#splitmind au

[ask-the-splitmind-au]

Character Info underneath the Rules!

!! NOTICE !!

Rules

Please read these before you send in an ask! It saves me discomfort from an odd ask and time from having to delete unwanted asks.

This blog is run by a minor. While suggestive asks are fine, and some asks may be answered suggestively, avoid explicitly NSFW asks. These will be deleted.

Anonymous asking is a privilege that can revoked if it is abused.

Common triggers to see on this blog are blood, scars, animal death/dead cartoon animals, and swearing.

Asks are answered diagetically by a 4th wall aware slugcat named Anonymous, or Anon for short. Character responses may not be reliable or represent an ideal outcome.

While most asks are answered with art, OOC asks are typically not. Because of the blog's devotion to art with every in-character ask, some asks may take time to answer and others may be deleted.

Fanart is allowed and appreciated! It is all cherished.

The Splitmind AU has an askbox! Everyone give a warm welcome to the seven stars of the show!

Artificer

-She/They

-Five Pebbles lives in her head

-Aggressive and Prickly lil gal

-She's tried to ascend once and almost discovered echohood

-Dating the scavenger chieftain

Hunter

-He/She

-No Significant Harassment is doing significant harassment

-Sorta chill, but passionate

-Sig cured the rot before he put his consciousness in her

-Dating Inv

Spearmaster

-They/It

-Seven Red Suns is existing

-Tired, Anxious, and can be Snappy at times

-Suns is regretting making their messenger so weird

Rivulet

-She/Her

-Looks to the Moon vibes in her mind

-Hyperactive and easily excitable, also emotional

-Prone to anxiety, actually

-She's actually the one who saved Arti and Febbles from being echo'd

Saint

-He/It's

-Sliver of Straw is being a problem

-Really relaxed, but somehow also the most distant mf you will meet

-Constantly fighting Sliver in his mind because she's mildly evil

-So far, has ascended twice (Saint is stuck in a loop, not echoing, though it does gain echo attributes when he tries)

Thank you all for the asks you sent! I'm finishing what I was sent, but Sliver is once again not open for asks. She will be back though, eventually!

Ranger

-He/Him

-Unparalleled Innocence is his 'imaginary friend'

-For being as young as he is, he's actually pretty mature and cool-headed

-Survivor and Monk's little sibling, though he hasn't seen them after the day he lost them.

-Artificer has basically adopted him

Gourmand

-He/Him

-Grey Wind and him get along really well

-CHONKY BOI (Wind does not like being so heavy and slow)

-Knows that Sliver is in Saint's mind, doesn't feel the need to mention it

-Sorta crushing on Saint, it used to be a definite one but since Saint's been so distant he's re-evaluating his choices.

[angelofchaos001]

Meet the Rivulet! (Splitmind AU)

Reblogs > Likes (Reblogging helps out a lot, even if it doesn't seem like much!)

It's Ruffles time!

Lore under cut, includes pre and post Scugerator

Quick tidbit about her design, is that as I draw more designs, I slowly make these slugcats less cat-like and just go more and more nuts, with the Splitmind AU being very different. Rivulet isn't even furred, but instead has placoid scales and has a more sharkskin feel to her.

Also, something you'll see with more of the AU is that scugerators will have their left eye black with a pupil colored like the iterator inside the scug. The only time this changes is when the iterator takes temporary control (whether willingly or through force), where both eyes become reflective of the iterator.

Moots, Interested, or Ones who I think will be interested

@doodlebug091

@keeper-of-magic

@angeliteonfridgeduty

@stupidscav

@batnip

@riverripplespeaks

@cherry-b0mber

@luxdraconia

@voldkat

@lunas-sketchbook

Pre - Moon

Before Moon placed her consciousness in the paws of a slugcat, Rivulet was just an aquatic beast that lived in Shoreline, mostly near the seafloor of the ocean and only coming up every so often to sunbathe or hunt if her normal prey was scarce. (Splitmind Rivulet has true gills, so she can live underwater. She also still has lungs, don't worry, evolution didn't screw her over too bad)

Rivulet lived a solitary lifestyle, only coming into contact with one other slugcat in their life, who simply came and went. At some point, she did visit the local iterator before their collapse, and was given the Mark of Communication before going back to the life she usually lived.

After the iterator collapsed, Rivulet started collecting some of the scraps that washed into the sea, such as pearls, bits of metal and wiring, and even a rarefaction cell (and a lot more damaged cells too). Eventually, she saw another slugcat traveling to the iterator, and out of curiosity, she followed them to watch as they brought the lifeless puppet back to life. After the other slugcat left, Rivulet dropped down to listen to Moon's stories, and would even stay in the chamber when the rains came since she could still breathe.

Post - Moon

After several cycles of living with the iterator, Rivulet saw another slugcat enter the chamber. After initially being hostile towards them, Moon wanted to investigate after the slugcat drew a pearl from a pouch and handed it to her before speaking to both of them, despite marks not being two-way communication. The creature explained that it was an iterator inside of the slugcat's mind, and it hoped this could be a convoluted way to ascend themselves by binding their own minds to another, more feral creature. The pearl contained the instructions on how to do such.

Without lingering for much longer to answer any questions, the creature then gave a suggestion that, normally, it would prefer to genetically engineer the perfect host for such a task, but in Moon's condition, it could be less stressful on her fragile systems to use what was on-hand.

After reading the pearl, Moon asked Rivulet if this was something she was okay with: An iterator in her mind. Rivulet agreed, having grown fond of Moon's presence, and wanted the best for her. Moon went ahead with the process, transferring her mind to Rivulet's.

With a newfound consciousness alongside her own, Rivulet originally wanted to try ascending straight away, but Moon encouraged her to spend some time exploring and showing her things she'd never seen before. Rivulet began doing just that, and Moon offered insight into things that Rivulet didn't understand. The two meshed perfectly, and in the end, the choice Rivulet made was one she never regretted.

Rivulet also met some of the other scugerators on her travels, namely, a feisty and explosive slugcat that had the same telltale eye, but refused to open up on who or why. The slugcat, Artificer, had two missions: Kill the scavenger cheiftain, and then ascend. Rivulet wanted to help, at least with the ascension, and accompanied Artificer on parts of her journey until finally taking her to the new place the scavengers had set up, Bitter Aerie in the remnants of Moon's structure.

After Artificer had done what she wanted, Rivulet took her to meet echo after echo, though both the echoes and Moon told Rivulet that something was wrong with Artificer, as a carnal desire bound her to this world. Despite this, Rivulet still guided Artificer through the world until they'd reached Subterranean, where the guardians (obviously) attempted to attack Artificer. With Rivulet's speed and a bit of trickery, she was able to sneak Artificer past them and eventually, to the void sea.

Riv watched Artificer go, but shortly after could see the golden shimmers in the water and almost saw the red slugcat being fragmented. Confused and worried, especially after seeing what looked like the slugcat trying to claw her way back to the surface, Rivulet dove in to save her. Despite the pain of the void fluid starting to dissolve her body, Rivulet managed to grab Artificer and pull them both out before either could echo/ascend.

After this, Artificer said she was going to 'make things right', and after the two sheltered together, disappeared into the world. In attempts to find her lost friend, Rivulet found a trio of slugcats that didn't have the telltale eye and instead, seemed like just that: Slugcats. As she talked to them and got to know the three, a pair of siblings and the third being like an adoptive one, she became friends with them as well and tries to visit them as often as she can, since she still roams the world looking for Artificer.

[angelofchaos001]

the grumpy baby gets pixel art!

Good to know you're not being ambushed by requests

You're probably swamped with the pixel art reqs rn but

Splitmind arti my beloved baby (she's the favorite of the au to me)

Pretty design! Pretty design!

The rq's aren't that bad, it's pretty much just my moots so that makes me happy :3

[thornsawawa]

You want art requests, huh?

Can you draw Splitmind Arti?

Or drawing some Counterstrike (Inv and Hunter)

alright! cool au :D

i hope i got everything right, tumblr ate the image quality and it got kind of artifacted (eheh arti got arti'd)

[riverripplespeaks]

doodles of splitmind riv and arti, au by @angelofchaos001 !!! i love this au sm its very interesting

(also feel free to use this as an icon for the askblog if u want, ik u said that u didnt have anything for the icon)

[mushroominaforest]

I found this weird mushroom the other day, I don't expect you to be able to tell what it is from my story because it doesn't have any pictures to go with it but you might find it cool nonetheless.

Anyway, I was picking up sticks (working for a family friend, i was being paid to do this) from a big yard when I thought I saw a little ball of Styrofoam. Being myself, I decided I was gonna nudge it around a little for fun.

Well it didn't budge at first, so I looked down and noticed how it wasn't styrofoam at all. I poked it (i had gloves on dw) and it squished, and then I kinda poked it some more until I walked away again.

Fast forward like an hour, I'm hauling this wheelbarrow of sticks and I ran right over the mushroom by accident. It split open and started oozing this sticky, runny whitish-clear liquid that bubbled a lot, which was cool to me, but I also elected to not touch my skin again with the glove in case that was toxic.

The mushroom itself was like a creamy white with some darker speckles and like I said, it looked like a ball of styrofoam at first.

Also I don't wanna send in two asks for this so, can I do a lil writing thing with the siblings au and the splitmind au like I did with the sizzling waters au?

From my first impression that sounds like a type of puffball mushroom, but the part that I’m not too sure about is the bubbly liquid. The puffballs I’m aware of have firmer spore masses or powdery ones, I can’t think of an example with a liquid interior. Stinkhorn eggs are round and filled with a pretty gross slime, but I don’t expect that the liquid would have bubbled, and they are more beige sometimes with white scaling on the top than cream. I doubt it would look like styrofoam lol. My identification knowledge comes almost exclusively from foraging books about the area live in, and we might live in very different climates. This mushroom might be one I’ve never even heard of before!

Also, I would absolutely love it if you wrote a story for my au!!! Like squeal and jump up-and-down level of happy :D

[angelofchaos001]

I'm not just annoying

I've also got an incredible pair of tits

I’m not just a good pair of tits. I’m also incredibly annoying

[the-real-rain-world-confessions]

Oooooohh, where do I even begin?

I think the one I wanna give shout-outs to the most is Jadzio/Zeraorarb, the runner of the Room Showdown blog. The effort and dedication they've put into that thing is incredibly impressive - as it was by far the longest running, and most consistent RW poll blog you can find on Tumblr. The room tournament has actually ended a few weeks ago, but it lasted about a year, and god, was it a blast to follow!

Next are creators who have given me (and many others) opportunities to voice act in their high quality works - the two most notable being Northflowo and Uranium Eater. Their videos are also just generally really good, so it was an especially huge honor to contribute to them (it also helps that they were real pleasant to talk to).

Speaking of really good videos, Opsiian has undoubtedly become my favorite RW YouTuber to follow. I never really interacted with her, but the sheer quality of her videos is insane - especially the ones dedicated to her OCs. Love the freakish art style, and the writing of the dialogue as well.

Something that's a bit on the less serious side is the Splitmind AU Askblog. It may not be for everyone, as neither its lore, nor its iterator dialogue is particularly canon-compliant, but it's still a charming little blog with a very fun premise and some neat character designs for the Slugcats.

Then there's the people I interacted with on Artfight - either through attacks or defenses. There are a few too many people to individually note each (about like, 10, I think), but they were all incredible. I loved the reactions, I loved the art, and I loved working with their OCs!

And lastly, I gotta give huge props to the people who I've got to interact with on Discord VCs - people that still stuck around with the SC community with me. Areon, Kuz, Floof, Byug, Herr Sten, Squeekles, Fay, Snovi, and a few others who I might be forgetting (apologies if you're one of them): You're all amazing people that are really fun to hang around and talk with, and I thank you so much for spending your time, on watching me fumble around in Expedition Mode. You guys (along with Jadzio) have certainly done the most to keep my sanity intact during these recent times, and I appreciate that a lot! ^-^

Oh, and the few who have rambled about Nightcat x Spearmaster with me are pretty cool as well (I believe they were Dingo, Stargazer, and Ooph, but I could be misremembering/forgetting). I'm not really much of a shipping kinda guy, but it was still a ton of fun, and I appreciated their art too :)

Apologies for making this so long, but there are many people here who I really enjoyed spending time with, or whose content I really adore. There's still a couple folks I skipped, I just felt like they were the most noteworthy ones, so yeah.

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[ask-the-splitmind-au]

saint do you use your tail as a pillow

[ask-the-splitmind-au]

WAWAWAWAWAWAWAWA

[ask-the-splitmind-au]

to moon & riv: this image of my cat (his name is captain btw)

(OOC: Captain is adorable! Give that kitty some pets for me <3)

[ask-the-splitmind-au]

does fishticks (spears/riv) exist, or has it ever existed, or will it ever exist

[ask-the-splitmind-au]

To Spearmaster: do you ever miss being able to see SRS's physical form?

(OOC Note: Iterators got redesigned, I'm basing them all loosely off moths. So Suns is just like this now.)

[angelofchaos001]

Welp

This gave me a really stupid idea for adding Judge to Splitmind AU

I'm doing it

Hol up, who's Judge?

Judge is this little critter:

They were a Slugcat that got cut and aren’t canon tragically, they were going to have the ability to “purify” rot as their special ability. I needed some way for Hunter to be cured so…. yeah Judge exists. Very convenient! :D

[ask-the-splitmind-au]

Evil sliver saint gift :3

(She’s gonna ascend you)

I tried to translate your designs into my style, hopefully it still looks right! I love drawing silly little guys with crazed expressions lol. Your story is so good, and I love the new banner! Very cinematic I sure do hope Sliver doesn’t kill everyone lmao

RVOWBDOFNEBUW FANART YOOOO

Im eating thos. Going absolutely feral over it. The design works great with your style btw, I can't imagine what wouldn't work.

But just oh my gosh more fanart! Love how this silly au of mine that started as a joke quickly became not a joke and now it's a full fledged askblog.

God I love your art so much mushroom

[ask-the-splitmind-au]

Arti, How could you turn away from the path of blood?! YOUR BABIES DIED BECAUSE OF THEM! HOW COULD YOU PUT UP WITH THAT?!