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empyreansentinel · 2 months ago

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since ive started my most recent playthrough of the series im just. constantly reminded of how shitty of a hand the bandits got dealt. starting with dahl dumping thousands of convicts into pandoras penal colonies, as well as establishing civilian settlements like fyrestone. this went on for generations, maybe. long enough for zed to be born and go grey. atlas shows up, chases off dahl and the planet is put under new, neglectful management. this opens the prisons, and the "unworthy" convicts clash with the "worthy" dahl settlers for resources. violence breaking out is inevitable because violence is the only thing the bandits have. BL1 VHs come in, killing their way through every camp and mine and settlement they can get into, for no other reason than Bandit Bad and theyre in the way of our money. lets go into their homes and kill them because they would have probably tried to kill us if we hadnt. the first people they meet are settlers, of course theyre going to feel this way. the only pushback they get is atlas trying to "protect" barons territory because they want the vault key from his men. and it doesn't stop them from throwing him to the wolves once his value as bait outweighed his value as an asset. atlas sends them after flynt with the false promise of a key fragment, something the VHs have killed for before, so why would this be any different? the vault key is reformed. destroyer pops out of the vault, cracks open the planet, and then hyperion hits pandora. i dont need to explain hyperion. everyone, if nothing else, has played BL2. more prisons, more exploitation, this time on a scale several times that of dahl or atlas. but the bandits still dont get the benefit of a doubt, even though they are facing the same dangers that sanctuary does. and worse, seeing as how they dont have a flying city with a bubble around it. once the BL2 VHs touch down, theyre mincemeat. all of a sudden, theyre fighting a war on all fronts. so they lose their leadership. captain, flanksteak, mortar, nisha in 2. nine-toes, sledge, krom, baron in 1. and they also lose a good half of of their population to boot. so...what can they do that wont get them steamrolled by pandoras benevolent saviors? they unite. BL3 rolls around and every bandit clan on pandora has been assimilated into the COV because that is the only level of security they have left. except it still isnt safe because now theyre quite literally being eaten and mutated by the ones who are supposed to be protecting them. and then theyre still being mowed down regardless, because the calypsos dont provide any real kind of safety, they just have a veil of community. which is then lost when the twins die and the world almost gets destroyed by the great vault. and now the crimson raiders are...leaving, maybe? which might be for the best. maybe what this planet needs it just to be left the hell alone.

#borderlands #this isnt worded very gracefully. alas. also part 1 of 2 bc i wanted to talk specifically abt the crimson raiders as well.#this thing has been in my drafts for. like two months.#anyways if youve made it to the end. ty for reading my rant im sure this has all been said before.#anyways its bandit apologism now and forever. those are just people!! theyre just people!

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blueishspace · 1 month ago

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Hero Villain God

Inter-chapter Lore 2

(Prev) (Next) (First)

Top 10 Heroes:

Hotguy - Scar - Powers: Super speed & eagle eye.

Ocean Queen - Lizzie - Power: Hydrokinesis.

Sheriff - Jimmy - Power: Wings/Flight.

Altostratus - Joel - Power: Cloud manipulation.(... Something is wrong about him...but you can't tell what exactly it is).

Tey- Gem - Power: Super strenght.

Bard - Oli - Power: Voice turns to blasts.

Helios - Bdubs - Power: Light constructs.

Ceres - Stress - Power: Flower manipulation.

Hypnos - Keralis - Power: Hypnosis/Sleep induction trough direct sight. (Look into my eyes, nothing but my eyes).

Voidwalker - X - Power: Portals.

Some villains:

Boogeyman - Mumbo - ???

Winter King - Scott - Power: Ice manipulation...?

Phthisis - Cleo - Power: Rot.

Scale - Impulse - Power: Electricity.

Scarlet - Pearl - ???

Shade-e - Etho - Power: Shadow manipulation.

Creaking - BigB - Power: Branch manipulation.

Goatfather - Doc - ????

EX - EvilX - Power: portals

Main vigilantes:

Seraphin - Skizz - Power: Wings/Flight.

Flame - Tango - Power: Fire manipulation.

Wormman - Zed - Power: ... Worms????

Witch - Shelby - Power: Mist manipulation.

Warrior princess - Katherine - Doesn't have a power just a big ass axe.

Other:

Sausage - Head of the sanctuary church.

Cub - Scar's main the chair.

Ren - The mayor of this great city.

Martyn - Ren's vice and [REDACTED].

Hero association - A group in charge of the heroes.

Hotguy's PR team - no one.

Grian - God of chaos and also a vigilante/singer/villain/hero/civilian.

#trafficblr #traffic smp #hermitblr #hermitcraft #hero villain god au

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arc852 · 5 months ago

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14. Experiment

Definition: a scientific test in which you perform a series of actions and carefully observe their effects in order to learn about something

Summary: One of Zed's redstone contraptions go off and hit Joel, shrinking him. Etho comes by to tease him and keep an eye on him as Zed tries to find a way to reverse it.

G/t: Etho and Zed are normal-sized, Joel is only a few inches tall

Warnings: Threat of perma-death (no perma-death happens)

Word Count: 2079

AO3 Link

I'll be honest, this one is not my favorite. But going back to edit it, I realized it's not as bad as I originally thought. It's growing on me. I hope you guys enjoy it!

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“I came as soon as I heard.” Etho said as soon as he landed, putting away his rockets and walking over to where Zed was standing. Despite the mask he wore, he was sure they could hear the smile on his face. “Where is he?”

Zed smiled at Etho in greeting, though his seemed a bit more sheepish. “He’s just over here, I’m, uh, still trying to find a way to reverse the effects. He’s not really happy at the moment.”

“Oh, I can imagine.” The information did nothing to weaken his glee. Etho walked further into the room and his eyes honed in on who he had come here to see. “Joel!” Etho exclaimed, grinning.

Joel turned around, eyes wide as Etho came closer. “Oh for the love of--what are you doing here?!” Joel yelled, backing up a step as Etho made it over.

Etho took him in, in a bit of awe at the situation. He wasn’t quite sure what Zed’s experiment had been meant to do, but what it had ended up doing was shrinking Joel down to only a few inches tall. “Aww, you’re so cute.” Etho said, a teasing tone to his voice. Joel glared at him and then at Zed when he joined them.

“I can’t believe you told Etho about this.” Joel said to Zed, crossing his arms with a huff.

“Sorry, but he was the one asking me where you were.” Zed revealed and at that revelation Joel’s frown turned into a grin.

“Oh, was he now?” He turned to Etho, a smirk on his face. “Obsessed much?”

Etho rolled his eyes playfully, not deterred by Joel’s teasing. “Not me. I was looking for you to ask a question. But then Zed told me this had happened, and well…” He knelt down and ruffled Joel’s hair with a finger. The squeak he got in response was both funny and adorable. “How could I not come and see you like this?”

Joel fixed his hair as soon as Etho took his finger back and then went back to glaring up at Etho. At such a small scale though, it wasn’t very intimidating. “How did this even happen anyway?” Etho asked, looking to Zed for the answer. Unfortunately, Zed just shrugged.

“Honestly, I’m not sure. I was just messing around with an incomplete redstone contraption of mine when it suddenly went off. Joel was hanging out here and it ended up hitting him, which then proceeded to shrink him. I had no idea that was even possible.” Zed then grinned at the revelation. “But clearly it is! If I can replicate this, this could be huge!”

Etho nodded along. If something like this was possible with redstone of all things, that could pave the way for a lot of new devices and ways to make farms and such.

“Um, how about we focus on finding a way to reverse this before trying to replicate it again!” Joel exclaimed, gaining Etho and Zed’s attention back.

“Ah, right. Sorry.” Zed said sheepishly and then turned back to Etho. “Actually that reminds me, the main reason I told you about Joel was because I was hoping you would be able to look after him while I tried to find a way to reverse this.”

“Look after him?” Etho asked, raising an eyebrow. As expected, Joel was not happy about that.

“Wha-? I don’t need to be looked after!” Joel said. “I’m fully capable of looking after myself.”

Zed put his hands up, trying to de-escalate the situation. “I know you’re perfectly capable…usually. Look, the world out there isn’t made for someone so small. And you need to be careful especially because…well…” Zed rubbed the back of his neck. “I don’t…actually know what would happen if you died right now.”

“Wait, what?” Joel asked, anger leaving him briefly to be replaced by confusion and a sudden sense of dread.

Etho, too, was feeling some of that dread as he looked at Zed with narrowed eyes. “Are you saying his respawn might not work at this size?”

Hesitantly, Zed nodded and suddenly this situation was a lot less funny to Etho. Etho glanced over at Joel, who was now sitting down after hearing the news. Zed continued when no one else said anything. “You know how I get when I’m in the zone and I need my full concentration on trying to find a way to reverse this. Which is why I need you to watch him.”

“I don’t know if I’m really the best person to be-” Etho started but was then cut off by Joel.

“Oh no, I’m not letting anyone else find out about this. So sorry Eefo, but you’re stuck with me.” Joel said, arms crossed and looking like he wasn’t going to budge on the issue. Etho simply sighed.

“I guess that’s that then.” Etho said with a shrug and Zed smiled.

“Brilliant! I’ll message you if I make any headway!” Zed said and then went over to his workstation to start trying to figure out the issue.

Etho looked down at Joel a bit awkwardly. “So, uh…how do you want to do this?” He asked. Joel put his head down, a slight embarrassed blush just barely visible on his cheeks.

“I don’t know…just put your hand down over here and I’ll climb on I guess.” Joel settled with. Etho looked at his hand and then at Joel and shrugged, doing as Joel said and putting his hand palm up next to Joel.

Joel stared at it for a long moment before huffing and stepping onto the hand. Etho tensed, the feeling of an entire person getting onto his hand was weird. Though he supposed Joel’s perspective wasn’t any better. Etho must look huge to him right now. He couldn’t help but admire how brave Joel was being, putting his life into the hands of a giant. Even if that giant happened to be Etho himself.

Once Joel was settled, Etho carefully lifted his hand up and brought it close to his chest. He then used his free hand to hover underneath, just in case something happened and Joel fell. He walked out of Zed’s area and looked around wondering what he should do now. He figured flying was off the table, since he didn’t want to risk Joel falling and it wasn’t too much of a walk to get back to his base from here either way.

“Just make sure no one sees me, got it?” Joel suddenly said and Etho looked down. Joel had sat down in his hand. His arms were crossed and he was very pointedly not looking at either the ground below him or Etho.

“Right, don’t worry.” Etho reassured him. “There aren’t any hermits based between me and Zed, so we should be fine.” Joel nodded at that and then Etho started his walk back but paused when Joel spoke up again.

“Why not just fly?” Joel asked, finally glancing up at him.

Etho looked back down with a raised eyebrow. “Um…because I’ve got a tiny passenger that I don’t want falling off mid-flight?”

Joel scoffed. “I may be small but I’m not fragile. You can fly, it’ll be a lot faster anyway.”

Etho furrowed his eyebrows. “But-”

“You’re not going to let me fall.” Joel said, cutting Etho off and surprising him with how much confidence he said it with. Etho let out another sigh.

“Alright. If you’re sure.” He equipped his elytra and brought Joel close to his chest, curling in his fingers even more to make sure he was secure in his grip. He felt Joel tense up but ignored it for Joel’s own sake.

And then Etho took off with a rocket and flew back towards his base.

Flying was faster, Joel had been right. What would have taken them probably a half hour to get back on foot only took them about a minute by elytra. Etho landed gracefully on his front lawn and took off his wings with his one free hand. He then carefully brought his hand holding Joel away from his chest and opened his hand up fully.

Joel’s eyes were shut tight and his breathing was rapid. And even without being able to feel it, Etho could clearly see that Joel was shaking too. Etho bit his lip. “Joel? We’re on the ground again.” He said, a bit softer than he normally would.

Joel slowly opened his eyes and looked around, seeing that Etho was right. His breathing evened out and he unfurled himself from his tight position. The shaking was still present though. “L-Let’s…” Joel started, stuttering. “Let’s not do that again.”

Etho almost wanted to say he told him so, but with the way Joel was looking, he figured now wouldn’t be a good time. So, he just nodded. “Well, we’re at my base now.” Etho said, walking up to the front door. “What do you want to do?”

***

They ended up not really doing anything. Both were too nervous to do anything too dangerous, what with them not knowing what would happen if Joel died. So, they ended up just sitting around Etho’s base and talking. They did eventually end up having lunch as well.

As the evening came, Etho heard his comm ding and he went to check it. His eyebrows furrowed and Joel looked over, confused.

“What is it?” Joel asked from his place on the table. Etho, who was currently sitting at the table, looked down at him.

“It’s Zed. He said he’s figured out how to get you back to normal.” Etho said, before going back to reading the messages Zed was still sending.

“He did?” Joel said, jumping up into a stand with excitement to finally be able to get back to normal. “Well, what are we waiting for? Let’s head back!”

Etho shook his head, which gave Joel pause. “Actually, there’s no need. Zed says you…just have to die and respawn and it'll fix itself.”

Joel blinked. “Is…is he sure? Because before he was saying he didn’t know what would happen if I died. And I don’t really feel like perma-dying today.”

Etho tilted his head. “Good point.” He typed something onto his comm to send back to Zed and Zed responded almost right away. As if he had been expecting Etho to question him on it. Etho’s eyes widened when he read the message. “...He said he’s tested it himself and that it’s all fine.”

Both Etho and Joel looked at each other, processing what that actually meant. Joel frowned. “Should…should we be concerned about that?”

“Probably.” Etho went to another contact and typed out another message and sent it before putting his comm away. “I sent Tango and Impulse over to him.” Hopefully they could talk Zed into being more careful with his own life.

“That’s good.” Joel said and then was silent for a moment. “So…I just gotta die then?”

“Looks like it. Here.” Etho held out a hand for Joel and Joel was less hesitant to take it this time. Etho brought him over to his bed and set him down on it. “Set your spawn so you come back here.”

Joel placed a hand on the bed and felt the magic of setting a spawn go through him. “Right, okay. Now, how should I die?”

Etho hummed, looking down from the bed and gauging the height. “Fall damage will probably be the easiest.” It didn’t look all that far, so he placed his hand next to Joel again, who once again climbed on. He stepped back from the bed and then lifted his hand high into the air. “There you go, that should definitely be far enough.”

Joel nodded and then looked down. He took a deep breath and jumped.

[Smallishbeans fell from a high place]

Immediately, Joel appeared on Etho’s bed, full-sized and back to normal. Joel blinked, gaining his bearing and looking around. He looked down at himself and grinned. “Finally! I’m big again!” He jumped up from the bed and turned to Etho.

Etho chuckled at him. “Well, I don't know if I would say big exactly.” He placed a hand on Joel’s head, showing off the size difference between the two of them. Etho was a head taller even with Joel back to normal.

“Oi!” Joel yelled, knocking Etho’s hand off his head and Etho laughed at the reaction.

Quietly though, they were both happy Joel was back to normal.

#g/t #giant/tiny #mcyt g/t #hermitcraft #hermitcraft g/t #hermitfic #shrinking #gtjuly2024 #day 14 #tiny joel

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nexusdoodles · 4 months ago

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So I draw Impulse and Skizz as a Demon and Angel. And I thought, what if I made them more demonis and angelic? This is my head cannon of their true forms. (I made them monochrome cause I’m lazy lol)

For Skizz, I imagine that he follows the “biblically accurate” Angel design. Lots of wings and eyes, but I also imagine that his form is constantly changing. Since an Angel’s appearance is supposedly too much for the human mind to understand, Skizz’s form always looks different every time he changes to it. But his wings can vary in size and are very soft. His Halo becomes very ornate as well. I imagine his blood turns gold in color which reflects on his scars and his eyes are glowing blue. Like his entire eye, no pupils or iris, just blue sclera

For Impulse, his whole body becomes incased in his black scales(do demons have scales?). His horns grow much bigger, along with his tail, and his wings. The ends of his horns, tail, and wings bleed yellow. His hands and feet turn to claws, also his feet grow too big for his shoes lol. He also has a few spines protruding from his back. His teeth become razor sharp and his tongue is forked and..really weird. His eyes turn to golden sclera and black slits for pupils

I like to think that Impulse is very self-conscious about his true form, which is why he hides almost all of it behind his glamour. Skizz isn’t, but in solidarity with Impulse, he also covers it. Only a few of the Hermits have seen fully Demonic Impulse. Obviously Xisuma for admin reasons, but only Tango, Mumbo, Zed, Grian, Gem, Pearl, and Bdubs have seen Impulse’s true form. But half of the server has seen Skizz’s, or at least a version of it.

#skizzleman #impulsesv #nexusrambles

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ty-bayonet-betteridge · 4 months ago

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Hello can you please info dump on Xisuma and or Pearl in your heavenly Hermits au pretty please.

ok ❤️ yay

the thing you need to understand about Xisuma is that he never meant to start anything of any scale. he made a server for some friends like a decade ago. he didn't know that half of those friends were already gods and the other half would ascend to godhood before long. he has no interest in godhood himself, but like, he kept playing with them, because they're still his friends, y'know?

there's isn't some sort of godhood requirement he enforces. in fact, he intentionally tries to get mostly mortal members, and yet they always end up turning into gods. Jevin, Mumbo, Tango, and Cleo joined in season 2 as mortals, and somehow have STILL all ended up as gods by season 8. Doc and Etho were immortal when they joined in S3, but Impulse was SUPPOSED to be a normal guy! Scar and Cub joined together in S4 and got jealous of the other gods and were somehow immortal by the end of S5. Zed joined as a mortal in S5 but became the new grim reaper in S6. Gem and Pearl were both supposedly normal when they joined in S8 but became gods in S9. there's some people outside the server but close to existing hermits (Jimmy and Martyn, for instance) who literally use "being invited to hermitcraft" as a euphemism for ascending to godhood because any mortals who join dont stay that way for long.

admining a server for 26 gods (give-or-take) is exhausting work, but luckily Tango, Impulse, Doc, and Joe are all able to chip in and keep the server's code from collapsing under the weight of that much conflicting divine power. Xisuma used to be very religious but has renounced worship because "after meeting some gods, it's REALLY gotten quite hard to respect them"

Pearl, as i mentioned, joined as a mortal human woman in season 8. she occasionally joked about fitting in as a god bc she was related to the moon, but it was just that: a joke. at least, until Grian tore open a multiversal portal in S9 and they went through to the Empires universe first, where Pearl learned and, eventually, remembered, that she's a reincarnated goddess!

unfortunately she's also a wounded goddess, having burnt most of her divinity up at the end of ESMP1, and had two different demonic entities (first Xornoth, then Something Wicked) attach themselves to her in order to leech off the divine vitality that a wounded harvest and fertility goddess bled. she hasn't entirely purged herself of their influence, and Xornoth's scarlet Corruption mixes with Something Wicked's dark-blue Sculk inside of her divine gardens alongside the more innocuous fields of wheat and sunflowers. honestly? she's not too fussed about it! she think they're just as pretty as the other plants and fungi, and honestly, it's fun getting to add things like vengeance and blood to her domains. sure, she also needs blood sacrifices now and gets the urge to kill people, but eh, fun's fun!

#asks #heavenly hermits au #xisumavoid #pearlescentmoon

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pinyatapix · 3 months ago

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i never played Concord nor had interest in it but i felt an insatiable drive to redesign all of its characters before the game shut down ever since i saw how absolutely dripless they were

anyways here’s my scuffed ass sketches of the gang. i was originally going to finish these all before the game’s shutdown but i was so stuck on Teo that it took 6 extra days rip me. also i cant draw guns. these are all first drafts so expect them to change a bit if i feel like drawing em again

more info on these designs below (warning i yap a lot)

Itzi (i am not calling her “It-Z” cuz it reads rly weird and i can imagine someone bri’ish calling her “It-Zed” it’s so dumb): Wanted to make her more of a goofy lil gremlin creature, like some combo between a jerboa chameleon and raptor, to make her more appealing and interesting, imagine being shot to death by this silly little scamp. Everyone loves Ivy Deadlock for her gremlin charm so maybe they’d love Itzi too if she had that as well. Her chest has a hole in it containing the weird ball she throws to teleport and shit, because a Concord critique by TBSkyen said that a character’s powers should appear on their physical design or whatever, also to show that she got mutated in a freaky space storm

Bazz: nothing about her reads as “agile deadly knife-throwing assassin”, especially with that annoying puffy bright red coat, she looks completely stupid running around doing backflips with that thing on! So i made it a more sharper mysterious black coat she wears like a cape to give her that sense of shadowy agility like a phantom thief, which she keeps all her carbon steel knives all neatly stored in. Gave her a slight diamond motif on the coat and the glasses because it felt elegant and sharp. Thought her hairstyle kinda fucked hard so i kept it but made it a bit more pointier and added a little stylish side swoop.

Lennox: i actually love this guy’s voice acting and the slightly manic goofy personality it had but his design did NOT fit the voice, so fuck it im making him even more of a lizard man than they were trying to do. His self-healing ability is him shedding a bit of skin after it took damage, and his “splodey knife” is probably a back scale spine he yoinks out of his back that can explode because it’s a biological property of his species for some reason. I do not know what clothes to give him

Lark: Discarded all semblance of a humanoid silhouette to make them even more of a weird mushroomy alien. I don’t really have much to say but i can easily see them slithering around like an octopus on land but faster. Their gun would look way more like some organic fungal creation

Haymar: not much changes here but i wanted to make her more mystic and “wizardy”. The “fireballs” she uses as her main ammo are now a floating bead necklace rotating around her neck (kinda like that zen robot from overwatch) and her clothes now have more of a slight flame motif, along with more of a mystic vibe. Got rid of those ugly ass mustard sneakers too of course

Daw: gave him more turtle motifs to match his “turtle-esque” gameplay style by giving him a protective hoodie and turning his “healing pad” pack into a bulky turtleshell backpack (he’s also wearing a turtleneck sweater shirt underneath the coat lol). His coat is somewhat translucent like shiny plastic cuz i thought it would look neat, tried to ditch the goofy-ass jumpsuit thing he had by giving him a belt to separate shirt and pants. Not too sure if i made him appear enough as a medic as that’s his main thing, the coat and gloves could probably help but idk, but i adjusted his personality presentation to be more easygoing and warmhearted with the closed-eyes so maybe that could give a healer energy.

Duchess: old ladies who know how to kick ass are rly cool. her whole thing’s making walls and constructs out of this golden gooey energy but nothing in her design tells you about that, so i decided to give her a cape/cloak made of that same golden essence so that it’s more apparent on what she can use it for, it also makes her appear more like royalty which was prolly what they were going for. Kept the haircut cuz that beehive thing was very goofy but it fits the vibe of everything else

Roka: she looked like a blowup sexdoll version of Master Chief which is… very cursed, and it tells nothing about her being able to fly around and stomp on people, so i made her bug themed! She’s like a cross between a wasp and dragonfly, the bulletproof wings are rocket-powered and can fully rotate the other direction to give her a forward boost of momentum to stomp people with her slightly more exaggerated boots, they also neatly fold away when she’s not flying. She’s rockin’ that tokusatsu hero look, it gives her a lot more energy to her personality.

Daveers: hated drawing them and i feel unsatisfied but i do like what ideas i had for them. Gave them more of a “sketchy mad scientist” vibe and personality with a shit-eating grin and all that, also tried to give them a “test tube contraption” thing going on by having their helmet be entirely glass and there being tubes and bottles all over their baggy jumpsuit full of poisons and chemicals. Gave them a spray-can backpack that stores all their toxic sludge tho im not too sure if it fits the rest of them or not… whatever. Tried giving them a chemical burn mark on one half of their face but it’s blending in with the hair rip

Jabali: he’s a healer whose powers come from “his own pulse”, but the weird pacemaker thing on his heart is the only way of knowing that so i made him waaaayyy more heart themed! His cool-ass hat’s got a blood cell design on it, his coat’s got a vein pattern, his shoulder pads look like aortas and arteries, i think his dreadlock ponytail could also match the aorta look. I seriously felt that vibe of the cool badass black guy with the glasses and coat and wide tippable hat needed to be enhanced even more, he had all the ingredients to be one stylish mfer but they weren’t mixed in properly, depressing.

Vale: i was racking my head on what to do with her because the only thing going on with her was “sniper” and “bionic legs”, but i decided to make her a “scrapper” like what they called Emari in that one short by turning that “burlap sack hobo” look she originally had into more of a defining feature as something recycled from a bunch of scrap she collected. Turned her “how do you do fellow kids” backwards hat into a slick bandana that has her sniper goggles attached to it, made her braids/dreadlocks into a cool ponytail befitting of a sniper though i wished i decorated them with more stuff other than the power plugs at some of their tips, like nuts and bolts acting as hair beads. Her bionic legs are also more heavily emphasized here, she’s like 70% leg like Byakuya Togami Danganronpa and that makes her a bit more taller than most, i can see her running around with them rly fast also they have large springs in them for extra jump (also they matched those spring like curly tips in her og hairstyle)

Emari: tried to make her bulky armor even more like it’s made of scrap like the “scrapper” she is, tho since i kinda suck at mechanical greebling she looks very cluttered and hard to read. I tried putting cute little stickers and graffiti on her armor to give her more of a fun-loving vibe despite her imposing build, felt like she’d decorate her armor for fun. Gave her helmet a visor to give her some cool toughness and added lil things on it reminiscent of bear ears cuz her silhouette needed a lil something. Problem i have with drawing her is that her silhouette ended up looking too similar to 1-0FF’s redesign, it really needs some fixing cuz it’s pretty damn rough.

Kyps: she could’ve served so much cunt but she didn’t, so i needed to change that. To match her invisibility powers as a spy i themed her off of chameleons and mirrors — i un-balded her for improved silhouette by giving her a hairstyle similar to a chameleon tail (tho it also looks like a glass Prince Rupert’s drop and mirrors are also glass), gave her “earrings” similar to mirror handles, made her coat a lot longer and have it slightly reminiscent of fractured or cut glass, give it a coattail like a chameleon tail, and tried giving faint patterns on the clothes and especially the tied that gives a sort of “shimmery” kinda vibe??? She’s reminding me a lot of Inteleon right now

1-0FF: actually my favorite out of the redesigns, he was so tricky to do but i think i got him pretty right. Wanted him to appear even more of a friendly recycling bot toughened up by constant battle, replaced that menacing eye of his with a friendly smile on a screen (that i took from an app icon from my ipad out of laziness lol) and gave him little symbols of recycling like little sprout iconography and a recycling symbol heart, though as contrast to all that i gave him scars and battle damage so you know he kicks ass. Still wanted to keep the trashcan look so his head kinda resembles those trashcans with the spinny rotating lids, tried my best to make the rest of the body also trashcanny. Turned that vacuum gun of his into a megaman-type arm gun because why did they make it a separate component that’s so stupid.

Starchild: turned him from a rip-off Guardians of the Galaxy character into something more like a rock monster guy since his main ability's called Diamond Skin and it does.... guess what. I put crystals on different parts of his body and I thought about the "hair" on his body being made of those weird fuzzy kinds of crystals (realized it was a missed opportunity to give him chest hair rip). Wanted to make his name "Star Child" a lot more literal by inspiring him off of a shooting star, which is why I gave him that plume of smoke for hair. Since he's a (former) proud tribal warrior guy I wanted his design to lean more heavily into that by giving him tattoos that are like geometric stone carvings??? and giving him clothes and jewelry that give a sort of non-existent tribal culture vibe, his clothes also have a sort of bismuth pattern to them.

Teo: okay this fucker was the reason why I did not finish this. His design was so unimaginably boring that it was very difficult to come up with a "twist" for him while still having him be the standard shooty guy. Days later I immediately thought "Space Dandy" and decided to make him be way more flamboyant with a pompadour as his main feature, befitting of the "goofy space adventure" vibe this game tried and failed to capture. In my head his backstory was that he was raised from birth to be a regular ass disposable space soldier, leaving the army much much later to pursue a quest for self-identity... the identity he chose for himself being that of an over-the-top galactic popstar. I imagine his "Smoke Bomb" ability being glittering colorful smoke instead, like a popstar entering the stage out of artificial smoke clouds.

okay I'm tired. i am cooler than playstation. goodbye

#pinyatart #character design #redesign #character redesign #concord #artists on tumblr

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avaisnerdytoo · 1 month ago

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In a perfect world, what would be your TRON 3 pitch?

It will be sooner rather than later when we get some kind of proper teaser for TR3N, and although we have some idea about what the movie will tackle, I am wildly nervous about it, I don't want to come in with the instant negative lens, but I am not feeling as excited about it under the current Disney approach.

Nevertheless, instead of indulging in negativity, I would adore to hear some pitches, if you wanna share or link or if Tronblr sees this haha, about what YOUR TRON 3 movie would look like and cover, whether it's a link to full on fanfic, or a pitch alongside what we know will happen in the movie.

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If you wanna read my ideal TRON 3, it would have these essentials, which will sound SUPER fan service, but just hear me out ight?

The Flynn Spark, the MacGuffin of Admin Privileges.

Ares, a program of the people LEARNS how to steps up.

Beck Lives, Argon doesn't.

Paige learns how to truly redeem herself.

A new trinity is formed (Ares, Paige, Beck) to supersede the last one (Flynn, Clu and Tron).

Full pitch as a read more, chapters go as follows:

The Grid's New Ruler?

Admin Privileges

The Renegade

The Race for Power

The Game of Flynn

The New Grid

THE GRID'S NEW RULER?

Something that I always found unique about The Grid is its insistence on a ruler of some kind, the original system had a master control program, the second had Flynn and then Clu 2.0.

Which then means that by the end of legacy, this is THE FIRST real time without a ruler within the Grid. It seems to me the goal for the actual TR3N movie is indeed to fill in that new blank spot, I don't mind if we get another monarch like ruler, nor would I mind if we had a democratic system haha, however what I do NEED out of that 3rd movie is a ruler which EARNS their seat.

Not by destiny, not by stumbling onto the role, but by knowing the responsibility it would require and to build from there.

Like Duke Leto Atreides would say: "A great man doesn't seek to lead, he's called to it and he answers".

ADMIN PRIVILEGES:

MY PITCH has the following MacGuffin: "The Flynn Spark", –or however you wanna call it– it is the literal admin privileges of the Grid, left behind after Legacy. Whoever touches it, and merges with it will get Flynn's control over the Grid, and a program, for the first time ever, will be the successor.

I am okay if Ares is said program, I have no ... clue... how he will behave, but for my pitch's sake, he pretty much has to be a man of the people, beloved in his region of origin, but naive about the true scale of systematic issues, which he needs to learn about as he travels across the Grid, meeting programs and understanding who willingly supported Clu, who didn't, and the in betweens. (I don't like when systematic issues are approached under the lens of individualism, or of single solutions, Ares is meant to learn that).

As expected, the whole of The Grid is a messy chaos, with no ruler, programs are scared and unsure who they can trust, because Ares has always been such a trustworthy program, people naturally reach out to him, in a similar way programs did to Abel in Uprising.

Whatever town he is from, like all others, is raided, chaotic, dangerous and divided.

THE RENEGADE:

The protector of the Uprising, now known as TRON, but once known as the Renegade, is working overtime.

You see, in my pitch, the true end of Uprising will have Argon destroyed, literally wiped from the code of the Grid after so much damage to the city, few have survived, even less where shown mercy (you can imagine how Bartik got to where he did for example), despite that, Beck kept fighting, after the captured TRON turned Rinzler, he has carried the torch since, improved his skills and brought former enemies to his cause, such as Paige. (Having Paige die as a chip on Beck's shoulder could be an easy escape goat, but I feel she's far too skilled for that, losing a whole city is punishing enough, whether it includes Mara and Zed is irrelevant to the pitch).

I always loved that in Legacy, Flynn surfaces the idea that if him and Sam wait long enough, Clu might be brought down from the inside, to me this has always meant that although we see a Grid seemingly perfectly ruled by Clu, this was always a facade, he very much is THE RULER, but not as absolute as we think, hence why he so desperately needed access to more power through Sam, through the world beyond.

Many, if not all in the grid know that the Renegade isn't actually TRON, maybe they know he's Beck, maybe they don't, but he is the only real contender to uphold order, and he is called into the role of the newest ruler, but without even the little administrative power Clu had, this is instantly not working.

Beck, only manages to become the de-facto ruler of a particular area of the Grid, wherever he had his base of operations, he would summon Ares to consult on the needs of the Grid, and together form a bond to improve their region.

THE RACE FOR POWER:

As time passes the now district based Grid ponders if there is a way to achieve power from what remained of Flynn (it could also be a vision to someone, or a message left behind by the last bit of Flynn, but I like to think that programs would be smart enough to deduce, that someone should be the literal admin in a system).

And as rumors fly, and programs who try to cross the Sea Of Simulation fail to come back, more people agree that whoever does cross CAN restore order to the Grid in whichever way they see fit.

This would mean different factions of all the districts would be in a race against each other, a race to engineer a vehicle capable of getting there, or to derezz the competition so no one can reach it (different factions can have different ideologies), etc, etc.

The best aspect of the additonal TRON Media, like the comics or the show, is its ability to expand the cultures of the Grid, I would want a full showcase of these, of the ones who would work together, and the ones that wouldn't.

THE GAME OF FLYNN:

However it has to be, we have our 3 figures in Paige, Beck and Ares, who race the other district representatives, once their vehicle is built, they ride or fly to the remains of the projector, but in the ever gaming spirit of Flynn, the region has become a literal trial by fire, that has stages in a game like format, to see who can survive reaching the Spark, this was Flynn's last action before dying, protecting what he held dear, Sam and Quorra first of course, but then his people, he basically had to have faith the Grid would survive without him, this is also why other programs who dared to try and cross the sea never came back.

How those stages look or what they represent I have no idea, but the logical thing is that it's both a physical test as well as a psychological one, because this is a pitch I don't know the intricacies of the mental journey's they would all face, but the notion is it would be written well to demand good character arcs and what not.

This would also be where we meet the original TRON once more... Or it could be... Admittedly this is the weakest part of my pitch, as I am unsure how to bring TRON back, honestly I can also imagine a pitch where the first thing Beck did was go and find TRON, but because I want this to be the next phase of the Grid, I honestly want TRON to rest, and live a life that is his, not just under his programming.

But the ever loyal soldier, is also the final stage of the game, not one to beat by fists, but one to win over with their heart.

THE NEW GRID:

Of course however, Tron would instantly clock in Beck and basically let him pass freely, but part of the journey they have gone through would be to understand that Beck is a protector, not a ruler.

Does this mean that then Ares should rule? I still think not, but I think he would earn the Flynn spark nonetheless, but flip the expectations of that head role.

I think of all 3 of my leads, Paige is best fit for the job of a ruler, if I had to understand their roles best, I'd compare it to the original trinity:

Flynn was a creator, and a dreamer. For me, that could be Ares, hence why he was naive at first, but through his journey why he would become a better inventor. A good engineer needs guidance however, and the levelheadedness of Paige, her intelligence, responsibility and essential care for others would make her best to politically lead a society, and to flip the lost cycles of serving under Clu, she would inform Ares of what the Grid needs in a way he couldn't see alone. And Beck, forever the shoulder to rest on, he had found his path a long time ago, but he is finally relieved of the pressure not to be something he is not, but to exceed in what he has always been, a guiding light, a protector, a moral compass, and a leader.

I am sure some fighting would occur anyways, but frankly a stronger Beck and an ever badass Paige would probably win...

This leaves TRON free for once, free to find connection, to find love or whatever he wants... He would still advice from time to time, but I think that's what he deserves after so many years of service.

BUT THAT'S WHY IT'S A PITCH HEHEHEH, not everything is best, and it assumes that upon script conversion the very evident flaws or lack of substance would be better yk?

I dunno, literally just an idea, clearly SUPER heavy on Uprising lore because I love it, but finding ways to assume the presence of Yori, Ram, elements of Identity, etc. I honestly prefer a TR3N that by now just focuses on the Grid, even if the movie will clearly not do that fully hshsh.

#ava speaks on tron #tron #tron legacy #tron 3 #tronblr #tron beck #tron paige

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cattimeswithjellie · 7 months ago

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Liveblogging Scar Stream 6/8/24, Part III

1:15:00 The witch is in place. It continues poisoning Scar. Scar polls the chat about taking it out of the minecart, but reaches no consensus.

1:16:50 A wild Zedaph appears (signs on)! Scar comments he is almost never online with Zed because their timezones are so different. Same with Joel. Scar begins to compliment the Imagineers at Toyko Disney Springs. He likes very many things about Tokyo Disney. While he talks, he disassembles the witch track. He also likes the themed Disney food, and Disney food in general.

1:23:30 Scar attempts to remove the witch from the minecart. It poisons him again. He accidentally hits it with a shovel. A chatter suggests invisibility potion, but Scar is skeptical. The witch kills him. He respawns in the train engine.

1:25:20 Scar returns to the villain car and collects his bits. He drops a bow, which concerns the chat, but it is not the HotGuy bow. Scar teases the coming TCG set and says the art is going to be very cool. He checks to see if a shield blocks potions. The witch poisons him again.

1:27:40 Scar successfully frees the with from the minecart. It poisons him again. He flies away and scolds the witch from a safe distance for throwing potions on Frank.

1:29:30 Chat demands lava for Frank. Scar says Frank will get lava. Scar takes the chat to his creative world and warns of spoilers ahead. He shows chat several potential designs for villain cars, but the one he wants isn’t there. He is confused. Chat suggests that maybe the other tower was the friends we made along the way. Scar shows off some of the train designs he used while preparing to build the zoo train, including trains he build in Scarland, Empires, Season 7, etc. The original engine design for the circus train was much more compact and cartoony. There are at least 20 trains and partial trains floating in this area.

1:33:45 Scar says that this test world is extremely old. He flies over to an area where he learned how to make beds and pieces of furniture back in 2011 or 2012. He shows us what he believes may be the first-ever Minecraft toilet. He gives chat a tour of some kitchen and living room designs from 2012 and the introduction of terracotta. He shows chat the first “realistic” house he tried to build. It is perfectly fine, but he does not like it now. He counsels chat that everything takes time, practice and commitment. He flies past a boat he hates and commands chat not to look at it. He shows mockups of the courthouse from Season 4, planes from Season 7, and HotGuy HQ from Season 9. Many recognizable builds from various seasons are visible. Scar tells chat that you need to fail and fail and fail before you ever get where you want to go.

1:38:45 Scar tries to find a particular build and cannot, detours to show his experiments with ghostly glass from Season 6. He shows a mockup of his Season 5 roads from Scar City. He shows the prototype of a never-enacted prank on False involving “Jelliefish.” He shows some redstone experiments from back in the day, including a scrapped enchanter from the first Scarland survival world.

1:42:00 A chatter suggests Scar make the creative world available as a world download. Scar says he wishes there was more in it, that he often uses a HC world download these days. He shows off a Kingdomcraft build he designed while he was in the hospital but could not complete because the series ended.

1:45:20 Scar shows off many prototype Swaggons and describes trying to figure out the scale of the very large wagons. He encourages the chat to persevere through times when everything seems ugly and wrong, because things will eventually start to click.

1:47:10 Scar shows off a half-built structure he liked and never built. He shows off two building prototypes for the Pirate Cove. A chatter asks about world edit, and Scar shows how he uses World Edit to copy and paste in process builds so he can make alterations to builds he likes without risking ruining the structure in the process. He talks about how working with Bdubs has made him more willing to take extreme design risks and see what happens, and World Edit helps him do that.

1:51:45 Scar says most World Edit tools don’t make sense to his creative brain so he doesn’t use brush tools or things like that. Being in creative, chilling, building and having fun are one of his favorite things to do. He shows off gradient tests from when tuff and dripstone were new. He says he practices shapes and color patterns in creative so he can do them quicker and better in his survival worlds.

1:55:00 Scar shows off a set of color and gradient tests from the beginning of the nether update. He interrupts a trio of villagers talking, one of whom is wearing a dragon head. He finds a redstone device but cannot figure out what it was supposed to do. He gets very excited when he finds “something very interesting,” the original color layout for his magical crystals. Red crystals were supposed to be health before he turned it into a rage crystal for Tango. He says the saddest thing about Season 7 was that he wanted to take the crystal thing way further, but is happy that he was able to use the idea again in Last Life. He shows off the prototypes of his bell prank on Grian from Season 8. He finds several more ambiguous redstone pieces.

1:59:40 Scar shows off several more prototypes from early season builds. He is charmed by finding an alligator he does not remember building. He pop quizzes chat on one prototype, chat correctly guesses “haunted mansion.” He finds his mockup of the “modern fishing cabin” from 2014 and is very excited about it. He shows off mockups of ‘digital trees’ from Mumbo’s Season 6 landscaping.

2:04:00 Scar returns to Hermitcraft. He asks chat if they liked the visit to the test world, chat is enthusiastic. Scar says that sometime he will do a tour of Scarland, the survival world he built before joining any SMPs. He returns to contemplating the villain car and wants to get an evoker and/or a ravager. He is also going to build some farms under the train. He says he’s still going to build a roller-coaster in Magic Mountain even though now it’s destined for volcano-hood, and also that he’s going to add some villagers. He envisions a train barn design that houses either a super smelter or a villager trading hall.

2:08:00 Scar explains that he wants all his cars to have functions, but he is not sure of a function for the aquarium car. He solicits ideas from the chat. A chatter asks about the recording studio and Scar tells them to go watch the most recent video. A chatter suggests putting a dolphin in the aquarium car. Scar says that’s probably a bad idea. He says he may flood a portion of the land near the train to remove unused land, then terraform a new shoreline.

2:11:40 Scar returns to studio view and draws the stream to a close. He says his next step is to trigger a raid to get the ravager and evoker, and contemplates getting help from Doc, so long as Doc has his mini pizzas first this time. He admits that he’s going to need to go get new headphones and is sad about it. One headphone cup appears to be actively trying to escape his head. Scar raids into Ren and ends his stream.

#hermitcraft #goodtimeswithscar #stream liveblogging #i don't know if anybody even cares that I did this or if it is helpful #but so much has been happening on stream lately that I feel like it might be nice to have some records #idk what do you all think?

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amethystfairy1 · 9 months ago

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ASPEC CUUUUBBBBBB YEEAAAAHHHHHHHHHH

*ahem*

So most of my Katherine questions got answered in the newest chapter, and this one probably will in the next chapter but it is LATE and I am EXCITED so

How exactly does Katherine get through the glamour locks? Did Shelby manage to enchant something for her to open them or does she need to bring a glamour-capable friend?

On a scale of “no problems whatsoever” to “had to replace a bunch of doors at home/work so I could actually open them”, how much does not having glamour affect Katherine in the undercity? Does she get locked out of places? Do some people think it’s strange that her eyes never spark? What would happen if she got into a tight spot without glamour defenses, does she carry a weapon?

Can’t wait to see the boys finally meet in person! Zed’s gonna think Tango’s the coolest guy ever (he has *fire hair!*) and Tango’s gonna combust for real when that happens

I know everyone says it, but thank you for sharing your writing and giving us all Zedango fever! This series is cool as hell and so are you!!

I'm so glad you love ASPEC Cub!!! 👏

Ooooo Katherine questions!!!

That's a great question! Yeah, this is gonna come up later, but Katherine does actually have some trouble with being unable to use glamor in the under-city! Luckily for her she tends to travel through pretty busy areas during rush times, and the places she in particular goes don't tend to have a ton of glamor locks she needs to get through. But she most certainly has gotten locked out of places! The school she works at in the mid-levels is one example, she's had to bang on Bdubs classroom window for him to let her in after stepping out for a late lunch break before 😆

She doesn't receive too much suspicion from being a human! Considering the under-city has been open to travel between bedrock for as long as anyone can remember, it's nothing new for humans to live full-time down there. They're in the minority, sure, so people might be like 'oh would you look at that, a human!' but that's about as far as it goes.

She carries potion of harming in a spray bottle! One in her pocket, and one in her purse! It's basically mace. Glamor infused mace 👏

I'm so glad you're enjoying the Zedango fever!!! My plan to drag everyone into loving this ship with me is SUCCEEDING!

#fanfic #ao3 fanfic #through the sky blue cracks #worldbuilding #Katherine Elizabeth #Zedaph #Tangotek #Zedango

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