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Hey, do you have a main for anyone who'd wanna look at your other art?

Of course!

My main is @ordinarykeys

You can find me with that name on Twitter and Instagram too(honestly just about any big platform I have that username). I had a pretty slow year last year from health stuff and work but I'm trying to get back into posting more frequently.

Feel free to send any asks there as well, even character ones. I don't mind answering stuff!

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How are you guys?

Probably not the answer you're expecting but I feel like there's probably some form of closure I should give this blog. I definitely went very ambitious with the development I wanted to do with these characters, at the time obviously I had the energy and desire to make the stories so I'm not faulting myself for doing it. It was fun at the time and that's what these blogs are about!

So here's some fun story bits that were in the works before I moved on to other creative things. If you DO end up reading this, be prepared it's pretty lengthy. There's some old thumbnails of updates that I never got to finish, along with a few designs of story elements.

As well as a few trigger warnings, there's some talk about death, loss, substance abuse(in a magical sense), a lot of fire, emotional trauma. I think that covers it, so if you're fine with that continue on!

Sol was made to be this sort of slimy two faced asshole that used people for his thirst for knowledge without care of what happened to the people he left behind in the process. He pushes the limits of his relationships until they either break or start to bend to him whim. There was a long time he wasn't a good person, and his friends suffered for it.

BEFORE THAT THOUGH, we're going to time skip backwards a bit before he was introduced to the blogs. Sol used to be a slimy single faced asshole that actually had friends. He was on top of the world, gave no shits about who knew him, who liked him, who hated him. He'd escaped from the lab he was created from and he wanted to experience life to the fullest because this man honest to god believed NOTHING could hurt him. He ended up forming a crew, they got up to some hijinks, they had a great time doing it, and they were a big family. This was supposed to be explored with the "Remember your sins" meme, but lost the drive pretty quick after starting. I did some digging around and I found some of the old thumbnails

Essentially it filled in some of the missing pieces of Sol getting backstabbed by one of his crew members and learning that he's not as invincible as he thought. This was also where the explanation of the White and Black Cores come in. Black cores I was able to finish with the explaination, white cores I unfortunately never got around to. I'm sure there's some roughs floating around or at least on paper. But basically white cores plays in the opposite of the black cores. Black cores are too much magic, so white is not enough. So Sol witnessed having his core broken into and he lost an huge amount of his magic which threatened his existence. His body went into panic mode, and he went absolutely nuts and killed his family(or so he thought). He set the whole place on fire, and definitely Skip died because when he finally came too he just sort of stuck around her corpse and spired into a depression. He went through some stuff it wasn't a good year(or decade I can't remember) for him.

Skip ahead to his next phase, rebuild. So after all that shit, he picked himself back up, made a new identity, tried to rebuild his empire. Got mixed up with some not so good relationships(the not so good being on his end), finding himself unable to trust again because of obvious previous shit. He still didn't know who it was that betrayed him, and so he gave up that shit to be a new brand of asshole. The kind that DOESN'T actually want to make friends anymore.

That's where we jump to Sol adopting kids and it's the worst idea. This plot point I honestly kinda wished I did so differently. It was such a missed opportunity for Boom and Pom to have a parental figure, regardless if he was so bad at being on. Whenever I make AUs with these three now, their dynamic is so different, Piper(Pom) adores Sol regardless if he sucks at taking care of any sort of organic creature. That's all I really have to say about that. Boom sees him more like a boss and Pom hates him but slowly builds into being okay with him later on in the blogs.

So now I'll get into the present/future stuff. A big part of what the blog was going towards was this project called "the interviews" and man I wish I had all the thumbs for it, but I think a lot of it was on paper. Here's just some of the beginning ones:

Shout out to Simon's very obvious in check emotions.

Anyways, so this was going to be a series of updates in regards to looking for new hires. Along the way it would cut back and forth between Bob and Sol, Bob who's trying to move forward while Sol who's still held back by the past and can't move on. The above section was basically going to be what Bob was going through.

Meanwhile with Sol, he would meet Skip who's been haunting the warehouse as a Boo, unable to move on because of her ties of anger and regret for what Sol had done. She'd go on talking about how she'd been there since she died, hating Sol quietly and learning her new powers to find a way to get revenge. But as she watched him grovel for nearly a decade over her body, she decided that he'd done a better job torturing himself over and over enough times that she didn't need to do anything. But she reconciles with him, telling her friend that it's time for him to move on. Sol argues that he's unable to, how could he after what he's done, and wishing it hadn't happen. He goes on mentioning that he couldn't control himself, he wouldn't have done that even if she betrayed him by breaking his core. That's when Skip reveals that it wasn't her, it was Po, the snowpokey of their team.

Learning this, Sol is furious, but keeps his cool for the time being. Him and Skip have a bit of a bonding moment, reminiscing about the past, then Sol offers Skip one of the jobs. She reluctantly agrees, since she's stuck there anyways, and she becomes the new security. Sol brings her to Bob, and he has an emotional moment with her too, seeing that one of his friends did in fact pass away at the incident.

That was as much as I had solid plans for, at least with Sol's arc. Rough ideas was Sol going to confront Po on his own, and turns out Po's resented him for years. They fight and as Po looks about to win Bob comes in and shows off his own frustrations that he'd been keeping. He loses it and beats Po to an inch of his life sort of deal, Sol stops him, and he offers Po an opportunity to change, which he declines. Maybe later on he changes his mind, unsure. Didn't get that far into it. But yeah that was pretty much Sol's whole arc. Pretty long. A lot of bummer city stuff, but becomes pretty chill at the end.

NOW SIMON. Honestly his was a lot tamer in the sense of just his own self discovery. His arc is essentially feeling abandoned by Sol when he escaped whatever vague lab they were from. He's always felt Sol could connect with people a lot easier than he could. Sol was full of a lot of sympathy where as Simon was empathy. He couldn't exactly relate to a lot of what people felt. Unlike Sol, that you could argue was created with a lot of emotion, Simon was made with very little. It made him desperate to feel what others did, and from that it made him feel empty. So to fill that void, he filled it with the only thing he knew he could. Magic. Thus it lead to him consuming magic constantly, and furiously.

Simon developed these 'black core' symptoms very early on, where he has a constant hunger to consume magic and it's completely messed up his way of thinking because of it. Though his ultimate goal had always been to basically combine with Sol, because in his eyes, Sol is everything he wants to be. So ultimately at one point, he does. It's right during the big arc where Boom loses his arm in the fight. They lose and Simon and Sol combine to make this guy.

It was during the time I unfortunately pretty burnt out on trying to produce all this content on my spare time. So doing huge updates and big arcs were getting harder and harder to do. I missed just having a funny blog to draw silly answers for, so I skipped over all this, and instead just planned on it all being talked about in past tense. That's when Bob and Scotty suddenly came in.

As for the rest of Simon's arc, part of it was shown on the blog. Scotty helped separate the two after combining, and turns out everything he thought would fix him came crashing down. It didn't work, he didn't feel how he wanted to, and he hit a low point in just having no idea what to do anymore. His thoughts consumed by this hunger that can't be satisfied, and he can't grasp the concept of love or what it is to love.

He slowly comes back to with Scotty's help, showing him compassion and forgiveness for his actions. Teaching him that there is nothing wrong with not understanding. There is nothing wrong with not having those feelings. It takes time and experience to understand and find yourself. So she helps him rebuild, helping him do the things he enjoys that doesn't, you know, hurt others with an ending violent hunger for power. He officially gets his weird uncle status badge. Hooray!

Now a character I didn't get much opportunity to explore, Scotty. She doesn't exactly have "end game" planned, because she's definitely more of a supporting cast for these two. So she was created in the same facility, you know the vague unnamed one, after Sol left. She was given a little less magic so she didn't, you know, go nuts like Simon, and perhaps a little less emotional than Sol. She was supposed to be the in between but basically the "better" version of them. And then Simon lost it and destroyed the vague unnamed facility and broke her core. That's what the grabby hands represented in this post

But with still a little magic left, she wasn't gone. There was a vague concept of either Bob or Sol returning to the facility and finding her core. Probably Bob if I think about it now, to look for some answers about what Sol is and how to get him to be less... uh... fire. And sort of repairs Scotty while he's there and just sort of leaves her to figure out her thing. Then upon Simon and Sol combining, Scotty arrives, using her ability to separate them through means. I honestly cannot remember how.

But that's it! Those are the arcs that I had planned for this blog that I never got to, and honestly never will get to. I do still love these characters deeply, I use them all the time in AUs I will sometimes post on my main art blog. They're my self indulgent characters, and I love them dearly.

They've grown a lot since this blog began, or heck, even before this blog began. Sol was made to be a throw away character, made just to be Boom's really terrible abusive boss in his early years. Christ look at this absolute piece of shit. My whole design concept was literally "sleazey car salesman"

And Simon was literally a joke. I misspelled Splorch once, and he was created from it. He was meant to be the opposite of Sol in every way, and he honestly still is.

What a lovely walk down memory lane. Thanks for sticking around for those that got this far. I honestly enjoyed the time I had with these blogs, they were truly a lot of fun. I met some great people from them, and it's lead to some really great friendships. Aside from that shit though, gave me these characters, and they're going to stick with me for a long time.

Thanks for all the support that this obscure blog received over the years. This one hit so much different than BoomPom did. I felt like this one was more of my own, and less tied to the popularity of other much bigger blogs. It honestly shocks me that people sent asks here, and people took interest in these characters. Means a lot to me if you did and for all the asks this blog received in it's life span.

I hope you have a pleasant day, you deserve it.

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Okay, this is an important question: opinion on the Shroobs?

Sol: Wouldn’t recommend. The worst trips.

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Simon, is that heart a birthmark or egirl makeup?

Simon: “Actually, it’s a tattoo I got Sol to put on the left side of my face! IT HURT A LOT but it was totally w-” 

Sol: “It’s on the right side of your face. Idiot.”

Simon: “No it’s not, it should be…”

Simon: “…None of this is real.”

(( THAT’S IT APRIL FOOLS IS OVER. THANKS FOR COMING EVERYBODY.))

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Sol may not be able to fight but I mean at least he's got tiny hands to help reach into small places? That's useful right?

Sol: “Yeah I’m aware of the reason I’m still around.”

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I have a question for all of you, who are you and where do you come from?

Simon: “Well we’re Simon, Sol, and Scotty Savage! Like it’s said in our first post! Where we come from… well you see, when two people want to procreate…” 

Simon: “You should know what happens next if you’re old enough to be on this website.”

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so what do you guys specialize in, career-wise? any special talents of yours, that may or may not include your career?--even something silly, like if you can stand on your hands or something.

Simon: “We’re all lieutenants for the boss man! Haha, our species make really good fighters, so we’re perfect out on the field! In nature we’re all strong, energetic, and sturdy! As for hobbies, well, I like fighting, it’s what I’m really good at! I haven’t really thought about picking up something else to do. I can stand on my hands though!”

Simon: “Scotty’s got her gardening though! She loves it a lot! And her garden loves her back! They even help her out when she gets sent on missions! She’s got other talents too, like listening! She’s a really good listener! Scotty sits through all of my conversations, and doesn’t even need to respond! Haha, Sol says I’m just not giving her a chance to respond, but I totally am. If she wanted me to stop talking to say something, she would just say so!” 

Simon: “Oh, but remember when I said our species are strong and durable in nature? I lied, not all of us are. Sol’s not really a fighter. He’s kinda spindly and long, like a stretched out less cute version of me. Still a lieutenant though! He doesn’t really like being out on the field, probably because he’s squishy and weak.” 

Simon: “But that’s okay because Scotty and I keep close to help him out! Sol’s good at other things though! Like he’s really smart, and likes to do science stuff! He wanted to work in the research department, but they didn’t have any positions available, so they stuck him with us. He’s good at strategy stuff though, keeping Scotty and I, mostly me though, from just running out without any sort of plan! And he’s got some other tricks up his sleeves! Literally! Hehe! I guess you could say his hobby is all the nerd stuff he does, like breaking down power ups and combining them and stuff! I don’t know what it means but it helps us in a pickle!”

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Scotty! How is your garden doing?

Scotty: [Good! Mr. King Koopa has been letting me fix up the royal gardens and the piranha plants have never looked better.]

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Sol: “We don’t have time for this.”  Simon: “Sure we do, we’ll just reply on our breaks!” Sol: “What breaks?” Simon: “… We’ll reply while on our breaks. WINK WINK.” Sol: “You’re suppose to wink, not say it out loud.”

THE BOOM AND POMS SIBS ARE BACK AND READY FOR QUESTIONS! 

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Sorley: “Dress like the man you wan to be.”

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Wait... Sorley and Sipher? What happened to Splorch and Spiorch??

Sipher: “Well we are splorches… That’s our species? I don’t know who or what Spiorch is though. So I dunno what happened to them, I never met them. Maybe Bob knows… I’ll ask him later.”

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Oh this should be interesting. Hey Sipher and Sorley, what colour are you guys' cores?

Sipher: “I mean they’re all dark on the outside, but mine’s pink on the inside! Sorley’s is red! But it glows a lighter red so it’s basically pink, right? We’re matchin’ because they were made at the same time! You could say we’re twins! I mean technically Sorley’s was put in first, but I was right after! A few hours later because of some technical issues… but still twins! Our cores are a little beat up, but they’re still tickin’ thanks t’ paps!” 

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everything seems perfectly fine so i'll ask this: how do you style your hair? just wondering cause you know, lava and stuff. is it like a flesh mortal's hair styling or what

Sipher: “That’s easy! We don’t have hair! We’re bald and we got fire on top! But we can totally make that fire into whatever form we want. I personally like the ponytail, but sometimes I like t’ spice things up. We can even make beards like what Sorley got!”

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Sorley: “This is still an awful idea.”

Sipher: “THAT’S A FUNNY WAY TO PRONOUNCE AWFUL - oh wait, shit. I already messed up.”

THE LAVA SIBS ARE BACK AND READY FOR QUESTIONS! 

Sorley is on the left, and Sipher on the right!

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Bob: “And of course living so long you just straight up outlive a lot of people too. Two of the triplets have passed away, Rayner is still kicking around, I go and see him frequently. Pretty sure Po’s gone now too. I haven’t heard from that guy since the split, not sure if he even got out. Not even sure how long Snow Pokeys live either, so he could be gone from old age at this point, who knows. He always sort of kept to himself anyways.”

Sol: “How’s Rayner doing, by the way?”

Bob: “He’s in a pirate phase right now. So. It’s interesting.”

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REMEMBER THAT FUSION MEME I TOOK REQUESTS FOR BACK IN *looks at watch* January 30th 2018? 

WELL I DO.

AND HERE THEY ARE! NOW I CAN FINALLY PUT THAT FILE IN MY DONE FOLDER AND MOVE ON WITH MY LIFE. 

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bro this blog is 4 years old

(( Oh my god it’s the blog’s anniversary today. I didn’t even know that. Anon did you know that and sent this ask today? 

Well happy anniversary to this blog. 4 years old. That’s basically an adult in cat years. ))