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Allow me to yeet this all at you amidst the Silksong hype, lolll

Chell and Monarch from Fractured Shell! I wanted to do some action poses with my little buggos~

Here is my piece for Hallowhome zine vol. 2! We all know Bretta the most powerful character in this game xD

But jokes aside, I had so much fun working on this project with so many other talented artists! Please go check out the full zine and give all the artists and writers the love they deserve~♥

Guys come check this out!! This is such an awesome project with so many wonderful artists who contributed to this masterpiece!! I was fortunate enough to be able to work with these wonderful people, and I’m so honored! Please give these people all the love they deserve! 💕💕💕

🤍 Delve Into HallowHome Vol. 2 🤍

Go ahead, traveler! Explore our zine to see the daily lives of Hallownest's familiar residents shown through absolutely gorgeous art and writing. We hope you enjoy the journey 💜

💙 Download the zine here: omontz.itch.io/hallowhomevol2

I’ve been sick with the flu so I couldn’t make a new doodle for mah boi, so ah… have this masterpiece again, lol. Happy birthday, my beetle boy

BORTH.

Mitama Yakumo in the flesh, here to enhance your Soul Gem as any good Coordinator should~!

Man, Magia Record helped me get through some tough times. I discovered it during the height of the pandemic and it honestly helped me get through a lot of it. Nothing will be more iconic to me than being greeted by Mitama and the stain glass window behind her as you pulled for magical girls.

Okay, so truth be told, I drew this a very long time ago for a zine project that has seemingly just... disappeared off the face of the earth. So apologies that this is such a belated farewell to the game. I really do hope that she, as well as so many others from Magia Record, make a return in Magia Exedra. I'd love to see my Coordinator gal join the fray once more!

Throwing my hand into the hk gijinka ring with my human version of Monomon~!

I think a lot about how Monomon in her normal form would perform mundane tasks (such as writing at a desk), and I thought it would be fun to translate that to a human form. I love to imagine that she intentionally doesn't tell people about the missing arms because she likes to see their shocked expressions when they see her for the first time.

Might tweak the clothing a little bit at a later time, I like the idea of Monomon in a hanfu-inspired dress, though I didn't think about it until I was done with this piece about how she puts the belt on... We can say for now that Quirrel puts it on for her, lol

Sharing a Monomon and Quirrel doodle I did a while ago that I never finished and I’m not sure if I ever will. I love my goobers being adorable, loll

Happy 5-year anniversary to Bug Fables~! I sadly didn’t have a pic doodled so I hope y’all will take this preview of Fractured Shell’s next update as compensation, lol

Thanks for all the fun memories and inspiration, Moonsprout Games~!

Bug Fables: The Everlasting Sapling version 1.2 update now available - Gematsu

Publisher Dangen Entertainment and developer Moonsprout Games have released the version 1.2 update for adventure RPG Bug Fables: The Everlasting Sapling in celebration of the game’s fifth anniversary, the companies announced.

The update adds the following content:

-Fishing in The Fishing Village – Catch worms and reel in some fun!

-New Post-Game Boss Fight – Face off against the heroes of legend in B.O.S.S. mode!

-Team Up with Allies – Watch allies you support join you through a new special medal!

-11 New Medals – Expand your strategies with even more new gameplay-altering medals!

-New Items to Discover – Scattered across the overworld, waiting for explorers to find.

-One New Music Track – A brand-new addition to Bugaria’s already beloved soundtrack.

Vi’s Beemerang now has an option to lock angles to the nearest eight cardinal directions in battle.

A grace period added after falling droplets allows for easier freezing.

Various language fixes, minor balance and bug resolutions, and more!

“This update is a love letter to the incredible Bug Fables community,” DANGEN Enertainment said in a press release. “For those who have already journeyed through the world of Bugaria, this update offers a perfect excuse to return. And for newcomers, there has never been a better time to jump in and experience the award-winning adventure for the first time.”

Bug Fables: The Everlasting Sapling is available now for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Switch, and PC via Steam, GOG, and itch.io.

Watch a new trailer below.

Version 1.2 Update Trailer

Happy borth, moth man

Team Mothiva in the spotlight~! I've been wanting to draw these two for a long while and I finally sat down and made myself do it, lol.

Random funny thing: when I first played the game, I misread Mothiva's name as "MothVIa," and now I'm having such a hard time calling her by her actual name hsdjklfs

Imagine: Monomon but she’s Quirrel-sized

Time waits for no bug, and Monomon has become desperate in her search to free Quirrel from his fate. Yet Quirrel sees that this unhealthy obsession has begun affecting her in the worst possible ways. Though she means well, Quirrel cannot let his teacher tear herself apart like this, especially not for his sake. But with Monomon no longer willing to listen to his pleas, Quirrel is running low on options. Desperate times truly call for desperate measures.

Come check out my next fanfic of HK, this time featuring Monomon and Quirrel! Hope y'all are ready for some angst and pain >:3

"Wherever you lead, I will surely follow."

I see we’re doing mono-loaf’s today

Enjoy a quickly-doodled jelly bread

Headcanon: Monomon, Queen of the Oomas/Uomas

Monomon is the “Queen” of the jellyfish creatures that inhabit the Fog Canyon, but not in the traditional sense. She does not have a monarchy that she governs—She is the “Queen” that her “hive” serves and protects.

Like normal jellyfish, the oomas and uomas are like a bundles of nerves. They cannot see or hear, but they react to changing stimuli in the environment. The only one among them able to think independently, to see and hear the world around them: their queen, Monomon.

Before the rise of the Pale King, Monomon was incapable of higher thought. However, she was clearly more intelligent than the primal beasts that roamed the depths. She had a very strong sense of curiosity, which the King learned when he’d found a hidden stash of tomes and journals in her possession. Inspired by her desire to learn, he granted her higher thoughts along with the other bugs of Hallownest.

With her mind expanded, Monomon began to learn as much as she could about the world around her, including the nature of her jellies. She knew that they would respond to her mental state, but she didn’t know the specifics. There was clearly a pattern they would follow depending on her emotional state:

When she was happy or excited, they would gravitate to her and cling to anything around her. Her theory was that they wished to partake in whatever was causing her joy.

When she was upset, they would grab anything around them and bring it to her. She believed they are trying to cheer her up by presenting her with gifts.

When she is scared/angry, they turn hostile and attack anything that draws near. This seems to be a primal instinct to protect the queen when she senses danger.

It wasn’t until she took on her apprentice, Quirrel, that she was able to learn more about their behaviors. Since they behaved in response to her, there was no way for her to see how they reacted without her presence. But with Quirrel able to study them away from Monomon, he learned that the strength of the reactions that the jellies had was entirely dependent on their distance from Monomon. The further they were from her, the weaker their reaction. This has led Monomon to believe that she is unknowingly emitting pheromones out into the environment that they are sensing and responding to.

With this knowledge in hand, Monomon began an experiment to see if she could teach any of the jellies to ignore her pull or think somewhat independently of her. This would eventually lead to the creation of Uumuu—a being that was created solely for security purposes. It would be able to ignore her pulls so that it could remain vigilant, and had been taught to identify threats without Monomon having to identify them as such beforehand.

When Monomon became a Dreamer and was sealed away, it turned the Oomas/Uomas completely docile. Without their queen to guide them, they merely drift aimlessly, awaiting the call of their queen once more. The only exception: Uumuu, who still spends their days guarding the sleeping Monomon from any intruders who dare try to wake her. But with the infection slowly overcoming it, and without Monomon’s guiding tentacle, Uumuu has lost the capability to differentiate friend and foe. Even in the presence of a familiar face, it can only follow what it was trained to do:

Protect Monomon at all cost.

*Breaks down the door* MA LOOK I MADE MORE HK ART!!

So @voidsiblings updated their Lost Kin fanfic and I read it while listening to Three Days Grace. Then this happened. Oh my god, the FEELS I have for these two thanks to this fanfic UGH. My HEART.

Part of me wants to gush and the other part wants to keep it in for people who haven’t read it because BY GOD it’s good! Y’all ever read something on your lunch break at work and it’s physically painful to rip yourself away from it because it’s THAT good? Yeah that was literally me.

If you haven’t read it, WHY ARE YOU STILL HERE?! GO READ IT NOW!

(Lyrics are from “Animal I Have Become” and “Fallen Angel” both by Three Days Grace)

Wheeze

I added Hornet and Quirrel to Stream Avatars and made them fight so I could check to make sure their animations were working properly.

Let me tell you, nothing's more hilarious than watching Quirrel run for his life while Hornet is chasing him down.

I had a random Bug Fables dream the other day where Team Snakemouth (Leif in particular) was being pursued by this shapeshifting creature that was taking their forms to attack them. None of them knew why it was coming after them until they were running away and ran into another moth. Outside of having a white shell and being older (physically speaking), the moth looked nearly identical to Leif. That’s when the team realized the shapeshifter was after THIS guy, and it had mistaken Leif for being him.

Also random moth dude ended up being the leader of an entire moth clan that Team Snakemouth decided to help after that encounter.

Maybe one day I’ll doodle this, but for now enjoy the cool dream I had (or at least, the part of it that made sense, lol)

Man I love my sassy, fluffy, winged blue boys with yellow accents who are technically dead and associated with the cold

Fractured Shell: Master Post

This is the master post for the Bug Fables comic, "Fractured Shell"! Looking for a specific post? Look no further than here!

PROLOGUE:

Pages 1-5

Pages 6-10

CHAPTER 1:

Pages 1-5

Pages 6-10

This post will update as new pages get uploaded! Feel free to drop an ask if there's any questions!

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Leif's magic senses are tingling!

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More comic let's gooo! So disclaimer: If you're wondering why the art style changed midway through these pages, it's because I've gotten a new drawing tablet~! It has definitely helped to streamline the drawing process though, I will say.

(Also fun fact, pages 7-9 were the first pages I made. Yes, even before the prologue pages, lol)

In other news, I now have a master post for this comic! Hopefully that will make it easier for you guys to find your place when reading ♥

More Qi doodles, this time featuring Hornet (and and dad/babysitter Quirrel)!

Somebody’s gotta watch the kids during those Dreamer meetings, lol

The White Lady - The Goddess of Fertility

Aight, so this might be just a random midnight headcanon that crossed my mind, but I had to share it because the White Lady is refusing to leave my mind:

The White Lady was the Goddess of Fertility within Hallownest. While yes, bugs have been able to reproduce long before she appeared, her presence had an influence not on bugs' capabilities to reproduce, but she inadvertently also had an influence on societal norms surrounding romance/intimacy.

Before the White Lady had appeared, it was an unspoken societal rule that bugs did not mingle with other species. Though it had initially sprung up as a "you can't reproduce with someone outside of your species" mindset, it evolved into bugs being ostracized if they were to fall in love with one outside of their species. Those who did intermingle were oftentimes alienated by other bugs as a result. This also left many interspecies couples to struggle with starting families, as many would not allow them to adopt as it would "damage the mental health of the child."

When the White Lady appeared, she was saddened by all of these societal rules. As the goddess of fertility, she wanted everyone to know the joy that offspring could bring. So, as her gift to Hallownest, she blessed the kingdom's denizens by giving bugs the ability to bear children with others outside of their species.

However, her gift was not accepted as swiftly as she hoped. Many were still convinced that those interspecies children would grow up damaged, and those that had interspecies families felt as though they had to hide their families to avoid scrutiny as well as potential physical and mental danger that coming out would cause.

Because of this (and with the Pale King's permission) she made it very public about the children that they bore. She hoped that she could lead by example and help to change the mindset of the bugs of Hallownest. However, the bugs saw these two as an exception, as the Pale King and her were both higher beings, and as a result were exempt from the rules of society.

It wasn't until Hornet was born that the true shift began. While the bargain between the Pale King and Herrah was merely for political reasons, those outside who did not know of the deal began believing that the Pale King had bore a child with the Spider Queen because so many were rejecting his wife's gift. They believed he wanted to show the world that it was no longer taboo, and because he was so revered by people, the shift in mentality began happening much quicker. They were even more convinced after Hornet grew up, as she had grown up to be a normal girl--or as normal as she could being a princess and daughter of the Pale King.

(side note: It was also because of the White Lady that the Pale King and Herrah were able to bear a child together. She hoped that the child born between them would help bugs to accept one another no matter who they loved.)

As time passed, it became much more common to see interspecies couples. By the present time, it became a cultural norm in Hallownest, though many had forgotten by then that it was the White Lady's influence that allowed such things (as they'd forgotten about her and the Pale King by that time).

By the time the Kingdom began to crumble at the hands of the Radiance, the dwindling population made the White Lady start to lose control and become overcome by her more basic instincts. As the Goddess of Fertility, her body began to respond to the dwindling population by an uncontrollable urge to repopulate herself. However, knowing that she would not be able to care for those offspring and that they would become more fodder for the Radiance, she bound herself within her gardens. She prays that soon her urges will subside and that she may one day be able to return to the Kingdom she once knew...

One more limited color palette post, this time with our favorite Higher Beings! Once again, palettes come from @color-palettes and were chosen based on their names.

Pale King - I am the Law and the Law is Not Mocked

The Radiance - Iridesce in the Morning Light and Raise Your Army

Grimm - Soul-Consuming Flame

They’re hereeee!! My plushies from @forrksie came today~! Mono-mom with the babbus~! They’re so incredibly soft and WAY too precious 🥹 💕

One day I will get Herrah to join, but for now, Monomon gets to babysit until she comes home XD

Thank you so much forrksie!! You did such an amazing job!!

Play date with Mommy~

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Team Snakemouth enters the fray!

I promise this is not dead, lol. Just took me a while to get to this. Eventually I will give this comic a proper "cover" image, but for right now, I'm gonna move ahead with the comic itself. Hope y'all enjoy~!

When the depression hits hard and you gotta draw your OTP with their lovechild to make you feel better.

Anyway, have some quirrelmon with Qi, my lovechild for them