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Family is complete 🫀 this series help me reconnect with my love for portraits. I stopped to make them because silly me thought it was too easy and I wanted challenges. Spoilers, portraits are not easy.

Also Pre-Orders are back on the menu 🫣

Erika Hatori, an almost world class thief who, when not busy facing cosmic horrors, is having a crisis of career paths!

After spending her spring term trying to find a balance between the family business of cat burglary and her budding interest in film making, her first solo heist since finals gets derailed big time! After all, how was she supposed to guess someone was going to stab the physics professor in the campus art museum, all while she was busy thieving? Or that when she and the campus security guard found him bleeding out, he would regenerate into a completely new person? But when life gives you an amnesiac alien, you make a friend!

After the three of them had to save the campus from the literal sky falling together, Erika takes a shine to The Unknowing Doctor. Admiring their a free spirit, and clear lack of respect for No Trespassing signs, Erika agrees to help the Doctor figure out their jumbled past. Armed with skeleton keys, camera lenses, and insatiable curiosity, Erika is almost as skilled at getting out of trouble as she is getting into it!

Can she and her friends unravel the conspiracy at the heart of her college? Can they find the missing pieces in the Doctor's history in the dark corners of Lightfall? And most importantly, can she finish editing her short film before the fall term wraps up?

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Thank you for reading! Here's a little bonus doodle of her and my other little creatures charted in how... wrong they can eat cereal.

-Vicki

The Unknowing Doctor. A whimsical fellow trying to solve his own murder, they're the most cheerful dead man walking you ever did see! After being found stabbed in the heart at the Lightfall University Art Museum. He woke up with a new face, a set of bloody clothes, and not much else. All memories of his previous lives left lost or jumbled together. He's an enigma wrapped in diamond print and a jester's ruff, even too himself! One who's only chance at understanding himself, is trying to figure out why he was murdered!

But luckily he's not going in alone! He's imprinted on befriended the two students who found him at the crime scene. Cat burglar Erika Hatori, and security guard Fidel Bovell, who are egar to help a Timelord in need, and solve the mystery at their school! As well as Fidel's Roommate, Grey Palmer, who... isn't egar in the slightest, but still finds herself wrapped up in the mystery when the Doctor moves in with her and Fidel!

But is this murder as cut and bled as it seems? When the Doctor's previous self, Dr. Smith shows up for the first day of class teaching physics 2, not only is the entire investigation is turned on it's head, but the Doctor's very sense of self! Every step closer to the two Doctors Pasts reveals even more questions. Why is the school Astrophysics society plotting to reshape time and space? Who's got the Doctor's missing second heart? Where do the shifting service tunnels under the campus lead? Can the Doctor trust their new found friends? And what do they really know about this Doctor fellow anyway?

Have no fear. When light falls on this mystery, all will be illuminated.

Thank you very much for reading! This project is one that means a lot to me. And I'm glad to finally have a proper introduction to it. I'll be posting more about these characters in the lead up for art fight. But in the mean time. Here's a little sketch from me to you.

-Vicki