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I Have An Ask!

Awhile Back, You Talked About A Precure/PrettyCure Inspired AU w Lizzie & Jimmy As A Starting Duo, Oli & Eloise Joining Later, And Scott Being A Previous Villain Turned Current 6th-Ranger (5th In This Case). You've Posted Designs & Info For Lizzie & Jimmy + Some Alternative Elemental Forms. But Not Much For The Other 3. Would You Be Willing To Elaborate On Them A Bit?

Big Precure/PrettyCure Fan Here

Also Sorry If The Typing Quirk Makes Any Of This Hard To Read ^v^"

Thank you! I've changed things up and solidified concepts since the initial concept, as can be read about here and here. Now the two other magical girls are Pearl and Katherine, with Tango and Shubble as their faeries.

I've not really worked too much on their designs outside abstract concepts I want to include, but here's something sorta like what I've imagined? Nothing final, just some sketches I drew up while waiting for my cat to return.

Pearl was inspired by heartcatch and just slightly by tropical rouge and hirogaru, while Katherine is inspired by tropical rouge and delicious party. Katherine is a princess and Pearl is an upperclassmen. They have very opposite palettes, where Katherine is nearly mono-colour (her designs would also have a grayscale alt for when she's the dark enchanter) to show her coordination of fashion (I used elements from lolita and decora), and Pearl is very bold and contrasting, basically a rainbow cure, to show her creativity and willingness to harmonize opposing elements (I gave her round and sharp and square elements for this also). Katherine is also designwise similar to Lizzie while Pearl is closer to Jimmy, but I think they stand on their own also.

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hi i just spent several hours binge-reading your raau (i have a soft spot for the silly little ranchers) and i was curious if you have a map of the area it takes place in? just to visualize roughly where everyone is

Hee's something I threw together in a few minutes. Mind you this is not totally accurate, no map would be since I just sorta go by the vague map in my head and i have comically bad spacial awareness. It's just sorta vaguely something similar to the BC coast. But I think it gives a good enough idea.

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Day 2664: While the other two are out, Jimmy and False Sit down for their first session to teach Jimmy some breathing exercises. It turns out harder than expected when Norman keeps trying to join in and show off his own lung capacity.

The last few pages have just been "how pretty can I make long-haired Jimmy before he stops looking like Jimmy and starts looking like an anime girl"

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Someone mentioned ranchers wicked au. Well, I dunno if this ended up quite that but it is inspired by it, so.

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Thinking about them... one day I'll get this au in a postable state I swear.

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Sorry but I have not been able to stop thinking about this conversation since it happened. Absolutely enlightening on every single one of their relationships to each other, my eyes were opened.

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Day 31: Decora okapi!

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best faun when :3c

Day 30: stinky creature

(I might have tried to reorganize my zoo in lets build a zoo and it might have taken 7 hours just to clean up 1/5 of it....)

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Day 29: A clam collector

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I feel for Jimmy so much in the latest part or raau. As someone with chronic illness it hit me quite hard but in a good way, to see a story represent something like that, keeping yourself busy while people around you have to work hard to accommodate you. Thank you for doing such an amazing job

That being said, even if it would be more practical to find the clothes elsewhere, I do feel like Tango would appreciate them in a way. Just because he knows Jimmy but the effort into it, I think

Tango found it hard to find clothes even becore the apocalypse so it's not even like it would be pointless, he's a hybrid with very specific needs when it comes to clothing. And yeah he'd love anything Jimmy made him and Jimmy knows it, but it's hard to not feel like he's just being entertained.

Tango and Jimmy tend to see and handle their own internalized ableism differently. Tango needs to be useful and ends up pushing himself and catastrophizing. He has this old fashioned mindset to push through things. but even though Jimmy's more accepting of his limitations I think he struggles with being a burden on others and tends to make himself small and unintrusive and demotivate himself. It wasn't too bad before but Iimagine his time with Hels and the loss of Revy have got him in not the greatest mental space right now. Especially with finally being able to do things and not be locked up in a small box. It feels a bit like he's locking himself back up, but there's no helping the need to recover.

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Day 2660: As the new year rolls around and everyone else works hard to keep them alive through the winter, the constant bed rest is driving Jimmy up a wall. He tries to find things to occupy him that he can take his time with, but it just seems to take up everyone else's time accommodating him. Is it worth making Tango a new outfit if they could waste less time scavenging one from thousands below?

It's a problem of my own creation, but it bothered me that the rancher's appearances aren't equal anymore, so Jimmy gets to have some focus. He deserves it right now.

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How did raau Jimmy sustain the lung damage in the first place? I know the ranchers met when Tango found Jimmy in an abandoned mine, but how did Jimmy wind up there? I love the au and I wanna learn more about it!

He was hiding in there from zombies. He'd been keeping in the air much of the time to avoid them but even before his lung damage he was more of a ground bird so he tried to hide in the mine because it was closed off on the ground. He wasn't aware it had been abandoned before the apocalypse even started due to hitting sculk and wasn't safe to enter, nor did he realize you're supposed to wear protective equipment in general.

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Day 28: A lady!?

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The short story from the new RAAU post is so good!!!! I liked that it dove into the struggles that the rancher face due to having disabilities.

Also right after reading about Tango hissing when he hit the end of his arm I hit my elbow (which I have nerve damage in) and hissed as well, just a funny little coincidence!

I try my best, I only have second-hand experience with both their disabilities though so if I get something wrong people are free to correct me.

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Day 2655: As winter trucks on, everyone hauls up as the snow piles up in the city below...

Short story below the cut

Snow accumulated along the penthouse's enormous balconies, and the many large windows. Beyond was a landscape whited out by the frosty blanket, difficult to discern the shapes of any of the distant buildings through the heavy weather.

Tango's arm quietly ached. These days he could almost ignore it. Jimmy would chastise him if he knew, say it was not healthy, but what was there to do about it? hypocrite that he was, the avian had his own issues, even if it normally was not painful. They'd spent all morning pretending like Tango couldn't hear his unnaturally deep breaths, or that he'd turned his machine up higher. It was already high compared to before they'd been separated.

Today, though, was an okay day for Tango. He could almost ignore it. His prosthetic couldn't, but it was far too cold for it anyways. There was little to do while hauled up, he'd taken to hardly wearing it the past two weeks as the cold settled in. If not for their few chores and Jimmy's returning energy they'd both be hauled up in their room still.

But they still needed to clean and they still needed to eat. So, while he waited for False to return from taking care of the animals for them and the signal from Wels that his brother was still safely locked up, he cleaned. Plucked the dead leaves from the plants, moved muddy clothing to the laundry room, put away the last game they'd played, anything he saw that he could do.

Humming echoed from the hall, riding the same breeze that wafted a lovely smell of spices and meat. The last of a deer False had found. It was easy to mindlessly work with the smells and sounds of Jimmy cooking nearby. Or maybe it was just easier because he knew there was something tasty waiting at the end of it all. His thoughts were quick to get lost imagining the various dishes, unwilling to risk a fork getting thrown at him for interrupting to ask. It couldn't hurt, though, to take a peak..?

The room dimmed as great ruddy wings blocked the whiteout. False's terrifyingly sharp talons seemed like they might crush the railing beneath them, and Tango was silently glad Jimmy's were that of a songbird and not a raptor like their new companions. It wasn't as graceful as Wels' or Grian's landings either, the woman lurching slightly before hopping down to the ground. A few months ago Tango might not have noticed, but he'd seen the three avians come and go so often from that window he couldn't help notice the differences.

"All the chickens are accounted for, and your horse is fed." She announced, giving a salute with her smile that Tango returned.

"Thanks again for this." He said for the fourth time that day. "Jimmy can't even get himself off the ground this week, never mind carrying-"

"I told you it's fine." False waved him off as she slipped off her cap. even just the short flight from ground level to the 40th some-odd floor had it coated in a heavy blanket of snow.

Tango opened his mouth to protest but a yelp escaped instead, accompanied by clattering metal and plastic. It took them both a moment to realize it hadn't been him at all. Both spun towards the hall, a squeaky curse echoing. Tango was the first to rush forward.

Jimmy was leaned over the counter, head in one hand and the other limply stretched over the kitchen island where his leftovers bucket had spilled over the edge. His breaths came heavy and quick, much worse than earlier. Feathered ears twitched, well aware of his new company but unable to pick himself back up to say anything. At least until Tango had his arm around him. Then, he found the ability to give a weak protest, easily ignored as Tango guided him towards the bench-chest on the far wall.

Tango only glanced to False for a second, to check she had followed, "Go turn up the airificator." He directed.

"I'm fine." Jimmy wheezed. It was as though he'd just ran several miles, his hand clutched to his chest to catch a breath of air that would not come to him. "I just got a bit dizzy and dropped my knife."

"Is that all." Tango muttered, running his hands down Jimmy's tubes looking for any knots or breaks. A wing smacked his head until he backed away.

Jimmy huffed, though it wasn't entirely clear if it was frustration or his inability to breathe. "Just give me a minute! It's already high enough. I don't need to get used to it being even higher."

It was pure stubbornness. And if Tango was honest, he wasn't sure what to do with it. Normally it was himself being stubborn about his arm and Jimmy knocking sense into him. Jimmy could be as stubborn as a mule, but it'd never been directed at his health.

Sheepishly, False appeared around the corner. "I turned it up, there's not much room for higher, though."

"See?" Jimmy said pointedly. It was true, that it wasn't good for Jimmy to have it so high for extended time. But if that's what his body needed right now, then what could they do? Suffer and almost drop a knife on himself, apparently. Tango's brows knit together.

"You go lay down, I'll finish the cooking."

Jimmy balked. "You have one hand!"

"That's one more than you right now." He knelt down, allowing the hunched avian to look down on him. "It's not going to get better if you push yourself."

There was a look in his rancher's eyes, one that quickly shifted between several emotions until they were almost glassy, before he dropped his head, his grown out hair curtaining his face out of view. Tango sat there, running his hand up and down Jimmy's arm, until a weak voice escaped between gasps, "What if it doesn't?"

If it didn't? There wasn't much to be done if it didn't. They'd live with it like they did every time things became incrementally worse, and a bad day became a regular day. But if this was a regular day, what would be a bad day? Tango couldn't bring to let himself think about the thought that seemed to be consuming Jimmy at that moment. Not while Revy was still in the back of his mind. So, instead he says, "It will."

There was nothing in Jimmy's expression that conveyed any faith in those words.

"You need to let yourself rest." False interjected, hesitant to step forward when both men's eyes turned to her. She fiddled with the tube in her gloves, still having yet to even remove her coat. "Your lungs, if they're straining you need to let them rest for now, build up strength."

"For how long?" Muttered Jimmy, expression resigned. He'd already spent weeks in bed.

False wasn't one for complicated answers. "As long as it takes. You've been straining them for months, it'll take a while. And there's no better time to do it while we're all cooped up in here anyways."

"But it's just cooking. If I can't even do that-"

"Singing while running back and forth and wielding heavy utensils and pots? Your muscles aren't exactly in great shape either after that, it's probably taking it out of your entire body. And there's a difference between exercise and straining yourself."

She pushed he hand to her chest, "If you rest now I can help you with your breathing."

Both ranchers blinked in shock. "What?" Tango asked.

She ignored them at first, taking her time to pull off her scarf and coat, hanging both up on the back of a chair. Hands went to her clothed ribs, and she took a deep breath as her wings flexed. They stuttered, that same oddity Tango had noticed in her movement. "Look, you've met my sister, right? H?"

"Yeah..."

"Then you must have noticed she has a few less limbs." False nodded, fluttering her wings. "She's basic."

"That's a bit rude." Tango couldn't help joke, earning a shoulder bump from Jimmy to quiet down.

She groaned, and then threw her arms out, "I was born from an alteration of her genetics, I wasn't naturally an avian."

That made sense to Tango, knowing what they could do to Doc when he was already alive. It quickly cascaded, other pieces of the puzzle clicking into place.

"I had to learn things you already know, and make up for things that didn't quite take. This included an obnoxious amount of physical therapy, especially dedicated to lung capacity." She put her hands on her hips, taking in a deep breath as if it were an example of her newfound capabilities before releasing. "I don't exactly know all the doctor-y mumbo jumbo behind how it all works, and we don't have all the big fancy equipment, but I know what helped me and what will probably help you some."

"False..." Jimmy sounded torn, and Tango couldn't blame him. It was hard to have any hope after living with his lung damage for seven years, steadily watching it get worse and worse. Their conditions had been very different, but was there really something False could offer that Scar hadn't already offered them in the past? How much was there that she could realistically do? At some point there had to be nothing at all. But it was tempting, even if just to get back to what it had been before, or at the very least prevent it from getting worse. There wasn't much farther it could fall, after all, any lifeline looks tempting.

"It's worth a shot, innit?" She shrugged, giving a tentative smile. "It's the least I could do, is at least try. At worst it does nothing."

"At worst I get my hopes up." Jimmy sighed, leaning his head against Tango. It seemed his body was beginning to decide for him that it was time to rest.

Tango brought his hand up to his rancher's hair, running his claws through the long strands in comfort. Whatever you want to do, I support it. That was how they always operated, wasn't it? He let his tail curl around Jimmy's talons. "I think either way, for now rest is in order."

That Jimmy found the strength to grumble about. "Fine, all of you can go hungry. I don't care."

"That's the spirit!" Tango chirped, hauling the whining avian to his feet. He couldn't pick him up with only one arm, so he resigned to dragging him down the hall. He stopped as they reached False, giving her a grateful smile before shuffling past her. He hissed as his stump bumped against the wall. Jimmy's head shot up immediately. "It's fine, I'm used to it." Tango strained to say through the jolt of pain. He'd forgotten just how tender it had been that day.

"You shouldn't be used to it." Jimmy chastised. "It's not healthy."

Tango gaped at him then burst out laughing, "Okay, Mister Hypocrite. Time to go to bed."

"Excuse me!"

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The mushroom faun is absolutely adorable I love the little guy sooooo much!!!!

-A mycology nerd

Thank you I love fungus, some of my favourite designs i've ever made were based on fungus

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I love the xmas fauns!!! When i saw you had drawn them previously i went back and admired the archive heehee. I think theyre all so unique and show their personalities clearly, and also are all hot lmao

Thank you, I tried to update them just a tad in these most recent pictures to be a bit more unique, though I find it difficult to change things I've become attached to so it probably wasn't as successful as I'd like it to be