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Day 7 — Reunion ₊˚✧ ﾟ

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MC: Ai/Sky

Liz: Don't worry, Cove has been losing out to his own dad for years 😌✨ Cove: Hey...😅 Baxter: And now he must share her with me as well, what a pity. 😏💨 Cove: Guys! 😒 Pam: Careful you two, if you make Cove cry Ai is liable to withhold all cuddles for the rest of the visit!🤭 Cove/Lani: Pam! 😫😂 Baxter: Well, we can't have that. I don't think my heart could take it. Liz: [snickering] You coward. Baxter: 😌 I'm a weak man, I admit.

Look, Ai can't help it if she's a certified Daddy's Girl 😂 Clifford will always come first, even over her husbands! 🤣 /jkjk

Also, ngl, I cannot express to you how much I laughed while drawing this (frustrations about doing a seven person piece aside cough) There's something about the idea of Elizabeth and Baxter interacting that just tickles me in the best of ways 💖the class - the sass - they were just meant to be banter buddies and I love them dearly for it.

Also, forgive the inconsistencies in character design, I fucked up on this piece so many times that at some point I just said 'the hell with it' and started doing my own damn thing LOL - so they have slightly different clothing 🤷‍♂️it all worked out in the end (also, I am so tired of backgrounds oh my god, I could not force myself to do another one so you get a screenshot instead, sorry not sorry lmaoo).

Anyways! That's it for the OLBA Week for me! It was fun! I hope you all enjoyed my silly little scribbles and I'll see you next time! 👋🥰

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(WIP) OLBA Week 2024 Day 6. Memories ⛱️💭

"Finally with the help of his friends, they're about to get free the creature, bringing him back to the ocean and with his family… tho something feels… strange…"

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[Our Life: Beginnings & Always Week 2024 made by: @olba-week-event]

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Day 5 — Friends ₊˚✧ ﾟ

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MC: Ai/Sky

I don't care what the canon is, you can tear pre-S4 Jude interactions away from my cold dead hands. He is there because I love him and I am lowkey salty that he and Scott were only blessed to us in the last dlc okay 😂

Also, Ai is just a boy's girl through and through 🤷‍♂️ she get's along with Miranda because of their similar temperaments and we obviously get why she clicks with Terry. Generally though, she just doesn't gravitate towards girls (Ai and Elizabeth were like cats and dogs as kids tbh - Lee was just lucky she was so likable, she's been Ai's main feminine influence in life lmaoo).

At school, she's friends with the sports teams and the chess clubs, the smoking pits and skater lots - wherever the highest concentration of guys are, typically. She probably gets a lot of bad things said about her behind her back from the other girls but the truth is, boys brains just make more sense to her 😅 So yeah, she would be inviting Jude to the hang outs and meet ups just as often as she'd be inviting Miranda - they're a package deal to her - and when Scott eventually joins the picture, she adores him just as equally 💖

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(WIP) OLBA Week 2024 Day 5. Friends 🫂💜

"He asked his friends for help. He was getting attached to the merman and wanted to do something for him. He wanted him to be free and was plannin' on doing something about it…"

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[Our Life: Beginnings & Always Week 2024 made by: @olba-week-event]

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(WIP) OLBA Week 2024 Day 4. Family 🫶👥

"They talked about their families. He show him a photo about his own family, and told him about all the stories and adventures with them through all his life. They were definitely the best…

Although the creature enjoyed his enthusiasm, he seemed a bit melancholic about it. It must be sad not been able to visit your family anymore…"

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[Our Life: Beginnings & Always Week 2024 made by: @olba-week-event]

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olba week day 4: family

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I think so often about this particular line (spoilers for baxter's dlc under the cut):

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(WIP) OLBA Week 2024 day 3. Poppy 🌼🍃

"He, in return to the creature's present, gave him a sweet scented flower as a gift called white linen poppy, one of the only beauties in the world that can compare to the creature's itself."

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Olba week day 2, shells, hosted by @olba-week-event

Pamela and Noelani love taking their kids to the beach, they still lived in there home for several reasons, and the beach access is one of them.

They had fond memories of the beach. And one day they held hands as they walked together down the shore, reminiscing about all of the memories the beach held. Their two precious kids were grown now, out of the house, they missed them but were enjoying the moments they spent together.

“Pam, do you remember the first time we took Liz to the beach?”

“I do.”

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The day had been bright and sunny but not frustratingly hot. Lizzie had woken up in a good mood and the two of them decided to take her to the beach, its going to be her first day there and they planned to spend all day there unless she got fed up. It was nice, she squirmed a bit with the sunscreen but she was so curious.

There were a few seagulls flying around and she had giggled and waved at them. Little hands digging into the sand, grabbing fistfulls and then letting it drop. She hadn't tried eating the sand yet, but she still might. She had tried to eat dirt at first, and grass, it was only a matter of time.

She started crawling away a little bit and grabbed another handful of sand, looked at it and then turned back to her mom’s. She held her hand out and they saw that it wasn't in fact just sand in Lizzie’s hand was a seashell.

“Aw she's already starting a collection.” Pamela cooed. Noelani smiled at them.

“What is that? Is that a seashell Lizzie?”

Lizzie just looked at the seashell again and waved her hand around.

And then she brought her hand to her mouth like she was going to eat it.

“No-Lizzie-” both of them reached to get her to drop it, she tried to hold onto it and when they took it away she started to fuss. Both of them forgot about the shell so they could calm her down, by the time they did it was buried in the sand again.

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“That was a good day.” Noelani signed and Pamela hummed.

“I wish we kept it as an actual souvenir, I feel like it could have been fun to keep and look back on.”

“It could have. I don't even remember what kind of shell it was, it fit in her hand though.”

It was probably better that it was left, as nice as it would be. It's a lovely memory and they were glad they could reminisce the memories together.

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"Can you try to be friends with the boy? Just give it a chance and you can keep this! He's a good kid. You'll like him."

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Olba week event, day 3, poppy, hosted by @olba-week-event

Alex likes poppies and poppy hill, it's their favorite place. The place they retreat to when feeling overwhelmed or angry, or sad, or even happy. They had come to poppy hill at lot, their sort of safe place.

It was night, the night that Baxter had said they would never see each.other again. It was the kind of finality that they hadn't ever experienced before. It wasn't pleasant what so ever. It was actually really unpleasant.

Alex liked Baxter, at first he was just friendly and they wanted to befriend him to see what his deal was. But, well this wasn't that anymore.

They plucked a poppy from the field, it was pretty and they smiled faintly looking at it.

Baxter had let Alex get closer, always still keeping that arm length distance, but, well. Alex was trying to get closer, but now, their interest in him was broken.

He didn't want anything to do with them, so they weren't going to spend too long wishing for something different. Well, tonight was for sure one they were going to spend a while thinking about Baxter fucking Ward.

Sighing they twirled the poppy in between their fingers. The wind blew through their hair, a smell of the ocean filling their nose.

Lying back on the ground they watched the clouds that lightly covered the sky, the moon was bright out tonight. Lucky for them. They brought the poppy to their face and started twirling it again.

They wanted to have never tried to get closer romantically to Baxter. It, it was feeling like a waste of time. They knew it wasn't actually, he's a person and they had enjoyed the time they spent with him. It's just, they put in so much effort in getting to know him, inviting him to places and spending time with him. They had believed things were going great.

But, now they knew things weren't great. And it hurt a little to think that he hadn't viewed them like they viewed him. They hadn't thought it would be a forever thing, they had never really thought that with anyone before either.

Alex had thought it would at least last into the end of August before things were ended. Baxter had said “summer fling”. Although they hoped that it would last longer than just summer. He hadn't lied to them at the beginning of what he wanted it to be.

Maybe that was all they should have expected. They felt stupid for thinking anything different. Sighing they dropped their hand to their chest and closed their eyes.

Poppy hill is their favorite place. They always came here to calm down or celebrate something alone. So they laid in the grass and thought about Baxter Ward. The summer fling they got a little too invested in and ended up regretting it. They'd be okay, but right now it hurt, and that's why they were here.

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@olba-week-event Day 4: Family!

Wanted to draw Derek, Nicolas and Jorge!

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Sadly i'm a bit too tired to continue my artwork for @olba-week-event but I had some time to prepare this artwork for today's theme :

friends

Fun fact, Cerise don't really like loud noises, at least her friends are there for support.

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Day 4 — Family ₊˚✧ ﾟ

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MC: Ai/Sky

Poor little baby had another nightmare 🥺Lucky for her, she's got two very amazing moms that will wake up at any hour and take care of her 💖

I've come to the conclusion through this picture that Pam was the one to coin the nickname Sky for Ai, mainly because of her big spirit and unpredictable nature 😂 but also because of those big beautiful eyes of hers that seem so endless and open to the world 🥰

Pam is also the one that got Ai her Garfield nightgown, I'm convinced 😂 it seems very in her brand of humor and it probably makes her so happy knowing it's Ai's favourite pair of pajamas.

I've mentioned before, but I've changed Ai's canon origin to being adopted at a later age (5 yo). She was a trouble case that kept getting returned to the orphanage and Pam and Lani were finally the ones willing to put the work into loving and raising her like she deserved. Ai warmed up to Lani first, since Lani reminded her most of her own mother, but Pam really had to put in that extra effort to earn any of Ai's affections. It was definitely an uphill battle for her, the struggles likely seemed endless at some points, but it just made the first time that Ai actually chose to hug her all the more precious and special really (both moms may have cried a little bit when it happened, lbh).

As the years go on, Ai eventually learns that her moms are people she can feel safe with and even rely on, that they are people who love her and who she will one day love in return. Right in this moment though, she's just starting on her path of finding that out because, when she's feeling most alone and most afraid, they always end up right there to take care of her 🥺💖

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@olba-week-event Day 3: Poppy!

I decided to draw Cove with a white poppy in the background :)

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OLBA Week Day 3- Poppy

Just cousins hanging out on the poppy hill nothing much

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olba week day 2: seashell

liz showing off her seashell necklace to an unimpressed cove and a very impressed mc

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OLBA week 2024, day 1 Mer-folk, hosted by the lovely: @olba-week-event

There was a beach that Cove loved more than any other. His parents had said before that there were “better safer beaches” but he didn't care.

His favorite was special to him, and he would visit over and over again. It was sandy, nearby a human town, but few visited his favorite section of the long beach line. Shells would wash ashore and he liked searching through them, and the ones hidden under the water. He wouldn’t keep all of them, a lot of the time he would pick a few up, carry them around until he put them in a new spot. Sometimes he would like a shell so much that he would take it back home, but when that happened he usually took a shell from his collection and put it on the beach. Like a rotation of shells.

Cove’s actual favorite thing about the beach was you.

You were his favorite thing about the beach, he’d seen a lot of beaches, and a lot of human’s. But you were the best of the best, and the beach was where he could meet and talk.

And there was a lot to talk about. The two of you shared information about your separate worlds at the one place where your worlds connected.

You two would talk about the differences in schooling the two of you were in. How the different creatures of your worlds looked, and acted like, how humans and mer called a fish species a different name. There were a lot of animals on land, and Cove asked about a lot of them.

You asked about what it was like living underwater, Cove didn’t know how to describe it since it was all he ever had known, but you listened intently. Listening about mer homes, and culture, and the language, and food, pets, art even.

The two worlds you both lived in were so different, and both of you spent a lot of time talking about the differences.

There were some things that were the same, the both of you collected shells, hated the trash in the ocean, hated school at times, and lived in a town that was pretty small in comparison to ones nearby.

Cove loved one beach the most. Loved one human the most. And he would spend his days with the two things he loved whenever he could.