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Kid Curl

The QnA dropped yesterday and mentioned Curly being chunky as a kid. I felt compelled to draw it, but never posted it. I’m not good at drawing kids, but I tried anyway.

Yes, he’s trans. It’s most likely not canon but it lives on my heart, okay?

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TheraBreath. Oral Rinse Review.

I experience dry mouth due to medications and because I'm a mouth breather due to a deviated septum. I started a new medication and it made

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Simple Spooky Curls

Curly but as some of the classic “monsters”. I might add more but it’s just these few for now. Technically the top three exist in AUs I made with friends, but can be enjoyed as a cute little Halloween treat, too.

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I’m refusing to acknowledge this new card as canon. His signature in the merch card doesn’t match the in-game one, plus, they cropped out his moobs. However, I read his name was originally written as Grant, so… ignore the merch and you can say it’s game canon!

Carling. Carling. I hate that. I hate that as much as “Curlman”. Fuckin’ Carling.

Johanna, one of the devs and the artist of the asset and merch, stated that it was originally “Grant Curly”. Since it’s significantly post-release and contradicts the game asset, I’m gonna cope and seethe, pretending this is as canon as Joetastic’s animations (which is not).

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I live in denial and spite.

The art for the merch is nice, I won’t insult it, but I’ve been wanting a hand at it long before it released. The name reconning I dislike, however (though if others like it, that’s fine). The first name was intentionally obscured, but his surname was always Curly, so it baffled me why they’d choose to change it so late, let alone to something so different.

According to the artist of the original card assets, the names weren’t meant to be intelligible, but Curly’s was written as “Grant Curly”, which is what much of the fandom had guessed it to be already. This art was based off the original two cards from the game, and not the new merch. I couldn’t figure out how to nail the artstyle, so it may look extremely out-of-place. Unfortunately, the images I was working with were quite low res, and lines were very blurry. The reason his skin is so tan is because it was directly colorpicked from the unburnt card that is only visible in the hallway bizzaro sequence, which actually depicts Curly as significantly redder than Jimmy. If you think he looks a little younger, that’s intentional! He’s been at Pony Express about a decade by the events of the game, so this is an older picture, possibly not too long after getting hired, if you want to think of it that way. The hairstyle being different is for the same reason. The chest lineart and signature were mostly traced from the original card, but everything above was done by hand. The text had to almost all be different fonts because I could not for the life of me figure out which was used.

ID card template - Original game assets

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Hot take: No one would compare Curly to a golden retriever if he wasn’t blond

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The Curly Family

(according to me)

The upper two images are his father and mother (plus him), and the lower two are him and his brothers. They all have names and vague “lore”, but I’ve never spoken of them publics lot despite them existing for months.

Also, I’m ignoring the retcon name, he is still Grant Curly to me. Their surnames are Curly. Also-Also, the 3rd image is a drawover of a meme originally by gertritude-art! Yammering under cut!

Originally, I’d only designed Curly’s parents many months ago. I’d headcanon’d him as an only child with a whole lot of expectations because he was the only child. Then it was revealed that he had three damn brothers and that whole idea got thrown out of the water. However, since I designed the parents first, it was easier to come up with derivative facial features and hair/eye colors. I found of the few people who designed his brothers (that I saw, at least) kept them all blonde, but I personally wanted to get a little more varied, especially since I had personal experience with being born with light hair despite neither parent having it (genes are funny like that). I made Curly the youngest, just because it felt right to me. He felt like either the youngest or second youngest, personally. He’s not the shortest, but not the tallest either. As for names, I might’ve nabbed them from Zzoupz’ ideas… mostly because no constellations have non-over-the-too names other than those, really. From left to right; Leo “Garett”, Caelum, Percy, Grant. Leo goes by his middle name, Garett, and Grant goes by his surname, Curly. Despite seemingly sticking out, Grant still somewhat matches the naming scheme, albeit with his middle name, Orion. For his parents, I kinda whipped them up on the spot, with Daniel being generic-sounding, and Marilyn being a combo of the names I was deciding between (Marie and Linda). Their names are Daniel Grant Curly and Marilyn Cassiopeia Curly. Marilyn’s is a little over-the-top on purpose, due to her background. In fact, how she was raised influenced her as to why her kids had a naming scheme at all.

I’ll save the “lore” ramblings for another day, but… hey, I’m finally putting these out there.

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