#i love both iterations

[neo--queen--serenity]

This episode really highlighted how close Marcille, Laios, and Chilchuck actually are.

The viewer is used to seeing our main characters behave like coworkers up to this point—even friends—and they express normal, understandable levels of concern and fear when their other party members are in danger. But when the nightmare attacked Marcille, it brought out sides of Laios and Chilchuck that the viewer hadn’t seen before.

Laios immediately notices when something is wrong with Marcille, and he tells the others as soon as he’s sure of the problem. Chilchuck and Senshi then follow Laios’ lead as it becomes clear that he intends to make her get some rest.

We see Chilchuck’s hands lay out the bedroll and Senshi’s hands set up the pillow, working in almost perfect tandem as Laios physically wrangles Marcille into bed.

Senshi is in a similar perspective as the viewer, and mostly sits and watches the ordeal unfold. He doesn’t have a shared history, like these three do, so he helps in little ways, but mostly waits on standby for direction.

From here on out, it’s mostly Laios and Chilchuck who take over in planning how to help her.

It’s uncommon for Chilchuck to openly show such distress and worry for one of his party members. He’s used to Marcille being able to defend herself; he’s used to her being capable and strong. He immediately defers to Laios for instruction, (rightly) assuming he will know what to do.

This actually produces a reaction close to real fear from Chilchuck, who outright SMACKS her in a panic to wake her up before getting any further information.

Laios has to quickly stop him, explaining that he could truly hurt her if he interrupts the attack this way. He tells them how he’s going to wake her, and he doesn’t hesitate. He jumps straight in, explaining what he’s doing for the others so that they (Chilchuck) won’t be afraid.

Chilchuck doesn’t question him once. He just does what he can to hurry along the process. He tucks Laios in with his blanket as soon as he lays onto Marcille—an unnecessary action that betrays how much he cares for both of them.

And Laios succeeds in helping Marcille out of the nightmare’s grasp. While trapped in her mind, he reassures her, protects her, tells her how much she’s valued and appreciated. He isn’t embarrassed or sheepish about it, either; he openly declares these things like it’s the most normal and obvious thing in the world.

He gets her out, he saves her. He did the exact thing he set out to do, even though he’d never done it before, and only had Falin’s secondhand information to work with.

Once he wakes, Chilchuck immediately checks on him to see if he’s alright. Chilchuck is clearly still rattled, displeased with having to wait while both of his close friends were unconscious, fighting a battle neither he nor Senshi could see or help with.

Marcille wakes up shortly after Laios, but Chilchuck is still on edge, worrying that she’ll fall back asleep. Laios, too, has a moment of alarm when he makes sure she won’t close her eyes again.

Once he takes the subdued nightmares out of Marcille’s pillow, only then do Laios and Chilchuck relax.

Laios, for his part, remained calm and collected almost the entire time. He did not show panic or fear when it became clear that Marcille was being attacked, nor when he told the rest of the party what he’d be doing to help her. And once the nightmares had been collected from her bedroll, he gently explained what happened, to everyone else’s horror.

Seeing this, it’s not a huge surprise that the Touden party is so successful. We’ve seen Laios handle danger with a level head; we know he’s capable.

But it’s an entirely different kind of talent to face a threat that’s targeting one of your closest friends—which can make even the most competent fighter sloppy out of fear of losing them—one that requires a high-risk, specific rescue style that none of you have ever tried before. And then pull it off flawlessly. Like damn, these guys are lucky to have him.

#i will never be normal about the interpersonal relationships of the touden party #dungeon meshi #delicious in dungeon #marcille donato #laios touden #chilchuck tims #senshi #izutsumi #senshi of izganda #dungeon meshi spoilers #dunmeshi #dunmesh spoilers #dungeon meshi analysis #dungeon meshi meta #chilchuck dungeon meshi #laios dungeon meshi #marcille dungeon meshi #you know i’m not above viewing this in a shippy light. but i love both platonic & romantic iterations so i’m happy either way #laimar #marchil #marchilaios #laimarchil #i’m just guessing on ship names at this point lmao

[anemonet]

thinking about portraits of young ladies with their cats. and Also suns robes

#rain world #seven red suns #spearmaster #they are my babygirl and they desvere everything ever me thinks (both suns and spearmaster) #im having fun with iterators robes again yippe!!!!! #also sm got so smoll im so sosrry baby why you look like that im sorry #anyhow anyhwo i had fun #man i miss doing lineaart imdidlty i should dra mor elineart #but this is nice too i gues..... #also i will say last nigth i fougth every insict ever to not draw suns in the middle of the igith necaus ei rememebred my own art of this b #g i love them so much their great #anyhow anyhow!! #we are listning to roomates by malcome todd #also can anyoen tell ive been into xianxia stuff again??? just me ahem ayeha #!! #oh my god i forgot the fandom tags i need to add those wops #srs #tw bright colors #just to be safe!!!!

[sysig]

So much experimenting to be done, where to even start (Patreon)

#Doodles #Handplates #UT #Fellplates #Gaster #Papyrus #Sans #Mostly silliness :) Mostly :) #It's still fun to draw these two Gasters next to each other hehe ♪ Even interacting! #They're more similar than I think either of them would admit haha - ''No clearly we have very different ideals'' sure but you're both Gaster #I like the idea of classic being So Annoyed at any iteration of himself thinking positively towards humans haha #I mean it would probably hurt - that's a big piece of his trauma! - but on the surface it's just Ugh I can't believe this -.ó #I feel like they'd have a lot more common ground when it comes to their experiments tho - not a perfect Venn Diagram but enough! #Maybe even just different enough to offer a new perspective - enough to give them new ideas! Uh oh that's never a good thing lol #I do love Fell!Gaster just so pleased to be having a conversation haha so smiley - classic still not smiling but interested! #Cute face <3 #It was after making the Toriel comic that the thought Really occurred to me - like obviously I saw so I knew they were still in the gowns #But it took a bit for that to strike me as odd since I mean that's just what they wear! That's normal! For Handplates anyway #He talks a lot about isolating whatever it is in Monsters that Make Them Like That - what does that entail #Gaster no seriously what are you doing to them don't just smile actually reply #And as much as I like the boys being a bit more Fell-ish I've always been of the opinion that no matter what they're brothers! #They love each other <3 And in Fellplates they'd have to rely on each other even more than regular Underfell #If anything would cause some codependency it's the Handplates setup - no matter what version you throw at it! #They're still both delicate little things - they need each other to survive ♥ If Gaster is sometimes kind to them well... #Similar to Mercyplates but Not Quite hmmmm #At least sometimes doing cute and harmless things tho! Studies how they react to flowers and teaches them to make chains hehe ♪ #There's also that Underfell thing of Sans calling UF!Papyrus ''Boss'' rather than ''Bro'' yeah? Doodling ideas around that haha #An opportunity to teach! Sans only came away with the basics tho it probably annoys Gaster lol #The idea of them doing cute harmless little things and /that/ being what gets under his skin hehehehe #And ending with a Babybones! :D Surely he'd have no problem being attached since they're meant to be good...? Surely

[mothsakura]

ermmm who let pebbles detach his puppet from his structure... who let him explore a miscellaneous pipe at the drainage system.. errrmmm

#this started as a background practice. #then i wanted to draw pebbles #this isn't in off the string au this is just for laughs and giggles #in general i love both on the string and off the string i often cannot choose between the two #feeling off the string today tho!! #rain world #rw #iterator #art #five pebbles #rw five pebbles

[peridots-pixiwolf]

mildly, just ever so slightly, belated art fight attacks of the season!! feat. @skyistheground @smangethe @hrokkall @onlineviolence aaand @sophisticated-apple :]

#peridots-art #others' ocs #slugcat rain world #iterator rain world #rain world #bots #bugs #sisyphus prime ultrakill #minos prime ultrakill #ultrakill #eyestrain #art fight #paradox of creation rw #yuriel uk #pyrite uk #kyle harper smith #< i guess?? it's quite a bit easier making tags for my own characters. anyway ough sorry to be posting this so late but!! man!!! #addressing each recipient by number go! 1. never got around to reblogging it but the “favorite attack” notif from sevenrs warmed my heart #genuinely... tried my best on every one of these but i was really proud of the symbolism/motifs there so i'm super glad that was enjoyed :] #2. don't have much to say that i didn't already BUT i love both your rw/uk crossover stuff. they're awesome 3. your guys remind me of being #the small chaotic machine to someone's giant cozy angel in my own life if that isn't too sappy. i like them a lot :] #4. once again not much here that wasn't stated beforehand but i am Still thinking about your attack!! stopping here though for time!

[ask-granite-pillars]

[TRANSMISSION REQUEST INBOUND. PARTICIPANTS: Ten Ounces Of Enriched Egg White (ADMIN, URAD), Unit of Radioactive Decay, Granite Pillars Stained By Statuesque Memories Of A Thousand Hands] [Live Broadcast] URAD: Hello? Is this reaching you? URAD: Your communications towers appear to be somewhat degraded. it took several tries to- TEN OUNCES (crosstalk, from out of frame): You degrade my efforts! Several tries and me fixing the formatting, as well. URAD: Several tries and my administrator's assistance in order to get a signal through. Your upkeep seems to be rather neglected, group senior. But I expect that it would be quite difficult to keep one of your age running in the first place. I am told that I should keep an amiable relationship with my group's senior, but I believe that Ten Ounces was more enthusiastic to meet you than I. TEN OUNCES (faint, from out of frame): Granite Pillars Stained By Statuesque Memories Of A Thousand Hands is the oldest surviving iterator, and it would be an honor to learn anything she might still have in her archives. URAD (directed towards indeterminate point to left of frame): As has been true for the past twelve times you have mentioned this. URAD: Truthfully, I do not know what value there is that I can gain from this, besides simply being aware of those above me on my local group's chain of command, but Ten Ounces was quite insistent that we at least try now that your communications are back online- TEN OUNCES (crosstalk, from out of frame): (undecipherable) TEN OUNCES: (very low voice, from bottom corner of frame): Don't say that to your group senior! URAD: -and so, here we are. Hello. I am Unit of Radioactive Decay. It is nice to meet you.

Oh, I remember this broadcast very well! We met (properly, at least- I did work on their genome and construction plans before they were activated fully) long after I had already grown obsolete. Unit of Radioactive Decay is the second-oldest in our local group, and I consider us to be good friends, research partners, and distant neighbors.

[BROADCAST TRANSCRIPT]

GP: Do I know you?

GP: Silent Embrace of Leaves? Is that you?

URAD: Your name data appears to be out of date.

URAD: To a nearly comical degree.

URAD: As of four thousand, three hundred, and twenty-six cycles ago, it is Unit of Radioactive Decay.

GP: Oh. 

GP: It’s been a long, long time since I’ve seen you last- my apologies.

GP: It’s a pleasure to meet you once more!

GP: Have you been doing well?

TEN OUNCES: Um.

URAD: Have you been maintained... at all... in the cycles since you were constructed?

GP: Ha!

GP: Not much, these days! 

GP: I’m far out of date, as you can undoubtedly tell.

URAD: It shows.

GP: Would you believe that I put in a request for the repair of my communications systems over a thousand cycles ago?

GP: And yet, here I am, as my communications remain in this tragic state… my greatest gratitudes to your administrator for managing to connect us at all!

URAD: Your administrators sound very inefficient. Are you sure that you have technicians? If your memories are in the state they seem to be, you may have been sending your requests to the inbox of someone who has already moved on.

URAD: You should check your active staff. It would be very inefficient to make your current administrators comb through the emails of their predecessors.

GP: Perhaps I should...

GP: Ah, it's such a hassle to deal with seasonal administrators.

GP: I was never meant to have to deal with a city, and you'd think my administrators would be able to work around that...

GP: Sigh.

[The broadcast continues for some time as iterators Granite Pillars Stained By Statuesque Memories Of A Thousand Hands and Unit Of Radioactive Decay continue to exchange words.]

#granite pillars answers #granite pillars stained by statuesque memories of a thousand hands #granite pillars #(boiledegg note: WOOh this one was a doozy. my longest and highest effort one yet! i got hit by The Winter Agonies right after finishing th #first page. as such you may be able to spot some light style differences in that first one's rad! that's also why this damn thing took so #long.... the winter agonies got me. also fun fact: iterator cans are both REALLY COOL and REALLY HARD to draw. i love doing it but JESUS) #rainworld oc #iterator oc #boiledegg art

[cat-scarr]

happy birthday to the fictional man who owns my heart <3

#mwah mwah #posting pics from both art styles cause obvi I love both iterations <333 #ben 10 #ben tennyson #ben 10 omniverse #ben 10 uaf #dec 27th

[carpsoup]

compilation of this guys colours haunting me

#every iterator we have seen in game has a different puppet colour than their associated colour #Moon is blue and yellow. Pebbles pink and cyan. Suns yellow and red #the colours arent exactly opposite of eachother. more like a third across the colour wheel maybe? #though suns colours are pretty close together so idk #and nsh being green on green doesn't really fit that but iterator colours aren't really consistent anyways. But just following that logic #what if purple. But then its purple puppet with purple cloak #im not even gonna start about the scarf in the tags that things maybe existence haunts me just as much #I don't think ourple nsh is more canon im just losing my mind a bit thumbs up I love green NSH my favourite pea head ever #probably gonna draw him both ways #also tag ramble jumpscare get scared get scared #my art

[bravadoting]

OG Nagi Sketches

I challenged myself to draw the NEO TWEWY cast during the time of the original game starting with Nagi 💜

#twewy #neo twewy #ntwewy #neo: the world ends with you #nagi usui #my art #bravadoting #Also I wanted to ramble about my process and the design details in the tags. #1. First and foremost I wanted a design that could stand alongside the OG cast and capture the fashion of the time period. #2. It took me a couple of iterations to really differentiate her silhouette from any of the Hachiko Gang. #3. I kept her mid-length sleeves from her canon outfit. The laces on her shoes are also a reference to her hair ribbons. #4. I love the cat beanie both because it’s very 2000s and it reflects the game’s cat motif. #That being said I am still refining this design. I want it to look a bit less sporty and more geeky to fit Nagi. #I’m also figuring out what to do with her hair cause it is a bit busy around her collar area. #But short hair makes her look too similar to RG Shiki so I’m still brainstorming. Feel free to leave suggestions if you have them!

[flickering-nightfall]

just asking, what if an iterator possibly gets too hot or cold? What happens if they can’t get to safer temps with out outside forces? What if they can’t get to safer temps at all?

Do you mean superstructures or puppet-bound iterators? I'm sure superstructures have a lot of failsafes to deal with temperature fluctuations, mostly via processing water intake. They're living saunas! They probably have an incredible resistance to both hot and cold, as evidence shows.

I'll talk about puppets here, but if you meant superstructures, well... a lot of what I'll say here could apply to superstructures too.

(For puppet-bound iterators, I am referring to my AU CDSS)

For heat: Puppet-bound iterators, like their former superstructure bodies, run hot and need to stay hydrated. They rely on liquid coolant that runs throughout their bodies. Ruptures in the coolant system are one of their many common problems, but with medical aid, they're not too serious. Many cases are self-healing, or the rupture will seal itself off and reroute around the blockage - like with collateral circulation. Leaks into essential systems are more of a concern than the actual loss of coolant. As long as they stay cool and drink water while waiting to get fixed, they tend to be fine.

If they are stuck in a hot region and can't escape, they'll suffer from dehydration, heat stroke, fried components, damage to organic tissue, seizures... pretty much what you'd expect. As a superstructure, Moon probably suffered from all this leading up to her collapse.

For cold: They're fairly resistant for a few reasons. One is the antifreeze in coolant. Another is the heat that they naturally produce. I'm thinking they have silicone-based skin, which is very cold resistant. They have hemocyanin, which tends to function better in extreme cold than hemoglobin. (Hemocyanin can also work at hotter temperatures. I have like a whole essay about this that I still intend to post lol.) However, the puppets have been modified to have more flexible and sensitive skin - dexterity in exchange for some durability. They're more susceptible to the perception of cold than they would be if they were a still a superstructure. Many of them also dislike snowscapes on principle, because they've been freezing their decaying metal butts off for centuries by the time CDSS happens.

Iterators in both forms are very moist, so if it's cold past their limits, their mechanical components will freeze. And like with hypothermia in fully organic beings, prolonged time in extreme cold will lead to tissue death and organ failure. Superstructures with fractured exteriors (direct exposure of internal parts to the cold air) are especially susceptible to this.

Misc theory about superstructures: Moon's superstructure was able to stay intact into Saint's era because she collapsed straight down into the water, preserving most of her shape. The canyon water could have provided the pressure and circulation she needed in the absence of gravity cores, as well as protection against land pests and insulation against the cold. Remnant slag could have her generate excess heat as well, which would keep the water surrounding her unfrozen. In a way, dying like that could have helped her live longer?!

Thanks for the question anon, this was very fun :P

#btw i am not a scientist. i have knowledge limited to what i have learned and what i can find on the internet #and i make jumps and assumptions sometimes #but you caught me in the middle of doing a CDSS writeup so I'm feeling kind of brave :^) #i love lore stuff both for canon rain world and for my au #but for my au i haven't really posted much substantial enough to ask questions about #and the universe for cdss while aligned with canon is also kind of... wild? so I've been vague out of nervousness #but there are other planets. there are other sapient races. #RW canon may very well not exist in a universe that has outer space but I build around the idea it is for the sake of my au #and i'm not sure how confusing or engaging that might be #i probably will post about it eventually though #because i'm having SO MUCH FUN with this au and this blog exists for me to have fun #but yeah. in the meantime i've only been showing small snippets and details about the iterators in cdss #ask #text #worldbuilding #cdss #anon #rw spoilers #headcanons #rambles

[explodingstarlight]

I wonder how the rise boys would react to 2012 Mikey's pizza concoctions...like the pizza shake lol

something tells me rise!Mikey isn't pleased

#sorry this took so long to answer i forgot it was lingering in there aahshsh #i've never drawn the 2012 boys before and it shows gang gang #but yeah no #i see other bros ranging from disinterested and slightly repulsed (donnie) to curious (raph) to excited to try it for the hell of it (leo) #plus bragging rights for getting it down ofc #mikey??? now mikey would take it as an affront to food itself (mr i-watch-gourmet-tv and look up to a gordon ramsey wannabe) #a hopeful grain of me says well maybe he would be willing to teach them how to cook properly #but the bigger eviler side says that mikey would go dr delicate touch on them and ban them from the kitchen entirely #he would adore ice cream kitty tho <3 #i say all of this with nothing but love and affection in my heart for both iterations #but god help me the 2012 turtles wouldn't be allowed within 10 feet of my kitchen #ask #rottmnt #tmnt #e stars scribblez #stars speaks #rise of the teenage mutant ninja turtles #rise mikey #2012 mikey #phone doodles

[loboazul16]

So normal about this guy <3

#my art #one piece #buggy the clown #buggy one piece #op #opla #i watched the live action but im also readin the manga #equally in love wIth both iterations #digital art

[kilannad]

Something something every time I meet you you turn me into something different but it always affects you always breaks you into smaller pieces just as it does for me. No matter what life we live it’s always just you and me and the voices in our heads no matter what we bring the end of the world and you do it for me, again and again and again and again and again because I ask you to show me the world and you show me how to hate and love and despair and kill and die

Something something there is no change without death. There is no death without living a story

#slay the princess #i am obsessed #this game haunts me #what if we were two gods #opposites and yet doomed to rotate each other #what if we fell in love in every iteration of our life #what if we died each time #what if we ended the world just to be together #what if we were both unlovable monsters that could never be understood #except by each other

[mothsakura]

so uh!! another style change!!! and due to style changes, the previous refs were no longer up to date so i pretty much redid the silly's refs!! anyways! malware grandmas <3 (they look so similar yes it is because of a reason explained in their lore!)

#i love the nice and the evil malware grandmas <3 #really proud of this as well!! #rw #rain world #iterator #rain world oc #iterator oc #holding them both so gently!!! #smh the ancients done threw LiBL aside and made an almost identical version of her because she decided not to make malware anymore ....

[kakyogay]

context umgh the little bit of power in the city went out and arti got worried

I like to think arti stayed until he collapsed. She couldn't handle the cold so she had to leave. (which doesn't really make sense because boom cat but if she never left how would she meet hunter >:( ) Came up with this mainly for the boyfriend recovery au but I find it funky so :)

#rain world #five pebbles #artificer #mother arti taking care of her depressed calculator son #also um don't mid how I forgot to draw his wires in the first #it just kinda happens #I either forget to add the arm or the umbilical #sometimes both #and sometimes I do it because I just don't wanna #umh anyways love them #favorite scug iterator relationship

[fluffyselfships]

thinking abt the two of them so hard rn i want to shake them around

two old men are plaguing my brain to the surprise of no one

#love this man sm i gotta ship with every iteration of him #holdimg both of their hands rn #<3333 #sorry for the late night gush post #jk im not #also #not w!nterk0v #go away #❄️winter wonder babe🩵 #📚antiquarian cutie👓 #f/o #mod bun🐰