#fancyphone

To start with, here's my Brickstar kid, Courage! ❤️💛

He's probably my favourite, he's such a dork and I love him for that 😅

One thing that I tried to do with his fire/hair (?) was to make it look sort of messy, like Joy's hair, despite the fact that in animation it would probably shift shape a lot (I just don't have the patience to draw that lol). Anger's flames tend to burst out in one general direction, so for some extra flare (heh) in Courage's design I thought it'd be neat if his fire was more like a spread rather than an eruption (if that makes any sense whatsoever), considering his is always there rather than only showing up in extreme cases of emotion.

His clothes started out as being partly inspired by Marty McFly's in Back to the Future, what with the puffy jacket... It didn't end up resembling that look whatsoever, but I think it turned out ok.

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Then there's Paranoia, my Anxifear child! 💜🧡

She's probably the least interesting design-wise, but I love her anyway 🫡

It was very easy to mesh Fear and Anxiety's looks into one, as they have the same sort of eyes (big, round; they give me Kermit the frog vibes if I'm being honest) and floating eyebrows. After I'd figured that out, the main issue for me was her clothes- Originally, I had her in a skirt and blazer (I was trying to make it resemble a school uniform because she tries to be neat and organised) but it didn't look right, so I prioritised her comfort and dumped her in two jumpers and trousers. I like to think she gets cold very easily, so two jumpers are better than one for her.

At first, I was worried that brown would be quite a difficult colour to work with, but ultimately I think her colour palette isn't too bad!

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Then we have Shyness, my Tearblush kid! 💙🩷

I am so sorry for the accidental Embarrassment slander, he's really difficult to draw for some reason 😭

At last we have reached the group's resident Soft Boy™. Like with Paranoia, I operated on the idea that they could get cold quite easily, so I gave them a scarf, mittens, slippers, etc.

His shapes are very similar to Sadness', he's just smaller. Their initial name was Timidity, but I thought that Shyness worked better as their name in the end.

I think that his colours are quite nice; It was fairly simple to get the various purples to work together. I tried to use pink-ish purple to contrast more with Fear's blue-ish purple, just to make sure that you could more easily tell which emotion was working at the console.

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Last but not least, here's Apathy, my Fancyphone child! 💚🖤 She's probably my second favourite, after Courage

She's already judging you, sorry I don't make the rules

Aside from Shyness, I'd say that her design was the easiest to come up with. The first thought that came into my head when thinking about her design was "Okay so what if she was goth??" and I loved that idea so I ran with it. While I don't think I captured the goth aesthetic perfectly, I still think her clothes are pretty cool! Admittedly it was a bit difficult trying to balance the colours so that her turquoise colour was present, but still dark enough that it looked vaguely like something a goth would wear, but it actually doesn't look too bad. Not too sure on her hair though ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

She and Envy, as shown in one of the doodles, have a sibling dynamic, as I picture Disgust and Ennui as parental figures for Envy, so naturally she and their kid would be sisters! They don't always get along (I think Ennui's "You care too much about things" towards Envy fits their dynamic pretty well), but they do love each other! Envy thinks Apathy's clothes are really cool and wants to emulate her style, which she fails miserably in doing but kudos to her for trying 🫡

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This is basically their dynamic lmao- Courage constantly wants to Do The Thing and the others (mostly Paranoia though) have to babysit him 😂

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Also I had an idea where maybe the kids could channel their parents' emotions and essentially do what they can do? I'm not really sure how to explain it, but I was thinking that if all of the main emotions had to go off and do something, Riley wouldn't be too badly effected because the kids can just fill in for their parents?

I did draw an example, but I only had the motivation to do it for Courage, so here's that:

So if all four of them have two parents, that means two alternate emotions for all of them. Hypothetically, the only emotion they wouldn't have in their arsenal would be Envy (and Nostalgia I guess, but she'd be in the basement if they needed her), so they could probably handle it... After they all have a sufficient amount of experience, of course.

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I might make a comic at some point about Courage spawning in Headquarters one day, and everyone freaking out about it (Especially Anger lmao; Bro is not prepared to be a dad and it shows (although I like to think that he and Joy would be great parents in the long run :D))