#pre-incident mituna

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Also, very self-indulgent petition for Kankri & Mituna's relationship to be at least interesting, though I'm always here for Captors and Vantases having messy friendships, canon be damned. But if they have to dislike each other, at least let it be more than some dumb mean-spirited love triangle </3 Tho tbh I'm very curious how you're gonna write Mituna in general, given how little info we actually have ✨️

Way ahead of you, anon.

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Terezi is blind in the AU. She was blind when she died as a human, and her hollow mask covers her eyes. If she could see, I would have drawn her mask eyes like Mituna’s. Also all four of these mfs had outfits that were very easy to turn arrancar outfits (also Redglare isn’t actually that much taller than Terezi, I just thought it would look better if she was fuckem massive)

I wanna specify that this drawing is pre-accident/incident and therefore pre mask being severely damaged. I’m unsure what I’m gonna make Mituna’s mask look like as a result of the injury, but Mituna’s incident still happens in the bleach au and I think I’m gonna make Kurloz the causer of his injury

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There are two kinds of MT in my sketchbook and v little in-between tbh

[spontaneousglitterbees]

Im not dead, not doing inktober, here's a zombie prompt for a quasi-canon character that nobody asked for

[69ywivez]

I REMEMBER. IN ONE OF MY LIVES I ENDED UP A GHOST PRETTY EARLY ON BECAUSE OF A FAILED GODTEIR ATTEMPT. KANKRI WAS THE FIRST TO FIND ME IN THE BUBBLES, AND I REMEMBER HE WAS UPSET THAT I DIDNT MAKE IT BUT HE. HUGGED ME AND TOLD ME IT WAS GOING TO BE OKAY. AND HONESTLY IT WAS MORE THAN OKAY?

I ENDED UP FOLLOWING HIM AROUND LIKE A LOST PUPPY AND KINDA. CLINGING TO HIM LIKE A LITTLE WRIGGLER WHENEVER ANYONE ELSE WAS AROUND FOR A WHILE, BUT FOR THE FIRST COUPLE WEEKS IT WAS JUST US OUT THERE. HED STILL HANG OUT WITH KZ AND LATULA AND MITUNA EVEN WITH ME AROUND WHICH WAS. REALLY FUCKING AKWARD AT FIRST CONSIDERING I DIDNT KNOW THEM AT ALL AND JUST VAUGLEY STOOD BEHIND KANKS LIKE A WEIRDO. IT TOOK A BIT BUT EVENTUALLY I LOOSENED UP AND INTIGRATED INTO THE GROUP AS MUCH AS YOUR FRIENDS LITTLE BROTHER CAN DO THAT.

KANKRI WOULD BASICALLY ALWAYS LOOSE IN MARIO CART LAMOOO. AND WHENEVER LATULA WANTED TO NOOGIE KANKRI SHED NOOGIE *ME* AND SAY I WAS "t4k1ng th3 noog13 1n h1s pl4c3". SHE ACTUALLY DID THAT OUT OF RESPECT OF KANKS NOT WANTING TO BE TOUCHED, WHICH WAS KINDA SWEET OF HER

PORRIM WAS LIKE.. ME AND KANK'S MUTUALLY SCARY MOTHER. SHED LIKE CALL HIM FROM A COUPLE ROOMS OVER WHILE WE WHERE HANGING OUT WITH HIS FRIENDS SOMETIMES AND HED HAVE TO LEAVE TO GO DEAL WITH HER. ONCE SHE MADE HIM CRY AND I CUSSED HER OUT

LATULA AND MITUNA LIKE? SETTLED DOWN AT SOME POINT IN A MEMORY THAT I THINK WAS A VERSION OF DAVES'? MAYBE A DAVE HARLEY'S, BUT IT WAS ABANDONED WHEN THEY GOT THERE. I SAY DAVE HARLEY BECAUSE EVERYTHING WAS GREEN AND BLUE BUT IT LOOKED LIKE A HUMAN HIVESTEM. I STILL REMEMBER HOW THEIR COUCH FELT

KZ AND MITUNA BOTH GAVE ME PIGGYBACK RIDES SOMETIMES, WHICH WAS AT LEAST PARTLY BECAUSE I WAS SO MUCH SMALLER . MITUNA ATE REGULAR HUMAN HONEY OUT OF THE JAR LIKE WINNIE THE POOH SOMETIMES (IT WAS ACTUALLY A REOCCURING THING TO CALL HIM WINNIE OR POOH). HED FADE BETWEEN PRE AND POST INCIDENT DEPENDING ON THE DAY, WHICH MOSTLY JUST MEANT SOMETIMES HED BE MORE CONFUSED

BUT YEAH. IT WAS NICE .

[onlynear]

NOW. i know sol isn’t mine like i don’t go here but he’s got the most notable examples of yellowblood/mutant powers in canon, and in order to talk about mituna’s psionics i have to draw from him! let’s get into it.

VOICES OF THE DOOMED. 

sollux hears voices of the recently deceased and they tell him that alternia is doomed. it’s important to note that this happens before the trolls begin to play sgrub -- this is very specifically part of sollux’s mutation, and not something he achieves through being the mage of doom. similarly, mituna, being a yellowblood mutant, experiences premonitions (frequently brushed off by others as paranoia and gut feelings) about other trolls, and the danger they pose to both mituna himself and the party at large (noteable examples are meenah, who he hates not only because he just doesn’t like her but because she gives him intense visions and migraines) and damara (who he knows to be extremely deadly). mituna, while not as academically-minded as sollux, is pretty genre-savvy, and he’s able to differentiate his mutant-visions from the classpect-visions he gets later on. 

MIND HONEY.

mind honey, as we see in canon, merely enhances existing psionics. it’s incredibly unhealthy for yellowbloods, as it’s addictive and acts almost like sopor slime, in a way -- it makes sollux’s lusus dimwitted and satiated, and loosens any inhibitions and ability to think rationally, do anything requiring fine motor skills and, most importantly, prevents a mutated yellowblood from keeping their powers at bay. as we see in canon, both captors keep their eyes covered (mituna, even pre canon, wears his hair thick and over his eyes, as he constructs his helmet with his alchemiser once he enters sgrub) -- this is because, should their eyes go uncovered, it’s much easier for psionics to fire out ad-hoc should they feel any intense emotions. seen as mituna’s psionics, post-accident, are broken, mind honey doesn’t power them up anymore, but it DOES soothe the almost constant chronic pain he’s in (migraines, muscle aches, pain in his eyes), and so his lusus feeds it to him in order to balm him, just a little.

PSIONICS.

now. this is the good part. as we see just before sollux gets ko’d by eridan (’ready, prince?’), sollux’s psionics are under his control -- he either powers them up himself, charging them before he has to use them in a fight, or they’re tied to his emotions. i like to think it’s a little bit of both, and that’s why mituna is so unsteady once his psionics are broken -- a very real and very major part of his mind has just shattered completely, and he can’t regulate nearly anything (memory, feeling, social cues, etc) in the same way as he could before. 

a lot can be learned about psionics from the eridan and sollux duel, in fact: when sollux uses his psionics to levitate himself, his glasses come up onto his head, thus solidifying that keeping a captor’s eyes covered nullifies their powers somewhat, sollux is clearly less Present in the battle than eridan is (which is to say, sollux is stationary and channelling all of his energy into his psionics, where eridan is able to react and move and cast his Science Spells with more autonomy), all of the force of the pisonics does in fact stem from a captor’s eyes, etc. i believe that not only was it eridan’s hope (or more accurately lack thereof) was just... stronger than sollux’s psionics in the moment, but also the massive strain sollux underwent trying to beat eridan that lead to him getting knocked unconscious. psionics are hard work. using them a little leads to drowsiness, using them a lot leads to exhaustion, and using them too much leads to death, as we see when sollux dies after piloting the meteor. mituna burned himself out in such a way that he almost died (reminiscent of sollux’s half-death). i wouldn’t call him lucky, but it was a close call, for sure.

SPECIFIC TO MITUNA.

‘eli,’ i hear you saying, ‘you literally do not write sollux’. to this i say I KNOW but their powers are BALANCED BY EACH OTHER just stick with me here!! so. i don’t by any means want to discredit sollux -- he is immensely powerful, after all -- but mituna, being older and more relaxed (tbh just in general) in terms of his status as a mutant and his powers (which he actively practised using from a young age) is... more so, when it comes to psionics. i’m also very confident in saying mituna would be incredibly average at programming and such, which is where the balance comes in, yk? two sides of the same coin with different expertise. 

mituna was an incredibly powerful psionic to boot. his powers went beyond that of just powering spaceships, telekinesis, levitation, etc -- if used correctly (or, rather, correctly by evil), mituna could have been an incredibly deadly and horrific doomsday weapon. he also had vision twofold, two dreamselves, and,of course, his preminitions about the future, which he tried time and time again to warn others about, to no avail. the trouble is with mituna being who he is (loud, obnoxious bordering on abrasive, mischievous, snarky and cynical by nature but most always up for a bit of fun, essentially a wildcard), it was very easy to not take him seriously, call him biased and move on. mituna assumed that he, as the sole prophet and one of two believers (the other being kurloz, natch) was to be the one to take out the threat he predicted was going to wipe out his friends and doom their session. unfortunately, this was a case of wrong genre savvy -- mituna, being heir of doom, WAS the threat (or, more specifically, his psionics were), and the best outcome of him going to neutralise said threat was always going to be the accident that rendered him changed for good.

however. i am by no means saying that it wasn’t GREATLY thanks to kurloz’ chuckevoodoo and his input that mituna is As Bad As He Is. kurloz was there, accompanied him to this great overexertion and his mind control had some hand in ruining mituna. of course, we have no idea what happened (other than mituna burned himself out heroically, saving everybody only for meenah, who he’d prophesied about all along, to kill them all anyway), but i refuse to believe that kurloz being there doesn’t have some greater bearing on what went down.

now. as for him not knowing if he’s god tier or not: my gut instinct would be no. however. i think his confusion on the matter lends itself to the idea that he may have been close to going god tier -- perhaps getting halfway there (keeping with the two theme) or intending to at least before he burned himself out. as heir is someone who either becomes (literal) or is changed by/inspires change by their aspect (metaphorical), and doom as a class represents sacrifice (metaphorical) and control over death and destruction (literal), i’m okay with saying that god tier mituna would be absolutely formidable, as long as he was his coherent self.

mituna uses his psionics before sgrub, and once he enters the game and crafts his helmet, his specubus becomes ‘helmetkind’ (later ‘hemletkind’, naturally). he can go longer using them than sollux can (and most yellowbloods, actually), but that itself is dangerous, as he can often drain himself without even realising he’s about to do so. not having the psionics is very distressing for him later on, especially as the incident is so fragmented that he doesn’t exactly understand what he did to break his powers so thoroughly. the psionics are not a separate part of mituna -- they are tied so closely to his brain that each affects the other, and destroying his psionics only lead to him being the way he is now, with no way to recover. 

[ghostcrisp]

Latula’s actually super self-conscious and socially awkward. It was pre-incident Mituna that showed her how to be rad. 

Proof that Knights hide their true selves, if you haven’t already read it.

[homestucks-headcanons]

Kurloz wears a diamond shaped locket with a picture of him and Mituna in it from pre-incident. - Makara Anon

mmmmM thats some 👌👌👌 good shit 👌👌👌 thank you makara anon

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A good day.

Chapter 3- Reverie

Today is another lazy Saturday, and another one where you should have been asleep hours ago. Then again, so should your co-op partner, so can Pyralspite really blame you?

[spontaneousglitterbees]

“You've got sucker's luck... Have you given up?

Does it feel like a trial? Did you fall for the same empty answers again?”

The National - Exile, Vilify

Sometimes I think Beforus had helm training too. Couldn’t have been easy to get into it knowing society would be dust under your feet in a sweep or two.

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downtime of the doomed

I like the idea of pre-incident Mituna having Asperger's and becoming so adept at controlling his psionics because doom is part of his niche/main interest. He knows his team will need him to be scary-strong someday, so he obsessed with being as perfect a psychic he can be. I think it'd add to his character if he were already notorious for being a little eccentric, emotions like excitement and anger and despair hitting him TTwiice a2 hard like suckerpunches that get under his skin,  a lack of social grace that's still boisterous anyway that's endearing to some and off-putting to others, all coming together to make it difficult for anyone to take him (and thus his prophecies) seriously. It only makes him more upset, and more tenacious until the blowout.

tl;dr the earphones on Mituna's helmet remind me of pressure headphones and then this happened

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Skateboard? You have no idea what this guy is talking about as you use an OFFICIAL REPLICA HOVERING PLANK DEVICE used by the radical TROLL MARTY MCFLY in that one hellacious movie you can't even talk about because it would take up every single minute of your time just to say the title. With such a hella device, how could you ever fall off? Besides, you're as graceful as a flying honk beast. Or something.

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Family portrait.

Chapter 2- Anemone

You were born to live underwater. He was not. Both of you know this.

The two of you seem to be the only ones who know this.

[calculatingminutiae]

At last, a ref sheet for Pilotlight!Mituna. Historically his jacket’s been a bit more like the Psiioniic’s jumpsuit, but I wanted to involve a little bit of that 90s colorblock windbreaker aesthetic this time around. Plus, the way his jacket’s all flash and his shirt is plain black? That’s definitely not symbolic or anything. The pilot’s goggles are his ancestor’s.

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better a little late than never?

sometimes you gotta noogie your begrudging best friend on his birthday thats just how this works

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At last, it is done!

Based on the Pilotlight, which is still in progress