#ask birb

I’ve been playing around with bunch of different Gem variations while drawing her! I have soft spot for Deer Gem, but i discovered an antelope type called Gemsbok! I just had to make her antelope as well :D thats why the second iteration has straight pointy horns with some face markings.

Omg! Alright, I have so many thoughts about them, here are some of them :>

My Secret Life Roomies Headcanons

Etho is a part fox, Grian is pure avian, and Cleo is a zombie necromancer who keeps her body alive through constant repair. 

After Etho’s Weeping Angel task, Grian subconsciously avoids looking directly at Etho. He refuses to be responsible for hindering his ally and friend. After Cleo notices the pattern in his behavior, she grabs both boys to set the record straight.

Grian has chronic pain in his back and wings. After his first death to a Wither, the process of healing from the completed task and withering from the shot in his back damaged his body so badly that not even respawn could fully fix it. Occasionally, withering effects do reappear on his feathers and decay them.

Cleo is a necromancer, they can make parts of the living organism work or regrow. That is how she keeps her body working.  She would use her power and skill to regrow Grian's withered feathers.

Grian has a habit of falling asleep if his head is covered by something. Cleo discovered it when Grian was becoming frantic and she grabbed one of Etho’s spare jackets and wrapped it around the avian. He stilled and stopped causing a stir. After a couple of moments of stillness, Cleo discovered Grian snoozing. 

Cleo likes to prepare meals, so Etho and Grian are responsible for bringing back the goods she needs. The only difference is where Etho brings ingredients back as a normal person, Grian chooses to become a lil feral guy and hunts it down himself, claws out. The prey ends up being brought home in the same manner as a house cat brings back a caught mouse, bloody and super proud. (Cleo still appreciates the effort)

Both Etho and Cleo operate based on ‘’if said so, it applies until further verbal notice’’, so when they welcomed Grian into their team, for them it was obvious that Grian belonged. Not to Grian tho. In the beginning, he had to make sure to provide for his new alliance, because, in his head, he was more likely to be dropped if he wasn't useful. That belief started to crack one night when sleepy Etho grabbed him before he could leave, and dragged him to their shared bed to cuddle.

Only Grian, being a winner, fully remembers past games, but Etho, even if not knowing fully why, feels a kinship with the lonesome avian, who at some point, gifted him a sword.

After Cleo wins Real Life, and gets blasted with the memories of past games, she doesn't waste any time to pull her roomie in a suffocating hug.

Thank you so much! It's totally fine using my lil Grian design as an inspiration for your work, it makes me super giddy :D

The best tip I have is to think about trait utility for the character. How having specific trait would support the character itself, and what advantage/disadvantage would it create.

At the very core of it, I love when hybrid designs are more animalistic in nature. Grian's HAD to be a bird boy. In my designs I like to add details like: bird feet, claw-like hands, and owl-like face (it fits with his mc skin :D). Other minor traits: feather fluff everywhere - on the back of the neck, shoulders, arms , cheeks.

Oh definitely! This AU is still in works, still quite early in it's development, but it's super lovely to hear that this thing could inspire others to create and play in this space!

REDpocalypse is an AU I created for Roomies of Secret Life :D it is an Apocalypse AU based of Boogieman apocalypse task in Episode 7, where instead zombies, infected turn into Red names, bloodthirsty hunters.

Heyyyy! Thank you so much ! I do love making a appealing shapes for my designs!