In my Stargoth Era

I post anything and everything related to Cinderella Boy🤝

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So I put them together...

Both are my drawings :> Also posted on my tt so go check it out!!

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Ayooo Cinderella Boy memes🤯

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AU where everything’s the same except Buddy wears the flip flops.

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I’ve had this idea since season 1, but now that we’ve officially met Violet, I feel like I was truly able to channel her Diva Energy lol.

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Happy Pride Month cb fans!! :>> ~a bisexual trans man who’s definitely sane about this webtoon

Also finished my artwork for the new cb art challenge in the discord server!!

More art under the cut!

Some older art

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Alright chat, the flip flop is free now, I CAN SHARE MY THEORY.

This started as a vague crack theory but it spiralled and now I have tangible evidence and a thought process and have spent the last week going INSANE but most of the theory rests on one stupid detail---namely, the brand of this mysterious keyholder's flip-flop---that I couldn't share until now.

This theory is---and hear me out---

Before he was a key, Buddy was actually a fictional storybook character turned real.

WARNING: Long, only vaguely coherent rambling and Inco going insane.

Okay I know you're like "wtf are you on about" so just. just. just hear me out pls

To understand this theory we need a little bit of context, which means talking about:

The Elephant Book

"The Elephant Book" is an unfinished comic that Punko worked on before Cinderella Boy or Stagtown. It is a story about two characters who learn the secrets of a hidden organization, called Artifax... secrets that have to do with beloved fictional characters who become real because of readers' love for them. I don't want to spoil too much of it, but I highly recommend giving it a read if you like theorizing about Cinderella Boy. You can get it on her store here as an eBook. It got cancelled before the plot could be fully realized, but here's the thing---Punko has said that The Elephant Book informs Cinderella Boy.

This in itself is intruiging, but what is most fascinating to me---and here is where the flip-flop comes in, LMAO---is one particular plot point.

Again, I don't want to give away too much of the Elephant Book because it's a fantastic story. However, it does feature one part about one book character in particular---Alice, from Alice in Wonderland.

A book character who attempted to enter the "real world" through a looking glass---through a mirror.

And if you take a look at this mysterious keyholder's flip-flop...

IT SAYS ALIC[E].

here me out im not insane here me out

This looks like just a normal brand to me, nothing that has any plot significance. So it's important to ask, why then was it included? Why would Punko include a fictional brand as detailing on a random item of clothing... unless maybe, it was a reference? A jaded, non-diegetic callback to another "Alice" from a different, dropped story...

This leads me to believe that this mystery keyholder was once a storybook character, and has since been greeted into the real world.

I don't know how, but one theory I have is that maybe, to avoid a hassle, Ex Libris may take book characters and turn them real with magic to use as henchmen.

HEAR ME OUT

These people would be untracable; they would have no documents or papers, and nobody from the real world would miss them.

Their memories could be erased or modified so that they do not realize this is their history. They could be amnesic, or remember a false previous life before working for Ex Libris.

They would be easier to control because of this. Ex Libris could manipulate them because they would have qualities that would stop them from fitting into normal life; Ex Libris would feel like the only place they "belonged".

If the keys and their magic exists---and we've seen Violet and Buddy have a spell page---why couldn't this magic be plausible?

Now hear me out even more: Buddy used to be one of them.

I HAVE REASONS.

1. Words n stuff

Weird that Buddy only has one name, or that it doesn't seem to match the other keys.

That's---an underwhelming first point. Uh. That's all. Food for thought.

OH AND ALSO, "Ex Libris" means "from the library of". Could be referring to people who work with them being LITERALLY from books.

2. Dialogue

Perhaps this statement is more literal than we thought. Perhaps in Buddy's "home book", he was a villainous character.

Almost like all three of those phrases apply to him.

3. THE MIRRORS GUYS THE MIRRORS OH MY GOD

Buddy has been seen with plenty of mirror symbolism. Particularly in Dreams by Night:

Reflections show story characters, we know this.

But also, when Buddy escapes through the mirror (like Alice through the looking glass, in The Elephant Book)...

THE GLASS IS CURVED.

But we saw the mirror, the mirror is flat. We know the dreams are supposed to be extremely symbollic...

So what if the mirror is meant to symbolize more of a portal, from one world---a fictional world---to a real one?

...okay thats all i have for now that was kinda underwhelming.

I PROMISE IM NOT INSANE I PROMISE IM MORE COHERENT WHEN IM NOT EXHAUSTED LIKE I AM RIGHT NOW

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season 2 finale predictions

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Ok but imagine Deacon walking into the bathroom and seeing this lmao

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tinier than usual cb art dump sighs sorry was in the middle of changing my artstyle and having y2636739 other hyperfixations

sleepover stargoth for the fan server art challange prompt thats not fully colored and i dont want to color it anymore

nurse deacon that was punko requested! and a mymelody ahh chase sorry it was really random

then people were talking abt a violet in a suit and i couldnt resist the doodles

my keysona/key oc rhennie!! made of rhenium which is slightly radioactive!! theyre like a scare factor spectator key heh giving you that creepy crawly feeling of beimg watched while walking through the woods type shi

what if chase and budmeister had a hairstyle switch? well look no further, a lackluster doodle is here!

and dumb ahh doodles absbhdn thank yew

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So I was re-reading Cinderella Boy and I noticed something.

In this panel where Buddy is breaking the mirror his eyes looks…different?

I don’t know if I overanalyze it but they really look different. Like not moonstones but normal human eyes. They have that shading and you can see the light in them. They look like the eyes of other characters.

Although they only change after breaking the mirror (if they were drawn like that on purpose of course, maybe it wasn’t intentional). Before doing that Buddy’s eyes are his usual moonstones this whole episode.

It looks like he got back his human eyes (became human again) after hurting Chase who was in the mirror.

I don’t know I think it’s an interesting detail. I didn’t see anyone pointing it out before. What do you think?

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Did someone say CB Magical Girls..?? 👀

Sailor Moon redraw time!!

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I simply forgot I had made this lil sketch, It was kept for basically a month or more in my files lol

I love drawing my comfort characters suffering.

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He’s just like me fr

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Incorrect Quotes Pt. 5

Deacon: How did you read the ancient writing so easily!? Chase: I don’t know! I just let my mind go blank. Deacon: Well, do it again! Nox: You should have a lot of practice with that. - Deacon: So uh. Chase. What's it like dating Buddy? Chase: Well once I was sick and I asked him for some water. But he was pissed off of at me for not takin better care of myself. Chase: So he got me a cup of ice, brought it back to the room, set it down on the nightstand and told me to wait. - Nox: Sometimes a bitch just needs a hug. Chase: Buddy, are you the, um, bitch in this- Nox, ugly crying: Yes, please hold me. - Deacon: If you found out you had one day left, what would you do with it? Silver: Say goodbye and mend my relationships. Prunella: Something illegal. Chase: Accept my fate. Nox: I would message ten people and say if they didn't forward the text to ten more people, I would die tomorrow. Deacon: Jesus Christ, Buddy… Chase: That's fucking AWESOME, can I change my answer?! - Chase, jokingly in Episode 1: You’re not allowed to fall in love with me. Nox, seriously: Won’t be a problem. Nox, after the beach episodes: T H E R E 'S A P R O B L E M - Nox: When you've been a part of Ex Libris for as long as I have, you develop thick skin. Deacon: Yellow is not your color. Nox, as Chase holds him back: Yellow…reMINDS ME OF CHASE, YOU PRICK! - Nox in 'Still Waters': I have calculated our odds of survival and have decided not to share the data. - Medic: You’re losing a lot of blood! Quick, what’s your type? Chase: Oh uh, seductive smile, tall, sweet, Cancer… Medic: I mean your blood type. Chase: Oh… Chase: Squints at wound Chase: Red. - Deacon: What the hell is wrong with you?! Nox: I will try to be brief (1/425) - Deacon: Yesterday, I overheard Prunella saying “Are you sure this is a good idea?” and Chase replying “Trust me,” and I have never moved from one room to another so quickly in my life. - Chase, staring upwards after the Vampire Book: So, Buddy's mad with me over the Keys… haha… Deacon: Why are you looking up? Chase: I need to cry, but my foundation was 48 dollars! - -after rescuing Buddy/Nox- Deacon: Where’s Buddy? Chase: Around. Deacon: Around? Deacon: You don’t have any idea, do you? Nox: Did you know there’s a space above the ceiling?! - Silver: Chase, I know you snuck into a book to see Buddy last night. Chase: If you tell Deacon or Prunella, I swear I’ll melt you down Silver: Potato Chips? Chase: Fine.