Finally resurrected from the dead! (They already created in 2018 and only existed in closed servers, but were in desperate need of a makeover first)
They are the next gen kids that I envision for Pac and Cyli, and I had so much fun coming up with their new designs! I might show and compare how their old (2018) designs looked like at a later date. Back then I had a different approach to designing fankids. With these new ones, I decided to really lean into the genetics side of things and make Pac and Cyli's three children actually look like their children, each with a good blend of both parents while still being unique enough to be their own individuals. I MIGHT return and do some tweaks to their designs (looking at Sylvi), but overall I'm very happy with how these three came out!
Now for the proper introductions and bios:
Zachary
Named after his grandfather, Zac is the firstborn and only son of Pac and Cyli. He is a Yellow One like his dad, but takes after his mom in being smart and witty - definitely to the point of being a smartass, as his sisters would tell you. His main hobby is playing pac-pong, soccer, and annoying his sisters, but he also enjoys reading a good book and going on trips with his family. He is a bit of a history nerd, a trait that has been cultivated by both Pac and Cyli since Zac was young, by reading lots of history books and learning of past wars and battles through his parents' eyes. While Zac does enjoy poking fun at his sisters, he actually sees them as his best friends and would give his life to protect them. While not a full-blooded Yellow One like his dad, Zac is still capable of using the same mainline power berries that Pac can use (Fire, Ice, Chameleon, Titanium, etc), but not for long periods of time or to the fullest extend that full-blood Yellow Ones can. Zac's appetite also rivals his father's, a Yellow One trait that comes in strong. He goes by Zac most of the time, but sometimes Cyli calls him Zaccy as a fond nickname, paying homage to when Pac was called Paccy as a child.
Appearance: Inherited Pac's yellow skin, eyebrows, nose, and smile, while he got Cyli's pink eyes and black hair, with the unique addition of Cyli's highlights gene, just in yellow.
Personality in a nutshell: A goofball and a walking encyclopedia in one package. Witty and adventurous, with a bit of a competitive streak.
Ovaline
Ovaline is Pac and Cyli's eldest daughter, who goes by Ova. Unlike her father and brother, and very atypical of Yellow Ones in general, Ova has never really had a big appetite (at least not as big as Pac or Zac's). Since Ova is also only half-Yellow, her Yellow One abilities are halved, where she can use some of the mainline power berries but has been unable to use the Titanium and Ice berries - they simply do not work, or they give her an entirely different set of powers. This does not deter her, and since the power berries have not really been needed since the end of the ghost wars, Ova is happy to live without those powers and is confident in her own skin. She loves animals and dreams of becoming a vet one day. She often buds heads with Zac and gets into fights with him, but they always have each other's backs. Ova is a lot like her mother, with a tomboyish flair and a clever mind, and she's even managed to beat Cyli in a few rounds of chess. Ova also looks up to her great-aunt, Spheria, and gets much of her spunk and sass from her. Despite this, Ova is a total daddy's girl. One perfectly sweet smile is enough to wrap Pac completely around her finger.
Appearance: Inherited Pac's yellow skin and the gene for red hair (passed down from her grandmother, Sunny), and inherited several features from Cyil: pink eyes, pink highlights in her hair, and the same facial features as Cyli.
Personality in a nutshell: Stubborn and sassy, but fiercely loyal and valiant. She is a team player through and through.
Sylvanial
Nicknamed Sylvi, she is the youngest sister and the only one out of her siblings who is pink - in fact, she is the spitting image of her mother, with the sweetest blue eyes. Soft-spoken and introverted, Sylvi is often shy around new people, but turns into a warm and optimistic force once you spend time with her. She's a bit of a goody-two-shoes, not because she's a stickler for the rules, but because she simply wants to do good by people and doesn't want to get into trouble (the latter of which gets tested when her brother and sister try roping their innocent little sister into their mischievous schemes.) She often takes the role of peacekeeper between her brother and sister when their fighting turns serious (but don't be fooled; she's been pulled into their shenanigans on more than one occasion, either tricked against her will or when she genuinely found the fun in it). Her favourite thing in the world is to cook and bake alongside her mother in the kitchen, made even better when the rest of the family joins in. While Sylvi looks so much like Cyli, she is a lot like Pac when it comes to her character: kind-hearted, gentle, optimistic, always sees the good in people, and has a child-like wonder for the world around her. Plus, she is the biggest cuddle bug her family has ever had the pleasure of knowing.
Appearance: Inherited Cyli's pink skin, black hair, hair-highlights gene, and her smile, while inheriting Pac's blue eyes. While she does have highlights in her hair, her highlights have a very faint, peach-yellow gradient rather than full pink, and it's the only visible drop of yellow that she got from Pac. Both her eyebrows and nose are triangular but rounded, a blend of Pac and Cyli's noses and eyebrows.
Personality in a nutshell: Though she may be shy and quiet, she is incredibly humble, affectionate, and has an aptitude for cooking. She's a cinnamon roll with a big heart and a gentle spirit.
Bonus Facts:
Zac, Ova, and Sylvi are tightly bonded, despite the frequent sibling rivalries. While they do have very close friends outside of family, they always choose each other as being their own best friends.
As they grew up, Pac and Cyli gave their children a set of endearing pet names that matched their growing personalities. Zachary's pet name was Dragonfly, for his boundless energy and adventurous spirit. Ovaline was called Butterfly, for her love of animals and her graceful wit. Sylvanial was called Firefly, for her tender affection despite her shyness, blooming like a firefly's gentle light in the dark.
Ova brings in rescued animals all the time. It's become a problem to the point where even nature-loving-Cyli couldn't keep up with the demand. Pac and Cyli have often needed to have talks with Ova to take the animals to the shelter rather than their house. While Ova has done her best to honour this, it still doesn't stop her from bringing home injured birds or the odd baby hedgehog to nurse them back to health before releasing them.
Pac and Cyli wanted their children to be close in age to form a close bond. They waited until Zac was 1 year old before they had Ova, then took a one-year break to handle two babies, and then had Sylvi when Zac was 3 and Ova was 2.
Zac and Ova have had a sibling rivalry since they were toddlers. They were just more cute about it when they were small. As young children, they'd sometimes fight over toys or disagreements and get into wrestling-matches, but only for about 5-minutes before they flop on the carpet together, make a truce, and all is well and they love each other again. As they grew up, their rivalry sometimes lasted longer and evolved into prank wars and sibling competitions, with less immediate-truces or forgiveness afterwards, but while their childhood cuddles melted away, their bond grew stronger in the form of always having each other's backs and forming a wickedly sneaky and powerful duo once they team up.
In their early-teens, Zac once broke another boy's jaw... in retaliation for harassing Sylvi. (In Zac's defense, the other boy did pick on her and pulled at her hair.) This was the first time Zac had become aware of his own strength, and had to learn how to use it responsibly to avoid excessive force and violence (but he makes no promises on holding back when it comes to protecting his sisters.)
Sylvi got her love for cooking from both her grandmothers - but thankfully inherited Sunny's skill and not Starchild's.
Ova has a birth mark on her left hand: half of her thumb has pink skin instead of yellow, a clash of the pink and yellow colours at conception. It’s been fondly nicknamed her lucky thumb. (Once, during a mystery murder game, Zac had to prove innocence and merely said, "I swear on Ova's lucky thumb that I am NOT the accused!" Ova's answer: "STOP SWEARING ON MY THUMB YOU FREAK.")
All three children are half Yellow, half Pink (in blood). This means that Pac's Yellow One powers are not passed down in full, but rather have been passed down in smaller degrees: Zac inherited the most (big appetite, can use mainline power berries but for a limited time), Ova inherited a bit less (no big appetite, can only use a select few mainline berries), and Sylvi inherited the least (no big appetite, can not safely use any mainline berries). Despite not having full Yellow One powers, none of the children feel lesser or inadequate, thanks to their parents' dedicated love and upbringing, and since the ghost wars were long finished by the time they were born, it became practically unnecessary to ever use any power berries or Yellow One powers.
Despite being half-Yellow and half-Pink, all three of their colours came out strongly in their pigments, rather than becoming a blend of their parents' colours (which would've given them a range of peach-coloured skins). In my headcanon, this is due to a unique nature in Pacworlder colour genetics: usually, the offspring's colours come out as a blend of their parents' colours (Red + Yellow = Orange), and sometimes this still happens even among stronger bloodlines, but depending on how pure a bloodline is over several generations, one parent's pigment may be strong enough to completely overwrite the other parents' colour, or at least offset the blending in such a way that the offspring gets a 50/50 chance of being the same colour as either one of the parents. In this case, Pac comes from a very long line of Yellow Ones, whereas Cyli comes from a long line of Pinks that sometimes mixed. Because of this, Pac's genes were strong enough to give two of his children full, solid yellow pigments in their skin, the only caveat being that their Yellow One powers are halved. In Sylvi's case, she had a 50/50 chance of being the same colour as either parent, and thus came out as pink. (Zac sometimes jokes that that was when their dad had ran out of ink.) Other than her blue eyes, the only other sign that Sylvi has a drop of her father's Yellow genes in her, is the very faint yellow gradient in the highlights of her hair, blending in with a pink shade. I'll make a more dedicated post about Pacworlder genetics in the future, as I've got a lot of ideas for it while designing these kiddos!
Sylvi's name was inspired by a very good fantasy book I was reading as a teen, where the story had a princess with the name Sylviianel in it. I wanted something soft yet playful for Pac and Cyli's pink daughter, but couldn't come up with anything fitting. Eventually, I came up with Sylvanial, derived from princess Sylviianel from the book, which enabled her nickname to be Sylvi, and it fit perfectly into place for how I imagined Sylvi to be. This was in 2018 though, and while I was recently redesigning the kids, I was tempted to change her name to something that fits more into the Pacworld universe - but alas, I cannot come up with anything better or more suitable than Sylvanial. I might come back and change her name if I DO get a better name in the future, but she's also been 'Sylvi' for so long that changing it feels wrong. I'll just self-impose my inspirations onto Cyli and make a headcanon that Cyli named her youngest daughter after her favourite fairy tale character or something lol.
hey Ella if Pac man and Cylindria had kids what will their design be and their names?
just curious and I am also a Pac man x cylindria shipper as well and has been my favorite otp since I watched the show
Oooooo I love this question 👀
Dang, if only I had some designs drawn out to show... one day I will!
So, some context first; I've actually already envisioned their kids a long time ago and already had oc's for them. Three, to be exact. They were made several years ago and were only shared in some old friend groups. But since their designs are quite old, I'd like to give them a redesign before I reveal them publically.
So no art to show yet, sadly. But I can share a bit about their names and personalities 👀 They each have nicknames!
Zachary - Named after his grandfather, Zaccy is the firstborn and only son of Pac and Cyli. He is a Yellow One like his dad, but takes after his mom in being smart and witty - definitely to the point of being a smartass, as his sister would tell you. His main hobby is reading books and annoying his sisters, but he also enjoys playing a few rounds of pac-pong with his family. While he does enjoy poking fun at his sisters, he actually sees them as his best friends and would give his life to protect them. He goes by Zac most of the time, but sometimes he is also called Zaccy as a fond nickname - paying homage to when Pac was called Paccy as a child.
Appearance: Yellow skin, black hair, pinkish purple eyes.
Personality: A goofball and a walking encyclopedia in one package. Witty and sociable, with a bit of a competitive streak.
Ovaline - Pac and Cyli's eldest daughter, who mostly goes by Ova. Unlike her father and brother, and very atypical of Yellow Ones in general, Ova has never really had a big appetite. She loves animals and dreams of becoming a vet one day. She often buds heads with Zac and gets into fights with him, but they always have each other's backs. Ova inherited her grandmother's red hair, and has a tomboyish flare like her mother. Despite this, she is a total daddy's girl.
Appearance: Yellow skin, red hair, pink eyes
Personality: A bit stubborn and ambitious, but fiercely loyal and valiant. She is a team player through and through.
Sylvanial - Nicknamed Sylvi, she is the youngest sister and the only one out of her siblings who is pink - in fact, she is the spitting image of her mother. Soft-spoken and introverted, Sylvi is often shy around new people, but turns into a warm and optimistic force once you spend time with her. She often takes the role of peacekeeper between her brother and sister's fighting (but don't be fooled; she's been pulled into their shenanigans on more than one occasion). She was named after a princess from Cyli's favourite book.
Appearance: Pink skin, black hair, blue eyes
Personality: Though she may be shy and quiet, she is incredibly humble and has an aptitude for cooking. A cinnamon roll with a big heart and a gentle spirit.
When Pac and Cyli got together, they kept their relationship a secret, including from friends and family. This was for a few reasons:
A) They didn't want Betrayus or any of their enemies to find out how much they mean to each other, in order to protect each other
B) They wanted to mess with their friends and see how long it takes for them to figure it out
C) They didn't want Pinky to find out because they had NO IDEA how to break the news to her (in this headcanon Pac knew for sure that he didn't reciprocate her feelings but the last thing he wanted was to get pummelled by a furious and jealous pink cyclops-)
So, because they're doing their best to be lowkey about their relationship, they act like friends in public settings. But all bets are off when they're alone, and they'll hold hands and be deeply affectionate over each other to their hearts's content :3 Even when they are in public or around their friends, it's a massive effort not to give themselves away. Longing glances, secret smiles, and interlocking their fingers under the table are some of the few ways in which they express their 'secret love language' to each other when in the company of others.
They have no idea for how long they are planning to keep it a secret, but for now, they're cherishing the fact that they are together and that their secret love language has become their own little thing
💛🩷🖤
You said you had a list of headcanons for cyil x pac...
I'm curious...
What hc do thee have...
Oh buckle up, hun :-)
It is a bit long, so click below at your own risk xD
Sometimes the Pac-team do patrols around the city to keep citizens at ease, and these patrols are often done in pairs. Whenever Pac and Cyli are out on patrol, they always keep a vigilant eye out. But they've started a thing where, at the end of their patrol, they wrap things up with an ice cream date.
Cyli is usually calm and collected, but whenever she's stressed or really nervous, then she tends to hold onto her arm or even absentmindedly fiddles and fidgets with her fingers to the point of rubbing them raw if she doesn't snap out of it. These subtle movements usually go unnoticed, until Pac started picking up on them. Cue him stepping in to hold her hands and divert her attention away from whatever is stressing her out.
To return the favour, Cyli will often pull Pac out of a stressful or anxious haze by taking him out to dance with her in the rain. She's a nature baby, of course she's going to rope him into one of her favourite methods to kill stress :)
Pac often brings Cyli a new type of invention or puzzle because she likes to solve things, whereas Cyli often brings him little exotic snacks or foods that he's never tasted before. It's their way of saying, "Hey, I know you like this thing, and it made me think of you, so I brought it along to see you go feral over it :>"
It wasn't as evident in the show, but I'd like to think that Pac and Cyli are academic rivals. They both seem to do well in school, and Pac even says he's gonna try and beat her A+ grades with his own in "That Smarts." So I hc that two of them often study together...while teasing and trash-talking each other in between.
Following up on that, the two will also often engage in friendly banter on other matters...
"Don't say it. Don't you DARE-"
"So what'cha say, Cat-Man, are those ears only good for hearing long distances?"
"They're not ears, Cyli, for puck's sake they're my eyebrows!"
Pac is a nerd when it comes to History. Cyli is a nerd when it comes to, well, a lot of things. Give these two a book or something of a shared interest, and you've got them talking and nerding out over the given subject for hours.
One time, Cyli lost her glasses and had to wait a week for a new pair to arrive, and during that time she had to deal with the frustrations that came with vision impairment (squinting, tripping over things, mistaking people's faces, etc.) But one thing that's helped her out is to keep her eyes on Pac...since he's the only Yellow Orb in a sea of blurry colours, he's her beacon to go to whenever she has a hard time looking for her friends.
Cyli knew that Pac had developed feelings for her long before he actually confessed. He didn't hide it very well... XD But the feeling was mutual for her. She just wanted to hear him say it first, in a similar fashion to the way she wanted to hear his apology outright at the end of the "All You Can Eat" episode. The memory of this goofy yellow boy turning into a blushing and stuttering mess while trying to confess his feelings is one that she'll always cherish :3
I've got a few more hc's other than these, but some of them I'm keeping a secret for now ;)
Thought I forgot about the drawing box, didn't ye? >:)
Thank you all so much for sending me drawings! Here's some drawings I made for each of the drawings ya'll have sent in. First up is a young Paccy boi.
A neat and eclectic kreachur!!
Anon, whoever you are, I love you 🥺 Thanks for giving me an excuse to draw PacxCyli!
Self-explanatory :-)
And that's the bunch! I won't be doing more drawings in response to new drawing-box submissions, but I'll be tempted to do more rounds somewhere far in the future.
Thanks again for your drawings! I'd love to know which ones are your favourites :^)
