#tmc limbo

[hunter-the-sad-skeleton]

Iceburg for my TMC AU, do with this what you will-

[shmorp-mcdurgen]

I have a question about hsh Adam

If the "home" according to what he says is not capable of feeding on alternates, why was Adam the alternate being adsorbed? Could it be that Home got confused believing that he is a common human?

I'm unsure how much I can say but. Home did probably mistake him for a human.

[thebeetleball]

complicated difficult to communicate thoughts on the usage of limbo (sam and friends character) in the mandela catalog that ultimately amount to nothing im just autistic. I don't even like tmc

[dilutedbeanibeans]

some tmc doodles!!!! I dont think Ive ever shown off my gabriel design here!!!

also here is my pre heaven overthrow gabe design!!! normal seraphim guy :]

I DO NOT SUPPORT THIS SERIES ANYMORE‼️‼️ THIS IS FOR ARCHIVAL PURPOSES

full page under the cut + rambles

OKAY SO. I HAVENT DRAWN THESE GOOBERS IN SO LONG!!!!!! my art has DEFINITELY shot up in quality since then and it makes me so!!!!!joyous!!!!!!!

I am SO happy that Ive improved because for a long while I felt like I was stuck in a weird place of. Art Limbo and I’m so happy to realize that I’ve actually just been slowly improving this whole time!!!!!

AND TO GIVE AN. EXAMPLE

THIS FIRST PICTURE WAS LESS THAN A YEAR AGO!!!!!! I DREW THAT IN FEBRUARY!!!!!!

idk if it’s just me but seeing my art improve THIS MUCH within a year is so. amazing. I’m so proud of myself honestly

[regretevator-confessions]

folly would probably make me insane TMC alternate style but ngl. id let her. id love to be her feeble little plaything. her fragile boytoy, even. id let her break me and ruin me, id even let her kill me, or leave me as a lifeless husk of my former self. id let her put my deceased remains in her limbo as decorations for the rest of time. MOVE OVER MELANIE, MY CORPSE DESERVES TO BE THERE

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[foster-the-moths]

do u have any . mark hcs to spare

OH BOY DO I!!!!!!!

-ive mentioned this before but I think he loves bugs but HATES reptiles. Unironically thinks snakes are a little bit evil. But will also pick up wasps with no problem.

-i think he has Very unregulated emotions and he has a lot of trouble processing them, and most of the time he just represses that shit. Like he will be standing there doing nothing, space out, start thinking about his place in the universe, be overwhelmed by soul-crushing despair, start crying, and then shut down his emotions and force himself to stop crying. All in the span of 1 minute. Like nobody even notices unless they were paying attention to him. This happens multiple times a day. Please get him a healthier coping mechanism

- I've seen some ppl hc mark with ocd and they are so right. i think he definitely has a compulsion related to numbers/patterns and gets absorbed by his thoughts a lot. also intrusive thoughts.

-OH i also think he picks at his skin and lips and maybe pulls out his hair sometimes. he'll just start bleeding and go ooops

-i see a lot of people hc that mark was going through a really hard time during the events of vol 1 and i agree but i propose to you. what if he had already gone through a bunch of shit and was finally getting better. what if he was finally taking better care of himself, he didn't feel like he was drowning 24/7, he felt alive. and then he answers the phone in vol1 and its all violently ripped away from him. finally wanting to live only to be doomed to die is a cruel fate.

-also i think he loves cats. i think thats p much canon but its very important to me.

-i also have a lot of hcs i go back and forth on. like would he be horrified if he saw someone smoke weed or would he tell them to pass the blunt. i cant decide which one is funnier so its in hc limbo. Honestly I have like. 20 different interpretations of each tmc character in my head.

[henriiiii-1001]

Will use the Ice Queen fairytale as inspiration

So the main idea is that Joel willingly wants to become a witch, because his mother has a spell book (she never used it) around the house and he wants to do all those cool spells

And his "application" probably ends up having the same vibes as this

https://youtu.be/SYXduGNiHxY?si=xh6Hjly_jzR9U9EA

Like, the words are all right, it's just that he's making a clown out of himself. Six is mentally screeching, but the others are amused enough to entertain the idea of Joel joining them (it's like the woman in the video, he's looking around like "you can't be fucking serious")

And Six is going to have a damn near apoplexy if Gabe agrees to this dumbass to join them,so he just goes "you know what, fuck you!" and freezes him in an ice cube (Gabe probably yelled at him for that lmao)

Then Chloe finds Joel and the state he's in, and starts an adventure to find the ice witch (Mystifying Oracle's demon) so that they can unfreeze her friend.

I'll say there's a happy conclusion, the only thing that changed is that Joel is now permanently pale because he spent so much time stuck in ice

joel joining the witches would honestly be in character for him ngl DFVGBHNJ

i like this though! and maybe instead of six just nonchalantly freezing joel, he pisses the witches off somehow which warrants him to get frozen (like him getting stuck in limbo bc he pissed off the ghost(s) too much in mo). how he would do that though im not too sure.

and ngl six would probably actually be p happy that another guy would want to join. plus the current witches are getting p old, so maybe joel would be a nice newer addition like tiffany and adam. but then joel pisses off the group so gabe probably would take the liberty of freezing joel instead of six.

if mo was in the au tho, i would agree that the ghost from mo would be their own witch and be part of the group. the snow queen tale is perfect for it too! it would probably be a fun side story to write, but ngl im not too big on mo being canon to tmc, so i personally like to keep them separate.

i really like this interpretation though! sorry if i added too much onto it though qwq

[down-thedrain]

mandela v2. elaborate 👁👁

so funny story this ask has been sitting in my drafts for like 2 months cuz i honestly didn't know how to even begin to describe what mandela v2 is. it's an enigma even i don't know what it is it's just a dark spot in my brain that i occasionally stick my head into and come out covered in ashes and piranhas but. i'll try ig !!

it's kinda just me taking the characters and very general rules of this universe and making like. a completely new story put of them . a lot of the events are similar but shuffled around and there's a ton of new shit and it is FULL of headcanons and really self indulgent shit lol. it's not based on anything and there's no central premise it's just. another version of tmc. hence v2

i can't list every change in there because even i don't know the full extent of the changes i made but uh

- cesar has a special interest in the occult because autistic cesar is real to ME okay. he writes a bunch of shit about alternates and they figure out how to channel spirits because they're just like that. he kinda becomes a hermit the older they get and they have a very normal kinship with alternates that definitely isn't anythign to worry about :)

- cesar lives his encounter with alt!cesar but mark doesn't so mark's ghost (after escaping limbo and reliving his trauma because mark has to be absolutely miserable all the time it's required by law) follows him around and cesar occasionally channels him. but it works like in ace attorney so he physically changes to look like mark n shit it's funky

- bps isn't a high school club turned society but rather a giant underground operation with a head council and divisions in mandela + bythorne + werksha + etc. with the main goal of fighting both alternates and the police wherever they can. they're the ones that discover that dragonbreath bullets kill alternates and they have an entire research division it's cool i love v2 bps

- jonah joins bps before adam does in this au and ze's kinda like. the vice president of bps despite technically being too young when they first join. they mean everything to me in this au you have no idea

- mandelatech is a much larger corporation too. bps/mcpd/mandelatech are like. 3 warring factions kinda (which. yes. means that dave and eve end up fighting w bps a lot. it's. eugh)

- thatcher stays as lieutenant a lot longer than he does in canon and ae's just. so pissed at everything god bless. ☕ wants everything to be okay but he buries those hopes in pure rage <3 ☕'s canonically won fights against alts with aer bare hands so people know not to fuck with him. he'd call canon thatcher wet and pathetic LOL

- generally v2's on a much larger scale and kinda considers the world of tmc as a whole, rather than just focusing on specific characters. idk i like worldbuilding it's fun so sue me. there are a lot of ocs that fill the space suffice to say and i am totally willing to just throw whatever i want in there. this au is my witch's cauldron

- mervin has some shit to do maybe good for him

i love this au but it's like. definitely my least comprehensible (except for maybe tmcblr is that even counts) i just do whatever the fuck i want and no one can stop me. don't ask me questions about it i don't have to explain myself

[pastelalleycat]

Stanley (TMC) was indeed inspired by Limbo!

Limbo himself appeared on Sesame Street in the earliest episodes, teaching kids how to count, though he was more often referred to as 'Nobody' by fans. So having Stanley star in a ""kid-friendly"" short in the TMC universe is very fitting.

As someone who likes the Stanley Parable... this is not the Stanley I'd wanna cross paths with. He inherits Limbo's unsettling nature and takes full advantage of it.

currently thinking of limbo the muppet and just how bizzare he is

yes, he's a funky upside-down marrionette made of string. yes, he's the personification of an existential crisis. those two realities coexist and man is it weird

i mean, just look at his FACE my GOD

[hunter-the-sad-skeleton]

"KEEP AN EYE ON YOUR CHILDREN!"(Reblogs appreciated!)

[pixiestickers]

I am screaming, While at the gym I noticed one of the TVs was on TMC. I kinda registered that the movie playing was an old Robert Redford film and at some point I looked up and saw this

this whole time I thought this meme was of Zach Galifianakis in some Funny or Die video I hadn’t seen. And honestly, this is how I know that even though I’m stuck in that strange limbo of maybe being Gen X or Millennial, that I truly am a Millennial.

[hunter-the-sad-skeleton]

I'm normal about my AU, I swear, guys-(Reblogs appreciated!)

[hunter-the-sad-skeleton]

more TMC Au art stuff, some goofy, some serious, some are just ideas I'm playing around with lol(Reblogs appreciated!)

[hunter-the-sad-skeleton]

Yo, I made a google doc for my AU boundaries, read these and abide by them please, thanks <3

[hunter-the-sad-skeleton]

Can't remember if I've already posted some of these, but hey, a lot more art for my Mandela Catalogue AU got done pog :3(Reblogs appreciated!) Edit: I LABELLED JUDAS WRONG, HIS NAME ISN'T 12, IT'S JUDAS I WAS HIGH ON SLEEP EXHAUSTION WHEN I DREW THAT

[hunter-the-sad-skeleton]

So for votes on who to scream about, we had a good amount of votes for Limbo and Stanley and Cesar, so I'm gonna get Limbo and Stanley down first, Cesar is on the way though!

Starting off with two of the main Alternates I’ve thought out, we have Limbo and Stanley.

“But what were they like BEFORE they were the way they are now?” I hear you ask! Well, I’ve thought that through almost perfectly! Under the cut though because I have. Many thoughts about these guys and they live in my head rent free.

Trigger warnings for: Murder of sibling, implied suicide, implied murder, unprepared parenthood, sibling rivalry, canon divergence(idk if that's a trigger but just in case-), child favoritism, death mention, implied bad parenting, stuff like that, be careful!

Stanley and Limbo(Born Stanley Ravensburg and Cain Ravensburg) were born to Mary Ravensburg and Noah Ravensburg on December 15th, 1962.

Cain was an “accident-child”, as their mother only wanted to have one kid as it was all she was prepared to raise. Should she have been more prepared in case of twins? Probably, but she didn’t really have the time to prepare.

Stanley was always the favorite of the family, as he came out first and thus was seen as the wanted child.

They still took care of Cain, Stanley was just the favorite. Cain, growing up, always tried to one-up Stanley as a way of trying to earn his parents’ affection, but it never really worked out for him.

Eventually, he gave up on trying to earn their affection, and started doing things for himself. He’d always enjoyed game shows as a kid, so he wanted to host one himself someday, so he worked towards that, building a name for himself in the acting/entertainment world.

He finally gained the adoration he so desired! He was ecstatic!!

Then Stanley became a weather forecaster. People found HIM more entertaining due to his hilariously monotone way of speaking, even if he was warning about a hurricane or tornado.

Cain was furious, subtly casting shade at his brother occasionally when he was on-air(“What’s a two word name for an occupation that’s boring?”, stuff like that)

Stanley eventually found out and returned the gesture, it hurting worse as Stanley had always been painfully blunt and honest.(“What’s got roughly the same amount of letters as attention whore, but means practically the same thing?”) That sorta cost Cain most of his viewership.

This was the last straw for Cain. Cain finally had had enough of Stanley. He’d had enough of living in his shadow.

It wouldn’t be too much, just one shot and Stanley would just be hospitalized, right?

Then came the day he shot Stanley. He aimed too high.

Cain felt joy for all of a few moments before he realized: Stanley wasn’t moving anymore. He started panicking. It wasn’t supposed to be fatal, he didn’t want Stanley dead, just hospitalized for a few days, that’s all Cain wanted.

After he realized what happened, Cain dropped the gun he shot Stanley with and rushed back into his car, hurrying to drive away from the scene, having a slight panic attack as he drove off.

He went off-grid for a while after that, changing his name and appearance. The first week before he changed his mobile phone number was the hardest, as his parents were calling him, BEGGING HIM to come home in case the shooter came for him next.

He could never go back home, and for the first while, that hurt him. He loved his ma and pa with all his heart, but he could never face them. Not after what he did to his brother.

Before this, the harshest thing he did was toss a rock at Stanley, blinding him in his right eye and throw a few insults his way, and his parents forgave him for those after giving him a stern talking to on each occasion, the rock incident taking longer to forgive him for, but aside from that he was more dismissive to Stanley than anything. 

Stanley had NEVER been mean to Cain, Cain just took what Stanley said to him as him purposefully being mean just because of how he spoke. 

Cain regretted what he did to Stanley for years. Then the Alternate outbreak happened. It started the day he moved into Mandela County.

He’d been feeling like shit ever since he shot Stanley, but eventually got a little better with it. Then he saw a face on the TV.

He was confused. He swore he turned it off. When he walked closer, he saw that it was off. But the face was still there.

The face told him things, horrible, horrible things. Cain had already been in a terrible place mentally, but the face made it worse.

Eventually, it got to be too much, and Cain took care of it the typical way victims of Alternate Encounters handle things, dying on December 14th, 1986. 

He became an Alternate soon after, his “worst” qualities getting boosted. He was now a complete showman, unable to deal with anything seriously, taking his tasks on as some demented episode of a sick and twisted game show. He got his new name “Limbo” from when he was surfing through channels and found a rerun of the short called “Limbo the organized mind”.

He saw how people were freaked out by it and took the name, as it sounded better than Cain ever could sound.

He didn’t really want to be antagonistic at first, but with some constant nudging from “Gabriel”, and with some manipulation from him, he started to become more and more antagonistic.

Now he’s more like the Intruder from Intruder Alert that we all know and love!

If I had to pick a song that works as his theme song, it would be “The Main Character” by Will Wood or “My Ordinary Life” By the Living Tombstone.

Stanley though, Stanley’s different. He’s kept his monotone way of speaking, but he’s gained a less blunt way of speaking due to his time of reflection in the in-between before he came back as a Guardian Alternate.

When Stanley woke up as a Guardian Alternate, he was highly confused, as one would be when thrown into the world and your head has been replaced with a TV and you’re now 7’8” when you were previously, like, 6’ 2”.

His attention was immediately grabbed by the sound of a child, about 6 or 7, crying. His dad instincts kicked in almost immediately.

And thus, he became the Guardian Alternate of the kid, acting as his protector.

Whenever the kid came home from school, Stanley always made sure that he was okay, as he felt like he was his son.

He remembered how his father raised him, don’t show feelings, don’t show weakness, ect.

And threw it out the window, as he feels it deprived him of so much as a child.

Instead, he makes sure to listen to his person’s interests, encouraging him in his interests, stuff like that!

His person actually helps Stanley come out of his shell a bit! Like, Stanley sorta gains a bit of emotion in his voice! And slowly starts to gain enough confidence to slowly leave the kid’s room!

At some point, Stanley gains the confidence to meet the kid’s mom, telling her what the kid’s dad has been like towards her kid.

If I had to pick a theme song for Stanley, I’d say that it’d be “You Will Be Okay” from Helluva Boss, as that just encompasses him as a character.

Stanley is the better person of the two, acting as more of the protective of humans than Limbo does.

…or at least, that’s how it seems during the start of the story.

Then Limbo reunites with Adam(Judas(vol 4 intruder) dropped Adam on Limbo after kidnapping him because he didn’t feel like taking care of Adam, he legit said “this little cringe ass nae-nae baby piece of shit is your problem now bye bitch.”)in volume 2, and he sorta starts to bond with Adam.(Sure, he tries breaking his mental state, but hey, kibbo, your papa’s here now! :D) Then Adam starts to show signs of being sad about Jonah leaving. Limbo feels some form of pain in his heart at seeing this and shrugs it off as “Oh, it’s nothing!”, not knowing it was a sign that he was slowly turning into a Guardian Alternate.

The thing is, “Gabriel” never told Limbo anything about Guardian Alternates aside from “They are our worst enemies. We are to attack them on sight.”. He was never told why, he was never told anything about them, just that they were the enemy and that they were a danger to their goals.

When Limbo realizes what’s going on, he doesn’t report to “Gabriel” at his usual time. Heck, it’s a surprise he reports to him at all, and when he does, he’s a nervous wreck.

“Gabriel” shrugs this off as “Maybe he’s not as strong as I thought he was.”.

When “Gabriel” goes in-detail about what Alternates do to Guardian Alternates, Limbo panics and runs away, saying he “Remembered I have a kiddo to go kidnap, Judas is taking the day off, I’m gonna go do that!”

“Gabriel” is happy to hear this, as he thinks Limbo is finally bouncing back. He isn’t. He’s just trying to get as far away from Gabriel as he can.

Also, like, Alternates don’t really age, so they stay at the age they died at(Stanley died in like, his early to late thirties, same with Limbo-), but they still celebrate their birthdays if they can remember them/if they were human but then became Alternates.

This is what I’ve figured out for these two goobers, but I’m always thinking of new stuff for ‘em! :D