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very miscellaneous details i noticed in the first episode

-all/most the posters (might be some i didnt spot)

-not to worry! the gun that interned intern is shot with is labeled "stun" so theyre... probably fine?

-the vhs (or extraterrestrial equivalent idk) is labeled "for new family"

-this note seemed to go ignored 😔

-wowza that kill count!

-kip's shirt's only half tucked into his pants and his name tag reads gub

-catch the odd one(s) out i guess?

-vee's hair is shorter and her shirt's fully buttoned up in the brief flashback to her first day

-and the huge deedee sign at the storefront waves :p

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actually hey rb on main so i can talk more about Greed.

Ok so in a vacuum I do genuinely like the idea of Greed with a full suit of gold armour, bcz of like everything stated above about how armour is utilised symbolically. BUT spons wars already having a kind of subversion of that common symbolism with kc, it just. wont work the same way lol. because now its been established that armour and hiding one's face doesn't necessarily make a character unrelatable and/or (seemingly) unfeeling. anyway shrug whatever!! in twa design contrast is usually utilised with colours only (i.e. green n purple are opposites and so are silver n gold in a sense..) so . clearly there probably hasnt been much thought put into the characterisation/symbolism armour or lack of it has :P

just thinking about how traditionally in media full suits of armour and especially helmets are used to hide characters' humanity and your ability to relate to them (such as making enemies unrelatable mindless drones for the player to massacre or to convey a character is powerful to the point theyve lost themselves/are basically inhuman). Anyways all this to say this doesn't apply to TWA spons wars really at all and I find that silly. The arguably most emotional character and the one against infinite growth (which, contrary to conservative belief, is very unnatural) is Knight Commander, who wears a suit of armour lol.

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ok I had to write down some thoughts. about greed again. (personally! im an option 1 guy here)

lightning swamp man drawfee reference and such . uhhhh

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happy new year! :3

like 30 mins early on my end but yay 2025 ^_^ !!

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aeon legion is actually like a weird fucked up avatar (as in atla not the cgi movie) retelling /j

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do you like purple. or red. shades of them included. :3

yea im normal about light reds and bluish purples. (guy whose fav ships r like always pink+blue)

heres some specific shades tho yayee ^_^

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could we learn more about khael perhaps... perchance...if not spoilers... :3

all i have to say is theyre. isolated and yet still generally chipper.

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pineapple on pizza is...?

acceptable but if i had a choice i prefer it not to be included. usually makes the pizza soggier and warm pineapples are just. eh.. not for me.

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have you tried making any songs/themes? if so, for whom (character/person), and how did it go? :D

yeah like. 5 maybe less maybe more years ago when i still actively played the ukulele. wasnt for anyone just angsty really bad trying to emulate indie rock track lol. never really finished anything except the lyrics (prolly lost to time now) tho like my chord progression was real ass and i was (+still am) a pretty amateur ukulele player (and the ukulele is pretty easy to get good at so.. but anyway)

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how many art programs have you tried and which ones were your favorite? :3

Oh hm lets see. My first two were Medibang Paint (both on pc and mobile) and MS Paint im p sure. Then a whole lot l8r on I used Ibispaint and that's been my main program forever now, then ofc had a Flipaclip phase but that didnt last long (barely animate an' all). Tried SAI and I think I liked it well enough. I used Krita on tablet for a little but wasnt my thing. Then I got Infinite Painter and most of the doodles and such that I post on here is done on that. Actually you can tell what I have and haven't drawn on Inf Painter vs Ibis bcz on Ibis my default bg is a slightly lighter grey.. and my Ibis work is way more rendered usually since I'm still more used to it. Oh I also use the website JS Paint when I wanna do mouse doodles and the PCs MS Paint is the modern version with layers (which im not a fan of personally) and sometimes I draw on Whiteboard Fox as well.

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hmm... what are ur other favorite anime series besides op?

(sry to hear that u got food poisoning btw, hope u get well soon!!! wishing u the best)

I love the original Trigun series (need to rewatch it honestly).. obvs Evangelion, Nausicaa (not a series but im mentioninh it since its one of my fav movies in general) and Madoka Magica lol. Otherwise I don't really. Watch alot of anime esp to the end. I think only other animes I've finished/got really far in are Sword Art Online, Glitter Force, JJBA (dropped at like s3 sorry king... idk why that happened), the Pokemon B&W anime and Dungeon Meshi (and i FAR prefer the manga for that djjdkg). I tried getting into Dragon Ball, Naruto, Demon Slayer, JJK, Fairytail, MHA, Utena, a bunch of magical girl shows and a bunch of other edgy shounen anime as well but uhh yea never got that invested personally (except with JJK but then they killed off my fav and pretended he didnt exist the very next episode so i dropped it bcz it pissed me off). I'll probably try out Utena and Princess Tutu (i think that was its name im stuid rn) another time since I hear alot of good about them lol.

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so ive browsed your toyhouse recently ... id like to know about alien detective agency more ^_^

escaped trans alien convict who probably has bpd crashlands her spaceship on a small town on earth, is found by a demon girl living there. average urban fantasy monster of the week hijinks happen, main plot for a while involves a crazy scientist wanting to dissect alien girl, until they beat the guy into friendship shounen style and its all okay. surprise tonal shift. doomed tragic demon/angel yuri and a heaven v hell plot. and i have no ideas after that.

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what genre of music would <tl> characters like? :)

I usually hate doing character preference stuff when it comes to my own guys but I love music so yayyyy :3 (doing like mixtapes for them lol bcz its sillyy)

if some of the choices seem a little surface level my b i largely only listen to finnish prog rock lol.. >_<

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on the topic of sci . i'd love to see more art of her!! i love the uniform (?) u gave her ... the light teal and black/red colours work so well together imo ... i'd love to hear more of her backstory and stuff too ... along with taisto's :D

anon you sure are lucky i have so much art of sci because she's existed way before <tl> and she's my favourite forever

ALSO YES i love her outfit i put so much thought into colours with her!! (and alot of the other characters as well tbh but it's most obvious w/sci. her clothesg r always colder colours vs the accents she chooses :3c) yeaghh art under cut (will explain some stuff along the way bcz i love yapping teehee)

i made her in like dec 20 2022. so she's almost 2 years old woah.. ofc initially she was sort of a self-insert oc and her name was mad scientist (to go along with the twaeu "just the names of their trope" naming convention) also i was v indecisive with her pronouns iirc so i went back and forth all the time lol.

plot and character was kinda ehh all over the place. it doesnt matter much now but basically her deal was "stuck between having to choose bio 'family' n found family both of which suck" and also neglected/lack of stable parental figure(s), abandonment issues and other angst that wasnt important and i barely explored atp.

THEN around february this year. i started thinking "wow my incredibly headcanoned and basically unrecognizable version of prime* and this oc, sci, are kind of perfect for each other" and shit snowballed from there.

(*who's taisto now if it wasn't. obvious.)

shit clicked way more for me a bit later on!! but this was basically perfect.

ok and then i made <tl> and put them in as sort of side plot but not really? sci is way less prevalent (which i realised only recently to great regret but also im a bit happy shes not plot relevant since it means i can spoil more /j) but taisto is p important so i wont talk about him that much other than we hate him and he sucks and i love him as a character i wouldn't have him any other way :)

ok so in tags for my answer to the last ask i mentioned sci's got a lot of sensitive subjects going on w/her and alot of that is because she's vulnerablee as hell. intellectually this girl is soo smart and strong but her emotional regulation skills are fuucked. partly due to having to grow up way quick (as i mentioned. the parental neglect lol) !! and yeah alot of sci/taisto touches on manipulation etc..

its p personal to me since again. sci's whole "feeling older even when ur not" and . abandonment issues. are basically whole sale projected fjdhfd. and alot of the time i, fucked upedly, think "damn id be easy to manipulate," n apart of me is always pushing back on that (both because kind of effed up thought and, well, "no i wouldnt since im thinking that smh smh") but also like. garfield you are not immune to propaganda meme. and so yea its a whole exploration of stupid feelings as most art is lol.

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hm. tbh i was gonna suggest octopus/squid cult leader but. idk abt that wouldnt it be a bit too obvious (<- thinking out loud rn) :/

also. batspiracy guy- *scrambles away as fast as possible*

what if jellyfish ccl. also i love drawing bat like creatures sp accepted immediately.

mostly im just super stuck on ego and creativity u_u

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listening to my al:l playlist and uoghgghhh man i hope if it ever gets a continuation &/or an ending it ends up tragic. even tho i wish sooo much good for kairos and terra and hikari and alll the others (except maybe hanns) I just. Love a good tragedy that crushes my soul always forever. :)