#tsr nikolai

[terris-mayweather]

There will be several spoilers for Nikolai's route and probably Cliff's route, too, and also probably Echo in general under the read more!!!

This is just going to be me ranting. I have a lot of feelings™ and I need to vent them.

OKAY SO THE SMOKE ROOM IS SO FUCKING GOOD!!!!!

Who had the right to make such wonderful, cute, interesting, characters?!?!?! And then the ROMANCE in it?! When Nikolai fucking proposed to Sam I fucking DIED.

THE UNEXPECTED THROUPLE WITH CLIFF AND MURDOCH TOO?! I was originally very dismissive of Murdoch, but interestingly enough THROUGH CLIFF'S ROUTE I really took a shine to him! And then his appearances in Nikolai's route also made me more interested in him!!! He seems to have a lot of demons, but is also a complete sweetie, secretly, and I want to know more!!!

I feel really bad leaving William last, but the others just stole my interest at the start!!! I'm sure William is great, though.

All that said, I am only finished with the public builds of both routes, and I am

SO

FUCKING

TERRIFIED

For all of them. Samuel is an oblivious and adorable sweetie, and is a much more engaging protagonist than Chase.

Nik deserves the world and then some (ALSO I'M SO CURIOUS WHY HIS HELMET IS SO IMPORTANT!!! My man's was literally fucking breaking DOWN about it. He deserves hugs and love so much. T_T)

Cliff is an adorable bean with a fiery streak inside him and I LOVE that contrast- and he's too precious to hurt. (Despite some red flags in his how shall we saaay- unwillingness to back down or admit he's wrong.)

And the other two I don't know enough, yet!!!!

But it doesn't matter because with the way Echo turns out and what we know happens to Samuel...

Well I don't see a good ending coming for ANYONE here, or ANY route. And that's the fucking worst. I want Nik and Sam to escape and be happy.

I'm going to need SO many fanfics of love and happiness. T_T

ANYWAY

Having a great time, always terrified, and loving the good things that do happen.

Btw all the side characters are so fucking good. Yao really stole the show for me in Nik's route. Chang is so cool, Dmitri is the best, Jebediah is wonderful, Avery is amazing. Like- the side characters all add SO MUCH to the game and the stories. Uffff.

This is peak content.

[unsafescapewolf]

Fat boy summer 😳

[hanborger]

I wish things stayed like this forever

[koko2unite]

We have poll up for the month! Help me pick up who I need to draw naughtily 😈😈

As a bonus, stuff from last month is still available to grab as well! an abundance of wolves, and a shark 🐺🦈

[pkdotts]

love this guy

[staufe]

[shokupanda]

🐅🦡 nikolai krol and and feng yaolin bc i just replayed the smoke room vn and caught up to the latest nik update

[bestfurryhusband]

[kokotwounite]

April monthly poll is up! help me decide who to draw 🐻🐕🦡🐉

[krakenoflight]

Will you respond?

[terris-mayweather]

DUDES! HELP! (Not serious)

I STARTED THE SMOKE ROOM AND I DON’T KNOW WHOSE ROUTE TO DO FIRSTTTTTT!!!! (I couldn’t keep myself away from these interesting characters and prequel to Echo.) 

They are so interesting to me!!! I tried thinking ‘Who does Terris want to get to know?’ But I came up partially blank. Cliff is very cute and sweet and I’m interested in his story and his apparent gung-ho passion. But at the same time knowing this is the Echo Project I know that he is likely obsessive to a fault, and overattachment is very disconcerting to me. But he seems so cute and sweet. <3 Plus I’m curious what a British stoat like him is doing in a place like Echo. Murdoch I’m mostly interested in seeing what his deal is as opposed to anything else, so he’s kind of on the bottom for me. I want to know why he seems to be all about business. Nikolai seems like the sweetest and kindest man and it seems like he would really care about Samuel, and I feel like we owe him a talk given uh... what happened in the mines... =S But his genuine concern resonated with me. (Wonder if he has internalized homophobia?) And William... Well I don’t know what to think of him! I like him a lot, and as the Sheriff I think he can really help us the most out of this er... bind. But at the same time getting close to authority like that is really troubling and I think he has a lot of internalized homophobia too. Or at least more than anyone else I’ve seen. But he also seems like he can be kind and would care about our situation a lot. OOOO I wonder if I can turn this into a poll... I haven’t had a reason to do one yet, this could fit!!! But yeah, I don’t know for sure.  I’m leaning towards Cliff and Nikolai the most. William 3rd, Murdoch 4th. But I’m still not sure.

[hanborger]

he's been expecting you

[seabashedz]

[brunolaplace]

the absolute unit

[redscarfff]

Nik,Why are you silent...

I decided to draw with a new life hack, which I learned about the other day from tiktok

[shokupanda]

🦡🐅colored the nik and yao scribbles. nyah