Happy Birthday To @random-meme-bot! :D

Happy birthday to @random-meme-bot! :D

[Ramble under the cut!]

This drawing is actually based on this draw the squad. I haven't done a draw the squad since 2018 so this was a fun throwback!!

Ngl this is probably ooc on Dan's part cuz I have no idea how to explain what he's doing but the mental image of it was so funny to me that I couldn't resist-

Trucy is complimenting Elly's ponytail and going "You should wear a ponytail more often." and Elly is all oblivious just like "Uh. Thanks??"

I told ya I'd draw Elly with a ponytail so that the earrings would be visible!! I told ya!! >:D ✨

I tried my best at making Elly's hair look messy but still coherent, took me a few tries to get the ponytail to look right-

The lil ahoge is supposed to be a question mark cuz she's confused! I also added freckles cuz I loved the idea of it from that one sticker design-

I made Trucy's hair larger!! I also did the detailed anime eye thing for her again cuz I like it lmao

Yeah I went a lil off model with her eyelashes but I think it looks pretty!

I also screwed up the direction in which her little gloves thingies are facing but I noticed that after I finished the drawing-

I was gonna make them transparent but they ended up looking better this way-

Also I thought of this meme a while ago but I forgot about it up until now:

And ye that's it I hope ya like it! :>

Milo Intro

[Character info is under the cut.]

Milo is a character that would've been in Making Fiends ever since the web series. He'd also be present from Season 1 of the Nickelodeon show and onwards.

Milo is one of Clamburgs unfortunate residents, and also Maggie's brother.

Maggie and Milo have the same, depressing world view, but they choose to cope with it differently. While Maggie does it through writing poetry, Milo does it with a different form of writing.

Jokes! Writing jokes, to be specific.

Before Vendetta took over Clamburg, he had the dream to become a comedian. But due to the strict rules that Vendetta implemented, he's unable to make jokes.

Why? Because they make people laugh.

And Vendetta hates any form of happiness that isn't her own.

So, now he only makes jokes that are more depressing/concerning than funny, so that they make no one laugh.

That would also be his main role in the show:

Saying dark humor one liners that flew over the heads of the little kids that were watching.

He's making the most out of what he can have.

...even if it has 20 layers of sarcasm coated around it.

He's pretty much just in a bad/tired mood in general, and always pessimistic, ready to point out the downside of any situation whether it's necessary or not. His comments tend to drain people, and they make them question things too much for their own good. Even when he may not mean any harm, he's always got this intimidating and strict aura around him that causes most people to dislike him, but they still take him seriously.

One gag regarding his character is that he's surprisingly lucky. Vendetta's attacks usually miss him, no matter how precise she may have initiated them. Thing is, at this point he doesn't care anymore. He'd usually just sit completely still as something flies by him at max speed, his only reaction being to take another sip of his coffee.

On the subject of coffee, he's a coffee addict. Most of his scenes include him with a cup of it, sometimes he pulls it out of thin air, which is another gag.

While his role in Season 1 and in a hypothetical Season 2 isn't very prominent, that'll change in hypothetical Seasons 3 and 4, since his role would change from background character to antagonist.

Here's the transparent versions of the drawings:

Piper Intro

Part #2

The thing with her as a character, is that she basically has two different sides to her that don't seem like they'd be the same character at first glance. In her first post I went into the stereotypically angry side, because every tadc character is supposed to be seen as a stereotype at first, now let's get into the other one.

Piper is a bit of a nerd when it comes to some things. She spends most of her free time in the circus conducting various experiments trying to answer the most random of questions about the digital world. Sometimes these experiments end up being useful, but they most often just serve as a tool for Piper to pass the time since she has nothing better to do. She's aware that she could ask Caine about it, but then she'd get the answer too quickly, and that just ruins the fun.

She keeps notes/folders of these experiments in her room all alphabetically organized in a giant cabinet. She always carries around a notepad and a pencil in case something noteworthy happens during the adventures. She's generally interested in things one would consider boring.

Even though she spent so much time in the circus, she can't get used to the sheer unpredictability of it. She can't help but just be confused as to how or why something is happening.

Is very bad at comforting people, but she feels bad for them so she always has awkward attempts trying to make them feel better. It usually makes things worse even though that's not the intention. Isn't the best at social situations in general.

Doesn't like physical touch, has to keep reminding the others a lot to not touch her. Her reasoning behind the dislike is that it's unsanitary. Her disgust sensitivity is pretty high. (It doesn't make a difference that it's all digital, she can feel disgusted and uncomfortable anyways.)

When she's angry her strength and speed increase. Otherwise she's not very strong or fast. In her running animation she'd be slightly behind everyone else.

She has a drawer with an endless amount of bubble pipes in her room, and she keeps a few of them in the pockets of her dress. The dress also has a white petticoat/underskirt underneath.

Has a soft spot for sweets and pastries (especially anything with cherries or chocolate cake). Has a hard time rejecting them from Bubble... sometimes she doesn't, even though she made a rule for herself to not accept anything from him.

Her fingers are surprisingly sharp and can scratch and cut through an impressive and concerning array of things if she tries hard enough. This isn't very useful since she sometimes damages things on accident.

Is afraid of heights, but you can scare her pretty easily with anything else too. 

Her favorite meal is a burger with fries, and she likes herbal teas, especially chamomile tea.

Adding these ideas by @random-meme-bot to the post as well cuz I just gotta:

Small, but important Charlie design and lore change!

From now on, any drawing I made of her where she has both eyes is not canon anymore. For those where her hat is covering it, just assume that she has this going on underneath:

If I ever draw a design I made for her again, I'll just slightly redesign it to cover the eye somehow.

The eye patch doesn't cover the whole scar, so Charlie puts a little bit of makeup at the part that sticks out, just in case.

[Further explanation under the cut!]

These eye patches are worn for the sake of keeping dust out of the eye to protect it from infections, and it serves as protection against the sun.

Charlie can still open her eye, but the socket is empty.

The fact that Charlie lacks an eye now serves as an explanation as to why she has troubles during her stealing shenanigans, and in life in general.

To name a few:

Given that people living with one eye likely have both a limited field of vision and challenges with depth perception, they may find themselves tripping, falling, or bumping into things more frequently than before.

Thing is, she hasn't developed coping strategies or done any exercises to retrain her working eye, she really should, but yeah, lore reasons don't make that possible. Charlie's a 12 year old that hasn't seen a doctor in ages, she doesn't know any better.

[Credit for the medical info.]

(I listed the issues that Charlie experiences the most, she does occasionally experience some of the other stuff on the website too.)

And in classic Charlie fashion, she plays it all off in a cool, "I got a badass scar" kinda way... at least, whenever someone somehow actually gets to see it. She's pretty insistent on keeping her hat and eye patch on, (this doesn't apply for cc au Charlie) in the show her without her hat would be as much of a mystery as Skid and Pump without their costumes. Hatless Charlie would preferably never be shown until a special episode happens, but yeeeeeah I pretty much blew the surprise, since I settled on this lore recently.

Making people wonder how she lost her eye is a favorite activity of hers, because she comes up with new weird unhinged lies each time.

[Credit for this idea!]

Here are some of them:

"I sneezed too hard that one time."

"Dad had to take something in the divorce."

"I ran out of money at the store."

"I lost a bet."

"I picked dare."

And yeah, that's it. That's all I'm gonna tell ya.

BIG thank you/shout-out to @beesofink for helping me with the design of this oc, Bee came up with the fanny pack! 🩵

CJ Intro

[Character info is under the cut.]

CJ is a character that would be introduced in a hypothetical Season 3 of Making Fiends, as Charlotte's older brother who, unknowingly as to what's going on in Clamburg due to not receiving any letters or calls from his grandma or sister since Vendetta doesn't allow it outside of Clamburg, moved to Clamburg after finally being done with, according to Charlotte, "Space Camp".

CJ has the same happy and optimistic attitude that both of his other family members have, but unlike Charlotte, he's fully aware about Vendetta's intentions. Instead of telling her about it or trying to convince her of the truth, for the sake of Charlotte's fragile heart, he decided to play along with the situation, while making sure that everyone and especially Charlotte, survive Vendetta's traps.

He usually does this throughout coming up with some sorta plan, that usually seems like utter nonsense that won't work at first.

He keeps the most random of objects in his fanny pack, some useful others nonsensical. It's an ongoing gag that he pulls out objects out of it that wouldn't realistically fit into it, or the exact random object that is needed at that moment.

For the residents of Clamburg his arrival was first met with, "There's two of them now??" but eventually people grew to appreciate his efforts, making him well liked by almost everyone.

To lighten up the mood, he often says dad jokes and puns that are silly enough as to where they can at least put a smile on your face if nothing else. Sometimes he's also the "straight" man for whatever kinda shenanigans Charlotte is up to.

The main gag regarding his character is that he's a pretty normal guy reacting to this very weird town, who doesn't know any better besides just rolling with whatever new anomaly he sees today.

A giant red cat just casually sitting there? Alright I guess that's a thing now good to know.

His optimism is seemingly endless, he always finds at least something to be happy about no matter how bad the situation, but he never makes it up.

Still, not everything goes according to plan.

Not every joke lands.

He has a bit of a "saying things he didn't mean to say out loud out loud" problem.

Some social interactions can get pretty awkward when he runs out of ideas.

Vendetta obviously doesn't like him and subjects him to the things SHE finds funny out of spite since he's breaking the "No jokes." rule and probably many other rules. Usually him getting hurt in some way.

His luck generally ain't the best, he tends to get hurt on sheer accident, hence why he always has bandages on random areas of his body. Another gag would be that he gets hit with Vendetta's attacks even if they couldn't have logically hit him of all people in the room.

But, hey. He has to make the most of it since he's not getting out of the town anytime soon, so he gets up and keeps on a smile, for everyone's, and especially Charlotte's sake.

And now that he's finally here again, new hijinks shall ensue!

Here's the transparent versions of the drawings:

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First of all, this is already the second animation you've made for me Jesus Christ RMB you put so much effort into these and it's very apparent-

Bro Piper is like dissociating rethinking who knows what meanwhile Pomni and Jax are experimenting :'D

Piper is like those dogs and cats that are asleep but they still eat the food that the person puts in front of them lmao

I'm just imagining the aftermath of this after Piper snaps out of it:

*eating cookie*

"Eh, a little too hard for a cookie if you ask me."

"..."

"...wait, why on earth are you two doing this-"

It's good that Piper didn't realize that Jax of all people touched her head, otherwise it wouldn't be pretty-

IS THAT KINGER IN THE BACKGROUND WITH A MIC??? THE BUBBLE AND THE OTHER STUFF THAT FELL OUT THE HAT?? THE BOOTLEG CAINE PLUSHIE?? PFFFFFFFTTTTTT I LOVE THIS- :'DD

The attention to detail is very cute!! :D

I like the way you drew Pomni and Jax too!! It's very cute as well!! :DD

Especially their reactions!! :>

Thank you so much for this!!! Don't worry about the lip syncing, it's great as it is!! 🖤🤍🖤🤍🖤

Happy (late) Birthday @glitch-pep!!

I really wanted to have this lil animation finished for yout birthday, but unfortunatley class happened...

First time doing mouth animation so it's a bit wonky (have an earlier version that was too fast and I don't know if I overcorrected...), but I hope you like it anyway.

It's based on this of course.