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I went a little crazy with the Pimling/Simpson family tree

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Even though I try to keep my Smiling Friends style pretty close to canon, I decided to doodle some of the Dottieverse cast by tracing canon characters to see what they would look like if they were exactly on model

(There are no canon characters I can trace to make Chad “on model” so how I draw him now is how he’d look in the show I guess)

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"I'm only doing this for you, Dottie."

As we know, Charlie Dompler never dresses up for Halloween. He doesn't see the point when any costume is sure to get you canceled in a decade or so, and he has declined many an invitation to participate in couples' and friend group costumes because of this belief. It kind of sucks to disappoint friends and partners like this, but a guy's gotta stick to his guns. Sorry.

When he's a father, however, it isn't so easy. He doesn't have an issue with his daughter and her friends dressing up on their own, but insists on remaining out of costume himself, not realizing how persistent young children can be. While adults can begrudgingly take no for an answer, a gaggle of little girls will keep begging him every year until they're blue in the face and hold him accountable to the empty promises he made to get them off his case. "Maybe next year"? Well, it's next year, Uncle Charlie! You promised you'd dress up with us eventually! Daughter Dottie really wants you to!

He can't avoid it forever and even pawning dress-up duty off on Mom doesn't work all the time. Eventually he has to bite the bullet and join in on their costumed fun. He could get canceled for it in however many years, but if he doesn't do it he could get canceled for being a shitty dad, and which is worse? But he can't just pick any costume and call it a day, no, he has to join in on their group costume. Even when it makes him feel like the opposite of an alpha male and exposes him for the coward he has been every Halloween up until now. It's all part of stepping up as a father, and Charlie would never back down from that.

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He does NOT like children lol

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Now for the long-awaited Glep x Marge horde! Ever since I first started working on this next gen as a serious project, I knew these two would have a whole horde of kids because of how madly in love I think they are. Glep has that raw bad boy edge and Marge is smoking hot so of course they have a big family to prove how much time they’ve spent loving each other if you catch my drift. They may have seven whole kids, but they’re just as youthful and energized as ever, which is far more than what can be said about Pim and his four kids. To outsiders, Glep looks like he’s fooling around on an iPad all day, but he’s somehow managing to give each of his kids proper attention AND keep Marge relaxed and satisfied. He’s got to be warping time itself to do all of that because I don’t know how you can have time for a full-time job AND seven kids AND a stable marriage without it wearing on you. Who knows how Glep does it.

As for the kids themselves, from right to left we have:

Blep inherited her mom’s supermodel looks but has an aesthetic all her own, going for a goth look that makes her look almost otherworldly combined with her unnaturally green skin. This combined with her speaking exclusively in her dad’s Wingon tongue leads people to make a lot of assumptions about her, that she’s weird or even scary, but the truth is that she’s very nice and sociable. She sometimes joins Kip and Dottie as a third to their trio, as aside from their common interests, both girls can relate to having assumptions made about them based on their looks.

Suzy, to many, looks like a hairball sliding around on the ground, but she would feel utterly insulted if you described her that way. She has her dad’s body and her mom’s luscious locks, though most don’t know where the hair ends and body begins. Despite her face being completely concealed, she’s so eloquent in her speech and mannerisms that you could completely forget that she’s basically a pile of hair as you become entranced in a conversation with her. She’s a classy lady and every unusual part of her only adds to her allure.

Gola is a model at some high-end agency, with an unbreakable confidence and an insatiable need to make sure the whole world knows how sharp her style is. She is quite sassy but can also be kind of dumb, arguing until she’s blue in the face to defend a claim that is flat out wrong just so she can have the satisfaction of being right. She’s also picked up a lot of her speech patterns from her dad’s friend Allan, so catch her comically mispronouncing a lot of words as well.

Chad is a pretty normal guy. As engaged in meme culture as any of his generation and especially as a child of the tech savvy Glep, so sometimes the family will be hit with a “skill issue” or “had to do it to em.” He likes to act like he doesn’t care what people think of him and will often lounge around in socks and sandals when not cosplaying as a meme. Sarcasm and jokes get a good laugh out of him but not when they’re at his expense, like when his siblings compare him to Stuart Little because of his abnormally short, less-than-two-foot stature. 

Giorno is a total gym rat, who cannot get through a single day without going through his elaborate full-body routine. He lives off of whey smoothies and many speculate lots of steroids, but he won’t confirm or deny that. School and work hardly matter to him as long as there’s gym. Workout stuff aside he has a sharp sense of humor and can engage in some good witty banter, especially with his best friend, favorite workout buddy, and love interest, Ell Pimling.

Eep, in contrast to her more eloquent and self-assured twin Suzy, is a shy little thing whose personality is as small as her stature. She is super sweet and loving with the people and critters she trusts most, and almost everyone she meets finds her very likable. This agreeability is something she finds joy in, but she has a hard time speaking up for herself when she wants something or disagrees. Her “speaking” sounds more like a squeaky dog toy than actual speech, but just like everyone can understand Glep’s Wingon tongue, she is perfectly clear to everyone when she does express herself.

Glorp is the least imposing critter you will ever meet. He is practically a background character. Every time he opens his mouth one of his siblings, parents, or peers starts speaking, so nobody knows what his voice sounds like or what his personality is. He doesn’t put up any fuss as he walks or slithers around with his noodly body, so everyone assumes he is perfectly content with the way things are. Nobody has asked him but he would probably agree based on his facial expression. 

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For the Dottieverse: Who the heck is this mystery wife of Pims?

That’s what everyone else wants to know lol

Pim gushes about her all the time yet none of his friends or his kids’ friends have ever met her. It’s getting to the point where folks are wondering if she even exists, or concerned that she’s a total deadbeat as a wife and mother and Pim is in denial about it. She’s kind of like those old “my girlfriend from Canada” jokes in the sense that Pim has all sorts of stories about her that become less believable the longer she remains seemingly hidden from the world. Has she REALLY met the First Lady? She hasn’t even met any of her husband’s or children’s closest friends.

See @scribbly07’s thoughts on how an appearance by the elusive Mrs. Pimling might go:

And also this:

It’s probably going to get to the point where Pim is old and crying about becoming a widower/making his wife a widow and his friends still don’t know who the hell she is lol. Even though Pim and his kids would insist otherwise, she clearly hasn’t been there for very much of their lives considering that the kids were always with their dad with no mom in sight. You can take that to mean she’s tragically neglectful towards her family or that she’s just horribly introverted or something. Either way the other Smiling Friends will never know for sure.

The out-of-universe reason for Mrs. Pimling being such a mystery is that I didn’t really ship Pim with anyone but still wanted him to have some children, so I left his wife completely ambiguous in a Charlie’s Uncle/Doctor Monster-style running bit, keeping with the silly tone of Smiling Friends. Pim always had a utopic view of his future marriage and children, but since it’s clearly not as blissful as he dreamed it seems like another area where he’s constantly catching L’s. But it’s all worth it to him in the end knowing he’s still making people smile and raising critters who he hopes will do the same

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how do ell and giornos parents + siblings feel abt them together i Gotta Know

Here are their reactions to their relationship announcement to give you an idea!

The Simpsons:

Pim and Kip:

Nee and Dur:

Overall they’re supportive!

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Omg,,,Zoey giving teenage Blep her old goth clothes,,,helping her develop her aesthetic and passing down her knowledge,,,