#[toby]

[brassclaws-of-oddworld]

“Ya gotta do the cookin’ by the book!~”

@ask-toby-oddworld 

((TOLD YOU I’D DO IT!  HELL YEAAAAA!!  My first time actually drawing Toby, and I’m quite happy with it. ^^  For context, this was inspired by an RP thread where Kyung teaches Toby how to bake a cake!  She’s so proud of him! 🥺))

[brassclaws-of-oddworld]

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Toby made sure to wash his hands thoroughly with soap and water, drying them after and throwing the paper towel away neatly. He returned to the counter next to Kyung and listened to her explain the key ingredient to him, his eyes lit up in approval as she described the taste.

“That sounds delicious.” He studied the yom in his hands and gave it a curious sniff as he continued to listen and made a note of all the steps. “Always cook before eating… boil and mash into a paste… okay! So next we make the batter?”

When Toby signaled that he was ready for the next step, Kyung nodded affirmatively before her arms got to work on bringing over the bowls of ingredients and an opened cookbook closer to them.  At a first glance, the text within said book would be entirely foreign to the Mudokon.  Thankfully, there pictures of what the cake would look like in certain stages of preparation and translated text that Toby could read on the page next to it.

“Correct!  But before we do that, there’s an important step that I sometimes forget about...” Kyung pointed out with a chuckle towards her own baking faux pas, releasing the bowls to gesture towards what appeared to be a large oven close by. “Thankfully, I didn’t forget this time− But aside from washing one’s paws, pre-heating the oven is always first on the list!” She stated, then got back on track to starting the batter.

Since it was a baking lesson, Toby was given a mixing bowl, a set of utensils, and ingredients so he could follow along.

“Right then!  First, we start by mixing our dry ingredients.  In the majority of cake recipes I’ve read, they always mix the dry and wet ingredients separately before combining them,” Kyung instructed, making sure to go at just the right pace for Toby as she walked him through sifting the flour, how to properly measure the baking soda and salt, and how to use a whisk.

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Toby has made his way to Kyungs camp! He had spotted some of the sligs Kyung previously mentioned along the way, but despite being told they were the good kind he was still a little too nervous to introduce himself. Maybe one day he would be able to... but for now he just tried to keep a low profile. He popped his head into the cave and upon spotting Kyung, gave her a smile and a wave as he walked over. “Hi! I’m here for my baking lesson! Is now a good time?”

Kyung perked up once she saw Toby arrive at her campsite, the main den of the ground level cave's doors were wide open so the Mud could walk right in. Situated on top of a long, wide stone slab that was scrubbed spotless were an arrangement of ingredients and utensils and a neatly folded apron set on the furthest end of it.

"Glad you could make it, Toby! Now's a perfectly good time for the lesson," She greeted back, perky as ever while waving back at him. "I also figured it'd be handy for you to have an apron too, it's yours to keep if you'd like," Kyung beamed, one paw gesturing to said apron. "Really helps in avoiding doing extra laundry."

On the inside, the cave was incredibly large with a high ceiling, allowing plenty of space for what appeared to be quite a sophisticated indoor-outdoor hybrid kitchen! Slightly juxtapose to the more advanced setup was the use of various boulders to create makeshift tables, chairs, counters and stools, etcetera.

"I hope I chose a good beginner level recipe... I remember really loving this cake in certain parts of the Southwest region of my homeland, and the main ingredient used in it turns it into a really pretty purple color!~"

[mishkass]

sky blue and lavender!! (`･ω･´)

UAUGHHHHHHHH TOBBBYYYYY THE SAME TO YOU /GEN

[senboago]

@conquiistador​ said: "So you are named after the Goddess of the Sun? Fu fu fu fu. ~" [for Amaterasu.]

This tall and overly gaudy human... At first she appeared impressed simply by the fact he saw her. Much less assumed her name correctly. The lieutenant eyed him with a careful wariness, her hand settled on the hilt of her zanpakuto. The irony if he learned its name as well. Though it was a concern if he already knew that too.

“Amaterasu, yes... But I’m afraid I don’t know your name.”

[praesidiumsystem-blog]

15 - 18 sept. 2019

15 🧃 i woke up this day and started cleaning immediately, i did SO much cleaning and i was pretty proud of myself! i got groceries and dipped out afterwards because spence wanted to front!

💬  jamie was feeling insecure right when i got on so i spent a long time trying to soothe prin, prin doesn’t have very much self esteem which i’m certainly not one to talk about, but, prin deserves to feel better about prinself so i tried.. i think we watched a bit of c*role & t*esday together and that was a good time, music lesbians are good. i was really irritable because mason always tries to talk to us when we have headphones in and that drives us up the wall. but we talked about it and worked it out. made some cinnamon rolls for the two of us (me n mason) so i could emotionally try to reconnect from splitting lol jamie is good and im sad that pri feels so bad about prinself, pri’s cute and soothing to be around, but people have a lot of good in them outside of how useful they are, jeez...

16 💬  didn’t do much the first part of this day but i wanted to get comfy and try to do something nice to cope with general undermedicated misery so i decided to go out to chapters and try to find a cute cat coloring book. jamie recommended we install the n*ko ats*me app and i loved it immediately, cats are great. i ended up finding a pusheen coloring book and it was really cute and soothing to color in. 

jamie was working on one of their school projects and i asked a question and pri took it the wrong way and it started a really long discussion and i was trying again to reassure prin, that went well into the night. i think (like me personally) that things were good by the time we went to sleep, it was nice to be affectionate with prin and for it to make prin happy and feel safer. pri is good, just worries a lot and puts prinself down a lot and that bugs me...i know i dont have any right to be bothered because i feel like shit about myself too but, you know, this is them, not me...just want prin to feel good because pri deserves to, it doesnt have to be deeper than that...

17 💬 oh my god i hate this website. i typed the entry for this part and it got eaten too. fuck tumblr i swear to god. im going to start typing these in google drive first ffs.

i went to eat lunch with mason and went to a coffee shop across the plaza and got a caramel thing and pomegranate froyo with mochi pieces, they were both really good and the froyo was SO tart

the rest of the day was pretty uneventful, just spent it chatting and snuggling with jamie which is fine by me lol

18 💬 was weird this morning from dissociating from nightmares, ended up going back to sleep for 2 hours because my head was heavy and i was feeling weird. i drew myself when i got up. i look so much cooler than i really am.

and jamie drew us together 

so i drew us together too. the nuzz

the rest was uneventful again, just chatting with jamie & kylar about h*talia and all sorts of other things and being close. i had a good time.

[praesidiumsystem-blog]

11 sept. 2019

🧃 last time i fronted before q!! i front too much probably ^^’

i woke up in the middle of the night and was up for like 2 hours and had trouble falling back asleep, and kept having really bad dreams and didnt get any rest at all, then mason woke me up with less than 10 minutes to get ready because aus mom and sister were coming to get us to take us to the outdoor mall so i had to rush to shower and i was so grumpy..

we met up with aus dad and the first thing he did was hit au in the back of the head and i was so tired and overstimulated and full of wild animal energy it took all of my willpower not to literally jump onto him like a mountain lion and maul him lol.....

but we went inside a place called treasure hunt which is a type of thrift store so aus mom could look for some stuff, she tried to buy us a creme egg because i was lightheaded but we dont like those so i couldnt eat it ^^’ it was nice of her though...

then we went to subway across the plaza and that meal was basically silent for me which was more than fine with me because aus family is terrible and ableist and rude and mean and i didnt have anything to say to them anyway.. :T

then we went back to our hotel and aus mom stayed with us and jen left to go to work (thank goodness) and au talked with aus mom for a long time. aus mom made it a point to tell us that she wouldnt respect our pronouns because “it” is for objects and she thinks its condescending and im like thank you jennifer WE KNOW, that is the entire point. we do not identify as a person... jeez...

we found out at that moment that we might be getting evicted from our current place because L is a nightmare creature and owes like $3k in rent and has been blowing money on dumb unimportant stuff lately instead of paying bills, so i started looking for apartments to try and cope and not freak out... they talked about using color-by-number apps and au found some au liked, i looked independently for one and found one called coloringluna that has really cute stained glass style pieces

then later aus dad came to pick us (me, mason, mason’s mom) up and he has a remodeled police car and it goes really fast really fast sldfjsdf it was wild and kinda neat... we went to a place called, scores, i think? to have dinner and we had really good food again

i got a fried chicken and waffle sandwich, which we’d never tried before (chicken and waffles i mean) and got apple egg rolls that were so tasty after!!

we ran into the dollarama next door to grab plates and silverware so we could eat our leftovers from bostons pizza and we never did eat them...

i told mason i was really overwhelmed and wanted to stay in and au misunderstood me and things went poorly the next day but this day went kind of okay... i just wished aus family wasnt legitimately so awful, but they are so awful... aus mom is the only one thats kind of normal and kind of not the worst person on earth but even she is ableist and racist and not good in a lot of ways.... T_T