#arthur dandys world

[dandysworldhcs]

this is very dumb but like. the main toons were made first. okay. we know that. idk how they found out, maybe arthur told them, but the mains knew that delilah could make toons using ichor, and that's what they were.

so long story short, sprout starts begging delilah to make him a baking partner, (no one wants to make food with him frfr) and after a while, she folds

so then the rest of the mains are all "wait a second. holy shit. if he can do that... SO CAN WE"

so then they kept pestering delilah with ideas for toons-

of course, since it got kinda out of hand, they just said no... but then they insisted so they compromised and they were allowed to tweak appearances a bit... (spoiler alert this got removed from their memory so the mains don't know they changed anything anymore)

ahem.

changes shelly made:

- made scraps and goob siblings

- gave tisha freckles

- chose the colour palette for flutter (originally she was gonna look more like her monarch butterfly skin)

- made glisten's bow shape more curved and madd it slightly bigger

- gave gigi long sleeves. they were gonna be shorter originally

changes vee made:

- made scraps' tail and goob's arms extendable and retractable

- suggested giving brightney reading glasses (scrapped, then used for a skin)

- suggested another rock dog like pebble (scrapped, then used for coal)

- gave looey his tail

- gave toodles her hoodie thing

changes astro made:

- gave cosmo his star freckle things because... stars

- wanted finn to have a tail (scrapped, used for a skin)

- gave teagan her fur boa

- REALLY wanted shrimpo to have more arms/legs to be more like a shrimp or at least have 'antennae' (rejected) but it was his idea to have an aquatic animal-based toon

- made connie a ghost

- gave gigi the star on her hoodie... BECAUSE STARS

changes sprout made:

- gave boxten his bandana

- made rodger have one eye

- changed poppy's dress and bow colour to pink instead of blue

- made razdaz's necks ribbons and added the bow in front

- gave scraps the eye clown makeup thing

ANYWAY UHHHH SKEDADDLES MWHEHEHEHGEYFHHDYDHDUBWYFJHDHJ

- fireworks anon

wait.i love this. too bad pebble didnt make any changes, if he did it probably br likr. uh. bark. woof.

[walnutcookie]

this is worth posting

[kataztrophez]

Hehehhhhhgggg… what if you drew Arthur and Delilah 😈😈😈

smiles mwehehe

[danganronpaisbest]

Dandys World (Yandere Sprout AU)

Conversation between the handlers and staff

Sam: Delilah... what's going on with my toon... why isn't he acting normal like the other toons?!

Delilah: *Sighs* I'm afraid I have some bad news about him... he's perfectly healthy... it's just that something went... wrong... while the creators were making him...

Devan: Well... what is it? What's wrong with Sprout?

Arthur: He's emotionless... I'm afraid he's not gonna be able to feel any emotions like a regular toon is supposed to...

Sam: Damn it!! .....Well, is they're ANYTHING we can do?! Sprout's an important character... we need him for this show

Delilah: I guess the best thing we can do is.... try to teach him to pretend to feel emotions... until we can come up with a solution...

Sam: *Sighs* I guess it's worth a shot

@mythicalhuman @cayleeray7312 @erithehuskerdustshipper

[the-meme-monarch]

I’m sharing this take with you because I think you’d enjoy it: Vee is autistic. low empathy & is often accidentally rude. can’t read social cues.

real to me. i think autism is very common in toons to where it’s like. The Normal to them. and that’s how vee’s is :] i’m not sure why i decided to draw delilah here. i think she’s similarly low empathy/unintentionally rude. i also just like her is the thing

[aliensaltzzz]

I don't draw humans often, mb guys!!

I wanna see more people draw them 🙏

Refs and some whiteboard stuff below the cut!

[froggkidd]

I've been drawing a lot, but I just haven't been posting. Anyways, doodle dump ( Click on images for better quality! )

[dia-smthidk]

a little something that’s just me attempting to make my stylized designs canonically fit as much as possible 🎉

I don’t have any better idea of what to call these forms uhhhhhh

[dandys-world-red-rock]

(Dandys World Red Rock) Some Vee and Dandy Lore

These two are going to be somewhat important to the AU, Dandy especially. I decided for a video game esque feel because I thought it would be fun.

Video is set in 1990, both are still teens in this point in the timeline.

Sorry if the script is missing some parts, it had to quickly be rewritten after our Arthur voice actor had to leave for something. Funny how fitting that is. Enjoy!

[dandysworldhcs]

toons are built! the process of making them is not cheap- they need to be made similarly to animatronics, having to have wires, metal, "skeletons" and so on and so forth: a body must be crafted. after all this is done, ichor is added to actually bring them to life. during this process, the ichor may "mutate" some parts to make them more life-like or add things that would aid the toon in living (e.j.: organs or extra body parts like tails) anyways here are some branching hcs:

twisteds aren't scary per se, but they're really uncanny (see: how real-life abandoned animatronics look). the abundance of ichor they have leads to it making them much less cartoony, and the lack of maintenance makes their animatronic parts much more visible.

delilah and arthur did NOT expect the ichor to add extra stuff to the toons. delilah took it upon herself to fix it, thinking she did something wrong, only to find out that most toons actually Need the extra stuff. <-this is foreshadowing to gardenview closing due to neglect iirc?

a lot of toons have exoskeletons... glisten's skin really is just like. an exoskeleton. his limbs are not made of metal. same with teagan.

the vintage skin toons and the regular toons are different toons. the vintages are the ..heh.alpha. versions of them, and the regular toons are the "finished" versions of them. a regular dandy was never made, so the one we see in-game is a vintage! this is why he dyes his petals. :-)

does that mean dandy dies his skin too? vintage skins are all black and white (skin included) while dandy has a slight yellow for his torso, and a light mint green for his arms. how would he get rid of his eye shines (since the vintage skins have eye shines)?

just some food for thought, i really enjoy this headcanon

[walnutcookie]

tower of souls!arthur and delilah :]

[rage-katz]

Dandy and his divorced parents 💔💔😞😞

[royalblanket]

texture stuff from the new update pt. 3 FINAL

(HEAVY dandys world spoilers for lore and decor)

yes im still missing some skins (the vintages, and hurt/blink textures. i think that second bobette one may be unused?)

ill just update this post once i have them

pt. 1

pt. 2

[the-meme-monarch]

arthur showing delilah a reference sheet: and this is connie she’s a ghost :]

delilah: oh ok. so if we are acknowledging that things can be dead in gardenview are we going to acknowledge that shrimpo is a corpse.

arthur:

delilah: he’s a a peeled and de-veined shrimp abdomen. that’s a dead thing.

arthur:

delilah: you always say I’m overthinking these things. I just think you’re not thinking about them enough.

[ghostsandfools]

An analysis of Moonflower and the owners of Gardenview:

Dandy x Astro, our favorite toxic yaoi couple. Even if you see them as just friends, you’ve got to admit, their dynamic is ripe with potential.

Then there’s Arthur and Delilah, two lesser known Dandy’s World characters. For those who don’t know, Delilah and Arthur took out a loan together and started Gardenview Educational Center. They are the owners of the building and (supposedly) created the toons as well.

But I wonder, could their relationship be a parallel to Dandy and Astro’s? Let’s talk about it!

Astro and Dandy have been close since the beginning. They were two of the first toons, created along with the other mains in 1988.

Not only that, but they seem to have been friends in the show as well. Even if you don’t ship them, it’s clear that they were close with each other.

Arthur and Delilah also seem to be close friends. The first interaction we get between them is when they sign a loan together in 1984, presumably the money they use to start Gardenview. While a loan isn’t very interesting, you probably wouldn’t want to sign a loan with any random person on the street, so they were probably pretty close even before then.

Arthur doesn’t fully understand what Delilah is doing or how she brings the toons to life, but he trusts her. They’ve seemingly been friends for a while, and he really, truly trusts her. She’s never failed him before!

And then the issues arise. After a while, things begin to change. Dandy starts acting differently, and so does Delilah. In 2002, Gardenview is shut down due to lack of regulations as well as something called the “malfunction incident.” When questioned about these things, Arthur remained quiet, and there’s no mention of Delilah being questioned at all.

She stays completely quiet about everything. It seems the only person she talks to about it is Arthur, and even then, she denies knowing anything about it. He asks and asks to talk with her again, but it’s unclear if she ever fulfills that request.

The language he uses here is especially interesting to me. He seems suspicious of her, frustrated and confused. But it almost seems like he’s nervous about calling her out, he’s hurt that she didn’t talk to him. He seems less angry at her and more concerned or worried. His tone is demanding, as if he’s had enough, but it’s not bossy. He’s still polite, almost friendly as he asks to speak with her again.

Before, their letters seemed busy, rushed, hasty. They were too busy running Gardenview to send emails or have long conversations in person, scrawling silly notes and messages to each other instead. Delilah seemed demanding of him, ordering him to bring her more coffee and send her more reference pictures, but it didn’t seem malicious then.

Now though, Gardenview is closed. Arthur has all the time in the world to compose a nervous letter to her, questioning their friendship and if she’s trustworthy. Before he blindly trusted her, but now he finally realizes something is wrong. He’s not hurriedly scrawling a letter and dropping it by her office because he’s too busy to talk in person, he’s writing to her because he doesn’t feel like he can talk to her. Their friendship is falling apart.

Doesn’t all of this sound familiar? It sounds just like Astor and Dandy’s relationship, starting as friends (or lovers) and slowly falling apart.

Astro only mentions Dandy by name once, in his dialogue with Pebble. He says he’s worried about Dandy. However, there is one more interesting piece of dialogue, his dialogue with Teagan.

Teagan: "Astro, are you still talking with... Him?"

Astro: "Yes... well, sometimes... not as often..."

Teagan: "Goodness Astro, you need to make up your mind!"

Astro: "...Sorry."

Now, many people think the “Him” is Dandy, and i agree. It doesn’t really make sense for it to be anybody else, unless it’s a character we haven’t been introduced to, but that would be kind of dumb.

This shows that Astro still feels some attachment to him. He knows he shouldn’t be talking to Dandy anymore, but after all the time they’ve spent together (and all the manipulation, probably) he just can’t bring himself to cut ties completely, similar to Arthur.

Another interesting thing is the requirements you need to fulfill to buy Astro. To buy Astro, you have to have seen twisted Dandy. To BE Astro, you have to have seen twisted Dandy. Which makes me wonder: is that important to the lore? Has Astro actually seen Dandy in his twisted form? And if so, how much does he truly know? Does he understand the full extent of what he saw? Or is that why he’s so worried about Dandy, because he’s seen his true form and doesn’t understand why the person he’s been friends with for so long is now suddenly so different, why Dandy is suddenly hiding things from him.

That all ties back in to Arthur and Delilah as well. Arthur references how Delilah “had to have known something like this could have happened to him.” Yet another mysterious him, and I wonder: Could Arthur have seen twisted Dandy as well? Maybe that’s what he’s referring to in his letter. Delilah built the toons, she owns the building, she oversees everything! And if Arthur couldn’t explain what was happening, there’s only one person who could.

This leads into a theory I’ve mentioned before: Dandy wasn’t the true mastermind behind the ichor operation. Once, he was normal, he was kind. But Delilah, his creator, basically a god to him, began to corrupt him with ichor and turn him into a twisted. Perhaps they even worked together. After all, how would Dandy know how to corrupt everybody by himself? How would he get his hands on this mysterious “ichor”? With the help of a human.

The relationship shipping potential here is amazing! Imagine the struggle Astro would go through, the struggle of knowing that his lover, the one person who had been with him through it all had been corrupted by a monster. And what if the real Dandy is still in there somewhere? Watching helplessly as his body worked on its own, hurting everyone he loved.

Even if you don’t like shipping it’s tragic! Poor Astro, having to decide between his best friend’s trust and everyone else’s safety. Maybe that’s why the game references him frowning so much, he keeps worrying about Dandy, to the point he can’t even put a smile on for the kids. And poor Arthur as well: I can’t help but wonder what happened to him. Did he cut ties with Delilah? Did she manipulate her way back into his life? Is he even alive?

Let me know what you all think, I never see anyone talk about this and it drives me crazy! Arthur and Delilah are such clear parallels to Dandy and Astro, their names even start with the same letters!

[d0wnlll]

Delilah Keen

I'm so in love with her