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as I’m sure you’re all aware I can’t stand negative cr and my characters are always objectively in the right
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it’s hard to be this perfect but someone has to do it
mj
That’s my favorite thing about them, that they’re all morally unimpeachable and only make wise choices.
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anyway I used to put all my beanie babies in a Barbie car and push it down the stairs to see which ones would fall out so I think that’s a pretty close approximation of my play style
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its 200% more fun with a friend
gayest uncle
hahahaha
gayest uncle
this is a great cami fact I love it
burg summer
thank you mj I agree
ass victoriam 🍑
this is the Cami-est thing and it is wonderful
burg summer
whenever there’s a meme like “would you want to meet your character” my blood runs cold. No they would kick my ass
jill grahamyao
bene would not kick your ass, he’d just make whoever his boyfriend is do it for him
burg summer
Oh true
Tᴀᴛᴇʀs.
I'm not at all worried about beating bene's ass
burg summer
I will say he’s got some nasty spells even if he’s not much of a physical fighter
Tᴀᴛᴇʀs.
ah, true
ass victoriam 🍑
like the time he flung that Horror spell that made Wren almost wreck everyone's shit
ass victoriam 🍑
that was awesome
el axo
assign your guys beanie babies please
burg summer
Lmf
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This goes into a very strange place bc all my beanie babies had specific personalities that undoubtedly evolved into current characters in some way
frantic banjos
which beanie baby would each of them be
frantic banjos
a vital meme within the meme
burg summer
See that’s the thing, the question you’re asking is “which of your childhood ocs correspond to your current ocs”
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if you guys really want to know all the characterizations of my favorite beanie babies I can provide but that seems somewhat in the “telling someone your dreams” realm
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unless they all had canon personalities I didn’t know about but I always ripped off the tags so idk
el axo
no now I feel we gotta know
mj
yeah you've made a grave error
burg summer
sigh ok gimme some time
Tᴀᴛᴇʀs.
I also want to know
burg summer
ok it is Dad Hour of the baby bedtime misery loop so here we go
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Zip the black cat was my first one so he was the oldest brother (the cats are all siblings, this is important), had a very advanced sense of responsibility but was a massive coward who hid behind the enforcer Chip, the calico cat, despite her being younger
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she was a ballbuster who was involved romantically with my best friend's yellow cat Nip, a chill dude who didn't care that she walked all over him because he was into it I guess
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as much as a nine year old conceives of people being Into Things
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the closest Chip analog is Teren I think but Chip was very femmey in a way Teren has never been, she was just the most like. aggro
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let's see, then younger than them were the twins Pounce and Prance (brown and silver tabby respectively) ((yes we kept all their names)), the former of whom was whiny and kind of mean-spirited, like. incel material except incels weren't a thing in the 90s
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and Prance was kind of a wunderkind, clever and chaotic and good at everything
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we were very misandrist I'm sorry
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Prance notably also had an off-brand bean bag pet dog named Brofie who was exceedingly violent and could also talk
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I think it's safe to say Pounce's archetype turned into the proto-Benedict except with my adolescence and adulthood layered onto him which made him Shitty But Also Hot In A Stupid Way
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Prance is best represented by Rosemarie, one of the characters in my comic who I used to RP but don't anymore
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and the youngest sister was Flip the white cat, who had the quietest personality and mostly kept to herself but with weird hobbies and I think she was also a klepto or something like that, this was kind of towards the end of that phase of my life
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I'll match her with Fifi
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Barrow I'll say is an amalgam of Zip and Nip even if the other one wasn't mine, but he was just kinda laid-back and let everyone boss him around and as such was spared most of the antagonism. and Zip was just a Good Guy. he was the straight man
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the pattern with all of our characters was generally that the girls and women were screechy violent hellions who had all the fun and the boys/men were their cowering servants just trying to exist
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deeply problematic
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I would also be remiss if I didn't include the Slies (plural for Sly), who were like. semi-feral agents of chaos who basically operated by cartoon rules and existed to torment the normal people of the world
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I was very into Animaniacs as a kid but they were like less cognizant than the Warners
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I dont' have anyone analogous to Sly anymore. Sly is in everyone I think
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pure id
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anyway some of you met Kelly at the baby shower, she was my bff and we extensively developed all these characters together on the school bus and our crown jewel was an entire musical that we made up in an afternoon for some fucking reason
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the most important factor of any stories I made up as a kid was that they were always extremely cartoonishly violent and dramatic and everyone was a bad person, which is to say absolutely nothing has changed
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thanks for coming to my ted talk
el axo
beautiful
el axo
I'd pay money for that musical
gayest uncle
thrilled with all of this content
mj
amazing knowledge
burg summer
it's deep lore
Lana
all of this is INCREDIBLE
Lana
which one of them most often fell out of your barbie car?
Lana
and also which kind of barbie car
Lana
?
burg summer
it was the corvette
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and I’m sure I orchestrated it such that pounce and/or zip fell out the most