not a clever title

endless 👏 Meleanor 👏 forever 👏

they're just doing Hamlet now APPARENTLY

sorta! I have my faceless weirdo who fills that role most of the time:

the most connection to canon they have is probably the dialogue options that let you always introduce yourself as Grim's servant. (sidenote: thank you Twst devs for always making that an option. why would you ever choose anything else.) their main personality trait is being as stupid as is necessary for the sake of the punchline. for some reason everyone is extremely into this. for some reason especially Malleus is extremely into this.

in-game (and in the like...one single non-shitposty comic I've ever drawn them in) I do play 'em as slightly less of a dumbass, but, y'know. only slightly. really the thing that's most important to me is that regardless of shitpost level, my Yuu is always, forever, eternally incapable of being fazed by literally anything. their first memory is waking up in a coffin. they have an interdimensional link to a giant talking rodent that only they can see. they met a mysterious horned gentleman walking around in the dead of night and immediately nicknamed him Horn Boy. they went on a mine-crawling adventure where they got chased by a giant inky monster and came out of it with two new best friends. their self-preservation instinct is somewhere in the negative numbers by this point.

get 'em before they melt!

(the flavors are 99% vibes + first thought only thought, don't take them too seriously)

oh absolutely, thank you! :D

I use an Intuos graphics tablet! (medium, 'cause I like to hold it when I draw.) I've tried some other brands and styles of tablet, but in the end I personally just like the feeling of the Wacom surfaces the best. sorry to my wallet. 😔

OKAY I'm finally caught up! and...wild is an understatement, huh! getting some real Donbros energy off of this one (in the best of ways though really) (just all kinds of super weird and super fun! 💍) (...also the blue ranger might have murdered a child?) (I mean probably not) (they wouldn't. but.) (what if)

I'm especially fond of Bouquet and Fire Candle, just because they encapsulate the two modes of my brain at any given moment

did this as a quick scribble at like 1 AM last night and...immediately lost all motivation to ever clean it up. ( ᐛ ) but I had to draw my son being the fanciest little flower boy who ever threw petals down an aisle. oh my god.

(I've redone this a thousand times, I just gotta give up and call it done, please let it read properly 😭)

I want it to be this, just because I want Malleus' little Meleanor-cosplay to be attainable in some way. 🙏 I need to see everybody in Briar Valley royal outfits immediately. hometown event WHEN

(and of course, this is all besides how much I need the world's littlest punk rocker on my home screen)

he will not! :( I wasn't expecting him to, but it was still a little sad to see it confirmed.

(I was also kinda sad to see that his special guest room furniture will be a statue of his Phantom...I am getting increasingly salty about my lack of keys 😭)

we can talk later about the absolute rudeness of Twst dropping OB!Mal on me like in this way, but right now I'm 100% focused on this little bit of the announcement:

(under Home Setting, you can change the appearance of the character on your home screen)

the Overblot Gang are going to have alternate arrangements...they're going to have alt versions that we'll be able to switch between...oh my god. like, yeah, it's probably going to be something small like, I dunno, turning the eye flames on and off or whatever. but. do we dare dream for a better world.

nope, it's pretty weird in Japanese too! the complete lack of any Lea dialogue doesn't really help. :') I have my own interpretation of what's supposed to be going on, but in terms of what's strictly onscreen canon, there's not any more of an explanation given. add one to the Mysteries of Lea...

my take on it, personally (and I apologize if this doesn't make a lot of sense, I am not good at putting things into words), is that the point of it is that Lea is giving Silver up in order to save him in a broader sense than just, say, escaping the castle and going on the run with her. the fairies' dialogue implies to me that the spell was always intended to be a longer-term thing -- maybe not quite as long as it ended up being, but they were basically sticking Silver in a big thorny castle-shaped time capsule, so he would eventually be able to grow up in a post-war world with people who love him. maybe Lea could have tried to escape with him, but that wasn't the life that she or the fairies wanted him to have. (especially because based on the way they talk about the Whole Mess Regarding Briar Rose Castle, it sounds like it came to a pretty definitive end after the Knight died. so I don't think she made it that far afterwards, or was even expecting to.) 🤷 I think it's meant to be sort of a parallel to Meleanor sending Malleus off with Lilia, just in a different kind of way -- they're both mothers giving up being able to raise their children for the sake of giving their kids a future (one which coincidentally involves Lilia in both cases) (no one is more shocked by this than he).

and I think this is also the point of the part in 7-13 where Silver thanks their ghosts! he's acknowledging that the best thing they ever did for him was to give him up, so he could actually have, y'know, a life. surviving versus living and all that.

that is, again, just my take on it though! I feel like the general tone canon treats them with wants us to understand Silver's bioparents as being like...tragic figures who were well-intentioned but made a bunch of just absolutely terrible decisions that they tried to spare Silver from the consequences of. so I do tend to incline towards a more sympathetic reading of them. :Y your mileage may vary there though! we really get almost NOTHING from Lea, so any interpretation of her and her actions is probably about as correct as any other.

uhhh that's my time, thank you for coming to my Twst Talk, for our next topic (the rest of my slides are just pictures of Meleanor with cutouts of me crudely pasted in next to her)

definitely, thank you! 💚💜💚

missed the mark by (looks at calendar) uhhh. hm. but I really wanted to do something for the 5th anniversary! happy five years to these idiots 🎉

you know, sometimes I forget that Twst is actually an isekai that starts with the protagonist getting run over by an inexplicable horse-drawn carriage. and every time I'm reminded is a delight because that's AMAZING.

also. look. okay. there's a lot of very fun stuff in the trailer but I am obsessed with that Crowley surprised pikachu face. me when I spend all my keys and gems literally hours before they announce overblot SSRs and drop the anime trailer: