Don't Pour Acrylics Down the Sink!

Side-blog for Scribbles & Color Drained related asks

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Intro!

Hey! @occatorcreator here! This is a side-blog for my Animator vs. Animation oc Scribbles. This is to post exclusive content related to this guy without spoiling plot points in my story Color Drained on my main account. So if you haven't read it yet, there will be SPOILERS on the blog. Just wanted to warn you in advanced.

Here is also a list regarding the specific tags I’ll be using if there are specifics you want to see:

#ava color drained #ava dpadts

For questions related to the story of Color Drained and what happens after the end of that story.

#chaotic gremlin villain league #cgvl #lawful hero agency #lha

For questions/headcanons just related to Scribbles thoughts and relationships with members of the CGVL or LHA.

#swap scribbles #swap cgvl

For questions/headcanons for just the swap au version of Scribbles.

(More tags may be updated as needed)

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Color Drained 3: a Ruined Canvas coming soon!

Sneak preview below the cut

HAPPY APRIL FOOLS >:D

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Dunno if I’ll ever draw much of them again, but I have a lot of various non canon/canon doodles of the CGVL and LHA that have been sitting in storage. So why not just share them with yall?

(Rose belongs to @cherry-hoarding-art-gremlin

Scribbles, Flower, Lolli and Scruff belong to @occatorcreator

Geo belongs to @frog-man-blog )

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New Episode Spoiler Mini-Thought

I do find it strangely validating that Purple was there when Chosen & Dark was doing their rampages

idk if Purple saw them but i bet he'd have negative thoughts of Chosen in canon

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Took me way too long to ask this, but is Enamel (or were they) a BEAST-type Stick figure? I wondered when I saw the Tarot card, and Scribbles asks Chosen if she’d ever fought a BEAST Stick. Was that a reference to the fight with Enamel?

Yep! Enamel was a BEAST-type stick figure before Scribbles depowered them. The tarot card was a reference to the right between them.

I also scattered a couple other hints of Enamel once being a BEAST and what kind of powers they used to have during the interrogation chapter in chapter 7. Scribbles does recognize Enamel upon meeting them face to face.

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I made more on this concept. Of course Second has to do extra work to bring Scribbles back from the dead.

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I had a thought, given that Color Drained occurs in an alternate universe where the ending events of season 3 didn't occur, I realized the story would be much shorter if I went with canon.

And then this meme lead to this:

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are chosen and scribbles actually dating or was that an april fool's joke

It was an April Fool’s joke

Tho, because I forgot to say April Fools after it was over, I like to think that Chosen and Scribbles also forgot to tell everyone it was a joke. So technically speaking they were ""dating"" for like a month and a half month before they remembered to clear that up to everyone.

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a small Scruff comic centering her self-image issues

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i only am here to request antivirus chosen for my brain has been glued to it for the past since i asked lol

I had to think of what anti-virus Chosen would look like… and I pictured lots of cuffs to both control and suppress her. She glows blue to indicate when a power or command is active.

The Programmer would only give one power back to her, which means the Dark Lord’s power is permanently deleted

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Got a post-story announcement for y’all

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if you wanted to rewrite one part of both color drained *and* don't pour acrylics down the sink, what would it be?

Rewrite just one scene, eh?

Honestly, that's a tough choice. I have done a lot of rewrites for both Color Drained and DPADtS, so the thought of rewriting more makes me feel exhausted x.x

But I think if I could rewrite one scene in Color Drained, I probably try to rewrite Chosen telling the CG how she ran into Scribbles. Just some minor tweaks for sake of clarity given since Chosen goes quiet for years since the CG last saw her. Fun fact, I once had the idea of Chosen meeting Scribbles being part of the prologue as a comic. I started and never completed it because I ultimately decided a prologue wouldn't work for this story.

For DPADtS, I don't have a scene to rewrite, per se, and more so that wish I had more time to include some ideas in the original outline. So many things ended up on the cutting room floor for this fic. One that I'm really sad to have cut is a discussion between Scribbles, Chosen and Flower regarding the fact that she took Scribbles memories and try pushing back at her worldview.

Ah well, maybe that would be good for a one-shot. :P

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how do you think this would've turned out if dark hadn't died from their wounds?

Oh my, that is a tough question.

I have touched on this before that I originally had Dark be comatose in Color Drained before scrapping the idea. I would have a completely different story for DPADtS for sure!

Because the more I think of it, I could see Dark being the antagonistic force instead of Steel. From her perspective, she and Chosen fought, she was knocked out and woke up with it apparently being years later and Chosen adopting some rando stick as a roommate. (And more angry when she finds out said rando stole her powers!) Dark would still see Chosen as “friend turned traitor” and would want to continue her evil plans once she recovers from her coma.

Not to mention that I could see her growing jealous of Chosen and Scribbles’s relationship when they appear to be getting along. Scribbles would also have a messy arc with Dark around because Dark only proves his overall purpose, he has to stop dangerous sticks like Dark around regardless of what Chosen insists. And he’d totally egg Dark on and feed that jealousy because he has not respect for her. At all.

I would hope that Chosen is able to convince both Scribbles and Dark to reconsider their purposes, but she has her work cut out for her given neither like each other or her atm.

It would be tragic if she fails…

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What is Scruff’s living situation in the woods? Does she live in a cabin? A tent?

Scruff makes little dens in the woods, or sometimes just sleeps out in the open. She likes tackling the more rugged style of living and becoming a cryptid for hikers.

Chosen does like to visit her when she can and help out with building dens if Scruff wants it.

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Yay! The fic is done! One question I had though- what will happen to Steel? Will he just be detained forever, or is something planned out for him? 👀

Probably forever, but you never know with someone as crafty as Steel.

Currently, the FSO are the ones who are detaining Steel and others that remain loyal to him under Enamel’s commands.

Now I think Enamel would try to rehabilitate Steel and the others, but it would be a long road that Steel is reluctant to take.

I say, so long as the new FSO keep a watchful eye on Steel, he won’t be leaving anytime soon.

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It's done!

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Don't Pour Acrylics Down the Sink is complete! I'm so happy!

And just in time for Scribbles's birthday today, too!

Thank you all who followed the fic and who have been giving me lovely comments and kudos. I hope the ending is satisfying to you c: