I've had this edgy thing sitting in my files for the past month so uh

life's hard when you're Turbo. wake up, be a general asshole to everyone, find more ways to puff up your ego, deal with the horrific mutations your poor past life choices have left carved into your very code, it's an endless struggle.

I've been in severe art block lately but uh some cute Turbo and Lovebug for @squisheeships as my half of the ""art trade"" which stinkyass bitchboy why did u tell everyone it was a trade I never said-

also since I felt bad about only providing a sketch when my soft marshmallow gave me a full colored image,,,,, a bonus comic

some sketches I wanna color at some point

bonus: I found another generator

in my AU Felix and Turbo almost dated in secret back in the 80's but Felix chickened out of it and wound up rejecting Turbo because. y'know. gestures vaguely at the general sentiment towards gay men at the time. anyways between this and the rampant homophobia he witnessed from players and even a few fellow arcadians he kinda recoiled into the closet and internalized a lot of shit. kinda grew to resent his own sexuality in the process, seeing it as a failing of his.

fortunately now he has a very openly queer best friend to help him come to terms with all that shit and truly accept himself for who he is. no fronts or disguises. plus as an added bonus he finally gets to talk out his unrequited love with someone and finally bury it in the past.

also they may be like almost half his size but Anomaly WOULD make Ralph apologize for the "nelly wafer" comment one way or another even though knowing Ralph he'd have an easier time apologizing for the homophobia than he would just. apologizing to Turbo in general

as a small fun fact: Turbo would use the original eight stripe flag. I know it was used a few years before his time but he's an old bastard and I think he'd appreciate the extra colors.

4. would you be considered a main character, side character, villain, or something else?

I spend enough time as a background character irl tbh Anomaly is the star of the show in their AU. They don't really know what to do about it though since they're also not really used to all the attention.

5. does your self insert have any special powers or abilities?

quite a few tbh!! Apart from inheriting all of my mundane abilities, Anomaly is a broken, unfinished character mod for a fighting game. This gives them a few interesting traits, but the main one is just being a glitch. They're largely in control of their glitchiness due to just existing like this for so long, and they use it in much the same way that Vanellope did: to warp short distances, pass through walls, and become temporarily intangible.

They also have the ability to pull a few weapons from hammer space, mainly a large Bowie knife and a metal bat. These two weapons are a part of their code, and cannot be truly lost. When they're done using them, they just dematerialize.

They also have a very broken "powered up" form that they refer to as "Exxen". Exxen is still Anomaly in terms of personality and conscious, the only difference is that they have almost zero impulse control. To give you an idea of the dynamic, they're basically what would happen if your intrusive thoughts got to take a front seat. The id to Anomaly's ego. They were only intended to be utilized as a "final smash" of sorts, but due to the buggy nature of Anomaly's code, they just kind of act as an indicator for how bad their mental health is at any given time. This form can fly and gains the ability to summon an smg alongside the other weapons in their lineup. Apart from that, the rest of their abilities were never coded in, so they have the same strength and speed as Anomaly. They're just way more feral and have a gun.

I haven't really drawn them much yet but if you're curious they're pretty much entirely based on my Roblox avatar. Unlike Anomaly, their mask also functions as their face, and can emote and bite.

15. how does your self insert play a role in the plot of the story? do they help directly defeat the villain, support the heroes, etc.?

They unwittingly kick off the main plot of their AU by pickpocketing the wrong guy and accidentally stealing a whole ass man: Turbo, who was trapped in an encrypted .zip file. From there, their main objective is helping Turbo find his way home, as they really don't know his whole story from the get go and just know that he was stolen from an arcade. Everyone in the protag lineup is a bad person, but somehow they wind up being the heroes of this story.

I've changed the story quite a bit from what's in my carrd tbh I gotta update it but the long and short of it is that Turbo was stolen from the arcade by a Trojan who snuck in using a new game's online leaderboard as an entry point. He had been trapped in Sugar Rush's respawn system, but the Trojan had heard of his story while staking the place out and decided that his code might make the perfect foundation for a new virus. Anomaly didn't mean to stumble in on all of this, so they're just here to help him survive and find his way home.

Unfortunately, they got attached at some point in the process, and now they don't want him to leave.