that's why i made these cupcakes

Pen sketch of my faaave booooyz ~THE POWER TRIO~

While I've been busy making drawings for @where-fading-princesses-live's Monsters, Inc. fanfiction, I sketched this last night to take a much needed break. Mike is the easiest to draw (and easily my fave; takes a lot of money to look this natural 😆Comfort character ily ily ily qidb2jdkdj they could never make me hate you baby). Sulley is still such a struggle for me, I don't know why. ;-; (💀💀💀 HELP ME I still love him DOWN) Randall is looking *slightly* less deformed the more I draw him (and meticulously study screencaps looking at his patterns like I want to kiss every single one) but Idk, he still needs rhinoplasty, lip filler, cheek implants, chin implant, jaw shave, brow bone reduction, buccal fat removal, botox, and eye lift like a baby who got left to survive on his own in the woods for 14 years and was raised by raccoons... 😭

This was my first Monsters, Inc. fanart of the year (that I did back in September 2025)... if the style looks slightly different than what I'm doing now, it's just because I was still figuring out how to draw them... I left the fandom back in 2013 when I joined the Ed, Edd n Eddy fandom, so I was (still am) rusty on the characters...

This was a commission for @where-fading-princesses-live, a scene from her Monsters, Inc. fanfiction called THE HIDDEN CITY: The Life & Times of Randall Boggs.

This is an illustration for ACT I, Chapter One: ''We'll Always Have Paris.'' [x]

Randall is bootlegging illegal classic movies from the human world that the government banned and he tries to sell Mike a pirated VHS copy of Casablanca (1942). Despite their workplace blood feud, the one thing Mike and Randall have in common is their shared love for Humphrey Bogart.

Sorry these are rough. I'm just colouring over pencil sketches for now, but I will probably do cleaner drawings later (I'm looking for a drawing tablet right now).

I can't wait to illustrate the next chapter.

I have mixed feelings on this. I know a good number of fans would like to see Randall redeemed, and I'm not totally against a redemption arc.

However, I *really really* dig Randall when he's at his worst. In other words, I looooove Evil!Randall. I love evil; I love villainy; I love antagonists who are self-loathing, pessimistic, morally grey, egotistical, and can't help the mortifying ordeal of yearning. I love watching it, reading it, drawing it, writing it.... Even better: eventually all that self hatred for both Villain and Hero culminates in a hot mess of lust and desperation.

That doesn't mean that Randall can't be 'humanised' in a sense. And that's not to say he can't have redeeming qualities.

The point of humanising villains isn’t to redeem them. It’s to show us they can be three-dimensional characters. Even though Randall is a cartoon character, he's not a cartoonishly megalomaniacal caricature. He's surprisingly very 'human' with very 'human' and relatable (tragic) flaws.

I think people often mix up redemption arcs with sympathetic villains.

Randall can definitely be sympathetic, but he doesn't necessarily need to be redeemed for that to happen.

Do I want to see him redeemed? Not really. I think he's more fun when he's evil.

I'd rather just see him end up in prison if it ever came down to his being defeated... either that.... or just spend the rest of his life on the run from the law.... like a hunted fugitive.... like Bonnie & Clyde. Minus the gruesome death.

Mike and Sulley were at least generous enough to pick a door for him that would banish him to a part of the human world that he can actually survive in. Like Randall's biology is built to survive warm muggy climates with high humidity.... that's why his last name is ''Boggs'' too... a bog is a wet muddy ground like a swamp. He would be fine actually... making friends with the gators. The only thing he had to worry about was poachers or something.

It wasn't as bad as what Waternoose did to Mike and Sulley, banishing them to a harsh winter climate in the Himalayas.... Sulley prolly could have survived with his double fur coats, but Mike would have froze to death.

A) it's well-written and believable. No full 180 out of nowhere bullshit. He should start off helping Mike and Sully (VERY RELUCTANTLY. We need to see him HATE having to work with them.) because it's in his best interests at the time, not because he suddenly woke up good or whatever. There's got to be a whole domestication process. First get him to stop chewing on the furniture, then we can focus on teaching morals and values.

And B) they don't make him boring. The sass and rage are part of the fun. He should still be a menace, just maybe not an opposing force. Do not de-fang the lizard please, I like watching him bite people.

I agree with all this. Tho sadly I think the opportunity for a redemption arc has passed

But I can still be delusional and cope about it