#flickpin

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wait, can the Atau interbreed with the other kinds of saratoan?

Hmm I wonder

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Man, knowing that GhostFrame is both the family henchman and the one that fostered Carbon really puts some context on that picture of Carbon texting her back. What do you want, indeed! That's gotta be some interesting tension.

Carbon doesn't even differentiate Ghost as a special case she sort of just views the whole family as a bunch of people making demands on her, with her sisters being worse because they (selectively) expect her to be emotionally closer and thus available for demands and favors.

Ghost's attitude toward Carbon isn't something Carbon has picked up on, since she's used to it.

(also yes Bones' great crime that reduced her from a ringing endorsement to "okay I guess" is being a tiny bit cringe in her little sister's opinion haha. Carbon doesn't hate the pictures, Bones would stop if told to, but Carbon has a little of that "you're like, 70, aren't you supposed to be doing your taxes or something" attitude)

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Do you have a family tree of you Saratoan characters? I'm having trouble figuring out how they connect to each other

I don't think a family tree would help since many aren't related and I haven't drawn every generation of the families mentioned, but here's as quick a rundown as I can give:

BoneLatch and CarbonTheory are sisters (three other sisters were also shown only recently, WashView, AnglePull and GhostFrame), and FateLock is their great grandmother.

Unrelated to that family, HyssopFall is FlickPin's great uncle, and RainBook is FlickPin's very young son.

Unrelated to both those families, PenWell is the one in charge of the building and legal entity that provides housing for CarbonTheory and FlickPin so is frequently seen with both and their friends and relatives - he's like honorary grandpa. PenWell knows FateLock personally they've know each other a long time. He has a brother, ClayWire who has been drawn only once so far. He had more family but they are deceased, only alluded to at present.

PenWell and ReedWalk were best friends, Reed is now deceased

Character!DimeSpin is not related to Pen they are just the same ethnicity (half the same ethnicity)

Because they live in the same house I do intend to depict Flick and Carbon talking in the future - the culture clash 160-year generation gap between Carbon and Pen is just too funny to me so I keep drawing them talking haha

BoneLatch and DimeSpin are best friends

HyssopFall and AtlasKind are best friends

AtlasKind and HyssopFall trained DimeSpin in spellwriting at one point and they occasionally talk

There are older characters I may or may not draw again but they aren't blood related to anyone above. I drew an Atau once who had a fully fuzzy head and neck I might bring her back because it was funny but if I do I have no idea if she knows any of these people.

The funeral director goth girl will also be drawn again. She's not anyone's blood relative but she knows PenWell in a professional capacity.

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Could you make a height chart for comparing your different species? I think it would help visually

Default people isn't how I roll, so here is an assortment of characters who are considered unremarkable sizes for their species (and José for scale)

Luz is a *little* remarkable, he's considered short, but a common kind of short. He's included because I know he confuses people haha. Renwick is more average.

Despite depicting them standing together like this please note these characters are not all in the same story and some of them will never meet each other.

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Does the family drama with Flick and Hyssop have anything to do with the fallout with her former friend/friend’s brother?

Many Saratoan families view "one-off" pregnancies from unexpected members of a generation (or a family getting a second dedicated mother) as just a bonus - that's less likely to happen if that family plays favorites and makes everything adversarial.

Her former friend and the friend's brother didn't make her family situation change at all, just pulled the rug out from under someone who was working without a net.

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One day in the far future

(Flick is doing the "I'm older than you" display because she's probably about to launch into a mom-lecture and Rain is like "I do not see it, I am Looking Away")

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Random small things that I haven't figured out how to make into like, actual posts yet or haven't gotten around to making anything about it yet but anyway:

I'm changing Roosevelt's tag to "Roosevelt Cookie Jar" to better differentiate her from the hydras and also I've decided that's her full name

I've decided Magical Matrix Malformation, the thing Peter has, DOES run in families, but in a risk factor kind of way, and that it still happens spontaneously, so what I've said about how if Peter had kids they'd be regular humans is still true, but I'm going to depict the amount of occurrence in families as varying (this is me figuring out the faun lady a bit more while also introducing a little more drama into Peter's life as a freebie)

Also I decided Hyssop and Flick are blood related. Grunkle and grand niece. Because family drama.

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Does Flick have a strained relationship with her Joey because of the drama the father caused?

She's a very tired mom since she doesn't have as much support as normal, which would of course put a little strain on any relationship, but she has nothing but love for this child