So (((FeralPhoenix))) released the demo of her new shitty game:

God bless us all.

wat?

So, it's nothing?

Oh, of course we love Teagan and post-Duet Alto. But UT itself? Yeeeeeeah, no.

If only it was nothing.

I'm here. You'll see what I've been working on this summer.
That demo isn't worth a stream, to be honest. It's pretty short and it's not fucked-up the way Uncommon Time is: She was trying to blow off steam by making a comedy about her original the characters but messed up and wrote thousands of pages of Undertale fanfiction instead, so it's still a long way from finished.

I think Tomomi might have actually existed first, feralphoenix just works incredibly slowly. The "kinetic" visual novel she's from is pretty OK. But even that isn't completely finished.

I mean, I read Someone Else's Fire. If you ignore the absolutely gratuitous and stupid "everyone is a fucking special snowflake with their own gender" thing, it's an acceptably alright fic that gives some nice attention and characterization to the oft-ignored 6 soul humans. But god that snowflake crap is not easy to ignore, and if you don't ignore it, it takes a massive shit on the rest of the fic.

I can only imagine that a game made by such a person would have similar issues.

Did the madwoman just put in Rin in the game?

oshid

The creator IS a Fatefag, I wouldn't be surprised if she plagiarized Rin's design.

Nice viral marketing, dude.

Btw, I'm gonna let this slide, because it's such a fucking scarcity to see Holla Forums being remotely productive.

How does that look anything like Rin?

It's perfect.

Newfag doesn't know about uncommon time and FearlPhoenix.

I've been here for almost 3 years but I usually main /christian/ and Holla Forums, not Holla Forums. What about FeralPhoenix?

Well it's such a bad game it's good. And then it became a cult classic after someone streamed the insanity.

I WANT TO HUG TEAGAN
also stream when

Lurk more and you'll find out.

Stream when?

lurk moar.

Would you a Teagan? She deserves better than what she got

Do they all end up murdering each other?

It's more likely they all end up fucking each other.

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Should I be impressed that the tumblrtard somehow managed to write a decent character by accident? Do you reward the million monkeys with typewriters with bananas after they shit out Shakespeare?

It's pretty funny.

Lurk where?

Truly a riddle of the ages.

Okay, what the fuck is this? What's with the undertale reference out of nowhere? Is FeralPhoenix autistic?

Thanks for the image, user.
It makes me want to scratch my heart out.

but why

Who wants to bet the moon in the pic is machine translated?

Because.

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I wanna colonize that ass.

user, that's xer's face. I know it's difficult to tell with blacks, but Holla Forums is a Christian board and racism is not allowed.

Isn't that the girl from skullgirls devs upcoming game? I remember a friend made some lewds of her.

Look at all these labels.

I dare you to make a more complex RPG lore than this.

what the fuck am I reading?

Ah, tumblr's unique artistic style shines through once again. I also love that there is not a single sane person or thing among them.

Is this a character bio for the game in the OP? Did the creator get MKUltra'd so hard that he can't even make original works anymore.

Nice quads though.

They're not going to make the mistake of making another Teagan again.

Isn't having such a small font size on the blog "ableist"?

We've gone full fucking circle.

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nice try satan but i can see right through you. I am gonna impregnate that nigger and no one can stop me. Except for the 4th wall i guess

yeah its her, no idea what happened to the game but I still want to fuck the MC.

Teagan is to pure for this world.

This sort of shit always leave me thoughtless.

How old is this unholy mother of abominations?
Even my teenage original/fanfic isn't as painful as these.

Man, and I thought the fags from Uncommon time were bad.

tl;dr
Some tumblrite made a bad game where the antagonist is more likeable and reasonable than the insufferable protagonists.

Post it fag. Bullshit until proven true.

Yes, that looks about right.
She needs more fat rolls though.

What's with all the Jap translations on the side though?

Okay are there any artfags who can explain this phenomenon, why are so many tumblr "artists" obsessed with turning every character into an ugly blackwashed tranny?
There has to be some kind of explanation behind this as it's not just one person doing it.

I don't know, but she has been doing it for years.

Self insert. Y'know, to not feel bad about your ugly self.

tumblr is obsessed with animus and mango, despite the fact they want to ruin them just like they did with comics and cartoons.

It's pretty standard behavior for the left and the whole post-modernist movement in general. They're all about replacing old, conservative views and ideas with "progressive" ones. Another aspect is female insecurity. By eliminating attractive females, even imaginary ones, they believe men will suddenly flock to them.

Hell no.

The mother of abominations is a SJWeeb. Probably machine translation.

Utter hypocrisy from them, as usual : whitewashing is deplorable, but blackwashing is okay.

Also, isn't copying Japanese art cultural appropriation?

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Equality.
If we're all shit, then we are truly equal.
Or that's my guess anyway.

From an art perspective, it's a lot more interesting to see how tumblr has this unusually uniform style.
They are so alike it's uncanny, it really is a proper art style like Baroque, except it looks like utter dogshit.
There are clear rules as to how everything (people, animals, objects) must be presented and there is an overall brushwork ideal (the noses, terrible lines and shading) that is upheld by the community.

Not even Jap artists are this much in union as they tend to have a tiny bit of variation despite the guidelines present.

Cultural appropriation only applies when you're offended, goy.

CEASE THIS FAGGOTRY
I'VE SEEN THESE POSTS BEFORE

4u

You'll see them, and you'll see them again.

Japanese artists have a huge variation in styles and approach. You don't see it much in anime today because of budget restrictions, but go look up different mangas and you'll see that they are quite different.

That's the one truth about the left. Everything else is merely smokescreen, all they really want is make white men miserable.

They can't even make shortstacks right. Holy fucking Christ those proportions.

And I thank Lord Jesus for the variation in the hentai and doujins the Japanese make.

Fuck you nigger, don't bring the post-renaissance painters in comparison to tumblr's bullshit 'style'. Hell, Baroque itself is more poised at the aesthetic of the painting rather than the style itself.

Nig, the jap's art style descended from decades of animation, of which it originally tried to ape the animation style of Disney. It goes a roundabout way, but it ended up being shitty to look at. Just like CURRENT-YEAR Artists.
r/ing the webm where some roided-up she-man stores 40 gallons of her piss as an """"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""'art installation""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""'

This, i think this is the main reason of why people have started to favor Mango compared to comic books recently. There's alot more of everything for everyone, since the Japs will draw anything that they thought as 'interesting'

my sides

I was just joking, and regardless, nowadays it is its own thing.

Ask and ye shall receive.

And because the plots aren't utter garbage, the characters are likeable and they're not trying to force feed you Marxist propaganda.

I agree with the rest, but that particular point is more of an exception.
A very rare exception.

On a completely unrelated note, here's the Duet mod by the excellent DuetAnon if you want to play the shitshow that spawned all this.
mega.nz/#!4XxnRI6C!WblJXioUud_L-Tu68CLuBoltyL2MY_hQ5C8JjJFCZnY
I forgot how to take the Duet route, but it's best if you play the main game first. Anyone have the guide?

I guess I expressed myself wrongly. I'm not saying every mango is a narrative masterpiece, just that I can confidently open one, regardless of how generic and predictable it might be, and not feel the need to vomit and feel my blood pressure rise. You can't go into comics with that expectation, and it's likely that there is not a single comic left currently running that isn't filled to the brim with pozz.

That's a lie and you know it, user. There is a much higher diversity (kek) of ideas and premises, but the actual execution is complete shit in 95% of cases.

Oh, I know it, I'm still waiting for a harem manga to rival Umi no Misaki, yet time and again the authors keep cucking out. Then again, I really can't blame them most of the time considering how much power editors tend to wield, though I imagine they're the reason some of the more retarded ideas don't go into print as well.

Yeah i get it but the way i written it might seem abit too 'tism
Anyways thanks for posting that user

user, you also have to note on that the average jap male has shit taste and prefers power fantasies instead of a coherent narrative structure

What the fuck are you fags even babbling about.

The average reader is also a teenager, and I don't really think teenagers buy mangos for the intricate plots. I guess the best way to summarize why the Japanese manga industry is superior to the Western one, despite products being shit (but for different reasons) is that they have a very clear idea to whom they're pandering and know exactly what they audiences want.

We're trying to figure out how you became so gay.

Yeh, that's about more accurate, I'd say.

Fuck me.
At least it's entertaining enough to keep going, I'll give it that.

Someone post those awful stock pictures with overlaid photoshop filters from some Punisher comic.

Gotta make up for all that fairy rape with ANYTHING THAT MOVES

Why is this the one that makes me feel nauseous? I've seen the usual progressive art being posted here like the honey whore or the guy shitting on himself, but this one makes my stomach sink.
I don't know if it's the tranny doing it for an art exhibition, or that they have an audience watching it in action.

J-JUST LIKE M-MUH GAME ABOUT HACK-N-SLASH BUT YOKO TARO HAD TO FUCKING STEAL MY DREAM GAME THAT SANSUNDERTALE LOOKING ASS

That was disgusting to watch. It's hard to believe that video was filmed in our world and not some bizarro universe. Art has never been more of a joke than it is now.

It would be more accurate to say that they knew what their audience wanted, but have since shifted away from doing so because of politics. Practically every fucking show these days has a trap faggot. It's fucking jarring when almost every cute girls doing cute things show has to shoehorn in a yaoi fanservice, when they is clearly not what the audience is looking for if they're picking up a CGDCT show. Another example is how anything even slightly mainstream involving lolis will use loli fanservice to draw people in and then thump you over the head with 'lolis are bad and you should find an older girl (and have a bunch of kids because birthrates)'. Why the hell would you use lolis as your selling point when you're just going to beat the audience over the head with how your generic main character goes for the high school girl instead? That was clearly not what the audience was looking for going into it, and anyone that doesn't like loli will obviously not be watching the show in the first place. And of course, the 'main character's motivation is to make everyone live in peace and coexistence' theme that is everywhere. If Monster Girl Quest hadn't been a porn game, you can bet your ass it would be considered globalist propaganda because the entire story is about how a guy rebels against the Not-Christian faith stand-in to tear down all borders and promote race mixing.
So while the Japanese might have a better grasp of what their audiences want than the West, it's definitely loosening. They're still far ahead of something as utterly pozzed as Western comics.

They fucked up, realized their art would make them hemorrhage money, reshaped most of their characters to be much less detailed and changed various color palettes. Also they made one of their few non poc characters (the spanish conquistador) into Alberto Barbosa's nephew.

What the hell kind of shows are you watching?

confirms that he's a fucking faggot lul

I'm getting Steven Universe vibes out of that style

He thinks Feral is a flawed genius and wishes to remake Uncommon Time with her and sell it.

Post screencaps you giant faggot

Shows that are not supposed to be about crossdressing homos. Take Konohana Kitan as an example: it's supposed to be a show about fox girls doing cute fox girl things with a little bit of fanservice. See attached picture. So what does the anime add? Some crossdressing shota faggot that drops his clothes at one point and gets a detailed close-up shot. It seems they even added that just for the anime, or so I heard and was too disgusting with the show to look it up. As a bonus point, while they gladly shove gay fanservice in your face despite the show clearly not being about that, the loli-like girl gets none. You can take just about any anime these days and you have at least a 50/50 chance of there being a faggot shoehorned in.

I've finally got a reason to post this.

Already posted though.

Teagan fangame never ever

This is hardly every fucking show. Going by both your posts it seems you're just real peeved how lolicons aren't getting their slice of fanservice.

Evidence, Trite?

That happens often enough in anime though. Penises of little boys aren't really considered taboo by them. God knows Shin-chan gives the audience an eyeful of his penis and ass on a regular basis.

Blame fujos for that.

I don't think it was a breakdown, but I think she started ignoring us.

Is it ironic, though? It hold a special place in my heart because of all the fun the streams bring to this board.

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w-what does it say
WHAT DOES IT SAY

It's actually a good pitch and the proposed combat system is genuinely great I'm not saying this just because I work with him and he's probably reading this, I'm just convinced that Feral will take his suggestions as a personal attack and lose her shit. As for Teagans_Quest.txt, it's a summary of the first attempt at making a Teagan game which caved in thanks to memers stuffing it with shit like John Cena party members. There was a second failed attempt which I know almost nothing about, and a third dreamed up by /agdg/ anons which is best described as AIDS Berserk. The third attempt had many genuinely good ideas and we'll probably revisit it.

Sorry for dropping off with you guys. I bit off more than I could chew, and am still dealing with the consequences.

It's a pitch to try and convince feral and the guys working on the old teaganquest project to do a remake of Uncommon Time from scratch. People on Holla Forums have said that UT could have been a good game if it wasn't so fucked up and I really do agree, so I wanted to start over and try and make it a good game. But there's no telling how feral would react and the pitch isn't fully finished yet anyway.

That fag from the vola?

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Can you post the full document?

this is actually worse than sonic "OCs" since you can't even play it off as tongue-in-cheek and it's a weeb to boot
i hope the japs hunt him down for dirtying their language

If you wait a couple of months I'll probably post it myself. Like I said, it's not actually finished.

>i hope the japs hunt him down
It's actually a chick. A jewess.

Still, I want to see what you have because I was thinking of remaking it too.

I watch 10+ anime per season and the only show I remember having a trap was Blend S. And even then he was there for comedy.
Stop watching fujoshit if you're tired of seeing faggots.

Replace all of the Apostles (including Griffith) with STDs.

You'll probably play an improved version of it someday so I'd rather not spoil it.

/tg/ here. Hold my beer.

This makes it eleventy times worse.
Damn it Hitler, why did you have to die on us?

Fair enough, I can wait.

What’s the point of the Pipimi/Pomuko scale?

you forgot the Gemsonas man, wtf?

I think those are your color choices.

They're coming in next year's DLC.

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Will it work?

I'm pretty sure duetanon is the only one who wants to work with feral.

Write me at [email protected]

Of course not.

Imagining an user high af with a locked dick a loaded gun and wearing fur ears while naked made me laugh

Kikes.

wat

Can someone sum up the story for me or is there too much lore to get into to sum it up in any short amount of time?

Climate's fucked for magical reasons. A bunch of Tumblr kids get together to save the world via a piece of magical music, each of them with different musical talents. Main character is a chosen hero type born and bred for the purpose. Teagan is her childhood friend and the only lowblood commoner in the group, but also the only one with a decent head on her shoulders and a worldview that didn't come out of Equality School. It's possible to fuck up so hard that she abandons the party, and if you go after her she's an undefeatable game-ending boss that gets you a feelsy worst end.

Sounds like the best ending.

Teagan isn't undefeatable, you're really just at the mercy of her opening attacks which can wipe out the party in seconds. If the RNG smiles upon you and you make it past the opening turns, you can stack multiple negative status effects and debuffs on her, making the fight much easier.

But what worldview does Teagan have? And what does she do that villifies her?

But yes, even if you cheat and give your characters infinite health Teagan can still one-shot you because she punches that hard.

Not being a complete waste of oxygen like everyone else in the party and acting like an adult.

Tells the oven dodgers they need to stop acting like tumblrtards and save the fucking world.

Don't forget that when the rest of the party are slutting it up whenever they enter a town, Teagan actively avoids their degeneracy.
And ends up drinking alone.

That's not even the really impressive part. Accidental greatness happens. What is impressive is that the character is a "minority" - or at least a lighter shade of ethnic - and (like current year female characters) are verboten from being depicted as anything less than inspirational and shining examples of the best that humanity has to offer, and bravely facing and overcoming the horrible discrimination they face despite their perfection.

Character flaws are sweeping dogwhistle criticisms of entire races/cultures on the part of the author in current year+.

Well… I'd almost venture to say that FeralPheonix is a subtle hidden shitlord for creating such a problematic PoC.

I thought I heard someone say Teagan was just really tan from being a commoner that spent lots of time doing commoner things outside.

So is Minaru supposed to be a deliberate reference, or did FP just plagurize Leanne's costume design?

Teagan is canonically Celtic
feralphoenix.tumblr.com/post/138468072344/holly-teagan-almace-otowa-meirin
archive.is/csJmX

It is.
At least if we don't consider duet anons ending, which is the ultimate best ending

Tell me about duet anons ending

We went from wanting to remove her to want to remove our hatred from our hearts.
Shows what a little bit of good writing can do.

She looks poo in the loo to me. Is this like pedophiles who claim their lolicon isn't really CP because the character is 1,000 years old - but only looks like she's 10.

Sure thing.

Oh wait, there already is an user that said it better.

We used to burn people like you at the stake for heresy.

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how triggered was tumblr about this if at all?

As far as I know, we're the only ones who give a shit about this mess of a game. I also don't see why Tumblr would be triggered by making a happy ending.

I'm not saying I don't like her, I'm just saying that something doesn't add up here.

>>I-It's ok for a her to have character flaws because she's not really a minority
Characters having flaws is a good thing, especially if they're a minority because those are often portrayed as perfect. What the fuck are you even trying to say? Nobody said what you're quoting.

No one wants niggers and mudshits. We can have our brown tomboys without tainted, inbred monkey genetics.

I miss having subject, name, and e-mail fields. I understand we had a namefagging problem but those fields are handy, used right. I may have been the only person to use the subject field though.

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it's okay when they do it :^)

Is there a recording of the Holla Forums stream from last year somewhere? I didnt have the time to watch it.

Should be all here smashcast.tv/thassil

This is off-topic so polite sage, but god, her fucking backstory is so awful, I don't know whether to laugh or cringe. If someone has the pages in question to post, feel free, but the gist of it is:

>then she throws a shitfit because the teacher did not yell at her about her report topic and did not tell her that she should've done a report on a straight white male
>the retard screeches some more about how unfair it is that she's not being oppressed

This is what leftists actually think makes for a good, likable protagonist. Absolutely disgusting.

Thank you user.

Are we sure whoever is writing it isn't doing it on purpose? I mean, this comes from the same company that makes Red Skull sound like the voice of reason and rationality.

Also, didn't the dumb nigger steal a suit and then say she dindunuffin when she crashed it?

It's Bendis. He really is just that shit. Somebody used a monkey's paw wish to make him stop writing Marvel comics, so he recently got a big gig at DC despite everybody hating him.

I read it as 'I nig'

Did we make any more music besides Teagan's theme?

This is objectively worse than being named I, NIG.

WEW LADS

The predations of Slaanesh. They are being possessed by daemons that whisper into their ears day and night how they're both ugly and beautiful, how they can receive endless tides of adoration, yet also give praise to others for their "diversity" (read: they're uglier than me so I am still more equal than others). The only way these creatures can exist is in a perpetual, agonizing state of utter insecurity all the while being injected with lies that they are all they wish to be, and everyone around them reinforcing that - however secretly, every single one of them wants to be on the top, the very best, the most beautiful of the grotesque, ugly bunch.

Ten million hours in MS Paint

So wait… this game expands uncommon time's universe to undertale and the fate series?

Please no. Why did you have to remind me of shit like this?

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That disgusting bitch represents everything wrong with the west right now.

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I bet you like primary sue marines, too.

therefore I am.

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If it is product made by a woman, it is shit.

You are made by a woman, therefore you are shit.

You come from your dad's balls retard, a woman only carries you and spits you out.

user… People are born, not made.

Then what about the expression "make a baby?"
Checkmate, atheists.

Shes got the eggyweggy that makes the magic happen, YOU ARE MADE BY A WOMAN, YOU ARE SHIT.

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Then what does the birds and the bees mean? One's an animal and the other is an insect, they can't have babies!

stingers look like benis :DDDDD

Insects are animals you stupid motherfuck. There's practically no difference between me insect and you, a person

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I meant to put an insect, honest!

Yep, pretty much shifted the artstyle into Cal Arts hell. I have pity for Ahad.

The next hit motion picture.
I, NIG
Starring FeralPhoenix

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insect eh

post yfw Alto turns left

I'm pretty sure all you have to do is go to the Fairy Forest before you fight Teagan.

I have to wonder if xe did it on purpose.
The I nig thing is too obvious.

Then again, a game takes a lot work to make, if it's a troll it's an incredibly dedicated one.

You really underestimate how crazy this feralphoenix person is. Her audience is also really tiny.

Do you think she stays awake at night, haunted by the knowledge that we are her biggest fanbase?

That's right, after the cutscene for giving Saki the medicine and visiting the inn. You're locked into the route once you go there and there's a warning when you start it, so you can't miss it.

she probably fantasizes about being raped by a mob of anons

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STREAM WHEN

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>one night anons do come for her

OH BOY MORE STREAMS

Wow, what an amazingly diverse cast of characters with unique traits and complex personalities!

I wish you could make this shit up!

Jesus Christ, did they really leave the artist signature and date on the pictures they used as assets in the game?

yep. It becomes a fun game to try and find the signature on stuff like even the boss fights.

If only you knew how wonderful things really are.

Wasn't someone saying it was the MC that was willing to let the world die for her own whims? Didn't Teagan just do that?

Yes and yes.

This shit right here is why bullying is a necessary thing.

It was more like Teagan was stopping them from doing anything worse, giving them a wakeup call. Teagan goes overboard in tearing the notes up altogether, but when the narrative later says that the actual notes matter so much as the intent behind the song, you can't even hold that against her - she is, indirectly, bang on the mark in telling the party to get their fucking act together. Like she had been the entire time.

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*nuzzles you

Literally who and why are you giving whoever this is attention if you apparently don't like him/her?

Also are those characters sweating from her barrage or crying, or both?

She deserves better than that disgusting world she was dumped in.

Bloody hell my sides.

I'll give you an entire summary of the game, which will take a number of posts and is probably not what you wanted, but just in case anyone is curious.

Epilogue:
Magical global ~warming~ cooling is being caused by modern technology. A particular bloodline of half-fairies need to play a magical song once every couple generations to reset the world. If the song is not played at a particular time and place then the world will freeze over.

Chapter 1. Gathering Cancer:
When the game begins the party consists of Alto, the main character and member of the half-fairy bloodline, and Teagan, Alto's childhood friend and ultimately the game's "villain." The two go off on a quest to play the song that saves the world, though Teagan thinks the entire story of the song is a lie. She spends the beginning of the chapter trying to convince Alto to drop the quest and run away from her abusive family. Alto doesn't consider this an option and continues on the quest. The first party member they meet is Cancer Trap, also known as Saki. Saki just so happens to have a part of the sheet music for The Song that Saves the World (Also known as the World Tuning). Upon Teagan looking at it, she is suddenly convinced this whole Song the Save the World business might be real, as the sheet music seems supernaturally appealing to play.

Now with proof that the quest is real, Teagan asks Alto to think deeply on who should and should not join in on the quintet which will play The Song that Saves the World. Alto, naturally, allows the first two people who ask to join, both of whom are complete amateurs. The first is a violinist who doesn't know how to read sheet music and the second is a self-conscious singer who can barely make her voice heard.

Chapter 2. The First Attempt:
Despite Teagan warning Alto that perhaps picking up amateurs isn't the best idea when it comes to playing The Song that Saves the World, Alto keeps the loli-slut and worm colony (she's not a literal worm colony, it's just what anons started calling her because she demands being called by plural pronouns) in the quintet. Over the next week Teagan does her best to get the group ready to play The Song that Saves the World. The quintet fucks up The Song that Saves the World and end up summoning some kind of magical storm that almost kills everyone in the party.

After this, the Nuclear Teagan scene plays, as shown here:
It is here that Teagan rips up the sheet music to The Song that Saves the World. This is probably the only time Teagan does something wrong (in my opinion).

Chapter 3. Saki has AIDS and Fairies a Shit:
After Teagan verbally dismantles everyone in the party, the party splits up. Alto ends up bringing everyone back together, but Saki's Cancer AIDS begins to afflict him. To push back his death a few more months, he requires a special herb that grows in a long abandoned village. Along the way the party stumbles across a secret fairy village. It is there that it is more or less revealed that Alto has fairy blood in her because her ancestor was a rape baby from a war between humans and fairies some 1000 years ago. It is also revealed that the fairies have the ability to stop the coming apocalypse, but choose not to because human technology is haram. The fairy queen then gives the party the magic herb and the party leaves.

Chapter 4. Teagan did Nothing Wrong:
With the party almost fully restored, Alto goes to track down Teagan. The party races down to the docks where the whole game started and corner Teagan on the pier. Teagan refuses to go along with the idea of Playing the Song that Saves the World because all it will result in is Alto getting hurt again and again. Alto and friends, not enjoying that response, proceed to literally beat Teagan into submission. After this is probably the closest thing to a heart-to-heart conversation in the entire game. Alto screams and cries at Teagan, but does not allow Teagan to say anything in response. Throughout the rest of the game, Teagan tries her best to apologize for everything she did to Alto (even the things that made perfect sense).

Chapter 5. Our Hero, Everybody!:
With the sheet music to The Song that Saves the World destroyed, the party asks the fairies what to do, seeing as the Song that Saves the World has secretly been fairy magic the whole time. The Fairy Queen tells Alto that deep beneath the first dungeon in the game, there is a secret dungeon that leads to the ~hyperbolic time chamber~ ~space synagogue~ Uncommon Time, which is a pocket dimension created by Alto's ancestor that holds a magical-AI-copy of said ancestor. It is believed that the magical-AI-copy will be able to tell Alto how to recreate The Song that Saves the World.

After entering Uncommon Time alone (despite Teagan saying that's a really bad idea), Alto goes through a dream sequence where she fights her ~Persona~ darker parts of her psyche culminating in a 1v1 boss fight against herself in a mask. After dispatching the part of her that wants the world to end, the magic-AI-copy shows up to inform Alto that the reason why The Song that Saves the World failed:

Alto wanted it to fail.
Alto wanted all human life to cease.
Because the training she undertook to play The Song that Saves the World made her hands hurt.

The AI then informs Alto that the song itself isn't even special, the only thing that matters is that someone with fairy blood goes to the top of Metronome Tower and plays a really intense song written using magic ink. It is at this point Alto leaves Uncommon Time and tells the rest of the party what she learned (while still berating Teagan for being worried). The party then goes about collecting the ingredients to make magical ink to write the NEW Song that Saves the World.

Chapter 6. Remove Alto:
The last part of the game is essentially a slice of life segment about the party writing and preparing to play The New Song that Saves the World. Nothing especially important happens at this point except for the night before the party plays the song:
Standing outside the Metronome Tower (the place where The Song that Saves the World needs to be played) is Teagan. Teagan wants to talk to Alto and apologize for everything and anything she has done to Alto. It is at this point that we learn about Teagan's backstory. Teagan was essentially just your average kid until the day she spotted Alto. Alto is from the richest and most powerful noble family in the world, but despite all of this, Alto was quite melancholy. Teagan realizes that Alto has no friends and is lonely, so Teagan vows to become Alto's friend. After being caught by a guard, Teagan is banished from the Half-Fairy estate and extra guards are posted to ensure she never gets back in. Previous to this, Teagan heard that Alto needed a practice partner for her training to play The Song that Saves the World. As such, Teagan begs her family to pay for music lessons and a violin. After a while Teagan's parents cave to her demands and give Teagan lessons, which is quite odd in this world, as normally music lessons are for people who can use magic (Teagan is the only non-mage in the game). After a time Teagan becomes so undeniably good at the violin that she is recruited as Alto's practice partner.
It is at this point that Teagan asks Alto for forgiveness one last time.

Alto refuses.

Alto not only refuses, but goes on a diatribe about how forgiving people is a sign of weakness or even immorality.
Teagan, utterly defeated, just sighs and says "Fine." (Or something like that, I don't quite remember).

The next day the party climbs to the top of the tower, plays The New Song that Saves the World (which the audience doesn't get to hear), and save the world from a frozen apocalypse. Soon after, the game ends.

And THAT is the story of Uncommon Time.

That's not how you do strikethroughs you cunt

Sorry, user, I've never had to strikethrough before.

There is litterally no difference.

Well, thanks for summing it up. Now I get why this dumpster fire is worth laughing at.

How much lezzing out does this game have tho?

I've never seen one of these threads, but from what I can tell: a tumblrite SJW garbage person made a grrl power RPG maker game, and accidentally wrote in one self-aware person in the form of Teagan, an amalgamation of all the people who she didn't like IRL? While the other main characters are all tumblrite caricatures? And she's upset that Holla Forums loves his game more than her tumblr friends?
This is fantastic, I need to know more about it.

Are autists capable of experiencing PTSD? Like autists seem more likely to cause PTSD then have it.

Lad, none. If I remember one is a man, Teagan hates sex because of her prozzy brother, one is made out of worms

Teagan is almost certainly the creator's hatefuck brown tomboy waifu, so she made a gender neutral worm colony for her self-insert to fuck instead.

Capped for posterity

Teagan is supposed to be completely based off of the author's former best friend from her time growing up in the Midwest. Which means there's actually a determined, tanned, tomboy with a strong sense of right out there somewhere, waiting. It also means the author saw a real life human being with those qualities, interacted with them, befriended them, then thought, "Yeah this person would be good as the villain in my story"

Those are some amazingly nebulous descriptions. I like that the other characters struggle to have anything said about their personality that isn't a mental disorder, either.

Definitely.

I hope any art makes her tan instead of mudslime.

Oh man, if hitler only had won.

So you're telling me that this Feralphoenix person wrote this character, and made this super well-written rant, and then expected the audience to NOT sympathize more with Teagan than Alto?

She did literally, exactly that, yes.

I made a Tumblr called uncommontimesbigestfans and I want to send to them with a message about how we are very excited for their next game, but I can't figure out how to send messages on tumblr.
How do I send a message on tumblr?

Have you not seen any of the other stuff that was posted here? FeralPhoenix is not capable of logical thought

BRAVO, EXCELLENT CHARACTER DESIGN.

Yes. YES
YEESSSS
THIS IS PERFECT IT'S EVERYTHING I EVER WANTED I CAN'T FUCKING WAIT

either direct messaging or Asks. They can just block you from both afterwards tho

Yeah she has to be a nigger or a poo in the loo or those dumb angry Holla Forums anons must be like loli pedos!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I wanna fuck all those girls!

STANDING

Hi Fred

on my chair

The stuff ITT doesn't even begin to cover how crazy FP is. Early on in the game, the Chinese girl leaves your party to visit a brothel because she just turned sixteen. This is portrayed as completely normal.

we've made it a semi-annual tradition to stream the entirely of the game and shit talk it

also there have been a total of 3 failed attempts by anons to make a fan sequel I was a part of attempt #2

Only a women could be that lustful, spiteful and evil.

I would leave it blank to avoid being assassinated

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Skub now, skub forever

Aks page does not exists and I can't figure out direct messaging. I just reblogged the original picture with and did an @ and said some words.

Jesus Christ the mental gymnastics people will go through just to give themselves permission to like something that other people don't like.

I'm just saying, you're on an anonymous Tibetan Interpretive Dance forum, drop the pretense and just be fucking honest with yourself and others.

Loli ISN'T pedo though. Just let me masturbate to little girls without feeling guilt mang

Three of those are true, though

The feminine penis makes it better.

(heiled)

Thank you for that summarization user. But as someone who only learned of this Uncommon Time shitstorm right now, I have another question; where does this "Duet ending" fit into this? From what I gather of the thread, some user who wants to fuck Feral tried to write an alternate ending that doesn't have Teagan crucified for reaching her breaking point and tries to omit that "FORGIVENESS IS FOR THE WEAK" shit?

Gentlemen I believe we are being trolled.

Duet is just an alt ending mod made by duetanon. Who's probably in this thread The main story difference is that Teagan is present for Alto's Uncommon Time trip through her psyche. It was filled with character development and the entire stream liked Alto's character by the end of it.

No.

I unironically like modded skyrim for the porn.

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You're exactly right, it's not wrong to like dick, even if it's gay.
Just be yourself and enjoy what you like~

Saying that people who play sonic the hedgehog are anons that are deluding themselves into playing shitty jewish games is ridiculous, they play it because they are good fucking games. Jewish games are like destiny or star wars battlefront or any game with micro-transactions, made by ubisoft or EA, etc and Sega isn't like that (at least the old sega wasn't). See that is the problem with your statement, you are mixing up a truth that has depth with one with none. Sega has made some good fucking games in the past and Teagan never acts like a poo in the loo or nigger and its never referenced either (hell its canon that she is celtic) but the major thing is that just like how sega didn't act like a jew with their games, Teagan doesn't act like a nigger even if it looks like it a first glance.

Now I can't say for certain that all loli characters are like this but I have found that a large majority of them act very much like children, either through personality, maturity or judgement so though they might be treated as just being skin deep they actual animated avatars of children to masturbate at. I'm sure someone will come up with an example to disprove me but the trap thing is one which I unfortunautly have much experience through looking through caption threads on /d/ for good ones and I can say right now with absolute certainty that traps are gay as fuck. Any kind of representation of traps just uses the female body as the setup, the familliar setting for the thing all the futa shit want: the dick shit. I have an old screencap about an user on Holla Forums talking about how futa shit is just self-insert and he might be right through just how much of their pleasure comes from the focus on dicks (which they not only relate to on some level but a physical one since they are masturbating alone) and how they adore it and themselves and their actions. Its a sick fetish and I find even worse than NTR and after months of looking at the shit I don't think anyone could get an erection out of my through dickgirl only even if locked in a room for a week with nothing but handwipes and futashit. Its fucking horrible and a better definition of skin deep diffence that is just the same if not worse would be futa.

See the difference?
Futa = girls with dicks that act like guys for guys, loli = animated lttle girls that act like little girls for guys, sega = a jewish company that makes good games and Teagen = a slighly dark skinned women that doesn't act like one. Its as simple as that.

Also

You sound like a pretentious prick and the kind of person that cares too much about shit like this and wants to fuck with people that don't have the same views as you and if you just say some stupid shit or ignore my argument then you'll just have proven me right.

No rape porn can replicate just fucking the shit out of the goon that tried to bust your skull in ten minutes ago, so I can't really blame you though that kind of sounds like h-doom which gets old pretty quick.

Don't reply to goons.

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Did you just assume her age, shitlord

That was just a joke user, much like how many people joked that Aubery (the girl from the past) was actually a worm colony. Aubery isn't actually a worm colony and Duet user (to my knowledge) is not trying to bang Feral. Instead I think he's engaged in something far more pointless in that (going off of what he said in the thread we were discussing Duet) he is trying to save Feral. I think Duet user was struck by how good the game becomes with just a simple tweak and so he (foolishly) believed that there is potential in Feral's abilities as a writer, if only she could be cleansed of her tumblrism. At least that's my theory. I don't really know one way or the other.

That being said, I'll get to work on the summary of Duet. Hopefully it doesn't take too long to finish.

d-did I win?

You'd better get out right now. This is pro-skub territory

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I don't see any of those pro-skub faggots here. Skub is way past its expiration date. It's time for skub to die

This. We are in the age of Buks.

Skub is timeless. Only the most contrarian faggots think otherwise.
Skub yesterday, Skub today, Skub tomorrow.

What if this actually means Teagan has literal potato skin and she tastes like french fries when she sweats?

Prove he is a goon.

Is there really still no lewd art of Teagan in existence?

Potato Nigger is still Nigger, so I guess that makes Teagan a double nigger.

Background:
Long ago (which is to say about 3 years ago), when Holla Forums first witnessed the ending of Uncommon Time and, more importantly, the "I will never forgive you" rant, many anons tried to give Teagan the game or ending she deserved. Although there were many attempts, something always felt off about each one. As one of the people who helped with the first Teagan Quest, there was a foolish attempt to essentially inverse the entire narrative. Turning Alto into a mustache twirling villain and Teagan into a paragon of virtue, rather than representing both of them as they truly were. I honestly walked away from most of the Teagan Quests when I realized most of the team didn't realize one simple truth:
No matter what, even after everything that happened in Uncommon Time, Teagan loves Alto. Even at the end of the game when Alto has already stated that she will never forgive Teagan, Teagan still wants Alto to leave the grasp of her abusive parents and to go and live a happy life.
It is this very concept of a tragic friendship that gave rise to the user-written fanfic Pittura Ingamante:
archiveofourown.org/works/6492490/chapters/14861239
A super short summary of the fanfic is thus: After the end of the game Teagan tries to help Alto, but ultimately the two come to the painful realization that neither can remain the friends they were at the beginning of the game. In the game, the magic-AI-clone convinced Alto that being spiteful is the same thing as having confidence; as such the new Alto is painful to be around for Teagan and so Teagan leaves, but even after leaving, Teagan still attempts to help Alto, but from the background. The ending of the fic is pretty bitter sweet but was ultimately the only conclusion one could reach from the "best" ending.

Pre-Duet Branch:
One thing most people (including myself) leave out of all tellings of Uncommon Time is that, in the early parts of the game, Teagan is a dick to Alto. A lot of Teagan and Alto's interactions are dedicated to Teagan calling Alto an idiot. It is somewhat implied that Teagan just views this as friendly banter while Alto takes it somewhat seriously. One thing that many people seem to forget (or perhaps don't realize) is that in the scene where Teagan gets drunk, she outright says that she sometimes regrets becoming Alto's friend (though I believe it is more that Teagan venting her about how things might have been better for her if she never met Alto, rather than an actual want to end her friendship with Alto).
I bring this up because Duet user, much like the user who wrote Pittura Infamante, did not want to shy away from the good sides of Alto nor the bad sides of Teagan.

Duet Branch Part 1. A Moment to Think:
The Duet path leaves the canon path at the time Saki (Cancer Trap) is cured. Instead of leaving to track down Teagan, the party instead goes straight to the fairy forest to ask the Fairy Queen about how to get a new copy of The Song that Saves the World. They are told the same thing about how they need to visit Uncommon Time to talk to the magic-AI-clone. At this point the Fire Fairy (there's a fairy for each element) states that she wishes to escort the party to Uncommon Time.

As the party reaches the first dungeon, the scene changes to Teagan on the pier. As it turns out (which, it's mentioned at the beginning of the game) no ships are going in and out of the island because the ice has become too thick for ships to safely dock. Because of this, Teagan has a long time to think and ultimately realizes that she has abandoned her one and only friend. Suddenly disgusted with herself (and inexplicably gaining the face of a goblin), Teagan rushes off to find Alto.

Duet Branch Part 2. Philosophy in the House of the Space Jew:
In the Space Synagogue (which is the dungeon one must trek through to get to Uncommon Time) the Fire Fairy begins conversing with the other party members. She, in essence, pokes holes in the tumblrite philosophies of each member (either directly or indirectly). I cannot say for certain if I remember exactly what she said, but there is one conversation I do remember.

Before I discuss that, though, there is something I forgot to mention in the previous summary; Saki is the "adult" of the party, but really all he does is shrug and say "People should be able to do whatever they want!" Saki is actually the reason Alto goes into Uncommon Time alone in the canon route. When Teagan states that she wants to follow Alto into Uncommon Time, Saki stops her, stating that it is Alto's choice to go on alone and Teagan should learn to respect Alto's wishes (although the last time Teagan respected Alto's wishes the party was almost killed by a magical storm).

In the Duet path, the Fire Fairy stops Alto before she goes into Uncommon Time. The Fairy does this to apologize on behalf of Fairy kind. When Alto inquires as to why she would do such a thing, Fire Fairy mentions that all fairies suffer from indolence. She mentions her friend, the Earth Fairy (I think, I don't quite remember), who hates all of humanity, has only come to such extreme ideas because the Fire Fairy did not step in to stop it. It is at this point Saki interrupts stating why it would be wrong of the Fire Fairy to respect the beliefs of the Earth Fairy. Fire Fairy responds that hatred is a poison and asks Saki if he would let a friend drink poison (referencing a bad ending where Saki lets loli-slut kill herself). After this conversation, Alto goes to enter Uncommon Time only to have Teagan show up at the last second. Without a second's thought, Teagan charges after Alto and both enter Uncommon Time together.

Duet Branch Part 3. No One here but Us:
The Uncommon Time sequence plays out very similarly, but there are very important differences and I never discussed what happened in Uncommon Time previously, so I might as well discuss it here.

In Uncommon Time Alto meets with symbolic representations of her perceived torment which mostly consists of distorted versions of herself pierced with keys. As Teagan and Alto travel through Uncommon Time they come across Alto's past, which is to say, the only places she has ever been before embarking on the main quest: Her family mansion. As Alto looks around her room, remarking on the things she remembers, Teagan gains insight into the extent to which Alto was abused. Through the discoveries and reminiscing, the two become closer as they battle through the mansion and finally out of the garden gates. I will state there is a wonderful bit of dialogue where both Alto and Teagan mention that the gates used to be the only thing that separated them and how they both wished to be able to knock the gates over. Teagan being the older, stronger woman she is, breaks down the gate with her bare hands and the two leave the mansion together.

After leaving the mansion, the two find themselves on a dark pier during a storm. This area was not in the canon game, and after walking down the pier one quickly realizes why. Standing in the way of the two stands Teagan. The Other Teagan shouts out the things Teagan (and the player) know to be true. That Alto is an idiot, weak and cowardly, incapable of doing anything right. Teagan, suddenly seeing this hyperbolic version of herself throwing insults at Alto makes Teagan realize just how poorly she had been treating Alto. Teagan turns to her friend proclaims that the Other Teagan is not her. She continues with "I'm Teagan, your friend, who loves you."

With that Teagan charges toward Other Teagan and a 1v1 boss fight breaks out. Upon being defeated, Other Teagan mentions that there are worse things than her deeper in the dungeon.

Traveling deeper into the dungeon, Teagan and Alto come across the Masked Alto. Before Teagan can react, Masked Alto freezes Teagan in place. Masked Alto then goes on a tirade about how Alto really wants the world to end and doesn't really care about the Song that Saves the World. I don't quite remember how the rest of the conversation went, but Alto and Masked Alto begin another 1v1 boss fight. At the end of the fight Alto hits Masked (now Nuclear) Alto with some Gurren Lagan inspired attack (which I felt was a bit much, but I can overlook it because it seemed to work in the moment). As the Nuclear Alto lies defeated she states that she can never be killed and will always be apart of Alto. Alto kneels down, hugs her Nuclear self. She says that she understands and cannot hate nor deny that part of her. The Nuclear Alto breaks down into tears. At this point Teagan and Alto leave Uncommon Time and both vow to find a way to recreate The Song that Saves the World.

Help from My Friends by the Beatles plays as the credits scroll. Alongside the credits we see the characters going through the remaining trials of the game, now without the pointless drama.

And thus ends Uncommon Time Duet.

Or something like that, my memory is a bit fuzzy.

Crap. I meant to put these pictures as well…

How the fuck did we even find out about this shit back in 2015?

Someone started a thread wondering what kind of bad games tumblr made, picked Uncommon Time at random, and started playing through it.

Back in 8/11/15 Uncommon time actually trended in the RPGM tags on tumblr. So I assume it went

Shall we look through the tags again, perhaps we'll find another hidden "gem".

Also to add onto what duet does, it cuts down the XP curve massively and makes it so that if you do every random encounter you can walk from point A to B you should be at the level to beat the boss.

Duet user, I'd be interesting in interviewing you or at least talking to you. I've been wanting to make an Uncommon Time video for a while now and although it will probably take an eternity to come out and be filled with complete nonsensical bullshit, I do want to go really in depth. What better way than talking with the person who "fixed" the game? Granted it will probably take a long time for me to even get to that point, I need to script out more of the feature length video, because I absolutely need 2 fucking hours to talk about this game and everything else. Should I post my chart again? I should probably update it actually.

I unironically would want to be FeralPhoenix's friend. That having been said, my only other friends are a paranoid erotic fanfiction writer, a furfag artist who learned how to read and write from internet chatrooms in the 2000's, and a depressed autistic shitposter, so that's not unusual for me.

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some people are just born to fix other's mistakes, but like platinum, refining something bad can make it something good.

Okay, but why would you befriend a mistake instead of just making a fan remake of Uncommon Time? Then you wouldn't have a literal jew cunt yelling at you for ruining her vision

It's cool, I know I'm absolutely fucking insane, but at least I'm trying to be a constructive sociopath.

I think you got me confused with DuetAnon. I'm an entirely different kind of absolute madman. I need to update the FFCC title and add a video on the Denpa Men trillogy.

Oh fuck the entire image is bait
Chaotix wasn't Sonic Team you retard
web.archive.org/web/20040330042803/http://www.egmmag.com/article2/0,2053,1507899,00.asp

Wasn't it by the CD team, which later merged with Sonic Team for Adventure? I mean, Sonic Team has so many people coming and leaving it barely matters that they're called Sonic Team anyway, I should probably come up with a better title.

You don't understand man, many anons who sit through these streams leave with a burden in their hearts. It doesn't sit right just to let the evil lie , these anons are convicted, they want things set things right. The game flies so blatantly in the face of reason, and in such a dramatic way, one feels indignant to do nothing.

Holla Forums - Fun allowed

but why would the ethnicities of this alternate world's peoples be precisely identical to those of our world like that

I don't fuckin' know, but feralphoenix said it so it's canon

She says it's the fantasy version who look like celts, kinda like Tolkien's elves beings Finns

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Sure, I'm always happy to talk about it. Send me an email once you've got it worked out and know what you want to ask.

That's a good summary. It's a strange feeling being on the other side for once, but I really am glad that people liked Duet. Where did you find that "tumblr finds Duet" pic though? It certainly doesn't look like any Holla Forums drawfag, did tumblr REALLY find Duet?

As far as dealing with feral goes, you guys are quite probably right that it'll be totally futile. But there's no way of knowing for sure without an attempt and if it works out it leads to the best possible outcome: An unironically good videogame. At any rate I'll have a story to tell by the next time Thassil does his annual stream, which should be:

AUGUST 11 2018

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I suppose I jumped the gun in naming it, but the picture factually comes from tumblr. I don't know if it was just an user who has done no drawfagging on the board, but it seems to be an actual tumblr artist who stumbled across Duet. I have a theory it might have been someone who read Pittura Infamante, as a download link for Duet is in the comments there.
Link to their tumblr:
impossimu.tumblr.com/

Looking further into what the guy said, I believe he tried to get Feral's attention using the picture, but he never got a response. Said picture also never got any movement outside of the artist's page due to a complete lack of reblogs.

That's great. It's a shame about the lack of reblogs, but things like this give me hope.

Saddened to see "therefore I am" not included. I was quite pleased with myself for coming up with that joke.

Isn't that how we found the RWBY game?
I JUST WANTED TO PLAY VIDEO GAMES WITH RUBY
IT'S NOT FAIR

A RWBY game? Like, another one? Was it different from Grim Eclipse?
Ruby a best. She deserves a better voice actor

Oh yeah, we're talking RPGMaker shite
>She wants to go to your room and hang out
>We have something to live for

It really makes me want more events which are just LPs of shitty RPGmaker games. We've made good memories with the three we've done so far.
I actually got into the show not long after that, it's an honest 5/10. Ruby a best tho

What was the third one? Was it that Sonic x MLP demo shit or was it 7th Stand User which was played so streamfag didn't kill himself?

Fuck, I'd forgotten about 7th Stand User. I was thinking about Anonymous Agony!

And I missed Anonymous Agony, how shit was it? Is it recorded anywhere?

I've not even played this game, but Alto would sound like a decent character(not person) if not for the fact that she's written by a person who thinks she's entirely in the right. Refusing to forgive Teagan because it's a "weak" thing to do sounds like villain behavior. Is there any possibility that Feral had a personal reason for making Teagan a non-magical character? Is it because the game needed a physical character, because it fits Teagan's personality, or does she have a thing against plain human characters/players and STR/tank builds? I could be projecting, but over the years I've met people who insist that you're a loser if you aren't exclusively DEX/INT or running nonhumans/nondwarves. Coincidentally I've always been made to play as the designated strength/tank guy, even if I liked the playstyles they offer.

Does Feral even know anything about music? How will the story of Teagan's Quest begin? Will it be like an extended ending that happens after the World Tuning failed, or will it be after one of the game's endings?

Feral seems to have the idea that forgiving someone for something is the same thing as allowing them to do it again, so when Alto states that she will never forgive Teagan, Alto seems to justify it by stating that Teagan should always feel hurt by it (and therefore will never forget the lesson to never have banter with a tumblrite).

If I had to guess, it's probably a mix of having a female character with masculine tendencies and setting her further apart from the party. Teagan essentially acts as a foil to all other characters in the game as she is the "villain," as Feral puts it in the after-game library. Feral even has Teagan's portrait face left while all other characters face right to further cement Teagan as an outsider of the party. A nice, subtle touch from Duet user is that Teagan's portrait changes direction during the nightmare-pier scene in the Duet route.

She, like Alto, played the cello.

Each Teagan Quest seems to choose a different ending as the "true" ending.
The first Teagan Quest chose the ending where Alto loses to a boss fight in the Uncommon Time, which causes her to come back possessed by her most wretched thoughts. As a conciquence of this Alto speeds up the coming winter and Saki and Loli-Slut, sensing the coming end, kill themselves.
The second Teagan Quest I don't remember.
The third Teagan Quest chose the ending where Alto and the party lose to the Teagan boss fight, in which Teagan ends up murdering Alto.

Personally, I want a Teagan Quest where the canon ending happens, the party splits, and Teagan just leaves to go on an adventure to get away from her previous life. Teagan essentially spends the majority of her life befriending and protecting Alto. When the two finally split, I can only imagine this would require Teagan to get away from everything to simply process what has transpired.
Though, my want for a Teagan Quest honestly subsided with the ending of Duet.

I'm really glad Duet happened because all the ideas I saw from the various Teagan's Quests were just as bad and childish as Uncommon Time was.

Truly dubs of truth, user.

From what I recall of the post-game Dev room commentary, part of FeralPhoenix's original desire to create this game came from the fact that she always felt dissatisfied with any stories she read about abuse survivors where the victim winds up forgiving their abuser by the end. She apparently came away from each one feeling as though the victim wasn't actually ready or willing to forgive anyone, and was simply pressured into it by the people around them out of a desire to not continue the (and these are her words) 'cycle of negativity'.

So she intended to create a story where the character suffered abuse at the hands of another, and did not forgive that abuser, and was not shamed or vilified for it. Except that she also wanted Alto to (and again, these are her exact words) 'embrace her hatred' and yet still be considered the good guy, which is the sort of thing that really only works when the bad guy has no redeeming qualities, which is obviously not the case with Teagan. The end result, as you saw for yourself, is a story that's an unintentional and somewhat poorly-written tragedy about a friendship breaking apart and an abuse victim turning into an abuser herself.

That's bang on the money. If Alto were written intentionally as a grey or villainous character she'd be more sympathetic. Duet is as effective as it is because it realises Alto's potential but also has sympathy for her; rather than vilify her or Teagan, it uplifts both.

This would work and only work if Teagan were a mustache twirling villain of a friend or relative. She's not. She has a few spotty moments but by and large is a good person and earnest friend, cognisant of her flaws when pointed out. The kind who deserves forgiveness.

It's ok, guys, Duet is canon

I was in one of the Teagan's Quest groups, won't say which, but that's fairly accurate. This one managed to humble itself, though.

You can find playthroughs of it on YT, but I don't think any of the streams were recorded.