#and who the artificer

[old-aspiring-awesomeness]

Hiya there, I moved to aspiring-awesomeness (https://aspiring-awesomeness.tumblr.com/) :D

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Good advice from partys past

#three guesses whos the rogue #and who the artificer #art #small artist #artists on tumblr #artists on the spectrum #dnd art #meme #dnd #ttrpg #orginal character #its ok to ask for help #youre not a burden #murder is okay #Your feelings matter

[its-the-sa]

is it too late to post christmas stuff ?

too bad, here's grinch arti

#rain world #artificer #rw scavenger #'guy who despises a specific thing does a complete 180 and becomes the embodiment of that thing' is the best trope of all time tbh

[kalivasquezart]

a child found [part 1] // part 2 // part 3

#rain world #i can't believe i spent time drawing this #mf (me) plays rain world once then reads the entire wiki then draws this #tumblr is SO BAD with comics #i had to slice everything into manageable pieces so it wouldn't get compressed to poop jpeg #rw artificer #basically what if the blue pup survived #we never see it die #unlike the other green pup who drowned #comics are hard #kalivasquez #kalivasquezart #2024 #rw spoliers #grey spoiler area but i'm tagging anyway #rw slugcat #rain world art #rw downpour #slugcat #rw pioneer #uuuh... spoilers? #rw spoilers

[snailfen]

happy mothers day to them...

#didnt finish in time but Oh well its still sunday somewhere. who care #rain world #rain world downpour #my art #the artificer #the rivulet #looks to the moon #five pebbles #ruffian and ruffles

[kelocitta]

In honor of the @rw-ship-showdown I wanted to write about Artihunter as someone who jokingly slapped them together pre-downpour and still thinks they are actually very compelling. Just not in the super soft love wins kinda way (Although I get why people like that more) And the only way I know how to do that is talking too much so heres a far too long slug essay-

Obviously the slugcats don't offer a ton of characterization but theres not nothing to work with. Their stories, whether by their roles in it or the overarching themes do provide a backbone to work with. Even gameplay itself can provide a bit. (for some more than others) Hunter, to me, is ultimately a story about selflessness. The goal is to revive Moon, which is very much an act of kindness from both Hunter and NSH. But the weight of that action is much more significant for Hunter- Hunter is deeply sick. They're on the clock, and for all their skill in combat none of that will ultimately help them to survive longer than their body can hold out. Moon is a close friend of NSH but that means little Hunter- Hunter really gets next to nothing out of helping them, and ultimately pays quiet a bit spending their limited time alive fighting to deliver that neuron so that someone else can live.

To spend ones limited days on helping another, in a game that very much stresses the unwavering cruelty of the world and nature- is pretty notable. (And you could even say that Hunter being the Hardmode of Rain World adds another layer to this)

And then we have Artificer. A storyline that very much stands out to people as more… villainous (so to speak) than the other slugcats. Artificer's story covers a lot of things. Trauma, violence, revenge, etc. Revenge is a bit of a selfish desire- That need to see someone hurt as they have hurt you. A punishment that ultimately does not fix whatever harm was done- but feels good to see because you were hurt and now those responsible share that pain.

Artificer's actions are founded in that need for revenge, their pups killed for overstepping boundaries they didn't know existed. Is it not fair for them to be angry at that, to punish the scavengers for their violence with their own? Why should the scavengers ever be forgiven when they and their pups were not? And that's how you get that loop- Harm for harm over and over.

The original action has been lost in a spiral of violence for violence. And here stands Artificer- their very spirit scarred. Not just because they sought revenge, but because they never ceased trying to scratch that itch for violence as an answer. Artificer only has two paths for their story- killing the scavenger king (Someone who, really, has little to do with the original 'crime' of the scavengers, but represents an important individual to them- as did the slugpups to Artificer), locking themselves as karma one for good and spending the rest of their life chasing creatures that no longer even fight back in a warped sense of closure- or to dissolve themselves in the acids of the void sea because they're too far gone to find any real peace.

They can't meaningfully recover from that state, not alone, twisting in on themselves. Even if they halt their actions, they've been using violence as a feeble defense against their own pain- violence that no longer has any real direction or basis. Artificer gets no real closure from killing the scavenger king. All they can do is continue the cycle, or try to scrub it away. No real peace in a prison of their own making. So you have a creature, who even with a strict timer on their life- a body that will crumble to disease, spends its last bit of time on saving another. And another who was so caught up in the pain of loss that were eaten alive by their own anger, poisoned their own soul on such a deep level even self-proclaimed gods have no solution for them. What peace can they offer each other? For Hunter, its only a fleeting moment of happiness- of selfish love, before their own body fails them. A bit of indulgence in something for themself. For Artificer, its a single, comforting thread to ground them again, something tangible to protect and care about again. But thats a thread that will ultimately be snapped under the cruel indifference of the world. Hunters timer will tick down regardless of if it takes another with it. Its a tragedy- its doomed to end badly. Whatever good it offers to either of them to find each other will only provide the fleeting comfort of a band-aid that will be ripped away too early. But all that can be worth indulging in anyway, if only for the moment. It doesn't change the ending, but the ending was never going to be happy. Its can so yuri

#rain world #rw shipping #tagging that just cause this is explicitly about that even though I usually dont do shipping stuff #with that said i dont even think this particular interpretation of a possible dynamic needs to be romantic its just kinda #about companionship in general. companionship thats going to absolutely shred an already unstable slug emotionally but thats #the point. friendship and love in spite of the unavoidable ending #just noticed this is like 80% theme analysis and 20% 'these go together just trust me' #but also theyre both girls because i want them to and also because im channeling hornet from hollow knight #who made me so deeply ill that my rain world tags still havent outcompeted my Hk tags because i drew her so much. so so much. #hunter is hornet coded to me and artificer is like if angela and gebura from lc combined into a deeply fucked up ferret #also i did tag the poll because they kinda inspired this but also. i wasnt gonna put all this out here WITHOUT a readmore thats embarassing #but i guess this is propaganda for a ship already seen as popular but like... idk i think theres something to it even as someone #who did literally slap them together originally because they were both red slugcats i considered girls. predownpour so we didnt have anythi #anyway hi tag readers i have so much work to do im being bad by writing about gay slugs. i need to get myself together #its so late this might just be nonsense bwaaaaaaa

[mewguca]

"There once was an Ugly Scavenger. He was so ugly that everyone died. The end."

uhhh dont question the mechanics behind this one too much

#Rain World #rw artificer #egg art #eggmoon creations #thank you soup for the idea hehe #this is rather messy but its more about the idea yknow #the mechanics: i wanted to draw arti with the scar and the funny cloak #magic or something who knows #the pups respawned just so they could be told a bedtime story

[pookie-mulder]

whaddup cassie time to get some new names

#since my x files Venn diagram performed so well I thought I’d do a tsc one too #(Jonathan Wayland here is not jace. he’s the actual JW who died) #Jonathan Clark is the man Jocelyn told clary was her father #I included Johnny Rook even though we don’t know if he’s really a Jonathan or not #anyway #tsc #the shadowhunter chronicles #shadowhunters #jace herondale #kit herondale #christopher lightwood #cassandra clare #the mortal instruments #the last hours #the dark artifices #the wicked powers

[incorrect-dnd-classes]

Fighter: You trust Artificer? Paladin: I absolutely trust them. Fighter: They're not some kind of maniac, then? Paladin: [pause] I absolutely trust them.

#fighter #paladin #artificer #mod meme #source: doctor who #incorrect quotes #incorrect dnd quotes #incorrect dungeons and dragons quotes #dungeons and dragons #dnd #incorrect dnd classes

[skumhuu]

UTMV x Rain World

Cross adopts the twins and eventually gains the bsp along the way

#utmv #rain world #slug cats #slug pups #Dream and Nightmare as slugpups got me like 🥺😭💖💖💖💖 #cross as the spearmaster #sent to deliver a message to the artificers who have stopped contacting the others #little does he know #the lost artificers are right under his nose #nightmare is Not Happy with this whole thing #too bad you’ve been adopted #Sku art

[north-winds1]

#rain world #rainworld art #slugcat #digital art #rainworld #slugcats #rw artificer #Artificer au #artificer's pups #I'm not really sure what to say #But this was a bit of a pain to make #I think if I make more of these it's probably going to be flat colours and not as detailed backgrounds #Because I wanted to quit several times while drawing this #It still turned out nice though! #I like to think that arti's pups care for eachother a lot very much disliking being separated #Because of the whole separated from artificer thing #But in general wherever one is going the other will be there #One of the pups tries to act much older to try to protect their sibling but they're still a young slugcat #Who hasn't really gotten to explore the outside world #The next arti's pups AU things will be much happier and I'll probably do some doodles somewhat soon! #Wind art

[lynxmisnomer]

Hi welcome to my blog do you want the AU about permadeath and ghosts and cursed slugcats or do you want the AU where Chief tries to skin 99 slugpups

#rain world #rain world downpour #downpour spoilers #rain world artificer #rw artificer #rw chieftain #rw scav king #who is the perdita to Artificer's pongo? #no clue yet

[skylq]

My citizen, I knew you’d come back,eventually.

#rain world #rain world downpour #rain world spoilers #rw artificer #five pebbles #arti echo au #skylq #so sorry to anyone who has a visceral reaction to this I unearthed this from my files and had the very same thing happen

[its-the-sa]

me whenever i see two hot-blooded idiots trying to process their trauma by ripping each other to shreds: LET THEM HEAL EACH OTHER ,

#rain world #artificer #scavenger king #rw regicide #i just discovered im not the only person on earth who ships this and im going feral

[kotikaleo]

HIIIII everyone!

Look what I did!

Now I have all of them ready for you to grab! You can have as much wet mouses and hunters and saints as your heart desires!

I'm most proud of Hunter and the beautiful lighting I did on him. Like WOAH I can do this with watercolor??? But also Inv with absolutely cursed everything, my poor attempt at rainbow comic sans and messy line art? It was so nice to draw

Reblogs and comments are very appreciated!

#my art #rain world #slugcat #rw survivor #rw monk #rw hunter #rw saint #rw rivulet #rw artificer #rw gourmand #rw spearmaster #rw inv #inv #stickers #small business #etsyshop #AAAAAAAAA SLUGCATS #for the ones who will buy them all I will make a silly doodle 👀 #That includes if you bought half of them before and now getting the rest 👀🌸🌺🌸 #Inv is terrible and I love them for that

[thelurk3r]

More scugposting

Possible rain world & downpour spoilers ahead

2/?

#rain world #rain world downpour #rain world downpour spoilers #gourmand #spearmaster #survivor #saint #rivulet #hunter #artificer #artihunter #girls who kill #wait is that the shipname- #monk #enot #wait shit is that enot or nightcat I can't even remember which scug I meant for that to be curse my horrid memory #slugcat #scug #shit do i tag the iterators if they're mentioned but technically not shown? #screw it. #five pebbles #looks to the moon #big sister moon #no significant harassment #seven red suns #unparalleled innocence #let's hope that's all of them!

[kelocitta]

Ohhh your anthro arti has such mafia boss vibes! (Positive) I love it!

No crime here no sir 🫡

#rain world #rw anthro #ask #artificer is a completely morally upright citizen who simply does not have any past details from when they were a young adult #dont worry about it