POV; You're Easter, Listening To Music While Doing 'art Therapy'

"Not sorry."

Genzou would watch as blood pours out of Iggy’s earlobes and eyelids. He continued to struggle against the two rabbit guards' grip.

“I’M SORRY!! ORLAM, STOP!! PLEASE STOP, I’M SORRY!!!” Genzou loudly begged as tears continued to stream down his cheeks. He could hear the two guards holding him, chuckling underneath their breath. He watches as the life in Iggy’s blood stained eyes faded away. 

Genzou's struggles came to a pause as he looked at Iggy’s limp and motionless form. He couldn’t be…

He watches the ginger haired king release the motionless form of his white haired friend…his partner’s body slumped over as it was the chains that were stopping his body from falling onto the dirty ground.

“Iggs?..” Genzou quietly called out with a shaky voice. His usual cockiness was completely gone, broken, as he looked at the body in front of him.

“Iggy!?” Genzou called out once more but louder this time. He didn’t even notice his body trembling as he continued to look at the body of the man he was supposed to protect. The man he was supposed to love. The man he was supposed to hold every single night.

His thoughts were interrupted by a loud bark of laughter coming from the King of the land. Slowly, Genzou lifted up his head and looked up at Orlam. He never felt so much hatred against Orlam until now. Orlam looks down at the teary mess that Genzou had become.

“What’s the matter, Gennyzou? No more witty comments?” Orlam ‘playfully’ pinched Genzou’s cheek with a victorious grin. Genzou grimaced by Orlam’s touch as his gaze lays upon Iggy’s body once more. Just by looking at the once live body of the man he loves, faint memories of both past and present, the moments from last night left an ache in his heart…

How he held Iggy close to his body as they slept through the night.

His first kiss with the man he loved and had a crush on since High school...

The warmth he felt with Iggy close to him…

What a fucking moron. A shitty moron is what he is. An self-centred asshole who should've been the one to get tortured, to get killed . Not Iggy.

He was supposed to protect Iggy. What kind of person wouldn’t protect their partner? What kind of asshole leaves them vulnerable? 

I’m sorry…

Genzou quietly apologised as he continued to look at the pale, bloody burnt body of his white haired partner.

I’m so fucking sorry, Iggy…

Silence filled the area. That was until Orlam let out a small chuckle. He roughly grabbed both of Genzou’s cheeks and forced him to look up at him once more.

“Tell me, Genzou,”

Orlam trailed off for a brief moment as he mockingly wiped away the tears coming out of Genzou’s eyes.

“Are you still sorry?”

[ Fractured Loop #1: Poor Genzou should’ve been genuine to Orlam, should've been nicer. Oh well, at least Iggy isn't suffering anymore. Sadly, Genzou suffered a slow death as Orlam made sure his death was slow and painful. To remind Genzou of the pain he had made Orlam go through. It would be a lie if one say that Genzou died peacefully.]

Note: Idk y I wrote this. maybe because I have 2 tests this week. wish me luck UnU,

W.I.P Chapter 1 (of fanfic):

Freaky ass door knob.

When you went to church after your mother gave you the biggest ass whopping.

Mum: "You're alright." :) Me, who literally got a whole baffet of ass whopping, having tears in my eyes:

[idk, i was kind of bored. dw, I respect my elders now. (god, I was such a little shit-)]

Day 3: What moment surprised me?

There were a few moments that surprised me.

1 ) Jerry,

Honestly, I didn't paid too much attention to Jerry while playing the arcs until OFW and Arc 5. I'm like; "ohhhh. The Furry got Aura now."

2 ) Genzou and Orlam were dating??

I honestly thought that Genzou and Orlam just have a frenemy trope but nothing more! Until Arc 5 and the Last Dance, there were brief moments showing me that there was more to that. I'm also surprised that Orlam would even date someone who's been bullying me since childhood tho.

3 ) The Iggy Dolls.

Honestly, I played a few horror Visual Novel, so I prepared myself for a horror looking version of Iggy in Arc 5, at Gidgets route. Turns out it was just a doll version of Iggy. The relief I felt.

4 ) THE FUCKING TOMATO OMPA LOOMPAS-

BRO. Those little shits are the definition of looks can be deceiving because when I first played it I'm like, 'I'm going with the tomatoes. I mean, what could possibly go wrong??'

Fucking gets eaten after a few minutes later. So, yeah, I was about to commit a tomato massacre whenever seeing those little shits-

5 ) The Tree in Arc 5.

I mean. I was surprised about it in two parts. One, that it fucking killed Saydie, a baby. I was so so disgusted and shocked by this revelation.

But omfg. Two, after the tree had freaking pointed out the group's flaw it proceeds to go on and say; "But alas, I realised that, babies can't talk."

I'm like, "You just insulted the entire group but you didn't even know that babies couldn't talk. Are you a dumbass tree or what?-".

6 ) Finally, Saydie being the one guiding Iggy?

Honestly, I didn't really expect a baby to guide Iggy throughout the Arc. How constantly begging him to kill her. Like, I really didn't expect Saydie to help any of them out due to, you know, what happened to her physical form. Also, I've seen that sometimes a child's mind can easily be manipulated by an elder. So, I'm glad but surprised that the tree didn't even try to manipulate Saydie before transferring her soul/mind(?) into Iggy's body.

There were more twists and turns that had surprised me but these six were the mains sooo. 😅

Day 3

What was the biggest surprise or unexpected moment or twist for you while playing OW?

I'll tweak this for myself to be while working on OW haha. I probably couldn't count the number of times the story or chars took things in a different direction than I had originally planned in the game. But if I had to name the biggest... it would probably be Arc 4 in general.

Arc 4 was the first arc that started to veer wildly from the kind of Semi-Plan I had in my head for each arc. Arcs 1 and 2 came out mostly the same. Arc 3 started to veer a little bit (mostly in the extra little stuff that happened in between the larger moments). But Arc 4... almost nothing in Arc 4 went to plan. And the whole symbolism of The Ball being the same as what happened at After-Prom? And that whole build-up? Literally came out of nowhere. I still do not know how it worked out as well as it did and all just kinda fell into place LOL I think that's part of why I also like Arc 4 so much, because it was such a wild ride even for me. And I'm still shocked at how it turned out.

Second biggest surprise was definitely Jerry! Random one-off joke character in Arc 2 who I then brought back for Spooktober mostly because I thought it was quite silly. Then to become a major serious character in Arc 5? And it all somehow worked so well?? I could never in my wildest dreams have predicted that LOL Oh Jerry... you are one in a million.

"Jerry the Runway Queen King."

All this hard work, only for him to be in 3rd place.

Context:

...Dress to Impress.

Also, yes I gave Jerry sideburns and a goatee(???), I tried to make him look similar to his Broomtail design the best I could.

😞💦

‼️‼️We will die at any moment‼️‼️

The war has returned after 15 months of death and genocide. We have never rested. We are losing people every day, most of them children and women... The bombing is everywhere. Our children are afraid...The sound is frightening.😭

There is no food, no drink, no medicine, the crossing is closed and everything is expensive.

‼️We don't want to die. Please donate and help us so we can buy food and medicine for my mother and save ourselves from death. Just donate. 😭🙏😞🫂‼️

gofundme.com

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Buxley (Bucks) at the end of Arc 1, after missing her axe-swinging towards Iggy;

(this meme reminds me so much of that CG/ Cutscene ngl gang...)

Anyways, Iggy x Bucks Axe for life. 🩵🪓🩵

"I wish I could make my friends this happy forever."

That scene hurt me.

When I first watched that scene. Read that text. Seeing how Iggy only wanted his friends to be happy, putting their wants and needs above his own, seeing how he only thinks about them...It made my heart ached. I didn't even notice that I was crying myself until I saw my keyboard getting wet lol.

After watching that scene, that aching in my heart and the confusion on why I cried didn't fade away. I think it took me about a week or two to know why. Maybe because I felt that familiarity and similarity of wanting to put others happiness before my own.

Before 2025, before finally breaking the walls I've created, I've always felt the need to put others happiness before my own. My family's and friends'needs and wants over my own that I forgot what I had wanted. Until I went to High School and reality punched me in the head. When my old friends drifted away, the connection I felt broke from my grasp. I was lost.

Lost, confused, scared and isolated for one and a half years. Pretending to be someone that they wanted me to be, hiding away the person with their own dreams. I've always been so fucking anxious on what my future will be, on what others think of me, and scared on what my friends think of me. It's hard to explain how I finally escaped on the cage I've built but I think the realisation that what I was doing isn't what I wanted but what others wanted me to be, finally broken the shell.

Now, I'm happy. Grateful for my life, grateful to be around people who understand and care about me for just being me, for understanding my own needs and wants, for putting up my weird ass humour.

I think the reason why that scene, that sentence, stabbed my heart was because I was just like Iggy. Wanting to please others, wanting his friends to be happy despite himself. I never thought that I would have a connection to Iggy. And I never read/played a visual novel that kissed a brick and bash into my heart repeatedly. Which, I meant was, I never played a visual novel that touched my heart...

I'm happy that Iggy got to find his own happiness and make his own choices.

I'm happy that I found my own happiness and made my own choices.

Life is precious. Cherish every single moment of it. Make your own choices. Find your own happiness. ♥️

Gosh. Our Wonderland really is an emotional rollercoaster. 🌹

How To Make Your First Visual Novel

I'm yet again in a talkative mood, and as someone who has made/helped make over ten visual novels, I figured I would be Qualified™ to talk about it!

Step One: Pick Your Fighter... er... Engine!

Deciding the game engine you want to work in is the first step to having a game! Ren'Py is the most popular, free-to-use engine for visual novels, with tons of add-ons done by creators such as Devil Spiδεr and Feniks. Other commonly-used engines include Naninovel (an extension to Unity) and RPG Maker.

Step Two: Wait, What Goes In The Engine?

Whodathunk that for a visual novel, you need a story and visuals!

Clip Studio Paint has a series on making visual novel sprites, though any old art software works for making visual novel art. As for writing, I highly recommend Better Fountain, an extension to Visual Studio Code which enables to you to write in Fountain syntax. For music, I recommend Audiostock which gives access to hundreds of thousands of songs with their subscription service.

Step Three: But What Do I Do With All Of This?

Spoilers, your first visual novel... probably won't be your best. You have to make it to break the first timer's curse. Study your favorite visual novels, listen to other developers' processes, learn more about art/writing/music/etc., and remember that it doesn't have to be perfect. In a year of making visual novels, my work went from the left image, to the right:

You can do it too! Now go out there, and make visual novels!

Day 19: Has Ow have a positive impact?

When I first played Our Wonderland, I was incredibly sick. Like very sick. VERY SICK. Like, 'My bones are weak and I can't walk and talk' sick....Also, I was going through a burn out and I hadn't drawn anything for ages. Like since last year.

But while playing Our Wonderland, it gave me a large amount of comfort during the rough time and I always have something to look forward to whenever laying in bed, acting like a sick Victorian child.

Thanks to Our Wonderland, I made some new friends, connected best to my other friends (who I haven't seen or talked to in ages) and got me to be more understanding and such.

Despite me making quite an awkward first impression to the OW community, literally y'all are nothing but kind. (Or maybe I've been in shitty communities before ;3;)

But yeah, Our Wonderland did have a large positive impact on my life, and I do not regret playing it >:D

Despite me wheezing, coughing, staying up (somehow) for 24 hour-