Broppy On The Mind

Meet Beau and Bailey Bolero! Cousins and up-and-coming country music stars!

Aka, designing Floyd’s boyfriend!

I started some designs a while ago, playing around with a brother sister duo of rock trolls or some kind of alt pop, but I didn’t really like any of it. Then a few months back, while on a trip to Dollywood, something about the Forever Country music group they have performing there just got me inspired! So I fully pivoted to making them country trolls.

I wanted these two to kind of match the hokey, a bit on the nose vibe the group has. This is their early days where they’re still teens, so their style will mellow out as they age lol

After seeing their show, Floyd feels inspired and tags along with their act for a bit. Floyd and Beau eventually start dating and have a really sweet teen romance, though tragically Floyd starts really struggling with things around that time and ultimately things don’t end well. But time changes a lot, so who knows? Maybe they’ll reconnect…

Song: https://youtu.be/W8UosXiaSFU?si=PtQZyH0Qza-4SUZl

Anyways, I did another Buttercup redesign! Thought process and mini rant under the cut

Happy pride! Crossed one goal off the list!

These two really don’t have a ship name, do they? Well at least on my blog I’ll tag them as Barol lol

Things I’m hoping to get around to drawing this month

Designing Floyd’s boyfriend

Veneer and his boyfriend

Barb and her girlfriend

Sharing my headcanon for JD

Drawing my Brozone parents more

Going more in depth into Clays gender identity

Bi for pan Broppy

Some one offs of other media I enjoy (Luca, Nimona, Owl House, Mlp, etc)

Lumity redraw!

The original is from ~2022, and I still remember being super disappointed in Luz’s outfit. I know my original vision was a yellow sweater with red and blue stripes and denim overalls. But for some reason I got in my own head about Amity’s outfit being monochromatic and Luz having to match that. So it ended up looking super plain and doesn’t really feel like Luz.

I liked getting the chance to refine them; I decided to use their epilogue designs and updated the outfits to feel a bit more mature. Gave Luz’s outfit the original colors I had wanted, and yeah it looks perfectly normal next to amity’s mostly pink outfit, so don’t know what younger me was so worried about lol.

She’s most similar to Theodore. She’s very optimistic that they’ll be found quickly, so even if their getaway hasn’t gone according to plan it’s best to make the most of it. I think she also has a bit Brittany thrown in, doing much better in this environment than anyone expected. I can see her and Branch having the shelter building contest from the movie.

If this were a 1:1 AU Poppy and Branch honestly wouldn’t have much to do. So there will be some extra moments focused on them. If Branch is the one who gets injured (though it would also be funny if it was Floyd, just stacking on extra reasons for Branch to be overprotective of him), they’ll probably be a moment of her telling him he shouldn’t over-exert himself and to let others help him.

How did the others react to see Clay as Claude now?

Going from the most positive to most negative:

Poppy- Her and JD have been the most optimistic about being castaways. She’s confident they’ll be rescued soon, so why not make the most of it while they’re here? So after the initial shock, her and Claude actually match each other’s energy really well.

Viva- Viva and Clay have been together for a long time now, but even with that closeness Clay has never been the most romantic or open with his feelings. She doesn’t mind that, but there are times she wished he would come out of his shell a little more.

The personality change definitely throws her for a loop, but the flirtation and more public displays of affection are not unwelcome lol.

Floyd- Worried for his brother, but also happy Clay is having more fun. It kind of reminds him when they were kids. And his brothers have been treating him like he’s fragile (chronic illness Floyd truther), so it’s nice to have someone encouraging him to do things

Barb- Thinks he’s much cooler now. And while she thinks him being arrogant and showing up his bothers is hilarious, if he ever did that to her he’d be dead

Satin and Chenille- I’ll be honest they’re mostly in this au to fill out poppy’s side of the bridal party and make the group cute island outfits. They’d probably think he’s cool but if his adventuring got them dirty they’d probably be over him pretty quickly.

Branch- Amused by Claude’s antics, especially the way he ribs JD. But considering how protective he is of Poppy and now Floyd, Claude encouraging them to do dangerous things stresses him tf out. He might end up being the one who sprains his ankle (though the feeling useless plot that Elenor has might go more to Floyd), so he feels extra helpless.

JD- Despite initially not believing that the bite will have an effect, once it does JD is immediately unhappy. I mean, he’s the cool brother! He’s traveled all over the world, roughed it in the wilderness, etc.. He was the one who was actually kind of excited to get shipwrecked, if it meant getting to show off a bit. But now everyone was acting like Claude was the fun one! Clay was supposed to be the planner, JD was supposed to be the devil-may-care adventurer. But with Claude now in that role, JD’s forced to be…the responsible one.