#ricky greendown dahlia

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HAPPY 5TH BIRTHDAY, RICKY!!!!!! 💚🦇🎉

it has officially been HALF A DECADE since a depressed little 14-year-old me decided to try designing a random fruit bat librarian character in krbay's art style, entirely clueless to the fact a whole story would branch out from him and that she'd be changing the trajectory of her own life forever!!! happy 5 years of ricky, 5 years of starstruck, and 5 years of a somewhat worrying level of kirby oc hyperfixation!!!

(and he also did get that KitchenAid KSM90PS 300-Watt Ultra Power 4-1/ 2-Quart Empire Green Stand Mixer.)

read below for a very rambly note, and more 💚⬇

i initially had written and drafted a very long, very heartfelt note about ricky and how much he's helped me, but i felt it was a bit too intimate to publicly post online, so a majority of it has been put away. here is a snippet.

this fruit bat has been with me through (DEEP BREATH) severe depression, missing my last months of middle school due to it, extreme childhood suicidal ideation, starting high school all alone with none of my friends, therapy, meeting some of my best friends ever, the pandemic, the lockdown, contracting a certain illness twice (hint hint), the terror of online school, more therapy (cbt edition), finding a psychiatrist, receiving my official diagnoses, getting properly medicated, getting better, losing all my childhood pets, finally getting to a point where i overcame depression, graduating high school, and my gap year! ricky has been here for some of the biggest milestones in my life, and he's helped me reach each one. i can say for certain i would not be at the point i am now (or would maybe even still be alive at all) if it weren't for ricky. via the struggles he faced in his story as i developed him + starstruck over time, younger me had him as a coping mechanism throughout the hardest time of my life, where his continued survival and perseverance despite everything was something i decided to replicate (if ricky dahlia can survive all that, so can i!) i continued to live as a way to thank him and the cast for what they've gone through and how they helped me, and i will give him the happy ending he deserves because he's why i reached mine in the first place! whether i remain fixated on starstruck/kirby or not (which i probably will, considering this is also technically the 5-year anniversary post for starstruck itself and the hyperfixation has not wavered once), it will never ever change the fact that ricky is the most beloved, important character i ever created. may he and i see many more years together. ❤❤❤

NOW. here's a collection of all the ricky bday art from over the years put together! its very nice seeing how both my art improved and also how ricky's design has somewhat changed over the years. would normally be very embarrassed posting such old art. but its in the name of celebrating ricky, so i can tolerate it. 😊

1️⃣. first birthday

2️⃣. second birthday

3️⃣. third birthday

4️⃣. fourth birthday

that's all for this post now, considering it's already super long 😅 ricky is just one of the most important things in my life, and the fact that 1. it's now been a whole 5 years/half a decade since he came into existence, and 2. i'm actually alive to witness it is. kind of a big deal to me. so you all have to deal with me being particularly obnoxious about him, cause if it weren't for him, i would not be here. anyways... until next year. I LOVE ALL OF YOU, AND I ESPECIALLY LOVE YOU, RICKY GREENDOWN DAHLIA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 💚💚💚🦇🦇🦇

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ricky dahlia my MAIN kirby oc who I DONT EVEN POST.

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finally posting starstruck's staple doggirl... i am so fake i call myself doggirling yet i dont post my main dog lady </3

this is minnie ✌️ a star warrior who took in ricky and raised him for over a decade after he ran away from home (at the request of his big sister, mallory, who she was dating). following an... unfortunate incident that forced ricky to leave her behind presumably for dead, she was found and rescued by sir arthur + co and joined his post-war team once they realized she was a star warrior. serves as the team's jack of all trades, but usually does mechanic/engineering work alongside galahad. while she's loyal and focused on her duties, she does still try to search for ricky's whereabouts whenever she can.

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drawing on my pc w/ my wacom for the first time in forever since im not gonna have my laptop charger for a bit... so ms paint ricky time :3 👍 (gijinka AND normal mode)

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actually locked in and used my brain neurons and made a ricky kin onion after like. forever. fun stuff. can only truly be achieved after like 5 straight years of psychoanalyzing an oc on a regular basis

template drive here + small guide for how it works

also listing the characters below. in case anyone is curious about whos who

going clockwise from the center to the outer layers, starting at characters marked 1.

center (core character)

fluttershy (mlp: fim)

inner circle

koichi hirose (jjba)

isabelle (animal crossing)

lady (disney's lady and the tramp)

twilight sparkle (mlp: fim)

outer circle

bambi (disney's bambi)

alphonse elric (fullmetal alchemist)

leafpool (warrior cats)

ferncloud (warrior cats)

dovewing (warrior cats)

giorno giovanna (jjba)

shaymin (pokemon)

spottedleaf (warrior cats)

"that's a lot of warrior cats" "2/3rds of this onion are female characters"

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hazelwind and peachkit getting ready before his apprentice ceremony

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late night rickys + one singular deco

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portrait of king dedede's renowned royal librarian who needs his husband to hide his daily meds in cheese slices 💚✨🦇

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i tried making wc au ricky/hazelwind in the warrior cats mini maker and it was cute but i found the customization options to be a bit too limited ... so i decided to try making him manually hehe

comparison between the one i made on-site vs my edited one. as you can see i enjoy being quite extra. also why did the maker fuck up the nose like that

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idiot medicine cat get syruped

og pic

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Hello! i made some art of your oc Ricky. he was fun to draw, so i hope you like it :3

AOIENRMZOSJWMDMEOWUGWOWOWNLXOWANWKZOJWKWBELAO YH????1?2???!!?????

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GUYS LOOK AT WHAT OOMF DREW FOR MEEEEE @dustedferns

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not amazing stuff happened last night so going offline and immediately opening ms paint was clearly the first and best thing to do. started with arthur only using ms paints preset colors then obviously shifted to ricky considering im very excited for tomorrow and am thinking of him even more than i usually do (which is already a lot)

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terribly messy metaricky before i die again. shh guys it's date night

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2 minutes left of may 18th. happy 4th birthday to my booboo brain disorder bat 🦇🎉

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can ricky cradle a fat ass taco bell burrito like a babby

yeah man. sure