#beta babies

[tehstripe]

i love that jade has a bunch of music that she and her other preteen friends made together saved on her computer.

its obviously one way that all the kids connect, but it seems like especially jade and dave are into it.

also love that this page is preceded by a CLASSIC unhinged dave strider offline message dump

he wanted to get her live reaction to his remix so bad!!!!

[tehstripe]

i love john's birthday letters SO MUCH. its so clear that he loves his friends and they love him back so much that they incorporate his gifts into their sense of self.

rose's strife specibus is based on the knitting stuff he got her, and dave's most iconic feature (shades) was also a gift from john. jade's gift has some weird temporal shenanigans involved and im not to that point in my reread yet, but her shirt color and interest in gardening is from john too, back before she even knew him!!!

i think its a cool way to show how we're shaped by the relationships around us. if it werent for john, the other kids would be missing some CORE aspects that make their characters recognizable, and the reverse is probably true as well.

theyre friends your honor :')

[tehstripe]

a pizza commission i got from @horreurscopes!!! as you can see, jade is very cute, so if you would also like cute art, you should consider commissioning them

[tehstripe]

also is there a way for Nintendo to track interests or something because this was one of the first messages i saw and it is suspiciously on brand for me (I'm pretty sure the artist here is @meruz, or is otherwise a very good copycat)

[tehstripe]

“So Stripe, how are you using miitomo?”

uhhhhhhh............

[chesheyer]

I’ve been seeing a whole ton of sprite edits lately, but everybody always leaves out the child versions!!! How could you forget these cuties?!!

(I’ll have the alphas up soon, hopefully)

[talentlessmainblog]

All done

[tehstripe]

so i can't draw, but i can write, so here's a thing

Somehow, Dave thought to himself, this doesn't feel right.

Popping over to Jade's planet was easy, and finding the girl herself wasn't much harder.

Seeing what she was doing, though...

"Let me get straight. You have to breed all these things."

"Yup!"

"And that's how we make a new universe."

"Seems to be the case!"

"Question."

"Yes, Dave?"

"Why are they chickens?"

Jade paused, thoughtfully looking at the sky from amidst her nest of fluffy baby chickens. She was supposed to just interact with them in the wild, not necessarily bring them all the way back to her house, but they were so cute! She just had to bring all of them back to make a giant fluffpile. It was completely necessary.

Finally, she shrugged. "I have no idea why they're chickens, Dave! I guess they could be any sort of animal, really. Like frogs." Something in Jade's brain went, Frogs would make much more sense really, but she ignored that thought. Breeding frogs didn't make any sense at all! At least people actually bred chickens in real life. She'd never read about anyone breeding frogs.

Dave just stared at her. She stared back, not fighting the grin that slowly spread across her face. Dave could feel his own face answering in kind, fighting the deadpan stare he'd developed over the years. Finally he shrugged, breaking the impromptu contest.

"Okay, breeding chickens. Let's make it happen."