#why doesn't this game have NORMAL COLORS TO CHOOSE FROM

[rigaudon]

who the fuck designed these color palettes hE LOOKS LIKE A WATERMELON

[divadepreshawn]

𝐇𝐨𝐰 𝐝𝐨𝐞𝐬 𝐢𝐭 𝐟𝐞𝐞𝐥 𝐭𝐨 𝐛𝐞 𝐚𝐝𝐨𝐫𝐞𝐝?

Aaron Hotchner × fem!reader

Summary: Derek notices small gestures of affection from Hotch. mention of s/n only once

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You look at Morgan with an incredulous expression.

"You're exaggerating," you say as you shake your head.

Morgan smiles and clicks his tongue, pointing his index finger at you, "I'm not, and I think deep down you know that's true."

Morgan spent the whole morning teasing you, it all started when you got together to discuss a new case and Hotch sat next to you.

Which, by the way, was normal.

But Derek smiled at you in a way that made one of your eyebrows arch, you were confused, why the hell is he smiling like that when he has those files in front of him?

You decided not to think about it and focus on the case.

"We leave in 30 minutes," Hotch says as he stands up and puts the files in his bag, he turns to you and speaks in a lower voice, "This city is pretty cold, you should bring sweaters and some kind of nasal decongestant."

You blink in surprise at his suggestion "Um, sure… Thanks for letting me know", your nose was always stuffy and your hands were always cold, but how did he know that?

You watch as he gives a slight nod and walks away, as you turn to gather your things you can see the same annoying smile on Morgan.

"You know honey, I'm noticing a funny pattern here"

"Oh shut up" You say in a playful tone.

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You listened to Hotch, but damn, you didn't think you were going to do pole dancing on Santa's lap, your nose is red, your hands are two degrees away from amputation and you can feel the gears in your brain stopping working.

Hotch is the first to notice your state, he watches you but doesn't say anything.

As soon as you step inside the local police station a sigh of relief leaves your lips, you were still cold but just the fact that the biting wind wasn't in your face was already a victory.

The team settles into a room, after getting rid of the layers of your sweater you sit next to Spencer to look for patterns in the victims.

He starts to ramble on about the meanings of each tulip color and how it possibly has something to do with the way the victims were discarded when a cup is discreetly placed in front of you, you look at the cup confused, raising your gaze only to see Hotch walk away without saying a single word.

You hear Morgan laugh, he lightly taps Emily's shoulder and whispers something in her ear, her eyes fall on the cup and then to you and then to Hotch, her mouth opens in a perfect O as she nods.

Whatever these two are up to, you choose to have peace.

You take a small sip of your coffee, sighing in relief that you're finally starting to warm up.

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Spencer's theory was right, in the end the tulips were even linked to the victims' choices.

The team is on the jet heading home when Spencer decides to play cards and forces you to participate.

You were next to Spencer and facing Hotch while Emily was next to you.

"Oh, I can't believe you did that," you protest indignantly

"What can I say? I'm just good, are you going to double the bet?" Hotch asks slightly amused

You smile defiantly at him "I'll double, I'd rather do that than let a man from Washington make my grandfather turn in his grave"

Hotch opened his mouth in complete shock before starting to laugh

Spencer exchanged a look with Emily before they looked at you, you shrugged going back to the game.

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Now back to the beginning of the conversation.

"I don't know what you're talking about"

"Come on, admit it, if you asked him to move a mountain he'd put on your boots" Derek says with a smug smile.

"Derek, you're being ridiculous." You try to argue.

"I'll go further, if you asked him to stop a river from flowing, he'd build one- no, two dams." Spencer says as he leans against your desk.

"Even you, prettyboy?" You're starting to think everyone is hallucinating.

Spencer shrugs with a small smile.

"But they're right, honey, if you asked him to change his religion, he'd probably spend Sundays with you." Emily says as she approaches you, resting her hand on your shoulder.

Derek gave you the brightest smile you'd ever seen.

"Tell us, Y/N, how does it feel to be adored?"

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I don't know/remember where Aaron was born but I know he graduated from Washington

sorry for any mistakes, english is not my first language :)

[hellsslibrary]

Can I request what rin, sae and hiori would do on the reader's birthday (you know nsfw stuff ♡)

Happy Birthday to Me or How I Lost the Ability to Walk Even Though I'm a Top (This is a quote from some manga I can't remember the name of but it fits here).

MASTERLIST is here.

#a.n. : I have absolutely nothing to say but if anyone is reading this on their birthday then happy birthday to you sweeties!!

!!Warnings: male!top!reader, bottom!characters, they're all sub but Sae is a little bit of a dom (I'm just a sucker for the "pathetic" top trope or something, you don't get it), Hiori's scenario is very funny and weird, very. In Sae's mentions clothes (you know), in Hiori's mentions video games (yeah), Rin is nothing special, he's the most normal one in this scenario I swear. Otherwise just praise, a little teasing and a very enthusiastic reader here.

Hiori Yo

"Is this...? What is this, Yo?" you ask in incomprehension, staring at his computer screen, trying to figure out what you actually see here.

Well, more precisely, you understood what you were seeing, but you clearly didn't understand why he was showing it.

"This is us, in Sims 4... Having sex. What is unclear?" he answers by tilting his head to the side with a slight blush coloring his cheeks, looking first at the screen and then at you.

"So my gift is watching porn with us, or rather with toy models of us?" you laugh when two people who look like you change their positions in a game that looks very good... unrealistic, but who really cares.

"No," Hiori shakes his head slowly, removing the headphones around his neck and placing them on the table, then poking you in the chest. "They can do it on any surface and in any position... If you like a certain pose, then we'll try it in reality."

You just blink like an owl, not understanding anything at all, but taking the mouse from him and poking it on the countertop, choosing random poses from the list, watching how sim of Hiori literally bends in different poses, which looks pretty hot, even if stupid.

It takes about fifteen minutes while you're pointing at various pieces of furniture and looking at all sorts of poses from different angles, sometimes you both giggle at some strange animations until one catches your eye.

"It," comes out of your mouth, and Hiori stares at the screen, watching his sim sit on the table while the life is practically being fucked out of him, judging by the pace of the thrusting.

"Really? Dear, it's a little..." the word doesn't come out of his mouth when he bites his lip in embarrassment, but after hesitating for a couple of seconds, he gets up from his chair, taking off his sweatpants along with his underwear and sitting on the edge of the table. "I'm already prepared, so you can just slide inside."

You immediately smile like a child who has received the most coveted sweet, and you almost frantically undo your belt, which is not particularly possible because of the trembling in your fingers. So you just unbutton your fly and take out your dick.

"Really? Can I do it raw?" Hiori hums in response to this question, and then shrugs his shoulder vaguely, spreading his legs as an answer, and squeaks when you squeeze his hips right there.

Hiori's back arches when he feels your cock sliding in at a much more gentle pace than your sims, who continue to fuck behind Hiori's back. His fingers grip the edge of the table, his knuckles turning white as his feet lightly scratch the table.

"Wrap your legs around me, please?"

Yo silently obeys, grabbing your shoulders instead, absolutely spoiling the pose, but neither of you really care anymore. After all, today is your day, and if that's what you want, then Hiyori wants to obey.

He moans softly into your neck as his legs lock over your tailbone and an intermittent whimper escapes his lips when your cock finally touches the right spot inside him. A point that makes him see the stars and the moon, which only you can bring.

The blue-eyed man feels his cock twitching against his stomach, and his orgasm is approaching embarrassingly fast, he just wants to cum. Why is it so fast? Who knows... But obviously not from the disgusting sounds of the game in the background.

"Cum for me, come on," you whisper, sliding your lips over his neck, making him tilt his head back in bliss.

Your teeth outline his adam's apple, causing his breathing to stop and his nails to dig into you this time. He bubbles something unintelligible when he feels your hand on his cock, rubbing its current tip, making him cum almost at the same second, which makes you slow down the thrusts slightly, making them deeper to prolong his pleasure for a couple of seconds.

"... More, go on," Hiori mutters after a dozen seconds, licking his dry lips and lifting his half-closed eyes at you and exhaling. "I'm all yours today, so keep going... I'll tell you when I'm at the very edge."

Sae Itoshi

"Are you going to stare at me with that expression for a long time? At least close your mouth," Sae says, looking at your surprised face in the doorway while you stare at him for about a minute, still trying to figure out what's sitting in front of you.

"That's... you... wow..." something inarticulate weakly escapes from your lips until you finally leave the doorway, closing the door and approaching Itoshi.

Of course, nothing too surprising was sitting on the bed. It was just Sae. In your usual T-shirt. In regular shorts. With a normal expression on his face. With damn attractive thigh-high stockings that accentuated his thick and muscular legs too well. Yes, you know, the usual Tuesday of any person.

"Do you like it that much?" Sae asks when a slight smirk blooms on his lips, watching you sit down in front of him, spreading and sliding his legs as you please.

"Yes, it suits you damn well, it's simple gorgeous... Strangle me with them," you whisper, squeezing his hips and exhaling contentedly, feeling the elastic muscles under your fingers.

Sae's fingers lift your chin and he gives you a light peck on the forehead before kissing you on the lips. His kiss is slow, almost savoring, as he weaves your tongues together, tugging at your shirt to get you up.

You lower Sae to the bed, continuing to kiss him, and then pulling away, lowering your lips lower, kissing and occasionally sucking on the delicate skin of his neck, causing a soft sigh to escape his lips before he stopped you at the edge of the T-shirt.

"Too fast. Don't go any further than the neck... Today is your day, but you have to earn it," the Japanese man whispers against your lips and then you feel his fingers slide into your pants while his other hand unbuttons your fly and releases your cock.

Your breath catches when you feel his fingers wrap around your heated flesh, and your face immediately finds itself in the curve of his shoulder, causing him to briefly pat you on the head.

"I'll give you what you want anyway. Just wait."

You bite your lip to keep from whimpering when Sae's thumb runs over your slit, and images of what he might let you do to him when the time comes are already spinning in your head.

Your hands are clutching the sheets on either side of his face, and his lips are lazily sliding over your neck, sucking on your skin, forcing you to push into his hand, which he freely allows.

"Sae... I will cum now, please," you exhale and feel only the nod of his head at your side as he speeds up his hand movements a little, making you come embarrassingly quickly with a groan.

Sae kisses you on the temple, removing his hand after a couple of seconds, when the buzz finally subsides and gently pushes you to your side, sitting up straight and taking napkins from the table, wiping his hand and your penis from the sperm.

"Good boy. Take a break and let's continue... There's a lot more under my clothes," Sae whispers, turning away to the trash can and deliberately bending over too much, exposing a thin strip of panties under his shorts, which makes your soft cock twitch in anticipation of the next round.

Rin Itoshi

"Is that really all you want? You can ask for more, you know," Rin whispers, leaning over you, shaking his head slightly and taking your condom-wrapped cock in his palm, stroking it a couple of times.

"Yes! Definitely, that's it. Please? I just want you to do this," you whisper, making Rin sigh, but nod and lower himself onto your cock slowly.

He exhales sharply as he takes you completely and places his hands next to your head, considering that he's almost lying on top of you and looking up at you with his turquoise eyes.

You just smile and kiss him on the cheek, which makes him frown slightly but blush, and he begins to gently move his hips. Of course, it's not very convenient in this position, but he promised.

"You're wonderful from this angle, otherworldly, Rinnie," Rin just tightening around you from the compliment, leaning in even lower and gagging you with a kiss, but hey, you're not complaining.

You put your hands on his cheeks, knowing full well that he's going to scold you, because he wants to take at least one round without your support, so you're not taking any chances.

Your tongues slide against each other, and then he pulls away with heavy breathing, resting his forehead on yours, maintaining his slow rhythm, looking down at where you connect.

"You're very deep, I want more," he whispers breathlessly, closing his eyes and focusing on his movements, trying not to rush too much, but to make it pleasant for both of you and not cum faster than you, not this time.

"Then take more, I don't mind," you close your eyes too, feeling his eyelashes lightly brush your forehead as his face slides forward a little and you squeeze his biceps, absolutely enjoying him.

"I love you. Happy birthday again," Rin says, forcing you to open your eyes and you are met with a surprisingly soft smile, albeit almost imperceptible on his face but fuck.... "...Did you just cum?"

"Uh..." You laugh shyly, grabbing Rin's hips to stop his movements, when they get a little painful from your sensitivity. "I love you too."

"The gods... Fuck me already, you're pathetic when I ride you," the younger Itoshi mutters, although there's no real mockery in his words, he just sighs when you flip you over, switching places and wrapping his legs around your waist.

[seaskate]

Poll is done, check here for fics as they come out

Fic Explanations:

1. The Batkids are watching the first season of Arcane and stop for the night after episode four. They discuss who would be which characters if they were in the world of Arcane. Jason says that he would Jinx, Tim knows that he's wrong.

(Joker Junior Tim)

2. Constantine comes to Gotham following a magical lead that had fled to the city, knowing that most Justice League members and metas are not welcome there. This somehow leads the man and the bats to the conversation of Santa Claus, his apparent realness, his death that one of the bats had known of, and what Constantine did with his bones after that.

3. Tim has met many assassins over the years. This is not a fact that the bats know as well as they should. So, when assassins start popping up around the teen, there are questions to be had, and schemes and deals at hand. Maybe even the return of some that Tim had thought lost.

4. When Tim turns eighteen, it is Ra's that finds him first. Normally Tim would hate such a thing, but Ra's at least was an enemy that he knew would play mind games with him, not someone meant to protect and care for him that does test in him anyways and calls it training. He says as much to the man not knowing that the bats were watching.

5. [Mini series: 2 pieces]

Tim goes to Jason in his Red Robin costume before he leaves Gotham to search for Bruce, asking the older bat to look out for his territory while he was away. Jason is more concerned with the younger bat having taken another costume of his than why he'sleaving Gotham. Tim explains that neither thefts had had anything to do with Jason, especially not this one.

(It was Kon's colors that he was chasing this time after all)

6. Ra's reaches out to the bats, asking for them to mediate a meeting between the high ranking members of the League of Assassins that he wanted to hold in Gotham. They agree, hoping for a chance to gleam information from the shadow society. Tim doesn't show up though, at least not in the way that they had expected.

7. The five Robins, previous and current, meet one day and end up on the conversation of who counts as the killer Robin out of the five of them.

It's not who any of them thinks.

8. [Mini series: four pieces]

Tim Drake was kidnapped when he was thirteen, and his DNA forcefully changed by the Temps Aeternalis to hold that of history's greatest killers, making him a perfect killer. He escapes two years later and returns to the night he was taken, and soon becomes Robin later. This is how Young Justice, Ra's, The Batfamily, and the Justice League come to know of these events.

(Based loosely around the Umbrella Academy comics and the experiments done to Five within them by Temps Aeternalis (alt. The Commission in the show) In this, Tim is meant to have been a trail subject for the process done to and prefected with Five)

9. Three assassins break into the Batcave one night, three that Tim knew very well even if he had thought that he had buried two of them in that desert. Now they stand before will eyes faintly green.

He knows then that he has to choose.

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[ilaurabhdh]

I My dove | Ben 10 x reader | chapter 4 |

Masterlist

Warning : none

Word count : 2.8k

A/n : none

Credits : @cafekitsune for the dividers

Chapter 3

You slurp on your fifth smoothie. You were sitting at a mr Smoothie tables with your partners and Argit. Listening to how Ben "made an exact copy of the universe" with alien X. You genuinely had thought you were all doomed when the annihilarrgh was activated, you'd never admit it though. It's a good thing it was only a dud. "Fine, don't believe me ? I don't care. I did it. I saved the universe, again !" You pinched the bridge of your nose. "That's all that matters. You should be thanking me !" After his little speech, he takes a sip of his smoothie with pride. You and the other aliens exchange looks : Argit out of concern for Ben's mental health, Rook out of confusion, and you out of tiredness.

Ben stops drinking his smoothie, taking a pause. "Doesn't taste the same..." He looks at his drink momentarily. He shrugs and continues drinking it. You really hoped that he wouldn't want it anymore, meaning more for you.

The topic of discussion quickly changed. Argit complained about Bulfrag not paying him, you threatened to put him in jail. Rook talked about his home planet, Ben about when he was 10 years old. Thinking about it, this was probably the first time in a long time you had what could be considered a normal hangout. You didn't have a lot of stories to offer but listening to others was soothing for your soul. Even if it's Ben boosting about his accomplishments. You had such a good time that for once, work wasn't on your mind. All this normalcy, it felt nice.

As the afternoon starts to set, you and your partners return to your patrols and Argit leaves the planet to go do his own business. In the proto - truck, you silently fill out reports and other documents as Rook and Ben chat. "Hey ! How about we have a game night after this ? That would be awesome !" Ben suggest. "What games are we playing ? I do not know many games on this planet." Rook ask. "Don't worry I'll teach you guys." Ben reassures. The brunet turns to you. "What do you think ?"

You don't answer at first. You'd normally reject his offer but you had pretty much wrapped up all important work for the day . In addition, it was a great learning opportunity about human culture. "Fine by me." Ben was kind of shocked, he'd thought you'd reject the idea immediately. It was a pleasant surprise.

The last patrol went smoothly. You all agreed to host the game night at the plumber HQ. On your way, you stopped by Ben's house so he could get his games.

"We have to start with a classic. A game that can ruin our friendship." Ben announces dramatically. "Why would we play it then ?" Rook ask. "I was just exaggerating, Rook. So here's the rules..." after a little explanation and a training round, You and your taller partner felt ready to play. "You guys aren't ready to get your butts kick-" Rook put down a plus four. "I do not have any yellow. So I have to put this card, right ?" You nod at Rook's question. "Yeah...buddy. Now you can pick a color..." Ben takes four cards from the deck, it was too early to feel discouraged he thought.

"Then I choose red." You silently look at your deck. Ben smirks. "Looks like you don't got any red-" you put down a plus four. "Haha ! It's karma Rook-" Ben couldn't help but cut himself when Rook added another plus four, he luckily had one of his own so put down the card. "You're getting a plus twelve, [name]." You looked at Ben blankly, you were serious about this game. "No." You put down another plus four. Ben and Rook exchanged a look. Rook held one of the card in his hand, it was easy to guess it was another plus four. "Rook, buddy, you know you aren't forced to play every one of your card, right ?" Ben tries to convince Rook. "I am sorry Ben, but I am not taking sixteen cards." Rook puts down his plus four. Ben knew it was going to be a long night.

"It's between you and me, Ben." You and Ben held two cards. The green eyed boy miraculously managed to make a come back after his plus twenty. "You better give up now, we both know who's the winner." Ben challenged. "Bold of you to assume I'd loose." You and Ben kept glaring at each other. You weren't a competitive player, you just didn't like loosing especially to the human boy in front of you. "Oh, hello magister Tennyson." "Grandpa Max ?" As soon as Ben turned around, you put your card down and shouted uno. Ben, realising the ruse lets out a grunt.

"Better be more on guard, Ben." You smirked victoriously. "Yeah, yeah. Oh, I think one of your ornaments is falling." "Really ?" Ben slams his card on the table, shouting uno faster than lightening. "Gotcha !" You bawled your fist, the smile on your face starting to crumble. "Oh, [name], you should've kept your guards up" Ben mocks. "I am going to put you in debt." You threaten. "You're just a sore loser." Ben responds smugly. "Ben, what color do you choose ?" Rook interrupts you and Ben's bickering. You and Ben cough simultaneously, acting like nothing happened. "Green" Rook puts down his last card. "I win."

You and Ben bickered so much that you didn't even notice Rook had one card left, or when he called out uno. "At least Ben didn't win" "at least [name] didn't win." You say in unison. You both share a look for moment before starting to bicker again. Rook watch in the sidelines. He didn't expect for you and Ben to be so competitive. Especially you. Ben he could guess. But you, most surprising thing he learned today. Rook sighed, he didn't know how much longer he could take.

"I would've have clearly won, I had the exact same card as rook." "Nuh uh" you raised your eyebrows at Ben. The brunette takes a moment to remember you aren't from earth. "When I say 'nuh uh' it means like I disagree with you, it's like no. The opposite of that would be 'yuh uh' that means yes." You take notes on your tablet, very intrigued by human lingos. "It's getting late, I will be heading off. Have a good night Ben and [name]." Rook gets up, and leaves the room. Ben checks the clock on the wall, finally realising how late it was. "We spent 2h on one single game of uno ?!" He exclaims. "I thought we would have more time for other games." You honestly expressed.

"I better head off home now. My mom is going to kill me..." Ben starts putting back the game of uno in its package and pick ups all the other board games you didn't get to play. "Gosh, I sometimes wish I still had my car..."he complains. "What happened to it ?" You ask. "I don't even know. Just disappeared." You shake your head. "You ought to take better care of your belongings." You got up and walk up next to Ben. "I'll accompany you back home." Ben looks at you, taken back by your statement. "What ? I can go back home on my own. Do you know how to drive ?" You shake your head again. "I just want to make sure you're safe. And no, I can't drive but I know a quick and easier way to get you home. "I have a bad feeling about this..." Ben voiced his concerns

And he was right. "My house is there." He points at the house bellow you. At the moment, you were carrying him, bridal  style flying to his house. Ben wasn't afraid of heights, if you were to accidentally drop him then he could turn into one of his aliens. But knowing you, unless you really hated his guts then you wouldn't try and drop him to his death. "Can you go by this window ?" You raised your eyebrow at the suggestion. "Why not enter by your door ?" You ask, stoping in front of his window. "I don't want to wake up and deal with my parent's anger." The omnitrix user transforms into grey matter and is able to find a way to enter his room. You only look at his little figure, carrying the little Ben in your palms to wherever he needed to be.

After entering his room, the same boy transforms back to his original form and opens his window. "Thanks for the ride." Ben expresses his gratitude. You nod, ready to bid you goodbye to the hero. Your attention is grabbed by how messy the boy's room looks. Ben noticing your silence gives you a weird look. "Is there something wrong ?" "Can I enter your room ?" You ask urgently. The brunette is surprised by your request but lets you in anyways. "Don't tell me you're planning on having a sleepover here ?" Ben jokes. You ignore his comments, more curious about the chaos in the boy's room.

Unsurprisingly, the dominant colour of the hero's room was his signature green. Poster of his favorite series hung on the wall, the mr smoothie one and checkered pattern being the only ones familiar to you. A tower of empty mr Smoothie cups leaned on his nightstand. The shelves housed mostly figurines and action figures, with some books at the bottom. You walked a closer to the shelves near his door, trying not to walk on the books, dirty laundry and much more rubbish on the floor. "Be careful ! I haven't had the time to clean my room, yet..." Ben nervously watch as you examined his room. You silently hummed, halting your steps. Finally faced with the only framed picture in the room. A picture of Ben and his previous companions, Gwendolyn Tennyson and Kevin Levin.

You stare at the framed picture. You could hear Ben's footsteps, standing next to you, following your stare. "Do you miss them ?" Ben didn't flinch at your question. "Always. But it's not like I'll never see them again, just less than before." He answers with no hesitation. "Ben, if you don't mind me asking...What's it's like to have a family on earth ?" Ben felt puzzled by your question, pondering over his words. "Well, they can sometimes get on my nerves." He rest his arms behind his head. "Some of the rules my mom has kind of annoys me but I know she's just trying to protect me even though I'm like the hero of the universe. Grandpa Max reprimands me but I know he's just trying me make me a better person. Gwen is just a dork, a nice one. Don't tell her I said that or she'll have my head severed." The brunette puts a finger over his lips playfully. "Overall, they can count one me and I can count on them." He affirms. Trying to mask the gentleness in his voice with confidence.

You listen intently to his every word. A ghost like smile making its way on your lips. "What about you ? What's your family like back on your planet ?" The hero ask, taking the opportunity to try and get more answers on the topic of your home planet. You don't answer at first, taking some time to ponder over it.

"I have no family. On my home planet, the word didn't exist. "Really ? Is there like an alternative ?" You shake your head. "So what do you guys call each other ?" Ben ask. "By name. I think you don't understand Ben, we don't reproduce on planet. We're birthed by the tree of wisdom." Ben's jaw when agape. "Wait, so you're telling me a tree gave birth to you and the rest of your people ?!" You nod. "How's that even possible ?! Does it mean you're all related then ?" You rest your finger in your chin, pondering over his question. "I don't think so, the rare ornix birthed from another ornix look very much normal." You answered. "If you guys can have kids why is there a damn tree doing that for you ?" Ben felt very lost.

"I don't know but it was a great asset since the majority were too preoccupied oppressing others and staying in power then reproducing." You explained. Ben scratched his head. "Man, your planet sounds like a real hassle." You gave hummed at his response. "That's why they all died." Ben was taken aback by your statement, remembering you were the last ornix currently alive. "Isn't that pretty harsh ? How did that even happen ?"

"The tree that birthed us just ate everyone and the planet. I escaped with the help of someone. But I wasn't quick enough since that damn tree snatched one of my wings." You say casually like it was a daily annoyance. Ben gave you a worried look. "Isn't that a happy story..." he sarcastic remarks.

"You better start cleaning your room, Ben. How do you sleep in such a filthy place ?" You switched the subject. Walking around and putting the rubbish in his room in a trash bag. "What are you, my mom ?" You pick up a picture of a black haired girl, ready to put it in the trash bag. "Wait, be careful ! That's a picture of my girlfriend !" You stopped midway, taking a closer look at the girl on it. She had black hair styled into cut pigtails and wore a pink jacket over a white shirt. She looked too good for Ben.

"You're telling me a woman is sane enough to be physically and emotionally attracted to you ?" You just couldn't believe Ben was able to be in a relationship with such a pretty girl. "Yup ! You're jealous ? But she hasn't called or answered my text for the past year. She must be super busy !" Ben cheerfully says.

You hope it was some strange human custom because from your understanding, if your significant other doesn't attempt to speak to you for at least a year then they aren't your significant other anymore. In short it was a breakup. You decided not to comment, you were more occupied on cleaning Ben's dirty room. Ben was by your side helping out and telling you what not to throw out. After a while, Ben's room was probably the cleanest it has ever been. "Wow, I should hire you as my maid." You gave him a strained smile before assaulting him with your wing. Your expressions displaying your anger. "I was just joking ! Okay, I'm sorry !" Ben pleaded desperately.

"Ben ? Since when did you get home ?" A feminine voice asked from outside Ben's room, sending the boy into a panic state. "Quick !" He pushes you near the window. "You need to get out, my mom is probably already angry with me coming home late. She'll also wonder why a girl is in my room and I don't want her to think I'm cheating on Julie." You sigh, nodding and flying out of his window. You waved him goodbye. Before he had time to reciprocate, you had already left.

After dealing with his mother, Ben plops himself in his bed. In his attempt to fall asleep, when turning towards his nightstand he noticed something. It was a little sumo wrestler keychain. The brunette picks up the keychain, examining it closely. He already knew who gifted it to him. He smiles, putting the trinket down. He'd thank you tomorrow for the gift. That night, sleep came in easy for him.

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"Rook, isn't that the sumo thing Ben likes ?" You ask Rook while passing by a sumo wrestler claw machine. It was your afternoon patrol with Rook. Ben was off doing his own thing. Rook glanced at the machine, recognising the mascot Ben always talks about. "I think it is the sumo wrestler franchise that Ben likes."

You look at the strange machine. You take out a coin and insert it in the machine. "What are you doing [name] ?" Rook was bewildered seeing you play some game instead of focusing on the current patrol like you usually do. "I'm playing this confusing game..." after your first attempt, you grasped the rules of the game and attempted multiple strategies to try and get one of the keychains in it. "I can see that but why are you playing it ? Do you too enjoy the sumo wrestler content ?" Rook ask. "Ever since that creature has been hunting Ben, he's been more troubled. So I seek to lift his spirits up by giving him one of these trinket. If I am able to win..." you groaned as the keychain slipped off the claw. You insert another coin in the machine, not giving up.

Rook smiles. He stands by your side, helping you out and cheering you on in your attempts. You and him do the human act of high fiving when you finally win one of the keychains.

Chapter 5

Taglist : @supernerdycookietrashblrr @zomqiez

[deerspherestudios]

Hey! I just recently met and went through the demo of "Mushroom Oasis", and I already have so many questions! I hope I won't be too intrusive. You may not answer some questions if the answers contain spoilers.

Questions about the game: 1.Will it be possible to choose the MC gender? Is it possible to choose the gender of the cat in the same way? It's just that when I started the game, I named the cat after my cat and it was a little funny to me when the pronoun of the cat was "she" when my cat is male.

Will we be able to choose some kind of "style" for the MC, according to the type of clothing, at the beginning of the game?

Questions about Michael:

Does he see the world like an ordinary person? I mean he has 2 pairs of eyes and 3 pairs of pupils. And it baffles me.

If the MC suddenly goes out alone and doesn't come back by midnight, will Mychael worry about the MC and will he go looking for the MC?

How does Mychael feel about piercings and tattoos? Does he know about it? If so, would he like a piercing/tattoo?

I wonder where Mychael gets things for the house. That is, I saw that he had a broom, thread and knitting needles. Where did he get them???

If Mychael saw me (I'm 164 cm tall and I have red hair), would he think I'm some kind of witch, because of the color of my hair, or something like that? How would he react if he saw me?

And sorry for the mistakes, I used google translator. English is not my native language :( I also want to say that I am your fan from Latvia (I don’t know why I’m saying this, I just want to please you with the fact that you have a fan from the Baltic countries)

Oop!! Ty for the questions!! Let me try and answer em under the cut, since it might end up as a pretty long post hahaha. But hi hello!!! I'm always happy to know where my fans come from, it's always a surprise for me to see people around the globe enjoy my silly little game ;v;

Questions about the game:

1. Will it be possible to choose the MC gender? Is it possible to choose the gender of the cat in the same way?

Being nonbinary, I just choose not to mention pronouns when writing for the game, so anyone can fit in their shoes. Unless it comes to a point where I have to use it, I'll probably code in a pronoun tool but for now it doesn't seem necessary! As for the cat, that's a good suggestion. Perhaps I'll try coding it in for the next update so the cat can be male or female, according to player preference!

2. Will we be able to choose some kind of "style" for the MC, according to the type of clothing, at the beginning of the game?

Probably not, as I'm not really good at setting that up in Ren'Py. I did make an MC design though! But what they look like is entirely up to you. I've drawn a POV shot of them wearing jeans and sneakers but that's about it. They can look however you like!

Questions about Mychael:

1. Does he see the world like an ordinary person?

He does! Trigger warning for unsettling iris images if you wanna look this up, but his bottom pair is kinda what people with polycoria has. Except it's normal for him, and not really a condition. His vision is normal, he just has lotsa peepers.

2. If the MC suddenly goes out alone and doesn't come back by midnight, will Mychael worry about the MC and will he go looking for the MC?

Yes? He didn't save you just to have you running off into danger again. He'd absolutely track you down and find you.

3. How does Mychael feel about piercings and tattoos? Does he know about it? If so, would he like a piercing/tattoo?

He knows about it, but not enough to really understand how it works! He finds it fascinating humans decorate their bodies with shiny beads and jewels, and turn their skin into tapestries for art. He'd probably assume you can take them off any time and that the tattoos are drawn onto the skin.

I don't imagine he'd want a piercing, but he'd probably try a tattoo! (Until he realizes it's ink going under the skin, in which case he might change his mind haha)

4. I wonder where Mychael gets things for the house. Where did he get them???

He has his ways ::-)

5. How would he react if he saw me?

He wouldn't be reacting much to how you look. You're not the first human he's seen! He's been around plenty of them, but you'd be one of the few he's interacted with the longest. And that's what makes you stand out more than anything else.

Phew that was a big ask!! But thank you for the interest :-D!! Hope everything's good in Latvia!

[utilitycaster]

for the controversial opinions thing: Neve and Lucanis's romantic relationship is good actually.

obviously, agreed; I literally considered the potential of their relationship to be an outright selling point for the game, and I've alluded heavily to it in a few posts, but time to actually talk about it.

I don't think you can ENTIRELY discount all criticism on the basis of the fans from which it comes, because that's an oversimplification that fails to provide any sort of defense, just a counter-attack. WITH THAT SAID it does feel like the vast majority of criticism of the relationship comes from people who have a very "I can fix him...and ONLY I can fix him" attitude towards the Rook/Lucanis romance option and are looking for something fraught and dramatic and angsty and are mad that Lucanis is not looking for that in his relationship, either with Rook or with Neve. Like, I cannot stress that the fact that the most popular non-Crow Lucanis romance option is Rook Mercar is WILD to me when it should be the least popular by a country mile has been ENLIGHTENING to say the least. I definitely think the fact that Neve is a woman of color does not HELP but I think even people who like Neve and are not being racist or misogynistic towards her are still mad that Lucanis is depicted as, well, bisexual but not playersexual, and he still has clear preferences and Neve is among them. (I have NOT seen the same criticism among Neve romancers which is interesting to me and I think that again while racism/misogyny play a part, I don't think people are interested in that same I Can Fix Her/I Am Her OTP narrative).

Anyway getting to the actual relationship and why it's good: Neve and Lucanis are both people who are quite private about their lives but in different ways. Neve doesn't show vulnerability out of cynicism and the way she's had to force herself not to get too invested because she's lost people in her line of work, whereas Lucanis doesn't because he is proud. Neve's response to you choosing Treviso is "you don't care about Dock Town; most people don't and it bothers me but I can't show it does, because if I did I couldn't go on doing my work." Lucanis's response to you choosing Minrathous is "I begged for your help publicly and you turned me down, so I'm never asking for your help again." And they both, despite those separate motivations, instantly get how the other feels. Neve doesn't blame Lucanis because she's also fighting for her city! Lucanis doesn't have the same hangups about Neve because she was ALSO begging for help.

From what I know they also romance each other in a way not unlike how they romance Rook, and I think that's indicative of like, a well-formed character with clear preferences. Like, they are people who would, indeed, like each other. Everyone in the Veilguard has a great deal of pride in what they do, that's kind of the point, but Lucanis is an extremely patient and cautious person in romance, and Neve responds to that! If you're not going to do a full wisp stakeout with her she's not interested! And Neve is both extremely kind towards Lucanis and supports you telling him he shouldn't be used to Spite taking control, but doesn't turn this into a melodramatic "oh you poor thing" production, and a lot of what Lucanis wants is to be treated kindly but normally.

The canon banter they have about the relationship with other companions really boils down to, well, I know it gets used a lot, but the EEAAO Laundry and Taxes line. They are both people who have suffered greatly but what they're looking for is someone who will make them coffee at four in the morning and be patient when they're not forthcoming. Essentially they're BOTH really sensitive to being treated as A Project To Be Fixed and want someone who will not do that, and who will instead be patient and domestic and blissfully undramatic with them and give them space to open up rather than push them.

I started to go off about this in the tags and realized I should put it in the post but: I think a lot of people DO understand the companions/factions are all genre stories but DON'T get that the companions do NOT (with the possible exception of Taash) want their romance to be that genre. Lucanis is in a soap opera and Neve is in a detective story and BOTH of them want their love life to be a respite from that, not more of the same.

[maythedreadwolftakeyou]

Nice little things

tagged by @serbarris whose post/format for this was way cuter than mine will be ahaha, so look at hers for better inspiration

Rules: Choose 10 objects that you will place in the room of your Rooks on the places intended for customization. These should be small objects that can be placed in the following places: 2 on the tables by the doors, 2 on the tables by the aquarium, 4 on the bookcases and 2 on the walls. Attach a photo of these objects and give a short description of why your Rooks chose them

okay so i know the point of this game is to make things up and pick real decor. but i'm breaking the rules because a real thing i do in the dragon age games that's a sign of how neurotic fun i am is treat the inventory like my character's actual pockets/refuse to sell junk items i think they would enjoy collecting on their travels. you know normal gamer behavior. so this is canonically what my Juniper Aldwir's pockets looked like at the end of the game, which i still refused to sell even then (i have never once hit the 'sell all' button i will dole out my gifts one at a time with INTENTION):

but if i could transfer them to her bedroom i would! so this is where she'd shove all the junk instead:

Tables by the door:

Jewelry box (containing dragon scales, jeweled brooch, colorful gems, gold bead, fizzling fragments, forgotten coins, mysterious coins, stone polyhedrons (dice lol), iridescent jewel, old amulet, curious stone, smooth pebble). Just transfers all the collected shiny trinkets from her pockets into this at the end of the day.

Sturdy pouch with apples, smoked sausages, chipped mug, antivan house wine, and at least one type of cheese from the game: this is Juniper's lunchbox :) as a veil jumper she would not leave home unprepared!! and that includes snacks

Tables by the aquarium:

Silver music box. Pretty, plays a song she doesn't know. i like to think it's Antivan and Lucanis does recognize the song from an old opera.

Dragon carving (6 of them): the description for this item says they're "intricate" and she keeps them around to compare different high dragons.

Bookcases:

Chess piece: you can find a "worn-down rook from a chess set" in so many places in the game. I kept every single one. They remind Juniper of Varric and so she just pockets each as a good luck charm/reassurance she's on the right path. they become extra sentimental after she Finds Out post regret prison.

Original poetry. You can just pick this up in the Ossuary, it's "of reasonable quality signed by a long-dead Tevinter poet" and this tickled me SO MUCH. it's the only one i've found in the game. i'm keeping it forever so so is Rook.

Bear carving: the image for this one looks like a very fat bear and i liked that. onto the shelf.

Bundle of herbs: medicinal herbs. Rook gets migraines and these are some painkillers she keeps nearby about it 😔

On the walls:

LIKE HELL AM I SELLING THOSE DRAGON SKULLS TO THE LORDS OF FORTUNE. hello???? i did all that work slaying a dragon? i don't care if they love me for 75 influence i don't need it. the skulls get hung above the mantlepiece fishtank as a trophy of my triumph

Mangled limb: this is just the funniest item the entire game. in what way is a MANGLED LIMB a "valuable" you want to carry around????? you can get it off darkspawn but i pulled at LEAST one out of a chest too. excuse me. who put that inside there to keep safe for later?? anyway I keep at least 4 on rook at all times because they're so funny. in theory they just give you some points with the grey wardens but NOT any more, clearly they're "valuable" and thus display worthy on Rook's wall

aaaand that's everything in the chart! not a very aesthetic mismash but it's hers 🧡

For the people I tag, feel free to follow the original spirit of the meme, or if you wanna pick other random things from the game like I did go for it lol: @imasithduh @guacamolleee @fury-brand @crimsonphantasmagoria @handsignals @thegeminisage

[gamequoteshowdown]

Thank you everyone for making this happen! Now, without further ado, the match-ups for Round 1!!!

Round 1

"I've been waiting for this!" - Akihiko Sanada, Persona 3 / "You're just a corpse who doesn't know he's dead" - Valter, Fire Emblem: Sacred Stones

"Are you going to be our goddess of victory… or our angel of death? Doesn't sound too bad to bet my life on that." - Keiji Shinogi, Your Turn To Die: Death Game by Majority / "Don't fuck with a witch!" - Bayonetta, Bayonetta

"Teammates!? Friends!? To hell with that! Why am I inferior to you!? I was extremely particular about my life, my grades, my public image! So someone would want me around! I am an ace detective! A celebrity! But you… You're just some criminal trash living in an attic!? So how!? How does someone like you have things I don't!? How can such a worthless piece of trash be more special than me!?" - Goro Akechi, Persona 5 / "I was just gunna ask you to sell a gun to this child." - Starlo, Undertale Yellow

"I want you to live." - Charlotte Wiltshire, Hello Charlotte Series / "Your hair… sunset colored. I like it." - Queequeg, Limbus Company

"The hope to end pointless conflict… The hope to tell your daughter how much you care… It is our mission as apothecaries to ensure that everyone lives long enough for their hopes to become reality. Even if it costs us our own lives." - Castti Florenz, Octopath Traveler II / "Game is clear when 2 zombies hold hands!!" - "How to Play" Narrator, Loving Deads: The House of the Dead EX

"Thanks to you, I am saddled with unnecessary… feelings" - Miles Edgeworth, Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney / "I am so fucking normal right now" - Harry du Bois, Disco Elysium

“SOMETHING BEAUTIFUL IS GOING TO HAPPEN” - Harry du Bois (in the form as a potential mural painting), Disco Elysium / "You pull out your cellphone and access your old Tumblr. You have ten, but you specifically access the Garfield one." - Narrator, Monster Prom

"… Nice meeting you again, you FUCKING WHALE!" - Ishmael, Limbus Company / "My guess is no one's ever loved you before" - Woody, Kingdom Hearts 3

"Take care, [player]. I was lucky to have known you. Though the parting hurts... the rest is in your hands!" - Grovyle, Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Sky / "Far out, man." - Netzach, Limbus Company

"I'll be back once I eliminate that devil called poverty from the world!" - Partitio Yellowil, Octopath Traveler II / "Elder gods from the whole cosmos have awoken to taste your cookies." - Narrator, Cookie Clicker

"Hello! This is the part where I kill you!" - Wheatley, Portal 2 / "Now we come to the question : Do I kill you? Do I tear you apart to my heart's delight? The choices of the beautiful are unbearable. How's a girl to choose?" - Alice Angel, Bendy and the Ink Machine

"I am Ferdinand von Aegir" - Ferdinand von Aegir, Fire Emblem: Three Houses / "Her metabolic processes are of interest only to historians." - Miles Edgeworth, Ace Attorney: Trials and Tribulations

"It ain't a matter of guys or chicks... I'm just scared shitless of being rejected" - Kanji Tatsumi, Persona 4 / "...also Stanley is addicted to drugs and hookers" - Narrator, The Stanley Parable

“You’ve met with a terrible fate, haven’t you?” - Happy Mask Salesman, Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask / "I have no idea what to do with my life, but that's okay! Because I'm still working hard! Even if it's on nothing at all!" - Papyrus, Undertale

"Despite everything, its still you." - Narrator/Chara/Frisk???, Undertale / "In this world, it's kill or be killed." - Flowey, Undertale

“Heart. Lungs. Liver. Nerves. Heart. Lungs. Liver. Nerves…” - Voices of the Paranoid, Slay the Princess / "In the quiet glade, across old bark. In the ancient glade, it's always dark." - Gabbro, Outer Wilds

"You take away all their sins, and people aren't people anymore!" - Rokurou Rangetsu, Tales of Berseria / "Do you even get how it feels to have nightmares about doing tango with raw chickens? Eh?" - Heathcliff, Limbus Company

"Life is worth living, even if it hurts you, even if you hurt in it." - Solid Snake, Metal Gear Solid / "I often think about the god who blessed us with this cryptic puzzle... and wonder if we'll ever get the chance to kill him." - 2B, Nier: Automata

“Oh? Is that how it is? Yeah, okay, I like you too. Neat! Still going to kill you, but now we can both enjoy a mutual romantic subtext to the murder.” - The Razor, Slay the Princess / "Now it’s Reyn Time!" - Reyn, Xenoblade Chronicles

"You lost the coin toss. We both did." - Catherine Chun, SOMA / "I like to drink blood. . . and smoke the weed!" - Dracula, Space Funeral

"Pick a god and pray!" - Frederick, Fire Emblem: Awakening / "Can you believe it? Dragons! In your own homeland! What are you going to do?" - Florentia Candidius, Elder Scrolls Online

""Did you get the Broom Closet Ending?! The Broom Closet Ending was my favourite!" ...I hope your friends find this concerning." - Narrator, The Stanley Parable / "It’s dangerous to go alone, take this!" - Old Man, Legend of Zelda

“Close your eyes for a sec, will you Chigasaki?” “You mean physically? Or to the criminal acts I’m pretty sure you’re about to commit?” “Both.” - Chikage Utsuki & Itaru Chigasaki, A3! Act! Addict! Actors! / "You are all about to perish, do as you please. I'm sorry." - Meta Knight, Kirby Super Star

"Boy" - Kratos, God of War / "Take care of yourself, kid, cause someone really cares about you." - Sans, Undertale

"Almost Christmas means it wasn't Christmas!" - Phoenix Wright, Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney / "Dios mío!” (Draw a cross.) “A LIBERAL!" - Harry du Bois, Disco Elysium

"That's it. I'm not paying one cent of my taxes!" - Ema Skye, Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney / ""Trust your partner"... And I do. I can't forgive you, but I trust you." - Neku Sakuraba, The World Ends With You/Subarashiki Kono Sekai

"Hey, you. You’re finally awake. You were trying to cross the border, right? Walked right into that Imperial ambush, same as us, and that thief over there." - Ralof, Skyrim / *clap ... clap ... clap ... * "Oh good, my slow clap processor made it into this thing, so at least we have that" - GLaDOS, Portal 2

"hallOO. chikkEN. OKs?" - BOb, Slime Rancher / "Pretty good plan. You could say it was the greatest—" - Charles Calvin, The Henry Stickmin Collection

"Blood comes in four types: A, B, O, and AB. However! No blood test can determine whether a murder was committed… in cold blood!" - Phoenix Wright, Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney / "You ain't my partner anymore, man. You're my friend! So trus' that, yo!" - Beat (Daisukenojo "Beat" Bito), The World Ends With You/Subarashiki Kono Sekai

"I always come back." - William Afton, FNaF Pizzeria Simulator / "So -- as you can see, I'm a *pretty okay* detective -- and an absolutely GIANT COMMUNIST." - Harry du Bois, Disco Elysium

"Ears have a nice mouth feel, very chewy!" - Briar, League of Legends / "This is like taking candy from a baby, which is fine by me." - Shadow the Hedgehog, Shadow the Hedgehog (2005)

"It's a beautiful day outside. Birds are singing, flowers are blooming... On days like this, kids like you... Should be burning in hell." - Sans, Undertale / "In the dark times, should the stars also go out?" - Steban, the Student Communist, Disco Elysium

“We are a path in the woods. We have no beginning, and we have no end, but something cold and unnatural sits watching us from just beyond our edge.” - The Wild, Slay the Princess / "Strong Pokémon. Weak Pokémon. That is only the selfish perception of people. Truly skilled Trainers should try to win with the Pokémon they love best." - Karen (Elite Four), Pokemon HeartGold / SoulSilver

[skysometric]

Skysometric Design Retrospective, Part 4

What Dreams Are Made Of (continued from part 3)

on the one hand i'm pretty proud of my legacy as a graphic designer, especially for having no formal training! on the other hand, that legacy makes me feel like i have to outdo myself for each new iteration... with no formal training.

so we return to my current progress on the logo. i have a shape i'm proud of, and i've outdone all my previous attempts at color! but the sum of those parts doesn't stack up to my previous work quite yet, and i want to really push my limits this time. where else can i take this? let me sleep on it.

Good Morning What The Fuck? where did this come from and why are my dreams so weird???

to explain what's going on here: the gif above is a made-up video game menu that literally came to me in a dream. it was a black and white menu with a vaguely Y2K aesthetic, and a red cursor for which option was selected. each menu option had a hidden animation in white, which only showed up when the option was selected and the background color changed to red.

how did i dream this? frankly, i have no idea. this isn't even the first time i've dreamed up something aesthetic. but 99.9% of my dreams are nightmares, so anything that isn't is a surprise! though i think this one was still bundled with a video game themed nightmare...

either way, when i woke up, i couldn't stop thinking about how cool this menu was. can i use this for anything? maybe my logo? it doesn't quite fit the same aesthetic though...

...what if i use gradients to "reveal" some texture in the logo, just like the red cursor from the dream. i bet that would look great!

NOW we're getting somewhere.

here's the earliest screenshot i have, from when i first tested the idea. i laid out a bunch of squares inside the middle panel, just as a test texture to start with. by putting a gradient from light to dark, the texture becomes more visible along the strip. an outline keeps the texture from visually cutting into the edges of the surrounding shapes of the logo. finally, the texture is tilted 10° to make it more dynamic, better fitting into the isometric shape.

it's a great start, but how do we take this to scale?

first off i need to choose more textures to use. i picked sparkles and hearts since those are emojis that i use all the time! 💖 i made new sparkle and heart icons from scratch, which were simple to put together, but i had never done before. (we'll talk more about the icons later!)

next i need a repeating grid to lay out the textures on. i used more squares to block out different sizes and positions; in this first pass, i varied them from 1x to 5x the normal size. then i copied the grid a couple of times, replacing the squares with sparkles and hearts.

the squares were originally just for layout purposes, but i used them anyway because i couldn't come up with anything better lol

finally, i just need to attach these texture grids to the logo. i recolored the textures with a color overlay, masked them to the individual shapes, added radial gradients to reveal the textures in different directions per shape, threw some outlines on—

"just messing around with some texture... ✨🟪💗" — May 08, 2020 via Twitter, a concept that i fell in love with immediately.

—and voila! i've got a fantastic little concept that really shows promise!

...but i can do better than that~

there's a few improvements i wanted to make almost immediately. i'll go down the list with each problem and solution:

for one thing, the shapes are imbalanced. the squares take up so much space compared to the sparkles, for example, even though both have the same bounding box. so i remade the shapes to have the same visual balance – yes, including the squares! i canonized the squares by rounding the corners and shrinking them a bit to balance with the other shapes. i also ended up replacing the sparkles with stars instead, since stars take up more of their bounding box and are thus easier to balance.

the repeating textures could use tweaking, especially the ratios; the 1x shapes are too small and just look like individual pixels when shrunk down to avatar size. maybe 3x to 6x would do the trick? that way the smallest shapes are only half the size of the largest shapes, but there's still plenty of variety in between.

the radial gradient is unnecessary complexity; it's barely recognizable as a radial gradient at a glance. a simple linear gradient would work just as well, and set a healthier precedent that's easier to hit with future design elements.

and after all those fixes, here's how it turned out:

"my new logo is FINISHED!!! immensely proud of how it turned out ⭐🟪💗" — July 15, 2021 via Twitter, a milestone achievement.

three retrospective posts and six IRL months later, the logo is complete! 🎉 i've finally got something that stands shoulder-to-shoulder with my previous work in terms of quality:

not half bad for a graphic design legacy.

but that's just the logo! i've still got so much more to cover. next time, the cornerstone of my design language: the grid.

(continued in part 5...)

[askagamedev]

How do you decide to bound the player's space in a 3D game? That is, when choosing between invisible walls, debris fields, cliffs, or simply an endless featureless plane/ocean, why pick one over the other?

When we're trying to craft an experience for the player, it's almost never one big element that sets the experience. Instead, it's the combination of many small details and decisions that all pull in the same direction and combine into a single, cohesive experience. For example, let's say we wanted to convey that the player's character is feeling dehydrated while walking through a 3D space. What could we do to make the player feel that sensation? We might...

change the walk cycle so that the player is stumbling slowly instead of walking normally

have ambient audio of the character with ragged breathing or panting

have the environment be very parched - lots of brown colors. Place lots of rocks and sand, with any plant being withered or cracked with no leaves

add a heat shimmer post-processing effect to the screen

add a lens flare near the sun

add specks of dust and sand to any wind effects on screen

add a clothing shader to show sand/lightly colored dirt building up on the character's clothing

Now... in such a situation, what kind of bounding volumes would help convey this experience? Walking through the bottom of an empty ravine or canyon with high walls might do the trick. Walking across a narrow land bridge over a desert gorge could do as well. However, any water-related visuals would likely take away from the feeling of dehydration. Walking along the beach, even if it's a desert beach, just doesn't convey the same feeling as walking through a desert with sand as far as the eye can see.

Ultimately, all of the elements of environment art and level design are tools for us to craft the kind of experience we want. The choice of invisible wall, debris field, cliff, crate, railing, or whatever is up to the designers and artists trying to convey a specific experience. Each individual element only moves the needle a little bit, but having all of them together at once moves the needle a lot more.

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Regretavator headcanons: Bive

Don't look at me like that, I love this character

There are moments when she truly is scary to other people. Sometimes her fits of angry deranged delusional ranting can reach this fevered rampage that quickly becomes scary. She's never hurt anyone during these but there's been sometimes when folks have just left or pressed against the wall in a bit of fear. It's highly unlikely she would hurt someone but it's still scary. She's only lost her shit in the elevator about 4 different times and Split was present for one of them. It didn't phase her because she knows Bive. The only thing Bive has ever done to her is hug her a little too tight out of stress.

She smells. Holy shit she smells! she smells of just general BO and unwashed hair if not musty.

She doesn't sleep often and when she does it's only for about 3 or 4 or so hours. It's typically 3 or so times a week from about 4am to 6am or 7am when her body reaches her limit. Sadly due to her frequent sleep deprivation she hears things. They are just little things like a radio somewhere crackling and muffled speaking from a radio, something lightly skittering around in the walls, A soft quiet continuing beeping noise like an alarm clock she doesn't own, and pages from a book flipping and shuffling.

Split has been able to get her to sleep for longer hours in the past. Her secrete is to convince Bive to take a couple of strong CBD drops. It really helps settle her down, quiet her mind, and help her get to sleep sense in a normal state Bive's mind is constantly racing. It's pretty normal for Bive to completely pass out on the sofa with Split while watching murder mystery shows or game shows. Split often checks on Bive every hour or so because Bive doesn't move in her sleep. Her breathing is shallow and she already smells like a dead body as is.

Bive is in love with Split, Bive will often do what Split says with such little convincing. Split knows this and she loves Bive to but they are not in a relationship. Bive herself doesn't really understand WHY they need to label their closeness with a relationship and Split is just the type of 'go with the flow' type of gal, she's just happy to be around Bive.

Bive eats 2 meals with small snacks in between. She lives in constant stress so her stomach is always in knots or aches. Her appetite is almost gone at this point so she gets a little food in here and there when the hunger starts to make her dizzy and her head hurt. This doesn't mean she's small and skinny ether. I see this design with a lot of artists and I completely agree with it, she's husky. Tall, thicker, and bulky, an appearance much like that of a bear and she knows her own strength and size.

She does have some small abilities that she doesn't tell anyone about. She WANTS it to remain hidden so she can just pull something from her metaphorical back pocket. She does have retractable claws much like a cat and these claws are quite sharp. She's amazingly strong! and can get aggressive enough to rip a car door off a car with enough pulling and twisting. She has a very mild hypnotic ability, it's pretty weak though. Her moulth has the ability to open up wide like packman. There are chromatophore cells all along the inside of her mouth. These cells all have different timings for when they change colors. It appears as if there are thick stripes of rapidly color changing sections inside her mouth. There are all number if colors of the rainbow that flash from color to color. This has an odd weak hypnotic effect that can result in dissociation at most. It causes the person to freeze up and just stare, trapping them in place until someone shakes them or she stops flashing those cells. She can do this at will so it isn't constantly going any time her mouth opens, she has to choose to do this. She almost never uses this ability but she has had to do it once before in front of Pest. Pest tried to get her to do it to folks in the elevator so he could steal from them for like a month. She refused of course and even got frustrated enough to swat at Pest to get him to go away. Didn't hurt of course, just a physical way to get her point across. She does have a pretty nasty bite and that bite can become infected pretty fast. Human bites also tend to become infected pretty easily and it's the same for her even if she may not be human. Her sense of smell is amazing, much like a bear she can sniff things out from pretty darn far away. She does also hide small pocket knives or letter openers in her trench coat just in case. She doesn't have a lot but she'll use what ever works to survive. She's also a dirty fighter. This just means she's an unfair opponent. She goes for the face, neck, liver shots, groin shots, hair pulling, sand or dirt in the eyes, and even uses over wealming tactics. She just keeps swinging and swinging not giving her opponent a chance to recover. She can break someone's arms or ribs if she wanted to just by over the knee snapping or pushing them to the ground and throwing all her weight on top.

All her fur on her body raises when she's in the presence of Unpleasant. She just puffs up and stares Unpleasant down. If she can she wont even get on the elevator if she sees Unpleasant on that elevator. Unpleasant doesn't scare her she just hates them.

She has tiny little ears that are hidden in her mess of hair. They are pretty gosh darn small and resemble a bit like an elf's ear. They can move up and down, side to side, around, whatever. Her eyes are also very small. She has tiny beady little eyes and she can't see jack squat without her glasses. Everything is super super blurry without her glasses to the point she couldn't even navigate her own apartment without her glasses.

Her teeth reach pretty far back in her mouth and she even has all her wisdom teeth. Her jaw can handle keeping them and she only has some issues stemming from them about 3 times a year or so.

She's bigger than Split but of course and again Split is not scared of her because she's never ever hurt Split and she never ever would, she even tried to make herself seem smaller and weaker when interacting with Split. Split likes watching her stand at her full height, she likes watching Bive break things or fight.

Bive is an omnivore while Split is more of a herbivore. Bive does love fruit and funny enough bananas are her favorite fruit! she also loves loves loves sautéed zucchini and soft chicken. She's not much of a fan of heavy meats like beef or pork, ham or bacon is too salty for her. Unrelated but she finds fish has too many little bones and the fish taste just doesn't appeal to her regardless of what kind of fish she's eating. She does enjoy crab, lobster, and shrimp. She has the ability to just crack open the shells with her teeth and has a lot of fun doing it. Clams and muscles are gross to her, just slimey and bleugh. Squid and octopus is fine, lost of fun to chew on.

She sleeps in a small closet. It's completely by choice but there is a cot in a closet in a closet in her bedroom(converted to an office). She sleeps with her back to the wall and facing the closed closed door. The clothes hanging inside the closet also help conceal her and make her feel a little more safe/hidden.

She does have perpetually itchy spots like her back, head, under chin, and tummy. It might be because she has dandruff in those spots making those spots itchy. Of course the itchy spot on her tummy has never been itched by anyone but herself and Split.

[yoshipea762]

Hehe, Sonic AU go brrr

Why did I doodle all of these? Because I wanted to! :3

This all began because I saw that one drawing of someone keeping another person on a leash, hence why Tails keeping Gadget on a leash exists now.

Fuck it. Might as well infodump on these AU guys too. If you wanna read, tap the... Thing. You know, the "keep reading" thing, dayo.

Generally, they're from a Cyberpunk AU where color powers are tied to most of the mobians themselves, rather than being exclusive to the Wisps. To add, the hyper-go-ons are now called Hyper energy here, because... Tbh, the original name sounds like someone was high when coming up with a name.

There's also increasing tensions between GUN, Eggman, the freedom fighters/Resistance(Same thing), and Dr. Starline. Yes, THE PLATYPUS BOI. Because WHY THE FUCK NOT? :3

Sonic's a runaway test subject created by GUN, technically meaning he kind of IS Shadow's faker now. He's relatively unchanged, aside from not having as much plot armor and hope he normally has. BIG anti-capitalist, and has founded the Freedom fighters because of this. Also, he has the cyan laser power, so he's still the fastest thing alive.

Tails, aside from being a former GUN Engineer despite his young age, is pretty much the same here. Also, he borrowsthe red gem of his from the Tails doll. Best friend and brother figure to Sonic, although he's not as timid as he is in later games.

Knuckles doesn't like how corporitized the world has become, and chooses to stick close to the Master Emerald. If Sonic wasn't a free spirit, he'd do the same.

Tikal is a BIG pacifist who, because she's dead, is looking for a way to revive herself. She's also Knux's adoptive mother, and has taught him most of what he knows. Most.

Metal Sonic's the same until after Heroes. After the incident, he's been trying to adjust with the help of Amy, but that doesn't mean he's automagically fine and okay. I... Took inspiration from another person who's done the same thing. Heheh... heh.

Amy's a robot here. Why? Because she wants to help Metal adjust and form his own identity. Guess the tarrot cards predicted they'd get together the entire time, and she originally thought the embodiment of wind, hope, and lasers was gonna be her true love.

Gadget's the only OC pictured above, being the dogfish with the goggles. She's the resistance's main engineer and second genius, although It's... best if she's kept on a leash. She's not exactly civilized despite being more machine than mobian, and is pretty damn scary when angry. But hey, she makes good wispons and cybernetics!

[miasudare]

I HAVE A CRAZY THEORY ABOUT UNDERTALE AND DELTARUNE

(Note that it's just a theory!!!!)

So I've been thinking about it for a while. A couple of days a ago I saw a post about Undertale Spotify album. In the video they said that the album starts with "Once upon a time" and ends with "Good night" (credits to them) and that may imply that Undertale is a bedtime story. So that video lead me to this theory (it's long) :

I think Undertale is the dream of Kris from Deltarune. Not just any dream though, a lucid dream. Meaning that you control the dream yourself. Now, I want you to keep remembering what Kris does at the end of Chapter 1 while you read this.

Some dialogs in the game Undertale keeps telling you that you are living a dream such as that one death screen from (I guess it was either Flowey or Asriel) says " It's all a bad dream", (if I remember correctly) at the end of pacifist route Asgore saying "this is like a dream" or the item "Dream" you get from Asriel. Also you can say that the underground is always at the night time if there is no sun making a day cycle. Throughout your game play you can sleep at 4 locations anytime you want. And some monsters do sleep there with you.

Now I know you'll be asking; what about Frisk and Chara? Well I think it might sound crazy for a second but they are the same person, just representing different personalities. When I told you to remember what Kris does at the end of Chapter 1 is from this part. They rips their red* soul puts it in a cage and they turns to camera with red eyes and a knife. Meaning their true nature is showing violence. Now let me explain this detailed:

1-Frisk: In your Undertale game play you play as Frisk. They don't talk, show any emotion in neutral route or think for themselves at all. They have no emotion on their face too. Like a puppet. Frisk have/has(?) no control over themselves. Also throughout the game Frisk is seen with a red* heart/soul. We never saw anyone else use this color of soul in undertale. Not even Chara. /it might be fanon that Chara has red soul/

2-Chara: They have red eyes, a little smile and they show up at the end of genocide route. Unlike Frisk, Chara seems to be having control, hobbies and likings. Such as the comment they make about the environment in Asgore's house or the coffin. And in the genocide route of Undertale you'll realize that Chara slowly gains control over you. I'm not implying that Chara is pure evil even though they are violent since in the end we didn't get to choose not to kill Asgore or Flowey. Not to mention that Chara gains all the control over us after we make violent actions.

3-Kris: In Deltarune (most likely in the beginning)we don't get to choose anything about who we are. We don't have control. Although as soon as we go to the Dark World things chance. We get to choose what Kris does. We can make them hurt others, show mercy on others or even make them eat moss. WE get to ruin/perfect their life in the Dark World. And Kris can't do anything but obey us. Just like Frisk. And just like Frisk, Kris doesn't shows any emotion in the game play. When we get to the cutscene tho, you'll realize that the game is over. You don't have control over Kris. And Kris knows it. There is nothing you can do to stop them from doing what they want. They are free from you.

When Kris goes to the bed. There is a black screen for a while and we get to see the cutscene. Maybe after what Kris experienced in the Dark World, they had a dream about what would it be like if their life was just like that. Going to adventures, fighting monsters. And normally Kris sees their family, friends or their neighbors in the dream. That would explain a lot of things. Like why we see Asgore and Toriel are divorced in Undertale. In Deltarune they are also divorced so it would be logical for Kris to see them as single too. When you connect the dots you even get why some events happened.

In Undertale you never get to see Asgore alive without doing pacifist. And even if you do pacifist he gets treated poorly. In all other endings he dies. All because of Flowey(I'm gonna come to that too). Meaning that maybe Kris doesn't have a good relationship with his father at all. There might be things that happened during the divorce. Kris sees Asgore as the King because he is the only man that Kris knows as a strong male figure.

Also Toriel, being a queen is the same. Toriel is the only one Kris could image being in charge of a nation. She is a teacher after all and Kris might think her to be very smart. We also see Toriel talking about wanting to be a teacher in Undertale. Kris didn't miss that one. The way Toriel acts is also important too. She treats a complete stranger like her child giving them a bed, food, love and even education. Meaning that Kris and Toriel has a good relationship as mother-child.

Asriel though is very complicated. In Deltarune we never see him. We only know that Asriel is very talented in many ways because of the trophies in his shelf. In Undertale tho we mostly see him as a evil defenseless little flower in both neutral and genocide endings. And what did I said about Asgroe? He keeps dying in both endings. He gets killed by Asriel. This might imply 2 things. 1 Asriel doesn't have a healthy relationship with his father. 2 Asriel caused the divorce and he is not innocent. It would explain why we never get to see him again after he brakes the barrier. He doesn't get a happy ending while everyone gets. Because Kris don't think that Asriel deserves to be happy. We don't know much about the relationship between Asriel and Kris except for knowing that Flowey kills Frisk a lot. When you think that way you'll notice that Asriel might be a bully to Kris. He is talented, he might get more love and support from his parents since he goes to college. So no one would say anything to him if he picks on or even shows violence towards Kris. This might be the reason Kris stays quiet all the time or doesn't moves an inch while Susie threatens to eats his face off. Kris is used to it. In the other hand, Kris might even hate Asriel too. Like I said Kris doesn't think that Asriel deserves a happy end. (Not to mention we see Asriel as a cry baby. Probably Kris would love to see that.) Resulting him dying in process. A world without an Asriel is a world where everyone is happy to Kris. The way Chara portrays Flowey in genocide is also a thing. Flowey in genocide is scared, hopeless and helpless. Kris might imagine Asriel like that. When Kris gets a chance and a knife, Asriel begging them to not kill him, oh how much satisfaction Kris would feel.

Sans and Papyrus's apperience depends on Kris's imagination to be honest. Kris knows something goes on with his mother and Sans. Since Sans says "I befriended your mom last night". So this would cause Kris to see Sans as a punny, relaxed and mysterious man. The way Toriel would like to hang out. The mystery part also comes from Kris knowing a little bit of Sans. Papyrus is also up to Kris's imagination. The way Sans told them about Papyrus might resulted Kris to see him as a merciful, complex but friendly guy. And since Kris met Sans the day they fell into the Dark World would explain the Rabbit Shop lady's dialogs "They showed up out of no where and introduced themselves"

I don't think I need to talk about Undyne and Alphys. Undyne is a police officer (police shef?) and that would explain how Kris sees her in Undertale. An independent woman as a leader of a very strict group of guards. And Alphys? She is a science teacher and probably the only science teacher in the town. It would also make sense for think her as a scientist. Also the neighbors. We see Catty, Bratty, Snowdrake(not sure). Kris might see Catty and Bratty as low life, non important, cheapskate girls so that could led us to see them hanging in a literal dumpster, selling trash.

I don't know what I should tell you about Gaster. We just need more chapters so I can explain more I guess. Do you like this theory? Do you agree or not?

[notademon10]

CRACK THEORY: KRIS=FRISK ACTUALLY MAKES SENSE?

The ultimate "Krisk" theory.

This is an admitetly ambicious theory that not only proposes that Kris is the Deltarune version of Frisk, but theorizes on it's implications. This means I'll be trying to solve a lot of things that might end up connecting to this, whether you see it coming or not. In other words: I'll put quite a few seemingly unrelated pieces together, and the result might just end up being something you won't like. You have been warned. That being said, I want to be as thematically coherent as possible with these games, which is something I THINK some people miss.

PART I. WHO AND WHAT IS FRISK LIKE

First off, Frisk is likely a pacifist. Their armor, the bandage, is usless except for the fact that it heals you, as well as secretly guaranteeing escape if you flee on the first turn. That's not even mentioning that Frisk is most determined in true paz, (as well as they ONLY ever smile when choosing options that relate to this route) PLUS the mirror at the end saying "Still just you, Frisk". Their weapon is the stick, which doesn't do ANYTHING at all, except sometimes being super helpful for acting in some scpecific fights. But the most damning peace of evidence comes from their soul color. We actually DO know what it stands for! Papyrus HEAVLY implies in a phonecall in elevator L3 from Hotland that it's actually... LOVE! Thus, this means that they MUST link to this concept, including their armor, and everything points towards normal Love, not, you know, L.O.V.E.

This ALSO explains WHY there are 2 red soul humans in Undertale! One represents Love, the pacifist route, and the other the genocide route, with Violence. I mean, Chara explained that THEY were the feeling of seeing numbers increase. ATK, DF, and of course, LV. To add to this, the mirror in geno says: "It's me, Chara".

A VERY important thing to mention is the RED description in Ballgame: Try as you might, but you continue to be yourself. This differenciates Frisk and Chara from Flowey as they are very true to themselves, while he changed due to the absence of "LOVE", of Chara. I actually believe that every main monster represents a lack of a certain human trait, but that's for another day.

So... Is Frisk Chara? Or some sort of combination of them and a monster, like Asriel? What I've just said is confusing, but it does have a precedent. There's a video made by Sock Muppet titled "Who are you?" that explains this much further, and the main argument for it is that in order for Frisk to exit the barrier, they must have two souls: a monster soul and a human soul.

Unfortunatly, I believe it is debunkable, because even if you believe that Frisk "the fusion" is it's own entity separate from Chara in a weird way, Asriel asks "Why did you climb the mountain?", which is something that only Chara did, so you would still have to accept that these two humans are the same, even on a thematic level, which contradicts Asriel's line "Frisk, you really ARE different from Chara. I don't know why I ever acted like you were the same person. The truth is, Chara wan't really the greatest person. While you, Frisk, are the type of friend I wish I always had."

A much better explanation for why Frisk could have exited the barrier is because they had the determination of two human souls, theirs, and OURS. After all, the legends of localitation book confirms that it is OUR determination that lets us use the save and load ability, while Frisk is just along for the ride.

PART II. WHY DID THEY CLIMB THE MOUNTAIN?

I swear this is critical.

Well, I believe we DO know why. In Snowdrakes battle, there's a 1/6 chance of you saying "Nobody will ever love for the way you are". It's harsh, and very clearly projection, but from who? You see, there is evidence of Chara acting on their own on normal routes, like when you tell dirty jokes to Joshua all of them link back to Chara's story: "two kids playing in the mud", "a kid sleeping in the soil" and "a kid who ate pie with their bare hands". So who's it actually saying this, Frisk or Chara? I believe it applies to them BOTH. As it is THE reason they fell down the mountain. Let me explain. We know this MUST be the MAIN problem they have with themselves because love is LITERALLY their MAIN trait. But how do I know it applies to them both? Well, given how Frisk and Chara are foils to each other, then their reasons for coming down must be parallel or linked in some way. After all, it would be odd if only ONE of them fell down because of a lack of love, and not the other, especially when BOTH of them seem to have been neglected.

However.. there is also the fact that Clam girl tells us why Frisk fell down here. "In the grand scheme of things, Suzy might be the reason why you came here". However, it is literally impossible for them to KNOW about her, as she is literally a monster underground. So I think we should look at this situation more metaphorically. How does she tie into Frisk's reason to climb the underground?

"Nobody will ever love you the way you are."

The only way I can connect this to her is if she IS that "nobody". Or better said, the somebody that will love them for the way they are. There's just a little problem with this... Every monster ends up loving them the way Frisk really is in True paz, the only route in which they can properly meet Suzy. Even Asriel makes a point about how they love Frisk almost instantly.

Again we need to think. In which way would Suzy love Frisk?

Platonically: Every monster already does that.

In a familial way: Asgore, Toriel and debatibly Asriel already do that.

There's only one option left. And that is... One that I'm sure you won't like, but I feel obligated to suggest regardless. I understand if you don't like this idea, and that the connection between them is just multiversal.

But.

Asriel implies the reason behind Frisk falling is a much more mundane, sadder reality. His facial expression and tone is enough. And, with the whole destiny and fate theme taken into account, I believe there is a good argument to make that Suzy might just end up loving Frisk romantically. However, I haven't really "proven" Frisk is Kris yet, so there's one thing I want to discuss: Sans.

PART III. SANDS DELTAROON???

So Sans and Papyrus are from Deltarune. This has been covered to death by other people. While Papyrus is a bit more dubious, his recent QnAs basically confirm this.

The thing is if Sans is from DR, then he has experienced events that haven't happened yet. So it's entirely possible that he coulf be a useful tool in helping us know what those events could be. And I think we can. Because there are two things that don't sit with me right: his hatred of promises, and you. Let's start with his hatred for us. It can't be that he hates humanity like the rest of the underground, as he is from a universe in which humans and monsters seem to get along just fine. There could still be differences, but racism would be seen pretty much exactly like in our world. So then, is he aware of the player? Or is it something else?

To understand exactly what he hates about us, the best place to look is his infamous genocide dialogue.

"listen. i know you didn't answer me before but... somewhere in there, i can feel it. there's a glimmer of a good person inside of you. the memory of someone who once wanted to do the right thing. someone who, in another time, might have even been... a friend? c'mon buddy. do you remember me? please, if you're listening... let's forget all this, ok?"

This dialogue ocurres even if this is your first playthrough. So, I have a question for you. What could he be possibly referring to? What glimmer, what MEMORY is he feeling? But if course, that entire speech could literally just be him bluffing, right?

The thing is, he's REALLY fucking good at reading Frisk's expressions, do he SHOULD know whether or not "we" remember Sans, and were even friends with him. But, there's just a LITTLE problem with this.

How COULD Frisk remember Sans in our first playthrough?

...Well, here's the thing, they DON'T!

Because the memory he's feeling is HIS.

And who does he remember?

Who did he not forget, because he made a promise in his heart?

Three very specific people. The three Delta Warriors.

So! Kris is Frisk, right??

...Well, here's the thing: Kris might not be the human hero, because of this:

And also this:

The human hero is simply called "Human", which could only make sense if, at the very least on one route, Kris isn't the hero. Who then, could it be? Well, if the lack of facial features didn't give it away, it's the vessel, Kris' parallel. So WHO is the vessel, then? Well, I believe it is none other than the Deltarune version of Chara!

PART IV. CHARA IS THE VESSEL??

At the end of geno, they want us to eradicate the UT world, and move on the next world. This is very clearly a metaphor for us completionists to completly consume the next game. It just so happens that the next game we play could very well be Deltarune.

...no, this isn't all of it. Because the second time you do the route, their dialogue changes and reveals some interesting things.

"Greetings.

I am Chara.

The demon that comes when people call it's name.

It doesn't matter when, it doesn't matter where

Time after time, I will appear.

And with your help.

We will eradicate the enemy and become strong.

Every time a number increases, that feeling...

That's me."

I have one simple question: what was Chara reffering when they said it didn't matter when, or where?

It couldn't be because we sold our SOUL to Chara, because while the one we gave them did belong to us, it was Frisk's SOUL. There's not really any other explanation for this happening, as they only really possess it in the ending, when the player has stopped playing. Chara's possession wouldn't be meaningful in any way if their time in Frisk's body corresponded to the player's playtime.

So... How could they be everywhere as well as well as be anytime??

This is going to sound farfetched, but I have no other option:

Either Chara's SOUL was somehow shattered across time and space along with Gaster, and/or Chara is talking about other worlds, atleast the Deltarune one.

All of this to say... You call Chara at the very beggining of Deltarune, or at the very least... You can. Because not only can you name yourself or the vessel "Chara", you can name yourselves whatever way you originally named them as.

... But, you end up naming two people: the vessel and it's creator. So who IS Chara?

I believe it is the vessel. Simply put, the name that the casual player is going to give them is probably like any other protagonist, or in the very specific case of UT, the first fallen human. While the name they're going to give the creator is going to THEIR name. And I mean, if both the vessel and creator were characters, then naming them in a sense would be calling two different Charas. While if only the vessel is a character, while the creator is US, you would only be calling one Chara, while the creator would just be you, since you wouldn't be calling anyone else, just yourself.

On the toic on whatever you're supposed to call Chara, Toby Fox said "Your name, if you can't think of anything else lol". But when asked on twitter if naming Chara after their cat would be ok, which he said that it would ALSO work.

I think "your name" could be referring to the name you put yourself when you play any game, really. Kind of like "notademon" is my username on this site, but obviously is not my name.

I also have one last trick up my sleeve. Remember the unused human? You can see them as Frisk's reflection in waterfall, if you activate debug mode. At first, I thought it was just a beta version of Chara.. but they appear in a reflection in waterfall. And by then, Chara had already one single stripe. After all, their design had originated when Temmie had accidentally drawn a single stripe on Frisk!

What I'm trying to say is that the unused human could never have been implemented in tge actual game, as Frisk and Chara already have their design. Which means that the unused human might just be a teaser for Deltarune. So who could they end up being?

Given how it's Frisk's reflection, they must parallel each other in some way.

Well, this really only leaves either the vessel or Kris. And given how Kris' skin is completly different to the one our mystery character posseses, this really only leaves one other character: the vessel.

But wait... If I'm saying the vessel is the unused huma, as well as Chara... Then that means the unused human IS Chara too??? But their skin and hair is completly different!!

Yeah, and that's because Chara in geno, looks like someone who either lacks ANY sunlight, or just a corpse. My theory is that Chara, before dying, looked similarly to the unuswd human, but with cheeks also there. Why aren't the supposed DR Chara's cheeks visible? Well, why isn't their mouth visible? Even Kris has their mouth visible. It's almost like they don't have any facial features... Like the vessel, their goner version!

And what name does the unused human have in the files? CHARA. However, Frisk is named mainchara in the files, so the "Chara" here could very easily be short for character, so it isn't as decisive as it may seem.

On how did Chara manage to become a goner I am completly unaware. There are so many things we don't know about and this post is already getting long enough as is so I'll save it for another day. Maybe.

But now that I may or may not have uncovered the vessel's secret identity, this really only leaves one person who the alternate iteration of Frisk could possibly be: Kris!

PART V. KRIS IS FRISK!

I'd start with the fact that they share the same hair color and shin color, but everyone already knows that. How about some other things instead.

Pianpian is the name of the song that plays in the hidden Kris dreemurr page. It's... An interesting name, because Pian is an anagram for pain, but also piano without the letter o. Which is EXACTLY how you get from Frisk to Kris, as Kris is just an anagram of Frisk without the letter F.

Second, while it may seem difficult to know what Kris' morals are at first hand, I think a very important piece of evidence is their relationship with Susie, because they very clearly love her. This isn't just me pulling my shipper headcannons, there's actually a lot of in-game evidence that's actually quite solid.

...Again, read my posts on this topic.

But what does this have to do with Frisk? Well, everything! Because the way Kris deals with Susie is the way players are encouraged to do the pacifist route, but to an extent where it's flaws are shown. While you CAN fight most monsters until they spare you, this won't get you the yellow, happier descriptions in the credits of UT. Players are encouraged to ACT, instead. Kris, for whatever reason, remains quiet as to not alert their mother and punish, or perhaps even expel her. However, when they do ACT in new girl, they do it in a very flirty and natural way, very similar to how Frisk acts in UT. The reason I say this is flawed is becuase if this took place in the real world, they should have told Toriel about the situation, because if they didn't, Susie wouldn't have changed. Asriel even tells Frisk about this: "Not everything can be resolved by being nice."

...What I'm trying to say is, Kris wouldn't be this interested in Susie if they were a hateful person.

Other things:

When you lecture Ruddin, Kris will talk about the importance of kindness.

Both Frisk and Kris can play the piano.

Kris is a natural flirter, as seen with Head Hathy.

Kris in the entire weird route is stated to be very different as to how they actually are.

They wear a bandage and a pencil, almost like a more evolved version of the stick.

Kris has red eyes. When Frisk is possesed by Chara they have red eyes, but if this type of eyes are natural, then it is entirely possible that Frisk ALSO has red eyes.

In the 2023 aniversary newsletter Frisk is mistakenly referred to as Kris. So Toby can't even tell them apart LMAO.

Bratty says that when Kris was younger, they wanted to hang out with the big kids, and they jokingly said that if they went to buy some burgers Kris would be able to do so. Kris actually did exactly that and still got rejected. Poor kid...

What I'm trying to say is that Kris may actually be a lot nicer than we may have thought. Them being a prankster doesn't actually affect wheter they're hurtful or not. In fact, in the normal route in chapter 2, in one of the electric barrier puzzles, Noelle can activate the barrier in the exact spot Kris was in, and she will note how Kris seems hurt by her prank, meaning that Kris doesn't actually like pranks that they think are dangerous (not anymore?).

But, I wouldn't be honest with you if I didn't PROPERLY adress the counterevidence, even finding some of my own (people should do this more often).

First, their handedness.

Kris' handedess seems to be ambidextrous, as they use their left hand in ch 1 ending and their right hand in ch 2 ending.

What about Frisk's handedness...? At first, they seem to be left-handed, as their slash sprite is always the same, and would make more sense if it came from a left hand. But if you remember when Toriel was going through the spike puzzle, Toriel grabs Frisk's hand with her right hand. But Frisk alternates between their left hand and right one. Even when they grab the umbrella the exact same thing happens. It isn't a bug, Toriel's hand is consistent, it's Frisk's hands that aren't. I think that if Toby doesn't care that much about keeping Frisk dominant with one hand then we shouldn't either. I mean, the slash sprite always being the same could easly be explained by Toby not wanting to add another one because it would look weird. Tldr Frisk is probably ambidextrous because Toby doesn't care, at least not anymore in UT's final release.

So! That's everything, right?

No... Because I still have to tackle Sans' relationship with Frisk, as I kind of just recontextualized it in it's entirety.

PART VI. UNDERSTANDING SANS

So why does Sans hate Frisk so much? Why does he hate making promises? I mean, "don't forget" is a promise too, implying that he too, hated making that promise.

Well, for starters, I believe that Toriel asking him to protect the next human is not theo ONLY reason Sans didn't attack them. He made the mysterious promise to not forget Kris and their friends, which in turn meant that he couldn't forget about Frisk either, and their memories of being a good person.

Well, he does mention that they don't know it feels, knowing that one day everything will be reset. So is it possible that Kris will or has reset Deltarune? Perhaps, but I would like to point out something slightly less outlandish for the sake of this post.

His infamous line: "kids like you should be buring in hell" gains some interesting implications when you remember what "Hell" is associated with in Deltarune: The Roaring. After all, Jevil refers to it as "HELL'S ROAR", and Ralsei, when describing the roaring asks: "Is this your idea of paradise" wording which definetly will become very important later in the game.

After all, why WOULD Sans try to leave his homeworld? What catastrophe would make him leave, if not the Roaring or worse? And, why WOULD Sans say this to Frisk? Could it be, that he finds the idea of Frisk suffering in the calamity that is Hell's Roar? But that could only happen if...

Kris consciously helped bring or directly brought Hell itself to Deltarune.

How???? It directly contradicts EVERYTHING that I've been trying to say about Frisk! ...Right?

Well, the Roaring seems to be an allegory to something very interesting: letting yourself be consumed by fiction. So let's think, why would Frisk, or better said Kris, do this at all?

Well, if it HAD to be ONE reason in particular, it would be the same reason they climbed Mt. Ebott: because nobody loved them they way they are. Or at the very least, they THOUGHT so.

This question of seemingly not knowing if anybody loves Kris for the way they are is one that's been directly building up in the new girl page in the sweepstakes, particularly when Susie says that if Kris dissapeared, Toriel would be happy, and then Kris says something unexpected that Noelle doesn't hear. It also further connects Kris to Frisk and Chara, and maybe even the other six fallen humans. Of course, I DO belive that at least their family DOES love them for the way they are, at least to some extent, as well as Rudy and Noelle. Also, Susie is friends with Kris, not the player, because we can be the worst person imaginable and Susie doesn't care because she's not OUR friend, she's Kris', as them saving her is much more important than whatever we do in Chapter 1, at least as of now. Again, it's just that Kris THINKS they don't. But... Why?

Well, it could be anything from Kris hiding something from their friends that completly changes their view to US controlling them, making them feel like their friends don't love THEM. However, Frisk isn't noted to be upset in the pacifist route, so I don't think they mind if we do what they want, after all, they DO influence or ACTs. Instead, what if us controlling Kris makes their friends FEEL like they AREN'T their friend?

To this I... Do not know. There are so, SOO many possible plot points that it would just be too much for this post. So I'll leave it here. If you have any gripes with this theory, please let me know as long as you aren't borderline hateful. I do genuenly want to improve, even if it means acknowledging that my theory is objectivly bad, or something. But if you DO think I'm onto something PLEASE like and share, this is like the very first ACTUAL theory I've posted, so please let me know!

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Today in my gender studies class, we talked about P.E in primary school and basically how much trauma it induced. Especially for people assigned female at birth.

Other kids, especially boys, could be extremely aggressive or treat P.E as "life or death".

Where I live, we played a game called "brännboll" ("burnball"), which I guess is similar to baseball, but it's essentially one person that serves and hits the ball with a bat (there is no one throwing the ball to them or anyone behind them, it's ONE person serving and hitting), and then they get to run laps around the field while the other team tries to get the ball. When they get the ball, they run to a spot, shout "burned!" and the person who threw has to go back to the last "checkpoint" they ran past.

There is two different bats used for hitting the ball, and you can choose which one you want to use

As you see, it's a normal bat, and then another bat that might make it more easy to hit the ball with. This bat is often called "kärringracket". "Kärring" is a more mean-spirited word for an old lady.

Very often, when a girl in primary school was gonna serve, many boys immediately made comments "use kärringracket! So you'll hit the ball!" Because they could not believe they could use the normal bat - meaning that, if a girl did use a normal bat, she'd have much more expectations and pressure that she needs to hit. And if she doesn't, some (especially male) classmates takes offense because they dare to be bad at the sport.

I have a large trauma from playing brännboll in elementary school, but not from serving and hitting the ball. But when I was in the team that was gonna catch the ball. I was 8 years old, at the end of 2nd grade. The ball bounced on the field, and started rolling fast on the ground. I was about to grab it, when it rolled between my legs. Apparently, me not being able to catch it was SO OFFENSIVE to one kid, that he started screaming: ”WHAT THE FUCK, SARA!!! I’M GONNA MURDER YOU!!!!”. He then proceeded to sprint in my direction. The gym teacher saw it and stopped him from reaching me by standing in the way, so he then proceeded to run in another direction while the gym teacher chased him.

I have other traumatic memories too. Like when we were jumping over obstacles, and I couldn’t no matter how much I tried. I had to walk over them. And my classmates saw this as a great offense to them. That I couldn’t jump over obstacles was bothering for them?

Or all the ball sports… aggresive ball throws. If you managed to hit someone with a ball, ”it didn’t count, actually!!”

Girls could be mean too. If you know european P.E halls, they often have colored lines on the floor. We had a game of tag one P.E lesson where you were supposed to only run on the colored lines. If you got tagged or if you ran outside the lines, you had to step aside and do five jumps (the kind of jump where you squat, put your hands on the floor and jump up). I had just done my five jumps, when a girl stopped me and was like ”Sara, you did the jumps all wrong! Now you need to get back and re-do them!”. I’ve been thinking for years why it was so important to her that I didn’t do the jumps ”correctly”. What if she did them incorrectly? She was also not a P.E teacher, she was a child like me?

I actually still remember some trauma in high school. By that point, no one got that offended anymore, but as a girl I sometimes got treated like I couldn’t do things as well as some others. One lesson, we played badminton. Now, I’m fine in badminton. But when the whole class is watching me serve, I feel the pressure, and I miss hitting the ball. And again. And again. And I get stressed, because I can do this!! And then comes a boy up from my class, and goes ”this is how you serve” and proceeds to explain to me how to serve, as if I didn’t know… and I am aware he’s being nice, but it felt humiliating when I COULD serve, I just got stressed and nervous. The nail in the coffin was some time later, when we discussed badminton, I mentioned ”Yeah I like it fine, i’m not the best but it’s fun” and this boy answered ”Sara… you can’t play badminton. I’ve had to help you several times 😉”

(The same guy also mansplained how to hold a minigolf club because I didn’t hold it the same way he did. Then I just told him ”I can’t hold the way you can, and I’m gonna hold the way I’m comfortable with”, to which he got nervous and was like ”but of course!! I just mean… I have learned to hold it like this!”. I won over him in minigolf anyway)

The more I think about P.E the more bad memories come. Like us having to run laps and I came last out of everyone because I could not run as fast as hard as I tried (I also had undiagnosed asthma). We all needed to lift ourselves up with some gymnastic rings. I never could. We were supposed to cartwheel. I have never learned to cartwheel. And when they brought in the springboard and everyone needed to jump over this giant stool-table-thing (i don’t know the english word). Ugh.

This little post was from an AFAB perspective, but I am aware P.E definitely was not always fun for AMAB people either. Especially if you weren’t one of those boys who took P.E super seriously.