#project rampage

[bloodorangesunrise]

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 16TH

Cast:

PARADOX - Barry Steele: Synthena PASSING!Past - Clara L'Oracle: Greenshi PULSE - Mystle: crownedThresher PIZZAZZ -Bling Beast: Greenshi PUNISH - Mike from Accounting: crownedThresher PARADOX - Kohl's Cash: ndgo PULSE - Lt. Bluebird: ndgo PETRIFY - SHADOWBEAST: Synthena UNAFFILIATED - Heat Wave: crownedThresher PIZZAZZ - Hazel Dazzle: crownedThresher

WILL BE LIVE AT MY TWITCH

[windupaidoneus]

for some reason this was named "aa14 cast almost"... that's aag4 cast??? who named this. but anyway yeah them. oh god when was this. why did i never add the two missing cast members... no actually tony doesn't need to be here it's fine. maybe i'll add bonesaw some day

[royaltyfreeramblings]

casualty :]

i'm not gonna sugarcoat it i think casualty is one of my favorite project rampage characters. life's a wall and brother he's going to start punching through that shit

[artbyblastweave]

Thinkin’ about The Siberian

I was sitting on a draft that said something to the effect of “Worm AU where Manton pulls an NBC Hannibal and moonlights as The Siberian on top of being a globally respected parahuman studies researcher. Is this anything.”

Then I thought about this a little more and realized that this might not be far off from what actually happened. There’s a throughline in Manton’s interests, in his trajectory through life, where he’s trying to figure out what you can use powers to get away with doing to people- about identifying constraints and overcoming them. 

He’s the guy who somehow credibly catalogued, and got his name associated with, the fact that powers generally can’t be used to pop people like balloons, and he did so reasonably early in the timeline, in the nineties at the latest. That’s.... an interesting direction to take your research! When people are just coming to terms with the fact that parahumans are real he’s out there taking careful note of whether they can manifest their powers inside people to instantly kill them. How did he test that? What capes did he collaborate with to test that? What did those conversations look like? Did the IRB at a minimum issue any revise-and-resubmits?

And then, of course, he gets picked up by Cauldron (also known as the infinite untraceable victim depot) to work on improving the vials- gaining a sufficiently in-depth understanding of what they are, how they’re made, and what they can do to people that when Cauldron told Legend that Manton had gone rogue and was the one creating C53s, he found this plausible. You’ve got the guy who’d later become the backbone of the Slaughterhouse 9 basically systemically cataloging every conceivable way a power could violate someone’s physiology- first from without, and then, at Cauldron, from within.

Then, when he pulls the trigger and gives himself powers, the resultant ability is essentially a distilled refutation of the Manton Effect- a minion that can obliterate anything, eat anything, delete any material from existence, viscerally dismember people in a unity of conventional and esoteric, power-enabled violence. And he’s insulated from the consequences of his actions on two levels- in terms of Siberian’s invulnerability, but also in the discrepancy between his form and that of his minion. He mixed the vial that gave him that power himself.

Essentially- I don’t think Siberian is something that just happened after a psychological break following a messy divorce. I think Manton basically pre-committed to becoming something like The Siberian, spent most of his career working towards some form of transcendence through superpowers, and the messy divorce was downstream of the cracks starting to show as he got closer and closer to what he’d been chasing.

Now to segue into a complication that’s more directly supported in the text- it’s Worm, it’s always complicated- Master powers spring from loneliness. My theory is that while Manton wanted apotheosis, and while he’d probably been gearing up for a rampage for a while, he genuinely didn’t want to do it alone; he wanted a sidekick. Hence why he bothered pursuing a family in the first place, hence why he fed his daughter a vial, hence why his own projection ended up looking like his daughter after he accidently made her explode or whatever with the bad vial- a monkey’s paw restoration, giving him back a facsimile of the person he wanted to take along for the ride, and making his capacity for violence inseparable from her presence.

This is why he joined up with the Nine rather than remaining a solo act; it’s why he engages in a bad imitation of the Parent/Child relationship with Bonesaw; and it’s why he seeks out Bitch as a candidate. His interest in her candidacy parses to me as genuine- Even moreso than Bonesaw, even moreso than Jack, Bitch has arrived at a no-frills fuck-you-I-do-what-I-want outlook that’s very appealing to Manton. He wants to have a murderer-daughter relationship!

But Rachel got where she is the hard way, by having a life that sucked a lot, by getting near-constantly kicked around! She has a clear reason to be so angry! Even if all my postulations about Manton having a long game are complete bullshit, there are several stages at which Manton had to actively opt in to the same lifestyle and reputation that Bitch was forced to adopt as a basic survival tactic. He didn’t have to start eating people! He’s a tourist! His “freedom” is inseparable from his distance, his disguise. Rachel’s “freedom” is just the freedom of having nothing left to lose.

All of this to say- In an interlude in which Bitch has an extended internal monologue about how people with families have the opportunities to be assholes and monsters to a captive audience, it is absolutely not a coincidence that she’s scouted by a would-be parental figure who proceeds to be an asshole and a monster in front of a captive audience, before trying to buy her affection with a puppy. In rejecting Manton, Rachel dodged an esoterically-packaged but ultimately very familiar bullet.

[ponyartistbrainiac]

Characters designed by me

Rampage voiced by me

Animated by Pearmare: https://twitter.com/pearmare

Hes awesome thank you so much man

I tried my hand at voice acting for the first time

I'm still surprised someone liked my designs enough after all these years to use them

I'm over the moon rn this was so cool

[socksandbuttons]

HE KNOWS

YES I SEE HES NOT LIKING THAT NOW

Also interesting they do use their 'feralty' as some cover. However ruins weird so we'll see if he figures that out right away or not.

[hnbka]

i just think it's crazy how milkvans make so many excuses for mike like "his parents never expressed love which is why he cant say i love you" and "he actually did fall in love with el when he saw her he just had the middle school mindset of girls are gross" when all you need is one simple explanation 😌😌

[agent-gei]

bunch of sketches of foe ph main chars

le solo portraits of the queer asses

[primalarc]

[Video Id: Kermit the frog typing furiously at a typewriter, tinted red and slightly distorted. The text says 'when your assignment is due tomorrow'.]

[l3ominor]

this... this "art" class... is so absolutely stupid...

they failed my first project cause it wasn't exactly what they wanted...

this is so DUMB

[robozombii]

i always consider the final moments of hellbent to be the climax of the series, they were definitely presented like one, or at least the relationship between arthur and lewis because at that moment lewis. hated arthur. lewis HATED him to drop him off the cliff. and sure it wasnt justified and he snapped out of his revenge trance soon after but he. HATED. arthur. and thats not it theres just a lot of emotions being thrown at once in this scene IVE ALREADY TALKED ABOUT IT BEFORE the fact that the gangs entire, tragic situation had to escalate to such a degree that lewis would feel something like that. everything in those moments felt so FINAL despite being in the dead middle of the plot. just put yourself in either of their shoes and just. doesnt it feel like so much, dont you just wonder? what was arthur thinking as he fell to his death, staring up at lewis' shrinking image? what was lewis thinking when he revealed himself to arthur, consciously loosening his grip on him?

i know that by definition, the climax should probably be the fifth and final video, at the most tense moment. but good lord

[bloodorangesunrise]

On November 13th, Project: RAMPAGE #11 will go live at my twitch!

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"After the events of the 10th RAMPAGE, Ten new fighters step up to the plate in the newly situated RAMPAGE Arena in Chicago."

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Our cast this time around is: DEEP DISH - Wario (Team PULSE)

GYM RAT - Pikachu (Team PARTYTIME)

BLUE MONARCH'S DEMISE - Meta Knight (Team PARADOX)

SLUTCH KNIGHT - Mewtwo (Team PRIMAL)

ALPHABET MAFIA - Olimar (Team PRIDE)

JONNY JAMMIES - Toon Link (Team PUNISH)

MARBLE - Knuckles (Team PRUDENT)

ROOTIN TOOTIN - Kirby (Team PIZZAZZ)

CHLORINE - Sheik (Team PERIODIC)

COLONEL BUCKO BOZO - Snake (The US Military. Gross)

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Hope to see you there!

[windupaidoneus]

doc fucks sextrodinaire

[jiimwii]

cyberpsychosis could maybe be so cool if it was people being possessed by some sort of rouge ai,or as part of a corporate conspiracy. like as a planned obsolescence thing where certain parts during production are programmed to make people Do That after a certain point so you have to buy the next new 20,000eddies cannon arms to replace the nearly identical previous model or else you might kill everyone you love and die because your cyberwares "outdated". or untraceable viruses infecting competing corporations cyberware using their rival's customer's livelihoods to sabotage their profits. and maybe any one of those things works in such a way that its designed to detect atypical brain chemistry in a host,and thus triggers more frequently with them to tage advantage of and use those people as a scapegoat and a way to further fear monger against them,and you can uncover that this is the case. or something along those lines. and the more cyberware someone has the more likely it is that they could encounter any of these scenarios. but no it is just #crazy people being too #crazy.

[the-headless-horsedude]

GOD i wish this was kept in

[consciousexe]

fuck the euphoric brothers, this actually pisses me off