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(I'm just gonna copy and paste what I wrote on my ig post onto here)

Guys meet my new OC.

I don't want to be all sad and emotional again (I have... made it very clear I was going through it on my IG already) so for now, I'm putting all of my feelings and turning it into art that I want to look at and smile. I want to make it clear as well that in this post, I see Valko and my OC/MC Myra to have a platonic sibling relationship. I don’t feel like I should have to explain myself here. I just feel more maternal towards Valko, really. It makes sense for me to prefer him and Myra to be close in this way, especially when I realised some of their similar personality traits (both are very physically affectionate people).

Even though their relationship is a platonic one, I wish to draw more of them. Coming up with these silly ideas for these two had been my highlight for the past week. And I hope everyone respects my decision (I promise I’ll return to drawing Sylus).

Of course, what I said in that moment could never truly fully explain just how incredibly disappointed and sad I am over this.

I know it’s just a game. And I know Valko is just a character.

But lads is a game I genuinely love, and Valko is a character that I’ve been so excited to get to know more of, and seeing this feels like the harshest slap to the face ever.

I’m not even saying this as a Valko enjoyer. But it’s also honestly a really terrible thing that they cancelled his release. Because they’re literally throwing everyone and I mean EVERYONE’S efforts into creating him to waste. From the mocap actors and animation to his design team, to the voice actors… I can’t imagine how they feel knowing their hard work would never be truly appreciated.

I need to reiterate here that I am NOT trying to defend the company behind this game. They have so many issues that they should address. So many issues that I know they could’ve fixed so easily. They could’ve done SO MUCH better with handling the current update.

I'm quickly warming up to Valko for the past week. He's honestly such a cutie patootie and this specific four star of his really made me feel a lot of things.

... I PERSONALLY THINK VALKO WOULD GIVE SYLUS THE NICKNAME 'KITTY CAT' AND SYLUS WOULD SECRETLY LIKE IT (because let's be real, Sylus is the real kitten here)

I promise he'll look better once I get a hang of drawing him properly! JUST WATCH!

Anyway... ehem... I like the new cute wolf boy. Somehow I never really caved in for the werewolf trope but there's a first time for everything I guess lol-

I just think he's a really big dorky goofball, even more so now we got more crumbs of him from the update livestream earlier. GOD I cannot wait for his official release :D

I don't have any extra bonus sketches to offer, but I did draw some random Valko and Myra (my MC) shenanigans earlier because I think they'd be really cute with an older sister and younger brother dynamic.

... Personally I really like him lol.

I just think he looks really really cute. So cute I ended up adopting him and he and my oc/mc are now siblings because the more I look at them the more I'm like "... Yeah. That's her younger brother now".

I'd rather not rant about the whole hate train for him? I just mind my own business and prefer to focus more on the things I really like instead of being stressed over people spreading negativity.

In short though? Even though I understand certain players being frustrated with Infold because of the lack of in-game main story content lately and a lot of the things in the game being very p2p... I can't help but think how ridiculous some of the Valko haters are because what do you mean some of them are focusing their hate by harassing other fans who show interest in him??? I think their hate is being misdirected??? THAT'S JUST MY TAKE THO DO NOT TAKE IT PERSONALLY-

Also CN girlies are even dragging full on racism and fascism just because Valko is the LI on XHS? Which is another can of worms.

Hell, just a day ago? Apparently some lads players came to my friend's Lads fan event and was trying to give our fliers to sign to take Valko off the LI roster??? When my friend was legit a VALKO STAN????

It's the audacity some of these players have thinking they can just spread their own distaste for a character into other people, I feel that annoys me most.

Anyway... I generally don't care what people think about Valko. I LOVE HIM and that's all that matters. And I'm really happy that on my side of IG, most of my moots are pretty enthusiastic for his release! It's not my business to know how other people feel about him. I don't get the people who are trying to make people feel bad for different opinions.

If you like him? That's great! If you're neutral, hey that's cool. If you don't like him, then it's fine. Not everything will be your cup of tea and that's really normal.

(I decided to leave my previous illust on this post since I decided to do some little fixes here and there!)

Anyway... Finale Undone. Peak card. I need to applaud everyone who was involved in the making of this card. From the story and plot to the gorgeous kindled, this whole card was a FEAST for me :D

Have a quick little sketch of these two lovelies on a movie date.

Finale Undone was such a good Sylus card arghhhh I enjoyed it so much! And of course, the kindled was so beautiful. I had to redraw this specific shot from it with these two because it's lowkey my favourite shot ever.

It's funny that I decided to lock in for Caleb when I'm not even a Caleb girlie help-

I'm doing this for all of my Caleb lover moots! Hope you guys are having a good one celebrating Caleb month!

As always, here's a little sketch bonus! Fun fact, I've been wanting to sketch this thing when his apron card came out the first time. I'm just glad I actually have a reason to draw it now LMAO

Wanted to draw my favs together wearing my favourite outfits for them!

And as always, little bonus sketch! Myra likes to support her husbands at their side gigs :)

I may not be a devoted Caleb simp, but I felt like I should at least draw him for his bday month since I have a LOT of Caleb simp friends.

I wanted to draw Sylus and Beel together again eheh-