#sc catnap

[giddygrsc]

Happy (late) st valentine!

[heximinimalsartstuff]

Playcare I have no words. Nothing to say. I'm even amazed by myself and every time I look down at my work I get the chills. Probably the best drawing I've made this entire year, it only took me a whole entire day but its more than worth it.

[misterridgefield]

Felt like dumping a bunch of Smiling Critters art I found. Honestly, I think they might be my comfort characters. Since I can only post 10 at a time, there's definitely going to be a part 2.

I don't own any of these; all rights go to respective owners.

[romanticizing-writing]

Three days ago, I stumbled upon this Smiling Critters AU by @notglue-9 which was named "Mourning and Mending." Thus far, it has actively consumed my mind. I intend on writing an analysis essay on why I love it so much after I have released the first chapter of my "Gravity Falls in the Making" fic. However, I still want to talk about it at the moment, so I'll be rambling about the AU a little bit in this post. This will essentially be a short analysis.

First and foremost, though, I must provide some context. The AU revolves around all of the Smiling Critters' — Dogday and Catnap's specifically — lives in the afterlife following the events of Poppy Playtime: Chapter Three. Catnap desires to make amends with all of them and repent for his previous sins, voluntarily starting his own redemption arc of sorts. One by one, he slowly gains the trust and forgiveness of all of the SC members — Dogday being the last and hardest one to convince into giving him another chance (for undeniably understandable reasons). As they all move on, their pendants begin to heal and fix themselves up. In this AU, the state of the medallions reflects the mental state of the wearers. The worse the mental health of a character is, the more cracked and broken the accessory will be.

Now, the reason behind why I have fallen in love with this AU is due to just how nuanced the writing is for the characters and how it does villain-redemption-afterlife AU right. Since the goal for these types of AUs is to have the villain become viewed better in the eyes of those they wronged, people will typically twist the story to make it so the villain was actually innocent all along and simply controlled controlled against their will. This way, any resentment the victims were harboring becomes invalid, making the 'redemption' clean and easy to accomplish, since it's made to appear like one was never needed in the first place. This can be seen in several fandoms (particularly the Gacha versions of them) like Undertale, FNaF, and Little Nightmares. You see, Frisk/William/Six never harmed anyone — they/he/she were/was possessed and manipulated by Chara/Glitchtrap/Shadow Six. Excuses like these are created solely for the purpose of justifying them. It would've been so easy for the creator, Not Glue, to take the same path with Catnap, yet they didn't. While "Mourning and Mending" does indeed utilize creativity liberty and the fact that it's an AU to its advantage in painting Catnap in a more sympathetic light, it never dismisses the trauma he caused the other Critters and instead forces him to be held accountable for it. I personally find that honorable and it leads to a much more interesting story.

Anyway, that was my short ramble and/or analysis on my most recent AU hyperfixation. I'll most likely copy and paste the two body paragraphs for my full analysis essay when I end up writing it. I just wanted to gush about it right now.

If anyone's curious or intrigued in the AU, here's a playlist I created of all of the animatics, animations, and comic dubs I found on YouTube for it. I would highly reccomend checking it out, even if you're not invested in the lore of Poppy Playtime. I mean, I'm not, yet I have become obsessed about it.

Thank you so much for reading this!

[elivdraws]

I promise I love Crafty, but after seeing so many heartbreak AUs I just had to do something. Lets not enter also on disputes on the comments or tags about the SC ok? Good..

[violetisderp]

Quite the collection here, hey?

Have Bobby, she's so cute <3 (yes everyone gets a diffrent color for they're symbols)

CatNap desgin; Wingless Au - CatNap

Dogday design; Wingless Au - DogDay

Bubba design; Wingless Au - Bubba

Hoppy desgin; Wingless Au - Hoppy Hopscotch

Next; N/A (I haven't decided yet. Picky Liggy, CraftyCorn and KickenChicken.)

Au summary;

Everyone has 2 forms, they can controll it if they know what they're doing, but CatNap can't control it that well and has extreme Anixtey. He's close with Hoppy, DogDay and the Prototype. No one in my AU's get shipped! No ships! Just friends!

[giddygrsc]

My take on the wiwi

[giddygrsc]

Finally FINALLY the sun and the moon.

(Lets see if we get to the last tier on insta (I doubt it a bit xD but if we make it I will be happy, have a special thing for that one, but don’t get your hopes too up, is just a silly thing I though could be funny)