Constantly Switching Between “this Is MY Tumblr And I Post Whatever I Want” And “oghg  God . Oh

IT HAD TO BE DOnE. Soo, since it’s 4/20 and thats Fresh’s  birthday I decided to animate him doing a kickflip! Happy 4/20/2020 yall. Fresh belongs to @loverofpiggies​ Edit - 4/27/2020: fixed a mistake in the animation, oops.

YEEEAAAH THE GUUYYYY THE MAAAN THE SICKNASTY WICKED RADICAL TOTALLY RIGHTEOUS FUNKY FRESH COOL DUDE YOU DREW HIS HECKIN RAD’S AROUND HIS EYESOCKETS LIKE NOBODY REMEMBERS TO DO YEAAAHAHAH you’ve won, my friend

fresh lucidia art on MY blog? it's more likely than you think.

WIPs cause they look funny. also i love this stupid parasite and his skeleton mech cause on the surface he's a goofy funny guy but underneath he's a complex individual i wanna put him under a microscope and examine him

Have you joined the discord server of alaina?

See if you dont know they got permission from cq to write a canon backstory about parsite fresh which a ton of people don't know, and i we just curious if you've seen it, if you haven't i can link it or send it to you

The discord server also contains facts about the fresh parasite, like stuff about the biology and magic and such

i only really go by CQ's posts about Fresh even tho I know she's entrusted lots of people to write about her characters before. (Though I did see a small mention of his backstory by CQ before)

From what I remember Alaina publicly cut ties with CQ, so it'd feel weird for me to go by her interpretation of the character, even if she had insider knowledge before and prolly is more invested in those parasitic logistics of the character than CQ is at this point idk

But yeah! I've seen the backstory comic Alaina posted.

8 + 7 = 15

20 + 40 = 60

60 + 15 = 75

I love "how do you do math?" questions. Here's how my brain does it:

How about you guys?

sometimes you have to search up a character on your own blog just to see what a real one is saying about them

Yes thank youuu!! I see people all the time misremember the scene where he crashes as happening when he's touched by Blue, this isn't true! He crashes because he gets overwhelmed (feeling like he doesn't know what to do) when seeing Blue have a panic attack.

This isn't associated with him being touched either, but sometimes his vision will be filled with ERRORs. This either happens randomly or when he's reminded of his past unexpectedly.

^ When Swap!Pap tried to talk him out of fighting using his past friendships.

^ When Swap!Sans tried to use friendship against him.

There's a lot of other examples of the ERRORs filling his eyes but they're almost always associated with him remembering something he doesn't want to, or thinking about companionship.

Error Sans and his haphephobia.

More so, how people take his haphephobia and twist it WAY out of proportion. This will be a long post. Feel free to skip over this.

HAPHEPHOBIA ; What is it?

Haphephobia is fairly rare, and often triggered by things such as abuse / sexual abuse or because of unidentifiable reasons. Error's, as we can assume, is caused by his glitching and just a fear of sudden touch in general. (Keep that 'sudden' part in mind.) Haphephobia, as mentioned in the screenshot, is different to hypersensitivity. Haphephobia doesn't cause a person any pain, it causes emotional distress at the thought of being touched. This can vary from person to person- Everyone experiences phobias in different ways.

DOES ERROR HAVE HAPHEPHOBIA? ; Or is it a fandom headcanon?

Yes. Error canonically has haphephobia, as stated by LoverOfPiggies.

WHY IS IT RELEVANT? ; Can I just ignore it?

NO. You can't just ignore a serious phobia. It's a part of Error, you can't pick and choose when it comes to his character. I know, I know, "It gets in the way of my art!" "It gets in the way of my fics!", but you can WORK AROUND IT. Deal with it. BUT, as I'll get into, it doesn't completely ruin your fics that apparently NEEEEEEED Error to touch someone.

SO HOW CAN I 'REMOVE' IT? ; Is it just there forever? Do I have to use it?

Yes and no. Haphephobia is actually treatable, as is most EVERY phobia. It's silly to think otherwise. I've seen a couple of very sweet fics where Error (with proper support) learns to get over the phobia and become able to touch people with ease. This is the.. Uh, chaotic neutral route? Considering you are, in a sense, removing his haphephobia, but acknowledging it's there and it's life-altering in some cases. In art this is a lot harder, since you'd need tons and tons of comic pages to cover him learning to ease off the fear just to draw a piece of Classicerror or Retroglitch fanart.

HOW TO CORRECTLY PORTRAY ; Error's haphephobia.

This is only relevant to ERROR. Haphephobia differs from person to person, monster to monster :3

Can he touch people? ; ... Yes.

Error partaking in a handshake, from Season One of Ask Error by LoverOfPiggies !! :3 Some key points occur in the moments leading up to this scene and the scene itself. An ask or two before, an anon asked to hug Error. Error happily declines, because he "would mess it up". Not because he's terrified of being touched, because he's scared of messing it up. Pathetic wet cat behaviour. In the scene above, we see Error initiate and enjoy a handshake! In fact, for the next couple asks, he doesn't even take his hand away from "Paragon"- He simply holds their hand absently. UNTIL someone points out that their handshake has crossed over into hand-holding, and anons start "shipping" the two, THAT'S when Error becomes pissed and rips his hand away. So clearly, he's fine with touch to some extent, mostly when politely asked to be touched or initiating touch of his own will.

Now...

This is when the haphephobia comes into play. (Actually, this event happens before the shipping stuff, as seen from Error still holding "Paragon"s hand.)

The anon hugs Error WITHOUT warning, WITHOUT consent, at random. THIS is what sets Error's haphophobia off, THIS is what makes him really pissed. As seen, Error starts shaking and the errors around his body become more erratic. His eyesockets go blank, he freezes, he goes into "freeze mode" before going straight to "fight mode".

So, from this we can gather, Error can initiate touch and doesn't mind consentual touch at most times.

He does have moments where he isn't fine with touch, which is okay! I'm the same, with my autism and sensory issues! He's valid in not wanting to be touched, and as long as he expresses discomfort and fellow monsters are undertanding, everything's fine.

Error's haphephobia does not flare up from the smallest handshake or a side hug. He can touch other monsters, he just doesn't want to sometimes! And people touching him out of the blue, he isn't fine with that, which makes sense!! Who does want random contact out of NO WHERE? No one !! (I don't think..)

MISCONCEPTIONS ;

Error lags when he's touched! ; Actually, Error is never shown to 'lag'. It's a fun headcanon, though! ^_^

Error bluescreens ; This is just another headcanon, which is fun to fiddle with, but not canon!

Error can crash and reboot like an old computer ; Yes, actually! In Season Two of Ask Error, he does reboot after a considerable amount of stress (?).

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Anyways, thanks for listening to the yapper! Uh, feel free to correct me on anything if I got somethings wrong!! ^_^ Love you all!! Mwah mwah mwah!!/p

ok for realzies i got ink but i was curious and wanted to share what the fresh one says hehe.. (love that me putting fresh-y answers actually gave fresh as a result)

this does literally sound like my online persona tho.. kinda a vibe, i feel that way somedays, especially the "You are afraid of yourself, you are in love with yourself". i LOVE the evil groovy silly eldritch deep sea creature nonsense. THIS IS SUCH A GOOD TAKE ON FRESH THO LOOOVE IT LOVE THIS QUIZ @syxadel YOU ARE AWESOME FOR THIS AAAAAAAA

Cutely frolics away

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UHHH AMPHIBIA SPOILERS FOR LIKE THE WHOLE SHOW 

I believe the point of the story was that Marcy saw Amphibia as the perfect escape when that wasn’t really true... She saw it through the lens of perfect fantasy glasses when it was as REAL and scary and horrific as the world she came from. Sure she did do a lot of amazing things, but she only really had an easier time because the king himself was using her.  She was so happy because she had Andrias to support and listen to her, and an immediate escape from her life’s past problems... I’m sure if she hadn’t met Andrias the amphibians would treat her as a strange outsider like Wartwood did to Anne.  Marcy probably would’ve had a much harder time expressing herself and doing what she wanted in Amphibia if Andrias hadn’t manipulated her by giving her his companionship and social power.  She doesn’t have the same people skills that Anne does, and the same manipulation tactics that Sasha had.  She would probably struggle to find her place in Amphibia despite it resembling fantasy media she’d consumed before.

All of this to say... Andrias betrayed her, and fatally wounded her, fully of his own volition.  He manipulated her and used her, fully of his own choice.  The one authority figure who Marcy thought truly supported her, IMPALED HER WITH A SWORD.  AND THEN DID MUCH WORSE BY GETTING HER POSSESSED.  Amphibia might’ve been a good place for her, but what we saw in the show was a façade, a perfect sugary frosting over a dark and tainted legacy of corruption.  We saw Marcy serving a king and his lord who thought of glory first, and people last.  This is why Amphibia wasn’t a good place for Marcy, she thrived in the corrupt city of Newtopia, and when the curtain was pulled back, she saw that this world was the same as the one she came from, with the same horrors and sorrows.. and even though earth was scary, she could go back to somewhere where she did belong, somewhere where any fantasy she chased didn’t have a potential of being too real and too cruel to her.  

I mean, if it were me and I found out horrifying magical amphibian brain transferring and body controlling technology was a thing I’d immeeediately nope out.  Yeah fantasy’s cool but NOT THAT- 

Also, a sortve unrelated thought about Andrias and Marcy... Maybe the plan wasn’t even fully a manipulation tactic or a lie, maybe Andrias was going to take her on his conquests, emotional support for his selfish destruction. His ancestors did keep trophies from other worlds... the moss men, the ghost fish... and Andrias was going to conquer earth next.   Marcy... was his new trophy.  Aldrich would be proud.

To put my complaints with Marcy's arc in particular into more coherent words now that I'm calmer.

It's absolutely true that from a meta perspective that Marcy did seem to end up happy in the end and that she is incredibly strong for it. However, with that being said, the fact that things turned out okay in universe doesn't change the fact that I disagree with the way the ending of her arc was portrayed narratively. Whether or not she ended up fine from a meta perspective isn't really up for debate here. She obviously did and I'm proud of her for that. But I've always had a problem with the idea that the morally correct or healthiest option for Marcy would be to go back to earth. And whether or not the writers intended to send that message (its absolutely very possible they were going for something more along the lines of marcy being strong enough to get through the undoubtedly hard time she'd have back on earth), that's kinda what they did.

Marcy spent a lot of the last episodes feeling guilty for everything she did and talking about how she started this whole mess trying to run away from reality, then she goes back to earth and she at least seems to end up happy there. It reads like your typical "Marcy was selfish and wrong for stealing the music box and needs to suck it up and go live in the real world >:(" take I've been arguing against since forever.

I probably wouldn't feel the way I do if there had been no possible way to stay in Amphibia and if they'd addressed that going back to earth isn't quite fair to Marcy but that she's strong enough to get through it. I probably wouldn't feel the way I do if they'd even just so much as cut back on that guilt Marcy really laid on thick over bringing them to Amphibia. Or if the other girls had stayed in contact with her after they went home since that'd give her a reason to want to go back at least.

But none of those things happened. And whatever the intention was, this ending for Marcy feels like a bad message to send. She was happy and accepted in Amphibia and she left because....why?

They didn't give any indication that there was something back on earth that she'd desperately miss. She spent six months in Amphibia the happiest she'd ever been and never once did she miss earth, and yet suddenly, now that she's started being obviously self critical for "hiding from reality" she's perfectly happy to go back?

Yeah, no, the message definitely reads as "Marcy was wrong when she tried to change her life circumstances and she needs to leave the place where she genuinely has the resources she needs that weren't available on earth and go back to earth so she can work twice as hard as everyone else to pull herself into a decent life. Because struggling through a world that wasn't built for her on earth is The Right Thing To Do and hiding from reality in Amphibia would be Wrong."

There were ways to write Marcy going back to earth permanently that would be fine, but this absolutely was not it in my opinion because I'll just never be able to agree with the idea that living in Amphibia is an immoral or unhealthy thing for Marcy to do when it's blatantly clear she thrived there so much easier than she ever did on earth.

Honestly if Indigo does turn out to be ace that’s a really interesting twist!  I made a character a while ago who was inspired quite a bit by Indigo, and over time his character developed into being asexual.. it just kinda worked out, tied everything into a nice little bow.  My character was putting up this front that he was hyper-sexual because he thought it gave him some form of charm or made him cool.  He was acting like he got all the women, flirting with almost every lady he came across, and generally being a nuisance and not actually having anybody take him up on those numerous offers.  But one day, after a girl finally picked things up with him, he realized that he cared more about inter-personal emotional connections than having a sexual partner or a bunch of women chasing after him.   He realized that he was pretending to have these feelings because he felt inadequate not having them.. he felt like he didn’t fit in.(That was after he realized he was asexual.. before finally getting what he ‘wanted’ (a girlfriend, a sexual partner.) he didn’t realize that it wasn’t actually what he wanted after all..)  Then he realized that the friendship he built with the people around him, and this girl specifically, was what truly connected them to him, and his sexual comments towards them were just to hold up a front and make himself feel confident. Basically after a while my character accepted himself and changed his point of view and focus. SO YEAH I WOULD BE SO STOKED IF INDIGO TURNED OUT TO BE ACE TOO FHVFSGDHh

So, what IS indigos orientation, if that isn't rude to ask. Im just curious if he might be ace aro or maybe hinting at being bi or bi-curious or if he's just straight and has anxiety

These are great questions!I’ll leave them to Indigo to figure out