I've Been Itching To Share My Swap Au Since I Thought It Up, But I Think I Now Finally Have An Actual

a colored sketch lineup of the main four characters in wander over yonder, role-swapped. left to right: lord lackadaisical (lord hater), dressed in a button down black shirt with flames, a pair of board shorts with stars, sneakers, and a red cape, sir peepers (the knight), sylvia the zbornak, wearing a cloak in wander's signature orange color with an upside-down star as a clasp, and wander himself, reclining on a mushroom with another mushroom sitting upside-down on his head, several candy-striped arms branching out from the top and connecting to his back. He's got no shoes on.

i've been itching to share my swap au since i thought it up, but i think i now finally have an actual baseline to introduce it with!!

the idea isn't that it's a personality swap, but a role swap, with wander and sylvia as antagonists and hater and peepers as the protags, and i have a whole lot to say about it so im gonna go ahead and infodump below the cut

lord lackadaisical on a motorcycle with peepers riding the handlebars

so i've renamed these two, at least, since hater's story has become less about getting over himself and more about how he sees the world Now That He's Gotten Over Himself. i'm calling him The Great (and absent) Lord Lackadaisical right now, but i don't think that's what he'd like to be called, since he's an absent ruler who doesn't really care to be in a position of so much power and would rather fuck off to all the planets with really nice hot tubs. he and Sir Peepers (his loyal knight who cannot be convinced to leave his side) travel the galaxy with hater's sweet ride (i'm not too good at designing motorcycles yet. pending).

wander with a mushroom on his head obscuring his eyes and grinning

lord lackadaisical and peepers, just standing there, in full royal and knight garb, respectively.

i haven't thought of new names/titles for wander and sylvia just yet (i cannot just call him Sitter Over Therer) but i do know what their deal is, and it's the main reason i made this au (i feel like if wander were a villain he would not in fact be a villain like lord hater or dominator because i think that kinda disregards wander's whole Shit, he'd be like screwball, and even then he'd have very strong convictions that he's doing the right thing): wander has a cult (a hivemind, kinda) and sylvia is his priest.

i think wander comes along this mushroom during a time in his life when everything seems to have been torn asunder, and instead of continuing his adventures and learning and growing as a person, the mushroom offers a solution that doesn't require much effort on his behalf. the mushroom links people together borg-style, makes them share a brain and a purpose. wander not only thinks it's super neat, but he's in such a poor state of mind when he finds it, he convinces himself it's the only way to make the galaxy a better place.

sylvia is the only person in his Ring of Friends who isn't hooked up to the mushroom, because she's actually wander's friend, and she's his ride or die. she does the things she does out of free will and dedication to her best friend, including preaching and fisticuffs.

a rough thumbnail featuring a large tree surrounded by orange, a podium with sylvia standing atop it, surrounded by shapes indicating several people.

several concept sketches of the moving tree wander would have been connected to in my first ideas.

an inverted mushroom standing on four spindly three-jointed legs

several sketches of wander with and without his mushroom hat, as well as a prototype for swap hater.

wander asking sylvia, "do you have fun doing what you do?"

^^^ here's some more of my initial concept art. originally the mushroom was gonna be a tree, but i had a vision of an upside down mushroom (or several, to take the place of watchdogs) scuttling around and by god is it easy to make that look like his hat.

the thing that really really pushes wander over the edge is the sheer boredom of it all. when he's connected to the mushroom, he's very little more than the brain they all share. he can't move around, and that KILLS him (see: the hole lotta nuthin). so when hater (name pending) comes along and refuses to join him and annoys him enough, he gets suuuuper stoked about having something to really DO for once.

some sketches of mushroom wander and lord lackadaisical fighting. one features lackadaisical in the foreground wrestling with several of wander's mushroom arms as they squiggle out from around wander, who is sitting at the edge of his seat and cackling. "ha ha he ha he he!!! c'mere!" hater is shouting behind himself, "peepers! situation unfolding!!" and peepers shouts back off screen, "ya think??". in the second panel, wander has captured lackadaisical with his mushroom arms, and he says "oh, i'd never, ever hurt you, buddy! i haven't had fun like this for ages!!". hater responds with an "uuh", and wander continues, "no, really! it's been two hundred years!"

anyway. this is what i've got for now. do you like it. you can be honest if you dont like it

wander picked up by mushroom wander, squealing with joy to meet another version of himself. mushroom wander is placidly amused

The Traveler Gang

pls read the whole thing for context and updates

meet the Traveler Gang, since i don't have a more creative name for this:

in a not too far away future, the fish of Bikini Bottom start to slowly move out of town, and day after day, the city becomes more and more abandoned. follow the journey of SpongeBob and friends as they travel around the vast ocean, trying to find a new home. where will they go? why would they ever leave their life behind? what the kelp is going on?

well, if anyone wants to find out, i'll post short comics about their new day-to-day life, mainly in the format of an open ask.

as the "plot" progresses, more characters will become available for asks, so stay tuned for updates.

characters currently available for asks:

- SpongeBob

- Squidward

- Gary

- The French Narrator

- The Flying Dutchman

the replies and comics in general will take a while to be released. frequent posting shouldn't be expected. but i promise that every single ask makes me smile, and love goes into every panel!

replies can be drawn in both traditional or digital sketches. most will be unfinished.

concept artsy stuff:

SpongeBob's main AU outfit: his blue swim trunks and a light blue shirt

Squidward's main AU outfit: a button shirt lighter than his usual one

Gary's new look: he's just wearing a stylish purple cap

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thedemo32

2 years ago

Some Low Quality Doodles Since I Didn't Post Art In A While

some low quality doodles since i didn't post art in a while

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thedemo32

2 years ago

Got any SpongeBob AUs? What are they?

glad that you've asked, because i got quite a few ideas:

my main projects are a Spongehenge centered AU, and a Dying For Pie AU

from my choice of episodes, it's obvious they're all gonna be a little darker than what this heartwarming show is used to. i'm not too big on wholesome content, haha

but don't worry. i might break the depressing mood by joining the Tumblr culture and creating an Ask for each AU. i also have ideas for shorter stories that will follow SpongeBob's lighthearted silliness.

..probably.

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thedemo32

2 years ago

forgot to post a christmas special

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thedemo32

5 months ago

Wander Over Yonder Mini Bible, Part 1.

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thedemo32

2 years ago

Gay

i am home of phobic pls respect that

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thedemo32

1 week ago

Alien, 1979

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thedemo32

2 months ago

obsessed with this art style

another little comic abt wander's time as the interim guitarist for ninety ounce nihilists .... i cannot stop thinking abt it

single image spread, transcript, thumbnails & other ramblings under the cut

TRANSCRIPT:

[an empty stage with a ninety ounce nihilists banner hanging from the top. the work lights are on, showing nobody but wander coiling a length of wire onstage. tumbleweed hums to himself as he works, but within a moment, the lights flick off with a loud CLUNK]

TUMBLEWEED: ummm... hey! couldja turn those back on?

[no response, so wander goes back to what he was doing in the dark]

TUMBLEWEED: s'pose not

[a band member appears in the next frame. she has a head like a hammerhead shark]

BAND MEMBER: hey, tumbleweed

TUMBLEWEED: well hi there!

BAND MEMBER: how come you still stick around?

[tumbleweed looks away sheepishly, but he still responds]

TUMBLEWEED: well, you're my friends! mr. threat is, too... he just don't know it yet

BAND MEMBER: ...he hates you. and he treats you like garbage. he's...he's making money off you, and he's not even giving you any credit. much less the cash you generate!!

[tumbleweed shrugs.]

TUMBLEWEED: never expected him to.

BAND MEMBER: wh...well, you should.

[tumbleweed takes his hat off and stuffs the coil of wire inside as he speaks]

TUMBLEWEED: it's alright. i'm doin' him a favor. y'all needed a guitar, n' i happen'ta have one. i don't expect nothin' in return

[the band member glances off stage with a sour expression towards three other members of the band, including major threat himself.]

BAND MEMBER: let me give you a hand.

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ok so the band member i included doesnt have a name, but here she is in the show, along with the rest of the ninety ounce nihilists, all vaguely middle-aged

i really realllly wanna draw them all when they were active as nozn because i love to dress up funky guys like them. theyre so fun. anyways.

i think wander is the reason nozn breaks up in the first place. they get back together in the future, yeah, after major threat makes up with them, however he goes about that. but like, the comical lengths i think major threat would go through just to keep wander at arm's length would be a tipping point for the rest of the band, because they'd start to realize how poorly they were being treated.

i think the straw that breaks the camel's back would be wander attempting to provide backing vocals and being immediately kicked out of the band. the kicker being that it's for a song he wrote, and all the other members would quickly follow him, because, hey, what the fuck, dude. what did he ever do to you. what did WE do to you for that matter.

ANYWAYYYZZZZ if anybody has like name suggestions for them or anything let me know! honestly i'm defaulting to calling them all different alien variations on trent and reznor because i think it would be funny to do

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