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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 !

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~ Curious items ~ *Shyly slides out from under my rock with my first attempts at pixelart* Decided to give one of my favourite games of all time some love T3T Such curious little items. Precious artefacts of the past.

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~ The heckin tension ~ They're very normal about their attraction. Their communication is almost exclusively through looks and gestures. While drawing this I might have made myself giggle at the notion of anyone rounding a corner and seeing this.. then slowly backing away.

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~ Steppe kisses ~ I've been wanting to draw my lad Hazelnut getting to give Vlad some love for forever! He is here to try and lift this man's self esteem no matter what. He is nothing but pure determination and chaos!

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~ Peak romance ~ Bos might have heard or read somewhere, once upon a time, that the act of carrying a person you've got feelings for is considered an act of romance. So why not try it out? Me and @nattravn-art have done it again, made a little joke event in our Pathologic RP and then the ball just gets rolling from there and suddenly a blossoming romance between two of the most emotionally guarded people in town is happening! Pose inspired by @albanenechi's pose suggestions!

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~ Hazelnut ~ Finally got around to drawing the twin brother of my herbbride oc Chestnut! Same energetic attitude. Head empty, only chaos. Left his life on the steppe for the town when he made the choice to transition. Fell in with Bad Grief's gang. His energy certainly made the work around the warehouse a bit more interesting! Rumours says there's something between him and Vlad the younger ( ・ิω・ิ)