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allabouttaleblr · 15 days

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some rambles on my takes on the acachallas <333

papa acachalla is very much a tired dad who doesn’t really care all too much about anything. any which way. he’s hooked up with a guy before to experiment, went “eh” and completely forgot about it. sally puts him in dresses and makeup for her tea parties and he surprisingly never complains. he instantly accepted sue as his daughter, even though he did complain about getting another child. sally told him one day she likes girls and he went “huh. well i guess you got that from me” and then took her out for ice cream. he’s perpetually tired and over time, has become hard to phase. billy sprouts wings and flies around? well, that’s to be expected, it’s tuesday after all. sally’s eyes turns black and she starts screaming for waffles? no big deal, he keeps a freezer of waffles for this. he loves gertrude but doesn’t show it as much as he should, but he’s trying. he does the universal dad stance and squints his eyes whenever the kids show him anything on their phones. his idea of a romantic date is going to the nearest burger place on a busy friday night. he got himself a nice comfy couch in the living room and falls asleep on it regularly. he’s such a dad, but refuses to admit it.

gertrude is tall and thin, with slightly bony features and liver spots scattered across her body. her face wrinkles whenever she laughs, smiles or cries. her shoulders are broad and thick, her hips are blocky and her build is stocky but thin, like a twig. she casually mentions her memories of putting on a dress for the first time and realizing she was a girl the whole time. she still tucks her kids in, even though they’re in their twenties, thirties and forties. she buys ice cream for any kid she sees without enough money for the ice cream truck. she watched hours upon hours of youtube tutorials for afro-textured hair when they took sally in, and now she can do dozens upon dozens of hairstyles for her. she hand-sews dresses for sue and repairs billy’s work clothes. she buys a new computer for spencer every two-three years and leaves it at his door with a snack plate. she takes her beloved granddaughter, ivy, out for ice cream and movie dates so maddie and/or billy can have a day off. she pulls a blanket over papa when he falls asleep in his chair, and fixes hot cocoa for everyone on cold nights. she has a self care day every week where she rests and watches her favorite movie/shows.

sue loves everything feminine, and simultaneously embraces everything non-feminine about herself. she wears pink dresses with frilly lace and bows, and proudly displays her thick arm and leg hair wherever she goes. she works out and shows off her thick muscles and abs. she’s not fluent in spanish, but speaks it regularly regardless. she carries sally on her shoulders and clumsily makes little dresses for her niece, ivy (they’re always messy, but ivy loves them anyways). she grows her hair out to her shoulders and ties it up with the same bow sally got her every day. she has a partner, rebecca, who she even tried to learn how to cook for just to bring her goodies (they’re often burnt, but rebecca never complains). she loves chick flicks, romcoms and comedies, and hides at horror movies. she’s set up a really cozy room for herself and rebecca in the house, with all of rebecca’s things in it that she bought with weeks of saved up allowance money. she loves and loves and loves. her hugs are warm and all-encompassing, and she’ll hug just about anyone for any reason. she’s enthusiastic and genuine in everything she does.

billy is much smarter than he lets on. he has abandonment issues and often hides behind a childish, “dumber” facade as a way to cope. he sometimes can’t look in the mirror because all he sees is his mother’s face staring back at him. he’s lanky but not quite tall. he’s close with his twin sister, charlie, despite being separated for much of their childhood. he goes out to movies and aquariums and zoos with her, and is fully fluent in sign language. he’ll do it so naturally that he sometimes uses sign language at home, because he forgets he’s not around charlie anymore. he never even thought he’d want to be a dad but he is so, so utterly taken with his daughter, ivy. he takes lots of pictures of her and proudly displays each and every single drawing she has ever made for him. he carries her on his shoulders and impulse buys clothes and toys for her all the time. he’s grown to find comfort in maddie’s presence, now that the two are in a healthy relationship. he irons his shirt and picked up sewing from gertrude. he’s started watching shows with papa every sunday evening as a way to bond. he’s indescribably close to sally; the two just understand each other in a way no one else does. they’ll sit in silence watching a movie together. he’ll play tea parties with sally every single time she asks without fail. he’s learned how to do her hair just to spend quiet evenings braiding it. he and sue go to zoos together, and he helps coach her on the few recipes he does know- and gets very proud when she outshines him. he prefers to be around people, but often takes an hour or two in the evenings to just have his own time, and he sits listening to music.

sally is larger than life and makes sure everyone around her knows it. she’s energetic, she’s fun, she’s loud and bright and bubbly and talkative and cheerful and so, so much more. she’s as bright and warm as the sun, and simultaneously just as brutal when she slips into her more monstrous form. she likes all things pink and purple and sparkly and glittery. she likes frills and laces and beads and pearls. she likes dresses and skirts and pretty shoes. she likes just about anything and everything pretty. she’ll befriend any animal she comes across, even dangerous ones, and they never harm her. she’s a complete and total optimist through and through, but isn’t nearly as oblivious or naive as she once was; still, it’s something she struggles with on occasion. gertrude takes her out and helps sally build her confidence and as much independence as possible, and sally loves it. she loves going to new places and exploring- zoos, aquariums, art galleries, museums, lighthouses, libraries, everything. she's become incredibly eager to learn and absorb new information, and her curiosity is limitless. she spends so, so, so much time with her siblings and spencer (even if spencer likes to pretend he hates it most of the time). she's almost never without either one of her siblings, or gertrude. she's a mama's girl and daddy's girl at the same time.

spencer doesn't like to be alone nearly as much as he claims he does. in reality, he hates being alone so much and fears being abandoned again- but he would never admit that to anyone. still, gertrude notices, and goes out of her way to do nice things for him and give him quiet reassurances that he belongs here, that he has a home here now. the basement was completely renovated so spencer can have a nice bedroom, and gertrude got him a complete gaming setup too. he plays video games a lot and streams them, and gertrude, sally and billy all watch every single stream he does (unless they're working). spencer has gradually warmed up to the other family members, and can even be spotted on sunday nights curled up on the opposite couch to papa acachalla, intently watching the movie on screen (which he insisted needed to be some mystery, action or horror movie, and papa always lets spencer have the remote). spencer will happily infodump for hours about computers and video games and computer mechanics and everything in between, to anyone who will listen.

maddie is incredibly passionate over anything and everything she puts her mind to. she used to obsess over billy, until she found out she was pregnant and began therapy- now she obsesses over making sure her daughter is healthy, happy, has everything, is learning everything, and can grow up to be a wonderful person. she sews clothes for ivy, cooks her all three meals a day, bakes her goodies for school, crafts and carves toys for her, and heavily researches all the best places nearby to take her. she's an extraordinarily loving mother who always does her absolute best in everything. she did quit her job for a while, but now finds purpose outside of motherhood in crafting furniture and toys to sell to others. she's learned to enjoy having her own time, and has rediscovered herself- she's learned she likes rock music and occasional heavy metal, she's learned she prefers savory over sweet things except on special occasions, she's learned she has a good eye for fashion and that she enjoys window-shopping whenever possible. she goes to therapy every week and has even taken a handful of community college classes purely to learn new things rather than to get a degree. she's loud and super energetic when she's excited. she has incredibly steady hands and surprisingly sharp focus. she's learned asl fluently, and is learning spanish alongside her daughter so they can talk to each other. she likes museums and art galleries because she gets to learn new things and see new things. she's grown into her own person, and has become an incredible mother as well.

#i will ramble more about them another time but i love them all <33 #i don't talk about them or develop them nearly as much as i should #but anyways #taleblr #venturiantale #billy acachalla #papa acachalla #sally acachalla #gertrude acachalla #spencer acachalla #taleblr maddie-friend #salem's taleblr rambles

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incorrect-vt-quotes · 10 days

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Gertrude: While I'm gone, Billy, you're in charge. Billy: Yes! Gertrude, whispering: Spencer, you're secretly in charge. Spencer: Obviously.

#incorrect quotes #incorrect venturiantale quotes #incorrect vt quotes #gertrude acachalla #billy acachalla #spencer acachalla #acachalla family #venturiantale

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overthinkingtaleblr · 4 months

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How do you think each Acachalla child came into the fam?

I was going to answer this yesterday but stopped trying after clicking away and losing progress twice, so this is my third try! I really wanted to put my VISION out into the world as much as possible. Because I have a vision. Because I am normal.

I wanted to go into detail about Gertrude and Papa’s relationship first since that’s the situation they’re getting kids in, but I’m doing Gertrude and Papa’s relationship as this week’s masterpost, so I’ll just say that they were barely dating when Sally and Billy came in, but were married before Sue joined. Additionally, everyone was taken in when it was noted that they were in need.

Cutoff since I expect this to be a bit lengthy!

Billy and Sally joined the family together and were the first out of the siblings. Papa was working late at the 7-11 when these two random kids stumbled in and after awhile of them wandering around (and the smaller one getting into the Eggos), Papa was incentivized to actually figure out what their deal was. It took about an hour to work out that they both had no memory where they came from, they had no idea how they got there, and no money on them. After an additional call to Gertrude, it was concluded that no one was looking for them either. If Papa was more into the paranormal, it would've been easy to conclude a pair of black-eyed children found out what contacts were.

Of course the family would never realize it, but Billy and Sally were placed there by Darth Calculus to infiltrate the family. Only Sally, who was not in on the plan, was supposed to be amnesiac, but she ended up being more crafty than expected and had Billy's mind wiped instead. Sally still had all her memories... she just had no idea what was going on. 24 hours ago, Sally was in a zombie apocalypse, one where she got her brain partially destroyed after getting infected. However, due to not being human, she didn't become a normal zombie. Neither of them had the language or understanding to express any of these ideas, leaving Papa confused as to what he was dealing with.

Normally, Papa would've been more ready to call in a social worker or something, but these crazy teens kind of pulled at his heartstrings. It had been years since he had any real connection with his living family or the people he grew up with, and these two had some... similarities. The girl shared a name with one of his close friends who he had a recent falling-out with, and the boy was a dead ringer for his cousin who died at about the same age. If his hesitation wasn't enough, Gertrude's insistence that the foster system was terrible (she had a bit of experience) and immediate attachment to the kids was something separate to blame.

Since they still thought these kids were from the area, they didn't actually adopt them at first. Just took them in for food and shelter while keeping an eye out for missing posters or something. Gertrude gave up the loft she was staying in for the kids to share and slept on the couch until it started hurting her back. It took a bit of placement shifting before she and Papa agreed to share his bed. Around that time their new family system became normal and the kids started being considered Acachallas as well.

Spencer is unique in that he followed specifically Gertrude home. She had a harder time keeping a job, moving from place to place frequently, being fired and quitting in equal amounts. When the sloppy younger teen walked in critiquing her for her lack of knowledge in the things she was selling, she kicked him out for being a know-it-all jerk, not really considering if he had family close by. When she went to leave for the day, she saw he was still loitering outside and, mostly out of concern that he was going to try to break in after she left, offered to call his family for him. After awhile of talking in circles and a few harder-to-believe lies, including some mumbles about being a god that Gertrude laughed off, Spencer claimed to be a runaway. He stole the basement without asking.

We know Spencer is a god slowly recovering from the well-known illness of 'literally being dead', but who's going to believe him when he says it? He intentionally tried to get into the Acachalla house hoping that being under the watch of the Acachallas would keep him guarded from things that might interrupt his regeneration of power. Additionally, he knew that somewhere in the house was a portal that could access almost any known dimension, and he hoped to take advantage of it when he had his power back, staying in the basement because he assumed the shadow monster he found down there, Jeremy Acachalla, was related to the device in question.

What "The Mighty Spence" was Not expecting was being SACRIFICED by who was supposed to be his OLDER BROTHER. A consequence that Spencer could have predicted if he saw it coming: a large chunk of Spencer's (gestures vaguely) godly power/energy/self whatever-- it went into the revived ghost, Maxwell. It also partially revived the host body "The Mighty Spence" was using, making Spencer less of a temporary arrangement and something that his consciousness was actually tied to. Almost mortal. If he forgot to eat, he hungered, if he forgot to sleep, he stumbled... things like that. After awhile he complained about his conditions to the Acachalla adults, and (to his bafflement) they started making an effort to actually care for him as well.

Having not even fully recovered his memories from before his initial resurrection, Spencer kind of began to forget he was immortal, seeing himself as the only normal in a house full of crazies. His high horse came less from superiority, and more from confusion as to what drove the insanity of the others. He started becoming more social outside of the house, he felt more comfortable having opinions that were not explicitly objective fact, and he started considering his future. He's still a dick about it, but he called Gertrude "Mama" and almost made her cry for it, so that was nice. He allows himself to be officially adopted into the family soon after that, getting the papers himself. They hold a party over it.

If the power of the Mighty Spence inside of Maxwell managed to reconnect with Spencer's body, it will restart the god's resurrection and cause problems and headaches. Might even kill Spencer Acachalla as a person.

Sue entered the family last and the most calmly, no ulterior motives or anything. She arrived at the house with an assigned goal: stop Prince Fang from reaching the portal in the Acachalla house… and didn’t need to do anything, Gertrude alone handled the situation using a weakness Sue had no way of knowing how to exploit. Even if Sue was there, she probably wouldn’t have been able to do anything and might have just gotten in the way. Stressed and tired from a bunch of other things happening in her life at the time, Sue wound up in tears when she realized all of this. While comforting her, Gertrude recognized that she was basically working as a child soldier at the time, and that she didn’t have any family or any way out of this situation, much less any idea on how this world worked. One pair of puppy-dog eyes later, and the Acachallas were adopting a new daughter.

I don’t know all the details of Sue’s backstory. One day she was in a nuclear wasteland, living in a bunker with a father who didn’t respect her, living with a ski mask sewn to her face for most of her childhood because everyone she lived around vaguely sucked. The next, she was somewhere else entirely having wandered through a portal. She didn’t walk right from the wasteland to the Acachalla house though, there was an organization in the middle. Not sure who or what yet, maybe the American Military, but Sue beign a Smigglebug was very exciting for them and they employed her without asking for her input. They didn’t even put in the effort to get the mask off her face, or help her choose a new name. Before being sent to the Acachalla house, Sue was subjected to a series of people telling her in no uncertain terms that she was a disappointment.

When going through the process of adopting her, the family got stuck on the name question, since Sue didn’t want her future deadname on the paper. Papa offered the name Susan, saying he thought it suited her, and she took it and the nickname Sue with glee (Gertrude offered the middle name Annie, which Sue was also very excited for). The process was a joyful one, but was also incredibly exhausting. Billy and Maddie-Friend helped her cut the mask away, a process that wound up being surgical due to it being there for several years. She kind of shut herself away during the weeks of recovery in her own room (originally built for Spencer, but it turns out he liked the basement), but had constant visits from her new family, who always wanted to make sure she was healthy and knew they cared. She may not be the best at everything, but she was happy to be apart of the chaos when she was healthy enough to join in.

Sue’s favorite part of being an Acachalla is caring for the animals Papa adopted, most of them she had never even heard of before coming to this dimension. She’s also a big fan of experimenting with self expression, with playing dress-up with Sally, with studying new things with Spencer, with learning to cook with Billy, with being watched by Maddie when the family is out… She’s a bit of a glass cannon when in a fight, but before and after she’s happy to just be a normal girl with a family who loves her. It’s everything she wanted when she was growing up, so now she loves every second of her life. Even the pain. She’s okay with the pain.

I like to assign her Papa Acachalla’s favorite child, mostly because she never has any intention to hurt him, but also because trans solidarity. He gave Sue the deadname of someone from his past so that Susan Acachalla would be remembered as someone who actually identified with the name. Plus, maybe some sentimentality. Not like he could’ve kind-of named any of the others after his dad, they all came pre-named.

And that’s the main four siblings! Lmk if there’s any other member you want to know about!

#taleblr #taleblr headcanons #Sally Acachalla #Spencer Acachalla #Sue Acachalla #Billy Acachalla #acachalla family #papa acachalla #gertrude acachalla #i love them all

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poltertoast · 3 months

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Had a dream last night that I ran a Taleblr infection au blog that followed Billy and Maddie Friend as survivors

That's about all I remember about it though

#taleblr #billy acachalla #maddie friend #maybe they were immune #or something about cure searching

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feathered-moths-ablaze · 3 months

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This has been bugging me (for lack of better terms) for months

Billy became (and I think still is???) part bird and Sally has a massive interest in Dinos, who's most well known descendants are birds.

I swear there's a link there.

#taleblr #billy acachalla #sally acachalla

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extraordinary-taleblr-askblog · 3 months

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boy you are so green... that doesn't look healthy

He's... He's probably fine...

#extraordinary au #taleblr #billy acachalla #answered #anon #melon friend #murder years

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evilmagician430 · 3 months

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concept art/character design for an acachalla centric horror story i've been brainstorming since last school year ^_^ still havent finalized any of these designs, i feel like they need a little more tweaking...

WARNING: blood, body horror, the mangled corpse of a dead animal, guns, crowbars, medical equipment and general medical imagery, and all around just weird and gross stuff

ADDITIONAL WARNING: really fucking long

story and images under the cut:

i imagine the premise is that sue, at the police station, gets a call from the acachallas like in canon. she decides to go to their house to help, alone because her coworkers are all busy/hate her (theyve been in the force long enough to go corrupt while sue still tries to do whats right)

when she goes in she discovers that the acachallas have been dead for like 10 years and their bodies are barely even intact. she also notices that their house is trashed, not only does it seem completely reclaimed by nature, covered in fungus and insects and blood, but a lot of their furniture and appliances are missing. their rooms look like theyre missing all that wouldve signaled the character of whomever inhabited it, and she thinks, well, maybe the house was looted after they died, but that doesn't explain who called...

then she accidentally steps in a pile of fungus. which wasnt there before. she turns around and a man, fully formed, has sprouted out of the ground. he is made almost entirely out of mushrooms and he has 2 shotguns for arms. he tells her to leave his house. she starts to run but then another figure stops her. a very tall woman who speaks in the same voice that called the police department. her form is indiscernible in the dark, but soon sue comes to realize this woman is not human.

she's not even alive.

sue meets the others and, sure enough, they all seem to be amalgamations of various household objects, both inorganic and organic matter, forming crude fascimiles of who they once were. there are 5 bodies and 5 of them, so they must be possessed by the immortal spirits of the acachallas...!

of course, it turns out they never needed help. it was merely a trap to lure sue home.

they accept her and care for her far more than her biological family or "friends" at work ever did. but being with them takes a toll on sue's body. eventually she dies and they build a new body for her. she wakes up as a beautiful monster. she wakes up as herself.

you're going to notice none of these drawings are of sue- that's because she's still just a regular human in this. by the end she might become a horrifying monster like the rest of them, but i havent designed her.

i took inspiration from a variety of sources, but i can only remember some of them off the top of my head:

undertale (lorewise the whole thing about monsters dust being spread on their favorite object so they can live in it, also photoshop flowey designwise was a huge inspiration)

deltarune (largely just the enemy designs)

dont hug me i'm scared (the teacher's designs, general vibes, also lamp's explanation of what happens when someone dies in episode 2 of the tv show)

tipping point (literally just stylistically. i need to learn digital collage to properly portray these designs)

tokusatsu (the costumes for the gorma in gosei sentai dairanger are like. really good. i enjoy their designs severely)

communications era ghost and pals mvs (the collage stuff speaks to my soul)

and thats all i can remember rn. now heres the first pictures i drew of each member of the family (on my world history notes) and the most recent draft of their designs (in mspaint) this is basically all of the drawings of them.

beginning with spencer, he's the smallest of the family at only 4 feet tall. he is made out of his computer and manga collection basically. on each of these i left a lot of notes in the pictures breaking down what each part of the body is made out of. i wanted to incorporate figurines and action figures into his design too but i decided to keep it more focused. but all these designs are still subject to change. a teacher walked by as i was drawing him and said she liked how it was "very industrial but feminine" or something like that.

sally! im not entirely sure what that first sketch is but as you can tell i wanted her to be wearing a doll mask from the start. i gave her this big poofy princess dress to conceal where godzilla connects to the shelves that act as her legs because it looked very strange and did not look like the shelves were her legs. the dress turns into curtains which are draped over her shelves. she was very hard to design but very fun. also i just chose random dolls and stuff i know g3 draculaura and kylie and pnp sasha are like recent dolls that wouldnt exist yet. its a mockup ok

next we got billy who is built out of his own medical supplies. i wanted to make his body one of those IV drip stands, although that means both him and spencer have very similar lower halves, with the wheels. hes the only one who doesnt really wear any clothes because billy doesnt really have an iconic outfit; the only thing i remember he wears is obviously his medic outfit but thats like. a whole outfit. i dont understand the layers of it so i can just put part of it on this thing. maybe i shouldve just given him scrubs. or what i think billy would wear that represents him

gertrude having a dead cat as her hair is a reference to a really specific one-off joke i read about on the wiki but dont actually remember from any of the videos. i think hair is a very important part of self expression so they would want to recreate their hairstyles with whatever they could find. it was hard as hell getting that cat into a shape that made literally any sense but i think i figured it out. her outfit is a combination of what she normally wore and her old costume as the crowbar, which i was inspired to design my version of as well (will post that drawing later). i think its very interesting how gertrude seems to exist to trap and keep safe or detain/kill various dangerous beings. shes like a shepherd but also an executioner.

papa acachalla doesnt have a draft cause this was literally the first time i tried drawing him in this story because i was stuck on trying to imagine what hed be made out of and how he would look like. then i remembered fungus comes in all shapes and forms and also works as a metaphor for his connection with his family and his roots. also his arms are guns LOL! i wanted to make him more catholic but i couldnt come up with how while still having him look like papa acachalla. maybe adding that priest collar cause i think father grigori has it anyways but its hard to draw stuff around his neck area.

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