#earthbound role swap

[just-your-average-mutant-blood]

Did someone say earthbound swap Au between Pokey and ness? No? Too bad!!!!!!!!

Plus doodles of this Au I’ve been doing lately

[commandernachos]

Btw if you have any swap AUs where Porky is swapped with anyone/vice versa pleas tell me about it 👁👁

[sci-bax]

Does anyone else find that music gives them inspiration for stories? Im working on my first game's story rn and quite a few songs have helped me figure out what i want some of the places/characters to be like

Spider Girl and 1000 Doors helped so much with thinking up a certain part of the game😭

In terms of dialogue, Ive got some dialogue options for a shopkeeper but nothing past that💔

[pkmoth]

THE ASK-A-PALOOZA HAS STARTED!!! [AUGUST 4th–31st]

Happy asking, and happy answering!!! Askers, make sure to read people's intros/FAQs before asking stuff, and participants, make sure to have fun and pace yourselves!! If you're an artist, make sure to take breaks and stretch regularly :]

Also, in case you missed it (because it was kind of spontaneous and recent), I will be reblogging all event related posts to @motherbound-askapalooza!! If you don't want me archiving your posts, just let me know!!

ALSO also, if you're not on the list but decide you want to participate, you can still join mid-event!! All are welcome :D

PARTICIPANTS:

(I tried summarizing your intros in 1-2 sentences, let me know if anything seems off!!)

FULL MONTH:

*@defector-commander [INTRO] - A canon divergent AU where Claus malfunctions two years into the timeskip and breaks free of his brainwashing, going into hiding inside the chimera lab.

*@askmagicantprince [INTRO] - Magicant!Ninten AU! Everything is perfect in Magicant :)

@pk-ghost [INTRO] - Ness and Lucas take a break from SSB to visit different worlds!

*@commandernachos (most weekends + fridays) [INTRO] - A Chimera Ness and Porky AU!

@turnaboutfromnowhere [INTRO] - A Mother 3 x Ace Attorney crossover AU, where askers take the role of Phoenix Wright in Claus's trial for the murder of "Mr. Pig".

*@jefferson-earthbound [INTRO] - A Jeff RP account!

*@stearix-ask-magikin [INTRO] - An AU where Lucas is raised by Locria after Hinawa goes missing and Flint spends all his time trying to find her.

@kerushi-lemonz [INTRO] - Their Reliving the 80s AU! Tatsuro (Ness) and his friends are having strange dreams where they have different identities (their mother series counterparts).

@nucas-roof [INTRO] - Ness, Lucas, and the OMINOUS HOLE IN THE CEILING?!

@askfuelcas [INTRO] - Lucas and Fuel, featuring Claus as well!

*@ask-commander-arild [INTRO] - Post-Mother 3, the pigmask army is repurposed by Claus in he name of peace. Arild, a former captain of the old army, is now the commander of the new army.

@ghostbox99 [INTRO] - Porky wakes up in an abandoned city one day, with only an old computer (and you, the askers) to keep him company.

*@theworldreturning [INTRO] - A post-Mother 3 AU, where the new world takes place in an alternate post-Mother 2 universe (with the inclusion of the Nowhere Islands).

@quirkyearthboundinspireddinner [INTRO] - The protagonist of eggnogisdead's comic! Ten years after the events of Earthbound, Giegue's planet wages war against earth.

@butacyanide [INTRO] -The Earthbound characters!

*@daily-dose-of-lucas [INTRO TBA] - Ask Lucas!

NOT FULL MONTH (in order of week(s) participating):

@misticfog (week 1) [INTRO] - Li'l Miss Marshmallow!

@tonys-room (weeks 1-2) [INTRO] - Mostly canon compliant, except Tony has PSI and the ability to see through the fourth wall.

@twothpaste (weeks 1-2) [INTRO] - Their Intermission AU! A modern AU of the Earthbound/Mother 3 casts in college, dealing with real-world problems (and, of course, playing D&D).

*@judgment-days (weeks 1-2) [INTRO] - Corruption AU trio! King Lucas and a severely mushroomized Ness are brought in by Giygas and Cosmic Commander Ninten for questioning.

*@kellanzy (weeks 2-3) [INTRO] - Lovebound AU: a post-Mother 3 AU where all the protagonists (and Giegue) meet in the newly made world.

@projectc-114 (weeks 2-3) [INTRO] - Takes place after Claus is kidnapped and brainwashed, but before he becomes the commander. The scientists at the lab call him C-114.

*@pkmoth (weeks 2-4) [INTRO] - Swap AU Claus and Lucas in Smash Mansion! (intro TBA)

*@tanejineri (week 4) [INTRO] - An AU Claus called Commander Samuel!

PRE-EXISTING ASKBLOGS JOINING:

*@plutothenotdwarfplanet [INTRO] - A gieeg OC!

*@masterporky [INTRO] - A Pokey/Porky Minch RP blog!

*@ask-the-fever-four [INTRO] - Mayhem AU!

*@ask-clausten [INTRO] - Clausten! >:D

*up for rp

[neotriobrainrot-reborn]

I've been brainstorming an Earthbound au where the comet landed near Twoson instead of Onett, effectively swapping the roles of Paula and Ness, and now I'm obsessed with it

It'll probably need a lot of changes since Buzz Buzz's prophecy was by his words: “When the Chosen boy reaches the point, he will find the light. The passing of time will shatter the nightmare rock, and will reveal the path of light”, but again, I am obsessed with thinking about how much things would change

[theunderswapseries]

Would anyone be interested in swap AUs of Toby’s two earthbound rom hacks (Halloween Hack and Arn’s Winter Quest) for the funny

Like Shadow The Hedgeswap the EBHH swap AU would take place in its own completely separate timeline not really connected to the original main series.

Also minor progress on Underswap Purple and Underswap 2 (please play Undertale 2 revenge of the robots) have been made, but I have not yet finished the full role list for Underswap 2.

[julian-pepper]

Ok, you know what? I'm sick of pretending that Orange Kid somehow inherently has less merit than Apple Kid.

First, let's go over what their $200 investments get directly, the Pencil Eraser and the Suporma: What are the problems in Twoson? First, the Iron Pencil statue in Peaceful Rest Valley, and secondly, a tunnel to Threed filled with ghosts that can be overcame with loud cheery music. The Pencil Eraser destroys all pencil-shaped objects in its vicinity, and the Suporma plays a (presumably) loud cheery song, "Ode to Orange Kid". Both inventor kids attempt to create an invention to solve a problem here, it just so happens that the Runaway Five end up solving the Threed tunnel problem for Ness and Paula.

Next lets go over two other things, Orange Kid attempts to create a machine to unboil an egg and doesn't finish it by the end of the game, and Apple Kid creates a gourmet yogurt machine that he doesn't finish, rendering it only able to produce trout flavored yogurt. The only reason the trout yogurt machine is useful is because literally one person in the whole world happens to want trout flavored yogurt.

And the final point, he does help the party by telling Ness that Apple Kid was the last person to have "Overcoming Shyness", which is a book that is needed to help the shy Tendas overcome shyness.

I feel like a lot of people don't want to admit it, but you could pretty easily rewrite Earthbound to swap the roles of Apple Kid and Orange Kid.

[earthswap]

Earthswap

Imagine Earthbound, but the characters are swapped with eachother! This is my, @lafunbug's, take on it.

Originally, it was the 4 main characters shifted into each other's spots. But then I thought it'd be really cool if Ness was swapped with Porky, so I did that instead and shifted the other 3. Like this:

Porky <--> Ness Paula ---> Jeff Jeff ---> Poo Poo ---> Paula Instead of swapping character's personalities/bodies, I just wanted to mainly swap their roles. I don't have the idea for anyone else's swaps yet... pls tell me !!!

[nuclearapocolove]

Some noteable aus i found this way

Altertale: actually kind of sucked ass in retrospect but dynami is fantastic

SwapSwap/Underswapswap: Underswap but roleswapped. Literally just fucking undertale

Sudden Changes: Not really sure what this one was about but sans has a gun

FellFell: What the Fuck

UT Fallen Stars: Outerswap but also fell. And make it purple

UT Halloween Hack: Sort of a reimagining of Toby’s EarthBound Halloween Hack. Has the best music out of all of these. Might not be a dead project but I cant remember

Deltarune Other Puppet: Maybe not undertale but it switches kris and spamton and kris becomes a little muppet that lives in a garbage bin and sings the giga pudding song. Lovely.

Unexpecterchanged: Besides the name fairly normal role swap au, its just the frisk-replacement character is named Fredrick and I felt it needed to be said.

Fellswap Purple: Some Japanese artists have really good designs for these characters, especially napstablook (nappstaton?). Fantastic megalovanias. Subject to weird sans fan stuff so proceed with caution

I think its crazy the undertale au song community on soundcloud is so obscure to most people, even in undertale au fan spaces. i was being introduced to the stupidest and craziest fucking aus from some 17 year old in fl studio making the most well composed music i ever heard

[pk-starst0rm]

Earth-tober2022 day 13 role swap

(this ones realllly lazy but its mom1 switched with mommyless3 so mimmie and minnie are switched with lucas and claus, mick is switched with boney pippi is replacing duster and i could decided on a 4th party member i was thinking eve but im not sure)

[just-your-average-mutant-blood]

Finally it’s done.

Seriously why is making armor so hard aaaaa

Honestly poor flint ngl. Man has ran out of family

Also doodles.

Getting out of the way now. Yes dr andonuts is Lloyd in this. I like how it’s a through line throughout the games. The time line is a little fucked but this game involves Aging time travel so I can make it work. If you don’t like the hc though just like pretend it’s specific to this Au

[orchidzero]

GITS: SAC  S01E01  第1話「公安9課SECTION-9」 Public Security Section 9 Stand Alone

Unmistakably, and perhaps inevitably, the first few minutes of Stand Alone Complex pay explicit homage to Mamoru Oshii's Ghost in the Shell. As in that film, the cold open finds Major Motoko Kusanagi standing alone on a rooftop, surveying a neon cityscape, electronically eavesdropping on terrorist chatter. Her expression is affectless. Her clothing is minimal. Drawing a pistol, she plunges toward a building below. With grace impeded only slightly by a TV budget, she sticks a perfect 3-point landing (a cliché she can be forgiven, having practically invented it). The subsequent chase scene makes further callbacks to the kind of action that wowed fanboys in '95-- cybernetically-enhanced parkour, acrobatic martial arts, bullet wounds erupting in horrific bursts of viscera. The message comes through loud and clear: this IS your big brother's GHOST IN THE SHELL!

Which is misleading, but sure-- a little torch-passing is probably in order. It's just hard not to wish it were handled more subtly. Narratively, it's of zero import-- we never get the backstory on the terrorists, or who they were hoping to nerve gas. Our introduction to the Major is also weirdly off-key. Normally a model of cool restraint, she takes down her target with a brutal, authoritarian zeal that would give Jack Bauer pause. When the perp has the temerity to question the system that just blew his leg off, she invites him to love it, leave it, or take a bullet to the dome. It all feels unnervingly close to Big Brother's Ghost in the Shell.

Luckily, things get better from there. Despite the lingering specter of Oshii, it quickly becomes apparent that SAC will be following the more procedurally-oriented lead of Masamune Shirow's original manga. The Major is front and center, but the show treats Section 9 as a real ensemble-- a kind of cyberpunk Impossible Mission Force, where every member has a unique role to play. In the episode’s first big set piece they’re deployed in A2 gear to area 82-D3, where a political hostage situation has sparked a jurisdictional pissing match between local police and the military (the alphabet soup and internecine bickering are pure Shirow). Five hostages are being held-- literally-- by hacked robot geisha at a high-end restaurant ¹ . Section 9’s Chief Aramaki cuts through the red tape and takes charge of the situation, dispatching the Major to spearhead the rescue. Watching her and her team do their thing, it must be said, is pretty sweet. Their tactical, no-nonsense approach offsets the sci-fi gadgetry and lends the action an earthbound realism-- more Michael Mann than The Matrix.

But how about that gadgetry? Just a few of the technologies floating around, here: thermoptic camo, cerebral augmentation, brain-swapping, memory wipes, holographic displays, insectoid robots, android sexbots, cybernetic eyes, neuro-link telepathy, and Galapagos-style Japanese flip phones (that these will endure in AD 2030 seems plausible). Trying to work out what this gear is capable of while simultaneously trying to parse all the jargon and political subterfuge can be migraine-inducing. Which brings me to the reason I've always found this series baffling and have never really engaged with it till now: I'm not sure whether I'm supposed to be paying attention. Like the Metal Gear games or a Thomas Pynchon novel, there's a very intricate techno-conspiratorial mythology here, and like the Metal Gear games or a Thomas Pynchon novel, it might not really matter. Unraveling the plot could easily be beside the point.  

Nevertheless, I've committed to try. As near as I can figure, here's the sequence of events: Someone affiliated with the foreign minister's office takes an interest in the Ichinose Report-- a classified document detailing the military response to a national crisis (vague, I know). This sets off alarm bells and prompts a secret investigation of the foreign minister, conducted by an agent posing as his secretary. Both are taken hostage by an unknown party, along with the foreign minister's chief of PR and two members of the North American Association for Industrial Development. The military intervenes to protect their asset, but their authority is superseded by Section 9, who seemingly get involved because crazy shit's their bailiwick. Four of the hostages are rescued. The secretary / undercover agent suffers a serious head wound, and one guy from the NAAID is killed, or so it's meant to appear. But in fact, Togusa and the Major figure out he's traded cerebral cores (i.e. brains) with the foreign minister, who has a fetish for getting drunk and swapping bodies with robot geisha, making him an easy mark for this kind of thing. Section 9 catches up to the perp at the airport, trying to board a private jet with the real minister's brain in a box and a copy of the Ichinose report in hand.

Got all that? It took me three viewings. The episode fails to address a few nagging questions, such as "Who?" and "Whaa?", but it hangs together better than expected. It also deftly handles the work of setting up the principal cast. We get glimpses of Aramaki's authority, the Major's competent leadership, Batou's big lug buffoonery, Togusa's humanity, and Ishikawa's beard. Togusa comes closest to getting an actual arc. Following the raid on the restaurant, he betrays some insecurity about being the most fallibly human agent in the field. The Major assures him he has other strengths to offer, and indeed, it's his powers of observation that end up cracking the case (with an assist from a CSI "enhance" button). Clearly, this man / machine tension will be an ongoing concern.

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¹  For its big opening set piece, the live-action, Hollywood GITS mashes up elements of this sequence, the iconic rooftop drop, and Batou’s first assignment from Innocence. The largely practical geisha effects are impressively realized and probably that film’s most successful element.  

[kimberlyannharts]

I always expected that the new omega blue would be Kim. Yes this would retcon pink out of comic canon but if they are really moving Kim into a more of a leader role then giving her a new color could go with her new attitude. Plus you know they’d milk the hell out of the ‘orginal team ‘ angle cause fuck billy I guess? So I throw it to you, what you think would you accept a color swap or is Kim as any other color but pink too weird?

my main problem with Kim becoming Omega Blue is that beyond it just being too redundant it would basically confirm the Omegas' vibe of like. THE SUPER COOL TEAM FULL OF TRAVELING SPACE VETERANS THAT THE LITTLE EARTHBOUND MMPRS CAN'T KEEP UP WITH. which maybe just be the vibe i get but it's still kind of annoying

(also everyone who gets the Omega powers turns into an asshole and Kim's become a bit too snappy and mean-spirited enough rn, imo)

as for alternate colors for Kim...mmmm...it's definitely hard to imagine considering Kim is practically the definition of Pink Ranger, but thanks to Ranger Slayer and the now...surprisingly common design choice to give her a leather jacket.....i could see her as a black ranger (i appreciated Blue Kim for my Kim/Billy friendship crumbs but i can't really see her as blue all the time)

[lordninadroid]

Undertale AUs in a nutshell

Undertale - Earthbound with more fourth wall breaks.

Underfell - Good is bad and bad is good.

Underswap - Every has swapped roles with each other.

Storyshift - Underswap but with no personality switches.

Inverted Fate - A goat god messes up and causes six lost souls to switch places with one another.

Disbelief - Sad skeleton boy wants revenge and tries to beat up a murderous child.

Outertale - space and more space.

Universe of the Underground - Magic gem boy with a pink shield and bubble powers falls into a underground world and fights monsters.

* Do you suggestions for more AUs? then please put them in the comments so I can add them in the next post.

[neotriobrainrot-reborn]

You ever get that feeling when you’re trying to think of a name for a fanfic you’re trying to write, and once you’ve finally landed on one you like, you get frustrated because you’re baffled by how it took so long to come to you?

I’m living that experience

I’ve been trying to come up with the name of the Paula and Ness Role-swap au (for the fic I’m trying to write about) for ages. I contemplated naming it something like “Gaia”, but didn't like it enough for it to make it out of the first drafts. It fits the theming of earthbound, but didn’t feel like it was adding to anything, so I got rid of it.

It was not only two days before I made this post that I realized a decent name that could work for the au:

Skybound

I have no idea why it took me this long to come up with the name. I know it kind of sounds generic, but I think it works pretty well with what I’m going for. It’s not only a wordplay of “Earthbound”, but also compliments Paula’s gameplay mechanic of prayer. It’s basic, but it works.

Like, I really like the name, but at the same time I’m pissed at myself for taking this long to come up with it

[lokiondisneyplus]

The wonderful Mancunian actress Wunmi Mosaku can be seen grappling with a leather-skinned monster in the horror film His House and drinking a body-swapping potion before having sex with a wizard in the HBO/Sky series Lovecraft Country. Pure hokum, right? After all, this is a woman who made her name with gritty performances on British television in Moses Jones and Luther, and who won a Bafta for playing Gloria Taylor, mother of the murdered Damilola, in Damilola, Our Loved Boy. Has moving to Los Angeles played havoc with her sense of reality?

Actually, no. His House and Lovecraft Country belong to a new generation of accomplished, provocative stories that invite us to compare the terror and violence of genre fantasy with that of the real world. They include the Emmy-winning Watchmen miniseries, which used Alan Moore’s superhero saga as a jumping-off point to explore bigotry and civil rights, and such racially charged horror movies as Us and the Oscar-winning Get Out, both directed by Jordan Peele, who is an executive producer on Lovecraft Country.

“The horror of humanity is the real horror, the things that we put people through,” says Mosaku, 34, via Zoom from Atlanta in the US. It’s hard to disagree. The most disturbing thing about His House isn’t the haunted council home assigned to her character, Rial, and her husband, Bol (Sope Dirisu), on their arrival in the UK from South Sudan. It’s what the couple endured before they got there: massacres, institutional brutality and losing their child as they cross the Mediterranean in a rubber dinghy.

Jurnee Smollett alongside Mosaku in the HBO/Sky series Lovecraft Country ALAMY

Meanwhile, the fang-filled, head-chomping bogeymen in the Fifties-set Lovecraft Country are puppy dogs compared with the racist cops, lynch-hungry rednecks and white men burning crosses on the lawn of their black Chicago neighbours.

The fantastical elements of His House have their roots in Rial and Bol’s grief, guilt and trauma. Yet Mosaku thinks that the heightened experience of watching horror, with its jump scares, musical cues and manipulative editing, is “a great vehicle” for conveying those more earthbound emotions. “It helps with empathy,” she says. “The tension, the way one’s heart beats when watching something that’s terrifying.”

In this tricksy new dramatic world we’re often not sure if the monsters are real. The events of His House, Mosaku says, “feel like they could absolutely be in their heads”. In Lovecraft Country three characters wake up the day after a horrific battle with the aforementioned fanged beasts but two of them can no longer remember it. This is a kind of gaslighting, echoing the way that black people’s testimony of mistreatment has been challenged.

Mosaku’s hardest scenes in Lovecraft Country came when her character, Ruby, drinks a potion that temporarily turns her into a white woman. This allows her to experience privilege — suddenly, strangers are deferential and policemen believe what she says. Things take a more lurid turn when she drinks the potion before having sex with a white man (actually a white woman in magical disguise — it’s complicated). At an, erm, crucial juncture, the potion wears off and her pale skin cracks and peels away.

Idris Elba with Mosaku in Luther, one of the British TV shows in which the actress made her name BBC/ALAMY

It’s an upsetting sequence, aesthetically and symbolically. “It brings up lots of crazy thoughts and rage and pain,” Mosaku says. “But I think the reality is that if any of us changed the skin that we lived in, whether it was to be someone who was disabled or Asian or LGBTQ+, the world changes how it reacts to us.

“People are threatened because of my skin [which] is weaponised against me,” Mosaku says. “My stature and the fact that I don’t conform to Western ideas of beauty with my afro and my west African gap [teeth]. I have to overcompensate, to say, ‘That isn’t me. Just because I’m 5ft 9in and black doesn’t mean that I’m threatening.’ I am a happy, joyful person. But I am not allowed to express any kind of frustration or anger, because I get boxed straight back into that thing that they always thought I was.”

Born in Nigeria, she moved with her family to Manchester when she was a year old. Her parents had been professors, but struggled to find similar work in the UK. In the end her mother started her own business and her father returned to Nigeria after the couple split up. Mosaku loved music as a girl, singing for 11 years with the Manchester Girls Choir, and she shows off her gorgeous voice in Lovecraft Country, belting out Is You Is or Is You Ain’t My Baby in a party scene.

She doesn’t speak Yoruba, her parents’ native tongue. “It’s a real shame,” she says, telling a story from her primary school years to explain why. She is dyslexic, but at that point it was undiagnosed. “My teachers saw I was struggling with reading and writing and told my parents that they needed to stop speaking Yoruba in the house, which is crazy, because they would never have done that to a French family.” For His House she learnt Dinka, the dominant language of South Sudan, as well as being tutored in the culture of the region and hearing testimonials from refugees who had made the journey through the Sahara to north Africa and across the Mediterranean.

She was set on studying maths after school until she decided at the 11th hour that she preferred acting. Hearing that another Mancunian, Albert Finney, had gone to Rada, she applied and got in. Soon after graduating she was being directed by Rupert Goold in Rough Crossings at the Lyric Theatre in Hammersmith, London, and appearing in David Hare’s The Vertical Hour at the Royal Court. “Theatre is my jam,” she says. Every time she and her American husband come to the UK, “We will see a play as soon as we land. We’ll go to the Young Vic with our suitcases straight from the flight.”

After several years of yo-yoing between America and the UK, Lovecraft Country is the first time she has worked in the US for an extended period. It’s not certain whether the show will return for a second season, despite critical plaudits and ratings that compare favourably with other HBO series such as Watchmen and Succession. Either way, Mosaku seems happily ensconced in Los Angeles, where she lives with her husband, who she would rather not name.

There are strong rumours of a role in Loki, the superhero spin-off series in which Tom Hiddleston returns as the trickster god from the Marvel films, alongside Owen Wilson and Gugu Mbatha-Raw. “I have no idea what you’re talking about,” Mosaku says, with an evenness that sounds practised. Given that she’s speaking from Atlanta and that’s where they’re filming the show, it would seem a good bet.

Eventually Mosaku says she would like to move behind the camera. “Even some of my favourite films, it might be a black story, but it’s written by a white person and directed by a white person,” she says. That’s the next barrier for people of colour, and it’s starting to come down, thanks to Peele; Misha Green, the creator of Lovecraft Country; Remi Weekes, the director of His House, and the like.

Mosaku talks about the notion of double consciousness, as explored in Toni Morrison’s novels: “The way that the world will box me up before I’ve even had a chance to prove who I am. It’s exhausting. Trying to do things without having to explain or apologise is really refreshing. That’s what I love about Lovecraft and I think His House does it too. We don’t need to explain. Let’s just be.” His House is in cinemas now and on Netflix from October 30. Lovecraft Country is on Sky Atlantic, Now TV, Amazon and Google