#poptropica rumpelstiltskin

[comical-icicle]

Here they are!!!!

I finished the coloring and shading. And I added rumpel’s clouds but since it covered up some of the design (mainly top of the hair) I also have one without but kept the sparkles and some of the cloud outlines since it made a splotchy background and I thought it looked neat.

ANYWAY-

I had way too much fun doing this.

[lookslikethatsallthetimewehave]

Poptropica dolls.

The ones on the Haxe version:

The files are lower quality

[askthefireversecharacters]

For Rumpel: How did you feel about almost getting killed by RQ? Aaaand then Quick Fire saved you? >:D

Rumpelstiltskin: " Ugh, I was hoping to avoid these types of questions, but I guess they'll just keep coming if I avoid them. I was...terrified...Out of all the other close calls I've had with that queen that was the closest she's ever gotten to killing me. I was sure it was the end of the line for me, but it wasn't, thanks to her... "

Rumpelstiltskin: " To this day I still wonder why the hero saved me, I mean, after what I did I wouldn't blame her for even THINKING about leaving me for dead! But she didn't...And I'm thankful for that. "

[askquickfireandtheothers]

RUMPLE CAN YOU TELEPORT THE PRINCE TO WHERE THE BARON IS?

FOR THE BARON: GIVE YOUR LITTLE BROTHER A HUG

NOW

Rumpelstiltskin: " Your lucky I'm being nice enough to do this for you. "

Red Baroness: " Alright, Alright. Happy now? "

[ The Prince is simply to stunned to even talk. ]

[snoopypliot]

The two dealmakers finally meet!

I've lowkey been getting back into Gravity Falls and needed to draw my favs meeting because they're so similar

[lxvepup]

my new true and real headcanon is that rumpel likes candy corn on halloween. he loves it

[lookingforcuteartsss]

Draw some Rumpel and Red Queen!

I think they're both interesting characters

she brought her own hammer 🔨

wish we could know more about them :P

[redshamrock56]

Just something that was on my mind. I think there was a theory about the magic girl, but IDK where it is.

[monster-carnival-island]

I am unsure if people remember my pink Rumpel design but I recently did a fun redesign of him adding even more things from his concept art and some personal HCs. Not replacing the old one this is just the one for my main AU :3

[lilyisatiger]

Pop Rumpel Spiel (it’s technically a theory)

(AKA making sense of basically a walking plot device)

This is probably definitely reaching, but I’ve come to a personal conclusion that Poptropica’s Rumpelstiltskin is not a villain… in the game’s classic sense, to be specific.

Fairy Tale Island is populated by, uh, fairy tale characters and Rumpel (as far as we know) is a resident. All the characters on the island are living lives that are at least alluding to the stories (ex: Red is a 20something delivery woman instead of a little girl visiting her grandma). So in retrospect, Rumpelstiltskin is no different.

Shared traits in Rumplestiltskin portrayals carry over his finnicky nature from the original fairy tale. He’s an expert trickster who screws with the people’s lives, yet his defeat usually involves reciting his full name.

In a way, Rumpel is living like the other denizens of Fairy Tale Island by playing as the “villain”. By concept alone, he’s the designated “plot causer” which I’ll still chew him out for but besides the point. He’s doing what all Rumpelstiltskins do—mess with everyone.

Infamously, he’s the only villain to never be properly defeated. After the story of Fairy Tale Island, Rumpel is (currently) less of a threat and pretty much a recurring nuisance. Like an annoying cockroach you can’t seem to catch, once again he’s messing with the player’s need for catharsis.

So Rumpel isn’t a traditional Poptropica villain. What I mean by that is outside of pulling the strings to ruin everyone’s life, he’s technically not malicious. Because Rumpel is just like everyone else in his island, living up to his fairy tale counterpart. He’s an almighty trickster who manages to get away, because he’s Rumpelstiltskin.

[comical-icicle]

Gonna go ahead and share my current progress on this. Since Dr. Rumpel Bunskin exists, I wanted to try doing something similar with Black Widow.

So… I decided to draw it. I’m liking the progress!

[lookslikethatsallthetimewehave]

Something tells me that the current Poptropica creators knew Rumpelestiltskin was the only good part of FTI, which is why they tried to milk his popularity.

Oh, yeah. They gave him the Dr. Hare treatment:

In one case, quite literally:

There's nothing wrong with a character being used for marketing. As long as they have an actual character, and a good story to back it up.

I don't mind characters like Oliver being used for marketing (although I wish Mya and Jorge got the same amount, lol) because he has an actual character, and an actual good story to back it up.

Rumpel's character is entertaining, and he is an intimidating villain, he's got a good design. They just didn't do much with him in the actual island, most likely because the island itself was barely an island. Other villains at least have a more impactful story.

And then the weird extended FTI plot on Home Island didn't help... mostly because it didn't go anywhere, so it felt like a waste of time. They could've used the time and energy they put into that to make actual islands...

What I'm trying to say is that Rumpelstiltskin is a good enough character, but he doesn't have a good story to justify his oversaturation.

I find it kind of interesting that since it's been a couple of years since this all went down, we're able to look at it in a different light. I guess the whole year-long hiatus, Shutdown Hoax, Poptropica moving to Coolmath Games and refusing to update made us more critical of modern Poptropica 🤔

[askthefireversecharacters]

for quick fire/amelia: how did you get rumple to un-possess baron?

for RQ: how did you react to rumple taking your kid

Quick Fire: " Well, before the whole 'Baron getting kidnapped' situation, Amelia here managed to transfer the magic that was in that lipstick Rumpel gave me when we were trying to wake up Snow White and made a special rope that would cancel out his magic if it was wrapped around him. " Amelia: " Though we didn't use it to get him to un-possess her- When we found out where they were located, The Red Queen was already there trying to kill him...We knew that if she tried to kill him while he was still controlling Baron's body there was a possibility that she could've killed Baron at the same time, so we kinda, uh...crushed The Red Queen under a pile of boulders to stop her-...After that, Rumpelstiltskin just tripped and poof! They were separated! And THEN we used the rope to make sure he didn't get away. " ------------------------------------ FOR THE RED QUEEN

RQ: " If you really want an answer then I'll say I was...surprised...I knew that if he were to ever be free he'd try something to get under my skin, but I never guessed he'd possess the body of one of my children, especially one that wanted nothing to do with me... "

[askquickfireandtheothers]

rumple I dare you to poof away quick fires griffon

Rumpelstiltskin: " Like I said before, I WISH I could, but first of all I can't find the damn thing, and second, even if I did it would always find It's way back here-.. "

[snoopypliot]

"We'll meet again Don't know where Don't know when But I know we'll meet again some sunny day!"

Here is some Rumpel as Bill Cipher because I think it's very fitting considering Rumpel and Bill are so similar

@classicassiopeia Your AU inspired me to make this!

[lxvepup]

Everywhere you go.

that's all the comics i have planned for Jade Scarab! Yippee :3!!!