#dastardos

[peach-moths]

I'd like to say I think about dastardos a normal amount but I know I don't I think about him far too often

#i could fix him #dastardos #viva pinata #viva pinata fanart #dastardos fanart #peachmoths art tag

[ffiveseasons]

Leafos having the AUDACITY to say this when she’s standing 10 feet away from his HOUSE???????/!/!&//$8/9

#dastardos #viva piñata #viva pinata #leafos #doc patchingo #costalot #miss petula #professor pester #seedos #storkos

[ludodraws]

dastardos silly [ eyestrain vers. under cut ]

#my art #fanart #viva pinata #dastardos #eyestrain #forgot 2 post for days again wooooo #babygirl your color palette is atrocious

[ghostatrandom]

Boom viva piñata yaoi be upon ye (they make me insane)

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#dastardos #doc Patchingo #fanart #art #sketch #my art #viva piñata #viva pinata #4 am art #digital art #god I missed tumblr tagging system

[foundfamilyadoptionagency]

#Dastardos #Viva Piñata #viva pinata #stardos #image submitted #tags submitted #adoption poll

[mistermertensophryne]

puts this in your trough

#viva pinata #viva piñata #viva pinata (game) #doc patchingo #docstardos #dastardos

[pollyannawog]

A smattering of VP-related things from the past few days! 🪅🍬

#polly draws #viva piñata #viva pinata #viva piñata trouble in paradise #vp #vp:tip #Stardos #dastardos #Leafos #Deleafos #(what I’m calling her now teehee) #Storkos #piñata #piñatas #sour piñatas #sour mallowolf #sour sherbat #sour Macaraccoon #fudgehog #viva piñata au #sherbat #woe. viva piñata content be upon ye

[sbum]

Lately I've been playing videogames from my childhood like Professor Layton, Beyond Good and Evil and… Viva Piñata!

I remember drawing piñatas when I was in kindergarten, although I didn't play the game, my parents did.

If Dastardos is in your garden while Seedos plants a weed they will both laugh. Just two bros enjoying chaos.

Viva Piñata is a really good game (I prefer the original one, I don't like the garden landscape of Trouble in Paradise), a sequel would be great. Not because the game suffers from outdated graphics, but because the garden space is very limited.

And because if you play it on a recent console as I did most of the shopkeepers will be glitched (Lottie without pupils and iris, I won't ever be able to forget you).

#Viva Pinata #Tried a new drawing software and it's not bad. #Seedos #Viva Piñata #Dastardos #Now I'm asking myself why new games don't have voice acting… #Beyond Good and Evil had and in the Italian dub there was a rhino at Garage Mammago that had a super creepy voice. #Professor Layton has many cut scenes whit voice acting and Viva Piñata was almost full voice acted...

[justarandomrat]

Wow what a silly little guy I sure hope nothing happens to him!

#stardos #viva pinata #dastardos #professor pester #viva piñata trouble in paradise #justarandomrat draws

[moodlemcdoodle]

:p

#featuring @shortlifelongart’s menace but babey! #menace #dastardos #viva pinata #sour macaraccoon #moodle’s mcdoodles

[lilacthebooklover]

today i read the most awesome character study of leafos on ao3, it had me grinning like an idiot the whole time. other few remaining viva piñata fans out there, i urge you to check out Holding it together by Psycho_Pop! it's a very worthwhile read, and a brilliant look into not only leafos' character, but stardos' (& other family members') too <33

#this fic has little details in that make me go sjsshgfjkhghjkgfdh #i love it #viva piñata #viva pinata #obsessed w/ this game #and have been for like a decade <3 #no joke #leafos #stardos #dastardos #miss petula #storkos #seedos #sidos #jardiniero #mother viva piñata #lester viva piñata #professor pester #ao3 fanfic #not my work #character study

[vivapinataforlife]

OH hello there boi :]

Yeah, go ahead and take that sick sour profitamole out of my garden

#dastardos #viva pinata #grim reaper #apperance

[ffiveseasons]

#Viva pinata #viva piñata #leafos #Dastardos #Professor pester #poll #costalot #Seedos #Miss petula #Doc patchingo

[ludodraws]

guess whos into viva pinata now

#my art #doodles #viva pinata #dastardos #leafos #mock up pinatas for fun :33 i like picking out names then designing them #also realized every single person in this game is white so erm. imma fix that #used 2 play viva pinata soo much wheni was little and i impulse boight it on my xbox 360 YAY YAY

[vivaspinatas]

Someone get this girl a cartilage piercing right now.

#she deserves it. #viva pinata #viva piñata #miss petula #costalot #Willy builder #Seedos #leafos #dastardos #storkos #professor pester #doc patchingo #my art

[died-but-not-dead-propaganda]

Dastardos Propaganda

while not being explicitly stated to be undead/have died, his backstory heavily implies it and its pretty much accepted fanon. (The lore of Viva Pinata is weird and there's a lot of context to explain so bear with me, but if you want the whole backstory you can find the unlockable storybook from the game on youtube easily)

Originally named Stardos, he was the eldest son of the best gardener on Pinata Island and replaced his father's incompetent and scheming gardening assistant Lester at a young age. Some unknown time later, Lester sends Stardos' parents on a wild goose chase to find a dragon pinata and Stardos is left in charge of the garden. Lester then lures Stardos away from the garden with promises of sharing a type of candy he's made that can attract any pinata to a garden (the main gameplay premise of the game is creating a garden and getting wild pinata to live there, essentially) Stardos goes with him most likely hoping to impress his dad by having lots of new pinata in the garden when he returns (another theory is this is because of insecuritites surrounding his baby brother Sidos who is like a gardening prodigy from birth basically). But obviously this is a trap and Lester gives him a SOUR CANDY (sourness being an evil substance on pinata island) which poisons him and, as far as his family know, Stardos was never seen again.

Meanwhile the garden was being completely destroyed by the evil minions of Lester, who renames himself Professor Pester and becomes the main villain of the series. little Sidos runs away to live in the swamp and becomes Seedos (whole other can of worms), their mother also goes missing presumably drowned at sea, and their father ends up wheelchair bound and unable to restore the ruined garden (which becomes the players job)

a little while after that, Dastardos appeared. A corrupt version of Stardos who's own family can't recognise him. His whole deal in-game is that when you leave a pinata sick for too long, Dastardos acts as a grim reaper of sorts. He floats into your garden, humming a random, creepy tune that's said in the game's journal to have a calming effect on pinata, and then he'll smash the sick pinata and take their life sweet, which is described as "the very essence of a pinata). Then you'll get an alert with his one voice acted line, saying "I've broken open a precious little pinata. Easy come, easy go" and then laughs

One of the biggest things that imply he's died in some way or another, are his abilities. I've already mentioned that Dastardos floats, but if there are obstacles in his path to a sick pinata, then he'll just turn himself transparent and float right through the obstacle as if it isn't there! Combined with the floating, that sure seems ghostlike to me! Another thing is that he can't be hurt. Obviously you can't seriously hurt people in the pinata garden sim game, but you CAN whack other NPCs with your shovel and they'll react to it, but Dastardos doesn't react at all, no matter how much you hit him. Until you manage to unlock the "Dastardos shovelhead" for your shovel, which is described as "being on the same frequency" as Dastardos. HMMM. Hitting him with that stuns him for a moment, giving the doctor npc more time to reach your sick pinata.

Another interesting point is the life candy. When pinata are broken, either by other pinata (the game has quite a robust food chain), the villains or a cruel player, they, of course, leave behind a pile of candy. Most of this is generic candy, except for the single life candy (which looks different for each pinata species). Dastardos stands out as a villain when contrasted to Professor Pester because while Pester will come into your garden to smash your most valuable pinata and eats ALL the candy it drops, Dastardos only picks up the life candy and then leaves. Interesting that it's specifically the LIFE candies that he steals, and we don't know what he does with all those candies at all...

In a minigame from the sequel where NPCs will judge your pinata, Dastardos implies he still cares about pinata and gardening. He's mischevious and makes cruel jokes, but he also tells a some half-truths. "I used to dream of breeding award-winning pinata myself, but my career advisor said i didn't have the right temprement for it" in particular calls back to his backstory while also making it sound like he's making it up to be funny if you don't know he was Stardos. During this minigame, NPCs all have different biases and they'll vote for different pinata when they're judging. Dastardos specifically judges for pinata that have NEVER been sick, and seems harsh on gardeners who let their pinata get ill frequently. Overall he's a pretty complex and morally grey villain!

I know it can be hard finding good information on Viva Pinata lore, so here's some links if you want calrification on any of this!

Dastardos' family's wiki page: https://pinataisland.info/viva/Characters

Storybook chapters on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFFHHsIDSEqFucTky111oXivoLC0Xe5ua

Video of him smashing a pinata and one voice line: https://weirdlittlegames.tumblr.com/post/184089814125/dastardos-voice

VP transcript google doc: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1OSS1rFvgLSNR1-e3AFgOsfeROwnM_EFDyMnNUcDkgFs/edit

(All these resources were made by me

Sorry for the novel in your submission box asrhgfseawsrheg but I wanted to give the context needed to understand why this character is assumed to have died despite no official confirmation! + Viva Pinata is very niche and even among people who play the game people rarely pay attention to the characters and lore

He came back wrong but we love that for him.

HE IS LITCHERALLY UNDEAD ate a bad candy and now he’s a spooky reaper :( He deserves so much better but it’s pretty epic tbh

#dastardos #viva pinata