#rw off string AU

[pmpwbrrs]

Say I haven't lost it all

#rain world #rw #rw off string AU #rain world AU #rain world no significant harassment #rain world five pebbles #rw ragequit #sigpebbles #<- ? well not necessarily but #rw shipping #shipping #theu are soooo fun to mess around. i cant i feel INSANE you dont understand #they can be sillay. they can argue(lightheartedly). they can fucking fight. they can not always express fully that they care for each other #they can be dating but not really #they can be SO FUCKING divorce #they can love they can HATE #They can- #like ????? can you see it??? #okay i know im definitely stretching this and that im pouring headcanons. but im having fun. so shrug #In my head they can have so so much #I rotate them in mt mind like in a microwave for so long that they melt and stick to the walls #i can't get them odf #pmpwbrrs

[druidshollow]

YOU CANT DRAW RIVULET AND MOON AND NOT HAVE THEM REUNITE. CHESTON WHAT THE FUCK. #justiceforrivulet

anything for you my dearest friend in the whole world ren trelning <33333333

the rain separates moon and her group. luckily for her, a slugcat was swimming by seeking shelter! a slugcat whod feel an inclination to save an iterator? maybe theyve met one hmm

#rain world: downpour #looks to the moon #five pebbles #no significant harassment #rw rivulet #rw hunter #off string au #rain world au #rain world #druid draw #druid answers #:))))) riv time #moons not crying the waters just pouring out of her body lmao #sequential #fanart

[mothsakura]

ermmm who let pebbles detach his puppet from his structure... who let him explore a miscellaneous pipe at the drainage system.. errrmmm

#this started as a background practice. #then i wanted to draw pebbles #this isn't in off the string au this is just for laughs and giggles #in general i love both on the string and off the string i often cannot choose between the two #feeling off the string today tho!! #rain world #rw #iterator #art #five pebbles #rw five pebbles

[trashiiplant]

always forever

#trashy art #rain world #rain world downpour #rainworld #rw #seven red suns #no significant harassment #this originated from a rp #it's basically worm off the string but depressing #au I guess #it's post brain blasting moon and pebbles in saint so COOL AWESOME #I can tag this as the gay now YIPPE #trafficlight #trafficlights

[spotsupstuff]

*hands sparrows the super shotgun from doom 2*

Enjoy

mmmmmm practical pesticide.... the farmer brain activated

#Spot says stuff #rw #oc tag #euros: the guy who wouldn't hurt a fly | sparrows: the gal who has BEEF with the FLIES and WILL act upon her wrath with a firearm #this reminds me... ive been thinkin bout different aus of this stuff cuz yall are relentless with those n like. euros comes off his string- #-except its during sparrows life. the amount of Chaos that would produce. she runs around with him in her arms cuz he wouldnt know- #-how to walk at first... need to teach him... her metal twig of a man... talk shit to euros n she whips out a glock #hed wear her coat/hoodie thing to seem less suspicious on their way to her house... Hoodie Caper #i was today years old that i learned gullet isnt pronounced like bullet

[void-dreaming]

Do you think mobile Iterators have phantom sensations from when they were still connected to their super structures?

#daydreaming thoughts #rain world #rw #iterators #iterator #rain world thoughts #off string/ off cord/ mobile au

[lavendertoastmoth]

off string au…. Little headcannon that maybe iterators name their scugs like how they name accents and other iterators…

So the Escapist was name One Fateful Night.. Or Fate. She just escaped from a collapse iterator can so she got a little scraped up

#rainworld oc #grey wind #chasing wind #rain world oc #rainworld #slug cat oc #slugcat #iterator #offstring au #Rw oc #rw off-string au #my art #rw iterator

[wrathevil]

Pebs and Arti,,,,, my favourites ever... i love them

Do you think Pebbles would call Arti "mom" at least ONCE on complete accident??

See, ok. I drew out a little doodle of this, but then actually thought about it too hard. Would he????

Because (as far as we know) Pebbles has never had a motherly figure in his life. So would he know to assign that title to Artificer? Or would he have complicated feelings he has no idea what to do with because he has no name for it. OR would he have another word to assign to those feelings?

The ancients would be the closest things to parents to him probably, but “creator” seems way too formal and also.. Just kinda weird.

The next title I can think of is “Senior”, like Moon’s senior status in the local group. WHICH brings up the absolutely hilarious scenario of Moon getting all emotional because “Oh… Pebbles sees me in such high regard that he would assign that title to someone he clearly trusts…”

ANYWAYS for the sake of funnies I think he would

#wrathkafuffles #sorry for turning your silly ask into a character analysis #it wont happen again #(it will) #i need to find a name for this au #technically pebbles off the string so #meh i'll figure it out eventually #rw

[angstmachine-rw]

off-string au's are the ultimate "reject modernity, embrace monke" thing and i love it

basically what the iterator is doing is making themself stupider so they can run around in the world and do things that probably wouldn't be socially acceptable

#rain world #rw iterator #rw off strings au

[pmpwbrrs]

OFF STRING !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

RAMBLE UNDER CUT with no conclusion. just babbling

I reeeeeeally like to think that going off string requires A LOT of sacrifice. That it's not that easy to just ..... Get off

I love to think about how hard it is to cut off your godlike metal giant body from yourself. Are you even going to be yourself after this? Is it painful? I think it should be. What happens to the can right after? It's still you. What happens if your puppet dies? Are you going to wake up in another cycle? But what about the can? IT'S STILL YOU!!! WHAT IF

I looooove thinking about how fucking difficult it is for an iterator to even EXIST out of their can to begin with, and how it fucks up their already (most likely) shaken up mental health. And physical health. That it's extremely hard for them to walk, to get up after they fell, to touch, to see, to feel, to run, to fight, to rest, to be alive. That not running thousands of processes on the back of your mind is making your head dizzy, that you can't stand straight and be balanced because of how you used to have an umbilical arm, and how painful it is not to have it. How hard it is to be dependent just on your little, vulnerable, pathetic (in comparison) new body and a few neurones

It's just so much

And I love to think that they STILL can't get rid of all the curses that they had

#rain world #rain world AU #rain world no significant harassment #rain world looks to the moon #goddamn it's SO HARD TO EXPLAIN WHAT I MEANNNNNN #okay i'll just say a bunch of stuff and leave #*leaves* #pmpwbrrs #rw off string AU #rw

[druidshollow]

a lil game of whackfuck

#rain world oc #iterator oc #rw downpour #rw iterator #druid animate #off string au #oc posting #shelter shrinks i dont care

[amerricanartwork]

RW Headcanon: "Pebbsie Privilege"

Here’s a headcanon I’ve had in the works for a while, and now I finally want to share it! It's shorter than some of my others, but I hope you'll still find it amusing!

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So firstly (and I plan to expand on this more later) I headcanon Five Pebbles is someone who cares a lot about his appearance, though not in a prissy or snooty sense and more in a “likes being the smartest and most sophisticated one in the room” sense. That means, more so than the average person, he generally doesn’t like being teased, ignored, belittled, condescended to, or otherwise disrespected, and very understandably so if you ask me! But it also means there exists a very special ability when it comes to interacting with Five Pebbles that almost no characters have. 

It’s no more than the ability of someone to refer to Five Pebbles as “Pebbsie” while he’s in earshot without getting death-glares from him. Looks to the Moon, who first started using it, affectionately calls this ability “Pebbsie privilege”, and she ends up being one of the only characters who has it (besides Innocence, who in my portrayals eventually gets it too). Though even so, Pebbles originally got rather flustered when she called him that alone, much less in front of others, considering it's definitely a very cutesy nickname. In fact, poor Pebbles really didn’t like being called “Pebbsie” because one of his least favorite ways of being treated is like a child (which includes being thought of as "cute" in any way). This unfortunately happens to him a lot though since he’s part of the newest iterator generation and tends to have lots of uncommon ideas rarely taken seriously by the older models, and this treatment only amplified as he grew more stubborn and arrogant. 

To elaborate on the origin, Moon developed the nickname pretty much on an impulse — quite a rare thing for her to act on actually — of wanting to hearken more to her role as “Big Sis Moon” and show love to her little brother. Soon after she started using it though Pebbles would pull her into private chats and urge her to drop it to save his dignity. Not wanting to hurt her brother in any way, it didn’t take long before she apologized and stopped using it, and basically got her "Pebbsie privilege" revoked. In the current time she secretly still likes calling him that in her mind, but knowing how much he dislikes it she always feels pretty guilty afterwards, despite them being no more than thoughts at that point. While not a major issue in-and-of itself, this situation was actually a small step in worsening a long-time fear Moon has, though that’s a headcanon for another day…

On a (marginally) more positive note however, after Moon’s collapse and the worsening of Five Pebbles’s rot, along with him generally reminiscing about the things he used to have (as part of yet more character headcanons I’ll elaborate on some other time), he actually began to grow fond of the nickname more and more. Yet he also couldn’t also shake the growing heartache the memories brang, as he came to see it as a reminder of his sister’s never-ending love for him and the better times he now regretted taking for granted and trying so hard to escape. While I headcanon he handles it differently in Downpour’s canon, in the worm-off-the-string AU story I’ve got so far, Moon slowly regaining her “Pebbsie privilege” and Pebbles appreciating it and no longer taking it so seriously (though he still forbids its usage in public) could serve as a small, yet sweet indicator of character growth for both of them.

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Aaaand another RW headcanon done! I wanna mention, though, now that I’ve got more of an idea for the aforementioned AU I really want to start posting more of my headcanons for the Local Group, since the character interactions, histories, and ultimate character growth is perhaps one of the most important elements of that story so far. I’ve spent at least a couple weeks creating almost 40 pages worth of character notes, and while this particular one started out as just a little side-headcanon, I ended up tying it into all of that. Hopefully I can start sharing the main parts of these headcanons soon!

#art #artwork #sketch #drawing #digital #digital art #fanart #rain world #headcanons #rw headcanons #iterator #rw iterator #five pebbles #FP #rw fp #looks to the moon #LttM #rw lttm #quetzalli draws #quetzalli headcanons

[spotsupstuff]

aight fine, some quick messy design stuff for the off string Ancient times au

Euros' tits shan't be contained

#Spot says stuff #rw #oc tag #off string Ancient times au #fine i'll give it the tag fiiiiine #Zephyr is for like. over a month bedbound n nakey resting up with braces around the place where her spine was broken #Sparrows works on that thing pretty often trying to set things rights and then hoping it will heal right #also just in general Zephyr deserves to sleep for a month if she feels like it after thousands of years of all That bullshit #its so funny/interestin to me to have an off string rw au Specifically in ancients' times. who the fuck else would do this shit #prolly like nobody really!!! i am minorly Deranged </3

[booksofstars]

working on a kinda neat rw swap au!! written details below the cut

so instead of looks to the moon and five pebbles having The Incident, its no significant harassment who collapses due to seven red suns overusing their now shared water. the slugcats also have their roles swapped. five pebbles takes seven red suns canon role, though hes still their student and not their mentor. he sends the artificer to attempt to reason with his mentor, and she ends up with nsh’s final broadcast as well. looks to the moon plays no significant harassments canon role, but sends the rivulet to aid nsh instead of hunter. rivulets genetic modifications led to them getting the rot, so they dont have long. hunter is now the one to retrieve the rarefraction cell, this time from seven red suns, in order to save nsh. spearmaster is a former messenger on a rampage against scavengers for picking apart the remains of their creator, and allowed to destroy the colony living atop seven red suns superstructure.

the gourmand is a peaceful being bent on keeping beings alive and safe, rather than ascending them. the saint is on a pilgrimage to each echo, rather than a quest to collect food. survivor is now inv, the odd glitchy slugcat, while inv is the lost older sibling of nightcat. the monk now plays nightcats mysterious role, while nightcat searches for their sibling inv. this is a worms off the string au thanks to gourmand!

#cham caws #rain world #looks to the moon #five pebbles #no significant harassment #seven red suns #the rivulet #the artificer #the hunter #the spearmaster #the gourmand #the saint #the survivor #the monk #inv #enot #the watcher #nightcat #chams rw swap au

[lyss-butterscotch]

Not really an ask more of a message but I reeeealy love your rw AU, particularly chasing wind, NSH and moon, moon seems so vibrant, so alive in the world, as if she was learning everything for the first time each thing sparking joy in her, I know chasing wind doesn't get a lot of content in the base game but I LOVE what you've done with his characterization, he's a little bit older but he makes it work, he's kind but he doesn't really like socialization. he takes everything people say seriously at first but can take a joke. he loves his projects and the feeling of looking at a creation knowing it comes from his vision made corporeal. And your personality of no serious arassment is exactly what I think he represents, he loves his friends and he loves making fun of them and doesn't let anyone sit up on a shelf all alone. I also really like the idea of travel puppets since they make sense in game and allow you to do so much with the iterators when they're no longer confined to a 20 foot room. Sorry if this sounds bad it was written at 2 In the morning on my phone.

Gdbdhdhh????? Aaaa thank you thank you!!! I know im not the best at the game lore or writing but i really try. I say this alot but im super biased towards happy endings and i mean that already went against rw lore, so i really try to develop the iterators and the world and the story so it makes sense and has more to it than just oop theyre happy! Thats the story.

YEAH MOON IS HAPPY NOW! This whole time she had to be professional, the senior that has everything under control, responsible for people who sees her as a tool. Now shes free of her chamber! Shes almost indestructable, she can just... go! She doesnt have to pretend to like her citizens, doesnt have a structure to constantly worry about, no more working on the Great Problem shes just... free! She loves slugcats so now she can just go travel with them! She can go and visit and physically hug her sibling and friends! She can travel the world and live out the rest of her existance NOT stuck in a room constantly getting drowned. Like heck yeah girl is gonna be more vibrant!

Man i dont even draw wind alot, i know i probably should, heck UI has a dedicated comic for her backstory so wind should get one too. They overwork and worry about things alot yeah but theres an end goal they want to achieve! They have things they want done and i totally agree they WOULD be super proud to be able to make their ideas real. Theyre not super social but that doesnt mean they hate their fellow iterators, they listen and they want whats best for the group!

Sigs personality is kinda determined already and the fandom collectively agree hes a lil gremlin man. We love the gremlin man. Now with the ancients gone and new found freedom he has more time to do what he wants and what makes him happy!

Off the string aus arent that rare especially in ths fandom where the canon ending is sad robots get stuck in room forever .-. But yeah atleast with it our fave robots get to do more with their life

Final words. You probably should sleep bestie

#omg long ass rambles #and maybe hypocritical sobs idk #'i dont want them to be just poof! happy!' #then follow up with moon happy yey :))) #i just want them to be happy fr ok #thank you really tho #its a joy to hear people enjoy my lil story :) #lyssten to my rambles

[firedjinni]

tell me about your rw ocs!!

:D sure!

The main ones I've been doodling are Three Rivers and the Administrator (AKA Mini), who basically spawned out of faffing around in a giant doc of iterator headcanons. (I was trying to work out how an "off the string" scenario could be done with my particular headcanon interpretations of iterators and their puppets, and brain basically made up a guy, lol.)

Three Rivers is an iterator who manages to eventually remove their own taboos (and later goes off the string) via a very risky and roundabout plan:

Reassign abandoned citizen ID drones to a bunch of reasonably intelligent organisms

Do this enough times to establish the minimum number of "citizens" needed to revive a specific voting council

Have the "citizens" vote in a (rigged) election to promote one trusted organism (in this case, a personally selected and hand raised slugcat - that's Mini!) to the rank of Junior Administrator (Senior admin requires tougher credentials for approval, unfortunately)

Get your new Junior Administrator to disable the basic antivirus security and administer a homemade taboo-erasing retrovirus into your systems! Preferably foolproof this step as much as possible so even a slugcat with limited understanding of iterator technology can still carry it out effectively.

The security system flags your new administrator for "suspicious behavior" and "genetic ID mismatch" partway through the infection process, puts the rest of the facility into lockdown, and demands senior admin access to restore basic functionality

Uh

Whoops

That wasn't supposed to happen--

Ironically, TR wasn't even trying to get "off the string" at the time - she just wanted to be able to upgrade and maintain her own facility beyond what her own very limited system privileges allowed her, and the whole mobile puppet thing was kind of an afterthought? But once half the structure stopped cooperating and the inspectors kept trying to kill her little administrator, well... there were only so many options left.

So, using what limited resources they still had control over, they made a traveling puppet (yay self-modification!) and ditched their failing structure to set off out into the world, followed by a small entourage of slugcats and scavengers. The others don't have designs yet, but I feel like that would be a whole post all on its own, lol...

I'm still working on a design for the traveling puppet, but the idea is that it's basically derived/reconstructed from the same base organism used to create normal iterator puppets, just bigger, more robust, and generally capable of surviving independently of the superstructure! (The concept was loosely inspired by the likes of @/ikayblythe's reiterator AU, haha)

Due to the state of the facility, though, it's something of a rush job. It looks cool, but the mouth goes nowhere and is just for show, and it still has to manually flush slag by running a bunch of water through the pseudolymphatic system and directly dumping the Microbial Waste Goop out the back ports, and some of the other internal components are... not terribly efficient... and they had to ditch so much processing power to get this thing up and running before time ran out, but hey, it works, so cool proof of concept, right? Right??

anyway her nearest neighbor eventually catches this on an overseer and just about shits a brick lol

#thank you so much for giving me the excuse to ramble <333 #rain world oc #rain world #oc: mini #oc: three rivers #my art #asks #my deranged mad scientist darling who gave a slugcat root access and then became a swamp creature...