Hope you have all had a great Pico Day! It really was a blast, looking at all the art and movies all you wonderful users put out for this amazing celebration! Before I go to bed, I wanna share something that I was thinking about posting on my NG page for a while...

Basically, I made up my own headcanons for the NG-verse in general, so this will not only apply to a single series (like Pico's, for example), but pretty much all NG series in general. With that out of the way, here we go:

-The NG-verse was actually created by our world (real life, pretty much). Its very existence is thanks to the real world, so it's sort of like a dream world of some sort, except the characters are kinda aware of it at times.

-Because of this, the characters are aware of the fourth wall, although their access to the real world is limited, as not all of them are strong enough to visit the real world.

-Creators, on the other hand (such as Tom himself), can access the NG-verse and the characters they created. Sometimes they coexist with their creations in many cases.

-Afterlives do exist in the NG-verse, and they pretty much function like you'd expect. Heaven houses the good souls, while Hell houses corrupted ones. However, angels and demons live there; some being born naturally like humans (ex: GF), while others are former humans turned into them (ex: Convict). For creators, if they do die in the NG-verse (be it by accident or not), they simply respawn back in the real world.

-Animals in the NG-verse can talk if they have a strong connection to humans, sometimes learning how to walk or even wear clothes like humans do (Ritz being an example).

-There are other planets out in the NG-verse's space, other than Earth itself (where most of the stories take place). The penilians, Hominids, etc. are all out there, though they've only gotten a few glimpses of Earth to know what happens there.

-Adding to the above, Stick men live in another dimension that’s part of the NG-verse. Zombies, on the other hand, live on a war-torn planet that’s similar to, yet distant from Earth.

-In this universe, the souls of children are actually stronger than souls of adults. This is why Pico and his friends are so strong and why Skid and Pump are so durable; because as the characters are kids, they'd be able to have better adrenaline to be able to fight.

-Humans and monsters/non-humans coexist with each other, although they haven't always gotten along. Eventually they decided to reside in Philadelphia with one another, that being the city where such relationships are the most welcome.

-Some other copyrighted characters (like Hatsune Miku) do exist, but some of them are expies of said already existing copyrighted characters, likely making them different people altogether just putting up a show.

-Since some NG games featuring myths of sorts (such as the games Gyossait and Gretel and Hansel), it may be possible that myths in the NG-verse are true, as well.

-Pico's fanmade flashes in this universe are just movies made by fans of Pico and his friends' adventures who dress up as the characters, rather than the characters themselves. After the events of Pico's School, people around Philadelphia began to portray Pico as a badass hero by making movies out of him, not that he and his friends mind much (in fact, they're happy with the fame).

-Technically, all of the series in Newgrounds could be considered documentaries by Tom Fulp and other creators, except they're more satrical than they actually are to please the public... the real deals were much darker (basically, imagine if Tankmen and Pico's School were taken more seriously).

-A considerably shortened timeline of the NG-verse is probably like this:

Tankmen, Salad Fingers, and Madness Combat -> Pico's series, Alien Hominid, Alloy, and Fancy Pants Adventures -> Henry Stickmin, Eddsworld, and Spooky Month -> Friday Night Funkin' (not everything from this site, but it just gives you somewhat of an idea)

-Speaking of fanmade flashes, the Newgrounds characters/icons sometimes get together and watch fanmade flashes a lot of the users make. They either laugh at how silly some of them are, or they just watch in awe at how awesome a lot of them can turn out to be. Pico likes this the most, considering the magnitude of flashes there are for Pico Day. He, Darnell, and Nene would really seem to enjoy how differently they're portrayed by the community.

So yeah... those were my headcanons for the Newgrounds characters' universe, plus some "lore" for it. Sorry if this seems a little strange, but I really wanted to flesh out the world the characters live in, given all the amazing content I've seen on this site for them!