Former iterator & karmic wyrm slugcats - Gen 1 & ageless wouldnt u like to know - yes

Why are you two here?! Get out of our fucking poll!!!

[hana-bobo-finch]

kabbu bug fables kabbu bug fables KABBU (PERSONAL YAPPING INCOMING!!! LOOK OUT!!!)

kabbu….reading too much into kabbu get ready….he used to be my least favorite (not that I didn’t like him but just that I liked vi and Leif more) but he is. Urghhh. He won my heart in chapter 5 (have not finished chapter 5 yet though). the way that one of the main thing he does is try to make his teammates feel ok….like he literally has a skill called pep talk…..and he spends a lotta his time helping them and stuff……meanwhile he has to have his own trauma basically pried out of him with a crowbar and is all iffy about taking about it and it comes out as anger………..uuuuuuuuu STOP IT!!! STOP DESTROYING ME LIKE THIS KABBU. it is just SO painfully relatable bc. I spend so much of my energy trying to help people, but in the process I ignore my own problems and just kinda let them fester, and then they eventually all come out in some destructive way, rinse and repeat. And that goofy little bug is forcing me to be introspective because I spent the beginning of chapter 5 thinking “TALK ABOUT IT KABBU ITS OK!!! TELL THEM!!! YOU DONT ALWAYS NEED TO BE THE ONE DOING THE HELPING!!!” and then I realized oh crap I could probably use that advice too. uurrghh don’t like this don’t like that the funny bug game is making me start soul searching. cause it’s TRUE!!! I realized it so potently earlier today. I was in a downright whimsical mood but I saw 1 (one) thing that made me remotely sad and it took like a solid 15 minutes to try to calm myself down to prevent a full blown panic attack and remember that it isn’t my responsibility to help all the time and I had to let myself be happy for once, and even then it took another hour to feel completely normal again……ooougghhh aaaarrrghhhh. the hyper empathy is hyper empathying….rrrghhh. ive mentioned it before I think but being hyper empathetic sucks so bad. feels like just soaking up everyone else’s emotions and I don’t got room for my own. Whether good or bad emotions. so I was dealing with that earlier and I thought abt kabbu and it just got me thinking yknow? maybe I’m a bit too much like that little bug man for my own liking and that’s why his backstory utterly destroyed me (and the fact that he was so panicked over leif being hurt in chapter 4 because he didn’t want to lose anyone else again HOO BOY that hit me square in the gut and I haven’t even had anyone close to me die I just have REALLY bad anxiety when it comes to that kind of thing!!!). so um. Is there a point to all this talking?? um sort of!!! will probably dial back interacting with my moots’s more personal posts because I am Pretty Sure I am soaking up all of the emotions and it is stressing me out!!! listen listen listen i can NOT stress this enough, this is not targeted towards any of yall and it’s not any of yall’s fault!!! I do not want to give off the wrong impression that is the exact opposite of what I am trying to get at!!! in short I will be avoiding more personal posts like the plague until I can get my own brain in order because right now I am nothing but a sponge, soaking up everything around me. But rest assured I will be cheering you all on in life from the sidelines. anyway I was going to go into the rest of team snakemouth and how much they mean to me but I think ive talked enough already and I haven’t even beat the game yet lmao (VI AND LEIF MY BELOVED SOBS SOBS SOBS THEY R JUST LIKE ME FRFR)

[bugs-in-situations]

Please tell us about Vi's skin-selling

so the the uh The underground tavern huh

it's generally Very Illegal to sell a living pelt whether it belongs to yourself or someone else but there is some legal leniency with selling dead pelts. a dead selkie's family won't be persecuted for selling off the pelt of their lost loved one, so certain individuals have made an operation out of taking pelts from recently dead selkies that didn't leave pelt ownership in their will or w/e and putting them up on the market since this technically isn't a crime

the tavern is one of the major hubs for this whole Thing, and while vi was a frequent patron of it she did participate in the whole "finding selkies who just died to take their pelts before someone else does" part (other members of the operation would handle the "making sure it doesn't already legally belong to someone else" part). finding dead things is one of her natural specialties as a scavenger animal, after all

on one particular occasion, a living selkie who was selling their own pelt For Reasons (desperation, mostly) paid her to deliver their pelt to the bug who bought it. this causes a bit of a subplot around... chapter 6? maybe? when that guy tried to get their pelt back and wanted vi to do it since they assumed she would still know where it is now. this is also how leif and kabbu find out vi Did That (they already knew about her involvement with the technically-legal-but-morally-dubious pelt market stuff but did not know about this little detail)

tl;dr if you don't give your pelt to someone else in your will then legally anyone can take it and sell it. vi was involved in Doing This with the other tavern bugs for a while, along with some other stuff that was actually illegal and came back to bite her in the tail feathers

[fungal-wasted]

To know the wishes of a long gone bug. A messy character analysis of Leif.

I have absolutely nothing planned except a few ideas rotating on my brain, so, get comfortable, and let me rant to you about Leif from Bug Fables. Heavy spoilers for Leif's request. you're warned.

So let me begin this by asking, why do you think Leif refers to himself in plural? Is there only one answer? I don't mean to answer the question for sure, but to just illustrate a possibility.

We all know that Leif tends to use the royal we to refer to himself, ever since the start. Except in one scene. Once Team Snakemouth has uncovered the secrets of the laboratory, and they've beaten Zommoth, they witness recordings showing the cordycepsbeing discarded and taking Leif's body. For ease of writing this, I will refer to the entity uncovered as a "they".

The first time "Leif" breaks out of his speech pattern is to say "I am a failure".Then they proceed to explain what they have gathered. They were meant to be a Zommoth prototype, take a body and wield it to their will. Yet for reasons we do not know the details of, they failed to do so, being discarded. They did, however, end up attaching themself to a moth that had died in the area: Leif.

It is then explained that because of this, they were able to have access to Leif's memories: what he cared about, where he lived, who he was. And in this time, after so long, They are convinced that everything Leif has is now theirs. After all isn't that what they're meant to do? They take over the host body, they become it and pilot it to their will.

Except, in a way, their will is alligning with Leif's.

Well... they can't really know for sure, Leif is gone. But they see a world outside, they see people and causes he cared about, and once given an opportunity to discover it all, how could they deny their wish to look for it? Leif was caught in a situation that ended his life, but... if someone could do fulfill all he had left to do, if someone knew him better than anyone could from the outside, why would they not try to honor him?

But how can yoou know for sure? And that's a question that can't be truly answered.

I think, when we read "we" from "Leif of Team Snakemouth", what we see is this new entity, who knows deep down it's not Leif, but who knows what he did and who wants to do the right thing, speaking for both. They can't really replace him, this knowledge is dreadful, and yet, it's the best they can do. They can't be apart, or what's left of Leif is going to be gone. What's left of themself is going to be gone, too.

And they both want to live, because they have both found a reason to stay.

Vi and Kabbu are so important in this journey too. They met "Leif of Team Snakemouth", and they like that bug. This Leif isn't even pretending anything. They follow what they would do, based on what Leif has left for them, and all the new experiences they have. But it's still a difficult position to be in because they have... simply taken Leif's place.

Vi and Kabbu are accepting of this situation. They never met the moth that died in Snakemouth, but they know the one who... who became their friend. To them, that is Leif.

And yet for the Leif in front of them, it's harder to reconcile. What they have left is to honor Leif. See what he would have liked to see, do what he would have liked to do, and maybe, one day, give his family the closure they need.

This Leif is now two wills, that have found a way to stick together. The old Leif has started a story, that the New Leif is resuming. And now, knowing the truth and seeing the acceptance of friends, Leif can move on. He can be himself, be both of them, be someone that made it out of the cave.

I think in the end, knowing the truth means that st least on some level, they can stop feeling like they're tricking everyone else. They can be Leif, this new bug that made it out of Snakemouth, and they can honor Leif, the moth that scouted so long ago.

[cordycepsbian]

4, 9, 22, any member of Team Snakemouth... also Odile maybe? We're still mid-ISAT playthrough and we just think she's Neat.

4. if you could put this character in any other media, what would you put them in?

we already put team snakemouth through many plots of other things and we should do it with the isat cast sometime. we do especially want to see odile adapt to the logic of other worlds, given her magic abilities and how fast she is at learning them (you will see just how fast during a Super Spoilers Event much, much later. have fun!). to give a specific answer to this question: the isat cast should go to hollow knight and odile should get to learn soul spells, as a treat

9. could you be roommates with this character?

sorry we started answering this one and then we were overcome with Some Kind Of Feeling about people perceiving us as both a character and a person and we're not sure why this question specifically attacks us psychically but moving on

22. if you're a fic reader, what's something you like to see when it comes to this character?

we're a big fan of when people come up with new esoteric swears for kabbu to say but if you time it right it's equally funny when he just says real english curse words

[wtfgaylittlezooid]

(anon playing through bugfables) Vi was killed on the turn kabbu was about to revive. Literally what am i meant to do against Hoax did you call him? Is it an ability i overlooked?? Do i get something from a sidequest i havnt done?? Or am i just. bad at the game. (or suffering the consequences of my actions. since hard mode) The taunt + shield thing worked well, until i ran out of tp. I have the passive tp refill medal equipped but its too slow for me to shield + taunt regularly, it takes six turns to gain enough tp to do that hhhhhh i dont know what i can do different, im not even fumbling the buttons as often as i used to, atleast my earlier losses could be blamed on that. also it was not a "i have to die to progress the story and a side character comes in clutch", since i have died and nobody did anything. Which means i somehow have to kill an immortal. Wish elizant brought that freezer she put her mother in with her, im sure that would work Also sorry for spamming the asks i was losing my mind

If you have the life cast + hp core on Leif it should with lasting you long enough

[nonsensical-shitposting]

So in your Team Snakerverse au,

How communist is vi?

Is vi like a full on communist or a socialist, or even a democratic socialist, who wants to set up a method of democracy with socialist principles.

All my joking about TS!Vi being a communist revolutionary aside, communism and socialism as we understand them don't exist under the isopteran system of ideological classification, so none of those options really apply to her. TS!Vi's views are kind of an ideological grab-bag, in that she knows something needs to change in a major way, but... doesn't really know what she thinks the best way to get there is? She's toyed with antennalism (bureaucratic technocracy with a focus on massive levels of information-gathering), cephalicism (rhetorically vigilance-centered adhocracy, frequently associated with spiritualism), and thoracicism (vaguely defined, but usually boils down to decentralized egalitarianism) in the past, but she has issues with aspects of all three ideologies, not helped by the fact that the vast majority of her attempts to research them only turned up Podomerintern-approved resources that present the ideologies through a biased pro-podomeralism lens. It also doesn't help that the isopteran system was intentionally constructed to make ideologically "thinking outside the box" difficult, and just because TS!Vi's smart enough to have eventually figured this out doesn't mean she's unlearned everything, y'know?

The only thing Vi's consistently sure of is that she hates the Podomerintern and wants to end Termite imperialism, both in the Bee Kingdom and throughout Bugaria, it's just that she doesn't really know how she's going to get there yet. Remember, the core idea that the Team Snakereverse AU was built around is reversing the "starting positions" of Vi, Kabbu, and Leif: unlike canon Vi, TS!Vi was never really teased or doubted at home and didn't have to kitbash being a functioning independent person, but she lacks canon Vi's certainty of what she wants to do with her life and has trouble figuring out what lens she wants to see the world through. For TS!Vi, joining the Explorer's Association isn't the whole reason she left home, but rather a means to an end that'll allow her to subtly search Bugaria for bugs like her in hopes that they'll help her figure out what to do to bring down the Termite Kingdom's imperialism (the fact that being a licensed explorer means this'll all be on the Podomerintern's dime is just a bonus). TS!Vi's still recognizable as a Vi, don't get me wrong, and she does act very similarly to her canon counterpart, but her issues, her goals, and her underlying motives are quite different.

I think I got off topic there, whoops. To return to the question: TS!Vi's grab-bag of political views are close enough to what we'd call "socialism" or "communism," but those terms don't exist in the Team Snakereverse AU, so TS!Vi wouldn't identify herself as either; if you asked her what ideology she supports, her immediate response would probably be something along the lines of "ugh, what are you, a cop?" (Incidentally, this is also what she would say if you were to ask her about her gender.) She's more politically literate than canon Vi, but the deep subtle intricacies of government and governance bore her and she absolutely cannot stand people who spend more time debating ideological minutiae than actually, y'know, doing things in real life. Democracy-wise, TS!Vi's the specific kind of leftist who'd automatically agree that yeah, of course representative democracy is the best way to do things, duh, but the moment someone disagrees with her politics in a way that pushes her buttons she briefly blacks out from anger as she tries not to transform into a totalitarian despot on the spot- she supports electoralism, but only when people don't vote for something/someone stupid.

[flecks-of-stardust]

…Actually, one final thing, genuinely final: what you said about fandoms often going in the opposite direction of something may very well be true l, but I don't know, the only two things where I saw it so hard are Hollow Knight (where I'm always seeing goofy silly posts yet the game itself spunds really dark and nearly every Character either dies or is dead) and Bug Fables (where the game is upbeat and funny most of the time yet so many hyperfixate on the dark 10% and are mad the whole game isn't like that). Funny, because I otherwise don't find those two games nearly as comparable as their fanbases seem to act like they are.

i dunno, i've seen that in pretty much every fandom i've participated in. it's not necessarily how dark things are; i see a lot of rain world fans talking about the iterators, even though we get literally 7 lines of dialogue for some of them, and none for one. (grey wind and sliver of straw fans i see you and i adore you, keep going at it, i am looking so hard <333) and i think people just like to see the two bug worlds collide; i know i do.

i’m not sure why you keep complaining about people getting mad about the lack of dark stuff, because again, i’m not really the right person to talk to about that? i eat that shit up. and for the record, some of my issues with the narrative of bug fables don’t necessarily involve dark themes, i’m just dissatisfied with the extent of how things were explored. vi and jaune’s relationship needed much, much more time to develop and heal than was given in canon, and i focus on them a lot to give them the much needed narrative time they deserved.

and while i haven’t really browsed the tags on ao3, off the top of my head right now i would guess that the angst is around leif and kabbu a lot of the time, and both of them have went through some pretty intense loss. there... isn’t really much getting around that being angsty. it’s hard to find objective positives in active grief, and especially today, with so much going on in the world, i don’t find it surprising people want to explore grief more. there is value in silly stories, of course, but i think canon has explored a lot of the silly already, while it hasn’t for a lot of kabbu’s grief and leif’s immense loss. you can only go so far with what canon hasn’t explored and still keep it light, i think.

then again, i haven’t looked myself, so i wouldn’t really know huh. sometimes you have to be the change you want to see in the world and all.

[carapacecross]

comparing what happened in source to your memories is so jarring sometimes, even though you know it makes sense in the context of your source being what it is: media to entertain people. of course it's only going to show the fun and important parts of your life, but still...

canonically, our reaction to what happened in snakemouth lab was not much. we had a moment's crisis after we remembered what we were, kabbu and vi talked us down from it, we left, we spoke to muze and her family, and everything was fine.

that is not what happened to us.

when we were down there, it took a moment for the realization to actually hit, and when it did, something in us just...broke.

kabbu and vi had to half-carry us back out of snakemouth den because we couldn't focus on our surroundings well enough to walk.

if any other bugs noticed the state we were in, if they asked about us, we don't know. we weren't there, not really. everything was just shapes and sounds and none of it meant anything or even felt real. we didn't even feel real. it didn't even feel like we were thinking. our brain was just mush.

when we got back to our house, they laid us down on our bed, and we just...stayed there. for days. we wouldn't talk to anyone, wouldn't respond to anything, wouldn't even eat. kabbu and vi tried, they really did. but we were completely mentally gone. all we did for venus knows how long was stare at nothing, dissociate, and sleep.

we don't remember how long we were like that. time was dead to us. we could've laid there for an hour or we could've laid there for a month and we wouldn't have known the difference. we don't think it could have been more than a few days, though, because we're sure if it had gone on for too long kabbu and vi would've gotten a doctor involved, and that never happened. we eventually just came out of it on our own.

it was probably the worst our mental health ever was.

(we weren't there for this, obviously, but we were told later on that kabbu and vi ran into zasp and mothiva while on a mission during this time, and mothiva made some comment about us not being there (most bugs just assumed we were sick with something, and we sure felt like we were, so we honestly wouldn't say that they were wrong), and vi completely snapped and started screaming at her and kabbu had to hold her back from physically attacking her. we wish we could've seen that.

zasp came to see how we were doing later that day. we couldn't really say anything to him and we don't really remember if he said anything to us, but it was nice. zasp is really a good bug.)

of course, it makes sense that something like this wouldn't have been in our source, and it's not even that we feel like this happened offscreen in canon (most if not all of our kintypes are heavily canon-divergent anyway). it's just so odd to think that we were essentially completely fine in source when this is what we remember.

[mantisgodsaus]

2 for selkieverse kabbu and zasp wrt their selkie teammates

(for this ask game)

2. What role would your OC fill in a friend group?

As this question is Very Vague, we are going for the provided explanation of "how they would help handle and accomodate for the hurdles that Existing As A Selkie causes in society and in general for their teammates"

For Kabbu, a lot of what he does is along the lines of just - keeping an eye on things, and running interference if necessary. He can hold a pelt for them, if needed, in order to keep it safe - mainly he does this for other selkies, since Vi doesn't really... have one to watch over, anymore, and Leif's pelt is kept with his family, but him being a Bulky And Trustworthy Beetle Who Looks Intimidating Enough To Chase People Off is very useful.

He keeps an eye on his teammates to make sure that they aren't getting too far into the call of their elements, and tries to pull them out if needed - a lot of what he does is just keeping Vi from succumbing to either instinct or the pull of Fire, since both of those are a LOT stronger for her after... the incident.

Beyond that, it's mostly just - dealing with emotional backlash, if that makes sense. Offering emotional support. Making sure that Leif can get the time to draw himself back to normal after a particularly bad moment with the call of the water. Caring for Vi after she gets burned again. Making sure that no one's health is actively going downhill.

Not a whole lot different that usual Kabbu, in that regard, but with the fun extra aspect that sometimes he is Very Viscerally Aware That There Is An Entire Demographic Of People Who Can Get Mind Controlled With Access To One Random Pelt And Who Cannot Be Too Far Separated From It Without Major Consequences And Two Of Them Are His Teammates Evenm If They Aren't In Particular Danger Most Of The Time and he's handling it normally and gracefully and he is Not on the verge of a panic attack sometimes while listening to people talk because by the name of venus you people LIVE like this???

For Zasp... he does his best, but there's not a lot he can do to help. He can work with Mothiva to help her meet deadlines or cope with actions forced on her by her pelt. He isn't the old who holds her pelt, nor does he have means to get her pelt back - selkies weren't really something people Knew About back in his old hive, and partnering with Mothiva was his first brush with that whole shitshow.

He can't do much but act as a buffer and an assistant to help her cope with the demands of her job - and really, that's something he does in Normal BF, too? He has no special powers to use to help, Mothiva actually specifically asked him to avoid interfering too much with her pelt after he learned exactly why she was forced to do things and the cause behind those occasional bursts of fucked up sensory feedback.

Interfering with anything to do with her pelt causes more harm than good, from her perspective - thus, don't interfere, and just let her higher-ups do whatever with it that they want. He... has mixed feelings about it, but he lets them slide. Who is he to decide, after all, the workings of a world he doesn't know?

[aquilamage]

Hey, we remember you saying something about Vi not being too great at machines a while back. Would you mind quoting that at us? We can't figure out where that dialogue was and we don't want to trawl through all of the dialogue in the game to find the relevant line.

sure! I can't recall the context of me saying that right now, but there's definitely a couple moments that fit with that I can find

[from spying some of the workers in the golden settlement power plant; probably the most relevant one]

Vi: The Power Plant's way cooler than the factory. How come I never got any shifts here!?

Leif: Those Bees seem to be operating very complex machines. Do you know how to?

Vi: I, uh, I'm sure I'd press the right buttons…

Kabbu: Thankfully for everyone, exploring's your one true calling!

[same location, the first examination of the energy converter machine; definitely another supporting piece]

Kabbu: Vi, what is this machine?

Vi: That's the Energy Converter! It uh...converts all the energy!

Leif: That's a very helpful description, Vi.

Kabbu: It must use the power generated from the windmill to power the Factory's core!

Vi: Uh...yep! That's what the Power Plant does!

[examining the computer in the overseer's office in the factory; technically not about vi specifically but does show she doesn't happen to know any more than the other two]

Textbox: This machine is too complex for us…

[from talking to the termite who shows up in the rubber prison security room in postgame; not directly related but does imply that she's not already into tech and not interested in starting even for her favorite motivator: money]

Tectec: It seems this place could use more of my help, so I'll stay a while.

Tectec: ...And it pays like 80 berries an hour.

Vi: WOAH! Tech pays a LOT!

Leif: Gonna pick up science, Vi?

Vi: ...Nope.

Kabbu: Well then... Let's get going, team

[barbaracleboy]

Bugtober Day 21: CD-i

Oh, I have been looking FORWARD to this day. Unfortunately I wasn't able to work on it as much as I'd like to over the past couple days, but I've been working on it since, like, the sixth. I really hope that you guys like it, even if it's weird on account of basically being a transcript of a YouTube Poop I came up with.

Long story short, I imagined a Zelda CD-i YTP but with Bug Fables characters representing the Zelda characters. Characters will refer to each other with the Zelda names in dialogue but the narration and whatnot will refer to them with BF names. (So, for example, something like:

"Bianca: Zelda, where are you?"

"Vi: Here.")

Hope that's not too confusing, ha. If you read I hope you enjoy it, either way have a great time!

In the Kingdom of Bugaria (and by Bugaria I mean Hyrule), Link (and by Link I mean Kabbu) was sleeping in his comfy little bed, wearing his Octorok-patterned nightcap and cuddling with his Dodongo plushy. Morning had arrived, however, and so Kabbu's alarm went off.

Kabbu's Alarm: (As painfully loud as you can comprehend) ualuealuealeuale ualuelaelaellalea, alsualsualualauusualulus ,,,alsualsualualauusualulus Chacarron, Chacarron,-

Kabbu (Link): (Sits up) aaaAaAAAAAAaaAAAAAaAAAAaaAAaAAaAAAaAAAAAAAaaAaaaaAAAAaAAAaaAAaa Good morning, Sun!

The Sun: GO FFFFFUCK YOURSELF!!!

Kabbu: Wah!

(Crashes into Vi (Zelda) )

Kabbu: Hi Zelda! (Runs off)

Zelda:...Hey.

Kabbu: Hey, The King!

Queen Bianca (King Harkinian): Not now, Link! I'm interrogating Duke Onkled on the whereabouts of my chalupa.

Hector (Duke Onkled): But I told you, I was gaming for fourteen days straight!

Zelda: Are you alright?

In Hector's Mind: (♩ We got a number one victory royale, yeah, Fortnite, we 'bout to get down-♩ )

Hector: no

Bianca: Enough! I can't rule without something to eat first, so Duke Onkled..

Bianca: (Mutates horrifically and looms over Duke Onkled) Where...is...my... D̶̲̘͖͓̥̼̺͚͍͚̫͖͛͆̓͂́͜͜͠͠I̵̧̧͖̪͔̯͔͑̅̋̒̄͛N̴̛̛̜̻̝̩̝̰͙̬̓̀̑̓͋͑́̍̓̚̕̕͝N̸̲̈E̸̛̘̮̘͖̙̻̺̥͎̮̻̎͋̌̏͛̓̒̔͐͆̐͛̚͝R̷̛͇͎̞̞͕͚̹͚̤̰̀̆̐̀̿͊̎̋̔̀̐̐̕?̵̧̟̺̠̟̙̬̤͉̦͓̞̓̄̊̌̉̍͊̾͜?̸̗̱̪͕̻̣̦̙̫̣̖̹̭̓͆͝ͅ?̸̖̫̫͇̩͆͛͝

Hector: HAVE MERCY!!!

Suddenly Leif (Gwonam) flies in through a nearby window, getting covered in sharp glass.

Leif: Your-ow-majesty, Ganon and his minions have seized the food of Koridai.

Bianca twists her head to face behind her unnaturally.

Bianca:...What about Hyrule?

Leif: That too.

Bianca: Hmmm. (Twists the rest of her body to match her head) Link-

Leif: Also it's breakfast time.

Bianca:...Link, go to Koridai and take the dinner back from Ganon.

Kabbu: Oh BOY! (Jumps out a window.)

Link: (Flapping his arms like wings to fly) Woooooooooowwwwwwwww...

Bianca: Oh, alright.

Vi: (Sighs) Gwonam, can we go to Koridai to make sure Link doesn't-

Leif: Die, yes.

Leif and Vi jump onto Leif's magic carpet, which very quickly flies into a huge series of shuttle loops.

Leif: Squadaladaladaladaladaladaladaladaladaladaladaladaladaladalada-(zips off)-LAAAAAAAH!!

Leif: Hang on, Zelda!

Vi: (Vomits like Peter Griffin).

Meanwhile, Kabbu lands right in front of the shop of Morshu (Fry).

Kabbu: Before I kick Ganon's balls, I need some ♩ W-E-A-P-O-N-R-Y, WEAPONRY!!! (Crashes through Fry(Morshu)'s door to the music) ♩

Fry: FOCK! (Shuts his laptop closed) Link, don't pull that crap!

Kabbu: Hi, Morshu! What can I get for...

Link looks in his pocket and finds nothing but his Smart Sword (It won't hurt anyone friendly! In fact, it makes them talk!) and a fake wand made of plastic.

Kabbu: (Pulls out the plastic stick) This magic wand?

Fry:...(Puts down a balloon shaped like his head) Bolloon.

Kabbu: Oh boy! Anything else?

Fry: Fuck off.

Kabbu: :(

Fry: Mmm...sorry, Link. Have this. (Hands him a toy Nerf gun)

Kabbu: Wowww!...Got an uzi?

Fry: (In a voice that's clearly not his) It's Nerf, or nothing!

Link: Okay! (Grabs the stuff Morshu gave him) Lah lah lah lah lah! (Breaks out the wall)

Morshu: Ah...(Opens back up his laptop) Mmm...I can use lamp oil as l-

Five minutes later, back at the castle.

Bianca:...Dammit, I'm hungry and bored.

Hector: Wanna watch me game?

Bianca: Dude, no.

Bianca pulls out a phone and calls up her old ally Queen Elizant II (Lord Kiro), who on her phone is listed as "That guy". You know. That guy. Lord Kiro. The "Here's the traitor you're majesty!" guy. Anywho, she's in the gym lifting weights like a friggin' badass whilst listening to music on headphones.

Elizant's Headphones: ♩ It's Christmas at Ground Zero, and the missiles are on their way. What a crazy fluke, we're gonna get nuked-♩

The music is interrupted by a phone call from Bianca (Named "Sweet Cheeks" on Kiro's phone).

Elizant: (Answers the call) Yes, my liege?

Bianca: Kiro, can you come over?

Elizant: Sorry, but I'm getting gains.

Bianca: But I'm alone.

Suddenly Elizant jumps out of the gym roof and through Bianca's roof.

Elizant: Hey, what's...

Hector waves "hello" meekly.

Bianca:...With Duke Onkled.

Hector: Hello-

Elizant: Fuck you.

After flying for a while Leif stops his flying carpet, launching himself and Vi into a tavern in Koridai. Leif lands on his feet like it's nothing while Vi faceplants.

Leif: I've gAHt to sit and shit.

Vi: You'd better shit fast.

Tanjerin (Droolik the Drunk Guy): Where you headed, partner?

Zelda: We're trying to find Link.

Leif: And beat Ganon['s ç̴̡̹̳̣̲͇̝͚͌̔*̶͖͇̬͇̘̝̳͚̖̙̞̝̙̀̽͒̈̉̾̽͒̇̋̚c̶̹͓̳̔̉͊k̸̪̅̕]

Vi: What.

Tanjerin: Don't fuuuck him, feeeed him-*chomps something* mmmm-this!

Vi: What is it?

Tanjerin: Raw meat!

Vi:...

Tanjerin falls over and dies.

Vi:...

Leif: SalmonellAH! *Leaves for the bathroom.*

Vi: *Sighs*

As Leif takes a dump, Kabbu is exploring around Koridai.

Kabbu: Oh boy, I can't wait to find Ganon!...How am I gonna find Ganon?

Finds a pile of bombs

Kabbu: Oh boy! Free bombs!

Kabbu runs around Koridai throwing bombs everywhere as the sounds of screaming and also Soulja Boy's "I'm So Fresh You Can Suck My Nuts" play.

Five minutes later, back at the castle.

Bianca: Did you bring pizza?

Elizant: Nay.

Bianca: Corn?

Elizant: Nay.

Bianca: How about nougat?

a horse: Neigh.

Bianca: Dammit, do you have any food?

Elizant: At my house, yes.

Bianca: Can you bring some?

Elizant:...I live on a separate landmass.

Bianca: How'd you get here so fast then?

Elizant: Because I thought you wanted to h-ah, never mind.

Bianca: Well, I'm hungry and have nothing to do but sit and talk with Duke Onkled. And also Impa.

Chompy (Impa): (Is Asleep) HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK-SHWWWWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA-HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO-BLBLBLBLLBLBLBLBLBBLB-HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK-HWEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE-SHAWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW-BLBLBLLBLBLB-HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO-MIMIMIMIMIMIMIMIMIMIMI-SHHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE-HOOOOONKKKKK-BIDIBIDIBIDIBIDIBIDI

Elizant: I'm sorry but I guess Duke Onkled-(Sees something behind Bianca) TRAITOR!

Bianca: (Turns around) What's-OAH!

They both see Hector scarfing down a Lean Pocket that was still in the freezer (which he left open), and just stand as he turns to look back at them. He swallows the last of the Lean Pocket worriedly before looking around for something to do or say.

Hector:...Lean Pockets♩!

Bianca: (Rage slowly boiling inside of her)...fffffffffFFFFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK!!!

Bianca's FUUCK echoes out so loudly it even reaches Koridai, catching Vi's attention as she and Leif walk around.

Vi:...Father?

Leif: Enough of that, Zelda. We have to focus on finding Ganon.

Bianca's cry causes a rockslide nearby, where one boulder lands on Leif and reveals a door with a sign above it saying "Front Entrance to Ganon's Lair".

Vi: Great! :D

Leif: My legs...

Vi: Walk it off.

Hoaxe (Ganon) holds up a chalupa whilst sitting on a massive pile of food.

Hoaxe: You are my dinner! (Bites the chalupa before spasming in disgust.)

Hoaxe: Chalupa! You must DIE!!!

Kabbu: Hey, Ganon!

Hoaxe: Hmm?

Hoaxe looks to his left to see Kabbu standing and smiling like a tool.

Hoaxe: Link??? How'd you find me?

70% of Koridai is a smoldering crater.

Kabbu: Oops! Got carried away!

Kabbu: Now! (Pulls out the Nerf gun) Give me back Koridai and Hyrule's food or else!

Hoaxe: Or else what, butt face?

Vi: Or else we'll join in!

Hoaxe looks to his right to see Vi and Leif, standing perhaps less goofily.

Hoaxe: Zelda?! (Sees Leif) No!!! Shriveled old turd!!!

Leif: You. Must. Die.

Kabbu: You can't win, Ganon! Not with my gun!

Hoaxe: (Pulls out a gun) GOOD OLD AMERICAN MMMMMMAGNUM!

Kabbu: Oh, shoot!

Hoaxe: Okie dokie! >:3

Vi: Hey, Ganon!

Hoaxe: What?

Vi: Go long! (Throws the raw meat at Ganon)

Hoaxe: Hah! (Eats the meat whole like a dog)...(His stomach growls)...Ohhh...More food poisoning...burrrrrrrrrnns...

Leif: (Punches Hoaxe in the balls.)

Hoaxe: AIEEE!

Vi: (Grabs Hoaxe's head and starts kneeing him in the face)

Hoaxe: OW!

Kabbu: (Holds up his Smart Sword) My Smart Sword! (Stabs Hoaxe with his Smart Sword)

Hoaxe: NO!

Then Vi, Kabbu, and Hoaxe just pummel Leif all together. Eventually he stops squirming, clearly dead. Vi, Kabbu, and Leif just stand there, looking at Hoaxe's lifeless body.

Then, the balloon shaped like Fry's head inflates to colossal size and carries Hoaxe's lair into the sky, causing the stolen food to start raining all over the land. Meanwhile, the Kirby's Dream Land credits theme but sung by Morshu starts playing.

As the group floats over, Crisbee (Harbanno the Baker) and the Mayor of Defiant Root (Mayor Kravendish) are standing together talking.

Crisbee: My cakes are gone...

Mayor: (To me, the writer) This is inaccurate, you know.

A giant cake lands on the Mayor.

Mayor: Dick.

The group also float over Fry and his shop, causing a pile of bananas to land in right by it.

Fry: (Pokes his head out of the shop) Ooh! Bananas! (Grabs the pile and brings it into his shop)

They also fly over the Mushroom Kingdom, A.K.A. Hallownest, as Tiso (Mario) and Quirrel (Luigi) look up at them.

Tiso: Luigi, look!

A bundle of spaghetti falls from the sky as Quirrel goes "Spaghetti!", landing onto Tiso's face.

Quirrel: For real this time!

Vi, Kabbu, and Leif laugh cheerily as they spread the food back to everywhere it belongs.

Kabbu: I'm so happy! No one will be hungry again!

Vi: Not quite but still! Only good things are happening!

Vi completely ignores how the food they're dropping includes gigantic bagels that fall onto and destroy buildings in New York.

Leif: I cannot wait to see His Majesty's smiling face whe-

Ganon's Lair crashes down onto Hyrule Castle, obliterating it.

Bianca: Oah! How are we okay?

Elizant: (In Mario's voice) Pizza da heck outta me!

Hector: (Raises his arm weakly while on the floor) Oooohhhh...

Vi, Kabbu, and Leif flop out of the lair onto what remains of the floor.

Bianca: You pieces of shit! I-(Sees the food) You saved my dinner!!!

King Harkinian kisses Zelda on the forehead.

Vi: *Laughs*

King Harkinian kisses Link on the forehead.

Kabbu: D'awww!

King Harkinian is about to kiss Gwonam on the forehead.

Leif: Gimme some sugar!

Bianca: Later.

Leif: ( ͡° ͜ ʖ ͡° )

Elizant: HEY!

Bianca: Thank you so much! I was about to eat Duke Onkled!

Hector: (Gets up with an arm that was visibly chewed off) It's true! :3

Bianca: Now it's finally time for dinner.

Kabbu: Oh boy! I'm so hungry, I could eat Ganon's head!

Kabbu: (Takes out Ganon's decapitated head) OMNOMNOMNOMNOM OMNOMNOMNOM OMNOM OMNOM OMNOMNOMNOMNOM OMNOMNOMNOMNOMNOMNOM NOM NOM NOM OM OMNOMNOM NOM OMNOMNOM OMNOMNOMNOM OMNOMNOMNOM OMNOMNOMNOM NOMNOM NOM OMNOM OMNOM OMNOMNOMNOMNOM OMNOMNOMNOM OMNOMNOM OMNOMNOMOMNOMNOM OMNOMNOM OMNOM OMNOM OMNOM OMNOM OMNOMNOMNOM

Bianca: Cool. (Grabs a burrito) Hmmm...I wonder where's the SuS?

Everybody Else: hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

Kabbu: Ha! Ha! Ha! (A bomb falls out of his pocket) Oops.