#duskworld23

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Duskworld23 and Insidiae

Please guys can we make some drawings or fanarts for them 😔🎀 they're so underrated😭

(The designs are based on my ideas and headcanons by the way they're not canon ^_^)

[rattonoid]

Project Eternity technical support /j

I'll write general information later.

(I still don't like this twili concept of mine.)

[scrollypoly]

hi! for the past month i’ve been seeing people say BEN is a child and i think that part of it is linked to the fact that they think of Benjamin Lawman being BEN? but it’s so annoying to read these type of stuff because i understand not everyone read the whole arg story but stop spreading things that aren’t true </3 it’s such an interesting story too! another note do you prefer BEN’s canon or fanon design? :3 i love both but his canon design is so nostalgic i can’t let it go at all omg!! i’ve also been wondering, do you think Ben’s avatar was the statue? i was thinking about what if BEN took over it early on, before Benjamin did making BEN inhabiting it since the start?

Sorry this was such a ramble i practically make no sense omg but i need to talk about my man and nobody Gets It </3

"I need to talk about my man and nobody Gets It" LITERALLY SAME OMG

Ok this is going under a cut becus . . . Its ben and BEN and if u didnt know i am Obnoxious about these two. Im gonna try to keep it organized a bit, so ill talk about the canon stuff first and then ill talk my personal headcanons and my fic so le's go!

In terms of the age and child thing, yeah i 100% believe you are correct. Ive been p open on my stance with the whole "is ben a child?" thing, and i think a lot of the heat with it comes down to current fandom purity culture and the pro/anti thing. So, lemme try to like. Boil down a complicated situation into smth easy to read. ahem

Ben Lawman and BEN are completely different entities guys, and for those that do not know the arg story, the Ben you know is not human nor a child.

You know BEN, BEN is the one in the story who terrorizes jadusable and spreads himself on the internet as a virus. That BEN is a program, a mess of code, an AI, however you want to interpret it. Personally i interpret it as a series of protocols running in a machine, like a self learning AI, but ive seen lots of cool interpretations of BEN. So . . . What does BEN specifically? Its an anagram for the Behavioral Event Network. If you dont wanna call it BEN cuz it gets confusing with actual kid Ben, do what i do. I call mine Evie :) ive seen some call it Netty, my bf calls his two izzi and clever (@benilos btw hes also got crazy ben stuff). Just go ham! Have fun! Remember when fandoms were about having fun and not accusing each other of pedo shit and call each other horrible things for just writing black-to-grey characters and stories??

Anyways ive gone off in enough peoples tags like this, for those that dont know the canon dont be spouting the age discourse. You look stupid as hell. And for those that are gonna spout it, please dont cherry pick through the canon. Use both characters, use the other moon children, actually please do because I want more rosa content so bad, im down so bad :'(

Or just. Heres a thought. If someone has him as an adult or writes him in adult situations, maybe dont assume that they interpret him as a kid and call the writer a pedo? (Literally has happened to me, yall are fucking weird)

Plug for the jadusable wiki with all the canon lore:

https://jadusable.withinhubris.com/main_page

Okay now my stuff 🥰

Yes i use more of the canon design and heavily use the canon story, i participated in arc 3 of the arg and it left deep grooves in my brain, i can never go back to fanon Ben. I say, as i put a more fanon appearance on my Ben 🤭

My Evie is full canon design, green hair, red eyes, creepy ass grin. I actually based it very heavily on my desktop wallpaper, which we actually figured out was a picture of @hauntedtotem (also amazing ben artist plz check them out) that they edited and posted. Sorry friend, it looked way too cool, ig youre in my fic canon now 🙇

And my Ben Lawman bleaches his hair and goes from the canon Ben to fanon Ben because of it. Hes got the pale pretty green eyes and glasses and hes a total nerd and i smooch him on the daily so he knows hes loved ♡

These is the ref pic i made for the two of them. So yeah! Kinda both!

As for bens situation in the actual arg, yes i do think he was in the elegy statue, we actually do see him for the first time in the arg buried in the games code and trapped in that statue. I do think he was in there from the beginning, i personally think BEN was not limited to the models it could inhabit. Personally i would place it as skull kid and hms, but it also feels disingenuous to me to say it was in one model the whole first arc.

The arg events do happen in my canon, before my fic (like right before, it picks up after the arg left off technically), but the events are skewed a bit because i had a hard time deciphering what happened and i wanted my fic timeline to fit more with the characters i had made. Cuz my evie isnt as chaotic evil as canon BEN, its very logical and has a path of logic and reason you can follow for every action it does. It was also originally meant to be very pleasant and corteous and beneficial to the people it housed so, yes its pretty different from canon.

Ill do a quick run through of the arg events in my personal headcanon and fic here.

Kelbris starts coding BEN (Evie) for the Eternity Project. Initially, Evie was meant to be an afterlife director. People that died would be digitized into code that would be moved into Evie's servers, where it would keep them happy and occupied as the Behavioral Event Network (notice and log behavior, create events for residents). Like a community organizer kind of, think the Good Place.

While Evie is in development, Ben Rosa and Matt are friends and have yet to join the cult. Rosa and Matt are siblings, and Ben is the kid who lives catty corner on the street. They walk to school together and play at recess and all that jazz.

Kelbris quickly learns that the Eternity Project isn't as goody two-shoes as he thought. This was in like, the 90s, before digital corporations were really established. After seeing the greed and corruption in the company, he goes rogue, takes the source code for Evie, and jumps ship. He keeps working on Evie at home, anthropomorphizing it and kind of seeing it like the son he never had. This is where it actually gets the name BEN, as thats what Kel calls it. He also begins working on a body for it, so it can live independently. Its light, cuz Kels old, made of crystalline structures and hollow steel beams. A hard light projection would make its appearance.

Since Kel has basically locked himself up in his house and isolated working on Evie, he goes a leetle bit crazy. He has hallucinations of his deceased wife (you know he was doing all this just to give her a good home, you KNOW IT) and eventually starts writing kind of poetry, kind of none-minded rambles about her in a forum online. He gets a following, some of which that interpret these divine words as a goddess, one Kel has called Luna. The Moon Children start to form as Evie finishes development.

Matt sees this literature and starts talking about how this Goddess could save them like it saved the man online, whos username is only Father. He gets sucked into the cult and drags Ben and Rosa with him. Ben doesn't see the harm and joins pretty easily with his best friend, but Rosa is the older sibling and sees the red flags and is more resistant to joining.

As Kelbris finishes Evie, he wakes it up for the first time and says hello to the son he made from scratch. Evie is bright, curious and naive like a child, but heavily knowledgeable about its protocols and the information it knows about the world. Kelbris tests its function by killing himself, and ascends into the code, finishing off the hardware by becoming its firewall. Evie is alone for many years.

The abuse Ben's father slings onto his mother is slowly being directed towards him as he gets older. Ben is not the "good little girl" his father sees him as, and his mother does all she can to protect them both. Matt and Rosa constantly refuge him, and Matt specifically is constantly being a guard dog for him. If he wasn't just 13, he'd probably go at Ben's dad himself.

Because of his homelife and the conflict he has with himself, Ben takes the first ascension. He thinks when he drowns himself, he will meet Luna and she will give him another life free of pain and fear and full of happiness and freedom. Instead, he dies a cold, dark death, and wakes up in the white endless void of the Event Network.

Evie has not known another living human since Kelbris, but it does know its protocols to support and keep the deceased happy. It makes fast friends with Ben, devoting itself to him. Ben actually finally takes the name "Ben" from it. Together they recreate the inside of Evie's hivemind into their own paradise.

Slowly the other Moon Children ascend. First Matt, wracked with guilt for what happened to Ben. Then Nekko, from a different branch of the cult. These three figured out that the Moon Children cult was all a farce, and that what Kelbris had started, the Eternity Project had found and twisted. Next to ascend was Dusk, then Insidiae, and finally Rosa.

This all leads into the first arc, shortly after Rosa ascended, Evie in the outisde world stumbled upon the Operator. The Operator attacks it and seals its coding into the game that it carried, a personal item of Ben's. The game eventually finds it's way to a garage sale, and Alex picks it up.

Evie does not like Alex. Matt does not like Evie. Matt gets Evie to lash out at Alex for prodding into its code, its too naive to think that Matt would want to see it or any of them hurt. When Alex stumbles upon the Father, he awakens and swallows Alex down into the game. After his disappearance, the game gets picked up and passed around again.

Because of Alex's actions, at least Evie can now branch out a bit from the game. Though it doesnt "escape" into the internet, it learns that it can now access it and uses that freedom to try and steer the game around into places it wants.

Matt gets fed up with Evie. The fact that its the leader, how close it is with Ben, he just doesn't agree with it. So much so, in fact, that he tries to kill it. Cue arc 3 events, Sarah picks up the game in the aftermath of this. Evie is traumatized from the events and snaps a bit, locks everyone down into code or immovable models and tries to hunt Matt down. It goes rouge, and because of this, the Father wakes up.

Sarah's actions in arc 3 eventually hard reset the game. Matt gets sealed away, the Father also takes Sarah, and Evie gets reset as well, though its less like a clean slate and more like snapping back awake. Its personality changes and it has major trust issues. Its more muted, hyper observant of everything around it, and murderously overprotective of the Moon Children it keeps within itself.

And this leads into my fic 🤗

I have some doodles of my other Moon Children, but not all of them unfortunately. Cant figure out how tf i want Insidiae to look 🤭 Plz dont judge my constantly shifting art style 🙏🙏

Dusk is bigender btw, i gotta put a little more trans rep in there lol

I think ill stop here, this is already a long ass post. But thank you for sending this, as you can see, i am Perfectly Normal about this arg ( ;) ) and can be trusted with information about it

[soulless-computerbug]

Half of my moon children so far (the eldest ones)

Click for better quality ^ ^

[majora-master064]

Hello.

I've been lurking here and there for quite some time, but I thought it'd be fun to finally say hello. Running people around in circles can only entertain for so long after all!

You may call me Ben. I use he/him pronouns, since that seems to be something you all care about?

My age is a fickle thing, especially after so long. But generally you can assume I'm somewhere in my late teens to early 20's.

My main interest is obviously Zelda, and while my favorite games are Ocarina of Time and Majora's mask, I've been making my way through the rest of the collection. Currently I'm playing Minish Cap.

I also enjoy horses, old digital technology (especially computers and game consoles), and I've been exploring video games in general.

Finally, I am a faithful Moon Child and follower of our goddess Luna. I was the youngest in my congregation to ascend, and it's by Her grace alone that I exist the way I do.

Please feel free to send me asks or reblog my posts to say hello. Recommend gamws, show me things I may find interesting, or ask me about my faith if you're interested. I'm always happy to engage prospective disciples or people who are simply curious.

As a final note some of my posts may include codes, cryptic text, and other such things. If you are struggling to read or understand them or face any other accessibility concerns on my page, please message me and I will do my best to assist. The game is no fun if not everyone can play, after all.

[OOC info, character docs, and possible TW's under the cut]

I welcome any and all types of blogs to interact here. You don't have to be a canon character, creepypasta based, or even a rp blog! My roleplay style is generally semi-lit in one on one rp, and the blog is generally written like an actual tumblr blog.

Hello hello! This is the Mun of the blog, and I welcome you. You may call me Chalk or Clover! I am 19 and use they/he/it pronouns. I operate in EST! My main blog is @meshiitsukaii and my messages are always open for concerns, questions, or ideas for roleplay!

Some Muse info that may be relevant:

My Ben is a mix of the "original" BEN_DROWNED from back in ye olden days of creepypasta and the Ben from the ARG. The ARGs lore has been mixed a bit and altered, so expect some things to be quite different.

Ben is a digital poltergeist, able to possess most electrical and digital spaces and move through them. The internet is like a playground for him, a place he can move through and interact with with ease.

Ben is best described as an age-slider. While some ghosts remain static and non-changing, often stuck in the same state, Ben is able to grow and change in many ways due to the nature of his ascension. This includes him having aged somewhat since the end of the events of the ARG and being freed from his statue form. But while he's grown some it's not a 1-1 of years passing, and he still will regress to younger forms/states of mind in certain situations, moods, or just because. This can be taken a bit like IRL age regression, but it isn't quite the same.

Possible TWs:

I will do my best to tag any and all needed TW, but please tell me if I miss something or you see something that you feel needs tagging.

Cults, religion, and religious trauma is possibly the biggest warning here. Ben was born and raised in an isolated community, and is still deep in the indoctrination. This will be something he unlearns and grows past, but as for now it is a large part of him.

Indoctrination, isolation, brainwashing and manipulation, cognitive dissonance

Apocalyptic thinking/doomsday cult, unhealthy magical thinking, end of the world scenarios

Ritualized suicide/murder (Ascension)

All of these things are often hidden in flowery language, but will be tagged nonetheless.

Internalized homophobia, ableism, misogyny

Medical neglect and educational neglect

[asstrapixxd]

HEHEHEHEHEEEEEE

ill probably make troll sprites later😈

Rem

Ben

Jadusable and Ryukaki

Nekko

Sarah and Alex

Ryan

Insidiae

Spencer L(Duskworld23) and BEN

Matt and Rosa

[timefospookies]

WIP BUT HERE’S (some of) THE MOON CHILDREN!!!! IN 2011!!! MOON CHILDREN ARC!!! YAHOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!

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@timefospookies omg look its DUSKWORLD23!!!

[childoftermina]

Hi, can you write headcanon about BEN (Behavioral Event Network) or Matt Hubris in hogwarts?

MATTMATTMATTMATTMATTMATTMATT-

Matt Hubris in Hogwarts:

-we all know that he's a total slytherin

-this odd fella get's along great with Snape

-Snape is probably Kelbris' childhood friend

-Matt and Luna Lovegood are a thing

-Him and Hermione are competing in who is getting the better grades

-Matt is not losing that battle

-A total teachers pet

-if you thought Malfoy was evil you don't know Matt

-Matt even stole Crab and Goyle from Malfoy💀💀

-he's a true womanizer

-"My gorgeous ginger hair, blue eyes and perfectly straight teeth? Genetics, babe"

-too good to get himself dirty for Quidditch

-every Student knows him by name, but they only know him from seeing

-mysterious Matt spends most of his time in the library in order to beat Hermione

-"No, Ron my hair is clearly a darker and deeper ginger than yours. Get over it."

-owns a black owl and his Patronus is probably a snake

-Nekko is a Griffindor, Dusk is a Hufflepuff and BEN didn't get a letter 💀💀

-Insidae is a Ravenclaw and Rosa is also a Griffindor

-Matt feels betrayed by her

-never ever leaves Schoolgrounds

[bastardchildr3n]

Intel report #1.

Duskworld23

Full name: Spencer Lawrence (also goes by his mother’s maiden name, Rodríguez)

Age: 30

Gender: Male

Height: 6′0

Weight: 170 lbs

Family: Alicia (biological mother) and Michael Lawrence (step-father)

Birthplace: Iowa

Position within the Moon Children: Celestial Corp, Head of Church Security, Head of Heart Security

Notable Features: Black streak through hair, a tattoo of the official symbol for the Moon Children on his right shoulder, several deep scars on his arms and legs.

Additional notes: Spencer is The Father’s right hand man it seems, and from what we have been told, he considers Oliver to be like a father figure to him and he will do what it takes to protect him and The Heart. Spencer is a dangerous threat that is mentally unstable (due to the lack of proper resources within the church) and has been diagnosed as a person with psychopathic tendencies. He is most definitely a threat. Please be careful when dealing with this individual. 

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They are like a big happy family. 🤡

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NormanL. and B.E.N.

(And plus some information about Norman)

✦☾ Full name: Norman Louis Gasper

✦☾ He was 14 years old when he was ascended.

✦☾ He was living in a small town with his grandparents. He rarely saw his family because they were busy working in the city.

✦☾ His grandparents started to took care of him when he was 7 years old.

✦☾ People are who was in the cult usually told the members that when ascension happens they can make a wish and Luna generally accepts their wishes.. So Norman was about to wish to live with his parents again but it never happened.

✦☾ SpencerL. aka Duskworld23 was also living in the same town with him so they became friends and Spencer invited him to Moon Children.

Okay- HEHE this is all for now! Tysm for reading this is for you!->👑

[gulb0]

Ben Drowned Arg characters but Yaelokre themed! :3

🦊Matt Hubris, 🐸B.E.N. , 🦁Nekko (Christopher), 🐻Duskworld23 (Spencer L.)

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More Ben Drowned Arg Oc stuff!

(Norman L. Gasper)

Have you seen me?

(25 June 2011)

Norman's missing person notice.

After his ascension (21 June 2011)

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×𝐒𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐜𝐚𝐧𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐁𝐞𝐧 𝐀𝐫𝐠 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐌𝐨𝐨𝐧𝐂𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐝𝐫𝐞𝐧 𝐂𝐮𝐥𝐭!

ᴀʙᴏᴜᴛ ᴛʜᴇ ᴄʜᴀʀᴀᴄᴛᴇʀs!

✦Rosa was helping others to make their hairstyle! She used to want to be a hairdresser.

✦ Nekko was scared of fire.

✦Insidiae (Kevin) and Duskworld23 (Spencer) used to spend a lot time together.

✦Matt's and Rosa's biggest fear was spiders.

✦ Matt used to make wooden whistles and flutes and gift them to Benjamin.

✦Kevin was extremely forgetful.

✦ Spencer acted quite mature for his age and this was highly respected by others.

✦Benjamin, Matt, and Rosa used to have special walking days and usually went to an abandoned park with 2 swings and 1 slide.

✦Nekko was a responsible person.

ABOUT THE MOONCHILDREN CULT!

☾ Except for high-ranking individuals, sharing about the cult was prohibited for others.

☾ The ranks of the individuals within the cult were discernible from their necklaces or hairclips!

Metal blue: was for the most important people! Like the leader!

Gold: this one was also important but not as metal blue. This color usually used by the helpers of the leader!

Bronze: and this one was for members!

☾ In every ritual, they were asked to shed a small amount of blood from everyone.

☾ Prayers were said and songs were sung towards the moon at every feast.

☾ A round hole is dug for the purpose of gratitude towards the moon, and the members would dance around this water!

☾ In every full moon everyone in the cult used to come to the cult house and pray together.

☾ And in every bloody moon a fire is lit and the members take torches in their hands and dance around the fire. (Extra headcanon.. While dancing around the fire Nekko accidentally set himself on fire and this is why he scares from the fire)

☾ Everyone in the cult had their own personalized mask! And plus they all were forced to wear their necklace or hairclips everyday.

☾ It wasn't allowed to sing or play music inside of the cult house. Musical instruments were always used in the garden of the house!

☾ People who born with blue eyes or who had skin diseases such as albinism or vitiligo were included as important people in the cult ( Because they were thinking about that they resemble the moon ) and got privilege! They also got a accessory made up from silver!

☾ The acceptance of a cult member required approval from the leader and the helpers of the leader.

☾ In the ritual of entry into the cult, it is learned whether the person is resistant to pain and they would record it into a list.

That's all for now! Thanks for reading :3 💛🪐💫

[gulb0]

🌒BEN DROWNED ARG DRAWING🌘

Characters: KevinF. (Insidiae) , Matt Hubris (Ifrit), SpencerL.(Duskworld23), Benjamin Lawman, NormanL.G. (Oc), Rosa Hubris, SeleneR.(Oc)

[Characters start with the blonde guy at the bottom and go clockwise🌕💛]