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GUYYYYYYSSSS!!! IT'S MIKU DAY! MIKU DAY GUYS!! Everyone tell me something you love about Miku! I'll go first :3

I love that Miku helps inspire so many artists to create and experiment in all sorts of mediums!! Her voice and design is so iconic that people everywhere can make something magical with it! :D

Shout-out to uhhhh freakin' Vector from Despicable Me for reminding me of Physics stuff I need to know lol

Guys

Guys, do ya feel it?

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HALLOWEEN IS ON THE WAY, BABYYYY!!!

That's right!! Time to eat things with pumpkin flavoring, look at trees with pretty colors, and watch Over the Garden Wall and spooky films!!!

But it's mostly about watching Over the Garden Wall and planning your costume a month in advance lol. I'm gonna be Red Guy DHMIS btw! I have the yarn and he is within my Grasp-

You should share your silly little guy lore :D

KYAHAHAHA!!! You've fallen into my trap! Now y'all MUST listen to a patented Ink Ramble^TM once again!

Okay, okay, so!! Since the lore for this lad is relatively new and I still don't know everything about DSAF, there might be some things missing, but I'm gonna try my best!

They're a Spirit who's inhabited the Flipside for as long as it can remember, drifting between the different layers and watching life in the Real World go by! They exist throughout all the different timelines and endings (through temporal soul shenanigans that I will explain later), and can do that thing that Dave does with being able to see through Davetrap's eyes into the living plane, but in a way that's more like astral-projecting themself into a Fazbender's location to interact with other characters!

It acts much like your standard poltergeist, causing mischief and being spooky, but she's actually not inherently malicious. His behavior is moreso spurred on by boredom and lacking true purpose until someone starts causing problems for the restaurant. When this happens, they'll leave the Flipside and make a point to annoy whoever is causing havoc into having morals!

They're also a bit like Jack and Blackjack in the sense that they're "a soul separated from a body," but, the thing is, it never had a human form in the first place. Its ultimate goal is to get a human body to possess and "become a whole person!" However, when he's tried to find bodies in the past, none of them have quite stuck. There's always some force keeping her from staying in any one form for too long, like a repellent that's meant to get rid of pests. Or maybe there's just some tie that can't be severed between a body and a soul that was unfairly ripped away, such as with Fazbender victims...

Anyways, moving away from that sad stuff, onto the aforementioned temporal soul shenanigans! I'm taking a few liberties with this, cuz although we learn a good amount about the nature of souls from Henry's tapes, anomalies certainly can exist, with my lad being a prime example of such! They're not a clear soul of a child anymore, but I'd like to think that they started out as just a little, goopy thing floating around the Flipside, with no one to talk to or acknowledge their existence. Over time, they grew more saturated, yet not as dark as the souls that come from an adult's regret/deeper emotional palette. It does experience strong feelings, though, and has a portion of itself that came from the regret of witnessing the atrocities committed in various locations, but not being able to do anything about it. Without a body to act with and a weak grip on reality most of the time, it couldn't do much else but watch, y'know?

The main thing that causes them to travel through time and space, however, is the fluctuations in control it experiences with the large amount of energy it has in the culmination of its being. Confused yet?? Me too! Lol. Ahem, what I mean is that their soul has a large amount of energy contained in an unstable vessel. They obviously have no physical body to contain the power that they have, which I believe correlates to one's manifestation in the Flipside. I say this because we see characters like Peter and Steven who are still phone-heads in the Flipside despite being humans initially. It's an "if, then" statement imo. "If I was a phone-head in the real world, then I am a phone-head in the Flipside." Since the first part of this type of statement doesn't exist for my lad, they don't have anything to base their looks or strength/stamina off of. This fluidity of stability then causes temporal dissonance to occur, because, like Henry describes in his tapes, if a soul has enough strength (or strength in a given moment), it'll be able to move through time and space! Through this random movement which they can't control at first, they get pushed to different timelines and endings!!

Their behavior can change with each ending, too! I'm gonna use DSAF 3 as an outline to what they might do, mostly cuz there's more content to work with lol. Here are some exaples of how they may change!

•If the player proceeds with the Evil/Legacy Route, the Spirit becomes restless and upset, which leads to it appearing sometime after Dave's death and berating the player so that "YOU NEVER KNOW PEACE" after becoming a vessel for Henry. However, if a few other criteria (that I haven't figured out yet ^-^") are met, the Spirit will be sent on a journey of self-doubt and discovery that's prompted by the question: "Where did I, as a being that was never meant to exist, yet created by someone/something regardless, come from?" This causes it to learn about the Joy of Creation, leading to a line of reasoning that the monster person responsible for orchestrating all the tragedy across numerous locations must be their inventor, because this tragedy is all they've ever known. [I'm still working out the exact logic of this timeline, but I hope I got the general idea across!]

"SINCE I AM A CReated being and HENRY is a Creator, he must be my Origin..."

•When the player gets the neutral end, the Spirit is mostly just...disappointed. Sure, the player ran a successful restaurant and saved the modern image of Fazbender's, but that's nothing compared to helping free souls and defeating a great evil! They might encourage the player to chose a different path in order for something better to happen, but if the player doesn't listen to him, she'll either watch from the sidelines with a miserable attitude, or become a problem for the restaurant in order to spark a change of heart.

"YOU HAVE AMOUNTED TO NOTHING. how can you be proud? none have achieved their happiest day. it's all MEANINGLESS."

•For the Good End, the Spirit commends the player on their work to save everybody's souls and get closure! Yay! (Honestly, I still have to think about this route some more, but I do have an idea of how it all gets resolved.) At the very end, I can see the Spirit being content with everything going up in flames, even grateful that a few more people were released from suffering despite the fact that it can't follow them. However, this state of calm probably wouldn't last long, and they'd be shoved through time yet again so as to keep existing as they are instead of fading away like everything else.

"i cannot ASCEND with you all. I WILL WATCH AS IT BURNS AND SIMPLY REMAIN AS I HAVE ALWAYS BEEN. THOUgh...PeRhaps I was too harsh with some of you. Thank you. For all that you have done."

And that's nearly everything about this lad that I have so far! I hope y'all like my silly lil guy!!

tadc episode 4

IT COMETH SOOOOOON!!! In my timezone at least lol. I can't wait!! Yippeeeeee! :D

Thanks for reminding me, dear Anon! I almost forgor about it because I've been so busy! But now I can rotate it around in my brain and yap about it to my pals!

So I was betta fish beta-ing a design for an EPIC-flavored Poseidon, then I decided to do some rendering! I don't draw not-cartoony very often lol, nor do I draw Guys With Musculature^TM- XD

But yeah! He has design elements based off of various sea beasts that I like, such as shark teeth and blue-ringed octopus pattern/eyes! He's also inspired by the various lovely designs and interpretations I've seen on this site, particularly @/neal-illustrator's!

I need to do a full-body version of him sometime with more details, but this is a start! I hope y'all like him! :3

*Edit: I forgor to say that his hair is supposed to be like water! But I don't know how to render that! So I did my best! X"V

Hiiiiii, I actually have a not-so-old image of a funny character I have that I doodled in math the other day!

Her name is Sumu and she can turn into mist/fog and also talk to and control it :P

hi! this may be an insane thing to say to a stranger, so please bear with me. i saw a post of yours in my recommended (specifically the one in which you celebrate both tadc episode 3 and "above and beyond" by r.i.producer being released) and the way that you show joy is just so uplifting to me. your happiness made me happier. i got some very bad news this morning but seeing your posts and your blog made me smile anyway. thank you for existing.

Howdy! You're totally fine; don't apologize, kind Stanger!

I'm glad that my silly shenanigans can uplift ya!! That's all I really wanna do here, honestly. If I can make someone smile by being Genuinely Me and sharing my goofy, Inky Thoughts, then I've done something good :]

I'm so sorry about the bad news you received, though. Stuff like that can really wreck you, and sometimes it's like the world is caving in. I might not have the best advice for whatever it is you're going through, but as someone who's faced a few hardships in life, just know that you're not alone. Do what you can to create a support system of people who care for you, and keep in mind to take things at your own pace! Day by day, you'll find that it doesn't necessarily get easier, but that you've gained strength during the ordeal to better handle and process how you feel.

Thank YOU for expressing yourself and saying something kind! That's hard for a lot of people to do, and being vulnerable with your feelings shows a lotta courage! I applaud you, Dear Anon!! Have a lovely day!

Hey what if I asked you the worst question ever?

Favorite song in all of Epic? You can only choose one!!

:3

*Odysseus when the wind bag gets opened voice* NOOOOOOOOO!!! D:

THIS IS THE MOST ILLEGAL QUESTION TO ASK! I'm coming for your knees Anon, especially if you're a moot- /j

I have so many faves and so much enjoyment in my heart for all of them!! Gah!

My knee-jerk response is probably "Ruthlessness"...I am making a cover of it, after all, and no matter how many times I listen to it, I don't get sick of it! Ocean Saga my beloved <3

But I also LOOOOVE the entirety of the Underworld Saga lol. "Monster" is what made me aware of EPIC in the first place (big big thanks to my dear friend OJ for sharing the song for writing vibes!), but tbh "No Longer You" takes the cake for Dramatic flavor alone! Wahhhhh, I really can't choose-!!

FINAL ANSWER (as of now): Ruthlessness!

You decided to ask me, aka The Most Indecisive Person On The Planet^TM, to pick favorites from a media that I am chewing on like a feral dog, so this is what you get lol.