When the servers of FurAffinity fail, its mascots have to fight through Heck to defeat Ballos and stop the site from falling out of the sky. Or something like that.

The narrative of the celebrated independent game Cave Story (Dōkutsu Monogatari) is deep and involving. You as the player have to go to significant extra effort if you want your counterpart Curly Brace to survive through the end, by which time it feels like the relationship has real meaning. So I found the image of them fighting together back to back in the final battle quite moving.

I had a picture similar to this roughed out. Then FA: United 2010 called for game-themed art, and I knew what I had to do.

The bond between these two is special too. If you weren't around, or even if you were, let me recap: An April Fool's Day banner presented the cheerful but neatly neutral mascot Fender apparently transformed into a provocative buxom dragoness, and this caught the imagination of many. And then... she came back. "The party is always on," she told us, and we were informed that her name was Rednef and that she'd be sticking around.

It seemed the message was: You're not just a joke. You're part of us.

The point is, weapon powerups are nacho cheese flavored.