#may her snorks always mimimimi

[pretentious-piece-of-shit]

need wife right now

[aseuki]

I'm not entirely sure which ones were asked yet, so just do whoever you want for these emoji:

🥘☀️🌙🍒

[ask meme]

Ah, for sure!! *rubs my little hands together*

Oh this ended up WAY longer than I expected so shoving it all under a cut to spare everyone's dashes!

🥘 (Stew) - Do they have any favourite foods or comfort foods? What are their eating habits like? If absorbed by the Cook ability, what healing item would they summon?

Stell's favorite food is strawberry shortcake! Freshly-baked goods are a rare commodity when one is an interstellar wanderer, so they definitely take whatever chance to grab one when running errands planetside.

Outside of the occasional treasured sweet, much of Stell’s diet actually comes from the produce he personally grows in his star through hydroponics! They’re surprisingly quite good, when he does remember to eat haha

For Phemus, she likes to claim that her favorite food is whatever sludge they call coffee in the Underworld Office Break Room asdkfjsdfkn

Under the Cook Ability I think he deserves to drop Battery Acid Spaghetti -50 hp don't eat this

or an actual food item though it'd most likely be the soft serve ice cream cone! Cold and sweet! Little guy is like the snowball after all

it’s honestly debateable whether she actually drinks it or simply pretends to and makes slurping noises to piss off her coworkers >:’D I think she’s pretty partial to the idea of freshly baked bread though, especially something sweet like brioche 🤔

If shoved in the big cooking pot I think she’d drop an orange cream soda! Fizzy and colorful!

☀️ (Sun) - What’s their morning routine like? Do they take a lot of time getting ready in the morning? How do they groom themselves? What are they having for breakfast?

Stell's routine is relatively simple: get up, check in with Anima to see if he missed anything while unconscious, and work from there! Any urgent issues will lead to jumping immediately to work, but if allowed to work at their own pace, they'll take a moment to grab a quick bite and maybe fit in a training session before hopping back to fixing Anima up--working on a planet-sized piece of clockwork is hard work after all! Most of the big personal hygeine is taken care of at the end of the day, so that he can wash off all the grime and grease and dust en masse before bed haha

Phemus is like that weird fucking coworker who you never really see clock in and yet she’s always there before you who knows what her AM routine is like asdkfjn her daily routine is to get up, ✨manifest✨. Sparkle on, it's Monday!

🌙 (Moon) - Is your OC a particularly light or heavy sleeper? Somewhere in-between? Do they take naps?

Answered for Stell here, but for Phemus, it's virtually impossible to catch her actually sleeping on the job--she likes to pretend to when it's funny (or when she's slacking) but don't be fooled by the incredibly obvious snork-mimimimis

🍒 (Cherry) - Out of all of the Dream Friends [Kirby included], which ones would they get along with the most? The least?

Looks at Stell and their extremely asocial nature. Honestly, the question may be who would tolerate each other the most asdkfjn That being said, Meta Knight or Dark Meta Knight have the highest chances for allowing mutual tolerance since they’re both the least likely to poke into his business outside of the inevitable challenge for a spar (which he’d happily oblige).

As for who he’d get along with the least, well it’s said that like repels like, and let’s just say the nuclear fallout of Stell and Susie’s egos clashing would be. Something, to say the least!

For Phemus, her easygoing nature makes her pretty likely to gel with just about anyone, but for the sake of the prompt I’d say her gossipmongering ways would earn her a pretty steady friendship with Daroach, canonically the chattiest motherfucker in the entire kirby canon asdkfjn

It’s hard to imagine her not getting along with anyone in particular, but I can see some of the more reserved folks being repelled by her outgoing demeanor. On her end though, I can likely see her initially approaching someone like Gooey with some level of unease and confusion before settling into ‘ah, this is just how he is!’ and moving right back to being pretty amicable!

That's all I got for now, thank you so much for the ask Kachi!!

[autisticlalna]

PANDORA'S BOX IS OPEN AND I AM SIMULTANEOUSLY PANDORA, THE BOX, THE EVILS, AND THE HOPE LEFT INSIDE

(i think the transcript work is getting to me. TOO LATE NOW.)

so. i mentioned the concept of multiversal bleed in my initial deranged discord rant. it's kinda just a byproduct of mcyt storytelling, really - if you're doing a bunch of stuff at once, references are gonna get made. but with multiversal stuff being an actual plot point in Viking and Ruby's TSMP lore, the fact that tViking is not the Viking that Ruby remembers but still has an attachment to them, has basic knowledge of a history with them... but at the same time doesn't really understand the idea of a time "before this", and when Ruby first asks him what he knows about her his answers are very surface-level:

Ruby: [sigh] Okay. Um… What else, what do you— what do you— What do you know about me. Viking: Uuuuuhhhh. Ruby: Do you know me. Viking: Uhhh. You… need therapy ‘cause of beetroots. Um… your full name is something like Rubidium Company or whatever. Or Rubidium Corporation, or Ruby… the Third Corporation, or something like that, iunno. Um— You, uh… Um… Like… drawing… and diamonds— er, gemstones.

and then, like. cc!Ruby saying "It's just so you. No matter the universe or time, after all this time, it is still you" and that snowballing into "tRuby saying that right before tViking kills her" and that being one of the dreams in Ruby's dream journal. and tViking also remembering it... maybe. he seems to remember several different outcomes of it, several different permutations on how it ends, and doesn't remember that it's Ruby.

and then when Ruby confides in him about xer sleepwalking, tViking is very casual about it. in fact, the way he responds makes it sound like not only has it happened the couple times we see it happen (the villagers, the bamboo farm) but that it's something regular for him. maybe even something he does on purpose:

Viking: Ruuuuuby. Do you think- You think- You really think, do you really think that I would sit down, and do all of this. Ruby: I mean, no. Viking: Do you think I have the patience for that? Ruby: No? Viking: Bro, I just- I— See, the secret is, you go over to a corner, kinda you go, “a’ight I’m gonna go honk shoo snork mimimimi,” and I wake up, oh my god villagers. Poof. Magic.

(source: the big fucking transcript of the ~4 hour lore VOD im working on. i'll finish it soon i promise)

but Navigator did not build that farm. he shows up to tell Ruby "hey, don't let him do this". tViking went under the radar, he's poised to cause a lot of devastation, and Navigator wants Ruby to stop him. there is no way in hell Navigator would do anything for tViking, and he straight up does not want tViking to know he exists at all. but... tViking knows that there's other hims out there, and that those other hims will just nab his body to do stuff sometimes:

Viking: Riiiight? Doesn’t matter how many versions, what times… Doesn’t matter what any of that is. A Ruby is still a Ruby. Ruby: …I guess. Viking: A Viking… is always a Viking. Ruby: [quiet] Yeah. Viking: So for me, [laughs] I may not build these things myself, but I wake up and they’re done, and I know it’s me, because me wants to help me. Vikings help Viking. That’s how it works.

but when Ruby tells Navigator that, he brushes it off:

Viking: < he assumes he is the only one > Ruby: (Sorry.) “He assumes he’s the only one.” Well, that’s not quite correct? He’s- He’s told me that he goes to sleep and then the farms are there, so… I don’t know? If that assumption is the right one to make? Y’know? Viking: < he mistakes his “dreams” for his actions >

and we haven't seen anything like this from any other Viking. the closest we've got is Skyblock!Viking recognizing Avid, but that might end up getting spun off into him specifically having personal history with Avid considering he's currently being targeted by the Old One. (there's also the vague implications that Gilded!Viking is Dominion!Viking because of him and Josh riffing on it a bit, but im gonna be honest i have no idea what to take away from that / don't know if it was intended to be anything more than "haha hey we used to be in a thing together")

so ALL OF THAT combined with Navigator casually hijacking tViking is just. making me wonder if maybe tViking is actually Built Different in some way. that he's somehow intertwined enough with the Vikingverse or whatever to act as a conduit for the others when he's in a sleepwalk state. maybe that's how he went under the radar in the first place? Navigator might've noticed other Vikings popping up in weird places, but didn't put together "it's because there's a Viking there channeling them and he's up to some shit" until he was able to slip in himself.

OH. ONE LAST IDEA. hey. hey you know how we immediately knew it was Somebody Else even before he pulled out the signs because his eyes changed. and how the eyes changing is so far our go-to sign for if a switch happened bc of Sapphire and Navigator having different eyes than Ruby and tViking. assuming Navigator's eyes are actually green and it's not a general "someone else is in control" thing for tViking, that brings up the idea of: how many times have we seen tViking and it hasn't actually been him?

or, on another route, what other changes are we going to need to look out for when Vikings that aren't Navigator "wake up"? are we going to be able to notice them at all?

i have finally come out of my shell enough in vikingcord to start dropping absolute bricks of text. what the fuck is up with tviking. how many vikings are in there. is he just a conduit for any other viking that falls asleep out there in the multiverse. what hte fuck