#My friendly neighborhood oc

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Redraw of that mini doodle of the oc/canon ship... I couldn't resist waiting to post it!

Hoping to make more soon with getting some time off from classes 🙏 maybe on my bus ride to/from my race? Wish me luck!

Also, the OC is named Jamie by the way :]c he may or may not be a journalist/photographer of some kind. He has visited the studio at least once or twice about interviews and whatnot!

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Here's Gordon with a Piper for scale- also I love how much you guys love Gordon I agree he's great

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Abby's first encounter with an unfriendly neighbor.

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Made a height chart for the humanoid puppets

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Since my comic was being liked and getting much attention, including from MFN's creator, here's something to thank everyone. Here's Ricky, probably singing a song to teach the Emperor how to be friendly and that you don't need to take over the world to be loved by others. I made two versions, one with a retro look. FYI: This is not ship art! This is Ricky doing everything he can to achieve a happy ending.

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Meet marre (New mfn oc) he is a dumbo octopus!

(and) lily splash in my style! Fanart for @reii-dumbass

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ART! and my change.org thingy ehhe

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Holy crap Lois I made an mfn oc

Anyways. Here's Lucy. Lenard's older sister, specialises in making instruments and wood carvings. She also sells some of her knick-knacks and timber. She's very close to Lenard, as they'd often hang out and she'd conjure him up stuff including their cane!

More lore below the cut!

Lucy is Lenard's older sister and is around the puppet age of 25, however is a background character rarely making appearances. Lucy's mature but laid-back attitude was to be a direct contrast to the puppet cast chaotic nature, as she was a more education character. She is neighbourhood's local artesian and craftwoman, notably she specialises in woodwork, carving and creating wooden instruments including guitars, pianos, violins and flutes. She also runs a local sawmill and sells many of her hand made products in her store, titled "Lucy's Lumber & Loads more".

In many of her episodes, like Ray, she'd have her segment where she teaches the puppet gang the minute details and skills along with encouraging them to appreciate the handmade and the effort that goes into it. In many of her episodes she and Lenard would bond over creating instruments or carving them little knick-knacks as gifts, including their cane. Her segments weren't also limited to woodcrafts, carving and work and also included pottery, baking, jam making and various other artesian skills and would often encourage to audience to have a try sometime with adult supervision.

To seperate her from Lenard, she is significantly taller and is around the same height as George. To provide extra emphasis on her hobbies, she was build with wooden ball-and-socket joints and marionette-esc features such as wooden hands. After the shows cancellation, she became too distressed and felt guilty as she could not comfort Lenard enough and eventually tried to gift them more grander and large-scale items such as 5m tall piano, an entire orchestra and a 50-in-1 desk-bookshelf-closet-bed abomination which resulted in her accidentally destroying on her hands. Attempts to fix it have been very difficult as she struggled with one of her hand. Eventually she got into a fight with another puppet and got locked into a storage closet. She awaits the day she can reunite with her sibling, Lenard again and continue her crafts

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My sister and me made some MFN OCs

Meet Millie the inchworm and Pete the caterpillar! Gordon helps them by solving an argument they had since the shut down so they can finally be friendly to eachother again

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Alright y'all, it's time for an infodump on...

☆ The Journalist ☆

Mind you, some details may need to be worked out regarding the time period this takes place in, the timeline itself, etc(?) so it could be rough around the edges ♡

TLDR at the end!

The Journalist // Jamie Finch (?) bio:

Young-ish Adult, Gay (trans)Male

INTJ-T

Determined, assertive, sensitive, clever, cynical but thoughtful. More gentle and playful with close companions.

Journalist; photographer.

Enjoys road-trips, fiction-writing, reading, cheesy romcoms/soap operas, arcades...

(more info to be added soon)

Around the time MFN was at its peak (specifically before it would begin to decline perhaps), Jamie was a rookie journalist that had been tasked to do an article on the success of the show. Thus, he took a trip over to the studio itself with the intention of gathering interviews from cast members and production crew.

It should be noted that Jamie had not come out as trans yet by this time, and it is very possible he wasn't even sure of his own queerness by then either. Ergo, why a couple pieces portray him more femininely.

The trip was... definitely not what he had expected it to be. Although he was definitely able to get a LOT of material to work with for his article, there were a lot of shenanigans he had to deal with from the puppets. They were odd, often obnoxious- and many things unnerved him, from the excessive clones to how rough a few of the puppets could be. The way they acted put Jamie off from the beginning and made him a litttttle uncomfortable.

That isn't to say it was a bad time though! He loosened up bit by bit as time went on, and some of that was in part due to Norman. He was kind, welcoming, and helped show Jamie around the studio. Perhaps it was the fact he was a background character, which gave him all this time to spare to be around him? Whatever it was, there was just something about his presence that made Jamie grow more comfortable with time. By the time he would go to leave the studio, he had become fond of most of the puppets to some degree, with himself having one very clear favorite...

It was unlikely Jamie would ever be back, but he secretly hoped it wouldn't be the last time he visited the studio. He had grown a big appreciation for the studio, the work they did, and the goals they wanted to achieve with their work.

Unfortunately, nothing lasts forever. The studio would become defunct a few years later, and the puppets would be left alone, trapped within the confines of the studio with only their own devices...

In the meantime, Jamie's life would go through varying changes. He gained more writing experience, rose through the ranks slightly- but with the times changing, Jamie had begun covering more negative subject matter more often. It began to affect his mental state, and with the economic slump impacting the city as well, money became much more tight. Times became more stressful. His opinions on his job soured some over time, but it was becoming a necessary evil to keep himself financially stable.

(It should be noted Jamie also transitioned during this time period, which made money even tighter and social settings a bit more difficult to navigate. However, it was a needed process that overall helped him gain more confidence, and he also found a bit of community through finally coming out ♡)

Then, rumor spread that the studios were up and running again—that the show may have been coming back. Jamie made a case to his boss that he should make another article about the return of MFN, and that he should be the one to write it.

His persuasion worked. Jamie would set off for the studio shortly after, intent on revisiting the puppets he had grown to love before, but... not without its complications.

Whether it was through an act of clumsiness or feeling adventurous- Jamie ended up in the dark abandoned abyss Gordon had fallen into prior. Unfortunately, the elevator was broken this time, so getting out was going to take a lot more creativity. Through many scary trials and tribulations, Jamie would work to find a way out of there, discovering the horrors of what the puppets went through along the way.

Throughout the journey, the specific Norman that Jamie had known before would be found amongst all the puppets in the abyss, horribly torn and very clearly not himself. Jamie wasn't going to leave him to continue rotting down there by himself. With some fixing up, Norman and Jamie would set out to escape together.

Awhile later, they would make it out, perhaps with the help of Ricky and Gordon after having discovered the situation.

After the escape- I haven't thought all this far, but perhaps Jamie felt inclined to join the efforts in rehabilitating the puppets in the unfriendly neighborhood? And to visit more often to make sure his Norman is doing okay?

Regardless of the direction, Jamie would stick around the studio more often, and his and Norman's relationship would grow into a more solid friendship, but then something... much more than was anticipated over time ;} ♡

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TLDR: Jamie had written an article on MFN's success once, and fell in love with the cast and show through writing it. He returned years later when the studio became active again, saw some shit in the unfriendly neighborhood, and got out with the Norman he met on his first visit. He might be helping with fixing the previously unfriendly puppets. Also, oc/canon *weeeeeeeee*

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I drew this in like 5 minutes. You will LOOK AT HER-

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Hey I'm back to drawing my MFN oc! She gotten a name change to Abby idk if I had mentioned it before. Also here she is wearing Normans jacket! It's very comfy!

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Some MFN doodles

- FYI, if you’re wondering how Melody was made, I just imagine Gordon commissioning someone to make her like any other puppet, let’s not be weird

- I also headcannon that the puppets become more mature as Gordon runs the show, but still innocent, kind of like how Ricky is in the game

- Melody was probably made some years after Gordon starts running the show, I just imagine Norman and Lenard would want a kid after they start maturing

- Since Melody is a puppet, she only needs love and attention

- Melody is completely blind

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Part 2 Progress of Ricky, Gordon, and the MFN gang that were tricked to come to this other abandoned studio in Hollywood to make an adventure movie that turns out to be the studio lots for the in-universe versions of The Dark Crystal and Labyrinth, The Shadow Sapphire and The Mystic Maze, that’s under the control of the Skeksis-like villains. This guy here is if you merge SkekSo from The Dark Crystal, and the Cleric from Toy Story That Time Forgot. Physical Drafting for the first panel is done so it can be done digitally!