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Isaac just gives off the vibe of someone who struggles to show affection- so I draw him as a bit shyer than Ed, but still bold enough to make the first move.

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bleh

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just two idiots first time (barely) holding hands

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they made me sick

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bello nebin

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:3

Jovel family shenanigans

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have you given any thought to the designs for the foxfield high cheer leading uniforms? or is that a detail too far separated from any relevant characters at the moment pfft

nah dw I just drew this as quickly as I could because I remembered rachel and stacy are cheerleaders

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something came over me

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new chapter moment

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chapter is 75% done! this one kind of has slower plot than normal

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Just wondering, and I know that the designs for the characters of obviously changed over time, but did the ibvs cast have any beta/work in progress designs that never made the cut? If so, how different were they from the official ones??

most of the current characters haven't actually changed much aside from their outfits! and like little design improvements. like isaac's hair has gradually gotten longer, edward's, dez's and barry's hair types are thicker now, characters' skin tones have been gradually fixed, etc. oh yeah autumn's eyes used to be brown instead of green

a surprisingly large number of the characters in ibvs were added to the story before they were drawn (dez and her friends… all of the jocks… even the original mcs), so most of them don't have beta work except for characters who were planned to be in the story long before they were added or haven't appeared yet. I do have a bunch of design work that I'm pretty sure was never posted, however, ranging from 2018-2021:

(it occurs to me that one of these refs of autumn was shared a long time ago, but not the full page)

the crazy thing is I could've sworn I posted a whole bunch of these but apparently not (memory moment). apparently I've never posted a single picture of britney. or nolan for that matter but he's less important

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What is it, ibvs? Yes it looks like it

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ibvs icons but it's just the characters who are mentally out of the closet and not in denial. as of right now. happy pride

monika and ben are also openly queer but I feel like they just accidentally crashlanded into the story from another dimension and aren't being included for that reason

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man you guys should have seen what the ibvs fandom was like back in the day. back when it was like still technically utmv. theories left and right about how xgaster created ibvs. omegaverse nsfw fanfics being posted in the main tags not under a cut. theories that the main characters were going to turn back into their utmv counterparts. "when is regular sans going to be added?" the og heathers au. the devotion to barry/drew. the plot of the story was going to feature main villain nevin trying to become school king. before nevin was fully realized as a character, he, in what I will refer to as my expired notes doc, is referred to as "a sociopathic yandere". swearing being censored in the story. random kids apparently pulling knives on edward in the streets. isaac and edward making out in the back of a van in every single ship scenario. todd's name was going to be carl. John

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so, just a question, now that there was an ask about james’ home life, i’ve been so heavily edward rotted so more of him specifically so how is his home life maybe ? or just any of the characters in general ( unless that’ll get shown later in fic )

I want to try and show as much stuff in the story as possible, but I don't really mind sharing small details if it seems appropriate.

edward's home life is pretty all right, though a bit chaotic. both edward and geno have a tendency to want to be the boss of things, geno has no issues answering the phone or getting the door or asking for what he wants, edward's friends are around almost constantly, there is just not a drop of social anxiety in their house. their dad is probably the least social. he works remotely as a web designer and he prefers things to be low energy and for people to use their inside voices. also, janet is willing to see edward as her own son, but edward doesn't see her as that, hence him calling her by her first name. they generally have a pretty good family dynamic, but all of the strong personalities clash slightly.

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i just got another question in my head. SO SORRY😭

but what do all the main characters parents do for work? like we know isaac’s parents mainly i think that’s all ( like maybe what does rose specialize in or something like that :-) )

bro I was JUST thinking about this ok (here are some of the legal guardians who've appeared in the story, of mostly main characters. anybody who is not listed needs to have their jobs heavily considered by me lol)

rose (isaac's mom) - psychiatrist / trauma and grief counseling william (isaac's dad) - animator antonio (edward's dad) - web designer janet - social worker (of the family and community variety) xavier - insurance maria (abuela jovel) - chef barry's parents - i will get back to you on that felix's mom - lawyer felix's dad - business

side note: from the story we know justin's mom owns a store and cody's dad works for city council