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listen I love fearplay in g/t, especially first meetings

but I also like this (albeit a little less)

Forget me not (alt title; Substories to Cry and Sob to)

“Is this spot taken?” “No.”

“We see you up here often with that look on your face. Staring off into space as the sun goes down. Is something specifc bothering you? Work stress?” “Partly, I suppose. I’m not sure I should talk about it with you.” “It’s fine.”

“I guess it’s just not what I was expecting... so yeah, work stress is a word for it.”

[ESCAPE ON THE TRAIN]

Gunjump away from the Militsioner, they said!

An inexperienced human telling a borrower “We’ll figure out some way to get you back to normal.” is great because it indicates several things.

1. The human has immediately accepted you as a colony member.

2. The human is expressing concern for your wellbeing, as humans do not come in borrower sizes.

3. Point 1 and 2 are fairly good confirmation that you’re not in any malicious or willingly dangerous company.

The three characters I focus mainly on in “Who I Want To Be”, Paron most of all.

Alsu, to the left, is 167.6 centimeters tall. The Commissioner, in the middle, is 185 centimeters tall. Paron is a staggering 22 meters tall.

Paron’s height is unsettling to the citizens of Stormköping and within good reason. The Commissioner is the one that keeps most physical contact with Paron, which makes them almost fiercely loyal to her. Meanwhile, Alsu (who doesn’t get along with the Commissioner) is not afraid to talk to Paron like the somewhat irresponsible and foolish young rookie she sees them as. She’s more than happy to give Paron some no-holds-barred life experience advice when needed. Paron appreciates Alsu being down-to-earth and honest, even if it stings at times.

Paron loves both of them like parents. Wonder if that’ll come back to bite them in the ass...

Very early, more detailed version of how I imagine Paron.

Basically every piece of art I ever make is heavily reliant on me being able to see it in my head, but since the images you see in your own mind aren’t limited to two-dimensional paper (digital or otherwise), it can become tough to truly match the vision you have. Still, I think this is a very good start.

Paron carries a lot of gear, both the expected basic First Aid equipment and dispatch radio (the latter being bespoke for their size), but also a lot of more unexpected objects. Blankets, firefoam “grenades”, a variety of multi-tools, all of them are carried within Paron’s various packets when on duty.

Their casual clothing, which I have yet to draw them in, is much less confusing to the eyes.

Syeia-o-Opri and the Race of Stolen Children

Hey. I have a g/t setting I sometimes work on. Here’s the basics of it.

Fairies arrive from the deep reaches of space, putting up a colony upon the face of the Earth. From the infant children of the Earth’s most clever native - borrowers, the fairies created humans, a macro-superweapon to be used in fairy war fields. Billions of borrower infants were stolen in one cycle and corrupted by fairy magic.

The borrowers are horrified at this. Humans are large, and even the weakest human is several times physically stronger than both fairy and borrower alike. The salt within a human’s body is deeply corrosive to fairies, and any spilled blood will desynchronize a fairy’s flow of will, which is a death sentence.

Humanity is only controlled via one thing - their names, which are fairy-given. As long as a fairy knows a human’s name, the human is under the fairy’s control. This creates an almost foolproof weapon for fairies to use against other fairies. Sending in a colossal being woven from Earth flesh, having salt in their bodily liquids, and iron within their blood, a human is perfect for exterminating enemy fairies.

Sadly, the fairies realized a bit too late that the “small bipedal idiot species” (by comparison) of borrowers left behind some “recessive material” within every human. Cooperation, a highly social structure, and love for each other eventually made the humans plot against their fairy lords. One night, two humans - a male and a female - decide to name each other and not tell the fairies about it.

It is the first dawn of the fairy apocalypse. With one human-to-human given name rises another, and spreads across the fairies’ human populations. The fairies do not understand why they no longer have any control over their superweapons, and only realize what has happened when it’s way too late. Any human still under fairy control is quickly overpowered by the out-of-control swarms, who have quickly figured out how to wield rudimentary weaponry.

Early humanity drove most of fairykind off the planet. In current times, humanity rules the Earth, fairies being powerless to regain their grip on their planet and borrowerkind carefully living beneath humanity’s shadow.

Contact with humanity has been attempted by fairies, but they learned that ANY smidge of aggression will cause the human being communicated with to revert to their original weapon state, killing whichever fairy had made the aggressive display. Contact remains ill advised.

Despite this, humanity is naturally neutral with borrowerkind. The borrowers stay away for their own safety.

Until one day, one member of the two races collide.

Syeia-o-Opri: Borrowers

Some still-being-developed barf about everyone’s favorite micro-hominid.

Borrowers (”Xenomicro” homosapiens, as classified by humans) are the most intelligent lifeform fully native to the Earth, and a member of the Great Ape Family (Hominidae). Despite their larger cousins, borrowers grow to only reach a typical height of 6-8 centimeters during adulthood. Humans are the direct, though artificial, descendants of borrowerkind.

Borrowers look almost identical to common-day humans. There is a difference in general organ size, bone density, and general body structure. Side-by-side, humans have “binocular” vision and a stronger jawline while borrowers have a wider range of view and generally smoother jawlines.

They are a highly social species and live in large swarm-like groups, and can create nests within any environment if given enough time and resources. Borrowers are omnivorous but a very low-ranking predatory species (compared to their descendants who are apex predators), typically only hunting small insects for meat, and otherwise utilizing agricultural techniques to produce their own food. Scavenging is extremely common as a borrower’s agricultural area is usually too small to fully sustain larger colonies. Hunted insects are often pests.

Borrowers utilize tools and (comparatively, with humans) primitive technology, knowing how to build simple elevators and creating their own fires. Smaller borrower hives that live near humans will often siphon electricity and build slightly more advanced pieces of technology from scavenged human “ruin” objects.

Social rules are taught to each borrower generation that aid in basic survival, as they are a common prey species for larger animals. Common rules include;

-Stay out of sight -Avoid the Tyrant Species as best as possible (humans) -Don’t get in a fight unless necessary -Help your fellows -If it did not originally belong to you, then do not take more than you need -Always accept gifts from the Tyrant Species as to avoid insultation (gift may be discarded after you get out of sight) -Knowledge given by one of the Tyrant Species must be shared with the rest of the colony

Humans call xenomicro homosapiens “Borrowers.” Borrowers call individual humans “Nephilim”, and collectively as “The Tyrant Species.”

Confronting the local town menace.

In Starstruck, the way you interact with Planet Earth is via a little portal that the Captain (you, in this case) sticks their hand through.

While I'm not quite sure what's going on with Earth on a finer scale, the fact that everything on Earth is so small and made out of toys while the Captain is large and realistic suggests that the entire planet is already affected by the "Mold", like a type of worldwide radiation that nobody on Earth seems to have noticed in any meaningful way.

As such, the Captain's hand towers over many singular housing units found around Earth. Picking up people would be easy if that was the mission. So I was thinking - what if you could grab someone from Earth and pull them back into the Captain's satellite through the portal?

The kid that the Captain is holding will be fine. The Captain is destructive towards infrastructure, but the worst they do to actual human beings (Mold affected ones, in this case) is just to knock them down on their bums. Often by accident.

How it's going.

The youthful inhabitants of the Earth are allowed to play a bit on the giant apocalypse hand. They've been good little rascals.

"Death to the Old Millennium"

(this)

"I was kidnapped by a space monster giant today."

Sara, usually the chipper and very active girl, sounded matter-of-fact. Like she was stating something as true as the sky being blue.

She was ignoring the plate of meatballs and potatoes placed in front of her. Typically her favorite dish, but now being given less than zero amounts of attention as she stared at her friend, waiting for a reaction.

"Oh yeah?" Came the only response from her friend, sitting opposite to Sara. He'd never heard her yap about something like this before. The only "monsters" Sara ever yapped about were butterflies and centipedes. The rare frog or two at times. All quite terrestrial and decidedly not gigantic.

Immediately after the friend showed even slightest interest in what Sara had just stated, she pulled out a somewhat crude drawing like she was a cowboy doing the fastest draw in the west, and placed it on the table for showcase. The drawing illustrated a small representation of Sara being held by a massive, yellow-toothed creature with black eyes, two dots of bright green acting as pupils. The thing must've been too big to draw on the paper since it cut off at the shoulders.

Yeah... definitely not any kind of typical insect Sara would yap about.

Perhaps one of the stranger parts was that the friend got the feeling that this creature was humanoid. Sara had even drawn it with five fingers, and a tone of skin on those bare hands that you'd see on any average stranger you'd walk by on the streets.

Maybe this had something to do with that giant disembodied hand attack that had happened down a few blocks.

Guy strikes stars, more at 11. (pose via AdorkaStock)

Max and Roberto, playing tug-of-war.

Both characters belong to the indie developer group Dead Pixel Tales, with Max being from "Bigger Than Me" and Roberto being from "Stick to the Plan."

Demos for both games can be played for free on Steam. okay thanks love you

Starstruck: Hands of Time is out. It's good. That is all I will say