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[alienglowgarden]

A Shepard In My Garden

Hi, hello. So, this is what I've been working on for the better part of the month. A companion illustration for my fic, for which I have the first chapter up! And am working on the second one...

I wanted to create something with just a twinge of a sinister vibe, something loud and bright to mimic the way Vertumna is alive and constantly shifting and coiling and communicating with every tiny part of itself in a truly nauseating but at the same time addictive, even mesmerizing display. The same way the wormhole pulls Sol into the center of it all.

Here, Sol is our symbol for all things earth, all things humanity, Vertumna perched in their hand like a sweet fruit ripe for picking, juices spilling like the blood of all its creatures. And all the while Sol's own influence spreads across the fuchsia network. Their hand alone can sway the destinies of all its inhabitants and even the planet itself.

[vertumnanaturalis]

The Exocolonists of Vertumna (tumblr edition) Part 1: The starborn children of the Stratospheric

Sooo this is something I've been wanting to work on making for awhile, a tumblr text post addon for the big chunky npc list I've had for over a year. There's a lot of data I've accumulated over time that just doesn't fit in a google sheet in a decent way, and so I've been wanting to make some text posts to cover ideas that don't fit in my sheets, or might be an easier read for people who find my documents confusing.

I try to pull from canon as much as possible, and use speculation taken from a long hyperfixation on the concept of generation ships or bunkers and love for sci-fi media about it. The idea behind this list has always been to provide people with both an accessable set of easily usable/chuckable/maimable/fuckable/killable/ect names and ideas to fluff out the background of your own stories and with an illusion of consistancy, and to offer insight into my own headcanons that I've developed, so that people can take any bits and pieces they want and re-examine or reuse or recycle how they want. As always, I'll still try to mark which info is explicitly canon, but theres a lot of blanks to be filled in and my take on how things could be explained is far from the only one.

This one is gonna be an overview of the 54 people born on the Stratospheric and some approximate either in-universe or out-of-universe explanations for why things are structured the way they are. Future ones will cover specific sub-sections of those shipborn Stratos, overviews and department-specific pages about the adults of the Stratospheric, matching pages for people of the Heliopause, the children born during the final two years of the game, and even data for the kids possibly born beyond that.

In the earliest stages of drafting the ships population, the founders had planned to have exactly 100 people on the Stratospheric when it left Earth, primarily composed of their brightest and most promising between ages 10 and 25 (in local Earth years), and that 35 children would be born in five groups of seven during its 21(e)/20 (local Vertumna years) year journey, the maximum they could have fit in that ideal situation. On launch day in reality, the ship left with only 86 out of it's planned 100. Several of their important specialists were intercepted en-route to the launch pad, and a handful of their volunteer teenagers backed out in the final days and hours, while the reserve choices they had on hand were children chosen for their genetic diversity rather than skills or potential, with Utopia being an especially young outlier at just shy of 3(e). Outside of her and their sole member of generation one, Captain Eudicot, the ships population ran from original Chief Administrator Chiffon at 33(e) down to little Jubilation at 6-and-a-half(e). In one of the final documents outlined by the Earth colony's leaders in the hours before liftoff, the plans for the third generation were expanded from 35 to 50, adjusted for the younger leaning launch population and all the changes it entailed.

Similar to the founders original plan, spacer kids were still divided into five age groups (A, B, C, D, and E), with at least a year between the youngest person in one group and the eldest of the next. Half of this was to give the ship's lone acting physician a break period where there were no fresh infants or pregnancies to worry about, and the other half was to give the ship's administration time to carefully plan out the next set of children; How many children would be in this group, who was going to gestate the pregnancies, who their social parents would be (if any), what augments Instance would give them, and, most importantly, keeping an eye on the current genetic and social diversity of the third generation, so that they did not reach a genetic or social bottleneck too quickly (ie incest in a social setting, even if the two individuals are not genetically related). All of the embryos that would become the next group of children were created in the same few month period of time and cryofrozen until they were due to be implanted in the person chosen to gestate them. There were a number of extra rules that the Vertumna Group had written out that ultimately Eudicot and the council decided to abandon to at some point in the trip, all for various reasons, and not all by unanimous vote;

That there would be no need for drastic changes in the current groups' plans once the planning stage was over.

That every pregnancy would only include one fetus, with post-implantation embryo splits being selectively reduced.

None of the children born on the Stratospheric would have any genetic relationship with one another, and parents having more than one child would be discouraged, and that in cases where siblings did occur, either each sibling would only take genes from one parent (in family units with 2+ parents) or only the eldest child would have genetic relation to their parent and any following child would be purely from donated dna (for family units with only one parent).

That, at minimum, a quarter of every group should be set asside to for children with no dedicated family attachments, both to better. adhere to the group's original idea of having no parents, but also to give the young colony a bit more padding against the looming threat of everyone being second or third cousins in only a few generations.

Another rule that, while not completely abandoned, was less and less considered as the years went on was one that mandated how many embryos of each cluster were planned to develop with a genetically likely physiology that could get pregnant, a physiology that could get others pregnant, or anything in the vast array of historically normal and genetech introduced non-reproductive physiologies. This was never intended to determine the gender of the resulting children and any gene therapy they want or require in the future, or guarentee that the embryo would fully develop in the "intended" (solely in regards to their future reproductive capibilities, without further gene therepy involvement) way, but rather an attempt to gamble that at a decent number of the third generation would be able to continue the human species in the event their genetech was lost prematurely. For the original plan with 5 groups of 7, each group was to have a minimum of 3 embryos with an expected physeology that would be able to carry a pregnancy, 3 that could sire a pregnancy, and the 7th wouldn't have any requirements. The 3/3/1 ratio was followed exactly only during the first group, while following groups would only roughly follow this plan. In total, 54 children were born between leaving Earth and arriving at the wormhole; 30 out of them having siblings of some kind, with 10 of those children being born in sets of multiples (with two sets of twins and two sets of triplets) - with only one accidental post-implanation embryotic split resulting in two of those children - with 16 of the children have some genetic relationship with one another (though, with the exception of the identical sisters, none closer than genetic half siblings); and ultimately, only 9 children were explicitly born to be raised in the creche without parentage.

The 54 children of the Stratospheric:

Group A: The oldest spacer kids, they'd be adults at landing by Helio standards but they're still minors by the culture of the Vertumna group, coddled and babied more at landing than Sol when they reach the same age down the road, even if they still have adult jobs and responsabilities.

Cosmozoa "Cosmo" - he/him - 18

Lilium "Lili" - she/her - 18

Sorrel - he/him - 18 - A canon name and job, rest of info is fanmade

Benevolence "Bena" - she/her - 18

Edamame "Ed" - he/him - 17

Malagma "Mal" - they/them - 17

Absinthe "Abby" - any pronouns, feminine formal terms - 16* (17th birthday shortly after New Year day but before landing on Vertumna)

Group B: Kom's age group, with him as the oldest of the bracket, still young enough to be discovering themselves but old enough that the adults are rapidly giving them more responsibilities than their upperclassmen were at the same age. A series of unlikely and specific events led to the existance of the ships first set of multiples, and their existance provides in-universe backstory and reasoning for why some of the following children exist.

Kombucha "Kom" - he/him - 15

Quinine "Quinni" - they/them, later + he/him - 15 - same deal as Sorrel, even being named in the same event

Thicket - Any, masculine familiar terms - 14** (15th birthday after arriving on Vertumna but before Sol wakes up in medbay)

Opulence "Opal" - she/her - 14

Vertex "Tex" he/him - 14

Tempest "Pem" - she/her + They/them - 13* (same as Abby)

Chrysocolla "Chrys" - they/them - 13

Triplets Coriander "Cory" (he/him) , Scallopini "Pina" (she/her) , and Amaretto "Ame" (she/her) - 13 - Pina and Ame are the identical sisters mentioned above, while their fraternal brother Cory is genetically unrelated to them

Falchion "Kion" - he/him - 13

Group C: Sol's age bracket, most of these kids are canon and need no explanation

Arroyo "Ary" - he/him - 11

Aspartame "Tammy" - she/her - 11

Recalcitrance "Cal" - he/him - 11

Simplicity "Plic" - she/her - 11

Peregrine "Penny" - she/her - 10

Evanescence "Evan" - he/him - 10

Philosophy "Sully" - they/them - 10

Marzipan "Marz" - she/her - 10

Solanaceae* "Sol*" - they/them* - 9** name varies by timeline, but all of my documents will refer to our player character as Sol, and primarily but not exclusively with they/them pronouns; their 10th birthday is very notibly after they land on Vertumna shortly into the new year

Anemone "Annie/Nem/Nemmie/[Determined by player choice]" - she/her - 9

Twins Dysthymia "Dys" (he/him) and Tangent "Tang" (she/her) - 9 - in all of my headcanon documents, including this one, I am going with the idea that they are planned fraternal twins with seperate sperm donors; I know the take that they were idetical twins is a common one, but it isn't actually a canon one; nothing in the game actively states this, the idea that they were identical is simply a common and very reasonable take on the information the game gives us, but it was never something I got from playing the game myself. If you're curious about all the exact reasons for this you can send an ask and I'll elaborate.

Group D - The younger kids, like Anemone's triplet brothers, half of them have their holopalms installed but still spend a lot of time in the creche when they land. All but the eldest three are kids Sol and Tammy babysit, and 100% of them are kids Sol can later tutor in school

Hawthorn "Hawth" - they/them - 7

Hyaline "Lin" - any - 7

Sepia - she/her - 7

Triplets Cirrus, Stratus, and Cumulus (all he/him) - 6** (same as Thicket) - we never get their exact age, but they're listed as being 7 years old when the game starts in an only mostly correct game file character sheet, the triplets ended up being technically 6 at the start because of an early whoopsie daisy during early npc documentation

Mistletoe "Misu-Misu" - she/her - 6

Kelvin - he/him - 6

Effervesence - he/him, later + they/them - 5

Vendetta "Detta" - she/her, later + they/them - 5

Necterine "Nena" - she/her - 5

Group E - The youngest of the generation, all toddlers and babies on arrival, space born in technicality, but children of Vertumna in every other way. The largest of the groups with 13 children included, and the group with the most imaginative and most untested augments.

Nougat - she/her - 3

Nimbus - he/him - 3 - similar to the cloud triplets, we never get his age beyond that he's "little Nimbus", but he's old enough to be in school when Sol first unlocks the tutoring job so I put him at Nougat's age

Panache "Pan" - he/him - 2

Maraschino "Chino" - he/him & she/her - 2 -while Chino does appear in game with only the he/him pronouns used, "Marachino "Chino" with the pronouns he/him"'s age is never directly given in-game, a "Marachino "Mara" with the pronouns she/her" and an age of 2 is listed in the same file that gives the cloud triplet's their approximate age and listed as a child encountered during babysitting, so I went with a middle ground of having this character use both pronouns and later both nicknames

Tessera "Tess" - she/her - 2

Macaroni "Mac" - she/her & he/him - 1 - the child with the no pain augment is refered to with he/him pronouns in-game, but I went with a similar deal to Chino for variety

Contrivance "Connie" - he/him - 1 - the child with the shark teeth augment is also refered to with he/him pronouns

Ketamine "Ket" - they/them - 1

Maxilla "Max" - he/him - 0

Twins Whimsy and Praline (both she/her) - 0 - while one of Dys's late game/high skill events has him talking about how at one point he and Tangent were "The Twins" prior to their relationship crumbling apart, I thought it would be narratively fitting to have a younger set of twins being planned/conceived/born at the same time as their relationship falls apart as Tangent gets further into genetics (where said twins were being made), making him and Tang lose their status as being "The Twins" in multiple ways

Benzodiazepine "Benji" - he/him - 0

Enigma "Ena" - she/her - 0 - the youngest child from the Strato's third gen and last one to be born in space is refered to with she/her pronouns as a baby, opted to keep those pronouns as she grows older

In total, the shipborn children and teenagers account for roughly 40% of it's landing population (39.7% when arriving at the wormhole, and 42.2% after the canonly unavoidable loss of life during it's landing). This number combined with the chaos of living on a new planet and the very likely scenario of the ship's brown dirt being lost would be a good starting explanation for some of the glaring failures in child wellfair and safety during the 10 years we see during the game, but definately not an excuse. The next post is going to be either a quick overlook of the gen 2 Strato characters or a more detailed post for one of the specific gen 3 groups, detailing things like birthdays and augments, with posts detailing the adult npcs and all the Helios and planetborn children coming later.

Also, as there was no decent way to include this higher up the list, here are the sibling sets discussed earlier;

Sorrel, Thicket, and Misu [only Sorrel shares any dna with their mother, Thicket and Misu are both entirely from donor dna]

Kom, Anemone, Cirrus, Stratus, Cumulus, and Nimbus [Kom and Anemone are genetic half siblings with 50% of their genes from Anne, while the following boys only have between 15 and 35% coming from Anne, with the rest from multiple donors]

Opal and Ves [Opal only shares her mother's dna, while Ves only shares his father's]

Tex and Ary [only Tex has his father's dna, with Arroyo's embryo coming from Earth]

Cory, Pina, and Ame [None of the trio have their mother's dna, and the embryo that became Cory shared no dna with the embryo that split into Pina and Ame]

Kion, Penny, and Sepia [One of the three is only genetically related to one of their two parents, another is only genetically related to the second parent, and the third is entirely from donor dna or an Earth embryo, but only Instance knows which of the three is which, as all three were created (or selected) at the same time for this exact scenario]

Sully and Ket [occupy a unique space as sorta step-siblings, as they both have single parents who begin a romantic relationship after landing]

Dys and Tang [explained above]

Kelvin and Pan [occupy another unique space as social half-siblings, with Kelvin being born to a single father who entered a relationship after he was born, but his father's partner is very explicitly not his mom genetically or socially]

Detta and Connie [a similar deal to Opal and Ves, but I haven't mapped out which parent is which yet]

Nena and Chino [genetic half siblings, with both taking dna from their mother and Nena taking dna from one of their fathers and Chino taking it from the other]

Whimsy and Praline [they don't share any genetic material with one another or their mom, and an in-universe rumored reason for it is that their mom had been the egg donor for one of the older children]

Also, the creche children who were born at the behest of the colony without any specific designated parents in mind

Bena

Mal

Chrys

Plic

Hawth

Lin

Nougat

Tess

Max

Side note: Canonically, Anemone's brother Kom is the oldest shipborn child we see, and while I believe Lindsay intended for Kom to be the oldest member of gen 3 after Utopia, this is never actually stated in the game, and I was surprised to see that it was the intent as it never came across to me that way during my initial playthroughs. Nothing in here explicitly ignores or goes against anything said or mentioned in the game proper, but I know that having any of the kids be older than Kom is probably the not the most canon way to construct the generations layout. One of the canonly used names in the game, "Sorrel", has been given to one of these teens, but there is neither anything for or against Sorrel being this age, as the only information we get beyond a name is a manner of death and a place of work.

[sharktoothjack]

hope my reblog helps you understand why cal was put third row from the bottom :3 he irritates me a lot because i would do 50 botanist runs (one of my fav endings) in a row, except xenobotany job requires that i spend time with cal and it goes against my values.

Yeah, thanks for explaining the thought behind Cal's placement! I absolutely love talking with people about Exocolonist. :) (I keep hearing people mention a possible Vace line that makes him less of an asshole, and OMG I NEED to play more of this game!)

My thoughts on Cal are different, as you might have guessed. ;) This game is full of tiny tragedies and contradictions. I think I would say every character is a hypocrite at some point. But the actual mission the humans are on is itself hypocritical. When the colonists leave earth behind, instead of leaving human troubles behind they bring them with them, particularly the "colonist" part. Cal and Dys are some of the only characters who are willing to look at the human colony from the Vertumna perspective and point out that, fundamentally, however noble their goals might be, the humans are the invading aggressors here. Cal is also an unyielding pacifist, so yeah, the way that he processes the deaths of his friends and neighbors is different from and often unpalatable to the other characters. He certainly isn't right all the time, but I find the perspective compelling.

Anyway, it's awesome to hear your thoughts on one of my favorite games and I hope you keep talking about the characters you love!

[thewarinourstarwars]

It took me two attempts to romance Vace successfully, but I learned a lot from my first attempt!

As a part of this run, I was also going to be an astronaut, and I was going to be besties with Nemmie and Rex, since I'd heard that those relationships were key to getting the most out of a Vace run and feeling less awful about it!

Things I found out from this first attempt:

You actually DO NOT have to break up Nemmie and Vace to have a good ending for both

I failed to have enough Persuasion the first time to do this, so they did not break up and I did not succeed in convincing Nemmie.

The epilogues change for Nemmie, Vace, and Rex if you are friends with all three of them!

Nemmie still becomes a stay-at-home mom, and Vace does relapse into old patterns, but because all three of you are friends, they do overcome it, and Nemmie avoids dying young (I failed to get peace in either of these endings oops or even meet Sym)

Rex and Vace also make up in the epilogue later on when they both mellow out as adults!

If you are an Astronaut and you fail to negotiate peace, you and Vace die together trying to find a new place to go because Vertumna isn't working out and you get unique death text!

What's most interesting, though, is that these epilogues are unique to you NOT breaking up Nemmie and Vace and NOT reconciling Rex with Vace in the game, but still getting Vace through his therapy arc!

That said, his Friendship 100 event will not appear if you do not break him and Nemmie up! How do I know? Because on the second run, instead of doing the Level 90 event and starting the therapy arc as soon as I could, I waited and got some Humanities classes and bought some gear to boost my Persuasion to level 32.

Here's what happened:

I broke him and Nemmie up (and learned from save-scumming that I did not want to flirt with him in the moment) and mentioned Rex (but did not have Level 50 persuasion to get him to agree to make up)

A few months later, we got Vace's friendship 100 event where I was able to successfully flirt and get into a healthy relationship with him.

I also told him he messed up with Rex, and he of course talked about Nemmie

We promised to leave for space together <3

And when you get together with him at this point, his dialogue is honestly so sweet, about how he isn't sure he can be a good partner with what he did with Nemmie, but he's willing to try and be better, I really liked this and it gave a lot of depth to the choice, was honestly worth everything you had to do to get to this point

I then raised Rex's friendship to 80 and opened a bunch of options to talk to him about Vace, and because I hit Friendship 100 with Vace, it right after had Vace and Rex reconcile

Failed to get peace again, became an Astronaut again

Nemmie and Rex's epilogues go back to their defaults with the usual mention of hating Vace for Nemmie and her dying young on the battlefield because I failed to negotiate peace

AND VACE'S EPILOGUE JUST DIDN'T SHOW?!?

I heard the astronaut ending is super glitchy and I'm wondering if that has something to do with it???

Either way, I'm disappointed, especially as it was hard to do this route, making my polycule was easier

And with the other epilogues, I honestly prefer the first astronaut ending

And that's the latest of Grace's Adventures on Vertumna! The Vace routes can be really rewarding, but man is there a lot of self-betrayal along the way.

[moonbugs9058]

new fanfic, come get your fanfics!

for the exocolonist fandom this time :D Without All The Nuance is a fic that focuses on the mental issues Sol probably has after living all of those lives and being set back again and again to relive it; so they have a slew of mental issues that are slightly different from chapter to chapter. They're kind of like one-shots, but are all very loosely related.

Chapters include:

Chapter 1 - Tangent - Solutions and Formulas Chapter 2 - Tammy - Princess in a Locked Tower Chapter 3 - Anemone - Oversized Chainmail (undersized spears) Chapter 4 - Cal - Twitching Stars are no good for Directions Chapter 5 - Rex - A good friend Chapter 6 - Sol - Without All The Nuance Chapter 7 - Extras - Fic structure, chapter plans, and scrapped chapters

The chapters are all up, the fic can be found in my pinned post under "In Vertumna and Time."

[nordictwin]

The Tragedy of the Exocolony on Vertumna IV - chapter 3

When the Heliopause lands on Vertumna, Commander Lum is certain he knows what to expect.

For almost as long as he can remember, he’s been dreaming of this moment. Of setting foot on that foreign world and finally apprehending those damn fugitives of the Vertumna Cult.

But the old crone in front of him, a woman he’s only ever seen pictures of, just looks at him with blank eyes, and says one thing with a voice that is dead:

“You never should have come here”.

[penguin--person]

flulu and geranium.. for the ship thingy :3

they're cool and swaggy 💥💥i like the story of how they met:) or like, how they both got on the stratospheric hehe.. THE GRIND NEVER STOPS!!!!! 💪💪💪 i dont have any strong opinions on them:( sorry i failed iwatex nation.... i checked 'therapy' bc they both need it !! like sure they may look stable to sol, but also like, sol is a child !! theyre gonna try to look stable in front of a kid ... leaving earth wasnt easy, neither was settling in on vertumna !! you know ?? theyre rlly interesting characters and i like how they're explored (mainly flu) in the fic The Person You'll Grow To Be!! its sooo!!! gah!!! i was sobbing by the end of it !!!!! you should read it if you havent already 💥💥and even then, you should reread it... theyre cool and i like their characters, but but again, i dont feel anything That Strong about them? i like their dynamic :) but i rlly am just Painfully Neutral about it and i think im gonna be put on the cross for this

the ship thingy

[faolanrune]

Hello! My name is Faolan and I’m an aspiring author! I am currently working on a fantasy novel titled “People of Akari” and I’m sharing my work on its conlang here.

I have also gotten back into writing fanfics, Ghost and Baldurs Gate 3 being that reason. Lots of Astarion fics to write and I plan on making others for different characters too.

I do take requests, but I will refuse if they cross a boundary of mine or I don’t have the experiences to write it well.

I’m on Ao3! Runix57 is my username

(He/him) pronouns pls!

Here’s just some basic rules for the page

DNI if ur transphobic, homophobic, or think polyamory is morally wrong

DNI if ur against furries or a zoophile.

Most of the content I plan on posting is cool if ur under 18, if something isn’t I’ll put a warning at the top. HOWEVER, whether you are a mutual or not don’t dm me or anything like that if you are under 18, I will block you. I don’t mind you interacting with my art or writing but I draw the line at dming me or anything of that sort.

TW ahead of time: death, swearing, suicide mention, some transphobic assholes, toxic/abusive people, maybe some smoking and/or alcohol but not sure yet

Topics I will NEVER include in my writing: rape, incest, detrans, super heavy descriptions of violence/gore (more will be added to this list just can’t come up with anymore rn)

Overall don’t be an ass and feel free to ask questions whether about the fandoms I like or the conlang I’m working on or just general stuff

If you see a listing here without a link, it means it has yet to be posted but is in the works. I can only type so much and certain parts take more planning on my end as I write them out.

ALSO feel free to ask questions to clarify on anything I put in here, as long as they are polite and respectful questions I don’t mind answering stuff.

Everything is color coordinated. So if you see Green it is for Baldurs Gate Fics, Purple for People of Akari, and Pink for Ghost. Blue is for my I was a Teenage Exocolonist Brainrot Music Stuff. Orange is for any of my Art

Akian Language

Part 1: Sounds and Grammar Bits

Part 2: Characters and how to write them

Part 3: Introductions, Days of the Week, Months, Time Markers

Part 4: Numbers

Part 4b: Number Characters

Part 5: Relationship Markers

IWATEX Music Fics

Colors of Vertumna

Show Must Go On

Hope

Dancing and the Dreaming

Smells Like Teen Spirit

March of Cambreadth

Ghost!

Life Eternal Fic

BG3

It’s Not Fair: Astarion/GN Tav

Sing of the Moon: Astarion/GN Tav

Art

Tarot Card master list

OC Masterlist

Fandom Art Masterlist

[rgbfall]

Prev I am putting your tags on my post because you Get Me. I said before you probably have more isat knowledge than me bc I haven't got 2hats yet, and as for exocolonist you don't really need much info from the other ending? Honestly having run through the game at least once is good enough.

"...how sif and sol merge with the other world" think of it like. This is an alternate universe where they've always lived there, but now they have memories of not living there, if that makes sense. Everything about them is like they've always lived there (ie siff doesn't have craft but has a genetic augment, sol does have craft), and as far as everyone around them is concerned they've always lived there. So yes they pretty much entirely swapped without leaving a trace of the other. There's probably some mistakes that, if pointed out, could help them prove to people around them that they haven't always lived there (eg sol speaking esperanto and siff speaking french, and also siffrins name doesn't mean anything).

As for sols craft, I was thinking paper fits them, or otherwise scissors bc that's what siffrin has and i wanted the team to stay reasonably balanced (ie. not 3 paper types). So. Not sure yet! And for siffs augment, I was gonna go with super strength? I considered eagle eyes, but considering siffs missing eye and the fact that they keep missing items and traps means. it's probably not best.

"Does loop know somethings up?" Not sure yet!!! I will decide. when I finish 2hats ahah.

"Does siffrin become the child of sols parents?" Yep! Geranium calls him his "little cabbage" bc it's similar to his nickname for sol and based on the french pet name "mon petit choux" (my little cabbage). "How does siffrin react to having "parents" now?" Conflicted... on the one hand, woah! this is what it's like to have a childhood? crazy! on the other hand. these are Not Siffrins Parents. Then also a general sense of dread from not quite remembering past lives, but knowing something bad is going to happen to them. and also. siffrin keeps a meticulous diary. They Will Not Forget This Time. It started as a way to make sure they don't forget their friends, and now they just write everything that happens.

"I feel like sif would probably end up befriending dys" YOU ARE ABSOLUTELY CORRECT THIS WILL BE HAPPENING. Siff, feeling like being friends with anyone else is betraying the party, would kindof end up a bit of a loner? Which then means being friends with dys. And ofc he's trying to find answers about how he got here, and potentially trying to find Vertumnas version of a favor tree.

"Sym would probably remind siffrin of loop" ohhh my god I hadn't thought of that but you're so right..... I'd imagined sym (and potentially loop) will be driving forces in getting answers, loop bc they'll know more than sol and sym bc they have dreams of someone Who Is Not Siff.

"Would the change god notice something up?" I... hadn't even thought about that. Probably. And they'd probably not be helpful at all!! The king would not notice anything, sol is still "bright one" to him.

As for siffrins lack of wishing causing the loops well. I have ideas for it that I will keep under wraps in case I write stuff for this (which I plan on doing kyekyekyekye)

Hmmm for sol learning about siffrin.... as far as the party knows about, siffrin never existed! So sol would be learning about themself through the party's eyes! I'm thinking sol is probably wayy more open about the situation than siffrin is, so the party is very helpful and very concerned. Unfortunately for sol, this also means that if they want help they need to tell the party. Every. Loop. which makes for good angst later on teehee ^_^

Ok hold on are there any isat fans who also like i was a teenage exocolonist who would like to talk to me about a potential au I have

[hirokiyuu]

hmmmmmmmm olivace+array............ fascinating he's just Fine afterwards. fascinating u just kiss long-term and it's fine. something something near death experiences do change you, something something tying this back to his desire to be back in space and how the only time he felt alive was during the crash and how both of those are really just his desire for connection expressing itself terribly, something something the inevitable genuine respect this owuld bring him in the aftermath might genuinely benefit him bc it's smth he can be Genuinely proud of instead of like. bitchboy proud of (lmao)

oh i do think it's interesting that anemone leaves you in this end iirc. how much does vace Really change and how much is that sol seeing the best in him after he nearly dies for him

also unrelated to vace completely i lov what this says abt sol <3 this is the Bad Ending ot them. sol is in love with vertumna even when they want to destroy it and i love that

[fiercestpurpose]

I think this is my favourite ending combination I ever got. Because Dys does leave Solanaceae to become a Gardener and Solanaceae in that life was so desperate for answers (that's what the Astronaut ending is about, that desperation because it only triggers if you look for answers under the wormhole during Glow but don't transcend), and Dys was like "I'm gonna find inner peace by becoming one with a giant techno-organic shared mind" and what the fuck is Solanaceae supposed to do with that? Like, she doesn't know who or what she is, her childhood best friend slash LIFE PARTNER is walking out on her, and her other closest friend is... Vace? The most un-Dys person around? So, yeah, she and Vace had a torrid affair and she definitely broke down crying in his arms (which he probably doesn't handle well, even post-therapy) about things that she can't explain and that Vace doesn't even care about. And Dys views Vertumna as this haven, this perfect sanctuary, and Vace just wants to get away, but Solanaceae is caught somewhere in the middle where she just wants answers and she'll never be able to get them from the planet or from space. Like. Deeply intensely lonely experience for her I think. Anyway. I think about this particular ending and this particular Solanaceae all the time, she's my favourite. <3

i just got the 'astronaut' ending on a life where i was romancing dys and i think that's SO interesting because the astronaut ending is all about you & vace and your relationship and vace's compulsive need to escape is actually so similar to dys's compulsive need to escape, just with kind of the opposite attitude towards the planet itself. and like the idea that dys, the love of your life and the only person who knows the truth about you, forsakes you to become a gardener and you like keep exploring with vace and pilot your spaceship straight into the heart of the wormhole because you're also trying to escape, trying to escape the time loop you're trapped in

[alienglowgarden]

Life is Torture!!!!! (finished first chapter of my fic but decided I want to do a Real Art Cover Picture that ofc takes way way longer because I do art seriously, and also to unwind, so theres always a million different things I could be working on at any given time. But,, Im making progress.... I try to work at it a little every day...)

heres a lil peek at a Vertumna I'm chipping away at currently :3 no dont ask me what sols up to in this one........... youll see....

Another hilarious funfact on that note: I famously NEVER make serious art digitally/for entertainment, like of my ocs. But...... once again,,, IWATEX has broken through my cold black carapace somehow.........

[penguin--person]

🥊🍎🍀🍕 for synth my good friend synth :3

SORRYYYY I TOOK SO LONG TO ANWSER THIS I LOST THE QUESTIONARE ... SO SORRY .... BUT ive scoured up emoji asks fromv arious different questionares . theyre not the questions you wanted but . its info about synth ... soorreiss ..

🍎 [RED APPLE] Who does your OC value above all else?

so i'd say that like. obvious anwser for him is his friends, ya know? but Who specificaly ... mm ... undeniably, sol in some timelines, where they become buddypals ... i thinkkk im gonna make synth a bit more of a freak. also i think itd be cool maybe .. if .. he met sym ... buddiesss ... but i guess that like. his dad i think? i think he has a dad

🍀 [FOUR LEAF CLOVER] Would your OC spend hours looking for a four leaf clover?

hell yeah mannn if she heard about a four leaf clover shed spend all month in the grass looking for it. vertumna would of course kill all four leaf clovers upon finding out that a human is searching for one but i dont think thatd deter her one bit

🍕What's their guilty pleasure food?

id say... like, sneaking bits from the harvest hehe .. like ohh this corn is a bit umm its a bit stale isnt it .. ohh such a shame that it will have to be thrown out ... (evil smile) ... but also spoonfuls of sugar i think... tho i do think that he likes fruits a lot, i dont think he feels guilty about that

umm i cant find one with a 🥊 sorry .. so im gonna use maple leaf from the save questionare as four leaf clover

🍁 [MAPLE LEAF] What is your OC's favourite season? Why and what do they do during it?

id say she likes wet:) its like. all soggy and all the plants are growing.. its harvest season... the year is coming to an end, he gets to see the fruits and veggies of her labor ... teehee ... sorry again that i forgor...

[penguin--person]

🖊tell me abt a blorbo I haven't heard much abt at all :3

you get photosynthesis

synth my buddy synth is an iwatex oc of mine!! i dont focus on them enough.. dont give them enough attention.. smh.. shame on me.. this will contain some iwatex spoilers. here's their relationship charts that i made a few months back! there's an error in anemone's (red/orange girl) teenage thing. it means to say "vace's dislike of synth rubs off on nem"

some of this has changed, but most of it has remained the same. synth is cool. she's trans! which way? yeah! he realizes that during the game, so, sol can help him out and such.. he're younger than sol, also.. her birthname, which they like still, is nudibranch! dib for short:) then, when she realizes she's trans, she keeps their legal name (bc he's lazy lol, and as i said, he likes it) and then have a more public name, which is photosynthesis.

they choose that name because he's rlly a big flower guy. his job is agriculturist! and, florist in the side:) it doesn't pay too many kudos, but he likes it!!! knows all about the vertumnian.. vertumnilian? flora, and loves learning more about it!! however, you can't feed the colony on flowers. so!! their main job is agriculturist, they help maintain the land and all the jazz that agriculture involves. therefore, they're close with cal, and therefore, tammy!! i also imagine sol:) since their mom is head of geoponics

she's just cool... she's nice, love to tease her friends (cough cough go check out @/aru-art 's oc inca theyre buddypals), love to pick them up and carry them around, help them, make jokes.. she's also a bit. skittish..? no.. hm.. whats the right word, i wonder...

he's easy to persuade, i suppose? he's not naive. he dislikes the helios. cough cough vic my good friend vic. he won't help you if you're him them to kill someone. but , if you're good friends, he won't report you, if your reason is good enough, or if he trusts you enough. if you're friends, he'll also help you hide the body. he's v loyal 👍

he's just a chill gal... doesn't like that everyone is like, ohhh what are we gonna do the vertumna wants us dead. bc she thinks that they can coexist with vertumna. just have to show it they dont mean harm. but, whos gonna listen to a little kid who eats dirt lol

has a "what's the point of anything if there's no time to stop and smell the flowers" mindset, sorta.. theres no point to just surviving. you have to live.

HE GETS WITH NOMI ‼️‼️SHE DATES THEM ‼️‼️QPR MOMENT... i also think sol could pair her up with someone. or, try to, lol.. that'd be funny i thin.. but nomi is a safe bet 💪💪💪marz also, i think.. anemone maybe? tangent, if you squint.. worlds most swag yuri polycule on vertumna right now

anyway shes cool 👍

[hirokiyuu]

anyways my various sols roundup

1) first playthru, high mind focus sol, never once helped out during colony attack LOL. fucking everyone died. she/her leaning demigirl who was in love w/tang from ages 10 to 100 and died forty years after her still madly in love. worlds most dysfunctional lesbian! governor marz/lawyer/neutral end

which led intoooooo

2) exploration focused he/him tguy sol, emphasis on saving people but still lost both his parents even after saving tammy+hal+tonin, which created an odd sense of distance btwn him and others esp bc his delusions were somewhat well-known. avoided tang for no reason he could explain + followed dys bc he wanted to know what was up. fell in love w/him, took over the colony instead of marz, codependent w/dys until they both died. negotiated peace w/the gardeners. governor end

which i then pushed into

3) manic I Can Do Anything! nb sol, saved literally everyone and was extremely cheerful about it. felt like the world was their oyster, everythign happened just as they wanted it to up until dys ran away + they found out he was dating sym which led to a desperate attempt at getting both of them back that culminated in them becoming a gardener bc that’s what happens sometimes! gardener end

and has now led me to

4) human centrist cisguy sol who is half in love w/everyone in the colony and has the biggest head known to man. flirting with vace AND rex AND dys AND nem bc hes fucking stupid. im still halfway thru this playthru but unfortunately i will be going full scorched earth on vertumna minus virus so. uh. good luck to them