#iburen

[charmilyharmily]

Is this y’all’s man that I’ve been hearing about?

In all seriousness, this was quite the fun lil thing to draw, surprised I didn’t get around to drawing them earlier.

Equally as surprising; I’m shocked no one has posted his ref sheet on tumblr yet!

A little lacking in comparison to the others but it does make sense, them being around a lot less compared to the other characters.

Super interesting comparing this to some of the beta designs I’ve seen floating around. Certainly went through quite a handful of redesigns I’ll say

Done with the fun shenanigans, in all seriousness this is such an honor to get chosen as the “canon” design for Iburen. I seriously didn’t think people would like this design so much. Truly wanted to do justice to this role and provide a “official” ref sheet for it, and how howdy that was something. But I think it came out very nice :3.

For those who aren’t in the loop (heh) Iburen is a fan character made by the ISAT telephone server who is a jester working with the King, to put him in simplest terms. It’s a paper type user who uses (He/They/It) pronouns.

Gonna call that enough for now and skedaddle, have an unmarked drawing for the road!

And a “beta” designs

[is-the-isat-pic-cute]

who is iburen i love him did you start tgis.

We were in the vc where it originated, yes. We're not The One Responsible but we've been involved from the beginning. I'm not going to use the unreality tag on this post because I'm being very open about the true nature of the character here. But anyway here's a summary of what he's about and the general canon.

Iburen is a goncharov-type character for ISAT. He's a paper type jester who uses he/it/they pronouns and is absolutely devoted to the King. They speak in a very relaxed, casual way generally: "hey man, even if none of them understand I've got you, all right?" (Iburen is the #1 King apologist.)

It's originally from the island, and was very close to the King pre-retcon. Sometime after the retcon, he made a wish to recover something, anything important from the past he had forgotten, and through that it remembered just how much it loved and cared about the King. With that being the one and only part of their past they remembered, it quickly cemented itself as the center of their motivations—they would do anything for him, and they're willing to support him in any endeavor no matter what it is. It does not turn against him even, say, at the end of kingquest.

Allegedy, they're a secondary antagonist in ISAT who gives support to the King during that fight. We (the group) never explicitly decided on the canon of that, but general agreement was that he probably mainly gives the King stat buffs.

We (the system) were pushing for its ultimate fate to be frozen alongside the King, but what was eventually decided was that it is NOT frozen and cries about the King so much during act 6 before being taken into custody by the House. Or, possibly, escaping to be a future antagonist. Or even both in that order.

After several proposed designs and a vote, Iburen's official design is this one by @charmilyharmily. You're welcome to make your own interpretations too but this is the "canon" one!

That's all the canon I can think of but if anyone else remembers anything feel free to add on! (And for these purposes, "canon" refers to the things that have been actually agreed on.)

(Also a lot is open to interpretation! This stuff is just a starting point, and there's nothing wrong with putting bits of it aside for an "au" or whatever.)

[moldycantaloupe]

YOO FOUND THIS FREAK IN THE GAME'S FILES??

iburen, the king's jester, created with a wish and a change god statue. but this was titled with beta? there's more around in the files, I'm sure others will post about them.

up close unbder cut

[useristakenalready]

It’s crazy they have so many beta designs for iburen, this was the first one I saw out there and it drove me crazy.

[velociraptortrick]

Just learned about Iburen…

I know it isn’t an actual real character. BUT. I WILL MAKE IT REAL.

eventually.

[nilihim-him]

i kept thinkin bout the way Iburen says "My King~"

[the-mighty-toast-wizard]

It's crazy so many people forget about Iburen

They're the jester with the king

Check the Iburen tag

Sock what are your opinions on Iburen?

The jester from isat

On who????? Who's Iburen???

[starburstdragon]

FINALLY ANOTHER IBUREN ENJOYER. I’VE BEEN TRYING TO FIND OTHERS WHO TALKED ABOUT HIM

REALLL IM OBSESSED W ITTTT cannot believe this gay ass jester flew under the radar

[irldragonart]

You know I always see those posts about the parallels between ghost trick and In stars in time but it's always Sissle and Sifrin

Why does everybody ignore the obvious parallels between Ray and Iburen!!

The only things Iburen has up from Ray is that he's gay and human and that's kinda a running theme here

[the-sun-of-endless-ash]

January stars day 31 Isabeau

Hold steady and fast

We will win only if we try

Boom and Kaboom Yeah!!!!

[is-the-isat-pic-cute]

Agh imagine being the Iburen... that's your best friend in the whole world and you're doing everything you can to support him but no matter how hard you try he doesn't know who you are anymore

[moldycantaloupe]

god dude, iburen is such a creature. I want to squeeze it like a beach ball

[felikatze]

the nature of fandom is that every so often someone invents thorr again

[startagainaprologue]

What's your opinion on everybody's favorite ISAT character Iburen?

whyd they do that to him thats fucked. can they do that.

[useristakenalready]

AUAUGHUAH. IBUREN. OMG. IBUREN I'VE BEEN PLAYING ISAT AND JUST LEARNED ABOUT IT AND OUGH.

[remxedmoon]

Who Is Iburen