Sequin Land Savior!

Notes about the future of this blog:

This blog will remain online as an archive, but will no longer be used for RPing.

Stream-related announcements will no longer be reblogged here. Please send all stream-related questions and reactions to my personal blog, @ozimul-reacts​.

Shantae-related posts might show up here if I feel like they’re relevant to the MagicByHalves AU (because let’s be real, this stopped being just an RP blog a long time ago.)

I might draw stuff relating to adventures that have happened on MagicByHalves. Those will be posted and reblogged here.

If you had some fanart in mind and feel bad that you didn’t get to draw it, you still totally can and I encourage you to submit it here! It WILL be posted, and I’d love to see it!

I may or may not turn this story into a more ‘proper’ fanfic. Obviously, a lot of stuff will probably change between mediums, so it won’t be EXACTLY the same story, but I’ll link it here if that happens.

It plays fine, it looks fine, the story's... mostly fine, but it wouldn't be Wayforward without them throwing something weird in there, unfortunately (I'm looking at you, Lava Town).

In terms of ambition, it... is not the game Wayforward wanted to make years ago, and I feel that way for a lot of reasons! It very much felt like they put together a "full game" with the assets and systems they'd already built without building anything new to flesh them out.

(LETS

FREAKING

(There’s still more I want to do with this, but it’ll be a while before I can do it since I’ve been busy with other things. Wanted to share what I have for the time being.)

Shantae's original powerset would have relied on summoning animals, such as a lemur and an elephant. This later got retooled into transformation magic (which is where the tiger was introduced, then cut).

The first game was originally going to feature the Pirate Master. Risky would've built a robot body to house his dark energies in. This eventually turned into the Tinkertank that you fight instead.

In the original Risky's Revenge trilogy, Risky was just going to kill Shantae and the second game would have consisted of her journey thru the afterlife, culminating in getting her magic (and life) back in game 3.

(Downloaded the official Shantae logo font this morning and this was the first thing I did, lol. I still can’t believe someone found this font.)

(I'm thrilled to see some interest in them! :D

This blog ran with the interpretation that the Warrior from the Village of Lost Souls is Shantae's father. I didn't really change a whole lot about him - I wasn't able to work in a lot of screentime for him. He was a rather skilled treasure hunter in his heyday, and that's how he and Shantae's mother met - going after the same artifacts eventually lead to them helping each other on purpose more often than not. Since he's basically the Karnov protagonist written around trademarks, I gave him similar abilities - skill with boomerangs, ability to chuck fireballs, and unusual uses for ladders in combat among them.

This is the look I ultimately settled on for Shantae's mother. She's very strong, both physically and magically, and is very comfortable letting her transformation magic loose, even when she isn't using it for combat or navigation. Also she's, like, seven feet tall, so she dwarfs both her daughter and Risky Boots. Her preferred transformation is a large, golden tiger, but she can access whatever animal she needs for a situation.