Are the Profane inspired by Dark Souls 3?

? no

what of ds3 do they remind you of

wait

is it because the word profane

no that word existed before dark souls

No not because of the word, but the word mixed with the Aesthetic. If you look at the Profane Capital Handmaidens, they wear big white robes and obscure their faces too. You see how I might find similarities? But yes I know English and I know the word "profane" thank you. I'm not some Soulsfag fanboy who assumes everything in Dark Souls is originally from there :P

Ooooh, "Hive Family"?

Hive Family [Mantis]


Slender bugs with four legs and two arms, Hive Family people are short cuties, who trick out their bodies with metal pieces and cool decals and look suspiciously like cars when they go all out.

Figments was in charge of making gods, basically, since she was best at that. Maybe she intended for all those gods to immediately start making their own races? Maybe? It's Figments, she's literally Mystery. Anyway, Mantis immediately made a race of insect people, and decided this would be how she'd take over the world. The Hive Family live in great earthwork hives, but they integrate into societies all across the world. They're usually pretty good guys, hard workers, good neighbors, friendly and charismatic. This is all an act. They are actually just trying to take over the world, but no one knows, not even the Rabbits. Their endgame is to have Family in all positions of power throughout the world, and then Mantis can really get to work!

Hive Family people have innate Mystery defense that prevents their minds and future from being read. At a default it shields them from Minnly Warren Rabbits, but Hive Family that actually develop it can confound active Knowing powers. They can communicate with one another silently with their antennae, by sensing emotions and implanting feelings into one another. They can do that to people, too, implanting feelings and sentiments through touch. Hive Family members can develop that into a proper Authority power, allowing them to perform subtle mind control, especially when their antennae are tricked out properly.

That's super cool. I had a thing going on in one setting where Cute Social Lizardbirds showed up in giant stone boats claiming to be pilgrims come to worship the sun god?

Turns out, they worship lots of sun gods. They worshipped their own sun god, back in their homeland, and they worshipped it SO HARD they sacrificed it (to itself). And then they went "well, looks like we need to find another sun god to show how devout we are".

This may or may not be creating a gestalt god all of their own that may or may not hatch some day.

that is an excellent jam yes

But why does Mantis care about ruling the world? The other parts of the world are irrelevant.


...Maybe she's jealous that Dream Bugs are cooler and have prettier wings.

Because if she's connected to all the goings on in the world, she'll gain more Story, and if she has enough, she can start her OWN world

Ok but what if someone was able to read the world bible? And then knew all about the Hive Peoples' nefarious plots? Then what?

then you'll probably act like that racist neighbor we're all embarassed of

I guess at that point you could always just get up & play another game instead too.
(wait so on a meta level do your frens playing characters in this worl' represent meta-aware beings who are treating that setting like a simple Tabletop RPG?? And those identities they've crafted are only that, identities made specifically to leach story from that poor world so that they may grow STRONGER!!?!??!!?!????

no, on a metafictional level their authorial lines extend outside of the world but are checked by UWi's internal gates, and by the City in the Middle's/my authorial gate, which is a double layer of safety to prevent metafictional abuse within the setting

they are however harvesting story from it, but story doesn't follow the laws of physics and produces more than what is used to put into it, so it's at no real loss

within the setting those characters they made are entire whole people with their own lives, who are their own people making their own choices who are also simultaneously controlled by other people

that is the challenge of wanting to do something but knowing your character will respond or act in a different way. to a degree a lot of roleplay/writing is you being entirely removed from the control seat and just watching what your character does without any input from you, despite you being in control of everything it does

this is, in fact, how reality itself that we are living in works, and if you understand that you achieve enlightenment! i did my masters on this it's canon and peer-reviewed

Oh caress yourself, my juicy
For my hands have all but withered
Oh dress yourself my urchin one, for I hear them on the stairs
Because of all we've seen, because of all we've said

We are the dead
We are the dead
We are the dead

they hang out in graveyards, even though they're born dead :c who do they think they're fooling

people who gamble with them, that's who

when are we going to see the warren rabbits, I want to see some warren rabbits :I

http://www.furaffinity.net/view/28035637/

there's only one picture of them so far, i am doodling more

The dead are short!

You could say they're laid low.

One could, but should one?

Only if you yourself are Dead.

the Dead are just animals of any species

they can be tiny or big, just like Meadow people

Huh, neat! Do they all levitate?