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🧡Fragaria memories pep talk🧡

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"mom's not home, you know what that means" walks around the house talking to the imaginary audience for three hours straight

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Finally finished creating my ts mc

if you've seen me post her a couple days ago no you didn't 🫶

i love how all the characters look so dark and dreary and then there's just mischa with her bright pink hair

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repost from my twitter bc I thought it was funny

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International day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People 1/2

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Jin the Abandoned Alchemist

Redesigned. I changed my Alchemist!MC Jin's design to have more wizard vibes and I think I gave him the standard Disney villain colour scheme. Welp.

Pronouns: He/Him Birthday: September 13 Height: 5’7 / 171 cm Personality: Gentle, awkward nerd trying his best Likes: Books, libraries, gardening, tea, sewing, learning new things (especially of the magic variety), cuddles Dislikes: Hurting people, cruelty, spicy food, heights, the cold, liars, public speaking Fatal flaw: Often lets his past and self-doubt consume him. Other: Carries around a small rabbit plush named Aster that he made when he was younger. He’ll eventually give her to his love interest as a good luck charm (enchanted with a small protection spell, too — yes, this boy would give a protective charm to an eldritch horror because he genuinely worries for their safety) if they’re close enough  Yes, this was 100% inspired by Hades Quote: “I don’t think this was covered in my studies… Oh well! Trial and error is a perfectly valid method of learning.”

More about him below:

Jin is kind, gentle, inquisitive, curious and a bit naive from his sheltered upbringing. He’s always yearned for adventure, but never believed it was possible with his curse. Now, he finally gets his wish, though he had little choice in the matter.

Very socially awkward and easily flustered due to his lack of experience interacting with other people. And now, with his mentor’s betrayal, he’s a bit more reserved, unsure of who to trust.

Non-confrontational but quietly sassy. Ais might bring that side out of him more.

Jin calls him “Ais-hole” in his head. He’s aware that it’s not a particularly witty or even good insult, but it makes him feel better when the latter annoys him.

Book smart and street dumb

Jin tends to see the best in people, even to his own detriment.

Has avoided touch like the plague. He’s always careful not to get too physically close to someone, and because of this, he’s usually very observant and aware of his space. Not that he doesn’t crave physical affection. He definitely burst into tears when touching Leander for the first time.

This poor boy is touchstarved (ha) but he’ll never ask for physical affection, for fear of either, at worst, hurting someone or at best, being a nuisance.

He also struggles with a lot of guilt for craving touch since he knows it’s dangerous to other people and it’s selfish to yearn for things that put other people in danger, right?

I'm not sure whether this is canon or not, but I wrote his curse as gradually growing, both in surface area and in power. When he was an infant, the curse was only in his fingertips and it didn't make anyone lose their minds. One touch would bring horrible, unmentionable thoughts but those thoughts would pass.

As he grew older, the curse spread from his fingers to his palms to his hands, up his forearms and his elbows. Its effects also grew in intensity. What was a horrible, but instantaneous thought became one minute of terror, then two, then an hour, and so on, and the nature of them grew worse. Currently, it dooms anyone it touches.

And the curse is spreading still. Jin views his curse as a ticking time bomb, so he is desperate to find a cure as soon as possible. He doesn't know what will happen when it consumes him entirely. He is terrified of becoming a monster.

He used to have dark brown eyes, but the curse made his eyes gold. His left sclera has taken on the dark grey and the gold veins of the curse. I imagine that when — if — he is cured, they'll turn back to their original brown.

Adores plants and plushies — soft things that he’s able to touch without hurting. He has a small stuffed rabbit named Aster that he made when he was younger, one of the first things he’s sewn. She has a hidden pocket to carry herbs or small potion bottles. He places lavender and chamomile in Aster when he has trouble sleeping.

He's a bit embarrassed about his love for plushes. His old magic mentor found his fixation undignified. And really, he shouldn't be needing or craving such creature comforts, as if he was still a child.

He has his plants, though. That's something useful and conducive to his studies.

He talks to his plants sometimes when gardening. “You wouldn’t go mad on me, would you, matricaria chamomilla? … Although, since I’m currently talking to a plant, you’re probably not the one I have to worry about going mad.”

Before coming to Eridia, he used to grow and make his own tea blends. If he wasn’t an alchemist, he wouldn’t mind opening a tea shop.

His spellbook was given to him by his old mentor. It acts as a notebook for magic studies and research, but he also uses it as a diary, somewhere to doodle and write down his thoughts.

He has some trauma surrounding magic, considering that it was a big part of his relationship with his mentor, but he genuinely loves learning and mastering it. He’s always believed himself to be a burden, but magic is something that he can use to actually help others instead of harm them. Despite everything that’s happened, he can’t help believing he owes that gift to his old mentor.

The Senobium always sounded like a dream to him, so hearing that there is darkness beneath the promises of knowledge and wisdom and history is extremely disappointing, to say the least. He’d had hopes of eventually becoming a student.

Aside from matters of his curse, he tries to be as honest and sincere as he can be. Eridia is a city that runs on information, but he chooses to freely give what information he can. He doesn’t believe in withholding answers that could help someone in need. And that is part of how he loses faith in the Senobium after discovering that they’ve closed their gates. All the knowledge of the world, locked away as people suffer, and for what?

This is also probably influenced by his mentor’s betrayal, having been lied to his entire life inclines him to prefer the truth, whatever the cost.

Sometimes, he regrets running away. Was he too hasty? Was he selfish? He was hurt when he learned her true plans for him, but maybe he owed it to her. A small thing to repay the mage who had taken him in. If all he brought was pain and terror, what was a bit of suffering on his part for answers?

And then, he also honestly misses her. He can't say the mage was a bad person, she gave him a home. She practically raised him. She taught him magic. And she made him feel not alone. She cared for him, and he doesn’t believe it was an act — at least, not all of it.

His zodiac sign is Virgo

MBTI is INFJ

Enneagram is 9w1

Here's his full outfit and pose below (plus nervous Jin with his cursed eye, laughing Jin and panicking Jin):

It's funny that he has the Disney villain colour scheme because when I imagine him, he moves like a Disney princess. I gave him an eyepatch because I feel like he would be insecure about his eye where the curse had spread. He has gloves for the extra coverage but he doesn't wear them all the time.

I also made a character playlist for him. Some songs are just there for the vibes. The sounds I associate with him are autumnal and folk-y:

"Wanderer's Lullaby" by Adriana Figueroa I imagine his magic mentor Minerva used to sing this to him.

“The Calling” by The Amazing Devil

“Out There” by Tom Hulce & Tony Jay

“The Loneliest Girl” by Celeina Ann & Nai Br.XX

“Ruin” by The Amazing Devil

“Waiting in the Wings (Reprise)” by Eden Espinosa & Hudson D’Andrea

"How to Be Invisible" by Kate Bush

“Monster” by Caissie Levy

“Irrelevant” by Lauren Aquilina

“I Was Human” English Cover by rachie

“The Horror and the Wild” by The Amazing Devil

“happiness” by Taylor Swift

“Message in the Wind” by Celeina Ann & Nai Br.XX

“I Am Not Nothing” by Beth Crowley This is how I imagine his good ending, if I manage to get him one. Haha, I am so scared about the game. In a good way! There’s also this male nightcore version.

“King” by Lauren Aquilina

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"THREADS OF YOU: BEYOND THE BAY" COMING SOON! 🌊✨

1 broken down car, 2 weeks in a hidden seaside town, and 7 men waiting to sweep you off your feet.

Will you follow the threads of destiny?

"THREADS OF YOU: BEYOND THE BAY" COMING SOON! 🌊✨

Huge thanks to Somate Studio for illustrating our beautiful boys! Go check them out, they did amazing! Hope you guys like it as much as we do~

Here's one without the logo:

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white boy.... save me white boy....

im very normal abt andrew 😊😊😊

Introducing Andrew, our nonchalant bookstore clerk!

Having read all sorts of stories, he's ready for his own happy ending.📖✨

Meet Andrew Mitchell, a 26-year-old Taurus who finds comfort in the quiet shelves of his bookstore. He’s level-headed and dependable, but struggles with constant guilt over his past. He didn't grow up in the best of conditions, leading him to making bad decisions that have lasting repercussions to this day. In an attempt to find solace, he turned to painting, once considering it therapeutic. However, the past few years have left him uninspired. His bookstore was entrusted to him by his previous boss and former friend, dedicating his time to maintaining it as a 'thank you'. Although friendly in his workplace, he's withdrawn from forming meaningful relationships out of fear that he may repeat his past actions. Will you be a new chapter in his life or remain an unwritten page?

Got questions for him? Leave them in the replies and maybe he’ll respond! 👀

[ VA - Phil Ava ]

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hes my personal favorite

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Huevember 2023 day 17! Leander from Touchstarved 👀

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My Childreeeeen

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I played through the touchstarved demo again yesterday with a friend, and turns out my obsession has been reignited slightly. So I drew my two MCs Elvia and Phlo in the touchstarved chibi style as an art exercise, since it’s so far from my own style. Phlo has a hat on and hat off version.

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Rody deadplate

So silly

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Rody deadplate

So silly

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I made a funny

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HELP

Vere and Ais