#ask: bondwidth

[rockybloo]

Does Pluto ever get flustered?

Sometimes.

They often get "nosebleeds" when they do

#my art #pluto #ask: pluto #nova #ask: nova #blackberries #ask: blackberries #bondwidth #ask: bondwidth

[ramble-bloo]

Aight so the city Nova and Pluto call home doesn't have a name yet...but it ain't the futuristic cyberpunk city you're thinkin of. So scrap that stock image cyberpunk from your head bc we are making ours homemade here.

For starters, it's located in the desert and is much smaller than you'd expect. It's also split into two main locations. You got the larger city where all your average Joes live and the smaller yet more fancy (and expensive) city that you need to take a train through said desert to get to. Many can't afford the rent there but there's plenty of well paying jobs so the train winds up becoming a daily commute.

Much of Bondwidth takes place in the larger city tho Nova does get some gigs way in the smaller one.

Together tho, the cities are puny to the other urban locations. Due to this, it's kinda brushed under the rug so there's not much government interference.

It's also got a rather high population of aliens since deserts and outer space go hand in hand (lookin at you Roswell). Due to this, Nova has an easier time vibin than say one of the bigger metropolises (theres some alien vs human conflict but thats for a diff info dump).

Another perk to Bondwidth's main location being such an ignored city is the fact they just...dumped cops. There are none. At least in the large Average Joe city. They were replaced by a group of citizens specially trained to help others and calm down intense situations. This force is led by Nova's best friend, Sunny. They do their best to handle disputes without any casualties and are hella good at their job. At the moment there are 8 active members in total with Sunny being a 9th occasionally if a situation is super important.

Language in this future has expanded due to aliens bringing their own lingo with them. Of course, this means the already expansive list of languages is even longer and potentially endless now.

Thankfully technology has advanced so almost anything can be translated which allows many to cross bridges they couldn't before. And if there's a language that isn't well known enough for technology to help-well translators are still a thing and they are more than willing to help you.

Nova is only fluent in English and Meowling so she relies a lot on that futuristic google translate. Theres some lingo she's picked up from jobs but don't ask her to try and say a sentence for you.

Pluto is built different so they have a built in translator and can understand whatever the hell someone said to them. It helps with the job...and bullying Nova.

Speaking of Pluto, they reside in the larger city bc it's easier to hunt there since crime is both under control and rampant at the same time. There's a whole underground thing going on and it's super complicated and boring but it pays the bills and thus, Pluto makes heads roll.

It should be stated that Pluto isn't from either city. They are from a totally different metropolis that they have no desire to head back to. Their parents are big names there and they do not wanna deal with any of that shit.

So they live in the small speck in the desert with their cat girlfriend.

#bondwidth #worldbuilding

[rockybloo]

Could you give us a comp of your oc's being their most gremlin please, I love the way you draw them as those chaotic little chibis. Something about that energy is just perfect

YESSS IT IS TIME TO RELEASE THE LITTLE FELLAS

Jack and Nana

Nova and Pluto

Sweetheart and Bitterbat (ft. Cackle, Redhot, and Dear)

And a bonus Mariana

#ask #my art #nana #jack #nova #pluto #sweetheart #bitterbat #cackle #redhot #dear #ask: beanstalked #ask: glitter and guilt #ask: bondwidth #ask: sharks and kisses #ask: nana #ask: jack #ask: nova #ask: pluto #ask: sweetheart #ask: bitterbat #ask: cackle #ask: redhot #ask: dear #beanstalked #glitter and guilt #bondwidth #sharks and kisses

[rockybloo]

When Nova changes into her Monster form, does she change in size (like does she shrink at all), or does she stay relatively the same size?

Nova's monster form is very small. She goes from 5'3 ft to a teddy bear basically

Pluto is around 8'0 ft so they make her look extra small (she practically its in the palms of their hands)

I kept making my monster forms for my OCs big so I thought it'd be funny to make Nova have one that makes her puny. She's ironically even more dangerous in that form though because it's harder to keep track of her so she can rip off people's ankles

#ask #ask: monster!nova #ask: pluto #my art #ask: bondwidth #monster!nova #pluto

[rockybloo]

What does Pluto think of Nova's updated look?

Things I cannot share aloud due to the general rating on this account

#ask #my art #pluto #ask: pluto #bondwidth #ask: bondwidth #blackberries #ask: blackberries

[rockybloo]

So we've seen art/aus where Jack and Nana are swapped with Jack becoming a lupine, TECHICALLY Sweetheart and Bitterbat swapped with those art pieces you did of Beloved Batty and Bitterbat/Villian!Sweetheart (Bittersweet??)

So what's your thoughts on what Nova and Pluto would look like swapped? A canine and/or t-rex half-alien Pluto and Nova with alien goo that begam embedded with?

So there is a swapped concept between Nova and Pluto...but not exactly in that way.

It's basically Nova getting the alien gooped and Pluto being the normal civilian. Nova is still a catgirl so she'd basically become a BIG catgirl (dunno the exact height but seeing as human pluto is 6 ft while gooped pluto is 8 ft, she'd probably boost up to 7 ft tall) while Pluto remains completely human.

And honestly, compared to the other two Rockstar ships, they would change the MOST in personality because their canon current personalities are basically the by products of their life events and how they coped with them.

So Nova may have a personality similar to Pluto where she is more playful and mischievous (and maybe less bitchy) but she also could be more mellowed out like before she dated her ex.

And Pluto...well Pluto would be the biggest change as human Pluto is practically golden retriever energy. They're the sweetest thing and just wants to help people. I actually drew them before if they never got alien gooped by their parents.

#ask #my art #ask: human!pluto #ask: nova #ask: blackberries #ask: bondwidth #ask: pluto

[rockybloo]

How would a scenario go if Nova & Pluto met & fell for each other if they met earlier in their lives?

They'd be a lot happier and avoid all the heartbreak their current lives had.

Their dynamic would also be a lot more fluffy and wholesome like Jack and Nana instead of "Two little shits wind up dating each other while also still being little shits to each other"

Nova was a sweetie pie before her ex and Pluto was peak golden retriever energy before they got alien gooped. So together they'd be the sweetest couple on their manmade planet.

#ask #ask: blackberries #ask: bondwidth #ask: nova #ask: pluto

[rockybloo]

Not sure if this was answered at some point & I just missed it, but why does Nova call Pluto "Rexy"?

It's one of a few frequent questions with Nova and Pluto.

Pluto's nickname from Nova is "Rexy" because their monster form is basically a big ole black t-rex skeleton

as well as it being a sneaky way for Nova to call Pluto sexy.

I personally have Pluto referred to as "Rexy" or just "Rex" for short due to it being a popular name for a dog at some point in history (dunno if people still use it now). And Pluto and Nova are meant to be my "Dog x Cat" couple.

#ask #ask: blackberries #ask: bondwidth #ask: nova #ask: pluto #my art #OOOOOOOOOOLD ART ALERT #nova #pluto

[rockybloo]

Just outta curiosity, how would Pluto react if they were to ever run into their parents nowadays?

Oh they deliberately avoid them at all costs. Like-they moved outta city and steer clear completely.

And their parents are big tech giants that live in a higher end city so they don't really just walk about the lower class city that Nova and Pluto reside in. So there's no surprise run ins.

But Pluto's parents are one of the only two things that ruin their chill cyborg vibe and bring genuine anger so...

Their reaction would not be the best.

#ask #ask: bondwidth #ask: pluto

[rockybloo]

Sorry if I gave/did too much with my last ask about Licorice 😭 can I give you some Blackberries brain and ask- what Nova’s reaction to realizing she loved Pluto was like? Pluto was “love at first being screamed at” so what happened to make her peep she had feelings?

DO NOT WORRY-I AM COOKING

In the meanwhile, Nova and Pluto initially have a friends-with-benefits relationship which both find as a W in their books because Pluto is in love with Nova and Nova does find Pluto very attractive, thought it takes her awhile to realize she is genuinely in love with them since her ex has left her with quiet the emotional scars.

So I'd say her realization that she is actually in love with Pluto is the end result of a compilation of how they treat her outside of the bedroom. Like genuinely taking her seriously, not talking down to her just because she is "a cute cat girl", actually looking after her and her health (both mentally and physically) and never pressuring her into doing anything save for eating and sleeping since girl doesn't have the best schedule.

Her realization that she is in love is basically her realization that she is loved...and she has quite the knee jerk reaction to it because while Pluto's was a very curious and accepting reaction, Nova's was basically an out of context screech of "OH FUCK NOT AGAIN WITH THIS SHIT"

#she may or may not have had this reaction while getting intimate with pluto #it was quite the situation for them both #ask #ask: blackberries #ask: pluto #ask: nova #ask: bondwidth

[rockybloo]

do you consider blackberries a sapphic relationship? i know pluto ain’t a woman but nonbinary people are included in sapphic relationships if they choose to label themselves that way.

or is it just an unlabeled relationship? sorry if it’s a weird question i just wanna make sure i don’t refer to it by the wrong label & whatnot in the future.

As a nonbinary bisexual, I don't feel comfortable referring to Pluto and Nova as a sapphic relationship because it just feels too weird to me to when Pluto was afab and doesn't identify themselves as female or as any gender other than nonbinary to the point they modify their own body to become more ambiguous.

I've always seen and wrote Blackberries as just "enby x catgirl", especially with how gender nonconforming and fluid Pluto's whole presence can be sometimes. They kinda don't do labels.

It's more based off my preference for the relationship they have together because I just want people to look at Pluto and not immediately sort them into any gender binary or preference. I want people to look at Pluto as Pluto. They are their own thing. Pluto is also attracted to anyone regardless of their gender so they go every which way-it's just that their eyes settled on Nova who also happens to not care about gender.

I would feel more comfortable with Baby and Sourpuss being called sapphic over Pluto and Nova and greatly prefer if people, if they wanted to call one of my nonbinary x female OCs sapphic, to pick Gummy Worms instead of Blackberries.

Blackberries is basically an unlabeled friends-with-benefits-to-lovers relationship.

#ask #ask: blackberries #ask: pluto #ask: nova #ask: bondwidth #ask: gummy worms #ask: sourpuss #ask: baby

[rockybloo]

Silly ask, but between your main ocs, has some of them ever struggled with loneliness?

Loneliness is one of my top favorite bits of angst to write honestly so all of them have struggled with it.

Every member of the Fabled Five have dealt with loneliness.

Jack truly doesn't have any friends prior to the comic aside from Malt because he never really got along well with other kids his age. Throwing in the fact his eyes went green when he got too emotional and he's do irrational things occasionally and you have plenty of parents who didn't care too much about having their children around him. He spent a good chunk of his childhood just on the farm being homeschooled or wandering around the forest exploring.

Pinokuni is an automaton, and one made under special circumstances so he felt outcasted by both actual automatons and humans because of his origins. His family was the only one to really be there for him, especially after he started to hang out with Romeo and his group of troublemakers where he learned the hard way some humans will really never truly see him as a being with emotions. Plus, Pin spent a good while in the stomach of a sea monster before getting fished out by the giant and being rescued by Jack so he had rather long stretch of solitude.

Nana didn't grow up with any friends. The closest she had was her father and when he passed, she was devastated. Her mother was rather sheltering...a bit too much so she never really left the Lupine Forest save for going to Briar Patch. And even then, she is very introverted and isn't the type to really start conversations with people she doesn't know if it isn't important. Toss in the fact she has a resting face that looks like she doesn't want to be bothered and many people tend to hesitate on approaching her. The people in Briar Patch are very nice but it really takes Jack's oblivious ass to help build a bridge between the two.

Kai was a very sheltered prince back in his home kingdom. When he got cursed and winded up having to flee for his life due to a misunderstanding, he winded up going from a castle full of friendly faces to a world that often screamed at the first sight of him. Up until he encounters the Fable Five, he spent a good chunk of time by himself just trying to make it by via foraging and finding safe yet isolated places to use as shelter for the nights.

Ashe grew up practically outcasted by by her step family because she was Bookmarked and awakened her Märchen at an early age. She was limited to the house and her room was the literal attic. She didn't have ANY friends growing up because her stepsisters would spread around lies and rumors about her that'd scare people away.

Nova, after the situation with her ex where she found out he was using her to cheat on his girlfriend he had been dating WAY longer than her, was outcasted by the online world due to a slander campaign run by him to paint her like the homewrecker. Due to him and his girlfriend being big internet influencers and having large follower counts, many believed them over Nova who was just starting with her singing career. The only friends she managed to keep were the ones she had prior to meeting her ex but even then, they couldn't save her from the isolation of knowing damn near everyone had a screwed up false image of you.

It's the reason she's so quick to snap now because prior to the incident, she was literally a sweetheart and "cinnamon roll" as the kids say.

Pluto didn't even have the benefit of having friends as as kid as they grew up sheltered by their parents. And not in the good way where they worried about their safety but in the "We want to make sure you only hang around the people we want you to" and often that meant they were limited to only interacting with business partners to try and strengthen relationships for their parents. After the alien goop experiment which lead to them becoming their cyborg self we know now, those interactions stopped...as well as any actually. They went from being the neglected child to a research subject in a containment room.

Toss in the fact their parents had a new child over to replace them and Pluto was not in the best space mentally as a teen. Especially one who literally had their body torn apart and put back together for an experiment just to get their parents to love them and see them less as a hassle.

Bitterbat's time as a baby was tragic to be real with ya'. His dad didn't want anything to do with raising him until he could walk and talk so he spent much of his time crying in his crib without anyone to come in comfort him. And if someone did come, it was often a servant that snuck into his chamber because his cries were so pitiful and saddening that they felt the need to do something. It was important that these servants snuck in because if Lord Vile discovered they were "babying" his living weapon, he would make quick work of them. The man had a very strict "You will interact with this thing only when I tell you to" policy.

Bitterbat was fed and bathed to keep him alive and healthy but even as a grown man he still has nightmares about his time as a baby and toddler due to just how isolating it was.

Sweetheart was also deemed a bit weird as a kid. Not too weird it was concerning but she did struggle a bit with maintain friendships at an early age. It took her becoming Charmed, leading to the eventual creation of the Beloveds who each have their own struggles in social situations leading to them being known as the weird kids, that led to her having an eventual lifetime friendship. After Angel's death and the team breaking up, Sweetheart threw herself into a solo hero career. And going from having a big squad to being just yourself is a big jump. Especially when you winded up separating from someone from an entirely different dimension who you thought was the one for you with a single digit percent of a chance to ever meet them again.

Sweetheart's has stated that her solo years prior to Bitterbat's returned have been the worst years of her life.

#ask #ask: beanstalked #ask: glitter and guilt #ask: bondwidth #ask: jack #ask: pinokuni #ask: nana #ask: kai #ask: ashe #ask: nova #ask: pluto #ask: sweetheart #ask: bitterbat

[rockybloo]

https://youtu.be/s3KZ1LuFm24?si=iIu_3rr2IiEH7uZU

This is so Pluto and Nova coded in my opinion 😭😭😭

The way copying and pasting this link made me so nervous just for it to be a cover of Ado's Ussewa.

BUT I CAN UNDERSTAND THE RELATION TO PLUTO AND NOVA-it def has a harder hitting sound that I relate to them both. And the lyrics are def more blunt and to the jugular.

This is prob a good time to state if y'all wanna send me a song, y'all can just state the title, artist(s) (original or cover) since the world is wild out here now and I can't be trustin' every link I get.

#ask #ask: bondwidth #ask: blackberries #ask: nova #ask: pluto #it's always hard for me to hear pluto's voice as not being super deep bc they got the deepsst voice outta all my ocs #BUT I KNOW NOT EVERY SINGER CAN GET THAT LOW so I cope

[rockybloo]

Does Nova have good reflexes? Like would she land on her feet, or flat on her face for example?

She has very good reflexes. All Meowlings (the alien race she is) do.

It's part of why she feels so comfortable getting into physical fights with other people, especially those larger than her.

She can out maneuver them easily, especially if she has to run, and has broke many people's ankles.

#ask #ask: nova #ask: Bondwidth

[rockybloo]

Happy b-day to Nova!!!🎂🥳 How does she like to celebrate her birthday? Does Pluto do anything special for her?

Being spoiled by Pluto is her fav thing to do on her birthday.

#ask: nova #ask #ask: Bondwidth

[rockybloo]

Do you have an idea of when you think you'll start writing the Bondwidth comic...or at least do you know how you want it to start? (no rush, just curious)

So, with the way I go about my stories and comics, Bondwidth is kind of lowkey already written. I have a script for the first comic in my head and I know what all I want to happen. I just do not know why I will actually put those ideas to paper.

I do know for a fact I am focused on getting Mariana's one-shot comic done before I touch any of my other stories. And that is meant to come out this year and hopefully be started in the summer time (to match the vibes)

The funny part about Bondwidth is that I had planned to leave it as writing. It's why Bondwidth has the most fics written compared to any of my other stories. It was so instead of worrying about drawing Beanstalked and Bondwidth at the same time, I'd just work on Beanstalked and write Bondwidth...

...then Sweetheart and Bitterbat kicked down my door and slammed Glitter and Guilt onto my desk.

The bright side is that I now know it's possible for me to work on more than one webcomic at once as I've been at this as a hobby for awhile now and know what my pace is.

That being said, I see Bondwidth as more of a slice-of-life just like I plan with Glitter and Guilt. It's basically just going to be a series of chapters just...following Nova and Pluto's life rather than a big over arching story (I mean, there will be some plot stuff here and there of course). So it's very possible to just...sprinkle little bits here and there between Beanstalked and Glitter and Guilt stuff.

The major hurdle for this specific story though is that I need to figure out how their world looks so it's not just every other futuristic setting. I need to learn how to draw a more futuristic settings because future stuff tends to have a loooooot of details. At least more than the typical forest and diet medieval of Beanstalked and the modern and familiar cities of Glitter and Guilt.

Another major hurdle is designing aliens because, unlike BSed and GaG, where humans are the default for background characters, Bondwidth has a population of both aliens and humans. It's why I've been so slow designing Bondwidth characters and why y'all have barely seen any.

BUT I will get the story of catgirl x cyborg enby out into the world.

THE WORLD CANNOT STOP THE INEVITBLE THAT IS ROCKY MAKE COMICS OF THEIR OCS

#ask #ask: bondwidth