ID Start: Its a drawing of three different grumpus characters. From left to right there is Nello, who is a grayish green and covered in googly eyes. There’s Ren, who is blue with a yellow bandana and pink-tipped hair. And there’s Lopsy, who is pink, fluffy, and has a blue bow on her head. Ren and Lopsy are playing cards together at a table, while Nello is greeting them from a few feet away. The dialogue in order says: Nello: Hey guys!! Ren: Gee Nello, the fuck happened to you? Lopsy: Focus. Do you have any three’s? ID End.
hi bugsnax fandom im back <3 i’ve made the perfect grumpus
Image Description: It’s an orange grumpus character with reddish brown stripes, green eyes, and a cat ear headband. They’re tall, skinny, and have a star sticker on their forehead. The text reads: “Scrimblo Bimblo. He/they/purr. Autistic. Loves Warriors and also just cats in general. Dyes his fur with stripes. Perfect. The perfect boy.” End Image Description
I don’t think I ever posted this lil page of doodles, so here he is!
id start. It’s a doodle page of a Grumpus character from Bugsnax. He’s got blue fur with pink tipped hair and a matching tail. He’s wearing a yellow bandana in most instances, but is wearing a pink varsity jacket in one doodle. From left to right, the drawings are of him sitting down with a blank expression, a headshot of him gazing off to the side, him sitting but simplified with no arms, and him standing with his hands in his jacket pockets. id end.
working on an icon for a grumpus oc <3 (orginally made in the official bugsnax picrew and then edited)
id start. a simple icon of a grumpus character with grayish brown fur, a blue rectangle nose, and a broken tooth. he has a cowboy hat and is covered in scars. he’s glaring at the viewer.
ID Start. A soft pink Grumpus standing on a pale yellow background. Her name is written next to her in pink text. It says “Keamerton Fluffernickle.” She has a round pink nose that’s lighter than her fur, and darker pink paws. She has two sharp canines as well as two rounder teeth that poke out. She has hazel-green eyes, a flower crown, and a pansexual flag colored scarf. ID End.
ID START. It’s a drawing of a grumpus character from Bugsnax! She’s short with orange fur that fades into a warm pink on her paws, hair, and tail. She has blue and purple eyes with a matching nose and tongue. She also has small canine teeth, white freckles, and large circular glasses! She’s wearing a light blue shirt as well. ID END.
I can’t decide on a hair style for my Journalist. I’m doing two versions, a normal/before drinking Snaxjuice tainted water and one after where their perception of things has been warped and they don’t really question what is going on. I want there to be a difference outside of her colors becoming lighter, but also don’t want to make her too sickly or ragged looking because I don’t want the other characters to really notice or think something is wrong with them beyond malnutrition.
I know I made it clear that Bivy doesn’t show extreme symptoms that would cause the others to think their life is in immediate danger, but there was one incident where they vomited up a scary amount of water (her body is going through modifications to better accommodate the snaxjuice) and then passed out for days when handing Gramble the bugsnax he asked for. Gramble legit thought they were dying from being around bugsnaxs too much. He stops asking them to get him new little ones after this. No matter how much Bivy insists that they just overexerted themselves and probably got heat stroke. He loves his little ones and wants to expand his family, but not at the expense of Bivy’s health. Will this lead to him reflecting on his own relationship with bugsnaxs? Maybe? I just like the idea of Gramble getting concerned about Bivy’s relationship with bugsnaxs and how it’s affecting her health. Bivy still drops new snaxs off in the donation box though.
Malky was once a normal grumpus, she did run away from a problematic and painful life, went on her own to Snaktooth (with little hopes of actually finding something, she just wanted to run anywhere she couldn’t be found again).
Malky arrived and shortly after, was overrun and plagued by Bugsnax, they sensed her weakness and desires to exploit it, it was an easy prey, or so the hivemind did believe.
Someway Malky found some strength inside her while fighting the horde of little parasites swarming her, and only her insides became snakmatter, sparing her pelt, teeth and part of her bones and skull, Malky didn’t fully transform, still retaining some of her feelings and toughts, sadly, that also makes them aware of the situation, now a monster, not fully snak, but also not a grumpus anymore.
Malky is a very rare instance of a ¨Snakhide¨, a monstruosity made from snakmatter and their victim pelts, so they can reach other grumpuses easily in the dark.
Malky insides are Ruby, Orange and Yellow Peelbug matter, and because of that, the stuff they eat may taste acid/tarter to them.
Malky’s tail can be shorter or larger, depends if she has eaten or not, it drips some kind of juice, and sometimes it seems like Bugsnax may pop out of it.
Malky can barely control her instincts to attack or consume if a grumpus is near (usually can be very quiet near Bugsnax or other related/already parasited beings).
Strangely, her fur smells like chirimoya and orange (Chirimoya Alegre, and probably spits Bugsnax themed after that after she eats, i will design them later).
Here’s my Journalist OC Bivy when she first arrives to the island. Along with losing weight, her fur, her colors (she’s going to get really pale), and her jacket, she’s going to spend most of the game under the snaxjuice influence. She’s still allergic to bugsnaxs, but the snaxjuice tainted ground water doesn’t trigger her allergies in a noticeable way and as the game progresses it builds up inside her and starts affecting her perception and actions. :readmore:
The snaxjuice is exploiting Bivy’s desperation to get that interview with Lizbert to save her job and prove she’s not incompetent. The reason she accepts every quest and goes along with everything because it’ll all lead to finding Lizbert somehow. Later on when she has a good build up of the snax juice in her body it numbs her hunger pains when she feeds others to condition her to want to feed them. Also it’s dampening or outright turning off her pain receptors so she can keep going. Filbo will probably have to take her to the hospital when her body finally gets rid of all the snaxjuice and she feels the raw pain of months worth of unattended injuries hit her all at once. Filbo will also probably need to help them when they start breaking down as she looks back at everything she did on the island with a clear mind. The whole giving everyone parasites, how she almost got so many people killed because she’s an idiot (in her mind), how much time she wasted catching bugsnaxs and maybe if she got to Liz faster things could have been different, the fact that she helped and would have stood there and watched Floofty cut off their own head, etc.
I want there to be a moment where during his stay Filbo realizes that he doesn’t actually know who his Buddy is as a person. It’s hitting him hard as well that there were clear signs that something was wrong with Buddy besides the weight loss, fur loss, and getting really pale from not eating anything besides sauce for months if he knew who they were. On a brighter note, they have plenty of time to get reacquainted and it can be Filbo’s turn to support his friend through a rough period.
As far as symptoms for the Snaxjuice building up and taking control it’s mostly shown through how watery her eyes are. Unfortunately Bivy already had sensitive eyes that would water up quickly around pollen, dust, etc. So it didn’t seem off when her eyes kept tearing up when she spends a lot of time in the middle of the firest surrounded by creatures she’s allergic to. As the story progresses it gets worse and she’s frequently walking around with a stream of tears, but no one really questions it because at this point she had run out her allergy medication for a while, so the progression makes sense. Some are concerned about how this isn’t good, but they don’t think anything life threatening is happening or it’s something that escalated to the point of intervention. I also want her to grow some little horns that don’t go away like the other’s snaxification. I could say something about how Snaxtooth left it’s mark and how it could tie into the allergy, but I just think it would look cute. Also think it would be a fun way for Bivy and Floofty to stay in touch because Floofty is now their doctor. Until the horns go away or they figure out a way to explain this to a regular doctor they only have Floofty as a go to. Also also they wouldn’t do this, but as a joke I love the idea of Bivy and Filbo trying to gaslight Clumby into believing that Bivy had always had horns and she just never noticed because Bivy always wore a hat.
