#wtnc art

[beardyplaysgames]

Just Ezra from When the Night Comes

[zephhhhh]

my wtnc hunter

[shepplaysrpgs]

Here's a commission of my Hunter from When the Night Comes and Finn.

I have two fanfics from this series. One is based on triplet original characters.

The other is about the same hunter and Finn when they first start dating.

[youdonthavetohideyourself]

Didn't wanna miss out on national kissing day but also too tired to make a true effort so low effort messy doodle of my new fav boys Ezra and Finn.

[chrismerle]

OKAY i made it through every route for Living Dead Girl

considering WtNC is billed as a romance visual novel, you'd think there'd be more ... romance ... in this extra chapter. don't get me wrong, I know it's not a particularly long side story, but it felt like it was honestly shorter than it could have been. they say 'let's find the ghost,' and then they do. they say 'let's summon the ghost,' and then they do. they say 'let's get the ghost to pass on,' and then they do. there were basically zero stakes. the only complicating factor they run into in the entire thing is Finn being afraid of ghosts. I don't want senseless padding, but there were plenty of ways it could have been satisfactorily longer to give you time to actually bond with your spouse(s).

plus, like. the writers Made A Choice to add a side story to a romance game and then basically sideline half the cast. a third of the cast is there for, like, a quarter of the story. Ezra's there for less than half. Finn's around for about half-ish. only August and Piper are actually there from beginning to end.

and somehow Finn's romance still gets the most attention? like, you acknowledge him romantically a full scene before any of the others get romantically acknowledged, and he gets more scattered remarks/references.

but really, all the romance feels kinda tacked on until you get to the last scene that's, like, actually dedicated to you and your spouse(s). like i said, Finn gets the most attention. August gets less. Piper gets less. Ezra, Alkar, and Omen may as well not be there until their dedicated scenes at the end. if you romance Omen and Alkar together, it's like 90% just Alkar's route. if you romance Finn and Ezra together, it's like 80% just Finn's route.

(ironically, Ezra actually gets MORE attention in the poly route, since in that one you acknowledge both of them a scene earlier than any of the others. though that opens up further weirdness, since you acknowledge him in the context of him finally running out of patience, but he does that regardless of who you romance, but that doesn't get factored into his solo route. plus the fact that you only explicitly say 'I am married to Finn' when asked and then just mention Ezra as 'our other husband' kinda negates any extra attention.)

and once you get to the last scene, it's basically the same conversation regardless of whose route you're on. obviously, it makes sense that your character is hung up on the same thing regardless, but five of the six spouses comfort you in basically the same way, with just mildly different phrasing. only Piper has a bit of a different perspective.

was it cute? yes. did I enjoy reading it? yes. did I like the new character? yes. is the new art nice? yes, very. but it seems like they sacrificed the romances--the main draw of the visual novel--on the altar of getting from point A to B as fast as fucking possible.

(also Alkar still has the best domesticity)

[eff-plays]

The first time I went through WTNC a few months after finishing it the first time, I realized that it wasn't really as fantastic of a VN as it felt like at the time as much as it was an average game that checked like 90% of the boxes of what made a popular VN at the time. The quality and quantity of the art in the game was really good for the time, the characters weren't written to be particularly unique or even fleshed out but they were modeled after popular figures/archetypes (they got Gideon Emery to voice Finn ffs), and it was touted specifically as a "Queer VN" when it was more like a queer-friendly VN - which are great and always welcome to be clear! Just different from Queer VNs! - considering queerness was barely if at all relevant to the plot outside of the existence of some canonically queer NPCs (and the MC if the player chooses), the existence of poly routes, and control over pronouns. The writing itself wasn't *bad* per say, but it wasn't anything special or unique either, with a lot of loose ends time-skipped away between the end of the Harry plotline and the end of the actual game.

So basically the same 'quirks' EK seems to be struggling with, just with slightly better writing and nowhere near as much (deserved) bad press for how they handled release.

Agreed except the "writing wasn't that bad" thing. The writing was always bad in these games, people were just seduced by the idea of a 2D Dragon Age and/or thirsty for more The Arcana content, since WTNC was basically a ripoff with a very similar art style. The art was always wonky as shit, also. And the fact that they got Gideon Emery to voice the main dev's favorite OC in WTNC is so very telling<3

Anyway EK does have way worse writing just because they rely on tropes even more and clearly lost interest mid-development, and I can't wait to get back into it and see if they fixed it or made it even worse somehow since I last played.

Almost considering making a series of playthrough posts just to really deep-dive into how shitty these games are but idk if I wanna waste my time like that.

[snakes-and-trashy-arts]

alkar being really pretty!! background from @whenthenightcomesgame (i didnt draw it)

[daiin0]

I drew my favorite vampire because I'm stressing out yeehaw

also im thinking about making another faust with wire in it so it can bend and hopefully I'll make her longer this time bc she so s h o r t

[sugareep]

Working on a little comic thing for the lastest update of @whenthenightcomesgame for Omkars route ❤️ hopefully I will finish it by the end of the day

[nikoandartmixwell]

I finally drew August from @whenthenightcomesgame

(lol my parents said that August’s ponytail looked like a ferret, so I added a ferret to compare)

[thefablefoxart]

Idk if the WTNC fandom is still alive here on tumblr but I thought I’d post this here anyways. I drew August for my shadow studies for a uni assignment and they be looking sooo fucking gorgeous 😩😩

[godweaver]

ive once again restarted welcome to night vale to try and finish welcome to night vale

[sssamsondraws]

some ugly sweaters for @thebakerstboyskeeper!

thanks again for commissioning :)

[enaykin-art]

Hunter Frost Tenebris

[youdonthavetohideyourself]

Another WTNC doodle

[baylinbanks]

I thought it was fitting to give him a CG since hes a visual novel oc :> (man I am so whipped for him)

An anon told me Mars looks like he has booty shorts and I cant unsee it so of course I will have to draw something later to commemorate the occasion lmao