I Thought What If MMZ In MN9 And Then It Snowballed Into This. I Like How His Design Came Out But Don't

I fully intended to just do the colors but I had too much fun shading the twinks

Omg Kirby and Carol would be such a blessing, they'd absolutely help the turtles. Hueso and Draxum would absolutely want to help as well, maybe even Big Mama and the Mud Dogs too. Carol might end up creating a group chat for all the adults the boys reformed.

Mutant Mashup thingy

(This has been sitting in my drafts for months rip-)

Since all the turtles and even the Splinters and Aprils grew up in a very different environment, they would obviously act a little different. So here’s my ideas on how.

Mutant Mashup AU by me and @sillyandquest

Oldest to youngest (as said here) DaVinci -> Red -> Sanzio -> Niccolo -> Purple -> Blue -> Simoni -> Orange

Both DaVinci and Red were the protectors. However, DaVinci was more offensive and Red as was more defensive. This was because Red had to worry about accidentally hurting people due to his strength and was pretty intimidating as is, but DaVinci didn’t. So DaVinci is slightly more trigger happy and Red looks for more peaceful situations. It’s not a major change, but if they meet their canon counterparts they’d quickly release the differences. This ties into Red’s mystic abilities too, as his holograms are more shield focused then in canon. Niccolo and Orange and holding their entire families together. As said here, Niccolo would help calm his siblings and cousins down when the Splinters fought, and Orange already had a complex about this in canon. Neither of them would be able to do this on their own (with how big their family is now) so they work together to keep everyone happy (even if they aren’t).

I’ve noticed the 2012 boys are big on teasing each other while the Rise boys are a lot softer to each other (minus Blue and Purple). So I’d imagine in this dynamic they’d both be in the middle ground of their canon dynamics. The Rise boys tease each other a lot more but are still softer then canon 2012, but the 2012 are softer to each other but still tease each other more then canon Rise.

Blue and Simoni and “the face team.” Which mean Blue taught Simoni some manipulation tactics. Simoni still gets tricked by 2012 Chris Bradford, but that was because he was star-struck. He’s actually a lot better at people then in canon. Also, Blue is a lot more insecure about himself because he doesn’t have his “face man” thing to himself and feels he has even less worth :(

Sanzio is slightly better at controlling his anger because Red is teaching him some things, though he’s still angry all the time. Also, he’s a little bit nicer to his little bros because they released that there’s 5 of them and one of him.

Purple also has more self worth issues then in canon because in there, he based his identity off being “the tech guy.” But here, there’s someone else that can do tech. Also, he usually gets put in the “safer” places during missions because Yoshi was overprotective of him because of his soft-shell, and all the 2012 boys (and even the Rise fam to an extent) followed. I could imagine an episode plot where he snapped and goes off to do something really dangerous to prove himself. Maybe going with the other brothers who get babied (Simoni and Orange)

Orange canonically does ballet (see the lair games ep) so I feel like I’m this AU Sanzio would be the kind of sibling/cousin-who’s-basically-a-sibling who would absolutely pummel anyone who bullies his siblings. Also I can see Orange and Simoni both doing ballet so when Simoni starts using his strings he moves around on them in a sort of “dance-y” way.

Since Lou let them sneak off to the surface before Yoshi was ready to let them go, I’d imagine DaVinci has an absolutely unreal amount of “Space Heroes” merch.

Since Simoni can be repelled by Poka, I can imagine Purple has an entire library of “Music genres my siblings/cousins-who-are-basically-siblings don’t like.” The labs were filled with Poka after Simoni activated his mystic powers

A friend of mine recommended that I practice backgrounds and I decided to try it out with a doodle from the last player 2 au post.

Not used to it at alllll. Still though, I think it came out alright.

I think it's really weird to see Pomni smile like that, but I guess this isn't the jester we know is she?

(Opposite Pomni belongs to campbell_soup70 on insta)

Took a short break from Megaman to draw a character I always loved the look of.

Her name was Silhou the Wildcat and from what I understand, she was the prototype for Blaze the cat, who debuted in Sonic Rush. Blaze's backstory in that game was that she's a princess of a kingdom called Solenea and she guards the Sol Emeralds.

Blaze is also, apparently, an alternate version of Sonic himself? I guess that explains why Silhou looks the way she does, and I really like it. I think she looks so colorful and pretty. Personality wise, I think Silhou was meant to be much like Sonic. Carefree, cool, adventurous, but also being reckless, impatient, and overconfident. I headcanon that much like Blaze, Silhou also has fire powers though they're far more dangerous than Blaze's since they're so wild and burn hotter.

Going off on a tangent here, it's likely because of her destructive power and untamed spirit that she was exiled from the kingdom. Her family probably didn't appreciate her casual nature and wanted her to act the part of a princess which felt suffocating to someone like Silhou. Even if she wasn't exiled, she probably left of her own accord since what was expected of her didn't align with what she wanted out of life. Plus, her powers are very dangerous and like Sonic, Silhou cares deeply for the people around her. She probably left both because she wanted to see the world but also to protect the kingdom from getting swallowed up in her flames. Either way, the result is the same. Silhou is not a part of Blaze's life growing up and left almost nothing aside from old pictures for her family to remember her by. Blaze won't know who she is, but Silhou is smart enough to connect the dots should they ever meet.

Along with Silhou, I also know of another prototype for Blaze that most fans know already.

ProtoBlaze! She doesn't have an official name other than the ones fans give her and her story is nonexistent since I believe she was made early into Blaze's design process. I've seen someone name her Ember, which I love, and I've also seen someone liken her to Shadow and align her more towards his story. I like a lot of this, but I've got an idea of my own that I'll just put down here:

Silhou and ProtoBlaze are in fact one in the same. ProtoBlaze, who will be called Silhouette from this point onwards, is an additional form Silhou takes when her emotions become too much to handle. Kind of like Dark Sonic, only the difference is that Silhouette lasts much longer and her fire powers become that much more deadly, being able to burn through anything. Thankfully, it takes a lot for Silhou to reach this point so Silhouette doesn't usually appear.

Eventually, Silhou comes to accept Silhouette as part of her and over the course of her life Silhou becomes able to temper the dark forms flames, using them to achieve her goals.

With that final thought, enjoy these doodles:

They would get along well I think.

I'll be honest, I forgot I drew these for a hot minute.

These were the last doodles from my old sketchbook and were mainly about the blue boi's.

I like the last doodle best. I think it shows that Blue wants to tell DaVinci something important, but deliberately holds himself back. There's nothing nefarious or worrying going on, just Blue being hesitant at being vulnerable. DaVinci's also got no eyes there cause he can't really see what's wrong.

More musings below the cut if you wanna read:

We all know Rise Leo is an absolute pro at masking his true feelings, which applies to Blue in this Au. While an amazing tactic in battle, it's kinda hard for his fam to get a clear understanding of what he wants or needs. That's why it takes a while for DaVinci to realize that Blue feels very insecure about his place in the family. I mean why wouldn't he be?

Red and Zio are the muscle, Purple and Nico are the brains, Orange and Simoni are the hearts. Even DaVinci has a place. He's the leader. The one who watches over everyone else, the one whose supposed to guide the team. Blue doesn't see himself as a leader, believing that his family cousin is doing just fine without him and doesn't need the help when that couldn't be further from the truth.

I don't think DaVinci realizes any of this and only has the ongoing sense that something is wrong. (Big brother sense???). He's low-key kinda frustrated cause he can't figure out what's wrong. It also sucks that DaVinci has a hard time asking for help despite leading his fam, he just doesn't want to make anyone worry. (He and Red are people pleasers in that way).

Idk, the point of this is that Blue doesn't feel like he's good enough for his fam, meanwhile DaVinci can tell that something's off and wants to help but can't really do so at the moment.

Alright so my little brother wants me to draw his characters but I can't do much because I have no idea when it comes to their personalities...

This is The Gaming Bountyhunter and the Gaming Mercenary. (The Mercenary had two designs, you can pick which to redesign).

He'd also like it if you had any ideas when it comes to coming up with story ideas for these characters. As it stands rn the Bountyhunter is someone whose learning how to accept all the bad things in life and the Mercenary is the bad guy who doesn't want to be the bad guy anymore.

Let me know what you think, these guys mean a lot.

Alright, I love chapter 3 from Poppy playtime but dear God does it have some dark implications that I'm going to mention here. Please scroll if you're sensitive to that kinda stuff.

Spoilers:

There's pictures of children all over Home Sweet Home, including baby pictures. I'd like to hope for the best and just assume that the scientists working there waited until the babies were older before experimenting on them (Like experimenting on children isn't any less dark), but the developers did say that this would be the darkest chapter so far.

There are, in fact, smaller versions of the Smiling Critters that stalk the halls of the Playplace, and crawl around on all fours. They don't even speak, just make animalistic noises like growls and whimpers, even giggling. Very unlike the other Bigger Bodies Initiative, who can all speak normally. The children used in those experiments would be able to talk and walk without much help, but babies? Babies who haven't yet learned or developed enough to do any of that? Babies who would be just the right for the smaller Smiling Critters?

If this is true and babies were used to create the smaller Smiling Critters, then this game somehow got darker than Fnaf real quick.