#even if he is from a fangame it still counts

[blazehedgehog]

After watching SAGE's 2024 trailer, you ever get the feeling that most people want to be making indie games instead of fan games nowadays,? Every year there's been less and less fan works there.

This is the first year I've really felt it in any meaningful way.

There have been attempts for more than a decade to rename SAGE to drop the "Sonic" part. I've always pushed back against that and at this point the branding is too strong to give up, I think. People know about and come to SAGE because the brand is strong. Renaming it would be a death sentence.

Taking off my business hat, it's a bummer to see fangames in the minority here. Everybody wants to hop on that indie game gravy train and chase the success of Pizza Tower (seriously, count how many Pizza Tower clones are in the trailer this year) or Freedom Planet or Spark the Electric Jester or whatever.

And it's easy to congratulate people for striking out on their own and making original games. I was one of the many voices urging Sabrina to divorce Freedom Planet from the Sonic franchise and make it into an original game she could sell. So she ran a crowdfunding campaign (multiple, actually), was successful, and now we have two Freedom Planet games. And that's great!

But... does that mean all fangames should go away forever?

The example I lean on the hardest is comic books.

A lot of the guys who created the biggest super heroes aren't around anymore. They gave up control long ago or are straight up dead now. These books are effectively officialized fanfiction now, as are the $300,000,000 movies based on them. An ever-increasing number of people writing, drawing and directing these characters today were not alive when they were originally created.

But people still keep writing Batman stories, officially or otherwise. Because there are some stories you can only tell with Batman. Now, you could break off and make your own character that's similar to Batman, build up this history for him, and then finally tell your original story with that character. And maybe that's satisfying, to have built something of your own like that.

But for one: that's a lot of work. Batman is interesting because he has decades (almost a century now) of history behind him to play off of and work with. There are people out there who will tell you to just start writing your dream story and forget about building up to it first, but that's more about motivation and confidence than the idea that stories don't need historical context.

And two: that's already been done.

There's a good chance you know who Rob Liefeld is from his, uh, "distinctive" art style. He also created Deadpool, a katana-wielding mercenary assassin that dresses in red and black, whose real name is Wade Wilson. But before Deadpool, he created Deathstroke, a katana-wielding mercenary assassin that dresses in orange and black, whose real name is Slade Wilson.

Here is a guy who has built a career on copying his own work (and the work of others) over and over and over again.

Did it make Rob Liefeld rich and famous? Technically yes, but he kind of got rich because other people made better work using his characters, and he's famous for being kind of a hack.

So which is better?

Creative output you can do right here, right now, today, but is considered "fanfiction" or "fanart" or a "fangame", which may or may not lead to you being the person handling the official thing at some point down the road...

Or spending years of your life toiling to bring an original concept to life, and even if you struggle through all of the boredom and hardship of getting your original product out the door, it gets lost in the noise of now-million other creators trying to do the exact same thing. And then, at the end of your launch, after 2, 3, even 5 years of working and working and working, you've only made enough money to cover rent on your apartment for a month and a half.

Or, to put it another way:

Are you ditching fangame development because you have a legitimately great story you want to tell, or are you just doing it because you can't make money on a fangame?

Are you just creating another Bloodstrike?

As someone who has struggled to justify putting lots of hard work into a fangame myself, and have both made very popular fangames and some not-so-great original games, I don't know if I have a definitive answer for you. But I do wish there were more fangames at the fangaming event, and I will say, as always, if I could get paid a livable wage for making fangames, I would drop everything and do it in a heartbeat.

[badendfriendstournament]

Contestants submissions currently open!

Some rules and clarifications!

So, i think the criteria for this tournament needs to be shared, since its not only the classic bad end friends but we also got wayyy more characters here and i would like include your suggestions for the next year's poll.

Rules and basic criteria to count a character as a BEF

I decided to separate this characters in categories so its easier to explain:

"Main/secondary character is now evil!!!"

I think we all get this one. Certain characters end up on the other side of the battle, by choice or maybe bc he didn't have one!! Betraying their morals and everyone else. They maybe became crazy and/or are being mind controlled/ possessed

Now, this has its own subcategories to take account:

"Oh no! I got possesed or mind controlled!"

Very self-explanatory, character that is now controlled by the villain/antagonist.

"Multiversal typa shit"

CANONICAL AUs where the character has turned up evil/in an antagonistic role, by any reason

"TRAITOR!!!!"

When a character changes sides by "choice," they might still be themselves but felt betrayed/are being manipulated/they simply decided to betray the rest for their own benefit.

"Hell nah, they went feral"

Character that got turned into a monster/some kind of creature

"Evil alter ego takes control"

A second personality fully controls the character now.

"Ain't evil, just a failure"

As the tittle "bad end" suggests, we also include characters that ended up meeting a depressing fate without necessarily becoming evil

This one has some restrictions obviously:

The character needs some sort of appearance change

Something REALLY REALLY BAD has happened to them, a significant defeat.

DOPPLEGANGERS

To make it short, a character that is a replica/clone of the mc and their goal must be replaced/ defeat the original one. Its not necessarily required for them to be explicitly "evil," but if they wanna replace the og, they sure do count.

FANON BAD ENDINGS

There are lots of fanon bad endings on this AU, but the general rule is that it has to have some sort of logic on the character's original lore, or at least be based on a fate that is kinda plausible to happen. So we don't end up accepting every single Sans AU that comes across, lol.

These characters can't come out of nowhere. It needs a valid justification to make em accountable. "Theres a chapter where the villain tells the hero to become evil aswell bc they're their father, so in the canon says no, but the BEF is that he says yes." See? It was plausible and justified.

(There sure might be some exeptions to this rule such as Wirt and Marco, but at least Wirt making a deal with the beast doesnt come out of nowhere, technically talking Tom did curse marco on the original series, i know that their whole deal is too stretched but they have been here since the beginning so who are we to kick em off.)

NOT ALLOWED:

Creepypastas: we tryin to stick with canon here, you know? Creepypastas often just turn characters evil and into demons just because, thats not what we are going for!

Role swap AUs: Those definitely are not even considered. Since they're way too far from the actual canon.

Completely non-canon/very unlikely situations: "but he can get possessed by the villain!!" So as every other character, if its extremely rare for it to happen, don't even bring it up.

Robots (in a doppleganger sense): yeah obviously this rule doesn't talk about robot/android characters like murderdrones or something, but it's about robotic clones with not really their own conciousness Just, machines.

Fanon media in general: stuff like comics, fangames, or any fanmade product of any existing media with a bad ending will not be counted. No, you can't submit your fnf mods. im sorry

ABSOLUTELY NO OCS: no original characters, im being REALLY CLEAR WITH THIS ONE. No, your shadow2 the hedgehog original character do not steal cannot be counted.

NO PIBBY GLITCH.

Now that its all clear!

How do i submit a character?

Simple! You just have to send an ask with the character, their media, some of their backstory, and any detail you think is need to be mentioned!

So that would be it! Hope to see your submissions soon!

The submissions will end on april 1st 2025!

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Other blogs of mine:

@fivenightsatprototypefredbears - an news blog related to FNaPF teasers, releases, etc. I may reblog fan-art on the blog, I don't know.

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@shadowrealmindustries - an arg account I created for FNaPF, it is meant to connect to the error screens from the series which can be found by doing various acts (such as getting jumpscared by shadow fredbear in the first game and shadow kennedy in the second game for example).

@askthecrisps - another ask blog I created dedicated to asking Burnt Luigi, Mr L, and IHY Luigi. Their respected pages and details are in pinned post.

[cowardlychimera]

also gonna ramble a little about my crossover au I've been obsessing over for ages, since I'm working on some art for it right now...

I'm Doing It Scared though so under the cut it goes !

okay so. it's a crossover of omori, yume nikki, yume 2kki, and .flow! yay!! fucked up dreamers!!!

I'm really happy with it though because of the worldbuilding I've had to piece together using stuff from all the games, and I'd say how dream worlds work in this au is pretty neat...

anyway, since omori is the only game with a clear story, for the other 3 I just picked some themes from the games and theories I like that I thought would work well together, and I think I did a decent enough job to make Madotsuki's, Urotsuki's, and Sabitsuki's stories in this au pretty interesting!

okay now for a simple summary: it takes place after the good ending, a bit after Sunny's moved and settled in a little in his new house. Sunny could say he's doing better, but that leaves out the fact he's still struggling to reach out and open up. until one night he ends up on a balcony instead of white space.

after learning he's not the only dreamer out there, Sunny makes it his mission to find and help as many as he can! helping others like him counts as helping himself, right? (spoiler: wrong <3)

one last thing, I do eventually want to throw in more yume nikki fangames because I think it'd be even more fun. whole family of mentally ill dreamers yay <3

[multi-fandomsfreak]

Sonic & Friends: Project Chernobyl (1/4 Character Introductions)

Other introductions-

2/4

3/4

4/4

Basically doing what I did with Feldeltá and doing the same with the characters I’m planning on using for my Sonic.EXE OC story. I’m planning on writing the story and have started the first chapter but honestly my attention span is all over the place so who knows when I’ll be able to finish it. I am trying to write it though so please be patient 👍. I’ve separated this into four parts due to timing/character relevance and of course tumblr has limited photos you can upload. Anyways here are the first two characters. I’ll post the other 3 parts when I can because I still need to do this another couple times for each character.

Warning this is long. ~Blaze/Dawn

Main Villian -

Name: Chernobyl

Nickname: Cherno

Age: ??? (At Least early/mid 30’s Physically)

Birthday: ??? (Was Created In 2013)

Height: 6ft7 (Though He Can Make Himself Taller Or Shorter)

Weight: ???

MBTI: ISTJ

Gender: Genderless/Agender (Presents As Male)

Pronouns: He/Him

Sexuality: Bisexual + Demisexual + Demiromantic

Species: Virus

Sub-Species: Code

Relationships:

- Mary Leid (Creator; Victim)

- Magistr (Son)

- Kriz (Daughter)

Victim(s) Count = 17+

- Mary Leid (Creator/Coder)

- Tristin Kiyomoto (Script Writer)

- Luciana Alegria (Artist For Background)

- Ayden Nett (Artist For Sprites)

- Elijah Roberts (Fangame VA For Sonic)

- Luca Todd (Fangame VA For Tails)

- Blake Everett (Fangame VA For Knuckles)

- Mia Wells (Fangame VA For Amy)

- Grace Elliot (Fangame VA For Dawn)

- Ryan Hunter (Fangame VA For Dr Eggman)

- Seina Maxwell (Attempted Victim Depending On The Good Or Bad Ending)

- Multiple Unknown People (Between 2013-2024)

- Dawn The Cat

- Knuckles The Echidna

- Eggman

- Tails Miles Prower

- Amy Rose

- Sonic The Hedgehog

Voice Claim: Spark Simulacrum (Simulacra) Who Is Voiced By ???

Personality:

Chernobyl is pretty much known for being a surprisingly calm and collected character. However he kind of loses himself when things aren’t going his way which is rare. He always thinks about his choices, considering the advantages and disadvantages to each situation making sure it turns in his favour. He’s also very sadistic but he isn’t outright about it (compared to other EXE characters who are also sadistic). He has an extreme hatred for humans. This mostly stems from his views on his creator but now he just assumes everyone is the same. He’s also very manipulative and surprisingly very convincing. Able to convince even the most stubborn characters. He also isn’t afraid to blackmail or guilt trip people, often using people’s own words to get his way or when he is losing control of said person.

Powers:

- Empathetic Manipulation = The power to manipulate emotions

- Teleportation = The power to instantaneously move from one location to another without physically occupying the space in between

- Telepathy = The power to receive and transmit information with one’s mind

- Text/Script Manipulation = The power to manipulate the scripts and writing system of an object or being to use against opponents

- Batterfield Removing = The power to remove beings from a battle

- Body Control = The power to manipulate bodies

- Perception Manipulation = The ability to manipulate perception/how they see things

- Transmutation = The power to alter the forms/structure of matter/energy

- Sound Manipulation = The power to manipulate sound

- Time Paradox Immunity = Completely immune to game resets and can still maintain the memories of previous game resets

- Malfunctions Manipulation = The power to manipulate malfunctions e.g. things that functions wrongly or does not function at all

- Data Manipulation = The ability to manipulate data/digital information

- Technology Manipulation = The power to manipulate technology

- Game Jumping = After getting rid of his previous victim that played his game he’s able to jump to another’s as long as they have the game installed. Even if they don’t he’ll find a way to make them install it.

Weakness:

- His Character File = Though this could be seen as a strength it’s also a weakness. Since he has been coded into the game he has a character file. Just like how he can manipulate others his can be manipulated as well. Due to this he’s extremely protective over it.

Likes:

- Dawn The Cat (My Sonic Sona)

- Sonic Games

Dislikes:

- Humans/Humanity in general

Backstory:

No one really knows where Chernobyl had come from, not even himself. One day his creator named Mary Leid was in the middle of coding for a sonic fangame when she accidentally made an error causing the creation of Chernobyl. At first he didn’t know what was happening, who he was or his whole reason to living. Mary seeing the usefulness in him and also feeling bad for him she decided to give him the role of helping her finish the game and gave him the name Chernobyl to which he happily agreed. At first he was happy to work with not only her but everyone else working on the project. However, as time went on the more desperate to finish the game Mary ended up resulting to her ultimately portraying said pressure onto Chernobyl, making him go through upgrades so she could create the game much to Chernobyl resistance. Chernobyl eventually snapped with the power he was given by Mary he ended up dragging through the game and killing her there, leaving her dead body in the real world and her mind and spirit in the game. Eventually he discovered where the others were and did the same to them. Still not satisfied he decided to complete the game himself and decided to use it to get rid of humanity.

Reference:

Protagonist -

Name: Siena Maxwell

Age: 19

Birthday: 16 August 2005

Height: 5ft4

Weight: 55kg

MBTI: INTJ

Gender: Female

Pronouns: She/Her

Sexuality: Lesbian

Species: Human

Ethnicity: English (British) + Spain

Relationships:

- Unnamed Mum

- Unnamed Step-dad

- 2 Siblings (1 sister + 1 brother)

Occupation: Retail Worker

Voice Claim: Knives Chau (Scott Pilgrim Takes Off) Who Is Voiced By Ellen Wong

Likes:

- Gaming

Dislikes:

- Retailing

Backstory:

Your average girl who just got out of school and now is focusing on her job though she isn’t that fond of it but it’s the best she can do so she just pushes through it. All that she cares about is surviving. One day after coming home from a tired day at work she wanted to calm down and just game. That’s what she usually does. So she went onto her computer and looked through her storage. Thinking she wasn’t able to find one she stumbled across the fangame Chernobyl was installed in and unknowingly signed her soul and was forced to watch the characters in the game go through some gruesome shit no one needs to see. Feeling bad she wanted to put an end to this. Question is, will she succeed?

Reference:

Facts -

(Chernobyl)

- The inspiration for Chernobyl/plot of the story is a combination of Monika from DDLC, the glitch from pibby and learning as well as Sonic.EYX.

- I’ve actually had the idea for Chernobyl since I first played DDLC in 2020/2021 but didn’t really have an exact plan in terms of plot or design till near the end of 2022 to the start of 2023.

- Chernobyl wasn’t actually going to be his name at first. It was going to be .DIF because I thought I could base his powers off of it but as time went on I didn’t think it sounded right so I ended up going with Chernobyl which I think fits him better.

- The name Chernobyl comes from the actual computer virus of the same name and has similar abilities to the virus.

- Chernobyl doesn’t like human-based EXE mostly because of them once being human (the only somewhat exception to this so far is Sarah due to him having a bit of sympathy for what happened to her).

- He really doesn’t like humans or humanity in general which is kind of ironic considering he has a human like form. The reason why he hates humans is because of his past with his creator who was human. Though it should only apply to her due to his past he just decided to hate humans all together thinking they’re all the same.

- He doesn’t really like some EXE either due to him finding them too cocky and over themselves (which is kind of hypocritical).

- He pretty much feeds on the code and data of the characters in game as well as the game itself (similar to the actual computer virus).

- Just like Lord X with his fascination with Sonic, Chernobyl has an extremely deep fascination with Dawn The Cat (my sona) and pretty much uses him as the main host. Though if he had to choose someone else in the Sonic franchise or didn’t have Dawn as an option then he’d pick either Knuckles or Espio.

- Chernobyl was originally supposed to be a female (since my sona is female in terms of biological/physically I thought it be cool to match) but due to those types of artist (the ones that upload sexual art of characters though it probably won’t happen but still I’m praying just in case) I changed him to male before just making him genderless but presents himself as male and uses male honorific e.g. Mr, Sir, He/Him pronouns etc.

- Chernobyl is actually a dad. This decision was made more recently (more specifically when I upload my 2nd art dump) because I felt like adding more drama/trauma for him. I’ll go more into depth about them at some point but here’s the basics:

* They’re twins that basically branched off of him.

* One of the twins name is Magistr and the other is named Kriz. Both of them are named after the computer viruses (for more information just press the links for Magistr and Kriz). The reason why I chose those two was because on how they’re often compared to CIH.

* Both of them are genderless like Chernobyl but Magistr is more male presenting with Kriz being more female presenting.

* Both of them have extreme daddy issues. Since they branch from Chernobyl he’s technically their father. But the thing is Chernobyl is extremely conscious about becoming a father. He was too afraid that he would become like his creator so he tried to distance himself from them but it just came off as him being extremely harsh towards them. Despite this they both try to earn his love and approval.

* Both of them use two separate Sonics as a host (both are modern) and the reason why is because due to his popularity they thought that if they cause some brutal shit just like their father as Sonic this will grab his attention and make him love them. I don’t have an exact look for them yet but when I do I’ll show them when I decide to go more in depth about them.

- Though he was created in 2013 and in the stories timeline (the story takes place 31 October 2024) this would make him 13 years old but he’s actually much older (at least adult age) than that but doesn’t remember much of his previous life before being coded in the fangame.

- If he was human he would be black.

- Thanks to his creator his has extremely bad trust issues especially around humans but it is sort of possible for him to at least be friendly with you. You just need to be extremely (and I mean extremely a bunch of times) patient with him.

(Seina Maxwell)

- I actually sort of inspired her off of my irl self though changed some things about her. In terms of her personality not her looks.

- This story was originally going to be a reader pov (basically whoever was reading it was the protagonist) but to make it easy for myself I created Seina.

- She’s a massive Sonic fan but ironically enough was grown up on Mario. She did love Mario games but when she discovered Sonic around early teens she’s been obsessed ever since.

- She really likes houseplants but doesn’t own any since most of the time she can’t be bothered to look after them. If she wants to see plants she just goes to a garden.

- Her favourite Sonic character is Rouge. She just really loves her personality and how sassy she can be sometimes (she specifically likes the Sonic X version of her).

- The reason she’s a lesbian is because she’s didn’t really have that much of a good experience with men. Even besides that she can just never see herself dating men. Though she does have a few male friend but that’s the extent of it.

- As soon as she turned 18 she’s had this turn over when it comes to her looks. She used to dress really girly but now she’s down size it. She also dyed her hair as soon as she left school and got a tattoo as soon as she turned 18 (since you have to be 18 to get a tattoo in the uk).

- She has extremely high pain tolerance. If she gets injured she barely notices it until someone has to tell her that something is wrong.

- She also injured herself too much. Those it’s mostly bruises she doesn’t remember getting or accidentally cutting herself but has had much worse injuries that caused her to go to the hospital.

- She used to be an extreme goody two-shoes but as she started growing older she did start growing a spine especially since she started working as a retailer.

- She is a massive collector. Mostly of things she’s currently interested in e.g. Sonic merch or things she used to be interested in as a child but wasn’t able to get.

- Ironically enough despite being born and raised in Britain she doesn’t have a British accent. At least fully. She mostly grew up speaking Spanish in her family so she has a Spanish accent but sometimes slips into a British one.

- She cannot swear to save her life. I mean she can but she always felt guilty for saying when she was younger so she just didn’t swear (if she did want to she just swears in her mind) even though most of her family does which kind of caused her to get teased for it. Since she turned 18 and moved out she’s been trying to swear more openly/often just to get used to it and get rid of the uneasy feeling of swearing.

- She can cry on command.

- She’s a massive horror fan though gets scared watching a horror movie or playing a horror game but she doesn’t mind it. To her if it’s scaring her then it’s doing its job right.

- She really loves cats but grew up with dogs.

- She does want to own an animal but she feels like she won’t be able to look after it properly so she just doesn’t get one.

- She likes to listen to music and pretend she’s in a scenario based off of the meaning of the song.

- Adding on to the previous one her music taste is all over the place. She doesn’t have a set genre she likes. Her playlist mostly consists of what she likes.

[kurosurintomasu]

for the unlikely tumblr users that are fans of the pizza tower fangame "internship"

y'all are literally never getting this game 😂😂😂😂😂

click the read more button for my old ass outdated explanation, but mostly, it was a bunch of me being butthurt, so take all i say below it with a grain of salt. i no longer think kvas is a weird ambiguous jerk, mostly because i havent been in contact with them for months- perhaps over a year now, so idk what theyre like now- but i am still confident that y'all arent getting a complete internship experience, mostly because at this point, the fan game is most likely cancelled.

regardless, rest of old post is under the read more, most of it is outdated, keeping it up for posterity.

but tl;dr, salty_kvas is an annoying vague asshole and i'm prob gonna stop supporting him until he gets his shit straight

i mean, paraphrasing from a message said by "taterchip", this game literally has signs of being cancelled for the umpteenth time

there's been no private playtesting since feb. 2023 (due to a certain person leaking the feb1 build), there's no music being produced since the main composer, Invice, either was kicked off or left on her own accord, and salty_kvas is pretty much just adding whatever bullshit he wants and getting no feedback, and get this! there won't be a new demo released like, ever again, because the creator kvas wants everyone to forget this game even existed

and that's not even counting the actual asshole-ish shit that kvas has been doing as of late (i'm not even gonna talk about the "ronnie mcnutt meme incident" right now)

also any time kvas uploads anything related to internship on youtube or twitter, he pretty much deletes it an hour after (or the day after) as to not bring any attention to it. y'know, theres a psychological term for deleting something off multiple places in hopes of making literally everyone in the world forget. its called the streisand effect and it's highly annoying for someone who followed the development of internship since like early january of this year (2023, if you can't do any deduction)

as ive said before i'm probably gonna stop supporting kvas until he gets his shit straight. and knowing him, he'll literally never do that. he'll copy penoPleno's speech pattern and push away his friends for the rest of his life, and that's his problem.

seriously. this has gone on since january. i've had enough, and so have a lot of your fans, kvas.

[lady-starbind]

First Tumblr post of the year, and It's about me simping for a funny Cowboy Yeehaw mans

So as someone who's a casual fan of UT and DR, I've gotten wind of a new UT fangame that's an absolute MASTERPIECE! (have only played a bit into the beginning) ...but I've watched playthroughs, and I must say, there's a darn purdy, dare I say DASHING monster that has taken up my brain here lately! TwT Putting the rest of this under the cut, in case it counts as spoilers

SO THIS MAN RIGHT HERE

HAS INVADED OVER 60% OF MY BRAIN... HE'S NOT PAYING RENT... I don't always simp for a yeehaw mans... BUT WHEN I DO HE'S HIGH QUALITY!!!

Continuing on my not-spoiler free ramble, the things about this man consists of: Being a super cool Sheriff (even if it's just for LARPing type fun stuff lol) Being an adorable dweebus nerd Being a sweetheart type of farmer (I swear, I think that's one of my weaknesses.... Yeah, not me remembering my crushes on Milo from Pokemon and Bill Green from Big City Greens) What does make me lowkey sad/jelly is I think he still is sweet on his childhood crush Ceroba... (pretty fox lady with lit backstory and strong powers got way more up on me than I could ever have x'D) But hey! ...If the funny star sheriff cowboy falls in love with the lovely fox lady, then that's ok. Because I love the star mans, and I want him to thrive and be happy~ (in all seriousness though, I'm not going to demonize people who ship him with any of the canon characters or with their oc. Everyone has a right to ship or not ship as they please~ I am ALL FOR being mature and not starting petty crap such as "UwU Starlo is MYNE, HE'S MY HUSBAND, BOYFRIEND AND FIANCE, YOU CANNOT HAS HIM, OR I'LL SHOOT YOU DOWN WITH MY SIX SHOOTER FILLED WITH FLOWEY BULLETS!!!!11!?" He rightfully belongs to his creator, who I assume worked on the UT Yellow game...)

Gosh this ramble is cringe filled... but hey, I had fun and I needed to get my love for this man out of my system... I really wanna smooch the funny star mans (and hey.... if Ceroba doesn't want to date him then well... Hey Starlo, you can hold hands and smooch with me if you'd like~ ;3)

also if you haven't played Undertale Yellow, but you're a fan of Undertale or Deltarune, then by all means take some time and show this game some love! I believe it would be worth your time, seeing as they worked 7 whole years on the game if I'm not mistaken....

[thereareeyesinsidethetrees]

Making a playlist for my fangame/AU for you to try and analyze because i think it'd be v interesting to see! Also i will totally take you up on the offer to ramble about AU's if it's still available,,,

okay, let's see how close and/or far i get

starting with the songs i know:

Come Along by Cosmo Sheldrake. now i've never actually looked up the lyrics of this one (just been guessing at them which. i often mess up with), but according to the ~internet~ it's meant to be a sort of invitation away from real life's static-ness, to instead live with a bit of whimsy. one source also says it's also about "embracing the present and cherishing life's fleeting moments"

so, one possibility is that this is related to the au/fangame in an "escaping your real life and jumping into the whimsy that is this gravity falls game" sort of way. if we're counting the second bit, part of the story could be about refusing to let the game go? always coming back to it, never truly letting it end?

alternatively, the "cherishing life's fleeting moments" is about the show and "embracing the present" is about finding new joys in life. third possibility is that i'm overthinking this

A Sadness Runs Through Him by The Hoosiers. okay, i can connect this one to a few characters:

-the stan twins (or just one, lots of people just go with one)

-the player character (going hand-in-hand with the "not wanting to let the game end" thing)

-...bill cipher? (again, if you can't let the game die, you can't let any of it truly die, and that includes the antagonist. the lines 'asked me to pray to the god he doesn't believe in' and 'don't look at me with those eyes' work especially well for bill, with the former possibly being linked to the axolotl. considering that he called out for the axolotl to revive him and, in this scenario, he came back without its help. or maybe it's just. an actual god. who knows what bill believes)

Two Birds by Regina Spektor

-Mabel and Dipper or Stan and Ford work, of course. however-

-Bill and the player??? i'm sorry i caught this string and i'm refusing to let ago until i get to a song that proves me wrong

-adding third idea after reading back through this: one bird is the player, the other is representative of either the show or other people in the player's life. the player doesn't want to let go, and ends up in an unfortunate situation as a result, with the other "bird" leaving without them

Ruler of Everything by Tally Hall

I'm gonna say this one is also related to Bill Cipher, for a few reasons- one, the line "do you like how my face disintegrates into chalk?" well. it did kinda do that when stan punched him didn't it

second reason is because the whole back-and-forth section of the song could be between the player and bill. "i saw you slobber over clovers on the side of the hill, i was observing the birds, circle in for the kill" could be a reference to bill's death, with him becoming a stone statue in the woods. in the final episode, you see a bird land on his hand- hence, i was observing the birds. "circle in for the kill" could be the player, rightfully, not trusting him not to try mass murder again

there's also "i've been you, i know you, your facade is a scam" coming from the player. they've watched the show, they've probably interacted with discussions about it, fanart, fanfiction, possibly even made some of their own. they know bill as a character and, more importantly, they know he's not an honest one

(the rest of these are songs i had never listened to before now)

Tom's Diner by Suzanne Vega, DNA

i'll be honest i've got nothing for the lyrics. i suppose there's just too many ways i could interpret it- for example, applying the "player theory" to this one, the player could be the singer or the person outside the window. bill could be the dead person in the newspaper, or it could be someone unrelated. the singer could be one of the characters (leaning towards ford, considering he is the coffee guy) and the waiter is the player, or the person outside the window is still the player, or the person exchanging hellos is the player. you see what i mean?

Obstacles by Syd Matters

mmm not entirely sure about this one, but i think it could be from the perspective of the characters? the blizzard/changing weather is the world the player's trapped them in, the foreseeing obstacles is the player themselves, and the playing hide and seek in waterfalls represents the world before the game. the world as in the show (especially considering that the cave behind the waterfall is pretty important whenever it comes up)

Constellations by The Oh Hellos

ditto, but a little more optimistic (the mention of "good intentions", assuming that the player isn't refusing to let the game end out of maliciousness + "everything you thought you knew will fall apart, but you'll be alright" acknowledging that what's happening is terrible and it's not likely that life for the characters will not return to normal, but they will persist throughout it)

Willow Tree March by The Paper Kites

i lied i have heard this one i just never knew the name. bonus points for having one of my favorite songs in your playlist and therefore helping me rediscover it. anyway, continuing with our player theory, this one could be a more...guilty approach to it? guilty in that the lyrics ("with your lust and your greed weighing down" and "and you weaken your love and you hold it above your head" for example) seem to be more accusatory, and the repeated lyrics "we all still die" and "this tree, it will die (without leaves)" make me think the singer represents the characters, trying to get across the idea that it doesn't matter how hard the player holds on to the game, it'll inevitably die anyway

Just A Man from EPIC: The Musical

not entirely sure about this one either. possibly, the player realizing that not letting the game end is hurting the characters and reflecting on that?

Viva La Vida by Coldplay

this feels like more of a bill song than a player song

Conclusion!

alright, so my guess at this au is that it's sort of about a self-aware game? the player plays through the game, then plays it again and again and again and refuses to let it rest. overtime, this starts to wear down on the characters and causes things to go wrong, such as reviving bill cipher. at some point, the characters begin to directly plead with the player to let the game end and, possibly after some sort of tragedy or new route via bill that kills or otherwise harms the other characters, the player start to realize that it's their own actions that are causing the game to break down. what exactly happens after that? depends on the player

no idea how close i was, but! good playlist i thoroughly enjoyed going through it :]

[neomel]

Ehhmmm HI EVERYONE !!!! so this is very inspired by @kafus's Pokémon liveblogging n their various playthroughs and its been so fun to follow, and it gave me the inspiration to pick up a new playthrough - or TWO PLAYTHROUGHS !!!

i realized its been forever since ive actually played FireRed LeafGreen and that ive never done it w. the help of save editing to add eg. Rare Candies for grinding. but i also realized that ive never actually played the Gen 1 Pokémon games....so i decided to do both !!!!

im doing a kinda-sorta Nuzlocke too, just to try out different Pokémon and get myself to rotate between them, but I am also moreso trying to use funny stuff more than minmaxxing for strategy. Here's my Pokémon Red team for instance!!

Yes that's Marcel the traded Mr. Mimel!! I got an Abra as my first encounter and realized that using Alakazam would just be steamrolling people with a big Special number, so I boxed it for later to use Gen 1 Mr. Mime for a while. I've rotated some of these members in and out with others in the box, mostly because the movepools are so fascinatingly terrible ^^; Like - I wanted to use Nidoking because his Gen 1 sprites are absolutely incredible, and you can get him before even the second gym from Mt. Moon's Moon Stones, but........he doesn't get Double Kick unless you get Nidorino to like Level 47?? and Nidoking misses out on Thrash unless you level him up early.

Clefable has been the absolute QUEEN of the run though, like !!! i love her silly sprite in this game so so so much, and the well-rounded stats paired with Sing make them a really good Pokémon to use in pretty much any situation. its funny how the lack of many good moves means that mediocre moves like Growl or Water Gun end up feeling useful just for being options at all...I've had some fun with the mediocre TMs given out too, like giving Bide to my Ivysaur to utilize the Leech Seed draining effect as best as possible in a sort of quirky strategy. Though on the flipside I had to give up on using Mankey entirely after realizing it just gets NOTHING in terms of moves - before Yellow it literally doesn't learn any Fighting type moves by leveling up other than Seismic Toss (which doesnt count), and the only one it gets by TM is Submission which is.....nooot good :T

Anyhow - Here's a terrible img of my FRLG team! I'm out of Rock Tunnel and in Celadon in this playthrough wheras the RBY playthrough is still not through the tunnel yet :( BUT that means that I've gotten a lot more silly goobers in this run. Even though my Mankey died here before I could use it for anything funny.....i really like Primape's design so im kinda sad I've never gotten to use it lol

ANYWAY ANYWAY look at my fucking boy. look at my Fungler. look at my little man. he has 20 diseases and he sucks ass. i love him.

i played a Gen 3 fangame a while ago that gave you access to Fury Cutter as a TM and a Paras really early on, and the gears got grinding in my head to force sleep with Spore and then chain a Fury Cutter combo, and the affection for that silly strat has stuck with me and made me kind of adore Parasect by extension. look at my fucking guy he sucks so much!!! but he puts people to sleep really well and has cool bug claws. i love his terrible movepool and having to give him Secret Power to do any damage. lol .

it is funny to play these older games where the movepools sucked ass, even as deep in as Gen 3 . so you have to really stretch for ideas on how to use mons but it feels really fun when you make something sorta click? like this Doduo Rage -> Rest -> Chesto set, it doesn't get Swords Dance nor the infinitely funnier Acupressure but this is kinda just a shittier funnier version of that? also Tri Attack being physical feels like it was made just for Dodrio. i love my bird.

im still kinda miffed at how many things just sorta suck in Kanto though. like so many routes early on are just Rattata/Pidgey/Spearow/Ekans while the Safari Zone alone has like 7 Pokémon you can only find there, the distribution feels so strange. and of course the whole Game Corner garbage, i want to use Hyper Beam in Gen 1 because of how cool its Gen 1 exclusive quirks are but its a Game Corner exclusive reward >:((( im gonna have to see if i can save edit gambling coins into the game or what.

BUT im having a lot of fun !! its so silly seeing all the Gen 1 sprites ingame for the first time. the Gen 1iness of it all. not even being able to fuckin check how strong moves are or how much accuracy they have. or even sort the order of moves outside of battles. your battle items menu just opens up your entire bag. such a silly fuckin mess of a game. i love it .

(also feel free to ask about any of the nicknames i have answers for like half of them)

[davekat-sucks]

Ngl i feel like Tom Fulp had to back peddle and make Picos school more palatable for a newer audience since the things that are normal on newgrounds don't fly on twitter. Idk if my Pico lore is off but i thought the Nene is homophobic joke came from the fnfHD mod so i don't think i can count that as sanitizing the character but i know Cyclops swastikas had gotten removed in that Pico remake game where Pico and Boyfriend were couple. I remember on Twitter there was a weird move to try and make Picos School more PC for some reason? Like why even bother getting rid of the racist design choices made in a game where it's about a penis alien committing a school shooting?

As for like the KFCs genders i remember ages ago people claimed that Toby had said that you could choose whatever gender you wanted to identify Chara and Frisk as but I've never seen as source for this but it's not like i care I've always referred to Frisk and Chara as female. I know Toby had stated Kris is a "they" in a stream apparently but even then i still don't care and i see Kris as a straight dude. (Ex: him hiding a book with a character with a bikini on it, the love Tea he drink and the stats of it showing he had a liking towards Susie and Noelle, his whole dynamic with Noelle during a genocide route and getting her a ring, the one save point and the queens legs stating something along the lines of "looking at these legs fills you with something" yea yea all that when it comes to fiction i just have a habit of referring too characters by certain genders depending on how i see them. Like Wx-78 from don't starve, the whole joke is that the character is a robot and it's gender is nonbinary, even then i still refer to the character as male due to some dialogue and having an outfit where he's wearing a bowtie with a drawn on mustache even with these examples as to why a huge proportion of people refer to him as male there's still people who'll harp on others for not using neutral pronouns

Exactly. Pico's School itself doesn't take too seriously that it could be on levels with South Park kind of humor. I wouldn't be surprised if Tom Fulp had that in mind during its creation. But yeah, whatever gender people see in KFC, whether it is a boy, girl, or gender neutral, it's different for everybody. There is no evil intention behind it. Some may have done it for self insertion, but when haven't we self inserted in a blank slate-like character for shipping with our faves? Not only does the gender neutral count for KFC, but can extend to ones like Monster Kid too. I remember that the only 'misgendered' mistake Toby had done was that he/him pronouns was used for Monster Kid during the first run print of the Undertale art book that fans got upset when they saw it that Toby/Fangamer had to change it to they/them since MK was also one of the characters that used gender neutral pronouns.

[desultory-novice]

(For the time being, I’ll just go by Timeline Kirby anon until I’m ready to un-anon ask)

Oh yes, some of those cross-era encounters will fuel several wake-up calls for tragic characters like Taranza who just wanted to help Sectonia.

On the gameplay side, I was thinking of one of three major approaches:

Traditional 2D platformer (tried and true method for every mainline game)

Newer 3D platformer (experimental with considerable success in BB and FL)

A potential JRPG style game where every character has their own abilities in a turn-based battle system similar to MA’s “Kirby Quest” sub-game while combining SKC’s stat-leveling system

(No, we’re not adding SKC Microtransagolor here. Magolor might have a playable/shopkeeper role, but not for real-money-Gem-Apple purposes)

Also depending on the “era” certain characters like Kirby and Dedede originate from, they could have certain abilities and traits that make them stand out from everyone else.

Different eras of Kirby for example might utilize different health-measuring gimmicks seen in the games (number of hits taken, health bar, number of Kirby clones in-play, etc) and have access to different lists of copy abilities (and their respective masteries of such abilities). While they each have similar base moves, each of them could have a specific trait that makes themselves unique from other Kirbys.

DL - No copy abilities, but can better utilize the Mint Leaf item

KA/NiDL - Star Rod

DL2 - Rick/Kine/Coo and the Rainbow Sword

DL3 - Every Animal Friend and the Love-Love Stick

SS/SSU - Can sacrifice copy ability to summon a helper

CS - Combine copy abilities to create new ones, can use Ribbon’s Crystal

AM - There’s four of them. Can use the Master Sword and Smash ability, can use a phone to gather other Kirbys

SqSd - Has a larger “on-hand” bubble inventory where he can fuse items and abilities to create new ones, copy abilities can be empowered with collectable scrolls (elemental weaponry copy abilities included), can use the Triple Star Staff

RtDL - Access to Super Copy Abilities

TDX - Can access Hypernova after finding a Miracle Fruit

PR - Can use Robobot Armor

SA - Can turn enemies into up to three Friends using Friend Hearts, more adept at performing Friend-based abilities (Train, Bridge, Wheel, Star, Star Allies Sparkler), can imbue elemental properties into several copy abilities, can sacrifice own copy ability to make a Friend, Can summon Dream Friends with special powers and interactions (?)

FL - Copy abilities can be upgraded into improved forms, can use Mouthful Mode

And that’s not even counting the higher spin-off games either.

...Aha! There!

I knew I had an ask of yours still sitting in my inbox, KTA! Yeah, totally left off in the middle of this convo... Sorry about that!

I was thinking, with how much more accessible/easy to work with game making engines have become, we could see a rise in 3D platformer fangames! I don't know how easy it would be to emulate FL's style in something like Unity or Godot, but at least there's a good model for it.

(I also think a diorama-style game, ala Captain Toad, could be a beautiful look for a Kirby fangame. Although you'd probably want to build that one from the ground up to be about puzzle solving. Probably with some diorama loving villain that used a magical artifact to chop Pop Star up into square dioramas!)

...But as we all know, I'd love to see a Kirby JRPG too! Since we've got all the different Kirbys from their different eras of games, I have to ask, are you familiar with the game "Live a Live," which just got a remake? It's one of my FAVORITE JRPGs, and I think you'll find it could be a good model for your story idea...!

By the way, I love how you're planning on re-utilizing the gimmicks from the older games (or turning the older game's traits into gimmicks!) They're one of those things where, its hard to bring them back into a modern game, where obviously HAL will want a new system that meshes with the overall gameplay experience, but some of them were SO GOOD!

Which was the feeling I got looking at your list! I know I felt a burst of excitement just at the chance to play with some of these abilities again! (And doing so either in a 3D adventure or JRPG setting?! Even better!)

-

PS: I think there's lots of humor potential in including a mischievous character like Magolor as a "shopkeeper" of some kind. Especially if there's ONE shopkeeper Magolor (different from the RtDL-verse Magolor) who *somehow* keeps finding the various Kirbys. (Or maybe he operates in some kind of sub-space that all the Kirbys have access to?) He could also trade stage collectibles for items like a sound test/gallery, upgrades etc too!

[blazehedgehog]

If one decides to start a creative project about their favorite thing, be it fanart, fanfic, fangame etc. , which approach do you prefer, the creatives involved fully dedicating themselves to recreating and recapturing what made the original works...work, or make an active choice to be derivative (this doesn't mean artists are ignorant about the original material, not necessarily) How do you feel about either, and are there any other approach you can think of?

There's this guy who used to post at SFGHQ named Sam Beddoes who now runs Freakzone Games. He's made the official Manos: The Hands of Fate game, he did both AVGN Adventures, he's the project lead on that Toxic Crusaders beat'em'up, etc.

But he's an old guard Sonic head and I've heard him turn up on a couple of Sonic podcasts, specifically to talk fangames, and by his account he got really fed up with the Sonic fangaming scene when everybody became obsessed with perfectly replicating the Genesis games, because to him, all the creativity and magic went away.

I remember hearing that and both agreeing and disagreeing with him. And I have enough thoughts about it that I've actually considered doing a video about it, and about fangaming overall.

I think there is a stigma to replicating something perfectly that's very adjacent to people who are concerned about young artists who start out by tracing pictures other people have drawn. Plagiarism is a real, legitimate problem. But it's only a problem if you lie about tracing.

I'm of the mind that if you're starting out drawing, half the problem is just learning control. Tracing can be a valuable tool in helping you to understand hand motions and give you a perspective on the construction of an image. For the earliest beginners, I don't think there's any shame in starting out by tracing. It's building muscle memory. Just don't say you drew it.

Similarly, my game development skills went way, way, way up about the time I started to analyze and perfectly replicate existing games. Like, the long canceled Sonic Forever project used an early enough version of the Sonic Worlds codebase that I had to read the Sonic Retro Physics Guide and use their data on how to add Knuckles in from scratch. My code matched how he worked in the Genesis games almost 1:1, because it was largely me just interpreting the values into something Clickteam Fusion could understand.

Something similar happened when, in 2012, I started (and never finished) a remake of my famous Mario Blue Twilight DX fangame. That's when I started really paying attention to how the source games worked so I could get a better sense of how a Mario game needed to "feel" in order to be correct.

And that trend continued with every fangame project I worked on following that, like when I figured I could make my own version of Sonic 2's Hidden Palace Zone, since I wasn't happy with the Retro Engine version. The idea was to be accurate above all else. In some cases, I'd even watch recordings of official gameplay in slow motion just so I could see exactly how the game was created, and in some cases, count frame by frame the duration of certain actions.

And all of this just makes me think of when I showed a friend my game jam game, OverBite. He complimented me on how nice the controls felt, in that kind of backhanded way where he said "When did you learn to make games feel so nice?"

Because if you go back to those really early games of mine, they all feel like garbage to control. And I attribute it to putting in a lot of time pulling apart the nuts and bolts of real retro games and putting a microscope up to why they work the way they do. Deconstructing all of their little nuances and sub-states and then trying to put it all back together again in a different programming language.

You learn a lot when you're forced to stop and understand why a piece of code exists in the way it does. Why there are all these little edge cases that you never notice but still exist to make a game feel just a little better.

At the end of the day, yes, Sam was right. Games need to have creativity and seeking out the perfect replication of the Sega Genesis Sonic games can feel somewhat futile. Every SAGE for the last ten years, there will be at least three games that instantly vanish from my memory because they are basic, plain Sonic Worlds Delta fangames with no style of their own. They just want to make Sonic 4 and we've had a lot of different Sonic 4s by now.

But the thing about learning is, you gotta learn the rules before you learn why and where to break them, because breaking (or at least bending) all of those boring, standardized rules is where your personal style starts to emerge, and that personal style is ultimately what people are going to be interested in at the end of the day.

So I think it is vitally important to start at 1:1 exact recreation and once you've made a comfortable replica, only then should you start asking yourself what you'd change and why. Make sure you understand the material before venturing further. You gotta learn to do it right first.

[thatonegaybastard]

Ok here are emy shinies I think they're very cool and I want to brag about them

Legends Arceus Shinies - I have a lot of shinies in legends Arceus because shiny hunting is actulay kinda easier in this game

Sans the Parasect - my first ever shiny pokemon!! I got her in a mass outbreak I named her sans because I asked my sibling what I should name her and they kept naming Undertale things

Pyrite the Golem - ok so I was in the coronet highlands doing the quest where you helpt the spheal down the mountain and the path you go down has a static alpha golem spawn so I was just going down and BAM SHINY FUCKING ALPHA GOLEM. WHAT THE FUCK. One of my coolest pokemon in my opinion

Casper the Hisuian Zoroak - ONE OF MY DREAM SHINIES!!!!!!!!!!!!! I got him kind of recently and he's one of my dream shinies I fucking love him so much

Nanab the Ambipom - Ok this was also one of my first shinies I got not long after Sans. I just evolved her into Ambipom just now because I realized I could do that I got her pretty quickly from a mass outbreak I didn't even have to reset I named her nanab because nanab berries are basically banana and theyr pink and shiny aipom id a pink monkey

Kyle the Glalie- Ok so I was trying to catch thundurs and there's a shit ton of glalie around that are. Annoying. and I was flying around and suddenly this mother fucker shows up. Out of the blue. I don't have any particular feelings about him so I named him Kyle

Mossy the Zubat - I was looking for wisps and she spawned way below me and I was like "OH MY GO" one of the few green shiny pokemon I like

Polaris the Ponyta - the game actually gives you this one for free you have to catch it for a request and it's a guaramteed catch. I wanted to name it after a blue star and I thought Polaris but Polaris isn't blue. But the word Polaris feels blue to me so shhhhhh

Pokemon Infinity - This is a fangame so it doesn't exactly count but I still think they're really cool

Ourple the female Nidoran - At the beginning of my playthrough was walking back and forth in he grass on the first route because I wanted to catch an egho fearow and on my second encounte FUCKING SHINY NIDORAN OUT OF THE BLUE I was amazed

Godzilla the Feraligatr - I'm pretty sure this one's a guaranteed shiny? Donny the shiny hunter mentions "hey a discolored feraligate went into the sewers" and I went to the sewers and I see a pokemon standing there and m like what Pokemon is that so I fight or and realize it's shiny feralgator so I caught her. apparently feraligatr is greener but I guess in Pokemon infiniy they changed it to be black and pink because Godzilla is black and pink. Also I caught her in a love ball I bought which was nice. She's ob my team currently but I don't really know if I'll keep her because i already have a good water type on my team (cross the Blastoise)

Pokemon Sword

Valentine the Slyveon - I got them from my friend valentine dime @hopjam and they're so fuxking cool. They know the egg move wish and they have the pokerus. And the great friends ribbon. And they carried me through opal's gym I would not have won without valentine. I love them so muchajajanansjajajjahshshahabahhahshdgdhshs !!!!!!!!!!!!!

The pokerus can spread btw so bc of valentine my starter Steve now also has pokerus

I don't have any shiny Pokemon in pokemon scarlet. I almost found one I remember I tried to make my pokemon autobatrle another pokemon and they refused even at full health to which only happens when it's a shiny (I don't remember which Pokemon it was) but I didn't know this at the time. So I didn't realize it was shiny. So I think I missed out on a shiny Pokemon and I'm so disappointed about that

[cata-daily]

[WoT]

it's that time. i'm gonna ramble about undertale. why? why not, hehehe

spoilers for undertale

okkkk so last time i talked about undertale here was after i did true pacifist i think. since then, i've done:

one where i did no mercy through ruins and snowdin (exhausted the kill count in both areas and killed toriel), then i spared and hung out with papyrus. then i proceeded to continue being a terrible person and killed everything else i encountered in the rest of the game, which resulted in king papyrus ending

[i just ran away when monster kid fell off the bridge. i kept stealing food from the snowdin shop. i even said that alphys had a crush on undyne. truly being the meanest person ever. i actually had to do mettaton's fight twice because the first time i got the rating goal before killing him lol- i spent too much time eating food instead of attacking. oh and i used the toy knife and the bandage for the whole run because i figured why not

my thoughts about the ending - i think it's pretty sad? out of process of elimination, papyrus is the king, which should be everything he's wanted, since yknow. being king makes you popular, or it should. but in the phone call dialogue at the end, mmmh as soon as sans leaves, papyrus gets all sad and i think he only makes that face one other time (that i've seen, it's when you call him when undyne isn't there when you can see the core and the dialogue is just "..."). it's just ahh he seems all optimistic about moving forwards and leading everyone but as soon as sans is gone, he drops the act and, man... :( ]

-

then one where i did pacifist except for papyrus- so i was being nice to everyone and spared everyone except papyrus. and yeah... i did wait until he spared me in the fight to betrayal kill him...

[I now have this amazing screenshot:

yes papyrus i'm looking very closely at you and your gauntlet of deadly terror.

in this run i also noticed that sans says "(yes)" (about the human in front of the rock) WITHOUT AN ASTERIX. ok so maybe i'm missing it in other characters because i don't look as closely, but sans also says things in parentheses other times and uses an asterix. and everyone else in the game (except entry 17 and papyrus) uses an asterix. in the first fangamer qna, sans also isn't using asterixes, but in the second one he is. so mm idk, but it does exist.

so basically sans just ghosted me the whole game because. yeah.

what kinda surprised me (not sure why) was that undyne was pissed at what I did- her fight start dialogue is changed a lot, and before you get to save, she goes from saying "*Step forward when you're ready! Fuhuhuhu!" (in other runs) to "*Go ahead. Prepare however you want. *But when you step forward... I will KILL you." AND there's no epic music between the save part and the fight.

i did the rest of the game from first alphys appearance in a car LOL- my laptop computer has odd arrow keys and the up and down buttons are half the size as the right and left (they're squeezed together for space) which makes it much harder. that and other car problems.

i surprised myself by first try-ing muffet and mettaton, and got quite far into asgore without healing then second tried with food. though being level six and having double hp compared to pacifist definitely helped.

i was also surprised at the ending- i think because i killed flowey in the run before this one, it was weird and flowey absorbed the souls but didn't close the game? and i got the neutral credits, could leave, and got the sans call, but didn't have to fight omega flowey.

another weird thing is that my menu looks like this??

like.. toriel i get, because i spared her. but papyrus and sans???? skelebros what are you doing here, i killed papyrus and only papyrus?? the only reason i can think of is because i did king papyrus the run before this, but that still doesn't make sense. (i'm considering doing another of this exact run to see if it's a glitch honestly)

And this (below) is my menu during the king papyrus run i did

as for thoughts about the ending/phone call - first of all i think it's like. damn. that sans only says unique stuff depending on consumables/bandage/saving if papyrus is alive, otherwise he just says he's gonna leave a message, that alone is an oof.

so if sans still made that promise to toriel, and he still was friends with toriel, she probably would've asked him where papyrus was, right? since she recognises him instantly in true pacifist. so like... if sans can't bring himself to tell her that the human killed papyrus because sans promised to not hurt the child, then what did he tell her? another damn.

also that undyne started a freaking revolution against toriel because she wanted to be kind to humans- i'm gonna have to go through more endings to see if that's just because i killed papyrus (but since this is the ending that i spared everyone but papyrus, i'd guess so)

i thought that sans would tell me to go hell but i guess not]

OK after all that, LMAO -

i really want to do a no mercy because i want to fight undyne the undying and sans, but i DO NOT want the soulless flag. upon looking it up, it only happens once you've sold your soul to chara, so i'm planning to do a no mercy run until level 20 then reset. praying that works- pretty much all of genocide is so spooky

so uh yep

please tell me noone has read all this oh god am i even gonna post this (yes) (why not lol)

[moved-to-void-kissed]

Hello there. I liked your content about Luna and Namine at most with the headcannon overall🙂👍🏼

Here's a question for you: Do you have any possible headcannons about Luna's biological mother (despite we don't see here). And what was Luna's childhood with her, before she ran away? I'm curious about that.

Ah, thank you so much!! I recognise a lot of your art and the ideas you have for your Chronicverse seem really intriguing, so, it means a lot that you like my content!! ^-^

Um.. I must admit that I often struggle with coming up with headcanons. But, one that I did have is that Luna’s mother was related to Cynthia (possibly her sister?), since Luna’s sprites were largely created with Cynthia’s as a base, if I recall correctly. I also like the idea of her name being Selene, to continue the moon theme, and maybe Luna looked quite similar to her which is why their names also follow a similar theme. She most likely passed away or otherwise left the picture when Luna was still very young, but she gave her the first taste of fairytales and stories that Luna loved so much, introducing her to worlds and tales outside the confines of her upbringing at Elias’ hands. I like to think that Luna and her mother were close.

Regarding Luna’s childhood beyond that point.. well, it definitely wasn’t a happy one, we know that. But, I like to think that Taka took on quite an older brother sort of role to her, especially while they were both much younger, since the two of them seemed to be all that the other had. He helped bring her out of her shell a tiny bit, but by the time Luna was able to run away with the help of Shade, he had already resigned himself to his position and didn’t feel he could get out himself. I also think that after Luna ran away, she didn’t go straight to Radomus, and instead hid herself away in Iolia Valley, so she had to fend for herself for a while. It was in the dark crystal caves there that she met a lot of her current Pokémon, but her Umbreon was originally an Eevee she brought with her when she ran away from Elias, which is part of why it’s now her ace Pokémon.

I hope that all that was alright! Thank you so much again for sending this ask in, and i hope that my answer was okay!!

[joz-yyh]

ALL TIED UP - ONESHOT

SUMMARY: Nagito helps Hajime discover that he has a bondage fetish. Takes place inside Hajime's cottage on Jabberwock Island after the conclusion of the first class trial in DR2: Goodbye Despair.

RATING: Explicit (for sexual themes / bondage)

PARING: HinaKoma / KomaHina

WORD COUNT: 3,000+

READ ON AO3: Here

A/N: This is my first HinaKoma/KomaHina fanfic so, I hope I did alright. I dedicate this story to the wonderful and talented yndr4hope because I absolutely adore their take on Hajime and Nagito's relationship! If you haven't played the DR fangames, I highly recommend you do!!

It was just passed sunset, a warm yellow fading into a sea of green before settling into a deep blue. Outside it was quiet, the white flicker of stars pinned across the darkening sky as the palm trees rustled from a small, fleeting breeze before becoming motionless again.

The shades to Hajime's cottage were drawn, the door was locked, but he still couldn't shake the fear that someone was watching, always watching.

Hajime closes his eyes and tries not to think of the cameras recording their every move, hopes that the pitch black darkness will mask who they are and what they are doing. He chooses to willfully ignore the sign post out front with his name on it and the telling story of his partner's clothes strewn across the floor. Anyone who bothers to examine the evidence would know their intentions exactly.

The sheets beneath his knees wrinkle as he drives his hips forward, the bed canopy swaying in time with his subtle thrusts. Never knowing who might walk by, Hajime keeps a discrete, steady tempo, affording them time to dress if there ever came a knock at the door, but this gentle pace he enforced upon himself slowly turns agonizing.

He wants to go faster, slam their hips together, grip the pale boy tighter until his porcelain skin bruised; and for a moment, Hajime allows himself the pleasure to do just that. The two boys gasp, the sensations becoming much more intense, but for some reason Hajime can only hear his own lewd sounds ring in his ears.

Even with something as trivial as this, it becomes dreadfully apparent that Nagito is holding in his voice much more than he should, wants his partner's cries of ecstasy to overshadow his own.

The spiky-haired boy looks down, about to fit his overly tame companion with an accusatory look, but when he does, he can't help admiring the ultimate lucky student spread out beneath him. His partner's body is almost ethereal, composed of milky white lines and sharp angles draped over the width of the disheveled bed. Wisps of wavy hair hang over his eyes, a blush coloring more places than just his face, his arms bound in an unconventional way within the sleeves of a button-down shirt.

Hajime knew this, having improvised a set of shackles for him to wear with the fabric of his school uniform. If anyone asks, he was simply keeping the troublesome albino in check, using what materials he had on hand to ensure his full cooperation and compliance. That's the excuse the spiky-haired boy was planning on using anyway.

Hajime internally curses everyone's idea to tie Nagito up in the first place. Considering his machinations in first trial, the brunette certainly understood why his friends locked him up, but it was because of Mahiru and the rest of the group that the image of Nagito chained down and helpless was permanently stuck inside his head. Hajime wasn't familiar with the term 'bondage' at the time, but Nagito was more than happy to supply him with the knowledge he craved.

In hindsight, it made sense why Nagito would be so eager to participate being the subservient type, but Hajime would have liked more time to mentally prepare before diving head-first into something so ... exotic.

They had barely touched upon the subject of Hajime's growing obsession with bondage when Nagito went on to talk about the connection between urges, attraction and kinks. Hajime grew so flustered just listening to his companion's lengthy explanations that he just couldn't stand it any longer.

"I had no idea seeing me all tied up had this big of an affect on you," he heard Nagito groan, breathless. There was a smugness to his voice, a revelry of delight in finding out something so scandalous about the spiky-haired brunette.

Hajime tugged on the makeshift collar around Nagito's neck, making it squeeze his delicate throat uncomfortably tight. The collar was made from Hajime's school necktie, another improvised tool that also functioned as a leash and worked comparatively well to the real thing.

Nagito shudders, grateful to be treated so roughly, wanting to be punished for speaking out of turn. It didn't seem like the albino learned his lesson though, because he speaks out again.

"Could it be, Hajime ... do you prefer ... seeing me in chains? Do you feel safer ... knowing I can't make a move against you?"

Hajime feels the flesh around his shaft tighten and he has to stop himself from crying out. His blunt nails dig a little deeper into the grooves of Nagito's jutting hips, hoping it would stop his arms from shaking.

"W-why should I answer that? It's not like ... you don't know."

He hears Nagito chuckle, clearly enjoying this.

"Forgive me. I only wanted to know what satisfies you. As atonement, I could bring real chains next time, duct tape, rope -"

"Oo-f course not!"

Hajime squeaked, his 'ahoge' twitching more and more as each item was listed off. Despite his current position on top, giving it to the other boy, the brunette felt like he was the one on the bottom being toyed with.

"You're right, that would be far too suspicious."

He sighed in relief. Good, at least Nagito agreed with him.

Hajime was grateful for the silence that creeps into the room after that. Finally, he could concentrate on perfecting his rhythm without getting distracted, but the reprieve didn't last long.

"You know ... this sort of thing ... can be dangerous," Nagito began, "As weak as I am, it would be easy for you to squeeze the life out me. If enough oxygen left my brain at a gradual enough rate, I might even go peacefully. I promise I won't struggle. Or maybe ... you would enjoy it more if i did?"

Nagito squirms, twisting himself so the necktie around his throat constricts him further, wanting his ultimate hope to tug on the restraints just a little harder and carry out his death. Hajime let the other talk, clenching his teeth as he listens to his partner's morbid thoughts, ultimately annoyed by that last comment.

"How many times do I have to tell you - that's not going to happen. As much as you believe it to be true, you're not trash I can throw away."

"How admirable... saying something like that to a person like me. But with my luck, it won't matter. One wrong move and we could end up be strangled together or crushed under the roof."

If Nagito was still able to prattle on about this sort of grotesque fantasy, Hajime clearly wasn't doing a good enough job. With a brutal thrust, the brunette pushes past taunt muscle, reaching all the way in to the hilt and holding it there.

Nagito chokes back a scream, convulsing from the pain before going rigid.

Hajime winces as well, feeling something hot and sticky pool around him and almost panics when he thought he smelled the coppery scent of blood.

"S-shit, I am s-sorry! I-I shouldn't have -" Hajime stutters, temporarily stunned by his own actions. He cups Nagito's cheek in apology, waiting for his friend's eyes to open, searching  his face for any signs of injury. He doesn't have to worry for very long, though. Judging from Nagito's expression, he was more than pleased by the sudden impulse of Hajime's technique.

"As expected, with a single thrust. You're truly amazing. Please use me to your hearts content," Nagito praises him lovingly.

Hajime feels his face burn up when those words reach his ears. The brunette thinks it's more accurate to describe Nagito's climax as a result of many thrusts in succession, rather than just a single, magnificent blow, but he kept the argument to himself. He still feels guilty about what he did, just not quite as much. The shorter boy turns his head away, not wanting to bear the weight of those gray, lust-filled eyes pleading with him.

 Please, break me completely.

"Typical, you just don't get it."

"Yes, how rude of me. It seems you still haven't --"

"No, that's not it."

Hajime's mind wonders, forming another outlandish thought. His lips are already parting, ready to speak the words before the logical side of his brain can convince him otherwise.

"How many times do you think you can cum before I do?"

Even Hajime can't believe his own mouth. The brunette is overcome with embarrassment, realization hitting him a little too late. He shared what was supposed to be a strictly private thought out loud and it was all Nagito's fault.

The taller boy's eyes widen from the admission as well, his own cheeks glowing bright red with embarrassment. He was witnessing a side of Hajime rarely seen and wondered what other repressed desires might exist inside the ultimate hope's personality, secretly dreams of a possible future where he could pry them to the surface.

"N-no, I am not worth the trouble."

Nagito tries to dismiss the subject, an automatic response drawn from his inferiority complex, but Hajime swallows his partner's next words with a kiss, hastily putting an end to any more disparaging talk. Unfortunately, he misjudged the distance between them and with more force than what he intended, smashed their lips together.

Knowing that it was too harsh to be considered anything romantic, Hajime eases back, softening his touch near the end of their kiss before pulling away.

"Shh," Hajime chastises, "Wasn't it you that said, 'please use me to you're hearts content,' just now?"

"Y-yes, b-but you see... t-that was-s..." He trails off, choosing to finish what he was going to say inside the safety of his head.

Now Hajime was getting somewhere. Nagito was fumbling, vulnerable, and it fueled Hajime's confidence. The green-eyed boy smirks. If he can distract Nagito from his self-depreciating tendencies, if only temporarily, by rendering him an incomprehensible mess, then he was going to do it.

"I know this is a little backwards, but please enjoy it."

Hajime withdrew himself from Nagito's slick heat, knowing he wasn't going to last long if he remained inside. Nagito mewls at the loss. He enjoys the sensation of being filled, but submits to the empty, hollow feeling with a forlorn look.

Hajime squeezes the base of the others boy's erection, licking the tip, tasting the essence he finds there, before taking him partially into his mouth. Nagito raises his voice just a little too loud when he calls out his partner's name.

"Ha-ah-h-hajime!"

It's a pitiful sound, one that's full of surprise, reprimand and adoration and Hajime feels like he's gained the upper hand. If Nagito thought he was joking before about giving him multiple orgasms, he was about to prove him wrong.

He takes more of Nagito's shaft into his mouth, trying to mimic the motions the other boy often performed on him. It's true that most of the time their roles were reversed, but Hajime hoped his limited experience was enough to return the favor, not that he could let apprehension get the best of him now.

Feeling bold, Hajime rubs a finger around Nagito's opening, slipping it inside to take a few experimental thrusts. He quickly adds a second finger, the cleft of skin there offering little resistance having been stretched with something bigger only a few moments ago.

Hajime curled his fingers, trying to find that special bundle of nerves. His efforts seem to pay off as Nagito twitched, becoming overly responsive to the smallest touch. Hajime could feel the heat of his own need collecting in his stomach, but he fought the urge to touch himself. Instead, he sucked his partner harder, mouth and tongue racing against his fingers to see which one could fuck Nagito faster.

"I don't know if I can-" the taller boy gasps, his chest heaving and desperate for air, trying in vain to hide his voice in the fabric wrapped around his wrists.

Bony hips jump off the mattress with the strength of his orgasm, unable to control his body as he releases into Hajime's mouth.

Hajime licks his lips, wiping the excess off with the back of his hand. He makes a check mark on his mental tally. That's two.

Wasting no time, the brunette reposition them. He flips Nagito over onto his stomach, albeit a little awkwardly. The ultimate lucky student feels unnaturally heavy in Hajime's arms as he slides back inside, Nagito shuddering as he accepts his full length.

"I-I knew you were cruel." Nagito teases, giggling to himself, barely holding it together.

Admittedly, Hajime was impatient. He was about to reach his peak several times, but was holding out for the sake of trying one more thing.

Lifting up his partner's backside, Hajime switches to sitting on his knees, pulling Nagito into his lap. He aims for that glorious spot between slim thighs with quick, deliberate thrusts. He wants to make Nagito see stars one more time, but Hajime can't wait, the pressure building inside his cock was unbearable.

The two collapse onto the bed, both of them spent.

Hajime closes his eyes and let's the weightless feeling run it's course throughout his body, numbing his limbs. When he opens his eyes again, the room was a collection of shadows, vague outlines, shapes of black, grey and purple.

Hajime turns to face Nagito, realizing in the dim light that his partner was still without the use of his hands thanks to the improvised shackles. Dazedly, Hajime untangles the fabric, throwing the rumpled garment off towards the side of the bed. He debates on whether or not he should remove the necktie too, but seeing how it wasn't posing a threat, merely dangling loosely, he left it right where it was. Besides, he liked the idea of Nagito wearing something of his.

Nagito whines as he tests his mobility, his arms feeling stiff and raw from being stuck in the same position for too long. Shakily, he put his free hands around Hajime's neck, kissing his face.

Hajime shifts closer, hands reaching out to pull the other boy's slim body flush against his. Their sensitive flesh brushes against each other and Nagito flinches, still sore and overstimulated.

"We should try this more often. Let's use a blindfold and a whip next time! The risk involved will surely double."

Hajime has no idea how his lover could still have this much stamina after everything they did tonight. He nips the skin closest to his teeth, a harmless punishment for Nagito's display of excess energy and horrible sense of humor. Hajime buries his nose in the crook of his partner's shoulder, inhaling his scent, feeling Nagito's laugh rumble against his cheek. Hajime's tongue darts out to lick the sheen of sweat collecting there, giving the same spot an apologetic kiss. He tastes salt and antiseptic.

"It's getting late. I should head back." Nagito says regretfully.

"No...," Hajime says, his hazel eyes narrowing dangerously, acting as if he might cry, "... not yet."

Hajime held Nagito in place almost possessively, not allowing the other boy to get up. The brunette told himself it was because he was warm and comfortable, but what he really wants is to protect Nagito from himself or anyone else who might cause him harm. Call it poor judgement, but he suddenly didn't care if they got caught and their relationship was exposed. He resolved to never let Nagito experience another tragedy alone.

Hajime growled in warning, sensing the taller boy was about to make another attempt to leave.

Nagito couldn't help laughing at something so childish. Hajime was acting as if someone was trying to steal his precious teddy bear away from him.

"It's OK," The ultimate lucky student reassured him, "See?"

Hajime loosened his grip, allowing Nagito to pull the bedsheet up over them.

Still laughing, Nagito leaned into his partner's chest, his damp skin now slightly cooled from the brief moment he was gone, causing him to shiver.

"As long as I can be of use to you, there may be a purpose for me after all."

Too exhausted to correct his partner's poor self-esteem, Hajime drifted off to sleep.

-----

At some point in the evening, Nagito did leave the cottage, evidenced by the cool and vacant spot beside him. Hajime felt a pang of loneliness in his chest, disappointed that he didn't wake up in time to wrestle the albino back into bed. The brunette's hand curled into a fist, batting it against the empty, unoccupied pillow.

Dammit.

It was still a couple hours before the Monokuma morning announcement and even though he probably needed the rest, he didn't feel like going back to sleep. Hajime turned over to lay on his side, arm propping up his head from beneath the pillow as he stared pointedly across the room.

 'We should try this more often'

Nagito's words from last night rang inside his head.

 Fuck, not again.

As soon as he feels his cock react, he knows how he's going to spend the next 20 minutes. The brunette slips his free hand down his torso, gripping his growing erection.

 '... blindfold and a whip ...'  

He thinks about how Nagito would look wearing a proper leather collar and blindfold, how black restraints and silver studs would contrast beautifully against his naked form. Rather than a whip, Hajime would use his hands and mouth to leave marks of red and blue across the expanse of snowy-white skin.

Hajime strokes himself faster, imagining how thick, heavy chains could easily weigh Nagito down, submitting - kneeling - to his every whim. Not that he needed restraints for that. Nagito would gladly obey his orders if Hajime simply asked him to.

With just a few more pumps of his hand, Hajime finishes, grabbing a tissue to clean himself off.

Dammit.

Hajime instantly reprimands himself, blaming Nagito's masochistic tendencies for these strange fixations, but hell if he wasn't enabling him.

With a spell of self-encouragement, he slapped the sides of his face with his hands, ready to accept his fate.

Yosh!

With renewed vigor, Hajime showered and got dressed. He had to a very important meeting to attend today that involved Nagito, the Supermarket and a shopping list of some choice commodities.

-----

Outside, along the grass-edge of the pathway to Hajime's cottage, the bushes rustled in time with the wind. Mahiru scrolled through the pictures on her digital camera, conflicted. She had a hunch there was something suspicious going on with those two and now she knew enough to fill up an entire gossip magazine.

It took her awhile to come to a decision, but she settles on deleting the photos, all of them except for one. Out of every picture she took of Hajime and Nagito together, this one was her favorite. The exposure was much too bright and the composition could be better, but that's what she liked about it - how well the photo suited the both of them.