Line #31 Creator/Porpentine


1	Porpentine is a writer and game designer. Their art can be found [[https://xrafstar.monster/ here.]]
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3	!!Porpentine's works include:
4	'''Games:'''
5	* ''Howling Dogs''
6	* ''The Sky In The Room''
7	* ''All I Want Is For All Of My Friends To Become Insanely Powerful''
8	* ''VideoGame/{{Cyberqueen}}''
9	* ''Cry$tal Warrior Ke$ha''
10	* ''Parasite''
11	* ''Naked Shades''
12	* ''Bloody Princess Farmer''
13	* ''Ultra Business Tycoon III''
14	* ''Their Angelical Understanding''
15	* ''With Those We Love Alive''
16	* ''Vesp: A History of Scaphic Sapphism''
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18	'''Short stories''':
19	* "Mall School"
20	* "Living Fucking Creatures"
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22	'''Novels/novellas:'''
23	* ''Psycho Nymph Exile''
24	* ''Girl Detective & the Mystery of the Sap-Stained Skirt''
25	* ''Low Kill Shelter''
26	* ''Honeydew Toxicity Event'' (can be read [[https://xrafstar.monster/blog/honeydew-toxicity-event/ here]])
27	* ''Serious Weakness''
28	* ''Cunt Toward Enemy'' (a serial novel, can be read [[https://xrafstar.monster/codex/story%20guide/Cunt%20Toward%20Enemy.html here]]. NSFW)
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30	!!Porpentine's work includes examples of:
31	%%* AcidTripDimension
32	%%* ActionGirl
33	* AuthorAppeal: Slime, lesbian and gay male relationships, BDSM, {{Shout Out}}s to older video games, and UsefulNotes/{{Zoroastrianism}}.
34	%%* BizarreAlienBiology
35	* BodyHorror: Porpentine delights in uncomfortable bodily imagery: ''With Those We Love Alive'' involves making an object with your blood, bone, or skin, in ''Cyberqueen'' the protagonist is mutilated and made into a cyborg type being by the ship.
36	* CrapsackWorld: It's rare that the world in a Porpentine game is portrayed positively. Everything is broken, polluted, and oppressed.
37	%%* CyberneticsEatYourSoul:
38	%%* CyberPunk
39	%%* {{Cyborg}}
40	* {{Dystopia}}: ''With Those We Love Alive'' takes place in a ruined, polluted world ruled with an iron fist by a hideous monster -- who you have the misfortune to be employed by as an artist.
41	* FantasticDrug: A mysterious green substance mixed with a material called melter makes the protagonist of ''With Those We Love Alive'' and Sedina have a drugged night involving hugging furniture, running through and becoming one with the grass, and seeing the inside of your 'weird psychic meat shit.'
42	%%* FeministFantasy
43	%%* GreyAndGrayMorality
44	* HiveQueen: Ichne in ''Vesp,'' of the "pheromone control" variety.
45	* ImprobablyFemaleCast: In their earlier work, you'd be hard-pressed to find a single character who is unambiguously a man. However, as if the 2020s, several of their major works have male protagonists.
46	* InteractiveFiction: Most of their games are made in Twine and are text-based adventures.
47	* TheKingslayer: Towards the end of ''With Those We Love Alive'', [[spoiler:Sedina tries to assassinate the empress.]]
48	* LoveTriangle: One features in ''Vesp'': Diopa Guyander has to decide between her therapist Chelica Setay and her provider Ichne Famescori.
49	* MegaCorp: You work for one in the game-within-a-game of Ultra Business Tycoon III
50	%%* MindScrew
51	* OrangeBlueContrast: Sets the mood for a few screens in ''Vesp''. Interestingly, the game leans more on their nature as complementary colors. Both are linked to what the game sees as GaiasLament: the orange comes from the smog in the sky, while the blue is due all the bug zapper lights.
52	* SlimeGirl: Porpentine's self-imagery. A slime kid also appears in ''With Those We Love Alive'' and the protagonist can spend time with her.
53	%%* SurrealHumour
54	* TranshumanTreachery: The main character of ''Vesp'' feels that humanity has little to offer her and desires to be a wasp. [[spoiler:She helps Ichne orchestrate a wasp gathering that consumes a section of the city for a while]].
55	* UnwillingRoboticisation: Notably in ''Cyberqueen.''
56	%%* WretchedHive

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