#cousin chicle

[cottagedeer]

Part two of this world building character glow up!

[blenselche]

important note: typed text = a quote from the book The Stand by S. King

Original AO3 version with the added 3 pages of Keep Yourself AU relevant content (larger images with captions.)

"Their soul snakes in on itself like flustered birds panicking in their chests as it tries to magnetize and recombine when within a certain distance of one another, and so Fern's job of stalking Finn turns into a headache of trying to keep his silence in all his double's one sided ramblings.

This comic starts after the confrontation in Seventeen and ends with Penelope (Finn's next incarnation in the comics) entering the Heart of the Forest, nostalgic sensation rushing down her spine as she relearns that 'everything stays but it still changes' one thousand years in the future."

The style is shaky cuz I was still trying to figure out how I wanted to draw 'em. One day I'll go back and redraw the whole thing but that's a ways away still.

[tailsdollr]

[shibuyatoastedcursor]

Headcanon: Gumbald, Chicle and Lolly use Princess Bubblegum’s surname, and still do even after the Dum Dum Juice incident, for Gumbald, it’s mostly out of spite.

[s1x-foot-deep]

maybe things could have been.... different.

collab with @sheeps-teeth !!!!!! i did the sketch & lines then charles basically digitized it. colors & rendering & EVERYTHING !!!!

[multiversal-madness]

I love the species choices for the centaur AU! in particular, Simon being a snow leopard made me chuckle and Bonnie being a gum dragon is simply delightful.

is Neddy still basically the same but with extra limbs? I’m guessing that the rest of the gum family are also gum dragons in their original forms, but what kind of forms do they have as candy people? do they have any lingering gum traits, or is their situation more similar to canon where you can’t tell just from looking?

(you probably guessed this already, but I’m the person who runs gumclones)

Thank you :3 and to answer your questions, I ended up making a doodle page dedicated to the gum family:

Neddy is the same aside from the extra limbs, same with the gum family’s ‘dum dum’ forms (though Manfried also has wings, a nod to the dragon side).

The gum family are gum dragon centaurs, but I decided making them all the exact same kind of dragon would be a bit boring in terms of design, so I changed them up a bit. Chicle is a lung dragon, Lolly is a wyvern and Gumbald is a drake.

(Also since you’re interested in gum family stuff, I do have a concept for Chicle not being ‘dumified’ in another au here which I do plan to eventually draw if you want to check it out)

[sickgraymeat]

let's watch the heck out of this pumpkin patch

[rabbit-head-007]

Does Neddy exist in your AU?

He does! He and PB were still attached to the Mother Gum during the initial events of the au, but eventually a large wave swept in through the dilapidated building they call home, and swept the Mother Gum away with Neddy still attached. PB on the other hand got separated in the waves, and has spent her life trying to find Neddy and the Mother Gum again.

I think at one point in her loneliness she made Uncle Gumbald, Aunt Lolly, and Cousin Chicle, but obviously that didn’t turn out so well with Gumbald wanting to call all the shots and betray PB.

PB fled them all in the middle of the night and a week later she met Betty. The two of them have been traveling together ever since, with PB looking for Neddy, and Betty looking for Simon.

All in all, Betty has been good family to PB, and vice versa.