I Liked Your Spearmaster Design So I Doodled Them

Hello it is I, the Popcorn enjoyer anon, no longer anon because like.. I'm not really hiding anything and I have no reason to be anxious on tumblr of all places. I've got a question about the wholeness of Dancing. Since she doesn't splinter off into multiple timelines and is a Whole Being, what happens if she dies from something? Would she still get the information from the future she technically hadn't lived through yet?

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[Small spoiler warning to the Watcher DLC? AU sillytalk based on in-game mechanics, NOT canon lore]

What I was thinking is that instead of all of Dancing's memories traveling through time, time literally fully rewinds in the case of her dying. For normal creatures, dying would go like this, for reference:

Both of those realities and timelines exist, it depends who's perspective we're watching them through right now. That's why Ringing's children are dead - we are watching the one branch where that was the case from her perspective.

I imagined Dancing to be kind of a "representant" or "ambassador of the world" itself, she's somewhat of a higher point of reference, a guardian of said spacetime (which she'd become during the equivalent of her in-game plotline in RoF) working alongside it. Spacetime which she doesn't really want to meddle with if it's not needed and there isn't anything endangering the Cycle (put a pin in that :-) ).

Time would also probably rewind to the last time she slept, for the sake of consistency with the hibernation respawn mechanic and the whole "sleep is like a demo version of death" type of deal.

So any realities that managed to branch off during that period of time (a short one as well, a Slugcat can't go long without some rest once in a while) would also be erased and turned back to the time of Dancing's last nap she took somewhere in time, somewhere in space, but with no memories being sent back in time, rather seamlessly. Events in all those realities would also go how they did the first time, unless Dancing was one involved with them and chose to do something differently this time. But that's something she doesn't really want to do (get it? She's the Watcher. The one who watches [absolute cinema]).

Reminder that this AU has a discord server for anyone interested in similar rambles, added here so it doesn't get lost under the cut ->(CLICK)

[FIRST DLC ENDING SPOILERS BELOW - Bonus doodle and additional Dancing lore]

Bonus doodle for that train of thought, because after all her fun adventures with the mischevious Echo child, she found a place to call home in Ancient Urban, where there's not much to worry about in the department of "things that could kill me". Honestly after years of wandering dozens of dimensions - she deserves that break.

GUYS.... I LOVE INV!!!!

Ancient-style anthro slugcats part 2, Gourmand

One hand armored to protect, other one uncovered to offer help

poll for the next one to anthropomorphize

PART 1 - ARTIFICER

PART 2 - GOURMAND (YOU ARE HERE)

PART 3 - RIVULET

PART 4 -HUNTER

PART 5 - SPEARMASTER

PART 6 - ENOT

PART 7 - SAINT

PART 8 - WATCHER

PART 9 - MONK

PART 10 - SURVIVOR

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Can I get uhhhhh soggy saint please?

Got sogged for our sins

Mindset shift that changed my life

Ancient-style anthro slugcats part 10, Survivor!

Emo. Or "Countless Ways of Voices Below", seemed fitting!

And we're done!! Technically I'll still make a lineup in ms paint for clearer colors for the guys, I actually started already. Clearly all the designs slowly turned into a small AU which, for now at least, got a cool little name of "Rhythm of Falls", relating to both the rain and another thing that comes around in circles in Rain World. All posts with those fellas will now #rwrof au

PART 1 - ARTIFICER

PART 2 - GOURMAND

PART 3 - RIVULET

PART 4 -HUNTER

PART 5 - SPEARMASTER

PART 6 - ENOT

PART 7 - SAINT

PART 8 - WATCHER

PART 9 - MONK

PART 10 - SURVIVOR (YOU ARE HERE)

Check out #rwrof au tag for more content with those designs

Follow up:

Also a meme addition from @end-orfino

I don't think Enot would mind the cold

They were called "slaymaster" and a "diva" in one cool server once so I had to do it

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Ancient-style anthro slugcats part 7, Saint!

Or "Three Fallen Sparks, Tens of Dreams", as this is the names she's getting for this au thingy. Very glad I got to draw her next to Inv, you all can await some interaction art of the two soon enough. Also - there won't be any more polls since I'm doing pairs - Watcher is next, then Monk and Survior.

Anteater face, designing the mask was a nightmare (edit: And Saint will be the only one to get a mask, wanted to make them the closest to the whole ancient fit from all of the designs)

PART 1 - ARTIFICER

PART 2 - GOURMAND

PART 3 - RIVULET

PART 4 -HUNTER

PART 5 - SPEARMASTER

PART 6 - ENOT

PART 7 - SAINT (YOU ARE HERE)

PART 8 - WATCHER

PART 9 - MONK

PART 10 - SURVIVOR

Check out #rwrof au tag for more content with those designs