#cheat rambles

not the hugest stridenthead any more but i will say what i have because why not.. lets a go

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in other words im not putting a read more thing on this post cz i dont feel like it... however! if theres an issue with this i havent anticipated lmk and ill edit the post. i might be trying to be funny in a slightly obnoxious manner but i do not mean to create a real nuisance...

so while witnessing the mod for. technically the second time but the first time after figuring out what was going on with those daves and bambis i was a bit surprised to see that the mod where the wiki says "it actually has a story" had 0 dialogue or anything so i was like. ok. ill make one up in my head

the gist: classic dave bambi lore Except bambi is not a nice wisdom god he's actually a mean war god. hence why everything surrounding him is much more.. aggressive

when pissed off he doesnt just throw his stupid phone at you. his body contorts and shakes and catches fire like some freak of nature. scary

here i have decided bambi is just a vessel of sorts to contain a dormant god and boyfriend hopping into his farm specifically to piss him off somehow wakes up the god Just a little (probably not entirely though? not enough trolling)

lord bambi being a fucked up tyrant here is also inspired by the title of the song "thearchy", which is a word meaning like. you know a monarchy. imagine that but with a god. rule of god. badass word actually. also i think it's funny to interpret mods where expunged is probably supposed to be a god as them like... not being one (im evil)

i did make some kind of design for him based on that opposition form... never really finalized it (i think it looks Too modern blah blah) but here

anyway expunged is actually not the worst guy ever they're just taking bambis form because (???i forgot) anyway they figure out that Hey actually lord bambi was pretty cringe (horrific and bad and scary) and so phonophobia is them having a Strident Crisis about this ROLL CREDITS THEY SAID THE NAME OF THE MOD

also! heebie. hellbreakie. minesweeper. probably the reason you sent this ask it's ok shes cute and fun i get it. i thought it would be funny if shes madden here so she's madden here. specifically she was an executioner for lord bambi because even though he could do it himself it would be worse if he made someone else do it and for some reason this is his goal i forgot why sorry but this is actually where the name hellbreaker comes from here. that's her title... the hellbreaker. after lord bambi dips no one likes her so for one reason or another (i don't think i decided?) she goes to the void and goes funny 3d mode and Actually i think i made her and expungie friends because that would give expunged a reason to freak out during phonophobia because wow how could i be so mean to this guy i respect. or something. yeah

heres stident maddis Which i have certainly put here before probably but for the big post. yeah

dave also had some part in this whole thing, mainly for the sake of justifying Why the Expunged Is Different, but also i have 0 recollection of what that part Was exactly. i just remember saying something like "wouldnt it be funny if strident crisis dave was emo" (which i said meaning he wears like a darker blue shirt as i think it's very funny when people call any dark clothing emo though sometimes i worry i am only contributing to the watering down of the complexities of alt fashion ? sorry)

anyway i also made designs for strident crisis beef nd geef because i thought it would be cool to base them on the colours they get from hellbreaker's shader. fits the tone better i think !

the plot here would probably be less of a mess if i like, cleaned it up and made something out of it, but also i don't really want to soooo for now all you get is this jumble of words. still think the mod is pretty cool even though i just prefer not to interact with it Too much for Reasons I Forgot but are most likely not important to the general public so don't worry about it

so uh... thoughts on dave if you havent said them already? Hes my personal favourite

DAVE!! i don't think i have talked about him here, no. he used to be my #1 favourite but that position got, uh... taken... still a close second though ^_^

i don't actually think he's CONSTANTLY miserable and sad. sometimes, yes, while working on fucked up secret machines, definitely, but i think most of the time he does come across as friendly and nice and that's not a lie or anything he just never deals with the problems in a good way so they kind of bulldoze him is all.

the funny part, however: I'm much better at writing/drawing/etc. really really sad characters so I'm pretty sure it comes across as if i do think he's constantly horribly depressed. i don't think this is much of an issue it's just a little comical

he definitely has layers of issues though. like I'm pretty sure the rocket accident is also canon to dnb (need to check that though) then there's the void which is pretty distressing on its own because it has endangered other people before not just him then there's the machine which most likely also had a negative effect on his relationships considering how he got muko + maldo to work on the thing while also not telling them what it is then there's expunged then there's the whole lord bambi situation which on its own is fucked up but then add in that that whole group is not only still active but also Extremely Dangerous and man this guy has a lot to worry about you'd think he would just totally collapse but he doesn't. he keeps going. while he certainly is self destructive he also has the fortitude to keep it up and that's part of why i find him so fascinating now. even before I thought he was interesting but now? man

and then another thing, the way he gets really mad really fast... think how in the dave week, by song 2 he's actively annoyed but hiding it behind a layer of Something then he just absolutely freaks out in polygonized which, if interdimensional dislocation really does happen under large amounts of stress as dave himself noted, means that he got so stressed out from losing a rap battle that he teleported. he's fascinating I'm telling you

i do not actually think he is as... whatever he is in daves house. since that game is from tristan's perspective, i like to think the whole thing is how tristan interprets it. so, dave doesn't actually get that angry, but tristan thinks he is, the house isn't that tall but it seems like that to tristan because he's a kid, etc. but that's just my thoughts i dont think that's how it was supposed to come across

in terms of opinion: i used to not like him that much because i didn't really like how the community characterizes him generally but i really like how rapparep talks about him. i also think him and expunged being some kind of buddy buddy is a really funny idea. i would consider myself a casual fan now

i don't think people would let him have chemicals long enough for it to be a surprise present but this is a good question

birthdays came about during the industrial revolution which madden definitely came before, however, holidays have involved gift giving for a long time... except they usually were to gods, from what my research is saying? so the whole "give presents to people you like on certain days" thing might initially confuse him

if he did get into it i think he'd either start out with really basic, expected stuff (from asking other people what you're supposed to do) or really strange stuff (from not asking anyone, having no frame of reference, being some guy from ~medieval times when really weird shit was important, and being in purgatory for hundreds of years so basically anything would be really interesting). maybe both

do note he isn't dumb. i don't think he'd find the same gifts he would have given to lord bambi back in ass crack AD to be fitting for dave (as funny as it would be) but i'm thinking like "this log would be good for cooking meat probably and he seems to like doing that" so he gift wraps an entire log he found on the ground because that's normal

i also don't think he'd be too fond of the idea of specifically buying something for a gift unless it's a really important object because... i don't know it seems it would be too impersonal for him. he seems like he'd enjoy giving people random shit he finds on the ground even outside of holidays so if it's not broken don't fix it i guess (though i don't understand people who don't like giving people random shit they find on the ground... maybe it's just inherent human nature)

i honestly don't know that much about it? when i first got into dave and bambi in general, all i knew was that someone had asked for it to be taken down, and there were these videos showcasing this unobtainable build which i found kind of cryptic. the comments also offput me

still don't know what happened, but i don't mind it being back since i do like a few things from it. i think this one version of rebound is pretty nice, i know the dude who made expunged_404 and i think it's a neat design, and that 7 on the keyboard teaser is like at least 2% of my personality as one would expect from the guy whose names are cheating and screwed. i just think it's funny

here's some expunged_404 art i did by the way

I uh dont have a specific question. So... too 3 things dave likes to grill...?

VERY good question because i actually haven't thought about it a lot

in my mind he sucks at cooking but is good at grilling because it's much easier and the wood gives it personality that you'd need to figure out yourself if you just put it in the oven. when i write him i like to make the side effect of this that he prefers the kind of food he would grill but it makes it seem like his taste is really bland

hot dogs because the opening dave week cutscene still brings me so much joy i cannot accept another answer

burgers because it is easy to make those alongside hot dogs. it's really good you should try it if you ever get into grilling

not an actual item but when he gets slightly annoyed by children, mainly while he is grilling, he says he's going to grill their face next which he and the children know to be a joke. the parents do not find it so humorous but both parties are giggling so it's probably fine. must note this is entirely canon-based headcanon as all of these ask posts are but the dnb wiki cannot tell and i can't blame them for that

oh this is a reeeeally good question. i think about it a lot

the fact that expunged is a fucked up little chunk of daves soul is really interesting to me specifically so i like to play around with the idea of them being kind of the same guy except not really except yeah they are except no they're not. they're soul divorced you know. that was the worst way i could have said it but also the funniest. anyway

the hair form is actually a 2d expunged, since i think if "defeat" didn't(/doesn't?) mean "kill the guy" it would instead mean they just don't have power anymore so no more 3 dimensions sorry bub

proto expunged is specifically described as bald. i like to think that this is only a thing in 3 dimensions since modelling hair is hard and that's also why their hands are spheres. however this hair doesn't actually go away it's just not able to be interacted with, so... if expunged is just a fucked up daveoid thing then that hair would grow out over time even if you cant see it

additionally i think it makes the guy look really greasy and depressed and fucked up and miserable specifically in a computers guy way so like extra points there

lastly i should note it is actually brown hair but its completely shadowed over because i like to think of expunged and draw it as this weird silhouetted thing . yeah

oh i think about this little guy sooo fuckin much hes so fascinating to me

i really like what was done with him story wise since while he has a lot of pressure and scary stuff goin on around him, he does have support and he can do shit. i also like how he connects daves story and bambis story its a really nice little way to tie it together

i would like to make more content with him in it and i do want to give him a little more focus in that thing i'm writing so expect me to think more in the future i am just tired right now

admittedly i do think it's funny to completely change how i picture the expunged vs tristan battle at basically complete random . expungeds fate in home to you has changed at the very least 4 times in the course of writing it and i've done like 3 comics about it with different conclusions and i also sometimes just change it in my head and don't tell anyone and i find it so amusing . like yeah no i don't know what's going on there either

the only thing thats really constant there is that i think he would be older than he is currently in the mod, not just because i dont think hes gonna be defeating some guy at the ripe age of 9 but also because i think the topic of growing up while bad things are happening around you is a very interesting one and i like to show different parts of that. just also with what i mentioned earlier in mind, that he does have support. to me that's why instead of being sad and miserable he's instead literally got a heart of gold he's caring and joyous and awesome