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WAYSIDE DRAWINGS BECAUSE I LOVE WAYSIDE!!!!!!!!!!
#wayside school#wayside#mrs jewls#todd#hylics#somsnosa#i never read the books SORRY#hylics mentioned
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i just think that somsnosa
#my tags were destroyed in a draft i made before? weird#in them i mentioned that i finally saw the absent moon livestream and that i was afraid to wake up my neighbours with my silent scream#slash singing LOL i dont have the energy to copy tags from memory so now you get a recap#hylics#somsnosa
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Hylictober 2024 week 1 - Boots
#hylics#hylictober2024#galliform#mojos art#almost forgot to mention - these are inspired by those dripped out chicken photos ive seen
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Older art from May of 2023. Took a trip to New York, saw Hadestown and loved it. As soon as I got out of that theater, I made an au where the gang were a bunch of Broadway actors.
#I also find it comical that I had made this au way before Chuck had mentioned that Hadestown was an inspiration for Absent Moon lol#hylics#hylics 2#pongorma#dedusmuln#somsnosa#wayne hylics#smuldunde#hadestown#hylics au#I gotta fix the formatting on this post
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scintillation
#finally finished#feeling feelings about these guys#i wish there was more lore or mention or emotions about these guys in game#they’re so tragic i’m so sad#hylics#hylics 2#hylics fanart#hylics wayne#hylics warpo#cw bright colors#myart
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...Wayne you idiot (OG meme here )
#hylics#hylics 2#hylics wayne#hylics wayne larva#hylics fanart#hylics old wayne#tagging him cuz he's mentionned#hylics 2 wayne#karen's art#i'm still alive and i'm still an idiot
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Hylictober 2023 - TV & Melting
#not happy w how the bg turned out but I enjoyed coloring the rest.#hylics#hylictober#tv monk#my art#those npcs dont get mentioned much ive noticed? IDK it felt fitting to draw one of them
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wayne and ken and gordon drink the juice that makes you ace
theyee friends see my vision NOW.beams it into your brian
#you can pry freemind ex-bug eater hc out of my cold dead hands. it is funny and supported by canon (one throwaway line)#I don't know if ken ever mentions eating bugs but look me in the eyeand say that ken tucky didnt eat bugs and dirt and playdoh and crayons#and wayne IS a bug. and he ate dirt as a larva.#listen . listen. listen. listen. I'm onto something ok.#gordon freemind#wayne hylics#ken tucky#freemind
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Good afternoon I saw this color palette the other day and knew I wanted to do something with it
Suffer the eyestrain, baby, I’ve found the exact opposite vibes of Hylics’s color palette
Edit: added a version with Hylics colors too bc I was curious what it’d look like
#hylics#hylics 2#hylics wayne#fanart#all art#it looks really nice in black and white too actually#eyestrain#eyestrain cw#how the frick did i forget to tag that when i literally made mention of it in the post what the frick me
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hmm
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i think theres something wrong with my brain because everytime i either get into a media or re-get into a media my brain is like 'you should mix that with pokemon' like how the fuck do i make bloodborne pokemon. how the fuck do i- actually hylics pokemon kinda works. ay yo holy shit. retreating into my den i know what im doing today
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getting my ass kicked in the edifice rn but i remembered some headcanon lore shit that the dialogue is supporting
#this post is about hylics i realized i did not mention that#the only thing that kept me from killing myself during that platformer minigame was xeno arcadia#i'm too much of a sucker to set it to easy and it's my fault
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Oh I think I saw this chair in Funger Termina!
Why the fuckdja make it??
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I don't think I ever made an individual post with knitted baby Wayne. Hmm...
I was watching a stream of Lil Cunchy playing Hylics 2 a couple months ago and mentioned that chibi Wayne looks knitable, so she challenged me to do so. And like... Anything to impress animators I respect...
I put wires in him so he could pose!
#knit#amigurumi#my art#yarn#Hylics#hylics 2#wayne#chibi wayne#hylics wayne#indie games#videogames#video game knits#mason lindroth
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Hylics Analysis - The Significance of Hylem and the Afterlife
Hi, and welcome to another Hylics analysis! I’m hesitant to call it a theory because I’ll spend the majority of this post going over what I believe to be the canon intent. Most of this stuff is, in my opinion, pretty grounded, but I’ve seen so little discussion about it online. I aim to unpack the ways hylem unexpectedly appears in Hylics, its importance to the overall story, and what its true source may be.
Hylethems
The first, and really only direct mention of hylem comes from some workers in the caves of New Muldul. The workers are seen cutting away at pink cave formations called hylethems. Specifically, they cut away at odd tendrils protruding from the hylethems presumably called fronds (which is what they’re called internally.) The fronds themselves writhe, indicating that they may be alive. The minecarts of the miners are full of these fronds. One of the miners describes hylethems as “hylem-rich cave formations.” Another, crucially, says the following:
“Glove lathing. Burrito synthesis. All starts with hylethems. Find a rich vein, translates to a lotta bones. Lotta bones.”
This gives us two uses for hylem or hylethem fronds. The fact that the fronds are what’s being harvested might suggest they’re the items of value, not hylem itself, but this is pretty unclear. Maybe the fronds are full of the hylem? Really, the two might as well be synonymous for our analysis today.
While we’re here, I’d like to take the time to clear up a piece of dialogue that I see confuse people, being an NPC in New Muldul that describes the town’s primary industry as “calthemite husbandry.” I’ve seen people attribute the word “calthemite” to both insects and juice beasts, but calthemites are a real thing: they’re cave formations. Given that the harvesting of hylethems is shown in New Muldul, I think it’s safe to say that’s what they’re talking about here.
Standard uses of hylem
Hylem is stated to have two uses: burrito synthesis and glove lathing, though the wording of miner’s speech suggests they might have many more. Burrito synthesis is odd but rather self-explanatory, and implies hylem might have healing properties for both flesh and will (this’ll be important later.) Glove lathing is more interesting. “Lathe” and “lathing” have multiple, kind of convoluted meanings, but its usage here suggests either coating or shaping the gloves. This could either mean the gloves are coated in hylem, likely as a liquid, or the gloves are cut out of pleather and shaped by… the fronds? It’s really unclear.
The description of the tendril hand item is “The people of Mocetul shun lathing, and for gloves rely on other processes.” The long gloves are also described as “standard gestural combat garbs.” It seems clear that gloves are what enable the use of gestures, but whether or not lathing is responsible for this is questionable. The fact that the tendril hand was made without lathing suggests hylem isn’t critical to the use of gestures, however it might imply that it's the usual process that enables them. Regardless, lathing is clearly common and important and hylem is what allows it to happen.
What’s a Hylemxylem anyway?
Ah, the Hylemxylem, Gibby’s associated fortress. Before we discuss it, let’s take a look at its name. First is the word “hylem,” which is a term unique to Hylics (and also apparently the name of a music artist,) and “xylem.” In simplified terms, xylem is a sort of transport tissue within plants that takes in and distributes water and minerals throughout the plant. With this in mind we can basically translate the word “Hylemxylem” into “thing that takes in hylem.”
[Before we move on, I want to suggest an origin for the word “hylem.” This is largely conjecture on my part, but I believe Mason knew he wanted Gibby’s fortress to absorb a substance and wanted to use the word “xylem” in there. Needing a name for the substance and wanting it to rhyme, he added the “-lem” suffix. To complete it, he took from the game’s own title: Hylics. Why would he do this? Well, as we’ve seen glimpses of, hylem might be very, very important to the nature of this world.]
So, the Hylemxylem xylems hylem, that much seems pretty clear. With this in mind we can identify the pink goop flowing throughout the hylemxylem.
Seen throughout the hylemxylem is this strange, pink liquid, highly resembling that seen in the Afterlife. It fills many of the rooms, spews out of spouts, and appears to flow into the fortress via the tubes descending down into the waters. It’s this very liquid, described as “the terrestrial juice,” that Gibby floats in before his transformation. This, as implied by the name “Hylemxylem” itself, is hylem. But where does all this hylem come from? Of course, it’s possible that the tubes of the Hylemxylem bore into the ground, sapping hylem away from the Hylethems. However, we don’t need to speculate on this. In one of the few changes to the environment during the course of Hylics 2, we see where the tubes lead…
The Afterlife
That’s right. A detail I see often overlooked is that, after the raising of the Hylemxylem, many tubes appear in the Afterlife, each flowing with the pink substance that comprises the sea, up into the sky. These tubes only appear after the ‘Xylem is raised, implying they’re the very tubes pumping hylem into the fortress. A quick glance at the game’s internals confirms this, calling them “Afterlife Xylem Columns.” I really hope this isn’t ambiguous at this point: the pink liquid within the Hylemxylem is the same liquid that fills the Afterlife.
Thanks to Happy/S For Sprinkles for this photo! Also, it's a lot easier to see in-game that these tubes are flowing with the sea's liquid. You can pretty clearly see it flowing upwards.
Now, this leads me to two conclusions I hope you find reasonable:
Wait, we very clearly see the tubes of the ‘Xylem go into the ocean. Is the Afterlife in the ocean? Maybe in some weird bubble? That’d explain why there are fish flopping around in H1. Maybe it’s an underwater cave??
More relevantly, if the pink goo in the Hylemxylem is hylem, and the pink goo in the Hylemxylem is also the Afterlife goo, that must mean the Afterlife goo is hylem. X = Y and Z = Y. Therefore X must equal Z.
This is, to me at least, super interesting. Despite never being outright stated, it is very, VERY heavily implied that the sea of the Afterlife is hylem. This sea’s strange waters, mind you, comprises the pools and fountains we fall into to reach the Afterlife. It also comprises the sea that spits us out when we die. If it is true that X = Y = Z, then hylem is not only responsible for the burritos we eat, the gloves we use, or the seemingly the ascension of Gibby, but also for the repeated reincarnation of our party members. Remember how I earlier noted that burritos, synthesized from hylem, heal flesh and will? Well, that may be an extension of the life giving, healing properties of hylem as found in the Afterlife! That’s why, I believe, Mason named the substance of hylem after the games themselves. Without hylem, the story of the games wouldn’t be possible. It's a foundational element to the world itself.
This also explains the weird fixation the game has on hylem. While Mason might have some worldbuilding hidden in random item descriptions or one or two sets of NPC dialogue (the only piece of non-relevant worldbuilding mentioned more than once being Amulom,) hylem has 5, completely separate NPCs that talk about it upright (not even counting the other NPCs that talk about calthemites.) Hylethem fronds are even seen scattered around the places that Smuldunde visits for some strange reason. This conclusion, that hylem enables the events of the game, explains why; it isn’t irrelevant worldbuilding. Hell, you could even view the hylethems being mentioned so early on as foreshadowing for the Hylemxylem itself and Gibby’s ascension from the terrestrial juices. Like the ‘Xylem does, it seems likely that hylelthems sap hylem away from the Afterlife!
Conclusion
So, that concludes the analysis! Hylem is a powerful substance that enables the use of gloves and burritos, sustains the Hylemxylem, and allowed Gibby to ascend. Given the evidence we have, I think this is the conclusion intended by Mason himself. Perhaps we were all intended to figure this out on our own, but the abstract and indirect story-telling method of Hylics 2 obscured this. Hell, I’ve seen a ton of misconceptions about the Accretion despite things the game pretty directly shows us. Maybe I should make a post about that? Anyways, I hope you enjoyed! I might make an addendum to this post as well going over some specific ideas like how the Moon might have processed hylem and why only Gibby ascends through it. After that I’ll probably cover either the symbols used in the world of Hylics or some speculation on Viewax. I might even put up a poll on which I should cover first!
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Decided to redraw a very old Hylics fanart, from when I first got my drawing tablet!
It never stops amazing me just how much I have improved, though I have to admit I did cheat a little bit with the background, I made it with the help of Blender intead of drawing it all, but I guess it still goes to show my general artistic development or whatever
Date-less version of the new one, rambles, and comparisons between sketches below
I am really happy with how this one turned out, well, I've been quite proud of my art in general recently actually. I don't know why I was so patient with this one, I spent quite a few hours just refining the lineart, doing some lineweight around the outer borders of the most important individual "pieces" and purely black shading in a few parts. Barely noticable, really, but generally I'm too lazy to do that, not to mention the armor has a decent ammount of detail for what I'm used to. God forbid I every draw Dedusmuln with the same design twice.
Also, look at their respective sketches!! I don't know how or when this change happened but look at how much more natural the new one looks!!!! I remember back when I was making the first one I really hated how wonky my humanoids looked but I never understood how to properly fix it, but it seems I just needed some practice! About three years of it so far, and I'm sure I will keep getting better (and so you can too!)
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