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Miscellaneous itft sketches from over the course of a month Apologies for my poor handwriting

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First piece of art i put on this site is of the recommended character i voice. What an Egotist am i right?

Lava Cake of famous Channel 76 which features CW Channel Styled shows!

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Happy Birthday Lava Cake ITFT!!!

Today, 4 years ago, I made various one off desert themed characters that I would recommend for Derpadon's show at the time, RFTK.

years later Derpadon would approached me about Lava Cake when choosing the debuters for itft and who I would be voicing.

Of which one would be Lava Cake himself! While Lava Cake would go on to have a very brief role in the show, at a total of about 3 or 4 lines, i've been very glad to see people in the community showing him some love! Especially the crew- i didn't even learn about Lava Cake x No Way being a ship the crew liked to push until i started interacting with them and the community more recently!

Honestly i've been so busy with my own personal projects and friends projects that his birthday would have slipped my mind if i wasn't an obsessive Wiki peruser of my fixations!

To celebrate this day, I have a few drawings, and some stuff i want to ramble about in relation to him!!!!

This post is a bit long so it's going under a read more. I promise i have interesting things to say/a little announcement of my own!

There is something i would like to ramble about here that i learn was a bit of a topic of debate when Lava Cake first showed up; his gender!

I know his wiki comments/page(?) at one point i think ended up being locked due to the debate itself ontop of the character being new with minimal information making it a mess. But as it should be known by now, ITFT Lava Cake is male and uses He/She!

These were the pronouns I gave him when first recommended and those were the ones Derpadon decided to use! Truthfully when i assign object characters pronouns i don't even really think about their genders, just whatever ones i think they would use, so many of them tend to be multi-pronoun. Mainly because i don't think object society would even adhere to our own understandings of gender...

With that though, I like to interpret the ITFT iteration of him as being someone who very much is comfortable and confident in being a guy while expressing and having traits society has made us see as more "traditionally associated with women". He identifies as a guy, and part of his identity can be wearing makeup, being effeminate, and comfortable with she/her pronouns too!

I could go on and on as i tend to think about these sort of things a lot, mainly because, as stated before, it's the same introspection i've had with my own gender identity. Humans are weird huh? Oh well i don't really want to post here much, so this is the one time i'll get to yap about something.

TLDR; Lava Cake is a GNC icon who would listen to Will Wood, i listened to The New Normal a lot while working on this sketch itself!

I had also answered a Q&A question on the discord server a while back about what channel the debuters were from, I had choose Channel 76 as his original channel. One that I had described as "something similar to CW, probably from a show that goes as off the rails as Riverdale does. Would probably become a vampire hunter by season 8". This is supplementary, possibly Dubiously Canon material as far as i know though, whether or not it's canon would have to be seen. Would be funny if it was though, right?

I hope that this has been coherent/insightful! Next up...i mentioned "personal projects" earlier. Well here's your sneak peak!

As stated, I have written a script for the first episode of my comic that i'm satisfied with! The plans for it are still a bit lose and changing but the beginning and end have been set in stone since i first conceptualized it years ago.

Truthfully Lava Cake wasn't originally intended to be apart of the cast- but when i was redesigning and reworking them i had gotten so genuinely frustrated at having to free hand one of them that i revisited my original concept of Lava Cake. She was much more depressing and emo, and was an archetype of sorts I was missing. I'm very happy with her final design and how she fits into the story! She also uses He/She, for clarification.

Which makes it funny for me to joke about them being secret twin brothers. They would probably have some kind of sibling rivalry/hate. I wonder if they're together one of them would be fudge cake instead?

Thank you, if you read this far! It's been a blast working on ITFT, even if its just as a voice actor for Star Jar and Lava Cake!

Ya'll keep doing what your doing and creating wonderful things!

Here's the transparent version of that drawing.