#most of it is Dreamswap

[onebizarrekai]

I'm thinking of reuploading all the old ds music (among other things) into post form in addition to all their variations. there's a lot that didn't ever get put online, plus a lot of other music that never got put on here in the first place, so I'm just sort of feeling that right now

[isame-allen]

This is what happens when the daydream get too strong

[orange-dreamzer]

Dreamswap: the Autism spectrum

[moraymoth]

If DS error had a pet, who would it be?

Probably a snake if Kevin didn't eat snakes - or like a spider in its own little cage. I could go turtle too, probably a box turtle, in like an enclosure he keeps off the ground and dresser? The snake could be like called Noodle because of Cross? The spider would be something like Buzz and then the turtle could just be called Finn after Adventure Time.

There's a couple of ideas for you.

[moonfurthetemmie]

So im curious and since nobody ask that much about fester, sooooooo can you tell more about the little demon

hi I started to answer this yesterday and had to put it down so I forgot about it

Lemme see…

We haven’t really thought about their lore beyond how they ended up possessing a 15 y/o kid. But they do have something to do with nightmares, probably in a metaphorical sense given what happens in Red Sky, so they’re probably far more powerful than they appear. I doubt Pulaski knows the full extent of their power.

I don’t know if they and Kevin know each other personally, but they’d definitely recognize the other as a demon immediately.

They might also be eating the stuff they’re feeding Spindle. I don’t think they really care, and until their new body has transformed far past any imitation of humanity, they need to feed it.

Their gender is a big “don’t know, don’t care.” Whether this is their general gender identity or they just don’t care to make it comprehenabls to mortals is known only to them.

In a similar vein, I don’t think they care about clothes, beyond making sure they’re not too obviously Not Normal in public. They were really really bad at it at first, but they’ve gotten better. They still raise some eyebrows for their fashion choices. When they’re at the house they’re using as their lair they care even less. They’d probably wear the same outfit for a week straight if Pulaski wasn’t there to say “your clothes are filthy and starting to smell. You’re only going to draw more attention to yourself the longer you go without changing. I’ll buy you new clothes if I have to just please change”

They treat Spindle like a fighting dog he doesn’t really care about. They have to feed him and ‘discipline’ him, and train him to follow orders. The most disturbing part for Pulaski is that that’s…kind of exactly what Spindle’s acting like.

Fester can’t be killed by any weapon know to mortals. Especially while their stolen body is still at least partly human. Sparrow can banish them back to whatever nether realm they came from, but only another demon—and with great effort on their part—can really kill them. Kevin probably could

The teenager they possessed is still technically alive, but they’re not in there anymore. Just the demon. Poor kid.

the real Bobby never had the time to question their gender, but had they survived they would’ve realized they’re a girl. Using gender neutral pronouns because I’m torn between ‘well technically Bobby never transitioned so it would still be he/him’ and ‘ok yeah but we made the character, we said she’s trans, so we can use she/her.’ That being said do whatever you want, Bobby is no longer able to have opinions so they won’t care

[thatwonpersons]

Nightmarch Day 12

Eldritch

[littlechaoticpeep]

Novi and Nox’s honest reaction to Little nova:

[brainworms-all-night-long]

All inclusive intro to the hellspace that's my brain and this blog!! Do not attempt to find any parallels in my blorbos to my behavior and desires I promise it says nothing about the very core of me as a living being haha

And while you're here, please donate to these fundraisers for Lama and Mohammed, Sahar Shehab, Maryam, Wasim, Heba Al-Dahdouh, Mahmoud and Ali as I'm unable to do so myself

Every silly appearing above lives fulltime in my brain and refuses to pay the mortgage, in fact, is very adamant they will never do so. Henceforth, I yap about them sometimes!! Some more than others *coughNinecough* but they are always present

>Now to the tags I actively use!!

sonic prime / sonic the hedgehog / miles nine prower – The most of thoughts at the actual documented begining of life for this blog, and I like Nine!! A lot!! A character made specifically for me I think....

murder drones / arcane / nimona 2023 / dreamtale (UTMV) – Other stuff besides Sonic that I draw and yap about, although this is still mainly a Sonic blog

me does arts / littol doodl / actually finished doodl – My art tags!! I've been drawing the same character for over a year and a half now help :D Have no idea why I decided to split them into three separate categories but I belive the names are pretty self explanatory

me when I finish writing – I do a drabble or two sometimes as well just, don't expect for me to actually finish anything I start writing even though I say I will, that tag name is a lie

the silly text box – answered asks whenever I rember to use the tag lmao

silly brainworms – my yappings, Nine character analyses and headcannons!!

There's no talk tag, if you see my random unrelated thoughts, it was destined and once in a lifetime event

>I also have a few AUs but mostly of the "What if crossover" variety

Prime bros – a more or less non commited collaborative effort of random.headcannons and drabbles between me and @/000marie198 and anyone else who has thoughts and wants to join in on the fun on the idea of having the Shatterverse foxes (Nine, Sails, Mangey and Tails) living together in green hill and causing mayhem because the way the show left them was bullshit and unsatisfying!!

The same but different is my own personal version of the prime bros universe that is now actually being incredibly slowly written and the first two chapters are on my Ao3!!

Project 09 – a Tails gets adopted by Eggman AU exept its Nine getting "adopted" by the Chaos Council and he is not having a good time, scratch that, no one is having a good time in there. Exept for the Council, they're vibing

Over the hills – is a Dreamtale and Sonic crossover brough on by The Nine-tailed travel guide through the multiverse event conceived by @/Donelywell and mashed with my long time held dreamswap au idea of Dream taking Night and running away from the village after taking some drastic measures that is also posted on Ao3!! (more stuff will come to it in time. I hope)

running from a Nightmare – another Dreamtale au, this time about corrupted Nightmare being set loose on the Sonic world by none other than Eggman and the suffering that comes with it (also fighting tooth and tail to get it written)

the n 'n n's (read as m&m's) – unserious crossover where I put Nine Night and Nimona together and have them be silly (perhaps Nuzi will tag along some day too...)

And because I keep having Dreamtale & Sonic thoughts, I do lump them all together under the dreamtale and sonic tomfoolery tag!!

prime arcane – as seen above, I like arcane!! Jinx and Nine are eerily similar in their sibling and identity struggles, I put them together, boom an Au :D other characters are there too but I need to get around actually designing them....

>This will get updated in case I get possessed by something new or remeber a tag I forgor

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Hey you scrolled this far might as well put some more random trivia abt me here :D

>paleontology and zoology nerd, but only as an avid listener to four hour YouTube documentaries, I don't actually know shit- (Miniminuteman, Casual Geo and Lydnsey Nikole hyper carry this special interest shoutout to them)

>Obviously a followup to previous point needed, favorite dinosaur is the Archeopterix and the animal ever is the Blunt Headed Tree Snake (which is also my Sonicsona by the name of Shoelace)

>I have a pet snake, her name is Ebi and is a black head spider python!!

>Fourth (and last, pray for me please) year of studying Mechanical engineering, I also have no fucking clue what I'm doing, I don't know a lick of math :DD

>Favorite color is pink!! (In case you couldn't tell by my art and this whole post lmao) I went through a goddamn hero's journey to learn to love it alright you can pry the seven plain hot pink shirts and hoodies in own from my cold dead hands

>I'm Slovak!! Niečo niečo hokej, Tatry, a zlatý Bažant

>Aro, Ace and Agender (that's where the AAA battery comes in lmao)

>undiagnosed but there's.... something...

>I could recite the story of the ugly duckling backwards as a kid (unrelated to previous two points)

[antivoiid]

hot take * smirk * ;

do not get me wrong , i dislike the og lusttale as much as the next person , but people who hate remakes of it genuinely confuse me .

usually their reasoning is something like " the au itself was weird . its bad to remake something that was already bad ! ! just leave it . "

that take would make sense if they didnt like other aus ( and their remakes ) that had similar things going on , which most of the time they do . my friend made a list of some examples for me , but i am so positive that there are more .

dreamswap - sh¡ps dreammare, states that dream and n¡ghtmare arent brothers (for the purpose of sh¡pp¡ng them)

echotale- frans.

flowerfell- frans.

sooner or later youre gonna be m¡ne - frans

ok that is all it just confuses me bad if someone wants to have a conversation about this with me regardless of how you feel , please do , i am genuinely all ears

* tips fedora *

[ask-codeearasure]

Dreamswap Critique Part 2: Turns out this isn't a Dreamswap but it's inspired by Dreamtale a bit, Ouija just had a bimbo moment.

Okay so while taking a refreshing shower after listening to one of my favorite video essays, I just found myself having an extremely ravenous need to rip another pair of designs apart with sadistic yet constructive glee. So this week’s victim– I mean subject, are these two goobers Faith and Frenzy, two characters who this time are based off of the Dreamtale brothers in some aspect but clearly are not the same people.

Look at these goobs. They goobin.

I must start with a self-correction, though. Before writing this rant I assumed Frenzy and Faith also came from some version of Dreamswap. Sarco had to correct me. They don’t have the same creator, it’s not even the same artstyle. That’s on me for assuming impulsively. (This has been a certified Ouija-Bimbo-Moment ™ )

Onebizzarekai created Dreamswap. Faith and Frenzy were created by Unu-Nunu, who is also the creator of Pale and Template, which are two really good designs. I highly suggest you check them out when you get the chance.

Starting with Faith, who is inspired by Dream, let’s begin with what he is wearing. It's zipped/buttoned up and shows him to be far more closed off as an individual. He is shielding his chest/heart from the world, and it could be viewed that he himself will not tell us what is on his mind.

Frenzy on the other hand has his coat open which shows he's humble and open with his emotions. With how tattered his clothes are, even going as far to have stitches around the rim of his hood, he looks like the type who either gets attacked a lot or looks to be someone who is not as well off as Faith. He wears his emotions on his sleeve and gets into a lot of danger though we don't know if that is willingly or unwillingly. If anything, if I had to pick one to trust in a life or death situation if I didn't know them, I'd pick Frenzy hands down because he looks to be the more open one, the more “Yup. I’ve seen this before…” one.

Faith, meanwhile, is far too clean, far too prestigious-looking. He comes across as a rich kid going on his first ever hike and would get pissed if a speck of dirt or a blade of grass got onto his cloak or stained said cloak. The only thing that would even give you “traveler vibes” is his living branch which is the most toned deaf choice I’ve ever seen – also if you’re wondering, yes this would apply to any Genshin character that happens to wear white. White is a wholly impractical color when it comes to designing a character that is supposed to be one that travels a lot.

White as a color is a sign of “purity” ; it's why every single angel ever painted has white wings. It’s why women have worn white dresses when they have a wedding, etc. White equates purity, but it is unfitting for a character that is meant to travel a lot, and therefore, be exposed to elements that will wreck whatever semblance of “purity” they began with. Travelling is synonymous with experience. Unless there is a narrative reason white is included anyway, the color does not mesh with this theme.

We also need to address another aspect of the stave, that being it's a living branch. It has leaves. Usually when using this type of concept for character design this signifies the character is tied to nature as a whole and most specifically plant life. This is why a lot of Grass Type Pokemon usually have leaves and flowers as legit parts of their biology.

But there is nothing about Faith that attributes to him being tied to nature.

To give an example, the champion Lillia is a nature spirit who has a flower growing out of her head, her hair and eyelashes are flower petals, she has a living branch she uses to collect dreams for the tree that is her mother-tree who is dying. The stave fits her with this information in mind, not Faith.

Not to mention it must be asked: Did Unu forget that the player can sweep the entirety of Undertale with a stick as a weapon, or are these characters supposed to be separated from the rules of this game? My criticism here would be rendered moot if the latter is true, but I’ve looked and found no confirmation on which it’s supposed to be, so I’m gonna keep talking anyway.

Dreamtale itself is meant to be separate from Undertale in so many aspects, but whatever Frenzy and Faith are supposed to be hasn’t been made clear.

Okay, time for a rant about Undertale in general and how the creator of these two characters either didn’t understand the story or message of the game itself or disregarded it for other reasons—

Undertale as a game is often talked about having a strong message of pacifism and genocide but there is a bigger message that is comically missed to such a point that I’m shocked that everyone missed it, even me, a fucking Pokemon fan. To spell it out I’m going to give you a direct quote from one of my favorite youtubers but I will not give you their name to spare them from being harassed more than they already are:

“Even when I came away with very positive feelings about something, people still needed to desperately cope and make up fiction to avoid accepting the idea that... a person with ADHD doesn't want to reread the same quippy banter 12 times in a row?  It's so fucking weird. People did that with Undertale as well. I've seen people get harassed because they refuse to play the Genocide run, by fans who think it's necessary for a complete experience. Even though the Genocide run is one long running commentary about how you're only doing this because of an avaricious drive for more content, never being satisfied with a good ending. Even when the game takes you by the hand and walks you out of it in the True ending, you still have this insatiable need to wring more content out of it.”

Do you know how weird it is to think that you want to go back and forth over and over and over again just to kill every single monster in the Underground as a sick way of getting more content? Why are you so voracious in the need to squeeze more content out of this game? You got the true ending. Why are you fucking doing this. The most popular boss – Sans – literally has an attack style straight out of fucking TouHou just to hammer it into your dense ass skulls that what you’re doing is beyond stupid and pointless.

Hell, Chara themself outright deletes the world and if you try to wring EVEN MORE CONTENT out of the game. You are forced to make a deal with them and then get the worst ending in the game, where it’s implied that you’ll be possessed by Chara who will still delete the fucking world but in a more sadistic manner just to spite you specifically.

I mean youtubers find it so tedious that they have to cut the video and try to avoid looking bored out of their mind. There is nothing interesting about it gameplay wise. Shiny Hunting in Pokemon is more interesting than the Genocide Run in Undertale because at least you have to battle or hatch eggs or both. You have something more to do there instead of the same exact process repeatedly.

The True Ending of Undertale is about a random scrappy small child falling into the Underground and happens to wind up freeing the Monsters and making friends. Literally the only two items Frisk has is a stick and a bandaid. They are legitimately a child. Why is a child going to go and commit a fucking genocide? It is literally just Alice in Wonderland but it's with monsters and the child is an orphan.

Committing genocide in Undertale is boring and the majority of the time you are using the fucking stick so the character that has a living branch as a stave is getting the fucking side eye from me because a stave does not communicate pacifism in the context of Undertale!

You can say “Oh, but Frenzy has knives and Chara is always depicted with a knife!”

Yeah. By the fandom. It is not in any way a canon feature.

The only reason why you are saying this is because of one little comment from them in the main game which can be simply summarized by “Finally! A real weapon!” because everything that they had as options before were all things a normal kid would play around with if you discount one thing.

You have a stick which is something any average kid would play outside with if they didn't have any toys or video games.

A toy knife comes with plastic cooking sets… for kids.

A book… ever heard of the children's section at a library?

A pair of boxing gloves which are only used for training and sports. Boxing is a sport. Some kids play sports.

A pair of ballet shoes which are self explanatory but if you need an explanation, there are these things called ballet classes. It's a type of dance that requires a pair of shoes that helps you stand on the tips of your toes and it takes years and years and years to perfect one’s practice of the dance. Many ballet students start as children.

A gun which logically has limited ammo in an irl sense and I've never seen it be actually used in game. If a kid had it before, whoever they got it from was one of the most irresponsible people on the planet or it’s a toy gun. Ever heard of the NERF brand? NERF or nothing?

A pan which likely was given to the Kindness child by Toriel, or that kid had it while camping or shopping with their parents before falling into the Underground.

And then the knife which you get at the end of the game.

Only two of them can be considered actual weapons and only one of them is given to you at the end of the game. And since Chara disregards the gun, that says a lot.

They are melee. And you give the pacifist rep a stick which can be used to slaughter a fucking Boss Monster? That’s certainly a jump. I wouldn’t call it thought out.

If you want a character to represent the pacifist runs, give them a defense item. Give them a shield. Or an invisibility cloak. Or a tennis racket to parry attacks like they’re tennis balls.

But to be honest, if you took out the pictures of Frenzy with the knives… I would've thought he was the pacifist more than Faith was.

But let’s get to his name, “Faith”.

Faith does NOT equate to Pacifism.

Faith doesn't equate Pacifism. Faith doesn't equate to a good person. Faith is not inherently a basis for morality or well-intended justice. Faith isn’t always used to support others. In our world right now, it is being used as a weapon to target, evict, and kill others by the American Republican party.

You can try to negate this with “Oh, but you see the character is secretly a self-centered asshole!”

Wow. Original. How magical. You really got me there. It's not like you just happened to also make him represent the Pacifist Timelines which actively requires you to be a good person and make good decisions to benefit the other characters to get the best endings. How ironic. It's not like everyone makes their characters be ironic because irony = cool which originates from Homestuck which is the greatest waste of time to ever exist and was never good to begin with.

The thing is, the word faith means “to follow something blindly”. You don't need evidence, you just need to believe. And what makes this design all the more Abrahamic religion-inspired is that the fact the character is meant to evoke the idea of a Shepherd, a figure that symbolizes protection and safety, a means of defense to the predators who hunger for the sheep he watches. The Shepherd, by design, is not supposed to be a pacifist if it means his sheep are in danger. He is justified to defend himself or his animals if they are under the threat of harm or death. Shepherds have to be prepared to fight, therefore, Shepherds are not pacifists.

This should not fly over your head. That's the entire idea of this character’s design but fails when it comes to the fact that he's supposed to be an Undertale OC inspired by Dream, or really, if not that, it was probably just the positivity vs negativity theme a fuckton of media have in general. And while positivity and negativity do obviously exist in stories including subjects of pacifism and genocide, those two opposites are not synonymous, nor do they inherently solve anything. Genocide is the worst thing one could do to entire populations of people (we’ve already been seeing that in Gaza, Sudan, etc.), and pacifism is just the life decision to never fight/avoid all fights. It is the belief that violence should never be used as a means to solve anything. Pacifism is not a means to stop genocide, and genocide is a means that kills everything out of systematic prejudice, even the pacifists that choose to do nothing for their own comfort.

Frisk was able to pacify every monster they met because monsters are not inherently violent, aggressive beings. They have a conscience. They are more accustomed to and prefer kindness and pacifism over violence and aggression. Pacifism works for Frisk because their temporary adversaries are open to change.

In genocide, the people perpetrating it all are already beyond reason and have been that way for a long, long time. Their minds are set on mass murdering thousands to millions of people. They do not want a change except the one only they will benefit from. Pacifism, especially from their victims and bystanders, makes them stronger. The only way to combat genocide is through direct rebellion and violence. Regardless, genocide is the obvious wrong. There is no debate.

Violence in and of itself is a tool. It can be used to subjugate others, or it could be used for defense.

The messages in comparison are simplified and muddled within the concepts of Faith and Frenzy, and the designs don’t do much to help with that. They don’t add or remove anything of value and all I get when I look at them are questions and observations with no answers or supportive context I have missed for rebuttal. I would like to like these characters, but outside the points I bring up in this rant they’re just… bland.

It’s entirely fixable if Unu ever wants to come back to them, they’re just not for me as they are.

Okay, that’s enough of Faith, let’s look at his counterpart.

I’m going to repeat myself but it’s okay because it will all make sense soon. He has his cloak messy and open, which is a universal character design sign of showing us that he is more humble and open with his emotions. With how tattered his clothes are, even going as far to have visible stitches around the rim of his hood, he looks like the type who either gets attacked a lot or looks to be someone who is not as well off as Faith. He wears his emotions on his sleeve and gets into a lot of danger, as shown with the bandages being evident of that, though we don't know if that is willingly or unwillingly. If anything, if I had to pick one to trust in a life or death situation if I didn't know them, I'd pick Frenzy hands down because he looks to be the more open one, the more “Yup. I’ve seen this before…” one.

It can be stated that he’s supposed to be the representation of the Genocide Runs, it falls flat on jump because of Frisk.

Thing is, it's evident that Frisk does not look very well off in the game.

For one thing their “defense item” was a bandaid and they fell from a great height into the Underground. A great enough height that it hid an entire civilization from the world with little to no problems. And they can outright choose to be adopted by Toriel showing that they are in fact an orphan, given you complete the game through a Pacifist route.

Look at Frenzy's design.

He looks like he steals food just to survive. He looks like he gets into fights often and is struggling to keep going just because of how his clothes are tattered and has visible patchwork on his hood. He has bandages on his body showing that he's either lost some fights or didn't get out of those fights unscathed, needed to avoid any infections and wrapped said wounds in bandages. His shirt is two sizes too big!

This tells me that the creator thinks that “Impoverished = Violent / Uncivilized” which is… certainly a choice. It’s incorrect and disgusting but I’m giving Unu the benefit of the doubt that this message was not intended.

The way Frenzy looks simply tells me that he is beyond unprivileged meanwhile Faith looks like he is some pompous rich kid who decided to go “slumming it with the poor” and thinks that the outfit he's wearing wouldn't look too fancy in comparison to those that are actually poor, only to find out that it's still fucking blatantly high end shit.

Wait a minute.

Hear me out for a second.

One of my favorite shows is Arcane. I've made it abundantly clear that I’m a League of Legends fan, but in Arcane we get a very similar dynamic that I just described. We get this with Caitlyn and Vi.

Someone once made a comment about how Cait and Vi’s relationship made no sense at all and how Cait constantly treated Vi like trash, using the moment when Vi decides to stop by a small restaurant in Zaun.

I pointed out that Cait is so privileged that she doesn't even have the awareness to think about things from Vi’s perspective and never fucking tries to. She didn't think of dressing like a Zaunite meanwhile Vi has the awareness to steal Cait some clothes instead of letting her go around dressed like an enforcer.

Vi points out to Cait that she cannot go around asking questions if she actually wants answers – meaning Cait needs to actually do things gently and subtly.

Vi states, “You go around thinking you'll get what you want, but you need to make people think you have what they want.”

But this scene is skipped over simply for the “you're hot, cupcake” line and that's it.

Cait is so privileged that she doesn't see the way she is treating Zaunites is wrong and it's so subtle because she isn't using the same language as the character Marcus (using “Trencher-Trash”, “Sump-Rats”, etc.). Hell, Cait went around poisoning Zaunites and viewed it as a necessity and good despite the fact that that same gas would kill her and normal Piltovans in SECONDS.

But what truly makes this all beyond evident is the way she and Vi dress in comparison to each other, specifically in the first 3 episodes of Arcane Season 1.

Vi wears very neutral tones, her pants and shirt look like they're two sizes too big for her, she has bandages, her shoes are very plain looking, and her vest is tiny and has a belt that looked like it was originally used for a much smaller and younger version of herself or maybe her baby sister.

Caitlyn, on the other hand…

She has a poofy top with gold trimmings, a purple skirt, white leggings, and Mary Jane's.

Which one of these two characters do you think comes from wealth?

It's Cait. If you guessed Vi, you’re either blind, stupid, or wasn’t aware of these design gimmicks.

So when I say Faith looks like a pompous rich kid in comparison to Frenzy and this doesn't fit with the messaging of Undertale as a whole because remember Faith = Pacifist Run, while Frenzy = Genocide Run, it doesn’t make sense. Or at least, any sense that would fall flat on its face.

Okay, back to Frenzy.

Looking at Frenzy and his name, it's okayish in the sense it's a very basic idea as a name, however it is failed by the design of the character. He doesn't look like he himself is the violent one, just someone who is used to being put in situations where he is forced to use violence.

I mean if he really is violent, why would he hide his weapons? Hiding the weapons communicates “I might need this later / I might need this in case of an emergency.”

If he is the violent one of the two then he should have the weapons out in the open. Have them litter him fully.

To use a more minor example, look at Hidan from Naruto.

He is always carrying his giant as hell scythe out in the open. If you see that out in public in the Naruto universe, that is a threat. That is where you see parents pulling their children close and worrying about whether or not they should run, preferably in the exact opposite direction.

Having such a big and blatantly dangerous weapon out in the open that just screams the word “violence is the only option” is better than the characters just hiding them. That is getting past the fact that the entirety of the Akatsuki is wearing the exact same cloak which has already been communicated as a violent group thanks to Itachi and Kisame. Hidan is just the most direct one about it.

Then we also have the fact that if Frenzy is the violent one, why not litter him with scars showing that not only is he violent but actively THRIVES in it? Naruto also has another character that actively shows this kind of idea with the other character from the Zombie Combo, that being Kakuzu.

He is stitched up like an overly loved doll that got shredded by a feral rabid cat. So when it's revealed that this guy was the one to fight the first Hokage and survived that ass beating it's not surprising because, LOOK AT HIM. That man persevered like a damn tank!

So with the fact that Frenzy has no scars and not openly showing his weapons, he does not scream violence. His design does not scream aggression. It does not scream obvious evil intent. He does not scream genocidal. He just looks like a kid that needs a mom to scoop him up and adopt him and get him some new clothes.

“BUT WAIT!” I hear you screaming. “You said that having the open vest was a bad thing for Frenzy but Hidan has his bare fucking chest out in the open! His tits are out in the open air! What about that, huh?”

Have you watched Naruto Shippuden? It’s okay if you didn’t, I’ll explain my thought process anyway.

Hidan doesn't hide his emotions. Hidan wears them openly and proudly. This is a fact. Either you get calm priest of Jashinism, or you get a manic sadomasochist who is going to laugh in your face, cussing you out and calling you more slurs than you could ever comprehend as he stabs himself through his heart after his weird jutsu is already linked to you causing you to die from that very wound without him actively stabbing you through the heart. And he's a thirst trap on top of that.

It's fitting for Hidan. We have all the behavior, backstory, and extra context to support his whole concept and role in his source.

It's not fitting for Frenzy, because Frenzy doesn’t have that. He wasn’t given that thought, at least not from what Unu has posted about him. The closest we’ve been given to “evil” from him is basic annoying asshole behavior and Faith’s basic reactions to his very existence.

Then we have the lack of shoes. Lack of shoes are a universal signal to a character that is down to earth or even someone who is connected to it.

Look at Toph Beiphong from Avatar the Last Airbender, she is so connected to the earth that she has seismic sense, able to see through the ground via vibrations in the earth itself and even when she's elderly, she can see everyone on the entire planet.

If you want another example, let's look at someone who represents the idea of frenzy better than Frenzy himself. Meet Briar from League of Legends.

Briar is a blood golem experiment in Noxus. The story with Briar is that she is a blood golem, she was created from pure magic to be a living weapon, but when the new ruler of Noxus captured her and had her locked away with her fellow golems, who were all starving from a lack of blood, she realized that she was bored as shit and wanted to try being more than a starving golem. She wanted to be a person.

For lack of a better word, she wants to be normal.

Even in her trailer, she outright kept calling a guy her friend and her “escape buddy”. She wants friends, she wants to be able to socialize and be a person, not a weapon or just a starving creature. In her voice lines she is trying to convince herself that she has control over her hunger and who she is. In her voice lines in the game she outright goes around asking other champions to share their blood.

This is all subtly shown via her lack of shoes, showing that she is trying to fully ground herself and be self aware. She is connected to the earth. A big part of her character is a symbolic rock. Her intentions and outlook of herself are solid and stable.

Yes, having practical footwear is important to travel but it can also communicate something else: a lack of resources.

With the high top boots that Faith has and having pure white clothes which is very typical for angelic characters and character designs it also communicates an abundance of resources.

Where Frenzy with his lack of shoes and simply relying on tattered clothes that looks like he has to sit down and patch up for hours on end, and wrap and rewrap his feet on bandages, he looks like he just escaped an abusive household, stole some clothes and bandages and has been running from the cops for years.

He looks more like he's a street rat like Aladdin rather than someone who is evil and dangerous.

Again, this tells me that the artist views people who are in poverty are evil just for being poor, where the rich are the good guys because they're rich. But there is no way of me knowing these were Unu’s intentions at all, because it’s very likely it’s the exact opposite and Unu wasn’t thinking about poverty at all. They could have been inspired by very, very ratty looking demons or something. I’m not a mind reader, I wouldn’t know.

But let’s look at Frenzy’s primary weapon.

Knives can be dangerous, don't get me wrong, but it's not a typical weapon. It's utility.

A knife is something you use for cooking, whittling, and sharpening and defense. It's not the first mode for attack.

Hell I even had to find multiple reasons for this particular item to be the main weapon for one character and an optional weapon for another.

Such as Edelweiss, it's supposed to be attached to his bayonet.

It's not the first line of attack, it's the last line of defense and survival.

If Frenzy is supposed to be the dangerous one, why use basic knives, why not kunai, or a sword, or a scythe, or ANYTHING ELSE?

And finally there is the color scheme. Faith’s is decent but again it still communicates wealth and purity and all that other superior garbage, and Frenzy's… Frenzy's color scheme is an overdone choice that anyone can see from a mile away and say “Oh, that's a villain. Neat.” that I want to scream.

I can hear Team Rocket calling to demand their color scheme back.

Black and red... Revolutionary.

It's been used by every single villain concept in popular media: Team Rocket, Jafar, Harley Quinn, EVERY SINGLE SITH CHARACTER IN STAR WARS. Seriously, I'm sick of it.

It's the most overused color scheme ever.

You can try to use that argument against me with Klezmer, but only his turtleneck is red and it's negated by everything else, especially his hood and cape which are gold.

I mean yes, Frenzy does have specs of gold and neutral tones like muted reds and gray, but it’s still over done.

Also I just looked at his and Faith's designs again at the time of writing… I didn’t notice the star and heart motifs on their cloaks.

So you give Faith the Save-Point star, and Frenzy the heart….

So you give Faith the tool the player uses to constantly RESET the timeline, while you give Frenzy the one symbol for love and human souls in the game…. Again, Frenzy is more linked to Frisk than he is to anything else.

Now… I know what you're going to inevitably say.

“Well Ouija, if designing Dreamtale-inspired characters is soooooo easy… then why don't you do it?!”

Well guess what…

I did.

Take that! [Evil laughter ensues.]

As an artist and writer I’ve always had a… unique way of going about my designs. For one, I tend to pick one aspect of something I like, run off in that direction and pick up things as I go along. I usually have a small idea in the back of my mind that is an itch I haven’t scratched. For this one it’s the idea of toxicity.

I literally wrote the word “Toxic” in the picture, so it should be blatantly obvious. I took note that the fandom loves doomed siblings and it shows. Toxic relationships are almost if not blatantly fetishized by the fandom to a horrifying degree, from incest to abusive siblings and outright abusive victim and trafficker ships like Killermare (gross), it’s almost unescapeable. I could hide all these ships from myself by blocking the tags, but let’s be real, not everyone is going to use them. Some clearly don’t give a flying fuck. So let me bitch, will ya?

I then took the idea that I used for my actual Dreamtale based AU, that being instead of a goopy goop monster for Nightmare, I go into a more ethereal direction.

Because I used Dreamswap as spiteful inspiration for this idea, I kept this Nightmare design as a solid skeleton, but gave him a gasmask and a smoking flask that gives off the idea that if he threw it at someone, you’d get nothing but smoke. I also had the idea that without the mask, his breathing would create green toxic smoke that would bring nothing but negativity to everything and everyone around him.

The idea obviously spawns from The Gray from Arcane/League of Legends, but it also comes from the idea of toxic fandoms and communities and other populations in general. Think of the harassment that the Jokublog has gotten on and off for about eight years now, or any transgender person who happens to exist happily, or any girl that dares to join a VC in an online game, or transfemmes if they exist in any proximity to a cisgender woman, or a transmasc if they breathe in lesbianism’s general direction, or a thirteen year old discovering they’re a therian and unfortunately TikTok caught wind of that, or— I’ll stop.

Talking to Sarco briefly about this idea, they brought up the idea that he has the mask to hide his identity, while I got the idea that because he represents the Negativity of the Positive/Negative dynamic, he just doesn’t care about other AUs and is so focused on getting his brother back, he just experiments on his magic and uses the other AUs as his lab rats.

I also went with Cybergoth as the main outfit style of choice. My reason being is because, again, that idea of “Toxic”, and the fact that Cybergoth is the most underutilized version of goth in all of media. I will admit that this design is very much half-assed. I didn’t put nearly as much effort as I would with my normal designs. But that’s mainly because I’m wholly uninterested in making a Dreamswap AU. I put in as little effort as I could but enough to at the very least make him interesting enough to myself and what I think might be at least intriguing to anyone that looks at him.

I needed to make this character look like he could play either role as villain or hero or even just being an agitating neutral party. He could be a hero in one perspective, or a villain in the other. I needed his design to also get people to ask “Who is he? What’s his story?” because that’s the entire idea of making a character. You make them designed enough to invoke that outside interest.

As for the color choice I chose black and a bright neon green. It’s my personal favorite color combination. I find that people use either purple or red as their stereotypical “poison” and “evil” color choices and adding black on top of it just triples down on those aspects, but for whatever reason a bright neon green screams “toxicity” to me. Maybe it’s how radiation is depicted as a bright green in media. I don’t know, but it’s something that I just like. I also gave him the cracked moon pendant to show that he is damaged in some way. But I also added the design of Dream’s circlet on the collar, as a way of showing him perhaps holding on to the past but isn’t willing to speak about it. It’s literally tethered to him.

But that’s enough of this design that took me maybe an hour and a half of my life I’m never going to get back…

To leave off this entire tangent, I’ll say something nice about Faith and Frenzy’s designs.

For one, I love the halo idea, it is such a unique take on the circlets, and shows their ties to the originals’ designs without rehashing it – if Unu happens to read this entire shitshow somehow, keep the halos, but maybe change Frenzy’s, the whole devil-horn idea isn’t really working on him.

Adding purple to Faith’s design was a nice choice, it adds this nice softness that would’ve been missing in the design without it.

I love how expressive the characters are in the ref sheets. Frenzy’s expressions in particular can get 500 Italian finger kisses from me. The top right corner image of him with the vines just gives nothing but cheeky-bastard energy and I’m all here for it.

At the end of the day, these are just my hot-takes and so long as I keep getting the message of “Just put effort into your designs even if it’s just a little” I did my job with this. If you have any comments or questions just either comment in the towel section or throw yourself into the ask box, one of us will respond.

Either way, keep drawing, put in effort… My carpal tunnel is trying to murder me.

-- Ouija

[onebizarrekai]

Random question

Do you happen to have the file that has blues theme but in piano ver

Cuz I’m tryna make the music sheet and I wanna reference from it if I can if you’ll allow it

(Sorry if it doesn’t make sense)

hi there. I have a few versions and all of them are slightly different.

above is the original midi from soundcloud. it sounds deep fried, has much clunkier harmonies that are awkward to play, but it is the og. evil blue vibes here. he is up to no good.

below is the piano midi version that is easier on the ear from 2019, I think, with adjusted harmonies.

but finally. here is me playing it this morning. ignore my weird technique, I'm a singer. it's not exactly perfect in piano form, the fingering isn't really smooth, but it is possible. it has one musical difference from the midi one up there simply because I wasn't following that version exactly, but it's mostly the same. except I played it way faster. take whatever tempo you please.

[isame-allen]

The Beamer sisterssss

[necropathys]

I've seen a drawing of Eclipsetale!Dream (Sun), SwapDream!Dream (Swad), and Dreamswap!Dream together and found it quite amusing on how all of them have wings, yet despite it DS!Dream is probably the most sanest one out of those two...

To be fair, he only ate 198 apples compared to the 999 the other two consumed. It makes sense that he comes across as the most 'normal' on the surface. Of course, I don’t think he’s truly normal either, but he’s at least capable of maintaining a façade—something the other two struggle with entirely.

[lizzyflowers]

Dreamswap... dear beloved Dreamswap... I have so many thoughts about you....

Gosh i need these two to confront their feelings and hurt and heal and recover and give each other comfort so desperately you can't even imagine.. No i don't spend each and every waking hour thinking about them what do you mean haha...

Below the cut is me rambling, this is your time to scroll past to save yourself from the insanity i will get into.

These two, THESE TWO!! I can't even comprehend my own thoughts for them, like, i imagine too many scenarios. The angst is insane because i need them to suffer but i also need them to lovingly hold each other in their arms.

I need Dream to realise how much of a mistake his actions are and how flawed his world view is, like, WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU WANT TO KILL YOUR CHILDHOOD BEST FRIEND THAT WAS THE ONLY PERSON WHO SAW YOU AS THEIR EQUAL BACK WHEN YOU BOTH WERE KIDS??!?!? AUGHH, I can't even, the angst potential is so good, yes i know it's an AU that's centred around comedy and filled to the brim with gags but i need you to look at me in the eyes and genuinely tell me as if these two aren't in the most tragic situations ever.

Dream completely believes wholeheartedly that killing Nightmare is the only way to eradicate all negativity and being upset about the notion, but pushing down his conflicted feelings because he prioritises the happiness of the majority of the multiverse and wishes nothing but a better future.

No matter how much the thought hurts him but he's numbed all of his feelings towards Nightmare that he regards the other with indifference.

And Dream is tired. He is so tired of chasing Nightmare, from the ever growing responsibilities that he has to take care of as the head of an organisation, from the endless nights he would stay awake to finish his work. He used to love someone, but that someone probably hates him. He couldn't fix it and acted as if nothing happened.

He used to have another person that he loved dearly, that he cherished, but now they were gone as their illness consumed them. He's angry, but not at them, at himself. Maybe if he knew, maybe if he was fast enough, he could've saved them. But he was too late, and now they are gone.

And the only other person that used to love him doesn't want to be anywhere near him anymore and he knows it's his fault. God, why did he have to mess everything up?

It seems as if every person that he ever loved will eventually drift away from him. Taken away from him by his own actions or things outside of his control.

He catches himself looking at the old and worn pictures he has of him and Nightmare when they were younger when they were happier, the picture is fragile, the passage of time wearing it down, it's yellowed and he keeps it in a picture frame.

Sometimes he can't bear looking at it, placing the picture frame down on its front. He hides away the other photographs in a locked drawer in his bedroom.

Sometimes he fiddles with the sun charm around his shirt collar, running his finger along the ridges as he stares off into space, being pulled to reality as someone knocks on the door to his office, snapping him out of his reminiscing.

Sometimes when he lays down in his bed in the rare times he would actually sleep, he would imagine another presence in front of him, their messy black hair strewn about as they rest, face peaceful.

It brings him back to the past and he has to close his eyes and try to ignore it. Ignore the voices he would hear, calling out to him, ignore the faces that would remind him of someone...

Nightmare feeling so betrayed that the only person that he thought would have his back in his entire life to go against him, just like everyone else. He looks up towards Dream so much, admiring the other's dedication and kindness.

But to be chased away, falsely accused, being labelled a criminal, having the entire world against him and knowing that he's blamed for all the despair that's inflicted towards him. This guy has every right to be a villain, but he proved them wrong, he kept going, not heeding the words they say to him, what they label him as because he knows they're wrong. (Or does he? does he doubt himself all the time? does he question the things they say about him? does he ever wonder or think to himself that they were right? that what they are saying isn't completely far from the truth? that maybe they're right and he should just disappear from the face of the world for the betterment of everyone?). Coming so close to death so many times, never having the comfort of knowing that he'll have a roof over his head anymore, not knowing if he'll have food to eat, never sleeping soundly, being plagued by Nightmare and visions of his own death, of his imprisonment. Getting cuts, bruises and fractures and pushing aside the pain because he has to keep going, he has to keep going or else they'll catch him and that will be the end of his life, no matter how bleak it all seems.

And what if it all comes to end before he know it? What if Dream finds Nightmare and his bloody body, dead from the hands of other, or even himself? How would Dream feel then? That the person he was after was no longer alive at the hands of others, or worse, by the hands of the same person that used to look at him with comfort and smiles in their eyes?

That he failed as a friend, not being able to save his best friend from their own hands. It was his fault, wasn't it? He drove Nightmare to do this, and now he's gone. The guilt would gnaw away it his soul and Nightmare couldn't have that, no matter how many times he glances at the sharp objects near him when he felt like giving up. He couldn't do that to Dream. No matter how much he wishes he could just end it all right then and there.

He misses Dream, he misses the time when they would joke and laugh with each other, he misses the way the other would warmly smile at him, when the other would hold him after a bad nightmare in the middle of the night.

He misses Dream's cooking because he was horrible at it himself, he misses when Dream would read to him the stories he read as he dozed off, listening to his voice drone on. He misses when Dream would take care of him when he was sick and stubborn to take care of himself and the other would scold him for not resting. He misses it, he misses it all so dearly and he missed being told that he was loved. He wanted Dream to say it to him again, like nothing ever happened but he couldn't have that anymore.

SOBBING, I AM NOT OKAY ABOUT THESE TWO, AUGHHHHHH

[moonfurthetemmie]

I’ve already forgotten how much about it here and how much I only wrote in the notes for the AU, but Phrikeh’s economy is kinda fucked up rn

Since the whole point of taking over from Delusion was to be a better ruler than him, Byte’s trying to actually be a halfway decent queen. She’s mostly doing a reasonable job (aside from some really odd things happening and some things now being punishable by death. Which is not discouraging the rumors that she and Slash, if not also Pluto, were murderers), too.

Having been a non-Royal citizen for most of her life, Byte’s very much aware of some of the actually serious problems in the kingdom that she now has the power to get fixed. And she’s prioritizing the worst of them! The people are actually quite happy about this

But she’s gotta pay for all of it to be fixed. And she’s never even SEEN this much money in her life before. So she’s not being super responsible. Slash isn’t any better. Pluto could be but he’s not. He didn’t realize how long it took to build up the treasury to where it had been.

Byte raises taxes some (and after all she’s done to fix stuff, most people are actually okay with this), but they know she can’t raise it too much because not everyone can afford that and if she makes people go broke because of taxing she’s doing.

So they’re trying to figure something else out.

Pluto says the best option is to get a trade agreement with some place that can pay good money for whatever they’re offering, but they don’t have much that they aren’t already exporting or is unique enough to them to justify a price over the going market rates.

So while they attempt to figure that out, they have turned to some less noble solutions

Which Hunter gets in on

If Byte ever needs to visit another kingdom on royal business, and it’s not someone they’re already allied with, she’ll have Hunter poke around their hosts’ castle. If she’s hoping to make a new political or trade friend, that’s the extent of it to start with. But if she decides, before arriving or after talking to them, that she doesn’t like them and won’t be making any kind of agreement with them, she has Hunter stuff as much of their money into a bag as he can in about five minutes, tops.

Slash also “borrows” some of the more expensive finery. Which Hunter sells for them. Under a fake name.

The only reason they don’t also steal from their allies and existing trade partners is because they know that’s the fastest way to loose those allies and trade partners. Not that they’re not tempted to. Every so often they seriously consider risking it, but they don’t. They’re not ready to deal with that shitstorm. They’re already on thin ice

No one’s been able to prove anything, but most of the places the royal posse has visited are real sure those little shits stole from them. And the rumors spread. And since Byte was completely unheard of to Phrikeh’s allies until she became queen, none of them are willing to give her the benefit of the doubt just yet. Especially because of how she gained the throne.

Girl took a very rigorous queenly etiquette class (tm) in the first week of her rule, and she’s very gracious and accommodating if they ever come to visit (and she’s screaming mentally the whole time, because she has to play 4D chess about all of it. Can you people not just fucking talk straight and say what you mean??? Gods above.), so it’s pretty much just that she came out of nowhere and pushed Delusion out of the way.

Pluto…they were never a big fan of him. And the feeling’s mutual! But they’re not sure he wouldn’t stoop low enough to steal from them.

He would. But he’s the one who said it was a bad idea, if they wanted to keep their allies. Which they probably should.

Especially since Aphotia has been beating the war drums and trying to take over pretty much the entire world. A sudden change in leadership, especially one that caused so much upheaval, would be a very good opportunity to invade.

[mx-mix-lurker]

I have fallen to gacha reacts of fucking dreamswap and all I fucking want IS A REACTION OF CANON DREAMTALE WHERE NIGHTMARE IS CONSIDERED AS ADORABLE AND ARROGANT (baby is like 16 years old and below, youngest being six and nine being the most likely canon age. I don't remember it keeps changing every time I look)

And very much DEAD

Like come on. Enrich me with the angsty realization that the nightmare they're reacting to is nothing more than sentient magic taken form, a kind of parasite with memories of its host body. That Nightmare died scared, alone and horrible. That he wasn't turned into this hateful, vengeful, petty thing but an odd being has taken his body puppeting a child's corpse!

Like,,, I want them to react with the Dreamtale! Dream who sees what looks like to be his brother but instead of being loved by another version of him, he's being hunted down and while Dream cannot hate, oh does he want to hate. Dream is so bitter. Bitter and sad and oh so horrified that in another life, he was the one who ate the Apples so ravenously that HE MUST HAVE LOST HIS MIND!

Because Dream will refuse to believe that another version of him will act so uncaring for his brother.

Of course, Dream is an unreliable narrator, as he thinks this works like alternate universe. Which he's not wrong, but Dreamswap is different in that Nightmare and Dream were chosen, not made for the Guardian role. For all technicalities. Those are their titles rather than names. Nightmare, the Guardian of Negativite and its Dark Apples and Dream, the Guardian of Positivity and its Golden Apples. And the title just keeps getting shorter and shorter until it just became Nightmare and Dream. It is their role that they have forsaken and used at the same time.

Canon Dreamtale! Dream on the other hand was made for this role, created and formed with the intent of having a temporary Guardians for the Tree of Feelings. Rather than a curse and punishment like in Dreamswap. Which makes it very, very different for the two worlds.

Dream cannot approach them with this belief and thinking. But I want that misunderstand to permeates, to continue obscuring and misleading Dream's understanding of Dreamswap that he snaps into righteous fury.

And blah, blah, blah. Basically I want Dreamswap to be horrified, Canon Dreamtale! Dream being there and slowly loosing his shit because he's also being exposed to what his brother was feeling like before his technical death and then finally snapping and trying to kidnap the Dreamswap Nightmare for his own good. Or something like that.