#category: slugcats

[rain-world-polls]

(Remember, this is about your favorite campaign, not your favorite slugcat themself! - mod Pebbles)

[kaisumisucreations]

did anyone order a metric fuckton of ghost holow nite

obsessed with the skin for rw actually, feat. @lightosoul

ghost deserves to have swag wings

[excessive-moisture]

I love it when youtube tries to be spotify but it's so dysfunctional

[rev-xce]

i wanna know more abt hunter and riv from ur au :00 i love love LOVE adopted siblings hunter n riv it’s one of my fav dynamics ;-;

IM SO GLAD YOU ASKED!!!!

Lunacy Hunter isn't as serious as canon hunter since his cancer is curable and bearable(sig has the cure, he just gives dosages every few cycles to keep the rot at bay but he doesn't fully cure it because its beneficial to Hunter!)(i would also like to add that hunter's aggro rot is tiny compared to the dosage of rot Sig gave Moon ;))

Anyways Hunter here does end up spoiling Ruffles a bunch since he definitely thinks Sig kidnapped Ruffles from a loving slugcat family....

Ruffles is just as silly if not more in this au! Lil mischievous wet rat child running around with a teenager slugcat what will she do!!!

(Just don't leave explosives near the child,,,,)

ps: i noticed someone reblogged my post in a lunacy au category LMAO SO IM JUST GONNA,,,, #rw lunacy au for further au posts PFFF

[the-real-rain-world-confessions]

To me slugcats are just animals.

I feel like a lot of people misjudge animals and their intelligence. Far more animals use tools, have an incredibly complex social structure, relationships, feelings of longing and vengance. Animals can learn, do to tasks and understand what they are doing. Of course it's hard to compare, but slugcats are just animals to me. All animals are sentient beings with thoughts logic and feelings.

Even fish use tools to their ability (having only their mouth to manipulate things) and can manipulate rocks, the water around them, cavities and other to plan, draw, play, hunt. Crocodiles put on stick hats just for the fun of it (we do not know the purpose). Bees play with wooden balls even if there's food nearby and some even favour toys over "work". Lions track down poachers to take vengance. Ants tell stories to their larva by touch and pheromones. Seals can learn and play videogames (made for them) just for fun. Are those just "dumb animals"? Dumb animals driven by instinct and nothing else?

There is a lot more purpose and whimsy to wildlife than people realise.

Aren't the lizards smart? Isn't yellow lizards transmitting information to each other a sign there's purpose to their hunt? Isn't it a sign that they can remember and tell others of their experience by their reputation system alone? A green lizard knows you've been feeding that red lizard and suddenly deems you a friend. He does not eat you although you are prey, although he isn't the one being fed. Still no one argues if lizards are animals or not.

Of course we humans are also just animals, although being human is a category in it's own way, I suppose. Still we do describe animals as things that aren't us.

Slugcats are animals.

Intelligent and complex ones, but so are far more animals than you realise.

.

[misfauxpas]

Slugcat of the Day #289

one more slugcat design using shimmeringembers's slugcat generator - this time rolling two options from each category

♡ ♡

Take a moment to read Yasser's story and if you can, make a donation to help his family afford the cost of repairing his hearing aid.

[rainworld-oc-showdown]

Flurry by @eeveekitti VERSUS Specks of Feathers by @soaricarus - Round 1 Set 3

Flurry- Description:

i don't really have anything for a campaign, since she's being used for a comic, but i think she'd play similarly to rivulet with the speed but survivor in other categories. idk she's not meant to be in actual rain world

Story:

Flurry is a wild slugcat born to The Guide alongside her sister Fennel. So far they've essentially had to raise themselves in a region of my own making-- The Voidlands, or more specifically, the Acid Wastes subregion-- with a few mishaps along the way. I can't say much else without spoiling my own story, but she does witness The Horrors.

Fun Facts:

SOMETHING is neurodivergent about that slugkitty. also she is very cute and i will draw her with big ol eyes if she wins even One poll. she means so much to me guys you have no idea

Specks of Feathers- description:

miros birds are neutral to specks unless around them for an extended amount of time; they're extremely quick and quiet in order to avoid miros birds.

Story:

specks of feathers is a small, not purposed slugcat that somehow managed to live in the structure of shattered omens [an iterator oc owned by @/pinkavtomation] alongside endless, a 17 year old ancient who... got echoed and holds bitter resentment towards omens for what she did to them. specks is their friend that kept them company all through that time of not going near omens. specks themself is wary of omens; and even moreso of the miros bird she keeps.

Fun Facts:

specks of feathers is connected to two ocs [shattered omens, an iterator owned by @/pinkavtomation and endless sky, looping sea, an ancient/echo owned by me] who already have a bunch of lore and they're two friends - one bitter over [what they perceive as] the other's betrayal and neglect of them as their parents had, the other preaching ascension being salvation... at least until their old friend seems to reappear! :]

[sapphicdib]

"i could gush about my sig headcanons all day but auuughvjgghh". You know what, do it. I dare you. After that sleepy iterators post I'm itching for more headcanons to ponder.

SORRY THIS IS RLLY LATE, IVE BEEN WORKING A LOT

THANK YOU FOR LETTING ME HAVE AN EXCUSE TO HAVE A CATEGORY 10 AUTISM MOMENT ON THE DASH. this is legit about to be a better essay than anything ive ever turned in for university so strap in, obv everything is gonna be under the cut bc this is prolly gonna be long as fuck

Okay! My main headcanons for Sig are:

He uses he/she/it pronouns, but mainly he/she!

He's a bioengineering dork.

She's a specialized medical facility!

She doesn't really care much about the great problem, and thus has a lot of hobbies. He knitted her own scarf!

She has a lot of friends, even outside of the local group. He's incredibly close with Chasing Wind.

He's a mid-gen iterator, (Ages being: LTTM, SRS, SOS, CW, NSH, UI, FP), so his emotional AI is a lot more advanced than Suns' (there's quite a gap between the two, Suns is closer to Moon in terms of age).

She considers Hunter to be her daughter, Hunter calls him her dadmom and Moon her mom.

He tends to bury these emotions down for the sake of others, which leads to...bad situations.

She's terrified of being alone :)

Sig just gives me gender fucky-wucky vibes. Her pronouns are the/bit and he's committed to it. There's not really a basis for this in canon but it just fits his personality of being pretty laid back and goofy when not in um. emotional distress. Also the accessorizing to his puppet (ie the scarf) makes me think he likes to experiment with her appearance and presentation. To add on to this in the streamer au she goes by any pronouns and is pretty androgynous, so none of his followers can tell his AGAB, and its funny to him to watch the chat argue about it. (He's AFAB, tbh I can't see her as anything else). No one can guess his sexuality either, the only "confirmed" thing seems to be polyamourous, but other than that it's "whatever makes it gay", or "whatever pisses you off most".

Sig obviously has a knack for bioengineering, as he was the one who started investigating the idea of using purposed messengers to stay in contact with others once the comms degraded, not to mention the creation of the slag reset keys. Yes this is my incoming rant of "Sig is not bad at making slugcats", since sometimes people tend to act like "Sig didn't follow Suns' instructions" or something like that, and that's why Hunter is sick. There are MULTIPLE points in their conversations where it's outright stated that Sig was the one who did it first:

Sig was the one who showed Suns the process:

SRS: I purposed a messenger, and sent the information by land via a data pearl. NSH: How original of you. SRS: I learned from the best.

Sig clearly has experiences with messengers, and Spearmaster happens before Sig begins working on Hunter:

NSH: I feel like I need to be simplifying my speech patterns. Is that something you do when conversing with your messenger?

SUNS SAYS "ANOTHER" MESSENGER, AND THEN LATER SIG SAYS "ANOTHER MESSENGER" AS WELL. SIG HAS MADE MESSENGERS BEFORE:

SRS: Do you suppose you'll ever raise another messenger?

NSH: I'm tempted to start work on raising another messenger as a last ditch effort, but to be honest I don't think there is any point.

And then, in her reply, she says, "*I* started investigating the method".

NSH: If the need arises, I certainly would. After all, I started investigating the method out of the inevitability of our situation.

And just to nail it down that Sig was the one who purposed them first, the gossip between Wandering Omen and Pleading Intellect:

PI: You haven't heard about what No Significant Harassment did? WO: All I heard was the complaining. Didn't he send an iterator something distasteful? PI: Well, yes, but more importantly, he trained a purposed organism to deliver it!

WO: How do you even get a dull creature such as that to follow orders? I may consider asking him to teach me his ways.

So yes, Sig was the one to purpose the messengers first. She had already made at least one in the past, to send the "distasteful message" to someone. I'd honestly say he probably made more between that/before, to test the efficacy and also just to mess around with the process.

This leads into my next headcanon: Sig was a specialized medical facility! Five Pebbles mentions to Hunter that "I was not a medical facility even when the equipment was functioning," so I believe that there were some more specialized iterators built. Sig's knowledge of bioengineering could be an indication of this specialization, not to mention it fits with him not really caring about the great problem to the same degree as everyone else. Purely headcanon after this point, but when Sig was first built, Moon was very nervous about getting a new model of "specialized" iterator that she wouldn't be able to help train as well! Moon was a more generalized iterator as she was older, so she does have knowledge about medicine and bioengineering, as all iterators did for the health and growth of her city, but nothing to the degree Sig would need. Thankfully, iterators are fucking supercomputers, so its not like Sig needed much "training" in the way of that, but still. Moon wanted to be a good mentor to her! And she very much was, considering how Sig turned out. That's why they ended up so close.

After the mass ascension, he became the resident "doctor" of the local group. Pointing back to the slag reset keys, Sig seems to have shoved as many as he could into that thing, since Pebbles reacts to the amount of them with surprise, so he knows his way around iterator biology. In pure headcanon mode now, when they develop my tangible projections thing (which Sig and Moon were heavily involved in), it meant that she could actually help others by preforming repairs on their puppets, and even their structures by sending her overseer into them. Moon's inspectors enjoy head pats from her whenever he's passing by.

Her being a medical facility also means she doesn't give as much thought to finding the Triple Affirmative as others. His processing power was delegated more towards finding cures, aiding the sick, and engineering better production techniques for medical equipment and such. His city is also highly accessible and optimized for the disabled and elderly. When you're a medical facility, your goal is more to keep people alive than perma-kill them! I mostly get this headcanon from the fact that when Suns is faced with "what to do" other than solve the great problem, they respond with "What else CAN we do? You're stuck in your can, and at any moment you have no more than two alternatives: Do nothing, or work like you're supposed to.". Meanwhile, Sig responds to Suns' question about purposing another messenger with "There's nothing better for me to do with my time, though.". Not to mention, he was already purposing messengers before this, so she certainly wasn't dedicating all of her time to iterating the great problem! Of course, he probably did iterate on it, just not to the degree his peers did. He also jokes about it in that broadcast where Wind is telling everyone about erratic pulse, saying "Haha with the slimers, lizards and etceteras? Surely the answer was in a lizard skull all along!" so it really seems like he doesn't take it very seriously.

Her disinterest in solving the problem led to her developing a wide range of hobbies. He's an iterator after all, they probably get horrifically bored if they're not doing something! She taught herself to knit (telling his citizens it helped her focus so they would provide her with needles and yarn), and eventually learns to make garments as well. I headcanon he plays video games too, especially with Chasing Wind, mostly just because she probably wanted to see if an iterator could run Doom for the lolz. Probably also trolls in the group chats sometimes, considering the "distasteful pearl", and I think her being being NGI ("No Great Ideas") would be funny as hell. This also makes it pretty obvious why I made the streamer au, Sig's a top level player for multiple FPS games and has won some pretty prestigious awards in esports tournaments. And then she goes home and plays Hollow Knight randomizers with Pebbles in a maid outfit.

Sig's personality also lent itself to having a lot of friends. Her and Chasing Wind were built less than 50 cycles apart (Wind is older), so they're practically attached at the hip. Wind isn't in her local group (He's in Sliver's), but they're still very close. It's not really explored much in canon since we really only see her interact with Suns for the most part, but given her personality, I don't think it'd be a far off assumption for him to have lots of friends. Because she's younger, she also has a more sophisticated emotional AI...which can be detrimental at times, but is helpful when it comes to maintaining friendships!

AHAH So here comes the um. SAD portion of the rant lol. I feel like Sig buries her emotions down a lot, for the sake of others. In her conversations with Suns, we do see him get snappy with him, but for the most part he remains either calm or sympathetic, at the most a bit pessimistic towards the end. When she finally does call Suns out for their bullshit, he (presumably) stops replying to Suns for a short time before apologizing and continuing to talk to them.

SRS: I'm in noticing you are becoming more defensive. This obviously wasn't the end result I was aiming for, you know. SRS: Please respond to my messages. I don't want to leave it like this. I need someone to talk to. NSH: I don't mean to be cold, I'm just very worried.

After this interaction, Sig seems to either just reply with facts/possibly explanations for Moon/Pebbles' actions, or completely changing the subject to Suns' messenger, which then leads to the broadcast where Suns is telling her all the ways they modified their messenger to sneak past Sig's overseers, by not giving them the mark and hiding the pearl, we see Sig's replies become very short, single sentence answers.

This to me reads as slightly passive aggressive, but Suns doesn't seem to pick up on it. To be honest I in my head I hear this as Sig hissing this shit through clenched teeth if he could, but it's just text so I suppose we'll never know.

Additionally, he still does let his emotions overwhelm her at points, (such as during the "Your plan was a complete failure" broadcast), but the most blatant is probably in the messages she sends to Moon and Pebbles.

Starting with the Pebbles one:

NSH: Five Pebbles, I will say once again. You need to stop. Immediately. NSH: I know you are going to trash this message like the rest, but... NSH: I hope eventually when you are out of this state of mind you will look back at these. NSH: Look back and reflect on all the regrets you've set yourself up to have.

Sig is angry. Like he shows no sympathy for him, and just hopes he wallows in regret for the rest of his life. She does express his dislike of Pebbles while talking to Suns as well, but manages to still be nice by saying "I think a lot of us were like that in the beginning.", and such, and then drops the subject by the next broadcast by talking about Suns' messenger. He only ever talks about Moon's condition, likely to keep himself from being a dick about Pebbles in front of Suns because talking directly about him is obviously pretty touchy. But this broadcast is straight up mean. She doesn't manage to hold back her emotions but to be honest? I don't think he actually cares, if he burns that bridge with Pebbles then fine, because Pebbles burned it first.

Pebbles took away one of the few friends he still had in this dying world.

I really and truly believe that Sig's biggest fear is being alone. She makes the slugcats as a way to keep in contact with others after the comms arrays degrade. After being snappy with Suns, she immediately backtracks, apologizes, and keeps talking to them, even if it hurts. His messages to Moon also emphasize this:

NSH: Moon? Moon, are you able to communicate?

NSH: Moon? It's me again.

NSH: I need to talk to you. I need to know you're okay.

The fact that we are provided two of these broadcasts and not just one seems to point to the idea that these are not the only two Sig sent. "It's me again." There is more desperation in her tone compared to the messages he shares with Suns, possibly because he's more comfortable expressing his profound distress with Moon because they're closer. A part of me headcanons she...never stopped sending messages. He needs to know she's okay. You can even find a green overseer in outer expanse and subterranean, locked out of the facility but still searching, still looking for any sign of Moon...or Hunter.

When Sig sends Hunter to Moon, the pearl he sends is goofy and lighthearted. He doesn't want to bring her down when she's already suffering enough. It's short, and sweet, because anything longer would probably devolve into something unpleasant. She's holding the words on that pearl together with tape and glue. Once again, hiding the pure grief he feels for the sake of others.

I also think that's why Hunter is sick. Once again, pure headcanon, but Sig mentions this on the pearl:

Excuse the unorthodox delivery method, equipment eroding etc etc.

I kinda interpret this as Sig pushing herself too hard to make Hunter in time to save Moon, and in turn, irreversibly damaging himself in the process. An emergency shutdown occurred after he ignores the 50th pressure warning his systems desperately tried to get her to pay attention to, causing Hunter to become sick thanks to the sudden disruption in his concentration, much like Pebbles and the rot. This is also why no other messengers were sent after this, Sig simply couldn't make any more that were healthy. She loved Hunter, and I fully believe that, as Hunter's last vision in the void sea was to return to his arms. Continuing the pure headcanons now, but he treats Hunter like a daughter and knits her a scarf for her journey. She tells Hunter that Moon is her mom. She gives Hunter a name, which were held in very high regard in ancient culture, a gift so she can at least be remembered for her sacrifice: "Hunting the Stars, Moon's Savior."

All and all, Sig is desperately trying to delay the inevitable, watching the walls of loneliness close in as she loses contact with friends, slowly encroaching on her until he's locked up in a box. Alone.

HOWEVER!

I for one, absolutely adore the goofy, flirty personality the fandom gives Sig. I really do believe when he isn't in extreme emotional distress, she is like that. The motherfucker uses tildes in his texts and teases Suns and makes jokes about slimers and lizards. I just like peeling apart the little snippets we see of him, which are mostly at pretty low moments unfortunately, and just seeing what I can extrapolate from that. Even if some of my headcanons are far-fetched and shit, I do at least try to keep most of them at least slightly in character with some explanation.

I hope you enjoyed my unhinged rant about my favorite guy!!!! I put this in google docs and its literally like, 2.4k words, I could genuinely have turned this in to one of my fucking college courses LMFAO. It's probably better than some of the garbage I DID turn in tbh. If you want more I am totally happy to provide, cuz I could make a whole OTHER ramble about Hunter that's just as long LMAOOOO

(Oh also none of this applies to rot au Sig. that freak deserves her own post bc at this point he's 50% oc and 50% No Significant Harassment Rain World LOL)

[ammonitetheseaserpent]

[Image ID: The ‘wake me up’ category meme, with the categories filled with icons of all the slugcats in Rain World. Above the ‘before you go go’ category are Monk, Gourmand, Rivulet and Watcher/Nightcat.

Above the ‘when september ends’ category are Spearmaster, Inv/Enot, and Survivor. Above the ‘wake me up inside’ category are Hunter, Artificer and Saint. End ID]

[aegagrusscholarship]

i nerd about rain world names and all their hidden rules

i ended up thinking about rain world names recently and why certain phrases that seem like they should be valid just… wouldn’t sound correct despite seeming to follow the format. so i went and analyzed all the examples we have in the game. here’s my observations.

to note: ancient and iterator names are fairly similar, while slugcat names follow a completely different set of rules. that makes sense, given that ancients and iterators were from one civilization and slugcats are a different civilization! but this isn’t a lore analysis this time around.

SLUGCATS——————————————— It’s Rain World I’m starting with our playable characters.

Note that base canon and Downpour have very slightly naming conventions.

Base canon slugcat names are always descriptors that can be applied to people. Survivor, Monk, Hunter, Watcher. These are either occupations or things that you can be.

In Downpour: Artificer, Gourmand, Saint all follow the canon naming conventions.

Rivulet is the first outlier as a descriptor, but not a description a person can be. Spearmaster is the second outlier as it is a compound, made-up word rather than a single defined word.

WORD CHOICE————————————— well, for ancient and iterator names, since slugcats have already been covered. the words used are always simple concepts. they’re not all simple words, but the layman can look at all of these and understand what they mean.

what i mean by not-simple words is. harassment, rhinestones, unparalleled are all pretty long and decently mid-level words. but they’re words a native speaker of english almost certainly knows.

ITERATOR NAMES——————————— Now, first to iterators, since we actually see them in-game. There are three categories of names: actions, numbered objects, and described objects. Note here I use ‘object’ in the linguistic sense rather than the literal physical object sense.

Action names are a described action: Looks To The Moon, Chasing Grey Winds. They are always in present tense, too.

There are two sub-categories here. There are also two iterators here.

The first: Looks To The Moon is an action applied to a object with a connector in between. [Looks], the action, [To The], the connector, [Moon], the object. Another name of this format is Walks Upon Waves. The action is always a word ending in -s. Walking Upon Waves is incorrect as a result.

However, ‘walking’ is a word that can still be used, as there is a second type of name. This is an action applied directly to an object. Chasing Grey Winds is our example of this type. [Chasing], the action, [Grey Winds], the object. Yes, the latter two words are considered a single object here— explanation on combining name types at the bottom of this section.

On that note, Winds' name is odd as it is always written as either Chasing Winds or Grey Winds, never both at once. I have written both possible permutations together for this analysis, but I suspect some names have multiple permutations like this. However, Winds is the only example of this so there is insufficient evidence to confirm.

Either ways, these names still seem to follow the rules of one of these three categories: "Chasing Winds" is an action name, "Grey Winds" is a described object name.

On to object-focused names.

Numbered object names are exactly that. Five Pebbles is an example. [Five] the number, [Pebbles] the object. It is likely there can be connecting words, but the only example in canon is Six Grains of Gravel, an ancient name. These names follow a number + noun format.

Described object names follow the same format, but have a description rather than a number. Unparalleled Innocence, Erratic Pulse, Sliver Of Straw. They may have a connecting word if it makes sense in the phrase, see Sliver. As Sliver is the only example, I am unsure whether ‘of’ is the only allowed connecting word or if we simply do not see others. These names follow an adjective + noun format.

Described object names can also be negated, as seen with No Significant Harassment: [No] negates the adjective+noun of [Significant] [Harassment].

Also, name types can be combined with each other: Described and numbered object names can be combined, see Seven Red Suns. [Seven] the number, [Red] the description, [Suns] the object.

Action names can be combined with described object names. Chasing Grey Winds is the action [Chasing] applied to [Grey Winds], which is the adjective + noun combination of a described object name. They likely can be combined with numbered object names as well, but I do not remember a canon example.

ANCIENT NAMES————————————Finally, ancient names. Downpour and basegame canon names follow the same rules, so I will not split them like I did for the slugcats.

Ancient names are two distinct ideas joined either by a comma or a connecting word. These distinct ideas work on the same principle as clauses do in sentences, though these names are not full sentences so it’s not quite the same.

I will first analyze these distinct clause-ideas. There are again three categories: numbered objects, described objects, and, er, described ideas? You’ll see what I mean when I explain them.

The first is numbered objects.

Some, like Six Grains of Gravel, are straightforward. Note that if you are describing a single object, it can use the word ‘a’ rather than ‘one’, i.e. A Bell.

The number of objects can also be indefinite, as seen with the name segments Endless Reflections and Plentiful Leaves. As well as that, if it is indefinite it does not need to have a word to describe it as such, as seen with Droplets and Rhinestones being single-word name segments.

The second is described objects, which works exactly how they do in iterator names. Shattered Glass is an adjective noun combo. I explained this I’m too lazy to do it again.

You can also combine numbers and descriptions as Five Large Droplets or Eighteen Amber Beads does.

Finally are the described ideas: we see one with Mountains Abound. We also only see one with Mountains Abound and this is a very odd category. It seems to be a phrase that brings to mind the idea of scenery, a feeling, or something similar.

Now that I’ve covered the individual parts of names, let’s talk about how to join them!

The easiest way is just to slap a comma in there. [A Bell]<,>[Eighteen Amber Beads]. [Six Grains Of Gravel]<,>[Mountains Abound].

You are also able to use a connecting word, which seems to just need to be a simple word that makes sense when joining the two halves of the name. [Droplets] <Upon> [Five Large Droplets]. [Four Needles] <Under> [Plentiful Leaves]. The resultant name does not need to be logical, either, see Droplets.

It seems that ‘of’ is the only allowed connecting word that does not join the two separate parts of the name, which makes me suspect ‘of’ is also the only connecting word allowed in iterator names. However, there is insufficient evidence to confirm or deny this.

FINALLY! This is an analysis of canon and in-game text! This is by no means a rulebook of rules you must follow or else I GET you. I am only analyzing Rain World’s names as I am very interested in the hidden rules of such design decisions. I have multiple characters who do not quite follow these name rules exactly, but hey! We’re all having fun.

tl;dr do what you want forever, I’m just a nerd

[shkika]

i have been wondering - a thought has occurred to me. To unlock the downpour tree ending we must first complete the gourmand campaign right? We only unlock that after ascending one of our first slugcats for the first time. After that we can redo an ending for the monk and the survivor as the outer expanse has unlocked. What if we take the redoing ending as the actual thing that happens. What if Gourmand ending causes an in-universe retcon that alters the course of the future survivor and monk from seeking ascension to actually returning home, thus preventing their ascension when it was their original course of action? That feels quite nonsensical but i wanted to contemplate.

I think you can take this multiple ways!

The first for example would be that the Survivor void ending is always canon, because you need it in order to play Gourmand in the first place.

On the other hand (please do correct me if I'm wrong) while the game does change things according to what you have done in other campaigns, for example, giving Moon her cloak or failing a run as hunter before playing Gourmand, it does not change Monk's outer expanse ending. Which always includes Survivor. That doesn't change I think.

super long nonsensical ramble below. less a proper explanation, more so me brainstorming...

While with the void, you can assume it forms visions of what the slug cats want to see, the outer expanse endings are a pretty clear cut case that Monk does meet Survivor no matter what which supports your retcon theory. I think it's really interesting I like your take!

It is probably the most likely way to explain why you always meet Survivor as Monk in outer expanse (betting all my cards that it's the case). Which would sort of erase the canon ending of the non-downpour game which is so... wacky.

I do think the world works in a multiverse/timeline way though perhaps?

Depending on the differences of what actually happens, the timeline branches off. If you die, you get "respawned" in another timeline. So the karma symbols could symbolize where exactly on that branched path you are. Creatures on their own in rain world cannot overcome the survivor karma (except for scavs if i'm not mistaken which further speaks for their insane intelligence). Which makes sense, animals want to survive! They need otherworldly worms and robots to get over that earthly bound.

UH sidetracked a bit there, but in short if the world in rain world works with the multiverse principle in mind, it'd make every single decision you make, ending and whatnot, canon.

Though it would make it extremely confusing on how an ascended Survivor can coexist with a non-ascended one, as their cycles should probably merge at the very end.

Then there is the fact that cats like Riv are confirmed to have died of old age so Riv's ascension should not be a thing, because if it ascended and separated all of it's cycles away from the world, then it wouldn't have died or even healed Moon in any.

Uh.. went backwards here. I think the multiverse theory works and is fun, but only if ascension is excluded from the "always possible and canon category".

So this overly long ramble is to say I think your retcon idea is fun and cool and I like it.

[flecks-of-stardust]

#BUT those blue things underground that slugcat kinda bites open then eats?

are you referring to gooieducks? cause those were added by downpour. otherwise i'm not sure what you're referring to fgkjbkds

Round Three!

there are not enough options for this smh

i know hazers are edible, those would probably go under ‘meat’ i guess? i couldn’t find a good category for them chdnsndd

i would normally put batflies under ‘arthropods’, but i think they fit better as their own answer because of how common they are. it did mean i had to smush blue fruit and bubble fruit into one category :( i think those two are similar enough though that it’ll be okay? if you have any doubts you can always just leave them in the tags, i read everything.

your reason for something being a favorite doesn’t have to be food related, just fyi :)

[journey-to-the-attic]

-> au directory (under construction)

main tag - #jtta aus ★ = more extended aus (i.e. ones with more elaboration on their stories/lore, or ones that have been discussed the most) (how i identify these are a little wonky, so let me know if you think a certain au should qualify for the star!) listed in no particular order:

category: zhao, ik's dad -> ★ #dad in the devildom - obey me but zhao takes mc's role, and baby ik is there too

-> #it takes two - zhao and ik are both summoned at the start of the year

---------

category: everyone is in the alternative universe -> ★ #dragon au - the brothers are dragons, ik is a runaway accused of witchcraft, plus even more lore after that

-> ★ #infernal friends au - a younger ik accidentally summons diavolo, summons and befriends many more demons to come

-> ★ #rpg au - in a fantasy rpg setting, ik and solomon are adventuring companions (and solomon has a lot going on) - plus brothers who can turn into magical weapons!

-> ★ #pet zoo au - instead of ending up in the devildom after the fall, the brothers find themselves in the human world, trapped in the form of various animals. plus, a timeskip where ik then gets summoned to the exchange program - and appears as a little sheep!

-> ★ #roleswap au - demons are angels, humans are demons, and angels are humans! lore and quite subtantial angst ensues

-> #hybrid au - turns out ik's mother was not human, and the devildom's magic suddenly activates her angel blood

-> #actor au - jtta is a tv show and the cast is... well, the cast, and for once they're all perfectly fine and normal

-> #the office demon au - everyone else is human, and ik is a demon accidentally summoned by new business boss diavolo

--------

category: alternative version of ik -> ★ #traveller ik - from genshin, feat. paimon and occasionally dainsleif, a starchild who travels the universe

-> ★ #symbiote host ik - starts off based loosely off of eri (bnha) - former lab experiment six-year-old gets summoned to the devildom

-> ★ #puella magi ik - a magical girl in the vein of madoka magica

-> #pokemon trainer ik - and all of her pokemon came to the devildom with her

-> #the amazing spiderkid - she's your friendly neighbourhood spidey!

-> #monster hunter ik - from the game monster hunter, featuring ik's palico, noctifer, who absolutely despises lucifer

-> #slugpup ik - ik as one of the baby versions of the playable slugcats in rain world

-> #dragon hybrid ik - and she makes it rain when she's sad

-> #med ninja ik - like from naruto

[anemonet]

hi hi, hello hello sorry if you've already answered but reverse iterators au? (Saw it and started squealing, kicking my feet, twirling my hair it looks so so so cool and the vibes are immaculate)

hi hi hi!! no need to be sorry im shaking out of my skin in excitement to talk about this :DD

so i got a couple different asks about this so im doing it in categories so in this one ima talk a bit about map changes and stuff!! if you want a general explanation go to this post :))

Just as a general rundown, the idea of the reverse au is that instead of moon being accidentaly screwed over by pebbles, its moon accidentaly screwing over pebbles, and pebbles is now stuck in a half way collapsed iterator can suspended high up in the sky, moons structure is semi fine except for the mold colony in her gut!

Ok first off im just gonna drop this here

its a veerrry vauge idea of how i imagine the five pebbles region would look in this au, its also totally tailored to my region prefernces but it be like that,

quick summery is that some of pebbles legs collapsed and hes now leaning against the sky bridges by chimney He collapsed for reasons explained here and also sidenote, its not gonna be a saint era pebbles kinda deal, shaded is still moslty fine (with some smushed areas but overall whole, actully would be a bit brighter without pebbles blocking all of it) - and is instead a result of metropolis collapsing onto a side leaning pebbles, mixing the regions of five pebbles, metropolis and the exterior. This is fueled by my own love of doing jumps between pipes high up in the air, so alot of the region is gonna be that.

The area now being divided into a couple different types of terrain, with where the wall was is now still connected to chimney but with the structure leaning sideways making the parkour much harder, also im obbsessed with the idea of having a gate hang in the air so thats how the chimney entrence looks, also its the gate from top of pebbles, that fell down, so the karma requirment stays at one in both directions - both for the mechanic of making it less punishing if you die, and also because i think theres something in having the first karma being the only requirment to meet pebbles , which actully drives me crazy in normal rain world to but anyhow - also having upsidedown dens like the one on top of metropolis but flipped over would be sick. you will then find pebbles at the top of it all

Second theres collapsed metropolis which, while still similar to normal metropolis also has alot of areas like the open air pipe swinging in chimney canopy and is much more accesible, as other slugcats than artificer needs to be able to traverse the area. This area is probably the most creature infested with the scavs still hanging out (they would be able to make it back to metropolis after artificer murdered them all, seeing as the citizen drone gate is lying crushed somewhere) there would also probably be some fun funky merged structures because of how the living blocks work - i asume they try to repair and mend damages, presumebly leading to accidental merging between collapsed buildings - and then theres pebbles own guts, whith all his chambers, antigravity is overall gone, even if i think it be nice to leave less damaged areas still with wonky gravity, but overall its a crambed tunnel maze with the occacional open mega rooms, this is probably where the yellow lizards set up camp, super fun, also probably lantern mice who crawled up from shaded to the partially collapsed underhand and then up to pebbles.

other area things worth of note is that i coulnt help but sprinkle in the karma murals up by pebbles in the broken down metropolis, most of them got shattered but i think it would be ironic if the fifth (survival) karma stayed intact \/

it also raises the question of what happens to the echos, while the echo by the wall is likely hanging out, im kinda like wondering about the echo up in metropolis, the question being if the echo is tied to the specific coordinate - high up as fuck - or if it will follow the structure it resides by, the tallest tower - i dunno but well im voting for them following the place in this case (and not just because i think it would be sad to be trapped miles in the sky surrounded by nothing at all) so the echo is staying, even if the dialouge would be different.

Also for anyone curious im saying that moon in this au is resposible for the scav king, she tought it be fun to make a scav enlightened and it scampered up to pebbles, pebbles is not happy about this.

another general note is reverse pebbles is still above cloud levels and rain is not a factor in the usual areas of pebbles and metropolis, also also im banning vultures after a certain point, specificly in the worst parkour areas high up with hard jumps that totally exsists, im doing that because fuck vultures, and also because i genuinlly think they ruin the thrill of making hard jumps, i am misrable about how the priciple bridge turned out because a vulture can just fuck up a cycle. anyhow!!

Moon on the other hand is much the same, similar to spearmasters campaign but with some parts infected with the rot similar to unfortunate developments and sans the wonky gravity..mostly, also the priciple has collapsed and you cannot go between moon and pebbles

also her chambers would be much more active, with alot of overseers hanging out , not just her own but neighbor itertors also, seeing as pebbles lockdown woudlnt have happened, also there will be the semi often ERROR and red blinking messages which is from pebbles cyber attacking her, hes petty like that. Also think it be funny if she had a livefeed of different creatures in her facility grounds.

other notes would be that shoreline likely would stay as waterfront facility, the acid pits would probably still disapear, same goes for garbage wastes, but the brother long legs would not be there anymore. but thats the major changes to the map from this au, really its just to have pebbles misrable high up in a broken box unable to escape!!

I was about to go into detail about how the story route would change because of this reversal, but uh i already talked alot so ima not do that!!

so thats all i had for you, hope my confused ramblings on game levels was....semi fun, but anyhow thanks for the ask! also you wont belive how hard i fought to not have all drawings just be this kind of shot of a leaning wall, but have the one that survived!! have a great week :D

[archive-of-fear]

Name: The Saint

Source: Rain World

Category: Avatar

Entity: The End

Description: Rain World is, to put it simply, a world without death. Nothing ever truly dies – it just reborn whenever the next “cycle” starts. The only way to truly die is to throw yourself into the Void Sea (with complete detachment from the material world, otherwise you get caught in limbo and become an “Echo”) and even then, no one could say for certain what was down there or what happened to you. The Ancients (the long gone civilization of Rain World) desired to “Ascend” so badly that they built massive robot superstructures in order to solve the “problem” called Iterators. They would eventually all disappear into the Void Sea themselves, leaving behind the Iterators to dwell on the problem given to them. There was only one, Silver Straw that solved the question of how to die, only to send out the Triple Affirmative, and then suddenly perished themselves without any explanation. For countless cycles (long enough for the environment to change multiple times and for some Iterators to collapse), this is how the world remained – changing and decaying but never dying. And then the Saint appeared.

The Saint is the only thing in this world that can permanently kill anything by “Ascending” them. In this world they are, by all accounts, death itself. Their origins are a mystery, as are their goals or why the incarnation of death appears as a slugcat. It may have been created by Silver Straw, but it can’t be said for certain. All we do know is that is that Saint is the solution to life the Ancients and the Iterators had been so desperate to searching for; Pure Ascension.

Furthermore, the only thing the Saint cannot kill appears to be….themselves. Their ending involves them traveling into the Void Sea, instead of Ascending, it appears back on the surface. It seems to be becoming an Echo, before it just….stops and reforms back as themselves. It’s ironic in that sense, that the only thing that can bring death into this world cannot truly die themselves.