#nightwatch is diffrent

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ADDRESSING THE DEADBEAT DAD ACCUSATIONS 💔💔💔💔

(Interesting assumption I’ve been seeing about ink)

I haven’t posted his night watch character sheet yet but in the brief descriptions I’ve had about him it does point to him not being a present parent. While that’s partially true as he doesn’t consider himself a father, he is active in each child’s life and supports them. I keep him pretty close to cannon in personality, and I don’t think ink would be a neglectful father.

I haven’t revealed too much but keep in mind in nightwatch all ship children are not made out of love or compassion, instead are punishments from creators onto characters. They are a tool to create conformity as it adds a risk to the characters behaviours, and less time can be spent exploring themselves so they can’t stray away from their pre determined path. Not to mention the creation of them is incredibly painful.

Gradient, pj, and pallette where not inks faults- ink just was involved in some way and was punished with dream and error. Error took PJ and Gradient and wanted them for himself, Dream felt horrible and swore to take responsibility for Pal. Ink is in all the kids lives as an art teacher, mentor, and financial supporter - just not as a recognized parent.

It seems like ink being a evil neglectful dad is a trope in the fandom and that’s ok, but in nightwatch he does try his best. He cares for creations and anything from the creators, he would not hurt them or hate them. He does see them as a punishment more then children, but he sees most people as tools of the creators. his dissociation from reality makes him not mentally healthy enough to be a dad. (I mean so is dream but he does it anyway gahahh)

It’s odd how black and white the fandom tends to see characters - this is not me targeting it at anyone I’m not mad just, most characters are nuanced people and categorizing complex guys like ink into “bad dad” or “good dad” makes him kinda boring.

In conclusion ink brings the bread home and the paint. He is present just complex

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Crediting culture in the utmv fandom - genuine questions

with nightwatch releasing soon I realized a issue with crediting, im not too sure what’s the right way to do it? For background information nightwatch is an AU where basically all universes interact and intersect (in the same way underverse does). But this brought up a few questions for me.

1) at what point is a character so fully removed from their original material that it needs crediting? (I change their names, design, backstory, and keep very minimal elements of their original representation)

2) should I credit creators that are problematic and go against my boundaries? I’ve taken their characters and did what I wrote in question 1, but there’s alot of aus I use with creators I genuinely disagree with. What do I do then?

3) with it being an au where there’s so many interactions of other aus (genuinely cities full of diffrent aus, court rooms, hospitals, etc) if i were to just credit every single character I’d need a separate document for that. Should I do that and indiscriminately credit everyone?

2 is probably my most controversial question, I might just credit the creators regardless because I don’t want my story to get wrapped up in outside drama- but it still makes me uncomfortable linking people back to them. Hope I’m not coming off as an asshole I just don’t know what to do without getting people upset. Should I just not credit at all? I don’t know I’d like to hear your thoughts