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A post were I nerd about overworld exploration for The Harlequin au by @tadc-harlequin-au

Okay. Here me out. Bubble as a menu guide/ovreworld companion that follows you around similar to Paimon from Genshin Impact or that one fairy from Majora's Mask.

(Don’t know if this already is a thing or not)

Like just imagine this duo. Harlequin!Ponmi and Bubble would be an unstoppable pair to deal with, their both such menaces!

I also think Caine could also sometimes speak through bubble whenever you spend a lot of time in a certain area without reaching your objective, offering to guide you!

You could also get a bubble POV in order to see some areas ahead. You could check on the enemies there and make a plan or guide it in order to solve puzzles...

Speaking of puzzles, there could be some mechanisms were you can leave Bubble inside in order to power terminals, activate things and stuff!

Excuse my shitty handwriting.

PRESSURE HUB: Command the Bubble Butler Blimp to stay put in the marked areas in order to activate certain mechanisms.

Ponmi: BUBBLE! STAY PUT!

B.B.B: You can leave me in Pressure Hubs to activate certain mechanisms and solve puzzles!

Ponmi: I. AM. TRYING!

Another thing could be that if you play on "Hard mode", apart from combat being more difficult, maybe Ponmi could be more reluctant to ask for help and Caine would just not offer his help cause he is too busy drinking working.

I've started to concept the idea for a The Amazing Digital Circus x Ride the Cyclone AU

Right now the name is

The Amazing Digital Cyclone

But it might change in the future, work in progress and everything.

Right now everything is in a concept stage and is subject to change in the future, expect the Masterpost and other official content at the end of November.

CONTEXT & INFO [WIP]

The AU will just mix the premise of TADC with the one of RTC instead of being a "Ride the Cyclone but what if TADC characters" type of story. Instead, the story will have the TADC human cast finding themselves, after brutally dying in a rollercoaster incident, in a circus-like-wonderland in-between life and death created by The Marvelous Caine. Here, the members of the Circus shall compete for a chance of being revived, but who's worth it the most?

None of the members remember their past lives, only the feeling they had during and about their death. They do not share the backstories with the original RTC cast, they will share some similarities with some of them at most.

All characters are adults around the same age they are in the original show. They all work/are connected to Uranium's local church and are part of the chuaior, most of the joining as it could have been their ticket out of that boring town.

DESIGNS [WIP]

All the designs shown here are, well, still being designed. Ponmi's specially is still in development, you can take the bottom right head shot as the direction I've decided to take. It's really hard designing a Ponmi, mad kudos to those who already did!

I don't plan on changing Caine's design outside from expanding it and adding more detail. He was very easy to design and all the elements floated into place as I drew, unlike Ponmi who has been hell on earth. I change his title from "The Amazing" to "The Marvelous" because, and bare with me, the world marvelous feels more purple to me and that is this version of Caine's main color. I don't know how I feel about taking away his characteristic red but I do like the diversity it brings to the "Caine roster".

Bubble takes after the rat that's nibbling Karnek wires (ultimately killing both of them in the end), I do not know if the same will happen in this universe though. I might make some slight tweets to his design cause I just can't seem to get the teeth right.

I haven't made any other concept art for the other members designs but I will get there eventually!

OTHER

I don't know what is the format this au is being taught in (comic, show, video game, visual novel and so on...) so any type of world building in that way is a bit iffy.

Consequently, I have no idea if any NPCs like GummyGoo or the Angle will appear but I do like the idea of having them in the au... so who knows?

I'd like to add Able in some way shape or form but try as I might I CAN'T SQUEEZE HIM IN! IT JUST LOOKS LIKE THAT ONE GUY WHO SELF-INSERTED HIMSELF INTO AMPHIBIA I SWEAR!

This is done by a TADC fan who enjoys the concept of Ride the Cyclone and its songs, my priority in what I stay truthfull to is TADC. I just took what I liked from RTC and now I'll create a story with it.

That being said, see you when I update. Feel free to ask questions!