#paula from earthbound

[erinswamns]

stroll in winters ❄️

[felis-rach]

My take on the party ever (mother 3 guys here)

[pkmoth]

ohhh my GOD this took so much time but WOOOO BATTLE SPRITES!!!!!!!!!!! HELL YES!!!!!!!!!!! i was Also able to mod them actually In Game which is SO exciting i feel so proud of myself

ANYWAYS UM!!!! heres king lucas hes fine and sane and normal i promise <33333 will yap more about him in the eventual au masterpost once i get this aus loop design drawn :]

party menu | in love and time au tag

[npd-claus]

[casually-salad]

this is such a situation like. ok weird cult now its time for zombies. love it but its so funny to me (( alt under cut w/o fog ))

i think this version looks better but . thats ok i spent a long time on the fog

NESS JUMPSCARE AAA AAA AAA AAA AA A!!!!

[chelledoggo]

my plans for election season:

vote (early if possible)

pray

dissociate

pray

try to assure myself that Trump probably won't win

pray

panic

pray

cry

pray

pray some more

pray a whole lot more

[lybelulacony]

Just some doodles i haven't posted, mostly bc i din't like some of them 😅

Angry lucas my beloved

[babeypigeon]

fuzzy pickles !!!!!!

[cat-of-doodles]

had forgotten how much i love earthbound :-)

[smallearthboundfindings]

Fun fact from my playthough of Mother 3! Did you know that Osohe Castle had both a king and a queen, and not only that, they were also named? Speaking to Nippolyte a few times in a row in Chapter Two will reveal this!

[Id: A screenshot of Mother 3 in front of Osohe Castle where Duster is speaking to Nippolyte. He says, "No one's inside there, not even King Osohe or Queen Senaka."]

Osohe and Senaka... This has some kinda cool lore implications as these just might be Kumatora's biological parents. Rad.

[psicadetterra]

If a psychic is friends with a non-psychic, are they still able to detect if they are nearby? Maybe they could sense their non-psychic friend's aura. I also think they can send a telepathic message to them. Of course their non-psychic friend can't give a reply, but it could come in handy in a pinch perhaps.

[npd-claus]

Translation-

Ness: "He's handsome.!"

Paula: "And he likes you..!"

Ness: "WHAT?!"

Lucas: "Wha?"

Ness: "Nothing! Nothing! It's nothing!"

[sillypicklz]

(trying to learn how to do comics. black dialogue box represents telepathy here)

[askstufftothechosenfour]

Where the lesbiabs at?

"MISS ANA???" -🎀

[ask-the-triple-kill-squad]

TORA TORA

take this wuv uu ^_^

Kumatora: Sweet, another plushie to add to the collection.

Paula: The WHAT?!

Kumatora: You heard me.

[strawberrysundi]

Prophecy Rambling

So a while ago I wrote this fic about Giygas and the Apple of Enlightenment, based on this neat bit in one of the japanese guidebooks detailing a conversation between them

Recently I took it down because I've been thinking more about the Apple and the Prophecy and my ideas surrounding both have become wayyyyy more complicated than what I had in mind at the time (it also just needed some rewrites anyway but that's beside the point ><)

Earlier today I rambled at @commandernachos for about half an hour trying to put everything together, so without further ado, here's my current thoughts about the Apple, Buzz Buzz's prophecy, and the confusing time travel shenanigans involved in Ness's adventure!

(note that as per usual, this is firmly personal headcanons, not strict analysis)

Right so, my fic had a pretty simple premise: Giygas asks the Apple of Enlightenment, a super advanced machine able to predict the future, to tell him how his invasion unfolds The Apple informs him that not only does he fail, he'll be totally destroyed by a boy named Ness Outraged, Giygas tries to find some way to alter the course of the future, and lands on corrupting Porky into helping him, against the Apple's advice And so this leads into the end of Earthbound, where Porky is an unexpected wrench in everyone's plans (The Apple of Enlightenment couldn't predict this.)

So that's all neat and orderly, BUT I was neglecting some crucial things For one thing, while I was drawing from that Giygas/Apple conversation thing, I was totally ignoring the legend from the actual game:

When the chosen boy reaches the point, he will find the light. The passing of time will shatter the nightmare rock and will reveal the path of light.

Which was very much on purpose, because it's weird and super confusing. Plus it's radically different from how the Apple gives its predictions in the guidebook convo and my fic, so I didn't wanna bother figuring out how to reconcile it with them. That being said, it's a pretty huge thing to ignore, and it's been nagging at me ever since!! so here we are.

But, that aside, there's another thing I didn't consider! Which is how Giygas wins!!

So, along with the legend, Buzz Buzz tells us that he's from a future (10 years after 199X) in which Giygas succeeded, and everything was destroyed At a glance, this is easy to rationalize:

Apple predicts Ness will destroy Giygas

Giygas snatches up Porky to mess up the Apple's prediction

Porky's presence allows Giygas to win and destroy everything (presumably by turning off the Devil's Machine and unleashing Giygas's full power, like at the end of the game)

But this begs the question: why are Ness and his friends able to defeat Giygas in the game's timeline? What changes???

So what I've landed on all hinges on one thing: the Apple's prophecy and Buzz Buzz's legend are two different things. Both predict Ness's role as the hero and Giygas's death, but they're both separate things. As the Apple states in its conversation with Giygas, "The results of temporal interference cannot be prophecized." It can only predict the outcome of the unaltered timeline, which never came to pass. The legend, meanwhile, is something ancient, predating Giygas, able to transcend his meddling with time.

So basically, we're left with three different timelines. I imagine this is all pretty convoluted, so here's a handy little chart I made which I think simplifies everything pretty nicely:

How I imagine things play out:

Unaltered Timeline: Buzz Buzz never arrives, so neither the sound stone nor the sanctuaries are in play. Ness goes on journey of his own accord, things play out much more smoothly without Porky's interference (Paula is never kidnapped, for instance). Giygas is never released from the Devil's Machine, and is defeated without ever using his full power or destroying his mind. All goes according to the Apple's prophecy.

Porkified Timeline: Giygas, fearing the above outcome, corrupts Porky to his side. Porky gives Ness much more trouble on his journey, but he is able to make it to Giygas as before. Porky disobeys Giygas and disables the Devil's Machine, allowing Giygas to destroy the Chosen Four and begin mindlessly devouring the rest of reality. Buzz Buzz, knowing the ancient legend, travels back in time to bring it about.

Earthbound Timeline: Well, you know how this one goes.

One thing I have difficulty reconciling though, is that despite the changes Buzz Buzz brings with him, it's NOT Ness who destroys Giygas in the end! Why does Ness fulfilling the prophecy, gathering the power of the earth, overcoming the evil parts of himself in Magicant, becoming more powerful than he ever could've been otherwise, ...allow Paula to destroy Giygas? What was different in Giygas's altered timeline that prevented Paula from doing the same thing then? This is something I don't have an answer for :/

So it seems I still need to do some more brainstorming. But in the meantime, those are all my ideas about this! Hope it's not too confusing to wrap your head around ^^ And man that fic is gonna be so much more complicated whenever I get around to rewriting it haha