Psychonauts 2 - Blog Posts
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literally just wanted to go to summer camp
please pick up its urgent
AU where Raz never leaves the circus because he doesn’t realize he has psychic powers. His family knows and they just don’t tell him. He somehow gets tangled up with the Psychonauts and Sasha and Milla try to tell him but either the family intervenes or something interrupts them. It’s incredibly frustrating. Raz just has fun hanging out with his idols.
Thinkin' of an AU..
reblogging my own post after reading it again because WOW i went in depth. the other kids probably have deeper meanings as well, but i really just wanted to focus on these little lesbian freaks — even if they arent my favorite characters in the series.
a 'brief' analysis on the queerness of kitty bubai and franke athens from psychonauts, and the depth behind their favorite medias
ok this is the first serious post im making that isnt just account boundaries or anything. wow. ok how do i start this!!! so you guys know kitty bubai and franke athens from psychonauts right.
these little freakazoids from whispering rock in the first game. you know how theyre always holding hands and how theyre 'bestest friends' and shit yeah well what if i told you they were queer. wow! as if nobody knew that already!!!! (clear sarcasm) but theres some more that meets the eye yknow. one, its remarkable the devs snuck queer girls into the first game which came out in 2005 mind you. when people still werent really all that accepting of queer people ESPECIALLY if they were in a public relationship. this was really based of the devs to do no matter how hidden it is. more under the cut
of course they refer to each other as girlfriends (iirc) and 'sister,' but theres more than you think. we all know about the campster profiles, but the information on them is actually pretty interesting about the campers, since we dont learn much of them in the game itself which is sad. lets start off with franke. first of all, her only interest (aside from favorite medias) is literally JUST kitty.
thats pretty fucking gay if you ask me. and to add to the fire, she seems to have no real interest in other campers, especially other male campers. vernon in the campster profiles is revealed to have a crush on her, but her feelings toward him are ambivalent at BEST. her main focus is kitty, and has always been kitty. and about her favorite medias, basically all of them are queer. lets start with her favorite band of two women, t.A.T.u. this russian pop duo of girls, lena katina and julia volkova. they arent lesbians, but their queerness was a marketing stunt driven by shapovalov. though, maybe franke didnt know this. she just thought that their music was about two girls, loving one another. two russian girls loving one another in a time of potent homophobic stigma. russia has had homophobic ideals for a very long time, and homophobia was even more rampant back then than it is today. its forbidden love, and of course a young queer girl would eat that shit UP. its how she feels during that time. from an article called 'the strange and homophobic history of 'queer icons' t.A.T.u,' the author writes these little tidbits. 'Perhaps catching wind of their struggling personal brand, Katina and Volkova released a statement in 2007. “Many of our fans of alternative sexual orientation thought that we lied and betrayed them,” they wrote. “This is not true! We’ve never done that and we’ve always advocated love without boundaries." A few weeks later, they performed at the Moscow’s Pride celebrations.' 'In a 2011 interview, Volkova stated that she wouldn’t accept having a gay son. “God created man for procreation, it is the nature. The man for me is the support…I won’t accept a gay son,” she said on Russian TV. “A man has no right to be a fag…I just want my son to be a real man, not a fag.” She then tried to ‘backpedal’, saying, “I have many gay friends. I believe that being gay is all still better than murderers, thieves or drug addicts. If you choose out of all this, being gay a little better than the rest.’ For what it’s worth, Katina publicly condemned Volkova’s statements.' but of course, franke wouldnt know. this was all way after 2003, when the campster profiles were made. she would think that these two girls were lesbians, just like her. of course she would like their music. now, lets go to her favorite tv shows and movie—ellen, laverne & shirly, and the hunger. as we all know, ellen is a lesbian. ellen publicly came out on april 30, 1997. with laverne & shirley, people have speculated that they are in a relationship, especially with how they act towards each other. with the hunger, 1; its an erotic horror. not something a 10 year old should be watching, but honestly its not as bad as the other kids literally being peeping toms or killing animals on complete accident just with how overwhelmed and utterly powerful their minds are. 2; its a vampire flick with homosexual themes. being transformed, in both a queer awakening and a literal way, being transformed into a vampire. vampries throughout history have been associated with queerness in media, and this movie is no different. the hunger is one of the most famous movies with a literal queer plot. theres lesbian sex scenes, and theres goth swinger couples. very 1983. from a website called bitch flicks, theres a post that is titled 'nine pretty great lesbian vampire movies,' in which part of the section on the hunger says; 'Sticking well within queer tropes, however, Miriam is honestly a real U-Haul vampire, and waits all of 10 seconds after John’s death before she tries to marry Sarah pretty much out of nowhere. We are talking about someone that has an eternity ahead of her that can’t even wait like a month after her husband’s “death” before she starts moving her girlfriend in. Which is cold as Hell, because they were married for something like 300 years.'
conclusion, franke is gay as fuck. we love lesbians in this house! now, on to kitty, the more obvious of the queer couple i think. as a brief little bit, her and frankes relationship status on campster is set to 'open marriage.' if that isnt gay, i dont know what is. franke is only interested in being friends with men and women, meanwhile kitty is interested in a serious relationship with women and men. clearly, shes already polyamorous and bi, which is absolutely based. with her favorite media, her favorite show is xena: warrior princess. theres a bit of queerness in that show as well, with xena being clearly written as a queer character. xena and gabrielle, friends in the show, have been speculated to be queer, and the actresses for both have embraced this headcanon with open arms. in one episode, xena takes the form of a man and kisses gabrielle, and despite the heterosexual appearance, its very clearly a queer scene with obvious romantic intent. xena has been referred to as a feminist and lesbian icon. love that! with her favorite movie, mulholland drive, it has been a key staple in sapphic media. from an article, 'the important of mulholland drive in sapphic cinematic history,' there are a few paragraphs id like to highlight.
'Rita has suffered amnesia after being in a car crash on Mulholland Drive–she can’t even remember her own name, choosing Rita from a movie poster. Betty attempts to help Rita figure out her identity and they grow close through the process, eventually sleeping together in a very passionate scene of connection. It’s nothing gratuitous, nor the focus of the film or its celebration after release. “Have you even done this before?” Betty asks Rita. “I don’t know,” Rita says. “Have you?” “I want to, with you. I’m in love with you.”' 'Viewers of Mulholland Drive are unraveling the mystery with Rita and Betty, looking for clues that might have been overlooked, some, like Melissa Anderson of ArtForum, seeing the film an upwards of 20 times. As bizarre things begin to occur–a blue key found in Rita’s purse unlocks a mystery box that has Betty becoming Diane Selwyn, a name Rita recognized earlier on as Rita is now actress Camilla Rhodes. In their new roles, Diane is in love with Camilla, Another love scene between Diane and Camilla is disconnected, one-sided. “We shouldn’t do this anymore,” Camilla says. “Don’t say that!” Diane replies. “Don’t ever say that.” Later, Camilla kisses another woman (played by Melissa George) and then a man, and laughs in Diane’s face. This madness leads Diane to hire a hitman to kill the object of her affection.' both of these girls favorite medias are queer. all of them. clearly some thought went into these girls, and what they would like as young girls exploring themselves and their identity. it seems like franke would be more closeted about herself, meanwhile kitty is proud of herself. kitty is the ringleader in their relationship, with franke following behind. conclusion, franke and kitty are gay as hell, and theres literally no disputing that with all the evidence at our fingertips. sorry if this little essay post was weirdly formatted, i was interested in writing this stupid little thing.
When I draw him as a teen I always give him his nanny chin
A complexion study! I thought it’d be interesting to contemplate what the Aquatos would look like with a few varieties of realistic Romani skin colors and how the two might mingle to retain that goofy red/yellow/green and yellow/blue/brown color harmony from the games.
I’m absolutely not the first person to do this, but I can’t find the post that inspired me. It was Frazie and Mirtala with brown skin in pretty blue leotards, I think. If anyone can find it, plz link me.
(I also felt the need to sit and tweak Raz’s face a bit so he looks less like a Danny Phantom clone than in previous drawings.)
[ID: Digital art of sketches of Razputin and the Aquato family with skin tones varying from Simpsons yellow to olive to warm red-brown. There’s a bunch of tests of Raz in the top left as a smiling teenager. In the top right, Dion has been reimagined with long hair pulled back in a thick ponytail and a goatee. He’s wearing a royal blue leotard with gold trim and a deep collar. He looks contemplative. Frazie is in the bottom right with her hair flayed out behind her in an 80s windswept look. She’s wearing a light blue leotard with stripes of purple-blue swirly fabric, yellow trim around the midsection, and a white striped undershirt underneath. She’s staring curiously at a green lens she found. Donatella smiles and winks behind her with yellow and white glitter on her cheeks and blue shadowed eyes. There’s a gag in the bottom left of Augustus (in a green and yellow ringmaster’s outfit) warmly telling Raz (in a grey long sleeve) that he’s starting to get his grandmother’s chin, and Raz uncomfortably imagines himself with a skinny blunted chin like Marona. The skin tones of the children are varying intersections of their father’s red-brown skin and their mother’s olive skin. End ID]
There's surprisingly more games, starring Russian Romani, than one would expect.
Here is some raz fanart and my oc NightMare with her mask and without her mask I hope you enjoy it 😁 (please Don't steal) (And she has gloves on)
Yk what. I’d let that lil freak fuck around in my brain and clean shit up. dudes like. autism levels good at his job
"What color is the sky in your world?"
Watching the absolutely massive psychonauts documentary right now, huge props to the DoubleFine team for all their hard work!
forgot to post this Frazie!!! I adore her and the aquato family so much, so glad they were all in psychonauts 2!!!!!
And the overall collection of my psychonauts doodles over the past week! I'm stoked for 2 y'all don't even know...
MUCH better quality bc it’s straight from the computer and not so discord compressed!
Hey! Guess who's excited for this game!!!
Everyones favorite teachers! Total professionals, for sure, trust me!
"you're experiencing a sensory overload, whatever you do DON'T have a..."
Made this silly little comic based of a limo interior that I saw and thought Milla would totally have just a normal car with an inside that looked like that. Also hi! I haven’t posted any Psychonaut things here yet. Big fan! Hope you enjoyed my lazy airbrushing for color in the last two slides.
HAPPY PASSED HALLOWEEN EVERYBODY I FORGOT TO POST ANYTHING!!! Ive tried to do Raz cosplay,it didnt turn out the way I wanted but Im still happy.
The chapters will be extended and I have pictures of my imagining of the characters minds, this will mostly just be the interns/jr agents from the second game maybe some cameos maybe not but it will mostly be starred by all of them and my oc will be kinda there maybe because I live for this new novel and I want him so bad in there but anyway I shut and show you…THE MINDS!!!!!
So…I had a huge idea for a Psychonauts au or a post game fanfic-
INTRODUCING THE PSY-CADEMY
And it’s many yards and areas
It would basically be as said an academy for young agents located in the outskirts of whispering rock just to make it like progression you go to camp now to the academy and it would look like the images and they actually look more fantasy and abstract orientated in the style, since it’s located in one of the biggest psitanium and psylirium that would the ambience look blurry and abstract- I would love this to be something but I don’t think un good enough for the protect
psychonauts 2 turns 3 years old today, woohoo!!
OMFG DID YALL SEE THE PN 2 TRAILER? AAAAA ITS SO FREKIN GOOD , AND THE AQUATOS AND LOBOTO AND-
Okay but if in psychonauts 2 we don't fight with midge(morry's mom ) im disappointed
Psychonauts 2 // Spring Update 2021 NEW UPDATE!
Some more Psychonauts doodles that I’ve managed to get out while drowning in schoolwork
Psychonauts doodles!
