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The insanity that you're about to witness are the notes that I took during my Making Fiends rewatch... and with rewatch I mean that I overanalyzed every frame and every line in this piece of media. I wrote down any info that I thought was even remotely or relevant interesting, because I need all of it to be able to write my made up S3 and 4 versions of the show.

All of this info is a mix and match of all of the Making Fiends stuff that is available to us, aka:

The webisodes + the alternative versions of them + the character commentary ones. The Nickelodeon show, the Making Fiends website and the Making Fiends fan wiki.

Why am I showing you this? Because some of these are funny to me and about 70% of this info sounds like I'm just making shit up... to be fair, take some of these with a grain of salt, cuz sometimes I made assumptions about things rather than writing down the obvious.

Anyways, let's get into it, I put it into a Google Doc to make it easier.

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GO KARKITO GO!!!!!!!!!

OUR SON!!! WE STAYING STRONG FOR HIM 🥹

KARKITOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!

GO KARKITO GO!!

Here's the gif I made of Karkito doing the Club Penguin dance for anyone who wants it.

Also, in case this breaks containtment.

Karkito is this joke between me and @glitch-pep that originated from the small prototype version of the Karkat plushie.

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CJ meme compilation timeeeeeee! :D 🩵🩵🩵🩵

[Meme credits are under the cut + a bonus.]

I knew this day would come

workout goal

this social situation

sunlight kinda slaps

of course I'm pro nouns

i think humans peaked

Bonus ft. Milo 💀💀💀

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@random-meme-bot @moth-moon7

something something Apollo's dodgeball

something something if I had a nickel for every time-

@moth-moon7

...is this the most random idea ever? Yes.

Did I draw it anyways? Also yes.

My brain just went: Wendyn like sandwiches... Piper likes burgers... it's all coming together.

Caine put them in these for who knows what reason, they're both very tired of his %$C!#-

They can barely move in these, so they're kinda just standing there-

Bonus under the cut!

Credit for the censor bar.

If somebody saw Piper and Bubble wearing something that looks basically like couple costumes, she'll never be able to lie it down...

...and of course, Jax was the first to see it.

The mental image of a burger struggling to beat up a rabbit is sure an interesting, funny and depressing one.

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I did this thing cuz I was bored on the train once-

Oc rambles free card. Talk about whatever tf you want about your little homemade blorbo

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As I've stated before, the Chaotic Crossover AU doesn't have a plot, it has a beginning, but it doesn't have a canon ending, and it never will have. I covered this in more detail in this essay.

But, unfortunately for everyone's hearts, @random-meme-bot went:

...but what if did have an ending?

And what if it was a Bad Ending?

And boom,

The Chaotic Crossover Bad Ending AU, or just Bad Ending AU for short was born.

Basically, the poem I'm about to show you is based on all of the following posts, but ESPECIALLY on the first one:

Post 1 Post 2

Post 3 Post 4

Now, without further ado, here it is.

Saudade

Have you ever woken up one day,

and as everything unfolds, in it's usual way,

something starts to feel wrong, out of place,

it suddenly doesn't feel the same,

when you look at your face.

As you're running down the street,

you spot a boy in blue with a bear.

As you stop he dissapears,

and you can't pinpoint why you would care.

The fact that you forgot, doesn't seem very fair.

A guy you don't like fell off his skate,

you asked him if he's okay using the wrong name,

why is up for debate,

maybe you shouldn't watch TV so late.

You spot a familiar drawing in a book

before you go to sleep,

you forgot who it reminds you of,

and as you count some sheep,

you wonder if it was a memory

you wanted to keep.

As you ponder over your props

yet again this week, the bells fall, 

it makes you wonder why it made you shout

'Cat!' turn around, and all.

You also start to question,

who's name you actually wanted to call.

More things happen as time goes by,

you don't know if you should:

stay calm,

go crazy,

scream,

or cry.

The more they happen,

the more you wonder why.

You wanna find the answer,

but no matter how much you try...

You don't know where to look.

You don't know what you need to see.

Because supposedly,

everything is in the way,

it was always meant to be.

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THE CHAOTIC CROSSOVER AU-

big fan of 'i'd find you in every universe'. BIGGER fan of 'there are maybe five universes where we find each other and in four of them it ends badly i think we're some kind of anomaly i think every law of everything points towards this being the death of us. but we could try to save it anyway.' THATS the good shit.

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Milo being a petty little bitch meme compilation because it's very funny to me-

The next two memes are me going "Yeah, that's Milo behavior." but it didn't happen canonically or anything-

[Meme credits are under the cut.]

maybe the problem is you

talking shit

choose happiness

haven't decided yet

the usual

critical thinking skills

nosy enough

enjoy your murder case

back in uni

I keep finding...

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HAPPY HALLOWEEN 2024!!! >:D 🎃🕸️🕷️🦇💀

🕸️🎃¡Happy (late) Halloween!🎃🕸️

Put some poison in your coffee

to create a deadly taste,

give you some cursed treasure

that'll turn you into waste,

pour some water onto you

that'll melt you in a flash,

and once the fire gets to you

you'll be a pile of ash!

[Explanation + close ups under the cut.]

This drawing was supposed to be posted on Halloween, but I underestimated how much time it'll take me to finish it.

For the record, no one actually got harmed in the taking of this picture. How? I have no idea. I haven't come up with a story for this besides 'The gang meets Barnaby on Halloween and he tries to kill them in various ways.'

I'll put the full Halloween costume designs for the gang in a seperate post.

Also, here are some close ups!

(I'm totally not showing these because I'm salty that Charlie's and Molly's eyelashes didn't end up being visible-)

Barnaby doesn't get one of these because I don't fully like how he turned out, I don't think I captured his essence well enough-

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A bunch of Mina and Karma doodles (ft. Milo) because they deserve it and I feel bad for not drawing them more often-

I had a lot of fun with these!! Mina and Karma are such a silly duo, the doodle in the lower right corner is my favorite- :'D

I was going to include a description that describes Mina's and Karma's relationship, but honestly it's basically any cat person with their cat ever. I'm 100% projecting my love of cats onto Mina-

I used to dislike Mina because I could never really draw her correctly, now I just don't care anymore, better to have inconsistent Mina drawings on the canvas than no Mina drawings at all.

All of these are based on a bunch of different memes, I put them all under the cut! :>

Mina holding Karma up to the camera

Karma covered in kisses

Karma sleeping on a big Karma pillow

cozy Karma

Milo "doing Karma's make up"

chibi Mina with chibi Karma on her head

Mina casually holding Karma like a display piece

the lil comic in the corner

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Aight, let's talk about the process behind CJ's creation. First up, concept art!

Second, the full explanation under the cut! 🩵

A few months before CJ was even a thing, I got the idea of a character concept. The concept was basically Charlotte having an older brother who is far more calm, level headed and cautious than she is. I liked the idea of it, but I didn't feel like working on it, I simply didn't feel inspired enough.

A while later, I was trying to figure out Milo's lore, and I thought to myself... "Heh... wouldn't it be really funny if there was a character, who is the complete opposite of Milo, and his only purpose is to piss him off?" and then I thought "Hm. I could reuse the old Charlotte's brother concept for that."

In the poems Obverse and Reverse, the line:

"...the concept was a joke at first I gotta admit,

but I think I've gone too far with the bit."

Is me referring to this. CJ and Milo's whole relationship was based on a joke I thought was funny, but eventually I started to actually take it seriously and it just all went haywire from there.

I still find it slightly funny at times... but of course, this isn't CJ's only purpose anymore.

Anyways, let's get into the rest of his creation.

The first design idea I had for him was more surfer dude and Hawaii inspired, which made ultimately no sense considering that Charlotte and CJ are from Vermont. The one thing I kept from that are the hair and the flower.

His hair was a struggle to figure out, at first I wanted to try to make it curly like Charlotte's, but that didn't feel right. I still don't really know what's going on with it even now, but it has that slightly modern, fluffy and messy look I was going for. I guess it's shawed on the sides? I don't know, let's not think about it too much.

He has a flower hairpin on each side of his head, because when I only put it on one side it looked empty. I was debating about the flower as well. I had the idea to make it into a specific flower that has some sorta meaning but I couldn't find one I liked, I also looked up flowers from Vermont and ended up with the purple flower but I didn't like it. Eventually I just looked through the show, found a scene where there was a flower, and took the flower from it and used it for the hairpins. I made it into a flower because in the show Charlotte is often depicted with them.

I did consider giving him a bow so that he could fit in with Charlotte and Grandma Charlene, but I decided against it for a lore relevant reason that I won't talk about just yet. Besides, I think he still fits in just fine the way he is now.

For his color I just took the colors of the whole family and adjusted the settings until I got this shade. I was considering to make the color lighter but he just looked washed out.

His name was an easy decision, it had to start with a C and I was debating between Cody and CJ but I'm glad I chose CJ, I really like it!

The only thing that's really changed is that he used to be far more music, singing and comedy themed, but I scrapped the idea of it.

Everything else stayed the same most of the time... well, I did scrap two characters during the development process, but CJ was always the same.

At first CJ was only supposed to be Charlotte's cousin, and he had a different sister named Carol. Carol had anxiety, and the interest of botany and gardening used to be her thing. She had an intense fear of fiends. She was supposed to be some sorta yellowish color and had a headscarf with a flower pattern on it as well as long messy hair. I had the plan that she's related to Mr. Milk and that would explain their similarities, but I just ended up scraping her cuz I couldn't find a place for her in the plot that made sense. I do wanna make a character like this but in a different font one day, we'll see.

The second character was named Faith, and she wasn't related to CJ or Charlotte in any way. Her name was supposed to be a nod to the word fiend since they both start with F. She was orange/dark orange and she wore a black headband with some sorta black pattern on it. She also had some really tired eyes with eyebags and too much eyeliner, and a messy bag with a bunch of random papers. She was basically the new girl in town who got there a while after CJ, who developed an intense interest in fiends, with the intense desire to study and understand them. She'd spend hours observing them, writing things down, and conducting experiments. After a while her and CJ would form some sorta alliance and they'd slowly become friends. I ended up scrapping her because I couldn't find a place in the plot for her either. I do like her, but I think she'll fit better in a different universe.

Also, random addition that has actually nothing to do with CJ's creation.

I recently went through my sketches when I randomly stumbled upon these, and then I remembered that I actually had a Making Fiends oc idea even before I thought of Milo.

Her name was Megan, she was a sort of dusty blue color, and had long hair that slightly covered her eye. She was literally just Maggie but even more stoic and monotone and instead of poetry her thing was drawing... I thought of her before I watched the show, but after I watched it I immediately gave up on the idea the moment Maggie stepped on screen. I think I tried to make it work with making them best friends? I don't know honestly, very boring idea, dunno why I thought it was a good one.

Figuring out CJ was fairly simple, I took Milo and flipped everything about him on its head, polished it, added new stuff and made it into an actual character and not just Milo but in an opposite au.

Still, CJ and Milo are obviously narrative foils. I tried to make that clear with A LOT of different details. In fact, there's so many of them that I'll have to eventually make a seperate post for it...

No idea when I'll do that since I keep adding parallels to the bunch... I'll probably make a character analysis thing or something one day-

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Edit: I've renamed Mina's Aunt from Patricia to Poppy. Her intro post is currently in the works...

OC Lists Masterpost!

[This Masterpost includes several oc lists that contain relevant oc info that I need to put somewhere. I will update this post as time goes on. The info here is canon, but if I end up changing something I'll correct it accordingly.]

Ages

[From oldest to youngest.]

Piper - 46

Molly - 31

Sunny - 28

Milo - 12

CJ - 12

Charlie - 12

Mina - 12

Sexualities

Piper - greyromantic, apothisexual and queer

[Note: Piper doesn't know that she's any of these things. More on that later.]

Molly - panromantic, demiromantic and asexual

Sunny - queer and asexual

Milo - pansexual

CJ - bisexual

Charlie - lesbian

Mina - aromantic asexual

Pronouns

Piper - she/her

Molly - she/her

Sunny - she/her

Milo - he/him

CJ - he/him

Charlie - Mostly she/her but she's fine with any other pronouns as well.

Mina - she/her

Relatives

Piper: ??? ??? ???

Molly: ??? ??? ???

Sunny: ??? ??? ??? ???

Milo:

Maggie (sister)

Orion (father)

??? ??? ???

CJ:

Charlotte (sister)

Charlene (grandmother)

??? ???

Charlie: ??? ??? ??? ??? ???

Mina:

Pauline (mother)

Terrence/Terry (father) 

Poppy (aunt)

Jonny (cousin)

Jonny's mother (aunt)

Jonny's father (uncle)

[Note: Pauline and Poppy are sisters. Terry and Jonny's father are brothers.]

Catchphrases

Piper - "But that doesn't make any sense!"

Molly - "My, my... there are so many hours left before bedtime... I should take a nap to pass the time."

Sunny - "Well make sure to hold onto your socks and put your seatbelts on, because here's the plan!"

Milo - "What a surprise..."

CJ - "That's the spirit!"

Charlie - "Bingo!"

Mina - "I hate you."

Species

Piper - Human trapped in a digital body.

Molly - Puppet + moon being + ???

Sunny - Puppet + sun being.

Milo - Human.

CJ - Human.

Charlie - Human.

Mina - Human.

Neurodivergent or neurotypical?

Piper - autism

Molly - autism and innatentive ADHD

Sunny - hyperactive ADHD

Milo - neurotypical

CJ - autism

Charlie - hyperactive ADHD

Mina - neurotypical

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CJ: I have a problem. I accidentally found out about the surprise party the others planned for me. Should I pretend not to know?

Milo: No. Surprise them back, don't show up.

Based on this post.

This post is LONG overdue because I couldn't for the life of me decide what to draw with them but better late than never!

Under the cut is an attempted explanation of whatever the hell these two have going on-

Milo hates CJ's guts and everything else about him, and he's not doing much to hide it. CJ is in denial about it, in a "No, come on. Hate is a strong word. He's probably just always moody and like that in general." kinda way, and is actively trying to figure out why and if he even hates him, since he doesn't understand why Milo would feel that way towards him to begin with.

He's very confused and even nervous around Milo due to his passive aggressive attitude and weird comments that are often incomprehensible to CJ. Sometimes Milo's humor is so dark that it throws CJ off, and/or makes his anxiety go through the roof. CJ never knows whether he should take whatever concerning sentences Milo is spouting seriously, or if it's just him with his dark humor and sarcasm.

Milo always purposefully inserts himself and his comments into any of CJ's ideas, trying to trick and sabotage him at every move, to manipulate the situation to benefit him in a way only Milo himself can realistically understand. They debate over the most random of things, and it's never really clear who's the winner in the end.

What he's trying to achieve with all of this is unknown.

Milo only acts this way towards CJ,

and to no one else.

CJ, in general, just feels...

...let's say, unsure, about Milo.

His opinions and feelings surrounding him change very often and are wrapped in seemingly endless confusion.

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It looks even better in color!! This is so lovely, the way you render your art is very pretty!! ✨✨✨

Thank you so so so so so so so much!!! This is really the highlight of my week!! :DD

I'm still amazed that you actually added all of the details, the stitches on the bear, all of the stars, all of the buttons... I know how tedious it can be to add all of them but I can really tell you took a good look at the reference image!! :'> 💙

And as someone who spends ages on every detail of these oc designs it really means a lot!! 🥺

Thank you for the compliments as well!! ❤️❤️❤️

I just look like this behind the screen rn I don't even know how to write it down properly:

8 HOURS??

Damn that makes it even more impressive, the time definitely paid off!! I'm glad you had fun at least!! You're the sweetest too!!! ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

🌒Goodnight Molly ! 🌘

Drawing Welcome Home OCs: Molly Moon

As a fellow sleepy person, I love this OC! She's adorable, her design is unique so I had fun with this one! And she looks very comfortable!

Time took: 8 hours

‼️Molly Moon belongs to the sweetest: @glitch-pep ‼️

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Charlie calling Milo at 1 am to ask him random shit is one of my favorite genres of oc jokes-

He's not going to fall asleep for a while anyways, given how much coffee he consumes, so she takes advantage of it. 💀

Extra:

Milo: "...Charlie, why do you have that as your contact name for me?"

Charlie: "...think about it for a while Einstein, I'm sure it'll dawn on ya eventua-"

Charlie: "EY GIMME MY PHONE BACK-"

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Doodle dump! The first 3 doodles are the last drawings I made on my phone.

I never showed Mina with both eyes visible, which is literally just because I forgot to do it. There's no lore reason why her eye is covered, I just wanted to make her design look interesting.

I doodled Charlie to see how she'd look like with a nose, and I decided that I'll stick with it for her redesign because I think she's far easier to draw with one... maybe I'll change the shape of it later on, dunno, I'm experimenting-

This one is just a random girl I drew at 2 am-

Now, here's some of the first tablet art I made while trying to figure out how to use it.

First up is a very messy doodle of @breadinvader's oc Sage which is literally an irl pic I took of the tablet screen-

More doodles of Bread's oc's-

Doodle of a plush I own and Pusheen with two Charlie doodles and Bread's oc in the corner.

That's it for the first doodle batch, I got more of my own oc stuff too but I'll post it seperately!

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Under the cut is a massive ramble that I NEED to get out of my system, because a lot has changed in the last two months or so-

Also the oc stuff on my blog has been looking like this and it's been bugging me to no end so I wanna explain some stuff below- 💀

#1

After 4-5 years of drawing on my phone with my finger, I spent my savings on a drawing tablet. It's been a giant wish of mine to have one for ages, but I never really worked up the courage to do it since it's a big financial decision and I always feel guilty about spending money... but, after months of intense contemplating I did it!

Buuut I did have a few mental breakdowns once it arrived... long story short, turns out that you can't connect a HP PC with the tablet using the USB-c cable that you get with the tablet, because the USB-c port of the PC doesn't support an additional screen display.

I did look up if you can connect them beforehand, and the internet told me that the answer is yes. You can't trust anything these days bro- 💀💀💀

After A LOT of back and forth and me trying to return the tablet because I can't use it without it being connected to the PC, they told me that I can't return it. Than after EVEN MORE back and forth, we found out that it would work with a completely different cable that I had to order seperately. I had just about enough money left for it, so I ordered it, and then it was peace and love on planet earth because it finally works now.

#2

Also, I needed a free drawing programm I could use, but problem was that my old app, Sketch Draw And Paint, has the most simple layout and functions it can have, so I was used to simplicity.

When I tested out GIMP, Krita, Inkspace and FireAlpaca, I could not wrap my head around how they worked and my lazy ass didn't feel like watching a bunch of tutorials... I was like bro let's find one that I can figure out on my own, it can't be that complicated. 💀

Everyone thank MediBang Paint for being simple enough for me to understand... if MediBang Paint has 0 fans I'm dead fr. From now on, all of my art will be drawn in MediBang Paint and on the tablet.

Is my art any better? Idk but I'm having fun so far, experimenting with stuff, slowly getting towards actually getting some oc stuff done...

...and, speaking of oc stuff...

#3

...I'm going to explain what I plan to work on in the future for each of my oc's, so, let's get started.

Mina - I'm not going to be making any more main character eene oc's, I only gotta design Mina's aunt and a different side character and add them to the characters in her lore and that's it. Mina's story is by far the most simple out of everyone. She'll just get 1 or 2 fics. This doesn't mean that I don't love her, trust me I've had some crazy ideas for her lore, but I've decided to keep it simple, because it makes sense given who Mina is.

Milo and CJ - For the sake of telling you my versions of Seasons 3 and 4 of mf, I have to slightly redesign each canon character from the main cast, figure out how to draw them and write some new lore for them, while using any info I found to characterize them somewhat properly.

I watched and overanalyzed the entirety of the webisodes and the alternative versions of them, as well as the Nickelodeon show, and I looked through the website and the wiki, all for the sake of writing down ANY piece of information I can get about the lore of this show and the characters, because I really needed to have something to work with.

I rearranged S1 a bit and put together a S2 with the webisodes. I'll talk about this eventually.

I won't be making any new main character oc's for this one, only background characters. I'm planning to write S3 and S4 in the form of fics.

Sunny and Molly - For this one I have to add a bunch of secondary and background characters, but we don't need those to begin the story, they'll be relevant later. I'm currently trying to piece together episodes and which goes where so that I can start writing it. I also gotta analyze the website a bit more, to get a feel of how to somewhat properly write the canon characters. I also have a seperate wh oc story idea in mind that I wanna get to eventually as well.

Charlie - I have to remake Charlie's intro, slightly redesign her, add 4 additional main characters, also secondary and background characters but those will be relevant later... Charlie shares her story with a bunch of other oc's. This one will definitely take me the longest, and it's the last thing on my waiting list, because I wanna tackle the easier ideas first. I do also have a seperate sm oc story in mind that I wanna get to as well.

Piper - I don't exactly know what I'm gonna do yet. I wanna see how tadc plays out, and then I'll work on setting some stuff in stone. I do have some ideas and concepts in mind, but I'm not sure in what direction I should go with it, depends upon how the story in the show will play out. (I probably won't wait for the whole show to be done, but at least 1-2 more eps would kinda help me understand where it's going.) I will work on some of the ideas tho.

As of now, I don't plan to make any new oc's for any other fandoms, mostly because I haven't gotten a good enough idea for anything yet, but also because I really wanna work towards polishing the oc's I already have.

I am setting stuff up so that I can start writing the fics. I have no idea how long this will take me, given that I got irl responsibilities to take care of too, but I'll try my best to get it done eventually.

And that's it. I hope you'll have a nice day! 💕