The Broken Doll, Act Four & Act Six...

the broken doll, act four & act six...

the broken doll made me SO incredibly emotional...

While I figure out how the hell do I get my bags back, here are some stuff I drew on the plane

Act 6 spoiler warning, some human loop and even more just regular loop

if you didn’t get a pastry each time you went to dormont we did not play the same game

ALSO BODY HORROR TALK WARNING!

(You gasp for air as the waking world beginning to wash over you. The clouds over your mind and senses finally disappears letting you look around.

You're in the observatory, )

(How long have you've been out, days? Weeks? Months even!?? Everything was so hectic when the King attacked, but now it just feels like a blur. Like waking up from a nightmare you can't remember)

(Your heart is pounding and your head hurts, like someone's holding a light to your eyes like-)

(you look at the sky... The sky.. it's)

(it's beautiful)

(it's color)

(REAL! TRUE COLOR! LIKE IN THE BOOKS THE STORIES THE WISE TALES FORGOTTEN TO TIME! ITS REAL ITS REAL ITS REAL ITS REAL)

(you want it you want it you want it!)

(All of it. No matter the thrashing in your skull, the migraine crying SCREAMING for you to look away, the pressure is agonizing. Crushing your temples and gritting your teeth, all that fills you is dread)

(But you still want it.)

(In the world and under your skin- full of this strange shade, this wonderful color. Filling your muscles, bones and viscera, till your arteries swell and pop with the wondrous hue. The shade of life of blood or matter of...)

(a forgotten color a forgotten feeling...)

(it's beautiful)

posted this on twitter first but a common misconception I see in the RW community is thinking the "umbilical", referenced in the Downpour DLC's overseer eye dialogue is the Iterator Puppet's arm, and not the wires.

"It is the remains of an overseer. Overseers act as our eyes on the outside. I used to have a lot of them, but I lost contact with them when I was neutered. My umbilical is cut..."

Here I have included some helpful (?) labeled diagrams indicating what is the umbilical and what is the arm.

the umbilical cord is what connects an unborn baby to the mother's placenta. It is cut when a baby is born. I'm pretty sure this is meant to evoke imagery of birth, specifically of the unborn, since iterators exist somewhat outside of the Cycle, and birth/death/rebirth is an overarching theme in Rain World.

When moon's connection to the umbilical is severed, she experiences something far closer to death than most other Iterators, and when she is revived via slag reset keys, I suppose one could argue she experiences a sort of "birth" or "rebirth" as well. In the corresponding Downpour DLC this dialogue originates from, power is restored to her structure, which is... I dunno, you guys can figure out the symbolism on that one, lol

I don't believe the label of "umbilical" is outright stated in Vanilla, but I'd imagine the corresponding imagery was still intentional, at least on some level. Regardless, I think calling those wires/cord thingy the "umbilical" is probably one of my favorite DP additions!! wooooo!!!

Pretty sure someone's pointed this out before, but I still see it sometimes, so I figured I'd yap about it. (actually i just wanted to yap) Also, what should I call the Arm...? The puppet arm, maybe?

I feel like we should take about them more!!

what would their ship name be