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
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]).
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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.
I was reading through the info about your RoF scugs and I've learned about Popcorn, please show us a typical Shine and Popcorn interaction please!
Popcorn is quite a sweetheart, but looks a bit scary. They'd love naps and playing fetch
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I honestly expected like. 4 votes on the RoF discord server poll. not almost 30
I currently archived all drawings, made short character descriptions, have a worldbuilding masterdoc in progress and most importantly:
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smthng smthng like father like son *
*minus the fact that Gourmand eats lizards instead of befriending them
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Finished all "references" for the anthro Scugs/Rhythm of Falls AU since it has a name now. Also - they come with a full list of names and pronouns because I got attached to my headcanons. You can find all content related to the AU under #rwrof au tag.
Taking on the common approach of pinching the timeline so they all can meet and interact with each other during their lifetimes, moreover - some of the scugs get familiar bonds that weren't in game (guess who based on my shipping preferences and design traits)(hard /j)
I plan to post a family tree soon enough + I have *some* ideas floating around in my head about them all and possible canon timeline for this AU but it's still very unstable and rough. If you have any questions/drawing requests for those guys, feel free to send them my way! It'd be super cool to dwell on this AU more and would serve as a huge motivation kick.
I always somehow imagined anthropomorphized Rivulet as a very gnc guy and it stuck to me + the moustache is one of my favourite design decisions from the whole lineup.
Couldn't bring myself to separate Upturned and Fallen so now we're going in groups of threes
Also, just noticed that Enot's/Upturned's full name got messed up in the process (fitting) - the full is "Crack of Shells, Nine Colors Upturned"!
Monk/Shine is still the younger sibling, but this time - not the smaller one! I really wanted to imagine him as a "gentle giant" sort of deal.
+ he matches with his sibling when it comes to the zebra pattern sleeve.
Death Stranding maybe? Has a lot of lore paralels with Rain world. First of all the post apocalyptic worlds and the deadly rain (though the rain is dangerous in different ways but it could work I think)
And also the lingering spirits of people who couldn't cross over into the afterlife (echoes and BTs respectively).
The plot of Death Stranding could also probably be altered slightly, and would fit with Rain World basically perfectly. Maybe with a slugcat being tasked to connect iterators to a communication network? Maybe Rubicon could be the parallel of the beach? Or maybe the depths idk. just makes me think of Sam as a slugcat lol. I might actually draw this now.
Anyway that was just my ramblings because I've been playing Death Stranding recently, and the plot is so batshit insane and I cannot stop thinking about it.
Wonder what other medias that can totally crossover rain world with, be it lore paralels or just cool for them to be in that setting
idk man ur looking kinda microbes in the processing strata to me