#npc rambles

[minidoodles97]

A random thought I had about DA: Dreadwolf at 2am….

[glowingplant]

alright ma'am, just say that for everyone to hear in the grove

[lazylittledragon]

HOW DO THE COMPANION SHEETS SELL OUT IN 5 MINUTES EVERY SINGLE TIME

every restock i haven't ordered a lot of them because they're expensive and i'm always worried they won't sell. and now i know i should stop worrying and just order more because they will sell very fast

[jadequarze]

I love this game, I love the banters and the character interactions, they're so fun! And the DnD friday meetup, oh my godd

[radioroxx]

prev reblog reminded me of this but it wasnt related enough to put into the tags so

hc that siffrin spent the first week or so of travelling with the party not actually knowing what they were doing / what the quest was for. he was just happy to help :)

[thegreenishhues]

Qsmpblr rn:

[goldiipond]

ttyd is an amazing game because all of your general information about enemies/npcs/areas is provided to you by a heavily opinionated college student

[solomiracle]

the devildom works like an open world rpg. if you leave town and walk westward for about 10 minutes you'll casually pass a valley filled with rotting bones and a slumbering ancient beast that only rises to face challengers. walk a little more and you'll find a guy selling demon weed

[bonetrousledbones]

i think one of the most underrated things about undertale is how every single character has a unique voice. like genuinely after playing the game a couple times you can pick out some characters by their laugh alone and i think thats just so cool

[lyss-sketchbox]

Can hoyo add a mode where you disable all quests? Because i literally just want to explore around Natlan and every single time i get trapped into a quest i am in no mindset to pay attention to.

I would LOVE to actually read unvoiced quests I wanna know about the culture. But stop fucking dragging me into it when i dont feel like it, its annoying.

[specialbluehens]

some new shane dialogue when you have 4 hearts with him

[mspoodle1]

I like this by @arro-now -> X

And checking out a few worlds....just world hopping...Velaris by Kahh110 is cute.

[moonferry]

it's 1 in the morning so this may be a moment of weakness but i need y'all to hear me out. kent is like unreasonably attractive. his sprite doesn't do him justice but HIS PORTRAIT ? phew.

and the way he's a changed man with ptsd but the second he realizes he was in the wrong, he apologized to his wife? AND HE GOES OUT OF HIS WAY TO ASK YOU TO BRING HER FAVORITE FRUIT???

update its now 2 am and i made this

[ID: a video showing all the marriage candidates with text saying "now which of us will be the object of your attraction?" it then cuts to the male farmer who is saying "hmm. wow. what great options. this is going to be so hard." kent enters and it says "oh neighbors! i've returned from war" the farmer says "HELLO SOLDIER" and a heart bubble appears over their head]

[bizlybebo]

being stuck in grizzly/bizly pc hell makes you so predictable. like sorry yeah have you heard of that one character who lives on a bed of lies and makes up an entire persona or identity to live as because they have no other way to imagine people loving them as they are. or what about that one character who is relentless and stops at nothing to reach their goals even if it’s at a total detriment to them. what about the sad washed up guy in his mid 30s. yeah have you heard of them.

[scarlet-streak-rambles]

Ok, so, I'm wandering around Act 3 and I finally find Dammon again in the Lower City--this is my tactician run, so I do a lot of aimless wandering to avoid my problems. I love Dammon and I decided to break into step inside his lovely home to see how he's living. I went upstairs, saw a book and was like, "Oh, maybe it's a diary! I'd love to get to know Dammon and his backstory better!" I walk close enough to see the title and--

D-Dammon?

Dammon?

Man's genuinely out here with one of his only personal belongings being a play so lewd it's been banned, I love him so much.

[sorrinslays]

Belobog Roleswap AU

So this is a small thingamaching I've been thinking about sometimes. Truthfully, I just saw some versions of the same concept and while they were certainly interesting, they weren't really my style. So, I decided to try and make my own version.

To start off, I wanna say that I gave myself a few 'rules' to keep it consistent and whatnot. Specifically, I want it to be a true roleswap, so that means no true personality changes, at least not when it's unnecessary. The roleswap should make sense, like it should be able to happen realistically. Nobody expect the people of Belobog are roleswaped.

So I'll start by who we meet first and work my way down until we get all the characters.

We meet Gepard first. He is a petty thief/vigilante that fights fragmentum in his free time, mostly because nobody is willing to offer him a job. At some point, his parents were arrested for really huge crimes (up to interpretation). Due both Gepard and Serval being over the age of eighteen, they are in legal care of Lynx.

They have trouble finding a job due to their reputation and moved to the Underworld because the rent is cheaper. Soon they are forced to steal to get by. When the Underworld was sealed off, Gepard was in the Overworld, pickpocketing, separating him from his sisters. So, for ten years, he was forced to do petty crime to survive, abandoning his "dream" of becoming a Silvermane Guard.

All that changes when the Astral Express comes to Jarillo VI. After the Supreme Guardian "becomes suspicious" of the trailblazers, Sampo comes to Gepard, offering to show him one of the secret pathways to the Underworld. In exchange Gepard has to be the guide for the Express. (Sampard/Gepo fans rejoice, a canon interaction!)

Of course Gepard accepts. So when Seele is chasing after the trailblazers, Sampo sends a few smoke bombs and, with Gepard's help, gets them to the Underworld, reuniting the Landau siblings.

Next, we see Sampo and Luka. Sampo is the Captain of the Silvermane Guards. He's still a Masked Fool but after coming to Jarilo VI and seeing that the role of the Captain is basically empty (the old one is on his last breath) he decides to take up the role.

The first impression we have of him is that he is one lazy Captain. Always slacking off and "going with the flow". He doesn't do his paperwork or listen to anyone all that much. He kinda does his own thing and bothers everyone.

He's still the only one who can travel between the Overworld and the Underworld freely, but he does so in secret, behind the Supreme Guardian's back. He is still helping the leader of Wildfire and he's still the one to plan everything behind the scenes.

We learn that he's the one who got us to the Underworld through Gepard when Seele almost kills him.

When we get back to the Overworld, he greets us and we have to hold Seele from trying to murder him. He doesn't outright reveal anything but he does tell us that more soldiers have been dying under Natasha's rule because of her orders and he's been trying everything to find a way to prevent more soldiers from losing their lives.

He helps us sneak past the Guards, lying smoothly when something happens. Soon, they reach Natasha for the Boss Fight.

Luka is the Intelligence Officer. He used to be in the frontlines but he lost his arm in a very big fight and was "demoted" to a desk job. He hates it and oftentimes does Sampo's neglected paperwork so that the Captain owes him and takes Luka to the frontlines with him as "payback", which is why we see him when we first arrive.

When the crew is back from their adventure in the Underworld and he sees Sampo helping them, he questions the Captain. Soon enough, he joins the crew in fighting the fragmentum.

Followed by those three, we meet Natasha. As an orphan, she was picked to be the Supreme Guardian instead of Cocolia, so she never got the chance to live the life she could've actually enjoyed. When we meet her, she has a faint smile on her face, her voice are gentle and her words kind. Yet, something is eerily off about her, it's just very hard to put a finger on it.

Unlike the lies the Stellaron fed Cocolia of the world dying and everyone getting to live somewhere else, in "the new world", they tell Natasha that by killing everyone, they are gonna resurrect everyone and change their biology to be able to withstand the Eternal Freeze. The cold never bothering them ever again. They say that the moment all of Belobog dies, the life of the fragmentum would be transferred to the people, so they will never again be in danger of either the monsters or the cold.

Her story ends just like Cocolia's in the original timeline, losing her life to the Stellaron and the Astral Express.

Next in line, we have Seele. We meet her during the same scene as Natasha. She doesn't really question Natasha, at least not as much as OG Bronya. Not because she's stupid, no, but because she trusts Natasha whole-heartly. She just follows orders. It doesn't help that Natasha is hiding all the orders that are made specifically to kill as many soldiers as possible.

So, later on, when she finds out that Sampo, a somewhat of a father figure to her, went against Natasha and even kidnapped Seele herself with some "criminals"? She almost mauls Gepard, the "messenger", on the spot.

Of course, she gets her reality check when she sees how bad the situation in the Underworld really is. She sees Gepard in tears after finally reuniting with his sisters after 10 years, she sees kids who never ever went to school, she sees the lack of medical supplies, she sees how dirty everything is and she sees how the fragmentum has been affecting them too.

Just like canon, her romance with Bronya still happens and soon they are back in the Overworld. After a brief conversation with Sampo, she heads off to confront Natasha, and the rest follows canon.

Following Seele, we meet Oleg. He works at the Neverwinter workshop, the adoptive father of Luka. He used to be a Captain but after openly questioning Natasha's rule, he loses his job, leaving him to tinker at the workshop.

He's somewhat aware of what Sampo is doing, which is why he humours him and follows his orders of assisting the Astral Express. He isn't present during the Boss Fight, keeping the fragmentum at bay with Luka's help, he's devastated to learn about Natasha's death though.

Up next, we have Cocolia. She's a very smiley and kind doctor that greets us when we wake up from Sampo's smoke bombs. She is, gasp, in a happy relationship with Serval.

Competent is her middle name, and she mostly follows canon. Instead of Natasha, that doctor couple adopted Cocolia, which is why she becomes the Underworld's main doctor.

Not much to say about her, so let's move on to Bronya. She stops a fight from escalating when Seele causes a scene. While she still is very kindhearted, the Underworld has roughened her edges a bit.

We get bonding scenes between her and Seele and everything pretty much follows canon expect dialogue changes. I don't have much to say about her to be honest.

Pela! She works in the fight club, not because she wants to, but because she fell into debt due to trying to get her hands on the Tales of the Winterlands. Not much about her, sadly, Hoyo wasn't too keen on given her and Luka much screen time, I fear.

She helps us deal with the mine situation that happened in canon.

Now, we get to see Serval. She has an emotional reunion with Gepard and we learn that she is a member of Wildfire. Unfortunately aside from that nothing changes canon (blame the lack of Oleg in the story not me).

Now, we meet Lynx, who has befriended Svarog, the robot acting as her father figure. While Serval isn't a fan of Svarog, she doesn't discourage her little sister from befriending him.

Since day one, she is trying to get Svarog to agree to let people pass through the Furnace Core, she yearns for the outside and tries to find and all possible ways to change Svarog's calculations.

Of course it doesn't work until we, the variable, come to the Underworld.

Lastly, we meet Hook and Clara. Both are orphans adopted by Fersman, whose a Lieutenant under Sampo's command, send by the Captain. "The Moles", we learn, is a specific group of kids that wish to join the Silvermane Guards and, Sampo, to not break their hearts, made them honorary members.

Basically, he tells them sometimes to look out for any suspicious people, maybe follow one (if the job is not at all threatening), or the super duper important mission of getting lunch for him and the other soldiers. In this instance, he used them to lead the gang to Oleg and then to Sampo himself.

And that's it! Let me know your thoughts! If you have any questions about the AU, want a more in-depth explanation or wish to see scenes written about some of the things that happened feel free to ask!