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of course i love your circus au! and thank you!! :D

i call them SpongeRoberta and Squidwardine

- spongebob: he's lowkey based on how i dressed in college, lol -- short hair, suspenders, button-up, and saddle shoes. obviously i took inspo from broadway spongebob, but i also had tom kenny in mind hence the glasses. i also think the idea of him with a wispy mustache is incredibly cute and ties into his whole kid-in-an-adult's body thing

- patrick: a lot of inspo from musical patrick, obvs, but i was thinking of soos from gravity falls oddly enough. not really much to say about pat he kinda just clicked immediately for me

- squidward: i'm not lying, i based him almost ENTIRELY off this meme

this picture just had raw squidward energy to me. the expression, the pose, the vibe. i'm also surprised that there aren't a lot of bald human squidwards! i wanted mine to be bald for canon accuracy

- sandy: i really wanted to incorporate the shape language of her original design, hence the puffs in place of ears. i can't pin down the name of the artist, but i saw them put her in a puffer jacket with cowboy boots and that just felt right. star earrings because she loves space!

- mr krabs: honestly my favorite design of the lot. i was trying to think of a way to convey his teeny little legs on his wide body and then i remembered! mr krabs is a navy vet. prosthetic legs seemed like a good solution and i wanted to represent disability regardless, so i did some research and based his legs off of what i found. i also added scars because i know that man was throwing hands even if he was just the cook lol

- plankton: VERY inspired by dexter from dexter's lab and boris from rocky & bullwinkle. i wanted him to be simple because plankton's design in the show is so effortlessly simple

-gary: i love it when people draw him as a hairless cat! plain and simple

- karen: god i redrew karen about 50 times before i got it right. originally she had a big b-52s updo that mimicked the shape of her monitor but it didn't quite look right. i decided to just do a bun and i think it conveyed the idea a little better. originally she was going to look more like a 50s housewife, but given how much she's grown as a character in recent years i thought she deserved something cooler. she strikes me as the type to just wear whatever's comfy, even if she's a robot

- pearl: based heavily off of musical pearl. i really just thought about what i saw teens wear when i worked at the mall a few years back. i also wanted her to be a little preppy! i referenced regina george a little bit with some of her alternate outfits from the show tossed in. i think those pimple patches are adorable and since she has trouble with barnacles it feels like she'd wear em!

- mrs puff: hoo boy. her design was a very personal one for me. she always reminded me of my dearly departed aunt trish; their personalities were very different but she sounded so much like her it was scary. i mentioned it in the tags, but i imagine she has HUNDREDS of prison tats on her back and chest lmao. that's why her tattoo for donna is visible

BOB ODENKIRK as JIMMY MCGILL