#possible charpim

[gavayounette33]

Smiling friends stupid art dump….

[shapesintheklouds]

Why not both? Here you go @madasaitama :D

[amoripomoea]

hnngg i didn't have as much time to write today so i couldn't finish ch 3 but will these sad pim texts to dead/pre-revival charlie make up for it?? 🥺

[universallydestinytaco]

I think it would be hilarious if we got an episode taking a swipe at the fandom’s tendency of infantilizing Pim by having an episode where Pim is actually quite annoyed over the idea of being perceived by most as merely “uwu innocent smol bab” (and quit dating all-together because all of his exes would be obnoxiously condescending and smothering towards him) who couldn’t possibly comprehend adult subjects but with every attempt to be edgier and more mature he’s still treated like the cutesy naive child-like critter who’s so pure and can do no wrong and everything he freaking does is so damn adorbs (like how fans still act as if he’s child-coded even after his drugged-up antics in “Charlie and Pim and Bill vs the Alien”) and it’s driving him up the wall.

Maybe I can incorporate it into a Charpim fic and have Charlie teach Pim how to be edgy and during a botched attempt, they piss off a bunch of bikers and *gasp* when Charlie attempts to save Pim, Pim ends up saving Charlie and he’s impressed how his friend is so brave and cool and Pim feels validated because someone finally acknowledges his maturity and doesn’t see him as a fragile doll needing protection!

[tinypizzabluebird]

My headcannons for the smiling friends (+more charaters) sexualities + genders

Pim is a cisgender male who is pansexual. He kisses everybody, including Desmond, the bird, I think he kissed Charlie but I'm not sure, and that weird egg. I don't think he would care which gender he's kissing.

Charlie is a cisgender male who is bisexual. He's been with his current girlfriend and had sexual tension with Mip, so maybe he could be bi-curious? But he's probably more attracted to fem presenting people. (Sorry charpim shippers)

Alan is bigender and aroace. Even though it's implied he had intercourse/sexual/romantic relations with that girl in his bed, I still feel it may be appropriate to call her aroace since it seems like he has minimal attraction, sexual or romantic. Also, I've heard some people call her "she", but I've also heard "he" as well, and in the show. So I'm just going to assume bigender for now.

Glep is green and a straight ally. If he did have queer coworkers, I don't think he would care. I mean, he's literally a green thing 1000+ years old. He's old enough to know better.

Mr. Boss is a trans male and pansexual/queer. I have no idea how to explain it, it's just a feeling. A vibe.

Zoey is a cisgender woman and a straight ally. Again, just based on vibes.

Mip is a cisgender male and bisexual. He liked the princess (?) And had sexual tension with Charlie.

Dj spit is a cisgender male who is straight.

Grim is a cisgender male who is gay.

Gnarly is a transgender male who is gay.

Smormu is a cisgender male and a straight ally.

Jennifer is a cisgender female who is a straight ally.

Shrimp is a cisgender male who is possibly queer/straight ally.

Gwimbly is a cisgender male who is in a toxic yaoi relationship with the old videogame villan or with the boss of the videogame company.

Mr. Frog doesn't care, and he's not sorry. Hello.

Desmond is a cisgender male who is an ally.

I have no idea what else to put so enjoy this

[bibeavis]

I’d like to reintroduce my Charpim twins to tumblr considering I realize I never really posted these sketches I did a while ago.

As some of you may recall, previously I had twin boys as the last of the Dompler children. Well here they are as adults!

Oscar ( left ) and Daniella ( right ) Dompler!

Daniella transitioned at an early age; already drawn to what some might call “feminine” things like dolls, dresses and makeup. She was also more shy and reserved compared to her brother. Pim, being trans himself, knew what she was going through right away and after a long discussion with her - the Domplers suddenly had another daughter!

This led Oscar to being the only boy in the family which made him feel a bit confused and lonely for a while, but once he realized that Daniella is still his twin and that nothing really has to change between them, they became inseparable and Oscar became very defensive over his now twin sister! He’d scold and bite anyone who made fun of her or got her name wrong. This included teachers. Even though such actions would land him in the principals office, it was worth it to stand up for his sister. Daniella herself, would appreciate it very much.

The two grow up to form a very successful band together called POPROCKS ( all caps - it’s a electronic hyper pop esque band ). Daniella really found her confidence after she fully transitioned at around 18, and she already really liked singing. ( probably in thanks to Pim, who loved singing musicals around the house ). Oscar had a background in music production as it was something he studied in college so together, they thought making a band wouldn’t be such a bad idea.

They use their fame to support their parents, siblings, and their own families as they grow up and marry and possibly have their own children.

[mothmxxn]

Charpim Fic Idea

Might write this, might not. Either way feel free to steal this.

Based on the song Favorite Liar by The Wrecks

POV- Pim to Charlie

He is upset that Charlie won’t admit his feelings/sexuality to himself despite being pretty obvious

The lyric “I can almost taste it, the bloody lip you left me with that night” could either be a reference to when Charlie elbowed him in the face. OR could be a different time in which Charlie lashed out at Pim after trying to get him to admit his feelings.

“You think I’m alone but I think you should know that I’ve got pretty girls taking me home.” This would be Pim going hard in the opposite direction in response to Charlie’s rejection.

Lowkey he’s trying to elicit a jealous response but doesn’t really want to go through with his own implications.

Instead he would be hanging out with another friend (maybe Alan? idk), something that Charlie would probably see from a distance and mistake for a date. (At this point he would admit to himself that “yeah I’m a fucking liar” and mentally kicks himself for squandering the one good thing he had going on.

“I tried to hide away but you said no. You made me love the rain.”

Pim’s friend tells him to go away for the weekend to get his mind cleared. Pim is unsure at first but after being ignored by Charlie at work makes plans.

All he wants to do is visit one of the places Charlie showed him during one of their adventures. He hesitates because the whole point of the trip is trying to forget about Charlie. But he decides “fuck it. Charlie doesn’t own the place. I can make my own damn memories there if I want.”

So he drives there.

Camps out for the night. Reminiscing about what could have been, but at the same time terrified of the possibility that his friendship with Charlie won’t ever be the same. He’s looking at the stars.

Suddenly he hears a car approaching to the camp grounds.

At first he can’t recognize who it is. (Maybe from the headlights?) but eventually realizes it’s Charlie.

He starts packing up to leave (so as to avoid any confrontation) but Charlie begs him to stay and talk things out.

He is still under the impression Pim is moving on and apologizes for everything. He finally confesses his feelings but acknowledges that the way he treated Pim wasn’t cool. That it was his own shit to deal with and not an excuse to lash out/be violent. Apologizes again. And congratulates Pim on his new relationship.

Pim is confused obviously because what relationship? Asks and is met with a confused Charlie that’s like “I swear I saw you in a date.” They clear up the confusion. They hug. They kiss? Oh? What’s this? The moonlight is reflecting in your eyes and suddenly your tongue is in my mouth? Can I interest you in a rumpled sleeping bag?

You know the rest.

The end.

[wulfums]

So the Griddle Story:

This is newly hatched Griddle (shoutout to bestie solarstarkat)

To explain it in the most normal way possible, The 3 of them assumed Gristle being a different species and Not a critter meant they didnt have to worry abt this kind of thing.

Bad news! Gristle fuckign laid an egg! He thought he was having an IBS attack but alas. Egg.

The three of them kind of freak out and start arguing abt what to even Do abt this so Gristle is like “Ill raise it, you two dont have to have anything to do with it when it hatches, but Im keeping it.”

Gnarly comes around a lot quicker on the eggs existance + accepts Griddle as his son immediately after he hatches (Biologically he is Gristle + Gnarly’s)

Grim still wants nothing to do with it. He doesnt want it here. And he tries to maintain this but after a few months he gets really attatched to Griddle.

Literally just like “If anything ever happened to Griddle id kill everyone on the planet and then myself.”

Griddle is Very quiet and chill as a baby. It takes him a long time to open his eyes (Gristle is like. Oh yeah thats a demon thing he probably has eyes theyre just closed. Maybe.) and he cant hear for the first few weeks of Living. Also he looks like a raw chicken so his middle name is Salmonella.

Gristle is still the primary caretaker bcuz he works nightshifts at his various jobs. Gristle has a seperate room from Grim + Gnarly so baby Griddle just kinda lives in there too (Gristles room is soundproof so Thankfully Baby Griddle gets to sleep thru the night.) Gristle has a lot of stuffed animals and I just kno if Griddle showed interest in one of them hed give Griddle it in a heartbeat 🥺

I like to think he happens around the time that charpim have kids + glep too so Griddle can have other kids his age to hang out with

I love you Griddle Salmonella Gromble

[lio-the-loaf]

i know i sound probably deranged/stalkerish bc i’m everywhere but let me just say that. ever since your art popped up in the smiling friends tab my life has been infinitely brighter. i woke up this morning just to search for your account and see if you posted anything new. christ i sound insane. anyway i love your art so much i feel like i need to eat a brick wall to calm down. thank you

YOURE NOT INSANE THANK YOU SO MUCH??? RAAAA IM GLAD YOU LIKE IT!! im literally crazy for them it’s insane, I will def be posting Charpim daily (if possible)

[mezzopiano11]

Hello!! Could you possibly draw charpim where they’re at the fair? I can see pim loving Cotten candy and Charlie giving pim a piggyback ride ✨👀

Yes of course I'd love to draw that!!! That'd be so cute!!! >_< ♡♡

[shapesintheklouds]

I have brought you all much charpim happiness so now it is time for angst! I apologize in advance if this rips out someone's soul.

I've been thinking about charlie's pessimistic point of view on life and how it could tie into why a relationship between him and Pim could be dysfunctional: Charlie grew up with an uncle who did take care of him but shared the philosophy that the world is a fucked up place sometimes, people are shitty to each other, and it just is what it is. This belief was intensified after Charlie's parents got divorced and basically wrote him off as their kid, which is why they're never mentioned. Charlie's ideology of the world clashes with Pim's because he wants to make other people's lives better than his own childhood was, so it doesn't fall apart like his own homelife did growing up. His parents probably had the ability to be good people but they grew to resent each other and its possible Amy saw this then blamed her little brother. In short Pim doesn't want to accept that there are people who you can't help or he's incapable of "fixing their life" (aka making them smile) while Charlie has accepted reality as it is and is annoyed at Pim's outlook on life. Buuuuuut below the surface Charlie doesn't want to get close to Pim and allow his pessimism to diminish the light that Pim brings to the world. So they're both wearing masks and are reluctant to share that with each other.

This whole thing was inspired by a quote from Dante Paladino (I believe) that describes them well: "I think you have to live through what love is not before you can truly appreciate what love is."

...Sorry (not sorry) about this

[tripletyrant]

Also, like, as far as Charpim goes, they're clearly good friends and get along well at the very least. People act like Charlie is this horrible selfish toxic guy when he's really just like... a normal dude in his mid twenties. Yeah, he elbowed Pim in the face. In a heated moment. We don't know if he apologized later because the show isn't about that. Oh, Pim has dreams of having a nuclear family. That doesn't mean he couldn't possibly learn to love a different family dynamic. "Charlie and his gf clearly don't have a healthy relationship bc she was annoyed at him in the Halloween ep." Listen. The people I'm closest to are the people I feel comfortable showing my annoyance around. What about drunken Charlie waving a knife at Pim? Again, we don't know if he apologized later. But what we do know is he literally says the next day that he needs to change. (and like, he wasn't threatening to stab Pim or anything, he just wanted to show him the cool trick Jambo showed him, cmon.)

People who are like "this ship can only ever be toxic and doomed, and any other interpretation is wrong" are so boring and unimaginative. Ever heard of character growth? Character development? It happens in real life, too. People aren't static. Grow up.

[universallydestinytaco]

The Little Smiling Mermaid (Chapter 10)

Dig in, Charpim shippers, it’s about to get hella gay. 💖🌟

For a critter that wasn’t very vocal, Pim was very outgoing and friendly if not eccentric, nevertheless he made a good first impression with Charlie and his crew as they all sailed back home to the palace grounds where he joined in with the singing, dancing sailors. He couldn’t help but see Charlie and Mipnessa twirling around as a happily-arranged couple and feel forlorn, coupled with the loss of his voice and being unable to say what he wanted to say; Luckily Mr. Boss was there to comfort the stowaway, only if because he assumed Pim was upset for different reasons. “I bet you must have felt lonely being stranded on that shipwreck for only God knows how long.” said Mr. Boss, patting Pim on his back as the latter immediately remembered his friends from the sea he left behind to escape his intrusive family, making the former mer-critter’s eyes tear up from the impounding survivor’s guilt as well as everything else he felt. Pim immediatelly looked up at the old man with a crushed face full of heartbroken tears welling from his eyes. Mr. Boss was immediately touched, taking his handkerchief out of his pocket and wiping Pim’s tears, reassuring: “Don’t fret, I can see that you’ve already been making new friends on this ship, you’re gonna fit right in this family!” Pim gestured a “thank you” by immediately hugging Mr. Boss as tightly as possible, prompting the old man to let out a bashful chuckle and a pat on the head. “Her highness will definitely take a liking to you, you spunky lil’ rascal!”

…

Pim felt bizarrely liberated about having his own smaller body of foamy, floral-scented water all to himself. He also took immense stimulation with the decorative rubber ducky that could freely float by itself and squeak when squished. Pim enjoyed his first bath on land as Smormu happily shampooed his curly, hot pink locks while chit-chattering away about one of the crazy adventures Charlie and his buddies embarked on while at sea, a specific tale of when they vowed to steal back some of Queen Dolores’ most prized jewelry from the infamous pirate captain, Simon S. Salty, sparking a high-seas gang war that culminated into the near-death experience that was Charlie’s birthday bash. Pim was captivated by this turbulent tale and the more he listened, the moreso enchanted he was by Charlie as a person. Who knew the lovable dork was also a such a badass? After getting cleaned up and dressed, Smormu lead Pim to the dining hall to properly meet Queen Dolores. “A pity I don’t know your name yet, I’d totally make one of my bombastic introduction speeches! But hey, take your time and make yourself comfortable bestie!” chirped Smormu, who opened the door for Pim to reveal a stunning dining hall decorated with polished wooden furniture, flowers and gilded accents. Pim felt as if he was literally stepping into one of those fairytales he read about in the books he stashed in his grotto. The bashful critter curtseyed to the dining party consisting of Charlie, Mipnessa, Mr. Boss, Eustace and a delightfully surprised Queen Dolores. “Is this the stowaway you told me about, my dear grandson?” “Sure is! She’s not exactly the chatterbox type but she can dance! Lemme tell ya when we where sailing home she fit right in with my motley crew, we all thought she was life of the party!” Mipnessa suddenly started verbally reminiscing of her experience on the ship: “I sure loved that dance we shared when Thomas played on your ocarina! That was so romantic!” Charlie replied: “Yeah, that was fun, you’re a good dancer too Mip, who could forget when we where spinning each other around? It was all Shakespearean!” “Oh Charliekins, you’re my brave sea-faring buccaneer!” Pim couldn’t help but roll his eyes at Mipnessa’s fawning before walking up to Mr. Boss pulling out his seat. Eustace raised an eyebrow, asking Mr. Boss, “You found this girl out at sea, presuming she’s lone survivor of a shipwreck?” “Well, we couldn’t let her stay there and starve to death.” “You can’t just go around letting my nephew pick up random strangers he finds at sea, let alone random commoner women. She could be seducing Charlie away from Mipnessa for all we know.” Mr. Boss shook his head at the Duke in disapproval of his words, “It was my idea to save her, quit assuming Charlie’s nothing but impulses! Charlie might be a wild horse but he’s grown up into a brave and noble boy. He helped rescue that girl with me, he has his heart in the right place.” Eustace attested, “…and then that girl’s gonna somehow bear his- OH goodness gracious are you seriously using a fork like that?!” Mr. Boss took notice of Eustace’s sudden outburst as all eyes drew to Pim combing his hair with what his cousin Graham called “a dinglehopper”. Mipnessa stuck her nose up and looked away, “Hmph, that girl must be seriously confused.” Pim noticed the bewildered expressions on everyone, and froze in embarrassment. “What, I’m the only one around here who uses a fork as a comb when in a pinch?” Charlie blurted out, prompting Mr. Boss, Smormu and Queen Dolores to all burst into laughter. Mipnessa joined in with a small giggle and Pim smiled, reassured that he was far from the only weirdo in the room and there was no hard feelings.

~ Meanwhile, Alan just so happened to let his ever-so persistent anxiety nag him into sneaking into the Dompler’s castle to keep an eye on Pim. While he entered the wrong room via window sill much to his disappointment, he couldn’t deny that the kitchen smelled heavenly. Alan figured he’d scurry in as quickly as possible then sneak away to find Pim. He dramatically leaped onto the counter where he meant to look for another lower platform to hop onto, but found himself distracted by an alluring aroma coming from the yellowish-cubed stuff on that plate. Cheese was something of a rarity in the sea, whenever sea critters took a crack at making it it was more like cottage cheese or cream cheese. Depending on how it was made it would either be a lightly sweet and fresh taste from the creamy seal milk or it was a lumpy, plain-tasting, curdled milk disaster that one would only gift to another as some sort of cruel joke. Alan couldn’t help himself and tried at least one of the cheese cubes, taking one peck, Alan was blown away by the buttery nutty umami strongly contrasting to the light and refreshing dishes in the sea that would consist of rice, ocean greens and the occasional rich meatiness of the occasional roast sea beast. Alan just has to try some more and he was immediately hooked! While Alan snacked away at the land-dweller delicacy, he lost all awareness of his surroundings and lost himself in the savory bliss…all it took for the sea critter to fall from heaven and back down to earth was for his (sort-of) ears to pick up upon the surprise of hearing an agitated and raspy voice accusing him of pretending to “play possum” just so he’d steal all the cheese from the kitchen. When Alan looked up at where the voice accusing him of “putting smoke into (his) head”, his irises widened in alarm as he was greeted in a not-so friendly fashion by Chef Spitz, who swore he had been schmeckledorfed by the very lobster he was going to prepare for tonight’s dinner and by golly he wasn’t going to let him get away! Alan found himself scuttling away in a frenzy, cheese nestled safely in his claw, as Chef Spitz chased him around with his sword with the loud and repetitive ramblings of: “YOU’RE IN MY HEAD! GET OUTTA MY HEAD MAN!”

It wasn’t before long when the dining party caught wind of the chaos in the cook-shanty, drumming-up concerned speculation. “Oh dear, wonder if Chef Spitz found another mouse in the cabinets again.” said Queen Dolores. “Worse, what if he found another worm in the peanuts?” Eustace almost spat out his drink in disgust upon fearing what abomination they could have possibly found in the wine. Charlie’s all-too-familiar suspicion was raised, suggesting: “I’m gonna go and check, for all we know, he’s getting ambushed by one of Salty’s toadies again!” as he steeled himself and marched toward the hallway with his grandmother, uncle and fatherly-figure followed suit with Smormu tagging along at the tail end, giddy at the potential brawl brewing in the kitchen. All was left sitting down at the deserted table was the exotic-yet-silent stowaway with the flowing hot pink hair and the plain-yet-elegant princess and bride-to-be. Pim was mainly focused on his empty plate and cutlery while marveling at the reflective surface, not even expecting Mipnessa to break his attention by snickering. “I’d like to tell you a secret, between us ladies….” Pim’s curiosity brought his attention over to the red and gold-donning princess whose auburn hair was neatly stashed in a bun. “I’m well-aware of the fact that my pot-bellied oaf of a fiancé couldn’t possibly run a kingdom by himself without going the way of Louis XV, so I was arranged to be his bride so I can give this kingdom a leader they can depend on!” gossiped Mipnessa while giggling like a school girl while nudging a stunned Pim, expecting “her” to at least respond. The conversation was quickly tossed out the window once the ruckus from the kitchen transferred to the hallways and into the dining hall. Pim and Mipnessa witnessed Chef Spitz savagely chasing down a familiar lobster carrying a piece of cheese and aiming to shish-kabob him as the royals and servants tried to hold the frantic chef back from his fit of rage. Pim got up and immediately tried to intervene before the lobster flung himself from the window with a vague wail of agony: “I just wanted my cheeeese!”; Spitz was about to follow suit until Mr. Boss and Smormu grabbed him by the arms with the former chastising the chef for flying off the handle and nearly flying out the window. “Just let that creature go freely and cook a lobster that’s already dead! We have plenty to go around, no use losing your cool.” Spitz took a deep breath and placed the sword back in its sheath. Charlie couldn’t help but blurt out: “Ey Spitz, you’re kinda cute when you get angry!” Spitz rolled his eyes and made an exasperated sigh, almost as if he whispered for Charlie to keep his snarky comments to himself.t

~

After dinner was over and the dusk settled in the sky with stars, Pim felt like the most comfortable critter in the world, wearing a fleece nightgown on a bed that felt as relaxing as bed of moss, albeit the comfort was perturbed by some of that evening’s events. Just then he vaguely heard a sweet and soothing sound from outside. Pim hopped out of bed and looked out the balcony to find Charlie playing his ocarina while bathed in moonlight. Pim’s heart fluttered with joy and his cheeks turned even rosier upon this majestic sight, longing to join Charlie by his side had he known a way to climb down. After Charlie’s solo was over, he heard Pim from above giving him a stellar applause, prompting Charlie’s cheeks to burn a peachy-orange. To Pim’s surprise, he saw Charlie walk towards the vines growing on that edge of the palace to climb up and properly greet the beautiful stowaway. “Thank you, thank you very much.” replied Charlie, following up on: “I need to get this off my chest, but I don’t know who to tell….dunno if you feel like hearing me vent though.” Pim nudged Charlie and gave him the thumbs-up to indicate an agreement. After some nervous stuttering, Charlie finally spat it out: “Oh my God, Mipnessa is so annoying! I kinda thought she was cute until she started getting all super-clingy and weird yet she’s always making nasty, backhanded comments about me! Aaaaugh! I wish I could call off the stupid engagement but I don’t want to disappoint anyone more than I already have…” Charlie slunk down into a corner onto the floor, burying his head into his arms, “I wish I could marry someone else.” Pim’s eyes sparkled with perking tears as he longed to somehow communicate all of his bottled-up feelings to his one true love, so all the little pink critter could do was give the heroic prince a totally platonic and heartfelt gesture: Pim held his arms wide, asking in a non-verbal sense if Charlie would like a hug. He obliged. “I wonder what you’d want to get off your chest? I I’d be only fair if you could vent to me too.” That’s when Charlie got an idea, he’d rummage through his pockets, digging up a compact journal with pen to offer to his hushed friend. “I remember a time when I had a hard time spelling out how I felt, so Grandma gave me a journal like this to communicate better. Don’t mind the silly cartoons I drew in the first few pages, the rest is blank.” Pim opened the mini journal flipped through the pages, his eye catching a few of Charlie’s doodles: One particularly crude one was of his uncle Eustace’s face on a donkey’s rear-end and another had Charlie and his friends fighting a kraken, with a follow-up to indicating that they all lost in an embarrassing fashion with their heads being seasoned by the kraken and served on a silver platter (with candlelight and wine no less!) Pim couldn’t audibly laugh but boy did he have the biggest grin on his face! Flipping through one more page and Pim found the most alarming sketch in the book: a comic of Charlie running away from his own wedding jumping into the ocean to elope with an androgynous long-haired mercritter with a nice build and sparkly eyes; Pim’s brain registered that Charlie might have vaguely remembered that fateful encounter, a swirl of excitement and encouragement filled Pim’s heart and mind, giving himself ideas on how to explain to Charlie that he was indeed the beautiful stranger who saved him while also reminding himself his own desire to come out as his authentic self first. Either-way, he had plenty of time to think it over. Before Charlie left, Pim quickly sketched out a little something to show him. “Well, I’ll see you at breakfast, good-“ Pim tugged on Charlie’s sleeve to show him the illustrated message: a picture of a chibified Charlie sitting in a crescent moon and surrounded by stars with the words “Thank You!” scribbled out hastily. Charlie smiled warmly at the gesture, nodding his head and replying: “Anytime.”

Chapter 11 drops in two weeks and it’s a helluva doozy!

[universallydestinytaco]

(SNEAK PEEK) The Little Smiling Mermaid Chapter 10

Merry Christmas/Happy Holidays everyone! ❄️ While I couldn’t get Chapter 10 done on time, I figured it would be a better gift to my fellow Charpim shippers to offer a sneak peek of a chapter I’m putting a lot of love and care into then rushing it all together for the sake of uploading right away.

Hope you enjoy!

After getting cleaned up and dressed, Smormu lead Pim to the dining hall to properly meet Queen Dolores. “A pity I don’t know your name yet, I’d totally make one of my bombastic introduction speeches! But hey, take your time and make yourself comfortable bestie!” chirped Smormu, who opened the door for Pim to reveal a stunning dining hall decorated with polished wooden furniture, flowers and gilded accents. Pim felt as if he was literally stepping into one of those fairytales he read about in the books he stashed in his grotto. The bashful critter curtseyed to the dining party consisting of Charlie, Mipnessa, Mr. Boss, Eustace and a delightfully surprised Queen Dolores. “Is this the stowaway you told me about, my dear grandson?” “Sure is! She’s not exactly the chatterbox type but she’s knows how to dance! Lemme tell ya when we where sailing home she fit right in with my motley crew, we all thought she was life of the party!” Mipnessa suddenly started verbally reminiscing of her experience on the ship: “I sure loved that dance we shared when Thomas played on your ocarina! That was so romantic!” Charlie replied: “Yeah, that was fun, you’re a good dancer too Mip, who could forget when we where spinning each other around? It was all Shakespearean!” “Oh Charliekins, you’re my brave sea-faring buccaneer!” Pim couldn’t help but roll his eyes at Mipnessa’s fawning before walking up to Mr. Boss pulling out his seat. Eustace raised an eyebrow, asking Mr. Boss, “You found this girl out at sea, presuming she’s lone survivor of a shipwreck?” “Well, we couldn’t let her stay there and starve to death.” “You can’t just go around letting my nephew pick up random strangers he finds at sea, let alone random commoner women. She could be seducing Charlie away from Mipnessa for all we know.” Mr. Boss shook his head at the Duke in disapproval of his words, “It was my idea to save her, quit assuming Charlie’s nothing but impulses! Charlie might be a wild horse but he’s grown up into a brave and noble boy. He helped rescue that girl with me, he has his heart in the right place.” Eustace attested, “…and then that girl’s gonna somehow bear his- OH goodness gracious are you seriously using a fork like that?!” Mr. Boss took notice of Eustace’s sudden outburst as all eyes drew to Pim combing his hair with what his cousin Graham called “a dinglehopper”. Mipnessa stuck her nose up and looked away, “Hmoh, that girl must be seriously confused.” Pim noticed the bewildered expressions on everyone, and froze in embarrassment. “What, I’m the only one around here who uses a fork as a comb when in a pinch?” Charlie blurted out, prompting Mr. Boss, Smormu and Queen Dolores to all burst into laughter. Mipnessa joined in with a small giggle and Pim smiled, reassured that he was far from the only weirdo in the room and there was no hard feelings.

~

Meanwhile, Alan just so happened to let his ever-so persistent anxiety nag him into sneaking into the Dompler’s castle to keep an eye on Pim. While he entered the wrong room via window sill much to his disappointment, he couldn’t deny that the kitchen smelled heavenly. Alan figured he’d scurry in as quickly as possible then sneak away to find Pim. He dramatically leaped onto the counter where he meant to look for another lower platform to hop onto, but found himself distracted by an alluring aroma coming from whatever that cubed stuff was that plate. Cheese was something of a rarity in the sea, whenever sea critters took a crack at making it it was more like cottage cheese or cream cheese. Depending on how it was made it would either be a lightly sweet and fresh taste from the creamy seal milk or it was a lumpy, plain-tasting, curdled milk disaster that one would only gift to another as some sort of cruel joke. Alan couldn’t help himself and tried at least one of the cheese cubes, taking one peck, Alan was blown away by the buttery nutty umami strongly contrasting to the light and refreshing dishes in the sea that would consist of rice, ocean greens and the occasional rich meatiness of the occasional roast sea beast. Alan just has to try another…and another….lemme tell ya this dude was immediately hooked!

Thank you for reading this excerpt, “The Little Smiling Mermaid” Chapter 10 will drop in January and the fic will resume every-two-week updates sometime between then and February.

[universallydestinytaco]

The Little Smiling Mermaid PREVIEW

As I promised, a preview excerpt of my Charpim fanfic which will drop May 20th! (^o^) Also after reading the fic, PLEASE give me your feedback in the replies/reblogs, Thank you! 💗💛

Charlie couldn’t sleep on nights like this when the moon was big and bright, something about it made him want to stand outside by the ocean, drink from his flask and play his ocarina. As he played his beloved instrument he fondly recalled a childhood memory of his own when he was about 6 or 7, wearing a cape and an old hat Mr. Boss wore while armed with a little wooden sword, gallivanting around the beach while loudly-and-proudly proclaiming he was King of the Pirates. Little Charlie didn’t have much friends at that time but what he would do was based on one of Mr. Boss’ bedtime stories: writing mercritter runes in the sand and coming back later to see the response. Charlie did exactly that and eagerly waited for the response while distracting himself best he could fighting imaginary monsters and bad guys. Lo and behold Charlie always got a response, while in hindsight Charlie figured it could have been possible that someone, perhaps even Mr. Boss was playing along writing the responses in runes, he couldn’t shake off the magical sensation he got from the afternoon ritual. If it really was a mercritter responding to him this whole time he’d be over the moon.

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Alan followed Glep and Pim back to the grotto and was astonished at all the "land things" Pim secretly acquired and hidden away for so long, how did he manage to hide it all for so long without Amy tattling on him for kicks? He hid behind a pair of slightly-cracked goggles and inspected upon the mischievous twosome. Pim was combing his hair with a "dinglehopper" as Glep played with a golden bangle, the latter noticed the bittersweet-sad expression on Pim's face and asked: "Yaskawaboyo? (You okay man)?" Alan wondered if Pim was starting to get homesick, (un)surprisingly that wasn't the exact reason why the usually excited mercritter was so somber despite freeing himself. "...Maybe he's right, what if there is something wrong with me?" said Pim, who then seconds after shook his head in disgust at his father's hatred of the surface getting to him. "I just don't see why a world that makes such wonderful things could be so bad?" Pim felt strong and long-bottled up emotions gushing out, he stimmed a little bit by twirling the dinglehopper but that wouldn't do. Whenever Pim had to share his feelings he would sing and dance it all way much to the annoyance of his siblings, but after a period of masking, Pim had to share exactly how he felt.

"Look at this stuff, isn't it neat? Wouldn't you think my collection's complete? Wouldn't you think I'm the boy...the boy who has everything?" Pim gasped in excitement and opened his arms wide while slowly spinning, "Look at this trove, treasures untold, how many wonders can one cavern hold?" quickly turning to Glep with his hands on his hips and sashay-ing with his hair swaying in the water, "Sure! He's got everythiiing~!" Pim swam around observing his collection with Glep following as he continued:

I've got gadgets and gizmos a-plenty...I've got whozits and whatzits galore~"

Opening up a mustache-care box, jokingly offering to Glep: "You want thingamabobs? I've got twenty!" The two shared a little laugh before Pim solemnly closed it. "But who cares? No big deal....." Looking upwards, those longing words sweetly slipped out of his lips: "I want moooooore~"

"I wanna be where the people are-" Pim gently held Glep's fins and twirled around, "I wanna see, wanna see them dancin'~ Walking around on those.... what do you call 'em? Oh!" He playfully teased Glep's fins as the guppy squeaked. "Feet!"

Alan thought to himself: "This is the most elaborate venting I ever witnessed."

"Flippin' your fins, you don't get too far Legs are required for jumping, dancing..." Pim swayed his hips emulating how one with legs can walk on ground: "Strolling along down a... what's that word again?"

Glep playfully answered: "Skeewaboyo (Street)!" Pim smiled and swam up dramatically above where the light was shining through the grotto: "Up where they waaaalk, up where they ruuuun...up where they stay all day in the suuuuun!! Wanderin' free, wish I could be.... Part of that wooooorld~" Continuing with his acrobatics, "What would I give? If I could liiiive out of these waaaaters? What would I pay to spend a daaaay-" He sunk down and rolled around with a big smile on his face imagining what would it be like, in his own words: "-warm oooon the saaaand?" He then turned on his stomach with a humorously pouty look, "Bet'cha on land they understand, bet they don't...reprimand their soooons~" Pim almost relucantly called himself one of King Pimling's daughters up until realizing he wasn't in Meeplantica anymore, he then smiled while gazing upwards, "Bright young men, sick of swimmin'..." He lifted himself up again with a more hopeful and triumphant demeanor: "Ready to staaaaaaand AAAAAAND-" Observing a gilded storybook with a childlike energy he flipped around the pretty illustrations, "Ready to know what the people know! Ask 'em my questions and get some answers!" He came across one such illustration depicting Prince Charming and Fair Maiden cozening up by the fireplace, holding it up and longingly placing his stubby pink fingers on the painted flame, "What's a fire and why does it...What's the word?" He closed the book and held it to his chest, holding his head back and belting out: "Buuuuurn!!" Pim let go of the book, spinning upwards once again and reaching out to the light: "When's it my tuuuurn? Wouldn't I looooove, love to explore that shore up aaaaaabooooooove?" His octave raised at that last word he sang out...then his whimsy melted into wistful melancholy, for there wasn't any way he could achieve his lifelong dream, so he sank back down with a heavy heart..."Out of the sea....wish I could be...." As Glep sadly witnessed Pim floating back down on the sandy ground, he couldn't help but look back up at the light one more time: "Part of that....woooooorld..."