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8th batch of doodles I've recently made. Been drawing a lot of Kirby fanart for funsies. Current image is my entry for the first day of Toon June (favorite cartoon character). Image names start from left to right:

- Numbah 1 (KND)

- Broom Hatter

- Starman

- Sparky

- Rocky

- Noddy

- Cool Spook

- Poppy bro jr.

- Chilly

- Burning Leo

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7th batch of doodles to show this place (and LOM) are still alive. Just been doing random doodles and art practice on the side. I think I'll return to project work in a few months. For now, these are the names top-to-bottom and left-to-right:

> Blade Knight fanart (Kirby)

> Fox oc fanart ( @bri-wolfer )

> Mae (old character redesigned)

> Ster (old oc redesigned)

> Bates (old oc redesigned/yes, I made them in my teen years)

> Bken (Billy Hatcher and the Giant Egg fanart)

> Bken (#BLUD fanart)

> Bikini Goombella fanart (Mario: TTYD)

> Sir Kibble fanart (Kirby)

> Lilf (Newer oc/Mother of the demons previously mentioned)

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Name: Lucerne "Lucy" Raigard

Age: 25

Occupation: Farmer

Class: Valkyrie

Gender: Female

Life before LOM: Lucy was born to a farmer family of 5; a mom, dad, a brother, and two sisters. Picked on by her siblings and classmates for being short at an early age, she spent most of her down time exercising and building up bulk to make up for her size at the time. Because of her unbreakable spirit, her parents taught her about their trade more often than her siblings; which started to fill them with jealously. It didn't help that when she reached her teenage years, she went through massive height growth. Her classmates and teachers often thought she was a full grown adult in high school. Once she finished high school, she made the firm decision to pick up her parents' trade and become a farmer herself. Around the time Joey met Lucy: she owned her parents' farm, watched her siblings head into the different kingdoms for higher education, and was planning to enter the farmers' guild. By this time, she taught herself to fight with her mom's pitchfork and a common barrel top. In fact, she was undergoing fierce training during Joey's arrival due to the monsters that started to appear in the countryside.

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Name: Joey Carroton

Age: 20

Occupation: Guardian

Class: Sentinel

Gender: Male

Life before LOM: Born to the kingdom's lower class, Joey spent most of his childhood as a child servant/apprentice to an Elite Guardian named Gein. When he was old and well-trained enough, he tried his hand at becoming an Elite Guardian like his mentor. Instead, he served under the King of Herok as a fertilizer guard. It pays decently enough for a small home, but living paycheck-to-paycheck is all you can afford. To make a little more money, he scoured nearby beaches for old, but reliable battle equipment that could be appraised. During a rather fruitless search, he happens to trip over a rather ominous relic that he later learns is the Sword of the Chosen: a weapon gifted to the Chosen to vanquish the Legendary Misplacia. After a few events that can be described as the best worst day of his life, Joey is thrusted into the job "Fatebringer" and is sent into the wild; exiled from his home until he gets the weapon back to the Chosen One

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Howdy.

You may be wondering where all the updates have gone. I'm planning to form complete character bios once I finish the "last" main character ref sheet for LOM (Legend of Misplacia/Mark is the last one). I'll be working on maps while writing the bios too. For now, have my mascot with details from my old main in Marvel Rivals

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6th batch of fanart (With some of my own OCs and a little spicy). I apologize for dead air. Been more active on Discord and Twitter, so I'll make up for it with this and some new entries on the LOM blog. These are the characters from left to right:

- Tora (Punipaws on Twitter)

- Abigail ( @huffslove)

- Spark the Electric Jester (Spark series)

- Bken mascot styled like Wolverine (Marvel Rivals)

- UwU series from behind (Bken/Joke ocs)

- Cat oc ( @bri-wolfer)

- Lifi (Bken/Valentine form)

- Squirrel Persona (Silent jack on Twitter)

- Monkey oc (talons_fw on Twitter)

- Pomni (pinup/Amazing Digital Circus)

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This is Mark. They do have a real birth name, but they prefer to remain mute. This jellyfish person hails from the unknown lands at the edge of the large war continent of Destralonia (Main continent and locations of the monster and human domains. Will explain later). Their home consists of marshlands and flood villages. Little is known about the people Mark comes from, but they appear to remain neutral towards the affairs of the main land. As the party learns more about these peaceful towns, Mark slowly divulges their personality through...professional charades. What can be deciphered is that they are a relatively kind individual with a deadly amount of curiosity toward anything coming from the mainland. Other than that, they enjoy being alone: surfing the strong marshland waves and acting as an oracle vessel to the History of the Champions. When learning about the party's duties toward bring the legendary sword back to the "Chosen", they appear to be excited enough to join your crew and serve as an ambassador to their people. In terms of combat, they can make an unusual amount of splash potions using their volatile yet versatile mucus found on their tentacles. They even use their surfboard as a cover for potions that take longer to create. While it is sturdy, defending their surfboard can avoid losing the ability to attack with it until they fix it. With a little patience, Mark will show their true potential in time

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This is Geiz. Third party member and phantasmal kobold that's only known of the Night Lands (area of a continent that remains in darkness. Will explain later). With his battle prowess making him a well-known, deadly foe and thief; his shy and mildy cutesy demeanor betray those aspects immediately when met in a calm setting. In reality, Geiz just wants to find his place in a world that doesn't involve violence. The irony, of course, is that he is an excellent combat teacher. So much so, that kobolds joining the Night Land miasma hope to get his class first day in the academy. Others enjoy his class for a reason dealing with dropped objects. Even Geiz is confused by that mindset. As the story goes, the heroes unfortunately meet Geiz in a Slave Colosseum. How you handle the fights all depends on whether or not you get Geiz early in the game. Maybe teaching the kobolds the art of restraint may win you the favor this character.

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This is Lucy. Lucy is the second main character in LOM. Little into the story, she appears to help the unconscious Joey (I'll explain this later) out of a river and onto her boat. Lucy comes from a farming community that keeps up trade through Barn Bazaars across the land in LOM. Looking over Joey's character, her goal is to establish fully connected trade routes to every Barn Bazaar in the world; a goal that her mother had to give up when she was paralyzed during a Monster Raze. Don't be fooled by her cool demeanor. She is far from a gentle giant as she is know to take her tasks seriously and any interruptions result in a clean (yet painful) incapacitation of the unfortunate party. During down time, she does show great interests in travelers' stories at the local tavern near her farm. The kind of stories that inspire her to join you on your quest. From her physique, it's easy to tell that she is the strongest of the crew members you'll receive in the Legend of Misplacia. Her fighting style relies on focusing attention to her character and transferring the force of an enemy attack into a devastating counterattack dealt by her pitchfork. Outside of combat, she can detect clues left by travelers that can lead to either new farming communities or secret paths.

(Sorry bout the long wait. A mix of working on concept art and enjoying Marvel Rivals kept me from writing. Gonna start writing the next protag bio soon)

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5th batch of fanart that I've been sitting on. Most of these were made when I got my drawing tablet working again. Gotta admit that I enjoy pushing my skills with this stuff and showing some appreciation to my favorite media and artists. The characters are as follows (left to right):

> Carol Green (@slientjack on X and Bluesky)

> Marie ( @gatodelfuturo )

> Goat pinup (Cult of the Lamb)

> Bal (Just one of my ocs thrown in)

> Meowskulls (Fortnite)

> Thatti ( @scarrshell )

> Protagonist (There is no Light)

> Boyfriend (Friday Night Funkin')

> Noelle ( @NuclearRosey on X/ Hellaverse OC I thought looked neat)

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Bken here! Before I take on the major development of making C.O.W into a video game, I decided to try and create a practice rpg (with RPGmaker of course) under the name "Legend of Misplacia" (project name). Plan for it to be a fairly simple yet memorable fantasy rpg about a group of run-of-the-mill workers banding together to deliver the Chosen One's weapon that exiles evil every hundred years. Compared to C.O.W, I'll try to keep up consistent work on it while posting progress from it on here. So far, I've had fun developing this world and the characters that live in it! I'll make sure to post what I've created for it very soon. Does this mean that I'll stop posting C.O.W content? Naw. It'll slow down, but I'll make sure to post any art related to it to the main blog still. Just expect more fanart and lackadaisical art relating to my overall ocs in the future. For now, this is the guy stuck with the delivery job. His name Joey and he's just glad to do something besides guarding a dung pile from Dunglickers all day

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Character commentary: Dane

Out of all the old characters brought back to life for COW, Dane was the easiest but most tweaked character developed for the C.O.W project. Originally, he was the main character of a scrapped comic I made when I was younger (used to be named Joey, in fact). As C.O.W started to develop, I was on the fence about whether or not I wanted Dane to be a part of the main cast for the new project. In a way, he is now. He is gruff, hard-headed, hateful, and very naive. He might not be a playable character in the final product, but his story will often pop up along with the main one. People can even learn about his true motives for being underground if they're curious enough. Fun fact: One of the previously posted characters on here are related to him

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in los angeles, the historically Black community of altadena has been decimated by the ongoing eaton fire.

afropunk has created a spreadsheet of gofundmes of displaced Black individuals and families affected by the current los angeles fires. the list is constantly being updated.

please donate what you can and share widely.

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Character commentary: Henrietta (Henri)

Right next to Roni, Henri was the second character taken from my old comic that got a complete revamp for C.O.W. When Mark (Ronald) got turned into a cyborg, Lucy (Henri's original name) got turned into a cat girl. At the earliest stages of C.O.W (before it got that name), I spent months trying to figure out what Roni and Henri would look like for this new world I was developing. For awhile, I stayed with the catgirl idea I had for Henri; wondering whether or not I wanted to make her more cat or human for her form. Yet again, it was around college when I decided to turn her into an anthropomorphic flesh woman. This was partly inspired by learning about a woman named Henrietta (gonna explain that down the line). Compared to Roni, I always felt like I made way more forms for her due to the many ideas I had for her. The look she has now (above) is the form I'm currently comfortable with. If I feel like giving her more forms again, they'll probably appear when after I make a proof-of-concept demo

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Character commentary: Ronald (Roni)

Originally, I use to do this comic when I was younger about these 3 friends with elemental powers who get locked in this box. This was after almost defeating a big bad (that never got developed) and having the comic start in the box. Nothing ever came from that comic except for a few OCs I did a complete overhaul and renaming the project nearing the end of high school. I can't remember all the original characters' names, but I remember Ronald being originally named Mark. Mark was the logical but a low-key character in my old comic. That was about it. I also remember that he was turned into a zombie for no reason and that eventually turned him into a cyborg in the middle of high school. At college, I spent years trying to create an iconic yet simple look for him since he became the second main oc for the C.O.W project. Some forms were cool, but ended up too complicated for most dynamic poses. In the end, I finally landed a look for him that was comfortable and cool to me. With him and a few others with palettes, I'm getting closer to developing a RPGmaker demo for C.O.W (Can of Worms)

(Plus, I was able to fix my drawing tablet, so I've been doing a lot of digital art. Stay tuned for that)

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Last entry: Aftermath

This one connects to C.O.W lore (and I had more than 100 followers at the time). This was the last remaining body of the extinct Cypian species. Damage shows that the creature went through heavy damage before being dealt a deathblow by its own weapon. Sometime after the events of the C.O.W facility prison escape, the body went missing. Wonder where it is now?

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6th batch of creatures. Entry names can be found in both the doodles and tags