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firedjinni · 10 months ago

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what do u even call the slugcats cause they're "names" are fuckinfg BORING! "monk" "survivor" yap yap yap! thats why I call them flowerboy and ponyboy hunter is a cool fucking name but still WOLFBOY. is better I know theres... other slugcats the only ones ive seen are the fat one and the darker red one. and some weird... mutation looking slugcat... weird eyes... weird colors. whateverrrrrr ill enable the dlc after i do this damn wolfboy run 4 DAYs. LEFT.

okay, I understand this was probably not the intended point of this ask, but it is too late. you have activated my trap card. we are talking about Slugcat Worldbuilding Headcanons now.

(Spoilers ahead for… basically every campaign.)

For Hunter: I imagine "Hunter" is more of a nickname, and that NSH normally refers to them more as his courier or messenger. I tend to call them "Hunter" for writing convenience (even in their own POV, so far), but they don't really call themself that much. They have a lot of identity issues tied up in being created for a Very Specific Purpose and not really knowing how to think of themself outside of it; they're a divine messenger, but that's not really a name. Until their purpose is fulfilled, they don't think about themself as a person often enough to actually consider things like names.

For Survivor: I like the headcanon that slugcats (at least in Surv/Monk/Gourm's colony) are given simpler names as pups, and sort of "earn" a more descriptive title/adult name as they mature. In my usual read of them, they would have just been "white/pale one" when they still lived with their colony, and gave themself the name "Survivor" some time after their fall.

For Monk: their pup name, which they have during their campaign, is something like "yellow one", and they don't earn a title until later. Even then, they aren't ever "Monk" in-universe, as slugcats don't quite have an equivalent social structure or role for that term to translate directly. The name they take instead means something more like "pacifist" or "gentle/wise/peaceful one", though there are some loosely similar social connotations to early Ancient society's version of monkhood, with implications of spiritual attunement, insight, and vague otherworldliness.

For Artificer: I imagine this name to be a matter of in-universe translation jank. Their actual name is something closer to "crafter" or "clever one that makes things" (again, connotations are tricky to translate!), but those simply do not possess the same pizzazz. The Scavengers also call them "Red Death" or sometimes "Red Mother", which ends up becoming a sort of mythological figure later on, like a Scavenger boogeyman. Future slugcat colonies end up sort of adopting back the mythology of the Red Mother as a protective deity/spirit, so they mostly call her that in the future. "Red" was probably their pup name, too.

For Spearmaster: Seven Red Suns calls them "messenger" and "07" -- I like to think the former becomes a nickname (their character designer, Faeling, headcanons SRS calling them "Messy" as a nickname/diminutive which I think is adorable), but Spearmaster themself might have adopted the latter too at some point, maybe almost like a family name, because they like that it connects them to Seven Red Suns. I also figure that other wild slugcats might have various nicknames for them, especially since SM would have no easy way to introduce themself -- and the name "Spearmaster" might come from that, actually! But I also like the idea of a future folktale version of them similar to with Artificer, with various names depending on the opinions of the colony/culture in question: "Cousin Thorn-tail", "the Spear-sapper", "the Drinker", and so on.

For Gourmand: again, I imagine this as a case of translation jank, and whatever they're called has slightly different connotations, though I'm less decided on what it should actually be. "Gourmand" is just so… specific? I feel like whatever they've got going on should be equally untranslatable, though. It's something along the lines of "appraiser" and "crafter" and "skilled forager", with this implication of like… knowing about valuable/desirable things and how to find/make them, and also having a strong personal taste for them? "Connoisseur", almost? But not quite as fancy. Their pup name was just "big one", though -- pup Gourmie wasn't quite the absolute unit they are as an adult, but they were definitely always a big slugcat.

For Rivulet: I like the idea this really is just their name! Little-stream-of-water! It's actually their pup name, but they left their colony before coming of age (ran away to become an adventurer), and never really found a title they liked. They think Moon calling them Ruffles is cute, but it's definitely just a nickname.

For Saint: the name does translate directly, not because slugcats have a concept of sainthood, but because the title they gave themself is the literal term taken from the Ancients. I headcanon that they were raised by or around an iterator and know a lot of The Lore, and sorta borrowed some of these concepts for how they see themself… a sort of divine sufferer bringing peace to others, martyring themself for the sake of mercy. Their pup name was just "tongue" or something, though, if they had one at all.

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wet-mouse · 10 months ago

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alr so i have beat the game TWICE!! both as monk and survivor (monk first) btw i name them. monk is flowerboy and survivor is ponyboy.

(kinda sucks that they die themselves in the golden pool but i think thats a good thing) anyway, now that they're coolio story is over, the brothers can see eachother again!!! (but like dead.) anyway, in my wolfboy run (Hunter.) things are fucking hell but i did it *Made for this* i saved moon with the green thing and gave her the pearl, some... "nsh" guy gave her more water or wahtever. apprently accroding to a ask, WOLF. has cancer so apprently i have... 4 DAYs LEFT. to go and die in the golden pool, shouldent be too hard, not much enmies past the underground.. sept the weird statues. but they dont do anything. Pebbles was like...Nice? to me for some reason. Moons sweet but i dont need her damn charity.

Its rough all over.. i have a fear of long enemies you scheeeee centipedes....why arehtey...IFCUKINGHATE...WHYCENTIPEADEs.. poleplants fuck you sm grabby kelp. DIE YOURVELF. snare fleas. i hate you sm :sob: noodleflys DIE DIE DIE! worm grass....

anyway i think i can make it to the gold pool in time... i need to find my way to farm array though. i have the dlc but it is not enabled, i enabled it once and looked at the slugcats.. two new ones, gourmade and the arti. I do not have names for them just yet. anyway.... ithink i can make it.

oh i like ur names for the scugs...... names for the scugs isnt something i see often i think its fun :] dont have much else to say, good luck with hunter

#rain world spoilers #< i guess?

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comvi · 9 months ago

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EHEHEHE OK sO QUICK RUN DOWN OF sLUGCATs: slugcats are what you'd think they are and have heard. small omnivores that are nearly at the bottom of the food chain. trying hard to survive They were made by the humans (not gonna get into "humans in this world its confusing) to clean pipes (and sometimes as pets) Let me run down the main slugs: Monk

Monk is survivors brother, or as i call monk "flowerboy" (they dont have cannon names call them whatever u want, or genders sept one slug.) they are basic like survivor but are proven to be strong but not using it angst others, instead trying to make peace. (they have the abillty to drop a protective flower when they die, and have really good lungs.)

survivor, monks brother. He came into the story in the middle of it, where everything was normal. so he has nothing cool going for him. However most people draw him with a scar cause of the fall both monk and survivor fell threw. i call them "Ponyboy"

Hunter, they were made by ... a robot person (might name later) They have the abillty to carry 2 spears at once, and they are a carnivore...meaning they can eat...erm...lisards. they were made to save another robot person... however the one that made him had a very evil plan. They gave him cancer, or as rot. meaning that in 20 days he will die. tenticals will grow out of him as he turns into a husk. Whatever reason. He was Built. To. Last.

i did NOT know slugcats were originally made to clean pipes & stuff LOL but that actually makes a lot of sense…. In a weird messed up way……?

Big fan of this red carnivorous weirdo though & love the silly little names you have for them all!!!! but who are the robot guys u are talking about…. Why did you word this so OMINOUSLY WHAT are you PLANNING…………..

#asks #myposts

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wrmbug · 10 months ago

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alr so i have beat the game TWICE!! both as monk and survivor (monk first) btw i name them. monk is flowerboy and survivor is ponyboy.

HUNTER SPOILERS UP AHEAD

goodness i got soo unlucky with hunter , like twice . i found out the quickest way to ascend ( thanks to gourm ) but the thing is that it took way longer than expected to go from farm arrays to the wall . i kept fuckin dying at the parkour which made me lose so much karma so i had to hibernate just so i get that karma back n get pass the gates which deducted a lot of my cycles .

getting to five pebbles was simple , but the thing is that i did not know that you need to get like 2 echoes just to get the ascension symbol from him and i was like in cycle 3 because i went to moon . i made it to depths and found out that i DIDNT GET THE FUCKIN MARK !!!!! so i started over

the second time , i thought i learned my lesson with the whole echo thing but no , i did not . i forgot about the echo thing and went to five pebbles instantly then to moon but i accidentally wasted more cycles because of my shitty parkour skills and died from cancer

so i guess you can i wasnt unlucky just really fucking stupid

anyway i finally made it and beat the game on cycle 1

#ancients letterbox

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