#if there are fans of ib that didn't know: there is a steam port out now - up to the 1.04 vers

[vermillioncrown]

it's ib-brain since i spent the am of last night collecting all the paintings on steam

but i keep thinking of a ib-au of wangxian

(i had a post-canon "together forever"/"forgotten portrait" fic musings from '13, but that's... another story lol)

wwx is pretty good at 'art', right? and i say 'art' because we don't get too much in canon besides his teaser sketch of lwj, the fact he was raised like a prodigious young master that should have mastered the 6 skills and 4 arts

people made up all sorts of things about wwx as the yiling laozu, yeah?

modern-ish au, college student lwj needs to attend an art gallery for an assignment. the pieces on display are all by the enigmatic yiling laozu. he's not really into the art; in fact, a lot of the pieces are off-putting to look at

ends up trapped in the gallery, the ib routine, blah blah

periodically encounters two other patrons that have been trapped as well - the obnoxious wwx, who helps him pass through obstacles with ingenuity but infuriates him in turn before lwj stalks away; the shy mo xuanyu, who flees from lwj, but whenever they need to work together he provides new insights into the pieces that they see and their environs in the cursed gallery they're in.

"oh? we're in orchestra together! granted, i'm in the winds section..."

"... i'm in the same art history course...?"

lwj - he can't recall either of them. not that it's very alarming, since he usually doesn't bother with the other sections of the orchestra (that's his brother's problem) and he actively ignores the overwhelming student body in lecture halls

"so, which one is it really?"

#redglyphs #it could be bad end horror type deal #wwx is actually the painting (yllz's only self portrait) that uses mxy to escape and inserts himself into lwj's life #or red herring wwx that's actually the real person #or extra-bad ending where lwj gives himself up #or they all stay #unlike the game since lwj is not a 9yo #the three of them don't travel together for the most part #god i am so fucking baked from bad sleep schedule #just some thoughts while I'm waiting for my pour-over #like i'm making the pour-over #upgrading my coffee game and also adding deliberateness to drinking it #so i can be more contentious about my intake #conscientious* geez my swipe type is wild #legit get withdrawals now. the addiction is real #if there are fans of ib that didn't know: there is a steam port out now - up to the 1.04 vers #puzzles have been changed and streamlined+updated sprites+music #TALK TO GARRY FEATURE MY LOVE (you can get hints and convo in all locations w your companions) #for those that don't know: ib is a jpnese psychological horror-thriller game #pixel/sprite-based + point-click-style puzzle solving gameplay #the puzzles aren't too difficult and the ambiance established by some fucking pixels is just phenomenal #comes from the mid 2010's time where freeware rpgmaker games were all the rage #ib my beloved #second beloved is off