#jack's mailbox

[pumpkinpatchdarling]

This tarantula reminded me of you

OH A PRETTY SPOOD... I love the markings and it's always so cool to see vibrant colors on an animal!!! Lemme look it u- IT'S CALLED WHAT. /vvv positive

[pumpkinpatchdarling]

hey bro :3

NADA. NADA HOW DARE YOU ATTACK ME WHILE I WASN'T LOOKING. I'M GONNA GET YOU ONE DAY

Two(2) sillies up to mischief!! The tricksters the freaks!!! They must be really good friends. Not that they're also something else or anything... unless? /J

Jokes aside though, I already told you I love this BUT I'm saying it again. I especially adore the way you drew Puppy Love's pointy snout and face — The toothy grin is everything. Thank you so so much!!! <33

[pumpkinpatchdarling]

Oooh that post led me to remember I wanted to ask if you if think that Jack could replace his head by carving a different pumpkin with his face? I forgot some of his lore so I don't remember if that was ever said 🧡

Ah yes, the dreaded Jack anatomy questions (/lh)

Short answer:

If it works for the plot, the joke, or simply for the sake of having it happen, why not? We don't know how his head actually works — Grim said that he got a pumpkin and wore it as his head, and kinda just left it at that. He's also implied to have his head squashed (haha) off-screen at the end of the special, and I imagine he's able to either replace it or just... grow a new one somehow?

I've also drawn Puppy pluck his head off just because the mental image was funny to me:

As for the long answer...

Everything we've seen in the show seems to suggest the idea of a human body with a pumpkin head sitting on top of it, including:

His backstory about being beheaded after gaining eternal life

The very distinctly humanoid shape you can see through his clothes in the scene where he's trying (and failing) to hold in a laugh

Being described as a "headless man wearing a pumpkin on his neck" in Big Boogey Adventure

With that in mind, it's easy to imagine him simply swapping out his head for a new one, not much unlike taking off one hat for a different one.

This is, however, complicated by the existence of an unlockable costume (skin) in the fighting game which shows his body being entirely made up of vines, which is... interesting, to say the least!

Since this is simply an alternative costume in a video game, we're left with some level of ambiguity here as to whether this is only done for cosmetic reasons, or an actual representation of what's under there:

As far as I know, we unfortunately don't have a canon answer to this (Always happy to be corrected if we do though!!), but my personal interpretation is that his pumpkin head is alive somehow, with the plant matter slowly overtaking his original human form and growing into his clothing — His feet even have the same curly shape of his boots lol!

If his current body is an extension of the pumpkin head, you probably shouldn't be able to simply separate them and put a new head on there, BUT! Keep in mind that this is only realistically speaking, and since this is the world of cartoons, I don't see why that shouldn't be allowed to happen, especially when the "headless" aspect is so intrinsic to his character.

I can absolutely see it being used for future gags if he had been given more major appearances in the series lol. Just don't worry too much about the logic behind it <3

[pumpkinpatchdarling]

among us show selfship/oc x canoner. hi. 🤝. i fear i might want purple and green

:D HI HII!!

This is kind of a tangent, but I just took a look at your F/O list and wanted to say your choices of Deltarune F/Os are awesome.

I'd also love to hear about your Among Us OC or S/I if you have one (or plan to make one)!

[pumpkinpatchdarling]

🎃🧡 I hope it turned out ok 🧡🎃

THIS IS SO LOVELY WHATTT 🥺🥺🥺 !!!!

Again, I'm SO flattered that you like my funky little selfship enough to draw them. That really means quite a lot!! I'm eating this like candy (/VERY POSITIVE)

I especially love the way you stylized Puppy's wing, and the little heart-shaped highlights on their cap and eyes are such a cute (AND thematically fitting) touch!! Their expressions are both adorable as well 💕💕

Thank you so much for drawing the sillies!!!! :"D

[pumpkinpatchdarling]

#8CE740 How does this color make you feel

😕 👉👈 No idea why you would ever ask me that /lhj

[pumpkinpatchdarling]

Are you kissing the among us bean

NO LOL I fear Jack doesn't like to share even if it's with someone who literally sounds like him (/lhj; I'm just not interested in having more than one romantic F/O) but I do think Lime is a fascinating specimen. Huge fan

[pumpkinpatchdarling]

So no head?