#os root

got cheap nitro so ive spent the last two hours drawing custom emotes lmao..... its been lots of fun will definitely do more

i made a cute little colour ref thing for silly squad along w some quick bios hehehehehe

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Root confesses his feelings to Phrases.

ITS BEEN A MONTH AND A HALF OF OFF THE STRING. not that I’m complaining, I actually have a question!

Did you specifically create Dune and the MurderSquad just for this au, or were they around before?

WHEN I GOT THIS ASK IT HAD ONLY BEEN 15 DAYS WAAAAAAAHHHHHHH. now its been almost a month. but still.

i made every member of dunes group (including her) for the au, except for ten silver roots, who already existed!

^^^you can tell this art isnt as recent because before the cartoon tears phrases has normal sized eyes and not massive saucers

i designed him so phrases would have a friend and not be alone after rivers' collapse. he ended up being part of dunes group because he needed to be phrases' neighbour and they dont really have any neighbours in any other direction, and because having spotty communications is relevant to root's canon story AND dunes au story so it works well for them to share a group

root makes three slugcats in canon! (well, two and a half. he designed the lovers but phrases actually purposed their half) after a long period of time almost all of the Civilizing Divide group has either fallen or gone silent. in an attempt not to be alone, root sends out the Frequencer. this is how he meets phrases! after they meet they create the Lovers together (this is canon timeline)

ive never drawn these three til now and their designs are super likely to be different next time

root never got along with his local group, im thinking thanks to dune. shes got tight ties in the group, and everyone who doesnt like her so much probably likes new whimsy, who is arguably even more gossipy, so dune just spread anti-root propaganda to her whole family

i dont exactly know WHAT root did to earn dune's ire. maybe he ratted her out on or got her in trouble for something very early on before he really understood social norms and since shes so spiteful she just NEVER got over it