I’m Sick So I Got Upset And Now This Guy Is Cheering Me Up!

Well good news is I’m now a year 12

Bad news is I didn’t sleep because of exams and feel absolutely bleh

I’m not dead sorry if I haven’t been posting (here and ao3)

Meet Thirteen 🧡🪸🌊

(They/it/xem - basically anything outside the gender binary)

AQUATIC DOLL AQUATIC DOLL ‼️

Creechur…

One eye and ear is fine. The other… might be recording what you say. That eye and ear intrudes on 13’s own privacy though, so the starfish can be used as an eyepatch if attached to straps :)

Those who know this character will know who this REALLY is. But how they got here and why they look like this is a mystery…

(Unless you follow my Instagram story ramblings lol)

And yes, they have legs. They’re Lagoona inspired. Kind of a mix of Lagoona Blue, Elle Eedee, and Honey Swamp, all of whom I have dolls which was awesome because 13’s a doll too! :) They’re not a Monster High doll though, they’re actually part of Destroy-A-Toy. After a gunshot goes off. But it’s fine because floridaaaaaaa

Sharing my Smaller Bodies Initiative playlists with you guys because ily and also I jam to them :)

Catnap

Listen in order for her story :) listen on shuffle for general cat pookie slay queen

This also includes hints to thinks that haven’t happened in the canon yet! The ending songs were very deliberately done :)))

Kitty’s overall vibe is “emotional baby bean who slowly turns evil”

Dogday

Doesn’t have to be in order :) for me it’s very day and very dog. It’s my boy in his pre-Destroyed era.

Doggy’s vibe is “just a wholesome guy who gets mistreated occasionally but is trying to live his best life”.

Miss Delight

She’s delightful.

I’ll see myself out 😇

As you can see from the title, this thing is a WIP and therefore is a little funky because to be honest I don’t think Miss Delight likes music…

Ollie

This phone is my absolute comfort character. You don’t understand how serotonin this stupid little high-pitched battery-spitting maniac gives me

I know he isn’t a super main character in the canon… but…

I am attached VIOLENTLY to this kid. Him. HIM. Little phone man

Ollie’s vibe is “I don’t know what the fuck I’m doing lol”

HOUR OF JOY

DEATH MUSIC DEATH MUSIC RAWAAAAAAAARRRRRRR

It’s for when I actually have to write the event so I can get sufficiently death-y.

Enjoy!!! :D

I’m curious…

Its reception is definitely different to Chapter 3’s. So far what I’m getting:

Everyone loves Doey

Pianosaurus deserved better (yes he did)

Prototype reveal was awesome

Everyone hates Poppy and loves Kissy

The Doctor sucked and barely showed up

OC art! This is Qibs!

She’s a Holland lop bunny who can’t hear or speak. She forgives herself for her disability.

Her inspiration was from actual lops - many truly are hearing-impaired because rabbit ears are not designed to flop in that position. The canals in the ears can decay over time. Qibs’ ears were so large and heavy that she lost her hearing.

She is Australian and speaks using Auslan, or Australian Sign Language. Her name is pronounced “Kibs”.

Kitty art!

Daytime variant:

Nighttime variant:

Also, Kitty got a glow up!

Okay you know what I’m. Gonna share some DAT Ollie lore here!

(DAT means Destroy-A-Toy. It’s literally the Smaller Bodies Initiative AU but four years into the future and on a stage)

Aight so my little bugger looks like this

I have their full body too but the phone child is currently being beastly and is making my art style do the conga

Anyhoos!! Here are some things about this particular phone child

Their name is Ollie Playtime and they’re Poppy’s (adopted?) sibling

The phone child actually isn’t a child! That’s an experiment who got transformed AS a child and is now stuck looking like that 😭 they’re actually 18 in the time of the AU and 28 in the time of canonical gameplay

This foul foul beast was a precursor to Poppy - a test subject to see how it would go creating a female doll body. Problem is they used a male test subject. Thanks for giving my little baby gender dysphoria

Despite saying everything with a cutesy wootsy voice, Ollie is pretty angry and volatile due to their treatment/situation

Little stinker was meant to run the phone lines (as a CHILD mind you) just to answer help calls, but that turned awry when Ollie got so mad at Playtime Co. they got on the phone and threatened to leak their experiments to the nearest news hotline

Long story short they’re now a staff member! Security and Communications Head!

Here’s a friendly depiction of Ollie interacting peacefully with the other staff:

(This Harley Sawyer design is by @purewavelengthsoflight! Because it’s super cool!! I want to change it more but I have to practice drawing men first. I’m so used to drawing feminine people I accidentally gave Harley a manicure in my first draft. Anyways Purewav has art block right now and needs motivation!! Everyone throw pencils!!! /lh)

Ignore how the fingers turned out, I was tweaking at the time.

Anyhoossss!! So the funny playtime monster creechur is a main character in a thing I’m writing. DAT’s plot is Playtime Co. decided “oh yeah looks like our toys are finally well made enough to be shown publicly” and they’re carted off to the Theatre to cause an incident. Ollie, being on the staff, went “oh hell no” and forcibly parked their botty boo as the tour guide so they can control how the toys are treated. Cause they do NOT want all these gorgeous little beans to become angry like them.

It’d be more noble if they didn’t give Elliot Ludwig alcohol poisoning on purpose

Anyways, that’s my funny phone child! Or what I can think of right now :)

I haven’t posted that “POV you’re just a little hater” art yet so thanks for reminding me 💀

Links to this AU are found on my intro post and it’s AO3 exclusive, and maybe soon I’ll have the free time to actually finish the next chapter

Me upon realising I’m not the only one who loves Ollie:

Whoever’s out there who also loves that phone child. Please. Can we be moots

My name is Qibs I would love to talk to you 🥺 👉👈

I’m uh. Also. An AU creator. Whose Ollie is their own character. Who I love. A lot. And want to share more. Without feeling sad. Ollie fans where

I’ve got this goofy as interaction in my head of Doey meeting Ollie 😭 I’m gonna draw it later but it’s like

“O-oh, um, pleasure to meet you, Mr. Playtime-!”

“OOP- please, sugar, just call me Ollie. Lovely to meet you too :3”

“What’s… they/them… OH!! YOU’RE - you’re plural too?!”

“Wait, no, I’m just non-binary-”

“KEVIN ARE YOU HEARING THIS??? I TOLD YOU WE WEREN’T THE ONLY ONE-”

And. Like. There’s an allocated panic corner at the Toy Tour. And they’re just both there mutually tweaking and trauma dumping about their parents 😭

How Toys Work (Smaller Bodies Initiative)

Note: this is mostly for friends in my Discord server who haven't read the series, but it can be to anyone interested! :)

In my AU, there are TWO TYPES of toys: Smaller Bodies and Bigger Bodies.

SMALLER BODIES are under five feet tall.

BIGGER BODIES are five feet or over.

The reason the story's called the Smaller Bodies Initiative is because, in the canon, all living toys are grouped into the "Bigger Body" category... I think. There are other living toys who are small but they're never explained. For me, those are my Smaller Bodies.

Here are some base facts that apply to EVERY TOY, regardless of their initiative:

Toys are created by dissecting a living creature and rewiring the body parts into a different body, thus reanimating it. This is possible because the Innovation Department disregards ethics and therefore makes staggering scientific progress without the burden of moral rules.

Toys can be made from multiple people if body parts are insufficient.

Toys do not remember their past lives. They do not inherently know their names or anything they've done previously. They often believe their first life is their toy life.

Toys are often disabled because the reconstruction process is complicated and improbable.

Due to being raised within the factory, toys are unaware that their surroundings and circumstances are extremely alarming.

Toys' point of view is confined to what they've been told. Outside information is restricted, similar to a concentration camp or dictatorial society.

Toy memories can be triggered if unconsciously reminded of something significant in their life, or by imperceptibly responding to their real name without understanding why. Toys are unaware of the true reason for this and it has been brushed aside as another mental condition resulting from their construction process.

There is only ONE TOY who breaks these rules. That's Ollie, and that's because Ollie was manufactured by modifying an existing body instead of taking apart and piecing together a new one.

Every other toy abides by these!

@ratmare-catnap @idiotsmart1 @thewaxingcrescentsjournal @purewavelengthsoflight @daydreamer36 @kittymuffins374 +moots :)

Bestie’s new and improved token art!! Here’s how it holds up against the old one:

Difference: six months of studying and practice!

Improvements:

Clothing folds

BEYOND insane colour palette improvement

Shading/rendering for the colour layer, including tiny dots in the shadows for depth

Experimenting with gradients on the lineart layer

Better idea of shape and direction - feet clearly flow out, hair is obviously curly

Joints that are built-in instead of being drawn onto normal legs last-minute

PROPORTIONS. I'm not sure how, but for this one it's very obvious Ollie has a small(er lol) body, and it would be easy to mistake them as a kid while wearing kidcore.

Expressions/visual communication with personality

Trying to get them (Ollie) on a keychain. :3