Watcher Designs Plus Notes

my thoughts on watcher in its ENTIRETY

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MAJOR SPOILERS

also some watcher art I forgot to post

the watcher. was one fuck ton of a roller coaster. from the excitement of opening the game, to the annoyingly slow progress, to the absolute devastation of the throne and unfortunate evolution. to finally. the first ending. the past ending

I struggled heavily throughout the campaign, progress feels impossible and gameplay wise it's not the best, but it does make up for it lore wise.

I was absolutely devastated over the future ending and Prince and the rot taking over. but now I've taken the time to think I think it's interesting, I at least believe prince is interesting. the rot trying to replicate an iterator, as that's where it's dna is based. and even more cooler, in unfortunate evolution where the rot replicates VOID WORMS. it's such an interesting concept, but it makes SENSE. iterators are powered by VOID FLUID, of course the rot would also imitate it.

as for the past ending. seeing this ending definitely shifted my view in the watcher entirely, and I don't think without it I would enjoy the watcher the way I do now, it's a perfect contrast to the future ending. you get to see the ancients and how they lived. the echo talks about how they were raised with other children by multiple people! overall, gameplay, the watcher is frustrating and slow and so, so much backtracking without any knowledge of where to go, but lore wise and how it's story is shown? absolutely beautiful. to the point it did almost cry lol.

also I believe the past ending takes place on pebbles! the pearls on the shelves are the same colours as the ones in his chamber! but there is definitely no solid proof. I hope the future updates add onto this side of the timeline more, and we can see how they lived more

Arti and her weird pup

needed to post these five pebbles reaction doodles before my phone dies

he is so stupid kill him with fire

also feel free to use with credit!!

iterator can drawing

yes this is the doodle I did yesterday turned digital. why? because I wanted to make myself suffer/j I liked it

also taking the time to yap part 2 ( THIS IS A LONG ONE )

I think this would probably take place near a blood pump station near an iterators general system bus. since blood isn't needed around the whole structure like water is neither is a heart needed, they already have three!! so it's simply pumped around the general system bus. speaking of

the general system bus is probably the most interesting in terms of my iterator can headcannons and how systems work,

it doesn't do much on its own, but is vitality important, infact THE MOST important for an iterator to be functioning.

one of its secondary functions ( don't ask why I'm going over it's secondary function first smh ) is holding an iterators personality. having it being encoded deeply within the flesh of an iterator can.

an interesting thing about this is that an iterator isn't 'born' with its personality, they 'grow' it after booting up! like how our world children grow their personality.

it's often quite uncanny for other iterators to interact with newly created ones because, well, they have no personality yet! it's important to treat them well though cuz everything that happens to them during their younger years will impact them MUCH more than it will if they experienced it later in their life

the last thing, the general system bus's MAIN function is basically a manager of everything, it keeps systems working together and synced. it also kind of works as the iterstor's 'consciousness '. I don't really have better ways of explaining it all lol

also apologies for spelling mistakes I was typing fast sigh,, I tried to find them all.

spearmaster tried showing sun's their art...

at least sun's tried to be nice about it...

Does arti give the autism man pearls ?

autism man....

anyway yes she does, finding them gives her something to do in the city, and it's also part of the reason pebbles tolerates artificers repeated visits lol

he does also just get them from looking through old documents and data and putting that in pearls, a bit like people archiving lost media, as well as just getting them from others giving him their own stuff they've found

doodle to go with this!!

day 1. noodledlies

( ignore how it says noodlefly and not noodleflies )

I like eating their children

i was shadowbanned from ur main, glad to see i can enjoy ur art much more :D

this is my main account, if you mean void kat that's a different person!! we just have similar names lol loads get mixed up

lizard drawings I did a while ago cuz I'm in the middle of art block lol

cyan and red lizard my beloved they're so silly

sunstone art!!

I love them I LOVE THEM I haven't drawn them in a while too