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~Petya ~ Local trash opossum found eating entire rotisserie chicken in the kitchen at 2 am. Read all about it :D My man Petya over here been through some real eldritch horror bullshit and was thanked by one of the eldritch gods going "i like this one, boop, now you have a higher paranormal sense" :D. Works for Gretel by gathering occult artefacts. She usually says she has no idea how he even makes it back alive, if his accounts of how he gets them are truthful that is. Another one where the original custom design was made by Hyène!

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~ Gretel ~ Meet the busiest business woman in town! Running the family business of hotels and restaurants with a fair but iron grip. Me and @nattravn-art are slowly working away at a new RP universe and populating it accordingly :D Gretel was originally designed by the super talented Hyène (Please go check their stuff out!)

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~ Pepper ~ Sent into the woods. Didn't follow the path. Came back with a brand new perspective on the paranormal. Pepper has left the safety of his community on the outskirts of town, no longer feeling welcome after his encounter in the woodlands. Now he's trying his best to find a new purpose in town. Pepper's original design was once again a custom adoptable done by Hyène!

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~ Your local builder ~ Finally got around to draw Mar in her Sandrock appearance. Still keeping that she's a mermaid who said "fuck this" and decided to walk around with the humans. This also means that she is rather socially awkward and doesn't really pick up on all these human etiquette rules. She's brash, bold and have zero fucks to give. If I could play her accurately there would be a riot within a week at the builders office as she would swear to dethrone Yan at every turn. She ends up in a sweet but a bit socially awkward romance with Zeke (please, please, I need this man so badly! He is the best and I adore him!).

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~ Once upon a time... ~ Crawling into the new year and giving Frank some much needed love in the form of fanart. I've so many projects that I wish to do based around quotes from other video games I adore that just align so well with Rusty Lake characters. This one from Rule of Rose really just embodies poor Frank and his ordeal throughout life. Feel totally justified in giving this man some much needed peace of mind and stability in our Rusty Lake AU T3T

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~ Ho ho Holy shit what a year ! ~ Grief and Vitu trying to get some rest in between the festivities at the hotel. They're both exhausted. They deserve a raise so badly! Rounding out this year with another little piece of holiday art of mine and @nattravn-art's Rusty Lake oc's <3

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~ Decorating the tree ~ Holiday scenes for mine and @nattravn-art's Rusty Lake characters. Tree decoration is very important: specially for someone like Murray who never had the luxury to celebrate the holidays when he was a child. And believe me, in our headcanon this is not the only tree in the Vanderboom house. There probably is a tree twice its size somewhere. Please do not ask exactly where or how Frank found it ;)

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~ The tiny alchemist ~ A strong mind. Will beyond her years. Mysteries waiting to be solved. Rosalind picks up the family heritage of alchemy, dwelling deep into its secrets with full conviction. Fun fact: The Sefirot in the background was also a light callback to my love for the Haunting ground series in which this motif appears in the Variatio Machina. The flower Rosalind is holding is also inspired by the fresh flower found in the same game. My love for Haunting Ground absolutely melts into this depiction of my girl and her journey down the path of an alchemist.

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~ Rosalind and Agnes ~ Somehow it slipped my mind to post this drawing of the girls that I made all the way back in June when I re-designed them for mine and @nattravn-art's Rusty Lake AU. Could never bring myself to fully detached them from their Rule of Rose origin so I still very much kept that they were from Rose Garden Orphanage. AU rambling under the read more!

Rosalind, or Rosie for short, gets adopted by Murray and Frank. Known as a troublemaker and being far too spirited for her own good, it takes her a good amount of time to warm up to the idea that anyone wanted to be her father. Throughout her life she has a running joke of asking them if she was simply adopted as "part of the Agnes package deal". Believes that being a detective is like the Noir novels she's read and is very disappointed that neither her father nor his co workers will share any wild stories with her. Agnes becomes the adopted daughter of Henri and Leonard. She's incredibly reserved and an over achiever. Having lived a few years in a privileged household before her parents very messy divorced in which neither wanted parental rights over her, she learnt to play the piano and also did ballet. These are two things she picks up once she is moved into the Vanderboom household. Becomes known as her fathers little shadow, liking to follow them around at times just to see what they're up to, an act that she does so silently she has spooked them more than once. This AU is domestic fluff, because by all the gods I need the Rusty Lake characters, to have some happiness :;)

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~ Family tree ~ A new life. A new child. Another leaf on the family tree. Agnes ends up picking up her grandmothers talent for fortune telling, treasuring her crystal ball more than anything. Been wanting to draw so much more of her and Rosalind as me and @nattravn-art continue to shape our Rusty Lake AU.

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~ Curious items II ~

My hubris got the better of me and I decided to give some love to Haunting Ground by trying out some pixel art drawing of some of its items. Didn't realise until looking for refs how compressed the original games icons for those items were xD. I miss this game so much, was kind of therapeutic to draw these and just connect with it again.

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~ Dancing to blow off steam ~ One of the few ways in which Foxglove blows off all that stress is by going out dancing. She doesn't tell anyone about this, feeling a bit embarrassed at it and once the rest of her colleagues finds out it takes her a moment to fully open up about it. Afterwards it becomes tradition for them all to get together and go out dancing, seeing as it is one of the few things which brings real joy to her life.

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~ Chocolate for the postman ~ Everyone needs a pick me up and Mugi is here to deliver them. What do you mean they're the expensive chocolates that mysteriously went missing from Mr Owl's desk. ( ・ิω・ิ) Postman belongs to @crrr-lake ! I absolutely love his design, he's magnificent and I adore him T3T

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~ Our get along shirt ~ Look me and @nattravn-art's Rusty Lake AU stuff is very very serious. All jokes aside we play up the sibling rivalry between Jakob and David a lot and couldn't help ourselves. Not depicted is the detectives helping Elizabeth wrestling them into the shirt. Also yes, freckled Jakob because we can not be stopped from giving the Eilander siblings freckles :)

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~ Once upon a time... ~ Perhaps there was a lad who tried to make you laugh. Who tried to fill your life with song to make it easier... Mine and @nattravn-art's Rusty Lake AU is going places oh boy! For those who are interested in some rambling there is more under the read more, just know that this is me right now:

I've long since planned to add some time shenanigans for my oc Murray (this magnificent red haired lad). And we've been talking back and forth with ideas for a long while and slowly it merged into this idea of him having lived back in the time of Paradise, crossing ways with Jakob before his final trip back to his families island. This crossing of paths and one fateful decision to try and head for Paradise himself is what has thrown him completely out of time and space itself. Perhaps he is a reincarnation way into the future? Or the same soul? Who knows when Rusty Lake time shenanigans is a play? Slowly puzzling it all together while crumbling under the pressure of two friendly souls once torn apart reuniting somewhere else in time completely.

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~ Art summary 2024 ~ What a year it has been. Feel like I've been run over by a steam roller but still here! Hoping that I'll embrace the hyper focuses next year as much as I have done this one <3 Template done by: papakkapao

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~ Rusty Lakes silliest detectives ~ Had to draw mine and @nattravn-art's lads again to heal my soul. Our chronically exhausted lads just being silly. Also known as: That moment when you might be the one who is somehow behind the conspiracy to make sure everyone takes out their well earned vacation. And that moment when your colleagues might have found you making out with the most handsome man in all of Rusty Lake in a corner of the bar. Love them so much I can't !