Embracing my inner Cringe Queen by dumping some Among Us OC art here. Meet Annings the Cyan Crewmate, Soot the Black Imposter, and Robin the Cyan Mini Imposter! Bonus context is under the cut at the end of this post, but you can enjoy the jokes and stuff in this without it! All you need to know is that Annings is a medic and Robin is her adopted daughter.
(This one is a gif, but might not load until you click on it!)
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(Story summary / teaser below!)
Annings was the sole survivor of a civilian cruiser that was boarded by imposters when she was a child. She became a bit of a poster child for the war efforts against the shapeshifting alien rebels MIRA worked so hard to stomp out, despite never once voicing a similar opinion. After she grew up on Earth, she decided for take a MIRA flight back into space— this time as a medic instead of a civilian— seeking closure from her traumatic experience on her last flight.
Instead of closure, she was granted custody of an orphan whose mother was ejected on suspicions of being an imposter. Annings didn’t believe the accusations, and returned to earth with her newfound ward, Robin, whereupon she realized that most toddlers shouldn't be able to split down the middle and swallow their lunch whole, plate and all.
Robin's health began to fail not long after their arrival on earth, and Annings was forced to choose between her fear of meeting another hostile imposter and her fear of losing her daughter. She chose to return to space, taking as many jobs on MIRA flights as possible so that she could increase her odds of encountering an imposter who might know what was wrong with Robin and help her fix it. It took long enough that she began to fear whether Robin would make it to the next flight, but eventually she found one such infiltrated flight--- and the freshly deceased captain had named her his replacement in the case of his death.
Annings puts her knowledge of imposter stratagem to use in order to minimize the threat of continued deaths, and confronts one of the pair of imposters she picked out amongst the crewmates. This imposter, who used the human name Soot as part of his disguise, was fully prepared to kill Annings when she proposed a deal where he'd help her and she wouldn't reveal his true identity to the crew... But when she told him about Robin's wasting away and how she didn't know how to fix it, and he realized she had set up backup after backup to ensure he wouldn't find an alibi whenever he had the chance to kill her, he learned he was doomed to become a walking childcare manual for her.
Long story short, Soot ends up getting attached to both Robin and Annings, and when disaster strikes and threatens the lives of those they hold dear, he throws everything away for the human and child he's come to care for. Meanwhile, Annings has to reconcile her trauma with the bond she's forming with this new imposter and her fear of ending up just like the massacred civilians of her childhood flight.
Robin, meanwhile, is just chilling throughout the story and wondering why all the grown-ups are so angsty all the time.
One time in class I had an ADHD moment and decided whilst I was doing my work, to also sketch some shirtless buff among us and my lecturer saw it
As he walked past me, he stopped dead in his tracks and went and asked "Why? And what the fuck?"
With slight dissapointment, yet amusement present in his eyes, he proceeded to critique and give helpful suggestions on what I should add. Overall, he was pretty unsurprised, which makes sense considering a whole wall of the classroom was dedicated to variations of among us. Our glorious among us wall.
Oh yeah and I also made the sketch the profile pic for all my university accounts lol
Season 5
Featured on: SiIvaGunner's Highest Quality Rips: Volume GS
Ripped by Myeauxyoozi
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Honestly, out of all the jokes in current rotation on SiIvaGunner, I feel like Among Us edits are just about the most consistently good rips on the channel? The absolutely hysteria and chaos surrounding the game's release, legacy, and meme infamy is just never going to go away, and there's so many legendary audio sources to take from already. There's of course the legendary Big Gay's ranting call-to-action to make us stop posting about the game, which I covered with the excellent Big Sus Chocobo, there's the hit sociopath streamer Jerma986 who still holds the title of "the Sus guy" and appears in rips like Going Somewhere Jerma?...yet perhaps most famous of all, and one I've somehow not yet covered until now - are the rips using the legendary Among Us Trap Remix. Rips like Among Drip Drop Galaxy.
Part riding the popularity of the game, part riding its slow descent into ironic shitposting, part actually catching the attention of kids who do think "Among Us Trap Remix" are the coolest series of words ever put together by man - the result is an anthem that has effectively become the theme song to the game itself. If you're deep in the internet trenches to know about SiIvaGunner, deep enough to be reading this very blog post, you KNOW about the Among Us Trap Remix, its associations with the meme of "Among Us Drip", and have likely seen dozens upon dozens of edits using the theme already.
Yet even with that said, Among Drip Drop Galaxy is such a perfect use of the meme, that it blew my mind it hadn't been made by someone else than SiIva beforehand. There's of course the name to start - the word "Drip" in "Drip Drop Galaxy" will likely never be looked at the same way again by the modern internet user due to the sudden explosion of using the term to refer to cool-looking, fashionable people or characters, once taken seriously but now wholly drenched in meme-laced irony when used. Drip Drop Galaxy, fittingly enough, also already sports a sort of ominous, haunting melody and sound, akin to the ambience and sound design of Among Us itself, and by extension the sound building the foundation to the Among Us Trap Remix. I recall I first called something a "Perfect Rip" when describing Bowser is Coming., but the sentiment absolutely applies here just as much. Myeauxyoozi leaped headfirst at an idea that feels too obvious to not have been done before, yet also just an absolutely brilliant rip idea, and executes it with his trademark love for quality applied to the absurd (remember Shaky Mountain?). The results speak for themselves.
All the pieces of Among Drip Drop Galaxy just come together so effortlessly in its 75-second runtime, from the suspenseful opening only teasing the introduction of the Among Us Trap Remix, to the pausing of the main music to allow the "beat drop" to play out as intended within silence, to having the Among Us Trap Remix lead instrument play the melody of the original song for the back half of the song - it allows the two songs to feel truly mashed together in the most seamless way possible. Althewhile, of course, my childhood discomfort with the original Drip Drop Galaxy world and its atmosphere clashes brilliantly with the comedic value that I immediately associate Among Us edits with upon first recognition.
I may, just like always, be overthinking all this, but...there's simply not many other rips on the channel that manage to make quite as much immediate sense in my head as Among Drip Drop Galaxy. Simple as it may sound, it truly does represent my idea of a perfect rip.