#cotnd nocturna

[tatters-the-bat]

Nocbat (real)

I love Nocturna's new design in Rift so much

[thatstupidlozfanacrossthestreet2]

ALSO tell me if she should have her rift or crypt design

[the-valiant-valkyrie]

If anyone remembers this post about Nocturna's unfortunate whitewashing in Rift of the Necrodancer, I have FANTASTIC news that I'm only JUST NOW allowed to share:

I got in contact with BYG and she has been OFFICIALLY REDESIGNED. Said redesign has just been publically revealed TODAY in the latest Rift trailer

WE'RE EATIIIIING WE'RE HONEST TO GOD EATING!!!!!

EVERYBODY CLAP AND CHEER FOR BLACK VAMPIRE WOMEN RIGHT NOW!!!!!!!!!!

her original design under the cut bc white woman nocturna is equivalent to a thousand evil jumpscares

[sefiaazure]

Nocturna

[mememan93]

From the Necrodancer Team's Twitter

Nocturna is a CEO?? What do we think her company does

[rhythmmortis]

one of the funniest things in necrodancer to me is the difference between nocturna and cadence

nocturna: i have to kill to live and my soul is forever tormented as i am kept from finding peace

cadence: *falls, dies, and immediately starts stabbing things with no hesitation*

[rollingdanielle]

Fuck it!! Time to post some Crypt of the Necrodancer headcanons (I haven't played Synergy yet lol so these will probably change after I do so).

Before Cadence was born, Dorian, Melody, Nocturna and Eli were a D&D style party of adventurers, and this was how Dorian and Melody met. After a few years of this, Melody decided she wanted to settle down, so she and Dorian returned to her hometown to start a family. Eli is Dorian's brother and decided to also live in Melody's hometown.

Nocturna, however, continued adventuring on her own, before eventually teaming up with Diamond and Dove. Dove and Nocturna have romantic feelings for each other, but aren't in a relationship. Nocturna is a good person, and doesn't drink human blood (she either abstains or drinks animal blood, idk), but she's willing to kill wrongdoers, which conflicts with Dove's pacifist ideals. This will ultimately end with them going their separate ways, but at the time of the main game's events, they're still adventuring together.

[eraserbitz]

still thinking of whatever happened to nocturnas hair in cotnd tbh. oh well pizza time

[vamplified]

Steady course for the heavens

Bonus cus it wasn’t actually in the scene but the rain version looks nice

[goopy-lads-answer-stuff]

Checking in to see if everyone is consuming healthy nutrients and taking care of their mental health

"We.. don't need food."

"Clones like us don't have real organs and don't need food. We try to conserve food left over by crypt-goers, because it still heals us.

As for mental health? We're doing alright. I think."

[unsanctitude]

rift cadence is cute, however i must make her horrible

[thatstupidlozfanacrossthestreet2]

@bee2112 us

[the-valiant-valkyrie]

okay for anyone who's getting into rift of the necrodancer who may not really know anything about the original lore of the game, in crypt's DLC, Amplified, there's a character in it named nocturna

as far as characters go she's pretty sweet, a cutlass wielding vampire who can turn into a bat for extra evasive maneuvers?? literally what's not to love abt her? and better yet, as a human, she was brown

admittedly from looking at images of her as a vampire its kind of hard to tell. and i'll be honest, her transition from human to vampire could have been much better in my personal opinion. especially in reference to the hair texture. but like okay. the majority of the details are the same. in closer up images she still has freckles, her nose and head shape is similar, her eyes are the same color. she's blue, obviously, but there can still be a case made that she's brown, if you know what i'm saying here?

BUT WITH THAT IN MIND SOMEONE PLEASE EXPLAIN TO ME WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED WITH HER REDESIGN FOR RIFT??

THIS IS NOT FUCKING NOCTURNA?? like. inarguably the design SLAPS i'm not even arguing that she doesn't look good she's just like. WHITE now. i mean she's BLUE but she's WHITE.

they changed her head shape, they changed her NOSE shape (which really fucking gets me), they gave her BLUE eyes instead of green, and even desaturated her skin tone?? and while a case could be made for the old nocturna's hair still being somewhat similar to her human variant, that argument can not be made for this one. that hair has never been coiled in its fucking life. who the hell is this. that is NOT nocturna.

it's so sad because i'm 90% sure that lots of people forget that nocturna wasn't white as a human to begin with, and i feel like with all the characters getting massive, modern day design overhauls this would literally be a perfect low stakes opportunity to actually fix the design to... better portray a brown human who turned into a (still brown) vampire

but instead, they made it worse to a degree that i couldn't even COMPREHEND until i saw it for the first time??

[octopeachy]

looking forward to cadence’s inevitable third concussion

[mememan93]

Also: Nocturna Concept art!

[rhythmmortis]

actually continuing on from this post, i think this epitomises their stories in cotnd