#samsonstone

no worries no worries!! if it helps, there's not truly... a beginning, to it?

i first started making the redesign universe largely out of just messing around with miranda and the merkingdom. this is why it still largely focuses on them so much, and why merfolk have so much more figured out in comparison to everyone else. i liked miranda, and i didnt like how the fandom or even how canon was handling her, so i wanted to write her myself.

from there, i added in speculative evolution concepts, and changed her body plan over time, and slowly i ended up with what i have now.

the rest of the AU is basically just extrapolation from this. looking at the other characters, and rethinking over their designs. what would they actually look like. what would they actually behave like. what would their society have to look like, their culture, their personal lives. how could you tie all of it together, make them more monstrous, give them a bigger world to live within.

unfortunately, this means there's no good place to jump in - all of my information is scattered across various platforms and most artwork is already outdated, and even what i do have needs to be polished up so much before i start actually sharing it with people.

so there are several options for how to introduce it that i'm left with

the first is: this is an AU where i take the characters and setting of Monster Prom/Camp and tweak the designs to make more sense with biology and appear less humanoid, and retroactively add a lot of world building i feel was missing.

there's also: this is an AU that presents an alternate earth, where there were greater pressures for multiple different sapient species to evolve, alongside the existence of magic. travel by sea has been impossible for a long time, and while there are ships made for rivers and lakes, the various societies had to create planes and teleportation magic to be able to cross the ocean. the merkingdom is a very old, very powerful society, that is only now beginning to interact with the rest of the world and make beginning introductions, and miranda was sent up to land as both an ambassador for the merkingdom and as a subtle power move and threat.

there's also: this is an AU that discusses empire and abuse and recovery, how to reconcile all the opposing parts of a single personality, how to form an identity when that has been denied of you for all of your life and when it is something that has been forbidden of you, the vast mental gap in even the most closely related species, the chronic inability to understand the world from someone else's eyes, the failure of authority and the cycle of abuse, how to learn to heal, how to become a better person, how to forgive yourself, how do you live within your own body, how do you balance a world that was not made for you and hurts you by design but lets you feel love and safety with a world that was made with you in mind but wants to eat you whole, how can you understand other people's bodies, how do you actually and truly navigate a relationship, a friendship, a family, between different people, different species, different worlds.

there's also: this is an AU where the exact events of monster prom occur, except that they look a little different.

there's also: this is an AU where nothing happens as it does or as it did, and people are more monstrous and more human and you never know if you are talking to a person or a predator.

Yes absolutely!! I’m really glad you find this interesting, it’s actually the very first thing we thought of when we were doing worldbuilding back in the spring. Our director, Tovah, rightfully insisted that food is a central aspect to any society and we needed to figure out how each society got it’s food. So here we go!

The Empire:

- Yep, mostly meat! They have some grain and vegetation, but it’s very limited and generally Extremely overpriced. (There’s also food shortages in some locations, but I won’t get into that here.

Hardizan:

- Aside from the fishing, much of Hardizan’s produce comes from the aptly named Proteus island, a crop-growing island off the cost that is mostly run by machinery. (We’ll get into that in a future episode!)

Talsoria:

- Almost entirely processed food. Typical meals consist of “food pills”. There are different colours/synthetic flavours, but they’re pretty much all the same. Items such as candy/chips are available but not staples. (There’s also a huge market for stimulant drugs and drinks). “Regular” food is also available but it costs a pretty penny and is considered a luxury. 

The Gannon Islands:

It took Orn a long time to convince Smough to do it,, and he wouldn't have if not for the pain in the lion knight's eyes, the creaking of armor as it stops and strains against the expansion of pierced and crushed lungs. He doesn't know whether to curse you with his dying breath, or thank you for reigniting them

The entirety of Cainhurst aint shit because they’re weebs, and Maria is so weeb that she has to be sent to the church for some soul cleansing

 But not only she wasn’t cleansed she made Gehrman and Ludwig into weebs. He’s unironically this meme

but change the text to “Forgive me palemoon/my moonlight, but I’ll have to stand up and go all out...just this once” 

Oh we’re still roasting Maria?

I’ll just make a list

1) dramatically stabs self for 5 seconds to gain power

2) dramatically floats in the air to somehow make her weeb sword on fire

3) instead of riposte let me slowly reach out my hand to you, give you a lady hug in the midth of a fight to the death, put my delicate lips by your ear and whispers “yo mom gay”, casually slits your chest and somehow it’s brutal like a riposte

4) weak anime girl scream when got hit. Scream is the easiest thing to do, just go KYYYAAAAAA and you qualify, even Laurence knows how to do it right. Instead, she gives us the

Ah. Oh. Ah. Oh. Aaah.

Not even trying smh

5) “I care you.” Says Maria to Adeline, gives her a key to the balcony. “But Lady Maria, I’m still tied on a chair with four syringes on my limbs. Can you untie me so I don’t get muscle atrophy and actually goes to the garden” “Ha no”

6) Everyone in the building screams in pain while she just snores in the basketball room after the 68 jars of beer

I mean, it is possible for her to be a veterinarian when she was human. I honestly headcanon her as one when she was human as well.

And of course I have headcanons for her! c:

Lily will eat any types of food besides sour. She may love food to the point where she’ll eat weird combinations, but sour foods are a no go.

Though they are difficult to come by, her favorite flower is a sunflower. She tries growing them but they just don’t seem to actually grow. With some help by the Courier or another companion like Arcade, Raul, or Veronica, she’s actually able to grow some smaller version of a mutated sunflower. She absolutely adores them, and sometimes puts them in her hat or other clothing.