#psyn ideas

[jnixz]

Everybody's got one! “We just know how to keep it locked up down below."

aka me thinking bout that concept art again, this time working on the art with the actual idea that popped in my head instead of a reaction joke post -- which is of course mixing ideas and concepts together into a messy picture. 

In the case above it is mostly the mix of the demon in the photobash concept art with Ford with a couple bits of wood and glass as per my hc of pre-everything for Ford’s mindscape. Annnd with how much fire aligned he seems like to me I decided hey-- wood burns right? It’d be awful if the place was set on fire.

anyway so what I had going in my head were the concept of the "Maligula" of psychic seven start out looking like scraps of whatever psychic specialty they have + their mindscape components before forming into a more refined psychic mental construct

The Ideas for the others are mostly formed from what we see in canon. Anyway I think they’d have something simpler but at this point I was just mixing things and throwing them all in here and brainstorming what would be cool to draw together:

Lucy/Mal - water tornado with scraps of ripped clothing 

Bob - Vines wrapping around a broken frame of a greenhouse. Overgrown aesthetic + overwatered(alcohol) like a jungle/swamp

Helmut - squiggly line figments that outlines and floats in space water thing , occasionally bursting into an oversaturated doodle like the CV view he had when he was freshly put in Nick’s body

Cassie - ink+honey+mess of paper formed into GNG Witch costume + BEES (okay maybe not a bee costume but more like being made out of bees like the cassie archetype she had holding herself hostage before we helped her)

Compton - Puppet animal with toy parts that has TV static + explosion sfx bubbles that pops up on its face and limbs

Otto - those Funky style psitanium gadgets and inventions that are abadoned & burn and stiff frames like it is frozen

Ford - admittedly i would cram everything in the GNG and WRPSC into a mess of job offers it i could, constantly switching and popping in and out of existence like some mosaic. otherwise FIRE its fun you guys. oh and i guess if we go with the theme of the rest it’d be a mix of the Fords in his mindscapes, added with the hypothetical camp ones

[jnixz]

alright that but the puppet raz from fatherland follies running on the record playing the grulovia hymn

I so desperately want to see a little gif of raz running on a vinyl record like woody from the toy story I feel that is where he is meant to be

Maybe someday one of us can manifest it into reality bc that does sound pretty cute

[emmafielding-blog1]

Week Beginning - 27th May

A vintage shop owner supplies the designers at Psyn with vintage clothing. She comes in every month or so with a selection of garment s that she thinks would be useful for upcoming seasons. She works with companies such as Victoria Beckham, ASOS and magazines such as Vogue and Harper’s Bazaar. I took pictures of all the garments we chose to keep and sketched into ideas from these for ASOS and Miss Selfridge for upcoming design meetings. I assisted with general office tasks and did fabric and button orders.

[jnixz]

The Gruloky cards thing is still amusing to think about. How did it get there? Was it really Nona’s? Like an all scratched up and aged and recognizably used set of cards by a recently arrived family of acrobats that somehow ended up in the middle of a spy organization’s HQ, requiring several plays to be removed from the bowling ball return system?

The idea of it arriving there because Nona personally somehow played a bunch before or during her stay at the QA grounds is so amusing. Given we had freedom as Raz to explore a larger area at that point or go immediately to one of the quest, the idea of her visiting simultaneously as Raz was busy with the cookshow is a very funny image to me.

I still wonder what other Motherlobe employee thought of it happening. Who’s this old lady? How’d she get in here? Did they even see her? Well the Old guy who is manning the stuff here seems to be okay with it so... let’s leave her alone. Would the Bowling manager fragment of Ford rebuke attempts to get rid of what is clearly a Senior competing in the Senior League?

fun thoughts (and bittersweet)

[jnixz]

Old idea but one hang outs Psychic 7 would do would be in the Bowling Alley.

Lucy & Ford vs Cassie & Compton let’s go

Helmut and Otto are tempted to use brain balls(reinforced) for bowling balls, Bob is not enthused

[jnixz]

Kinda like having twins of an alternate universe but one of them is a mainly a writer and the other is an artist but still can do the other. Or something ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

We put out heads together to get the skeletons and the muscle ideas in. Fuel to each other’s takes. Mine would be more uhh scene and environment focused because I don’t really know how to dialogue and character interact in actual writing. Also more Horror and Action-Whump because Mean ;)

Nightmare obdlc being a thing bc fusing ideas is fun. @britishsass​ is great at creation their own concepts off of it! Love us these mental constructs and well compelling writing especially on both character interaction and dialogue

Which OBDLC nightmare came 1st your nightmare or Jnixz nightmare?

@jnixz and I are actually co-conspirators about mine, so.... [loud shrug]

My ideas started as adding to theirs aaaaand then i went off the rails and into writing my own thing.

Consider the two nightmares as sibling aus, I suppose! Like Jarswap and Iced Bobby. Or like sister ships.

But yeah, theirs was almost certainly started first and i just hijacked a couple thoughts and started my own spin-off thing. Please support Nix ^_^ They're awesome and a fantabulous artist to boot!

[jnixz]

official True Psychic Tales Comic but Raz illustrates it

[jnixz]

Psychic 7 fic idea: they go to the mall and get new comfy clothes

alternatively they can buy materials to make new clothes because hoo boy Bob needs that other shoe, Helmut his post-ice age comfort clothes(because I do not know what they did to his old ones or if it even survived storage when he ‘died’), and Lucy for a coat and dress that I can actually understand to draw!!

[jnixz]

poll tourney but its the adults in a psychic(and/or non-psychic) duel

[jnixz]

if we could traverse through simon's noggin at any point in adventure time, it'd be a real mess lemme tell ya

apocalypse time, ice king time, post-crown, not even counting F&C universe residency

apocalypse/pre-ice king: loads of regrets and guilt, censors getting bodied whenever he puts on the crown, slowly turning sluggish or frozen in ice

ice king: no censors, plenty of bad moods and bad ideas and if there was ever a mental version of confusion rats then they'd fog up the place

post-crown: ah just throw every enemy in here why don't you? Censors aren't working as well as they as they are suppose to due to the amount of stuff he has been through

[jnixz]

I wonder if there was a True Psychic Tales equivalent of 80s show in psychonauts universe

[jnixz]

Die-brarian should be allowed to come back, especially since the girls are all getting along and communicating (like a paper mecha)

Maybe actually get those books in order...

[jnixz]

Psyn Show Idea: Augustus and Donatella compete in a show similar to 'The Amazing Race'

Considering how fast they caught up to Raz in the games, they certainly know how to travel around

Just make sure there aren't any travel by swimming portion, might not be quite prepared for that just yet (other water travel vehicles might help, gotta have that ever so loved water segments in games)

...

Ah man, imagine a Psychic Amazing Race, that would be fun

although a bit difficult to balance considering the different specialties of psychics

certainly could be a fun bonding experience between one psychic and one non-psychic duo

[jnixz]

what is the color of the sky in your mind but its this but puzzle solving in the right angles like some sort of pandora's game

alternatively the entire level is one long line and you only realize that the skybox is 'what is your favourite color of the sky'

[jnixz]

Some Psychic 7 post-PN2 activities they could do (after body-retrieval mission)

Mental Check-ups and hanging out in the Heptadome

Catching up to some books, technology, and music

Celebrating someone’s birthday again

Visiting Whispering Rock Psychic Summer Camp w/o the kids

Guest stars or councilors cameo when camp is in session

Some form or road-trip or sight-seeing

Senior League Hours

Small musical concert

Mentoring or giving advice to the younger interns/agents

Spa-day

Going to the beach

and then some more creative ideas

[jnixz]

Nightmares about (Her)

Do you ever think about how people would possibly have had nightmares about Maligula?

and then do you ever wonder about difference for the psychic 7s’ nightmares on her? like as Maligula-- something they fought? and of course, the absolute pit of dread and horror that yeah, they are fighting their friend Lucy?

And given how funky mindscapes and dreamscapes can get with brain transitions, getting a mix of nightmares of both overlapped with one another?

(Other people know Maligula. Just Maligula. No more than a monster in history, but her friends know she wasn’t just that. A nightmare of which is the reality of their situation)

Helmut obviously, we’ve seen and probably had so many that it completely overwrote who Lucy is to him when trying to remember.  Every time he tries to feel out, to sense things as a brain, he is just the remembers the feeling of drowning -- then overwhelmed by in the lack of senses. The last he could ever remember of her was a terrifying force full of malice (with terrifying eyes and a otherworldly dark silhouette, very different from the Feast of the Senses constructs), washing away any of his songs with a malevolent laugh and the rush of water. Down and down, drenched and drowned.

How terrible it is, that who he remembers as another kind and fun loving soul, to be the one who sent him to the depths -- frozen yet in a loop of wondering if his efforts was in vane, if his husband was safe. As a brain, it is had been increasingly difficult to tell if he still remembers something, or if he is having a nightmare. A conclusion for that dilemma, given how the reality of it, of course, was that because Maligula was both.

Bob losing the thought of Lucy, because his husband is gone, drowned in an icy tomb. Another important person, another loss. It seems that every flower of relationships he has would inevitably wither. Then the alcohol, poorly coping and a sort of self-punishment what with it being the water of his level. Any reflections on its surface would only reveal him -- just him, all alone. Thread as he might try, he still slowly drowns in grief, a downward slope in contrast to the cliff of Grulovia. Maligula, Lucy, he doesn’t think of her anymore if he could help it. It hurts to remember that she is both the cause and another person he cared about that he has lost.

Cassie and Compton seeing Lucy warped as Maligula, twisted into someone they can’t recognize, and someone who they aren’t strong enough to stand against. Watching as they hurt the rest of their friends and delivers a torrent of water to their faces, their efforts easily ignored despite how much they work together. A looming large figure that haunts and clung to them as a reminder of their failure. One stuck in the past, the other overwhelmed in the present. It is a similarity I’ve seen for both their boss battle figures to be critical of what they could do/have done that they could have made this better. One thinking she should’ve stopped the ideas that made this happen and put them on a cornet, the other thinking how he couldn’t do anything to more to help and overwhelmed to a point he stays on his own zone.

Otto watching the friend he invited for the purpose of helping them with their road of discovery, turned to a person who uses her immense power do harm and everything non-psychic feared psychics would do. He thinks of Maligula and thinks of the death at her hands. His hands grow cold as he remembers how the product of his own specialty essentially caused the demise of others. He thinks about how he wanted to make dreams and yet there is a nightmare every time he thinks of Lucy, not as herself but as Maligula. Everything after had that story attached, and he did the best he could after the storm. Still, whenever he tells tales of Psychonauts, He doesn’t like to think of that name.

Ford fractured and getting nightmares of just Maligula and his battle with her pre-pn2 release. Water hitting him as he fought her in the real world mixing with his fight the mental world (because, for most of his years, he wouldn’t remember he went into Lucy’s head. He buried that and all he remembers is the fight). The waves strike bluntly and too much pressure forces against him, and yet oddly, a part of him observes, that they were never being sharp nor forceful enough to be the cause of his fractures and how he broke apart (something is missing, something(?) very important is missing but this is all he remembers(?))

And then whenever he recalls everything, sleeping at his sanctuary where he could have dreams of happy times with Lucy, a gentle dream or perhaps a memory of her playing with her powers. But then there is gush of water everywhere, and hands made out of water grab and cover Lucy, her precious smile transforming to a malicious grin. And the fight starts.

(Or perhaps, it starts just like the time she left. Of long days waiting for her to reply, to come back, to be with all of you safe and sound.-- Only to hear her words shift, to be delivered the news of disaster, to be called to see her again finally yet she is not Lucy you knew)

He startles awake crying at those ones, finding himself at his trailer as he snaps his eyes open. He blinks his disorientation away and forgets why he has tears in his eyes.

(And then a young boy comes into camp, and somehow, he feels something familiar is about to happen again)

Ah, and then you have to remember Ford must’ve been the one who saw Lucy as Maligula the longest, because he had to fight further even when rest of the psychic 6. First to subdue her in Grulovia (with the accumulative help of others), then He had to push back Maligula in her own mindscape (alone). It is her own realm, and even though she had her powers suppressed with the cuff, the mindscape still had plenty of water and shifting physics that is difficult to navigate. And then he had to fight her again in pn2, to which I definitely have a fic wip for it. This time though, she has all the water around her for her to control (A ginormous lady the size of a dam, with tidal waves of water coming at him) One could wonder how it felt like to have that fight again. He is more scared of this than any other height he’d have to jump out of.

and then of course Lucy, who could have very much had nightmares during her time as Marona/Nona, fearing the water curse and what that monster has done to her country. Fearing that one day the hand would take the only family she has left. There are few nightmares of her drowning but it seems distance, like she wasn’t the one who drowned. And then there are times, where water engulfs her and yet everyone else seems to die. 

The water drowns them and she doesn’t know why she can hear herself laugh.

The block unravels more and she’d have nightmares of what she has done as Maligula. The guilt of harming others, of killing people, of losing herself that she harms even the ones she loves and hold dear in her heart.

It definitely would feel awful when they get nightmares of Maligula, and even more so of Lucy.

Let's be real, Maligula was terrifying. If they did not have the personal connection, the fight and confrontation with her is certainly not something they had ever thought they'd face. But they do have a connection and wanted to help, but couldn't and they all can't help but blame themselves.

(Imagine even post-pn2 they have nightmares after the reappearance of Maligula. It would certainly kick up a return of feeling bad from that sort of confrontation. Like woah nearly getting drowned in a giant water tornado would NOT feel great.

It’s all out of their control what their head dreams up but you have to feel bad that you get bad dreams of the people you love. Ford gets them even as he sleep by Lucy side, and for a moment he sees Maligula and teleports out -- before remembering that’s all in the past now and she is fine. Doesn’t stop him hands from shaking and maybe berating himself even more for being afraid. He blames himself the most still.)