#paradigm (dyvj)

[drinkyourvillainjuice]

Playing a pathetic loser but also beating all the superheros (or just 'winning' via running away/stalemate) is so funny. I had three panic attacks and got 0 hours of sleep yesterday but I just put the leader of the Glory Hounds into a hole and then turned around and defeated two more. and then I ahd another panic attack. Everyone has to sit around the GH HQ (the doghouse?) later and quietly deal with the fact that the guy they saw throwing up before the fight kicked their asses and got away after.

The route to true mastery of parahuman combat: neuroticism.

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This kicks a lot of ass! Poor soggy Morgan needs some friends. Or a plush sheep to cuddle.

Morgan.... My pathetic wet little kitty cat..... She's not doing okay @drinkyourvillainjuice

Early book spoiler under the cut 🫣

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I want to see how the superhero fans in the media acts around a Libra who fights against Dime and they have a lot of sexual tension. Be aware Phalanax, a new ship is being created :>

Maybe a triangle love :>

the mask fandom, feverishly shipping this weird greasy tendril person with just about anyone they encounter: hahah yes yes yes!

the sane part: why are you like this

the former part: TENTACLES.

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Mutation dime can make mouths and eyes why not other body parts. It would be funny in the middle of battle.

PRISON

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can lullaby be passive aggressive to dime the next time they meet (๑･̑◡･̑๑) please (๑･̑◡･̑๑) there’s zero ulterior motives for wanting lullaby to make underhanded comments to dime’s face (๑･̑◡･̑๑)

oh yeah sure tosahobi-if who has never been googly eyed over lullaby ever, tosahobi-if who would of course not have any kind of ulterior motive for lullaby talking down and condescending to dime

yeah...

[drinkyourvillainjuice]

Mal and Dime.

Regent: Hey, we make a pretty great team.  Grue: You were absolutely no help whatsoever.  Regent: [shrugs] Eh.

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My crack theory is that all of this has just been a hallucination after MC hit their head on a beam in the warehouse, all my friends are alive and unharmed trust the delulu

Shout out to the scrapped scene I wrote where MC could smash their face off a brick wall then fall down a hole.

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Do I give a really downbad option for Dime to try and impress Kay...

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Love going through the 2nd chapter and only picking the "i'm scared, we should all leave" options at every chance just to make Beth feel worse later. Like yeah! Me and Shauna warned you! And now we're dead!

She already feels bad about it nooo.

(ngl if I didn't think it'd bury me under an avalanche of variables I'd want to save even more of the flashback events, but I gotta draw the line somewhere)

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How delightful! A soggy scaredy little cat indeed they are! Poor them.

finally got around to drawing my scaredy-cat Dime who is always making self destructive choices, from @drinkyourvillainjuice's game.

Their name is Seren Lake, even if they're not using that name anymore, kind of sad when your own name doesn't feel like your name anymore.

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I know there are feral/violent Dimes who want to see the world burn but I'm crying-laughing at the thought of this long lost friend (Beth) giving one mean look to my Dime and they looking like a kicked puppy. Just this crusty creature of a person looking so miserable 😿

oh there are options

you have no idea how complicated this branching is gonna be.

This is under construction, btw.

if (ranaway) *choice #[option] *selectable_if (guilt = 1) #[option] *selectable_if (guilt > 1) #[option] *selectable_if (guilt = 2) #[option] *selectable_if (guilt = 3) #[option] *else *choice #[option] *selectable_if (battitude = 1) #[option] *selectable_if (battitude = 1) #[option] *selectable_if (battitude = 2) or (battitude = 5) #[option] *selectable_if (battitude = 2) #[option] *selectable_if (battitude = 3) #[option] *selectable_if (battitude = 3) #[option] *selectable_if (battitude = 4) #[option] *selectable_if (battitude = 5) #[option] *if (battitude = 5) #[option] *if (battitude < 5) #[option]

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A mini Dime born from Mal and Mutation!Dime is the perfect shapeshifter

I think that's literally a symbiote

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Shout out to the dialog in this game. The "i can't believe you're doing all this sick" into "relate with your own gender identity" (as cisgender) combo during the Kay coming out scene is one of the few times i've laughed out loud reading an IF. Peak himbo Dime doing their best

dsgkdsgs ngl taking inspiration (reverse inspiration?) from a non-IF game where a character can come out as trans to you and most of the options are pretty bad with only one being sort of OK, and I kind of just went.

You know what, I'm gonna let cis!Dime be a little goofy, as a treat.

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Dime rizz is the most powerful power

It's true. doesn't matter if they're a corpselike scarecrow, Dime has got Protagonist Game.

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I'm baffled that any of the ROs (Mal are u ok??) are attracted to dime, did they play slenderman in their youth? Does slenderman exist as a game in this world? If not is MC the OG slenderperson now?? help

Mal is a freak lbr.

I get where you're coming from. Dime's certainly a mess. Street cat let's go.

Part of it is like. The price of doing business. I wanted to have romance, so that means a little bit of well, people being attracted to the MC despite flaws.

Another component is that most of the characters aren't really that bothered by appearances. Teddie has flaws. Kay is insecure. Wil's honestly kind of a weirdo and explicitly likes people outside the norm. CG's known Dime for years, so that's kind of just how they look to her.

Mal and Alistair have specific things that I'd like to get into further. Mal can already comment a bit on this, but they like flaws. Imperfection is much more real to them than manufactured perfection. Alistair is drawn protectively to Dime, and then those feelings can deepen. But I do want to have chances for Dime to needle at him and ask whether he views them as just... something to take care of.

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As someone playing a rebellious Dime, can't wait for them to find out about Beth. Watch my pick locking child do a mission impossible and infiltrate the Hound's quarters. They gonna spill even their social security number to them.

Dime captured by the Hounds. Strapped to a chair and bright light focused on them.

Hounds: all right, tell us what you know

Dime: thank GOD. Ok I'm gonna start from the beginning so you better pay attention I do NOT like to repeat myself. Are you writing this, recording it? Then what the hell are you standing there for-

Dime starts to ramble non-stop and the Hounds have trouble following but I want to see their faces when they realize this eldritch criminal is snitching on an entirely different team/faction

"Wait why do you have tea about a bunch of guys that we've never heard of??"