continue the underswap train with napstablook and mettaton!

missholoska:

anon, buddy, you have no idea how much I appreciate your timing in sending this, because literally within this past week I got a surge of inspiration for Napstabot and I haven’t stopped being excited about them ever since :’D

I wanna say first though, they’re a similar case to Noodle/Swap Papyrus in that I have nothing against the original Underswap version of the character, but they just never appealed to me personally so I did what I want with them. Honestly I couldn’t see the original Napstablook in there, and given that I love versions of Underswap where the characters retain aspects of their personalities that’s probably where my problem is.

also I can’t remember the source on this but I recall hearing that Napstabot likes their arms the way MTT likes his legs, so I had an idea a while back to make a point of that in their design by reversing MTT’s noodly arms and fabulous legs, so Napstabot would have cool bulky arms and noodly legs.

and I think it looks pretty neat o/

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I’ll go into more detail about their personality when I get to making a character sheet for them but they’re outwardly more upbeat and confident than UT Napstablook, but they’re not quite as extravagant as MTT and their shyness in public is well known. Design-wise their gauntlets are covered in controls for music and their tear trails light up to the beat, and they are definitely going to trip on those shoe laces.

I haven’t designed their box form yet, but I did have a silly idea that it has square-shaped headphones which become a terrible, actual fashion trend in the Underground, but by the time they get their new body those normal headphones are built-in and they’re just like “oh no…. i’m off-brand……………”

also! I didn’t forget about Happstablook/Mettaton!!

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Happstablook can come off as being a bit awkward at first, but in his comfort zone or around familiar company he becomes much more of a charming performer. With him running the family business, the original game’s kind of pathetic snail farm is now the Blook Family Snail Salon, which is still actually a farm but it’s ~luxurious~. Having the Queen of All Monsters as your best customer does wonders for business.

I need to do Alphys and Undyne’s character sheets next (hopefully sometime this month!) but these two will both get mentions in those, their respective friendships are still a thing :>

skullification:

[image description: A drawing in pencil on lined paper of Napstabot, a lanky robot with very long hair, wearing a hoodie and black headphones. They’re slouching and looking off to the right, with dialogue from Mettaton out of view saying, “Blooky! Shoulders back, darling, you’re killing me.” /end ID]

it’s been a while since i’ve done a napstabot design

i’m just gonna say…

skull-bearer:

korrasera:

thefingerfuckingfemalefury:

lennythereviewer:

zone34timeout:

annaarendelle-love:

drag-queen-jesus:

there’s a right way to do unexpected villans

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and a wrong way

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the difference being subtle hints 

Turbo from Ralph is good and unexpected villian too and with good subtle hints as well.

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Thisthisthisthisthis

You can’t just make a character start being evil with no explanation or foreshadowing or any character hints whatsoever. It makes the viewer feel cheated.

King Candy was already a good villain to begin with, coming off more as a well-intentioned extremist. He gave Ralph what he wanted up front with no strings attached, and then convinced him that doing something bad was indeed for the greater good, then came the twist that he was lying the whole time.

Revealing the fact that he has a secret identity was the icing on the cake.

The twist was SO well done and genuinely surprising but also hinted at well with the reveal that King Candy had meddled with the games code plus the fact that it was a RACING game that he’d made himself king of…

Also on a related note, King Candy’s design both before and after he turns into a Literal Bug Monster is one of the most unsettling villain designs in a kids movie since Judge Doom in Who Framed Roger Rabbit

The prince from Frozen wasn’t really an unexpected villain. Elsa was the villain and the hero of her own story. The prince was just the magic mirror and it only showed Anna everything she already felt.

The best part was that we hear Turbo’s theme tune in King Candy’s throne room, and it’s a dead give away but the writers were just ‘we know you won’t pick up on this and will kick yourselves later.’

osointricate:

“In this essay I will” is a meme that only encourages the op to put forth ideas into the world without making a concrete claim allowing them to express ideas on a subject without conclusion while at the same time submitting a thesis as fact

“Thanks for coming to me TED talk,” in contrast, allows the op to claim that whatever statement they’ve said to be their final say on any given topic, but also allows people to grow on it as well, as are the nature of TED talks

We are creating shortcuts in communication and I love it

teenagerposts:

level 1: venting by crying

level 10: venting by faking a conversation in your head with someone

level 113: venting by creating an intricate alternate universe scenario in ur head where ur a celebrity on a talk show dramatically explaining the shit u’ve been going thru