#nexus family

[evilhorse]

Nexus family poster house ad (circa May 1990)

[lucabyte]

i feel like people are sleeping on the occam's razor situation of how buckwild it is to outright accuse a guy of being a clone of your friend even if you DO have a lot of circumstantial evidence. there's other options is what im saying. they could just be like. a guy. that's a sensible deduction. you should explore that deduction. ignore my shirt that reads I <3 RED HERRINGS.

i still think odile has the correct theory on lock but she's smart enough to know it needs like... a real smoking gun to be able to bring it up without sounding insane.

anyway. (mirabelle voice) i know its rude to speculate but has anyone else noticed the grieving? they seem to be grieving. does anyone have any thoughts on the grieving? i have some thoughts on the grieving.

[rainbowspinch]

Don’t talk to me about the rules of ancestor titles I’m a rapscallion

[stackslip]

we are so fucking back fujimoto im still mad about nayuta but youve near bought me back

[banefort]

co-presidents of the “my father is the worst man alive, and i am his favorite daughter” club

[ryomaandgundhamkin]

Infection AU Doodles

idk why the quality sucks uh anyways (fixed)

here are the infection AU doodles!! YAYAYY!! I found your solstice design😈-

I didn’t know what to put and I ran out of ideas I’m sorry don’t ask why there’s a beaker it’s totally relevant to the story

guess who’s arm that is💖 :3

HERE YOU GO @sunny-inajar eat up 🗣️

please I love this au need more lore👹👹.. anyways uh yeah nexus as a princess soon❤️❤️

tap for quality boom increase improvement

[quartergremlin]

Do you by any chance have any more ideas or plans for the leosagi babies comic

Do we get to see leo explain to Sagi? Or announce to the fam? Or stuffs like that

Its genuinely my favorite comic if yours to go back and reread it is so well written

vbdjhvbsfdj thank you 🥺

not really, at least not for now! I have one more ask that i'll probably answer, but other than that there's not much there for me - at least until i flesh out what the future actually looks like.

"I'm so happy!" "me too!"

I wanted to focus on a different turtle for each stage of development to avoid reiterating the same things over again - mikey (pre-baby) > leo (baby) > raph (post-baby) > donnie (post-post baby, otherwise known as a child).

"Baby Angst Hammer"

[intertexts]

lazy ass redraw of smth from april

[thrandilf]

it's so annoying when fandom has only two options for parent-child relationships: perfection or cut them off forever. even if the parent had issues they came around from and they worked things out, people will STILL be like it doesn't matter how much the character values their relationship with their family/parent/how mixed their feelings are, that parent was imperfect and no amount of change matters. cut off forever or else it's bad writing

sure, some situations call for that. sure, some people irl get to do that. sure, a lot of people use any flawed relationship to project their stuff onto for venting purposes

but it does concern me. like, have you never resolved conflict with people, especially when those people are older than you/family? do you burn every bridge when it gets the slightest issue? do you view people a generation above you as static, unlistening monsters too set in their ways to be human anymore, so that if they do come around, you don't care that things can actually be mended/at least better because you'd rather have uncomplicated anger?

again. some shit has to be left. im not condoning shit or saying you have to stay and hear everyone out.

these things aren't 100% or 0%, relationships can be all sorts of things and I feel like saying hey, what about us who don't have the option to cut off or have a messy relationship or would risk losing many other pieces of our family if we cut our parents off, ect? what about a relationship going at 15% at best where you see each other on holidays because of your extended family? what about a relationship where they came around and you still aren't close and can't trust them fully ever again but it's still a distant presence? I feel like those held at arm's lengths relationships are perhaps more painful to talk about, but they exist, and I wish that people didn't try to make it all so black and white. that's not how it works irl or in fiction

[sloth-artstudio]

Sketches inspired by @socksandbuttons Baby Nexus AU.

New Moon reborn as Azriel.

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So small featuring Killcode and Azzy.

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Equinox and Baby Azzy.

[justdrawlynn11]

Another argument, continuing a cycle…

BBS! Nexus and Rise having another argument because Rise did something Nexus didn’t really like.. another argument happening again over what Rise should and shouldn’t do because it’s “not what Sun would do…” It sounds kinda familiar, doesn’t it?

[basilbots]

That's it? That's the conclusion for these characters? That was just retroactively making multiple arcs feel pointless.

So they killed Nexus. Not really a surprise, but not any less disappointing. We have Nexus' entire story now, and it is extremely unsatisfying, New Moon having so much promise and an interesting direction for his character only for that same character to be quickly assassinated for the sake of Old Moon returning. Full rant undercut. Primarily making this just to vent out a lot (but not all because there's too much to talk about) of my feelings regarding Nexus.

Let's start with just New Moon, I'm going to admit I did not like the concept of him first. But not actually because I disliked NM as a character, but because Old Moon's death bothered me. It felt like OM was so bad that they didn't want to go through the effort of having him improve, so he was killed off instead so he didn't have to do any of that, escaping responsibility. We'll get back to that point later. However NM itself was fun, and I especially enjoyed seeing all the struggles that came from OM's existence how it influenced his relationship with Sun how NM tried so hard to not be like him while also having to fill that role.

And then Solar died, and New Moon spiraled in his grief. He was devastated, he felt like he had to fix it, nightmares and hallucinations prevented him from moving on, and he understandably lashed out at the others when they tried to stop him for a reason that boiled down to "but killing is bad though". Let it be clear that yes yelling at his family was bad and hurt them, but painful arguments in family esp when fueled by grief like this is a normal thing, and tbh nothing NM said was worse than things OM had done not out of grief but just out of anger. Which makes the fact this was treated as a huge deal that meant NM was being cut out of the family for worrying, and later on EXTREMELY worrying when they pushed the idea of KILLING him. What the fuck. For what, because he was Planning on doing something morally grey that Unintentionally could have greater spanning consequences? You can't just stop him normally we have multiple characters pushing for murder when we just established that murder is bad? This whole execution of NM being terrible and so big a threat that killing him was on the table is so forced and rushed, I hoped it was just a fumble of an execution to get to Nexus who would have a better arc, but now I can't help but feel that they were just trying to get rid of NM regardless of if it made sense. Because at this point he hadn't really done anything to warrant this, not up until the last moment when he didn't care about Earth being in the line of fire, which we immediately see him regretting in the next ep until Dark Sun comes along and any regret has "mysteriously" vanished.

Dark Sun is a great example of Nexus' development being littered with hints that things are not as they seem and that Nexus' downward spiral is being influenced by something,,, which never gets seriously addressed as to why Nexus happened. From the start NM's descent is called sudden and extreme, we see Dark Sun obviously manipulate the situation to make this all happen, we see Nexus' head literally being messed with by Dark Sun, Nexus starts messing with a power known to be corrupting, etc. Is any of this ever treated as a potential reason or Nexus' behavior? Nope! He's just evil sorry. We shot down the idea of a virus or Rex infecting him while pointedly ignoring nsp potentially affecting his mental state or Dark Sun clearly manipulating him. Let's just ignore how much this switch up doesn't make sense because we need to make Nexus feel irredeemable and that he did all this himself for Old Moon to come back.

Because oh yeah Old Moon came and even though he sucks he became the better option even before Nexus did anything because ??? it's been a long time so we have all forgotten how bad you were. Mr beats his brother regularly, literally threatened to murder Sun for not being able to control Eclipse, last moments with Sun was trapping him in a box and wrecking his mental state further. Yeah that guy has been treated as better than New Moon ever since NM yelled at Sun and Earth y'know when he had barely done shit. The point I made about how I felt like Old Moon's death was a way for him to get out of improving himself? Yeah that's validated now, because OM is successfully doing that even more egregiously than I feared originally. He literally got to swoop in as the better option not because he had actually improved himself, but because time has made us forget how bad he was and Nexus is being cartoonishly evil in comparison. I hate this. And now with Nexus dead and Old Moon for sure staying around I can't help but feel like New Moon's existence was,,, pointless. A year's worth of character development from one of our main protagonists down the drain because it was all just a buffer of NM doing the work of improving as a brother for OM. New Moon's gone and Old Moon has taken his place as totally improved Moon brother, but we've swapped out the identity struggle with NM to OM failing to not be a dick to Sun multiple times. But this has yet to be addressed because it's small potatoes and unlike with Nexus he's only doing this to Sun so who cares right? I would say New Moon's personal issues also end up never addressed, but they do actually! All of his fears regarding his place in the family came true, but he's dead so who is going to talk about that now.

I could go on about how much Nexus did not do enough to earn his death, that having Nexus' main targets being Ruin and Old Moon while he didn't hurt his family nearly as much did the opposite of make him feel irredeemable, that Moon being the main protagonist pushing for Nexus to die while everyone else had conflicted feelings did not make me cheer for Moon it made me want to see Sun punch him, but I'm going to refrain and focus on how Nexus' being dead and gone ruins arcs for me. So New Moon was pointless and just a set up to make Old Moon look better when he came back, but surely Nexus did something for Dark Sun's plans? ... Dark Sun didn't have any plan beyond making Sun kill Nexus, and left with an air of finality that even for a chronic liar makes me doubt he'll come back in the capacity I want him to? Oh. So the Nexus arc didn't have a point either, and Dark Sun feels lackluster if this was really it. Nexus was just a spare Moon for Sun to kill against his will, and since Dark Sun doesn't seem interested in using that as a way to personally manipulate Sun further into hating Moon's or anything like that Sun is just going to be sad he killed his brother… Just like he was when Old Moon originally died. If I were to be extremely pessimistic and oversimplifying things I'd say this just further proves New Moon shouldn't have been a thing at all, they should have just waited a bit for OM to be revived after he died to have this same effect with Sun mourning.

The thing that will (just barely) save New Moon/Nexus for me, the thing I wanted to wait to see the follow up for (before I realized this rant was too long already and got impatient), is how his death personally affects the characters. All of them. He needs to haunt the narrative for the rest of the story just like Old Moon was doing. Nexus was not just an antagonist, he was not just the obligatory villain of the arc that got fumbled as has happened before, he was our main character for a year, he was their brother for a year, and he should be remembered as such. The family should remember their young brother that they failed (because they do admit they made mistakes with Nexus even if it wasn't the leading cause to his fall) who will never come back, and he should not be completely forgotten in a months time just because Old Moon is here to be the good Moon brother now and Nexus died a villain. If no one cares to remember him, who he was, then what was the point of him?

[freshwater--mermaid]

Sun finally admitting out loud, even in a dream, that he doesn't WANT to choose between Moon and Nexus, he wanted them both.

[croissantlover24]

AU where Nexus is the editor and just makes fun of the cast in the videos

[llamaisllama777]

POO IS GETTING REAL!

Moon just made a deal with Killer Sun, spending fifteen of his years to get Killer Sun to help them, which honestly isn't a big deal cause robots live for borderline forever and now Sun is going to confront Nexus on his own possibly running the risk of getting trapped in another dimension with Nexus/the Wither storm!

And I have a feeling this is what Dark Sun wants. Sun separated from the family, unable to get to them, them all thinking he's dead. All Dark Sun's for the taking. I don't know what's gonna happen next, but I have a feeling it's all still a part of Dark Sun's game

[nintendocat64]

NEXUS LOVERS YOUR BBG HAS RETURNED 🗣️🗣️🗣️