Samuel
August 17, 2026 at 12:58:46 AM
link to your site?:
https://samsolarsystem.neocities.org/
how did you find me, im curious!:
I don't remember our first encounter but right now I'm here because of your comment on my account where I complain about not knowing what to write in my about me
Okay before anything I just want to say that I really like your webiste! the layout and it's so cool to meet another outer space enthusiast
also your art is so pure eye candy and I adore the colors and shapes it's very expressive and cartoony!
But also HOLY $%!¿ ANOTHER THE LONGING FAN?! I LOVE THAT GAME AND I NEVER SEE ANYONE TALKING ABOUT IT!!! please share your headcanons with me inmediatly!
Replied on: August 17, 2026 at 10:54:43 AM
Aww thank you!! I worked super hard on the main page layout so I get so happy when I hear people like it!!! I wish I had more time to dedicate to learning stuff about space, I think it’s really really cool but I would definitely be considered a casual enjoyer ,:] and thank you for saying that about my art thats so kind!
YOURE THE FIRST LONGING FAN IVE EVER SPOKEN TO YESS!!! I plan to make a shrine for it at some point and put all my headcanons there, but for now take my incomprehensible ramblings!!!!!
I first got the game ages ago and attempted a couple complete playthroughs, but stuff got in the way and I kept forgetting about it and getting the same bad end every time where the king ends all Longing. So at the start of this year I promised myself I wouldn’t forget and started thinking more about the character of the Shade so I would become more attached to it
So at this point my version of the shade is an ENTIRELY different character: the Monarch!!! (I believe there’s a little drawing of it on my about me page? It’s outdated though) It starts out like the canon Shade, but becomes quickly convinced that it actually rules over the kingdom while the King is asleep and lies to itself about being just as respected as him. It crafts moss into a cloak and finds a tiny crown in the golden room where you get the coins
Meaning it’s really indecisive about whether to leave, because does that mean abandoning its kingdom?? But clearly there’s some meaning to the dreams of the surface it keeps having!! We kept going back and forth between its home and the well - the Monarch justified this as ‘patrolling its kingdom to make sure its safe’ but realistically it was afraid to leave and I was too attached to let it (even though we’d figured out how and could at any time). The first time we visited obviously scared the Monarch more than anything it had experienced, so to protect against Angst and the dark in general, it started growing glowing mushrooms in the cloak itself, so it was always surrounded by light
(There was also a mini-arc with the birthday lapis about potentially staying in the kingdom forever without letting time run out, but the Monarch eventually concluded it was better not to trap the entire kingdom like that the way it was trapped itself - a decision mostly motivated by our realisation that we couldn’t go back far enough to see the spider again)
The idea WAS that at the last minute it would escape but I actually ended up not doing it right. I left it too long and didnt realise the kid and the old man stopped their routine if the time ran out. Which I guess is fitting in a way, with the Monarch being too insecure and indecisive and letting its one chance of potential freedom going to waste..! So instead, it got what I consider to be a bad end for it, using the three crystals to live in an eternal dream, fully giving in to its royal delusions (you have NO IDEA how happy I was when I realised it wears a crown in the dream that worked so perfectly with my narrative~!!). To this day I still don’t know what any endings involving the well are like..!!!
Thank you for asking about my headcanons!!! I love the Monarch and all of the Longing so much!! I have no clue how much of this is understandable, I’ll make it easier to read in a shrine one day..! ,:]