"Ansel reminds me of Chicken Little for some reason.”

-sent by @nightmonster86

The amount of neglect I’ve given this blog is very unacceptable. I deeply apologize to everyone who took interest and gave this chap a follow or sent rp requests. The shortish version to the question WHY I haven’t updated this blog is for a couple reasons.

•Life is giving me no time

This feels like a poor excuse because there’s millions of many people crunching drawings and text drabbles out like it’s nothing while working two, sometimes three 9-5 jobs. Sad fact is I’m not one of them. My job takes a huge mental and physical capacity of myself that leaves me just barely alive for no motivation for drawing or anything. With a broken schedule and being understaffed, I don’t see much available time to dedicate to this blog.

•Oleander himself

When I first created this chump he was just a newborn bebe. His concept was actually taken from another character I had created to a short story that was its own separate thing. So giving him a different form and throwing him into an entirely different universe put me to a road block I didn’t see coming. Every time I drew him, he didn’t look good. Every time I try to write something with him, it felt out of character. In a nutshell he was unsatisfied with how I was handling him and it was clear I needed to rethink/revise how this chump is going to be before diving into open water.

•Expectations

I’m a soft-squishable person that sadly takes people’s opinions far too personal. Not that I’m against criticism, I actually advise you tear me down if you see improvement to help me out in the future, but I worry my inexperience with role-playing will come off too mediocre or distasteful. I’ve enjoyed the threads I’ve been invited too and wish to finish them, but I have the constant fear I’ll go and muck it all up.

Tl;dr Oleander will make his return! I’ve just let poor excuses consume my motivation and will make a better attempt to keep this blog alive.

But in the past year, I’ve been visiting pet stores whenever I’m around them, so that I can look at and hold snakes, and I’ve even had no problem at all with an adult corn snake slithering over my face on top of my glasses. I recently watched a program talking about deadly creatures, and one of them was an Amazonian anaconda, and I couldn’t tear my eyes away from the screen because they are so beautiful. I’m planning on getting a pet snake when I move out; I cannot get enough of snakes.

And what inspired this change?? Snake. Snake from Black Butler. I adore him so much, and at first I was kind of weirded out by all his snakes. But then, one day, I decided to look up snake behavior and snakes as pets, because I was just so into Snake that I wanted to know more about snakes and not shy away from them. You know what I found out? Snake’s personality makes sense. He’s intense and appears threatening, but he’s actually very shy and sensitive and easily surprised. That’s how most snakes are. Even some of the venomous ones. And even if some species tends to be aggressive, they’re not the killing machines everybody thinks they are. Most of them just want to be left alone. They’re not just sitting around waiting for the moment to strike people. And, while I acknowledge that there are a lot of people with a phobia or dislike of snakes, and that’s okay, snakes aren’t really ugly or scary or anything like I used to think. They’re gorgeous, amazing animals who are smarter than people give them credit for.

I love Snake so much, and this is just one of the reasons why. His character was powerful enough to help turn me from a jittery teenager who didn’t even want to be around a snake to a woman who now loves the feeling of a snake draping themself over my shoulders. His character affected me enough that I wanted to understand snakes rather than continue being afraid of them.

Hmm… I’m not really sure how to answer this without being exclusive?? I’d like to think that all beings with souls have certain traits, even if with monsters souls being white it’s hard to tell.

For example, Undyne uses Green and Cyan magic when fighting against Frisk, and yet she doesn’t seem to be a Kind, or at least a Patient person at first. She seems more of a person who’d have a Bravery SOUL trait, or even one of Justice.

What I’m trying to say is, the skeleton boys aren’t gonna really gravitate towards specific SOUL traits. While the SOUL trait is the core of what makes a person, that’s not all a person is. It’s your experiences and what you’ve learned, and how you choose to act that makes you up.