#it was made with a mouse in MS paint

[insanityislife101]

@bamsara I made TROD art in MS paint. I didn't want to put the work into the ichor stains so I used arrows and stars. it's close enough.

[800db-cloud]

averaging twenty billion cakehole twins doodles every day

[mspaintpetfinder]

Gilgamesh

[glowsticcc]

general fandom consensus over the past couple days

[puppiiiowo]

idk who to put for the yuri couple so i just put a random ship ppl likle

[knifegremliin]

attack for CARTOONGORE! >:3

[quirkle2]

ms paint with mouse time

[reptil-enjoyer]

I miss this lil guy so much i hope he's okay after everything and gets betters friendships

[smolsadred]

more ms paint!! yippii!!!

[garygoldenbignaturals]

some manner of Thing in ms paint

[clouded049]

[average-internet-nobody]

he looks like I squashed him

[kingofsalmonids]

I WANT A DRAWING PAD SO I DON’T HAVE TO DRAW WITH MY MOUSE ANYMORE. ANY RECOMMENDATIONS?

[theclockiscoming]

High ponies but with 12 oz mouse characters ╰⁠(⁠⸝⁠⸝⁠⸝⁠´⁠꒳⁠`⁠⸝⁠⸝⁠⸝⁠)⁠╯

[sincerely-sofie]

How did you decide what species Kip and Twig were going to be? Did you play the game as a Charmander or a Mudkip, or did you decide some other way?

So, fun fact about Twig: she's a reinterpretation of my first ever PMD2 Hero OC, Kitsune! (I pronounced her name as “Kit-soon” as a child, you can burn me at the stake for my idiocy)

Kitsune was, as you might notice, a skitty and not a charmander. Her partner, Deu (pronounced “Day-oo”), however, was a mudkip. I originally thought about keeping them both their initial species, but Kitsune was so vastly different from her first iteration that it felt strange to keep her as a pink kitten, even if it killed me a little to change her. 

To come up with a new species, I decided to take the PMD2 personality quiz and answer as if I was Twig. My result was a brave female charmander. I was tempted to fudge my results a bit and go with a hardy female treecko, but I felt a bit guilty doing so— and besides, I never could understand how to draw a treecko’s tail and make it look nice. When I realized the fun contrasting parallel that could be drawn if Grovyle, local grass lizard, had his partner turn into a fire lizard, I knew I had to stick with the quiz result. 

(Twig’s tail flame was originally rendered to look like a maple leaf in autumn as an additional nod to her connection with Grovyle, though this was later changed in favor of more expressive fire shapes.) 

Kip, meanwhile, is a mudkip because Deu corrupted me into thinking a mudkip partner is the perfect partner in PMD2. His talk sprites made him look like a Muppet sometimes, which I adored, and I feel like their art really captured the enthusiastic-but-anxious partner personality. I love PMD2 mudkip partner so much and I can't see that poor baby being anything else. 

Golly, I rambled for a while there. TL;DR— I played the games as a skitty with a mudkip partner the first time. The partner stayed the same species, but I took the pmd2 personality quiz as if I was Twig and received a charmander assignment as a result.

... Okay, one last bonus piece of prehistoric Twig lore: her name is a reference to a stick Kitsune would beat people up with.

[thewolfofthestars]

look. I am willing to admit I am wrong about many things.

however. one thing I am definitely right about is that small children should have, instead of a smart device and tiktok, an ancient shitty dinosaur of a computer running windows 98 with a crt monitor. and instead of an internet connection it has ms paint and freeware king's quest and solitaire and minesweeper and pinball and a mario knockoff and 800 words of paw patrol fanfic in a word document somewhere