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I Might be Relapsing into Object Shows lol + D&D OCs + New OCs!?!?!

3/29/22

Someone came up to me today and said something along the lines of "have you heard of this show? This scientist named Rick turns himself into a pickle-"

Naturally I respond with "oh yeah, funniest thing I've ever seen" but they actually thought I was someone else lol

Anyways I hope they're not too embarrassed by it bc god knows that would keep me up at night

I also dropped my laptop recently 😁😁 hand eye coordination what's that????? Only the rotational bit got fucked up so hopefully it can be fixed

Anyways. I think I'm lapsing back into writing mode because my motivation to draw is gone and I have been eyeing my drafts like a hawk

I got the idea for 2 new oneshots + 2 new fanfics within the past month and I impulsively started a new planning document for another fic I haven't put in Wattpad drafts(at the time). Writing brain decided to pop off ig.

But I think what properly started that was a reinterest in Inanimate Insanity??? But specifically Nickel. I think it's because I remembered "wait isn't Nickel an environmentalist" because that's the premise of one of my new oneshots and I wanted to confirm.

He is indeed an environmentalist :) In fact, he loves the outdoors. PLUS he has a passion for teaching and likes helping friends. I'm not sure where I got this notion from, but I'm 60% sure most fanfics with Nickel portray him as like. Hating everyone and everything except Baseball lol???? I think that might be the case in fics primarily about Suitcase but I don't have the time to comb through and check.

Or it could also be just my own thoughts about Nickel prior to learning this and I'm just projecting lol. I definitely want to check, but not right now.

And then the topic of Balloon and Nickel came to me and while I haven't been keeping up with III, I think they're buds now. Which struck me as "wow that's awkward lmao imagine being friends with the person who caused trauma for your other friend". Because Suitcase and Nickel have never made up or talked about what happened and I don't think they canonically ever will.

Then I realized "holy shit Balloon and Nickel had the same fucking arcs" because hear me out. Balloon in season 1 was a jackass because he wanted to win the competition and apparently he thought being a jackass was the way to do it. But we learn in season 2 that wasn't his real personality and he tries to make up for it.

Nickel was always characterized by bluntness and pessimism but he was never a jackass(debatable). Then season 2 happened and Suitcase unfortunately suffered from his competitiveness and him being overly gruff towards her. And of course the whole Balloon thing complicated everything. But to Nickel, that was the winning strategy. It wasn't personal to him. In the storyboard before he got booted, he looks remorseful when he says it, so I like to think that bitterness that made the final cut is a cover/defense mechanism(?) for him feeling sorry for how he treated Suitcase.

Anyways what I'm saying is that both Balloon and Nickel let the spirit of competition get to them too much, which damaged their relationships and ultimately caused their downfall. We at least see Balloon make up for his mistakes, but we only see a hint of that remorse in Nickel. Again, I haven't watched III, so maybe Nickel does apologize to Balloon then.

I thought it was a pretty cool parallel between them and I haven't really seen anyone else say anything about that so...yeah :)

Moving on from that I really think I'll be writing more???? Time will tell. I have a short fic in the works rn and I want to at least finish that because it's only 7 chapters + a prologue. If I can't muster the energy to finish that, then there's like. No hope for the other...30 fics I have drafted. Plus the others still loafing about in my head.