I really could not leave out 2 ships all 3 suggested were all so good and I had many fun ideas! But this here is what I ended up doing and go for! This was really fun to make!
Sasha and Milla are doing disco together! Raz gave Lili a flower! Raz, Lili, and Dogen sit outside on a beautiful summer night watching the stars and space and hanging out with each other! Also a big heart in the middle! My treat! I also made it like a photograph!
I have a headcanon that nobody at the psychonauts HQ told Sasha he was being partnered up with someone because they knew he’d refuse… and that Sasha secretly had a celebrity crush on Milla before he even met her. Worked out well for the guy, huh?
[ID: A Psychonautsfanfic cover. Most of the picture is in grayscale in addition to three colors. Loboto stands on the left side of the cover with his back to the viewer, the view over his right shoulder, a threatening smile on his face as he holds out his claw. Bright green and red lights shine down from his loupes and down onto Raz and Oleander, who are huddled together close to the center of the image. They are both looking up at Loboto and appear very small compared to him. Raz’s goggles are on, and he looks scared and apologetic, holding his hands up in defense. Oleander stands behind Raz, grabbing him by the shoulders and holding him in front of himself as he looks up at Loboto in terror. The red and green lights are reflected off of them. Circling in the air around them and held up by purple telekinetic psychic powers are a number of tools. Counterclockwise starting from the bottom left are a rusty syringe with a bent needle, a hooked dental pick, an ice pick, a hammer, and a strange-looking drill (similar to the one Loboto has in his lab). Loboto and the tools’ shadows are cast over Raz and Oleander, though their faces are illuminated by the light from Loboto’s eyes. The rest of the room around them is very dark. The fic’s title “Psychics Ruin EVERYTHING” is in light text on the top right. /end ID]
Fandom:Psychonauts
Rating:K+
Genre: Angst, Friendship, Hurt/Comfort
Characters: Razputin Aquato, Caligosto Loboto, Morceau Oleander, Truman Zanotto, Otto Mentallis, Sasha Nein, Milla Vodello (and briefly Morris and Queepie). (The fic mostly involves the first three!)
Warnings: References to canonical child abuse and medical abuse in future chapters (more warnings to be added later)
Description:A few days after the whirlwind of events of Psychonauts 2, Razputin receives his first mission as a Junior Psychonaut: go into the mind of the recently-re-captured Caligosto Loboto and make sure he’s ready to be released… and if not, well… go from there. But it shouldn’t be thathard, right? Loboto’s all better now that his moral compass is back… isn’t he?
Beta Readers:@jaywings and @of-science-and-stars and Pinky G. Rocket
Notes:FINALLY. I started this fic back in August last year and I have been dying to post it since. This will be multiple chapters (looking like about 7 at the moment) and I’m going to try to post a chapter a week. (Most of the fic is already complete!) Also, this fic will make references to some of my previous fics, BUT YOU DO NOT HAVE TO HAVE READ THEM TO UNDERSTAND THIS! This can be read on its own!
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Chapter 1: First Assignment
Summary:In which Raz feels uneasy about his new title… until he receives his first mission.
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“…and so it’s, um, still a lot to think about, you know? Since it just happened uh…” Raz paused, flicking his fingers up and down, counting out the digits. “…yesterday? Yesterday.”
“Understandable,” Morris replied.
Raz shifted in his seat. “On second thought, maybe we should have waited a week or something for this to settle before—”
Morris shuffled his notes, the fwip of paper against paper drowning out Raz. “So, now that you’re an official Junior Psychonaut—”
“Hey, you are, t—”
Morris cleared his throat and gave Raz a glance. “Now that you’re an official Junior Psychonaut, what are your plans?”
It’s been a looooong time since I drew some Psychonauts content. I heard it was the first game anniversary this week, I wanted to make a fan art, but I didn’t know who to draw, so I gathered some of my Characters sketch from my sketchbook and put them here.
If you ask, no, I stil haven’t played the 2nd game, avoiding spoilers is still hard, I plan to play it one day… But I’m sure it will worth the wait !
Milla Vodello won’t talk about her past. Those who know her now as the upbeat party girl around camp would never recognize the girl she was in her youth.
Hair up in a severe bun, the dedicated Nurse Vodello toiled for years in the pediatric ward of the poorest hospital of her equatorial homeland. She dedicated her life to the children, working day and night. Reading stories to the kids who couldn’t sleep. Sleeping by the side of the children when they could. She never went out. She didn’t belong to any social scene. She had no friends outside of the hospital. The only time she was away from the ward is when she was out trying to find parents for the children who were orphans.
Returning from one of these missions one evening, she saw flames and smoke rising in the air over the site of the hospital. She ran all the way back to find it engulfed in flames. She broke past the line of firemen and charged into the hospital, but the flames in the children’s ward were too high. She couldn’t get through to save the children. She just fell to the floor and wept.
Perhaps it was the intensity of her emotions that caused a door to open in her mind, or else it was just a cruel trick of fate, but this exact moment is when Milla had her first psychic experience. She started hearing screams in her head. She thought she was just losing her mind. The voices were real, but not real. She recognized them. She could hear the terrified thoughts of the children caught in the fire. She covered her ears and screamed out loud, but she couldn’t shut them out. She ran out of the hospital and down the street, and ran all the way to the next town before the voices stopped.
Milla couldn’t stand her new gift. She couldn’t take the thoughts in her head—it all reminded her of the children and their anguished cries. She tried to avoid contact with people, but in her populous country that was nearly impossible. The police eventually picked her up wandering down a deserted country road, all alone. She resisted them and put up such a fight that they took her to the local sanitarium.
The voices were even worse there–more numerous, more tortured. Her mental state fell into decline. They didn’t know what to do with her there. They transferred her to a bigger and more high-security institution. And then another, and another. Finally, at a national hospital one of the doctors recognized her condition for what it was. He notified the one group he knew could help her—the Psychonauts.
The Psychonauts took her to one of their own facilities, and after a couple of weeks in a psychoisolation chamber, she began to heal. She had assigned to her a therapist who specialized in mental control: the famous research scientist Sasha Nein.
Although his personal style was a little aloof for most people, he was perfect for Milla because he could stop his own thoughts from entering her head. He taught her to have the same control over what she could hear, psychically. She learned to shut out the voices when she wanted to, which was most of the time.
She also learned that she had other gifts. Although she refused to learn firestarting, she proved to be a powerful telekinetic and clairvoyant. But her specialty, it soon was discovered, was levitation. She began to spend much of her time in the air, and loved it. It seemed to lift her spirits as well as her body.
A new Milla began to develop. One not afraid of her psychic potential. She joined the Psychonauts, and threw herself into their fight against psychic terrorism with the same passion she once reserved for the children at the hospital
Note to tim: put something in here about what a cool secret agent she is.
Recognition, promotion, and fame soon followed, and Milla soon had a new life. She resolved to forget about everything that happened to her before the Psychonauts.
This is her first year at whispering Rock. She longed to work with children again, but wasn’t sure if she could handle it. So far it’s been good, but she is sometimes a little overprotective with the children. She has fought to keep firestarting from being taught at the camp. And at the nightly campfires, she is nowhere to be seen. Usually, she is off somewhere quiet, lost in her own thoughts. In her head is a non-stop party. A non-stop party is what she now believes life was meant to be. And by using music (and levitation) she always keeps the mood around her up, up, up!
For Milla, being a Psychonaut is all about helping other people. And not being alone.
The first level of the game involves the Psychonauts imposing an office scenario in Loboto’s mind to figure out who hired him to kidnap Truman Zanatto.
They reward him “Employee of the Year” and give him a vacation request form that he needs his “boss” to sign, prompting him to go find his “boss” in his psyche.
Mr. Pokeylope plushie.
And of course some great visual humor with a Newton’s cradle of brains and that funny calendar image.
I used to make a ton of Psychonauts pixel art back when I got started (art I now think is… not very good, to be generous–you know how that goes). The game meant a lot to me back then, and with the sequel finally on the horizon, I wanted to revisit that. Here’s some assorted new Psychonauts pixel art!
Featuring: all-new animated Shrine of Sight DS mockup, a remake of an old Main Lodge mockup, and sprites of the main cast, the camp kids, and the Thorney Towers crew!
