#crabble

WIP sketch of my agent, Ace, and her pet crabble, Lucy ♥️

Bonus Ace + Marisol:

Name: Clawdaddy

Debut: Super Mario World 2: Yoshi’s Island

As we all know, Japanese media is far more accomplished than Western media in the “acknowledging that crabs blow bubbles” department. Just look at this thing! Clawdaddies are crabs almost entirely covered in foam. They’re pretty resilient, and take either three eggs or a Ground Pound to defeat. And bubbles aren’t the only crab power they have! Though usually both claws are the same size, they can grow one larger than the other for attacking. Now that’s a crab!

In Yoshi’s Island DS, Clawdaddies are for some reason replaced with Crabbles. I’d say I’m neutral on the issue. Sure, Clawdaddy may have been replaced, but I can’t be mad at any crab, now can I? (The answer is no! I can’t be mad at any crab.)

In Yoshi’s New Island, Clawdaddy is back, baby, and Yoshi can lick up the foam to reveal what’s underneath! It’s a crab! Hooray!

And most recently, in Yoshi’s Woolly World, Clawdaddy may have lost the foam, but that’s okay. Look how clever it was to make them coin purses with the little bobble things as eyes! And even little sewing clipper claws!

/*whispers* he touched the butt…. ps this’ll suck 

She jumped a little as she felt the gentle graze against her butt, turning somewhat surprised to see Forrest behind her, a cheeky grin on his lips along with that usual blush that she loved seeing. She put her hands on her hips, pretending to be scandalised as she turned to face him. 

“Did you…just touch my butt?” she asked, her voice quiet but only to hide the fact that she was stifling the urge to laugh at him, the combination of his grin and his blush only making her want to laugh more. 

“And if I did?” 

She grinned, darting forward and launching herself into his arms. 

The Caryl Files

As eager as I am for all the Caryl Drama!Thrills! and Angst! in Heart Drift, I’m almost just as excited to see them investigate together as a super sleuth-y team. Won’t it be amazing to see them working in tandem to solve the mystery of Beth’s whereabouts? All that crackling chemistry and brains firing in unison…. hmmm. Maybe they’ll even channel their inner Mulder and Scully. It might even go a little something like this:

Atlanta, GA 10:13pm

Daryl and Carol sitting in a car…

C: Are you sure it was really a white cross on the back of the car?

D:  I know what I saw, Carol.

C: We haven’t seen that car, or any other car for that matter, for hours, Daryl. Don’t you think it’s plausible that what you actually saw could have been an “X” or a “T” or something else entirely?

D: No. It was clearly a cross. Aren’t you the one always telling me to look at the facts? What happened to Occam’s Razor? Isn’t the simplest answer most likely correct? Who are you and what have you done with Carol?

C: What I’m suggesting is that there could be other explanations. Just because you observed, what could have been a cross on the back of a car, a car that looks like the one that took Beth, doesn’t mean she’s being held against her will by some religious alien sex cult in the middle of the zombie apocalypse. You have to admit that sounds a little crazy. Even for you, Daryl.

D: After all you’ve seen, Carol, why is it so hard for you accept the possibilities?

C:  *stare down*

D:  *stare accepted*

C/D: *eye sex commences*

C: Okay, then tell me again why we’re sitting here in front of this hospital? We lost our lead, Daryl.  If you think Beth was kidnapped by a religious alien sex cult, wouldn’t it make more sense for us to be doing our stakeout at the church down the street?

D: Oh ye of little faith, Carol. You know as well as I do a cross doesn’t just symbolize Christianity. It’s been the international symbol of medical support since the late 1800’s. In fact a thousand years before Christianity, the ancient Greeks would depict the healing goddess Diana with a cross over her head, in much the same way the “Virgin Mary” is represented by many medieval artists. Bacchus, the Greek god of wine, is often pictured wearing a headdress adorned with crosses. Different types of crosses were used in Mexico centuries before the Spaniards arrived. The Egyptians used cross symbols in abundance, as did the Hindus…

C: *eye roll and lip purse* Thank you for the history lesson, Daryl…  

D: *smug smirk*

C: …but it still doesn’t explain what we’re doing at this hospital.

D: Call it a hunch.

C: Dar-yl…

D: Car-ol…

C: Fine. Well, since we’re stuck here for the night and the heater doesn’t seem to work in this car, we’re going to need to figure out how to keep warm.

D: I was told once that the best way to regenerate body heat was to crawl naked into a sleeping bag with somebody else who’s already naked.

C: Maybe if it rains sleeping bags you’ll get lucky.

D: …

C: Or we could just throw jugs of water around all night to stay warm…

D: Stop.

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