Ugh... I'm actually late 🐍🦎

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Finally, a trend that I actually like..

I liked it because of how well it captures the atmosphere of the cartoon the colorful, vibrant picture hides genocide, oppression, humiliation, and all the horrors that Toffee had to go through.. If the animated series was at least somewhat lenient toward the monsters, then they didn't present his death as a joke.. No matter how much evil he caused, he didn't do more evil than what others did to him..

[riacawley]

Followers! I need a few OCs to practice.

Just a small practice event!

If you have an SVTFOE/Lackadaisy OC, drop a comment to claim your spot — first 3 get a halfbody sketch + simple colors.

Warning: I'll share the finished sketches on my blog (with credit to you, of course)

Rules:

— First 3 only

— Drop refs + any important design details

— No deadlines, just first come first served

Priority for followers.

If I've already drawn your OC in a previous round, please let someone else have a turn<3

(I'll do these every now and then, so if you miss it — next time🙌)

Let's see your OCs!

[riacawley]

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Elistafet Hyb-Osh Hybrid of Mewman and serpent (Ouroboros) Chief Engineer & Prosthetologist, veteran of the war with Solaria

Though the war brought its share of severity and sternness to her character, she mostly carries a reputation for a light-hearted approach to life—sociable, sarcastic, and deeply humorous, especially with the younger generation, for whom she serves as a mentor.

She tends to wear closed clothing, as she is self-conscious about her scars. Her long locks are tied back in a ponytail and swept behind her neck to keep them out of the way.

Tall—177 cm (5'9").

Toned, strong muscles, especially the arms

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I beg you to support this project, it was difficult for me, if there is a good response, I promise I will make this animation in color..

Eclipsa was, perhaps, the only character toward whom Elistafet felt such warm, almost maternal affection.

Their acquaintance began extremely tensely—with Elistafet's total hatred for the daughter of Solaria, the murderer of her family. She remained skeptical for a long time, even when the other monsters began to accept Eclipsa.

Yet Eclipsa's very nature could not help but affect her. Elista is half-Mewman; the blood of the enemy flows through her veins, and this stirred up a whole tangle of internal conflicts. If she categorically considers all Mewmans enemies, does that mean she herself is a potential traitor? These thoughts drove her to engage with the butterfly princess, to try to understand her true motives. And the longer Elistafet spent time with her, the clearer she saw before her not an enemy, but a child trapped in a system from which there is no escape—yet doing everything possible within the limits of her age and strength. Elistafet grows fond of her and is almost ready to reconcile with her own human side.

But the longer the war drags on, the more obvious it becomes that Eclipsa is unwilling to take a clear stance, vacillating between the monster camp for the sake of Globgor and Butterfly Castle. And when Elistafet demands she choose, Eclipsa returns to the castle, forming an alliance with Shastacan. This breaks Elista's heart. She takes it deeply to heart, becomes disillusioned, and finally gives up on accepting her hybrid heritage. On the contrary, she becomes sharply radicalized, feeling betrayed: now she is convinced that all Mewmans are dangerous, that their kindness is feigned, and that for their atrocities they deserve complete annihilation.

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Wait for the full animation...

The voice of Elistafet..

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Wait for the full animation...

The voice of Elistafet..

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Traditional attire of the Uroboroses and Septarsis

Here, in this time, they are still so young. Toffee still wears his crown of branches — he hasn't renounced the throne yet, he remains a prince. This is one of my favorite details about the local monsters: their crowns, woven from twigs and shoots. They feel so raw, so primal — a perfect reflection of their untamed nature.

The new style he's showing off now goes against everything the old traditions stand for. Maybe it's his personal act of rebellion against his ancestors' ways. Or maybe — it's a quiet symbol of his identity slowly slipping away.

It's curious how the immortal monsters adorn themselves with bones and skulls. You could read it as a sort of mockery of death — the one thing that, unlike everything else, simply cannot touch them.

Elstafet, on the other hand, prefers to keep her hood on. She tries not to stand out, to blend in with the other snakes and meet their standards. But of course, it's all in vain. The Uroboros wear white to set themselves apart — to signal their elevation, their distance from other monsters.

From a young age, Uroboros are taught to dance and sing. It's a core part of their self-expression — an art meant to bring delight to other monsters. But after the war began, Elstafet never made a sound again. And the disability she gained has forever taken away her ability to touch any instrument.

Their ideals here are so different that, if they were free monsters living on Mewni without the Butterflys, they would never have chosen to work together.

But reality is cruel: their world is destroyed, their traditions erased, their land no longer theirs. And this grief — it's shared. It binds the territorial lizards and the free snakes alike.

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Hoarding Disorder🐍🦎

Hoarding Syndrome in Elistafet and Toffee, and the latter having to deal with it. The clash of their defense mechanisms.

Toffee possesses very low emotional intelligence, and for this reason, his help in curing a mental illness remains limited. His world is built on control and clear agreements, and in his relationship with Elista, he offers only these tools—requests, deadlines, obligations—leaving the deeper layers of trauma unaddressed. He understands the reasons for her condition and sees the logic behind every step, but his own emotional apparatus does not grant him access to the levers that could unravel this knot, so he remains within the bounds of his competence, registering external manifestations instead of facilitating internal transformation.

Elistafet has experienced the loss of her family and the destruction of her familiar way of life, where her existence was filled with freedom and will. After the war with Solaria, she lost her culture, because the ideal of freedom shattered against the ban on monsters freely traveling through Mewni. Hunger and poverty lasted for many years of her youth, and this experience distorted her perception of things, giving material objects the meaning of absolute reliability and permanence. In the end, she settled in Toffee's workshop in search of refuge, but this decision exacerbated her loneliness and lack of live communication, closing the circle of social isolation. She transferred all her need for attachment onto inanimate objects, sinking deeper into her trauma every day and forming hoarding syndrome as a persistent way to maintain control over the world through possession.

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I've always wanted to show what her muscles look like under that closed uniform 🥵😮‍💨

The important idea I wanted to convey through this character is that hard work and perseverance can be stronger than magic.

Elistaphet works on her body every day. Her muscles aren't impressive compared to other monsters, but unlike Mina Loveberry, whose muscles were artificially created, she trains long and hard. In their direct fight, Mina wins, of course. But once her magic runs out, Mina can no longer stand against monsters — and on top of that, she has to pay with her mental health due to the magic's side effects. Muscles built through hard work, on the other hand, don't just disappear.

The paradox is that in battle, Elistaphet relies on her inventions, cunning, and agility she doesn't actually need muscles. She trains them mainly to meet monster standards, easily falling for the propaganda of monstrous musculature, and is willing to waste enormous amounts of time and energy just to fit in.

Still, the training isn't useless: she enjoys being stronger, and it helps her work with metal.

Elistaphet feels disfigured by war, which is why she wears a closed uniform to hide her scars. In her youth, like all Ouroboros, she used to dress very openly. Now her life feels almost like a stranger's everything changed so much after the war with Solaria.

[jyrinestories08]

I love how in the original 2011 pitch for svtfoe is that Toffee was just a super regular guy who works with Ludo (While still somewhat has the double-crosser motif (?) ), and basically has a regular office schedule, and takes his kid to school like a regular office dad

[resi3vil]

Wanted to sketch ocs for practice, so why not sketch users in the fandom ocs (*^^*) Had alot of fun with this, really enjoyed all the different features I had to draw out. Tried to clean it up as much as I could but... yeah

All ocs belong to their rightful artist!

Nocturne - @cosskii

Raven - @riacawley

Elistafet - @precollst

Neryn - @dracolizard-septis

Kiora - @lizard-daddy-toff

Dante - @chispa-dulce

All great artists with dope ocs ^^ !

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Aaaaaa, everyone here is so beautiful and just delighted.. But Elistafet, she's just incredible, thank you so much, it was really interesting for me to look at each art..😳

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The Seven Deadly Sins and the characters🩹

I'm genuinely really curious to know which of the seven deadly sins you would assign to which character.

I'll post my own version a bit later, where I'll break down in detail who I think fits which sin pride, envy, wrath, etc.

But here's something else that cracks me up. The contrast. Toffee looks so compact standing next to two actual giants, Rasticore and Seth. And that's what I love about him. He has room for a sense of his own imperfection. The motivation to compensate for his less monstrous size with intelligence. That's such a great explanation for why he's so detached from the other monsters. How different he is.

All these characters know each other well. They share a common history and have their own personal story arcs. If I were just a little more patient and organized, I could totally go into detail about each one. Their conflicts, motivations, development.

[riacawley]

Toffee sketchdump + thoughts

I wanted to make my own version of him. Ria Cawley Adaptation, if you like. Draw Toffee my way — based on the original, but trying to refine it.

Honestly? The way they drew those reptile faces always kinda bothered me. Especially the main villain's. I couldn't watch him without feeling uncomfortable — his head kept changing shape from shot to shot. So I just did my own thing.

About the fangs — still not sure. Depends on context, probably. The whole "sticking out fangs" thing… I don't really see the point. Toffee isn't a croc. He's a lizard. I wanted a cleaner look. I get the original fangs are probably part of his charm, but in my redraw — I just don't see them.

What I do like is the anatomy: the long torso, the short legs. It actually feels like a lizard. No idea if the designers even thought about it, but it works.

I don't really enjoy drawing in the show's actual style, sorry guys. Maybe someday as practice — but not now. I just prefer sharper, more solid body shapes.

These are just messy sketches. I can't make full art at the moment, so I'm sharing whatever process I have. I've struggled with this more than I'd like to admit. Maybe I'll redo some scenes in my style later.

I'm not claiming any ultimate truth here, guys. My eyes are already blurry 🦅🚜

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I want to express my thoughts about Toffee's fangs. I think this is a very important detail of his design. To me, those protruding fangs aren't so much part of his reptilian nature — they're a marker of him being a monster.

Look at the monsters in this universe: absolutely all of them have sharp teeth. Not just the ones who would have them biologically, but even toads and slimes, who realistically couldn't have them at all. Sure, it's a caricature technique portraying monsters as scary and wild. But these sharp teeth have become their common, unifying trait. They can belong to different species, but the moment they attack, they look like one people.

Let me fantasize a bit about evolution. Imagine a world where monsters constantly fight to survive. Star herself said that monsters must fight with claws and teeth. Those with fewer fangs simply couldn't defend themselves. Only the toothiest ones survived. So those protruding fangs aren't just appearance they're a trace of ancient, brutal natural selection.

And that's why Toffee's fangs mean so much to me. Even when he's well-groomed, with slicked-back hair and an impeccable suit, those protruding fangs give him away: he is first and foremost a monster. A descendant of those who survived. I absolutely love this combination a predator monster in a business suit.

Toffee already stands out among other monsters because he has so few predatory or monstrous elements in his design. And those little protruding fangs are about the only thing that reveals his true nature

[ultra-creepy-fucker-things]

Hm- The core of why I consider Toffee to be right/non-villainous is that the Butterfly family are pretty blatantly the bad guys, and the show simply refuses to understand that despite having set it up.

[molotoph]

The Butterfly family are explicitly settler colonizers selected and consistently granted godlike power by a deity. Toffee, the other Septarians, and most of the other monsters are explicitly indigenous people fighting to defend their land and their right to live as human beings on it.

If you refuse to understand who in this setting thinks they must oppress and destroy the people who already live on the land, it is not ignorance in good faith. If you refuse to acknowledge there is a problem with siding with genocidal forces in an “escapism” story created by and for a western imperial audience, that is not escapism you’re allowed to have and insist it has nothing to do with you or how you interact with the world outside of fiction.

Why do so many fans just assume Toffee and all Septarians must want to be the master race and commit genocide against Mewmans? Why did the fandom magically remember the word “genocide” when the apartheid permanently fell? Why does the creator call Toffee a historian like it’s a slur? Why am I supposed to presume these are endless whoopsies and accidents and unintentionalisms on behalf of the crew? Either they’re malicious or profoundly stupid— and these are capable adults with high intensity careers in an unstable market— and no, a person who believes they’re ideologically correct is not exempt from active malice if they think it’s active benevolence 100.

Why is your “escapism” being part of a divinely ordained apartheid occupation? What’s stopping y’all from popping over to the local synagogue and becoming an honorary mewman tomorrow? Why should I believe people who fantasize about being able to do that never would? Why is it absurd of me to dare connect endorsement with manufacturing consent?

If I found out my own work had these elements in it, on the impossible chance that *nobody* caught it, like yeah let’s live in that world made of pudding for a minute— I would be horrified and apologize and do everything I could to rectify the situation. The crew has been silent. Disney has been silent. Neither the show nor the fandom cares about the depth of the rot behind what they made.

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I'm just overcoming the art block..

The first one is a Pinterest photo.

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In fact, I don’t care at all that the fandom is practically dead. I’ve only just started… Toffee the Historian has always seemed to me to be some kind of extra link in his timeline, but you have to admit there is something really appealing about this image of him, as if it were that small period of time when he was just immersed in the history of his and his enemy’s people and had not yet experienced the full horror of events first hand…

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Ah, well, it s a redesign + progress one year apart. 

[shtfoe-two-electricetera]

Yooooooo this is so ridiculously pretty! I remember seeing the older version when you just drew it, the new one is SO cool!

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Preparing for an interview with Ludo 🦎

I've wanted to implement this meme for a long time.

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I can't draw with markers, but I think there's something to it...