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A collection of Carbs and Louis and that Thang that I've grown weirdly attached to (Beady Eye) [Carbs uses They/It Pronouns, Louis is a (proto)carbuncle and doesn't care.]

Oh and also a guest appearance of Skathii (@cerbaros), whose fc room I had also coincidentally broken into to harass ask nicely for the thing he made for me for Carbs own FC room... :')

First two shots are from one of @thefreelanceangel 's apartments and the last two are sorta-early-looks at Carbs Room c: ... I'll get nice pictures of it later....

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Took these right before Maintenance to fuel me during what was definitely going to be a hefty knock out lol.

Wanted to admire him face. And refresh the thing I've let fall to the wayside- where Ishi'li ends up accidentally collecting cats like pokemon Cards Mochiie ends up with quite a few chicks in his care. I'll have to dig for my notes at some point- they all have names and breeds and temperaments ...... but I might've forgotten how to lines connect.

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heyo, i need help with my stupid phone bill again. i need 78 dollars to get out the red

Paypal: [Link here]

Cashapp: $giftofeden

Venmo: @/giftofeden

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"Not to worry! I hit my growth spurt last summer, I can [hup] definitely reach this book for you now!"

"Just be- be careful, Claude! And thank you~💜"

"Why the Studium doesn't have more ladders I'll never know.... Gotcha!"

Keathan (they/he/she) belongs to @dustedbooksandreadingnooks

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"Oh my gosh oh my gosh- you are so so cute! Hey, you're a sparrow, can you take a message back to my friend? You just have to find a tall grey Elezen, brimming with hope and light. Oh and other sparrows!"

"Ok, I wrote as small as I could possibly manage, so I hope Yein can still read this, but that also means it's you sized! So it shouldn't be too heavy."

"Safe travels my friend!!!! Say hi to Yein for me!!"

Hi Yein ! Hope yoo ar well -Tangy

Happy birthday @iron-sparrow!!! I hope it's a really good day for you and that you eat good food and relax as much as you're able. You're a joy to be friends with c: Tangy could not fit very much on small paper even folded up and she's still kinda getting the ropes on writing ahaha- but she pressed a pretty and tiny flower for you to enjoy- it looks like a little drop of sunshine, like you :3

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But the love is there, and the love does save you, it saves everyone. You can protect everyone. You will.

BUNCHA alternates and angles under the cut this time.

Wehgh

My favorite detail is honestly where their tails are all touching Kizunas ;-; And I love working with these gradient-overlay shaders but I feel like I lose juuuust enough detail I have trouble committing lmfao

Kizuna and the tweaks to G'raha's design are from @dustedbooksandreadingnooks

He was feeling bad so I made an image of The Characters for him uvu

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Eheehee some companion shots to [this post] from @dustedbooksandreadingnooks cos we posed this together! It's fun to see how the sparrows ended up different since we had to pose them on our own ends

I really like this filter but I can't figure out if I like it or not so it goes here in the readmore purgatory hohohoho

Keathan is so wittle and small ; - ;

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POV you are some kind of isopod or perhaps a beetle being admired......

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"Today, you are all my most precious flowers! Allow me to treat you like royalty, my darlings."

Live Polycule Reaction

Cut for Indiv's, and a bonus Mochiie filter I just thought was pretty.

This was supposed to feature Urianger. IDK what went wrong.

Kizuna and the slight redesign of Raha are both from @dustedbooksandreadingnooks (he also actually posed and took Kizuna's shot for me too <3)

Also Ouuughhhghghghgh I'm normal about Them (the Polycule) And refitting the Seneschal jacket to KB was WORTH IT even if it's a little hard to tell hahaha And also can we give a huge amount of love to the Thavnairian skyline? What CAN'T she do? Stunning. Gorgeous. Amazing.

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"So small... and so brave, to not be afraid of of me. I forgive you for eating my tomatoes, it must mean they tasted good, yeah? Besides, you remind me of my beloved,"

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Dreams Of Flight

Claude sees themselves as a like- a Caterpillar Squire. Being a full fledged 'Butterfly Knight' isn't exactly in the cards, being so slow to learn how to wield a blade, or to build up their strength to wield it, but. In dreams, they fly :)

Also, I just think the moth antennae are cute. So. (Claude aka Beatle uses Any pronouns, I just use they to keep it shrimple)

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"Today, you are all my most precious flowers! Allow me to treat you like royalty, my darlings."

Live Polycule Reaction

Cut for Indiv's, and a bonus Mochiie filter I just thought was pretty.

This was supposed to feature Urianger. IDK what went wrong.

Kizuna and the slight redesign of Raha are both from @dustedbooksandreadingnooks (he also actually posed and took Kizuna's shot for me too <3)

Also Ouuughhhghghghgh I'm normal about Them (the Polycule) And refitting the Seneschal jacket to KB was WORTH IT even if it's a little hard to tell hahaha And also can we give a huge amount of love to the Thavnairian skyline? What CAN'T she do? Stunning. Gorgeous. Amazing.

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"Oh- yes, yes! I remember now! Claude, It's been- You've grown so much, I didn't recognize you at first. (I remember when/The last time I saw you) you were thiiiiis big!"

"It's been so long, I really can't believe you recognized me! And yet you haven't changed a day since I last saw you! How's your research gone? I think I remember seeing your name on a few papers when I was still in school...."

Keathan (They/He/She) belongs to @dustedbooksandreadingnooks (he also wrote Keathan's dialogue for me cos he loves me wow wow awww)

Claude-Linnet "Beatle" uses They/Any

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A lone traveler seeks a nap and refuge from the rain... and finds himself the subject of curiosity for several little birds.

Zaya is glad for the company, and they have especially good advice for lifting the spirits of her large and oft-times stubborn and reclusive friend.

And also, there's bird seed in that pack, they can split the take if they just work together to get it open 🤭

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"Which ship did you stow away on, huh? Or did you sneak out in one of those Gleaner Crates.... make sure you eat lots, you have to get juicy and fat to turn into a proper butter-"

"There you are!"

In which a Crawler experiences premature flight......

behind the scenes/a closeup under the cut hohoho

can you believe I went and made the book and pen look so damn nice and then I went 'anyways' and went WHAM with just, a shit ton of grass (technically from the game, I tried to do something fussy and layer them so I could control the grass but I'm not that pleased with it so this may just be something I learn to do better in future lol)

Also their expression is SO good. To Me. Big WUARGH moment. Farewell Crawler....

Claude-Linnet is uh...... Fascinated. By bugs. It's a passion of theirs... and just a bit, how do you say.... careless? Clumsy? Friendly, and talkative, and easy to startle because they get sucked into their own thoughts when left alone.

"Beatle" is their nickname because I thought it sounded cute and like Beetle. I forgot about the band The Beatles.

Square pls pls pls give me a Stag Beetle pls I'll be so normal abt it pls. I love them.

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"I couldn't get a group together to escort me through Saint Mocianne's Arboretum, but I did spy these darling sparrows huddling together, so I snapped a picture of them..." Snippet from the journal of Claude-Linnete "Beatle"

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What kind of gift does your OC like to give? Something store-bought or handmade? (Was it expensive?)

I've answered this for [Lev] and [Tangy] so we'll go with .....! Mochiie...?

Who likes to gift things that will be Used, even if that means Used Up, like honeys or jams or even lotions and soaps. If he can, he'll make things himself, but he can recognize when something is better done by the more experienced (post EW, he starts writing home more, and some of that is getting the Good Shit imported for scale care. He makes his own but it's not as Nice as the stuff made back home. Different equipment, different ingredients, different skills....

........... he likes to gift Urianger Jewelry though. Rings, and chokers and earrings and body chains and necklaces... he may never propose (who is he, to tie Urianger to that, as the Warrior Of Light, drug into the spotlight, constant worries he'll leave for a fight that he finally doesn't come back from?) but they do probably have matching jewelry.... that's probably where his most expensive gifts end up huhu....

Ty for the question! (And the patience ahshfjffke)

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