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Day 12 of Smurftober!

Clumsy thinks leaves are pretty :)

Clumsy and Handy (c) The Smurfs

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StormMint! Ft a little fixer-uppers of course, Handy is allowed to imagine merClumsy as a treat DJSDJFSKJ Anyway!! Been thinkin' bout them c: SmurfStorm, SmurfMint, Handy and Clumsy (c) The Smurfs

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Happy gay month my fellow ElgeeBeeTeas

Clumsy and Handy (c) The Smurfs

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Birds-eye view, awake the stars 'cause they're all around you Wide eyes will always brighten the blue Chase your dreams, and remember me, sweet bravery 'Cause after all those wings will take you, up so high So bid the forest floor goodbye as you race the wind And take to the sky *** Ya gal finished her uni assignments yesterday so now she can work on backgrounds and shit again! She ALSO managed to see the English dub of Flying Ace and has been very happy about it ever since > So this is partially inspired by that, part by Looping the dragonfly, aka Clumsy's dragonfly from one of the Lost Village comics ^^

Process:

Clumsy, Handy and Looping (c) The Smurfs

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Secondly I doodled my fave lil’ rarepair over and over cause I can never have enough~

I have to call them fixer-uppers cause I’m jealous /j of Brumsy fans for having a cute sounding ship name, but if I do the same I get “Handsy” LMAO

Oh look Bakari the rhino beetle isn’t dead, I just have never really implemented him but ig he’s still here????

And also Handy hip freckle

Handy and Clumsy (c) The Smurfs

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So uh, I kind of got really, REALLY attached to Chaos AU dfjdjlk aka Evil Clumsy AU except well, because the premise was that Clumsy betrays his friends I figured he wouldn't be 100% evil and quite frankly I tend to prefer happy endings. But anyway I then had this fucked up little idea for a cyborg Smurf and then also ended up thinking about prosthetic Handy cause people were talking about in in discord, and whilst he's intact for BV I figured this was already an AU so I'm just chucking everything in and well. Shit happened

Consider it more of a semi-dystopia AU. And again, the origins of the AU start around Clumsy being 160 so it was pre-Crash and Bolt, Tinker is the only kid in this AU (not saying I can’t cross em over at some point but they’re seperate)

Handy and Clumsy (c) The Smurfs

Clockwork Handy and Tinker are mine

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Hnfhdsks I’m pretty sure my household’s internet service provider/amazon is concerned about how many times I’ve watched this movie in the last few months but oh well - I thought this scene was really cute!!!!

Crash and Bolt really went from being semi bg ocs to literal lights of my life, I get so happy whenever I draw them lmao

Handy and Clumsy (c) The Smurfs

Crash and Bolt are mine

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why do u ship handy&clumsy? (i hope thats not a rude question i didnt mean it to be)

That's not rude! As long as it's not code for 'I'm passive aggressively judging you through the screen' lmao. I love talking about the origins for my ships! :3

But anyway if you want a post where I wrote an analysis about the canon relationship I did just that for someone a while ago!

As for me personally? Aha. Well, funnily enough it started out as a joke. Kinda. My original dynamic was actually teetered towards Clumsy having a bit of a one sided obsession/crush on Handy, mainly based on OGSDA. It was more of a guilt ship at that time, as I was in the middle of liking ClumsyStorm and HandyxMarina. Well my best friend actually picked up on it after I did a small doodle of them - she shipped Brumsy but didn't really like Brainy as an individual character so near-instantly dropped it in favour of fixer-uppers. Her fanart then pulled me away from 'haha guilt ship!' to 'oh my god I love them so much I wanna chuck clumsystorm away'. Dropping HandyxMarina wasn't really an issue because I kind of figured they wouldn't be able to last forever anyway :c Dropping Clumsystorm was harder because I had NG for it (the twins) that I didn't want to chuck but was willing to. In the end the whole step-parent thing worked out so much better!

But that's more like, the actual backstory to introducing it into my AU XD As for the actual reasons, I think the dynamic they have across media is both hilarious and sweet, and the whole opposites thing they have going on is good inspo to me! I really like that the running joke of Clumsy wanting to help Handy is kept consistent even from the magic flute movie!

My personal fave which Kitty showed me, the french vers

"When the Handy Smurf builds anything he is always helped by Clumsy Smurf"

And honestly that theme stands! With the exception of the other movies where Handy does frick all. It happens in the smurf village app too! Which isn't really canon media or anything I just think it's funny how they're still a secondary duo in that.

Clumsy just likes helping out <3 One of my fave lines is from the wishing tree one when he's getting rocks for a chimney and says 'Handy sure is gonna be proud of me!' that's so cute!! He's trying sdjfk

And you know what? He messes it up. Often. Like, all the time. But as Handy himself says, he keeps him employed! And fixing things is his job - tbh it doesn't really matter what these two do they're gonna be a constant presence in each other's life, so it's probably a good job they're friends. On that note, I've seen people say that Handy is mean to him but tbh I just .. don't agree. Objectively, I don't. Thing is, Clumsy annoys everyone, everyone is annoyed with him at times, Papa and Smurfette included. Handy only seems disproportionally upset with him because of how often Clumsy screws stuff up, and he only screws stuff up because Handy agrees to let him help out in the first place. One of my comfort eps being The Comet Is Coming for that very reason - they're gonna spend what they think is their last day alive together, that's not really the mark of two characters with hard feelings.

But wait! There's more! See, on that topic of niceness, unlike plenty of the others, Handy is a consistent apologiser.

He DOES own up to any unfair treatments. He DOES make sure Clumsy is ok and tries to make amends for situations where he was the one putting Clumsy in danger, as well as being grateful for favours in return, such as being saved from the monster.

And that might sound like simple decency but these are Smurfs, the little shits never apologise to each other /j. No but in all seriousness the dynamic is actually amongst some of the more well balanced of the characters, it's just not as easy to see collectively I suppose. And they have less than good moments, usually caused by mass hysteria (The Masked Pie Smurfer, The Golden Smurf Award etc) but that's not really something I can put a mark against since Clumsy arguably has even worse moments with Brainy, who he's supposed to have a better relationship with (The Comet Is Coming, The Smurfy Verdict). I think that kind of nullifies any they said/they did arguments, cause every character has bad moments.

And on that topic, as the shippER and not the characters, I have to approach things from an outside perspective as well as in inside one. Using Brumsy as my example because of it's obviousness. From a character point of view? Yah, it's practically canon in the og show lol. But from an outside viewer on the individual aspects well, I kind of see it where Brainy is someone that wants his ego stroked. Clumsy is happy to do so, but he's not really getting anything in return? Like objectively, they'd be happy together because Brainy would have a constant ego boost and Clumsy puts up with that but that makes me as an outsider feel bad for Clumsy. I love Brainy too but I think he needs his ego QUASHING not encouraging. Which is why I tend to prefer ships where Brainy has a bit more of a rivalry with them, I think if Brainy can actually learn to respect someone else by his own choice he's gonna be a much more well rounded individual. I want Clumsy to have someone that's not gonna try and use him and his never-dying loyalty to big themselves up. Handy fits the bill because Clumsy is, if anything, a detriment to him XD Again, that's an outsiders personal opinion looking in! It has no bearing on my actual views of Brumsy, which I think is cute and my friends draw cute fanart of it :)

Sooo yeah XD Some pretty basic thoughts, I just think they r neat!! Outside of my AU(s) I get so happy when they interact, even when it's not totally positive, though of course I always prefer those when they are- it's just a funky lil' rarepair for me, honestly I'm really really close to calling it my OTP at the moment haha