I like how one of his mascots graduated to trying to torture Pastra. Many props.

I reversed the strange dialogue at the end and found a message from Lankmann: "Although I may have had different names in the past, I've always been here. And I always will be. You may find it easy now to abandon your passion, but I won't let you. So long as is mine, I will bring it back to what you always dreamed of it being. You may hate me now, but you will thank me later, I promise." On top of that, the subtitles message has Lankmann's text effect saying "No more messages. I found out."

At 7:15, Lankman states as follows, "Although I may have had different names in the past, I have always been here, and always will be. You may find it necessary to abandon your passions, but I won't let you. So long as this channel is MINE, I shall bring it back to what you always dreamed of it being. You may hate me now, but you WILL thank me. Į PŔÕMĮŞĘ."

I find it interesting how Lankmann has almost the opposite of Clyde's traits, having a dark void of a body with yellow striped tendrils instead of the orange and red ones that clyde has, the only clearly visible thing beside that being his face, of which Clyde's is mainly a void, and the same smile and, apparently, undefined eyes that seem to be the opposite of clyde's eyes.

I really like Clyde too! I feel like he has so many expressions and is super cute for a horror mascot, while Lankmann is the creepy, gone mad omnipotent mascot

random thing i thought about: when Lankmann cut off Pastra, not only was it used for a good transition to a spooky scene, but he also cut off Pastra before he could really start talking about him. we didn't get to learn anything about him. which would make sense, not only would Lankmann NOT want his secrets revealed, but it puts down a stone barrier around lankmann, so any info outside of what we've seen from his appearances in videos is hidden from us, making him a bit more of a mysterious character

a horror game reviewer with terrifying OCs AND his review series is a horror series of is own? what more could you want, this is fucking awesome!!

I feel like Clyde was the "correct" choice, but my favourite is Grimzo. "Correct" as in Clyde is definitely the best mascot type of character. Also a FNAF channel having lore of its own is a good idea lol

So basically Clyde is sort of an amalgam of all of the mascots in a way. He has the claws, stripes, and lankyness present in multiple of them, he has Snakebats asymmetrical eyes, he even has Lankmann's teeth. I would say he is the most fitting mascot(no offensive Lankmann.. please don't hurt me).

I like how your current mascot is simply Clyde. There was Snakebat, and Winfrey, and then there’s just Clyde. He’s a great guy.

My man Lankman is scary as hell, but I love him so much for some reason. His fashion choices and looks are to die for.

Clyde seems like he could be the mascot of Halloween, the definition of what Halloween really is A ‘spoopy’ yet fun and expressive holiday filled to the brim with popping orange colors. Clyde, IS!, Halloween

My guess for Lankman not being used is the manner of purpose. Lankman seems more story-oriented than Clyde, and it is very much apparent when we see his appearances. Still, a nice behind-the-scenes video with good manner of presentation. The footage in the background foreshadows a potential game review so “Oh boy!” *jumps into a pool*

The transcript being "taken over" by Lankman is BRILLIANT and kind of eerie, I love that

I’m noticing some “clues” scattered throughout the whole channel. In this video at the end there’s a few frames with the name “Vincent” On the channel “A normal person” the capital letters in the description of the two videos on the channel also spell out “Vincent” As for “My happy place” the channel mentions something called “the network” which lankmann also mentions at the end of this video. Conclusion: I don’t have a final conclusion yet but I’m confident that someone else (preferably with a better sleep schedule) will formulate one instead since I’m very tired

I really don't know why, but I get Dr. Seuss vibes from Clyde and Lackman and the others... not the children's books, but the artwork he kept private, like "Every Girl Deserves a Unicorn". The striped, twisty, long style of yours is so unique, I would love to see them in animated form!

I thought Lankman was going to jump scare me at the end and that put me on edge. Great job with the designs, I could really feel Lankman staring into my soul

when pastra got cut off it definetly was going to end with "an arg." pastra, if you see this i'd like to say you have evolved my art (specially in horror) a TON! plus you make awesome videos! :D

Ok, this is the creepiest video you've put out so far, and I adore it. Lankmann cutting you off and appearing on a black background with distorted music and human eyes (which has always unnerved me), getting closer and closer to the screen is so unsettling. Surprisingly, I'd say the captions were the creepiest element. I had them on by accident from a previous video, and seeing "NO MORE MESSAGES I FOUND OUT" just appear at the start of the video sent shivers down my spine. Very excited for the next video

This is kinda relatable, I used to represent myself with an OC I made Called The Emperor but after some time I decided to separate myself from him, he is still one of my main characters but I have others to represent me and I can use that excuse to evolve the character to something that definitely no longer represents me, giving him his own personality and now I think he is way more interesting, yes, I still us the Emperor as my name here but in most places I now use NECROMON

The idea of snakebat being a tv host,wow,i liked it,maybe You could bring him back for quick announcements or something,but is your choice honestly

It'd be fun to bring at least some of these guys back, maybe even with their own distinct voices (Like a few of them could be voiced by some of your friends). I also think you should bring along some other characters you made if you feel like it.

Oh my goodness i am addicted to all this juicy lore!!! These characters are so gosh dam creative! I love your art style!

ill be honest, i haven't been this invested in a youtuber's characters and stuff since hush. hush's bits were so well planned out, the characters were easy to attach to despite never really knowing what they look like (since it's all audio), and it was just a really fun dive into a youtuber

Winfrey-towering fellow, heccin bigg Snakebat-Fluffy flying snekboi. Scrapped sona-C O L O R S Grimso-Silly spoopster. Clyde-Spiky, want to hug LANKMANN-mysterious man, scary grin... h a t

Seeing the title, I _immediately_ knew what was up. Also, I'd _love_ to see/play a game featuring these guys. Snakebat sounds like the ideal between-level announcer-type guy who leans on the fourth wall a little bit, as if he is presenting the game itself, while the other characters could fit all sorts of roles.

For anyone who's gone back to this video to find the missing piece Lankman mentioned in the Yume Nikki video, I think I found it, or at least, part of it. At around 4:54, in the bottom right corner, the letters Ge flash up. Considering something similar happen in the Yume Nikki video, I think that Clyde is still sending the video link he was originally going to put in the captions. Currently, the pieces to the link I have are Ge7tCg. I might have missed a few pieces.

It's so cool, getting to see each of the aspects you put into the potential mascots, and how Clyde had an aspect of each of them in his design.

so sad to see grimzo go. clyde's design is BRILLIANT, but grimzo is so cute-

For anyone who actually will ever see this. This is what we know so far Lankmann speech at the end has been almost confirmed to "All though I may have had different names in the past, I have always been here, and I always will be. You may find it evil (unintelligible), but I wont let you. So long as we settle [our lives]-(not sure about this one) I will take it back to what you always dreamed of it being. You may hate me now, but you will thank me latter, I promise. With the red text being "lankmann" "The network" and "Vincent" I and others have found out what these mean First with The network: This is a "failed" creation that being of "My happy place" this seem to be a group of hackers (which act similar to how lankmann can hack videos which probably means they are working together maybe) who kidnap and torture this character and make a "fun" game out of it Vincent: Another "failed" creation but this being of the viewpoint of one of the kidnappers it seems or someone who was tormenting the broken monkey mask I believe that they are all failed and now are the same "being" by all teaming up to take Pastra and Clyde down. Edit 2: I think we got jebaited and focused way too much on the end because at 4:55 we get a message that says GE I dont know if this means anything but it might be part of the url

I love the inclusion of Lankmann as a scrapped character without ruining the immersion of the current ARG.

4:46 big shot man

My favorite part of the Clyde design is how it looks like a costume thats been corrupted with something. The eyes and mouth sink in and out of the hood as they please, and it looks like the tendrils inside the costume are barely keeping it standing up.

I knew it! Lankman is doing this due to the fact he's resentful towards Pastra for "abandoning" him and the other mascots. Obviously Pastra loves these characters and still has use for them and loves to still reference and use them in art today. But Lankman won't really understand.... He has the wrong idea and is misunderstanding things. But I had this idea from the start since he took over the channel. The fact he was one of the characters who was supposed to be the mascot and stuff. The way he treats Pastra.... I sensed it from him the very start... But I am getting interested in this ARG/story. Hope you keep up the good work Pastra. Your characters, your style..... It's really inspired me to start drawing again and stuff and making my own characters. Hope you do well in everything going down the road.

The realistic, faded out eyes inside Lankman's 2 gaping holes on his face freaks me the fuck out. While I do believe Clyde is your best mascot, Lankman is *BY FAR* your scariest. He's just so perfectly unsettling.

This isn't even my first time watching this video, and the part where Lankman appeared still scared me to death. Epic transition right there.

Love how Lankman is just silently being the PFP waiting for his moment to strike Edit: After exploring more of this channel for like 5 minutes I've come to realize that something even more sinister is happening and I am so in

I recently learnt the song that played at the end for my orchestra class, and holy cow, the odd feeling of knowing the next note but not being able to place the song followed by the slow realization that this was a song i had been playing not a half hour earlier was really scary. It’s made even worse by the fact that i really enjoy said song and found it quite beautiful and comforting almost, so hearing it distorted felt especially odd. It gave me goosebumps lol

i absolutely LOVE your character designs! I've been dipping my toes into the horror or creepy looking art styles myself because of how awesome your characters look. Lankmann is truly sending shivers down my spine.

So Lankmann is basically Clyde without the hoodie. The smile is the same and Clyde's asymmetrical eyes could fit in the hollow eyes of Lankmann. That's cool, imagine Clyde like a nice and friendly spooky guy and if you try to figure out what he really is and pull back his hoodie then he changes personality and become the freaky Lankmann. Bro that's so cool.

What a colourful cast of characters! We should have a cinematic universe for all these characters, with our good friend Lankmann serving as a lovable Anta- pro..tagonist.. protagonist! Yes, of course! Obviously…

this is the first ARG type thing i've stumbled onto organically, as opposed to going out of my way to find already established ones, and WOW I was caught off gaurd. I don't know if you planned this as an eventuallity when you made the channel, or later decided to rework your old projects but it is an absoluetly facinating concept to me for a creator's old character to just,,,refuse to be forgotten and become something else, and your character designs are perfect for it! I'm not really sure what my point is anymore but I am so glad that youtube randomly suggested your channel!

This has been very inspiring to help further my own character design, while also giving me a bit more of a push into starting recording my first video essay on things I enjoy. I have been considering another redesign for my main OC for a while now, so I better get at it!

Dude your art is so cool and perfect for the channel’s tone!

I think everyone would love to see all these characters with their own voices. Honestly the voice for lankman is perfect and it makes me want to get into voice acting even more than I already am.

This is crazy fascinating, behind-the-scenes stuff always fits that inquisitive vibe that makes horror so alluring. Plus, anything that gives more limelight to your wonderful freaks is a bonus! Snakebat's my favorite, gotta say, I LOVE the "droopy skull teeth minus jaw" aesthetic. Perfect for an efficient dispensing of venom! I'm interested in joining the 'KZfaqr with art avatar" scene myself, so it's also crazy helpful to see the sort of thought processes involved. I've got tons of options, but forcing my pre-existing weirdos to act EXACTLY like me feels... wrong. So I've been creating a spooky mutated ice bat monstrosity from the ground-up for a fair bit now!

I really Love your art style! the exaggerated proportions and large teeth have inspired my own art style!

Yooo I love hearing about other people's character design processes because that makes me think about my own stuff that I want to do and all your character designs even if they didn't land are still really cool. I know I just found you recently but you're already becoming a big inspiration for me to branch out into trying to make my stuff more horror like, like I was attempting to do years ago. I do say Clyde was the best of the best though I can see each design being used for something really cool on its own. Peak character design at his finest

You have NO IDEA how much I love Clyde's design, so seeing the all these other scary, brilliant designs makes his character feel like a good result of experimenting with colors, shapes and concepts! I haven't finished the video tho, but I have seen the two firsts options (and I love them). Edit: Lankmann being one of Pastra's scrapped designs for a mascot makes sense. Does he want revenge? Fulfill the only reason he was created? We will never know, at least not until this Lemon Demon look-a-like's next appearences /j

I think what I like the most about Clyde and Lankman is how their designs interact with each other. They're both monsters in a similar style, but not monsters in a similar vein. It makes it so that while they can share space with one another, they cannot replace the other one.

Your amazing and creepy designs of Clyde and your thumbnails are one of the reasons I subbed to this channel. I just love them

Loved hearing your story and how much you experimented. I love Clyde’s design very much but your other characters seemed really amazing as well!

Okay so heres what the audio at the end says: “Although i have had different names in the past, ive always been here, and always will be. You may find it easier to abandon your passion, but i wont let you. So long as this channel is alive, i will bring it back to what you always dreamed of it being. You may hate me now, but you will thank me later, i promise” im very excited to see where this is headed

I kinda wish more of them could've been used, like having multiple mascots for different things.

I love Lankmann's design. He looks like he's just some weird dude with a hat and stripey arms, but that's not all he is if you look closer. There's someone inside. They could either be someone in a really interesting costume, or someone wearing someone else's really interesting skin. My guess is that they were going to be an interpretation of how Pastra puppeteers their OCs, but I'm just making stuff up now. I like this design -because I like deltarune- because I like the concept of how us users of the internet could be taking control of our OCs brains, despite how unwilling they are, to interact with their world.

I love your artstyle Pastra! Thanks to you I finally found >the thing< with which I can make my art creepier. Also I love how your characters are noodly-wobbly. I want to be able to draw more soft and noodly character someday, and you give me inspiration to do that! Oh, and I am thankful for your content. I can't play horrors, but I do really enjoy stories they give, so your videos just perfectly fit in this small hole in my heart for horror content

The entire time i was asking myself “when is he gonna mention lankmann” and WOW. That ending

from what i could read in the lankmann part "Lankmann, vincent, the network. we are one in the same" I am intrigued, and you, Lankmann, have caught the entirety of my entire attention

Really cool to know your creative process! I also really think you nailed it with Clyde! :D

Whenever I saw Clyde I got a very "Where the Wild Things Are" feel from him.

Clyde is a perfect of cute and creepy. And that is a tough balance to get so great job, all the others are very cool too, Lankmen seriously is getting me interested in the little snippets of the story in every video. I truly wonder what made him have so much disdain for his maker.

6:38 “To end things off for this video, we have my final scrapped mascot, Lankmann. Lankmann was going to be my mascot back when I wanted this channel to be a-“ Dang, really touched a nerve there, huh?

Clyde was honestly one of the biggest initial draws for me to your channel! The content itself was really interesting, but I was absolutlely delighted by seeing Clyde emote and I adore his design! I can definitely see some of your inspirations in there, but in a way where he still feels like a really distinct, unique character! I haven't seen any other avatar on KZfaq quite like him All of your art is incredible and I'm glad to see the designs that didn't make it though as well!

Loving all the ARG stuff, keep up the good work!

Clyde Is probably my favorite from the bunch, he's so expressive and I love the way he looks. Not to mention pastas voice matches him perfectly. I always enjoy watching the little sprite do whatever the heck he wants while the video goes on. Genuinely makes my day

I love Clyde! He feels both spooky and friendly, somehow :). Lankmann is uhhh,,, yeah he’s here too

I remember one time I fell asleep watching one of your videos and when I woke up it was another one of your videos but I immediately got scared bc your little intro was playing- literally love your videos.

I really like your art style!!! I think the kinda "lost footage" vibe your videos have really cool. I really like Clyde's design, and I think it's really interesting that you went through so many ^_^

clyde is also the name of the orange ghost from pacman! comparing the two they seem similar combined with your other interests! i find that really cool

I like how the L̷̝a̸̛̛̫̞̋͌̊̒͑̔̐̒̈́n̶̨̺̮̫̪̳̮̼̾k̶̬͙̺̫̝̺̩̘͓͒̽̓m̴̡̛̞̰̮͙̜̭͍̆͛̀́̊̋͝ͅa̸̩̲̣̲͍̣n̸̢̤̺̠̗͖͕͆̅̑͛̽͝ͅ part is jsut really hard to hear if they’re saying something or not and it feels like an analog horror thing And all the characters definitely are pretty coo land well drawn aswell This is also an awesome video topic This earned my like

Clyde and his art style is how I discovered you’re channel which is super cool!

I saw the ending bit and sat there like- “This man fr managed to fit *lore* into this- omg-“

All of your character designs are so delightfully spooky!

Honestly I really appreciate how Clyde ended up being the mascot! He suits the channel's needs really well and matches your voice nicely. The only other designs that could work for your voice is Grimzo and your horror persona. Frankly I'm glad we live in this timeline where we have a funny altered voice for Lankmann, because his current voice REALLY suits him. It would be interesting to see your other scrapped mascots come to life though, just to give the channel some more lore hehe

got the sense right from the start of this video that it was gonna involve lankman, since he looks kinda similar to clyde and very much like a potential mascot for this channel and so i put the dots together on the video title aaand the fact that he's been showing up all over the channel recently /pos but that ending caught me so off guard!! it's broad daylight outside but i was still really spooked by that, good job man!

THIS IS MY FAVORITE KZfaq CHANNEL EVER I GET SO EXCITED EVERY SINGLE TIME YOU POST A VIDEO!!!

I honestly love these monster-style designs. I really enjoy this channel, not only one thing, also with a main problem. Kind of like a story. It appears to be have seen. This is… unfortunate.

I love how you give some of your monsters casual names like Clyde and Winfred and other are named scary things like lank man and stuff

I love your art style! It's like other people use this only for Halloween and you use it all year round! I lobe Halloween and I respect you for using this all the time.

Im glad i found your channel. Its been great watching them

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Clyde is definitely my favorite of the bunch, between the colors and expressiveness Clyde gives me the vibe of like an old sock-puppet that's moving on its own. Very endearing and super cute while still being creepy.

I loved this video! It's always fascinating to take a peek at behind the scenes stuff and it really inspires me creatively. Consider doing more videos like this in the future.

Love the little lore this is building up, legit scary stuff, keep up the great work man!

Bro I love the creepypasta-esque feeling to this channel, it's really re-awakening the love I had for that era with a new fresh experience! The message "We're one and the same" from Lankmann at the end has me rather curious... I wonder how connected to Clyde he is? I love your unique character designs as well, I'm glad you chose Clyde as your mascot since he's the most complex and expressive of your other characters, however I wouldn't have minded any of the other characters to be your mascot. It was very interesting to hear your detailed explanations for each potential candidate, it's something I haven't seen from another KZfaqr before.

Imagine these guys in a horror game. That would low key be cool.

Man, I love your art style!

I love your set and characters so much. I just- aaa. THANK YOU!! I would love to see snake bat news if you ever get inspired for it! And if you ever make a comic or something and need background artists- fhdh. But really just 👏🏻👏🏻 I love your art

Tried my hand at the audio between 7:16 and 7:40 and got this from reversing it: "Although I may have had different names in the past, I've always been here, and I always will be. You may find it easy now to abandon your passion, but I won't let you. So long as this channel is mine, I will bring it back to what you always dreamed of it being. You may hate me now, but you will thank me later. I promise."

lankman at the end says this from what I can tell: "All though I may have had different names in the past, I have always been here, and I always will be. You may find it evil (unintelagble), but I wont let you. So long as we settle [our lives]-(not sure about this one) I will take it back to what you always dreamed of it being. You may hate me now, but you will thank me latter, I promise.

Maybe it's because I'm used to seeing him but Clyde fits your personality and voice the best. The expressions are great and fun and I really like him.

Boy oh boy, we love a good mascot! Can't wait to see more :) also can't wait to snoop around lol, can't believe i only found that from the last video by checking the transcript on THIS video

Ok as someone working as a character designer myself this makes me so SO happy and inspired! Seeing your art style slowly evolve and morph into what it is today made me grin so giddy and happy as well. I can't wait to see what more you do with these characters in future videos to come!

Dear lankman, bring the old mascots back to get revenge on Pastra

i really like your art style, your mascots are so cool!!!

Oh the GOOSEBUMPS when he was about to say "arg" but then we're just left with nothingness with His face. The eerie-ness and hanging tension that filled the air around me! Also while I'm here, I fully intend on trying to figure out this whole puzzle, starting with who vincent might be.

It's so nice seeing your art and ideas all mix together in this characters, i adore your artstyle ^^

You have no clue how fast you have rocketed up to be my favorite youtuber! Your designs are so uniquely creepy and fit your style so well and I love them all, but I'm happy that Clyde was the guy we got to see in the end. Never stop doing what you're doing, it's amazing!

This was really cool. I'm relatively new to your channel but it was interesting seeing all these designs and your thought process on them. Especially the last one 😉👌

All of the scrapped ones are amazing but Im happy Clyde's the one you went with. He's such a funky lil guy and his mascot status means it's easy for me to imagine him as just a normal dude that also happens to be an eldritch horror.