#fusionlore

The thumbnail art that was commissioned for this episode is the image you see right here (and further down without the added text, as usual).

It's this image illustrating a level 17 mission line, where Numbuh 1 starts to wrongfully accuse Grim of working with Fuse after reading the situation wrong.

And I love this piece, because it takes place on the shore of Bravo Beach and I made it super saturated and bright, and colorful, and warm, and oh my god summer is finally coming right around the corner, my favorite time of year;

BUT

There's this scene that's described by the end of the episode that just kinda gets me and I really feel like illustrating it too soon, lol.

I won't describe what it is, but you can (and should 🤨) watch the episode to figure it out.

New FusionLore dropped and this week it features my favorite thumbnail I've done for the series so far!

Not only do we have 3 characters this time, not only is one of them a Fusion, which are always really fun to draw, but also just drawing Father and Prof. Utonium here... idk I kinda ship it now, lmaoo.

Like, do you see that look Father is giving the Professor?; Don't tell me you don't see it! 🙂‍↕️

Anyway, here's the Angular Dad YAOI in full view for y'all to enjoy. 😏

And on the note of shipping;

The relationship between Imaginary Energy and Fusion Matter has always been one of the most interesting aspects of this game's lore for me.

Both of them are used to create life, but in a different way.

Imaginary Energy is created from a person's imagination and with it they are capable of bringing Imaginary Friends to life out of thin air. Meanwhile, Fusion Matter is a substance that is used to infect other things and spread Fuse's influence further. It creates life by corrupting items and turning them into monsters, and Fusions are just an advanced variant of those same monsters, using characters' DNA as a basis of their creation.

But things get really interesting when the two substances mix;

When a Fusion is made of an Imaginary Friend, they never act like they should and seem to have a lot more free will than the rest of Fuse's army.

And then there's the ultimate counter to Fuse's invasion - Nanos, which are synthesized from a mixture of Imaginary Energy and Fusion Matter (along with the given character's DNA).

Magic and Matt talk some about this relationship in this episode, but also go over previous missions together with their special guest - RadioRave.

Go check it out, and also check out my art for this too.

Really enjoyed drawing Fusion Mayor here. It was very fun to try to replicate the slimy gooey texture the Fusion's green skin has in game, as opposed to the simpler and cleaner look the Fusions have in official art.

Anyway, check out the new FusionLore episode out now! And here's my thumbnail art on its own.

The monster behind Townsville Park has been one of the strangest mysteries about FusionFall's lore, at least to me.

I remember when I replayed through the game in more recent memory and paid very close attention to every mission and dialogue, taking notes of it all. (It was during my first year of uni when Retro had finally brought back the original game from the dead, and I was finally a certified English speaker, having passed IELTS and was now studying in the UK,) There's a lot of things I learned about the game that younger me never learned about because I couldn't understand it, and a lot of them were really interesting too. However, the mystery behind the monster below Townsville Park always just kinda stuck with me.

Could it have been yet another big bad monster that the Powerpuff Girls would fight in the show? But if so, then why did Fuse need that ancient magical rune to wake it up, and why was it sleeping underground when most of the PPG monsters are from Monster Island? Maybe it was something more related to Juniper Lee, seeing the magical relation. But June never got involved in that mission line. It was really only the trio stationed at the park + Gwen who deduces that the rune is an alarm clock.

I can't honestly say what the game's writers had in mind when writing this mission line. Magic in the video jokes it's probably the Blowfish from "Uh-Oh Dynamo", but I don't believe that... especially since the Blowfish itself appeared out of the sea at Candy Cove during the 2010 Mother's Day update.

In any case, I kinda like how little we actually know about this supposed destructive entity below Townsville Park. It gives this mystique to it, y'know. The less we know about something, the more ominous, illustrious and dangerous it sounds. Yapping session over. Go watch the new FusionLore video!

Something I really love about FusionFall is that at first glance it looks like this "edgy" anime Cartoon Network crossover, where all the characters from the shows you loved as a kid have suddenly found themselves in the middle of an intergalactic war and they have to fight off this gargantuan eldritch alien planet, that's trying to assimilate Earth into its mass; And then, like, the game's story itself is super fucking unserious and half of the missions you complete are asking you to do the most random-ass shit for the CN characters, a good chunk of whom are entirely unbothered that there this massive amalgam of planets constantly looming over the sky and slowly approaching us. It's like if in Majora's Mask, nobody gaf about the damn moon. I like it because imo it's a perfect mix of the tones from the different cartoons featured in the game. I tried to do something similar when writing "CN Akumas". The story was edgier at times, but just as often I wanted to have chill chapters with a heavier focus on comedy.

Anywayyy, here's the thumbnail. Some background editing went into this thing, because the bumper cars were a little too small, but I bet you can't even tell, lol. Now go watch the video.

Another new FusionLore episode is out now.

I’ll keep it brief this time, since it’s late, but someone needs to check up on Numbuh 2, cuz he really be consuming peanut butter with garlic chunks. Disgusting, utterly disgusting!

And, I’mma be honest, I almost gagged trying to draw that vile concoction.

Speaking of drawing, here’s the finished piece. I’m really proud of how Cooper turned out.

New FusionLore episode covering the last of the Future missions is out now.

Go check it out! :D

Here's also my art for the thumbnail.