Drabbles from RBBTober 2024, the October prompt list. Lots of alternate universe content and self indulgent nonsense abound.
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Characters: RB Battles Season 3 Finalists CWs: N/A, though there's no prose just a ramble
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No drabble for this one, just YanDan rambling, sorry! I'm trying to get back to writing BLSMP as well as other projects, so no drabble.
I'd originally planned to just drop some old AU content I'd made and explain it all, as I'd said, but I watched that one 2 hour Wreck-It-Ralph analysis and ended up making this AU, which tends to be how most of my AUs get created tbh.
To summarise its plot, it's basically Wreck-It-Ralph and Pibby but with RBB characters. The RB Battles finalists (and the other participants as cameos ig BUT finalist focus) are all characters from video games. However, their games start to be taken over by a virus known as 'JP', which wants to be the only game that people play. Therefore, a group of hackers/programmers (the hosts!) save a character from each game and copy them into a game with heavy safeguarding as a safe haven until the JP problem is dealt with. More comedic, but can be dramatic at times.
Think of the designs above as beta designs - I'm not totally happy with them yet, but I might keep fiddling until I get something I like. So, where are these characters from? Well:
PinkLeaf and Tanqr are from an Angels VS Demons Shooter RPG, where you play as the angelic military dealing with the invading forces of Hell. PinkLeaf is a soldier in the Angel army that gets a few cutscenes, and when the player saves him from a kidnapping, he can be added to their party - he'd allow the player to escape from fights as well as giving you an evade boost. He's a bit of a coward, but has a good heart. Tanqr, meanwhile, is the representation of Wrath and most likely the second-to-last boss battle in the game before Pride? He's a villain with a love for fighting and command over a vicious army - carefully calculated to cause the most pain as possible. The invasion on their game by JP took place in the middle of a cutscene they had together (specificially, it was Tanqr that kidnapped Pink) so they ended up being safe from JP as a result, so they got transported away instead of the player character, which you may have noticed is a trend with the other three.
"KreekCraft" is the player character from a typical Mascot Horror game. No real details on it, but it's probably a tourist location. He's not doing the best mentally because of all of it, and has a very high bar as to weirdness as a result. His name's in quotation marks as it's a name he chose himself - being the typical Mascot Horror protagonist, he didn't have a name or even a face when he got rescued and sent to the safe haven, before one of the hosts programmed him in a face.
iBella, otherwise known as Watermelon Gal!, is the player character in a kids superhero/edutainment game, where she's basically a magical watermelon girl fighting against cake monsters. Her game is actually the 'safe haven' mentioned, as because it's a kids game, it's got very good security strangely enough. So they all live in her house. Also maybe the hosts developed it, idk.
Finally, DenisDaily is a dating sim protagonist. Because yeah, that fits him. He's a vet tech and an animal lover, but unfortunately all those he cared about died in the JP attack - though he doesn't know that yet. He swings both ways and tried to jokingly flirt with Tanqr and got punched for it.
I also think that later, Hyper and Ashley would join the cast, though I didn't draw them here for the sake of my sanity. Hyper is from another horror game, an apocalypse horror this time, however unlike Kreek he's not the protagonist. He's an NPC you can do quests for. However, when he gets to the safe haven, it's clear he's in denial about the whole 'apocalypse' thing, so he gives off the impression he's from a slice of life. Ashley is a shopkeeper from a fantasy MMORPG, and she *also* punts Denis when he does his whole dating sim protagonist thing.
Alright, that's all I figured out. Let me know if this premise genuinely interests you? Though I'm still gonna focus on BLSMP and the TMA AU for now, we'll see what happens in the future.
I'm also gonna call it here on RBBTober. I do have an RBB-related Halloween project, but it won't be finished in time, so that'll come out on my other socials when it comes out. Thank you for reading all my funny little drabbles and checking out my art, if you do want to see more of my AU content do check out my Tumblr (@ danthediamondminecart) 'cause I talk about them the most on there, and I'll see you in the next story, whenever it may be!
- YanDan
PS: Are you guys interested in me making an art book? Genuine question. I've been hesitating to make one as I don't want a consistently updating art-book to clog up the tags and page, this is a writing website after all, but I know there's an RB Battles fandom here and I don't get to hear you guys anywhere else! For now, I'll tell you again to check out my Tumblr and Twitter for art and even more AU content like the ramble above - I'll make an effort to post about new art pieces & extra content over on my announcements - but if there's enough demand, I'll consider making a proper art book.
