God My Life Sucks So Bad I Need To [remembers Suicide Jokes Are Detrimental To One's Mental Health] Tear

Visual development by Dan Cooper for Treasure Planet (2002)

I got back to playing rain world lately, I love exploding cats and women's wrongs A bit of an exploration of Arti's shapes in my style

damn

watcher campaign bad ending

@/scughive's Will Wood album cover inspired Enot made me really hyped for more horror-esque interpretations of this guy..... So I drew her and the other uncanny anomaly scug

together in every design version of mine

Hello it is I, the Popcorn enjoyer anon, no longer anon because like.. I'm not really hiding anything and I have no reason to be anxious on tumblr of all places. I've got a question about the wholeness of Dancing. Since she doesn't splinter off into multiple timelines and is a Whole Being, what happens if she dies from something? Would she still get the information from the future she technically hadn't lived through yet?

Hello there #1 Popcorn fan!!! No need to hide we all chill here

[Small spoiler warning to the Watcher DLC? AU sillytalk based on in-game mechanics, NOT canon lore]

What I was thinking is that instead of all of Dancing's memories traveling through time, time literally fully rewinds in the case of her dying. For normal creatures, dying would go like this, for reference:

Both of those realities and timelines exist, it depends who's perspective we're watching them through right now. That's why Ringing's children are dead - we are watching the one branch where that was the case from her perspective.

I imagined Dancing to be kind of a "representant" or "ambassador of the world" itself, she's somewhat of a higher point of reference, a guardian of said spacetime (which she'd become during the equivalent of her in-game plotline in RoF) working alongside it. Spacetime which she doesn't really want to meddle with if it's not needed and there isn't anything endangering the Cycle (put a pin in that :-) ).

Time would also probably rewind to the last time she slept, for the sake of consistency with the hibernation respawn mechanic and the whole "sleep is like a demo version of death" type of deal.

So any realities that managed to branch off during that period of time (a short one as well, a Slugcat can't go long without some rest once in a while) would also be erased and turned back to the time of Dancing's last nap she took somewhere in time, somewhere in space, but with no memories being sent back in time, rather seamlessly. Events in all those realities would also go how they did the first time, unless Dancing was one involved with them and chose to do something differently this time. But that's something she doesn't really want to do (get it? She's the Watcher. The one who watches [absolute cinema]).

Reminder that this AU has a discord server for anyone interested in similar rambles, added here so it doesn't get lost under the cut ->(CLICK)

[FIRST DLC ENDING SPOILERS BELOW - Bonus doodle and additional Dancing lore]

Bonus doodle for that train of thought, because after all her fun adventures with the mischevious Echo child, she found a place to call home in Ancient Urban, where there's not much to worry about in the department of "things that could kill me". Honestly after years of wandering dozens of dimensions - she deserves that break.

Day 20 + 21 - chieftan mask + karma 4

gluttony, overindulgence

Heeeey, for no particular reason I was curious about cycle length in your AU [in relation to March], since apparently in downpour, something like 25000+ cycles went by between SRS sending the golden pearl and then sending Spearmaster again to check up on Pebsi. And like.. regardless of the length of a cycle, 25000 is a LOT, and I saw a post [that I naturally can't find right now] about how because Spears is the one who delivered the golden pearl and obviously is the one you play as in the campaign, that means Spearmaster is.. REALLY old. Got any thoughts on that idea?

Oh man I didn't even catch that canon Spearmaster would be this old.......

Overall, a really average cycle in RoF would be equal to a week;

I felt like that made the Slugcats' nomadic lifestyle a bit more interesting, relaxed and easier to tackle without rain coming to kill them at the end of each day.

Rain World's timeline is really wack for me because of some events being thousands of cycles apart from each other, while some of them (like Hunter's playthrough) last only a few (in RoF, she managed to live a LOT longer than a few weeks, keeping the 19 as is in game would be terrible). I'm pretty loose when it comes to RoF's timeline as well because of that.

The exact number of years between certian events are noted down for my eyes only to not make a character vacant for like. 20 years for whatever reason and have them do something in the background while someone else is in the spotlght, so I don't really share those notes around

When it comes to March - for this AU, they're specifically made for the Golden Pearl's delivery and go back with the Dark Red one no more than around 3-5 years as well. I imagine that purposed-organism Slugcats somehow spawn in as adults already, so funnily enough Spears and Hunter, despite being fully-grown, would be absurdly young if counting their years spent on earth since their creation. As much as a vision of an Iterator babysitting and training a baby Slugcat would be super wholesome, I didn't go that route.

siblings

You guys need to know. those are my first slugcat desgins/doodles I have ever made (from like?? a year ago?). I need to archive them

I am fully aware that Rivulet looks like his bootleg toy on the last one

And a more advanced line-up. but. What even is this Enot

I am super happy with what they are now and how much they grew on me though... sobs