The King Has Asked Herrah To Be One Of His Dreamers, But She Was Not One To Sacrifice Herself For The

Collaboration that I did with @thebrokenlabnerd , they did the lovely sketch and I colored it in today’s session! So much fun to color this piece! As I’ve never contributed before for the Alphys x Undyne ship!

@thebrokenlabnerd is the only one allowed to repost this artwork and create icons out of it. 

Thank you so much again for letting me color this in for you!!

Undyne and Alphys property of Toby Fox

Continuing on with designs of the Dreamers unmasked/unrobed, it's time to show off Herrah!

Ngl, I saw someone else draw her as a centaur-spider and I've fallen in love with the idea and can't draw her any other way. I also imagine Herrah knows how scary she looks and revels in it. I mean, if you were given the title of "The Beast," wouldn't you?

Scary spooder mom FTW!

(Here's the Monomon one if anyone's curious~)

Fun little doodle of my version of Monomon without her mask/robes. I've decided to try and do the characters from HK a bit more stylized, and Monomon was definitely on the top of that list. I wanted to give her something more akin to a humanoid look, because I didn't really like the idea of her being Ooma-shaped. Looked very... questionable in my opinion.

Also, I have a headcanon that Monomon's mouth is not very visible unless she has it open. Which is often, considering I headcanon her as quite the chatterbox. Add Quirrel to the mix and you get a never-ending conversation between two nerds, lol

Practicing coloring with the tablet~ Used a sketch I’d had sitting around. Pose is from this draw your OTP post.

Underfell Alphye is my life ahfjkdslhf ♥ ♥ ♥

When you want to add a character to Stream Avatars, but they don't have any attacking animations, what do you do? The only logical thing an artist would do: Make one myself!

I had to have Queen Elizant II as an avatar. We all stan a queen who SLAYS, and this woman was ready to THROW HANDS when her kingdom was in danger. Respect, loll.

Fun fact, this is actually my first finished animation is CSP, and I'm very proud of it~!

Someone help me I have a bug infestation in my brain

The White Lady - The Goddess of Fertility

Aight, so this might be just a random midnight headcanon that crossed my mind, but I had to share it because the White Lady is refusing to leave my mind:

The White Lady was the Goddess of Fertility within Hallownest. While yes, bugs have been able to reproduce long before she appeared, her presence had an influence not on bugs' capabilities to reproduce, but she inadvertently also had an influence on societal norms surrounding romance/intimacy.

Before the White Lady had appeared, it was an unspoken societal rule that bugs did not mingle with other species. Though it had initially sprung up as a "you can't reproduce with someone outside of your species" mindset, it evolved into bugs being ostracized if they were to fall in love with one outside of their species. Those who did intermingle were oftentimes alienated by other bugs as a result. This also left many interspecies couples to struggle with starting families, as many would not allow them to adopt as it would "damage the mental health of the child."

When the White Lady appeared, she was saddened by all of these societal rules. As the goddess of fertility, she wanted everyone to know the joy that offspring could bring. So, as her gift to Hallownest, she blessed the kingdom's denizens by giving bugs the ability to bear children with others outside of their species.

However, her gift was not accepted as swiftly as she hoped. Many were still convinced that those interspecies children would grow up damaged, and those that had interspecies families felt as though they had to hide their families to avoid scrutiny as well as potential physical and mental danger that coming out would cause.

Because of this (and with the Pale King's permission) she made it very public about the children that they bore. She hoped that she could lead by example and help to change the mindset of the bugs of Hallownest. However, the bugs saw these two as an exception, as the Pale King and her were both higher beings, and as a result were exempt from the rules of society.

It wasn't until Hornet was born that the true shift began. While the bargain between the Pale King and Herrah was merely for political reasons, those outside who did not know of the deal began believing that the Pale King had bore a child with the Spider Queen because so many were rejecting his wife's gift. They believed he wanted to show the world that it was no longer taboo, and because he was so revered by people, the shift in mentality began happening much quicker. They were even more convinced after Hornet grew up, as she had grown up to be a normal girl--or as normal as she could being a princess and daughter of the Pale King.

(side note: It was also because of the White Lady that the Pale King and Herrah were able to bear a child together. She hoped that the child born between them would help bugs to accept one another no matter who they loved.)

As time passed, it became much more common to see interspecies couples. By the present time, it became a cultural norm in Hallownest, though many had forgotten by then that it was the White Lady's influence that allowed such things (as they'd forgotten about her and the Pale King by that time).

By the time the Kingdom began to crumble at the hands of the Radiance, the dwindling population made the White Lady start to lose control and become overcome by her more basic instincts. As the Goddess of Fertility, her body began to respond to the dwindling population by an uncontrollable urge to repopulate herself. However, knowing that she would not be able to care for those offspring and that they would become more fodder for the Radiance, she bound herself within her gardens. She prays that soon her urges will subside and that she may one day be able to return to the Kingdom she once knew...

Welp. This was originally meant to be a concept sketch for an alternate Herrah design. Somehow it turned into a whole entire picture, lol

Bruh, I absolutely LOVE love children. I don’t think y’all understand how badly I NEED them in my life. I must know all your cute headcanons about a child of your favorite ships! That stuff breathes LIFE into me!

I beg you, please feed me so I won’t starve ;A;

For anyone who saw my picture of DJ Grooves and the Conductor that I uploaded a while ago, these are a few of the individual frames that are hidden in the film reels in the picture! This is also the main reason why the picture took a while for me to finish. Nearly every frame was drawn as its own picture and then added and cropped accordingly. I had a lot of fun messing around with lighting effects on these pictures! 

Hands down, Battle of the Birds is my favorite chapter in this whole game. Which chapter was your favorite?