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what could bro POSSIBLY have seen 💀💀

🫣 i didn't do anything but try to plot the old Amberwood wip. Yall, Monday was awful. I could not focus worth a damn. This week, I've just felt off and I think it's because I'm seriously lacking inspiration, which is hurting any writing I could be doing. Like, I looked at what I have for ch18 so far and I'm just like "...ehhhhh". I dunno, maybe it's fine and it's just me being critical.

So today I tried my hand at Amberwood. I'm honestly concerned imma have to scrap an LI or two that may not fit if I settle for this current concept. And imo, the concept is absolutely bonkers to me. As in, I'm worried if it's too much and should be its own thing. Cuz I like it, even if I'm utterly lost.

since my au has veered more in the spooky territory i redid the designs for CC and Cassidy (shadow freddy + shadow bonnie respectively!)

welcome to the pizza party!

um if anyone wants an explanation on my shadow-goldenduo theory its below the cut

Not have him have lost his voicebox in the first place

had people constantly saying that it's 100% curable, they just need to get their hands on the right materials. Instead of acting like it's a permenant disability.

And either way they shouldn't have had pretty much everyone be able to magically understand him. Why would you do that when you had the opportunity to include some sign language???? Have one of the human protags be Deaf and have them teach Bumblebee sign language!!!! Which could then help teach the audience!!!!

Or, have a character who's nonverbal! Who uses an AAC device! Who helps Bumblebee build one!

Or, brace yourself -- do both! You can have more than one kind of disabled person at a time!!! Have a deaf character and a nonverbal character and they both befriend Bumblebee!!!!

Why waste such a great opportunity for so many cool things to just have boring magical disabilities that aren't *actually disabling most of the time* (because all but 2 people he regularly hangs out with can magically understand him anyways), only to then magically heal it at the end too???

Like they could at least have made it so that the little kid (I forget his name) was the only one who could understand him, through Actual Magic like soul resonance or something made up, and everyone else can't. Like just something. Come on.

They could have made the disability actually disabling, or at least constantly tell us it's only a temporary thing, but they went with the both worst options possible by making it magically not a disability in 9.9/10 situations, and by telling it's pretty much permenant, but then magically healing it at the end anyways.