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i refuse to defend my favorite characters. They did that horrible thing bc they suck really bad

#Zalto <3

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Aw HELL yeah

#I'm not excited #because it's been five months since they ''started shipping'' the collectors edition of the game and Ive still got nothing #if they start shipping this this anytime this year it'll be 2025 before i fucking see it.

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(photographer voice) "okay, now let's do one where canon events play out slightly differently and everyone ends up in a significantly worse place because of it"

here's an au of an au because i have issues watched the genghis khan music video one too many times. lore dump + crops/bonus art below

Due to an unfortunate combination of chance factors, Razputin Aquato arrives at Whispering Rock one day late.

He finds the camp a ghost town. The campers are stumbling around, brainless; the counsellors, nowhere to be found. Ford doesn’t know what to make of this kid showing up out of nowhere – but he’s got promise, and with Sasha and Milla out of action, he’s their best hope. He gives Raz a crash course in what he needs to know, and sends him out across the lake.

Raz pulls through, against all odds. But he never gets the starstruck meeting with his heroes Sasha and Milla that he’d been hoping for; never gets to bond with Lili, or any of the other campers. It’s a harrowing and lonely experience for him, but one that ties a burning knot of resolve in his chest. If he works hard, he can be a Psychonaut just like he dreamed. He can save people.

When the alert comes through from Headquarters that Grand Head Zanotto has been captured, Sasha and Milla scramble the jet with Lili on board. They don’t bring Raz along – Ford’s account of his accomplishments is impressive, but without seeing him in action themselves, neither agent is convinced to bring him along on the mission. Sasha invites him to next year’s session of the camp – after all, he clearly has promise, and the Psychonauts are always interested in nurturing young minds.

Raz returns to camp next year with something to prove. He throws himself into his studies with a single-minded dedication, sparing little time to interact with any of the other campers. This time, he’ll show them. He’ll show them all.

Sasha, Milla and Lili are unable to locate Truman in the Rhombus of Ruin. It ultimately takes a week to locate the Grand Head, following an anonymous tip-off (later found to have been planted by Nick). It takes six months for the ruse to be uncovered. Ultimately, Nick is unsuccessful in finding any clues to Maligula’s whereabouts. Lucrecia will pass a few years later, surrounded by a family that has no idea who she really is. Ford never remembers the truth, and when Razputin is fourteen, he takes the secret to his grave.

Truman’s brain spends almost seven months in a box, under poor conditions with insufficient oxygen. When it’s finally returned to his body, he’s not the same man he used to be. He quietly steps down as Grand Head of the organisation, and spends years of his retirement in intensive therapy.

Lili is heartbroken. Her faith in the Psychonauts is shattered. She never returns to Whispering Rock again. Over the years, she becomes more and more withdrawn; isolated from her peers, estranged from her mother, and struggling with her relationship with a father who on bad days can’t even remember her name. The bitterness grows day by day, blooming within her chest.

She’s sixteen the first time she's forced to turn her powers against another person. Even in his current state, her father has enemies – old foes the Psychonauts can’t (or won’t) protect him from. There’s a raid on her house, late at night. It’s only by chance that she’s still awake. She breaks two of the assailants’ bodies, and when she twists her hand, the plants in her father's greenhouse writhe under her command and rip the third one to pieces. It’s the last time that house ever feels like a home to her. She cuts ties with the Psychonauts entirely, and never looks back; the next time they hear of her, it's under a completely different name.

Dogen Boole never returns to Whispering Rock either. He’s thoroughly traumatized by the events at camp, and his parents refuse to send him back the following year. With nobody to help him learn to control or harness his powers, his episodes steadily become worse as he gets older. Although reluctant, his family is eventually forced to reach out to the Psychonauts to help. Compton is still a nervous recluse, and nobody else in the organisation is quite sure how to handle Dogen’s powers. He spends his teenage years in and out of psychoisolation, and is subjected to more and more intense experimentation in the name of “treatment”. Nothing works. In the end, all he has to show for it are the scars.

His helmet is the only thing he can rely on to stop him mulching the cranium of anyone in a fifty-foot radius. There’s no place for him in “normal” society. Just like Lili, he’s driven to become a villain by a combination of circumstances, trauma, and a bitter feeling of hurt and betrayal towards the Psychonauts.

Raz enters the intern program at thirteen, and quickly graduates to the rank of Junior Agent. The Psychonauts he finds waiting for him is undergoing a marked transition from the organization it used to be. Upon Ford’s passing, the only member of the old guard still around is Otto. Hollis is a Grand Head forced to prioritize efficiency in order to keep the Psychonauts afloat after numerous losses and funding cuts.

Raz enters a passionate, determined boy, remarkably talented but who struggles to connect with his peers. When he gets his promotion at eighteen, he’s the most decorated junior agent the organization has ever seen. At twenty-six, he’s in the prime of his career, honed by years of training into an efficient, meticulous, ruthless Psychonaut.

He’s the perfect agent. As far as he’s concerned, that’s all he needs to be.

under-the-cut bonus, here's some tighter crops on the art, and also a couple extra bits and pieces:

dogen's helmet seals up like a pillbug most of the time, to stop his powers from leaking out when he gets stressed. i couldn't find a way to work it into the art while still making clear that Hey It's Ya Boy, but i think it's a neat visual. the extra pic of lili was gonna be a mugshot - at first i was planning to composit her art into, like, a dossier/file, but i couldn't make it work in the end

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January is five months since they've said the Psychonauts 2 box sets would be shipping out "over the next few weeks."

Has anyone else not yet received theirs? I never even got a shipping confirmation.

#psychonauts #psychonauts 2 #iam8bit

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You guys ever think about how good the Tomb of The Sharkophagus level in Psychonauts 2 is. The mood whiplash. The slow dreadful realization of what Ford and Lucy have done. "No, Raz, you didn't." David Kaye's whole performance there really. Man it's just such a good part of such a good game

#sharkophagus was SO FUCKED Its my favorite level of the entire game

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we as a fandom always like daydream abt dlc but i always wonder how many levels you guys think a dlc would have? like both main games have like 5+ mental worlds + hub worlds... i usually assume a dlc would just be like 1 or 2 minds and maybe a space or 2 in the real world to ground things, but what abt u

for example helmut rescue mission i imagine is like a camp set up in grulovia and you maybe like, explore the mind of a delusionist? and hemult again maybe??

and if youve been here the whole tome you know i already think exploring otto's head would be its own special type of hassle

#the idea of a DLC to me is not about new areas to explore #its about the story #they could reuse the same mental worlds/hub as in the base game #as long as it tells a new and interesting story

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I would never hate you

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THIS IS BEAUTIFUL oh my goodness. Covers for the threads never cease to amaze me and Fanny Pack Raz now has my whole heart.

ALL of these are incredible and I cannot tell you how I lost it at "The Rats Have Unionized"

here's my secret santa gift for @the-family-fortune! i made a poster for one of your stories :) i had a lot of fun with this, hope you like it! (and thanks @kibasniper/@kibasniper111 for organizing the secret santa!) also some bonus fortune tellers doodles under cut:

i love puttin characters in the pn universe so i put bruno in the pn universe. was gonna shave him at first but bruno without facial hair looks weird 2 me

idk if mina has zoolepathy, but if she does, i thought itd be funny if she was a uhhhh. a mediator? between bruno and the rats LMAO. though since he's younger here, meaning pre the "fuck off and go live in the walls" era, idk why he'd have rat telenovelas as a hobby. i get a little silly.

aaaaaaaand finally i just wanted to properly draw mina since shes a silhouette in my main piece!

#ALSO IM SO SORRY IM LATE TO THE PARTY #TO LA FESTA IF YOU WILL #I ran into some roadblocks getting my OWN gift done and didn't want to accept this until I had finished im so sorry #I do truly love all of these <3 <3 <3

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Merry Christmas, @loudlychoppedbread! I'm very sorry this is so late, I wish I had been able to get it out to you sooner but I promise your 2023 Secret Santa didn't forget about you!! She's just very very slow.

Raz definitely did not expect the mistletoe to work 🥰

Hope your 2024 is off to a great start, and happy new year!!

#Every Year is the Year of Raz if you Believe in your Heart <3

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Hydrokinesis

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solo mission

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There! That oughta do it!!

hi, i'm that anon who you sent the gdoc links to the other day! thanks for that btw, i have something to read at school in the coming months now lol. its just that, i think you put the wrong link for the resurrection - the hyperlink leads to blood is thicker

that is very possible, as I was in a battle to the death with google docs at the time and may have posted the wrong link in a blind rage. I'll fix that!!

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hi, i'm that anon who you sent the gdoc links to the other day! thanks for that btw, i have something to read at school in the coming months now lol. its just that, i think you put the wrong link for the resurrection - the hyperlink leads to blood is thicker

that is very possible, as I was in a battle to the death with google docs at the time and may have posted the wrong link in a blind rage. I'll fix that!!

#fun tip: google docs does not like it when you try to copy/paste 140k words into a new doc OOPS

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You're coming with me, Frazie!

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you'd do numbers on tumblr

what’s tumblr

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Patrick Leonard, The Coming Storm, County Dublin, date unknown

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I'm starting a collection I call "Characters who are not Mina. HOWEVER."