#red text lore

[habitual-creatures]

Oh god...

OH GOD–

GOD–

...no...

NO. No... no...

Oh god... Steph...

She's never coming back, is she?

S-She's never coming back...

[transformers-synergize]

cybertronain body laungue + optic stuff

This is vary messy, mostly for personal use. I had all these rules written down, but I thought a visual guide would be better.

extra notes

how a bot usually holds their plating can tell you a lot about them,

it can also tell you a bit about their relationship with others depending on how they hold it around them

Some bots are more expressive with their plating than others.

[moog-city2]

I love kyoko so bad it is not even funny anymore

she doesn't have too too much dialogue but I had so many hours to think while waiting for my bf and friend to be available to continue through the manor

demo 3 spoilers below the cut!!! (just in case)

OKAY so...

originally I had only intended to get screenshots of what the blackrock knight next to kyoko had said to send to a friend considering I had found it very sad and interesting

and kyoko has been one of my favorites since she was introduced so of course I decided to talk to her again!!! however I had thought the responses I could give her were piquing my interest quite a bit

and when she had mentioned Hatred in that dark red text um.

it may or may not have

sort of

sent me into a multiple hour frenzy trying to look for every instance of that dark red text in the game since I had already noticed when griefer mentioned "the voice" and when shedletsky mentions the player's name

I had gone into the chapter not expecting to get any real answers about the connection with what griefer and shedletsky said, and technically I still don't have concrete answers, but the conversation with kyoko really sparked a fire that has me itching for even more conversations with her when chapter 4 releases

I have so many more thoughts about her that I desperately want to put down, especially related to her concern for the player after speaking with her about the venomshank and ice dagger.... but it's midnight so I'll give it a rest

[ejoym]

did you ever say how devlin lost her foot?

I talked about it forever ago but it probably got buried in the abyss of this blog so I’ll just answer it again here!

Dark Urge plot spoilers ahead.

Devlin lost her foot in the final showdown with Orin. It was a brutal fight inspired by how it actually played out in-game. Devlin is a cleric so 1v1-ing Orin’s slayer form took all of her wits. It was truly a David and Goliath kind of situation. Devlin did ultimately come out the victor but at a great cost. It felt fitting because of the bloody nature of the fight but she lost more than a foot when she killed Orin.

The two of them were once very close. The way I see it, the most important role of a Cleric of Bhaal is to train as a physician to effectively deliver Bhaalspawn. It’s a holy ritual in the temple. As a young cleric, Devlin was literally the doctor who delivered Orin from Helena’s womb.

She became Orin’s godparent. Bhaal himself tasked her with the job of mentoring Orin. It was also his cheeky punishment for Devlin’s past transgressions. Essentially Bhaal said, “Fuck you. You have babysitter duty now.” And since Orin describes having a fraught relationship with her birth mother Helena, I felt like she probably developed a closer bond with Durge to fill some of that void. It wasn’t healthy by any means…but they shared a trauma bond that helped them survive in the cult. Together they could commiserate each other’s pain.

This is why Orin felt so abandoned when Devlin started pulling away to work with Gortash and Ketheric. Especially Gortash. The pain and rage from that sense of abandonment is what led Orin to brutally maim Durge twice. First with her blade and then finally with her gnawing maw.

[freshmangojuice]

Something that's always puzzled me a bit is who were the parents who adopted Lister?

We know that his dad was on the wrong side of the law, and I feel like his lifestyle contributed to his death when Lister was six. But that's not the kind of person who adopts a baby.

So I've been thinking about his wife, Lister's mother, who he's never talked about. She must've died when Lister was very young, but she would've been a very positive figure.

I imagine Lister's dad grew up much like Lister did, kind of a little shit and kind of a rebel. He was heading for disaster and disgrace when there came to be a woman. He turned his life around and they got married. They adopted a baby boy and things were fine. Then she died or perhaps left the family, and things were bad. He went back to his old ways and took his son with him. He got himself killed. Maybe from drink, an accident, or maybe he crossed someone he shouldn't've.

It's not at all the typical feel good story of kind-hearted adoptive parents. Because when is Lister ever allowed nice things?

[multi-lefaiye]

twice is 100% illiterate. it wasn't deemed important for any of the blood-kin to learn how to read or write, and so none of them were taught. (that, and it's easier to control people the less tools you give them to function in the world without you.)

i do think, however, that their boyfriend/first friend iliris did try to teach them how to read. however, he gave up very quickly, because he doesn't have the patience to actually teach someone to read.

eventually, he smiled all suave and flirty, put an arm around twice, and told them, "just leave the readin' to me, darlin'. if there's anything you need to know, i'll tell ya."

[redtextanon]

do yu. rly li,,, ke mzk. ing peplez suf . ferrr :[ /genq ~ 😋 silly anon !! ( THE GRAND REVIVAL )

This is..a genuine question??

Oh, please. I thought the answer would be obvious!~

[tw: disturbing imagery, implied death (it’s very hard to see though)]

..No.

I’ve hated every second of their suffering..

..but it must be done.

After all, if I don’t claim myself to be a truth-seeking vigilante, then what else could I possibly be? A Walmart employee?

Don’t be stupid, Silly Anon. I am only trying to spread the truth. Nothing more.

There’s no way I could possibly be anything else, right?~

you know the answer to that, Feathers.

…

just like me :)

-red text anon

[esteemed-excellency]

[cinnamonrollshelly]

Ah, Shelly. Didn’t expect to get this much attention, did you?

as much as I’d like to feel happy for you, I also feel pity for keeping your hopes up for this long…so I’ll just tell you straight up:

the only reason anybody is interacting with you is because they’re curious about you, but soon they’ll realize there’s nothing else to you than your burning desire to be useful.

although, that hasn’t exactly been very effective for you, has it?

have you noticed how none of your so-called “friends” have even bothered to contact you? that day after day has passed without a single word from one of your fellow toons?

not even Shrimpo, who normally takes every chance he can get to insult anyone and everyone, has even bothered to glance your way.

you’ve had to be the one to take initiative, every time…but that still isn’t enough, is it? because no matter how hard you try to keep the conversation going, they just…have better people to talk with than a living, breathing tool like you.

you know they’re all using you, right? I mean, you have to have realized by now that the only reason anyone keeps you around is because you’re helpful and agreeable enough for them to make you do whatever they don’t want to themselves?

what do you think would happen if they tasked you with something you couldn’t do? if you…failed?

well, simple!

they would toss you aside like the broken tool you are to be forgotten in the darkest corners of a storage closet.

and let’s be honest here; even if you did go missing…

who would even think to look for you?

if you decided to disappear from this blog without a trace, and never speak again…

nobody would even notice you were gone.

-red text anon

W-wha..?

Th-that’s just…that’s just plain mean!!

All of that is just…nonsense! You don’t know what you’re talking about!!! You don’t even know anything about me!!!!

Besides, if I did go missing…I think uh…Teagan would notice-! ah, maybe not, she’s busy all the time, but uh- Astro, maybe?- no, we barely talk. Certainly not Vee..

Come ON, Shelly…THINK…

There has to be someone…

there has to…there has to be…

..

It’s fine! I don’t even know you, anyway, so I’m sorry you had a rough day, but please don’t take it out on me..? Thanks!

that didn’t mean anything at all…their words can’t affect you…come on, Shelly, you’re stronger than this…

you know they’re right, don’t you.

(she didn’t take that well.)

[lyss-butterscotch]

I had a thought, maybe suns isn't the best communicator. a lot of times when he's talking to pebbles he comes off as rude even when he's being genuine and pleading pebbles to talk to him he says stuff like "I should have seen you were too desperate to escape your situation to do things in proper moderation" which comes off as pretty rude which wouldn't make sense for him to do that intentionally when he's trying to calm pebbles down, which i feel might recontextualize his previous comments as him being so direct to the point of not realizing how the way he says it could sound mean to the one he's talking to. Rather than him just being rude to pebs intentionally.

I've said this before but I haven't checked in on vanilla lore in quite a while and this will have a mix of my hc interpretation in it.

I can see Suns being more of an accomplished person than a mentor. Being someone presumably older and more experienced. After all, not all smart people are great teachers. But other people don't know that so people with less experience would look up to you and just see all your accomplishments and hope you can tell them how to get there. Just like Pebbles.

I interpret Suns to be someone who's worked hard for their accomplishments, they set their eyes onto something and they will fight tooth and nail for it. They don't take bullshit, they say what is needed and go, why waste time sugar coating and pampering yourselves when it'll only hold you back from your optimal pursuit?

This is the reality they have accepted and are willing to pay the price for. Unfortunately they are often blind to how willing other people are to accept this same struggle.

To them it comes naturally, accept that the Great Problem is futile at this point and it'll be stupid to continue wasting energy on it. They tell Pebbles this exactly, it is stupid to continue. But that doesn't mean Pebbles would immediately accept the same view. Which you can see by how he was so willing to jump to the potential of a way out via THE golden pearl. Which of course, Suns was blind to.

And often times you don't realize what kind of impact it has on other people until you finally see what happens when people suffer and fail to catch up to you.

[aibouart]

Autism coded red (i love him even more now)

this way this ask is rewiring my brain as we speak

He is like 90% made of anxiety

[habitual-creatures]

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[buggyboyizhere]

Too blunt maybe?

( I forgot the nose scar on the second slide but shhh forgor it )

L + ratio you sad bozo

[pocketramblr]

Who knows what Gerudo culture or fashion would have evolved into by 'Rule's time but it's nice to think about him getting to experience a bit more of it in another universe... Before BLYGanon sours it for him... Also been thinking about that Great Fairy of the desert...

[worshippdsun]

and here's the final portrait, the one I did of Spy. there's stuff I love about it and stuff I hate, but of the three, I think I might actually try to redraw this one as practice and comparison (and bc he's my little guy).

[i-crush-rui-with-anvils]

l-lore...?!??!?!!??!?!?!?!

Of course, Lore....

.....loorrreeeeeeeeeeeee...