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"Punk of the Promenade"

In step two, Frannie prefers their nickname over her actual name! Literally everyone calls her by her nickname.

She is more popular than ever! But she still stays (almost) the same girl that she has always been. Frannie acts more in the interests of other people than her own. She is a people pleaser. But even they know that not everyone can be happy. Frannie will still make her best attempt to be a friend of the people!

Frannie is quite the gossip. Not only does she get told a lot, they hear much more. Her peers think of her as unassuming but she has some very drama magnified friends that love to hear what she has found out about everyone.

There are not many people that they wouldn't hang out with. In fact, some people think they pick some of the most unlikely companions. The outcasts are often suprised by how easily she will interact with them and ask genuine questions. Her openness is as off putting as it is endearing sometimes.

They are also quite busy. If she isn't attending a club meeting, she is hanging with her friend group. And if they aren't with their group, they are making house visits to some other friends. Frannie doesn't mind though! She likes to be helpful to people and bring some company to those who desire it!

close up of her lunch table under the cut!

I post about whatever interests me usually. There is no rhyme or reason, sometimes I go and reblog stuff from long dead fandoms or go on random reblogging sprees. 

Some tags I tend to use are ‘atlas simp hours’ which is where I openly simp for a person in my life, ‘nic fics’ has all of my writing, ‘atlas talks’ ‘nic talks’ and ‘nic speaks’ have most of my original posts I have made. 'Atlas catches up on podcasts' has my posts about podcasts I'm listening to. All of these are free to be blocked, I will be far from offended.

You are free to reblog anything from my blog unless I tag it otherwise.

If you need something tagged, let me know. If you want to message me, go ahead, just be respectful. 

Stay safe and healthy

One thing that Opal hates is being the reason her child is unhappy, but she knows as much as Charmaine does that his hair needs to be cut sometimes. She tries to make sure that her son is as comfortable as possible before she even starts to cut his hair. As well as be quick as possible.

Charmaine will keep his eyes closed shut until his mama says that she is done. He HATES seeing his hair fall. In fact, he gets his hair put up so he doesn't have to see the change until he has to wash it again.

(small details under the cut)

This is Charmaine “Maine” Oakland! He is an intersex boy and uses he/him pronouns in step one. Charmaine goes through many identities (notably demigirl using they/she in step two) before landing on being bigender and using she/he/they pronouns by step three.

This is his step one introduction with his full body reference (ft. my edited doll face for him as well!!)

Some facts about Maine!!

He is my only MC, but my main route for him is the poly route!

In step one, he starts out as neighbors with both Qiu and Tamarack. Not wanting to claim friends with people he just met. Much less friends to people that he will only know for maybe a school year or two at most.

However, he agrees that he and Tamarack can be friends at the end of the prologue. Maine was charmed by her openness and inclusion to him, though he still doesn’t truly believe they're true friends until much later. He had never been invited to hang out with anyone before since most kids left him be in his aloofness. Plus she was just staying at her grandparents and had just moved like he did. So Maine thinks that she would get it the most (since they are the same).

Qiu is not as lucky as Tamarack in Charmaine’s good graces. Charmaine does not accept being in Golden Grove easy and this boy who is confidently & smugly connected to this town is no different than the town itself. Maine does not get why Qiu wants to be his friend or be nice to him when he has literally all of Golden Grove as his friends. He’s not special, not that he wants to be special to this pretty boy anyway. The opposite!

Maine only accepts his kindness and crush as he can’t help but be attuned to Autumn and wish the best for him. It is after that Maine accepts Qiu’s friendship and that maybe it was inevitable that they would be close.

He does not like getting his haircut. His mama has to bribe him for him to get a trim and even then Maine will only let her do so. So his hair is really long but he keeps it in a braid that gets put into a bun most of the time.

The earmuffs that he wears are a comfort item that he wears all the time. He got them from his grandparents for his “big move” across the country. Wearing them reminds him of home and his family that wants him to stay in one place.

Opal has moved them around many times in Charmaine’s ten years. They never really last for more than a school year. At most was the apartment they lived in before he started school and that was for about two years. For most of the moves it was moving counties and maybe across a state line. They were not far from their extended family until this move where they moved across the country. Charmaine was ill about it the moment his mom “let him know” her plans. Like he had a choice. Like everything was normal.

HAPPY PRIDE MONTH FROM FRANNIE AND MAINE!!

Jamming Jellies are sporting colorful makeup and their lovely flags this June!! They are here to celebrate the many years that the queer community has worked to make our voices heard!!

Keep talking! Keep spreading information! Keep spreading love!!

LOTS OF LOVE TO YOU ALL <333

Nene belongs to the lovely @papalotesketches

This mini comic shows the reaction that Frannie would have to being given this beautiful gift from Nene!! Of course she would be bouncing off the walls with joy and nearly knocking over her friend with a big hug!! <3

I'm going to say it again because I don't think I could ever say it enough, this project was breathtaking!!! There is nothing as impressive as putting your mind to something and doing. Especially when it is done so well! This was such a well thought out project!

I was very excited to see all of your art as well as the art for and of many of my other mutuals. It is a very beautiful collaboration and I am so glad to have been here to see it. Let alone be included!!

I hope you get all the rest you deserve from the huge amount of work you had put into it!! 🫶

Qiu was right when he said he would win the next race. However, Charmaine is pretty competitive when it comes to winning. He doesn't plan to let Qiu's win last too long. They should do another round and Maine will be sure to win this time!!

Charmaine is not used to being included in other's plans, but Tamarack has already decided he's coming. Plus she's dragging him with her unless he voices that he doesn't want to. But he already agreed!!