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What kind of dates do Io and Collin go on?? I want the deets 💥💥💥

The sorts of dates we go on heaaavily depends on... the kids... Like, well, duh, but! We don't like being away from them too much. When we're away for too long, we tend to... dwell on them, and how... we're without them... oh... so, we talk about them... perhaps thinking fondly of their snarky remarks or of something they did that was absolutely ridiculous... Ohhh! It's so easy for me to fall into bringing gifts home to, to compensate, it feels so cruel enjoying things without them! Collin is the voice of reason, but I think... it's a facade... he seems to give in so easily! Ack!

So! Our dates often involve the whole family! Collin enjoys bringing us out for picnics and strolls alongside the prettiest beaches. He was particularly excited about these activities upon our return from PNF-404, as I recall him mentioning it a few times in passing during our expeditions.

Howeverrrr...

When we'd like a little more... privacy... oh, we escape to a romantic dinner and taaalllk, and talk, and talk. By talk, I mean we fliiirrrtt, and flirt, and flirt... saying everything we would liiike to say everyday, hehe, well, of course when there are no small, precious ears around! That and, for such a fancy occasion, we try for a special little drink or two.

After thaaat, we impulsively explore the closest staaar systems, galaxieees, you name it, visiting whatever our IGPS picks up as "fascinating"; for example, this odd planet with... an assortment of bewildering drinks. The bottle was pretty! It had a flexible, leathery feel, but glimmered like the stars. I absolutely HAD to taste it! Collin seemed indifferent... or, repulsed... he was trying to be polite, I think.

We're able to go on these little getaways thanks to Collin's parents, aha! Though, our little Orchid gets too antsy when we're away for too long...

God Bless!

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Smile for your picture! NASA's Mission to Psyche, the spacecraft headed for the metal-rich asteroid turned its aim towards our home planet and tested its cameras by photographing the Earth. Now about 180 million miles away, the mission to Psyche will receive a gravity assist from Mars in May 2026 before heading for the distant asteroid, set to arrive in 2029.

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Meal tray assemblies, STS-8

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Collin working onboard the S.S. Shepherd and his little rookie Io is there to assist! 🌼💙

I'm confident she would get just as dirtied up working at his side, as he is her instructor .o.,

ALSOOOO! The original is posted below annnnnd underneath the keep reading, because why not LOLOL

God Bless!

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HEUEHUWHEHE 1 YEAR ANNIVERSARY OF THE FIRST!! COLLIO POST!! COMING UPPPPP!!! ⭐🚀🌼💙

A little thing... Collin working on some machinery and Io cleaning up after him (specifically just him) to help in anyway she can!

Plus, an alt. vers of the doodle, debating on colors and shading!

God Bless!

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Summer's the right time for making mistakes, I'm here at your place when I shouldn't be ⭐

io seems to get smaller and smaller every time I draw her... WHOOPS

God Bless!

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Purple Pikmin blinkies for @scrombly23 !

I tried for a new blinkie animation and it's preeeeeeetty subtle but simple enough if you'd like some bling! ANNND I've been WAY into pixel art lately and!!! WHAPAM, sleepy purple pikmin attack! Go my beauties!

individual pixels for the banner under the read more!!

God Bless!

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What kind of tasks does Io enjoy doing? Does she make friends everywhere she goes?

Io loves to work with the technical and mechanical workings of the S.S Shepherd! Anything to do with tech and all, like all the wires and electrical doodads lying underneath... she's fascinated with it! However, the next best thing is regular maintenance - a task she's appropriately assigned to as the rookie - which is to wash the interior and exterior of the ship and scrub her jet exhausts of any debris/buildup!

As for friends, Io gets along better with the pikmin easier than she does the other officers or castaways! Io is actualllly pretty introverted, merely adopting the most appropriate and amicable conduct for any social interaction. Though, this often backfires as she sports a profound awkwardness.

Only one officer has actually witnessed Io ... be normal... and that was when they were on a separate mission, working within close proximity aboard the S.S. Beagle. This is WAYYY outside of her comfort-zone; however, the mission was an opportune chance for more hands-on experience with the technicalities of the Rescue Corps spacecraft...annnnnd she was surrounded with pikmin! Regardless of their circumstances, Io's heart swelled with excitement and she sprung to life; for her fellow officer, Collin, it was simply impossible to ignore!

God Bless!

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Collin: Io! Why are you so small?

Io: *GIGGLING LIKE!! A SILLY! SILLY! GIRL!* You're hoooooot.

Collin: I'm sorry?

additional yap under the read more if you're really curious about my girlish genius, if you dare

God Bless!

ft. doodle i thought was funneh

Mind you... Collin did noooot need this design for me to find him oh so handsome, I... no, guys, you... listen, listen, my GOSH, is it his personality? I've been playing Pikmin 4 a LOT lately and he goes, "Yessiree!"... loooong exhalleee... and he keeps going "!! it's tug-of-war time!! and?? it's throw time!!!" he's.. A CORNBALL BUT it's like he literally just developed an 8 pack of abs and arms for days, non-skipping leg day, walking glass of WATER with ice and a lemon in it and a little umbrella and I just SPLASH it over my face - he's SO FINE and I'm Specifically talking about him as his little iddy biddy-self, those SHOULDERS! he doesn't KNOOOOWW! I could wiggle his little ears and pinch his cute, rosey cheeks for EVER! OKAY. And, since you've made it this far? HE'S! HOT! HE'S A MAAAAAN! This is CRAZY to say because, 1) soy lesbiana and 2) like, okay, okay, I got man trauma leave me 'lone... there's a certain viiiibe and all regarding masculine figuressss, IT JUST HAPPENS. So, it's like, what is it with this one? Huh? Huh? Earlier, the fun-size Collin designs were difficult for me to stomach a liiiiittle bit because, it's just a tricky thing to navigate...but, He MAKES ME FEEL SAFE so !!!! I'm gonna MAKE HIM A FAATHHHHEEEERRR OF A GAJILLION, BILLION, BABAIESSS AND, BY EXTENSION, just be an overall really good and GODLY WIFE he's gonna be so blessed and happy.... -_- like, canon;

Collin: Io, oh Io, dear, I'm so happy and satisfied with life, with you! Huzzah!

and Io is like, "caaaallled it 😎🌼"

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@ selfshippers what was your honest first impression of your main f/o

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Collin watching Io stretch 💙🌼 I knew the Rescue Corps acknowledged you walking near by, but it was a surprise that they followed these motions, too!

ft. Captain Shepherd glancing over... she's so cute I CAN'T

God Bless!

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All my PIKMIIIN attacks this year!

God Bless!

In order, Bruce and Lily, @valeriewarrior137, @usersillystraw, @hauntedlupine, Sov!

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INHALE EXHALE INHALE EXHALE

YES YES YES!!! YESSS!!

i’m so glad artfight is like over (well, at least for me bc i have a full time job [L]) so i can focus on drawing things for myself guilt free 💅🏽

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I'm so overwhelmed with joy for all the support Io and Collin receive! Especially in art... dude, don't - okay, don't get me started - but I've found I have some... difficultly breathing because of it? I get wayyy too happy...is this normal? Google, is this normal?

Like ,,, dude .... I'm in my heaad a looot , so when other people LIKE this thing as much as I do!! I'm like....... I feel my breathing getting lighter just imagining it, hold on??? It blows me AWAY

(not to mention when my sister attacked me on artfight - I.... actually spent the whole day too nervous to waTCH IT LMAOO But dude, when I did, we even watched it together, but later that same NIGHT I was sitting DOWN and, needed to lean on the wall to CALM MY BREATHING)

HAVE NO IDEA WHAT IT IS, but, this... it's not an anxiety attack, so I'm THRILLED AND DELIGHTED

Ohhhhh, truly, trrullyyy, thank you guys.... you're such a blessing to me, you don't understand ;_; I'm gonna try to not rile myself up... for breathing purposes LOOOLLLLL but, hahaaaa, you guys truly take my breath away HA. HAAAAAA, LOL

God Bless!

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🚀⭐COLLIO 1 YEARRRRR ⭐🚀

SO!! We're coming up on 1 year!! It's been a YEAR since this whole thing began between Collin and Io and I ammm delighted to tell you their story, because it's been an exciting one! 

Now, I... totaaallly recommend listening to their playlist to accommodate you on this journeyyyyy... it's a good read,... or listen to screamo, rock on... do what ya want, but,

in case ya neeeeeeed it <3

I'm celebrating, sO, SHAMELESS PLUG - ANYWAY

I walked into this relationship with nothing in mind but… oh! I've heard of Pikmin before, but… the main character, Lisa, looks a whole lot like me! SO, I KINNED HER. I was more in love with Lisa and the Pikmin more than anything else... So, my first gameplay was just me being like - NOOO, don't eat my Pikmin, SHUUSHHH COLLIN, LET ME PLAY WITH MY PIKMIN, awww, look at themm, they're so cute!

HOWEVER, when self-shipping came around, I fell first for… drumroll, please...

Louie!

Because, bECAUSE, HOLD ON, HEAR ME OUT, I was like!!! Who is this mystery character, he's so misunderstood! And thheeen, it was Olimar, because HIS VOICE IS SO HOT I'M SORRY - anyway, we ALL fall for misunderstood bad boys and dad characters, dO WE NOT? DO WE NOT. Yeaaaaah, yeaaaaaah... nO I don't feel the same way about them I - just, JUST KEEP READING. Anyway, as I was working on a comic to explore these concepts - BAM, WHAPAM!!!

(i beg to you please click the links over louie and olimar)

One morning, my wife, @batticorn, suggested a little idea… she asked:

“What if you draw Io kissing Collin?”

HM!!! I hardly considered, nor acknowledged, him prior to this, so I was like! Sure! He was … a little bit of a challenge to draw, as adopting the Pikmin style was definitely a learning curve!! But, I finished the first ever comic between them that same morning and was like!! Huh! Welp, they're kissing, that's cute! Thiiinking nothing of it. This little comic is righhht below <3

SO, BACK TO THE COMIC!!! I’m drawing it, THINKING HARD, but absentmindedly, and… ??? One panel sticks out to me, begging the question… 

WHY DOES COLLIN, SPECIFICALLY, LOOK SO CONCERNED that Io is not answering his call? Sure, it could be simply because she just got folded like an omelette at the hands of Louie… but… his eyes had something deeper I hadn't intended! Why wasn't it Olimar? Or anyone else, for that matter?

Soooo, fast forward a bit… I'm replaying Pikmin 4 endlessly, developing this new fascination with Collin! It took me by surprise just how much Collin began to mean to me! But, at the time, I was friends with someone who had self-shipped with him, too, so I drew OC X Collin art for them because… blah!!! I wanted them to have fun, too, and for the friend group to YAP about Pikmin like, no biggie,… I didn't wanna be in the way??? I guess...but I found it weighed veeeery heavy on my heart, even turning to that PAGE pulled me down. Nevertheless, I dabbled in other OC x Canon ships to pretend I wasn't falling head over heels for Collin.

Later on, for my own sake, I made a Tumblr just to have a space of my own to geek out over the Rescue Corps - that is, until, one night I found I could DEFINITELY make it all about gushing over Collin! So I DID. OOH, BOY DID I!!! IT WAS THE BEST DECISSIONN EVVAAAR! Because, bah, this was a new community - I… literally felt like the world was my oyster, man, I could just… post whatever without the fear of making someone uncomfortable. Is that how the internet works? NOT AT ALL, but it was my own space, so I didn't count on people to like… like it?

ANYWHO! Following these events, I developed a … fierce loyalty to Collin, like, because… mann, it hurt too deeply to see Io with anyone else. I even urged my wife and my sister to like!! drop other OC x Canon ships of mine because!! DUUDE, IT JUST, DIDN'T FEEL RIGHT!!

Soon, I found that these two lovers followed me from concert to concert and… I was absolutely smitten!!! Eventually, I began working on a playlist for their story… following the direction of my original comic and all!! I prayed for songs PERFECT for them and… saw the Lord's hands in every song. I didn't believe it so deeply at the time, thinking it was merely a coincidence on occasion, but… ohhh, every song just became a love letter from Abba DUUUDE. And!!! Not even THAT! But, I loved the Rescue Corps so deeply - like, it truly felt like a second home to me! I daydreamt of going to spaaace and rescuing peopleee… and for a moment, my fears of being, lol, too stupid and under qualified for the Space Force MELTED AWAY, like!! Even the Airforce! I grew up a military brat, I followed through AFJROTC. I loved marching, I was tickled being YELLED at; I loved the group pushups even though I SUCKED at them, I loved the blisters on my feet, standing in formation under the sun, the sweat, the SUCK! It SUCKED and I LOVED IT. My life REVOOOOLVED around military LOOOL. But, for once in my LIFE, I didn't think I was too stupid for it? Over this GAME? This game inspired me THAT MUCH? 

ALSO A GIFT FROM GOD!!!!

However, THAT'S WHEN…. I... dude, this is when I entered into a spiritual battle over the whole situation. I was like… a sprouting Christian. I was a Christian all my life - but recently, I had asked the Lord if I was believing wrong… and, dude, the Lord had begun to deliver me from a heavy, heavy life FROM ONE QUESTION LOOL. Overall, these were just bad times… family troubles, abuse... mental health issues, trauma/PTSD from... being a witness and all. But, I will wiggle my badge of honor that I am a survivor 😁 as hard as life tried to beat me down. My point, I was trusting the Lord to deliver me from a LOT of... real life problems.  So, Collin and Io...they were something entirely new. Did I consider anything about how they would end up? Noooo. I had a few anxieties that it would be a mere…passing fixation. Did I think the Lord cared about these two? YES, but... it wasn't on a solid foundation. Not yet. But,.... boy, I,,, did not know just how BIG His heart was for them, for me. 

ANYWAY, I DIDN'T KNOW ALL THIS AT THE TIME LOL I actually panicked when I watched a sermon that corrected me in how I should see the whole thing.

The most important thing I've learned throughout this whole year; if you don't experience PEACE when reading scripture or when listening to a sermon... you're not seeing grace and/or not hearing grace. When I heard it, instead of adopting a... "Oh, this means my Abba will fix it/help me understand" attitude... I immediately thought, "OH MY GOSH, EVERYTHING I'M DOING IS WRONG! I was so silly to dabble in this! I should've prayed more and --" ...Yeah, very... not... spirit of sonship of me...and soon I would learn how that wasn't my Father's heart for me to be so... riddled with anxiety about how He saw the situation.

That is to say, in the beginning, I struggled A LOT to understand what the Lord was showing me. BECAUSE I didn't understand the Lord's heart for me, a loooot of anxious thoughts entered in. Even passing jokes from my religiously traumatized sister (in her reflection) mentioned how people think it's a “sin” to like things so much.... inhaleeeeeeeeeeee,

I. WAS. MORRTIFIEEED.

I was like, constantly asking the Lord about it... reading His Word and,... gosh, all the words began to scare me when His Word is meant to give you peace. As it is written,

Psalm 119:103 (NKJV) How sweet are Your words to my taste, Sweeter than honey to my mouth!

and another verse to reveal the Father's heart,

John 14:27 (NKJV) Peace I leave with you, My peace I give to you; not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.

Yet, instead of focusing on whether I tasted sweetness or peace in His Word, I was constantly focused on sIN, SIN SIN; But, all the while, a small voice was begging my attention to the Name above it all. Nevertheless, in my panic, I didn’t know how that was the answer. I thought… I had to do something about it. I didn’t know what Jesus meant to this weird...odd... fictional situation. Without the lens of grace, I ended up asking myself,

“How does this glorify God at all?”

Thoughts swarmed that question alone, to say, “look at how other accounts make you feel; you're constantly afraid. You're selfish, you're a recluse, you're this, you're that” …. just everything negative. I couldn't see any good thing in myself, nor Collin and Io. I began to believe it was all a mistake, that they were a distraction and, ugh… I had been working on an animatic at the time and eventually deleted it because of these thoughts. It broke my heart to delete it, but I was convinced… what would it mean to keep it if it's just… destructive? 

I prayed constantly for the Lord to take them from me - like, I was like… beating myself up for falling in love with them, and!! I prayed these prayers like, “break my heart for what break's Yours” because I just saw it on Instagram! I didn't know what to pray!! This was some… fictional story in my head, I didn't know how serious it was or if the Lord would TAKE it as serious!!! So, one morning, I’m like… deeply upset, convinced they’re… a sin… and I’m envisioning myself placing these little, precious souls, into Jesus’ hands. Through tears, I’m naming their children, asking Him to watch over them, to keep them safely tucked away somewhere in Heaven - entirely believing I’m not meant to have them on Earth… and left it at that. For three days, I let it go. I picked up other interests, trying to forget it, but I could only see them in everything.

This silly little pair… made me dream of life in a way I never saw before, and... I had to let them go? I saw a future when just a few months ago, I thought I didn’t have a shot at life at ALL. Now? I couldn’t look up at a starry sky without seeing any purpose. Not anymore.

Dramatic? I thought I was. I urged myself to get over it… believing it would pass.

That is until, one day… My sister brought me to a cafe and offered me her IPad! I wasn’t certain of what to draw… of course, I had a thought to draw Collin and Io, but… in my heart, I fell out of love with them. It wasn’t worth another squabble of… sin-consciousness… until something convinced me to pray. Nothing made sense, I was even scared to pray, but it came… naturally… despite all the doubts, I prayed for them one last time. I wanted to see them in love one more day. That was what I thought it was going to be, anyway. I didn’t know WHAT I was getting myself into… without a glimmer of hope, or confidence, just a stroke of the pen…  I asked:

“Help me to love drawing them again…”

All for this doodle! Even when EVERY thought was convincing me of EVERYTHING wrong about it; SOMETHING was encouraging me to not let it go… even when my own heart wanted to, and chose to. Slowly but surely, this doodle turned into a short comic. I felt drawn to the song that began to play within the cafe, which was:

“When the Day Met the Night”

And… when I tell you, when the Lord answers your prayers… He likes to answer them EXCEEDINGLY AND ABUNDANTLY. Following this song, there was… this BLOOM of new and wonderful changes to their story, their… colors, their personalities, it all matched together sooo well with the night and day concept. Their relationship was becoming this rich illustration without an ounce of effort! Every romantic song that had to do with the day and the night, I thought of them. Their story unfolded right in front of my eyes in ways I could’ve NEVER imagined… 

Now, that doesn’t mean that the… weird, spiritual attacks didn’t follow after me. They did. However, one night… I recall discovering a verse that I knew I desperately wanted to hold onto. The first glimpse of it, deep down it steadied me, and so… I pasted it everywhere I could to act as a shield!

It was:

Jeremiah 29:11 (NKJV) For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the Lord, thoughts of peace  and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope. 

This verse became… so special to me...especially when my mind became heavy with troubling thoughts. When I read future and hope, it felt like it was specifically written for me to read, and to claim for my own, to claim for Io and Collin! Hoowevverr, when I got a job, I still carried... sin-conscious habits and urged myself NOT. TO. DRAW. THEM. and even when I thought of Collin… I felt that… condemnation and whatnot. I urged myself not to draw them specifically while I was at work, because… I was like, oh, God gave me this job… It’d be so wrong to just be drawing THIS on the job. As if they were… on thin ice or something. But, one shift… I didn’t mind it so much. It was Christmas, so I wanted to doodle something seasonal! So, I ran some blank receipt paper and doodled away. However, upon returning from one of my breaks - I was greeted by my coworker, who… mistaking my register for their own...cleaned my workspace and handed me a wadded piece of receipt. I hadn’t thought twice about it and just… threw it away. That waassss until, when there weren’t any customers around, I noticed my doodle was gone! And the first thought that GLEAMED into my mind was the very WAD of?? paper? I tossed!

I DOOOOOOVE into that trash LMAOOOO and smoothed over the receipt, looking at the crumpled doodle of Io and… pondered over the situation. Eventually, I completed the doodle with Io’s other half, Collin dressed as Santa Claus.

plssssssss ignore that i couldnt spell reindeer

In my absentmindedness, I was REMINDED about a doodle I had previously convinced myself was so… wrong. It...overwhelmed me when I knew in my spirit that the Holy Spirit reminded me! It was the Lord, once again, who rescued these two all over again, even as I was the one who threw them away...AGAIN! It was like... a live-action replay of what happened at that cafe months before. Everyday after that, every… wave of condemnation and whatnot… It all began to melt away the more and more I discovered how I wasn’t the only one who loved them. In time, I even thought to the beginning... to this character I thought NOTHING about… how unintentional it was… it was the very grace gift given to me from my Lord Jesus. From the beginning, this accidental love story… falling for this character, a character I don’t often!!! pay attention to – yet I “DID” QUOTE ON QUOTE! Just, every idea I thought I had, every song I fell in love with - it all came from Someone that loved me deeper than I could ever understand! Even through bouts of discouragement, self-consciousness, and anxieties today… knowing what I know now… I know His heart for me and??? it’s always beating for encouragement, for strength, for perseverance… for faith, for hope, and for love! It’s beating for ME! And I never, ever, even KNEW it until Jesus revealed it to me HIMSELF because He loves me so dearly!

My Abba answered my prayer… like… A HUNDREDFOLD. NOT EVEN. MOREFOLD. Like… Everyday, I'm incredibly blessed, highly favored, and deeply loved... So much so, whenever I look at my two little stars… they remind me of everything my Lord did for me! In His faithfulness, His loving-kindness, His mercy, He fought for me, EVERYDAY! That everyone of those... religious thoughts... all the sin-consciousness, the condemnation, it was NEVER EVVVERR from Him. But, it was the very Name of Grace I was being drawn away from that was the very answer! The entire time... He was like, let me help you! And, when I didn't understand how the Lord wanted to help me... the enemy swept in to show me how every broken piece... the broken pieces the Lord desired from me... was solely my problem to fix and not the very thing He wanted to use and build together FOR His glory.

I’m... baffled when self-introspection kicks in and reminds me that… this is a fictional character that I’m praying to… the Creator of EVERYTHING about, yet...He still cares so deeply about Io and Collin. Sometimes it doesn't... sink in, but... sometimes it does, picturing Him with the biggest smile whenever I talk about these two. I believe He knew I would love it, (and made me to love it LOL) He knew I would love… this… little… silly, funny looking NERD. So, He gifted me these two and… blessed them, and blessed me some more, and blessed them and me some more some more. 

JUST!

AGHHHH!

ARE YOU KIDDDINNG MEEEE.

I’M THE MOST BLESSED GIRL IN THE!! EVER! I get to YAP to my Abba, my Lord?? My Savior? THE HOLY SPIRIT??? ABOUT… THESE TWO SILLY GUYS, AND HE’S ALL LIKE, UHHHUH, AND I’M LIKE!!!!!!! 

LETTT’SS FREAAKINNGGGG GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.

BAHM!!! WHAPAM!

Testimony! MIC DROP. All GLORY be to GOD AND MY LORDDDD, JESUS!

I wholeheartedly believe He is Collin and Io’s biggest fan… so… heeheeeeee. ANYWAY. He gifted me this 1 YEAR, AND!!! I was daydreaming everyday of sharing this testimony! What better time than now! Praise God, BAH!!!!

Happy 1 Year Anniversary, my little stars; to the moon and back, beyond, and to my loving Savior, Who put all the stars in place and thought to include these little ones, too, making them glimmer and shine as bright as His glory!

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Pick an OC of your choosing (or multiple if ya like!):

What is their absolute favourite food(s) vs the foods they'll actually make for themselves/put in the effort to feed themselves? Are they the same, or do they just throw together whatever for actual meals?

Bonus: are there any foods they enjoy making for others, no matter how complex or simple?

Annnnny OC? Well, I feel like my personal OC's are like a fish out of water on this blog! So, for the sake of simplicity, I feel more inclined to answer this with my Pikmin OC's!

Io:

Her ABSOLUTE FAVORITE food isss watermelon, honey, anndd... the yolk of a Snagret egg. That, annnnd the nectar! Pollen made her try some and she's like...

"THIS IS LEGENDARY!"

Perhaps she goes forrr the Ultra Spicy as she likes spicy things, such as the yummier spicy MRE's (or, rations) on the S.S. Shepherd.

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What she ACTUALLY makes for herself! Well! Luckily for Io, her daily expeditions always promise her the chance to find any of her favorite foods, so... as a part of her duty, it's like a little gift. The only problem is that she has to ensure it's not being used for Sparklium... so, often it's out of her discretion. This... leaves her with the MRE's rather than her favorite foods!

However, when she is allowed to use an ingredient of PNF-404; She goes all out! As if to say,

"If this turns out really well, maybe everyone will like it! (And I can convince them to use less of it for Sparklium, hehehe)..."

Io is an experimental missy and shoots for quality! Yeeeet, often misses the mark... Nevertheless, Io desires that a meal is the best it can be - so, if it's lacking, she'll "put it away" i.e, scarf it down and not think about it's... disappointments... and aim for a better result the next opportunity!

It's hard to say what food specifically she'd prefer over others... for others..., as it's dependent on their personal preferences. However, for example, if Collin asked Io to make him his favorite thing, she'd simply just drop everything to make it happen, like...

"Oh, he wants THIS? OK! How do I make it and how do I make it AMAZING. Oh, well, not too amazing if he doesn't want it too amazing... I need it just right, even if I think it needs some pizzazz. I can respect a bland guy,"

Basically, it becomes her mission of the day to see it done - it's her favorite if it's their favorite. Nothing is too easy (if it is, she'll make it difficult) nor hard for her if she loves ya! She'll fail and fail and fail again until she gets it right!

Pollen:

This quirky Pikmin loves nectar, yes! And the ultra spicy, and the water of a watermelon, and... uhm, everything Io likes?!

Ahm, well, not so much honey, as he keeps getting stuck in it. Luckily, Marstha comes to the rescue and laps him up!

Pollen and Io are... pretty inseparable, and do everything together... so, anything Io does - Pollen does! If she's cooking or baking, the little Pikmin opts to getting in the way - to help, of course.

As for the bonus question, Pollen most definitely delights in making his favorite captain something to eat and HAS prepared something for her previously...a nice bowl of boiling nectar.

Marstha:

SCRUMMY BONES, honey, and annnything the officers lend her under the table! In her generosity, the silly girl has tried to feed Io and Pollen her scrummy bone, too.

"Oh, oh, Marstha! I can't eat that!" Io urged. Pollen was close at the cadet's side, shying away at Marstha's offer.

A soft growl rumbled deep within Marstha.

Io and Pollen squinted.

"Attitude..."

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INHALE! INHALE! INHALE! SHE SAW ME CRY AND PACE AROUND THE ROOM IN REAL TIME, I'LL SAVE HER FROM THE YAP FROM MULTIPLE PLATFORMS... PLEASE.

THEIR ANNIVERSARY IS COMING UP!!! YES! AND, I couldn't animate this animatic I was daydreaming about in time!! Oh!!! Because of artfight, I was so busy with... attacks, yet!! She had commissions, a busy summer semester, artfight and!!! My sister works so hard, I don't know HOW SHE DOES IT! Like, suddenly, my sister swept in by the grace of God just!!! With the SWEETEST GIFT, attacking Collin and Io from!! every universe!! I can't even... ask her to drive me anywhere when the AFTER IMAGE of the first drawing STRIKES ME. OHHHH! OHH! MY SISTSTER IST EH SWEETEST!! I'M SO GREATLY BLESSSSSSSED!

SHE LOVES ME SO MUCH SHES LIKE noooo X9 issa joke issa joke SHUT UUUUUUUUUP

An art fight attack at @pikkissis !! And a happy 1st year anniversary to her beloved Collio ship! :D 🫶