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おかえりなさいなの〜きみはどんないちにちだった？ まるまるはね〜

Welcome home~! How was your day? Marumaru’s day went like this~

Mine are Hanamaruobake, Marun, and Kokomaru! They're all ghosts who treasure a different writing implement.

I also love Moppu! (center below, the plushies are also characters in their own right, and the trio is known as Marumofubiyori)

The MYSTERY TRIO in “Not, In Fact, a Ghost Story”!

WHEW.

This comic has been a long time coming, as folks who have followed this blog and seen the various teasers over the past year will know.  Actually I’ve been working on it even longer than that! 

This was done as a trade for @pirably​, in exchange for the wonderful Portal Ford plush he made!  (Seen here.)  The characters of Aru (big skull-faced monster) and Marun (the cat with the interdimensional-projection abilities) are two of his OCs who are friends of Portal Ford (see links to his tags for more of them!).  This story took shape between us, and all through the process, he gave me invaluable feedback and really made this better.  (I’ll say right now: the brilliant Bill-eye layout of page 8 was his idea; my original sketch was much more boring.) 

While I’m terribly overdue in finishing my half of the trade, it’s probably fortunate I took so long, as this would have been 10x harder to do without being able to work digitally in CSP, and probably wouldn’t have come out as well either..

I realized at the end that the theme and atmosphere of the story was just spooky enough to make for a good Halloween post.  So, also:

Here’s a little something for the excellent @pirably based on this fic by JaxxCapta!

Ford’s a little apprehensive when he first lays eyes on Aru, and Marun almost knocking him off balance isn’t helping hehe

The lion girl is my oc. Two of them is fan art for

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