Edd Doesn't Exist au but I gave it an actual plot where Matt is the main character
More about it under the cut
Basically Matt Edd Tom and Tord were all friends, childhood friends ofc and they were all pretty close. Unfortunately as time went on they grew apart and time moves forward
we follow matt as he's struggling to find his footing as he's been kinds cut off from old money, and he gets a paper and see's his old pal Laurel has gotten a job as a PI or a Lawyer and is like "Oh hey good for her"
however in the bg he see's edd, and is like "Heyy Edd!! I haven't talked to him in a while. Maybe we could help eachother out!"
He hops on "Totallynotnewgrounds" and goes to their old messages and
nothing.
matt's like "Damn must have deleted his acc. Maybe i can find him on"
- Linked in: nothing
- Facebook: nada
- Insta, you name it: He's gone.
Eventually he's going a little crazy and he straight ip searches records like school yearbooks and his own damn scrap book: Nothing. No pictures. No mentions. Nothing at all
Now matt's freaking out bc what the fuck did i mandela hallucinate an imaginary friend
Eventually he gets the idea to search up his old friend, but when he searches him up: a criminal record in norway appears and he's like "what the fuck"
so he goes to Laurel in a moment of curiosity and they chat and have a nice time but then when they reminice, she says "Oh yeah, you and your friends what scamps. You three were the funniest"
FOUR!! THERE WERE FOUR!
Laurel excuses it as she had a concussion a while back and must not be remembering. Matt is like "I KNOW!! IT WAS EDD WHO THREW THE SHOE!!!"
And shes like "Who tf is edd?"
Matt realizes that a lot of their stories don't add up. and asks laurel to get any information on Edd .
Laurel comes back and says "There is no one who goes be "Edd Venture" here. There's an Eduardo!"
"Oh your ex?"
"I never dated an Eduardo..?"
Matt's freaking out.
Eventually Laurel comes back with the papers on his old Norwegian friend, and hears that he's got a fake identity by the name of "Tord" now.
Laurel is suspicious, but says she won't touch the case unless She's paid. After all, "Tord" is very rich now.
Matt, curious, looks into "Tord N. Shields" Files and finds out that he works with Tom. Tom! His old friend Tom Arrow!
That could be a lead!
They work on-
... well matt didn't expect this but hey a lot of highschool tension makes sense now.
After plot shenanigans and more lore bits that i'm too lazy and fly-less to talk abt, Matt visits their film company and finds Tom and Tord.
Surprisingly, they are actually happy to see matt and would like to catch up in the short break time they have in-between shoots.
Matt asks about Edd and finally...
Tom and Tord remember Edd. Matt could cry with relief.
Matt tells them the whole story.
Tord snaps his fingers and he's like "Maybe he's running from something! I've erased myself before! It's not too hard!"
Matt's like "???" so Tord tells him his story.
Turns out Tord fled his country after he embezzled funds from his publishing company who bought his old comics and used it to create an army and attempted to take over norway. he was arrested and tried but before he could get incarcerated, he fled the country, changed his name, and with no other option, married Tom to get a green card to stay.
matt is looking at the camera like in the office.
But there were records of Tord still available. There was at least mentions and photos of him in yearbooks and pictures of him
But none of Edd.
That catches their suspicion. Now its weird. The only picture of Edd in existence is this newspaper that Matt keeps carrying around.
Tom and Tord tell matt about some weird phenomenons that they've seen/experienced and even felt recently.
Matt starts logging them down.
Eventually tomtord tell Matt to stay with them for a bit bc lovingly he looks like shit. Sleep bro.
Thats as far as fly and i got before we got distracted by a video essay LMK WHAT Y'ALL THINK BC IM NOT RLLY GONNA MAKE IT IM PROBABLY JUST GONNA DOODLE IT
Keep in mind, a lot of aspects of how I imagine their highschool life stayed, and some changed for AU purposes. Everyone is around 15-16, the older students are 18, and the teachers are around 20s-30s (I do already HC them to be around 10 years older than them normally) They are not based off game characters, just in the universe.
a redraw of a redraw...PLUS! with baggage! double redraws with baggage are the best kind :)
I don't remember exactly why I chose the animals I did, except for like..matt cause that's obvious bat because vampire. Only guy I changed from og designs wassss Jon, who all times before was some sort of pug mix to match with tom. They're still both dogs though!
edds a platypus
matt eastern bat
tom jack russel/pug mix
eduardo dingo
laurs a tasmanian tiger..why are they blue??..uh
jons a bull terrier
marks a kit fox
image formatting kept getting fucked up for some reason..what the eff tumblr
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eep so I had this here yesterday but removed it n forgot to re-add because of image format fuckery
i am!! Horrible at shading,not in the technical sense(though I mean probably) but In the sense that I overthink doing anything with my art ever
Why do I mostly only sketch and doodle???well..I want to for one BUT FOR TOO having to color stuff is stressful I'm terrible at deciding what to do with art I get decision paralysis!!
4 2023's redraw it's dry as hell and desaturated AND maybe it sucks a little BUT BUT I do still like shading desaturated, also it took me ages to finish it because I kept psyching myself out about it
Same thing happened for this years!
I finished two of the freaks couldn't tell if I liked them and then didn't touch them for WEEKS...until I saw it in my ibis gallery and was like "..oh wait this is fine actually"
If there's a moral here I can't find it
trust the process maybe??? except like even when stuff turns out bad, trust the process because even if it's bad atleast you'll learn from it..or smth.
Idk have anything to say about the dubious 2019/2020 one uhh...it's cute :3
2021 I was really into flat shading but I fucking HATE flat shading now
you can tell these r sorta old because jons not MASSIVE HUGE TALL GIANT
But yk just.. pretend..
I really liked drawing pony designs for them I REALLY like ponies...also people liked this one on ig when I first posted it!! rare for me 2 like something and to have it do well
I've got no excuse for why everyone's all cute n gay I think drawing horses just MAKES you make them kiss
Jon doesn't have a cutie mark because uhhhhhh ermm ummm
their all earth ponies also because I kinda didn't...wanna figure out what they'd each be BUT IF I DID....
jon n tom are earth(toms pretty farm pony coded imo)
matt n duin pegasus
edd n mark unicorn?? maybe???
tord unicorn too I guess but I'm not used to including him
also one image being SUPER low quality is so funny to me genuinely but also FHUCK dawg why don't I save my art in high quality....I need to stop not sending people my finished stuff because otherwise it gets posted and is PROBABLY gone from my ibis gallery because........well tbf me clearing my gallery is my fault mostly but...cmon
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