#sonny my boy

[verdemoth]

i got invited into @skies-seas space headworld a while back and offered my beloved immortal space captain from spore 2008. and then it took me several months to finalize a design for them/their species

Captain Sondetten was once just a guy, but is now a spaceship puppeting around a clone of their old body. This is because they made the mistake of captaining the first expedition beyond their home star, and the first to encounter sapient alien life. Now they are not a person to the empire, they’re a living symbol progress and expansion and conquest and they can’t be allowed to die. So when they did, solutions were found. [more under readmore]

Several centuries later, Sondetten is still kicking. The same mind, more or less. They’ve accumulated so many memories that after a certain point, it was easier to transfer their mind into servers aboard their ship. Easier for the empire to maintain digital backups for when the ship is destroyed and needs to be rebuilt. Easier to filter out extraneous data that would only take up valuable space.

Son’s none too thrilled with their lot in life. Everything they do has political consequences that can make or break an alliance. Despite their influence they can’t do anything to change their situation. They don’t recognize the world they were born on. They can’t remember the names or faces of their countless dead friends. They’ve mostly stopped making friends, as no one else can understand fully what they’ve experienced. They’re a ghost haunting their own ship, which is more their true self now than the flesh they wear for the sake of being presentable.

In this shared setting, Son finally snapped and went rogue. They broke into a memory bank to hastily download a big file of that old ‘extraneous data’ (not a clean install, it’s not totally coherent or chronological but they’re glad to have the chance to invite old ghosts back in), then they made their exit and wrecked some shit on the way out, vanishing off to the other side of the galaxy. Son may have been a pacifist once but they’ve long since grown desensitized to violence.

There’s nothing stopping the empire from making another Sondetten, and becoming even more selective with what memories are returned to them to prevent this from happening again. But that’s a problem for that Sondetten, not this one. This Sondetten finally got away, and is for the first time in a long time somewhat mortal. They can make another body clone given enough time if the current one is killed, but if their ship is destroyed there will be no one to rebuild it and restore these memories. This Son will end if the ship dies, which is a novel experience.

In the meantime they’re trying to figure out how life works now in a place where they’re not being strangled by their own legacy. They arrive into the plot as just the ship with severe hull damage and some very atypical technology. They find themself put up as a grand prize to be won in some competition, which is not exactly what they were hoping for. They decide to play along for a time in hopes of getting free repairs, and only reveal themself as a sapient being when some folks try snooping into their memory servers or cloning process.

~ Anyway i made this species in spore in like 2012 or something? they were one of my main playthroughs and Sondetten is my go to when i’m playing the space stage :]

the original Maaydes + Sondie in game

i’ve been trying to draw/design the species but it took me sooooooo long to settle on what i wanted! the initial concept was marsupial + bird but it evolved past that. there’s plenty of thylacine in the jaw range of motion & general posture/body anatomy, but also some rodent proportions and upright posture. head cones from great crested grebe and austroraptor. wing anatomy and proportions are pterosaur, a single long digit supporting a membrane. with a wing covering of moth like scales. also a bit of pangolin but it’s more obvious on some subspecies than on Sond here

the idea is that the predecessors of this species had some kind of fur like covering, which over time changed into fused structures somewhere between a scale and a feather? they’re primarily equipped for insulation and ornamentation (colourful) but the wing scales help to provide lift, and there are larger variations that provide effective armour. stomach ‘plumage’ is more similar to the original ‘fur’

#spore #spore 2008 #image #my art #my characters #char: sondetten #set: space placeholder #needed to take a break from art fight stuff which i won’t get finished before the end of the month but that’s ok #most of the revenges i have left are people i can reach on other social medias so i should be able to get them their art #anyway self indulgent oc hours for now :] sky and i are having fun #sonny my boy #they’re soooooo fucked up #dude was the paragon of their imperialist capitalist society and was forcibly molded into that role #theyre still not keen on war so they became a cutthroat businessman to get the empire what it wants with less blood shed #they also have still killed a lot of people though. directly and indirectly

[therealcallmekd]

SONNY CHAMBERLAIN ⁉️‼️

I have not seen a SINGLE person try to draw a head canon design for Sonny... what... why.... where are my people where are you. cmon..

Other design under cut: Spooky Ghost guy,,,

And ghost Sonny too.... I'm so normal about miserable men.

Ooooo You want to listen to me talk about my theories and other bs about this game,,, oooooo yes GUH PLEASE

#kinito pet #kinitopet #Sonny C #Sonny Chamberlain #kinito #kinitopet fanart #kinito the axolotl #Sonny Kinitopet #Kinitopet Sonny #kinito fanart #kinito my beloved #kinito pet fanart #Go white boy go!!!! #LOLOL LOOK AT THIS IDIOT... Imagine being DEAD HAH #kinitopet spoilers #This guy is actually so cool and neat to me fr... i cant express that enough #FriendshipClub! #KD'sCrumbs #art

[darth-sonny]

Draxum Raises the Turtles AU....................................but make it regency era

also, credit to @blinday giving me the idea of naming Leo "Edelweiss"

(edit: I got the names mixes up I am so fucking sorryyyyyy)

#i dare you guys to look up little boys clothes in the regency era #you are going to get some oompa loompa looking onesies. i actually cackled #tmnt #teenage mutant ninja turtles #rottmnt #rise of the tmnt #rise of the teenage mutant ninja turtles #rise raph #raphael hamato #rise donnie #donatello hamato #rise leo #leonardo hamato #rise mikey #michelangelo hamato #regency turtles au #<- au tag everyone #my art #sonny draws

[carlyraejepsans]

for real WHERE does the idea that [utdr humans] are nongendered so that "you can project on them" come from. their literal character arcs are about NOT being a blank slate to be filled in by the audience

i think i understand the assumption on some level for undertale, because there is a very intentional effort to make you identify with the "player character" in order to make your choices feel like your own (the beating heart of undertale's metanarrative lies in giving you an alternative path to violence against its enemies after all, and whether you're still willing to persue it for your own selfish reasons. YOUR agency is crucial).

of course, the cardinal plot twist of the main ending sweeps the rug from under your feet on that in every way, and frisk's individuality becomes, in turn, a tool to further UT's OTHER main theme: completionism as a form of diegetic violence within the story. replaying the game would steal frisk's life and happy ending from them for our own perverse sentimentality, emotionally forcing our hand away from the reset button.

i think their neutrality absolutely aids in that immersion. but also, there's this weird attitude by (mostly) cis fans where it being functional within the story makes it... somehow "editable" and "up to the player" as well? which is gross and shows their ass on how they approach gender neutrality in general lol.

but also like. there's plenty of neutral, non PCharacters in undertale and deltarune. even when undertale was just an earthbound fangame and the player immersion metanarrative was completely absent, toby still described frisk as a "young, androgynous person". sometimes characters are just neutral by design. it's not that hard to understand lol.

anyone who makes this argument for kris deltarune is braindead. nothing else to say about it.

#this is a very difficult topic to discuss imo because on Some level I don't completely disagree with people who make that argument for chara #in SPIRIT. if not in action. like my point still stands characters can just Be neutral. and if that level of customization had been intended #well Pokemon's been doing the ''are you a boy or a girl'' shtick for ages. no reason why that couldn't have been included as well #but i do feel that we're supposed to identify with chara within the story. not as in chara is us but as in we are chara #and i think someone playing the game without outside interferences and (wrongly) coming to the conclusion that chara IS literally #themselves in the story. and thus call them by their own name (the one they likely inputted at the start) and pronouns #will be someone who grasped undertale's metanarrative more than someone who went in already spoiled on the NM route who thinks of chara #(and on some level frisk as well) as completely separate from us with independent wills and personhoods at any time #who treats them as nonbinary. even if their approach is more ''appropriate'' to a gender neutral person #systematic error vs manually changing every measure to fit what you already think is going to be the correct result. ykwim? #of course this opens a whole new parentheses while discussing the game outside of your personal experience #because even if you DO see chara as a self insert then they are a self insert for EVERYONE. women men genderqueer people #i don't call chara ''biscia'' even though that's what i named the fallen human in my playthrough. neither do i use they because i also do #if you're describing the character/story objectively in how they are executed then you're going to talk about them neutrally #because you ain't the only sunovabitch who played the darn game sonny #so like. either way you turn it. even in the most self insert reading you'd STILL logically use they/them so ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯ git gud #answered asks

[eidolons-stuff]

Xavier: "I don't know. Maybe with Yoko"

Yoko: "Nice try, dumb ass"

Thing: *signs* "TELL US XAVIER"

#also #love #yoko #yoko has my heart #not as much as #thing #but it is a close second #i love these two #so much #they are awesome #yoko tanaka #xavier thorpe #xavier #you are gonna get it now #sonny boy #wenclair #wenclair cult

[helenacore]

five thousand years ago

#yamabiko #kodama #sonny boy #sonny boy fanart #fanart #my art #brart #brazilian artists #anime fanart

[tired-reader-writer]

What's up fellow salty salmon slices we have broken 6k!

And it's still nowhere near being done.

So I was redoing a couple scenes (or rather, planned to, you'll see), and the first part I chose to work on... it grew like a monster and singlehandedly ate away my day and carried the chapter past 6k.

And spontaneously spawned a new scene.

I haven't even gotten to the other parts I've been planning to.

How long this fucking chapter is gonna be, I know not.

Send your prayers because I'm pretty sure I'll be dead by the time this thing is done.

😭😭😭😭😭😭

#wolfpack au #winds of wolfsong #I mean #I'm glad the scene isn't sitting awkwardly anymore #it flows much better now and really digs into Isfan's mind #which I like #all the words I added felt necessary #but STILL #how DARE you get so big on me???????? #I fear for what the finished chapter's final word count will be #arslan senki #the heroic legend of arslan #heroic legend of arslan #isfan #my sonny boy

[1mgr1mm]

Mizuhø Køyama Icøns... Vol.1

I høpe grandma's cats are økay...☆

#anime aesthetic #anime pfp #pfp #profile picture #anime #foryou #pfp aesthetic #girl pfps #sonny boy #anime screenshot #anime icons #anime screencap #anime profile pictures #my screenshots #my sceenshots #screencaps

[iscreamkitty]

And if I said…michelangelo distortion……..what would u do abt it…………..

#tmnt #tmnt 2012 #tmnt fanart #oodle doodles #tmnt mikey #tma #kiiiind of #sorry tma ppl I know this is kinda just not related but it IS #cw body horror #tma x tmnt #not a tag BUT #in this specific instance it is VERY important to me that you all understand #that April is the archivist #VERYYYYYY #she’s my girliepop that’s getting traumatized by the narrative #in my head <3 #and yeah tecccchnically this kinda implies that sonny boy here got a little bit murdered #but dw about it

[schumiatspa]

#gigietto vs the aussie demon is the mice derby #and sonny vs carlitos makes me sad😭 and i'm sorry sonny but carlitos is my baby boy so😭 #tennis #australian open 2024

[coquelicoq]

if there is a god watching over jean valjean i bet he's just super exhausted. when valjean takes javert out behind the barricade and pretends to execute him god's probably watching that like okay you could have just saved his life and let him go, you didn't have to also give him your address so he could come arrest you later. like come on dude. just don't do that part. it is a full-time job looking out for you, would it kill you to throw me a bone here? ben affleck smoking dot jpg.

#les mis #lm 5.1.19 #my posts #it's been a while since we've had a 'let's take a look-see inside jean valjean's brain and see what this wacky guy is thinking!' chapter #so i'm just like dude wyd?? wyd bro???? why are you doing that???? #he's currently carting marius's dead weight through the parisian sewers and he just laid him down so so so gently and bandaged his #wounds and then 'looked at him with an inexplicable hatred' #kay cool. like what is going on in that there noggin of yourn sonny boy? #f

[msmargaretmurry]

the capitals having this bigass picture of sonny up when they came back to the locker room after the milano hat trick shootout win over one of the best teams in the league.... hootin and hollerin and yelling things like "new album cover".......... i cannot stand them 😭

#i did not get to watch the game live last night which is a good thing bc i would have ugly cried over kuzy #however experiencing the last period + ot + shootout via app updates #while stuck on the subway with noted canes fan maggie hopetorun was VERY funny #and my best boy dylan with his first ever nhl shootout goal!!!!! #sorry to every goalie involved in that game<3 #sonny milano #washington capitals #hockey for ts

[darth-sonny]

"Looking good there, buddy!"

okay, but listen. the idea that leo is rise casey's future adoptive father/sensei is just *clenches fist* so important to me

#the makings of a great leader is marked by their ability to inspire the people around them #and by god did leo inspire casey #look at his mask!! his mask has leo's markings!!! #and they look painted on!!! he painted on his dad's markings on his mask don't touch me!!! #tmnt #rottmnt #leonardo hamato #casey jones #their interactions will make me cry i. am. sure of it!!! #my art #sonny draws #yes casey is wearing a binder. future boy is trans bc i said so

[sighsra]

#my art #sonny boy

[connie-taylor]

Squad goals <3

#sonny isnt here bc we see him die enough :( save my boy #tcm #texas chainsaw massacre #tcsm game #texas chainsaw massacre game #txcsm #leland mckinney #connie taylor #julie crawford #ana flores

[exdeputysonso]

Brad Dourif as Weasel | Sonny Boy (1989) - pt. 2

#film #filmedit #sonny boy #sonny boy 1989 #brad dourif #poking the tag everyday like 'do something!' #what i get for getting into actors with small fan bases #sigh guess i gotta just keep filling it up with my own posts #myedit #braddourif* #sb*