#i fucking love everhood

[serenity-bitty]

HEY, YOU.

Yeah, you!! The Undertale fan reading this. This is your sign to go play Everhood. No it's not an Undertale clone. It does have references, but it IS its own game. It won't make you feel the same way Undertale made you feel. But, as a fellow Undertale fan, what I CAN tell you is that it made ME feel just as much. If you needed reasons to play it, you have one now!!! Do the thing and have fun!!!

[thejaded0nes]

[acredb]

hi tumblr say hi to my blorbos!!!!!!!!!

[characteroulette]

Okay okay okay okay

I have to write it down because I keep composing it while I work

(Everhood spoilers below the cut)

So I've seen a few people misinterpret the point behind killing everyone that Everhood forces onto you in order to reach the end, and I think it might be due to getting too caught up in the parallels to Undertale that are there

They think that it's taking the murder run and being like "see? This is bad!!" which they respond like "no duh but uh Undertale did that better"

But!!

That's not the point.

The point isn't the same Undertale makes, but it's a companion:

Sometimes, Mercy isn't the answer.

Sometimes, Mercy is a cruelty.

These beings have been trapped in the Everhood for over six. Million. Years. Some far longer, maybe a few shorter. They're all intimately aware that the only way out is the Incinerator, but they cling to their lives as desperately as anything living would. They aren't even close to human anymore, even if they never started out as human to begin with. They are undying and have existed for longer than the mind can comprehend. They've become bored, cruel, despairing, and complacent.

They have stagnated.

They exist and that's all they can do.

What you offer them is Mercy, even if it takes such an ugly form. They fight back and struggle, as all living things are wont to do, but what you offer them is ultimately Mercy.

It's ugly and harrowing for you, (for Pink), because no matter how merciful, it is still murder. Even if you're helping their souls return to the cycle of life, even if you're releasing them from their stagnation and despair and cruelty, you're still taking their lives against their wills.

No one wants to die, no matter how cursed the existence.

There will be reconciliation, no matter how ugly.

Hard choices will be justified in the end.

The only possible Mercy you're able to offer is the cruelest upon your own soul. (Pink's soul).

anyway yeah Everhood is really good go play it

[leafytaffy]

why was the only main interest of mine that lasted four or five years the one where literally all of the small fandom abused me and gave me lifelong trauma and nothing else

[gayjunebug]

my day went fucking great, woke up to a fly sitting on my mouth, with horrible caffeine withdrawal (that's what you get for drinking 1,5L of energy drinks the day prior, with no tolerance built whatsoever), drained social battery, two blisters on my soles and sore legs. found out i got scammed for a fucking huge amount of money. got horribly overstimulated. aaand now I stubbed my fuckign toe, and hit my ankle on a chair leg seconds later. also idk if I took my meds today or not, but if I didn't, it's likely contributing to my amazing (/s) day.

[teslacoils-and-hubris]

What the shit is everhood

(Info dump pls?)

Gladly! ^w^

so everhood is a game that I would say is very similar to undertale, from the pixel art style to the humour to the general uhh theme? i guess is the word? Where you play as a wooden puppet named red on a quest to get your arm back from gold pig. The battle mechanic is a rhythm based system where you have to jump around and over beats the enemies through at you. The music is absolutely fucking fantastic and i actually bought the soundtrack i like it so much lol

a couple battles get absolutely insane with the visuals too, to the point im not even totally sure i can do a description justice? you can check out this video if you're curious, theres really no spoilers in this battle but it shows what im talking about. these battles are where the photosensitivity warning really comes in though, so be cautious if that effects you

I can't go too deep into the plot without getting into spoiler territory, so i'll put that under the cut for anyone who's curious, but here's what I can say! You go around collecting clues to find gold pig and get your arm back, and along the way you get to meet all the wonderful characters that populate Everhood. Like Rasta beast, Noseferatchu the sneezing vampire, Flan and Muck, the dancing mushrooms, a vampire who's name always changes. You really get to know and love these characters while also learning that maybe everything isn't as it seems in Everhood. Maybe, actually nothing is what it seems. Maybe you're the only one willing to do something about. But..... are you willing?

oh also kermit is there and I think he might be god? Also you can kill him and it impacts literally nothing

Full plot summary under the cut. I highly recommend you play the game without spoilers, but if you're like me and you Need to know what happens before you play then go wild. I'll only be talking about the intended good ending though, since I haven't gotten around to playing the secret endings yet- oh also mild spoilers for undertale i guess if youre worried about that in 2023

so when I say its similar to undertale in themes, its sort of. in a reverse sense. In undertale the good ending is the pacifist route. By saving the monsters you help them escape the underground and better their situation. It is mercy, the direct functional opposite of killing, that saves you. There is no mercy kill because using mercy ends the fight period.

Well in Everhood, the good ending requires you to kill everyone.

Your arm was taken from you because you've done this before, wiped out countless lives, friends even. And now you must finish the job. Its hard and sad and it sucks but it has to be you because no one else is going to. It falls on you to go back to these spots you've been through already, these happy cheerful locations, and hunt down everyone you've come to know over the course of the game.

so why do you need to kill everyone? and how on earth is it similar to undertale at all? well, Everhood isn't just the title of the game or the location it takes place, its the state every single character in the game is stuck in.

in the distant past, humanity found a way to reach another world, one they called Everhood. And in this world, no one could ever die. Some people chose to stay in this world, which lost connection to the human world for some reason i dont remember rn, and in doing so slowly lost their humanity. They lived for eons and eons and eons, changing their shape and loosing themselves in the process. You discover at one point that the Green Mage, a chaotic character whom I love, has been keeping track of the years everyone has spent in Everhood, every year a tally on the wall of their secret playroom. It takes three hours to get to the end of this hallway, to give you an idea of scale here. three real time hours.

Your character, Red, is a vessel for the literal human player behind the screen to free the inhabitants of Everhood from eternity. They aren't really happy. They can't be. They've been stuck for so long, and even though they beg and plead for you not to kill them you have to. Its the only way for them to be happy and move on from Everhood. And don't get me wrong you CAN choose not to go through with it. You have to actively fight back after this reveal to kill anyone. I haven't played through this way, so I can't speak on it.

The ending is sort of ambiguous, in which Pink (the person pretending to be Red and letting you the player control them) goes to an afterlife after killing everyone and gets to see them one last time, and they're happy. They forgive you. One by one you talk to them and they thank you for freeing them, apologize for fighting you, and move on happily to whatever comes after death. I choose to interpret it literally, but there's something to be said about the idea it's all in Pink's head. I don't think it was meant to be taken that way, but its one way to look at it.

The game sort of looses people with this being the good ending. But I think it's a beautiful metaphor. Sometimes you keep doing things that hurt you only because you're used to it. Maybe you don't even realize how its hurting you, its better than the alternative right? For the longest time I kept my bedroom blinds perpetually closed because the bright sunlight gave me headaches. I didn't realize just how depressed it was making me to be in near constant darkness like that. It was only after I bought a plant on a whim that I realized how much happier I was letting in the sunlight. You get so used to bad habits and awful jobs and clothes you hate because they're familiar. And doesn't it just seem easier? To take non-action and let everyone keep living and having fun in Everhood? Green Mage hosts DnD every week (or whatever counts as a week after you've lived for eternity), go play with the mushrooms in the forest, doesn't that sound lovely? You don't have to kill anyone, just keep living on exactly as you were! You have friends here Red! It hurts too much to kill them! they don't want to die! why not just give up? How could anything good come from the pain of change?

[teruthecreator]

looks at you with huge eyes. Pink Mage

im going to rip all my hair out i literally answered this and went to post it and tumblr was like “teehee no internet connection” which is a FUCKING LIE

ANYWAYS (rips off my shirt to reveal an I <3 EVERHOOD shirt) LETS FUCKING GOOOOOOOO

Sexuality Headcanon:

uhhhhhh (blasts them with the lesbian beam) anyway

Gender Headcanon:

agender!!!!!

A ship I have with said character:

i dont rlly ship anything in everhood tbh. no time for dat goku we have to KILL EVERYONE

A BROTP I have with said character:

pink mage and rasta beast make me INSANE. so much of their implied friendship is so fucking real and god just like. imagine being rasta beast man that shits gotta SUCK! YOU KEEP HAVING TO STOP YOUR BEST FRIEND FROM KILLING EVERYONE AND IT SUCKS AND YOU MISS THEM BUT THEY JUST KEEP GOING BACK INTO THE DOLL BC ITS MORE STABLE THAT WAY AND AUGHHHHHHHHH. i also think pink mage and blue thief post Everything is great. like a pink thats able to accept red mage as a part of their identity would get along great with blue thief :-) they can reminisce about their journey…

A NOTP I have with said character:

kind of hard to have a notp when u dont rlly ship anything. However comma i will literally attack you with hammers if you put ANYONE next to orange mage. i dont like them

A random headcanon:

okay this kind of goes into my personal interpretation of how everyone got here and how the mages became mages but i think pink used to be some sort of scientist/researcher! i think all of the mages were and thats why they were the first ones to discover the passage to everhood. but before pink could cross over they got hit by a car and Died but oops not actually dead bc something something destiny soul potency made them into a light being! and thats how they crossed over and why they are the way they are. i know this sounds insane but it MAKES SENSE TO ME OKAY…

General Opinion over said character:

love pink mage!! love the kind of moral quandary they have with red mages existence bc on one hand they wanted to do all that but on the other they didnt want to be Responsible for it. i think the way they interact w the player is interesting and i wish we got to see a little more of them in-game/talked about by other characters but whateverrrrrr pink mage forever yay

[toyourliking]

thank you for tagging meee @gothwizardmagic 🥰

RULES: put 5 songs you actually listen to, then tag 10 people.

trying to choose only 5 was torture i love so many songies i tried choosing a variety of genres/eras but even then how can 5 songs cover that ANYWAY

Why Oh You Are L O V E by Dancefloor is Lava (from the amazing game everhood! it's a bop and a club banger)

Rest My Chemistry by Interpol (chose the last interpol song i listened to cause i love themb)

Dancing in the Moonlight by King Harvest (i know it's not technically the original but it's the original TO ME)

Ghost Me by Gaylord (an icon a nb legend)

Painkiller by Death (yes it's a cover sorry rob halford but it fucks severely and chuck schuldiner is my babygirl)

i'm tagging.................. um uh...

@princereece @edgewired @pentheos @mimikyufriend @wrightfamily @tzigtzag @nerdyskeleton @roxinthebox @gitaroo-man @mangatxt and anyone else?

[cacowhistle]

crosses one game off my list. stares at the dozens of others beneath it. big sigh. anyways heres some games i highly recommend:

a short hike: in their words, "a little exploration game about hiking up a mountain." it rewards exploration. i went into it thinking it'd be like, a twenty minute experience? i played for at least an hour or two. very cute, very low stakes emotionally. i really enjoyed the graphics and characters :]

co-open: this game is genuinely the cutest fuckign thing i've ever played. you're a kid going to the store on your own for the first time. lotta queer characters. so much to explore. at first you're like "woah store" and then you somehow end up in the vents and then you're on the roof?? there is so much to this game. i love it. it's so cute. maybe an hour or two or three in playtime.

everhood: i will admit. i have not finished this game. however. it is so stylish. the graphics are so bright. the characters are WILD. the music goes SO HARD. the combat and gameplay is entirely centered around the music. they describe it as a "psychedelic musical bullet hell" and tbh that is literally it. the puzzles aren't too hard. i haven't finished it only because it feels, to me, like it doesn't really... tell you where to go? i get lost very easily if i'm not being funneled in a particular direction when it comes to these kinds of games, ones that aren't necessarily meant to be open-world. that being said. everhood goes fucking hard. play it. it slaps. i need to finish it. i keep fuckign thinking about it its that good.

dredge: this isn't like, an obscure indie pick. but dredge is so good. the story left me wanting a little more, but the gameplay is fun, the graphics are gorgeous (the style is so nice), there are some real good scares, and tbh there is nothing better than a good fishing game. it mixes exploration and inventory management really well! and i thoroughly enjoyed exploring every inch of the game and completing all the side quests i could. also theres a dog and you can pet it.

eronoctosis: put yourself together: this game is about being TRANS and DYSPHORIA and SEX!!!! it's a two-player game but it's free!! (there's a paid dlc you can get too but the base game is free) (the paid dlc includes sexual content, the base game does not). eronoctosis was really fun. my boyfriend and i were so bad at it at first (hi babe if ur reading this. we should get the dlc i wanna play this with u again). but once we got into the swing of things it was honestly really fun. the scares are REALLY good even when you know what you're doing. really makes you dread going around corners <3

two little bonuses are inbento and sudocats. it's literally just. a puzzle game. and sudoku. but in my defense. both games include cats. which makes them cute. very nice little experiences :]

[sopeachykeen]

fuck it we ball

MASS POST. Because why not.

Anyways made a stanley parable x ata crossover au where amandamandamanda gets stuck in the parable somehow i guess!!!! amanda and stanley are like frenemies??? She see'a him as a father figure sorta. Or like an older brother. Her and nar are AT it though them niggas r beefin MAXXXXXX. like they cant STAND eachother its amazing.

If youre wondering why the weird spacing n stuff its cause i make reels on insta. Like the one with the spamton and curly hair fella is me introducing him to the "you already KNOW who it is. Its ya boy-" audio :3

I was also testing brushes at the time of making these (:

(Oh yeah my spidersona is there. Goes by the name 'spider' i think. Uhh got injected with spiderman powers as a baby because where he lives theyre tryna make superheros sorta but not reaallly? He hates being spiderman and could care less about being a superhero. Doesnt even use his powers n stuff. What a goober.)

Everhood posting also i fucking love everhood i need to play it sooo bad N OW .

[psychic-pigeons]

I love Everhood but why everything hard. Why everything so fucking hard

[slumber-spirals]

AoJ posting for the first time since ever (REAL💥💥💥)

Anyway

Requests are open!!

Fandoms that we know of:

Aphmau

Asterix et Obelix

CoD:MW2 (2022)

Cult of the Lamb

Everhood

Helluva Boss (+ Hazbin Hotel)

Hollow Knight

Inscryption

Kirby franchise

Madness Combat

Mandela Catalogue

SPOOKWARE

Sky:CoTL OCs

Super Mario

TF2 (Canon and SFMs)

Undertale

Vocaloid (+ PJSK)

Will Wood song personifications

Yu-Gi-Oh!: Duel Monsters

Ουκ αν λάβεις παρά του μη έχοντος (if you know this one I’m kissing you on the lips/lhj)

But you can also request any other fandom that’s not on here, just please give us a reference image

ALSO WE CAN DRAW OCS, WE ABSOLUTELY LOVE OCS

What we WON’T do:

Proship. Literally kys and die.

NSFW, we are a minor with shitty anatomy skills (or lack thereof)

Any sort of illegal and unethical acts. We won’t mind drawing the occasional weed here and there, but we won’t.. Draw rape or murder. Please respect that.

Ok I thing that’s it

Also endo systems dni, you guys need a fucking reality check/srs

[acredb]

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[characteroulette]

Honestly what else am I supposed to do when a video game protagonist tells me, in no uncertain terms, to leave them the hell alone?

I love it every time I am haunted by the actions I must take to interface with your world to have a glimpse into the lives you lead to puppet you along this path you never desired not once

[leafytaffy]

can anyone recommend some affordable games with really good character customization, so much so I can make my blorbos, but also good gameplay too?

stuff I liked in the past for reference, and reasons I stopped playing as well:

Miitopia: ngl I wanna do another playthrough with an Everhood cast, but my main problem with this game is it loses replay value IMMEDIATELY after you beat it. The gameplay is pretty shallow aside from the customization aspect, and the story you already know so it won’t hit differently when you restart of course. Now onto the good: The customization in the switch version is god tier, the story with everyone being miis you cast in each role (excluding our best boy Dominic <3) is amazing, I love playing a fanfic basically!! The personality quirks and relationship aspects are also really fun!!

Cult of the Lamb: more focus on gameplay than customization, but in every damn save I GOTTA make my Everhood blorbos!! For now the little animal followers do well, but I wish modding becomes easier in the future for custom follower forms </3

Flight Rising: I REALLY REALLY want to play this again, but I can’t because the only legal way for me to play it is to use my shitty account I made when I was 16 which used up all username changes and has a TON of shitty cringeworthy forum posts attached to it because it was the pandemic and my social media was extremely restricted with parental controls……. I don’t feel comfortable enough with the moderators and their extremely strict attitudes and rules to just make a new account and not touch my old one.

Sims 3: I wanna play this again so baddddd… I stopped playing sims 2 tonight after a few minutes because tbh? Modern game customization (mainly sims 3 and miis) have absolutely spoiled me to death and I can’t stand having to download a mod for every. Single. Customization I want. It’s so painful.

Rain World: I wish I could play this, I have tons of skin mods including an Everhood one, but it’s too damn hard for me to play (yeah okay Leaf sucks at video games and just needs to git gud and stop whining). The hardest games I play admittedly are Monster Hunter and Everhood’s battle replay, and I absolutely cannot STAND video game time limits. They stress me the fuck out every time and I can’t deal with them at all (shoutout to Mix quitting the call with me fighting the splatoon 3 final boss because I was screaming my guts out and I ended up having to hand the controller to them for me to beat Grizz), and on top of it I have to use a map in order to beat the game, pre-planning my routes every time and not making a single mistake lest the rain get me. I hate it. I hate that I can’t be good at games for fucks sake ughhhhhhhhhhhHHH

Lobotomy Corporation: I like the customization and modding is rather easy but. Come on. It’s lobcorp no fan has beaten the game its even a fandom in joke LOL (though I’ve definitely gotten farther in it that Rain World. CURSE YOU, TIME LIMITS!!! The thing also keeping me from beating Wandersong….)