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I am happy because everyone loves me

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i’m rotbtfd pilled i’m jelsa pilled im geeked

@06strawberrylemonade28 wrote a prom fic and I did some (sketchy) fanart while we schemed about it ^__^

(I ONLY care about the girls outfits,)

(i’m also a rapunzel is a tall girl truther, most of these heights are headcanons tho…)

(I made the boys too tall me thinks)

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Twyla is so cute

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…and then she woke up

i’m gonna ramble abt this recent drawing / a quick drabble to set the sceneee idk just to look back on so I don’t forget or I can edit it later

firstly, I love drawing trees like it’s actually so fun ^_^ and I like the colors and I think my only critique is I think I could’ve done better with isadoras placement/pose or maybe a different line width idek it just feels weird but i’m not upset abt it

Following Isadora moving to college in hopes that a change of scenery and environment could help her get away from what’s haunting her, if perhaps dedicating herself to her studies and getting out in the world can help, she finds that it does. sort of, with a lot of mistakes, hardships etc along the way…

a lot can happen in 2 years when she’s on her own and cut off from everyone back home. school, work, internships, more work and strangers. Also, many voices, random sounds, windows slamming open and shut. dreams where she’s back home, where she’s somewhere new, and dying.

There’s only so much that avoidance can do that it all comes back tenfold and she’s determined to do something about it. In a spiral of insomnia she follows the sound one night in the middle of a snowstorm, convinced it’s all a dream like the many others. Without much thought she never noticed where she was headed or how far she must’ve gone on her own away from her apartment.

lost in a daze she wandered into a snowy forest. crunching on the snow, stumbling over roots and with no attempt of tearing herself away from the calling branches, instead just letting them scratch at her. she found herself staring at the sky as she fell back against a large tree. one similar to the trees she loved sitting under back in highschool. She finally felt like going to sleep, and like a blanket the snow put her to rest.

2 more years passed. As her eyes fluttered open as the snow gently kissed her face, she was calmly staring up. the sky, dark and clouded by cold fog didn’t scare her for the first few seconds, and the stars and moon seemed like a sweet welcome. Only then after a heavy breathing she felt the cold air enter her lungs, and leave. Where was she? This wasn’t her apartment and this wasn’t a dream.

Her eyes slowly searched around and when her head turned to the sound of wind that gusted past her as she sat up, she felt the panic shoot into her blood stream. Her hair laced in snow resembled her frost coated skin and dress soon were shaken off as she attempted to stand up from her frozen state. Terrified, all she could do was run as fast and far as she could. The forest appearing like some infinite labyrinth to run from within the fog that made everything seem farther away from her.

The adrenaline and fear worked as a sedative for the ache in her lungs and feet as she continued to run for what felt like eternity only to be cut short as she tripped over a root. she stared at the back of her hand now bitten from the cold, she felt her hair working as a blanket to her body and her once clean nightgown that now was stained with dirt and hardening frost.

her eyes moved forward and saw a distant flickering of a lamppost, she was close to something now, she just had to keep running. She climbed back up with the support of the tree and stared at its frosty coat shimmering from the moonlight. If this were under different circumstances maybe she would’ve stopped and stared in awe at the entire forest, admired the details that nature provided. she would’ve waked peacefully and in shoes preferably, a coat too. Not now though, she ran with pain in her joints until she reached an empty trail, a familiar one that she would slowly walk the path.

quietly she walked, now the adrenaline gone and in a tired state she didn’t care about the cold, she didn’t care to look down if she was even bleeding. she was going to make it back to her apartment and sort out this nightmare. she would wake up in her bed and all this was actually just a dream, like the many that she had to fall back asleep to in order to wake back up.

Except, strangely, her apartment door within the complex was vandalized in what she had no time to decipher and now had been overgrown with vines and weeds. She turned the knob hoping that this lucid dream would work in her favor and to her sleepless delight, it did. she froze at the sight, the room remained with only the second hand furniture she picked up off garage sales or donations. The bed and its frame rotted away and the closet and cupboards left wide open or half way shut with a lingering disappointment. It was clearly abandoned. she was dreaming, she had to have been. she knew she went to sleep in her room, and she was going to wake up any minute now, this wasn’t real.

the morning stars rays peeked through the window shades and she would not wake up when it shined directly into her iris.

As she wandered away droplets followed and a puddle formed at her feet of melting snow as she stayed in place glaring at her reflection in the old bathroom mirror. The shattered caricature of herself stared right back with much longer hair, dark shadows under her eyes, she was desaturated and dirty from the nights journey. How long had it been and what was she supposed to do. she shouldn’t even be alive if she was truly in the woods for whatever time she spent there.

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It’s honestly so endearing and inspiring to see people creating their own characters and becoming obsessed with them lol

Especially right now when most media tend to be frustrating because no care is poured into it so a lot of stories and characters end up with a lot of untouched potential! So, seeing people having full control over what they want to see, developing their own art style and gushing about stuff that was actually made with love and therefore satisfies them is so cool!!

I myself have a LOT of OC ideas but I don’t really know where to start with any of them! 😭

I AGREE I follow so many OC artists on instagram just because their stories are interesting or the designs are cool. I don’t really mind if stories are simple and have a main story or goes on for forever it’s all just like playing dolls

I also have so many OC ideas and i’ve had to narrow it down over the years but honestly, just start where you think sets the ball rolling. like for me, even though my ocs have known eachother since highschool their story or main premise starts when they’re 22. nothing has to be linear and honestly just go where the heart wants it 🫶🏼❕❕

just have fun w it :P !!!

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I love your art style omg?????? And your OCs????? It’s so lovely!!!!! I LOVE it when people are obsessed with their OCs and I love it when people make OCs based on popular ships!!!!!!!

thank youu 🫶🏼🫶🏼 i’ve been running this oc ride for YEARS basically a decade at this point, vincent and isadora are my prized possessions and my artstyle has constantly evolved and im really happy where im at !!

I also love when ppl make ocs based on popular ships or characters ❕it’s like multiverse stuff in a way 8•)

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sister doodles turned to family trees

almost everything I do is on purpose and serves a purpose… or atleast a small little easter eggs. this is a very long break down of most if not all details so be warned THIS IS A LOT i’ve been doing this draft for a bit now !!!!!!

on another post i’ll talk about their names quickly because this is too long already…

and later on i’ll maybe do a study or breakdown of their fashion because that is also so fun to me and I think it’ll be interesting to elaborate on in terms of personality, class(?) and idk …

santos family

design wise, santos family is short in comparison to the reyes family, all 2 inches apart 🤫 WHICH is on purpose too. I would’ve done odd numbers but even seems to just suit them for some reason.

ALSO cesar is the only water sign (scorpio) while everyone else is an air sign (selena-aquarius, teresa-libra, isadora, aquarius, elias-gemini), . also on purpose sort of. I wanted the siblings to be equally apart in months each 4 months in distance, making them one of each air signs.

the dates are also on purpose. specifically cesar getting angel numbers 11/11 because of luck and selene also getting 2/2 — they’re actually contradictory for eachother. cesar’s birthdate is like selenes wish (which was to open her own shop, that he helped her with) while selenes birthdate is like cesar’s other half in being a pair.

isadoras date adds to 13, unlucky (or lucky to some). elias adds to 7, lucky. and teresa is 26 which when cut in half for a balance, is 13. the debate of 13 being lucky or unlucky is a balance that cancels each other out.

Onto other features, hair is also a noticeable quality for them. curly to wavy hair that’s very full because tbhness I just really like hair and it’s so fun keeping round and swirly shapes in their designs as a family.

I love their noses and eyes, and I wanted to really make them appear more on the sad, stressed or confused look. which isn’t as noticeable bc I opted for a more still and relaxed look. so all that is noticeable is that they’re eyes are downturned and rounder instead of sharp. again, round and short is also noticeable in their noses too, with his they almost slope down and end, or slightly curve at the end. lips are pouty like selena, and almost like a frown like cesar’s and selenes (he hides it w his stache 🙂‍↕️).

I like to give every character an animal they may represent or remind me of in some way (not always because of physical qualities, but you can see it sometimes) and so i’ll start;

Cesar is a raven. flocking in pairs which reflects him getting with selena and sticking by her goals. ravens being able to mimic is so him and knowing how to talk to people for business, like mirroring them.

Selena is a crow. able to remember faces really well and she is prone to grudges. crows fly in groups and selena is very family/collective oriented. (she has the bigger family on her side that gives her that mindset)

Teresa Ximena is a horse. (I love horses). sort of like a show horse, or a competition horse, after all shes very competitive in what she’s best at. also how horses clomp around, makes me think of her dancing and confidence. the free spirited nature that horses have also remind me of her as she never let the title of oldest daughter dictate her.

Isadora Luna is a sheep. the whole “black sheep” thing. Also what sheep are metaphors for, and while it matches her I also like the contradictions of her just not fitting in with other sheep/people. a big thing is seeking shelter/safety and being sensitive to changes in her spaces or environment.

Elias Carlos is a goat. similar to isadora in a way, but more socially intelligent, and like goats he can read people’s emotions really well. it comes easier for him even if he’s shy and as a result he will always prefer a group to be social in.

selena begins having children with cesar when she turns 20, just sort of following that pattern every 5 years. that means the only time either sibling was in school together was in elementary, and that’s only 2 siblings at a time, (kindergarten-1st while one was in 4th-5th. isadora is the only one to experience sharing that with her siblings twice.) that thing where each sibling has a diff version of parents is very evident with them, and the 5 years makes a difference because of the shop gaining more attention as time passes,

reyes family

The reyes family is taller in comparison to the santos family, taller and appearing thinner or straight cut, in general LESS rounded out

the reyes family’s zodiac signs are oppisite to the santos family. Romeo-aries-fire, Paloma-virgo-earth, vincent-capricorn-earth, despite being born a few minutes apart and on different days, marisol and augustine-leo-fire, and fiona-taurus-earth.

(santos: 1 water 4 air, reyes: 3 fire 3 earth—AND of each)

the dates. Paloma and romeo’s birth dates complete their respective months, 9+21=30 days in march and romeo is 3+28=31 days in march.

Vincent being born on 12/28 is honestly just because in mexico that’s like april fools day and I think that’s silly for him. also being born right in between christmas and new years? thats absurd, a really big joke for him. also the same as his dad with 28, which btw, him and his dad are iffy even though they’re very alike, down to the date (minus number, but fire and earth too like the parallels guys the PARALLELS..)

the twins being born on different days makes their names also match, and marking them as the end of july, (“mar y sol”) and beginning of august (augustine). I could’ve named her julia, BUT I really eff with beachy-sunny name.

fiona’s birthday adds to 8, I like the number 8. but also, 5/3=1.6, she’s one out of 6 in her family, being that she’s the 6th one. number fun 🤗

now to other features, back to their hair. its thick, and pokes out at the ends no matter what. which is why it remains short. too much thick hair that I don’t think either one in that family cares to manage the way the other family does. very unified or frayed and messyish.

freckles and beauty marks scattered around some of them from paloma’s side of the family. romeo like many in the family have passed down streaks of strays of gray silvery hair, vincent so happened to have it early on, and so far none of his siblings are showing. he used to dye them, but after it began to show on his brow and lashes he stopped trying. sometime around 17-18

their noses and eyes my favs as said before. longer faces, longer noses and if it weren’t for the side profile romeo’s widened nose would be more obvious in comparison to paloma’s narrower nose. their eyes are all slightly longer and more narrow. sort of the illusion of mona lisa going on in that family. don’t know if their annoyed or smiling, so it appears sort of like a taunt to me. a slight smile on each of them. thinner lips and if it was a front view, you’d see that their lips are longer than santos. slender faces, cheekbones, and overall, having a more youthful look to them either a boyish look or growing into appearances look.

now the critters they remind me off

Romeo Valentin is a great dane. look scary or too serious, boring even, or simple. but they are very affectionate and known to be family dogs. typically good with children and families, which romeo is, he may have missed it though with vincent, oops.

Paloma Pilar is a collie (she is not a dove despite her name!!) playful and very beautiful hair. honestly appearance wise, she just looks it. affectionate and known to also love children. she would’ve had more too if it weren’t for her and romeo’s careers getting in the way. and after having vincent when they thought they were ready, they realized they should’ve waited more and so they did, and then they waited again. but it’s okay because it all worked out, sort of.

Vincente Valentin is a belgian shepherd dog. I used to want to see him as a wolf, which btw, are known to be friendly with ravens but are not at all friendly to sheep and while I like contradiction, it’s a bit too mehhh. so a dog that appears like a wolf is more accurate, and even symbolic. he is very protective especially over his siblings and many others, and may appear intimidating and often hes misinterpreted by his appearances.

Marisol Miranda is a budgie bird. colorful and chatty. a bit flighty too, tendency to be here and there. but overall very fun to have around when a room feels too quiet. I like to imagine it like a bird fluttering in and around. ME i’m terrified of birds but I think they’re so pretty and cute and nice.

Augustine Arturo is a deer. a bit awkward, but agile, quick and very easily nervous despite his “too cool” appearance, a calming and yet also chaotic personality like his twin who is also chaotic, but an easy person to be around.

Fiona Flor is a ferret. playful, a bit messy too. she’s just a child in the current place of the story. but as she gets older, and taller, it is sort of like she forgets how tall she is and is just as clumsy. curious too, as if always in a frenzy and being she’s the youngest, no one minds because it’s a youthful presence.

because of the career paths they chose, romeo and paloma decided to wait for years to have children after marriage, and when they had vincent, they realized they couldn’t pay much attention so he was handed around to his grandparents often times. missing out on many things in his early years but it’s fine. Vincent liked his grandparents a lot. especially on his dads side. as they waited for work to slowly cool down they had the twins, and could focus on them a lot more, and then finally decided to have fiona. Again, if it weren’t for the demanding careers, and what it took to get there, they’d have loved to have more kids and would’ve gone for it. It’s okay though, they have plenty of not more extended family. besides, they gave their children really, really well lives with their jobs…

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because I said I would do fanart

lowk cringe but to be cringe is to be free and it had to be done because the worms in my brain told me so

this was done quick ignore the scrappiness 🤫🤫

i don’t do fanart btw, liek it’s super rare but I fear this will be a phase for a while

it the evolution… the oc-fication…. also maybe got the colors wrong I went too quick

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Ms. Yelps my beloved 😘🧟‍♀️

I did this a couple months ago and forgot about it. Sorry ghoulia….

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fun fact, my ocs isadora and vincent actually stemmed from jelsa fixation and they just fell into the “ship/fictional character to ocs” pipeline … they’re not all that similar anymore but it’s so fun to think about because the .. dynamics slightly there and in my opinion, I see their faces in them sometimes like in a warped way 😭

just had to share cuz lately i’ve been jelsa pilled all thanks to recent fics and callimaras youtube vids, ESPECCIALLY THE RECENT ONE WITH MYRTHENA !!! which, maybe I should do some fanart soon, some of just jelsa some of the two ships, a lil bit of eso, un poco of this….

like it’s actually so bad the way it all unfolded… cuz yeah .. I had fanart of them tucked away in my journal and then one day something shifted, I remember just one day thinking I want something like jelsa and canon and I can do whatever I want without it being fanart, so let me make my own in the exact same way.. just different.. and then they were born… and little by little other ships I grew attached to blended in to make them, them <3 mainly jelsa though

I also had like other counterparts like rapunzel eugene, hiccup astrid, merida and a girlfriend, but I lowk dropped them bc it got too much…

it haunts me and i’ll never escape the sound of my first childhood ship..

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that movie that will forever have a special place in my heart

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sketch something something

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old drawing BUT let me speak / add context

when isadora leaves for college she goes no contact, literally disappeared from everyone’s lives to escape her past. however this terrifies vincent because they promised they’d keep contact, and she’d never break a promise. not to him atleast. so he tries calling her many times but nothing <\3

at 22 now, her stuff happens … and decides moving back home is best, after the whole situation of it,,, she with her unfinished degree has a hard time finding a job she truly wants but with her experience and portfolio from past internships managed to land as a copy editor, sort of sent around for last minute corrections, or when someone’s unable to get the work done.

vincent also 22 has gone into working for a small section of a newspaper. he’s sort of the everything man for the side of the office. his main works being photojournalism but he enjoys digging around for information and short interviews for a good story when work gets boring, or when someone needs his charm.

the two quite literally known as forgotten until needed.

because of that, the two get assigned to work together on a last minute new column. they work together to write and finalize articles on the towns various locations with the most city life and rather aesthetically appealing spots to be. all of this, while the two are in the midst of a sore spot for eachother with resentment and bitterness,

this spiraled and trickles to them working on an entirely new side project.. solving isadoras disapearence,..

and there the dance starts again, this time he will not do just about anything for her. (not at all. and she will not under any circumstances, let him get close again!)

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🕯️ 📖 🌌

Sweet dreams…

a box of chocolates sent from her valentine…

When I write or think about Isadora as a character I try my best to include certain motifs, or a type of vibe to her. This is done by her clothes most importantly but I like to make sure her surroundings speak in some way about her. Circular, and swirly lines are my favorite for her and many other patterns like lines, polka dots and so much more as an aspect of her character is she loves fashion and grew up in her families tailor and dress shop, so I think she wouldn’t be scared of patterns or textures.

In terms of symbolism. A few things I think of when I think of isadora is babydoll silhouettes, silk, velvet lace, ribbons, and moons or clouds. Think sleep, nightgowns and slip dresses. Frills and loose fabric that drapes all over. Silver and a light light periwinkle, either fading to purple or blue.

It’s hard describing her because like many of my ocs I see them in everything and are not just flat depictions of one thing.

anyways, vincent’s middle name being valentin is a small detail. he’s a lover at heart and every year on valentine’s day he decides to participate subtly with the people in his lives, seems he has a favorite.

(yes, he gives her something every year, no they aren’t even dating.)

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this is so vincent about isadora yesyes…

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cats in dollhouses

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senior year photos 📷❕

info on them …

isadora is the main character, she, vincent and akio go to a prep school that’s very competitive and if it weren’t for the fact isa got in through scholarship she’d still go to school with her best friend carmen. encouraged by carmen to go their friendship was still strong up until the last months of senior year and the summer. still, for the four years of prep school, isa would sneak her friend in, and when she would go home her carmen was ready to sneak herself into isas house for a sleepover. isadora never wouldve told carmen of the hell that prep school was, just that she was highly ranked in her class. carmen had a gut feeling though, she’d never question isadora though. isadora liked her secrets, and carmen couldn’t do much either.

vincent and akio were inseparable, every day to class ignoring others unless provoked. they both had problems of their own, family, people, all of it. still, they were able to make the most of it until a situation had occurred that had gotten them suspended, after many, multiple other instances. akio decided not to return, vincent’s parents gave him no choice, one of.. the best decisions his parents made. while akios didn’t return, his father paid for off campus teachers and tutors from the school and was granted his son to have at-least proof of his attendance up until senior year. akio could care less, but his father insisted.

they would’ve loved to have been a friend group if they weren’t so far apart. I picture them being very rebellious and in antics if they were all together. each serving roles in their own way. I believe they would’ve been of better support to one another if they were a group. still, things don’t work out. as adults they’d be more mellow, and their personalities would blend well and stick out