#cy-fi-theansweris42

[britishsass]

Also! Headcanons in general about Fred from Psychonauts? I've read a couple of your fics about the Thorny Towers crew so I'm curious, lol

(I swear I'll get on the other ask soon but this is my JAM)OKAY! FREDDY! Fred Bonaparte! My man, my me, he's such a vibe.

He's trans! Thorney Towers mostly... wasn't told. Whoops.

(His deadname is Alice)

His father tried to get him to name himself "Napoleon". He refused.

He was a band kid. (Specifically, he played trumpet.)

fred has a mild case of pantaphobia.

also he passes out a lot. like. way more than anyone should.

he keeps his arms crossed when not in the straitjacket because he just got used to it being that way

straitjacket was put on because he punched crispin. napoleon was proud of him. fred doesn't remember it now.

he’s a middle child of 3

He was in college when he became an orderly and then went mad. He was going to graduate that spring, but in winter, he lost it all

he used to drive to work in a pretty nifty car. too bad the car is gone now, but he remembers it sometimes. It was a cherry-red convertable.

Fred still talks in french post-psychonauts. it's not that he likes it, it's just easier sometimes.

He tends to put the weight of everyone elses problems on his shoulders. to the point of breaking his back with how much he takes on.

he could be seen as an empath, but he denies it.

He’s actually really good with most of the inmates! it's just freaking.... crispin.

He really likes white chocolate.

He has a bad habit of reading late into the night if he gets into something good.

He thinks that disco is still in. don't tell him otherwise.

He's seen a lot, mostly in his mind and because of Napoleon, but still

If he didn’t fight Napoleon, his mind was a real Waterloo battlefield. He had to put in a lot of effort in to keep it as a board game.

He does tend to use alcohol as a coping mechanism post-Towers and in high school. His partners have to stop him. It’s a rough moment in his life.

He has a lot of memory issues about his past. Can’t even remember his deadname post-Towers.

He, Boyd, Edgar, and Gloria are all one polycule. I love them.

His parents put a lot of pressure on him when he came out because he was “the closest thing we’ve got to a son” and therefore he was expected to carry on the Bonaparte name and such. 

He was chess team leader when he was young! He’s actually really good at most board games, and therefore Crispin beating him so thoroughly hurt him a lot more when he was losing to someone when it’s his talent.

He loves hugs but he’s really badly proportioned for them.

He still sees Crispin in the corner of his eye or in reflections. He doesn’t like admitting it.

He, Edgar, and Boyd all go to Gloria’s performances and cheer the loudest. Everyone hates it because Fred’s so stupid tall that no one can see.

I love him, tbh. Good man. Great vibes. Deserves better. 

[aquato-family-circus]

Hello! I just wanted to say that I love your artwork, especially how you draw the characters from Psychonauts! They all have these unique shapes and designs and translating characters from 3D to 2D can be tough, and your style has the characters looking so wonderfully like how they do in the game while also being very cute and absolutely hilarious at times! (like Bob with the chair or when he did the dramatic poetry reading) It's always great to see art from you!

thank you so very much, i really appreciate your kind words!!

Psychonauts is a very fun style to translate, because I can tell the 3D is itself a translation of a very graphic 2D art style. It's like a game of stylistic telephone!!

plus, as a long time fan of Invader Zim, I relish the chance to draw characters who look extremely funky. trying to parce Dib's extremely weird head shape was the point where I really started learning how to draw

character expressions & design are one my favorite part of drawing 🥰

[joleneghoul]

Hi again! I just had another quick question, this time about Booster Gold (sorry if these are annoying or like actually really easy to find info about, I'm still new to these characters). I've seen a couple of tumblr posts where people say not to use Booster's civilian name (I think that's the right term for it?) and I was just wondering why that was? I haven't seen anything about it in the comics I've read so far, although I haven't read a lot of them yet

I mean...It’s not necessarily bad but I do personally avoid it bc it’s not his name in most of his older comics. Michael is more of a deadname in Boosters character history than a “civilian name”. “Booster” IS Boosters name and a name he went by before ever being a hero. When Booster was giving his hero name out for the first time in comics he messed up and accidentally said his name and tried to correct himself so he ended up saying “booster- uh- gold” because he wanted his hero name to be Goldstar....so technically that’s like if Ted’s hero name were Ted Beetle. I hope that makes sense. here’s one of my mutual’s posts about it that goes into more detail and has sources: Booster vs Michael in the Pre-Johns era

[sassatello]

What is your favorite thing about the 2k3 TMNT series?

the characters!! they give me a weird feeling like… it feels safe??? i can always go back to s1 and be like HEY the characters feel like family!! and it gives me a warm feeling in my gut. love this funky little family

[donitkitt]

New AU??? 👀

So okay it’s not that creative and it’s another one of those ‘If they were let into society’ AU’s but like, the boys in their 20′s they finally get the chance to be “normal” and live in society and get jobs and live on their own

Mikey surprisingly is the first to be like ‘I GET TO BE OUT IN THE REAL WORLD WITH PEOPLE AND NOT GET JUDGED AND GET TO EXPERIENCE LIFE AS A HUMAN? FUCK YEA PAROKR’ and hes outta there instantlyhes very charming and fun to be around but while he is easy to get along with hes also very easy to fool and take advantage of, so when he does finally get around to getting a job they make him work extra hours (which he thinks is normal), and when he first gets his apartment he thinks hes getting a deal by the way the guy makes it sound but he actually gets the shittest apartment and gets charged like 4x as much which goes right over Mikeys headHe only realizes its a bad thing when Raph, Don and Leo come to visit and they see he literally has to make his livingroom also his kitchen and his bedroom n they tell him he shouldnt be paying as much as he should n should at least have one other room

Im stuck on whether he’d have a job at a comic book store or a tattoo shop but I know he’d probably start off as a dishwasher but he’d be the best damn dishwasher they ever had, plus the most fun

If yall are interested to hear more I’ll tell ya dabs

[suetonicsonic]

💜💛💪🔊

CRIES CY ILY

[thundercaya]

37 and 41 if no one has asked them yet please!

Do you believe in luck?In the sense of it being some kind of force, no. In the sense that two people can follow the same path and put in the same work and not have the same success, yes.

What was the last book you read?

I’m in the middle of His Majesty's Dragon and if I hadn’t fallen off the reading wagon for no reason I would have finished it by now.

[brightlotusmoon]

Snippet from my 2016 Depressed Mikey fic "Pale Sunlight Clouded"

This occurs directly after the events of the previous snippet featuring Mike and Raph.

Once I gather all the Tumblr snippets into a Word document l'll probably add in a filler scene.

(tagging @ulisabarbic-blog and @silexwitch and @roseyturtles and @cy-fi-theansweris42 and @diploglottis and also @fire-fira because whump AU for 2016 with Extremely Concerned Dad and easier access to human stuff is one of my favorite things to write.

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Raphael pried open his eyes and was quickly relieved to feel his chin still resting on his little brother's head. Mikey had his arms crossed, hands gripping his shoulders, pressed as close as possible to Raph's plastron, and his breathing was deep and steady.

Raph let out a shaky huff, recalling the blood, and how Mikey's eyes were blank, and the knife-

His gaze traveled to the other bed, where he had tossed the tanto after finishing up Mikey's arm.

Leonardo was sitting there, staring.

Raph blinked. "How long you been doing that?"

Leo kept staring. "Couple of hours."

Sighing, Raph moved an arm carefully to cup the back of Mikey's head. "He's okay."

"No, he isn't." Leo brought his hand up, the tanto gripped in a white-knuckled fist.

"Well, obviously, but… I mean. I took care of it."

Leo's cheek twitched. "Yes, you did. Thankfully."

Raph frowned. "Don't you yell at him, Leo."

Leonardo looked down at the tanto. He tossed it aside, then stretched out touch Mike's shoulder. "I can't promise that. Don might."

"Does he know?"

Leo shook his head. "Not yet. I made him go to bed. Father doesn't know either."

Raph dropped his gaze to the sleeping turtle, and maneuvered his arms so he could roll Michelangelo onto his back. Leo's hand stayed on his shoulder, and he rubbed it when Mikey's arms fell to his sides. Leo grimaced and lifted Mikey's left forearm. The bandage was soaked through. Leo ran a fingertip over the bloody pattern and Mikey whimpered.

"Needs changing," Raph murmured. "I put five stitches in."

That set off a series of facial reactions that Leo obviously couldn't control. Raph just waited.

"I'm going to see if Donnie's awake," Leo said tightly. "And then I'll tell Dad."

Raph swallowed. "Okay. Just… just give me a sec."

He put his hand on his brother's chest and began tapping on it. "Hey, Mikey. Time to wake up."

Mikey grunted. His eyes opened, he blinked, and he looked at Raph blearily.

Then his pupils shrank and he inhaled sharply. "Oh shit."

"It's okay, Mikey," Raph said firmly.

Eyes wide, Mikey turned his head. And shrieked. "Leo, oh my god, I-"

Raph pressed his hand down.

Leo grabbed his hand. "It's okay, Mikey," he echoed, "I won't yell."

Eyes still wide, Michelangelo shrank into his pillow. "Yes, you will."

Leo smiled shakily. "I won't yet. I can't say the same for Donnie."

Mike's eyes filled with tears. "I'm so sorry. I just...couldn't...I needed…"

Leo got up, knelt by the bed, and drew his baby brother into his arms. "I think I understand. Which means you're going to tell us when it really started."

Mike clung to him. "This is the first time I...I swear…"

"All right." Leo rubbed his carapace, meeting Raph's narrow eyes. "All right. I have to get Don and Master Splinter. Raph will stay with you."

Whimpering, Mikey pulled away and bit his lip. He exhaled slowly. "They'll be mad, won't they. I wasn't trying to k- I didn't want to… I just wanted… "

Raph sucked in his breath and Leo took Mikey's face in his hands.

"Mikey, you cut your wrist deeply. You made yourself bleed regardless of what you thought you wanted. That's… you know what that is. Yeah, they'll probably be pretty upset."

"And… and you, Leo?"

Raph's heart broke.

Leo grimaced, pressed his lips together. "I'm angry at the situation. I'm angry at the depression eating away at your mind. I am angry for you, but not at you, Mikey."

Michelangelo slowly nodded, breath hitching.

Leo stood up and walked out. Raph quickly wrapped his arms around Mikey and squeezed. They didn't talk.

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[cy-fi-theansweris42]

Got the link to the Forgotten fic that everyone’s talking about?

Of course! Whenever I post something on AO3 I post a link to it here on Tumblr too, so here's the link to the Tumblr post: https://cy-fi-theansweris42.tumblr.com/post/663590283387273216/the-forgotten-cyfitheansweris42-psychonauts

And here's the link just to the AO3 fic itself: https://archiveofourown.org/works/34144783

Enjoy!

[jnixz]

#Like she just casually mentions that her parents just left her at the counterfeiting place and I'm just like ??? Ma'am??? - @cy-fi-theansweris42​ tags is me 

like damn Cassie is the other Psychic 7 member we got hints of childhood, even if its just a line and this photograph up where her mental Psychic 7 are

(also love that the other photographs hung up there are her and compton, the entire gang pic and bees)

@bobzanotto​

man this would hurt especially with the picture above, even sadder if it was last picture she had with her parents

Things we need to acknowledge more: the fact that Cassie's parents abandoned her

[britishsass]

Hello! I was looking at your WIP list and saw this one

all the rowboats w/ bob zanotto right after helmut got frozen (A story about Bob trying to cope with things and being a mess)

and I absolutely need to know more about just What You Have Planned, lol.

oh boy! okay, let’s go, ahem

This is the song I was thinking of with it:

The thing is, I always imagine it in the vein of “Monologue” by SandrC, or your story “I’m Reaching Out (I Can’t Reach You)”. 

Right now, all I have for it is that the remainder of the Psychic 7 see the unveiling of those portraits by the Head’s office. How they all react to that, including the way that they react to it being “The Psychic 6″ and Lucy being forgotten. It’s a lot about dealing with the way history is scrubbed to be neat and perfect for others-- Black and white, not grey and grey. The way that people try to keep what seems perfect, even to the point of putting things on podiums when they shouldn’t. How the group is messy, and the paintings are always there, like mocking mementos of who they were before. I’m specifically including things like how Helmut isn’t really smiling in his, and the behind-the-scenes of that photo session to get references. How they all really feel so lost, like they’re drifting in their rowboats in their own paintings.

“All the rowboats in the paintings They keep trying to row away And the captains' worried faces Stay contorted and staring at the waves They'll keep hanging in their gold frames For forever, forever and a day All the rowboats in the oil paintings They keep trying to row away, row away”

I just have a lot of emotions, what can I say.

[aquato-family-circus]

You ever think about how they just put Gristol in the psychoisolation chamber Compton used to be in post-game without taking out his things?

He's going to go there to start moving stuff out of there since he's not spending all his time in psychoisolation anymore and just find Gristol singing that creepy little propaganda song, lol

I know it's a limitation of how many chambers they modeled for the game but it is really funny that they were like well we need to put this guy somewhere safe and Compton's place is freed up now

Gristol knows enough about Compton to see him approach so he can gather his things

and stare at the hat

and Compton sees him staring at him

and just tips the hat a little like he's going to take it off, just to fuck with him

and Gristol screams

[sassatello]

🎉🎉🎉HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!🎉🎉🎉 I love your artwork, it's absolutely amazing, and I hope you have a spectacular birthday!!!

thank you so much!!

[truepsychictales]

#Also is that a psitanium arrowhead in that speargun thing??? #I would love to know the story behind that lol

@cy-fi-theansweris42​ Hello! ^^

The psitanium speargun I’ve drawn a few times now is taken from a piece of concept art from the upcoming sequel that shows Milla holding one!

Unfortunately this was from very early in the production of the game, so I’m not sure which elements might’ve been cut or reworked by now, but I would very much like to know the story behind the speargun too! o-o

Another set of Secret Santas, this time for @themixedwitchmain! Sorry for the delay, friend! I kind of got a bit uh… carried away here, because I mean… it’s Sasha, how could I not?? xD

Anyway I hope you had a wonderful holiday season and that you have a super awesome year! c: <3

[donitkitt]

You keep showing us all these little things for this new AU and I'm just internally screaming "I WANNA KNOOOOOOOOWWWWWW" with each new post, lol XD

[suetonicsonic]

You've heard of Donnie with glasses, you've heard of Donnie with heterochromia, now get ready for...DONNIE WITH HETEROCHROMIA AND GLASSES!!!

THIS IS A BLESSED ASK, YOU ARE SO RIGHT, I AM CONVINCED. 💜💜💜💜💜💜