#go check out the original au!

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Two babies lost in the wilderness lookin’ at pretty flowers. More at 11.

(ID: Kirby series fanart of @post-it-notes7’s Mir Galacta Knight sitting in a patch of flowery grass, his mask off and set just behind one of his wings, sparkles and highlights touching the edges of M!GK’s armor and horns. Shadow Kirby lays perched on top of his head between his horns, the both of them staring down in wide-eyed wonder at a glowing, sparkling cluster of Pop Flowers, tiny and pink and four-petaled in a firework-like burst of stems. END ID.)

I cannot express how much I adore the way you draw the Orbs, Post. Reading through your Mirrorverse stuff has been a treat so far, and I’m so curious about what’ll happen next in the story! I hope I managed to do your mirror warrior justice here. ⭐

Started and finished 05/14/24, updated for color correction 11/02/24.

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This wonderful comic by @shepscapades took over me and I had to put it together into a video at 2am. Anyways, enjoy sheps' vision, now with audio (and some transitions)!

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whoops my hand slipped wuh oh gasp emoji exploding head emoji shocked emoji wide eyed emoji

Last Life Kingdom Au by @periwinklepaint

Original Artwork link here

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Completely forgot to post this 😿😿💔💔

Demon Matthew for the SPGAU by @shewreckz

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I saw the dystopia ocs made by @tapakah0 and @somerandomdudelmao and they immediately started microwaving in the brain

They so COOL LAKDKKSKS

[trnasock]

@shrimperini and i brainrotted a little rabbit for too long (for her human au)

Ref below

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Ranchers Apocalypse AU Chapter One

“It’s been thirty-six days since the world started to fall into pieces and as I was in the city where the outbreak started I had to flee with the supplies that I managed to find in my apartment. I saw the chaos in the streets and as fast as I could I gathered my things and left.”

Written by: FeatheredEnby

Word Count: 1,714

Part One of: Ranchers Apocalypse AU (Based off of hybbart’s art series)

A Ranchers Centric Zombie Apocalypse AU

The Hermit Times - Live News Channel Transcript - October Fourteenth, 2020

Reported on by: Grian X. Helios

Grian X. Helios : Excuse me, can I ask you a few questions?

Gemini Tay  : [Breathing Heavily] Yes?

Grian X. Helios : What exactly happened here?

Gemini Tay  : I’m not entirely sure, we were conducting an experiment and something went wrong, you have to go!

Grian X. Helios : May I inquire as to why?

Gemini Tay  : It’s not safe we need to leave, that’s all I know.

Grian X. Helios : Miss, I’m a reporter and I really need to-

Gemini Tay  : No! You really don’t understand do you? I was there and something happened, like I said I don’t know what but it’s not safe.

Grian X. Helios : Are you sure? It might not be as bad as you say-

Gemini Tay  : No, I’ve already told you. We have to go, I don’t know you and you don’t know me, but listen to me when I say that it not sa-

Zombie in the back : Uuuuurgh.

Grian X. Helios : [Jumping up] What the hell is that?!?

Gemini Tay  : I don’t know! Just run and put down that camera!

[More groans can be heard in the background and panic ensues. The camera is dropped and static starts to play.]

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Journal Of Tango Tek

November Seventeenth, 2020

It’s been thirty-six days since the world started to fall into pieces and as I was in the city where the outbreak started I had to flee with the supplies that I managed to find in my apartment. I saw the chaos in the streets and as fast as I could I gathered my things and left. As I ran away I saw a few of my friends going in any direction that they could head. Let's just say that I hope to eventually find them again. I stole a bike that someone had abandoned on the edge of the road and rode it out of the city until I reached a stone quarry where one of the tires popped. I searched around the area but found no supplies of use. The place had clearly been abandoned for a long amount of time. Every so often as I travel across the expanse of the area I hear the groans of the undead and even less frequently I see their faces. They don’t appear to have noticed me so I’m continuing forward.

It’s started to rain so I have lit a torch and taken refuge in an abandoned mine. I just have to hope that the light of the flame doesn’t attract any zombies. However, given the fact that my hair is made of fire and my tail ends in a flame I think it’s likely that the torch will attract them. I’m currently sitting in a deeper cave that the mine has granted me access to, now my only concern is the monsters that often inhabit areas this deep.

Water started to drip into the cave I was sitting in so I have started moving farther into the darkness of this mine. I can’t imagine how it’s getting down here but I have no interest in trying to keep my tail and hair lit so I journeyed down but as I wandered I found a canary hybrid seemingly knocked out in one of the caves. I decided that it might be helpful to have someone to continue my trek with. I warmed them up and gave them an oxygen mask that I found while going deeper into the cave system. It could still be a while before they wake up however it will be very much worth it when they do as I will have a companion and canary hybrids are known to have a good sense when it comes to danger.

About an hour ago the person that I found woke up and introduced himself as Jimmy. He doesn’t seem to remember how he ended up down here but he has agreed to join me in my travels as long as I help him with oxygen filters. This isn’t too much of an issue. We’re planning on leaving the caves when the rain stops tomorrow. It’s nice to have some company again.

Journal Of Tango Tek

November Twenty-Sixth, 2020

The rain lasted longer than expected so we only ended up leaving the caves a few days ago. While Jimmy and I waited we discussed what we had been doing when this chaos started. Apparently he had gone shortly after the apocalypse started and found a patch of bad air which luckily only caused him to pass out. I explained to him how I had ended up there and he suggested that we head over to a different nearby city to salvage supplies and I agreed. Once the rain stopped we started the trek back out of the cave system and thanks to his senses managed to avoid any monsters that could be lurking around. When we exited the quarry we headed north for a few miles to Double City where we found an abandoned strip mall. When we entered we looked around for a bit and found some concentrated oxygen and a few other supplies. We made camp in the back of the food court so that Jimmy could rest and I could try to get the oxygen machine working. We found some signs of recent struggles but Jimmy couldn’t hear anything so we waited there for a few hours.

Once we had rested up we started heading to the nearby children's hospital to find proper tools to use so that I could repair the oxygen machine for Jimmy. We should arrive there tomorrow night and are hoping that no one dangerous has claimed it as theirs. However if there are people at the hospital it’s possible that we could trade some help in exchange for medical care and a working machine and full oxygen tanks.

Journal Of Tango Tek

November Twenty-Seventh, 2020

Earlier today we arrived at the children’s hospital and found that two shady fellas had set up inside of it. One of them has brown hair and also used oxygen tubes. He introduced himself as Scar and the other, who has black hair and is wearing a lab coat, said his name is Cub. They agreed to help us with getting the filter set up in exchange for us helping with work around the place. The two of them seem to be pretty nice but despite this and the important services that they provide not many other survivors have visited so far. I can’t quite place my finger on why but then again there aren’t many things that I can understand about our current situation. It’s especially hard to wrap my head around how the world collapsed so easily. There are plenty of militaries on the earth and the outbreak could have easily been contained if people put their minds to it. I guess that in the panic people might have just not been able to properly contact authorities.

I’m planning on staying here with Jimmy, Scar, and Cub for a few days while we help with work and I get the oxygen tanks properly set up. I’m very busy with it and might not write again for the duration of our time here unless something noteworthy happens but until then it’ll be nice to get a longer rest in.

Journal Of Tango Tek

December First, 2020 

It’s been a few days and me and Jimmy are planning on leaving the children’s hospital and taking a shortcut through the city. We helped Scar and Cub get some things sorted out and they gave us some medicine for the road. We’re getting ready to leave now and Jimmy’s pretty nervous as things are fine here, but we barely know these people. There’s also the fact that eventually our supplies will run out. I’ll add more to this entry once we get through the city.

It’s Jimmy not Tango putting in this entry, we tried to shortcut through the city but ran into some… unpleasant people. Tango got hurt pretty badly, I got hurt too but it’s much worse for Tango. It might be a while before we can try to steal our stuff back but we need to find a place to stay since we can’t get back to the children’s hospital without our supplies. 

I had to carry Tango around while searching for medicine and I found a seemingly empty gas station. I walked into it and found it uninhabited until someone walked around the corner. He greeted us and offered to help with the few medical supplies he has. I learned that his name is Keralis, he doesn’t seem to have the best medical skills but it’s the best option that we have. Hopefully Tango will become coherent soon.

Journal Of Tango Tek

December Fourth, 2020 

Winter has started to arrive and with our luck as I’m recovering from my injuries I caught a cold. We might end up having to stay with Keralis’s group for a while with how things are going. The good news is that they have generators and were able to steal some of our stuff back, they were kind enough to replace some of the supplies that they couldn’t take back. I’m concerned about Jimmy though as he’s wearing himself a bit thin. I should be better in a few days and once I’m better we’re planning to try and find a vehicle to hotwire from a nearby parking lot. The gas station has become a little bit snowy, so Jimmy’s been staying inside with me.

Journal Of Tango Tek

December Sixth, 2020 

I’m feeling much better today so Jimmy and I got ready and another person who’s living there, named xB, showed us the way to the parking garage. The garage seemed pretty safe and stable except for a large part that was overtaken by veins of sculk. We wandered around it for a while until Jimmy heard a strange whining sound coming from a corner of the area. This of course led to a precarious situation staring down a terrified dog? It might have just been a small wolf. Anyways it had been abandoned to the infection of fungus luckily it still seems to retain some of its mental control. We managed to get some sedatives into it and Jimmy and I are going to attempt to remove the infection.

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Spark the Honeybee

After over a month of on and off again work she’s ready to be posted! Really excited to do even more with her in the future ^^

Spark The HoneyBee Age: 20 Gender: Fluid Pronouns: She/He Orientation: Bi , somewhere on the acearo spectrum

*This bio was started and finished before any of the Scrapniks return within the main series. If events become too conflicting later on, or inspire ideas, some things may change, but don’t expect everything to 100% line up with canon because of this factor. Think of all this as an AU, it’s fan work, who really cares all that much if it’s perfect

FULL BIO BELOW CUT, it’s a long one fellas

Personality

Keeping her nose in her business and eyes on her work, most of the time, Spark is a person that vibes best with others that give her mutual respect. You’re nice to her, she’s nice to you…usually. Just because she can make herself get along with people doesn’t mean she likes them all. But as long as they’re nice she’s not gonna make that their problem.

Maybe somebody else’s, but not theirs.

When it comes to people being rude to her though, she doesn’t hide her disdain. Either matching their energy or masking to a neutral tone depending on the day. It’s rare for her to outright confront someone first hand, but any time she does it’s usually for understandable reasons as she usually has to be pushed.

One issue with that though is that since she does need to be pushed, it’s possible for her to snap on someone for something seemingly small at first. Even if in reality it was just a final straw, it usually tends to make her the asshole in that specific situation. 

Spark enjoys a simple life, despite working at the restoration, she doesn’t yearn for a grand adventure of a story. She feels independent and self accomplished as she is now, and that’s all she’s been wanting for years. How could she complain? 

While she enjoys things being tame, that doesn’t mean she can’t have fun. From having a whole night out to a simple brunch, Spark loves going out and spending time with her friends. Even if it can sometimes drain his social battery to nothing once it’s all over.

Her outfits tend to reflect this trait of hers, being cute while still being comfortable. As much as she likes to look pretty, she’s not gonna jeopardize any sense of mobility or comfort just for a cute outfit. Nearly every outfit she has includes a low cut back for her wings because of this.

Plus, she rocks it, so win win!

As much as Spark enjoys her newer life and loves the people around her, it is admittedly not too difficult to upset her if you push the right buttons.

Bringing up her family or the metal virus, blaming her for things she didn’t do, and any harm against animals, chao, or wisps are all things that can easily set her off. Whether it makes her upset or angry, the reaction typically isn’t rational or positive.

If her upset state becomes too frenzied, Spark can sometimes be inconsolable. As much as she tries to be calm and not copy her mothers shouting habit, the effort dwindles the more her patience is tested. In a state of anger the best thing to do for her is to get her out of the scene, and take her somewhere secluded to calm down. Even if she protests in favor of continuing the shouting match.

Unlike with her anger though, any time Spark is deeply saddened by something it’s incredibly hard to tell what can help her. Giving her time alone? A hug? Letting her vent? Just being there as quiet company? Who knows, it’s inconsistent with her, to the point she can’t tell sometimes either. Which of course doesn’t help the person trying to console her. It takes someone with a lot of patience to help Spark in an irrational state, at least patience for her in particular. 

On the whole, and to most people, Spark is simply a nice girl working a nice quant job. To those that know her better, she’s that and more. For better or for worse. She’s an incredibly emotional person with issues and habits she’s desperately trying to break.

The Restoration is the first place she’s ever lived at alone.

The cafe is the first job she’s ever had.

Niko is the first true friend she made outside of her family and hometown.

And the world outside of The Restoration has become terrifying to her.

But, thankfully, she likes her life inside the base. As new as it’s been for her, it’s the most fulfilled she’s ever felt in her life.

And that’s all she’s ever wanted.

Current Life

One of the somewhat newer workers in The Restoration, Spark works at a small cafe within the facilities. While her job is making coffee, her actual passion is art and creatives. Often pulling a sketchbook out on break or during dead hours. Outside of drawing though, she does enjoy collecting random fun finds and eventually picks up gardening.

His time at The Restoration would allow him to meet many new people, including his now best friend Niko. Niko with their wisp, Skullz, would end up being very protective of Spark. She certainly wouldn’t mind though, they sure kept customers from being rude. Awesome bonus, she really liked their company too :D! The scary dog privileges was more so the bonus actually. She really did care about them as much as they did for her..even if it was in a less violent way. Anything for the Queen Bee!…Spark isn’t royalty, Niko is just very committed to the bit.

(Niko belongs to @zip-toonz)

Spark would also end up meeting many other people working for or visiting the residence. It was easy to do as a cafe worker after all. She’s even interacted with Sonic a few times, while he never bought coffee for himself he didn’t seem to mind picking some up for others.

One of the more notable people she’s met though, has actually been Mecha Sonic. Meeting the barista not long after visiting the resistance base, and eventually going from strangers to friends, to friends to partners.

(More on that relationship later.)

Her time at the restoration and newfound relationships with people has given Spark a newfound sense of self worth. Finding fulfillment in not having to rely on family for living means, and being productive in her own job. No place is ever perfect, but for Spark, things right now are damn near close.

Familial Past

Spark can fully acknowledge the fact she doesn’t have the worst family life. They care, they try, they love her and she doesn’t doubt it. Not anymore at least.

But man is the relationship still rocky.

Her mothers side of the family was never too afraid to speak up about their thoughts and feelings. They also weren’t afraid to be loud about it too. While this was usually fine within that side of the family itself, it often caused a clash amongst others.

Her father’s side of the family is much more accomplished and self absorbed, unlike her father himself. Having an attitude of smelling their own farts and high standards for how they should be treated.

Each family alone would be different to deal with, but the combination under one house simply led to chaos.

Constant bickering and verbal berating, three kids would be stuck hearing shouting for years of a couple that just refused to split no matter what. 

Eventually it would go to two kids, and then one as they slowly moved out. Spark left the chaos after the metal virus, unable to carry much in her bags, and hasn’t kept well in touch since.

Any contact she does have with them is very limited, and is only there at all because they make the effort to reach out to her. She feels guilt for leaving her little brother home, but he was still a kid and couldn’t be taken from his life like that.

Despite efforts to make her reveal it, Spark hasn’t actually told any of her family where she moved. Planning to eventually tell them after getting some time away.

She kept telling herself all she needed was a break, but as time passed on, it really seemed like it may have been more than that.

One of the few family members Spark became close with outside of her immediate family was Ladie, her cousin. Ladie the Bug came from the father’s side of the family, and as a result always took lead of the relationship between the two.

Ladie’s the one that suggests when they hang out.

Ladie’s the one who initiates conversation.

Ladie’s the one who talks while Spark listens.

Ladie’s the one who asks Spark about her life to show she wants her to talk.

Ladie’s the one who tries to figure out what Spark likes but just can’t get enough out of her.

While there’s no denying the imperfect dynamic, Ladie has always tried to care for and listen to Spark, because Spark was the only one who would listen to her. As much as she tried to get Spark to open up more, it never felt like enough.

Ladie would eventually be the first to figure out where Spark moved to, and would fly in with her wisp Gentleman for a surprise visit. One that catches Spark completely off guard, and would eventually make their relationship go from distant to rocky.

After the shock, it was actually nice to have some family back, but Spark had to spill the beans eventually. How exactly do you tell your cousin that you’re dating a giant rusty robot?

Yeah she…didn’t really approve much. Not even because of Mecha though..okay well maybe slightly, but after the events of the Metal Virus, Ladie worried her cousin was only doing this as a weird way of coping. Managing to even get in Spark’s head about it and make her worry maybe Ladie was right.

While her worries were genuine, she would eventually realize it didn’t matter what she thought of the relationship. If Spark really liked Mecha this much, even after what happened to her during the Metal Virus, the guy must’ve been doing something right.

     And maybe that’s what she needs more than anything.

After stopping the berating against her relationship, the cousins would begin to become close again. Hanging out more often and, finally, getting Spark to tell Ladie more about herself. During visits Ladie would meet more of Spark’s friends, show Spark some of her own new hobbies, and learn more about her favorite cousin than she ever knew.

While things start off rocky, they eventually become closer than they ever have been before, and finally have a balanced and healthy friendship with no leader. And for a long time, Ladie is the only family member Spark has regular contact with.

But of course you can’t just ghost a whole family forever, can you? And as much as their relationship has grown...Ladie is still a bit of a gossip.

What can you do? It runs in the family.

Relationship with Mecha

Not long after escaping Scrapnik Island, Mecha and his fellow scrapniks would be taken to the restoration to be fixed up, and given refuge until they decide what they want to do. Mecha himself would end up being one of the first to be given a voice, in turn being one of the first to go and meet new people. Even if he had some help doing so from Sonic, but hey he didn’t reject the support.

The whole idea was to just get him, and the other scrapniks, more comfortable interacting with other people. Along with getting people comfortable with them, this was a strange addition to their base after all. What would be an easy errand for people practice? A coffee run of course! Oh yeah you know where this is going.

Sonic accompanied him on the first trip there, it only made sense to. Sonic got along with nearly everyone, and at this point they still had a mind link. He had done coffee runs for his friend’s before too, so showing Mecha the ropes wouldn’t be hard, right? Well, yes, but it was still odd.

Initially it was just another slow day at the cafe, Spark trying to doodle to pass time. It was a real dead hour, but despite the effort she just couldn’t think of what to put on the page. In the middle of her thinking though, the front bell would ring.

Looking up and seeing Sonic walk in wasn’t really a surprise at this point, but the giant rusty robot beside him sure was. The sight absolutely throwing her off guard and leaving her staggering as she tried, and failed, to make the order like nothing was odd. She could swear Sonic said what the robot’s name was, but it was in one ear out the other. Despite how odd it all was, she couldn’t stop sneaking looks at him.

It was easily the most awkward customer interaction she ever had, the silence of the cafe afterwards not helping at all. It wasn’t like she was scared or anything..okay maybe slightly, but it was mainly the surprise of it. Could you blame her too much? The guy was huge and had a saw for a leg! That’d shock just about anybody.

But what could she do about it now? She just shook it off and went back to her sketchbook. Finally getting a couple lines down on the page even, look at that! Maybe she needed a little shock in her day to inspire— Wait what was she drawing? The more she added the more it kinda looked like-…oh.

Oh no.

Mecha would leave the interaction thinking he scared the poor bee outta her wits. Sonic though, got a bit of a different impression after seeing those glances. Of course with the mind link, both knew what the other thought, and neither would really agree on that interaction going okay or bad.

At least they both agreed it wasn’t great, but hey it could’ve been much worse.

Thankfully though, as more visits passed, the barista there seemed to calm down. She didn’t even drop a cup on the second coffee run, that was already good!

For a while Sonic and others accompanied him for the first few visits, along with trips to other stops, but after a bit all of them agreed he needed to do these things on his own.

He actually wanted to make trips on his own for a fair bit by that point, so like, finally lmao.

These errands and such would, of course, sometimes involve the cafe as usual. Giving him and Spark more chance to actually talk, which thankfully by that point should be easy. The sight of a super tall rusty robot didn’t seem to spook her at all anymore. Though sometimes she did slam her sketchbook shut when he came in during less active hours.

Damn, his friends sure drank a lot of coffee.

She felt like such a creep. A weirdo even. What kind of freak had this many doodles of a guy she’s only ever known as a customer? Damnit, why did he have to be fun to draw!?

It’s not like Mecha was the only thing in her sketchbook now, but any time she needed a page filler he sure was easy to default to. And he didn’t even know, that’s the part that made her feel like some stalker the most, the guy had no idea!

She couldn’t have liked the guy, she barely thought about him in all truth. Maybe at first she wondered what his deal was a bit, but he was kinda just a regular at this point.

It’d been a whole month of this, she needed to end this “drawing a stranger” crap soon. So what if he has a unique face and tall stature and funky body that was fun to sketch? Well describing it like that just makes it sound more creepy, but how could she clear her conscious?

By doing something humiliating of course. She’s not always the most rational, why would she be so here?

Nothing had really happened at all that day. Nobody needed Mecha’s help with anything, yet they were all so busy anyways. The garden didn’t need any tending, nobody needed an errand, and finally he had a day all for himself for the first time in awhile- Oh the barista bee was stomping over holding a horde of papers in her arms, that’s fine.

Oh she shoved all the papers into his hands while talking so fast he could barely process what she was saying.

Oh she walked away…weird, but what was on the papers-?

Oh

…Yeah he’d need advice on how to respond to a gift like that. Was Amy busy? Surely she’d know best for a situation like this.

Oh she could’ve died right then and there, Spark had done some embarrassing things in her life, but oh my god. That was horrid!

If she was lucky he’d think she’s insane and never come back to the cafe. Then awkward conversation wouldn’t have to happen, that WOULD kill Spark.

Well ready the funeral because guess who came in the next day? You already know.

Her stomach absolutely sank as she saw him walk in, she didn’t even properly hear what he said when he saw her. Almost immediately her words ran a mile a minute until he set something on the counter.

A small pot with a pretty pink flower inside.

...what?

Finally she hushed up as he explained he was told the gesture of a gift being returned with another gift was a kind way to say thank you.

Gift? Thank you? Hang on a moment—

By the time she tried to question him he was already leaving, not even on a coffee run that day. Damnit.

A gift. A gift!? She wasn’t giving him some mushy gift, she was clearing her conscious! In a stupid way, but it was still the goal. He had to be messing with her, no way he was for real.

Alright big man, you wanna play games? Spark can play.

Oh boy Spark regretted making an actual gift in return. At least for awhile, the exchange went back and forth and back and forth for like half a  month!! She was running out of space for these plants, it NEEDED to stop. She had to end this, even if she kinda instigated it.

To her surprise though, when she actually went to talk to him about it he was…very sweet and understanding about it. Huh, okay that was easy…now what?

Well a whole new topic that’s what, soon enough they ended up changing conversation completely. Damn, she didn’t ever assume he was bad or anything but actually talking to him, he was kinda cool and chill. To the surprise of both of them, they actually hit it off pretty good after having an actual talk like normal people.

Neither of these losers were normal at all though, albeit for very different reasons.

Okay, maybe she could actually be friends with this guy. She was digging his vibe, but she’d be surprised if he returned that sentiment to her.

Holy $&!+ he just made a new legit friend completely on his own, Sigma was gonna be so happy! At least happy to hear Spark is officially a friend now, he was kinda waiting for it during the whole gift exchange phase. A lot of Mecha’s friends and family were.

It’s not like he was friendless, far from it. He still had all the Scrapniks, he met plenty of people through Sonic and errands for people. He was on pretty good terms with a lot of people there now, but this happened to be the first person he befriended on his own. Geez, how little time did he really get to himself? He hadn’t noticed until now, he’d have to talk about that.

The friendship kept on for about three and a half months, going from casual friends to practically besties shockingly fast. They met each others friends, Spark met Mecha’s family, oh what could go wrong.

Feelings that’s what, or, well it went right because of feelings. Oh what to do when you catch feelings for a cute bee girl or a giant rusty robot clone of Sonic the Hedgehog.

Why not give it a shot? The feeling was mutual, what was there to lose?

Despite starting to date, their overall dynamic didn’t change much for a bit. They both agreed at the start they weren’t official official yet, but going out on dates and testing the waters. And hey, it was still fun! You don’t stop enjoying someone’s company just cause it’s a date. Soon enough it would be official though, and people sighed out a “finally” as they,, well finally acknowledged each other as such.

They were so slow but fast at the same time, confused a lot of people around them, but overall they were rooted for. At least by the current people currently surrounding them.

Over the course of the relationship their status as boyfriend and girlfriend would become a lot more blatant, as each grew more and more comfortable with the other. Both bringing in some heavy changes of routine to each other's lives, learning more about themselves and each other as time went on.

It was good, imperfect at times like any pair, but neither expected constant paradise. In a way they were imperfect in mere concept, but isn’t that just perfect to be?

(I was so embarrassed writing this whole section the entire time but god damnit that robot deserves somebody who will kiss him)

Interests, Talents, and Hobbies

Spark’s primary interest is art, getting into drawing at a young age and keeping the hobby up into adult years. She doesn’t know if she wants to pursue a career with it or not, most likely not, but isn’t against doing some drawings for the right payment. While she appreciates all kinds of arts, simple sketching is her favorite thing to default too. On occasion she’s down to paint or color pieces, but on the regular it’s just some nice pencil work. 

One of Spark’s hobbies she hasn’t been able to indulge in much since moving is figure collecting. She loves the sight of little characters on her shelves and desks, but when she moved she only had the space to bring a select few. Maybe if she made another trip back, but she doesn’t feel ready for that. While The Restoration has plenty of amenities and decent entertainment, figure collecting isn’t something you can easily indulge in. Your best bet would be to take a trip out of the base, but again, Spark doesn’t feel ready for it.

While it is, quite literally, her Job; Spark has found a knack for making a mean cup of coffee. With good training and being at this station for a while, she’s developed good measuring and order tactics to make a grand coffee. She’s even taken habit to make her own coffee at home instead of buying it, being able to make it exactly like she likes it. Which has been much easier on her wallet that’s for sure.

Back at home and during her bed rot, Spark consumed all kinds of media. Shows, movies, games; you name it, she had the time to consume it. She never did anything, what else was she supposed to do? Nowadays though, working a job and having a more active life, she’s found less time to watch shows or dig into video game lore. As much as she still enjoys getting into other people’s stories, it’s something she’s more selective with now due to limited time and energy. Sometimes it’s annoying not having the time to get into a show she thinks she’d like, but at the same time, she feels alright with the change.

There’s many reasons Spark never got into gardening: having no energy, it costing money, the bad soil in her family’s yard. Despite some interest, those factors always made it hard. But there was one reason that topped them all. A bee, growing a flower garden? How stereotypical! Imagine feeding into that stereotype, her family would mock her nonstop. She didn’t quickly start gardening after moving, it actually took quite awhile. But after meeting Mecha and eventually learning of his interest, he got her roped into a hobby she no longer had excuses to avoid. This development actually happened about a week into their romantic relationship, about three months of them actually knowing each other, and four months since they first met. After some time Spark started growing flowers in her own windowsill, enjoying the site that reminds her of so many good things.  Who cares if it was tropey? She liked it, that was enough.

Author’s Notes I Guess

Told y’all this was gonna be a long bio. I know I’m usually slow with writing but I’m sure you see why this took me awhile now.

Big mix of motivation highs and lows along with general embarrassment at points, but come on let a guy have some fun projecting onto an oc that kisses a rusty robot.

Real talk though over the course of developing Spark and drawing her more and establishing things not even mentioned in this post, she’s easily become one of my favorite characters I’ve ever made. I’m not gonna suddenly hide the fact she’s a major self insert, I’ve been pretty open about that since day one, but she really has developed beyond that now.

Yes, she’s a self insert of myself, but she’s also just Spark. She’s just a bee doing her best trying to live her life and kiss her mouthless boyfriend. She’s given me hope that I can do things she’s doing, and allowed me to process many emotions and thoughts through her. She had her own drama and issues going on that have little to nothing to do with me. And I really think that’s perfect for her as a character.

I’m so so flattered that so many friends have already found themselves attached to her and her dynamics before I even finished her first bio. And I hope that if you took the time to read all this you like her too.

Thank you also if you did read all this, I appreciate it :33 Any questions or such are of course welcome if you have any, and sharing is always appreciated, but of course neither are demanded and I hope you have a good day ^^

Anyways, I’ll go ahead and let you go. Here’s some other art (mainly doodles) I’ve done of Spark and others! As a treat

(Yes I have been learning to draw Mecha too but I ain’t sharing that just yet)

[novella-november]

Is this fanfic friendly? I feel like an outlier.

I guess this is my sign it's time to throw together a FAQ post to link to lol.

Yes, every event for this blog is fanfic friendly :D

Though as I mentioned on my Ominous October post, for events that include multiple short stories, I encourage everyone to flex their creativity and take one of their planned short story fanfics, and at least *attempt* to turn one of them into something entirely original; rebuilding a character and story from the ground up to stand on its own two legs is no easy feat, and that is what makes it so fun!

It really gets your creative gears turning, to make an "au of an existing material" to be something entirely original, and you can be pleasantly surprised about the things you come up with!

As a few people say, its not just a matter of "filing the serial numbers off" -- you have to add in just as much *or more* as what you take out when you are turning a fanfiction into something that is original and completely divorced from its original source material / inspiration, and that is a hard, but very rewarding challenge!

Obviously, this is not a requirement (there's no hard requirements for any of the challenges, other than no cheating, including no using AI),

but if you would like an extra challenge for the short story events and you're planning on doing entirely fan-fiction, I highly recommend trying it out at least once, and seeing where it leads you--

you may find yourself pleasantly surprised by what you find down that rabbit hole!

[rhayafell]

Fanart for a Pokémon AU on Instagram hehe

Designs are by @south.poke.park on Instagram go check it out!!!

[kay9leo]

#MCtober2024 - Week 2

Based on @lamieboo's #MCtober2024 event (click on #MCtober for more info).

What are your MC / OC study habits?

Iñaki has a few methods of studying as you can see above. She usually doesn't like to review in groups (unless its with trusted friends) until she feels comfortable with the material on her own where she knows what she doesn't know and can bring it up to the review session. While on her own, she'll either will use flash cards, rewrite notes or teach Uturunku (her jaguar plushie) in her shared dorm room. Eventually Imelda joins in on her teaching session with Uturunku since the two girls are in the same class and share the same dorm. Once she gets more comfortable with Sebastian and Ominis as friends, you would often find Iñaki in Undercroft studying with the two boys especially when Midterm Season hits and the library is packed. She would usually be sitting on cargo crate box reviewing her flash cards or notes, waiting for the boys to show up. She also like doing reviews on charms, spells and dueling techniques with Sebastian by physically practicing them in the Undercroft.

Her other known study locations is her dorm room or the Slytherin Common Room with Sebastian when burning the midnight oil, the Room of Requirements (not often since it's out of her way) and the Great Hall with her friends who are in the other houses. She also likes white noise the noisy Great Hall provides. Iñaki vs History of Magic

Iñaki hates Professor Binns. She thinks he's the most boring-est person in the planet with how monologuist, plain and calming his voice is and hates how he can knock her to sleep. It is her goal to actually sit through class and stay up completely for once and take notes, but she can't. She always knocks out if she's trying to focus and ends up becoming Ominis' pillow once the two are friends.

At least Ominis is kind enough to share his notes with her as he takes them with a bespelled diction quill that he'll later transfigure the notes into braille. Eventually Iñaki gets her own diction quill like everyone else in class does.

After a couple of classes with Prof. Binns, Iñaki will eventually accept that she's either going to nap in this class period or try to get ahead and do homework from her other classes with her enhanced earbud on to listen to music while her diction quill does the work of taking notes down.

Iñaki's Girl Crew

Iñaki becomes especially close to Natty, Poppy and Imelda for different reasons:

Natty is the first friend Iñaki made while at Hogwarts. She and Natty bond over living in a foreign country far from their homelands and learning to live in a different world. Natty's friendship is important to Iñaki because she is one of the few people who really gets what Iñaki is going through and the same is true vice versa. It isn't surprising to see one going to the other to have a good cry over missing their homeland. Natty also was the one who helped her finish her animagus training in secret and saw her transform into a jaguar for the first time. At one point, the two would go running in the Forbidden Forest in their animagus form, baffling any locals as to where a gazelle and a giant cat came from. Natty is also the first person Iñaki says is her friend.

Poppy's friendship with Iñaki began after defending the kneazle in class. After they partnered up in Beasts class that same day, the rest became history. Poppy enjoys Iñaki's frank and playful nature and Iñaki's enjoyed Poppy's bluntness and kindness (it reminds her of home). The two girls end up bonding over being oddballs, caring for beasts and going over the different magical beasts and their tales around the world. Poppy especially loves it when Iñaki tells her stories about the magical beasts native to the Americas that you wouldn't be able to find in Europe and ends up making it a goal to see the thunderbird that lives near Niagara Falls one day.

Imelda Reyes at first is Iñaki's roommate. For about five minutes until Iñaki grumbles in Spanish "¡Ay!¡Por el amor de Dios! after stubbing her toe against her misplaced suitcase as she was moving in a week later after arriving at Hogwarts. Imelda was surprised to learn that the American spoke Spanish. Iñaki didn't realize Imelda was Spanish (Imelda holds duel Scottish-Spanish citizenship) and spoke Spanish as well. They became friends like a house on fire due to their Hispanic heritage (Iñaki's family is originally from Latin America who immigrated to the US. Imelda's father was the one who moved their family to the UK when he went play on Puddlemere United to be close with them). They only speak Spanish to each other as it makes them feel at home as they both miss speaking it while at Hogwarts (There's very few Spanish speakers there). The two spend a lot of time talking about their Hispanic Heritage while comparing and contrasting the differences in the cultures (Iñaki' is bicultural as her Latino roots hails from two different countries) and the Spanish language as well.

When Imelda found out that Iñaki has family in South America (but didn't realize Iñaki was a first generation/muggleborn witch) she immediately assumed Iñaki was good at quidditch due to the sport culture in that continent (quidditch is essentially the magical equivalent to soccer/fútbol) and tricked her into trying out for the team in having Iñaki play in pick-up quidditch games since it didn't seem like she wasn't going to try out because she seemed nervous about it (in Imelda's eyes). The moment Iñaki realized what Imelda was doing, she calls Imelda out and the two end up having a frank discussion as to why Iñaki didn't play quidditch (American racism is the reason why - Iñaki didn't want to play into the stereotypes and found she couldn't really enjoy playing the sport back in New York) despite being good at it (Iñaki played with her first-generation/muggleborn mage cousins on both sides of the famiy as a kid and picked up the sport pretty fast). In the end Imelda helps Iñaki get over her prior reservations on playing the sport but not enough for Iñaki to play as a starter. Iñaki ends up playing as the reserve chaser though and ends up as a starter in sixth year during her last year at Hogwarts.

The four girls accidently become a friend group through a class project. Iñaki had them all meet at the Three Broomsticks to discuss what they would be doing and it spiraled to the four girls realizing they were outsiders in different ways as they talked about their lives and bonded over feeling like a fish out of water at times with their peers. They ended up making outing to the Three Broomsticks for lunch to be a weekly thing after their class project was done as all four became close friends with each other.

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More on Iñaki "MC" Martinez Cariaga

[maukuja]

"I'm just gonna do some quick doodles" I say to myself as I'm ten layers deep into a drawing. Anyway got brainworms from @alikunsblog's the magic thief au, drew Aventurine Kakavashi! He's just a tired clerk with no secrets whatsoever.

[chain-draws-stuff]

Hello hello! Welcome to my blog! Also the The original art is from @caldraws! He's an amazing artist so please go and check him out! This AU also belongs to him! And yes as you can see in my description I only do checkpoint, my oc's and ofc some random AU's! Please go and follow my main blog @glichsworld! I post AVM and AVA and some other things there! So please go ahead and check out my blog! Thank you for reading this and i hope you enjoy the rest of the things I post here! :D

Sona reference! >:D

2024!

>:]

Art requests are also available! So don't be afraid to send me your request! :]

No NSFW plssssss :'(

For the people who read chapter 12 first before the first chapter. You've just ruined the whole excitement of the EndKing!Steve AU...but who am I to stop you? Im not God himself. But I still would recommend reading the first chapter before the new ones when reading this story that I've made...you can read this if your 13+ and when I say 13+ I mean 13+ because there's going to be some random fucking shit in this thing and yeah also 18+ gore! So...read at your own risk I guess...

Here's the link to the first chapter

The EndKing!Steve AU ask will only be available until January 2! So don't be afraid to ask them or me your questions! Request are also available until January 2!

Fuck that shit, it's forever open >:]

I might want to update this so stay tuned!

[clegfly]

Small thing I’m cooking for idksomethingclever99’s fic MITPP!! For some reason I’m having trouble tagging them but here’s the fic!!

This seemed fun to do… probably won’t get more done than this page though…

[kaxtwenty]

On the one hand, I really wanna jump into another Gundam series right now… But on the other hand, my brain is still DEEP in IBO mode so I currently wouldn’t be able to give another show the focus it deserves.

Forgive me Suletta, but the hold Mikazuki has over me is just too powerful at the moment.

[cartooncadet666]

Original creator of template belongs to @butterpuffed

Sorry I didn't post this earlier, but school was catching up. That being said, the colors are based on what is CURRENTLY going on and not what will go on.

Pacster: The arrow says that Pac likes him (cause he looks and acts cool), but he doesn't like Pac. The reason for this was initially caused by Buttocks at first, he will start to like him later on in Old Friend AU, but for now, he just feels really uncomfortable around him.

Cylindria: She's neutral with Robin, but he merely doesn't like her because he thinks that her reasoning for most of her actions and words can be very questionable. (For example, S1-EP01, the Cyclops incident) Plus he sees her as annoying for now, again it does get better.

Spiral: Not much to say about him, Spiral was the first to meet Robin, and Robin's reasoning for appreciating Spiral than the other two is mainly because he feels more comfortable to be around, plus he's not as flawed as the other two.

Skeebo: OH NO! Seems that at a later date, Robin had fallen in love with this loser! What a tragedy! His reasoning for that affection is mainly just how Skeebo acts and is as a person, behind that regular jock mask. He's an absolute sweetheart but didn't want to show it, however Robin saw it and fell HARD. And it does get reciprocated, at a later date.

The Ghost Gang: They're all trouble makers to him, so he probably didn't want to meet them at this point.

Sir Cumference: LITERALLY LIKE A FUNKY GRANDPA TO HIM. He was skeptical at first, but after getting to know him, he really appreciates just how much he cares and listens to the heroes' needs. Sir C has the same feelings at first, but he now sees him as just a sweet kid probably in need of some assistance.

Fuzzbitz: He adores this little monster and is very grateful to meet him. Despite being a threat technically, the little creature can't seem to think he's dangerous by how kind he actually is.

President Spheros: He'd rather die than trust him.

Betrayus: After knowing what he's done and why Buttocks is working for him in the first place, he just grew livid and started to hate him ever since

Butt-ler: Robin can't help but think that he deserves better than to be down here, and he does. Robin is an invention Butt-ler didn't think would work and tried stopping his "evil twin" from creating him, but after seeing what his true purpose was, he considers him as just a good kid.

Dr. Buttocks: It may be a bit biased since he was the one that created Robin, but Robin knows who his creator actually is and it's not some evil scientist persona. He's a man who loves science and always wanted to create things, including things that could have the same experience as living. The doctor of course just ADORES that his creation is actually alive and doing his own thing, because hey, he gave him the chance to live, not to be trapped.