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Ice King doodles!
I love that deranged old man!!!!!!!!
Did some Human AU doodles for some of the Adventure Time Cast :) I might do PB and Marcy and some others later but I've been doing these guys on and off for a little while now so I wanted to post them!!
So, with the knowledge that the Magic Crown was imbued with the Wish to make its wearer into a clone of Urgence Evergreen
It becomes quite clear that the mental transformation of Simon Petrikov into Ice King was less of a direct effect of the Crown, but rather an indirect result of its various side-effects.
Simon lost his original interest in academia and research as a result of the Crown’s Madness clawing away at his Memory. Obviously the loss of his long-term memories straight-up made him forget the things he once loved and the things he once learned. And the degradation of his short-term memory made it hard for him to ever re-learn anything he has forgotten.
Other effects of the Magic-Madness-Fueled mental deterioration included an ever-shortening attention span and general childishness - both of which made it hard for him to pursue the sort of academic research that was once his bread and butter.
Meanwhile, Simon’s Sadness of losing Betty had metamorphosed through both memory loss and delusion into an obsession with Princesses. And this has also led into a secondary obsession with being attractive enough to be desirable to Princesses - Filtered through Ice King’s extremely limited and somewhat immature understanding of both relationships and gender roles. Simon replaced his original intellectual pursuits with chasing a very simple image of idealized ‘sexy’ masculinity that he was… probably never capable of pulling off, let’s be honest. But especially not as Ice King, not just due to his disconnect from reality - but also due to how simplified, shallow and kinda-childish his idea of being 'manly' actually is.
One of Ice King’s biggest hobbies is exercise, body-building and weight loss - because he wants to be a muscular hunk to attract the princesses. Although with his loose grip of reality, his idea of a ‘muscular hunk’ is more of an Emaciated Hermit.
This is the most obvious example of Ice King’s obsession with his own physical appearance, but certainly not the only one.
And such, despite not being directly ‘programmed’ too, the Crown turned the nerdy, hopelessly-romantic academic Simon Petrikov into the Ice King - A goofy silly idiot obsessed with being attractive to the opposite sex and fitting into a very shallow idea of idealized gender presentation. And therefore, the Crown’s effect on Simon can be absolutory considered to be a valid form of Bimbofication.