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Drawing Bruce always makes me happy! 😊❤️🦈

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It’s okay, Bruce— we’ve all been there

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Adventurers tend to be looked down upon in the Shire, even the most reluctant of hobbits who only wish to get back their child. The good news is, Bruce doesn’t mind using his scary guard dog privilege to silence nay-sayers. Marlin isn’t always aware of this 😆

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“As a pup, sensitive Bruce never understood why humans swam away from him” (Finding Nemo: the Essentials Guide)

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Loving Mambo but also recognizing what a little shit and dick he can actually be like I honestly feel for Munk having to put up with him at times

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Ask my muse questions they don't want to answer, make them squirm!

It can be anything from their past, a thread or an au.

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Redid my palette challenge from 2022 ft. Bruce!

Original:

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Audio from Pete’s Dragon (2016)

This is basically what happens in our thread, right? @wylkstone

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Mambo only tumbled around on Bruce's toothy cave like mouth cage for a minute more before he was flung against the troll's front teeth which were clamped in front of the opening of his mouth when he seemed to have come to a halt. He breathed rapidly in and out while backing himself up against the large front canines as much as he could. He felt the teeth his back was pressed against part while Bruce's head lowered, and felt himself being gently deposited from the dark mouth and onto the enormous palms placed below him and Bruce's chin. He clumsily fell onto his back on against the palms, and found himself staring up at the troll whose face stretched widely above with a cheeky grin as opposed to a hungry look or menacing eyes the other trolls had given him. This appeared to be the gentle troll he had come to know, and he didn't swallow him during the time he was trapped in his mouth, so this had to count for something.

He heard Bruce's question, and placed his tiny purple paw on his chest, his rapid breathing calming down. He swiftly brushed the saliva his clothes and fur had collected off with a flick of his scrawny arms as he stood himself back up in the troll's large hands which served as a platform of sorts for him right now.

"You didn't eat me! That's great, but warn a guy when ya do something like that! I thought my heart was gonna explode. That or I was about to become an in-between meals snack! Whichever came first." Mambo retained his panicky tone before backing up slowly, scrunching up his hat in his hands again and twisting the tip of it nervously.

"You wouldn't actually eat me, would you?" He asked for extra confirmation that he might still be able to call the large creature a friend.

Mambo tumbled around helplessly in his toothy cage as he felt Bruce thunder forward, scrambling backwards each time he landed to press up against his white canines as far away from his throat as possible. The troll didn’t seem to be in any hurry to swallow him, and his tongue had been pressed up against the back of his throat, so he supposed that was about a slight percentage of any indication the big guy who he had now considered a friend wasn’t going to chow down to save his skin, though his current environment as well as gut feeling was telling him otherwise.

Before he had another chance to pound on his friend’s teeth and beg to be let out, the mouth-cave he was trapped in spun backwards, causing the cat creature to yelp and latch himself onto what he grab of Bruce’s tongue as hard as he could, caring little about digging his claws into it given his current predicament though he hadn’t been trying to. While he was only suspended on his tongue for a few seconds before being flung back against the inside of Bruce’s cheek as the troll presumably dropped back on all fours, it was still a couple seconds more than he would have liked-not that he liked it at all.

Lying helplessly against the side of the interior of the Olog’s mouth, Mambo couldn’t do much else but curl himself into a ball and pull his hat over his face as he pressed his ears against the side of his cheeks.

‘Bruce, I don’t even wanna know what you are doing out there, but is it really too much to ask you to GET ME OUT OF HERE AND WHATEVER YOU DO NOT TO EAT ME!?’ Mambo shrieked as loud as his lungs could handle.

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As pride month draws to a close, what better way for me to celebrate than by redrawing these silly fractured fairy tale queers?

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Recovering from a really bad case of poison ivy on my dominant arm so just a short doodle for tonight 🥴

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what would your muse be willing to sacrifice to achieve their goals?

His status as a powerful Wizard's assistant/job as one if it meant the characters/people in the stories were able to not have a pre-decided fate and lives that differ than what has been set for them. Basically his own chance at becoming more in control of powerful magic like the Wizard himself is and a great wizard himself if it meant destiny could go beyond the basic by the book rules he is so distained with.

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are there any morals your muse learned in childhood that they disagree with / no longer live by?

Not necessarily in childhood, but there was a time that he felt step-parents or adopted ones were lesser by default because of what most fairy tales he had seen time again had told him, and generally couldn't recall having ever met a nice one. I mean, the tales were usually always correct, weren't they? Until he decided to twist the story of Hansel and Gretel a bit in which Hansel and Gretel's biological parents are the neglectful and poor ones and the Witch takes it upon herself to adopt them after she forms a bond with the kids and later finds out what their parents are like. Now that was a twist that Mambo learned something from after seeing how much she generally came to love them.

There was also a time where he felt that simple village folk or non-royals weren't on the same level as royalty in terms of worth because of how often he had spent time around the former rather than the latter or observed them being in the top tower room of a royal palace, until he met Rick and decided to venture out beyond the palace to get a glimpse of how peasants lived their lives with their own cultures and goals as well. It made him more convinced of the belief he has always had that fate or simple scales shouldn't determine people's paths in lives, and that they should go out and set their own paths while following their own dreams.

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Instagram followers were very supportive of my recent pieces with Bruce’s Xiaolin Showdown verse / Shark Dad AU!

This is a fun, silly, and sometimes serious verse that @heylinhenchman and I came up with ft. an old hyperfixation of mine, collaborative writing, and found family / reluctant body guard tropes.

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morality / ethics / one's character headcanon q's

is your muse opposed to violence?

does your muse often lie by omission?

how often does your muse self-reflect?

how good is your muse at setting boundaries?

does your muse believe some death is justified?

what importance does your muse place on rules?

is your muse one to follow through on their word?

does your muse think some laws are fine to break?

does your muse feel strongly about helping others?

does your muse think of themselves as a good person?

does your muse often butt up against authority figures?

does your muse feel motivated by recognition and praise?

what answer would your muse give to the trolley problem?

does your muse think it's important to help those less fortunate?

how would your muse respond to seeing a crime being committed?

what would your muse be willing to sacrifice to achieve their goals?

is your muse overly competitive? would others describe them as such?

does your muse have self-control? are they in in control of their impulses?

are there any morals your muse learned in childhood that they still live by?

does your muse believe it's justified to hurt one person to protect another?

how often does your muse find themselves disagreeing with established rules?

what does your muse think of the saying, "treat others as you want to be treated"?

does your muse consider themselves petty? would others describe them that way?

would your muse consider themselves entitled? would others describe them that way?

how often does your muse lie? Do they regret lying or do they feel their lies are justified?

are there any morals your muse learned in childhood that they disagree with / no longer live by?

is your muse loyal to those in their lives? does their loyalty tend to be genuine or can it be bought?

does your muse accept responsibility for mistakes, or are they prone to making excuses to avoid it?

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I haven’t updated Bruce’s Olog-hai reference in over three years, so it’s time for an update! This is mostly to help with size references between characters for any future animatics ❤️

Older references under read more — see Bruce’s journey!