Send “⏬” to see my muse in a low point of their life || No longer accepting

Stan sat against the apartment wall, the room filling with the gloom he’d been felt since evacuating from Ponchella. His bones ached with loneliness and longing for the friends he’d left behind. But what else could he do? He couldn’t let the Plague get to them too. He wouldn’t. He liked them too much to let that kind of nightmare happen to them. 

There was a soft purring mrow as a semi-short haired cat sauntered up and climbed into his lap. She purred and nuzzled him, seeking attention while also seeking to comfort. The ploy worked and soon the cat was wrapped in the man’s arms and being scritched with gentle fingers.

“Heya Don,” Stan mumbled stroking his cat’s noggin. “How’s my girl?” 

The cat purred loudly, adoring the attention as he scratched her back and forehead. As he did so, Steak’s voice drifted through his head, sending pangs of grief radiating through his bones. 

‘You got a problem with Whiskers?’ Steak had asked before introducing him to the cat. Other voices began to pile in, each one seeking to remind him of a friend he’d left behind. Sansy, Dove, Smoke, Gorey, Tori, Humerus, Gigi… that grumpy bespectacled skeleton scientist whose mug he still had in storage… So many precious people in his life and most of them not even residents of his own world. 

“Aw, Whiskers,” Stanley mumbled as his fleshy facade fell. “I wonder if they know how much I miss them?”

So I was talking with a friend of mine who runs the blog @fractis-ossibus​ and his G!Sans, Smoke, and what would happen if Smoke & Bonely ever ended up in a toon/cup head scenario? Would they be tag-team protagonists or Level Bosses? I figure Level Bosses since these these two are actually really powerful in and of themselves.

So here we’ve got my attempt at toonifying Smoke with his Gaster!Fragment, “Novox”, behind him in the form of a shape-shifting smoke demon. Smoke’s attacks range from smoke bones & real bones to sending out Novox in different shapes.

In a tag team boss level (like with the boxing toads/frogs in Cuphead), Bonely would be present and would pitch black/shadow bones around the place and purple flames that both he and Smoke can light their cigarettes (Smoke) and cigars (Bonely). From those, they create smoke bones & larger smoke clouds that can stun or blind their opponent, or conceal normal/black bones inside them which do damage. When the smoke gets thick enough, Novox takes form and attacks (kind of like a super move), using up all the smoke. When the smoke is clear, Smoke & Bonely return to using normal/shadow bones, normal bones & Bonely’s fireballs.

Mmmm.

“Ahhh, speakin’ the lingo again sure brings me back. Can’t ever forget when I met Smoke ‘n’ he decided teh work under me as his Don. Holy smokes do I miss that guy.”