Ok.... I know how this looks..... And trust me, if you had told me years ago that I would be mixing an awesome show like metal family with something as polar opposite as the smurfs then I would have called you insane. But here I am, looking at it and honestly.... I don't hate how this turned out. It could be that I finally got a drawing tablet and stopped using my finger like a cave man. Or it could be that I actually improved as an artist over the years.... But I really like this. Not bad since this is my very first ship art. But like most things that I write, this idea attached itself to my head, didn't let go, and just started growing. I loved watching the smurfs when I was a kid and not because of the smurfs themselves. I loved the show for its villians. Scruple was my favorite to watch because he isn't necessarily evil. He's a kid
that was sent to some pretentious wizard school where he developed a bratty persona in order to survive the bullying from his peers. When we see him with Gargamel he is surprisingly more competent at schemes and actually has more potential for change. As a kid I honestly wanted to see scruples grow more and change as a character but it never happened and I moved on to other shows. Later on, while mindlessly stocking clothes, a question popped into my head. What if Papa smurf's smurfy potion didn't turn smurfette or Sassette good. What if it was just a way for papa Smurf to mold them into what he thought was good and it took out personality traits that he deemed "unsmurfy"
And it continues to grow from there. So if I do make this a full story let it be known that it will be a story about Sassette and Scruple and their very odd journey into learning about themselves and that family can come from the oddest of places.
