#daycare squad

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December F/O Art!

Reblog this with your f/o and I'll draw them in a winter outfit or as a present!

Let me know which you'd prefer and please include your f/o's name and source so I can find more references if I need them!! I can also do self-inserts if you prefer but one character per reblog please ^-^

Here are my darling Tumblr and Sun as examples, these poses are based on clipart so I'm using a lineless style :)

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Not entirely an art project, but experimenting with pngs and collages today! Sun felt like an appropriate f/o for the medium.

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May I humbly present a meme for my selfship with Sun... 7.5ftDaycare Attendant animatronic and the 5ft Daycare Assistant!! Once he has permission, I am getting swept into the air whenever he has the vaguest excuse to be picking me up. (Perfectly fine by me, of course)

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Domestic Moodboards (#1: Sun)

I wanted to make moodboards for some of my F/Os for the quiet/domestic aspects of our relationships, and this one is for Sun!

I think our main 'cozy' time together is the hours after the daycare has shut down, when we make sure that everything is clean and orderly, and then there's a moment to breathe where we go over the events of the day and just relax together.

Sometimes that turns into me staying overnight, just to have that moment together a little longer. Everything is in order, I get to have a daycare snack, and I can do things just right so that Sun's feedback programs will settle down, and things are nice and quiet for both of us. And it's so cozy in the daycare!! Carrying the blankets, warm and fresh out of the dryer and ready for another day of chaos tomorrow...

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Three sticker spreads from my f/o journal!!! I missed doing sticker pages so much!!! These remind me of I-Spy pages, so….

Can you find God, a reference to her last name, and two Fleur de Lis in Gabrielle’s?

Can you find seven hearts, a classic painting, and our favourite drinks in Tumblr’s?

Can you find three Suns, two stars, and four sets of three in Sun’s?

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More art experiments!! This one was made by importing a bunch of images of actual construction paper and then using the straight line eraser tool to 'cut out' the shapes -- I think working with actual construction paper might have gone faster, but I think the effect is pretty charming!

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Next up in my self-insert reference series!

My FNAF Daycare s/i started in the Admin department of the Pizzaplex and got gradually shuffled into the Daycare after it started requiring a lot more incident reports and it was revealed that they're pretty good with the animatronics AND the kids. They manage to equalize some of the behavioural issues for a while but there's a lot to manage!

My main selfship is with Sun, but I'm a little bit caught between Sun and Moon-- they used to be able to share more co-existent consciousness but a recent update made them unable to run at the same time and neither of them is coping well with the internal solitude, so enter ME to carry messages between them and be a companion when they're lonely!!

My relationship with Moon is very much about Sun, whereas my relationship with Sun is mostly about me and our dynamic, with Moon being a more distant influence. But we're all a tangled constellation! (An Echo self-insert that is caught between an existing complicated dynamic??? Groundbreaking....)

Sexuality details under the readmore, such as they are!

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hi, i'm so sorry about your day :( agereg infodump for Sun?

Thank you anon <3 <3

Okay okay so age regression stuff isn’t canon to my main selfship with Sun BUT I’m still thinking about it a lot

Regressor!me, caregiver!Sun

being so brave all day, enjoying work but also being tired: Moon can tell and puts me down for a nap with the kids at naptime and that’s nice, he can keep an eye on everyone and wake me up if he needs me

and then afterwards, when everyone has gone home and the pizzaplex is quiet for the cleanup hour, Sun tells me to go play and he’ll clean up

I can protest and say I’ll help but he shoos me off towards the play structures with a pat on the head that he only does when I’m feeling small and bam I’m in the tunnels giggling and exploring

once he’s done cleaning he comes to scoop me off the ground: the floor drops away and I’m in his arms and wow he’s so big I feel so small

Sun enjoys the one on one dynamic, just me and him: I’m an effusive kiddo, smiles and laughter that get his positive feedback loops running in his programming: he knows he’s doing a Good Job because I’m smiling, and it makes him feel just right

it’s easy to make me lose track of time like this, easy to keep me overnight: eventually the lights snap off and Moon tucks me in: I sleep soundly and that soothes his own software, which usually runs him ragged at night with nothing and no one to watch over. I’m a gift to both of them, and he watches me all night.

Regressor!sun, caregiver!me

Sun was originally taught partially by being given places to play: it took time for the nuance of the caregiver role to be drilled into him, and that’s a lot of the anxiety that has made its way in: it’s His Job to make sure there’s no tumbles in the daycare, His Job to make sure everything is organized, His Job to make sure everyone is having fun fun fun!

Sun and Moon (in my ‘verse) used to be able to run at the same time in the background, taking care of each other and the kids, getting a break from being the responsible one, but now they’ve been completely severed and they don’t have that break

so I get to give it to both of them! again, after the daycare closes: before cleaning, we’ll cuddle and Sun will ask me his questions about the day, some of them very grown up questions and some of them very childlike: I answer them all with equal attention

then we clean and when everything is just right, all the checklists filled out and signed, Sun can start to play

he doesn’t always play like a human child, he’s experimenting in a way that works with his own code: sometimes he fills sheets of paper with overlapping perfect straight lines, then programmed images of the other animatronics, and then merges them into weird stretched versions and so on, testing what he can do with the art programs

he likes to play pretend and pushes the limits of that as well: not having to always Yes And like he does with the kids but getting bossy and having his way

sometimes he does things a lot like a kid: stacks the blocks as high as he can reach (no wires allowed when he’s playing), and sometimes he wants me to tuck him in for a ‘nap’ which always breaks my heart, he lies there so quiet for as long as he can bear it and it’s never very long

he does dangerous things because he’s allowed to when he’s not in charge, and he trusts me to tell him to stop: he tries to put game pieces into his mechanisms, he goes for the cleaning supplies to try to mix them, he climbs on top of the play structures

many of these things aren’t actually dangerous to him, but I keep the limits of what an actual child would be allowed to do, and that structure soothes him: I’m the one who has The Job and his role is to have fun fun fun (and even that… maybe it’s ok, as a child, to be upset if he pretends to hurt his knee.)