#outer wilds hearthian

[escapedcephalopod]

hearthians be like: ::D

nomai be like: •:D

anglerfish be like: D

[yescek]

Part 2 of my recent blind playthrough of Outer Wilds!

[m-r-moth]

your average hearthian repairguy/mechanic!

equipped with duct tape, craft paper, glue and everything they might need!

[awakened-omen-art]

Happy Halloween everyone!!! <3

Mylo couldn't figure out a costume in time but they are happy nonetheless!

Might make one for DB too cause I know what he would dress up as >:3c

[gwen-hemoxia]

Concern

[basilbellona]

Two hearthians alike in imprisonment, facing the great, wide dying universe. Why would you ever want it to go, Gabbro? Fanart for @tippertot 's fic "warp to me", which held my heart in a harrowing horror for at least three days. It's a really gripping AU! Definitely recommend it during this spooky season. (Will reblog to my main blog, cap-the-winged.)

[celestialsstorm-art]

I was reading Interpolation by @tippertot and I was inspired to draw Solanum’s Hearthian outfit in the latest chapter. I just found the idea so cute 🥰🥰🥰🥰

[shadderssss]

Little proto-hearthian I drew last night

[nephtheless]

My first art request is done!

This is Iolite, @outersyourwilds (Xanabelle's) Hearthian OC. I hope I managed to draw them to your liking ::D

Iolite is a young adult, who is generally quiet and keeps to themself, but loves to talk about stars and space to anyone who listens. They also love to draw, and play the kalimba (sorry, I didn't manage to draw that, will add it later!!!)

I'm still accepting art requests for now, so drop me a message if you're interested in letting me draw your OC (or even if you just want a sketch of the OW game characters) ;;)

[bumblebeacrafts]

I finally played outerwilds and have fallen immediately deeply in love so I made Hatchling ::3

[ancient-tree-with-deathwish]

i am making an outer wilds fanfic

it is called "surviving the end of just about everything".

i hope that those who see it enjoy it.

(there are spoilers for the base game and DLC, so be warned)

[overlordory]

Without VS With Reference!

Some Hearthian sketches!!

Have you played Outer Wilds yet? Go play it. Go play it right now. Go in it blind. You'll thank me. Oooo you wanna play Outer Wilds so bad ooooOoOooooOoooOo

[lookitsluke]

Echoes of the Eye.

i dont think i'll ever be the same again.

[angelofchaos001]

Meet Shale!

Okay I made a proper introductory post for Shale! (Schist will come once I figure out their design) I'll make them a separate post for all the dialogue I came up with.

some spoilers for the game but not a lot, also tagging time: @doodlebug091 @mellow-mooon @sawyer-is-eepy @a-crawling-chaos (Just poking at my followers/moots who I know like Outer Wilds)

Alright! Let's start the bidding at this beauty of a reference. I know it's got some messy colors and no I don't know which layer the two random dots are on to erase them, but I'm proud because I drew this without needing to reference someone else's posing art. I just used my own arms and legs to figure it out and winged it and it looks like a person. I'm proud.

While we're on the topic, I might as well discuss my thought process for their design. This is Shale when they're not busy exploring dangerous ice asteroids. I tried to make the design look comfortable, and that's the main thought behind it. Shale likes scarves. They like fingerless gloves. They like baggier shorts. They despise long pants. They don't like wearing bright colors. They like grays and browns. It's Shale in their peak of comfort.

And then we've got this one! Also done without a pose reference. I actually did draw a whole spacesuit originally, but then covered it up with that big coat they're wearing. Anyway, Shale's suit is designed to be bulky, thick, insulted, everything they'd need to explore space properly. But to add onto that, they brought the scarf and coat for extra warmth on the Interloper. A lot of their patchwork fixes were done by them on the fly, and they even made their viola case all on their own. Shale uses yellow as their bright coloration because they hate the color orange. They have a ton of rope, ice picks, and grippy boots because they knew they were going to an ice place. And that antennae on their helmet is meant to pick up distant signals, so far it has not picked up anything new.

Now it's time for what nobody came here for, the infodump about their history and personality!

Shale developed a fascination with space at a very young age. Extremely young. All it took was young Shale getting one look through a telescope to become completely obsessed with the idea that they, someday, would join the well-known travelers out there and do something legendary. Sometimes, when things lined up right, Shale got to opportunity to talk to the travelers over radio. They loved hearing stories of Feldspar's glory and dreamed to be immortalized like they were.

Once they were allowed to join Outer Wilds Ventures and start learning how to be an astronaut, Shale wasted no time being both a delight to teach and an absolute headache to watch over. Whenever they weren't learning or doing their part in the village (Shale helped keep the observatory clean), they were working on their own little project. With some help from Slate, they attempted to make a jetpack just like the spacesuits had. They got precisely two attempts at this before they were shut down, but the first attempt went off mostly fine. Despite the device not working, Shale landed mostly safely in the water and their only injuries were some scrapes and a sprained ankle.

Shale never stopped writing new ideas, but didn't physically attempt any more jetpacks for a while. Instead, they focused on studying and getting closer to the other trainees they were learning alongside. They did grow close to the protagonist, and another recruit named Tin, though weren't able to click as well with the slightly older hearthians, Schist and Bismuth. Most of their time was still spent with their mentors, but whenever hatchling wasn't working with Hal on the translator, Shale liked to be around them.

When they were a little older and nearing the end of their training, Shale made their second attempt at the jetpack, and came out with a promising result. However, this attempt went far poorer than the previous one. For one, they moved the attempt location to avoid being caught by anyone, sneaking away to some of the further-out geysers with Tin (in case something impossibly went wrong). They even snuck a spacesuit (yoinked from the Zero-G cave), since their plan was to launch from a geyser and leave the planet, just for a moment (They didn't take the jetpack there because the entire point here was testing theirs).

The plan went smoothly, with Shale indeed getting launched from the geyser and coming close to leaving the orbit of the planet, except for the part where their jetpack failed. Catastrophically. It actually exploded on their back, pretty much destroying the "borrowed" suit, but more critically, burning Shale badly. Luckily, they had brought someone else with them, so Tin was able to (try and) catch them so the fall wouldn't kill 'em and then get help for them.

Shale got taken to be medically treated, and everyone agrees they're incredibly lucky to have survived as well as they did. In spite of the massive burns, the suit protected them from the worst of it and it was really only their back that got hurt severely. While the smaller burns along their neck and arms healed fine, much of their back burns scarred and took a lot of time and effort to heal.

So. Obviously Shale got in massive trouble.

Such trouble that not only did they move their launch date back (both for recovery reasons and punishment reasons) significantly, but the others considered forcing Shale out of the space program. In the end, Shale was allowed to stay a recruit as long as they 1) Did not try that again 2) Agreed not to sneak around again 3) Helped repair the suit they'd broken and 4) Spent some time after healing not being in the program (think getting suspended). While in this suspension period, Shale got to watch Schist launch off, still fantasizing about that being them.

Shortly after Schist was Bismuth, and as Shale's own launch date approached they were eager. Tin launched a few days before their own, and so Shale spent a lot of time reassuring them that it'd be fine and they'd do great things. Eventually, it was finally Shale's turn. After camping with Slate (and having an amazing conversation about 'Why did you do the stupid thing' - 'Why did you let me do the stupid thing'), they set off for their ambition: The Interloper. They were determined to find out where it came from.

This ambition proved harder than they'd thought, but it didn't deter Shale from their goal. They became an avid studier of ghost matter by extension of their Interloper studies, and theorized a lot about what happened to the core of the asteroid and it's origins. They also spent some time studying how to make ships designed for deep space, hoping that the frozen Nomai ship they found on the asteroid could hold the answer for that.

Some time later, Tin sent everyone frantic radio messages to come back to Timber Hearth and that they'd discovered something new. Tin desperately tried to explain how they'd found a new hidden spinning disk thing, but as time passed with Tin being unable to provide real evidence, Hearthians began dismissing their claims. Shale was one of the last to give up on Tin's ideas, but eventually waved them off as mad like everyone else. They feel bad for Tin and their situation, but don't disagree with their grounding and truly believe their friend went a little crazy.

After that, some time passed, and then we hit the events of the game. They did radio Hatchling plenty of reassuring words before their launch, though!

[sawyer-is-eepy]

outer wilds oc lineup everyone!!!11!!!1!!!11!1

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context below cut

making a new oc

never ask the outer wilds discord anything

(their real name is chalk. btw)

[celestialsstorm-art]

Inktober days 1: Buddy, and 5: Nomai. Baby Solanum can have a proto Hearthian plushie, as a treat :3

Done in ink and watercolors!