#cartoony versions of him cause why not

[itskirtash]

some young lukita

I just finished this studies at the exact time luka entered the game. coincidence? I don't think so

[bunji-enthusiast]

So. Uhm..

Have this small idea that came to me.

Sonic.exe world, with Knuckles(like maybe his soul version or before he gets killed) x reader (who can somewhat be like Sonic.exe? But more ,,, normal? Like. A kind & nice exe who saved him from being killed by Sonic.exe)

But with that, they kinda take his form? But their form looks more cartoony & classic-style. Kinda like a simpler and small form, easy to pick up Knuckles (maybe other survivors?) and run just as fast to a safe place. (kinda inspired by my own sonic.exe OC tbh,, but yeah). (You don't have to, tho! Just thought that this was interesting—!)

Mimicking Friend — Knuckles The Echidna

Note || this is a really neat idea! I hope I read this right. And if this is okay ^^

WC || 568

Sypnosis || If anyone told him beforehand he’d get saved by the one lesser of two evils, he would’ve laughed. Now he’s believing it himself.

He was confused as hell when it all began, the ebony grays and the scarlet red skies. It was all so menacing, but not truly to someone like Knuckles, he wasn’t very put off by any bit of the blood either. Only then he got concerned when he started to learn about Sonic, someone who he recently met. The echidna certainly didn’t expect the blue blur to actually kill his two-tailed fox friend, he thought they were as close as brothers can be. 

Knuckles felt fortunate when he managed to fight off the demon, the bloody hedgehog was a killer but he sure as hell was no fighter. Even then, he knows the killer can and will adapt overtime, especially with all the strange manipulation of reality he can do. When he was sure the damn demon was down for good, he ran as fast as he could. Knuckles certainly wasn’t about to stick around for that possessed hedgehog to actually succeed in killing the echidna, he couldn’t leave the Master Emerald without the guardian. 

When you finally made the decision to make an appearance before Knuckles, he was rather confused. You looked so similar to him, only tinier in size. Yet it was even more surprising when you possessed more strength he realized, carried as if he was a bride just married you ran even further then he possibly could (More so floated, but who cares?). You felt as if you had to keep Knuckles safe and hidden away from the demon, accursed and trickster with a knack for obsessing over things unnecessarily. 

“Who the hell are you?” He finally asked after you had whisked away the two of you to somewhere far and safe away from the bloody hedgehog, Knuckles felt as if he was close to snapping within his emotions. He was confused, mixed up about every recent event which had occurred in mere minutes away from each other. 

Why’d you save him?

Why do you look just like him? 

Many thoughts and questions had run through the echidna’s head, but the one he had uttered was something he found most important. 

You looked down, shifting closer to the ground so you could lay yourself for rest. “Someone who just wanted you to stay alive,” You began, feeling the words finicky to find. “Cause they know what it’s like to fail to do so.” Those words felt wrong, yet so right. You wince internally as you search his face for any hint of a reaction to your words. Knuckles sighed, complacency wasn’t his greatest idea of a deal begotten between him and a stranger who just saved his life.

“I owe you.” He spoke, finally decided to break the awkward silence. Knuckles took a moment of pause, closing his eyes as he crossed his arms. “Thank you, I suppose.”

You interject, “You owe me nothing, but I do owe you something.”

At this, he raises a brow. Eyes opening to reveal magnificent purple hues expressing interest in your next set of words, “You need answers yes? I can provide them.” Knuckles was albeit, relieved he could get them from someone friendlier than most entities right now. He wasn’t in a very grateful mood if he were to search for them himself. 

“Alright then..” The echidna begins, taking a walk towards the distance. 

He then gestures vaguely as he asks, “Who the hell was possessing Sonic?”

[popipopipopipopipo000]

CHRIS RANT!!! CHRIS RANT!!!!

I was looking through the designs of Chris in Vendetta (bc i cant stop looking at his face lol) and a question came to mind “Why is his face so different from his version in Resident Evil 8?”

Chris’s face throughout the franchise has been changing constantly, even though we all can agree that his staple look is the one from RE 5. The only time they had diverted from this was in RE7, in which they wanted to make him more “realistic looking” but it ended up looking hideous and it was an absolute flop. (rightfully so cause GOOD GOD WHO IS THAT) Then, in RE8, they tried to go back to the look of RE5 and honestly? It looks hella good. He’s an older Chris, 48, it shows a man who has gone through a lot and it was a sensible decision to do him that way.

However… The animated films approach his design in a different light. In Vendetta, they made his features look a lot softer, his eyes more obviously downturned, and his face a bit more elongated. Some people described this look as “natural” and “less cartoony” than his RE5/6 counterparts. RE7 and Vendetta got released the same year, the prior one in January and the latter in June. They both have been in development at the same time I assume, so why have they decided to do a 360 with his in-game version instead of using his render in the film?

The films have consistency; Vendetta happened a year before Death Island, and Chris looks almost exactly the same but just with better graphics and a couple of more wrinkles and grey hairs.

The animated films are canon, and even though I really like Chris in his RE8 form, I can’t help but wonder why they don’t take the film designs and integrate them into the games even though they’re well received?

Vendetta

Death Island

Village (my boy look like the MOON/jk)

[bobbydagen24]

I feel this scene in Hollow Mind kinda made Belos less interesting by making it seem like he literally didn't care at all about Hunter.

as tbh I find it almost a touch disappointing because I feel it maybe does tow the line of making Belos a bit too much of a one note cartoon villain

( I know its somewhat funny me saying that when he literally is a kids cartoon villain but you get what I mean 😅😅)

I don't have a problem with Belos being so evil that he's willing to kill a kid he raised for defying him but I do kinda have a slight problem with him being so quick to do it and pretty much acting a little moustache twirling about it

like personally I do find it more interesting to think he does have a kind of twisted love for the Grimwalkers in a way ( I mean he'd have no real reason to model them after his brother if he didn't care )

so I would have preferred it if that one moment in Hollow Mind had been changed slightly because like I said I just feel it makes Belos a little bit less interesting by having him be so over the top villainous that he'd disregard someone he raised so quickly while practically laughing in their face

like maybe instead he could have actually tried manipulating Hunter back to him telling him that he only did these things for the greater good and that the old Golden Guards all turned to the dark side and made him kill them

and Belos tries to pull on the heartstrings by reminding him of everything he did for him growing up and saying that Hunter wouldn't betray him like al the others did would he? and when Hunter's still visibly hesitant to believe him

Then Belos after at least making some effort to not give up on him finally decides to kill Hunter and the episode plays out the same.

Like I said I just feel this scene of Belos is a little disappointing because it does make it seem like Belos literally doesn't give a crap about Hunter or any of the Grimwalkers

and that just makes him less interesting imo plus it kinda contradicts the whole point of him making them since the only logical reason he kept making clones of his Brother

is because he does care in a very twisted way hence why he kept trying to recreate his brother albeit a version of him that wouldn't betray him and his cause.

but having him so casually disregard Hunter with literally no care and without even trying to prevent his demise just seemed well cartoony for lack of a better word imo.

[serendertothesquad]

Seren's Studies: Odd Squad UK -- "A Dicey Situation" Episode Followup, Part 2

Captain O origin story continues, below the break!

Okay...this whole dice randomization thing is clever. Hate to do it, but I have to award another point to Tasha.

Yeah...yeah...he would have a dance to resemble a tragedy, bless him.

...No.

I would have been happier if they dropped a year. No thinking about the timeline. Drop a year and run.

On trillions of levels. No.

Instead they didn't, and I'm left with whatever assfuck shit this thing is that's supposed to be an old-timey version of a smartwatch but is not.

I do, however, appreciate the dice math lesson. That's pretty unique. Another point to Tasha.

...No, actually, subtract one for this completely arbitrary guessing and the contrived shit that will make one of their guesses right.

Considering they're partners in the same way Iroha tells Satoru that she feels "a special kind of wonderful" when she's with him in Precure, this is cute.

"We are so in sync!"

Man, Tasha's just getting all the ambiguously LGBTQ+ people in this series, huh?

You see that ship in the front?

AND NOW IT'S DRIED UP SO NOW WHAT. NOW WHAT???

That's what I thought Captain O's ship was gonna be. Had it spinning in my head and everything.

Okay, we get it, Orli and Ozzie are here, they are listening, please move on.

You...I mean...you haven't beaten them before? With your dice rolls?

Lmao okay sure.

Okay, I honestly have no idea why Osgood has a phone too, but it's bugging the absolute hell out of me because he's clearly on the line with Dottie but she's only on the line with Captain O.

Make it make fucking sense.

You roll your eyes, but there are hundreds of islands out there, so even though she just revealed her own weakness, this logic actually makes sense.

Love the chickenpox, hate the psoriasis.

Brought to you by Lilly Pharmaceuticals.

Oh this is bad news to drop on people who are trying to catch a villain. Fucking timing, my guy.

11 fucking minutes and Tasha can't even give a fucking reason why Captain O has to transfer to begin with?

B- h- why though. Why though.

Unless this is gonna get answered at some point during the finale, this is extremely disappointing. And even if it was, here the Admiral could have just said "an...incident has come up" or some other vague reason, and just left it at that to perpetuate the mystery.

Got the cartoony faces, but with all the charm of Ohlm.

And we all know how Ohlm turned out.

*long deep sigh* God save me.

THEY BROUGHT BACK THE TIME CARD??? FOR THIS?!?!?!?!?!

No...no...I fucking can't. Let me remind you that the one time a kraken was ever featured in this franchise, it was so horrifying that it wasn't even allowed to be shown onscreen and scared the hell out of everyone, Oprah included.

I'M SORRY???????

If I extended my middle fingers any more, I'd have to get the doctors to pop 'em back in.

To hear that this bitch can just summon krakens to attack literal children -- which, you know, can eat said children -- is so stupid and so out-there and so continuity-breaking that I am revoking every point Tasha has ever accrued and sending her to Seren Hell, where Odd Squad episodes are played on an endless loop and all there is for food and water are rice cakes and lava.

Make it make sense or I will bring my ass to wherever and make it make fucking sense myself.

And then it ate her, right?

A-and then it ate her, right.

'Cause that's what krakens do.

...SAY IT, TASHA. FUCKING SAY IT YOU COWARD.

(Also, Captain O wears pants here but switches to a skirt when she transfers. It's a nice touch, but I'd prefer if she kept the pants.)

...WHAT DO YOU MEAN IT DIDN'T EAT HER???????? FUCK YOU TOO!!!

Okay, for the sake of my sanity, I'm deducing that this is Odd Squad poker and this will never, in my lifetime, be up for debate.

"this is why you'll always be my first best mate"

he is literally in a position lower than her in the hierarchy

I'm sorry, was "second-in-command" not anything tossed around in the writers' room or??? Because that would have made this precinct a lot better.

It is always this same dumbass dance move and I hate it. I like the party in "Box Trot". Draw stuff from there.

And your credits for this episode. Octo is not listed in here, for some reason -- probably because he has miniscule speaking lines.

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Overall...this was one big pile of ough. Better than "The Triangle Sisters", but not by very much. Other origin stories -- "Weight of the World", "Totally Odd Squad" -- were much better, but "Mission O Possible" still ranks as the worst of the worst for me. This one is not nearly as bad.

Methinks Tasha needs to do a little more work before returning to the franchise, because both of her episodes were swings and misses in more ways than one. It is a good concept with a good math lesson and a good villain, but it needs to be fleshed out and freshened up a little more.

Next time will be "Lift Off", or the biggest cultural clash of the entire damn series/season. If there's a popstar clam...I wonder if we'll get a song? Food for thought.

Seren out!

[yullalightk]

（Past designs）

(New designs)

There is no other way to express how much I love sanders sides! I am thankful for it's amazing characters, the lore, the attention and care Thomas and his friends put into making these episodes I can't thank them enough for making this show. Sure I have some criticism of my own but it's nothing serious and I can always go to make my own au or read some fanfics abt the sanders sides!

This series helped me a lot during summer vacation and it made me not to lose hope in my life, one of my favorite episodes is a date with disaster, which really got me into being more productive in my life. Plus we got more Logan screen time! it made me love both Logan and Remus. Remus especially was difficult cause he embodies what I hate and fear but I don't have to like him because of his actions but because of how hilarious he is as a cartoony villain and still be threatning.

I love the other characters too! like Janus who is my absolute favorite cause to me he is really well written. He is kind of an antihero imop and he really does care for Thomas. Patton is a fatherly figure who can be a man child but can be smart when he wants to be, and that makes me love him even more. Virgl is reletable as heck! and I definetly ship him with Roman, it's my first ship and I will cherish it until I die😀 Roman is also enjoyable but I still need to get used to his ego first. That's why I'm gonna rewatch some older episodes again lmao😂

Sorry for the rambling but really got hooked on the series and I really enjoyed making the gl2 versions of the main cast! I'll talk abt the designs tomorrow and I can't wait for the season 2 finale!! no pressure but seriously excited! ofc take care of yourself though Thomas you and your friends deserve it.

And uhh question for the sanders sides fandom. What's the fandom like?? just curious..

[indolentsecurityguard]

👾💛Alter Error Legacy Headcanons Thread💙👾

New headcanons for this weird, but sweet digital boy!

• Alter! owns a Nintendo 3DS. He absolutely LOVES to play Nintendog! He even has a bag filled with several types of games & stylus.

• He make flipnote hatena animations in his own time. He also draws on his sketchbook too, and much like Colette, he's hostile when people try to touch or see any artwork he makes.

• If he find out that the DS lines has been discontinued and stores are closed down, he'll cry. Like badly. Speaking of which-

• Alter! would make the most beautiful, graceful cries with crystal clear teardrops, but also the ugliest soppy, nose running cries imaginable.

• He ADORE Pangyo. He loves the little cartoony panda guy. He even carries him around like a teddy bear and hugs him. (Even make ugly sobbing noises over how cute he is)

• As stated before, he read manga. He even formed a little manga club with fallen & Pangyo. (Please excuse fallen. He doesn't know & wants to read books, okay?)

• He would play beauty idol: fashion queen on his mobile phone.

• he played some old app games that were once available only to get removed later on. He still has that wallpaper he downloaded from the MLP puzzle game on his mobile phone. (It's an Equestria girl rainbow dash but as an anime girl for a wallpaper.) He also played cat simulator as well!

• He would eat those sonic the hedgehog popsicle

• "Do you like waffles? Yeah we like waffles!..."

• He loves fashion game. He has some on both his ds & phone where he can spend hours customizing his character.

• Of course, he plays visual novel game as well. So when he found out about the existence of Imagine: make up artist, he fell in love with it despite how short the game is!

• Probably actually own a newgrounds account.

• Has a oversized sanrio plushie somewhere in his digital realm. (He uses it like a bed and sleeps on it)

• He listen to Nightcore alongside eurobeat.

• He actually likes to annoy Og legacy. He's very aware of the fact he hates him but playfully messes with him by making him cringe.

• Legacy would've gotten a badass cyber criminal version of himself with good confidence & charisma like his siblings, but y'know- some setbacks were made and he ended up getting the one he has right now.

• Alter! doesn't know much about the real world. Hint why he ended up doing something that labeled him as a criminal without him knowing or intended to. The worst crime he can commit is vandalizing. But other than that, he doesn't really mean any harm.

• to make up for the stuff he "borrowed", he leaves behind an apology note with a sad face as stated before. But he would also leave behind small money (the most he can leaves is $3). Weirdly enough, despite having some cash carried around, he doesn't know what a "dollar" is. Let alone coins. (He refer the penny as "nice shining brown thing" since he doesn't know what they're called but he thought it looks nice... Poor guy.)

• Maybe a non-canon hc, but there was a time where Alter! attempted to recolor Pro-Controller Legacy into a princess peach themed cause he thinks it would be cute and Pro got mad at him over it. (He even once tried to decorate him with stickers & glitter much. Alter! Ended up running toward og Legacy and hid behind him while Pro continued to chase after him.)

• He secretly drew his own ponysona and played Pony creator on a website. (He absolutely tries to hide this from the other legacies. He'll die of embarrassment if they find out. Btw, his ponysona is an alicorn!)

• He's a pokemon guy. His team would be filled with Ghost & electric type. (His two main companions there is rotom & Pikachu. He also has a Gengar in his team!)

• SLUMBER PARTY!!!! Alter! would be super ecstatic to throw a slumber party with the other legacies. The one he often gets is Pangyo, Fallen, & Pro Controller Legacy. He has to really convince the other to join in on the fun. (He's the one that brings snacks & drinks to the party. They also ordered pizza there too. Og legacy got pissed when they made the mess in his room.)

• He plays super smash bro with Pro controller. (He main Sora, pikachu, and sonic. Meanwhile Pro main Terry & ryu)

• Him alongside the three other legacies goes out on a boy night.

• Him and Pro controller are somewhat friends! Despite Pro literally being a recolor version of Legacy & having the exact same personality, he's slightly okay with Alter Error. Mostly because they play games with each other. They're only friends cause of that.

⭐End of threads (Little bonus fanart at the end)⭐

[sonicasura]

Transformers Prime: Toonsanity

Yes, I'm going back to the Weretoons with Transformers idea well specifically the Prime version. Rescue Bots will have it's respective post so don't you worry! Let's get started.

Miko lives in Jasper with her Weretoon foster father instead of canon's host family. She is already Jack and Raf's friend but they don't know about her Weretoon nature. A common rule that's not just for the safety of other Weres but people close to them. Every werecreature has a respective hunter and those for Weretoons are extremely dangerous to put it simply.

The two boys would've been left unaware if wasn't for the fateful encounter with the Autobots. (Miko is still a chaos agent and being a Weretoon just amps it up.) It doesn't really take long for everyone to find out either.

Weretoons tend to carry a small bottle of ink on them as it triggers the Toon transformation instantly. An emergency tool to be precise. What better time to use it than on a hostile alien spaceship full of trigger happy robots?

Like any other Toon, Miko has a hammer space with her preferred cartoony weapon being a giant mallet. Jack pretty much felt like he was going insane at this upon seeing his friend flatten a Vehicon into a metal pancake. Raf is taking it a bit better than him. The bots however...

Ratchet: What in the pits is this?!!! *Points at Toon!Miko*

Miko: *eating a carrot she pulled from her hammerspace* What's up, Doc? Never met a Weretoon before? Congrats on being not only the first non-Weretoon aligned doctor but the first 'normal' doctor I done this joke with!

Jack: *notices everyone staring at him* Hey, don't look at me! I didn't know about this until now!

Ratchet obviously grilled Miko for answers as he barely knows how to treat humans! Now he has to worry about an unknown subspecies getting injured or ill. Miko explaining the whole 'Weretoons' thing so nonchalantly didn't help either. (Optimus wrote everything in stride as the unknown reawakens the archivist within.)

Ratchet shuddered knowing others can be infected and rather not find out if Cybertronians are susceptible. (They are Ratty. It's another reason why Miko wears a mouth guard. A simple bite with their actual teeth is all a Weretoon needs to turn someone even if they don't penetrate skin or metal.)

No one purposely tries to test Miko's squash and stretch capabilities whenever she's in toon form. Doesn't stop a cartoony shenanigan from occuring. Or the fact every single bot on the team has fallen for the inherent gag trying to get Miko outta harm's way like in every other cartoon.

Examples:

Bulkhead got whacked in the face by his own lob ball as it preceded to roll off the shelf after Miko.

Optimus somehow slipped on a banana peel and accidentally falls on Bumblebee from trying not to squish the Weretoon.

Ratchet crashes into the ceiling when Jack's knife set is hurtled at Miko with the medic taking said blades to the aft. (Toon law: Anyone struck by a pointy object always launches upwards.)

Miko reveals her beast form during the Scrapheap episode. She gotten pissed when some Scraplets had munch on a metal custom road plate her dad made for her room. Never anger a toon who can turn into a serpentine dragon like mole cause Miko chased the little pests everywhere with a vengeance.

Jack already resigned to the insanity after this little reveal. He's just glad they got a heavy hitter that the Scraplets couldn't munch on. Optimus and Arcee were really confused about this new development but let Miko help warm them up. (She runs hot as a mole dragon plus long enough to coil around someone OP's size.)

Hostage situations with Miko will always go wrong for the kidnapper. She either slips out their grasp like a snake or go beast mode on their ass. Makeshift learns that moles bite especially if they're half dragon.

Knockout and Starscream doesn't have fun with Miko during their respective encounter either(TMI/Rock Bottom.) Her claws can do more than just dig through dirt as she left behind pretty larges gashes on their frames. Starscream and Knockout constantly about still finding sand in their frame.

The ugliest confrontation between Miko with a Decepticon is Predaking. Dragons aren't exactly friendly towards each other as they are territorial as fuck. (Moles are even moreso.) Especially if it involves a claim. Her friends and the Autobots' can be considered Miko's plus considering Predaking is more dragonlike...

She fucking mauls the Predacon with their respective breath attacks leaving freshly made glass everywhere. Ultra Magnus had to hold Miko like an angry extra long ferret so she didn't fly after the retreating Decepticons. Our girl may be strong but not invincible.

Toons can have their own rules turned against them plus Miko can't sustain her toon form for long. She's got an hour to an 1 hr 30 minutes before reverting back. Then there's the threat born from the film 'Who Framed Rodger Rabbit': The Dip.

It can burn a Weretoon in their human form but becomes truly lethal if they are a toon. Dip is their wolfsbane and is the main tool in a Cartoon Hunter's arsenal. Two things Miko wasn't happy to explain to the bots when movie night came around.(Bumblebee apologized btw.)

It's gonna take awhile for the Decepticons to find out. Sadly a certain mechanical based organization knows about Weretoons...and most are hunters. Or that one particular spider bot might add Miko to her list of targets too.

For Miko's father, he'll remain mostly anonymous. This is because I want to keep the main ides separate from any extra doses of insanity should it peak my interest. Like making her foster father Dynamite Anton from Antonball/Antonblast.

What better way to do the 'Meet the Father' bit than this fucker throwing hands with a bunch of moles, called BALLBUSTERS, because their boss Satan stole his booze. (The literal plot for Antonblast.) It would obviously have the fandom wide headcanon of Anton being a demon and his demon form being usually portrayed like this. (Can't resist the sheer irony when you consider the fact Optimus is basically robot jesus in most iterations of the series.)

Things are gonna be chaotic with Ratchet wanting a drink either way it goes.

[squid-seraph]

Jeez I love the way you draw your xeno deep cut designs. Their faces look so natural(?) They're still cartoony but the way their expressions move makes sense. (Not sure how to best describe it) For instance like, as much as I love the silly conjoined eyes thing that Big Man's official design has, I really like your interpretation of him with the separate eyes and more defined face/cheeks cause he's just able to naturally express more. I should also really redo that shiver 3d recreation thing sometime cause it could use a touch-up

oh my goshh thank you!! Okay so fun fact, during the pokemon splatfest i made big man look like a mantine(the pokemon) and i was like "actually this is really cute!" and that's why his eyes are like that! I didnt really want to draw his eyes the way they are canonically because it looks? i dunno silly?

it makes me super happy that you like the designs though! I still go crazy when I see your 3d version of my shiver design because shes soo cute. I also just like your 3d stuff in general BJDFKBSDFK

Shiver was actually the easiest for me and doesnt change at all really but Frye was the hardest! if you see my first xeno frye(dont go back i hate it) she looks pretty different! Ive been flip-flopping between if i really wanna change her eye mask or not, as well as thinking hard about the face shapes of my xenolings!

[transformers-mosaic]

Transformers: Mosaic #380 - "Leader Of The Club"

Originally posted on May 13th, 2006

Story - Alain Desrochers Art, Letters - Dane Eichinger

deviantART | Seibertron | TFW2005 | BotTalk

wada sez: This strip is inspired by the Disney Label version of Optimus Prime, “Mickey Mouse Trailer”. The strip’s title is quoted from the theme song to The Mickey Mouse Club. On deviantART, Desrochers offered a list of the “magicians and sorcerers” Mickey is acquainted with: “There's Jafar from Aladdin, Maleficent from Sleeping Beauty, Fairy Godmother from Cinderella, Merlin from Sword in the Stone, Master Yensid from Fantasia, Genie from Aladdin although he's neither a magician or a sorcerer.” See below for Desrochers’ original script and commentary.

First Panel: Blackness, nothing.

Prime: Where am I, what happened?

Second Panel: Haze is lifting, ill defined shapes are barely identifiable as the clouds, a tree and what might be the side of a building.

Unseen Commentator: Gosh, you had a bad fall, but don’t worry you’re safe now.

Third Panel: Shapes are fuzzy, but clearer. The sky is a vibrant blue, the clouds seem to glow, the tree sways gently as if in a breeze and the side of the building turns out to be a barn door.

Prime: I feel strange, something’s different.

Unseen Person: Gee I’m sorry, when I touched that crystal thing something happened to change you. I don’t know why.

Fourth Panel: POV Prime as he sits up, before him is a creature never before encountered, an anthropomorphic mouse with perfect round ears, white gloves, yellow shoes and a pair of red shorts.

Prime: Who are you?

Mouse: I’m Mickey Mouse.

Fifth Panel: Prime climbs to his feet and shakes his head.

Prime: I’ve never heard of a Mickey Mouse. The Matrix changed me because you touched me you say, but why? *Mickey shrugs at the question*

Sixth Panel: POV Prime looking at his reflection in a pool of water, he should appear cartoony similar to Animated Prime, but more in keeping with traditional Disney animation looks.

Prime: By the Matrix.

Seventh Panel: Full body shot of Mousemus Prime looking both shocked and comically petrified.

Prime: Megatron could never take me seriously like this.

Eighth Panel: Close-Up of Mickey looking suitably ashamed and disappointed at having caused Prime trouble.

Mickey: Oh I’m sorry if I caused you any trouble. Maybe I can get some help to change you back to the way you used to be, I know a lot of magicians and sorcerers. Even a Genie.

Last Panel: Mousemus Prime’s upper torso with a Disney bluebird flitting past his left ear, he shakes his head at Mickey’s concern.

Prime: *Sigh* It is not your fault Mickey Mouse, the Matrix does strange things. I shall have to learn to live with it I suppose. Or perhaps, sorcerers you say?

This might need a little work, let me know if I should rework the last couple of scenes. It might not jive well enough.

End ?

Here is the original script for my Transformers Mosaic piece, I have left it completely intact and chose not to edit it to reflect the changes made in the final draft.

As you can see there was some more dialogue between Mickey and Prime and no really dynamic ending for the piece. Blueike the artist really fixed it up for the second draft by limiting the dialogue and adding that final dynamic scene it helps the story a lot more than what I originally had as an ending.

Most of my other unclaimed scripts have good endings I think, but this one I will admit to having a difficult time limiting myself to actually end the piece on one page. Not only is it a blending of my two favorite hobbies, but it also wasn't easy letting go, my muse wanted to keep writing I think. But I had to limit myself.

Fortunately my collaborative comrade helped get a much better message across for an actual ending. Thanks Blueike :D

[adultswim2021]

The Venture Bros. #40: “The Family That Slays Together, Stays Together (Pt. 1)” | August 17, 2008 - 11:30PM | S03E12

The best episode of season three, and one of the best Venture episodes period: The Family That Slays Together, Stays Together (Pt. 1)  is a fairly straight-forward episode that is so goddamn well-made. This is the payoff of a comparatively limp season. 

This one picks up directly where the previous episode left off, with Brock having just finished his fight to the death with his own car. Brock won. Moltov Cocktease shows up to confirm what Brock already knew: the OSI is looking to terminate Brock. Why? This isn’t totally clear; in fact I thought I was missing something. It turns out there’s more to the story that we don’t really know yet. What’s important is that Brock is on the run from three assassins. Brock tries to separate himself from the Ventures, but things don’t go as planned. Brock manages to get over on all of the assassins, which is good, because he’s a good guy and the assassins are bad guys.

Meanwhile, The Monarch and co are raiding the Venture compound after the events of The Lepidopterists have left them with probable cause to go after Dr. Venture. There they find Sgt. Hatred, Rusty’s previously Guild-sanctioned arch. He’s despondent over his impending break-up with Princess Tiny Feet, and is planning to just hang out in Venture’s bathroom until he or Brock find him and kill him. Dr. Girlfriend and him have a heart to heart while he sits on the toilet. Also, 21 needs to pee really bad. 

The first assassin is visually inspired by Klaus Kinski, and is said to be inspired by Udo Kier’s character in My Own Private Idaho, which I’ve never seen. His character is seemingly sexually obsessed with his motorcycle and guns and is very excitable. He’s freakishly intimidating. This is maybe the best scene in the episode. The entire fight takes place around the strip club, where Brock is visiting Hunter Gathers yet again. Hunter helps Brock get a passport and a contact list of OSI members who went off the reservation, as well as the keys to his car. The Venture Bros’ special airplane gets shot down in the scuffle, so Doc and the boys wind up crash landing. HeLPER heroically acts at the plane’s landing gear and saves them. It’s legitimately touching! I coulda cried! 

We catch up with Shore Leave and Mile High, who are now a pair of Youth Pastors going by different punny names. They do a Bibleman reference, which, unlike My Own Private Idaho, I HAVE SEEN. Brock squares off with the second assassin, a guy who looks like Robert Shaw from Jaws. This scene involves Brock using a shark carcass by dressing it up to look like him. He quickly sheers off his hair enabling him to use it as a wig for the shark, I guess. There’s a lot of cartoony stuff in this one, but I forgive it, because it’s all awesome. It’s like, the perfect balance between cartoonish nonsense and grounded character stuff. It’s the goddamn reason you make a show like this animated in the first goddamn place!

The third is a guy who, I had to google to figure this out, is based on Marvel Comics' Kraven the Hunter. This fight is maybe the most harrowing, as Brock winds up a nipple down. After fighting for their lives, they are annoyingly arrested by just some normal-ass cops.

Speaking of nipples, eagle-eyed viewers watching the blu-ray will note a Dr. Mrs. The Monarch nip-slip in one scene, which was not in the broadcast version at all (censored or otherwise). We also see Hatred’s D while he weeps on the toilet. Also: this episode originally aired with the TIKI TAKI MOTEL sign pixelated out. Can’t find a straight answer as to why after six minutes of googling, but I found out that the iTunes version, which came out soon after it aired on television, was in tact, and it was a source of confusion as to why it was blurred on TV but helped solve the mystery of what was under those pixels. My guess is it had to do with some kind of legal clearance panic that wound up being unnecessary.

MAIL BAG

What are your Man Show memories. I have a few. Here they are.

Hey, your memories got deleted, dude.

I did not purposely leave my Man Show memories blank! Apparently not only can you not show naked women on this website you can't even talk about them. Oh well. Sorry, but I won't be visiting this blog anymore! The uncanny Orwellianess is simply too much. Let me know if you go to substack.

Damn. Well, I was so addicted to cleavage (I still like it TBH) that I watched way too much of this show, even though the comedy was frustratingly uneven. I maintain that if you took the best 60 minutes of Man Show sketches that it would actually hold up as pretty funny. I remember taping and saving the sketch where they tried to cut in line at one of the Star Wars prequels, and one where Jimmy Kimmel bothers people in the bathroom stall next to his. He does a trivia question and then awards him a plate of brownies, which he passes under the stall. Legitimately very funny.

OTHER MEMORIES:

I always maintained that the show was meant to be more self-deprecating than it often wound up being, and I cite this one moment where Adam and Jimmy are showing a slideshow of people tailgating, and he shows a group of obviously gay guys as though they just took a picture of them covertly. The payoff was Jimmy and Adam gleefully join them. I get that it's still insensitive/problematic; it's still understood that the gay people are a punchline which wasn't really even that cool in the late 90s/early 2000s. But the studio audience all instinctively booed when they first showed the first slide AHH!

The German version of The Man Show aired a sketch called GAY BUSTERS, a parody of the Ghost Busters song. The music video showed the hosts using a protopack to just zap gay guys into nothingness. The sketch ended with the host addressing the camera, appearing to say something uh, angry-seeming. It was pretty scary.

And I like the Juggies! I think they're cute!!

[drawingpad-studios]

Super Paper ROBLOX: Hundred Year Symphony

Act 1, Prologue: Into the Forest

(This is a rework of an original version of this that I've done in like April of this year, that I only had one chapter of. Reworking on it because the original version [Now deleted] was honestly shit, shit enough to have me not want to continue it. here's hoping this version isn't shit too)

Wiscara, walking on the forest path, was pondering something. “If Antgon was just a kid, why did people like Rozanda follow him? Even someone like Tretone.” she thought to herself. She kept walking until she saw a slight red glow in the distance. “What the?” she slowly sneaked towards the glow. Staying in the bushes, she pushes some leaves out of her view, showing her a group of robed people talking around a summoning circle. A robed person with a cut in their hood for a broken halo to go through walked up to the circle with a large red crystal with the silhouette of a robloxian inside. “This will have to do, a group of us may have failed but we can release him with one of those pure hearts.” the person said. “Let us begin then.” a familiar voice said before the circle was surrounded. Between the robes, Wiscara could see the crystal begin to crack and break as the ground began shaking. 

All stopping suddenly when the crystal and the person inside breaks into pieces and gets pulled into the marked circle, with inky like liquid coming out of the circle. The group backed up, out of Wiscara’s pov, giving her almost clear view of the liquid starting to take shape. “What the-?” she accidentally quietly spit out, before covering her mouth. Causing one of the robed people’s, near the bush she is in, attention for a split second. Unintentionally saved from being spotted when a robloxian-sized rubber hose cartoony ram demon ink creature finally forms.

“Ram ink demon”:*stretching* Ah, Finally free.*sees their form before looking to the crowd* Alright, who failed to get the book?

Familiar Voice: My lord, to be fair. We were only following your orders, which were to follow Antagon’s orders and get the book. You trusted the little necromancer kid to “take the wheel”.

“Ram ink demon”:...He was a kid?! *sighs* Are you kidding me… Well, You and your group still didn’t get the book, so you 3ds don’t have any use to me anymore. 

broken halo person: My lord, please reconsider their punishment. They can still have more use. I promise they won’t fail again, if you-

“Ram ink demon”:*senses someone* hold it… *turned his head around suspiciously* we’re being watched..

“Oh crap” Wiscara thought to herself, before quickly and quietly back away. Once she was a good distance away, she ran back on the dirt path. “This can’t be good; I need to tell the others.” she thought as she ran with all her might.

[the-sneep-snoop]

ok from ages ten to fourteen i was incredibly obsessed with the hobbit and i haven’t watched it since then , so i’m rewatching it rn and here are some of my thoughts!

- i don’t remember thorin having such a massive forehead

- the soundtrack doesn’t even need the movie to be good you could just listen to it on its own

- the fight scenes r awesome like the one at the beginning with the oakenshield bit and azog’s arm coming off

- i LOVE the unexpected visitors bit it’s iconic and i love it. the whole part where they’re at the shire i love.

- on the other hand, the part with frodo and old man bilbo i don’t remember at all like i have zero recollection of this

- i still remember all the words to misty mountains. and all the words to the whole ‘one ring to rule them all’ thing. and the road goes ever on. i used to memorize stuff like that for fun and write it over and over in my diary

- the lego game version of this movie was AWESOME btw

- seeing fili and kili at the door gave me physical whiplash. it all came back to me in a millisecond. you have NO IDEA how obsessed i was. i can barely comprehend it. this is probably when i started making fanart, cause i still have books fully of shitty anime style fili. i liked kili WAY more tbh but i thought he was harder to draw

- same with thranduil. when he was on the moose and did the stare into the camera i got this intense wave of nostalgia/cringe. i have shitty anime drawings of him too (like a LOT)

- i LOVE the humour from the books and i have to say it translates very well to the movie imo. the troll bit WAS funny ok

- on a side note i know everyone likes lotr better than the hobbit but it always was my favourite. probably cause the book was so good

- i love sebastian the hedgehog

- the effects, to me, seem to hold up pretty well. my family apparently doesn’t agree since they kept asking why it looks so cartoony and whether this is an animated movie or live-action.

- the dwarves are SO silly they’re goofy guys and every single one has transmasc swag

- the shot where they walk down the path to rivendell is my very favourite

- bilbo’s facial expressions are the BEST 😭😭😭 he’s constantly like side eye… side eye……

anyways that’s it for halfway through unexpected journey so yeah like and subscribe for part 2

[scumbag-monthly]

The Young Ones - Time 🕰️

Original air date: 5.6.84

Reviewed by: @rikhead

Greetings to the internet. Passionate fan here of the Young Ones and Rik Mayall from the US. Went with “Time” being, I think one of my favorites. Makes me smile from the beginning to the end, no matter how awful yet lovable the boys are!

Brief warning, I watch the show mainly just for them. very rarely I’ll watch the puppets or side characters just cause, I lost my interest, so not a complete review. Sure I’m not the only one who does this, but the musical guests most definitely too.… onward into the review.

So this is a wackier episode just from the introduction, and some different theme music. So it’s a parody of the American tv show “Dallas”, but was popular in the UK. Never seen it. Very amusing how we’re introduced to the boys playing different parts: Rick dives right into a pool, Mike is.. lying dead in a coffin, ok, Neil looking like a cool smokin’ cowboy, and Vyvyan poking an actual cow is adorable, and lots of girls. So the intro ends and it’s just Rick and a woman. Ok, I know sometimes the sets did look cheap, but the makeup/costumes? The BBC did well always in my opinion. Rik slightly looks like “Rick” with the pigtails, but free of acne! And BRIGHT pearly white teeth haha. Clearly some drama going on about oil and Rick being dramatic as usual. He goes to see “ET”, who surprise, is Neil.

Rick’s exaggerated bad American accent is, quite a sight. As an American, I laugh with pain to be honest haha. Anyways, so Neil changes something and they celebrate not till Vyvyan shouts, interrupting Neil’s “DREAM”…*sigh* the cliché dream sequence, but Neil’s moaning that his dreams are not a reality makes up for it. Vyyvan’s screaming at the church choir basically, with it being a Sunday, everyone goes to church, and the boys sleep in till the afternoon usually. Great yelling haha. We cut to our “hero”, a sleepy Rick in a quite larger version of his bed. Had to be bigger to fit two in, wait what?! Rick is surprised just like us, a woman is snoozing in his bed. He has a perfect reaction, until he turns into a pervy; crawls under the covers, snorting god knows what else.. but lifts the covers, pants-less, covered in filth, green spray paint in his hair, and even a streamer stuck in his undies, eww haha.

You can tell Rick is a moody young one, being concerned and questioning where she came from, but also delighted the gods gifted him, someone, to finally love, haha. Like a mischievous scamp, he puts his trousers on, and leaves to find the others (finally a plot) Vyvyan still being his usual self, trying to solve problems, is banging his head against the wall to try to stop his headache. Clearly not interested in Rick’s dilemma, Rick scurries off to the kitchen, where Mike’s sorting through newspapers.. why he has so many? We will never know why. Rick wanders in like the usual trait in every episode: trying to prove he’s cooler and more liked than Vyv.. his mannerisms are a true representation of series 2, being more cartoony and chaotic. Rick goes about doing something he never does, making tea. Normally the others bully Neil into doing all the cooking and cleaning. This goes to show Rick will do anything for love perhaps, haha. He goes about trying to outsmart with “oh we need more cups” but fails. Quite the scatterbrains they are. Bizarre, they can’t help wonder if Mike was pulling a joke on us., with how many times they break the 4th wall, or it’s an illusion, ah never mind, let’s move on. 

Rick’s got the tea, on his merry way upstairs when, oh no, Neil’s up and bumps into him, or Rick bumps into him. The hot tea scorches all over Rick’s shirt. Another great moment with what Rik was capable of in the screaming department. He isn’t much better when he gags at things, telling Neil to lick up the tea as it’s soaking into the carpet already; mad man haha. Great fight between them, calling Neil a pig with no snorts *gasp*. Vyyvan interrupts their fight with a “boom”, stick of dynamite going off his head to further attempt to cure the headache hangover. Good gag, then comes.. um. Well quite normal for the show to go off into random side events that lead into nothing. We’re instantly in a cheese shop, with Rik as the worker (how’d they clean him up so well? Lol) and Alexi running in. Could be one of the shorter Balowski family appearances in an ep, just appearing here and towards the end of the ep. Basically it is a homage to the Monty Python skit, which the guys grew up on. Very silly and making a 4th wall reference. 

**Then comes the “main focus”. Stories do not stay long in this universe, but the woman in Rick’s bed and what Neil asks about, could call it the main focus. Neil asks about a woman spotted in the bathroom (ooh er) and Rick decides to tell a tall-tale or a poor one, on the spot. Plus making goofy expressions: “If you got a spare couple of days”, wobbling his head and smirking, iconic. 

Funny still he loses confidence when Neil asks him to go into detail, and Rick not being brave enough to know at times, or possibly has never “done it”. Hilarious Vyv is unsure listening.. and then barfs right on Rick’s body. Then suddenly the mystery woman appears, and hilarious Rick goes after straight up to her face and she isn’t phased. Jennifer was such a pro. Looking like Cinderella, hilarious everyone’s reactions. The vibe is Rick taking charge introducing everyone, and then suddenly it’s all quiet, and awkward (in a funny way). Especially love Vyv using his lips acting puzzled, slowly putting the bomb box down, and cocking his head, slowly inching over to the table. Then Neil breaks the silence. Mike of course standing off to the side offering to be her man. Rick then does another not-normal thing! Make breakfast, out of frustration everyone not following his way of treating their guest. 

Very strange episode indeed. We find out the woman’s name is Helen.. Mucus oh boy, haha. Favorite part maybe, is Rick re-entering the room with the most pervy moves ever, or basically Richie from “Bottom” in the making, haha. Silly but also prior to this, Vyvyan sitting close to Helen and staring at her.. “jugs”, as the Brits call them, breasts. Yeah, no one says anything, but Rick thrusting everyone stares lol. Perhaps if they criticize Vyvan, he’ll “kill them”.. eek. Rick tries to cover his body language up with dancing, and their radio seems to be stuck on the choir channel haha. Vyvyan roasting Rick is great, and think some of us wouldn’t mind dancing with Rick *wink*. Helen then breaks the ice, spilling Rick’s story out of here. He didn’t have sex with her, she climbed through a window while the boys were gone (who knows where), and was simply sleeping in Rick’s bed without him knowing. Here we can insert theories on where the boys were, and this “party”.

Maybe they were at someone else’s house or the pub, and then they all came over to their house, with Neil mentioning Rick passed out from drinking cider haha.. the possibilities are endless. Anyway, uh oh, Rick lied about it, he’s blushing and scrambling, and Vyvyan cuts into the well-known line, “Rick is still a virgin!” and Rick shouting “I am not!!”

Funniest thing ever, when people look at other episodes, this moment I swear is one of the iconic ones, even when some readers may recall in the 5th Bottom live tour, Rik and Ade did brief impressions of the Young Ones: Rick about how “Grate” he is/ slurring his words and Vyvyan asking if we got a video and “virgin, virgin”; good stuff haha.

So I suppose it’s the climax, next big conflict, Rick and Vyv go off into a fight, throwing stuff and poor Neil being thrown in as well. You think it’s over as Rick smashed their giant record player over vyv’s head, and says a rude joke “Who wants a boiled egg?” (which you might now Rik used in his standup shows frequently), but Vyv pops the door open and pokes Rick with a fork, leading the fight to continue upstairs. A shame it isn’t shown much. 

Suddenly the radio pauses the church music and a newsflash comes on, revealing Helen isn’t who she seems to be (a dangerous killer!).. The camera zooms in, revealing the DJ is a pirate on a boat. Get it, pirate radio, har har.. I always skipped it cause I could care less about most of the side characters, but must say rest in peace Robbie Coltrane. It is incredible the amount of times he guest starred, and such a loved character in Harry Potter.

But after that scene, we cut back to reality, Neil tring to fix the radio but gets knocked, and Helen ends up throwing the radio and silly Mike doesn’t realize she is a murderess. She keeps knocking Neil out and Mike keeps trying to put the moves on her. Then finally back to that other “plot”, Vyv’s in Rick’s bed (ooh err) gives him a purple-nurple, and literally pounces on him haha. Back downstairs, Mike suggests they eat “Breakfast in bed”, then *BOOM* down comes Rick’s over-sized bed through the ceiling, with Rick and Vyv in it. Still funny how big it is, compared to “Sick”, you can see they have little personal-sized beds. Props to them for pulling off the stunt. Makes my brain hurt seeing how that must’ve felt falling that far down. Lots of shouting from the two, throwing and Rick bouncing haha. Helen’s blocking Mike from hearing the news, while he takes it delightfully, in fact, no one is listening. 

Appears to be Neil only who slightly heard about Helen being dangerous, but before he can say much more, Vyvyan carries him up to fight Rick, who is armed with a chair, then suddenly a sound goes off. The lightbulb apparently is gone, literally as a puppet walking out the door. Rick calls out Neil for stinking so bad, but I think it’s a combo of everyone’s smell, look at Rick! Lol Might be the only time they’ve used animation on a puppet.

Another moment of Neil complaining he does all the work, then Rick says something mentioned in another episode as well “What about *name of musical guest*?” He did this in the party episode “Interesting” too. It’s like they’re acting like the bands already live in the flat, or Rick has magic powers: any band he mentions appears, or their door is always open to strangers? More possibilities there too lol. The musical guest here is Amazulu, jazzy ska type music. Not too bad, in fact for a period the song was stuck in my head for days. Have learned the band would usually play a faster version of their songs to help with run time, or maybe more time for the “plot” lol. Fun song with seeing the guys dance to it. Rick being unsure how to and then talks to SPG is great, or literally talking to himself, being the same voice of the hamster haha.

Vyv and Rick sneak through on the stage to grab wood for the next bit, (with clearly Rick hitting on the lead singer haha) and then the song ends. Awfully nice of Vyv calling them “sweet”, but then he and Rick show them the door. So it’s Rick, Vyv, and Mike standing together on a ladder and Neil on a piece of wood they carried over. They go ranting on random meaningless stuff, with Neil questioning why they couldn’t have used the ladder to change the lightbulb, but Rick stops the chaotic talking to just get on with it.But then he has to say “for Cliff’s sake” haha oh Rick. And great, a poop joke, wouldn’t be the show without those. So they all jump, Neil goes flying through the ceiling, ouch. They’re gonna have to get it fixed! Awfully nice of the guys to try and pull Neil down, instead of leaving him to fend for himself. 

A reminder of how nasty they are, as they’re pulling Neil’s legs, they find cornflakes in his shoes to hide from Vyv. Then of course Rick reminds us he puts sticky labels on his belongings, but then Vyvy just eats them. He really must be related to Eddie of ‘Bottom’, who doesn’t mind eating or drinking anything bahaha. They pull anyways, and Neil crashes down with a new lightbulb, until Vyv smashes it on Neil’s head, who goes unconscious again. The Vyvy returns chasing Rick haha. 

Mike tries to pull the moves again on Helen, who decided to leave, and as she hits the door, it falls on her! *gasp*

Knocked down by a horse and door, in walks.. a knight. Sure, cause anything is possible. 

We learn he’s very easy-going and peaceful, until hitting Neil unconscious.. I don’t know.

But we go right upstairs, Vyvyan’s still after tormenting Rick, and happened to find some anti-tank gun, and shoots comedically at Rick. All the shots miss, and cuts to some townspeople from the same era as the knight…. who carries passed out Helen and Neil over. Neil falls in mud. Shot booms and hits the people, who then get angry and blame Neil and chase after him. Good plot.

Then the famous picture happens here, as Vyv and Rick conclude their.. whatever you’d call that, Rick has a “I AM A VIRGIN” sign on his neck, and apparently pays Vyv for being wrong? Or maybe for all the damage they caused to the house lol.. but not paying for the shirt he has to get made saying he’s a virgin. Oh Rick, we still love you. Suddenly Neil is back home, panicking about what just happened. They all suddenly realize there was a time-warp. Oh no, they’ve been warped to the Middle Ages! Rick’s reaction is hilarious, looking delighted at living in the past.. but then they realize no telly existed back then! One of the best lines comes from Neil, “Oh, no! I'll die if I miss Scooby Doo!”

Everyone runs around and “panic” means to hang Neil up, I got nothing… but still the telly works?

I always skipped this part, Alexi’s characters for me, some are interesting to keep watching (like Mr Balowski) but then some like the jester character here and, the guy from “Interesting”, the party ep, I lost interest. So it’s a medividal game show basically, with Helen on it, and even the woman that appeared in Bottom in the dating episode. Always wild to see the same people pop up in the same shows.

But finally near the end, their tv watching is interrupted by the angry mob, then in typical young ones fashion, it ends.. the boys could care less  about being in danger and end up playing cards, as the mob wanders around the house, and Neil gets bonked, THE END!

Typical crazy episode, seems to be low on most Young Ones episode ranking lists, and I don’t know, I consider it underrated, but I can see why some would prefer other eps, funnier lines or the music group.. At times, not much happened in this ep, but I feel it made me laugh more than “Boring” did. It’s a classic Vyv and Rick fight, Mike does quite a bit, and even Neil has some happy moments; it’s an ep that deserves to not be forgotten! Hope you enjoyed me review.

[punkymonkeehat]

I don't post nearly enough about the book I'm writing.

So heres a doodle! A realistic version and a more cartoony version, naturally.

This is one of the main characters who shows up way later named Mikal. He's a thief in a large city in the North Eastern territory. He only steals to survive, you see, it's not that big of a deal... people just care way too much about loaves of bread and purses. He's a phenomenal hot music performer, gigging from club to club and running from the bouncers after they realize he doesn't actually have a performers license. With what little money he makes, he saves to pay back his closest friend Robert for keeping him safe off the streets. He doesn't get along with Robert's wife, but the moment someone makes any kind of comment towards her, they are dead to him. He has a bad habit of smoking and snapping at those around him when he's trying to focus. He gets what he calls "the wiggles" whenever he gets excited about music, mechanical invention, or the popular book series, The Dubious Detective.

He doesn't really like talking about his past, he just wants to live in the here and now. It's almost like pulling teeth to get any kind of information about him, especially when asked about the ring around his pinky.

Here is a small excerpt of him and the main character Talli from my wip draft:

"I'm surprised you even agreed to this investigation from the Rebellion for someone who is so against organized group effort."

"Hey," he said, pointing at Talli with his tobacco. "It's my best interest right now, not a do gooder mentality. Besides, any way to fuck with the elite is a positive in my book. I'd even do it without organized effort from a shady underground group that hates anything that breathes against freedom. It's my thing."

"You're unbearable."

"Then why do you enjoy my company so much?" Mike cocked a bushy eyebrow, big, sleepy eyes staring intently. A challenge. Talli didn't look over at him as she watched the Learner getting out of the carriage with his personal guard. He dusted his coat, picked off a piece of lint, and almost swooned at the unfortunate need to be perfect at all times.

"I dont." She replied. "It just makes Robert happy." Mike chuckled at the response, shaking his head. He took another drag again and finally stamped out the burning paper and took a deep breath.

"That's what they all say." The cocky grin appeared on his face again, crooked and gapped tooth as always. "He's the favorite. I know." He stood up. "How's it looking? We okay to get going? I'm dying to see what this club looks like. Not every day im in Uptown. Surprised I haven't been accused of anything..."

"The Learner just walked in, of course being oh so aware of the biggest speck of dust. He has a handful of guardians with him." Talli reported. She tucked her hair behind her ears and pushed back her shoulders. "Ready to go in when you are."

"Should I be just as fussy as our Highness to be?" Mike whispered out the side of his mouth.

"You do, and I will dump you on the side of the street." Talli snapped back, causing her companion to laugh as they walked through the door. Hot music burst on the scene, assaulting their ear drums with loud, brash, and fast-moving chords. Mike's eyes shimmered almost immediately, growing wide from their usual dreaminess. His hands started to shake in excitement until Talli squeezed one of them to signal for him to contain himself. He took a breath and tried to keep his eyes ahead of himself and not on the band stand. Oh how he wished he had his horn… They weaved through the crowd of rich elite that dripped with bright, glistening diamonds and pearls, almost obscured bodies swaying slightly to the tune that rose above their heads like warm air. The chattering was brisk and high pitched, giggles here and there, and full-blown belly laughs from deeper within the club. Smoke hung in the air from cigars and wafted as folks moved from one space to the next. The band stopped playing for a moment as they adjusted to play their next song: a slower ballad for couples to dance to. The two finally weaved their way to the back, looking for the Learner every time they passed people. Mike bumped into a fellow with a feathered hat and a black lace mask, muttering a quiet excuse me as his expert hand reached into the pocket of the young man. The other smiled and told him it was no big deal as he turned back to his date. Talli frowned at Mike, shaking her head, and he could only give her a sheepish grin as he checked the contents of the young man's purse as they walked.

"Im honestly flabbergasted," came a clean and articulate voice. "He has me working like a dog! An absolute dog. As if I'm from the Sanctuary. As if…" a woman giggled at the comment. Talli spotted the tall, young man, his unique clothing bright and obvious. "I just can't stay cooped up anymore. It's so frustrating to work through so much .. arithmetic…"

"I found him…" Talli whispered, dragging Mike away from almost snagging a woman's bag from her waist. She pointed, allowing him to see what she was looking at.

"Oh yeah, that's definitely him. He looks like a filthy rich asshole."

"Sounds like it too."

"Hm, we're on the same page for once." Mike joked, leading Talli to a close by table.

[gardenjays]

last one for the night!

another wip of that draw the squad thing for ninjago

I’m running out of room....cause I gotta fit 3 more on and theoretically I could put Zane behind Jay but I don’t rly wanna..

also. because this is...way bigger than what I usually draw I rly don’t want to make a digital version bc that would be a Lot and I’ve literally ever drawn all the ninja on one canvas before for that exact reason. so I might scan it in instead. maybe take some colored pencil to it lol haven’t done that in a while