#psychonauts imagines

[true-autistic-tales]

ayo crispy simps i thought of something for yall:

imagine going to a unfamiliar place with him. cause of his poor eyesight and lack of confidence in where he's going, he clings onto you the entire time.

[aestheticallynotdeerlightful]

I was gonna wait and post these till I had more doodles but I’ll just post them now it’s fine. I’ll just explain stuff in the tags as per usual

Some Raz poses and some Dion and Adam stuff

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(Please do not use or repost my works anywhere without explicit permission from me thank you)

[yandere-toons]

Yandere: "is that your family?" S/O: "nope, nah-uh, nada. I've never seen those people in my life"

Years of hard data say you're lying, but they're not about to incriminate themselves by revealing so: Huey Duck, Hunter | Golden Guard, Aziraphale, Sheldon J Plankton, Doctor Nefarious, Tenth Doctor, Shang Tsung, Dr Flug, Perry the Platypus, Midoriya Izuku

Suspects the lie but rolls with it: Ian Malcolm, Louie Duck, Anthony J. Crowley, Nick Wilde, Nagito Komaeda, Captain Jack Sparrow, Lightning McQueen, Ratchet, Kaa, Bugs Bunny, Mike Wazowski, Johnny Loughran, Klaus Hargreeves, Sans Undertale, Arataka Reigen, Tyrion Lannister, Legoshi, Rouge the Bat, Wallace Wells, Kendall Roy, Connor Roy, Finnick Odair

Races over to introduce themselves: Toga Himiko, SpongeBob SquarePants, Dewey Duck, Judy Hopps, Kokichi Ouma, Beetlejuice, Celia Mae, Gaston, Mavis Dracula, Undyne, Beast Boy, Deadpool, Alvin Seville, Phil Dunphy

Believes you: Pinkie Pie, Bluey & Bingo, Jataro Kemuri, Chick Hicks, Caligosto Loboto, GIR, Daffy Duck, Bill & Ted, Olaf, Shigeo Kageyama, Starfire, Scott Pilgrim, Ken, Castiel

Laughs at your thin deceptions: Emperor Belos, Bill Cipher, Black Hat, Scar, Shere Khan, Tai Lung, Lord Shen, Pagan Min, Invader ZiM, Shao Kahn, Eleventh Doctor, Rainbow Dash, Shenzi, Randall Boggs, Duncan Pepperidge Anderson, Agent Smith, Doctor Eggman, Han Solo, Alastor, Izaya Orihara, Gideon Graves, Roman Roy, Shiv Roy, Gristol Malik

Alternative interpretation is equally funny — the yandere is pointing out random groups of people and slowly narrowing down their choices.

[wildflowercryptid]

doodled some cycle nuts kiddos on a notepad i yoinked from a storage facility

[2hoothoots]

solstice

June 21st is my headcanon birthday for Lili (based exclusively on her myspace star sign, and also vibes). this year it's a day earlier, but any excuse to draw Lili is a good excuse

[doodle17]

"...I'm gonna get Frazie."

"Good idea."

Headcanon that Raz, his mom, Queepie and Dion sometimes sleepwalk when it comes to certain situations, Raz especially when hes older. In this situation, he had too much caffeine before bed

Probabaly doesn't help that you literally need to shake him violently to wake him up when he does this, so now they kind of just let him wander when it happens. There are waaaaay more sleepwalking stories the old interns have, at least all of them have had at least one encounter with a sleepwalking Aquato

[lulubeanie]

Tbh I feel like junior psychonaut is basically just. intern². they have less restrictions now and get to go on missions sometimes, but not without being accompanied by a senior (or um. regular ?) agent and they're still not allowed to get into any real danger just yet. they probably do pay them now at least though

[cy-fi-theansweris42]

You know, I really wish we knew more about the contents of Cassie's book, Mindswarm.

I know we can't know everything that's in it, I'm just wondering about general topics and what's in that 25-step process for improving mental efficiency. We can assume one of the main topics is how to multitask considering that's something she's known for and I believe Milla mentions it when she's talking with Raz about how she's multitasking, but what else is there?

The reason why I'm wondering this is because I've got a potential headcanon involving her book.

See, when you look at her section of the mural in Psychonauts 2, we get the following dialogue:

What's catching my attention is the mention of mental compartmentalization. Why it's catching my attention is because I've been thinking about Sasha's backstory and his mind cube. He's all about compartmentalization in his mind, and he had to figure out how to compartmentalize everything so well.

I'm still rotating some thoughts about this but I think it would be interesting if in Cassie's book, it talks about mental compartmentalization, and Sasha read her book when he was younger and took the compartmentalization aspect to the extreme we see in the games.

It would make sense. The mental compartmentalization could be part of that 25-step process for improving mental efficiency. It was a popular book that came out before the days of the Psychonauts, so Sasha could have read it when he was younger. We don't know if his dad was psychic or not (personally I think he wasn't) so he could have been alone as a psychic and used the book to learn more, and we know Sasha is a nerd. He could have wanted to use the improving mental efficiency steps, and then took the compartmentalization part to the extreme (which, oh boy I'm going to have to think more about the potential reasons why he would have wanted to do that).

I just think it could have been neat.

[technovillain]

finally have some future raz and lili designs i can really get behind

[leonisloresmith]

Gotta love being able to play mental telephone with your rescue when you’re stranded out in the middle of the ocean.

This is part of my Psychonauts au where mythological creatures are real and there are some working with the Psychonauts.

[moldymeat]

they put him in the Brain frame :[

[1nshreds]

Me when I remember I can put my two favorite games together

[medicalunprofessional]

juggalo nemesis (…evil augustus) and horror punk butcher. Very important i think

[sheltershock]

Currently thinking about the symbolism of orange with Sasha’s character. How it’s a metaphor present both in Sasha’s mind and lab/office of having a very cold exterior(black/white or greys and blues) and having the smallest pop of color in the interior specifically with the color orange.

The first obvious appearance of this is in his level. When he pops out of the trapdoor/hatch in his mind there’s orange light streaming out from wherever that portal leads to deer within. This is then mirrored in the sequel seen in his office, which has the same cube design with geometric framing. The general feel of the lab is cold and almost inhuman in a way. There’s no windows and all the light is artificial. But the small corner of his office is brightly lit and warm on the inside. And the couch and pillows on top are orange along with bits of the rug on the floor.

It’s also in his outfit. The dark pants, shoes, gloves, glasses and coat cover up the sweater he’s wearing that striped with tans and browns, earthy colors and a less saturated orange. Three places, that’s a pattern.

Then there’s the detail of where the orange is, in comfortable things. It’s the surrounding light for wherever Sasha’s hanging out when chaos is absolutely rocking his entire world. It’s in his turtleneck sweater, something you usually wear to combat cold. It’s in the couch cushions and pillows, something you usually interact with to talk a break or rest in.

It’s such an obvious metaphor. Sasha is such an intimidating figure initially, cold and detached from the world and others. But then you actually spend a little time with him and he’s actually a dork who cares a lot about the people he’s close with. The most glaring time is when he calls Lili ‘darling’ that one time in RoR, completely unprompted. For most the jet ride he’s barely acknowledging that she’s crying her eyes out and mostly has the air of “don’t make me turn this car around.” But then just out of nowhere when he gets good news about Truman’s location he just pulls out the “I think we might know where he is, darling” while clearly putting on the softest tone he can most definitely but imitating Milla. And it just shows that he’s been aware the entire time and just saying something now while trying so hard to be comforting is so much. Fantastic characterization.

I love all the small details in this series, even with something like color and where it appears and how that links up with the character themselves. Just wow. I love the writing here.

[razgooftin]

so you know how there was no curse right. and the hand of galochio was just hydrokinesis. and that dion isn’t a psychic. do u think there’s been times where dion has been ‘ attacked ‘ by the hand of galochio and it’s just been raz or frazies hydrokinesis.

[2hoothoots]

you mentioned phoebe, now you have to dish on phoebe!! what's she doing?? what's she like as raz's roomie??

phoebe!! she's a cool kid!

i think out of all of the campers, Phoebe seems the most set on becoming a Psychonaut. she's just as passionate about it as Raz himself, and i think when they move in together she's been working a couple months as a new agent. she'd been sharing an apartment with Quentin, but after taking a year or so to think about his options he decides the Psychonauts aren't for him and goes to study music at college. so they're both young adults who have just started out on what they always thought would be their dream job... and figuring out what that actually looks like, in practice.

i think Raz and Phoebe make really good foils, because in so many ways they're so similar! they're both very passionate and dedicated people, they're both longtime performers (Raz with his acrobatics, Phoebe with her music), and obviously they both really care about the work they're doing with the Psychonauts. and that makes it a lot of fun to highlight their differences, too!

for Phoebe, her music is about expressing herself, about taking her feelings and letting them out through performance. she doesn't make art for anyone except herself. but Raz can't get over the fact that whenever he performs, it's for a crowd, and he needs people to enjoy it - because growing up, if people didn't come to their shows, they didn't eat*. he can never really get over the idea that his art has to be for someone, that it has to be good to be worthwhile.

i think they both have very strong opinions on their work, too! Raz's specialty is psychotherapy, projecting himself into peoples' minds. i see Phoebe as much more into the talking therapy side of things! they have long arguments about appropriate boundaries with patients, and hands-on vs hands-off techniques, and about how this study showed sixty percent improvement in the first session with this technique (but that study cites that the long-term benefits are less in comparison, so actually-)

in my head, there's a bit of a teething period for the first week or so when Raz moves in, and after that they just click. sometimes too-similar personalities can be like oil and water, but i think they're on a mutually compatible wavelength. they're diving into deep conversations at 1am, because they each see enough of themselves in the other person (and are both unrepentant armchair psychoanalysts) to get into the really revealing stuff. they write and record a concept album together about having a tense relationship with your family growing up, Phoebe on drums and Raz on acoustic guitar and both of them sharing the vocals. it sucks! but it's cathartic for them both! Phoebe's still got a copy of it on cassette somewhere in the back of her collection

(* the Aquato family are poor, but in my head they were never seriously at risk of going hungry. however Donatella definitely catastrophised enough times about a show going wrong and the whole family having to eat watered-down gruel for the next month that it stuck in little Raz's mind, hahaha)