#roleshuffle

[bernadettethebear]

@kay-then-i-guess

Toxic straight manga

[voiidbug]

@kay-then-i-guess WILBUR!!! OMG!!!

Time taken: around 2 hours?

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More Roleshuffle! Enjoy.

[reblogyoutubers]

Hello! Not really a question, but you always reblog my Roleshuffle AU, and I really appreciate it. aND I LOVE ALL YOUR COMMENTS IN THE TAGS. I wanted to respond to a few of them, sooo:

"idk of the enhs fly trap part means he sits there and waits for insects to fly in or if it's talking about digestion-wise"

It's digestion, but when I tell you the image of Sam sitting there with his mouth open waiting for bugs made me burst out laughing—

"ITS FOOLISH AND ANTFROST AND WILBURR/HE HAS A PHOTO OF THEM TOGETHER THAT IS SO CUTE"

I was hoping somebody would notice!! I add in a lot of little details and it always makes me happy when someone points them out

"interesting symbol on his back" (in regards to Jack Manifold design)

It's supposed to be an abstract J.M. (his initials)! Mainly because I didn't know what else to put there hahaha

"ALSO WILBUR HAS TO SQUAT TO TALK TO THEM LMAO"

AHHHH I love height humor!! when I first saw this I was like "someone else appreciates it!!"

"I wish they were friends this foolish and sam fucking around together would be so funny/alas they're in the doomed roles so"

I really wanted to push the idea that Foolish is Not Evil in the beginning (he only becomes evil), and when I was first drawing this section, I gotta admit that I was sad too—they'd make such a good duo! And Foolish can be so fun and silly goofy with Sam!

Anyways, thank you so much for your comments!! I'm always excited to read them :)

Thank you so much!! I really love reading your comic and honestly it's always so fulfilling to read through it multiple times so I get to see all the little details you added (like the scars after fights).

Your comic is so interesting because it's exciting to see the new ways the story could have gone had different characters taken different roles and it's so exciting trying to guess who's who and what's going to happen next! And I like how you write the characters because, yeah, none of them are evil (yet) and you can see their perspectives and understand where they're coming from, which is so great!

I'm glad you like my tags :D Thank you for the ask!

[spamton-addison]

for some reason specifically unluck miketon comes to mind ... perhaps it could be roleshuffle also. cain au even

NODNOD

[kabukeo]

would love to revisit roleshuffle one day but there's so much on my list to do and so little time 🥲

[tunamayuuu]

roleshuffle oda and tecchou r so funny 2 me, like, they look related with their default faces 

also bonus roleshuffle yosano and ranpo, because i can:

( roleshuffle au by @kabukeo ! )

[krispdreemurr]

send me loose AU ideas i want to worldbuild

[c-h-pictures]

Debating if I revive my roleshuffle AU but switch Fyodor and Jouno.

[dyinginlava]

so, @jadetuin and I were talking about this AU we call the Misnomer AU...

(AU info under readmore)

To sum up the AU, it’s a roleswap that’s more of a roleshuffle, with lots of different characters talking different roles. Tubbo founds L’Manberg, Tommy takes over after forming a coalition government with Schlatt, Wilbur is a time traveller, and Technoblade is the king of the Eret SMP. It’s pretty fun.

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Roleshuffle, part 22! This section was really fun for me to draw :D

If you have any questions or comments, my askbox is always open!

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So, I had this idea as I'm getting close to finishing the Election arc of my Roleshuffle AU to go through my previous comic pages and point out everything I did wrong :) This is all for funsies, and I feel like my art has gotten a lot better with the Election arc. Plus, I think it's very important to go back and critique yourself to 1: see how far you've come and 2: to better understand where you tend to make mistakes. So, let's get critiquing!

Soooo starting off, I really didn't know how to make a comic. I had only done very brief, minor comic making before, so this was a completely new field of art that I wasn't used to. You can immediately see that problem in the first and second panel, since they. They aren't a panel. Nothing about them (minus the speech bubbles) indicates that this is a comic. I think the first would have benefited from each item being properly separated, and the other would have benefited from an actual image behind it; not a gradient. Speaking of the items, that's supposed to be Sam's hand at the top, and it is freckle-less (no clue why I forgot to add those lol). Some other consistency things that are weird is that L'manberg has no tower entrance, and there aren't any trees surrounding it in any other drawing. On notes of consistency, the sword there is supposed to be Techno's, but the design changed later to have a gold hilt. I guess that change never reached this panel, so now that just looks like a random sword stuck in the ground. Nobody's sword in the comic looks like that haha. Similar deal with Techno's crown: the spacing of jewels is not consistent with how I draw it in the rest of the comic.

Moving on! The next two panels of Connor aren't bad, per se, they just aren't good. (I'm mainly bothered by the fact that he doesn't have teeth in the first one.) Also, because I didn't want to draw hands and cut his arms off, it just looks like the framing of the panel is all wrong. Plus, I don't think I've seen anyone pose like that in real life. He looks like he's about to hug you, which is not the vibe I was going for. In both of these panels, we have what will become a reoccurring problem throughout: loooooong neck because I didn't draw a base figure before drawing the clothes. Connor's face should either be longer in these panels, or his shoulders should be higher. Either way, the neck does not look right. Another reoccurring problem you'll see is dull coloring/shading. I'm still working on this, to be frank, but these images all look rather dull. There's nothing unique about the lighting/colors, so it doesn't really pop like it should. Either I needed to add more dynamic lighting or be better at highlights.

Yet another case of long neck. Oh, and weird positioning on the facial features. The eyes feel stretched across his face instead of, well, where they should be. I also think in these opening panels I really fail to encapsulate Connor's personality. I was really banking on the fact that he's a silly little comic relief character in the canon dsmp, but his delivery is very dry/flat whenever I watch old clips of him. Therefore, in the early bits, he just seems a bit off because of the high energy I gave him. Next up we have a bad case of something that looked good in the sketch but did not come across after coloring. What I wanted to happen was his face to gain some anime-type shading that screams "oh no", but it just wasn't strong enough, so the end result just seems like I copied and pasted the same panel for no reason. Also, in the lower image, Connor's face does not look right. I can't really put my finger on why, but it's either because his eyes are uneven or that the facial features, once again, kind of stretch across the face.

aaaaand I originally wanted to go through the whole first part of my comic, but this is turning out to be very long. So that's a tomorrow project. Hope you enjoyed my critique!

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for your roleshift au, who is everyone swapping with? i’m very curious…

I try to keep it a secret (for funsies), especially if it hasn't been guessed already, but I can give a list of those that are already known! If you want to know more about my process of selecting all of these and figuring it out, check out this post and some of my character design sheets (linked in my pinned post on my blog).

Sam is in the role of Tommy!

Techno is in the role of Wilbur!

Quackity is in the role of Tubbo!

Connor is in the role of Eret!

Foolish is in the role of Dream!

Ant is in the role of George!

Skeppy is in the role of Punz!

Wilbur is the role of Sapnap!

Tommy is in the role of Fundy!

Fundy is in the role of Jack!

Jack is in the role of [REDACTED] since nobody's guessed it yet!

Ranboo is in the role of Niki!

Schlatt is in the role of Quackity!

Hannah is in the role of Schlatt!

Tubbo is in the role of [REDACTED] since nobody's guessed it yet!

Aimsey is in the role of [REDACTED] since nobody's guessed it yet!

Niki is in the role of [REDACTED] since nobody's guessed it yet!

Dream is in the role of [REDACTED] since nobody's guessed it yet!

Ponk is in the role of [REDACTED] since nobody's guessed it yet!

George is in the role of [REDACTED] since nobody's guessed it yet!

Aaaaand that's everyone that's shown up so far! Feel free to make any guesses, though most that haven't been guessed haven't had any major events that would clue you in really, so I'd really be surprised if you got it right haha

Anyways, thanks for enjoying the comic! I'm continuing to work on the election arc, and hopefully that'll be done soon.

(^This is me going insane figuring out the election arc, btw)

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I can't go over everything yet (spoilers), but I do want to talk about a fun thing about Techno being in the role of Wilbur in my Roleshuffle AU.

So, in the dsmp canon, Wilbur doesn't find Eret out due to two reasons: 1. Eret is competent. He's a good liar. 2. WIlbur is too arrogant to think someone would do that.

On the other hand, with Techno in the role of Wilbur and Connor, above all people, in the role of Eret, I hit a wall. Would Techno figure him out? I decided Yes, but also No. Think about c!Techno. He lets people betray him. When he teams with Tommy, he asks Tommy a few times if he's sure he wants to do this. He doubled checked that Tommy wanted to betray him. Twice, if I'm remembering correctly. When Quackity invited him to the prison, Techno knew it was a trap. But he went anyways. He let Quackity betray his trust. I feel like this is partially because of Techno's hubris ('TECHNOBLADE NEVER DIES"), but there's more to it than that. See, when Techno has friends, he protects them at all costs. He wanted Ranboo to make it, and got angry when he was killed. He wanted to protect Phil more than anything. He cared about the Syndicate. He cared about Tubbo, and felt bad enough about killing him to apologize to him. I'm not positive, but I think that's the only time in the series that Techno apologizes. Ever. So, in short, Techno wants and values his friends, to the point where he'll give them second chances again and again. He'll let them betray him right up until the last second, giving them all the chances they need to take it back. He wants them to take it back.

I feel like there's also a point similar to this to be said about Techno and his inability to lie (I think the only person he lies successfully to is Tommy, who would've believed anyone at that point in his arc), but that's a conversation for a different day...

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Me: Alright, I need to buckle down and draw.

Also me: Horizontal Ranboo

(and KinitoPetboo)

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I’m taking your silence on the BBH and Karl guesses I sent as confirmation it’s either one

I'm on a trip right now, so I'm actually just not posting as much haha. But it's a valid guess, and I gotta say that Dream as Bad would be really cool, especially considering the deal with how the egg reacts with green and whatnot.

But, I'm going to go ahead and knock out some guesses I got in my inbox about Dream: he is not Bad, Slimecicle, Karl, or Callahan. But you're kind of in the right direction with Bad and Callahan? Definitely nowhere near Slime (he doesn't show up until Las Nevadas, canonically), and not Karl (who has shown up! but nobody's guessed them yet).

And here's some pictures of Dream from the comic, for funsies (he's gossiping with himself)