Antasma - Blog Posts

I’m about to post some random ass doodles I still have flying around on my phone, including my Antasma Gijinka and that Alphine all the way back from 2016 xD

Little drawing I made for Mario and Luigi. The neverending dream that I forgot to put on here. Woops! 

Announcement

Like the eggman himself I have with an announcement I originally put on my twitter. I am officially working on a creepypasta for Paralysis. It is still early in production but the working title for it is “Mario and Luigi. The Neverending dream” focusing on the father of one of Paralysis’s victims.

I do not have a set release date on it as of now. But I do hope to potentially get it out on Christmas day. Since what else would be a better way to celebrate the most wonderful day of the year than a creepypasta.

Otherwise the only other thing of note is that Paralysis’s design is also getting updated. Since it’s been a bit moment since i’ve drawn him. That and I feel like my art has improved since then to warrant me reworking it. Regardless I hope you will enjoy the Paralysis content coming out. Stay safe and go make something spooky. 

So. There’s been this bot going around that basically, allows one to put in a picture and it’ll get turned into some kind of anime character.

I decided to put my man Paralysis into it and the results were...Interesting to say the least, I mean it’s pretty accurate all things considered but. I’m still not sure how I should feel about this.

Taken from twitter. If you were curious here are some of the inspirations I used when creating Paralysis (Aka my Antasma based exe) 

The first bit of inspiration comes from an exe made by twitter user JeyoJaJa (Not sure if they have a tumblr or not) named Freakazoid. While I haven’t kept up with their lore. I love the design and the style used for it. So when making the image of paralysis. I wanted him to have the same sort of creepy vibe. If I succeeded at that. It’s up to you to decide. But I think I did an alright design with the first version.

The second bit of inspiration comes from a DC villain known as Doctor destiny. Basically he gained possession of an artifact known as the Dreamstone. allowing him to manipulate dreams and, as revealed in the sandman graphic novel. During an encounter with the justice league he was left unable to dream and became all outstretched. While I haven’t read the sandman series. I loved the irony of a dream manipulator not being able to sleep himself. So I basically lifted that and doctor destiny's motivation of wanting to dream again for Paralysis. The third bit of inspiration comes from well...Sleep Paralysis. I mean come on, the guy is named paralysis after all (that and I wanted to name him after a sleeping condition) and sleep paralysis just happened to fit the best. IT also vaguely inspired the state his victims are left in during an encounter and frankly. Paralysis basically being a sleep paralysis demon just fits in my humble opinion. This may seem odd but Paralysis is also based on our ability to scare the shit out of ourselves for lack of better words. As an example, have you ever mistaken a bundle of clothes for a person lying on your floor? Or though something was gonna jump out and scare you fnaf style. That’s the kind of horror I wanted to invoke with Paralysis. How his method of fearmongering relies on the victims minds wandering and conjuring up their own demons. I though it’d be a unique for an exe to do that. Mix that with me adoring Antasma growing up and thus, Paralysis was born.

For some other factoids. While I haven’t written down a fully fleshed out origin for Paralysis. I was thinking of basing paralysis on some kind of sleep based god/entity. Such as the slavic godess Moranna or some other deity. I’ve also considered making Paralysis a human at one point that got warped. But those are just ideas with nothing concrete as of now. But regardless, I hope you enjoyed this ramble. Make sure to check in for more art, lore and other things. Have a wonderful day or night.

So. While I am busy with other refs and alike. In the meantime how about I lore dump about Paralysis. My Antasma based Mario.exe. To give a sort of introduction/list some bullet points and other facts about him.

-Paralysis resides within copies of Mario and Luigi: Dream team. Copies Paralysis is connected too are largely normal aside from Antasmas sprite being elongated to abnormal proportions. It’s when the target falls asleep that the “Fun” Begins.

-Once the target falls asleep. Paralysis is able to drag their consciousness into their personal dream world. A pocket dimension of swirling dark clouds, abstract floating islands that don’t follow any comprehensible structure and faint whispers. Inside the dream world things from the victims nightmares and darkest thoughts come to life (Example: If the victim were to have a nightmare about a crazed murderer brandishing a chainsaw. Said Murderer would appear in the dream world and mercilessly hunt down the victim) 

  -While most of the terror provided in Paralysis’s world comes from the victim brining their own horrors to life. Paralysis is able to alter aspects of his world. (Such as the gravity or the general structure of the world) Paralysis is also able to telepathically speak to people in his world. Which he uses to instill horrific ideas into the victims mind. So that when the target ponders on them, said horrors will come to life.

-Paralysis’s goal is to keep a victim in his world for as long as possible in order to slowly siphon psychic energy from them. (Even if it causes the victim too slowly deteriorate mentally, and even physically) Though the physical deterioration is slow as targets can spend years in his dream world and their body can still look completely fine on the surface.

-Paralysis cannot sleep. Much less dream himself. Which eventually lead to his body deteriorating into an outstretched mess. Even his other transformations share this trait. So Paralysis hopes that by siphoning psychic energy he will finally be able to dream once again.

-Victims are able to “wake up” From the dream world. However those that do 95% of the time end up ungodly traumatized by the events. Often delirious and thinking even those they were once close too are fake. Or that they’re “Monsters”

And that’s about all I have for now since I physically cannot think of anything more to write. Hope you enjoyed it.