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𑣲HAI EVERYONE !!! HAPPY !!!! VALENTINES !!! ofc i made a special post for valentines !!! ofc !!! ofc ofc !!!!

i made this WAYY before valentines, in the middle of or earlier in january?? i was suuper worried abt not having enough time to finish it, and im glad i thought ahead bcuz!!! im so busy 💔!!! i havent made any posts recently bcuz of it ... 😢 but anyways!!! im honestly proud i made AND finished this early .... hell yeah ... patting myself on the back rn ...

also !!! a thankyu to my friends who i annoyed by sending them drafts of this !!! and now ... some ranting abt each one !!!

ˋ°꩜࿔•･˚⁀༄.°⌲ candy pop's was actually the first one i started working on and here's a secret:

i actually had a different first version!!! as u can see i actually rendered a fair bit of it, but as i was working on candy pop, i was also working on laughing jack (and jason's, but more on that later!!) and i realized that candy pop's was ... boring to me !!!! i thought it was stiff and it was rlly bugging me 🙁 SO I !!! STARTED ALL OVER AGAIN 🔥🔥 AND CAME OUT WITH THIS BANGER 🔥🔥 i honestly don't think this first one is so bad, but compared to laughing jack's and it's composition ... bleh XP... ngl, i made it stiff and boring on purpose so i could show off their outfits, but then!!! i realized laughing jacks outfit cut out his pants !!! and i was okay with it even tho i loved his pants cuz it looked awesome to me !!! so i decided to completely change their compositions and poses :P

𖡼.𓇗𖤣𖥧𖡼⌣🦋࿐.𖤣𓇗𖥧 jason's!!! can you guess?? can you guess?!?!?

he also had a different first draft!!! i was working on his alongsode candy pop's, but ss u can see i didn't get as far on rendering as i did with his :P. and u can also see me messing with the colors !!! he actually went through a whole lot of color pallette combinations, and forced @angelicpearlise and my friend kj the dj to pick between all the combos i made :P it was supposed to be a bit more playful, with toys all around and him offering a toy to you instead of chocolate... i had the hardest time thinking of a new composition for him, but ended up with the tea party scene !!! i actually was gonna have more sewing elements randomly scattered throughout out since ... idk, and i was originally gonna have that for a border, but i ended up with a cleaner gold border instead cuz 🤷

★****.'**°.*★☆ laughing jack's !!! isnt he ?!?!? so cute !!?!?!?!? i didn't end up having a different first version, but i do have a LOT of scrapped compositions cuz i was just having so much trouble with him for sum reason ... i didn't have that many run throughs with him, except for me making his arms even longer and re-rendering his white accordion torso thingy cuz it didn't match the perspective, and i kept getting raidal stripes (pattern behind him) with a watermark on it blehhh :P oh and me having trouble with the fonts !!! i was set on making it match vintage circus posters ... i think it kimda looks like one ??? i also thought abt drawing him on a moon, like those vintage moon photos u could get at a circus back then (apparently) but i couldnt make that work X( u can see me trying to make it work down there vvv so many concepts !! i know!!!

His singing is enchanted. It's something he was born with, and he's gotten very good at controlling it. He does forget sometimes, and before he knows it, his humming down the street has attracted a plethora of birds.

Also fairly decent at mimicking bird calls. Iggy is dying to learn his secret.

Likes reading mystery novels and detective stories, but spaces them out so he doesn’t read the chapters all at once. He also uses Morton as a soundboard for theories in each chapter, and relishes the feeling of being smart if he solves it before the end.

One of the most magically powerful out of his siblings. He’s fairly decent at a little bit of everything, but his siblings are stronger with their specialization. His best field is in Evocation.

While piano is his preferred instrument, he plays several: violin, cello, pump organ, pipe organ, guitar, flute, clarinet, harp, harpsichord, and ocarina.

He’s an ugly crier and hates it, which is why he tries not to do it often.

Fond of gardenias and wisteria flowers.

One of his favorite down-time, out-and-about activities is going antiquing. He’s found a nice gramophone, a few records, and some furniture pieces for his room by doing so.

Likes having a physical, paper to-do list. It makes him feel productive and organized as he checks things off.

He and Wendy have ‘Bitch Lunch' together, where they basically talk shit about their coworkers, spill tea about their friends, and gossip the whole time.

You can actually tell how long he's been composing by how dark his hands are with ink smudges. You can also tell how bad of a mood he’s in.

Loves the smell of coffee and vanilla, but leans more towards being a tea person. He's got an excellent palate for both, however.

Larry is persistently trying to introduce him to the keytar. Ludwig is persistently refusing to go near it.

Very much a morning person. He wakes up earlier than most of his siblings and likes having his hot drink and reading alone to enjoy the quiet hours before the rest of his family wakes up.

The ultimate master of time management. He gets kinda tetchy when others don’t respect deadlines or appointments dates, and heaven help you if you intrude on his scheduled self-care hours.

He snorts when he laughs really hard, and is terribly embarrassed by it, so he tries to reign it in when he can. Anyone who can do it who isn't a sibling is a special person, indeed.

He likes tall places, especially the views. Great for a bit of peace from his siblings and inspiration for his music.

When his siblings are annoying him, he likes bombarding them with music puns. He is well aware he's being an ass and does not care.

Leaned more towards science as a kid, but discovered the piano when he was twelve, and creating music felt right in a way that making little inventions never did. He never looked back, and he’s a lot happier for it, too.

Keeps a little pocket notebook on him for writing things down, and he's pretty dutiful about marking things in. It's a common gift his sibling get him on the holidays.

He doesn't have as much of a sweet tooth, but toffee — especially with almonds or coffee in it — is his weakness. His siblings have learned he can be bribed to look the other way if they have enough.

Also a fan of very dark chocolate, and his favorite pastry is a freshly-warm coffee cake.

He's pretty alright at art, especially with acrylic paint and sketchier mediums like charcoal and conté, he just doesn't like how dirty his hands get afterwards. He's got a side business doing murals.

Favorite fruits are cherries and plums, but he also won’t turn down anything with blackberry in it.

Likes watching regency romance dramas in his alone time, but loves dragging the shit out of reality TV shows with Wendy.

He also loves watching those foreign films with subtitles, very artful with a lot of emotion in them, especially if he's feeling spiteful and his little siblings are annoying, because "No, Luds, I don't want to read a film after two hours of paperwork!"

Has a small collection of model ships in bottles. He keeps them on a high, high shelf in his room, given his work environment. Ship kits are another common gift to him.