#marcoxtuffy

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Let it not be said that Tuffy isn't a Smurf who knows what he wants.

Tuffy, Handy, Blacksmith, Wooly and Marco (c) The Smurfs

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'Subtle' was not a word anyone would use to describe Tuffy when it came to his crushes, and yet neither was confident. In fact, as Marco HAD described it at first, he was more like a puppy - would follow you around with those big sad eyes and whine for attention without you knowing which one of the several possibilities he was asking for. It was sweet at first, in a sort of 'does your mama know that you're out' kind of way, but Marco thought Tuffy would get bored sooner or later and bog off.

He did not.

Marco was bemused. There were plenty of young men in the village that were available and possibly more suitable to Tuffy's needs. Marco was a slightly older, salty ex-navy seadog with only good eye ever since 'the incident'. Still, it was a constant in his life, something he'd sorely been missing during his adventures at sea. But there was something endearing about it. Perhaps if Tuffy had been more assertive it would have been obsessive or clingy, but the way he went about his highkey admiration was sort of cute, at least to Marco, who was far too used to temporary flings at ports he no longer remembered the name of. He figured he could entertain Tuffy, at least for now…

Hozier - Too Sweet (Official Lyric Video) (youtube.com)

Marco and Tuffy (c) The Smurfs

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// Couple of suggestive pick up lines on doodle 5 djdk

Tuffy Foley was born along the coastal area of the Long Island section of NY, in a slightly run down neighbourhood. Once rumoured to have been a famous smugglers area for pirates, the summers were often overcrowded with tourists and the winter’s barren of much company. Tuffy was raised by his aunt and uncle, due to his biological parents having lost custody of him as a toddler. His aunt and uncle were kind folk and Tuffy trusted them whole heartedly – the same could not be said for the kids his age around the area. Tuffy was much younger, and much smaller than most of them, so he quickly became an easy target to their constant taunts and physical jabs.

Tuffy endured the black eyes and taste of gravel for far too long before someone stepped up to them. But someone did – Hefty Ortiz, a slightly older and braver kid than Tuffy, who’d had enough of the peers his age picking on the ‘poor guy’ and told them to back off. Hefty was not a kid to be messed with either, he was strong enough to easily hold his ground and the bullies knew he didn’t bluff. For Tuffy, he had found a new idol that day, and was forever in his debt.

Tuffy meet’s Hefty’s mom’s. X and Y Ortiz, a lesbian couple who had been raising their son into a compassionate and strong minded young man. X worked as the local sports coach, whilst Y was a social worker, so it was easy to see where Hefty’s strength and empathy came from. This was also Tuffy’s first positive representation of homosexuality – Tuffy had likely endured bigoted slurs from the bullies, despite being too young to know what the future had in store for him, and being around the Ortiz family has likely saved him from years of further denial.

Teenage Hefty discovered girls, Teenage Tuffy discovered Hefty. I mean, kid Tuffy looked up to Hefty but teenage Tuffy worshipped the very ground he walked on. It was an almost unhealthy obsession, and unfortunely this did start to strain his relationship with Hefty who found him to be broaching into slightly unhealthy co-dependency and imitation behaviour.

Hefty travels to Belgium. Tuffy, still lost in a fantasy parasocial relationship with him, follows. Ultimately, despite their adventures, his affections are never returned and it becomes obvious to Tuffy they never will.

A heartbroken but bitter Tuffy turns to … more unwarranted approaches and with his new found self-appointed freedom at no longer pursuing Hefty exclusively, Tuffy moves on … to his best friend, Handy Turner. When that doesn’t work, Tuffy decided to try a new outlook and attempts to attract the attention of a much older man, Wooly Sherman. That also does not work. Tuffy sulks and decides to give up for now. 

A few years later, Marco Spaziale is back in the village. His first trip away since the ‘incident’ in fact and what he’d really like now is a quiet night in the pub and a pint to relax. What he GETS is a sulking Tuffy who’s pissed about another failed rizz attempt. Marco is … bemused but annoyed. They exchange some banter and Marco tells some bone-chilling sea stories. Well, that gets Tuffy’s attention. Actually now that he thinks about it this Marco fella is sort of handsome in a very ruggish and badass way – Just Tuffy’s type. Those scars are pretty cool. Tuffy’s into it. He’s found a new object of his affections.

Marco suspects there may be a distant link between Tuffy and the weird skeleton dude walking around. Tuffy has concerns of his own.

It took some time but Marco warms back to Tuffy. He kind of originally viewed him as a sad little puppy, but like sad little puppies they have a way of warming your heart. Unlike his friend Dreamy who Marco tends to perceive as something akin to a little brother relationship with him, Marco’s never really had anything to do with Tuffy before and romantic feelings are eventually reciprocated. Marco is a bit older and more experienced about life in general whereas Tuffy has followed Hefty his whole life and is younger and a bit sheltered. Marco shows him some of the world. Tuffy discovers he has seasickness.

Tuffy and baby Vitriolic. Aww. He’s a good dad despite Vitty having er. Her own social issues djdjk

Tuffy, Hefty, Smurfette, Handy, Marina, Wooly, and Marco (c) The Smurfs

Hefty's moms, Skelly and Vitriolic are mine

[butterfrogmantis]

Une petite meme! It’s not that petite I wanted to lineart/shade but fck that

In order:

Dreamy, Tracker, SmurfMint, SmurfStorm, Vanity, Grouchy, Harmony, Jokey, Don Smurfo, Somebody, Marco, Tuffy, Clumsy, Handy, Gutsy, Brainy, Farmer, Tailor, Painter and Poet (c) The Smurfs

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Dressing up as the thing that took ur bf's eye might not be the kindest costume but Tuffy has a point. There is some weird gut feeling there, almost as if his great-great-something uncle was a pirate, but who knows right

Marco and Tuffy (c) The Smurfs

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But I’ll be true to the song I sing; And live and die a Pirate King!

For I am a Pirate King!

And it is, it is a glorious thing To be a Pirate King!  

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My pirate AU has been on my mind again recently ...... I made my bots play out some stuff earlier that was fun once I got them to stop trying to murder each other /lh

Ah Marco, he gets tied to masts as much as Harmony signs contracts.

Also shout out to Pirate AU for being the AU where Marco DOESN'T have an eyepatch

Marco and Tuffy (c) The Smurfs

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Uncensored under the cut

Human Marco! All of this was an excuse to draw the Dreamy doodle /j

I did already have a human Marco design I just haven't drawn it too often so it was nice to settle on a couple doodles haha

I was gonna call him Marco Seymour (hehe Marco sees more than the world and it means sea) but then I found an italian one that literally means 'spice seller' + Marco is an italian name so now Ig Marco is English/Italian (edited)

Marco, Dreamy and Tuffy (c) The Smurfs

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Some middle aged men~ The Harmony/Jokey one was just copy and pasted but everyone else is new!  -Not pictured but I've decided Barber and SmurfRuby get to be together bcuz Ruby deserves someone nice after all she's been through with Handy and Sapphire.  but anyway they've found a new business in shampoo. Ruby originally sold it to the gals but since the men are growing hair now, they get funky stuff too and business is booming on both ends! All this to say Tailor smells like coconut~  - I originally hc'd that Don wouldn't age but tbh I kinda like the idea that he gives up eternal youth and invincibility to be a mortal Smurf. He did this just because he wanted to experience true smurf life initially, being with and growing old with Somebody is a bonus.  -Brainy is trying to grow a beard. It's not going very well. He hates his husband's follicly gifted face (affectionate)

Everyone (c) The Smurfs

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Vitty doodles! She’s actually always been a top tier but I realised I have. Not drawn as much of her as I thought in digital, must have been sketchbooks.

Tuffy and Marco (c) The Smurfs

Vitriolic, Elusory, Rover, Nova and Precocious are mine

[butterfrogmantis]

Sketching is fun and all but crayon doodles are even quicker and help me procrastinate my big ass project better

Ok now fr on with the grind

Marco, Tuffy, Tailor and Farmer (c) The Smurfs

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Some redraws I’ve been doing as a fun little activity - two sims ones and a ‘draw the squad’ type

Top one is Clumsy of course. How he got there? Who knows.

Bottom 2 were just funky little sims moments :) Tuffy got all confident and romantic and Farmer trained some bees to make a heart shape for Tailor X3

Gutsy, Brainy, Clumsy, Marco, Tuffy, Tailor and Farmer (c) The Smurfs

[butterfrogmantis]

Marco x tufty head canons please?

Ah my hard headed beloveds XD

-They first interacted properly as adults when Tuffy was bragging about his prowess (despite having lost a wrestle with Hefty earlier). Marco has been through some sh*t by this time and quite quickly puts him in place with snippets of his own adventures on the high seas. Tuffy, now in awe of what he considers a real life hero in front of him, very quickly jumps ship (haha) from pining after Hefty to constantly hanging around Marco. He found it annoying at first, but it became sort of endearing after a while of getting to know him

-Tuffy is one of two Smurfs, the other being Marco's best friend Dreamy, that has seen Marco without his eyepatch. Marco hates recounting the tale of how he got his scars, but does trust Tuffy enough to tell him after being caught patch-less one day. Despite Marco's embarrassment, Tuffy thinks he looks seriously badass.

-Tuffy likes to act like he's all that but he's a softie behind closed doors XD Defo a cuddler

-Marco's found that the best way to calm Tuffy down when he's belligerent or tipsy is to wrap him like a burrito in a blanket. Tuffy dost protest too much but it always works

-Despite loving Marco, Tuffy is still somewhat intimidated by him and this occasionally results in instinct kicking in and causing him to call Marco 'sir' formally. This confuses the hell out of Marco and he's not sure if he likes it or not but does find it amusing never the less.

[butterfrogmantis]

Finally expanded the pirate au I made a while back! Pirate AU by Butterfrogmantis on DeviantArt This time filled with extra gay crackship smurf shenanigans because that's my bread and butter. I guess it's just missing Lazy, not sure where I'd add him into the au tho - maybe he can be a landlubber Greedy writes letter too? Marco, Tuffy, Dreamy, Tracker, Greedy, Jokey and Harmony (c) The Smurfs

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MarcoxTuffy Pirate AU concept!! I love sailor/pirate aus anyway dhfjhjh and honestly I love the way they came out!! :D I've had sea shanties on non stop all day- But ye, I love rivals/lovers tropes >;3 it fits them rather nicely~ Marco and Tuffy (c) The Smurfs

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I’ve been going through a small art block so I went through my old sketchbooks trying to find doodles I wanted to make digital versions of. A lot of said doodles were uh, couple months-year old so they’re not all high quality but some of the jokes/wholesomeness still bring a smile to my face :)

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if each smurf ship where standing under a mistletoe how would they react? 🤔

just curious

I'm going to assume you mean mine and not every ship in the fandom, that would take a while! As for mine, I won't go through every bg ship because a lot are simply filler, but I'll go through my main ones and some secondary ships for you! ^^

DonxSomebody:

Pretty typical of every other aspect of their relationship tbh XD Don attempts to act all swoony, Somebody pretends to roll his eyes but chances are he'll make the first move and sweep him off his feet >:) Then Don can swoon for real~

FarmerxTailor:

So this was touched on in my recent fanfic, heh. Farmer is a hopeless romantic and tends to get a bit flustered, even though he says it's his favourite winter plant because of the connotations. Farmer may be a grown Smurf but he still giggles like a schoolboy if the opportunity arises. Tailor knows this, and loves it, though he does have to stand on his tip toes most of the time XD

HandyxClumsy:

You'd think Clumsy would be fairly chill by now having already been in a previous relationship in my hc's but the truth is he's still a bit nervous at heart. Clumsy's ears tend to go a bit pink when he's embarrassed so stick a sprig up somewhere and it'll happen. Handy finds it adorable but doesn't want to embarrass him, maybe a quick peck c:

TrackerxDreamy:

Tbh it's sort of hard to get Dreamy AWAY from mistletoe in December. He sees a bunch of green anywhere on a doorway or tree and he's off for maximum smooches. Of course that's not particularly difficult to do when Tracker is the village forager so they get to spend a lot of time in the woods. Kind of a win-win situation, for Dreamy certainly

PainterxPoet:

If they could stop painting/writing an ode to mistletoe they'd probably eventually get under it. /j but it's somewhat a typical dramatic affair for them. High chances of them reciting a bunch of overly romantic nonsense to the other whilst a queue forms behind them urging them to get on with it already XD

BrainyxGutsy:

Brainy finds this whole thing highly illogical. Actually, did you know that mistletoe is technically a parasite? It's true! The plant steals from- oh, he's being kissed now? Well that's nice, about time he got some well deserved attention

VanityxGrouchy:

Grouchy says he hates mistletoe. Turns out, he does not.

MarcoxTuffy:

Tuffy refuses to go anywhere near it ... at least, while people are watching. If the room is empty or everyone is preoccupied then he brings out the puppy dog eyes until Marco gives in, possibly playfully holding it out of reach but it's only to tease

GreedyxLazy:

Honestly pretty simply in the best way possible? Lazy is rarely standing anywhere if he can help it though but on the rare occasion it occurs he'll give a sleepy lil' smile c:

JokeyxHarmony:

Harmony has become very cautious of this tradition due to an exploding mistletoe prank one year. And the year after that. And the year after that. Luckily the year after that he got a normal sprig. But even so he's always a bit cautious-

HeftyxSmurfette:

Smurfette is pretty happy to give cheek kisses anyway, so I suppose it's the only time Hefty becomes really flustered at all - He does prefer lip kisses because it's more special to him but he's a gentleman that lets his gal decide

PapaxWillow:

Old couple vibe goals. Just a quick peck, nothing extravagant, something cute. Usually followed by a group of Smurfs singing 'I saw Willow kissing santa claus' as a bit of fun afterwards though

And bonus TimberxMiner crackship cause why not-

Timber is very interested in trees and kind of does the reverse to Dreamy/Brainy - he knows mistletoe isn't good for trees and doesn't particularly approve of people kissing under it and encouraging it's growth. He doesn't want to let Miner down though so they've agreed to personally change the tradition to kissing underneath holly instead. It's still festive enough!

This doesn't even scratch the surface of my bg pairs that exist mostly for next gen djfkdls I didn't even get round to any grove gals! D: But I also don't want to make this too long so that's probably enough for the time being XD