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lemonisntreal · 9 days
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I spent like 3 hours just drawing these guys and nothing else while I watched Trollhunters the other day. My computer's being stupid again so digital art's on hold but you know what I still have my fucking hands you can't stop me
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And Dictatious
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lemonisntreal · 1 month
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Warmup sketch I did today
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lemonisntreal · 1 month
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What'cha got there pal??? [loaded firearm]
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[Bonus LMAO]
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lemonisntreal · 2 months
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Some Yak: The Giant King Sketches 🥰🥰
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Debated posting this, but I need to upload more, so whatever.
I think I'm like the only person who will ever know who these guys are/will appreciate this, but these guys have been living rent-fucking-free in my brain since 2021 let me be free
This is the last thing I posted for this fandom btw <<< for all the girls and not-girls who didn't see that I guess. That's the same dude
FANDOM?? WHAT FANDOM ?? I'M THE ONE GUY HERE . I'M GONNA GO INSANE PLEAS E I BEG SOMEBODY ANYBODY PLEASE TELL ME THERE'S ONE PERSON IN THE VOID I CALL SO DESPERATELY TO PLEASE TELL ME IT WON'T JUST BE AN ECHO WHO ANSWERS BACK
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lemonisntreal · 2 months
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I AM LOSING MY FUCKING MIND OVER THIS BOY ‼️‼️
I'm gonna lose it I'm gonna lose it right now I swear to god. I've been. Drawing. And brainstorming rewrite ideas. Non-fucking-stop.
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TTS says I have like an hour's worth of fic and it has been TWO WEEKS since I started writing on and off. And I wrote 11 of those mins today. Like help me they're all I can think about [they = Kaos and his stupid fucking lore]
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Skylanders Academy, except Kaos gets fucked up by the Doom Raiders, and Pepper Jack ends up reforming after forming a bond and betraying his gang. And is now his new father figure because Eon's crying like a little baby in his corner of self-isolation and "I have to protect the people I love." Or whatever. And his mother is witerally infected by corrupt dark magic. Or whatever-
Also some more sketches I did while trying to get the hang of this guy:
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lemonisntreal · 3 months
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Phuak if he slayed
@alex-is-the-oximoron
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lemonisntreal · 4 months
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BLINKY BLINKY BLINKY BLINKY BLINKY BLINKY BLINKY BLI
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lemonisntreal · 4 months
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Some of my favs from The Event
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TY TO @whack-patty FOR HOSTING
Their full post right here for the ppl who want to see the whole pages in all their glory ❤️
As well as @tertain-the-original, @stinkyhyena9000, @korrinhorizon, and @hoperays-song for making all of these lovely monstrosities, go check them out they're all super duper cool ppl :D
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also for those who want this png here ya go 🥰 merry christmas ig
[try to spot it in the pics lol]
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lemonisntreal · 4 months
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heyo! Just found your blog and I was scrolling through your stuff and noticed your AU tone deaf. And I haven't found anything about what it is or what your idea is behind it. So I wanted to ask if you could give me an introduction to your AU!
Oh! And I absolutely love your artstyle and how you draw Buster! Anyway, hope you drink enough water and have a good day/night! ;)
Dear god this has been in my drafts for a while-
Hiya! Sorry for that lack of info lol, I'd been inactive for a long time, and the time that I actually WAS posting consistently was back when things were still being sorta fleshed out. But I've got a pretty good idea of how every single part moves at this point, so sure :D I'll give a not-so-brief summary lol [under a cut because I couldn't not dump multiple paragraphs teehee ~_~]
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Tone Deaf is like a dystopian version of Sing, if I were to put it super duper simply. One where Buster's issues get more emotional focus, and we get actual bonds with the cast because the movie forgot to do that.
Buster is, also, a lot more unhinged, fair warning. This fic's gonna contain violence and tackle some darker subjects [adjacent to grief and denial more specifically] so if it feels like I jumped a lot of sharks, it's because I 100% did.
It kinda started with me noticing how, in the actual movies btw, smaller characters like Buster and Mike had more difficulty getting around places. This led me to ask myself about how species differences could lead to struggles for certain animals since the city just isn't built for everyone [this is NOT Zootopia]. Ash's quills, and Meena's towering size were things I noticed too that would be massive problems, realistically. So after a lot of pondering, now we're here.
The world of Tone Deaf in present day is in a post-war period that's lasted about 50 years now [Crawly is actually a veteran from this war- which was more like complete and total anarchy if I'm being real, since there weren't really any sides until near the end...]
Long story short, the wealthy capitalized off of the war and taking people prisoner- so they purposefully kept it going. A resistance ended up forming to stand against this [Miss Crawly being one of the generals, with that classic missing eye] and after their army stormed the unsuspecting stronghold, the war finally began to conclude. It still took around a year after that to release all of the prisoners of war, and by the end of it all, the damage that had been done to some races was permanent. Even extinction-level in some cases- some animals just straight up don't exist anymore because of it.
Back to Calatonia. Laws that are in place to protect animals from tearing eachother apart are still relatively new, and the criminal underbelly of Calatonia is kinda out of control. Animals get kidnapped/poached, smaller animals are at a huge disadvantage and have basically no power [politically or otherwise], endangered species are a very real thing, poverty is a huge issue for most of the population- and in the middle of all this is Buster Moon.
He's gonna be the main perspective. And the story will also serve as a slight character study on him, mixed with my own grittier and batshit insane changes/headcanons/alternate universe ideas on his backstory. He's a ray of sunshine with a lot of bottled-up feelings that will kinda really take control of the story.
Buster has been arrested multiple times. He's been put in unsuccessful therapy. He's still grieving his dad. He's committing crime and compulsively lying about those illegal actions too. He has emotional difficulties that he hasn't dared try touching on in years, and he has issues with letting go- which, is kinda how all of his new problems come to be.
The threat of his theater being repossessed if his show isn't a success gets a LOT more emphasis too.
But on top of that is the added threat of Buster getting sent out of the city if he can't get his business up and running. Remember how I mentioned endangered animals?? Well Koalas are one of them. One of the big ones, actually. He's the only Koala in a city of almost five hundred thousand, and it's been that way for almost half a decade now. It's been causing issues for the people in charge for half a decade now. Koalas have government-protected settlements far away from here due to their numbers being so few, so if Buster loses the theater? That's the next step for him.
But, to help this poor dude through all the stress of life is the found-family he develops with the cast he hired. He helps them for a lot of the first act, and then they give back his kindness in the second. They connect through their similar experiences, as well as their shared passion for music and performance. And by the end, maybe Buster's okay. Or maybe he's had a complete downward spiral [not gonna speak of act three 🥰]
Other characters have also had a shift in their dynamics. Things in the story have changed. Like for instance- Gunter already knew Buster and was a close friend of him and Eddie before the show, Judith is now the mayor and a main character, Pete has been put in place of the banker in charge of Buster's accounts, Buster unfortunately gets involved in politics, Mike actually gets to bond with the cast- actually the cast gets to bond with the cast point blank period [idc what you say, this just straight up doesn't happen in the canon movies], and to top it all of is a generous helping of angst with a few acts of violence sprinkled in 🤭
The actual Act I summary is this right now:
Buster had been in tight situations before-- suffocating situations, even. He’d been in every kind of trouble imaginable, he thought. With family, friends, local businesses, the law. But he'd always wormed his way out, either through loopholes or by charm. Or usually just by stacking another lie on top of his already crumbling facade. But this time it's gonna take more than a cover-up to fix this. ‏‏‎ Buster’s dishonesty takes him too far once again, a simple typo causing him to unintentionally land himself in a wager that could cost his very life. He has two months to fix this- to ACTUALLY fix this. And the worst part is that he hadn't even meant to lie this time. ‏‏‎ The First Act of Tone Deaf.
TLDR; Buster learns to love again after experiencing the horrors of animalkind firsthand and being healed by theater kids LMFAO
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lemonisntreal · 5 months
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Hey! Is this blog still running? I recently got really into Sing lol, and your account is awesome! <3
YES, I'm back up and running right now >:] school is kinda beating my ass still but we're so back gang.
Also, welcome to the fandom! It's super chill and lovely here imo. Small and stable lol. Everyone here is awesome [mostly everyone🤭🫠] and makes some really cool stuff. So if Sing's also got you in a chokehold, you're definitely gonna have plenty of content to munch on.
AND TYYY, it actually makes my day whenever people like the stuff I make omg
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Get indoctrinated idiot hehe
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lemonisntreal · 5 months
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Some sketches because it's been months since I drew these idiots oops☝️🥰
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HI THERE. It's been a minute, sorry about that lol. I took a tiny out-of-nowhere and sorta involuntary break from the fandom because I lost interest for a second, but I'm slowlyyyy making my way back. With art, and some news about Tone Deaf for the people who are still wondering about that.
Also I see there's some asks in my box, I'll get to that eventually, I see you ;-; dw
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As stated, I momentarily lost a bit of interest with this movie- partially because I've recently been ensnared in a new fixation that will not be named right now, but yeah. I'm digging my heels in rn, because the last thing I wanna do is abandon this project. But, also, I've clearly bitten off more than I can chew with this being a comic lmao. In over my head and going through all 5 stages of grief and currently on acceptance.
The story got bigger. Like, a LOT bigger. Too big to capture every thought in a drawing and panel it and put it out as a perfectly polished comic without seriously burning myself out. It really doesn't help that my art style evolves by the second too apparently, so I've reached a middle-ground:
Tone Deaf is going to be a fic with some comic-like segments in it. An illustrated fanfic bc I still love showing and not telling a little too much.
This'll help me not only get stuff out faster, but also to help me fill in the gaps I didn't know how to draw with just text. So I can focus on just drawing the juicy shit. This also means it'll all be collected over on Ao3 in a neat little package, and I honestly prefer that over having a bunch of posts of pages that might be hard to find. So yeah, that's the plan.
Another bonus is that the frames can now be a lot more polished and nice looking [in glorious color] rather than hastily mashed together due to my bad habit of going overboard on singular frames without realizing it.
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Tldr; Tone Deaf is technically still gonna be a comic, it's just now gonna be supplemented with word-based fic mixed in because I made the project way too fucking big [the first Act has like 20 chapters I'm going to literally die]. Also it's gonna be on Ao3 and I'll probably be posting all the art here alongside any updates I make so huzzah! Help me :>
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lemonisntreal · 11 months
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Hello! I just wanna say that love your content!
I was also wondering what's your favourite thing to incorporate into your designs of the characters detail wise? (ie. jewelry, patterns, accessories etc)
Have an amazing day!!
Oh man- I love everything about character redesigning tbh. The most obvious thing for me to say is my favorite would be scars- not only are they fun to draw and add a little flavor to the character design, but I feel like they can kinda tell a story without words. You don't need a backstory to be spelled out for you if you're given enough context clues + the character has scars.
They can also make the viewer have a lot of like "oh damn how did that happen" kind of thinking, and it creates a lot of intrigue, despite how cliche they can be [I refuse to do eye-scars hehe]. So they're extremely fun.
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I also like doing jewelry and accessories- but more broadly, I just LOVE changing up a character's outfit in general :D
Not anything obnoxious [unless you're Nooshy, which in that case-] or anything that would be out of character for them to wear ofc. But I think things like having Charley's jacket look more full and cozy and give him a necklace, or have Buster's blazer get turned into a tailcoat [scrungly], or making Eddie's bright jacket be more of like a raincoat [also because it sucks when wool gets wet in the rain lol] or- Ash specifically has like a million outfits I like to draw her in. The list could continue forever.
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But I think the most clear and obvious thing I like to do to characters is- for lack of a better way of putting it- completely change up how they look physically to either be more in line with how their irl animal counterpart looks, or to better fit their personality that may or may also have been changed by a plethora of headcanons I have. One of my friends described it as a character being "Lemified" and now the word "Lemification" has permanently been branded into my vocabulary.
Uh- the most obvious example of this is Judith. A character that's been changed so much for Tone Deaf that they're barely recognizable anymore past their name. I turned them into an enby capable of ripping your soul out of your body- 7'4" with a hat and peacoat and sharp teeth. And, most importantly, screentime. Mwahaha-
Another thing is the horns I gave Eddie- like they're such a crucial part of how I draw him now. Same goes for Meena's tusks, which you may not even know they have, because I don't draw her enough, but yeah. They have tusks lmao.
And what I think is my best change, Charley and Buster's double thumbs. I used to hate them but now I love them. Like they're one of my favorite parts about drawing Buster now- I always put a huge focus on his big paws and extra thumbs and the claws too. Omfg. I give a bunch of characters claws that they didn't have before, I fucking love claws >:D
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...I'm reading back and starting to realize that between the scars I give characters and the claws that I draw them with, I might just like anything that can make a story possibly darker o_o
Uh, TLDR; I like violence :/ [mostly a joke lol]
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lemonisntreal · 1 year
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Do you have a Tone Deaf version of Clay Calloway?
(Perfectly fine if you don't. I was just curious, plus I love all your redesigns) 🦁🎸
SORRY THIS TOOK FUCKING FOREVER LMAO [been sitting in my inbox since FEBRUARY THIRTEENTH, HOLY SHIT :D]. YEAH, here he is :pppp a solid draft for you
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Lowkey [highkey] gave up on the clothing wrinkles on the arms, but I still like how it turned out I think. I don't have much on him in terms of rewrite, but I do have some, so I'll dump it all here under the cut.
I swear I love asks, please feel free to say/ask whatever, I'm just horrible at answering in a reasonable time-frame because I always want to make it this beautiful masterpiece and end up turning all of them into full-on posts- or, at least I want to ~_~
Headcanonssss-
Ash gave him that button off her jacket [probably needs to be resized I'm realizing lol] [also I totally adopted this headcanon from someone elses post- might've been yours. Whoever came up with it I love it <3]
Born during the reformation that happened after the war- basically, nobody was really fighting anymore during this time, but some big people in power were still being stupid [aka: not letting their prisoners go]
So that would be somewhere around 1947? Which would put his age at 61 in my universe [which is in 2008- the times are pretty much random, nothing really lines up irl. Ignore how they use tech and other things that shouldn't have been invented yet lol]
He grew up when the Skunk Dolls were new and popular and stuff. And he loved them- so much that the band actually kinda inspired his music career
[Skunk Dolls also made loads of protest songs btw. War stuff]
Takes a ridiculous amount of care with his mane, and if he lets you touch it, that's a true sign of trust
So the Piglets always like to play with it, and Ash has given him braids a few times
He's had that scruffy red jacket since his early days
I should draw patches on it-
Ash probably'll give him a quill or two to put in it too with all the patches and repair stitches
He wears a lot of plaid, I just didn't wanna draw it <3
Rough and torn up clothes too
Everything he owns has some sort of smudge or tear in it from motorbiking and/or just being himself <3
His ears are pierced in almost every way imaginable, and when Ash found out, she went CRAZY
Cue her getting him to try on a bunch of stuff
He likes wrought iron jewelry and has never been a fan of anything with gemstones in it
Buster is terrified of him, but Clay is just kinda a blunt person and it doesn't mix well with Buster sometimes. They get along eventually tho. There was also some really bad timing with the circumstances of how they even met in the first place too lol-
Johnny is also. Super terrified.
Buster and him are like "Ahhh.... that guy scares the living daylights out of me." "Ohh, thank god it's not just me-"
He has a strange out-of-pocket interest in astrology.
And in herbology and plants in general, but he picked that up from Ruby. Astrology was all his, and it is the one thing he will "nerd out" over
Also the kind of guy to make fun of you for nerding out too
Making fun of people is his love language
So is giving people food
He's not great with his words and can find it hard to express love by just telling someone. Back to the bluntness thing, you can often find him accidentally offending someone and he doesn't even realize it
The troupe very quickly learned this and it's more of an endearing trait of his to them [and to most people who know him]
REALLY good cook. Fantastic, in fact. Probably one of the best chefs out of any of the characters.
Learned the hard way that enlisting Buster's help in the kitchen is a bad idea. Also Ash isn't great either, but he actually tries to teach her some of his recipes. And she's quickly improving
Buster was just being an idiot and forgot you shouldn't microwave tinfoil
Clay travels a lot, but spends most of his time in Calatonia [he technically still lives at his and Ruby's house, but he's super scared of accidentally closing himself off again, so he only visits to check up on the flowers and maintain the property pretty much]
He's like Ash's second [and very cool] dad. Which- also intimidates Buster quite a bit :D
I feel like their dynamic could be a sitcom. Clay is Ash's awesome dad and Buster is Ash's lame [endearing] and oddly unhinged and anxious dad who feels like he has to be as cool as Clay [and always fails heehee]
Clay is more entertained by Buster's ridiculous criminal record than horrified and I don't know if that's worrying or just a classic Calloway W
He's a very nonchalant person
Ruby's death is the only time I can really think he had a legitimate emotional break that wasn't just him being snappy [which is also pretty rare]
Clay's also like an uncle to the Piglets
He's kinda just taken up the role of "super awesome miscellaneous family member" for everyone at this point
He's back performing again after Sing 2- just not frequently or putting out any new songs [on his own at least- he might do a collaboration or two with Ash]
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lemonisntreal · 1 year
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Quick aesthetic-test for the comic + some sketches I did recently-ish. I'm moving at a fucking snail's pace with this thing, but I'm getting there at least. I have it all framed out for the most part, I just need to actually FINALIZE it lmao [the first Interlude, I mean. The rest of it is FAR from being finished anytime soon].
Anyway- enjoy this, and the lack of context that comes with it. It's 1:30am I'm goin' ro bed now :p
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lemonisntreal · 1 year
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IT'S ACE DAY, WOOO- [whoopsies procrastination 🤭]
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I started this yesterday and was gonna post it for Ace Day, but then I didn't have the energy to finish all of it, so, yeah. Take this headcanon a day late >:]
I'm so self-indulgent with all of these characters. I find it hard to imagine characters that aren't ace, so I guess it's not really a surprise lmao. Like, I was looking at my character database, and I realized that a good half of these guys are on the Aro or Ace spectrum:
[including my aro people here too because I can >:]]
Buster - Gay, Asexual Eddie - Pan, Greysexual Charley - Aroace Meena - Bi, Asexual Gunter - Pan, Aromantic Mike - Bi, Aromantic Judith - Lesbian, Greyromantic Porsha - Bi, Demisexual Nooshy - Aroace
It's like a decent half of them. :p
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[bonus]
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lemonisntreal · 1 year
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Lookit, an outline for Act I of Tone Deaf, wow, that's so neat-
The names of each scene/interlude are subject to change, but you kinda get the idea. Maybe. Feel free to speculate what any of it could mean lmao. No idea what people will do with this, but felt like making + posting it for timeline's sake.
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Ok, so as always, I have a lot to say on this post, and it's mostly just an update, but it's also kinda an ask, so yeah. I got a little news-
Good news is that I'm basically done with the entire first outline of Arc I, as well as some of the major scripting pieces.
Bad news is my computer is still out of commission. I'm in agony. I haven't been able to do actual digital art in y e a r s [like a week and a half]. And no proper digital art means I can't start making actual comic yet lmao-
The neutral news is that Act I is basically done cooking, and I'm gonna start on Act 2's script now. Problem is I have like- zero fluff ideas entirely. And after the craziness of Act 1, I'm needing ideas for downtime.
I'll eventually find it, like I did for the first part, BUT, I thought it would be cool to try asking people here what they'd want to see. So if anyone reading's got any sort of interactions they wanna see between characters, or fluff ideas, go ahead and shoot- keep in mind though, characters from Sing 2 haven't actually been introduced. So those are kinda off the table. But honestly, I just wanna hear your ideas either way? Idk, never asked anything/tried to get anything like this before so :p experimental.
Either way, TD update post- going great
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lemonisntreal · 1 year
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Random Eddie + Moon Doodles
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Big doodle-session I didn't realize was on graph paper until it was too late ~_~ eh
Did some more Eddie redesigning and idk if it's artblock or bc I'm tired, but drawing him was frustrating me to no end. I'm better now though. I think.
Also stat boards. I wanna make stat boards for everyone >:DDD
Fun fact: Buster is a menace and the police hate him. And by hate him, I mean they're just really tired of his shoplifting and trespassing bullshit, and Buster just thinks they hate him.
Also, resisting arrest. Dude does not like getting grabbed, and because of this, has had a few incidents. Which, is why he's tranquilize-on-sight. And why police are careful with him. And unless Buster's legitimately upset by something, Eddie find the aftermath hilarious
Actually, Buster's got an extensive record [even outside of headcanons and AUs] that I'll probably dig into some other time. Just know there's like 16+ separate charges on there, not counting the little micro-charges[?] that come with some nuance and work in a courtroom.
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