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A Mouse's Trap

Warning for blood, gore, and injury Read left to right

Who's the mouse in this situation? I'll let you decide.

Plot/Lore Ramble: So for a basic plot summary, Opportunist is celebrating a job well done as their plan went off without a hitch. He goes to share this merriment with his partner, Hunted. Hunted doesn't seem to be as excited and actually slices off Oppy's arm that, suspiciously, was gripping the pristine blade. Hunted laments how he just wanted to make Oppy feel safe and went along with his plan thinking it would be something harmless, like Contrarian's little pranks. In usual Opportunist fashion, Oppy was using this as a chance to kill everyone else. Despite this and all of the pain Oppy caused, Hunted can't bring himself to kill Oppy in retaliation. Hunted is naturally a pack animal; the flock sticks together. Hunted then leaves Oppy alone taking the blade with them.

The brief glimpses of a large creature (the hands grabbing Cheated and the maw about to chomp on Cold on page 2, or the eyes in page 3) is instinct Quiet. It's not actually Quiet the protag, it's more a manifestation made from TLQ threads. Its influence affects Hunted the more he uses it, such as his eyes becoming more like instinct Quiet's. I'll be making more doodles to show Hunted's progression :]

Anyways, the plan was to use instinct Quiet to kidnap everyone into a secluded location. It would functionally serve to disempower everyone and show Oppy that there's nothing to worry about, no one voice is more dangerous than the others. He's safe here and with them all. Once everyone was capture they could, I dunno, have a good laugh about it or something. If this sounds like it defeats the whole point by having a voice use a trump card against everyone else it is. Everyone is then disorientated once they arrive to "the location" which Oppy uses to stab them. Except for Skeptic, he stumbles upon it once voices go missing

There's a bunch of other little things I could ramble about but I'll save that for later posts. Thanks for making it down here and make sure to watch your back :]

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woe, Quiet doodles be upon ye

he and he’s teef

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Inspired by this post by @wintergrofyuri

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strange things in my house

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So I dunno if anyone’s noticed this or not, but I’ve been trying to make my own designs for the voices lately, and I haven’t been very satisfied with my results so far. More specifically, I’ve been working on (aka struggling with) my Smitten design. I asked myself, “what could be wrong with him? Why doesn’t it feel right?”

And you know what I answered myself with?

“Ma’am, that’s a literal dog.”

(I tried my best at making a ref sheet, but I haven’t really ever made a real one before, sorry it’s pretty chaotic, sorry. Not that it’s really needed-this whole process is meant to help me edit the design, anyways)

(More thoughts under the cut)

So apparently, I somehow made Smitten into a little creature equivalent of a little lap dog or smth. And that’s the problem.

It’s not that I think he looks bad. I actually think he looks super cute like this, I’m happy with that part. And I still think it fits his character pretty well, too-he’s a loyal, silly, fluffy, loud little guy who wants nothing more than to spend every waking moment with the person he loves.

So at this point, you’re probably wondering, “Coyote, just what IS your problem with him then?”

Well, I don’t think he’s exactly husband material. And that’s kind of an essential factor to a Smitten design! (it is to me, ok?) Like, I think people would start to get very concerned with me if I called him my fictional husband and I pulled out a picture of a bird dog. And it’s not like a cool usage of a quadrupedal design, like I’ve seen some people use, he’s just, like, a modded Shih Tzu. I don’t think me (or most people) are comfortable with the idea of trying to romance a modded Shih Tzu.

But at the end of the day, I’m kinda conflicted about the whole thing, because I lowkey love his design? It’s really funny and cute, I can picture all sorts of humorous drawing ideas with him, and I can so easily see it fitting the bill character wise. But I just need him to be attractive.

I think at the end of the day, I have to edit his design so as to allow him to stand upright. Just enough for him to feel closer to human than dog. Should I do that?

if anyone has any ideas, I’m always open to art advice! And this goes for anything here, whether for specific feedback about the design, or just drawing tips in general. Or just talk to me. I like talking. Please talk to me about this. I crave interaction. Please.

Uh but thanks for reading my post, sorry for rambling so long, hope you have a wonderful day!❤️❤️❤️

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comission for @t00nyah !!

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faaallen aaangels and faaatal attraaactioooon ... the end of an aaage and the end of affeectioooon

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LIGHTS ON 💡 LIGHTS OFF 🔌

The individual artss

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smibby. smib. smiten. smi

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This is Poppy rat. He is my rat

And he lives in a very big house. It needs furniture. What should I add to it?

Yeah imma try and do this bc my impulse control is zero to none. So help me decorate his space until I can't no more.

Send an ask or reblog with what you wanna add and we shall see what he has by the end of this.

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“I asked Chat GPT”

Really? Well I asked The Voice of the Hunted and I now listen to my instincts and live forever, feeding off my opponent who also lives forever because She feeds off me. What do you have?

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blue and magenta!

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…Eh, why not.

We ask your questions anonymously so you don’t have to! Submissions are open on the 1st and 15th of the month.

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Doggies and more doggies ✨💛🐶

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two kris drawings I didnt rlly know if i wanted to post I can't tell if I like or dislike them 😮‍💨 I wanna get good at drawing that armor though I feel like I haven't quite figured them out

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Smitten Studies!

Decided to try to draw various Smitten designs to help me work on my own.

Close ups! We’ve got @phantasmatoucan, @everestgale, @artibirdi, @itsonlypolite,

@pzysm, @fogbreo, @wysteriaisapenguin, @remaking-machine and tiny chibis of @sonjalikestodraw, @sorry-not-feeling-it-right-now, and @sillypotatochipz’s designs!

…and also a little guy in the corner of the page who may or may not be my own design. Pay him no mind.

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the children yearn for more queen and tenna

how could i say no. tenna learns about youtube slop