#earthbound god

[serpentface]

This was going to be a panel of a little comic but I got too invested in drawing minute background details so, here.

[fishtrift]

best way to deal with alien life forms (beat them up)

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boing!

[journeytothewestresearch]

I know it might be a big request, but can you talk about heaven's hyerarchy in JTTW?? And explain some titles like boddisahtiva (sorry for any typos, english isn't my native language)

I'm a little busy at the moment, but I can give a brief overview as I see it.

The Jade Emperor (JE) is the boss of the universe, but he still has deities over him, such as the Three Pure Ones, of which Laozi (LZ) is an incarnation (of sorts). The novel even describes LZ as the "Patriarch who separated Heaven from Earth"--i.e. the creator of the universe. While technically subordinate to the JE, the Buddha and the Bodhisattvas are the true shepherds of the JTTW cosmos. (In traditional Buddhism, gods are still subject to the illusory world of Samsara, while the Buddha is beyond reality since they have achieved nirvana and broken free from the endless rounds of rebirth. In addition, the JTTW universe is patterned after the Buddhist disc-world system, and the Daoist heavens take the place of the Buddhist heavens in the traditional cosmology.) Despite this, Buddhist deities still act ritually differential to the gods. For example, the Patriarch of Earthbound Immortals (ch. 24-26) is so high-ranking that Guanyin mentions that even she has to be respectful towards him.

The gods of heaven are considered superior to those of the earth. Local gods of the soil and mountains, as well hell judges and their spirit-soldiers, are looked upon as "ghost immortals," the lowest rank. Celestials above are "spirit immortals," the highest rank. "Human" and "Earthbound Immortals" in the middle ranks can become heavenly beings if they are given an official post. But heavenly beings can be demoted to lower ranks for messing up. For example, one of Laozi's fire-tenders in the 33rd Heaven is demoted to a local god of the soil below for failing to help capture Monkey when he escaped from the Eight Trigrams Furnace in chapter 7. And a different local god of the soil in another chapter worries that two mountain gods will be beaten and further demoted to small, out of way shrines for unknowingly dropping their mountains on the Great Sage.

That's all I can think of at the moment.

[sandwichedbread]

get earthbounded pixelated fools

[dirksstri]

Everytime Kumatora and Duster are shipped together, an angel loses their wings 💔

[dandunn]

That post on here about humanising horrible people like cops and nazis and how it makes you uncomfortable because it forces you to realise that YOU could also be that person if circumstances were different really makes me think abt mother 3 and how shigesato itoi rly seems to understand that.

Like especially the big pigmask general who you would see as any other boss monster and think nothing about beating his ass. It's like no. He LOVES the DCMC to the point where you can distract him with a pamphlet for the band and make him so jealous he forgets to fight you.

It's a pretty funny moment but it's also a theme when you talk to the other pigmasks and realise they're just Dudes. They've been more or less forced into doing this to get a better life sort of like the combine footsoldiers in half life 2 who haven't been augmented yet. (except you don't really meet them on a human level at all. Apart from like. Barney who's a double agent but I digress.)

It's also really easy to hate the big bad pokey/porky because he was already a total bastard in earthbound and he's only gotten worse.

But then you also realise he's a perpetual child who was never allowed to grow up thanks to abuse/circumstances and he took the easy way out by siding with the villain. Never to the point where you excuse his horrible actions but you also understand how he got there.

[guppygiggles]

I believe in friends and laughter, and the wonders love can do~

[bootyliquor9000]

doodled a bit with @dehydratedyaoifan and @coochie-sniffer3000

close ups:

[morn-yvri-winters]

Reflecting

...I know. There's not very much I can do. She doesn't want to meet me.

[starrylunaris]

me, playing earthbound for the billionth time: yeah i havent gotten rockin yet but it should be fine until im done with onett

the bastard known as titanic ant:

[demonpopstar]

hey guys wanna see my cyborg chimera fuel au???? well here you fucking go anyways

I had SO much fun coloring this, colors my fucking beloved. Fuel is one of my favorite characters so I wanted to make this. This AU came to me randomly, I made it a few weeks ago with some simple scribbles of his design. Dreamt about it last night so I got motivated to draw this! More about it below.

There's not much to the AU, it's just Fuel turned into a chimera like the Masked Man. LOL. Masked Man still exists here it's just that Fuel is ALSO there now..... 🥲 He's eeuuuhh...? Colonel, I don't know. The Masked Man's right hand man... and a Cyborg Dragon Chimera that breathes fire. (get it, because, his name is. Fuel. get it. do you ge)

more images here:

this doodle is like, OLDER. not as accurate, but hey it's fullbody! a miracle! The metal on his face is like, a mask that he wears to not... breathe fire... idk... they were just added cuz "uhhh cool looking" -me???

I might post more about it in the future. Uhh. Idfk. Feel free to ask me more about this. I'm just a boy.

[under-lore]

Toby at it again.

...So Sans is Ness confirmed right people ?

[cent-the-proto]

we spent 24 hours in duncan’s factory (gone wrong) (Lloyd died)

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[ancestral-steppe]