YES!!!! YOU GET IT!!!!!

YES!!!! YOU GET IT!!!!!

anyone remember this moment from a flashback comic on the ask blog?

When Inv did what they felt they had to in order to protect Saint, and ended up forcing them to murder Sliver if Straw?

This comic has a lot of weight lore wise, so it’s rambling time!

Saint making the decision not to ascend Sliver, saying they’d rather face whatever Bountiful would do to them for disobeying her than take a life, was really big. Saint was standing their ground, something they almost never did. They stood by their refusal to kill Sliver, and were ready to accept the consequences.

But Inv wasn’t ready to see Saint accept the consequences. Inv ignored Saint completely, disregarding Saint’s autonomy for the sake of protecting them from the outcomes of their own decisions, regardless of what Saint determined was right for themself.

Inv decided that they knew better.

They possessed Saint, even though the last thing Saint said before Inv took control was begging them not to. They killed Sliver, using Saint to do so, since the ascension ability was required. But, because of how the possession works, Saint was still there. They were just forced to helplessly watch Sliver die to their own hands, as if they were the one to kill her. This seriously messed with their mental health. As I’ve said before, permanently taking a life is very damaging to a person’s psyche if they never wanted or intended to.

It’s hard to say if Inv made the right choice or not. Bountiful absolutely would have hurt Saint if they hadn’t killed Sliver, and probably pretty badly. But Inv, in trying to do what they thought was right, also hurt Saint. Not only did they give Saint some extra trauma, but they denied Saint one of their only attempts at making a choice for themself, controlling them just like Bountiful.

Edit:

Here’s the comic! It’s old, but just ignore the art and think of the lore lmao

Random design fun fact!

Bountiful and Inv’s eyes are supposed to sorta parallel each other :3

HII it’s Luo sometimes my asks won’t go through so I ask anonymously a lot of the time, anyways, any least favorite mushrooms?

No, I couldn’t hate any of them!

If I had to think of one, and it isn’t even a fungus let alone a mushroom, I dislike the water mold (a type of fungus-like protist) Phytophthora infestans.

Being in a car with someone who’s mad at you is actually so scary when they’re driving lmao

Quick Question: Tips for writing Sibling Arti?

I know I've not been with the blog since the start, and I've not scrolled back all the way, so I think I've missed some of her personality and it's giving me a bit of a struggle to write her. (I so badly want to do this though)

Okay so Arti personality!!! I’m basing this off of the actual written story, not the ask blog, because I did a better job of sticking to their set personalities and vocabularies in my writing

Uhhh anyways I’m not 100% sure how to help so ima just. List off a few personality traits and hope that’s what you want lol

She’s pretty impulsive. She doesn’t think before she speaks or acts very much. (Arti has a lot of regrets because of this.) She tends to be rude and snappy when she talks and does swear a fair bit. She’s stubborn, and likes to act big and tough and scary so people don’t really try to get close to her. (She does have a soft spot or two though). She is very protective of the people she likes. She would straight up murder anyone who threatened Gourmand (or Saint), and then get embarrassed when she was forced to admit that maaayyybbbeeee she actually cares about them a tiny bit.

She has a messed-up internalized thought or two, namely the “being weak is bad” and the “it’s okay to hurt people” ones. Both of those come from how she was raised, and being encouraged to bully Hunter. She doesn’t entirely realize that it’s wrong to think that way yet, but she does have a few notions and is starting to develop that little thing I like to call empathy.

I never expected this many people to be willing to put up with my whining and fungi rants, or to even like my au or art, but WOW.

And to think just four-five months ago I was shaking in my boots at the idea of posting my art or sending a non-anon ask to Churro lol. The support I’ve gotten on here is crazy, and some of you are actually so nice. So thanks guys! Love y’all :3